In Memorium

[Shwa Girl]

RIP Stompin' Tom - what a loss....

There are all his well-known songs, but as a Ukie, this is my fave!

Zakuska are foods you snack on.

Yes. Sad day.

[wolfwoman]

Awwww, I liked him. Nice that professional games are playing his 'Hockey Game' song between periods today.

[Hondamanic]

Stompin Tom will be missed but his Spririt will always live on

[Darth Penguin]

Clive Burr, ex-drummer with Iron Maiden dies aged 56

Clive Burr, the former drummer of Iron Maiden, died last night at the age of 56. Burr had been suffering from multiple sclerosis, and he died in his sleep.
"This is terribly sad news," said Maiden founder/bassist Steve Harris on the group's official site. "Clive was a very old friend of all of us. He was a wonderful person and an amazing drummer who made a valuable contribution to Maiden in the early days when we were starting out. This is a sad day for everyone in the band and those around him and our thoughts and condolences are with his partner Mimi and family at this time."

[Darth Penguin]

Peter Banks, ex-guitarist with Yes dies aged 65

Peter Banks, the original guitarist of British progressive rock band Yes, has died aged 65.
He played on two albums with the group before pursuing his own band Flash, and a solo career which included a guest spot on Lionel Richie's hit Hello.
Prog magazine editor Jerry Ewing said: "He's very much part of the history and the legacy of progressive rock."
Banks died on 8 March from heart failure. He was found at his home after not turning up to a recording studio.
He was working on a live Flash album called Flash - In Public.
A post on his official website read: "It's with great sadness to have to report the death of Peter Banks. He died in his London home on March 8, 2013. Thanks for all the music Peter!"

[Shwa Girl]

RIP Richard Griffiths, from the Harry Potter movies. Griffiths planed Harry's Uncle Vernon. He was 65.

http://ca.eonline.com/news/402855/ri...rss_topstories

[walkonby]

A Great Blues Musician to the world of entertainment, but he was also a brother ( mine)...R.I.P. John




http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2013/04...-what-a-shock/

[VeeVee]

A Great Blues Musician to the world of entertainment, but he was also a brother ( mine)...R.I.P. John




http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2013/04...-what-a-shock/

So very sorry for your loss

[Natalka]

walks, so very sorry for such a loss to your family, and to the world of music, too.

[Darth Penguin]

Jane Henson, muppet co-creator dies at 78

Jane Nebel Henson, who partnered with her husband Jim Henson to launch the Muppets and worked to preserve his artistic legacy, died April 2 of cancer in Conn. She was 78.
Born in Queens, N.Y., she met Jim Henson in a puppetry class at the U. of Maryland, and began working with him as a performer, puppet designer and builder when they were offered a spot on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. while they were still undergraduates.
The Muppets made their first appearance on their show “Sam and Friends,” which aired before the “Huntley-Brinkley Report” and “The Tonight Show” with Steve Allen, where their signature puppets made their first national guest appearance.

[Darth Penguin]

Double Oscar winner, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dies aged 85

Writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, whose scripts for Howards End and A Room With A View earned her two Oscars, has died.
The 85-year-old made more than 20 films with producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory over 40 years.
She also won the Booker Prize for her 1975 novel Heat and Dust, meaning she was the only person to have won an Oscar and the Booker.
Born in Germany, she fled the Nazis as a schoolgirl and spent much of her life in India. She died at home in New York.

[Darth Penguin]

I just heard Roger Ebert has died...

eta link.

Roger Ebert, the legendary film critic, died today, his long-time employer, The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
Ebert had been wrestling with cancer for years. He had lost his voice and his jaw, but he still kept up an unrelenting pace, reviewing more than 200 movies a year for the paper. On his blog and on twitter, he chronicled his struggle with cancer and just two days ago, he penned a post saying he was taking a "leave of presence."
Ebert was 70.

[Natalka]

RIP Mr. Ebert - he was quite the man, and went through a lot.

[Darth Penguin]

Annette Funicello dies aged 70

Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV's “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the '60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70.
Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said.
Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from the Los Angeles area after a 2011 fire gutted their home in Encino.

[Natalka]

Wow, Annette gone; I didn't realize she was only 70.
I didn't know her from the Mickey Mouse Club, just from the beach movies.