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    By way of a tribute:

    I arrived in Australia on my first visit, and the man at immigration said "Do you have a criminal record?"

    I said "Yes, Des O'Connor's Greatest Hits album".

    rat-a-tat-*ching*

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    Radio France Internationale publishes obituaries of people still alive



    The Queen, who is very much alive, was on the list by mistake.


    A French radio station has apologised after publishing the obituaries of several prominent - and alive - people, including the Queen.

    Others on the list that went live prematurely on the website of Radio France Internationale included Clint Eastwood, Pele and Brigitte Bardot.

    A "technical problem" led to the publication, RFI said.

    "We offer our apologies to the people concerned and to you who follow and trust us," the broadcaster added.

    Broadcasters and media outlets often prepare obituary material in order to be able to publish it promptly when a death is announced.

    The problem occurred when RFI was moving its website to a different content management system, according to its statement.

    It said "around a hundred" draft stories were published in error - not just to its own site but to partner sites including Google and Yahoo.

    Radio France Internationale publishes obituaries of people still alive - BBC News


    I don't know... I guess when you think about it, of course obituaries are prepared in advance... but it just seems so wrong to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    I don't know... I guess when you think about it, of course obituaries are prepared in advance... but it just seems so wrong to me.
    I don't see why. It's essentially just a short biography, with a few lines added when they die.

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    Lu has given him his own thread in world news, harry. And deservedly so: front page news across the globe.

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    did anyone mention Des O'connor passed a couple of weeks ago. I remember having to sit through the Des O'connor show on TV with the family . it was the only thing on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    did anyone mention Des O'connor passed a couple of weeks ago. I remember having to sit through the Des O'connor show on TV with the family . it was the only thing on.
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    They should have done a version with his voice. He sounded like a Swindon Milkman.

    "Lewk, Oi am yore faaaaaaaaarther".

    David Prowse, the original Darth Vader, dies aged 85


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    British actor David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, has died aged 85, his management company announced Sunday.

    Prowse died after a short illness, according to his agent Thomas Bowington. CNN reported in 2018 that Prowse was being treated for prostate cancer.

    "It's with great regret and heart-wrenching sadness for us and million of fans around the world, to announce that our client DAVE PROWSE M.B.E. has passed away at the age of 85," Bowington Management said on Twitter Sunday.

    "May the force be with him, always!" his former agent, Thomas Bowington, said in a statement to the BBC.
    "Though famous for playing many monsters -- for myself, and all who knew Dave and worked with him, he was a hero in our lives."

    Prowse wore the black suit and helmet to play Darth Vader, but it was the actor James Earl Jones who provided the character's voice. Prowse's West Country English accent was thought to be unsuitable for the part.

    But it was his role as the "Green Cross Code Man" from a British road safety campaign that Prowse said he was most proud of. He was awarded an MBE -- a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire -- in 2000 for that role.

    Prowse was born into a working class family and grew up in a council estate in Southmead, in southwestern England. He gained a scholarship to attend Bristol Grammar School.


    He had a passion for bodybuilding and was crowned British Weightlifting Champion several times in the 1960s. He became lifelong friends with actors Arnold Schwarzenegger in his weightlifting years, according to website IMDb.

    His broad physique and towering figure helped land him roles as monsters and villains in TV shows and films. He played the monster in "The Horror of Frankenstein" in 1970 and a bearded torturer in "Carry on Henry" in 1971. That same year he made an appearance as a bodyguard in Stanley Kubrick's dystopian film "A Clockwork Orange" in 1971.

    He went on to play Darth Vader in all three of the original "Star Wars" films, in 1977, 1980 and 1983.


    Health and fitness remained an interest for Prowse, who also worked as a personal trainer for actors playing the role of Superman, including Christopher Reeve, and wrote a book called "Fitness is Fun."


