Vankleek Hill Seagull
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RIP Rubber Duck. One the best trucking movies ever.
[Film] R.I.P Kris Kristofferson aka. Rubber Duck
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OzMike
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He wrote some decent songs, Sunday Morning Cone Down, being one of them.
Though I do like R Dean Taylor's version.
Though I do like R Dean Taylor's version.
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Normal Rob
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10, 4. May he rest in peace.
Ike and Tina Burner
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f***. Rarely a celeb death makes me sad but this is an exception. The highwaymen made some of the most moving music I've ever listened to.
I always remember how protective he was towards Sinead O'Connor when she was being booed at the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary concert in response to her having torn up a photograph of the Pope two weeks earlier on Saturday Night Live.... The words he whispered into her ear were "Don't let the bastards get you down"...
He later wrote a song about the incident...
He later wrote a song about the incident...
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RIP Kris
aolstudios
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Shamefully, pretty much Sinead's only supporter that night. Summed him up for me.
& a genius of a songwriter
I saw him at the IoW Festival in 1970 - gf got extremely excited about him, IIRC. RIP.
One of my favourite American actors. That’s sad but he left a great legacy and 88 is a good age to die.
Yes, he was actually sent on stage to get her off but he refused and instead went on and gave her those words of encouragement.
His own career suffered for standing up for what he believed in after he did a concert in aid of Palestinian children.
Official Old Man
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Oh boy. One of my favourite actors. Firstly, I had no idea he wrote all those songs. Killing me Softly. WHAT! he wrote that song? I then heard about him and his then wife, Rita Coolidge, on OGWT, wow. Just put it up on 'best song' thread.
Convoy. Actually watched this a couple of weeks ago.
A Star is Born. My then GF loved this and I think we went to watch it over a dozen times.
Will be missed but his memories will live on.
Convoy. Actually watched this a couple of weeks ago.
A Star is Born. My then GF loved this and I think we went to watch it over a dozen times.
Will be missed but his memories will live on.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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A star has died
I was extremely surprised to learn he wrote that song too after reading your post, so surprised I had to look it up to check.
Although, as you say, he wrote a lot of songs, he didn't actually write that particular one. It was written by Charles Cox and Norman Gimbel.
I could be wrong, but I'm not aware that he even sang it.
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I really hope not, it‘s my most hated song that’s get switched off like the equivalently dirgy songs Mull of Kintyre, Let it be and Hey Jude as soon as they come on the radio
Killing Me Softly is my all time number one hated song though!
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5Ways Gull
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RIP - Great songwriter, great actor. Best version of A Star is Born IMHO.
Norman Potting
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Reading about his many achievements I think that the phrase "....a good life well "lived is appropriate...."
RIP - quite a life… shunned a military career that his father and family pushed… published essays in The Atlantic at 17?! Rhodes Scholar… leaves an academic career path for Nashville to write country music songs… takes up acting and wins an Oscar?! somehow maintained a humbleness and sense of humor throughout. Well done, Kris!
Me and Bobby McGee is an absolute classic. Unless loudly slurred in an all-you-can-drink Naka Meguro karaoke bar
RIP Kris.
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aolstudios
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He didn't write Killing me softly. Responsible for a big bunch of other classics though