The RIP thread...

Sad. I'd heard from someone who'd worked on the new series that it wasn't going to be long.

Bet Kate Garraway (who complained about her 'croaky voice' the other week) feels clever now.

Damian Lewis gazed at his wife with such love. Garraway wasn't to know.

https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1383091431355604994

Yeah very sad news will be severely missed in the theatre scene

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56779687

rip A68

How will drivers get from Corbridge to Elishaw?

Ha... Took me a moment, my ex-mother-in-law lives (?) up that way, remember that road very well tho' I spent a lot more time on the A69 and the very beautiful B6318 when the weather allowed...

George Reynolds, safe cracker and chairman of Darlington FC:
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/19232415.george-reynolds-former-darlington-chairman-remembered/

https://youtu.be/xKt75jUuKJY

Mike Mitchell

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/19/mike-mitchell-guitarist-on-the-kingsmens-louie-louie-dies-aged-77

Such a tune. Best scene in Quadrophenia, in the dancehall with all that natural reverb

Still a killer after all these years... RIP...

RIP Jim Steinman, composer and artist

Bat Out Of Hell composer Jim Steinman dies https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56825060

Les McKeown

Oh, christ. Well at least the music isn't going to be on every channel for a week.

By all accounts a top bloke, my old DJ partner lived next door to him in Clapton twenty years ago and spoke very highly of him... RIP...

RIP. Shock G. Dowhatyalike.
A true funkatear who took that West Coast funk vibe in to hip hop.

Good write up on the BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56857349.amp

nice little write up he was great and quite underrated ithink

Dan Kaminsky. Bit niche but there's a small community of infosec/crypto people on here who will recognise the name. No details yet but 42 is way too young.

Nice write up, thanks for the link

That is a shock, as you say he was no age.

Fairly decent article in the NY Times on him, cause of death was a kidney complication brought on by diabetes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/technology/daniel-kaminsky-dead.html#click=https://t.co/0wNxfI5VG7

Sadly, him being in the infosec/crypto field means that more than the usual number of anti-vax covidiots have crawled out to say it was a vaccine that killed him.

Michael Collins, the third member of the Apollo 11 mission and the only one not to set foot on the moon, has died at the age from cancer at the age of 90.

https://youtu.be/2lLIGaNhWuU

Detailed Obituary
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/anita-lane-nick-cave-dead-1162241/