Harry Browne died today. This one literally brought me to tears.

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/2006/...y_browne_r_i_p

Bruce Lee and John Bonham.

Welcome to the Cellar, DWKing. :)

When I first saw this thread, I couldn't really think of a celeb whose death even blipped on my screen.

Yesterday I was browsing the CDs trying to decide what to listen to and picked up a robert palmer disc.

I had almost forgotten he died. When I found out I felt really sad for some reason. He seemed like a good guy.

I still feel disappointed that he died.

Middle-aged men shouldn't do cocaine. Ask John Entwistle.

Maureen Stapleton Moves On
 

Supremely talented character actress Maureen Stapleton has died. She was the only reason I was ever able to watch "Airport" with anything like a straight face. She made melodrama seem real. Classy, classy lady, great actress, and a true no-bullshit human being who always did unquestionably fine work as an actress.

Thanks, Maureen. You rock.

Robert Palmer is dead? That does suck. Is that why everyone's been ripping off that video for Simply Irresistable?

By the way, the host of the game show Press Your Luck died in a plane crash today (or yesterday). It's not particularly noteworthy, but that show was a part of my late childhood, and I have fond memories of me and my brother watching it in the morning during the summer. Big bucks, no whammies.

no, i believe its John Bonham.

what? John Bonham was the drummer in Zeppelin. Palmer did simply irresistable.

Layne Stanley


Princess Di


Because their passing was tragic.


I also admire Maureen Stapleton but she had a full life.

Christa Paeffgen (Nico) 1987

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john lennon, hands down................still makes me sad............

my local runs a sweeepstake on this... choose a celeb, pay the kitty weekly, if your celeb dies first, you win....

they call it the 'Death Pool'......

Honestly there are some that I really miss, but would not have them suffer any more.
Who I think I miss the most would be Johnny & June Cash, but there are so many it is hard to think of a list... it is really depressing to even consider it.
Raul Julia, Madeline Kahn and Phil Hartman are high on the list too.

Jerry Garcia
Hunter Thompson
John Lennon
Peter Jennings

The ones that still sting are the ones that I am constantly reminded of, such as Phil Hartman (whose work is all over the shows I love), and to a lesser degree Dimebag (Pantera), who is from my hometown, was such a harmless guy, and one of the last of the breed of true heavy metal guitar soloists.

John Lennon put me into pause mode for like two hours. If the world had stopped turning, or polarity had changed.

Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix were like a one two punch.

Bill Hicks. Funny guy.

So few celebrities I like were still alive when I began liking them, or making the news if they are. It saddened me when Johnny Ramone died...

And I hope I won't have to be sad when Jason Becker dies... he's slowly getting better...

If you don't know of him, go check out his website: www.jasonbecker.com. The guy is honestly like, a god, both as a guitarist and as a person.

I subscribe to Celebrity Death Beeper. I get emails when a well known person departs this plane.

Tonight, I totally freaked when I got an email from them that said "Steve Howe dies in truck accident".

I thought they were referring to the insanely talented, profoundly strange looking guitarist from Yes. As it turns out, it was the disgraced addict baseball pitcher.

It isn't good when anyone dies, but does it make me a horrible person if I say that I'm really glad it wasn't the more talented Steve Howe that died?

Ah ha! I always wondered how you always seemed to be the first to know...

Princess Diana in terms of shock
Bruce Lee
Jim Morrison
John Belushi (Someone said Jim belushi his brother, who is actually still alive)
Paula Yates

I can't believe no local has mentioned the death of Benny Krass, of Krass Bros fame. It's nearly two years now.

We wuz ROBBED!

Brian

Never met Benny, he was strictly a UHF celebrity. Like the chick with huge boobs selling clear plastic slip covers from U&I Decorators.:biggrinje

John Spencer, when he passed away that was very sad indeed.

Frank Zappa, knew it was coming, but still was gutted beyond belief.

JImmy Doohan and Michael Piller. I'm a huge Trekkie and their deaths really hit me.

1) Carroll O'Connor -- Archie Bunker to the classic T.V. fans our there.

2) Elizabeth Montgomery -- I grew up watching "Bewitched". So sad to hear she died of cancer. She didn't go to the MD until it had really spread.

Paul Gleason has left the building.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060529/...o/obit_gleason

Stevie Ray Vaughan. He played in my town the summer before he passed for the In Step tour. I passed on the show thinking he'd play again. :thepain3:

Vince Welnick, the last keyboard player for the Grateful Dead, died yesterday. Bummer.

Vince was awesome. that is sad news.

Inventor of Blue Screen process, Arthur Widmer, Passes
 

He changed the face of tv weather as we know it today.

Billy Preston Hits the Long and Winding Road
 

This is one that was near and dear to my heart. Billy Preston, legendary gospel rooted organist/keyboardist who rose to popular fame by doing session work with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and through his own hits "Outta Space" and "Will It Go Round in Circles", has died at the age of 59.