    He published an autobiography, "Straight from the Force's Mouth," in 2011.
    David Prowse, the original Darth Vader, dies aged 85 - CNN

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    Quote Originally Posted by lom View Post
    No other journalist knew the Middle-East like he did.
    RIP Robert Fisk, thanks for educating us.
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    And no other journalist bullshitted about it from the poolside like he did either.
    Our Master of Demagogy and Denigration knows it all.
    Nevertheless Robert Fisk deserves a bit more to show his work "from the poolside":

    GALLOWAY: Weeks after dying, Robert Fisk is savaged by liberal war propagandists. Why? Because he was a brave anti-imperialist

    1 Dec, 2020 07:00

    GALLOWAY: Weeks after dying, Robert Fisk is savaged by liberal war propagandists. Why? Because he was a brave anti-imperialist
    For almost 50 years, British journalist Robert Fisk single-handedly exposed the truth of the West’s wars. It’s only now he’s gone that shameful, kow-towing cowards have come out to try to smear a man who can no longer fight back.

    I first fell in love with Robert Fisk's journalism almost 40 years ago when he wore the unlikely guise of foreign correspondent for the London Times, nowadays – as it had been for centuries – the house journal of war and imperial adventure, but then playing host to that rarest of writers: unbribed, untwisted, and unguided by the missile projectors.

    I had been in Beirut in 1982, with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, when the news came through from London that the Israeli Ambassador Shlomo Argov had been shot by the renegade terrorist Abu Nidal, who was based in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. We both knew what would happen next. And while scarpering was the easy option for me, no such possibility existed for Arafat.

    A massive Israeli invasion of Lebanon swiftly followed. It eventually, after stiff resistance (most memorably and ironically in the Crusader fortress of Beaufort Castle), smashed through the gates of the Arab capital city itself. The rest, the massacres at the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps and all, is history.

    During the siege of Beirut, Fisk introduced his readers, including me, to the use of white phosphorus by the Israeli forces. I remember almost verbatim decades later his description of how the phosphorus slowly cooked from the inside the child victims he was visiting in a Beirut hospital. Having inhaled it, it was a fire neither the victim nor the doctors could extinguish.

    While the rest of the media prattled on about “terrorist targets” being attacked, Fisk, like me, knew what was actually being razed to the ground: the miserable refugee existence of generations of Palestinians marooned in camps many miles from their homes, in which foreigners now slept, waking to pick the oranges from their trees.

    I had no voice then, but Fisk did, and he used it courageously, shaming most of his journalistic colleagues by so doing.

    I followed Fisk to the Independent, then the great hope of those seeking, well, independent journalism. That hope didn't last long. The Indy became just like all the rest, before being bought (then partially sold) by a former spy of the KGB in London and becoming a small, discredited website with few readers.

    But we always had Fisk.

    In time, I too had a voice, and spent a lot of time in Beirut (too much), but I never crossed paths with him despite jogging past his seaside apartment a thousand times. But I never failed to read his work. In war after war after war, he shone the light of reason through the fog of Western propaganda, mainly in wars against the Arabs, but in Yugoslavia, too. Fisk stood out not just because of his own stature, but because of the flatness of the surrounding landscape.

    Not since the US war on Vietnam – with the likes of Seymour Hersh and John Pilger – had the mainstream media given a platform to such a forensic critic of imperial wars. And, moreover, one like Fisk, whose prose was purple indeed, capable of moving the reader's sensibilities dramatically.

    That made him a dangerous man.

    Such was his stature, his awards and accolades, Fisk was bullet-proof from the hitmen of the brigade of stenographers who, in the last 20 years, have become the masked ranks of the Propaganda Army of Empire. Whilst alive, they preferred to ignore Fisk rather than confront him. A ploy made easier by the drift of the Independent newspaper to the margins.

    Neither could they avoid the panegyrics of the inevitable eulogies which accompanied his death last month at the age of 74.

    And so they bided their time. For a short while. This week a blizzard of cowardly abuse has swept the media landscape. Fisk was apparently “a fraud,” a “fake” who “couldn't speak Arabic,” “a propagandist” (particularly rich, that one), and “a falsifier.”

    Somebody has clearly taken the initiative, and integrity has become the first casualty.

    The proximate cause of the reburial in unconsecrated ground of Robert Fisk is, of course, his virtually lone debunking of Douma, the unmasking of the White Helmets as the ambulance brigade of Al Qaeda, and the exposure of the oceanic lie-machine mustered (and paid for by unsuspecting taxpayers, as the recent Anonymous dump showed) by the Western gang that couldn't shoot straight in Syria.

