The RIP Famous Person Thread

[Neverna]

Harry, you really are going senile, you reported his death on this thread on 21st Feb 2018

Indeed he did.

The RIP Famous Person Thread-post3722911 (The RIP Famous Person Thread)







But I'm sure someone else is to blame.

[harrybarracuda]

Looks like the crawler's gone askew again.

Not that I was going remember what the fuck I posted four years ago, I can't remember what I posted four fucking days ago.

[harrybarracuda]

Most of his posts are reruns.

To be fair

Fuck off you scandihooligan wanker.

[david44]

you reported his death on this thread on 21st Feb 2018

Deja few , that's French for early onset Oldtimer's premonition backwards I was told

[Neverna]

Looks like the crawler's gone askew again.

The crawler didn't post it, you did.

The article had the date right below the headline. Seems you didn't read further than the headline before copying the main text.

That's OhOh level poor.

[harrybarracuda]

The crawler didn't post it, you did.

The article had the date right below the headline. Seems you didn't read further than the headline before copying the main text.

That's OhOh level poor.

Yes, sackcloth and ashes for me.

Ow! Ow! <- I'm beating myself with a wet kipper.

[Iceman123]

^
Any word on Elvis?

[harrybarracuda]

^
Any word on Elvis?

Working at a Maccy D's with Tupac.

[harrybarracuda]

Phew thank goodness I didn't fall for this one

Rock ‘n’ roll musician Jerry Lee Lewis is alive, his rep has said, after the “Great Balls of Fire” singer became the victim of a false death report.
A report from US publication TMZ initially said the 87-year-old had died today (26 October) at home in Memphis.

However, an update from the outlet said that: “Earlier today we were told by someone claiming to be Lewis’ rep that he had passed. That turned out not to be the case.”

Lewis’s representatives confirmed the situation to Page Six, saying: “He’s alive. TMZ reported erroneously off of a bulls*** anonymous tip.”

Jerry Lee Lewis alive after false death report | The Independent

[helge]

Jerry Lee Lewis has died again

[Joe 90]

Lord Lucan is now presumed to be dead, a High Court judge has ruled.

A death certificate has been issued 42 years after the peer vanished when his children's nanny Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in London.

He was declared dead in 1999, despite dozens of unverified sightings, but the new ruling gives his son the right to inherit the family title.

His son, Lord Bingham, said: "I am very happy with the judgment of the court in this matter."

[david44]

Phew thank goodness I didn't fall for this one

Any tidings from Mafeking on the err "Jungle Telegraph"

[harrybarracuda]

American rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, who was torn between his Bible-thumping upbringing and his desire to make hell-raising rock 'n' roll with hits such as Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, has died at the age of 87.



The news came two days after the publication of an erroneous report of his death, which was later retracted.

Lewis passed away at his home in Desoto County, Mississippi, with his wife, Judith, by his side, a statement from his publicist said. He had been ill in recent years and suffered a stroke in 2019.

Like Chuck Berry's guitar, Lewis's piano was essential in shaping rock 'n' roll in the mid-1950s.

He was part of the dazzling Sun Records talent pool in Memphis, Tennessee, that included Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison.

Lewis outlived them all.

He was one of the first performers inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and was so influential that when John Lennon met him backstage at a show in Los Angeles, the Beatle dropped to his knees and kissed Lewis' feet.

Lewis filled his albums not only with ground-breaking rock but with gospel, country and rhythm and blues on tracks such as such as Me and Bobby McGee and To Make Love Sweeter for You as he endured a life often filled with alcohol, drugs and tragedy.

His music was sometimes overshadowed by scandals — including his marriage to his 13-year-old cousin Myra in 1957.

In his prime, he performed with daring, originality and a lewd wild-man stage demeanour that thrilled his young fans as much as it agitated their parents.

Typically, Lewis would kick away his piano bench and bang the keyboard with his foot while his long wavy blond hair flopped in his face.

According to legend, Lewis was once so upset that Chuck Berry had been chosen to close a show over him that he finished his set with a move that was hard to top — setting the piano on fire and walking off.

