Off Topic The R.I.P Thread

RIP Pele.

Simply the greatest of all time

 

RIP. Great player, great man. My favourite goal of all time is the final one of the 1970 w/c, where he rolled the ball to Carlos Alberto to smash it in. Watched it so many times.

 

RIP Gianluca Vialli
Only 58 years of age.

Great footballer and (by all accounts I'm aware of) a nice bloke too.

 

RIP Jeff Beck. Britain's greatest rock guitarist.

 

I see Elvis Presley's daughter Anne Marie has passed away at the age of 54. Way too young, buI did see that she battled problems with alcohol and drugs. Money doesn't always bring happiness.
RIP

 

RIP David Crosby

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64341315

Before my time, but a timeless folk legend.

 

RIP Burt Bacharach. The Master.

 

RIP Dickie Davies

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-64700358

I loved that World of Sport wrestling when I was a nipper...

 

RIP Mottie. One of the most loved men in football.

 

A true gent

 

RIP Betty Boothroyd. Came closer than anyone to keeping the unruly mob in order.

 

RIP Mystic Meg.
An astrologer once did my birthchart, and it predicted liver trouble in later life. Can't think why.

 

No disrespect to Mystic Meg, who I'm sure was a lovely person. But Astrology is fairly high on my list of reasons to be grateful we had the Renaissance.

RIP Topol as well.
Can't say I've seen many of his films but I recall he played a larger-than-life Greek smuggler who joined forces with Roger Moore in For Your Eyes Only (1981), one of the better Bond movies of that era in my view.

 

RIP Paul O'Grady.

Not all of his humour was quite my cup of tea, but Lily Savage was an iconic character.
A much loved entertainer and personality. My mum really liked him, she will be upset by this news.

 

RIP Len Goodman

Local man, born in Kent, raised in the East End and lived his later years back in Kent. Always seemed like a genuine, nice man who had the skill and knowledge to entertain without needing foul language or outrageous behaviour.

“Severrrrn !”

 

RIP Jerry Springer. Sh1t stirrer supreme.

 

RIP Tina Turner

What a personality. What a force of nature. But above all else - What a voice.

I saw her live at Wembley Arena on 16/3/1985 - a fantastic night out.

Cheers Tina, there will never be another like you.

 

RIP Gordon McQueen

Fu*k it, there are too many people dying who I can clearly remember watching, when they weren’t much older than me.

 

Frightening innit !