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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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NordVeg · 22/05/2023 13:48

Taylor Hawkins 💔

MovinGroovinBarbie · 22/05/2023 13:44

I'll sometimes have a melancholy moment of reflection when listening to a song by a deceased artist but none of their deaths could ever affect me 'a lot' as ultimately they're complete strangers who I never met and didn't even know I exist.

PerrinAybara · 22/05/2023 13:39

Sean Lock
Robin Williams
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Archie Lyndhurst

Archie shook me a lot. DD was a big So Awkward fan and he was so young with so much that should have been ahead of him.

Nat6999 · 22/05/2023 13:31

Not someone who has already died, but when Paul Weller eventually dies, I will be in bits. He has been part of my life since I was 14, he has seen off all of my relationships, growing up, family losses, I have so many memories that are linked to him.

FergalforPM · 22/05/2023 13:21

Victoria Wood and Linda Smith.

donkey86 · 22/05/2023 13:20

donkey86 · 22/05/2023 13:17

Oh gosh, yes, just shed a tear even just thinking about it <3

Whoops, that was meant to be a reply to @Ujustcan031289

orangeflags · 22/05/2023 13:19

Not a celebrity. But David Amess

donkey86 · 22/05/2023 13:17

Oh gosh, yes, just shed a tear even just thinking about it <3

Chuffles · 22/05/2023 13:03

David Bowie's death affected me deeply. The release of Blackstar just a couple of days earlier (on his birthday) was a wonderful surprise - an amazing album that, it turned out, was his parting gift 😢
I was floored by Terry Hall's death too - another musical hero. Particularly as it came just days after my lovely MIL died of the same bastard cancer.
Victoria Wood's death and that of the wonderful Jeremy Hardy got me as well - comedy geniuses both gone way too soon.

SmashedApricot · 22/05/2023 12:56

Maggiesgirl · 22/05/2023 10:05

Heath Ledger, was so shocked.

Me too . He was so brilliant So the joker . My thoughts were what a waste as he could have gone on to do even greater things . Thought this about Amy Winehouse too .

BinkyBeaufort · 22/05/2023 12:54

Another George Michael here. I tear up whenever I hear his music.
And Victoria Wood. She brought such joy and laughter and to have that gift cut short when she should have had years more was just tragic.
It's been 10 years - how is that possible??

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Mrsblobby12 · 22/05/2023 12:52

Reading these posts reminds me of how many legends we've lost :(

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Phos · 22/05/2023 12:51

@WilmaFlintstone1 I meant to add Jo Cox and got a bit hasty. That was the constuency I grew up in although I didn't live there anymore at that time.

TheDestinationUnknown · 22/05/2023 12:50

musixa · 22/05/2023 12:33

To be honest, no. I've felt sadness at the death of famous people I've admired, a sense of waste when their death has been untimely; or conversely a sense of an era ending when a long-lived celebrity has died, but not to any degree that affects my overall mood and certainly nothing approaching the sense of loss I feel when someone close to me dies.

I feel exactly the same.

Though I have to admit I did have a tear in my eye watching the second Black Panther film as Chadwick Boseman was so young and talented, and the film handled his death in such a sensitive way.

WilmaFlintstone1 · 22/05/2023 12:50

Phos · 22/05/2023 12:47

I don't really get particularly upset over celebrity deaths. I was a massive fan of Angela Lansbury so whilst there was an "oh that's sad" when she died, I wasn't grief stricken.

I think the only exception was The Queen, and Prince Philip. I'm a royalist anyway but that felt a bit different from an actor or singer dying, for me.

I wasn't an enormous fan of Naya Rivera or Paula Yates but I do find it sad how traumatic their deaths must have been for the young children involved.

The only other one, which I'll probably get hate for, was David Amess. Not so much a celebrity, a public figure by virtue of his job, he was just stabbed doing his job. No one expects their husband, dad, whoever to go to work and never come home, especially not in such circumstances.

David Amess got to me too, same as with Jo Cox, just so horrific.

Phos · 22/05/2023 12:47

I don't really get particularly upset over celebrity deaths. I was a massive fan of Angela Lansbury so whilst there was an "oh that's sad" when she died, I wasn't grief stricken.

I think the only exception was The Queen, and Prince Philip. I'm a royalist anyway but that felt a bit different from an actor or singer dying, for me.

I wasn't an enormous fan of Naya Rivera or Paula Yates but I do find it sad how traumatic their deaths must have been for the young children involved.

The only other one, which I'll probably get hate for, was David Amess. Not so much a celebrity, a public figure by virtue of his job, he was just stabbed doing his job. No one expects their husband, dad, whoever to go to work and never come home, especially not in such circumstances.

LoobyDop · 22/05/2023 12:45

Caron Keatinge- I really looked up to her as a Blue Peter-watching kid- she was just so cool.
Victoria Wood.
Naya Rivera (Santana from Glee)- such a beautiful voice, and such an awful thing to happen to her and her poor little boy. So unfair.

girlfriend44 · 22/05/2023 12:44

les dawson, so funny and never got to see his little girl grow up.

TheNine · 22/05/2023 12:38

Ridiculous I know, but a fictional character did recently - Jenny in the Archers. Her death was unexpected and had me in tears for days. I’d always seen her as a bit of a role model/mum figure I suppose.

cordelia16 · 22/05/2023 12:37

For me, it's musicians whose deaths have affected me most because I had a strong connection to them through their music. I think with actors/actresses, I love their characters more than them, but the characters live on (if that makes sense).

Chris Cornell
Andy Fletcher
Neil Peart
Eddie Van Halen
George Michael
Glenn Frey
Darius

But I really miss these three:
Carrie Fisher
Robin Williams
Heath Ledger

Androideighteen · 22/05/2023 12:37

donkey86 · 22/05/2023 09:53

Scott Hutchinson from Frightened Rabbit. Especially because of the way he went.

100%. I feel so sad whenever Floating in the Forth plays on the album. Very tragic.

Cornishromcom · 22/05/2023 12:36

I cried when Sabine Schmitz died. And also Sean Lock

MerylSqueak · 22/05/2023 12:36

DownNative · 22/05/2023 11:40

You mean Heaney, right?

"Two buckets are easier carried than one" poet?

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KnickerlessParsons · 22/05/2023 12:35

Terry Wogan. Still miss him

ConsuelaHammock · 22/05/2023 12:33

No. I have never mourned for someone I don’t know.

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