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Have any famous people's deaths got to you a lot?

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Mrsblobby12 · 22/05/2023 09:50

Feel this way about the death of Andy Rourke of The Smiths. They are one of my favourite bands of all time and just listening to them now. He was such a talented musician, he's the same age as my father, and I feel sad knowing he had such a cruel disease.

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Abhannmor · 22/05/2023 16:49

FoFanta · 22/05/2023 11:09

I am still upset about Prince. The fact that a man who was loved by so many, could die completely alone was heartbreaking for me.

Michael Landon - I loved Little House on the Prairie and the very cheesy angel programme, and he represented an ideal, twinkly eyed Dad figure to me. I was about 18 when he died and it was the Summer I left home so it is all caught up with end of my childhood/adolescence.

Vincent Hanley - he was an Irish tv presenter who presented the best music show ever shown on RTE - the highlight of my rural early teen weekends.

I remember Fab Vinnie. He also worked for Capital Radio in the summer. Way too young.

HarrietPierce · 22/05/2023 16:44

Leonard Cohen

StonwEd · 22/05/2023 16:06

Taylor Hawkins. I’ve never felt anything like it for someone I don’t know. Grew up listening to the band and following them around and watching the love between them all. Over a year later it still hurts so much

DogsvsCats · 22/05/2023 16:03

Victoria Wood
Paul O Grady
Cilla Black

All backdrops of childhood- light hearted entertainers, clever & witty.

beguilingeyes · 22/05/2023 16:02

Victoria Wood was such a loss.
Amy Winehouse was a tragic waste. When she was clearly deteriorating Caitlin Moran said that you could see all of the brilliant albums she would make disappearing like the photographs in Back To The Future.
I was very sad when Liz Sladen (Sarah Jane from Doctor Who) died. She was such a part of my youth and she had made such a triumphant return to Doctor Who.
I remember as a teenager being devastated when Richard Beckindale (Porridge/Rising Damp) died. He was only 31 and it seemed impossible to me that someone so you and full of life could just drop dead.

crazeekat · 22/05/2023 15:57

freddie mercury, had a massive impact on me, i was only 16, just finding my
way and realised i will never see him sing live, never be in the same building as him, oh man what i'd give to see him perform. his songs and those of Queen got me through every major time in my life, and it haunts me to think Hiv and aids and even being gay is so different now, and what would he be like, how would he view the world. the stigma that man lived through. just don't get them like him now. heaven must be rocking away with freddie, bowie and all the others x

LaMaG · 22/05/2023 15:53

TheGriffle · 22/05/2023 14:49

Heath Ledger, Robin Williams, Rik Mayall. I shed tears over these 3 deaths. They were all so talented.

Peaches Geldof affected me in a different way, I had a daughter the same age as her youngest and the thought of him being on his own with his mothers dead body made me so sad and angry at her.

I had baby twins the same age as her younger baby and I think hers were really close in age too. I read afterwards that she was getting no sleep and became desperate and went back to the heroin to get through the days. I was half delirious from lack of sleep and a few weeks before I went back on cigarettes after swearing I never would. I just couldn't get through another day, I honestly had hit rock bottom. And when i heard about her I realised that we were the same at that time, only lucky for me I had never taken anything stronger but if I had maybe that's what I would have reached for. It kind of haunted me. And the thought of those two babies crying together all morning... heartbreaking. I gave up the cigarettes again soon after

flumpalamp · 22/05/2023 15:49

Peaches Geldof. What a waste. Poor girl.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 22/05/2023 15:48

The queen and Paul o Grady.
I'll be gutted when Dolly Parton passes too

thisnthat · 22/05/2023 15:45

Sean Locke - his comedy has always made me cry with laughter and I hadn’t even realised he was so ill when he sadly died.

LaMaG · 22/05/2023 15:44

George Michael. I was gutted.
Peaches Geldof
Sinead O'connor's son. I was reading her autobiography and Jesus she suffered the most horrific abuse and spent so much time mentally ill and then this... that poor boy must have suffered so much too.

bellinisurge · 22/05/2023 15:39

Bowie. It made my Mum cry. She was very ill and in her late 80s. The death of "that young man" really upset her despite being quite a straight laced devout person. And so it made me cry.

BSB30 · 22/05/2023 15:36

Aaron Carter last November. He was so young and had a 1 year old son. So sad.

beguilingeyes · 22/05/2023 15:35

Susan2 · 22/05/2023 10:30

Kirsty McColl

I know one of her sons a little bit. She pushed him out of the way of the boat and got hit herself. At one point he was swimming in her blood.
No justice either.

shatteredmum1 · 22/05/2023 15:26

Paula Yates. Such a fragile young woman

penniesmakeshillingsandshillingsmakepounds · 22/05/2023 15:13

Puppylucky · 22/05/2023 10:05

Bowie for all the obvious reasons

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MrsCadburysParrot · 22/05/2023 15:07

Avicii

M0ose · 22/05/2023 15:05

Also most recently Taylor Hawkins. I love Foo Fighters and was sad I never got to see them live. I had bought tickets to see them the year he passed away for their Australian Tour in December.

maranella · 22/05/2023 15:04

Not a death, but Michael Schumacher's accident, which means he'll never been seen in public again. When you think of the danger he faced every day as a F1 driver and the banality of the accident that changed his life forever. Every skier occasionally cuts across a bit of off-piste to get from one piste to another - I do it myself all the time - his DS was right beside him and he was fine. Freak accidents are really chilling.

drsp51 · 22/05/2023 15:03

Karen Carpenter. Such a beautiful, soulful voice but an unhappy life. Perhaps with the right treatment she wouldn’t have died so young and still be making great music now

M0ose · 22/05/2023 15:02

I was so sad to hear Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington passing away. Sound Garden and Linkin Park were two of the most greatest bands that I have seen live.
Also I was a big WWE wrestling fan when I was a kid and was shocked to hear Chris Benoit pass away but was equally horrified at what he did to his wife and son before he took his own life, he was one of my favourite wrestlers when he was alive.

Oblomov23 · 22/05/2023 14:58

No one famous dying has ever really bothered me.

Peridot1 · 22/05/2023 14:55

A few of those already mentioned

George Michael
Freddie Mercury
Tom Petty
Naya Rivera
Peaches Geldof

And most recently Jock Zonfrillo. You probably need to be a Masterchef Australia fan to know of him. Scottish chef with a chequered past but came across brilliantly on Masterchef Australia. Gordon Ramsey cried when being interviewed about the death. He was only 46. I can’t quite believe it but I’ve cried more over his death than any other celebrity I think.

Toomanysquishmallows · 22/05/2023 14:53

Robin Williams and Nikki graham from big brother.

User1529865 · 22/05/2023 14:52

and Sarah Harding from Girls Aloud as she was so young, that was very sad

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