"I'm a rompin', stompin', piano-playing son of a bitch," Lewis once told Time magazine in his Louisiana drawl.

Lewis was born September 29, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana, and grew up poor with two cousins also destined for fame — television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and country singer Mickey Gilley.

He became interested in the piano at age four and by 10 was sneaking into roadhouses to hear blues performers.

He absorbed a variety of musical influences, especially the Jimmie Rodgers records that belonged to his father, a farmer who went to prison for bootlegging.

Lewis's family attended the Assembly of God church and his mother ensured he was thoroughly informed about the evils of liquor, honky-tonks and promiscuity.

But Lewis was intent on experiencing them firsthand and began playing piano in bars while still a teenager. His mother, upset by the idea of her son performing the devil's music, sent him to a Bible college in Texas.

It turned out to be a brief stay, with Lewis reportedly being dismissed from the school for playing a boogie-woogie version of My God Is Real during an assembly. The incident showed the dichotomy that Lewis had to live with.

"The man is tortured," Myra Lewis told People magazine. "Jerry Lee thinks that Jerry Lee is too wicked to be saved."
As Lewis himself once put it, "I'm dragging the audience to hell with me."

Lewis had a son and was on his second marriage before he turned 20, even though he had not divorced his first wife. He was determined to be a musician and made his way to Memphis.

In 1957 he recorded two rollicking chart-topping hits for Sun — Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls of Fire, which he had been reluctant to record because he considered it blasphemous — that helped define early rock 'n' roll.

Lewis quickly followed with more hits — You Win Again, Breathless and High School Confidential.

His career came to a halt during a 1958 tour of Britain. Journalists discovered Lewis was now married to Myra, the daughter of his bass player, who not only was 13 years old but also was his cousin.

News coverage was so intensely negative that the tour was called off.

Back in the United States, Lewis's career was not revived until he shifted genres and recorded country hits such as Another Place, Another Time, What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me) and She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye.

Lewis's string of hits was matched only by the tragedies in his life. His young son Steve Allen Lewis drowned in 1962 and another son, Jerry Lee Jr, died in a 1973 car accident at 19.

After a divorce from Myra in the early 1970s, he married Jaren Pate in 1971 but she drowned in 1982. They had been separated for eight years but not divorced.

After only a few months of marriage, his next wife, Shawn Michelle Stevens, was found dead of a drug overdose in their home in 1983.

Eight months later he started another stormy marriage with sixth wife Kerrie McCarver that lasted 20 years before they divorced and he married his seventh wife, Judith Brown, in 2012.

In 1976 Lewis accidentally shot his bass player and that same year was arrested drunk outside Presley's Graceland mansion in Memphis with a loaded pistol, demanding to see Presley.

Lewis, who lived much of his later life on a ranch in Nesbit, Mississippi, also endured costly battles with US tax officials, a nearly fatal perforated ulcer and a painkiller addiction that landed him in the Betty Ford Clinic.

In his later years he settled down but biographer Rick Bragg recalled interviewing Lewis for his 2014 book Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Words.

Lewis showed Bragg the pistol he kept under his pillow in a bedroom pockmarked with bullet holes and a Bowie knife stuck in the door.

"I don't think Jerry Lee Lewis had to exaggerate his life one bit to make it interesting," Bragg told the Atlanta Constitution Journal.

"He really did make Elvis cry. He really did turn over more Cadillacs than most people purchased in the state of Mississippi."
Lewis's late recordings included featured guests such as Jimmy Page, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Neil Young, John Fogerty, Ringo Starr and other rockers he had influenced.



Rock '''n''' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis dies at 87, days after erroneous report of his death - ABC News

[harrybarracuda]

Lord Lucan is now presumed to be dead, a High Court judge has ruled.

A death certificate has been issued 42 years after the peer vanished when his children's nanny Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in London.

He was declared dead in 1999, despite dozens of unverified sightings, but the new ruling gives his son the right to inherit the family title.

His son, Lord Bingham, said: "I am very happy with the judgment of the court in this matter."

