2016 The Year of Celebrity Death.

catrat12

Chyna the wrestler and I'm sure a good few other sport stars

quickbeam

deadybai wrote: »

Dunno about anyone else but I can't believe there wasn't a big deal made when Glen Frey died when compared to Bowie and Prince

Boards was down at the time, so there was very little on here.

As a huge Eagles fan, his was actually the death that saddened me most this year.

Followed by Alan Rickman - not that old, and not known to be ill (at least by me), and that I (sort of) met him during the filming of Michael Collins made it hit home a little more than others.

Walter Sobchak III

Caroline Aherne should be added.

Dohnjoe

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Reading the comments section on FB about George Michael and people saying they're "bawling right now" or "in pieces", I don't get that at all, it's not as if they knew him personally.

I don't personally know David Attenborough, but as a nature doc lover he's been a big part of my life since I've been a kid - so when he goes, I know it will have a big effect on me

I would say it's the same for people who are big fans of George Michael

biko

Yes, a lot.

NIMAN

Hate the nonsense of "2016 stop killing the stars".

It's not the year doing it ya tubes, it's old age, ill health, bad lifestyles, drug abuse etc. As someone said, are we going to have this every year now? A celeb deathcount as each year progresses? Love the listing of huge celebs like Paul Daniels, jez get a grip folks. And I have not heard of a fee of those listed.

Hang around, I'm guessing they aren't telling us the truth about old Quennie, and I wouldn't be surprised to see her go in the not too distant future. You only think you've had celebrity deaths, wait til she goes, it'll be wall to wall coverage for a month.

riclad

Alot of the pop singers from the 80s, are now 50 or 60 ,
so of course they are of the age when they might die ,
and many of the people who write in the media grew up when prince and george michael were big stars .
The eagles greatest hits is one of the biggest selling cds of all time ,
so i think their audience was alot wider than teenage girls .
They appealed to rock music and country music fans .
Those people sold millions of cds as opposed to just getting streamed on spotify or apple music .
You can be a pop star now by appearing on tv shows ,being streamed on
spotify ,youtube without selling a million records .

Boutros Bourtros Ghali and Shimon Peres.
Neither exactly a shocking death (both were aged 93) but still quite big players on the world political stage.

LordSutch

Doesn't it seem like allot of famous people have died this year?

David Bowie - Musician
Prince - Musician
Muhammad Ali - Boxer
Glen Frey - Musician
Gene Wilder - Actor
Lemmy Kilmister - Muscian
Anthony Foley - Rugby
Harper Lee - Author
George Michael - Musician
Florence Henderson - Actor
Terry Wogan - Broadcaster
Kimbo Slice - Fighter
Nancy Regan - Public Figure
Leonard Coen - Musician
Arnold Palmer - Golfer
Frank Kelly - Actor
Paul Daniels - Magician
Johan Cruyff - Football
Gordie Howe - Ice Hockey
Alan Rickman - Actor
Andrew Sachs - Actor
Fidel Castro - Politician
Ronnie Corbett - Comedian
Rick Parffit - Musician
Sir George Martin - Musician/Producer

Had to add the other George, who died in March of this year.

The Talking Bread

NIMAN wrote: »

Hate the nonsense of "2016 stop killing the stars".

It's not the year doing it ya tubes, it's old age, ill health, bad lifestyles, drug abuse etc. As someone said, are we going to have this every year now? A celeb deathcount as each year progresses? Love the listing of huge celebs like Paul Daniels, jez get a grip folks. And I have not heard of a fee of those listed.

Hang around, I'm guessing they aren't telling us the truth about old Quennie, and I wouldn't be surprised to see her go in the not too distant future. You only think you've had celebrity deaths, wait til she goes, it'll be wall to wall coverage for a month.

strange post all the same.

LordSutch

riclad wrote: »

Alot of the pop singers from the 80s, are now 50 or 60, so of course they are of theage when they might die ...

