R.I.P.

So, 13 years ago.

I remember Robin Gibb playing at Redwood Park Swanson Auckland in the early 70`s

Inbetween the Bee Gee`s early years and Disco

Shit I`m getting old

Not neccesarily. The 2 sentences could be 2 unrelated statements.

You are correct once again.

Ray Bradbury - Great short story writer best known for Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Illustrated Man.

Would Stephen King have existed without Ray?

Some found Ray over-sentimental but when his prose worked it was fantastic, one less of the old guard of fantasy/SF writers of the silver age?/post New Wave SF of the 60's. Are there any left?

I also have a soft spot for the Miniseries The Martian Chronicles...

On my list, only 9pts though.

Alan McDonald  QPR Legend (17 years at the club, 483 appearances) died suddenly at the age of 48

Far to Young 

Lonesome George

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/jun/25/lonesome-george-giant-galapagos-tortoise-in-pictures

F*ck you climate change, f*ck you GM food, f*ck you de-forestation, and you too nano-technology.

Pandas - watch out, you're next.

“And even if they were housed in the basement of an Ann Summers, the pandas’ huge paws and bulky frames mean they’re ill­-equipped to manoeuvre themselves into a PVC gimp suit, assuming they could even find one that fits.”

They could borrow mine!     

Tortoises, pandas and now the Welsh... http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/7176700/Whales-need-to-sleep-around

RIP Andy Griffith

More American than apple pie

The good old days when life was simple......Aunt Bee, Opie, and of course Barney Fife.

Oh no!  I still remember the theme tune as they walk home after a spot of fishing.  And who was his son in the show?  Ron Howard.

RIP  Eric Sykes. Most on here will never have heard of this guy.

I think you've underestimated the age of some of us.

I assumed he was already gone tbh.

Some of us even remember Bill Sykes.

Ernest Borgnine..... 95.... "Big Man With A Big Smile"..

"Bad Day At Black Rock" alongside Spencer Tracey and Lee Marvin has always been one of my favourite movies

Good grief, Eric Sykes, Andy Griffith and Ernest Borgnine all in the same week.  With Skyes I literally laughed so hard I had to force myself to take a breath.

RIP   Jon Lord

Keyboard player for Deep Purple

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqEW53Ui2no&feature=BFa&list=AL94UKMTqg-9DE8eyF-CChztA0EPMHcFaF

Music takes another hit

Bob Babbitt ....Best known playing with the Funk Brothers the legionary Motown Records studio band

Bass player on Midnight Train To Georgia...Signed Sealed Delivered I`m Yours.....Tears of a Clown...to name a few

Super sad about this one RIP Margaret Mahy - NZ's finest write of children's prose and an eccentric doing it her way to the very end. Where to start but I read 3-5 books most weeks and originally started with Lion in the Meadow and The Great Piratical Rumbustification & The Librarian and the Robbers . I remember her reading to me at a local library whn I was round the age of 4 and asking my mum why she had brightly dyed hair and my mum saying cause she can - course my mum wasn't so thrilled whn i copied her a few years later

Geoffrey Hughes

One of the few good things out of Liverpool

Many hours of great entertainment Firstly as "Eddie Yeats" on Corro St, "Vernon Scripps" Heartbeat, "Onslow" Keeping Up Apperances and finally my favourite "Twiggy" on the Royle Family

RIP Big Man

Tony Sly.

Nice guy and great musician.

Bummer, I remember when he arrived on Coronation st. Breath of fresh air he was.

The 2 NZ soldiers in Afghanistan.  In the line of duty.  R.I.P.

Kirk Urso, a Columbus Crew player in the MLS. Just 22.

RIP (soon) The Dandy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/13/oldest-comic-the-dandy-faces-closure

I found my old Valiant annuals a few years back and gave them to Jnr Jnr thinking he would like them - especially the war stories.  Nah. 

(Nek minnit... Runescape and Good Game Farmer)

The Dandy was never a patch on The Beano particularly in the 70's and 80's so I'm not that fussed although had a soft spot for Korky as I liked his eyes. Desperate Dan was wank tbh.

Oh come on! Bully Beef and Chips - a classic.  

Fatha: "Hoy Beefy! That Chips just called wor pint a queeor. Wot are ye gan do abaat it?"

(I may not be quite remembering this correctly)

I never saw this:

D.C. Thompson The Humourless Scottish Git – created in retaliation after D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd threatened legal action over a variety of Viz spoofs based on characters from The Beano and The Dandy, including Biffa Bacon, Black Bag, "Roger the Lodger", "Wanker Watson", "Arsehole Kate" and many more. The title character was portrayed as a miserly Scotsman who goes about looking for breaches of copyright he can report, such as threatening to sue a woman who calls her son Dennis a "menace" in his earshot, and demanding that a pet shop owner removes an advertisement for "Three Bears for the Price of One" from the shop window. Not to be outdone, The Dandy responded by resurrecting an old strip The Jocks and the Geordies—representing the Scottish-based DC Thomson and Newcastle upon Tyne-based Viz. In the strip, the rival gangs of schoolboys are asked to produce a comic. The Jocks comic is the best, of course, but the underhand Geordies decide to copy them. Viz responded in kind by parodyingKorky the Cat as "Korky the Twat" in the next issue.

Apologies, of Course the Proto-Biffa.

Another Musician Gone

Scott McKenzie

For those who can remember the summer of love in 1967

His song "San Francisco" was a great athem for the period

'Be sure to wear flowers in your hair'"      I remember.

Tony Scott http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/7528592/Director-didn-t-have-brain-cancer

Neil Armstrong, RIP

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/7549902/Neil-Armstrong-first-man-on-the-moon-dies

RIP  Max Bygraves, always a happy guy.

Only Leggy would be old enough to remember "Max Bygraves"

RIP..."Hal David"....Burt Bacharachs song writing partner

Will listen to the Stranglers version of "Walk On By" tonight...still one of my favourites