Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !

[Count Steer]

Barrett Strong. You may not know the name,but you'll have heard his songs and that was the way he liked it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64450921

Incredible catalogue of songs. You're right about him keeping a low profile though. How many people could name the lyric writer of 'Heard it through the grapevine'? I hope he had the right sort of contract - that song alone should have kept him very comfortably off.

[gremlin]

Barrett Strong. You may not know the name,but you'll have heard his songs and that was the way he liked it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64450921

"I made people smile. I made people have babies. I made people do a lot of things. So I contributed something to my being here."

[v8-powered]

Burt Bacharach RIP

[gremlin]

Burt Bacharach RIP

I'll say a little prayer.

[Count Steer]

Burt Bacharach RIP

A genuine legend. TBH I was a bit surprised he was still alive until now.

[JackyJoll]

Burt Bacharach RIP

[Felix]

Burt Bacharach RIP

I'll say a little prayer.

He will certainly Never Fall In Love Again.

[gremlin]

Trugoy from De La Soul. Only 54.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64620788

[ZRX61]

Still no sign of Julian Sands

[Pirahna]

Still no sign of Julian Sands

I know you find it funny and worthy of a Darwin Award but there's always two sides to a story. In 2018 a mate of mine with whom I'd shared a few adventures emigrated to New Zealand, six months later he was dead. A very experienced mountain walker, he'd set off for a mid winter walk with an overnight in a refuge and down to meet his wife around midday the following day. When he hadn't appeared at 4pm she phoned the police. What the mountain rescue people think happened was that he'd spent the night in the refuge, had gone for fresh water in the morning, fallen, knocked himself unconscious and frozen to death. I'm fairly sure that given a choice he would have chosen a long and happen life and to have died pain free an old man in his sleep. He was well kitted up for what he was doing and had the knowledge and experience to do it.

It's no different to you going for bike ride and getting hit by a truck in an accident noboby could forsee. You're wearing the best protective kit money can buy, you're the most experienced and well trained rider there has ever been. Unfortunately there's a chinook helicopter with a truck underneath that accidentlty fell on you and killed you.

Anyway, my freind was Darren Myers, have a Google and find out what happened to him.

[ZRX61]

I know you find it funny and worthy of a Darwin Award but there's always two sides to a story. In 2018 a mate of mine with whom I'd shared a few adventures emigrated to New Zealand, six months later he was dead. A very experienced mountain walker, he'd set off for a mid winter walk with an overnight in a refuge and down to meet his wife around midday the following day. When he hadn't appeared at 4pm she phoned the police. What the mountain rescue people think happened was that he'd spent the night in the refuge, had gone for fresh water in the morning, fallen, knocked himself unconscious and frozen to death. I'm fairly sure that given a choice he would have chosen a long and happen life and to have died pain free an old man in his sleep. He was well kitted up for what he was doing and had the knowledge and experience to do it.

It's no different to you going for bike ride and getting hit by a truck in an accident noboby could forsee. You're wearing the best protective kit money can buy, you're the most experienced and well trained rider there has ever been. Unfortunately there's a chinook helicopter with a truck underneath that accidentlty fell on you and killed you.

Anyway, my freind was Darren Myers, have a Google and find out what happened to him.

The difference is your mate didn't ignore all sorts of advice like Mr Sands did. They probably won't find much of Sands after the bears, coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats, ravens & vultures etc get through with him.

[v8-powered]

Raquel Welch apparently....

[Skub]

Raquel Welch apparently....

Every boy of a certain era.

[Yorick]

Raquel Welch apparently....

Every boy of a certain era.

10 Million years BC was filmed on this island.

[ZRX61]

She was hilarious in How To Be A Latin Lover.

[rodbargee]

Freddy Trueman's son married Raquel welsh's daughter. interesting MIL

[Taipan]

World of Sport legend, Dickie Davies. Old badger stripe himself. RIP.

[Yorick]

World of Sport legend, Dickie Davies. Old badger stripe himself. RIP.

He was a huge part of my growing up. I used to love it when he introduced Barry Sheene races.

[gremlin]

I always remember an old Morcambe and Wise sketch:

Eric - 'You're going grey'

Ernie - ' I worry'

Eric - 'Be like Dickie Davies and just worry a little bit'

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I wonder if any radio stations are playing the Half Man, Half Biscuit song?