50 or 60, my God that's so old :eek:

Better order my coffin ASAP, it won't be long now.

uncle_sam_ie

Rainman16 wrote: »

Doesn't it seem like allot of famous people have died this year?

1. David Bowie - Musician
2. Prince - Musician
3. Muhammad Ali - Boxer
4. Glen Frey - Musician
5. Gene Wilder - Actor
6. Lemmy Kilmister - Muscian
7. Anthony Foley - Rugby
8. Harper Lee - Author
9. George Michael - Musician
10. Florence Henderson - Actor
11. Terry Wogan - Broadcaster
12. Kimbo Slice - Fighter
13. Nancy Regan - Public Figure
14. Leonard Coen - Musician
15. Arnold Palmer - Golfer
16. Frank Kelly - Actor
17. Paul Daniels - Magician
18. Johan Cruyff - Football
19. Gordie Howe - Ice Hockey
20. Alan Rickman - Actor
21. Andrew Sachs - Actor
22. Fidel Castro - Politician
23. Ronnie Corbett - Comedian
24. Rick Parffit - Musician

Also, John Glenn

Agricola

Johan Cruyff died earlier this year!? How the hell did I miss that. Don't remember a word about it in the Irish or British media.

fryup

Lemmy was 2015, Dec 28th

The Talking Bread

Agricola wrote: »

Johan Cruyff died earlier this year!? How the hell did I miss that. Don't remember a word about it in the Irish or British media.

Really? Was well publicised in the media! Think he died the day after the terror bombing in Belgium so that obviously took most of the headlines

alchemist33

fryup wrote: »

Lemmy was 2015, Dec 28th

2015 is getting off very lightly for its own murderous rampage.

Agent Coulson

Ferrari3600 wrote: »

I JUST CAN'T EVEN RIGHT NOW

Find the caps lock key?

Sir Osis of Liver.

When you think it couldn't get any worse..then Wham

What a bummer.

fryup

on the plus side they're having some xmas party up in heaven at the moment

Radiosonde

It's because of Bowie and Prince that people are making a big deal of it. Both iconic figures, and neither were especially old.

Bowie's health had long been a source of speculation, but less so since his 2013 comeback, and his illness was not public knowledge; more people were probably half-expecting a tour announcement than were half-expecting his death.

Prince was completely unexpected.

We won't unexpectedly lose two figures of their stature many years.

LordSutch

The Grim Reaper of Celebrity is really is having a bumper year... and with five days to go before the end of 2016 I dread to think who might be next

longshanks

Add Britney Spears to the list.


Edit. A hoax apparently.

murpho999

LordSutch wrote: »

The Grim Reaper of Celebrity is really is having a bumper year... and with five days to go before the end of 2016 I dread to think who might be next

Why would you worry about it so much?

Celebrity and TV really took off from the 1960s so there are a lot more famous people than there used to be and they are ageing, so famous people dying is going to be a regular occurrence.

People's OTT reaction to it is what I find strange.

I am a Prince and David Bowie fan, of course I was saddened by their passing but I didn't know them, and I still have their music to listen to.

How I listen to it has changed since their passing but I wouldn't be putting comments on the internet about roaring and crying or being badly affected by it. Only people that you really know can have that type of impact on you.

LordSutch

murpho999 wrote: »

Why would you worry about it so much?

Celebrity and TV really took off from the 1960s so there are a lot more famous people than there used to be and they are ageing, so famous people dying is going to be a regular occurrence.

It's a worldwide collective worry. We grew up with the celebrities of our age, we've bought their albums, we've danced to their songs, we've had our 1st kiss to the likes of Careless Whisper, we've waited with anticipitation for the next album, we read about them in magazines, we see them interviewed on TV chat shows . . . so why would'nt we worry or care about them?

I might ask, why don't you empathise with those who do worry/care about them?

