R.I.P. THREAD

[Tangerine Dream]

by DougC » Jan 24, 2015 9:38 pm
Edgar Willmar Froese
(6 June 1944 – 20 January 2015)
German artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group Tangerine Dream.
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B.B.C.

[DougC]

The R.I.P.Thread

Bringing you joy daily, since 07 Sep 2013.

[Blackadder]

Demis Roussos, the Greek pop and rock singer who became an unlikely international star in the 1970s and 80s, famed for his soaring, high-pitched voice, and voluminous kaftans, has died aged 69.

The bearded singer starteed his career in the pioneering Greek progressive rock band Aphrodite’s Child alongside another future star, Vangelis, who later composed the film scores for Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner.

The Guardian

The demise of Demis. He's gone forever and ever.

[DougC]

Yves Chauvin
(October 10, 1930 – January 28, 2015)
French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate. He was honorary research director at the Institut français du pétrole and a member of the French Academy of Science. Chauvin received his degree from the Lyon School of Chemistry, Physics and Electronics in 1954.
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[Emmeline]

Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds author, dies at 77

Her second novel, 1977's The Thorn Birds, became an international bestseller.

A story of forbidden love between a young woman and a priest in the Australian outback, the paperback rights sold for a then-record $1.9 million (£1.25m).

It was turned into a popular television mini-series in 1983, starring Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward.

Her last book, Bittersweet, was published in 2013.

McCullough was born in Wellington, New South Wales and spent most of her early life in Sydney.

Before turning to writing, she studied medicine both in Australia and overseas, establishing the neurophysiology department at the Royal North Shore hospital in Sydney. author,

Her second novel, 1977's The Thorn Birds, became an international bestseller.

A story of forbidden love between a young woman and a priest in the Australian outback, the paperback rights sold for a then-record $1.9 million (£1.25m).

It was turned into a popular television mini-series in 1983, starring Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward.

Her last book, Bittersweet, was published in 2013.

McCullough was born in Wellington, New South Wales and spent most of her early life in Sydney.

Before turning to writing, she studied medicine both in Australia and overseas, establishing the neurophysiology department at the Royal North Shore hospital in Sydney.

She went on to spend 10 years as a researcher at Yale medical school in the US.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31036362

I loved that book & the TV series of The Thorn Birds.

[chairman bill]

Six years ago today, John Martyn died

[campermon]

Six years ago today, John Martyn died

Crikey That long ago?

Saw him back in about 1991-92. He was awesome.

Here's to John

[Tangerine Dream]

Did you just find out that he died six years ago ?

[Varangian]

Otto Carius, second highest-scoring tank ace of all time, passed away on 24th January, aged 92. Known for his book Tigers in the Mud, describing his experiences as a Tiger tank commander during WW2. One of the few people who prolonged his life by smoking. While advancing on Soviet lines standing in the commander's hatch of his tank, he wanted a smoke. Just as he bent down inside the tank to ask one in the crew to light his cigarette, a Soviet anti-tank gun fired, ripping off the commander's cupola and only slightly injuring Carius. After the war, he studied pharmacy and ran the "Tiger Apotheke" in his home town until his retirement in 2011. He also became a character in a Japanese manga comic (!).

[jamest]

One of the few people who prolonged his life by smoking.

Did you make that fact up?

[DougC]

Israel Yinon
(59yo)
Renowned Israeli conductor Israel Yinon has collapsed and died during a concert performance in Switzerland.
The 59-year-old was conducting at a concert given by a Swiss youth orchestra in Lucerne, when he fell dramatically to the ground.
An audience member rushed to his aid, but the musician died in an ambulance on the way to hospital.
B.B.C.

[DougC]

Charles Hard Townes
(July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015)
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor. Townes was known for his work on the theory and application of the maser, on which he got the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics connected with both maser and laser devices. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov.
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Suzette Haden Elgin
born Patricia Anne Wilkins
(November 18, 1936 – January 27, 2015)
American science fiction author. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and is considered an important figure in the field of science fiction constructed languages. Elgin was also a linguist; she published non-fiction, of which the best-known is the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense series.
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[DougC]

Carl Djerassi
(October 29, 1923 – January 31, 2015)
Austrian-American chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of oral contraceptive pills and the use of physical methods in organic chemistry as well as on structure elucidation of natural products (notably steroids), an area in which he published over 1000 papers. Djerassi is emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University.
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[DougC]

Geraldine McEwan
born Geraldine McKeown
(9 May 1932–31 January 2015)
English actress with a diverse history in theatre, film and television. From 2004 to 2009 she appeared as Miss Marple, the Agatha Christie sleuth, for the series Marple.
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[DougC]

Alexander Vraciu
(November 2, 1918 – January 29, 2015)
United States Navy fighter ace and Medal of Honor nominee during World War II. He once shot down six Japanese dive bombers in eight minutes.
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[Ironclad]

His surname seems suspiciously familiar... *strokes beard*

[Varangian]

One of the few people who prolonged his life by smoking.

Did you make that fact up?

Nope, why would I? From "Tiger in the Mud"

"The shell cut the right part of the commander’s cupola. I was not beheaded because I had bent down to light my cigarette. Suddenly the Russian assault gun appeared and I gave an order to the gunner to open fire. Kramer shot, and a second shell, from another assault gun, hit in the turret. I can not remember which way I left the Tiger. The head phones-the only thing I have from my destroyed Tiger".

[DougC]

Carlos Noguera
(October 28, 1943 - February 3, 2015)
Venezuelan writer and psychologist.
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[DougC]

Muath Safi Yousef Al-Kasasbeh
(May 29, 1988 – January 3, 2015)
Jordanian pilot. The plane he was piloting, a Lockheed Martin F-16, crashed after mechanical problems on December 24, 2014 though ISIL claims it shot the aircraft down. He was captured by ISIL terrorists near Raqqa Syria. He is threatened with execution but there are negotiations to release him. However, in bad faith, the terrorist decapitated his co-prisoner, a Japanese journalist. There is widespread coverage internationally about this pilot. Pictures published on ISIS's official al Furqan media site apparently show him being burned alive while confined in a cage.
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[DougC]

Charles Hard Townes
(July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015)
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor. Townes was known for his work on the theory and application of the maser, on which he got the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics connected with both maser and laser devices. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov.
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Carl Djerassi
(October 29, 1923 – January 30, 2015)
Bulgarian, Austrian and American chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of oral contraceptive pills. He participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E. Miramontes and Mexican-Hungarian George Rosenkranz, of the progestin norethisterone—which, unlike progesterone, remained effective when taken orally and was far stronger than the naturally occurring hormone. His preparation was first administered as an oral contraceptive to animals by Gregory Goodwin Pincus and Min Chueh Chang and to women by John Rock.
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