R.I.P. THREAD

[newolder]

Losing some good ones this month

[UncertainSloth]

i know, gutted - he's not looked well for years, though

[The Serpent]

Sean Lock.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2021/0 ... sean-lock/

This one grieves me. Lock was one of the great comics.

[felltoearth]

I loved him opposite Richard Ayoade on 8 out of 10 Cats. He was hilarious.


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[Tangerine Dream]

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies aged 80

Musician’s publicist says he died peacefully in a London hospital surrounded by his family
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/ ... es-aged-80

[The Serpent]

Vale Ed Asner.

[The Serpent]

Vale Michael K. Williams.

Omar is dead.

[Agi Hammerthief]

Jean-Paul Belmondo

[Seabass]

[Tortured_Genius]

The '70s and '80s wouldn't have been the same for rather a lot of us in the UK without Sir Clive Sinclair's marvellous inventions!

Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81 (BBC)

[felltoearth]

Richard H Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire. I’m gutted. They were formative for me.

https://thequietus.com/articles/30559-r ... t-voltaire


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[The Serpent]

Vale Moon Face.

Bert Newton was a fixture of Australian entertainment.

[felltoearth]

Fuck me. Andy Barker of 808 State.

https://pitchfork.com/news/808-states-a ... -has-died/


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[The_Metatron]

You know what all this means?

We're getting old.

Not as old as Aggie, but old.

[felltoearth]

Yep


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[Macdoc]

Too soon gone ....what a glowing talent. Just watched him in Goldstone yesterday not knowing he died.

One of Australia's greatest actors, David Gulpilil (Kingfisher) Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu, died last week aged 68, following a battle with lung cancer. In accordance with custom he will be returned to the place of his birth, known to Aboriginal people as his Country, for ceremony.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-59485830

[DougC]

Robert Michael Nesmith
(December 30, 1942 – December 10, 2021)
American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, and novelist. He was best known as a member of the pop rock band the Monkees and co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968). Nesmith's songwriting credits include "Different Drum" (sung by Linda Ronstadt with the Stone Poneys).

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[BlackBart]

[Macdoc]

Was not a great fan of the genre but she managed to catch my interest a couple of times and could write.

Anne Rice, author of Interview with the Vampire, dies aged 80

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59627125

[DougC]

Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside CH FRIBA FCSD FREng RA
(23 July 1933 – 18 December 2021)
Italian-born British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs in high-tech architecture.
In the 1970s and 1980s, he became widely known for two buildings that were controversial at the time for putting amenities like lifts and air conditioning ducts on the outside - the Pompidou in Paris and the Lloyds building in London.

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