The RIP Thread

I can't see anything wrong with it either.

 

Unbelievable.......we live in a stupid world inhabited by stupid people if they find that offensive.........they need to get a life.

 

Presumably these people who were so very offended were Americans. Yet the same nation finds Trump and Clinton (and their opinions/actions) acceptable.

 

I'll have to ask Mr Numan and get back to you

 

Yowzers! HP or tartar sauces?

 

Personally I would say that it brings his eyesight into question above anything else.

 

Where have you heard this/these Nines?

 

I assume this might be the fake rumour on twitter that the Queen had died......

 

Wouldn't that round 2016 off with a bang

 

Seems to be a fake bbc Twitter account... caught out a few people apparently.
Queen and Phil the Greek are apparently okay

 

I thought you meant the thing about Mountbatten,

 

Singer-songwriter Peter Sarstedt dies aged 75

• 8 January 2017

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Singer-songwriter Peter Sarstedt, best known for the song Where Do You Go To (My Lovely), has died at the age of 75, his family has said.
The song topped the UK singles charts in February 1969 and remained number one for four weeks.
It was also number one in many other countries and won the Ivor Novello award for best song composition.
He died peacefully after a six-year battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a family statement said.
The statement said his closest family were "with him to the last" and that many people would miss his songs and his music.
Where Do You Go To (My Lovely), a song about a girl born in poverty who becomes a member of the European jet-set, was replaced as number one by Marvin Gaye's I Heard it Through the Grapevine.
It was included in the compilation programme One-Hit Wonders at the BBC, which was broadcast on BBC Four last year, although Sarstedt also reached number 10 in the charts with Frozen Orange Juice in June 1969.
He wrote more than a dozen albums in a career that spanned more than 50 years, releasing his last, Restless Heart, in 2013

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Image caption Sarstedt, seen here performing in 2007, wrote more than a dozen albums
Born into a musical family in India, Sarstedt was one of three brothers who all enjoyed success in the UK singles chart.
His older sibling, Richard Sarstedt, who performed under the stage name Eden Kane, also topped the charts with Well I ask You in 1961, while younger brother Clive, performing under the name Robin Sarstedt, reached number three in 1976 with My Resistance is Low.
Sarstedt's music reached new audiences when Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) was included in the Wes Anderson films Hotel Chevalier and The Darjeeling Limited, which were both released in 2007.
According to his website, he retired in 2010 because of his illness - a rare, progressive neurological condition.

 

Marcus Anderson2 months ago (edited)
This song was originally held to be about Sophia Loren who came from an impoverished childhood. But Peter explained it was about a girl he fell in love with but later died in a hotel fire. With this information you can put together the hidden and incredible beauty of this song. The song actually begins in the refrain when he asks his girlfriend to tell him her secret desires. Peter then describes to us her dreams, starting from the first verse. Toward the end he hints at the reality, that they are just two lowly born children sharing her dreams of being the ficticious "Marie Claire", the personification of her private fantasy based on the fashion magazine of that name, and which she shares only with him. Finally, Peter posthumously proclaims to her (us) in a powerful hidden confession his deep love lost so tragically. Having now told him her secret heartfelt desires that they both share, he now knows where she goes to, because he can truly see inside her. It is perhaps one of the greatest love songs of all time, hidden in poetic license, waiting for the worthy listener to discover

 

Graham Taylor the ex England manager died today at the age of 72, 2017 started badly RIP

 

Poor old Taylor - Do I not like that.

 

That was quick Jeff. It's just come up as breaking news.
RIP

 

loved the hoof ball tactics with bean pole strikers. Not good on the eye. Rest in Peace