The Death List 2019.

[pat grimshaw]

Andre Previn dead at 89.

I understand that the English were dismayed that this Hollywood hack (with his very unseemly private life with Mad Mia Farrow) was allowed to take over the London Symphony Orchestra in 1968.

But he proved his mettle with a series of respectful performances of the great Vaughan-Williams' complete symphonies.


Then he recorded this brilliant 1935 piece by William Walton (which was described as having an orgiastic power, coruscating malice, sensuous desolation and extroverted swagger').

Listen to the bristling energy of the first five minutes—

Of course, modern recording allowed us to hear and comprehend all this massive contrapuntal energy.

And of course, you Americans must realise that a Hollywood hack stole much of William Walton's methods for a movie called 'Star Wars'.

 

[unloadonme]

Lord Habgood, former Archbishop of York and Primate of England, aged 91.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/07/lord-habgood-obituary

 

[rareboy]

Why do the Anglos insist on calling masseurs "masseuses"?

I was going to mention this.......

 

[Vannie]

Jan-Michael Vincent dies at 74

 

[rareboy]

Jan-Michael Vincent dies at 74

Better to remember him this way than the drug addled, alcoholic wreck he became.

 

[gsdx]

^ He had a long career but a difficult life. I didn't know he had lost a leg.

I'll always remember him as Stringfellow Hawke.

 

[DantheManFL]

That's sad. I had a big crush on him when I was a young'un.

 

[nipmuck]

Better to remember him this way than the drug addled, alcoholic wreck he became.

I'm amazed that he actually managed to make it to age 73. The last 25 years were pretty rough for him. But he was a real wet-dream on TV and movies in the 1970s. Rest in Peace, Jan-Michael.

 

[unloadonme]

Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi, mountaineers, aged 30 and 42.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-47509067

 

[Cormac135]

 

[nipmuck]

Those pics must be from the late 1960s, when his career was just starting.

 

[nipmuck]

Those pics must be from the late 1960s, when his career was just starting.

 

[Vannie]

Soap veteran Jed Allan Dead at 84


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[belamyi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martín_Chirino

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[rareboy]

Soap veteran Jed Allan Dead at 84


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But is he really?

Or will he reappear after suffering amnesia?

 

[belamyi]

But is he really?

Or will he reappear after suffering amnesia?

 

[smokeshadow]

But is he really?

Or will he reappear after suffering amnesia?

It could also be a Pamela Ewing dream

 

[belamyi]

^ Or jumping a Moldavian Massacre.

 

[unloadonme]

Hal Blaine, drummer, at 90.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47537451

 

[unloadonme]

Sir John Richardson, art historian and Picasso biographer, aged 95.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/12/sir-john-richardson-obituary