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.

Victoria Wood and Linda Smith.

Not someone who has already died, but when Paul Weller eventually dies, I will be in bits. He has been part of my life since I was 14, he has seen off all of my relationships, growing up, family losses, I have so many memories that are linked to him.

Sean Lock
Robin Williams
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Archie Lyndhurst

Archie shook me a lot. DD was a big So Awkward fan and he was so young with so much that should have been ahead of him.

I'll sometimes have a melancholy moment of reflection when listening to a song by a deceased artist but none of their deaths could ever affect me 'a lot' as ultimately they're complete strangers who I never met and didn't even know I exist.

Taylor Hawkins 💔

It’s been quite a few years but I often think about Peaches Geldof. It seems that she was deeply affected by losing her mum at a young age (rightly so), but tragically that’s exactly what she’s put her children through as well. Both heroin overdoses as well.

Oh Jeremy Hardy too. I still listen to the News Quiz, but it’s never as good as when he was on it.

Indeed. I was so upset about it and often think of his friends and how they are. Rest his troubled and so talented soul.

I was going to say Peaches @Hornicorn, so sad 😞

Yes, it's Mark for me as well. Seems so completely unfair after everything he went through and how hard he fought, that the bastard Covid got him in the end. He had years more brilliant work still to come.

David Bowie

Mark Lanegan was a fantastic musician.
Caroline Flack's suicide really chilled me to the core. Still think of her often.

Ted from Father Ted. A shock as he was only in his 40s, and a great show that was sad to lose.

Also Kurt Cobain I guess. Wasn't a massive Nirvana fan, but I felt for Courtney.

Didn't know Ted was only in his 40s :(
It was such a shame about Peaches. She'd got married, had these 2 lovely sons and from the outside seemed to have turned things around. I remember her husband being interviewed about how he found her body and that he hadn't been surprised to find her like that :(

Ann Boleyn. Man, they did her dirty. She was innocent.

Also Thomas Becket. He was literally in Canterbury Cathedral, clinging to a pillar by the nave. The violence that Brito and his thugs committed was totally out of all proportion. Freaky as hell.

Also Whitnet Houston.

And Gangsta Boo.

Tom Petty ❤️

just a wonderful human being in every way. I’m so grateful I got to see play at Hyde Park shortly before it happened.

he was about to step back from working to spend more time with his daughter and granddaughter, such sad timing 😢

Archie Lyndhurst (Nicolas Lyndhurst's son).

Tessisme same here . It was about 4 years before I could listen to his music again. I haven't seen nor will watch Bohemian Rhapsody. There was only one Freddie Mercury.

Chester Bennington 😢

Barry Chuckle he was older but a big big part of my childhood.

Paul O'Grady was a really sad one also and a shock!

Me too.

So many of them seem like they were a warning now. One more light breaks my heart😢

Yes, but only Olivia Newton John. Her death really hurt me in ways I can't really describe. She was a constant from my teenage years in the 70s when she was always on TV. Everyone loved her, she was so humble and gracious, and no one ever said a bad thing about her, she certainly wasn't a diva and always had time for her fans, even doing stage shows when she was in excrutiating pain from her recurring cancer. She also raised huge amounts of money and helped set up her own cancer wellness centre in Australia. I cried buckets the day she died, even though it was expected as she'd deteriorated in the weeks/months previously from the third return of her cancer which first appeared in her early 40s. I still cry when I hear some of her songs and when I've watched some of her old TV chatshow interviews on Youtube. The World is definitely worse off now she's no longer with us.

Oh my goodness - I had forgotten about him.

That shook me to the core absolutely awful.

Paul o'Grady. Probably because he was such a dog lover.

Terry Pratchett for similar reasons as previously mentioned. It wasn’t just a man that died, it was the whole world in his mind that meant so much to me and was a massive part of my life. DH and I met at 15 due to our shared love of TP. I full on cried and even DH shed a small tear.

Ashley Morrison the youngest old cat lady. She isn't famous in terms of the celebrities mentioned but she had a huge following on Facebook, Instagram etc. She had a mental illness and took her own life aged 30. She rescued so many kittens and sometimes older cats. She would raise the kittens until they were old enough to be adopted which she arranged very responsibly.