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Post by stavros on Dec 9, 2016 19:01:14 GMT -5
Someone put together this collage of those we lost during 2016. This is slightly Brit-centric and the murder of one of our Members of Parliament Jo Cox is perhaps most disturbing and saddest of all. But I think it's been one of the strangest years in my lifetime. Britain voted to leave the European Union (if another major Euro nation follows suit then god knows what the future holds). David Cameron resigned as UK Prime Minister and Theresa May is left to pick up the mess. America voted in Donald Trump as President (you are on your own with that one USA!). Leicester City won the English Premier League! This is as much an anomaly as the Chicago Cubs winning the baseball World Series. We've also lost Greg Lake (of Emerson, Lake and Palmer) and John Glenn (astronaut) since and probably a few others/ The full list of celebrities who feature are: 1 Denise Robertson 2 Keith Emerson 3 Ed Stewart 4 Carla Lane 5 Garry Shandling 6 Johan Cruyff 7 Prince Buster 8 Sir George Martin 9 Anton Yelchin 10 Leonard Cohen 11 Arnold Palmer 12 Harper Lee 13 Pierre Boulez 14 Gareth Thomas 15 Erik Bauersfeld 16 Glenn Frey 17 Burt Kwouk 18 Sir Jimmy Young 19 Paul Daniels 20 Howard Marks 21 Terry Wogan 22 Cliff Michelmore 23 Jean Alexander 24 Alan Rickman 25 Zaha Hadid 26 Muhammad Ali 27 Frank Kelly 28 Caroline Aherne 29 George Kennedy 30 Maurice White 31 David Gest 32 Gene Wilder 33 Lemmy Kilmister 34 Prince 35 David Bowie 36 Pete Burns 37 Ronnie Corbett 38 Victoria Wood 39 Robert Vaughn 40 Jo Cox 41 Sylvia Anderson 42A Kenny Baker 42B Tony Dyson See : www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/beatles-themed-tribute-2016-celebrity-12169824
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Post by kc on Dec 9, 2016 21:02:20 GMT -5
It’s certainly been a bad year for celebrity deaths. I think it is especially the case for those of us who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. A lot of the personalities of that era are now in their 70s, the “traditional” life span. Many of the people who have recently passed held special significance to us, whereas in the past these lists often consisted of stars from the golden years of Hollywood, or perhaps the 1950s. Sadly, I would imagine that it can only get worse.
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