Famous peoples deaths that have shaken you up?

[Dick Head]

Charles Kennedy.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

So many of these, particularly Lennon.

It's the the sudden deaths that shock me, so I would add Jim Reeves, Otis Redding, John Denver and Eric Morecombe to the list.

 

[Megazone]

Steven Gately shocked me.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Smiley Culture,a sad day.

What!!? No!

 

[Mayonaise]

Princess Diana

Yes Princess Diana and John Lennon because both were so sudden and unexpected

 

[mistahclarke]

Steve Irwin for me. For some reason absolutely crushed me.

Found Gary Speed very sad too.

 

[ozzygull]

Bob Hoskins, he was in some of my favourite films.

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

Michael Jackson for sure. Devastated.

 

[supaseagull]

George Harrison was one for me. Absolute hero and unsung musician.

Obviously Diana hit a chord with most. However bizarrely, I remember being really upset when Dick Emery died when I was little!

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Loved Bowie but really he was the past,probably would not buy anything other than his 70's work. His passing has not affected me that much.
So trying to think who's passing affected me and really only john smith and joe strummer tbh.
Losing which famous person has knocked you back?

as Bros sang" when will i be famous",i don't buy into fame, death comes to us all regardless of fame it's family first IMHO
regards
DR

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

John Peel - still remember exactly where I was when I heard it on the radio
John Lennon - ditto
John Smith - ppossibly the single politician for whom I have ever had most respect.
Martin Luther King - for obvious reasons.
Robert Kennedy - two brothers going the same way, and I think he was more radical than JFK. Still remember the awful picture of him lying on the ground with a pool of blood behind his head.

 

[Icy Gull]

Brian Jones
JFK
Elvis

All a complete bolt from the blue to me and genuinely shocking.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

Brian Jones
JFK
Elvis

All a complete bolt from the blue to me and genuinely shocking.

remember my old man being absolutely gutted when Elvis died,a Sunday evening if I remember rightly,?

 

[Nathan]

Bowie is up there for me, along with Rik Mayall. But the biggest one was Freddie Mercury.

 

[Nathan]

Oh and John Peel.

 

[inland seagull]

Barry Rees, tragic

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Today, David Bowie.
Luther Vandross.

My social life from the seventies through to the Nineties.
When you love their music and saw them live many times, each song brings back so many memories of your childhood and youth and adulthood.

 

[tinycowboy]

John Peel - remember welling up at work all afternoon, and Bowie today - working from home, so was able to well up in privacy. A little bit less awkward. Usually deaths of people prey on my mind - I'm quite sensitive.

 

[LlcoolJ]

as Bros sang" when will i be famous",i don't buy into fame, death comes to us all regardless of fame it's family first IMHO
regards
DR

Logical, sensible but also displays an unnerving lack of empathy for anyone outside his close family. Psychopathic tendencies which were considered to be prevalent from previous correspondence are confirmed.

Parole denied.

 

[marlowe]

Purely because of the manner in which he died, it has to be Lennon. I was very angry and quite upset at the time. Probably coz I was still a bit idealistic and looked at him through rose coloured specs. Very shocked by Elvis, Diana and Michael Jackson but not particularly upset as they didn't really mean much to me, but purely because of the enormity of who they were.