Well known people who died recently

[awg]

Suicide is the highest cause of death, except in the elderly or very young.

It is widely regarded that a high percentage of single vehicle fatalities are also suicide, but they dont count them.

Robin Williams had bipolar disorder, which greatly increases chance of suicide

 

[burglar]

"Life's about film stars and less about mothers", Lily Allen

 

[bellenuit]

10 of Joan Rivers’ greatest celebrity zingers

COMEDIAN AND TELEVISION host Joan Rivers has died at the age of 81.

The host of the Fashion Police is known for her no-holds-barred approach to the world of showbiz and celebrity, not excluding herself and her much publicised surgeries.

Here are some of the most devastating, about herself and others.

read on......

http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/joan-rivers-funniest-quotes-1655163-Sep2014/

 

[SirRumpole]

Edward Gough Whitlam

Australian PM 1972-1975

Age 98

RIP

 

[chiff]

Vale Gough RIP

 

[Knobby22]

Rick Piltz
Whistleblower who exposed climate manipulation.

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/ob...osed-climate-manipulation-20141113-3kahd.html

 

[chiff]

Warren Clarke English actor ...67 years....Dalziel from Dalziel and Pascoe.Dim from Clockwork Orange etc etc.

 

[Ijustnewit]

Stella Young
ABC employee , Writer , Comedian , Disability Activist , Q & A Regular. Aged 32.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-...iter-comedian-and-disability-activist/5950640

 

[Calliope]

MANDY Rice-Davies - one of the women at the centre of the Profumo affair which rocked Harold Macmillan's Tory government in the 1960s - has died aged 70.

A SPOKESMAN for the family said Marilyn Foreman, also known as Mandy Rice-Davies, had died on Thursday evening after a short battle with cancer.

"They have asked for their privacy to be respected and no further comment will be made," he said.
The lurid disclosures of high-society sex parties and claims that the Secretary of State for War John Profumo had shared a mistress with a Russian defence attache enthralled and scandalised early 1960s Britain.
Rice-Davies, a nightclub dancer, gained notoriety when in the witness box of the Old Bailey she dismissed a denial by Lord Astor that he had slept with her, saying: "Well, he would, wouldn't he?"

 

[Joe Blow]

Joe Cocker, legendary English singer known for his gritty voice, dies at 70 after battling lung cancer. RIP Joe.

Here's Joe live at Woodstock.

 

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Joe Cocker, legendary English singer known for his gritty voice, dies at 70 after battling lung cancer. RIP Joe.

Makes me feel quite nostalgic. ...... and old

RIP Joe

There is an anthology of all-time great gems of his on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlDmslyGmGI&list=RDHCUCWaHLMd7qg

You Are So Beautiful
Up Where We Belong
You Can Leave Your Hat On
With a Little Help From My Friends
Unchain My Heart
My Father's Son
N'oubliez Jamais
Feelin' Alright
The Letter
Summer In The City

 

[sptrawler]

Joe Cocker, legendary English singer known for his gritty voice, dies at 70 after battling lung cancer. RIP Joe.
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We went to all his concerts in Perth, absolutely brilliant performer.
His last appearance here, he really struggled, now I know why.
Very sad, another great performer gone.

 

[Tink]

He had some memorable songs, thanks for the music.

RIP

 

[Tisme]

I was listening to him talking about his ten year cycle and how @ 30 his friends (and he) expected him to be dead from drugs, dead @ 40 for whatever, until he realised maybe he was in for the long haul and should embrace the situation.

I loved "Cry Me River" when it came out and one of my favourite album for years was "With A Little Help From My Friends"

Didn't women look much more attractive than back then. Leon Russell got hall of famed, but I don't think Joe did?




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKNJj6MsGfI

 

[piggybank]

Jeremy Lloyd Dies Aged 84. The writer, who was once married to Joanna Lumley, was awarded an OBE for services to comedy in 2012.

He is best remembered for co-creating with his fellow comedy writer David Croft the television shows Are You Being Served? and ’Allo ’Allo. Both were innuendo-laden, populated with pantomime grotesques and were accused by sniffier critics of being sexist, racist, misogynist and homophobic.

The rest of the obituary can be read via the link below.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/dec/23/jeremy-lloyd

 

[Tink]

Colleen McCullough: Internationally acclaimed Australian author dies aged 77

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-29/australian-author-colleen-mccullough-dies/6055952

 

[SirRumpole]

Malcolm Fraser

RIP

 

[Tisme]

Malcolm Fraser

RIP

Yes and while the rest of them give him credit for being a leader, Tony can't help but put in an implied snipe about Labor. The praise he gives Malcolm is strange because the Liberal party today compared to the Menzies/Fraser Liberal party is what Bizarro is to Superman = every thin recognisable commonalty and enough for Malcolm to resign his membership.

 

[Knobby22]

I gave my first vote to Fraser. He still lost the election.

 

[burglar]

Malcolm Fraser

RIP

I was sad for a moment!