RIPs

[Frank]

Chrissie Amphlett just died.  She was lead singer for the Divynls, who had three hits in the 80s, most notably 'I touch myself' which came back in the Austen Powers movie.  Used to sing in a school uniform and no undies (allegedly)

That's sad. Breast cancer and MS, which has got to be a bitch. I thought this was neat, though: ""Chrissy expressed hope that her worldwide hit I Touch Myself would be utilized to remind all women to perform annual breast examinations,"

[Tiplodocus]

Ah shame. I loved that I TOUCH MYSELF.  I used to try and get it played on Radio Scotland's GET IT ON as often as I could - always finding a really tenuous way to link it to whatever the theme was.  But they always refused to play it as being far too suggestive and rude.

[Professor Bear]

Comicsalliance.

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/04/aol-pulls-plug-on-comicsalliance/

[judgefloyd]

Ah shame. I loved that I TOUCH MYSELF.  I used to try and get it played on Radio Scotland's GET IT ON as often as I could - always finding a really tenuous way to link it to whatever the theme was.  But they always refused to play it as being far too suggestive and rude.

Gee whiz, Radio Scotland is pretty puritanical.  I thought it was all Trainspotting over there. 
  Australian women's mags and the Murdoch press are stringing it out as 'QUEEN OF ROCK DIES', which is over doing it a bit.  I suppose '3 HIT WONDER WE"D ALL FORGOTTEN ABOUT DIES' doesn't have the same ring to it.

[Frank]

Chris Kelly (Mac Daddy) of Kriss Kross.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chris-kelly-of-kriss-kross-dead-at-34-20130501

[Charlie boy]

Chris Kelly (Mac Daddy) of Kriss Kross.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chris-kelly-of-kriss-kross-dead-at-34-20130501

Gutted, me and my brother loved Jump when we were kids. I've considered looking for an album to buy him a few times on his birthday.

[flip-r mk2]

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, 49 of liver failure.

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[O Lucky Stevie!]

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, 49 of liver failure.

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Awwwwwww no. Is it too late to trade the other dude from Kriss Kross for Jeff?
Is it too late to trade the other dude from Kriss Kross for Jeff?

[Frank]

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, 49 of liver failure.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jeff-hanneman-of-slayer-dead-at-49-20130502

That's horrible news to wake up to. I hope wherever he's gone looks more like the cover of an Enya album than one of his own.

[Greg M.]

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, 49 of liver failure.

Terrible news. 49 is ridiculously young, and reminds me just how young he was when he and Slayer were creating their genre-defining albums. One of the all-time greats of metal.

[TordelBack]

Sad news, and it does seem almost impossible that he was only 49.  One of my favourite-ever gigs was Slayer in the Top Hat in Dun Laoghaire in (I think) 1988, accompanied by, I believe, Nuclear Assault.  I wasn't really a big metal head, but my little brother most definitely was, so I was dispatched with parental ticket to chaperone many a night in McGonagle's, but the unbelievable energy of Slayer made such an impression that I still have a bootleg tape of the gig (luminous green inlay).  Sadly chunks of the recording are obliterated by a young fan who must have been standing next to the i.p. crim, and spent a large portion of the gig shouting "Slay-orrrr, Slay-orrr".  RIP, Jeff.

[Hawkmumbler]

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, 49 of liver failure.

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Aw sneck no! 

[CrazyFoxMachine]

Completely gutted about Jeff Hanneman I was a big thrasher as a teenager and Slayer were one of my favourites - the back cover of Reign in Blood symbolised what it was all about to me. Profound silliness.

[von Boom]

I'm shocked and saddened by the news of Jeff Hanneman's death.    I can't believe his doctors couldn't have done more for him.

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

Zachi Telesha, comics writer, passes away at age 12