The RIP thread...

RIP
https://youtu.be/8pGN-YYiqXI?si=EdX7JC4UdQqgMVw_

Glynis Johns, the mother (Mrs banks) of the Mary Poppins children.

Always used to watch this with my mum at Christmas. No idea why as it wasn't a Christmas film.

Walking to the pub after work about 5 years ago, saw a crowd in a side street then David Soul appeared. We were Starsky fans growing up but it was still a fun moment.

https://youtu.be/tRHSzesxBds?feature=shared

Votes for women!

I used to see him fairly often in The Feathers in Linhope St. He apparently lived in the area. I bought him a pint once.

Just found out he died from a brain haemorrhage, so pretty quick...

Classic! Loved MP whilst a wee nipper.
SpitSpot

He definitely embraced British pub culture in his autumn years.

DJ Spatts From TCM - :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v84mJACUmu8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiIVFO23etw

Der Kaiser, Franz Beckenbauer

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/08/franz-beckenbauer-world-cup-winning-captain-and-manager-dies-aged-78

Surely one of the greatest to play and coach.

(reputation dented somewhat recently though)

American experimental composer Phil Niblock.

"No melodies, no rhythm, no bullshit"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3oaOKRNwxE&t=1424s

Oh dear , that’s sad …. at school I used to tell everyone my hand me down Derby County kit was really West Germany …. mainly because of him and Gerd Muller

Another sporting legend, Wales ace JPR Williams (74) part of that legendary Wales side of the 1970’s. Star of Barbarian and British Lions sides.

Christ, bit of sporting apocalypse today - Der Kaiser and JPR. I hope it's not cricket next.

There aren’t many people who are good enough in their field of endeavour that people know who they are just by their initials. RIP JPR

I hate this thread, I really do, I missed this on the news today.
RIP JPR

Very sad news, amazing guy qualified surgeon too. That lions tour was historic and he was central to that.

Posted above. Addiction issues and subsequent brain haemorrhage.

Annie Nightingale :(

Absolute legend, she pushed the breaks scene so hard in the early 2000's, her show was un missable for me back then.

I interviewed her about 15 years ago at the big chill festival, she smoked the biggest spliff whilst we were setting up and was completely boxed by the time we started. It was an absolute disaster of an interview but half an hour later she played a banger of a set.

What a life, absolute pioneer.

Wonderful tributes
across the airwaves,
larger than life.
RIP Annie

Can only echo others, she was fucking epic. RIP Annie.

Crazy Joe Davola.

Def Palmer.
71

(Kate Bush's musisian, engineer and ex-partner)

Mick Ives, something of a British cycling legend.

https://singletrackworld.com/2024/01/mick-ives-a-british-cycling-legend-1939-2024/