How many of you knew Lemmy sang vocals on "Silver Machine"?
I didn't.
How many of you knew Lemmy sang vocals on "Silver Machine"?
I didn't.
David Bowie has died.
RIP.
Grew up on the stuff...
The Bowie news seems to be a hoax...or not....
David Bowie dead 2016 : Singer killed by celebrity death hoax - Mediamass
Though it looks like it was a hoax a few days ago but is now true.... or not....
Reckon it's true, now on his Twitter feed....
and on the beeb
David Bowie dies of cancer at 69 - BBC News
RIP David
David Bowie, musical legend behind Ziggy Stardust, dies aged 69 from cancer
David Bowie, music legend who used daringly androgynous displays of sexuality and glittering costumes to frame legendary rock hits "Ziggy Stardust" and "Space Oddity", has died of cancer.
By: Reuters | January 11, 2016 1:58 PM
David Bowie, music legend who used daringly androgynous displays of sexuality and glittering costumes to frame legendary rock hits “Ziggy Stardust” and “Space Oddity”, has died of cancer.
He was 69.
“David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18-month battle with cancer,” read a statement on Bowie’s Facebook page dated Sunday.
Born David Jones in the Brixton area of south London, Bowie took up the saxophone at 13. He shot to fame in Europe with 1969’s “Space Oddity”.
But it was Bowie’s 1972 portrayal of a doomed bisexual alien rock star, Ziggy Stardust, that propelled him to global stardom. Bowie and Ziggy, wearing outrageous costumes, makeup and bright orange hair, took the rock world by storm.
Bowie said he was gay in an interview in the Melody Maker newspaper in 1972, coinciding with the launch of his androgynous persona, with red lightning bolt across his face and flamboyant clothes.
He told Playboy four years later he was bisexual, but in the eighties he told Rolling Stone magazine that the declaration was “the biggest mistake I ever made”, and he was “always a closet heterosexual”.
The excesses of a hedonistic life of the real rock star was taking its toll. In a reference to his prodigious appetite for cocaine, he said: “I blew my nose one day in California,” he said. "And half my brains came out. Something had to be done.”
Bowie kept a low profile after undergoing emergency heart surgery in 2004 but marked his 69th birthday on Friday with the release of a new album, “Blackstar”, with critics giving the thumbs up to the latest work in a long and innovative career.
British Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted: “I grew up listening to and watching the pop genius David Bowie. He was a master of re-invention, who kept getting it right. A huge loss.”
Steve Martin from Bowie’s publicity company Nasty Little Man confirmed the Facebook report was accurate. “It’s not a hoax,” he told Reuters.
David Bowie, musical legend behind Ziggy Stardust, dies aged 69 from cancer | The Financial Express
Wow. A little bit of me died. RIP Ziggy. (and my youf)
Brings back memories of the sounds of my teenage years.
RIP Mr. Bowie.
CCh Ch Changes R I P to a Legend of my youth !
69... Cancer....
British actor Alan Rickman has died at the age of 69.
The Hollywood star was confirmed to have passed away on Thursday (January 14) by his family, after a battle with cancer.
He was best known for high-profile roles in a range of films including Die Hard, Love Actually, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and the Harry Potter series.
A family statement said: "The actor and director Alan Rickman has died from cancer at the age of 69. He was surrounded by family and friends."
His first ever film role in 1988 was an instant success as Hans Gruber opposite Bruce Willis in Die Hard, and since then he had cornered a market for playing baddies including the sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Professor Snape in Harry Potter.
Rickman also had many leading roles including 1991's supernatural romance Truly, Madly, Deeply and as Col Brandon in Sense and Sensibility in 1995 opposite Emma Thompson. He reunited with the actress several times including in 2003's Love Actually and 2010's The Song of Lunch.
The much-loved actor was also a regular performer on stage, breaking through in 1986 in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
He surprisingly never won an Oscar, but received many other awards including a BAFTA, an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
http://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/ha...rickman-dies/?
a brilliant actor and a jolly good chap. rip
^Roger that. Very good actor and presence. RIP
Dan Haggerty, Who Played Grizzly Adams, Dies at 73
By WILLIAM GRIMESJAN. 15, 2016
Dan Haggerty, who played a gentle mountain man with a luxuriant beard and a bear named Ben in the 1974 movie “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams” and the NBC television series of the same name, died on Friday in Burbank, Calif. He was 73.
The cause was cancer of the spine, his friend and manager Terry Bomar said.
Mr. Haggerty was working as a stuntman and animal handler in Hollywood when a producer asked him to act in some opening scenes he was reshooting for a film about a woodsman and his bear. Based on the novel “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams,” by Charles Sellier Jr., it told the story of a California man falsely accused of murder who flees to the woods, where he develops a rapport with the animals around him and tames an orphaned bear.
Mr. Haggerty agreed, but only if he could do the entire movie. The film was remade for $165,000 and eventually took in nearly $30 million at the box office. It was then adapted for television, and in February 1977 Mr. Haggerty resumed his eco-friendly role as guardian of the woods and friend to the animals.
