Thursday 5 January 2017

RIP's of MMXVI



It's been said many times, but what a year it was for 'celebrity' deaths.

I shan't attempt to name them all, you can see many in the pastiche above. There were giants amongst them; Mohammed Ali, Bowie, Prince Buster, Prince himself, Lemmie, Leonard Cohen, and more recently George Michael.

Most of us just come and go; others leave a huge footprint. I salute them all, and thank them for having made my life so much more enjoyable than it might otherwise have been.

Acta est fabula; plaudite. RIP all.




8 comments:

  1. The other day I was amazed by the list of celebs who passed away. With today's technology however they will live on for us. Thank you YouTube and the net in general. RIP

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  2. The crowd is bigger than that. Just to mention a few Italian names like Umberto Eco, author of the name of the rose. Actor playwriter and theatre director Dario Fo, then also champion swimmers and actor Bud Spencer...
    Greetings Maria x

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    1. I hadn't heard that UE had died.

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    2. We loved those old Bud Spencer movies. Didn't realise he was Italian still I saw his obituary. A classic. Bud Spencer- Terrence Hill

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    3. Maria, years ago, on a London visit, I was able to see Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist. It was a wonderful introduction to his writing.

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  3. That album cover was done by Jan Howarth, not her partner Peter Blake as he claimed, although he had a part in it. Jan used to live here in Bath, and I lived with her sister.

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    1. Didn't she make dolls? PB was a very good painter, he should have concentrated on it.

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    2. Jan Howarth is a name new to me, and so I will have to do some research. Thank you.

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