RIP 2023

[canefan]

Trailblazing MP Georgina Beyer dies aged 65

She lived quite a life

[dogmeat]

@MN5 Rossington's riff made that cover the definitive version of a southern rock classic. So different from the original.

Clapton of all people did a good cover as well

[MN5]

@dogmeat said in RIP 2023:

@MN5 Rossington's riff made that cover the definitive version of a southern rock classic. So different from the original.

Clapton of all people did a good cover as well

JJ Cale must have made a fortune off Eric

But yeah, I love Skynyrds version so much.

[Victor Meldrew]

Bill Tidy of the Fosdyke Saga & The Cloggies fame. One of the great cartoonists and satirists

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64932762

[Catogrande]

@Victor-Meldrew

The Cloggies was brilliant. Some great sideshow characters. The Blagdon Amateur Rapist might not pass muster these days though.

[canefan]

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/03/14/fosbury-flop-high-jumper-dick-fosbury-dies-at-76/

[canefan]

@canefan said in RIP 2023:

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/03/14/fosbury-flop-high-jumper-dick-fosbury-dies-at-76/

Basically the father of modern high jump. Everyone copies his method now

[Tim]

RIP Bobby Caldwell, you were so smooth and soulful that your record label wouldn't let you pose on your record covers, because everyone though you were black.

[Bovidae]

Lance Reddick, only 60 years old.

Watching John Wick 4 will be sombre. Loved him in The Wire and Bosch.

[Stargazer]

[Nepia]

@Bovidae said in RIP 2023:

Lance Reddick, only 60 years old.

Watching John Wick 4 will be sombre. Loved him in The Wire and Bosch.

Boo.

He was also good in Fringe.

[ploughboy]

bill pile . world famous in north otago for scoring the winning try when they beat the wallabys in 1962

[nostrildamus]

@canefan said in RIP 2023:

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/03/14/fosbury-flop-high-jumper-dick-fosbury-dies-at-76/

Dick Fosbury had the jump on everyone at the Summer Olympics and they were still trying to catch up to him in the Fall.

[MN5]

@nostrildamus said in RIP 2023:

@canefan said in RIP 2023:

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/03/14/fosbury-flop-high-jumper-dick-fosbury-dies-at-76/

Dick Fosbury had the jump on everyone at the Summer Olympics and they were still trying to catch up to him in the Fall.

There’s a thread for posts like this.

Hop to it.

[canefan]

Mar 21, 2023  /  02:19

Knicks legend, HOF center Reed dies at age 80

Willis Reed, the Hall of Fame center who helped the New York Knicks win two championships during the 1970s, has died. He was 80.

[Victor Meldrew]

Mar 24, 2023

RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94

'Impossible to imagine the world we live in today ... without his contributions'

[MiketheSnow]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65107949

[MN5]

PA Media  /  Apr 1, 2023  /  Sport

Ken Buchanan, former world lightweight boxing champion, dies aged 77

Ken Buchanan, who became the undisputed world lightweight champion in 1971, finished his career with a 61-8 win-loss record

I read his book while house sitting in the UK.

Had a pretty tough time of it like so many former fighters by the sounds of things. He was also very bitter about Roberto Duran and the low blows too by the sounds of things.

Gotta love a man who fights in tartan shorts though. RIP Ken.

[Catogrande]

@MN5

Yeah , his losing the title to Duran was controversial. I don’t know that Buchanan would necessarily have won but a few low blows from Duran, one blatantly after the bell made things certain.

[Victor Meldrew]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65155073

Total musical genius who not only bridged Classical and modern music but also across two musical cultures, Western and Eastern. His soundtrack for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence is one of my favourite pieces of music