“It lukewarms the heart,” John Leonard wrote a review of the first episode in The New York Times. “Man and bear hide out in a log cabin, to which Mad Jack (Denver Pyle) and the noble red man Makuma (Don Shanks) bring flour and advice. When they leave the cabin, man traps fur while bear washes his. Meanwhile, there are raccoons, owls, deer, rabbits, hawks, badgers, cougars, a lot of communing with nature and a big lump in the throat.”
Genial and sentimental, the series endeared Mr. Haggerty to viewers and made him the winner of a People’s Choice Award in 1978 as the most popular actor in a new series. “Grizzly Adams” spawned two codas: “Legend of the Wild,” broadcast in 1978 and released theatrically in 1981, and “The Capture of Grizzly Adams,” broadcast as a TV movie in 1982, in which Adams is taken back to town by bounty hunters and finally clears his name.
Daniel Francis Haggerty was born on Nov. 19, 1942, in Los Angeles. His parents separated when he was 3, and he had a troubled childhood, escaping several times from military school before going to live with his father, an actor, in Burbank, Calif.
At 17 he married Diane Rooker. The marriage ended in divorce. His second wife, the former Samantha Hilton, died after a motorcycle accident in 2008. He is survived by his children, Megan, Tracy, Dylan, Cody and Don.
His first film was “Muscle Beach Party” (1964), in which he played a body builder named Biff opposite Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. Bit parts in biker and wildlife films followed, as characters like “Bearded Biker” or “Biker With Bandana.” He appeared briefly in “Easy Rider” as a member of the hippie commune that Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper visit.
In real life, Mr. Haggerty lived on a small ranch in Malibu Canyon with an assortment of wild animals that he had tamed at birth or rescued from injury. His skills led to jobs as an animal trainer and stuntman on the television series “Tarzan” and “Daktari,” as well as occasional film work. “Actors didn’t like animals leaping on them,” he told People magazine in 1978.
He made several films with an outdoor setting, including “Where the North Wind Blows” (1974), in which he played a Siberian tiger trapper, and “The Adventures of Frontier Fremont” (1976). He appeared as a dog trainer in the David Carradine film “Americana” (1983). In “Grizzly Mountain” (1997) and “Escape to Grizzly Mountain” (2000) he played a character very much like Grizzly Adams.
As his career cooled, Mr. Haggerty appeared in horror films like “Terror Night” (1987), “Elves” (1989) — playing an alcoholic mall Santa — and “Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan” (2013). In 1985 he was sentenced to 90 days in jail for selling cocaine to two undercover police officers.
In 1977, a careless restaurant patron carrying a flaming cocktail set Mr. Haggerty’s famous beard on fire. Trying to extinguish the flames, he suffered third-degree burns on his arms and was taken to a hospital for treatment that was expected to last a month.
“The first couple of days I just lay in the dark room drinking water, like a wounded wolf trying to heal himself,” he told People. “Nurses tried to give me morphine and encouraged me to open the curtains. But sometimes animals know more than people about healing.” He walked out of the hospital after 10 days.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/ar...ies-at-73.html
Glenn Frey Eagles Guitarist Dead At 67
We're told the cause of death was a combination of complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis, and pneumonia.
Frey had been battling intestinal issues for months and had surgery in November. We're told in the last few days his condition took a turn for the worse. He died in New York City.
Glenn co-wrote and sang on most of the Eagles hits, including "Take It Easy," "Tequila Sunrise," "Lyin' Eyes," and "Heartache Tonight," to name a few. He also co-wrote "Hotel California" and "Desperado" with Don Henley and took home 6 Grammys with the band.
After the Eagles' 1980 breakup, Glenn launched a successful solo career, recording numerous hits ... most notably "The Heat Is On" and "You Belong to the City."
Glenn Frey -- Eagles Guitarist Dead At 67 | TMZ.com
I'D like a dollar for every time i've heard this.
^great musician, great band. RIP
Dale 'Buffin' Griffin, Mott the Hoople Drummer, Dead at 67 | Rolling Stone
"Dale "Buffin" Griffin, drummer and founding member of the Seventies glam rock group Mott the Hoople, passed away Sunday in his sleep following a long battle with Alzheimer's. He was 67. The band's manager Peter Purnell confirmed Griffin's death to the BBC, adding that the drummer was "one of the nicest, friendly and talented men I have ever known." Griffin's death comes just one week after the passing of David Bowie, who penned and produced Mott the Hoople's biggest hit, "All the Young Dudes."
Last edited by Storekeeper; 19-01-2016 at 09:44 AM.
Shit................ Glenn Frey dead.
Another music legend goes to the big stage in heaven.
Wrote one of my favourite songs ever.
Bummer...he too was only in his late 60s. Glenn Frey -- Eagles Guitarist Dead At 67 | TMZ.com
“It’s a girl my lord in a flatbed Ford, slowin down to take a look at me..” Lyrical genius.....
All these young pups have no idea of this concept of being that old. When I was young I thought 30 was OLD.
Now that I am closer than some of you, it still hits a few chords (pun intended) on what do we have left?
Of course I didn't live the same life but it can weigh on your head.
Eliminator
1986 Kawasaki 900
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