RIP Thread

[The ghost of raids past]

Murray Walker - Legend has sadly died at 97

[venusian]

Unless you're very much mistaken.

[The ghost of raids past]

Sadly no mistake

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/56388596

*edit*

Sorry I just got the reference

[rowan]

RIP Murray.

I've only had odd fleeting interests in F1, either on the TV in the 80s-90s or in early games around the PS1 era.
He was a huge part of the attraction. Great voice, ridiculous enthusiasm and great balls ups.

[(o)(o)]

Murray Walker - Legend has sadly died at 97

All due respects and it's customary colloquialisms but..

I'd prefer an epitaph like..

Murray Walker - Legend fortunately lived to 97

1 in 25 people live to 97.

2 in 3 of them stop living during that year.

[TFO]

Actor Paul Ritter has gone aged just 54
Best known for Friday Night Dinner he was an absolutely terrific actor in everything he was in.

Shit it.

[WiteWulf]

Yeah, was sad to see that about Paul Ritter. He was fantastic in No Offence on Channel 4, among other things.

[tufty]

Murray Walker - Legend has sadly died at 97 :(

Damn, missed that. Murray is irreplaceable, nobody else gets across the childlike exhuberance of someone who simply loves watching things going fast in anything like the same way he did. His passing touches me more than any recent celebrity death.

This is probably in bad taste, though.

Spoiler: show

His epitaph should probably be

And here's Murray Walker, rapidly approaching his royal telegram

[(o)(o)]

[Felonious Feline]

And now a Total Eclipse of Steinman...

RIP

[venusian]

And now a Total Eclipse of Steinman...

RIP

But he's left behind a fantastic body of work. Not to everybody's taste, I guess, but I do love a bit of OTT bombastic musical theatre slash rock slash pop slash everything-louder-than-everything-else. The last Meat Loaf album was a really weird sweeping of the floor (and Meat's completely lost the voice now) but still sparkles of brilliance in there... an erection of the heart, indeed.

I knew that he used and reused bits of songs but TIL that the Sisters of Mercy's "More" was derived from a song for Catwoman in a never-happened Batman musical.

[Dvorak]

I knew that he used and reused bits of songs but TIL that the Sisters of Mercy's "More" was derived from a song for Catwoman in a never-happened Batman musical.

Yeah, and I would've posted already a link to that song from the musical - if I could stand it. Which I can't.
Ach, anyway:
Posted MORE here already way too often...

[Misfit]

But he's left behind a fantastic body of work. Not to everybody's taste, I guess, but I do love a bit of OTT bombastic musical theatre slash rock slash pop slash everything-louder-than-everything-else. The last Meat Loaf album was a really weird sweeping of the floor (and Meat's completely lost the voice now) but still sparkles of brilliance in there... an erection of the heart, indeed.

Yes indeed. I did love the Pandora's Box project (Meatloaf used a few songs later from it later on) and many of Loaf's classics.

Might have to switch from my dog walking podcast listening to music for the next few days...

[rowan]

Mike Collins, the astronaut

Still, a lot to celebrate. He seemed to have a slightly spiky sense of humour from the bits of audio I've heard from https://apolloinrealtime.org/11

[F-ZeroOne]

Neil Connery. You may have heard of his brother, Sean, who did some stuff. Neil gained some... notice... for appearing as a certain British super-spys younger brother in things like this (and yes, that is the original screen Moneypenny):