August 28, 200520 yr I was wondering which celebrity deaths have most effected TV members? I am not talking about leaders of countries or civil rights leaders, but artist celebrities. Musician, painters, authors, actors, etc. How did it effect you and if you are willing, why do you think the world is a lesser place without this person?
August 28, 200520 yr Author I ask because in my lifetime very few celebrities have died that are really worth mentioning, or I should say their death didn't leave any marks. So, I wonder if other people might think me wrong? Maybe I haven't been paying attention?
August 28, 200520 yr River Pheonix, that someone so young could die was a shock to me (he was a afew years older than me) & like all teenagers I thought I was invincible & was living a lifestyle to prove that (drugs, alcohol, hitchiking to raves, disapearing for days on end without letting anyone know) His death made me think about the life I was falling into & I cleaned up my act & had a bit more respect for the people who cared about me
August 28, 200520 yr Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees). I am a good friend of their family since my days in the 80's working with music concerts in Europe.
August 28, 200520 yr Jimi Hendrix death caused an unpleasant nights drinking. But John Lennon's death was, and possibly still is, a trauma that has affected my whole view on life and death (more so, I am ashamed to say than my father's). I was in my 20's when it happened, but still spent a day in bed crying. Although a lot of my feelings were bound up in the pop image of JL, hippy dreams and waste of such potential, we also knew the family - his ex-wife Cynthia lived next door to my grandmother.
August 28, 200520 yr Frank Zappa who died in his early 50's from prostate cancer. A musical genius...
August 28, 200520 yr Ditto Zappa (53 when he died - still young), I was upset when Randy Rhoads died in a plane crash when he was in his 20's. He was the guitarist that inpired me to play Heavy Rock , along with Mr Page. Who knows where I would be now if I hadn't formed that great band - The Multitude of Gross people.....
August 28, 200520 yr Fred Dibnah. A man from my part of the world with a real love of the engineering that made Britain great. A sad loss for all Lancastrians. "I don't want to know why you can't. I want to know how you can!"
August 28, 200520 yr River Phoenix - so young, talented, sensitive, and beautiful - and he was just getting started; what a loss. I know you said just artists but .... Lady Diana - I shocked myself because I sobbed when she died. I don't care about aristocrats and privileged people, but she was such a good soul and a loss for the planet. John Kennedy, Jr. - Another good soul with limitless privilege and his own struggles, trying to do good things for the underclass; felt bad.
August 28, 200520 yr Kurt Cobain - A really talented young man, his lyrics and quotes have been inspirational to me.
August 28, 200520 yr Can't say that I've ever been affected by a celebrity dying... Don't get me wrong, whenever someones dies, especially early, it is sad, but I am only sad really for those who are close and feeling the loss.... totster
August 28, 200520 yr Perhaps that old lady died after you farted over her in the bus queue yesterday (Totsters blog)
August 28, 200520 yr John Lennon, most definitely! "Imagine all the people...." More recently? Michael Hutchence (INXS) and then Paula Yates. They were to me the ultimate of two people making a statement in this world about their love for each other. But somehow it went so wrong. A bit like Romeo and Juliet...
August 28, 200520 yr A bit like Romeo and Juliet... Michael Hutchence strangled himself whilst having a Tommy Tank
August 28, 200520 yr A bit like Romeo and Juliet... Michael Hutchence strangled himself whilst having a Tommy Tank <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hmm .. would have been interesting to see Leo acting that one.. totster
August 28, 200520 yr ...or Marlon's daughter Cheyenne, a beautiful but troubled girl who hung herself in her mid twenties.
August 28, 200520 yr A bit like Romeo and Juliet... Michael Hutchence strangled himself whilst having a Tommy Tank <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Romeo missed Juliet... too much!
August 28, 200520 yr A bit like Romeo and Juliet... Michael Hutchence strangled himself whilst having a Tommy Tank <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Romeo missed Juliet... too much! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Bit like the me and the wife then... can't say I strangle myself though.. totster
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