So he was declared dead in 1999 and they are only now getting round to issuing the death certificate? Fuck me even Thailand aren't that slow

[Iceman123]

So he was declared dead in 1999 and they are only now getting round to issuing the death certificate? Fuck me even Thailand aren't that slow

Maybe they were using the same web crawler as you used for Billy Graham

[Neverna]

^ Nominated for post of the day, Iceman.

[harrybarracuda]

Maybe they were using the same web crawler as you used for Billy Graham

Getting your money's worth out of that krankies joke book eh?

[harrybarracuda]

Respect.

Yachtsman and tycoon Peter de Savary, who built a property empire after being expelled from public school for allegedly bedding the headmaster’s au pair, has died at the age of 78.

[david44]

Lesley Philips classic comic of Carry on era dies

The Louche Lothario in the era when payboys sported cravats and blazers with his snarling funny deep voiced HULLLLLOOO

Thanks for so many laughs

Carry On star Leslie Phillips dies at 98 | Leslie Phillips | The Guardian

[david44]

Wife 35 years junior now that is unusual in UK.
Leslie Phillips dead: Carry On and Harry Potter star dies aged 98

Actor voiced the Sorting Hat in three Harry Potter films


Annabel Nugent,Isobel Lewis2 hours ago

Leslie Phillips has died aged 98


The actor – best known for lending his voice to the Sorting Hat in the JK Rowling franchise – died on Monday (7 November).
Phillips had been struggling with illness for some time and previously survived two strokes. After suffering a life-threatening stroke in 2015, he had been recovering at home in recent years.


In a statement, his wife Zara Carr, 63, remembered her husband as a “national treasure”.
“I’ve lost a wonderful husband and the public has lost a truly great showman,” she said. “He was quite simply a national treasure. People loved him. He was mobbed everywhere he went.”

[Joe 90]

A true cad, rip.

[Switch]

A true cad, rip.

I remember Phillips as more of a lounge lizard lothario and bit of a ladies man?

For me the archetypal cad and bounder roles usually went to Terry Thomas?

[Troy]

^ Indeed, a ladies man rather than a cad...

...he was a lovely man off stage as well.

[harrybarracuda]

So apparently Jim Dale is the last surviving regular Carry On cast member.

[misskit]

COMEDIAN GALLAGHER
DEAD AT 76

Comedian Gallagher, famously known for smashing watermelons as part of his legendary act, has died ... his longtime manager tells TMZ.


Gallagher died while under hospice care in the Palm Springs area early Friday morning, TMZ has learned. His manager tells TMZ Gallagher died of massive organ failure. He had been in ill health for a while, suffering numerous heart attacks over the years.


The rep tells TMZ, "Gallagher stayed on the road touring America for decades. He was pretty sure he held a record for the most stand-up dates, by attrition alone," adding, "While Gallagher had his detractors, he was an undeniable talent and an American success story."

Gallagher started working as a comedian after college ... getting his big break after appearing on Johnny Carson's 'Tonight Show' back in 1975 ... showing off his prop humor and quickly becoming one of the most popular and recognizable comedians in America.

His trademark bit was the "Sledge-O-Matic," where he'd use a large mallet to destroy a bunch of foods and objects -- always ending with a watermelon. While it started as a parody of the Veg-O-Matic commercials, it would go on to be what millions would remember him for.

Gallagher's since become a pop culture phenomenon, getting parodied and referenced over the years for his act ... most recently being played by fellow comedian Paul F. Tompkins in "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story."

The comedian had 17 specials spanning decades of his work ... with his first special, "An Uncensored Evening," debuting in 1980. He appeared in episodes of "Hollywood Squares," "WTF with Marc Maron," "Tosh.0" and "Celebrity Big Brother."


He had a health scare back in 2011, as we reported, he collapsed onstage during a performance in Minnesota. He also suffered a heart attack the following year in Texas, moments before he was supposed to perform.

We last saw the comedian back in 2014 ... and he offered us some fantastic advice for those looking to get someone a gift while stuck on a budget -- and it's as hilarious as you'd expect.


Gallagher, who was retired, is survived by his daughter, Aimee, and his son, Barnaby.


He was 76.


RIP

Comedian Gallagher Dead at 76