Have any famous people's deaths got to you a lot?

[Mrsblobby12]

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.

The queen.

I have been very sad to lose various famous people who have been mentioned already but I was devastated to lose Terry Pratchett.
I met him on several occasions at conventions, but I also think who he was was very apparent in his wonderful books.
It took me years to bring myself to read his final book and I know many who haven't. I reread it recently and cried once again. Such a loss.

Jade Goody (I know not super famous)

Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell were tough. Especially since they went the same way my late husband eventually did though if wasn't connected.

I'm very sorry about your late husband.

Chester Bennington singing Hallelujah at Chris Cornell's funeral is heartbreaking, especially knowing what happens only two months later.

Terry Wogan. I loved his R2 show and listened as a child with my Dad. I think it's telling the way his colleagues still hold him in high regard. That Bowie and a whole host followed one after the other was a horrible start to the year.

I'll go to pieces when Elton goes, let alone Sir David A.

When you can peg someone's creativity to your own life it feels like you have lost someone you know.

I was 7 months pregnant with my first baby, and it was mother’s day, the day she died. I’m not a crier usually but hormones meant I was inconsolable that day hearing the news…

George Best. I know he had problems but he was so much a part of people's lives in 60s Manchester.

Terry Hall, I have been sad about others, but he was a jig part of my teen and twenties development and his death really hit me hard.

OMG - David Cassidy! I didn't know he had died. I was an Osmond fan, and I am surprised that they are all still with us, as some of them have have had health issues. But I did like DC too.

Meat Loaf is the only one I have physically reacted to - I heard the news on the radio and burst into tears! I was having a really tough time and feeling very emotional anyway, and he was one of my only musical heroes I had never seen perform live and I think I was hit by the fact that now I never would as much as anything else. No less than 6 of my mates messaged me to see if I was OK as I love BOOH so much 😂. I'm quite embarrassed about my reaction now.

Others have made me feel sad - Rik Mayall, Alan Rickman, Victoria Wood, Sean Locke...but only Marvin Lee Aday made me gib.

Deborah James is the only one I can think of that actually made me shed a tear.

I do think about Deborah James and Sarah Harding a lot. So sad

Sean Lock.

Chester Bennington
Chris Cornell
Dolores O'Riordan
Chadwick Boseman

These made me very sad and upset - Alan Rickman, Heath Ledger, Paul Walker, Chadwick Boseman, but only Chester Bennington made me burst into uncontrollable sobs 😭

And now Tina Turner has died too

We can add another music legend - Tina Turner has died at the age of 83. What a remarkable woman she was.

Yes very sad. First song at our wedding was Simply The Best.

I don’t get as emotional about people who die at a good age though. Not like I do for a younger person.

Freddie Mercury - the last (or one of the last) music videos he did where he was so thin and gaunt looking was so very sad.

Prince, I cried for a week or two on and off.
I was sad about Terry Wogan, I listened to him on the way to work and he always made me laugh.
Kirsty McColl and Paula Yates.
A local DJ Stephen Clements was a shock, he always seemed so happy and was very, very funny.

Tina Turner has died???

River Phoenix broke my heart. Then Kurt Cobain devastated me.
In later years Bowie and Rickman made me terribly sad.
Naya Rivera was also heartbreaking. I can't imagine what her and her little girl went through. 😢

This thread makes me question people's sanity🤐😅

Luke Perry as well!!! 90210 was the best.