Famous peoples deaths that have shaken you up?

[Return of the Rev]

Adolf Hitler. I would like to have had the chance to ask him what really makes him tick

He had the ability to fascinate and interest weak minded sheep.

 

[El Presidente]

Senna v Schumacer( who is not in great shape now) in the same car would have been very interesting.

Wouldn't it have been a bit of a squeeze?

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Freddie Mercury died the day after it was announced that he had AIDS, both of which were enormous shocks at the time.

There was a huge amount of rumour about at the time, and his final video kind of confirmed he wasn't long left. It didn't surprise or shock me when he died.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

This for me as well, always driving through Barnes past that tree, kept the moment to the forefront, too young to die, still love the music. Ride a White Swan

Marc Bolan,
I was 15 at the time and well into the glam music, when i saw his death announced on Newspaper hoarding i was completely dumbstruck thinking, it can't be true.
He was famous, he was a rock star, he was an idol, and people like that don't die, Well to a 15 year old they didn't and it was really the first time i physically realised that no one was immortal.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Elvis' death had me all shook up

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Philip Lynott, 36. RIP

 

[greyseagull]

A weird one, but the death of James Gandolfini really got me. I hadn't long got through The Soprano's box set and I think Tony Soprano was a character who each of us could connect with in some way.

 

[Braggfan]

Three particularly spring to mind are Paul Hunter, Phil Hughes and recently Matt Hobden. They were all people I’d watched on tv or in person and mentally, probably even subconsciously I’d got an impression of where their careers were heading. I don’t think I ever sat down and thought “where will they be in ten years”. But if you’d asked me about them I had an opinion on their careers so far and where I thought they’d get to. When I heard of their deaths it was startling, because you realise with a real bluntness, that’s the end of it, they’ll never reach their full potential, and that made me very sad for the passing of all of them.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Having just heard him on the radio, I am reminded of Ian Dury.

 

[PFJ]

I was affected by Lennon, Mercury and Bowie......all icons from my musical awakenings in the early seventies. I cannot imagine what I will be like when Alice Cooper goes.

But far more than any of the above, I am still reeling from Lemmy's passing. I never saw Lennon live...and I only saw Queen and Bowie a handful of times a long time ago. With Motorhead , it has been a constant live experience for the last 38 years , an annual event .I have/had tickets for the end of this month. So Lemmy's passing has hit me the hardest because not only has that great man died , but so has Motorhead , and I still cannot get my head around the fact I will never experience seeing Motorhead ever again.

 

[daveinprague]

Bob Marley. Whilst knowing he was very ill, was still a shock.

 

[Taybha]

Marc Bolan

 

[Insel affe]

No one, I don't any one famous that has died, I have meet a few people like JC although I did not know him so can't pretend it affected me. How could anyone famous who has died affect you, I don't get it you may have liked their movies, or music but that's it you don't have a connection just because you like them or it....

Just because you once saw your hero on stage and he/she played your favorite song that means so much to you, it could have been writing just for you (and a million others) he/she then caught your eye (along with the five people around you) ..... you knew you had a connection. Bollox

I tend to save my shock, grief & sympathy for people that I knew, talked, laughed, loved or got angry with.

 

[Codner's Wallop]

In an age of obsessive 'celebrification' I can honestly say nothing has come close to shocking me like the death of David Bowie. Perhaps because he wasn't a 'celebrity' at all. I stopped the car when I heard it on my way into work. Absolute disbelief. He was the coolest, most innovative and engaging artist I have seen in my lifetime. No-one else comes close.

Cobain's death felt terribly sad because he had such raw talent and Nirvana's music was ground-breaking and highly-charged. As such, it was more the passing of an era.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

No one, I don't any one famous that has died, I have meet a few people like JC although I did not know him so can't pretend it affected me. How could anyone famous who has died affect you, I don't get it you may have liked their movies, or music but that's it you don't have a connection just because you like them or it....

Just because you once saw your hero on stage and he/she played your favorite song that means so much to you, it could have been writing just for you (and a million others) he/she then caught your eye (along with the five people around you) ..... you knew you had a connection. Bollox

I tend to save my shock, grief & sympathy for people that I knew, talked, laughed, loved or got angry with.

I know what you mean to an extent, but would also say I have been touched by the death of a small number of people, because I valued what they did, had particular respect for them, liked their work or whatever. I wasn't grief stricken at hearing about Bowie, but it did make me sad.

Set against that, I still remember the day that Diana died. It was the day we were going to celebrate my Brother's 5oth Birthday - 1997. I had got up early to go down to the kitchen to make some tea, turned the radio on, heard the news as it broke or as it was still fairly new, and thought "Oh, that's sad". That was probably about 7 to 7.30.

By about 10am, when we were getting ready to go over to Worthing for the birthday celebrations, I/We were thinking whether there was anything else going on in the world. About 2 hours plus of going on about absolutely nothing else I thought was way, way over the top. I have Republican tendencies anyway, but all the stuff that surrounded the run-up to the funeral just left me totally cold.

A lot of other people I know, though, got totally caught up in it all while many, like me, wondered what all the fuss was about.

 

[Official Old Man]

When Mandela died I had a conversation with the missus about who is left alive who has had such a massive impact on the world. Ali was the only person who, on his death, could attract heads of state from around the world who would want to go rather than forced to go.

 

[goldstone]

JFK and John Lennon.

 

[Sorrel]

The deaths of well-known people tend to only shake you up when they are unexpected. I was probably saddest when Grant McLennan (from the band "The Go Betweens") died because I'd enjoyed them very much and it was to me utterly unexpected and sudden.

People can of course feel grief and upset for whoever they want. But often I think people sometimes are grieving for a symbol rather than absolutely the person in question, who they probably didn't know at all. Bowie meant a lot to people in many ways, as far as I can see, and it's everything they represented to them as well as just the individual they are upset about. I liked Bowie's music a lot (I think I've bought almost every one of his albums over the years, though I don't love them all), but I didn't really feel any connection to him as a person - I just enjoyed some of the art/music he made. Maybe you had to be there in the 1970s for that more personal effect.

 

[Honky Tonx]

He had the ability to fascinate and interest weak minded sheep.

Voted Man of the year by Time magazine. One can understand why Hitler had the backing of Germany. Who on here can honestly say that if they were German at that time that they would not have supported a man who offered the Nation a new beginning.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Voted Man of the year by Time magazine. One can understand why Hitler had the backing of Germany. Who on here can honestly say that if they were German at that time that they would not have supported a man who offered the Nation a new beginning.

Me! suss the nasty people pretty quick tbh! Alot of people did not support him back then but it was a little awkward to have a moan up tbf!