The RIP Thread...

[Raj]

The 1956 Hungarian revolution and Prague spring had a huge influence on my life.

1956 Hungarian freedom fighter Wittner dies aged 85 - Daily News Hungary

Mária Wittner, a 1956 freedom fighter and former Fidesz MP, has died at the age of 85. She died after a brief illness.

dailynewshungary.com

 

[cory]

Good Hell's Angels stories above!

RIP Jerry Lee Lewis.

I'm not a rock historian but he's gotta be somewhere around the numero uno R+R wild man.

 

[Fiddler]

Jerry Lee was also inducted into the country music hall of fame & had a fairly extensive repertoire of gospel as well.

One of my favorite singers.

 

[Altissimus]

His sister rocks as well , played with him some ... RIP the Killer

 

[biggun]

Anthony Rumble Johnson RIP

Ex-UFC star Anthony 'Rumble' Johnson dies aged 38 after long illness

Anthony Johnson challenged for the UFC light-heavyweight title but has struggled with his health in recent years

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[Steve Mack]

Christine McVie gone at 79. Bit hard to believe she was that age.

Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter Christine McVie dies at 79

Trusted and independent source of local, national and world news. In-depth analysis, business, sport, weather and more.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Fiddler]

Pelé, Brazil’s mighty king of ‘beautiful game,’ has died

SAO PAULO (AP) — Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday.

apnews.com

 

[Altissimus]

got to see Number Ten play , for the New York Cosmos in Yankee Stadium

 

[Fiddler]

Barbara Walters, pioneering TV journalist who began on ‘TODAY,’ dies at 93

Walters was known in recent years as the co-creator of the hit ABC daytime show “The View,” but older viewers remember her as the first female anchor of a network news program.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[biggun]

The last few weeks has been a bit of a killer.

Terry Hall - The Specials
Maxi Jazz - Faithless
Pele - Brazilian Footballer
Vivienne Westwood - UK Fashion designer
Stephan Bonner - UFC Fighter and Legend of the sport.

RIP.

 

[Nutball]

Pope Benedict XVI died at 95.

 

[stig]

God's Rottweiler.

 

[Fiddler]

Benedict XVI, first pope to resign in 600 years, dies at 95

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the shy German theologian who tried to reawaken Christianity in a secularized Europe but will forever be remembered as the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the job, died Saturday .

apnews.com

 

[Altissimus]

I got to see #10 play in Yankee Stadium for the New York Cosmos

 

[biggun]

Another superstar taken too early. Apparently a snowmobile accident in an Utah.

RIP Ken Block.

 

[BlackSmith]

Ineitha Lynnette Hardaway, gonna miss ya girl. RIP

 

[pigwot]

Jeff Beck is gone.

Jeff Beck - dead at 78

 

[lxskllr]

I saw him back in the 80s with Stevie Ray Vaughn. I honestly didn't like what he was doing at that point. It was some kind of avant garde metal, but he was a talented guitarist.

 

[Altissimus]

Jeff a true legend , hired my second most favorite Bass player for a tour or two few years back , Tal Wilkenfeld

 

[vharrison]

RIP David Crosby

 

[Altissimus]

No Way ... suckshit news

 

[Marc-Antoine]

Indeed. Then Jed. I was literally skocked thursday evening when I learned the bad news here, from a strange post, not really saying it but looking like a funeral oration. Sure enougth, it was effectively that.
I wanted to know what has happened and I found the story on the site of his buddy "guilty of treeson".
Shocked. I stayed on my chair for a while, no moving at all and barely thinking...
RIP Jed.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Raquel Welch

 

[Steve Mack]

And Stella Stevens.

 

[Raj]

David Oreck, founder of vacuum company and World War II aviator, dead at 99

David Oreck, the New Orleans entrepreneur who after serving on a B-29 bomber during World War II founded the vacuum cleaner company that bore his name, died Wednesday at his

www.nola.com