Anyone behind this gem deserves that little bit longer.
Very sad whenever anyone passes away of course, but l do get mildly irritated when somebody starts a thread announcing the death of some obscure person that very few people have ever actually heard of.
Could this be one of those cases? R.I.P. anyway, whoever you are, or were.
Oh come on Cowfold, do you live under a stoneVery sad whenever anyone passes away of course, but l do get mildly irritated when somebody starts a thread announcing the death of some obscure person that very few people have ever actually heard of.
Could this be one of those cases? R.I.P. anyway, whoever you are, or were.
Oh come on Cowfold, do you live under a stone![]()
Well l'm sure the guy may be an absolute legend if that is the particular genre of music you are into, my point however, is that not everybody is.![]()
Very sad whenever anyone passes away of course, but l do get mildly irritated when somebody starts a thread announcing the death of some obscure person that very few people have ever actually heard of.
Could this be one of those cases? R.I.P. anyway, whoever you are, or were.
Well l'm sure the guy may be an absolute legend if that is the particular genre of music you are into, my point however, is that not everybody is.![]()
I’m confident that most people who are into music know will know who Giorgio Moroder is. You might not like him, might not be into his stuff, or be into other genres of music, but you will know who he is. So no, this is not “one of those cases.”
Well l'm sure the guy may be an absolute legend if that is the particular genre of music you are into, my point however, is that not everybody is.![]()
I’m confident that most people who are into music know will know who Giorgio Moroder is. You might not like him, might not be into his stuff, or be into other genres of music, but you will know who he is. So no, this is not “one of those cases.”
Quite. He's scarcely "obscure". We've had RIPs recently for Stirling Moss and Kobe Bryant. I have no interest in motor racing or basketball and wouldn't have recognised either of them if I'd just seen their pics with no information ... but I certainly recognised their names.
There are a couple of trends going around at the moment. One is to be uninformed of the world about us and the other is to flaunt that ignorance - you can almost guarantee that when the next series of Strictly or IACGMOOH starts, there'll be someone posting "Never heard of any of them"
When I was growing up people liked to know things, I'm not sure when all that changed
Very sad whenever anyone passes away of course, but l do get mildly irritated when somebody starts a thread announcing the death of some obscure person that very few people have ever actually heard of.
Could this be one of those cases? R.I.P. anyway, whoever you are, or were.
While I agree with a lot of things you are saying, I believe that last sentence to be questionable (a bit depending on when you grew up).
The advent of the information society means that people are more likely to know the name of celebrities that are either obscure or mainly famous elsewhere than knowing the name of their neighbour. Society is more urbanized and streamlined now then ever. Sure, Ii certain classes and certains parts of society, sure people would know who Giorgio Marauder or Kobe Bryant were, but for i.e. rural communities or the "old" working class I doubt there was massive knowledge about Italian music pioneers or American basketball players.