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 .

Peaches Geldof. I don’t really know why as I couldn’t really even tell you much about her life but the news of her death really made me sad.

Chester Bennington, so so sad.

I still fill up when I hear Linkin Park

I've never been truly affected by the death of a famous person but I've definitely been very saddened by many of the ones already mentioned

Wes Kraven was a really big deal to me as I'm a massive horror fan and he's made some absolute classics (and some utter tosh, which I've still enjoyed)

Rik Mayall and Victoria Wood. I feel so cheated out of the fabulous things they would have done as they got older. Can you imagine what VW would have had to say about old age?

Prince, I was devastated and still cry now and again .
Terry Wogan, Victoria Wood, Paula Yates.

Carrie Fisher's death really affected me in ways I never imagined. She was a childhood/teen idol of mine--not the Princess Leia stuff, mind- but her. Her death was so shocking and unexpected and really reminded me just what a big part of my life she had been. If it's possible to "miss" a complete stranger, it's Carrie.

Snowscreen

What do you mean about a theory?

Prince and Luther vandross

Michael Hutchence. INXS were the first band I liked when I was about 8. My brother gave me a tape for Christmas. He was my first crush and the first music I remember. One of their songs was in radio 2 yesterday and I was surprised by how sad I felt (and also that I could remember all the words)

Robin Williams and George Michael

Paul Walker
Chris Cornell (huge Soundgarden fan)

Yes peaches I think of her every few months xx

I think it's the disbelief, and sadness of what else they could have achieved, that makes me sad that they've gone far too soon:
Princess Diana - we were on a Greek Island on holiday and people of lots of nationalities were stunned.
Colin McRea (Rally Driver) - so sudden in a helicopter crash with, amongst others, his young son.
Richard Burns (Rally Driver) - Only 34 when he died of a brain tumour.
Stephen Gately - just so unexpected
Victoria Wood - again, just came out of the blue. Such a talented woman.

Bowie. I was surprised that I cried. I watched his 2000 set at Glastonbury on BBC4 last week and got a bit teary. What a talent.

I was quite upset when Robin Williams died. Hook was one of my favourite films as a child. After his death I ended up reading all these lovely things he had said and done for people who were depressed or in pain and it made me cry to think he could make so many people happy but couldn’t escape his depression.

Caroline Aherne. A wonderfully talented woman - the Royle family could have been based on my dad’s side of my family and it really struck a chord with me.

The only ones DH has ever been bothered about are Rik Mayall - he cried when he died - and Gary Speed, which was just because it was such a shock I think.

Not really - I recall being utterly astonished and rather repulsed at all the public sobbing and almost ululating (sp?) when Diana died.

When Bowie died, I did feel very sad though. Someone posted later that year something along the lines of how many greats we had lost that year and it all started to go wrong when David Bowie died and said “who knew that David Bowie was holding everything together?!” And it reallly did seem like that. I chortled at the line but in a really sad, regretful way.

Didn't know Terry Wigan and Rick Mayal were dead!

Oh and Peaches Geldof - I was the same age as her when she died and had just had DD1, and really liked the idea of her parenting. I felt a sort of affinity with her I suppose?

Only one I can think of was Diana. But that was more the funeral, the bells, the choir singing Taverner's Alleluia. It was all so emotional.

Dolores O’Riordan. I was playing her music and interviews on you tube for weeks after.

Also at the time poor Amy Winehouse because she was so young and such an incredible talent wasted.

Dale winton is dead?!???

I think someone who became famous as a result of dying counts in this thread AnyFucker as I think the ‘affect’ and the ‘remoteness’ of that person are the key points.

I can think of three;

1. The two corporals who got lost wearing civvies in Northern Ireland and who were murdered with much of their execution filmed live.

1. The little Palestinian boy caught in a crossfire who was eventually shot again in front of TV cameras.

1. The two young German women taken hostage by armed robbers one of whom was photographed in the back of a BMW before she was also shot and killed.

All three stand out because of the way the press seem able to manipulate death for a story.

Peaches geldof was very hard to deal with, I just couldn't get the image out of my head that her children were with her when she died

Ayrton Senna, but again because of how it was relayed by the press.

Yes to Alan Rickman. Such a great actor!

I still get sad now when I think of him.

NRTFT but heartened to see Victoria Wood's name on this page so many times at least. God she had so much more to say I think. So so talented and gone way before her time.

Bob Monk house is another. Absolutely loved him and it shit me up seeing him on that stupid advert after he died!

Tony Scott film director who committed suicide. Never seen a film of his I didn't love.