    What else did Fisk write about to upset them? The failure of the West’s gigantic operation – military, political, financial, diplomatic and propaganda – to overthrow the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The defeat by the Syrian Arab Army (and its legal international allies) of one of the worst, most murderous hordes to invade a country since Genghis Khan. The humiliation of the Western powers (and their Gulf satrapies), and the enormous boost to the prestige of Russia produced by that failure, cannot easily be forgotten. Not since Vietnam has there been such a defeat as this for the Empire.

    Bashar did not “go,” he prevailed. As did Robert Fisk, for more than 40 years. The attempted trashing of his memory is all these pathetic losers have left. If you look closely, you can see their bitter tears of failure on the pages of their invective. Not one of these would-be literary assassins is a household name, nor ever will be. While Robert Fisk has written his name in the stars. It's all too much for the chicken-hawk liberals to bear...

    GALLOWAY: Weeks after dying, Robert Fisk is savaged by liberal war propagandists. Why? Because he was a brave anti-imperialist — RT Op-ed
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    rafer johnson died the other day.

    for those that don't know...

    he medaled for the US in two olympics in the decathlon (gold and silver)
    was a founder of the special olympics
    tackled sirhan sirhan after he assassinated RFK
    appeared in a james bond movie.

    RIP.

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    Chuck Yeager: First pilot to fly supersonic dies aged 97

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    US test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier, has died aged 97, his wife says.

    In a tweet, Victoria Yeager wrote: "It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET."

    Yeager went into the history books after his flight in the Bell X-1 experimental rocket plane in 1947.

    He later broke several other speed and altitude records, helping to pave the way for the US space programme.

    Chuck Yeager: First pilot to fly supersonic dies aged 97 - BBC News
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    ^ He had plenty of practice at growing wings, looks like he's finally got them.

    An absolute legend...

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    Dame Barbara Windsor: Carry On and EastEnders actress dies aged 83



    Actress Dame Barbara Windsor, best known for her roles in EastEnders and the Carry On films, has died aged 83.

    Her husband Scott Mitchell said she had died peacefully from Alzheimer's at a London care home on Thursday evening.

    She had been diagnosed with the disease in 2014 and had moved to a care home earlier this year.

    Mr Mitchell said she would be remembered for the "love, fun, friendship and brightness she brought to all our lives".

    Dame Barbara appeared in nine of the 31 films in the comedy series Carry On, and Sparrows Can't Sing, for which she was nominated for a Bafta, as well as small parts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and On the Fiddle with Sir Sean Connery.

    She was well known to millions of TV viewers for her portrayal of landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders, starring alongside her on-screen children Ross Kemp and Steve McFadden.

    Her last appearance in the soap came in 2016, the same year she was made a dame for her services to charity and entertainment.

    She also worked in theatre - making her stage debut at 13 - and appeared in productions including Oh! What A Lovely War and Fings Ain't Wot They Used To Be.

    After her dementia diagnosis Dame Barbara became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society and met prime Minister Boris Johnson to raise awareness about the disease.

    The star delivered a letter signed by 100,000 people pleading for better care for people affected by dementia and saying the system was "completely inadequate, unfair, unsustainable and in dire need of more money".


    Dame Barbara Windsor: Carry On and EastEnders actress dies aged 83 - BBC News


    Who can forget...




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    Did you know , that Chuck Yeager was a prick ? He sued so many ppl that he's no longer allowed to sue anyone. He even sued his kids. So I've heard

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    So I've heard
    ...url(s) or it didn't happen...

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    And no other journalist bullshitted about it from the poolside like he did either.
    Well that is interesting. An Iraqi mate of mine , said that he is bar none, the best foreigner to report on the Middle East. Said his understanding of the place was spot on.

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    John le Carré bought the farm.

    John le Carre: Espionage writer dies aged 89 - BBC News

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    Quote Originally Posted by Little Chuchok View Post
    Well that is interesting. An Iraqi mate of mine , said that he is bar none, the best foreigner to report on the Middle East. Said his understanding of the place was spot on.
    There is a thread someone opened about him. Go and read that.

