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

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Mrsblobby12 · 22/05/2023 09:50

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.

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ThisIsUncool · 22/05/2023 11:44

Andy Rourke got to me too! I'd just been listening to some Smiths songs for the first time in a while when I saw the news. I saw them live several times back in the day, and I'd forgotten just how good they were.

SundaeLove · 22/05/2023 11:45

George Michael

RaisinsAreTheWorkOfTheDevil · 22/05/2023 11:45

Robin Williams

LindorDoubleChoc · 22/05/2023 11:45

Most recently Terry Hall Sad.

Wonnle · 22/05/2023 11:47

Joe Strummer

LuckyAmy1986 · 22/05/2023 11:49

George Michael and Caroline Flack

mackerelskymackerelsky · 22/05/2023 11:50

Victoria Wood. I was so sad when she died.

Leapintothelightning · 22/05/2023 11:51

Chester Bennington and Robin Williams were the saddest ones for me.
After Chester died, I heard linkin park songs in a totally different way and it all just felt so sad.

lemonyellows · 22/05/2023 11:51

Chris Cornell

KingofCats · 22/05/2023 11:52

Caroline flack. I looked at her old posts on her Instagram account after she died and she was just so vibrant and funny and young.

Hbh17 · 22/05/2023 11:53

I vividly remember where I was when John Lennon died.
More recently, the ones that had the most impact were The Queen (yes, I cried) and also Victoria Wood, Alan Rickman, Jana Novotna (tennis player) & George Michael.

LakieLady · 22/05/2023 11:56

Puppylucky · 22/05/2023 10:05

Bowie for all the obvious reasons

Bowie for me, too. I'd bought "Black Star" a couple of days earlier, and haven't been able to play it since. It was so obviously to do with facing death.

Also John Lennon. I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard.

CoolSchool · 22/05/2023 11:57

It depends what you mean by "got to you a lot"

I've been saddened by a few celebrity deaths and maybe shed a tear reading emotional tributes but that's about it.

I wouldn't be one of those people saying they howled on hearing about a celebrity death for instance.

Shhhquirrel · 22/05/2023 12:01

Princess Diana
Prince Rogers Nelson

Dontcallmescarface · 22/05/2023 12:03

Craig Gill (drummer with Inspiral Carpets). I'd met him a few times and he was so lovely.

LakieLady · 22/05/2023 12:03

Willmafrockfit · 22/05/2023 10:57

also sad for Amy Winehouse

I was sad about Amy Winehouse, but not surprised. It seemed a bit inevitable with the issues she had.

I felt the same about Brian Jones' death, and he was my favourite Stone. I was very sad, but not shocked.

Not a "celeb", but the death of John Smith shocked and saddened me immensely, not least because I knew that there was no-one of his calibre who could take his place. I still believe that Labour would have won in '92 if he'd been leader instead of Kinnock.

SnotSnotSnottySnot · 22/05/2023 12:03

Dave Greenfield from the Stranglers. Loved them for 40 odd years. Actually grieved for a while.
Also Andy Rourke.

Willmafrockfit · 22/05/2023 12:04

oh Sad Jana Novotna

FastnetLundyRockall · 22/05/2023 12:06

Terry Hall was the only one that actually felt like a punch to the gut for me

AffIt · 22/05/2023 12:09

Terry Pratchett.

The only time I've cried at the news of somebody's death (family or celebrity or whatever) since my father died when I was in my late teens.

Fink · 22/05/2023 12:14

Roald Dahl. But to fair I was only a young child and I loved his books.

Starof1972 · 22/05/2023 12:16

I was saddened over Lennon, Bowie, George Harrison, George Michael, Freddie Mercury, Alan Rickman and plenty more but the one that I actually cried over was Scott Engel of The Walker Brothers - my favourite since I was 8 years old.

EsmeShelby · 22/05/2023 12:20

Kurt Cobain
John Peel
Deborah Orr

MenopauseSucks · 22/05/2023 12:20

Not a death but I was very upset to hear about Bruce Willis's diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. It's a bastard disease.
I lost my 80yr old Mum to Alzheimer's last year.
It didn't start to show until she was 72 so when I read about Bruce, diagnosed at 67, I thought how fortunate I was to have my Mum as Mum for at least 5 years longer than his children.

HippyChickMama · 22/05/2023 12:20

Mark Lanegan. I forget and then hear his music and remember again and it knocks me for six all over again