Has any famous persons death affected you more than it should?

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I still struggle with David Bowie dying when he did , he had just brought out a new album and thought all was well . He and Pink Floyd were my childhood music .
Also Freddy Mercury, just feel so sad that such a talented and versatile man died too young when now people with aids live long happy lives .
People I have never met but feel so much sadness that they have gone .

John Peel for some reason devastated me!
And Rik Mayall!

Victoria Wood.
Im still upset about Julia Montague (character in The Bodyguard) dying.

In the programme i mean.

Leonard Cohen, though he had lived a full long life and was quite ill towards the end, 82 is a good age

I find some of the others sad but in a different way as they were quite young like Rik Mayall and George Michael and poor Stephen Gately

Indirectly yes.

Princess Diana - because my dad and his DB were the same age as the princes when their own mum died at 33 and he was so upset as it brought all those feelings back.

Jonah Lomu - because my DH knew him relatively well professionally and was devastated when it happened.

Hayley in Coronation Street 😢

Princess Diana .I cried buckets watching that funeral probably because she was somewhat our style icon growing up in the '80s in Ireland .I just thought she was lovely and seeing those two boys walking behind the hearse just broke my heart.

Chris Cornell, still tear up a bit thinking of it.

Freddie Mercury - I saw Bohemian Rhapsody recently and it just made me sad that he’s gone. It makes me feel a bit silly but I miss him and I’m gutted that I never got to see him live and never will.

I saw Queen with Adam Lambert a couple of years ago and they were awesome and I loved every minute of it, but I wished Freddie was still around

Terry Wogan - he’d always been around, he was like a pair of comfy slippers. Then he was gone

Yes to Dolores O'Riordan.

Princess Diana because we were similar in age & I was very pregnant with DC3 at the time.

Steve Irwin because my DC loved him.

Another for Anthony Bourdain. So so sad.

I don’t tend to cry but was pissed off when Amy Whinehouse died, does that count?

Amazing Talent gone just like that, the foundation in her name is fantastic though if they’ve visited any of your children’s school. Made my teen cry.

My dad was upset at Freddie Mercury, I was learning to drive and he made me drive to his house with all the flowers, first time I saw him upset.

Was

Most of these on this thread went well before their time

Victoria Wood, Terry Wogan and Robin Williams.

Robin Williams, he died just two days before I got my A level results. I remember sobbing to my mum I just couldn't handle the stress of results and him dying

I was surprised by how sad I was at Bowie's death - kept feeling sad at moments over the following days, which isn't a normal reaction to me.

I was shocked and saddened by Victoria Wood's death. I was in a black cab in London and the cab driver told me- he was shocked too and had just heard it on his radio. Also I was shocked, to a lesser extent, by George Michael's (he had had so many health and life issues). I was saddened by Terry Wogan's.

Robin Williams and Cilla Black

Terry Pratchett

I was extremely upset by the death of Amy Winehouse.

I was also greatly saddened by the Alan Rickman news.

Remember that very odd period were a disproportionate number of famous names died in succession.

Some of that became a bit much for me, I noticed the same people posting effusive eulogies for total strangers and the eerie sense that it was expected and not genuine and things had gone a bit North Korean for a while

No one. I can’t cry for people I never ever knew

I can cry for people in general, death is sad after all. Like, when you read about a child being killed by a parent, for example, that upsets me.

But a celebrity? No. I've never been particularly upset by a celebrity's death.

David Bowie - I was more upset to read that he had not known it was terminal until the last few months and had he had still taken time to make a lot of arrangements behind the scene, for his son, wife and musicians. Lazarus just seems like a goodbye not, but it wasn't!

Freddie Mercury too. But his last album was a goodbye note, one I still find it hard to listen to.

Kirsty MacColl made me so bloody angry I wanted to get on a plane and find the pampered, lying bastard! I watched the documentary "Who LKilled Kirsty MacColl" including her sons talking about that day - she leaped on her eldest son, he thought she was trying to drown him, he has to live with the knowledge that as she died to save him he was scared of her That makes me more angry that some monied pillock got away with it and even paid his staff ember to take the blame!

All 3 are musicians and all 3 were on constant play for most of my life, from early teens on. I love music, am rarely without it, have a constant sound track running in my head... so it probably isn't a coincidence that it is musicians that get to me!

John Lennon and more recently, David Bowie.

Ayrton Senna

Robin Williams
Terry Wogan
Alan Rickman
David Bowie