The RIP thread - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Chris Cornell was one of the greatest voices in rock. I was devastated to hear this news late last night. Besides the obvious talent that he was, he seemed like a good guy and a family man. He must've been in a dark place to want to end his own life when everything seemed to be going great for him, Soundgarden and just everything in general.

I'm just happy to have been able to see them live twice and hear that he still had the power and range in his voice. That, he never lost.

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R.I.P Roger Moore!!

A fine and charming actor, a very underrated James Bond who made a few terrific entries in the franchise (and even his poorer ones were still hugely entertaining), and I'm a Van Damme freak, so he was good fun in the pretty average `The Quest' with the action star.

Yeah, Roger Moore. Legend. What a Saint !!
R.I.P. to one of my preferred actors. Long live the best Bond !!

RIP....Gregg Allman

i will recomend euphoria morning by chris cornell. brillient piece of rock

Icarium wrote:

i will recomend euphoria morning by chris cornell. brillient piece of rock

Will check it out. Thanks, Chris.

RIP Adam West

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40235142

Brian Cant, beloved of those of us in our 50's and 60's, simply the greatest children's to presenter of them all, has passed away aged 83.

"Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub".

RIP

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RIP Brian Cant. Yes, I'm that old.

RIP Michael Bond, Author of the Paddington Bear books.. so much more than just charming children's stories; ive borrowed Michael Morpurgo's obituary as it says it all. I never grow tired of reading these books to my grandsons.

''Paddington has been the Winnie-the-Pooh of our generation. There have been other iconic bears over the generations, but those two stand side by side, one in Ashdown Forest and the other at Paddington station. For those who were born in the later 20th century, Paddington is the one that they remember. And what’s wonderful about it is that it’s rather strange to have a bear who is so elegant in his speech, so polite and kind, yet who unleashes such chaos. That’s what children respond to.

But he’s not just a charming bear. It’s more than that. I think he reflects the best of us: we all get into scrapes, and through his innocence and kindness he relates to everyone – adults as well as children.

And at this moment in history he represents more: he’s an immigrant from Peru who is found on a station platform with a label around his neck that says: “Please look after this bear. Thank You.” What’s extraordinary is how powerful that story is today. We only have to see that bear to see the predicament of a Syrian child. The Brown family adopted him; it was a messy adoption but it gave the bear a home. It delivers a very strong message about how we’ve grown away from the kindness to which we once aspired.

My grandfather was a Belgian poet who moved to England just before the first world war, and I grew up with the story of how, at the beginning of the war, the country took in 250,000 Belgian refugees. Belgium had been invaded and they got in little boats and big boats just like today’s refugees. And people took them in. It might have been expensive and difficult, but it was what Britons had to do and this, in a simple way, is what the Paddington stories tell us.

We once went to dinner with Michael Bond and his wife, and he said: “There will be six of us for dinner.” The other two were his guinea pigs. He was very, very passionate about them – and they weren’t locked away, but were running around the house. Writers are at their best when they are writing from what they are: Michael was charming and sweet and gentle – just like Paddington.