7 month ago
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Jazz legend Lyttelton dies at 86 - Man, this is sad news. Humph's impeccably innocent delivery of a filthy "double" entendre on "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" had me in hysterics many a time. He will be missed. #
jonhicks : Jazz legend Lyttelton dies at 86 - Another legend is gone. If you think you don't know who is, I bet you've heard him play - right at the end of Radiohead's Amnesiac
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8 month ago
philgyford : Long live Karl Marx! « The Bristol Blogger - Awww... we used to see this guy at Ashton Court Festival, wandering around in a leather thong with a huge bottle of cider. He was called Colin Toogood and he's died.
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9 month ago
nelson : Vidal on Buckley - Righteous, nasty rant against the dead conservative. "o society so marinated in falsity can long survive in a real world"
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90 - Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90.
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11 month ago
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Obituary: Kevin Greening - Tremendous shame. He was one of my favourite Radio 1 DJs during the mid-90s -- Especially when he had to fill in on the breakfast show at short notice when Chris Evans didn't turn up to work. #
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17 month ago
nelson : Count Gottfried von Bismarck - Awesome obituary of a "louche German aristocrat"
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18 month ago
nelson : RIP Charles Nelson Reilly - a great raconteur
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21 month ago
nelson : RIP Mr. Humphries - John Inman, the actor from Are You Being Served, has passed away
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32 month ago
philgyford : Archinect : News : Jane Jacobs goes to the great city in the sky - Fairly detailed obituary/summary. (via City of Sound)
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36 month ago
kayodeok : John Spencer, the actor who plays Leo McGarry on The West Wing, has died, at 58 - John Spencer, the actor who played vice-presidential candidate Leo McGarry in NBC television's The West Wing, has died of a heart attack at 58
plasticbag : John Spencer, who played The West Wing's Leo McGarry, has died aged of 58 - God, what terrible news. I'm astonished that he was only 58 - he looked ten years old at least. HIt turns out that he was younger than my stepfather.
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39 month ago
plasticbag : Today the Guardian carries an obituary for... er... Tom Coates?! But that's me?! Surely?! - "People recognised his quiet, seemingly effortless ability to influence others." How true.
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47 month ago
Andy Baio : Marcus Arnold aka "LawGuy1975," dead at 19 - AskMe.com's #1 legal expert at age 15, he was featured in Michael Lewis' Next [via] [via]
cameron : Marcus Arnold dead at 19 - AskMe.com's 15 year old legal expert
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plasticbag : Dan Hill on the death of John Peel - Gambaccini then listed a few of the artists that Peel's Radio 1 show 'broke' in the UK and beyond: The Clash, Sex Pistols, Roxy Music, Althea and Donna, Led Zeppelin, Pulp, Leonard Cohen, Joy Division, Laurie Anderson, The Undertones, Elton John...
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