Celeb deaths that have "affected" you..

[MK Shrimper]

As per the Keith Floyd thread.....which celebs have made you shed a tear at their passing?

Mine:

John Peel
Joe Strummer
Kurt Cobain
Richey James (is he dead?)

 

[Pubey]

John Peel....

 

[Napster]

Ian Dury
Isaac Hayes

 

[MK Shrimper]

Ian Dury
Isaac Hayes

Good call.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Samuel L Jackson's Acting Career.

 

[Ron Manager]

Kurt Cobain
John Peel

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Freddie Mercury

 

[canveyshrimper]

Brian Johnston

 

[Uncle Leo]

Linda Smith

Wonderful comedian who had that great line about Neil and Christine Hamilton:

"People talk about giving the Hamiltons the oxygen of publicity; I wouldn't give them the oxygen of oxygen"

Snooker player Paul Hunter as well, him being someone very close to my own age.

 

[Davros]

Ayton Senna

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Ian Curtis but not in 1980 when he actually died - just understanding all the pain & torment he was facing despite having the world at his feet since getting into the music has made me find out a whole load more about him.

Agree with Richey Manic & Ian Dury too.

From the world of sport, definitely Bobby Robson & Bob Paisley as well as being distraught as a kid when I heard Shanks had died. Fabio Casertelli dying on a mountain descent in the Tour is also a horrible memory and was made even more poignant when the peloton rode as one in tribute to him & then just drifted back respectfully to let his Motorola team-mates cross the line together. Very upset about the passing of Marco Pantani too, another tormented genius!

 

[Pubey]

Ayton Senna

oh yeah, good call

 

[Ron Manager]

Linda Smith

Wonderful comedian who had that great line about Neil and Christine Hamilton:

"People talk about giving the Hamiltons the oxygen of publicity; I wouldn't give them the oxygen of oxygen"

Yes, agree with that. A really sad loss.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Ayton Senna

What I'll say about that one is that I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news; there aren't many others about whom I can say that. That was earth-shattering at the time, even though I'm no huge F1 fan.

 

[Ron Manager]

What I'll say about that one is that I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news; there aren't many others about whom I can say that. That was earth-shattering at the time, even though I'm no huge F1 fan.

I remember clearly hearing about when both Kurt Cobain and John Peel died....moments like that stay with you.

 

[Ulysses]

Tommy Cooper (the fact that we had to watch it on tv)

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Linda Smith

Wonderful comedian who had that great line about Neil and Christine Hamilton:

"People talk about giving the Hamiltons the oxygen of publicity; I wouldn't give them the oxygen of oxygen"

Would green rep if I hadn't already +'d you recently...

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Samuel L Jackson's Acting Career.

Same could be said about Vic Reeves comedy genius too...:thumbdown:

 

[Ron Manager]

Tommy Cooper (the fact that we had to watch it on tv)

Don't know how reliable my memory is of this but I seem to recall my Dad (who was a fan of Tommy Cooper) ****ing himself laughing as he thought it was part of the act (as did the actual audience in the theatre at the time) then feeling really bad when it was evident what was actually happening

 

[Ulysses]

I also thought the death of Father Ted (Dermot Morgan) was very weird as he died the day of the last bit of filming of Series 3.