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    Leslie West, Mountain Guitarist Who Belted Out ‘Mississippi Queen,’ Dead at 75

    Leslie West, the towering guitarist who created the hard-rock milestone “Mississippi Queen” with his band Mountain, died Wednesday morning. West’s brother, Larry West Weinstein, confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone. He was 75. The cause of death was cardiac arrest. On Monday, West was rushed to a hospital after suffering cardiac arrest at his home near Daytona, Florida, where he never regained consciousness.

    Released in 1970 on Mountain’s debut album, Climbing!, “Mississippi Queen” was two and a half minutes of boisterous bliss built around West’s burly yowl and guitar blasts and drummer Corky Laing’s completely unironic cowbell. One of those never-say-die songs of the classic-rock era, “Mississippi Queen” has been featured in countless soundtracks, TV shows (The Americans, The Simpsons), and in Guitar Hero III. In an interview with Guitar Player earlier this year, West said the song “has just everything you need to make it a winner. You’ve got the cowbell, the riff is pretty damn good, and it sounds incredible. It feels like it wants to jump out of your car radio. To me, it sounds like a big, thick milkshake. It’s rich and chocolatey. Who doesn’t love that?”

    A contemporary of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jimi Hendrix, West was respected for his versatile playing (from fingerpicking to metallic power chords) and was revered by a new generation of guitar players who followed. In 2011, Eddie Van Halen told Rolling Stone that West and Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore were among his biggest influences: “Leslie West has this incredible tone in Mountain,” Van Halen said.

    Born Leslie Weinstein on October 22nd, 1945, West grew up in the New York area — Manhattan, Long Island, and Forest Hills, Queens — and was a founding member of the Vagrants, a blue-eyed soul garage band of the mid-Sixties. The group (which also included his brother Larry on bass) scored two minor hits — “I Can’t Make a Friend” and a cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” (released just ahead of Aretha Franklin’s titanic version) — before West left the band. A turning point, he once said, was seeing Cream at the Village Theatre (later the Fillmore East) in 1967. “My brother said to me, ‘Let’s take some acid before we go,’ ” West told Blues Rock Review in 2015. “So we took LSD and all of a sudden the curtain opens up and I hear them playing ‘Sunshine of Your Love,’ and I see Eric Clapton and his buckskin jacket. I said, ‘Oh, my God, we really suck.’ After that, I started really practicing and practicing.”

    With the help of Cream producer and bass player Felix Pappalardi, who met West when he was producing the Vagrants, West made a solo album, Mountain. Mountain also became the name of the band the two men formed — “because I was so fat!” West later joked.

    West was known for electric-shock white blues riffing, but could also play more fluid melodic lines (as heard in Mountain’s “Nantucket Sleighride” and his solo in their “Theme for an Imaginary Western”). “The thing that most impressed me when I started was how, with Clapton, you could identity his sound like a signature,” West told the L.A. Times in 1990. “I wanted to have a sound you could identify like that. I was never a speed player. I tried to capitalize on my vibrato. I hope I’m regarded as a melodic guitar player, not someone up there going ‘weinie, weinie,’ all night long.”

    When Cream disbanded in 1968, a new generation of even more muscular guitar-based bands were ready to pick up where they left off. Mountain loomed particularly large, and not merely due to West’s bulky size and head of frizzy hair. Reviewing an early Mountain show, one critic described him as a “300-pounder dressed in blue velvet, suede, and snakeskin.”

    The original incarnation of Mountain scored a high-profile appearance at the Woodstock festival — on the second day, between Canned Heat and the Grateful Dead. “I think I had the most amplifiers of anybody there,” West told Rolling Stone in 1989. “It was paralyzing because that stage, that setting, was some kind of natural amphitheater. The sound was so loud and shocking that I got scared. But once I started playing, I just kept going because I was afraid to stop.” West also contributed some unreleased parts to the Who’s Who’s Next.

