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.

John Lennon.

John Smith and Charlie Kennedy.

Not celebrities, but Jo Cox and David Amess.

Diana 😞

Natasha Richardson - Liam Neeson’s grief for his wife affected me

Sinead, Lannigan, George Michael, Prince, Heath Ledger, Freddie,
Bowie,
all gone way too soon
although he was 80, Charlie Watts - I was sad for days

suicides, always awful,
Alexander McQueen, Avicii, Caroline Flack, L’Wren Scott

Tim Buckley, River Phoenix, drugs, risk, danger
Jeff Buckley

Diana - big shock

deaths discussed years later; Marilyn, JFK, William Wallace,
Thomas a Becket, John Lennon, Dr David Kelly, Anne Boleyn

I’m really sad and melancholy now and probably won’t sleep

Thank you for this interesting, respectful thread OP and all the
heartfelt comments showing how sentimental we all are

Carrie Fisher dying on a plane, really upset me. She came across as such a lovely, funny genuine yet quirky woman in interviews.

Another vote for George Micharl and Victoria Wood. 😪

Keith Flint, was another sad suicide shock, loved Prodigy -

Princess Diana.

Professor Mick Aston.

Others I've felt sad about, but those two shocked me.

Not a death, but Michael Schumacher being reduced to a helpless, speechless wreck after that skiing accident. That was worst.

Caroline Flack, Chester Bennington

Tina Turner and Sinead O'Connor

Both really inspiring women that I grew up with

Diana
Amy Winehouse
The Queen.

Sean lock

Absolute legend and still watch his old stuff almost daily. He was truly unique!

Dermot Morgan

Victoria Wood and Terry Wogan because they made me laugh so much.
The Queen because she was an icon and a constant for all my life.

Ayrton Senna
Diana princess of wales

Lady Jane Grey - 17 years old, murdered by ambitious men
Anne Boylen - murdered by an ambitious man
Joan of Arc - murdered by men

Amy Winehouse was such a waste of a stupendous talent, badly let down by the people around her. Caitlin Moran said towards the end of her life that you could see all the music she would have made fading away like the photos in Back To The Future.
Natasha Richardson was just such a shock. She fell over, hit her head and then died a couple of days later. Don't go skiing folks.

@beguilingeyes

Natasha Richardson was just such a shock. She fell over, hit her head and then died a couple of days later. Don't go skiing folks.

Exactly how I felt about Michael Schumacher in a very similar accident. Worse than sudden death, I always thought, what happened to him.

Catsmere - Sonny Bono too, skiied straight into a tree, died instantly,
days after Robert Kennedy’s son Michael died the same way, neither
wearing a helmet,
although hitting a tree with your head at speed wouldn’t save you.
Natasha declined both helmet and an ambulance.
Schumacher was wearing a helmet but fell onto a rock, off piste

Yes . The day after they filmed the last episode of Ted.

My mother : The Vatican....they got him!
Only 45 , he had so much left to do.

I loved him. He was absolutely gas and seemed v sound. I didn't realise he was that young. That's scary.

Princess Diana
Prince Rogers Nelson

Pavorotti- he was sick at the same time as my dad and my dad loved him and I remember we heard in the hospital and it was just like all hope was gone (just got chills :( )

Roald Dahl as a child- purely selfish as I remember thinking ‘but I’ve read all of his books🙈

Freddie Mercury

Sinead O Connor because I just hoped she’d make it to old age

Sean Locke

Peaches Geldolf because her child was there and that’s just horrible

Whitney Houston again I just wanted to see her to old age, then her daughter- so sad

For me there’s just one. Victoria Wood. I don’t think I’ve felt genuinely upset about the death of someone I didn’t know before. It’s hard to put into words but she was a big part of my cultural influence and she drew people together. I think my whole family found her funny, my mum especially, so there’s that shared experience and nostalgia.

HeatherMoores

Carrie Fisher dying on a plane, really upset me. She came across as such a lovely, funny genuine yet quirky woman in interviews.
Oh god yes, and all I could think after was she said on GN show that she was still open to finding love. Next time I saw Star Wars after her death I started crying

Aaliyah and Popsmoke. Particularly Popsmoke as he was just starting out in his career and I think he would have been huge.