Who is your ‘diana’

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Just reading the Diana thread

Who is your celebrity that you will mourn..

Mine is Meat Loaf, Paul Weller and Bob Dylan

I will genuinely cry when they die.

I know he is a right wing auld twat nowadays but I'll shed a tear when Morrissey dies

I still remember the first listen I had of The Queen is Dead when I was 15 and 30 years later his music is still important to me

definitely David Jason

Since my dh died I think deaths of celebs feel even worse. Like everyone I know is dying.

I will probably have a moment when Valerie Singleton and Virginia Wade die, partly because I grew up thinking they were the same person.

I wont cry over a celebrity death. They are not personal to me. Why would I cry? I really loved George Michaels music and I felt sorry for his family but cry? No!

We had relatives here over Xmas when George Michael died - thankfully I was awake before them & had time to have a good cry on my own about his death. He was my first crush & I had loved his music my whole life. Months later I had his greatest hits CD on in the car and cried again at how good the songs were & how sad that there would be no more.

In the future I’ll be sad about Billy Connolly and Graham Norton (although I think he’s got a good few years yet)

I loved keeping up appearances when I was little so I will be devastated when Patricia routledge (hyacinth) passes

The Queen.

The Queen is a most wonderful steadfast constant presence in my life.

I remember when Marc Bolan died. I was a huge fan as a child and was terribly upset. Also very sad over Johnny Cash and David Bowie.

I’ll be gutted when Tom Baker goes.

I don't think you can always predict what will shake you, or that you should judge others for what's really upset them.

Life is so short and I think that celebrities dying really hammers it home, especially in a world where we no longer have big extended communities around us.

Meat Loaf.. strange and very paranoid man but I love his music. He is well, has lost a massive amount of weight and had major spinal surgery.

I mourned Alan Rickman

And yes, David Attenborough will be sadly missed. Such a knowledgeable man and such a gentleman.

For me it will be people whose art and music had really affected me.

I was very sad when Aretha Franklin died, and Terry Pratchett. Jeff Buckley was devastating in the nineties. I'd seen him at quite a few really small gigs and so it felt really personal. He was so young. Adam Yauch too.

I'm dreading Joni Mitchell and Brian Wilson.

I wouldn't cry for any celeb or the Queen but some celebrity deaths have affected me.

The suicides in recent years and Peaches Geldoff as previously mentioned. Just so preventable.

On a separate note I have cried over deaths of people I don't know. But just normal people. Most recently the poor boy killed by the dog and a baby in my town who drowned. I don't know the children but these types of deaths massively affect me. I've stopped reading the papers.

Douglas Adams and ian banks.

Do people still mourn Diana? Is that a thing? Wow.

It's ok to cry when a celebrity dies. You're not mourning in the same way that family members and friends do obviously, but if that person has brought you happiness/comfort/joy, in whatever way, you may feel loss of some sort. And that's really OK.

I know everyone takes the piss out of him for being half dead already but the world will be a sadder place when Keith Richards goes, he has been a massive part of my life and millions of others too.

I was shocked when Alan rickman died. It seemed to come from no where and I love his films. But I didn't cry. I don't understand crying at celebrities death. It doesn't directly impact my life and feels disingenuous. When my grandma died, a distant cousin was "fraught with grief" she didn't know my grandma. Apparently she was just sad because she heard how nice she was. It felt invasive, like she was trying to share our pain but not in a caring way.

Prince for me.

Paul McCartney
Paul Simon

i can't anticipate, until it happens
very upset about David Bowie, Victoria Wood and Alan Rickman

For me it was mainly Chester Bennington. One of my favourite ever bands, especially live, and it was a love I shared with my son, which made it harder I think, as we have shared so many happy memories of LP, especially as we had always gone to see them live together and it was one of those bands that my he grew up with. I loved his voice, and his songs, and it's such a shame that we won't get to see them live again.

Chris Cornell was another, but I was so glad I'd seen him live, both on his own and with Audioslave, just a shame I'd never seen him with Soundgarden.

oh I was very sad about Terry Wogan as well.

Morrissey for me too, I saw him live not long after he'd been diagnosed with cancer and he had a bandage on his arm which I was convinced was connected to his treatment and I sobbed for the second half of the concert.

I was really upset when Richard Whitely died, I wasn't a fan but think he'd always been around and remember him on Calendar when I was a child.
Terry Wogan and Victoria Wood still shock me too 😢

Never got the Diana thing. There are several famous people who I will be more sad about than others but I still won't be bursting into tears:

Bernard Cribbins (the nation's grandad)
Angela Lansbury
David Attenborough

Hadn’t cried for anyone famous until George Michael died. Then I bawled.
He was a huge part of my childhood plus my mum loved him too and she has also passed away.

David Bowie and Patrick Swayze were mine.

Agree with PP I will be so sad when David Attenborough or David Jason go.