RIPs

[Daveycandlish]

I used to love filmation stuff - I've just bought the Star Trek animated series box set - great stuff.
Do you really mean nadir? I can think of a lot worse.

[rogue69]

Kadir Nurman aged 80 the man given credit for inventing the Donar Kebab

[Spikes]

The cause of death wasnt food poisoning, or a heart attack was it?

[shaolin_monkey]

The cause of death wasnt food poisoning, or a heart attack was it?

Ha! Beat me to it. 

Mind you, he lived until 80, so maybe they're not as unhealthy as previously thought..?

That'll be my excuse tonight anyway.

[Goaty]

Marcia Wallace of many voices in The Simpsons.

[Frank]

Marcia Wallace of many voices in The Simpsons.

Sad. They're retiring her character.

http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/marcia-wallace-star-of-the-bob-newhart-show-and-voice-of-mrs-krabappel-dies-at-71-1200764197/

[esoteric ed]

Lou Reed RIP

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-velvet-underground-leader-and-rock-pioneer-dead-at-71-20131027

[Toni Scandella]

Aw, fuck.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Damn, that's put a dampener on my day

[Richmond Clements]

shit

[Frank]

Lou Reed RIP

That's hardly unexpected, but difficult to take in all the same. That's one of the true giants gone, and he was involved in making more of the music that defined that era than folk who sold ten times as many records.

Looking at his age, the next decade or so is going to be a holocaust of the people who determined what music could be for a previous generation. He was, by all accounts, a sometimes willfully difficult character, but he made so much beautiful music - like Pale Blue Eyes and Sweet Jane - that it's difficult to single out one tune. Even so, I know there's one particular piece of music he'd love to think of everyone listening to at this time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Vy4VRRO30

[Spikes]

I hadnt realised he been ill? Or wasnt in the best of health, so this news has stopped me in my tracks
He was one of those artists that just always seemed to be about. And looking pretty much the same as he did in the 60's.

But thats a great quote from him in that Rolling Stone link

"One chord is fine," he once said, alluding to his bare-bones guitar style. "Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz."

[Frank]

looking pretty much the same as he did in the 60's.

Like Jagger and Iggy Pop, he had a face like a monkey's ball sack; but they all stayed skinny, kept a good head of hair and didn't change they way they dressed.

[Professor Bear]

That is a shame.  Perfect Day is probably sneered at by "proper" Reed fans but I have fond memories of it, and suspect the PS4 ad might have got him a bit of a push with the yoots.

/Simon Cowell buys the rights to Perfect Day for a Xmas release.

[TordelBack]

Ah bollocks.