The RIP Famous Person Thread

[VocalNeal]

That's a challenging wank.

RIP He will be missed.

[Barty]

That's a challenging wank.

Carrot in a box was one of his good ones as well.

[Little Chuchok]

Shame

That's just terrible. Very sad.

[harrybarracuda]

Has anyone ever actually owned a Corby Trouser Press?

For some reason it sticks in the mind, but I've never seen one or know anyone who has bought one.

And I don't ever remember seeing one in a hotel either.



Electric trouser press inventor Peter Corby dies aged 97 | Daily Mail Online

[dirk diggler]

My Granny's guest house in Inverurie had one in every room, probably still does.

[Mendip]

^ Even in the kitchen?

When I stay long term in hotels for work I fold shirts and trousers and place them under the mattress... hey presto (pun intended )... in the morning you get a neatly pressed garment!

I'm surprised Bogon hasn't mentioned rhat tip.

[Klondyke]

And I don't ever remember seeing one in a hotel either.

Seeing it in few UK up-country (older) hotels, never in Europe...

[dirk diggler]

Even in the kitchen?

The kitchen had a roller style device for ironing folded up sheets. It would work for trousers too.

place them under the mattress...

Depending on the under-the-mattress situation, surely?

I would just hang a T-shirt in the bathroom and have a steaming hot shower.

I don’t have any posh trousers and shirts for traveling.

[Iceman123]

Has anyone every actually owned a Corby Trouser Press?

Guilty as charged. In my previous life I wore a suit everyday, it was excellent for pressing the suit pants each night.

[Cujo]

That's just terrible. Very sad.

Oh fuck off, everyone's just got too fucking sensitive. Too thin skinned.

[harrybarracuda]

Oh fuck off, everyone's just got too fucking sensitive. Too thin skinned.

WTF is wrong with you?

[malmomike77]

WTF is wrong with you?

Its what too much pressure on your epididimis causes, cycling is bad

[Little Chuchok]

WTF is wrong with you?

Not sure, a very strange thing to say from Cujo. Perhaps we should have said "Yay, he's dead" and he would be happy?

[Latindancer]

Cujo appears to be suffering from early-onset dementia. Yesterday he forgot Somtamslap's name, even though he admitted liking SS's village stories.

[helge]

SS

?

Stalker Saint ?


Fits him:

Outspoken intolerance

Religious opportunisme

Ethical chauvinisme, and

underarmbowlisme exellance

[cyrille]

Cujo appears to be suffering from early-onset dementia.

It's a distinct possibility.

[harrybarracuda]

Don Everly, one half of singing duo the Everly Brothers, dies at 84



Don Everly, who along with his brother Phil, formed the pioneering pop rock-country duo the Everly Brothers, has died. He was 84.
According to reports in Variety and Hollywood Reporter, Don Everly died at his Nashville, Tennessee, home. His family did not release a cause of death.
A statement from his family to the Los Angeles Times read, in part: “Don lived by what he felt in his heart, Don expressed his appreciation for the ability to live his dreams … with his soulmate and wife, Adela, and sharing the music that made him an Everly Brother.”


While Don Everly was born in Kentucky in 1937, the family moved to Chicago, where in 1939, Phil Everly was born. The family eventually relocated to Nashville in the 1950s.
Originally performing on radio in the 1940s along with their parents as The Everly Family, the Nashville, Tennessee-raised Everly Brothers duo burst on the music scene in the late 1950s. With their distinctive harmonies driven by their up-front acoustic guitar playing, they released such hits at “Bye Bye Love,” “Wake Up Little Susie,” “Crying in the Rain,” “All I Have to Do is Dream” and their biggest-selling hit “Cathy’s Clown,” released in 1960. Their music influenced a generation of harmony-driven pop/rock icons who followed, including the Beach Boys, the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel.
Though they continued to perform as a team, the brothers eventually also pursued solo careers and went through a highly publicized falling out in the 1980s over songwriting credits and royalties.
The Everly Brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, part of the inaugural group of artists to be so honored. Rolling Stone ranked them as the No. 1 duo of all time in 2014. In his 2010 memoir “Life,” Keith Richards called Don Everly “one of the finest rhythm players.”
Phil Everly died in 2014.



Don Everly dies: one-half of singing duo The Everly Brothers was 84 - Chicago Sun-Times

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Obituary: Charlie Watts

Published 8 minutes ago

Charlie Watts

Drummer Charlie Watts, who has died at 80, provided the foundation which underpinned the music of the Rolling Stones.




The band became a by-word for rock and roll excess but for Watts, playing with the Stones did not become the ego trip that drove Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

A jazz aficionado, Watts vied with Bill Wyman for the title of least charismatic member of the band; he eschewed the limelight and rarely gave interviews

And he famously described life with the Stones as five years of playing, 20 years of hanging around.

Charles Robert Watts was born on 2 June 1941 at the University College Hospital in London and raised in Kingsbury, now part of the London Borough of Brent.

He came from a working-class background. His father was a lorry driver and Watts was brought up in a pre-fabricated house to which the family had moved after German bombs destroyed hundreds of houses in the area.

A childhood friend once described how Watts had an early interest in jazz and recalled listening to 78s in Charlie's bedroom by artists such as Jelly Roll Morton and Charlie Parker.

