RIP Thread

[lazerwalker]

RIP David Thomas

[PFVA]

RIP Sebastião Salgado

Brazilian photographer know internationally. He was 81 years old

Some of his photos at The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... BAZdRWrfpA

[RiK]

The Prince of Darkness has gone....



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn0qq5nyxn0t.

[tufty]

Pat Finnerty, who normally tears the arse out of shit songs, did a breakdown of War Pigs after hearing the news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlDJA40PP0A

[Mat]

Tom Lehrer has died at the age of 97.
Tom was probably the comedic musician I've listened to the most, thanks to my old maths teacher.
Songs such as Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, We Will All Go Together When We Go and Oedipus Rex were some of my favourites.
They were incredibly dark and funny, especially for the time they were released.

But most people will probably recognise him from The Elements, where he rattles off all of the elements at breakneck speed.

A few years ago, he also made his back catalogue available via public domain, at a time when big stars were selling theirs to big publishers.

RIP Tom; looks we won't be going together (he'd appreciate that.)

[rowan]

Tom Lehrer has died at the age of 97.

RIP Tom, I hadn't realised he was still going.
Properly funny songs, I think I came across him randomly from someone on Desert Island Discs ages ago and was well surprised by them for all the right reasons.

Guess I'll be sticking his CD on over dinner, only just got done with my Sabs records.

[F-ZeroOne]

Jim Lovell, of "Houston, we've had a problem..." fame:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cl7y8zq5xpno

[PFVA]

RIP Robert Redford

A few of the movies I remember
All the President's Men
Out of Africa
The Candidate
several others

Also the Sundance Institute, Sundance Festival, and the Sundance Channel, which I used to watch when I was living in the US

Note: he was 89

[Mat]

A bit of a late one, but I only learned yesterday that Maru died at the grand old age of 18 on September the 6th.
If you're not familiar with his works, he was famous for squeezing his fluffy butt into undersized boxes, alongside other charming attempts at things that were physically improbable for one of his physique.

Yes, Maru was a cat, probably one of the most famous internet kitties after Grumpy Cat.

RIP you lovable goofball of fluff.

[RiK]

A bit of a late one, but I only learned yesterday that Maru died at the grand old age of 18 on September the 6th.
If you're not familiar with his works, he was famous for squeezing his fluffy butt into undersized boxes, alongside other charming attempts at things that were physically improbable for one of his physique.

Yes, Maru was a cat, probably one of the most famous internet kitties after Grumpy Cat.

RIP you lovable goofball of fluff.

Nawww..... and honestly, more upset about that than 95% of the other names in this thread!

Not least because my cat Mischief will 18 next march and this is a reminder that this is a very ripe old age for a cat..

[PFVA]

Aww, the little white paws and face remind me of Sidney who is only 5 but independent cats generally don't have the long life of the house cats. But maybe one of these days I can still convince Sidney to retire to a house cat.

[PFVA]

RIP Jane Goodall.

Jane Goodall, famed primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist, dead at 91

https://abcnews.go.com/International/ja ... =109868347

[F-ZeroOne]

Itagaki Tomonobu, of "Dead or Alive" and the modern "Ninja Gaiden" fame:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomonobu_Itagaki

[rowan]

Dave Ball. Only 66 years too

Soft Cell were one of my biggest electronic music loves as a youngster in the 80s and the major hook for me was all the synths.
The first CD I bought with my own money was theirs, I was going to say also in the 80s but a quick check shows it was 91.

RIP

[Deckard]

Love love love Soft Cell - they are just about to release a 6 cd of The Art of Falling Apart which is truly sublime and I loved their rejection of their pop star status and the madness of the next album too - This Last Night in Sodom.

I was 14 when Non-Stop came out and I fucking loved it - I remember dancing to the 12 " mix of Tainted Love into Where did our love go at our local kids Saturday mornings discos and thinking I was the BEES. Also loved they actually went to the trouble of inserting extra lyrics into their 12" songs like Besdsitter and my mate used to play the 12" mix of Say Hello on a slower rpm to hear that gorgeous Dave Tofan clarinet solo for as long as possible.

I also remember dancing completely off my head to Swamp Thing by Dave in a Manchester club in the 90s on very good pills and loving that too.

Have a ball Mr. Ball xx



(They both wrote it and always agreed it should have been a Soft Cell song !)