Dead Celebrities Thread

[ladymuck]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...y-dies-aged-65

Linda Nolan, 65

[ladymuck]

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...r-heart-attack

Tony Slattery, 65, heart attack

[ladymuck]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...-complications

Singer Sam Moore, 89.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Worked with a guy that moved in to IT after being an underwater bomb disposal diver. Different set of people that do that job for sure.

I worked with one too. Had a gold plated handgrenade on his desk. .

[northernladuk]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/boyd-salmo...123520507.html

Sub-Lieutenant Boyd Salmon, born March 24 1924, died December 16 2024.

Applied for shore based "RMS" work without realising what it meant.

Had a lucky escape when one bomb went off rather unexpectedly.

Worked with a guy that moved in to IT after being an underwater bomb disposal diver. Different set of people that do that job for sure.

[DoctorStrangelove]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/boyd-salmo...123520507.html

Sub-Lieutenant Boyd Salmon, born March 24 1924, died December 16 2024.

Applied for shore based "RMS" work without realising what it meant.

Had a lucky escape when one bomb went off rather unexpectedly.

[Uncle Albert]

Have we had Peter Yarrow, one third of Peter, Paul and Mary?

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-b2675304.html

No one left to argue that Puff the magic dragon wasn't a song about drugs now. The Shamen thought they were being clever with Ebeneezer Goode in 1992 but they were late to the party by 30 years.... or were they? We shall now never know.

Notable for being pardoned by Jimmy Carter after serving time for having sexual relations with a 14 year old girl.

[vetran]

here you go.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/10-grea...s-about-drugs/

[NigelJK]

Cocaine (1976)

[sadkingbilly]

Have we had Peter Yarrow, one third of Peter, Paul and Mary?

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-b2675304.html

No one left to argue that Puff the magic dragon wasn't a song about drugs now. The Shamen thought they were being clever with Ebeneezer Goode in 1992 but they were late to the party by 30 years.... or were they? We shall now never know.

Dexy's midnight runners predated ebenezer too, i think