Charlie Watts with the Jo Jones Seven
image captionHe first played with the Jo Jones Seven on the North London pub circuit
At school he developed an interest in and a talent for art and he went on to study at Harrow Art School before finding a job as a graphic designer with a local advertising agency.

But his love of music continued to be the dominating force in his life. His parents bought him a drum kit when he was 13 and he played along to his collection of jazz records.

He began drumming in local clubs and pubs and, in 1961 was heard by Alexis Korner who offered him a job in his band, Blues Incorporated, an outfit that became a vital part of the development of British rock music.

Also playing with Blues Incorporated was a guitarist named Brian Jones who introduced Watts to the fledgling Rolling Stones whose original drummer, Tony Chapman, had quit the band

Graphic
The result of that meeting according to Watts was "four decades of seeing Mick's bum running around in front of me."

Watt's skill and experience was invaluable. Together with Bill Wyman he provided a counterpoint to the guitars of Richards and Jones and the preening performance of Mick Jagger.

Early Stone's concerts often descended into mayhem as eager female fans climbed onto the stage to embrace their heroes. Watts often found himself trying to maintain a beat with a couple of girls hanging on to his arms


As well as his musical ability, his graphic design experience also proved useful. He came up with the sleeve for the 1967 album, Behind the Buttons, and helped create the stage sets which became an increasingly important feature of the band's tours.

Watts also came up with the idea of promoting their 1975 tour of the US by having the band play Brown Sugar on the back of a lorry as it drove down the street in Manhattan.

He had remembered New Orleans jazz bands using the same technique and it was later copied by other groups including AC/DC and U2.

His lifestyle while on the road was in direct contrast to that of other band members. He famously rejected the charms of the hordes of groupies that dogged the band on all their tours, remaining faithful to his wife Shirley, who he had married in 1964.

All-time low
However in the mid-1980s, during what he put down to a mid-life crisis, Watts went off the rails with drink and drugs, leading to heroin addiction.

"It got so bad," he later quipped, " that even Keith Richards, bless him, told me to get it together."

At the same time his wife was battling her own alcoholism. and his daughter, Seraphina, had became something of a "wild child" and was expelled from the prestigious Millfield public school for smoking cannabis.


Watts's relations with Mick Jagger, too, had reached an all-time low.

On one famous occasion, in an Amsterdam hotel in 1984, a drunken Mick Jagger reportedly woke Watts up by bellowing down the phone "Where's my drummer?"

Watts responded by going round to the singer's room, hitting him with a left hook, saying "Don't ever call me 'your drummer' again, you're my f***ing singer."

The crisis lasted two years and it was Shirley, above all, who helped him get through it.

High Flying Bird
Estimated to have been worth £80 million, as a result of the enduring popularity of the Stones, Charlie Watts lived with his wife on a farm in Devon where they bred Arabian horses.

He also became something of an expert on antique silver and collected everything from American Civil War memorabilia to old classic cars. The last was curious since he didn't drive.

Between his regular Stones tours, Charlie Watts indulged his love of jazz. Though he always enjoyed drumming with a rock band and loved his work with the Stones, jazz gave him, as he put it, "more freedom to move around".

Back in art college, he'd completed an illustrated biography of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, entitled Ode To A High Flying Bird.

In 1990, he used the book as the basis for a musical tribute to the man they called the Bird on an album by the Charlie Watts Quintet. It featured several of his jazz musician friends, including saxophonist Pete King.

Watts played and recorded with various incarnations of big bands. At one gig, at Ronnie Scott's, he had a 25-piece on stage including three drummers.

Always well turned out - he had featured in several lists of best dressed men - Watts kept his feet firmly on the ground throughout his career with one of the world's most enduring bands.

"It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll," he once said. "I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything."

Charlie Watts: Quiet man of the Rolling Stones - BBC News

[harrybarracuda]

Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones Drummer, Dies at 80




Drummer Charlie Watts, whose adept, powerful skin work propelled the Rolling Stones for more than half a century, died in London on Tuesday morning, according to his spokesperson. No cause of death was cited; he was 80.
A statement from the band and Watts’ spokesperson reads: “It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of our beloved Charlie Watts. He passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier today surrounded by his family.
“Charlie was a cherished husband, father and grandfather and also a member of the Rolling Stones one of the greatest drummers of his generation.
“We kindly request that the privacy of his family, band members and close friends is respected at this difficult time.”



Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones Drummer, Dies at 80 - Variety

[malmomike77]

Sad but a good innings. Always made me smile in teh Top Gear interview with Ronnie Wood talking about cars. Ronnie said Charlie had loads of cars but never drove, he used to love dressing up appropriately for the car and just sitting in them and smelling the leather - money adds another dimension to eccentricity - RIP Charlie

[dirk diggler]

For fuck sake.

[harrybarracuda]

For fuck sake.

Who will be the third octagenarian music legend I wonder?

[dirk diggler]

Not in his 80s but we had dusty hill less than a month ago.

Would make up your rule of 3 under different circumstances.

[Ukan Kizmiaz]

"charlie's good tonight..."


thx charlie

[Cujo]

Pardon for the mildly off topic but this one I've never seen before.