R.I.P. THREAD

[DougC]

Sergio Arellano Stark
(es), 94,
Chilean military officer, leader of the Caravan of Death, Alzheimer's disease.
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[orpheus]

Naná Vasconcelos(August 2, 1944 – March 9, 2016)[1] was a Brazilian Latin jazz percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, most notable for his works with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Egberto Gismonti, and Gato Barbieri.
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Very, very, very fine musician. I heard him with Pat Metheny - twice. Each time was thrilling.

[DougC]

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[james1v]

I had to euthanize my old dog just now. We got her in Hawaii from the animal shelter over 12 years ago, and she's travelled much of the world with us. She's always really been my dog, having little time or attention for my boys. She had a couple strokes in the last two days, and she was just loaded with mass cell cancer. This was never going to improve. There was no way I was going to suffer her to live her last days or weeks in pain and afraid.

She sure was a good dog. I'll miss her.

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Beautiful dog.

[DougC]

Sir Kenneth Hugo "Ken" Adam, OBE
(born Klaus Hugo Adam; 5 February 1921 – 10 March 2016)
German-born British motion picture production designer most famous for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s.
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[james1v]

George Martin
(3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016)

Record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle" in reference to his extensive involvement on each of the Beatles' original albums.

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Hang on a fecking minute! How many "Fifth Beatles" Exist? When Brian Epstein died, the media headlines screamed "The fifth Beatle"?

The guy who left the band, replaced by Ringo Star was hailed as "The fifth Beatle"...How many "Fifth Beatles" are there? And what qualifies someone as being "The fifth"?

Shouldn't a list be drawn up? To avoid confusion in the future?

[DougC]

I feel a schism coming on.

[james1v]

I feel a schism coming on.

Feck Europe, this demands a referendum!

[CdesignProponentsist]

Nancy Davis Reagan
(born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016)

It's interesting how long Presidents and First Ladies live. Since the Nixons, not one of them has died younger than 90.

I'm pretty sure it is the exemplary health care they receive for the remainder of their lives.

[BlackBart]

George Martin
(3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016)

Record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle" in reference to his extensive involvement on each of the Beatles' original albums.

BBC

Hang on a fecking minute! How many "Fifth Beatles" Exist? When Brian Epstein died, the media headlines screamed "The fifth Beatle"?

The guy who left the band, replaced by Ringo Star was hailed as "The fifth Beatle"...How many "Fifth Beatles" are there? And what qualifies someone as being "The fifth"?



Shouldn't a list be drawn up? To avoid confusion in the future?

I play paper and comb and claim the title of 16,972,543rd Beatle.

[Tangerine Dream]

Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 1944 – 10 March 2016) was an English keyboardist and composer. He began his career as a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, Gary Farr and the T-Bones, The V.I.P.'s and P. P. Arnold's backing band The Nice. Emerson found his first commercial success with The Nice in the late 1960s, before becoming a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early supergroups, in 1970. Emerson, Lake & Palmer were critically and commercially successful through much of the 1970s, becoming one of the best-known progressive rock groups of the era.

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Keith Emerson shot himself in the head in what’s likely now a suicide investigation. The keyboardist and founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer was found dead by his girlfriend on Thursday night in the couple’s Santa Monica, California house with a single bullet shot to the head.

The piano player had been depressed as a result of a nerve problem that affected his right hand and severely impaired his ability to play the keyboard. Still, he was slated to perform next week in Japan.

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[kennyc]

Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 1944 – 10 March 2016) was an English keyboardist and composer. He began his career as a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, Gary Farr and the T-Bones, The V.I.P.'s and P. P. Arnold's backing band The Nice. Emerson found his first commercial success with The Nice in the late 1960s, before becoming a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early supergroups, in 1970. Emerson, Lake & Palmer were critically and commercially successful through much of the 1970s, becoming one of the best-known progressive rock groups of the era.

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Keith Emerson shot himself in the head in what’s likely now a suicide investigation. The keyboardist and founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer was found dead by his girlfriend on Thursday night in the couple’s Santa Monica, California house with a single bullet shot to the head.

The piano player had been depressed as a result of a nerve problem that affected his right hand and severely impaired his ability to play the keyboard. Still, he was slated to perform next week in Japan.

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Damn!

[Pulsar]

The guy who left the band, replaced by Ringo Star was hailed as "The fifth Beatle"...How many "Fifth Beatles" are there?

Quite a lot. Billy Preston was also called the "fifth Beatle".

[Scot Dutchy]

Wiki:

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

[DougC]

Lloyd Stowell Shapley
(June 2, 1923 – March 12, 2016)
American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning economist. He contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory.
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[DougC]

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CH CBE
(8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016)
British composer and conductor. In 2004 he was made Master of the Queen's Music. He was known for his modern and avant-garde works, but his most famous piece was a simple, haunting lament for solo piano - Farewell To Stromness.
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Riccardo Garrone
(1 November 1926 – 14 March 2016)
Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films from 1949 until 2014.
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Anita Brookner, CBE
(16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016)
British award-winning novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Man Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.
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John Charles "Jack" Caldwell AO
(8 December 1928 – 12 March 2016)
Australian, was a leading demographer, particularly in the fields of fertility transition and health transition. He researched extensively in Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia since 1959. He had a significant impact on demographic teaching, research and policy formulation.
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[DougC]

Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs
(7 May 1921 – 15 March 2016)
English historian. He was a leading specialist on the Victorian era, and the foremost historian of broadcasting in Britain. He was made a life peer in 1976.
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[DougC]

Sylvia Anderson
(née Thamm, 27 March 1927 - 15 March 2016)
British television and film producer, writer and voice actress, well known for her collaborations with Gerry Anderson, her husband between 1960 and 1981. In addition to serving as co-creator and co-writer on their TV series during the 1960s and early 1970s, Sylvia's primary contribution was character development and costume design. She regularly directed the bi-weekly voice recording sessions, and provided the voices of many female and child characters, in particular Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds.
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[DougC]

Alexander Sergeyevich Esenin-Volpin
(also written Ésénine-Volpine and Yessenin-Volpin in his French and English publications; May 12, 1924 – March 16, 2016)
Prominent Russian-American poet and mathematician. A notable dissident, political prisoner and a leader of the Soviet human rights movement, he spent a total of fourteen years incarcerated and repressed by the Soviet authorities in prisons, psikhushkas and exile.
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Arthur Clifford "Cliff" Michelmore, CBE
(11 December 1919 – 16 March 2016)
English television presenter and producer. He is best known for the BBC television programme Tonight, which he presented from 1957 to 1965. He also hosted the BBC's television coverage of the Apollo moon landings, the Aberfan disaster, the 1966 and 1970 UK general elections and the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales in 1969. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1969.
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[DougC]

Francis Wayne Sinatra
(January 10, 1944 – March 16, 2016)
Professionally known as Frank Sinatra, Jr., was an American singer, songwriter and conductor. Frank Jr. was the son of singer and actor Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra.
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