    Although Mountain garnered a large following, the group broke up in 1972. Taking his Cream roots to a new level, West formed a Cream-style power trio with Mountain drummer Corky Laing and Cream’s Jack Bruce. The group released three albums and sold out New York’s Carnegie Hall, but in 1974, West reformed Mountain for two more records.

    The following year, West formally went on his own with his album The Great Fatsby, a musically varied album that showcased softer sides of his style and also, in its title, poked fun at his weight issues. The album featured “High Roller,” co-written by West with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards; Jagger also played guitar on the track. The album failed to elevate West into a star solo act, and over the next few decades, he would alternate between solo albums and touring and recording with different versions of Mountain.

    West’s health had been an issue for many years. In the mid-Seventies, he moved to Milwaukee to kick a heroin habit. In a 1990 interview, he said it had been 10 years since he had “stopped fooling with narcotics.” In the mid-Eighties, he was diagnosed with diabetes — his lower right leg was amputated due to complications from the disease — and promptly lost 85 pounds, dropping to 200. But his weight fluctuated over the years.

    In the years that followed, West continued working: He was a regular on Howard Stern’s radio show, recorded solo records, and took a few stabs at acting, including in 1986’s The Money Pit. Mountain continued on and off with different lineups, and the band released an album of Bob Dylan covers, Masters of War, in 2007; Ozzy Osbourne sang lead on the title remake. Attesting to West’s stature, his 2011 album, The Unusual Suspects, included contributions from Slash, Billy Gibbons, and Zakk Wylde, and West’s last album, Soundcheck, featured Peter Frampton.

    Other than “Mississippi Queen,” “Long Red,” a slice of psychedelic blues from Mountain, remains one of West’s lasting legacies. A drum beat from a live recording of the song, played by N.D. Smart, has been sampled by numerous rap acts, including De La Soul, the Game, ASAP Rocky, and, most notably, Kanye West in “The Glory” and Jay-Z in “99 Problems.” ”There was something about that song that appealed to rappers,” the guitarist told Blues Blast magazine in 2015. “I’ve got six different platinum albums on my wall from all these different guys sampling my stuff. When I wrote that song in 1969, there was no hip-hop. It just so happens that song has a hip-hop beat.” West’s legacy extends well beyond hip-hop, though; numerous bands have covered his material, most recently Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin remaking “Mississippi Queen” earlier this month for their “Hanukkah Sessions.”

    West, who had moved to Florida last month, is survived by his wife, Jenni Maurer; the couple married onstage at a Woodstock 40th anniversary concert in 2009. Of his own mixture of blues and metal, West told The Morning Call in 2000, “It’s like being a chef. You might use the same ingredients as everyone else, but it’s how you put them together. You end up with your own style.”: Mountain's Leslie West, Who Belted Out 'Mississippi Queen,' Dead at 75 - Rolling Stone


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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    With the help of Cream producer and bass player Felix Pappalardi
    Probably should have put that the other way round.

    Although his contribution was not insignificant.

    As a producer, Pappalardi is perhaps best known for his work with Cream, beginning with their second album, Disraeli Gears. Pappalardi has been referred to in various interviews with the members of Cream as "the fourth member of the band" as he generally had a role in arranging their music. He contributed instrumentation for his studio arrangements and he and his wife, Gail Collins, wrote the Cream hit "Strange Brew" with Eric Clapton

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    I hear that George Blake died.

    Some life, he had

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    Quote Originally Posted by helge View Post
    I hear that George Blake died.
    Yup. He's мертвый.

    George Blake: Soviet Cold War spy and former MI6 officer dies in Russia - BBC News


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    That's all five of the treasonous rats dead then.

    Added: tell a lie, he was never officially one of them.

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    French fashion designer Pierre Cardin has died aged 97


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    The French fashion designer Pierre Cardin has died aged 97.

    One of the boldest voices of the 1960s and 1970s, and known for his futuristic vision, Cardin became famous for using unconventional materials such as plastic and perspex in his designs.

    He was later recognised as a savvy business man. Cardin was one of the first big designers to license his name across range of products.

    Born in Venice, Italy in 1922, he emigrated to France as a child. His family have confirmed his death on Tuesday, 29 December at a hospital in Neuilly, near Paris to AFP news agency.


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