summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Barrie Stuart-Hargreaves ( Barrie Howard) of Hi-De-Hi fame has danced his last waltz.
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....Cameroon footballer Patrick Ekeng has died after collapsing on pitch during a televised game in Romania. Very sad.
Read that this morning.
So sad.
Shows that no amount of fitness can be a substitute for medical screening and treatment for heart problems.
....so true, Grouch. I presume it's a similar heart defect to the one Muamba and cricketer Taylor recently suffered from and also the one that caused the death of another Cameroon player, Mark Viviene Foe. Irony is that this young man had only just come on as a substitute.
Donald Twain
Vide cor meum
How awful!
Isoa Tomita - R.I.P
(cue members under 40 collective Who??)
He was a synth pioneer and a massive influence on the electronic music of today
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture...of-synthesizer-music-dies-at-84/#.Vy8dVCb5OM8
(cue members under 40 collective Who??)
He was a synth pioneer and a massive influence on the electronic music of today
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture...of-synthesizer-music-dies-at-84/#.Vy8dVCb5OM8
.....Reg Grundy the man behind a myriad of TV series in Australia has died aged 92. If you love your Neighbours and Sons and Daughters then he's the man to thank.
Woolly Blue
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Philw
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Also a(the National?) Camaroonian female goalkeeper died this week after having pains during the warm up. This seems to be happening more and more these days - the London marathon seems to have a death every couple years as well - I wonder if there's some inherent fault that's becoming more prevalent in our bodies?
.....I think it's a heart defect that's always been around. I can remember Terry Yoraths young son dying tragically of it many years ago. It has now been diagnosed as a recognised ailment and is more visible.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Tony Barrow, the Beatle's press officer.
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tony-barrow-beatles-dies/
Beatles Press Officer Tony Barrow, Creator of the Term ‘Fab Four,’ Dies
Tony Barrow, who worked as the Beatles press officer from 1962-68, died yesterday (May 14) at his home in Morecambe, England. He had turned 80 only three days prior. The cause of death is unknown at this time.
Born in the Liverpool suburb of Crosby in 1936, Barrow, by 1961, had been working for Decca Records writing liner notes while pseudonymously contributing record reviews to the Liverpool Echo. According to the Telegraph, manager Brian Epstein contacted him about covering the Beatles in the paper. Since the group didn’t yet have a record deal, he refused, but he did help set up the group’s Jan. 1, 1962 audition with the label, which they famouslyfailed.
After the group signed with EMI and released “Love Me Do,” Epstein lured Barrow away from the label by offering twice what he was making at Decca to become a full-time employee, working not just on the Beatles, but Epstein’s stable of Liverpool acts like Cilla Black and Gerry and the Pacemakers. His duties included such tasks as setting up interviews, creating the cartoon in the Magical Mystery Tourbooklet and writing both sleeve notes for their early albums and features for the Beatles Monthlymagazine that would be attributed to the band.
The flexi-discs that they sent out every Christmas starting in 1963 was Barrow’s idea, as a way of apologizing to the fan club’s members for not being able to deal with the backlog of fan mail they were receiving. But it was a press release where his most lasting contribution to their history was made, when he coined the term “Fab Four” to refer to the group.
Barrow left the Beatles in 1968, a year after the death of Brian Epstein, and formed his own public relations company, where he worked with the Kinks, theMonkees and the Jackson Five. In 2005, he published a memoir of his time with the Beatles called John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me. He is survived by his wife, Corrine, and their two sons.
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tony-barrow-beatles-dies/
Beatles Press Officer Tony Barrow, Creator of the Term ‘Fab Four,’ Dies
Tony Barrow, who worked as the Beatles press officer from 1962-68, died yesterday (May 14) at his home in Morecambe, England. He had turned 80 only three days prior. The cause of death is unknown at this time.
Born in the Liverpool suburb of Crosby in 1936, Barrow, by 1961, had been working for Decca Records writing liner notes while pseudonymously contributing record reviews to the Liverpool Echo. According to the Telegraph, manager Brian Epstein contacted him about covering the Beatles in the paper. Since the group didn’t yet have a record deal, he refused, but he did help set up the group’s Jan. 1, 1962 audition with the label, which they famouslyfailed.
After the group signed with EMI and released “Love Me Do,” Epstein lured Barrow away from the label by offering twice what he was making at Decca to become a full-time employee, working not just on the Beatles, but Epstein’s stable of Liverpool acts like Cilla Black and Gerry and the Pacemakers. His duties included such tasks as setting up interviews, creating the cartoon in the Magical Mystery Tourbooklet and writing both sleeve notes for their early albums and features for the Beatles Monthlymagazine that would be attributed to the band.
The flexi-discs that they sent out every Christmas starting in 1963 was Barrow’s idea, as a way of apologizing to the fan club’s members for not being able to deal with the backlog of fan mail they were receiving. But it was a press release where his most lasting contribution to their history was made, when he coined the term “Fab Four” to refer to the group.
Barrow left the Beatles in 1968, a year after the death of Brian Epstein, and formed his own public relations company, where he worked with the Kinks, theMonkees and the Jackson Five. In 2005, he published a memoir of his time with the Beatles called John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me. He is survived by his wife, Corrine, and their two sons.
The Daily Mail's horoscope writer Jonathan Cainer has died aged 58.
The Mail said Cainer was "quite simply, Britain's greatest astrologer" and that his death was a "tragedy".
Cainer was the newspaper's astrologer from 1992 to 2000, returning to write the column again from 2004. His horoscopes were translated into Japanese, Spanish, Italian and Chinese.
Bet he didn't see that one coming.
The Mail said Cainer was "quite simply, Britain's greatest astrologer" and that his death was a "tragedy".
Cainer was the newspaper's astrologer from 1992 to 2000, returning to write the column again from 2004. His horoscopes were translated into Japanese, Spanish, Italian and Chinese.
Bet he didn't see that one coming.
Bluekahunaburgers
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Founding member of the Beastie Boys John Berry died aged 52. He suffered from frontal lobe dementia according to his father.
Professor Toffee
On and on, over the hill and the craic is good
Maybe his stars said "you will die today"
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Former Megadeth drummer Nick Menza dies after collapsing on stage from a suspected heart attack aged 51.
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