Name a celebrity death you still haven't gotten over?

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Gary speed

Sean Hughes, that one just really hit me. I really liked him.

Absolutely.

Robin Williams and Gene Wilder.

John Lennon still doesn't seem real.

And not celebrities, but the deaths of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. So much more than just the deaths of 'well known figures'.

Jade Goody. The main reason being is that we have the exact same birthday. Also, just the fact that the media and public were very cruel and unforgiving to her during her tenure in the spotlight. Yet when she was very sick and died, people were fawning all over her. Disgusting

Terry Pratchett and therefore all his characters. I'd love to read another Sam Vimes book.

Paul Walker

Patrick swayze and Matthew perry

Yes! Especially Bobby Womack. The Last Soul Man. The finest ever soul voice.
I was lucky enough to meet him after his gig at Hammersmith Odeon and he was delightful company ( did cheekily ask if I was sure I wanted to go home with my boyfriend. 😀)

Also adore Bowie and George and Prince. 2016 absolutely sucked!

Christopher Hitchens

John Lennon 😕😕

Me too

I actually burst into tears when I read about the early onset Alzheimer's.

Same

It took me months to be able to read his last Discworld book, because I knew there would never be another.

Patrick Swayze

Peaches Geldoff. Not because I liked her (I didn’t particularly) but because her death was so sad. I had a little one the same age and the thought of them being alone with her body for hours upset me deeply.

George Harrison
Diane Keaton - I know only recent but still
Matthew Perry
Terry Hall
Sean Lock

George Michael forever 💐

Freddie Mercury
There was an interview where he's sitting there smoking a cigarette and he;s asked something like what will you be doing when you're 65 ? Probably expecting the answer "still singing and writing"

He replied Oh I shall be dead by then . He knew he wouldn;t make Old Bones but 45
I have pictures of him in the downstairs loo (DH thinks it's 'just a bit weird ' )

I loved Kirsty MacColl from her early records on, and it was such a sudden death - she was only 40 with two teenage sons. Her mum set up a justice campaign but died in her 90s without much of a resolution. Two years later, Joe Strummer of the Clash was only 50 when he died suddenly.

I'm sad about lots of others, David Bowie, Lou Reed - more recently Nanci Griffith (and less well known here, I think, John Prine - an early casualty of the COVID pandemic - and Guy Clark).

After Bowie's death I bought a ticket for a Marianne Faithfull gig - she was about the same age and I was worried I might not get another chance. I'm glad I took the opportunity, though she lived for a few more years. I also saw Kirsty MacColl live in the 1990s in Leeds, and Nanci Griffith and Guy Clark in 2006.

Bowie. Always.

But he is, fortunately, one of the most re-readable writers in the multiverse (in any leg of the Trousers of Time).

George Michael. It was Christmas and we were all singing Last Christmas.

David Bowie because he released an album and the next day/week he was gone. I maintain that he planned it that way.

Freddie - I remember it being announced on the radio that he was gay and HIV positive. I was too young to realise that he had always been gay and that this wasn’t particularly a revelation. And the next day I was in the Video rental shop with my friend and heard over the radio that he had died. I’m from the AIDS generation - the pre teens and teens who were repeatedly warned about safe sex and dying. It was in the news 24/7. Obviously it wasn’t a bad message but it scared us. We thought Freddie was gay and literally hours later he was dead. 30 + years later AIDS doesn’t feature in my teens lives.

You know, I want to believe that, but I just don't. I loved her, I wish the outcome was different, but I think she was on self-destruct. She was always going to meet some wanker, her esteem was just not robust enough to defend herself.

JFK. Showing my age but I do wonder how different things might have been.

Martin Luther King . So tragic.