The RIP thread...

Nicolas Parsons @96 he had a good life. From Sale of the Century through to Just a Minute (since 1967) he was a go to presenter.

Yes good old Nicholas Parsons - a marvellous chap. RIP

Oh man, that's like losing a grandparent. RIP Nicholas.

'I've been out with Nicholas Parsons'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbp1lq-wiew

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Surely an incorrect challenge, as it's in the subject title?

I'd suggest that this foray into levity is a deviation from the serious nature of this thread.

If he's cremated, that bit at the end of the service where the coffin starts to move on the conveyor belt to the crem fire... I do hope they play the Minute Waltz.

"The Dorchester with Nicholas bloody Parsons!"

Reed Mullin of Corrosion of Conformity

https://youtu.be/rKPicUnsPPg

Andy Gill Gang of Four

https://youtu.be/byCqOvRMOvo

Ah no, such a great band.

https://youtu.be/5fbXfk51R1o

I've only just seen that Hylda Sims died on the 13th January.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/29/hylda-sims-obituary

https://poetrysociety.org.uk/news/hylda-sims-remembered/

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=167165&messages=7

I'm gutted I didn't see her again recently, had been meaning to go to one of her events for months and somehow could never make it. I'll miss her hugely.

Ivan Kral of Patti Smith group. Co-wrote a few songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmDr9L1p6wA

Kirk Douglas, aged 103

No, I am Spartacus.

What a life!!!

What a life!!!

My all-time favourite obituary headline is still the one for Charlton Heston in the Guardian:

Hollywood actor who played Ben-Hur, Michelangelo, El Cid, Moses, American presidents and God

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/apr/07/obituaries.usa

(NB all while I don't think much of his political views or his 'acting'.)

Norton motorcycles (again)

Caroline Flack

RIP poor lady. Hounded by the British press because she had a drunken row.

Watch the tabs bleach their numerous character assassinations of her online now, absolutely reprehensible

Watch the tabs bleach their numerous character assassinations of her online now, absolutely reprehensible

I'd never heard of her, or of the witch hunt against her, but this is telling:

Tabloids such as the Sun, which broke news of her death, moved swiftly to delete recent negative stories about Flack.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/15/former-love-island-presenter-caroline-flack-dies-aged-40

RIP.

Very sad. I have never watched Love Island but she must have been on something I've watched over the years, she seemed personable and distinctly herself....

RIP

Fucking hell this is shit

RIP Andy Weatherall

https://thequietus.com/articles/27832-andrew-weatherall-dead