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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 22, 2021 15:19:36 GMT -5
Well, here's a bit of news that would have absolutely devastated the young me between the ages of 6 and 8, when the Bay City Rollers were my favorite band. To wit, the band's former lead singer Leslie McKeown has died. Still sad news in any case, as he was only 65 years old.
Edited to add: man, those guys rocked the plaid...
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Post by berkley on Apr 22, 2021 17:51:48 GMT -5
They had a string of great, infectious pop singles. I wonder what the albums are like? I don't think I've ever heard one, just the hits on the radio.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2021 18:02:20 GMT -5
oh no. . Leslie died
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Apr 22, 2021 18:05:07 GMT -5
Is he the one in tartan in the pic?
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 22, 2021 21:30:20 GMT -5
Didn't they lose another member, not too long ago?
Their music was fluff, but in a good way.
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Post by foxley on Apr 22, 2021 22:48:15 GMT -5
Didn't they lose another member, not too long ago? Their music was fluff, but in a good way.
Guitarist Ian Mitchell died in September last year. I think I made a post about at the time.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 23, 2021 0:37:28 GMT -5
Didn't they lose another member, not too long ago? Their music was fluff, but in a good way.
Guitarist Ian Mitchell died in September last year. I think I made a post about at the time.
Of the 'classical' line-up, the one from the early to mid-70s, Alan Longmuir, the bassist and one of the band's founders, also died a few years ago (also in his early sixties).
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 23, 2021 6:26:16 GMT -5
They had a string of great, infectious pop singles. I wonder what the albums are like? I don't think I've ever heard one, just the hits on the radio. Their albums were basically just collections of their singles; I had their eponymous album from 1975, which was their first US release (it contained a selection of the most popular songs from their previous UK-only albums). Up to that point, by the way, most of their songs were covers of slightly older bubble-gum pop or Motown hits. I think it was after that, when they got really popular in the US and Canada, that they started recording more of their own songs.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2021 10:29:34 GMT -5
Shock G died yesterday too. . tho didn't get picked up in many places. the mastermind behind Digital Underground (and the man behind Humpty Hump with those stupid glasses and nasal vocals) - he was SO much more. an incredible artist (he designed many album covers under yet another pseudonym), produced for other artists (he's responsible for Tupac's first big hit), and he wrote many tracks that those that enjoy "Urban" as well as "Top 40" would be familiar with from the radio. way too young as well.
best known for "Humpty Dance".. this is my favorite DU song (and has been sampled so many places). . used to dance to this at the clubs:
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Post by foxley on Apr 27, 2021 17:00:03 GMT -5
Ana Lúcia Menezes, the Brazilian voice actress who dubbed all the characters pictured above (and many others besides) into Portuguese for the Brazilian releases, died on April 20 of a stroke brought on by reinfection of COVID-19.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 28, 2021 17:47:46 GMT -5
Michael Collins, the so-called “loneliest man in the world,” who was the pilot on the Apollo 11, died today at 90.
A superb pilot and a gifted writer, Collins wrote that when he circled round to the moon’s dark side, there were three billion plus two people on the other side of the moon and just one “plus God only knows what” on his side, where he saw “the ultimate black of infinity in a stillness undisturbed by any living thing.”
He carried with him 18 contingency plans in case he had to rescue Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. No pressure.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 28, 2021 21:52:20 GMT -5
Michael Collins, the so-called “loneliest man in the world,” who was the pilot on the Apollo 11, died today at 90. A superb pilot and a gifted writer, Collins wrote that when he circled round to the moon’s dark side, there were three billion plus two people on the other side of the moon and just one “plus God only knows what” on his side, where he saw “the ultimate black of infinity in a stillness undisstirbed by any living thing.” He carried with him 18 contingency plans in case he had to rescue Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. No pressure. His memoir, Catching Fire, is considered by many to be the best of all of the astronauts. That leaves the following astronauts, from Project Gemini through Skylab (all of the Mercury 7 are gone): Buzz Aldrin (Gemini 12, Apollo 11) Frank Borman (Gemini 7, Apollo 8) Jim Lovell (Gemini12, Apollo 8 & 13) Jim McDivitt (Gemini 4, Apollo 9) Tom Stafford (Gemini 6A and 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo-Soyuz) Dave Scott (Gemini 8, Apollo 9 & 15) William Anders (Gemini back-up for 11, Apollo 8) Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7) Rusty Schweikart (Apollo 9) Harrison "Jack" Schmitt (Apollo 17, originally slated to command Apollo 18, before it was cut) Ken Mattingly (scrubbed from Apollo 13, Apollo 16, Space Shuttle Columbia and Discovery) Fred Haise (Apollo 13, Space Shuttle Enterprise test landings) Charles Duke (Apollo 16) Vance Brand (Apollo-Soyuz, Space Shuttle Columbia, Challenger) Joseph Engle (Space Shuttle Enterprise, Columbia & Discovery) Joseph Kerwin (Skylab 2) Jack Lousma (Skylab 3, Space Shuttle Columbia) Edward Gibson (Skylab 4) Lovell and Borman are 93, Aldrin and McDivitt are 91, Stafford is 90. Scott is 88, Anders is the Gemini baby, at 87.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 28, 2021 22:46:49 GMT -5
Collins wrote “Carrying the Fire,” which I’m guessing autocorrect didn’t read, and, yes, he also had the “write” stuff. He was an uncommonly sensitive and poetic writer.
Also artistic: he designed the mission patch for the Apollo 11 mission, IIRC.
Quite a roster of courageous explorers there.
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Post by impulse on Apr 29, 2021 8:38:31 GMT -5
Michael Collins, the so-called “loneliest man in the world,” who was the pilot on the Apollo 11, died today at 90. A superb pilot and a gifted writer, Collins wrote that when he circled round to the moon’s dark side, there were three billion plus two people on the other side of the moon and just one “plus God only knows what” on his side, where he saw “the ultimate black of infinity in a stillness undisstirbed by any living thing.” He carried with him 18 contingency plans in case he had to rescue Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. No pressure. Wow, even just reading that gave me the willies. I can hardly even imagine what that must have felt like.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2021 10:02:19 GMT -5
RIP to Paul Oscher, legendary blues musician (particularly playing harmonica) and former member of Muddy Waters band. He was 74, and passed form complications from COVID. obit-M
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