Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....

Thanks! 

The clips of them singing are cute, and bring back memories especially since Stevie Wright is also gone.  

Benson.. R.I.P.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/10/24/robert-guillaume-dies/

Fats Domino:

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41753839

I just read. Wow, what a long life. And what an impact he had on ours  

A little late but...

Dennis Banks, 80

Activist, Leader, Co founder of AIM. Led protests at Wounded Knee in the 70's

Paddles, First Cat of New Zealand, run over by a driver....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/08/paddles-first-cat-of-new-zealand-dies-hit-by-car-jacinda-ardern 

joanne said:

George Young, for those who don’t know, was half of the great songwriting team Vanda and Young who wrote international hits from the 60s to fairly recently. You’d know a lot of them, you’d be surprised at the number of American artists who recorded their work. 

George was also in, and produced as well as wrote for, AC/DC. Obviously related to Angus  

It’s a sad day. 

https://youtu.be/RgOMxTxWPuQ

And now one of his other younger brothers, Malcolm.

Malcolm Young, AC/DC Guitarist and Co-Founder, Dead at 64

Thank you, Dave. I was just going to post our ABC article on this news:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-19/malcolm-young-acdc-dies-aged-64/9165530

I’m really sad, because their music has run in the background of my life from the end of high school to now. It’s the wilder, ocker part of me, the more modern counterpoint to the bush-dancing pioneer/gold rush girl. The music’s iconic, and unites generations from mine to friends’ grandchildren; earlier, non-ACDC music appealed to my (much) older sister and some parents. 

It’s like a whole branch of Australian rock history has fallen off the stately silver-gum tree. 

Malcolm was the true thunder in their sound. He was the premiere hard rock rhythm guitarist. Angus got the glory but Malcolm laid the bedrock. 

Former judge of the first ICC in The Hague, Sir Ninian Stephen, at 94 years:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/19/sir-ninian-stephen-obituary 

He played a leading role in drafting the court’s rules and procedures, then sat as one of three judges on its first trial – that of the Serb Duško Tadić, a brutal torturer at Omarska concentration camp.

Mel Tillis, 85, country singer and songwriter.

Charles Manson: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/us/charles-manson-dead/index.html

Jana Novotna, as no doubt you’ve heard by now. Way too soon, due to illness. 

My goodness, what a run we’re having! 

Earle Hyman, the actor who played Cosby's dad on the Cosby show. He was 91.

jamie said:

Charles Manson: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/us/charles-manson-dead/index.html

https://twitter.com/michelledean/status/932486055403577344

Paul Buckmaster, one of those arrangers whose names you start noticing in the credits of so many albums you love:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/obituaries/paul-buckmaster-arranger-on-hits-by-bowie-and-more-dies-at-71.html

DaveSchmidt said:

Paul Buckmaster, one of those arrangers whose names you start noticing in the credits of so many albums you love:


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/obituaries/paul-buckmaster-arranger-on-hits-by-bowie-and-more-dies-at-71.html

Della Reese 86

jamie said:

Charles Manson: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/us/charles-manson-dead/index.html

To this day, whenever I hear the Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" it reminds me of Manson.  

joanne said:

Jana Novotna, as no doubt you’ve heard by now. Way too soon, due to illness. 

My goodness, what a run we’re having! 

Another tennis legend, Pancho Segura, died at 96 this weekend. Please forgive a celebrity anecdote tangentially related to Segura:

In addition to being a great tennis player, Segura was also a handsome, charming guy, which, when his career ended, made him a natural to be the tennis pro at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, where he taught Hollywood stars and their children how play.

Jimmy Connors was a young phenom living across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. His mother, Gloria, was a former pro who coached Jimmy and knew Segura from when they were both players. When, as a teen, Jimmy’s game got past the point where she could help him much more, Gloria Connors sent her son out to California to train with Segura.

Not really knowing anyone else in L.A., he went around with Segura as he gave lessons at mansions and mostly made friends when one of the celebrities happened to have a son his age.

One day, he’s at a palatial star home playing with a friend. When they finished, his friend’s father invited them to relax with gin and tonics. Jimmy had never tried alcohol before, but his friend’s father made it seem like it was the thing to do. This is how the first drink Jimmy Connors ever had was mixed…by Dean Martin.

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David Cassidy - gone at 67

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/nov/22/david-cassidy-star-70s-tv-partridge-family-dies-aged-67

marksierra said:

David Cassidy - gone at 67

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/nov/22/david-cassidy-star-70s-tv-partridge-family-dies-aged-67

He urged us to "Get Happy" Could use a few of him around now.

author said:

He urged us to "Get Happy" Could use a few of him around now.

“Come On, Get Happy” vs. “When We’re Singing.”

Jeremy Gelbwaks vs. Brian Forster.

Laurie’s braces vs. radio transmissions.

And Keith Partridge and Richard Pryor, composing a song together.

I think I love that show. R.I.P.

News spread across the world world instantly. I'm on the iPad that won't 'like' comments, otherwise I'd agree in green with DS.

He was definitely a first crush of this young girl. Sure makes me feel old.

Jon Hendricks, who vocalesed with some of the nimblest lips, and lyrics, around:

Jon Hendricks, 96, Who Brought a New Dimension to Jazz Singing, Dies

And the Beatles "Helter Skelter"

DottyParker said:

jamie said:

Charles Manson: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/us/charles-manson-dead/index.html

To this day, whenever I hear the Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" it reminds me of Manson.  

Gomer Pyle:

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/11/30/jim-nabors-dead-star-best-known-as-gomer-pyle-was-87.html

I remember my mother telling me to listen to him sing. Nice singing voice- nothing at all lie his highly distinctive speaking voice