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For those who spent time in the UK, you probably owned a pair of ‘ron hills’ - Great trackie bottoms for camping etc.
Ron Hill obituary
British long distance runner who won gold medals and broke records in the marathon during the 1960s and 70s
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Max Mosley, head of the FIA and who took on the UK tabloid Press for invasion of privacy and won. Brave thing to do at the time and did much to rein in the antics of the crap that passes for print media in the UK
Former motorsport boss Max Mosley, who later became a privacy campaigner, has died aged 81. Ex-Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone said it was "like losing a brother". Mr Mosley served three terms as president of motorsport's governing body the FIA from 1993 to 2009. He also campaigned for tighter press regulation after winning £60,000 damages from the News of the World when it wrongly published a story alleging he had attended a Nazi-themed orgy. Mr Mosley, in his role as FIA president, led widespread reforms of safety procedures in Formula 1 following the death of Ayrton Senna in 1994. Mr Ecclestone added: "He did, a lot of good things not just for motorsport, also the [car] industry. He was very good in making sure people built cars that were safe." -
@machpants said in RIP 2021:
For those who spent time in the UK, you probably owned a pair of ‘ron hills’ - Great trackie bottoms for camping etc.
Ron Hill obituary
British long distance runner who won gold medals and broke records in the marathon during the 1960s and 70s
You lost me at 'trackie bottoms'
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@machpants said in RIP 2021:
For those who spent time in the UK, you probably owned a pair of ‘ron hills’ - Great trackie bottoms for camping etc.
Ron Hill obituary
British long distance runner who won gold medals and broke records in the marathon during the 1960s and 70s
You lost me at 'trackie bottoms'
trackpants
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@machpants .........and people voluntarily wear those things?
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@machpants .........and people voluntarily wear those things?
Surely nobody is actually going to force them to either. Just bloody cruel.
I don't like to dis the dead but as "fashion goes":
Hill combined his athletics career with a job as a textile scientist,
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A literary great,
Eric Carle obituary
Illustrator and author of classic children’s books including The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
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@machpants said in RIP 2021:
A literary great,
Eric Carle obituary
Illustrator and author of classic children’s books including The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Everyone knows the hungry caterpillar!
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@machpants said in RIP 2021:
A literary great,
Eric Carle obituary
Illustrator and author of classic children’s books including The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Everyone knows the hungry caterpillar!
He lived @Mokey's dream - wrote 240 words and sold 50 million copies
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@bovidae I spent a good amount of time watching the love boat as a kid. Didn't realise he was still around. He was obviously in a lots of different things but I remember him Peter Sellers "the party". A horribly racist movie that's fantastically funny and still has the house I aspire to own one day.
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Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove and many others, has died at 84. RIP
Legend
Larry McMurtry obituary
American novelist who wrote Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove and the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain
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Northern Soul legend Dean Parrish aged 78. Also known (real name) as Phil Anastasia.
A native New Yorker, he was apparently unaware of his cult status in the UK with songs like this
Also worked as a session muso with Hendrix, Santana and Bob Marley in the early 70s.
Was recording still right up to last year for Acid Jazz
RIP 2021