Billy will always be remembered by me for his enduring positivity, an uncanny ability to pour forth joy from his words and music. Billy Preston never played an insincere note, and he always had a big smile when he performed, as though he knew something wonderful deep down that the rest of us had overlooked.

I have a sort of up-close and personal Billy Preston story. In 1996, a group billing itself as the Northwest All Stars did a tour of small venues, and Mrs Elspode, my son and I went to see them. All Stars is a vast understatement...the group consisted of Mark Farner, Steve Cropper, Felix Cavalaire, David Santos, Wendy Moten, Lou Gramm, Liberty DeVito and...Billy Preston. Now, if you love music like I love music, being *anywhere* in the vicinity of this incredible assemblage of hitmaking talent is awe-inspiring enough, let alone standing five feet from them all...which is precisely where we were.

The closest performer to us was Mr. Billy Preston. Throughout the set, when he wasn't swinging joyously on the keys, Billy was leaning over, talking personably to the fans, signing autographs, and simply *exuding pure joy*. It was an awesome thing to be a part of. Never once did he display anything but pure pleasure at what he was doing and the people for whom he was doing it. That night, each performer did several of their hit songs, and believe me, there was a bunch. In fact, the people onstage either wrote, performed, arranged or otherwise accounted for over *200 Top Ten* songs. Simply amazing.

My son got a tiny piece of paper and handed it to Billy, and he spoke with him briefly, signed the miniscule shard, smiling all the while, handed it back to him, then ripped into a killer keyboard riff. It was a memory that my family and I will hold for many years to come.

Billy is gone, but his music and glowing spirit will remain forever. Billy...it does indeed go 'round in circles.

:bows head:

:bawling:

Again Well done Splode !!!
I heard about this on NPR today , they told about an interview he did in Rolling Stones a few years back , one statement really tells about this mans spirit , he said " My arms are open for a hug to ALL of my fans , rockers , gospel , country , black, white , EVERYBODY !! "

Bill Owen - Compo Simonite - "Last of the Summer Wine"
For some reason, his death hit me very hard.

CDB is great.

I think you are confusing this thread with the Zarquawi thread.

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I'm having a hard time working up much sorrow at Al-Z's passing. Sorry.

No, I meant Zip's spelling. "Splode" as in explode as in Al-Z versus Spode as in Elspode.

Has anyone mentioned Stevie Ray Vaughn? I never imagined I would see him in concert, but he performed at an out-of-the-way concert series one summer, and I did get to see him. A stroke of fate, I thought. Especially when he died 6 weeks later. What a phenomenal loss to the world of blues.

Billy Preston, the "fifth beatle", died on the sixth...

Oops. My bad. I really should read better...

No worries...I haven't been doing a very good job of that myself, lately.

Page 16, and yet nobody's mentioned Jim Henson.

We're all still in such deep distress that we can't talk about it.

my neighbor's dead? guess i won't have to return the weedwacker.

Aaron Spelling has left the building. Like it or not, the man has impacted every TV owner's life.

I am woman enough to admit that I liked The Mod Squad.

But I was very disappointed when I caught one of their scripts being reused for an episode of Charlie's Angels.

(I don't remember much of the plot, but it had something to do with this little kid, and him running away. In one of the shows he runs to these White Swan Boats on a lake, and in the other it was the White Horse or Unicorn on the Merry-Go-Round at an extremely similar park. Other than that, word for word sameness. That is the day that I become disillusioned by television. Well, it was either that or the day that I found out that the guy playing Longstreet wasn't really blind.)

when the not-quite-ex was on 5 months of strict bedrest trying to hold in little lookout we were sooooo incredibly broke. i literally lived on peanut butter sandwiches. we always found money to pay the cable bill because she was stuck there 24/7. anyway, we got hooked on 90210 reruns. cheesy yes, but good memories.

Same here. I kept the last episode on VHS. I personally did not care for the show but watching the reruns brings back some good times. Funny how fast time goes. That was seven years ago and I have no idea where 7 years went. My son turns 7 in December and I can not remember big chunks of those 7 years.

I remember going to Six Flags when I was a kid. I would wait for over an hour for the "Big" roller coaster. Then it would be over. And I could scarcely remember it. I didn't like that then and I don't like it now.

Good times......gooooood times.

Spelling made a lot of crap, but he made very, very *popular* crap, which made him a very, very rich man.

I don't think you can even put out that much crap without a lot of very hard work and keen insights. He was a sharp cookie, indeed, and a bonafide TV legend.

Tori?;)

I wasn't going to reference her directly, but...yes, Tori, too. :rolleyes:

Spelling also made Gilligan's Island which was about the only bright spot for an eight/ nine-year old me (1968-9) during a particularly "challenging" period of growing up.

Ok, this is an odd fit for this category, but I like to stir things up sometimes.

From Reuters
No matter where you stand on whether she deserves the money, you have to admire the guys tenacity. You also have to wonder how being rebuffed by the Supreme Court affected him?

Tenacity? Yes, all the J.R. Ewing clones have that selfish, vindictive, tenacity.:rolleyes: