R.I.P.

Jimmy Bain

BassPlayer for Dio and Rainbow

Also sessions on the quite wonderful Kate Bush Album "The Dreaming"

also did a bit of Thin Lizzy. I have every Rainbow Album out including the rare Down to Graham which was a live at Budokhan with Bonnett doing the vocals.

Mitchell Pearces league career. Cock. 

a better bass player than Del Palmer that's for sure

Harsh! 

Colin Vearncombe 

(Black)

Wonderful Life is a top tune. 

Terry Wogan and Frank Finlay - Loved Terry on Radio 2. Frank made a fine Porthos.

Paul Kantner Jefferson Airplane, 74. Great 60s band! 

Bless his pointed little head.

Cods.

What?! Where are you seeing this? 

I see an article that it's not good but no word of his passing...

Maybe they deleted it - I can just see one from 4h ago saying that his condition is 'not good' 

RIP Maurice White...... Earth Wind Fire.....Departed Age 74

BBC Report

oh noes... Dave Mirra - jfc

George Kennedy - Actor

Great as the sidekick/support or maniacal villain. Won an Oscar too for Cool Hand Luke. Always gave a solid performance. Never seen him give a duff one.

Wasn't he in the Towering Inferno, Earthquake, The Poseidan Adventure and various other disaster movies?

Couple of days ago

Frank Kelly aka Father Jack Hackett from Father Ted

feck, drink, arse, girls, feck....

The Dirty Dozen.

He was also in the TV series - "The Blue Knight". starring as "Bumper" Morgan as a street cop.

Can't be many left.

off the top of my head.

Donald - alive

Ernest - dead

George K - dead

Lee - dead

Robert R - dead

Telly - dead

Charles - dead

John C - dead

Richard J - dead (during wiki though he died recently but no awhile ago).

Wiki-ing

Jim B - alive

Ralph M - dead

Trini L- alive

Robert W - dead

Clint W - STILL ALIVE!

Tom B - dead

Ben C - dead

Stuart C - alive

Colin M - alive

George R - alive

Sorry didn't have time to cut and paste the whole names but most of you will have seen the film a dozen times or so will know who I mean. All the big guns and mains are dead apart from Donald Sutherland. Some of the backing crew are still around notably Jim Brown and Clint Walker.

RIP Martin Crowe - legend of the game, amazing player, fighter and mentor of some of the great batsmen we now have. 

Great bat

One of my favorite cricketers.   RIP

He may have lost the fight but by god he gave it a damn good go. Showing the same determination as he did on the field , he fought his illness with everything he had. I do not need to comment on his cricketing exploits, Wisden will tell all. Thank you for the entertainment, thank you for the effort and thank you for being a proud Kiwi bloke.. One of our sporting greats.

Sir George Martin aka "The 5th Beatle" (as well as Pete Best I guess)

In a music career of more than 60 years, Martin produced 30 number-one hit singles in the UK and a further 23 in the US. He signed the Beatles to their first label contract in 1962 and was involved with each of the group's original albums,

RIP Jon English only 66

Shark the mid sixties is not a good time for rockers this year

RIP    Kieth Emerson     --  ELP

What A Lucky Man He Was ......another rocker gone

Sylvia Anderson of lady penelope fame (thunderbirds) and wife of the Great gerry anderson has died. R.I.P

Damn.(& Fixed) They divorced years ago.

Paul Daniels magician has died

Tried the ultimate trick but it failed. Seriously, a good Magician. Brain tumor. I would not wish that on anyone.

That's tragic!

I used to enjoy his show, one of the last of the "old time" magicians.

A legend of hip hop gone at 45; RIP Malik Taylor aka Phife Dawg.

Johan Cruyff.Dutch Maestro.Football Legend.

Cruyff's sudden death a shock to everyone.

Although he was open about his battle with cancer over the last six months since his diagnosis last October, it never impacted his usual activities and he was only undergoing mild cancer treatments.

In fact he was in Israel visiting his son Jordi, sporting director at Maccabi Tel Aviv, two weeks ago.

Cruyff's last tweet was three days ago (on Dutch clubs in Europe) and he remained an active traveler between Barcelona, Amsterdam and other countries right until the end. He was active in his own football academies and writing about football.

His autobiography came out recently in the Netherlands. 

Cruyff's last weekly Dutch newspaper column in De Telgraaf was published three days ago about PSV's Champions League game last week and Ajax's game last weekend. English translation:

http://cruyff.com/asp/eng/newsarticle.asp?refId=65...

He quit as adviser to Ajax Amsterdam last November only due to feeling his vision wasn't being followed, rather than due to health issues.

Lung cancer claimed him aged 68. He was a heavy smoker during his playing career but stopped in 1992 after double heart bypass surgery and even made anti-smoking commercials: "Football gave me everything in life, smoking almost took it away..."

Johan Cruyff's Twitter account (an active commentator on football philosophies right to the end):

https://twitter.com/johancruyff

Johan Cruyff ‏@JohanCruyff          2 hours ago View translation

Johan Cruyff 1947-2016 (RIP)

More http://bit.ly/1MDTXY6

"Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake." - Johan Cruyff.

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