The Talking Bread

LordSutch wrote: »

It's a worldwide collective worry. We grew up with the celebrities of our age, we've bought their albums, we've danced to their songs, we've had our 1st kiss to the likes of Careless Whisper, we've waited with anticipitation for the next album, we read about them in magazines, we see them interviewed on TV chat shows . . . so why would we worry or care about them?

but you are speculating "dreading" that a period of time, a calender year has some mystical power over these deaths!
Worrying about people possibly unexpectantly dying because its 2016 and they happen to be famous is a bit of a pointless, if worrying exercise, is it not!

Bereaving their death I get, but speculating that they might die because of the year thats in it.............

Dirty Dingus McGee

LordSutch wrote: »

It's a worldwide collective worry. We grew up with the celebrities of our age, we've bought their albums, we've danced to their songs, we've had our 1st kiss to the likes of Careless Whisper, we've waited with anticipitation for the next album, we read about them in magazines, we see them interviewed on TV chat shows . . . so why would'nt we worry or care about them?

I might ask, why don't you empathise with those who do worry/care about them?

Why would you empathise with someone who has experienced no loss.People do not know these celebrities therefore their death is not a loss to anyone except those who knew them well.

murpho999

LordSutch wrote: »

It's a worldwide collective worry. We grew up with the celebrities of our age, we've bought their albums, we've danced to their songs, we've had our 1st kiss to the likes of Careless Whisper, we've waited with anticipitation for the next album, we read about them in magazines, we see them interviewed on TV chat shows . . . so why would'nt we worry or care about them?

I might ask, why don't you empathise with those who do worry/care about them?

I was too 'cool' at the time to be dancing to Careless Whisper, can tell you that.:pac:

Also, these people are not as wordwide famous as you make out. Don't think too many in Asia, Africa or South America are too affected by it.

Anyhow, a death like this gives me a momentary shock and then an 'Ah Jaysus' moment and some reminiscing over their music but I don't mourn it and I'm not fretting over other celebrities dying as I don't really know them and I feel that those who are badly affected it are just attention seeking grief monkeys.

Ferrari3600

LordSutch wrote: »

The Grim Reaper of Celebrity is really is having a bumper year... and with five days to go before the end of 2016 I dread to think who might be next

Imagine if it were Cliff Richard or Daniel O'Donnell, that would be simply dreadful.

Owryan

24 "celebrities" die in one year, one every 2 weeks. Pretty sure famous people die every year. How come no one mentions any famous people from other parts of the world who may have died?

Tbh I don't see why people get so exercised or upset when a celebrity passes away. It is something that happens to everyone

The Talking Bread

Owryan wrote: »

24 "celebrities" die in one year, one every 2 weeks. Pretty sure famous people die every year. How come no one mentions any famous people from other parts of the world who may have died?

Tbh I don't see why people get so exercised or upset when a celebrity passes away. It is something that happens to everyone

I think it is more to do with the fact that a lot of these guys died unexpectedly, young and were universally respected and known in their fields by the western world.
Bowie, Cohen (ok, not before his time), Prince, George Michael, Rickman, Corbett (again not before his time), Glenn Frey, even Caroline Ahearn.

The moniker of celebrity means nothing. It is their field talent that people associate them with. And there hasn't been many other years where

It is completely coincidental but, nonetheless, their deaths happened over what people perceive (these days) to be a short period of time (of course not really true either) so the reaction is understandable from such.

It is a social media thing that people want to exacerbate their emotions, whether they be happiness, sadness, anger, shock to draw attention. Lets be honest you don't write on social media unless you want to be noticed and to be noticed these days you probably exaggerate your feelings to stand out. Otherwise (for most) whats the point of logging on and tweeting, posting etc if you don't want your comment to be noticed !

I think people in general have become slightly detached from their emotions to a point owing to social media. Not in an inhumane way, I think the portrayal of your feelings online towards some things doesn't necessarily correlate 100% to your true feelings.

That is in general, not for everyone.

I will get shot down for this by many but I have discussed this with many a group and in a more coherent way than a few words online and most tend to agree that we let our emotions run away with themselves on social media unintentionally