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#201 Post by Woody » Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:15 pm

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#202 Post by FD2 » Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:42 pm

Thanks Woody - sad news about a favourite band. :(

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#203 Post by Woody » Wed Jul 28, 2021 9:15 pm

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Thanks Woody - sad news about a favourite band. :(

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I was lucky enough to see them live in the 80’s and also a few years ago t Hammersmith, place was absolutely rocking ^:)^

This is from that gig :o)

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#204 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Jul 29, 2021 5:48 am

Only one follicular beard left with Billy Gibbons as Frank Beard never sported one. Nothing brings home the passing of time more than the passing of one of this trio!

Just fact checked myself and it seems that Beard did grow a beard in 2013, thus making a total of 4 beards in the band at one time.

Got into ZZ Top back in the late 70's when they were effectively banned by the verkrampte SABC, but fortunately the rebel Capital 702, with laid back geniuses like American Alan Pierce (RIP), operating out of Port St Johns played their music all the time and the Top topped the personal playlists of many young rebels without a cause, like myself. Legs will be forever synonymous with hitching across the Karoo with ZZ Top laying down the beat through Walkman headphones and bootlegged tape in the 40 degree heat!

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#205 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Jul 29, 2021 7:04 am

RIP Clive Scott - South African Actor famed for his role in South Africa's first TV soap opera, The VIllagers...
Clive Scott was born in Parkview, Johannesburg, South Africa in 1937, as Robert Clive Cleghorn and went to school in Springs. After the death of his father, his mother settled in Cape Town. His earlier adult career was in banking including a two-year stint in Rhodesia. Having enough of banking he left for the United Kingdom for three months but ended up staying twelve years. He studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art before taking up acting at various repertory theatres in England. In 1965, Scott would perform in The Mousetrap in London. Returning to South Africa in 1970, Scott would appear in one of the first South Africa television dramas in 1976, The Villagers as Ted Dixon, a series of 76 episodes over three years, and this popular series made him a household name. He has also starred in a number of South African television advertisements.
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Re: Departed during 2021

#206 Post by Woody » Sun Aug 08, 2021 9:10 am

Not really my genre of music, but definitely a major influence on many artists.

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Mary's mom is dead...

#207 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:56 am

Markie Post, the actor known for The Fall Guy, There’s Something About Mary, and Night Court, died on Saturday following a battle with cancer. She was 70.

The American actor’s death was confirmed by her manager Ellen Lubin Sanitsky.
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It seems like yesterday I was watching her in Something About Mary! :(
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#208 Post by FD2 » Tue Aug 10, 2021 10:16 pm

Dave Severance, US Marine whose troops raising the Stars and Stripes over Iwo Jima became a powerful image of the Second World War – obituary

At the age of 100 Severance reflected: ‘I look back and I didn’t die... I came close a couple of times – I made it through three wars’

By Telegraph Obituaries 10 August 2021 • 12:46pm


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Dave Severance at home in California, 2015 Credit: Nelvin Cepeda/San Diego Union-Tribune via AP

Colonel Dave Severance, who has died aged 102, was the US Marines officer who in February 1945 ordered a platoon to climb Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima, then defended by the Japanese; the subsequent raising of the American flag on the peak became one of the most emblematic images of the Second World War.

Lying 750 miles south of Tokyo, Iwo Jima is just eight square miles in area but had strategic importance for the US advance across the Pacific because of its airstrips. Much of its volcanic terrain had been hollowed out to build tunnels and bunkers, in which were ensconced a 20,000-strong garrison willing to fight to the last.

On February 19 1945 70,000 Marines landed on Iwo Jima, among them Severance, a captain in command of Easy Company of the 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines.

After four days of fierce fighting the Americans had captured the base of the island’s dominant feature, the 554 ft Mount Suribachi, an active volcano. The battalion’s CO, Lt-Col Chandler Johnson, told Severance to send a patrol up the peak. Severance chose several men from his 3rd Platoon, commanded by 1st Lt Harold Schrier. Johnson handed him a US flag and told Schrier to raise it as a signal if he reached the top.

Severance said that he expected that the soldiers would only get about halfway up the mountain before they would be pinned down, but they only encountered light opposition, and after a brief fire fight seized the summit. When the Stars and Stripes was seen fluttering over the island, loud cheering broke out from the weary troops below, although Severance himself missed the event.

Shortly afterwards, James Forrestal, the Secretary of the Navy (with responsibility for the Marines), landed on Iwo Jima. Turning to the task force’s commander, Holland Smith, he told him that the sight of the flag had secured the future of the Marine Corps for the next 500 years. He then decided to take the flag for himself as a memento.

“Hell, no!” Severance recalled Johnson saying, and he ordered that the flag be taken down and stowed in the battalion safe. A party was running a telephone line to the peak and they were told to take up a second, larger flag with them. It was the raising of this which was captured by an Associated Press photographer, Jim Rosenthal.

A photographer for the Marines’ Leatherneck magazine, Lou Lowery, had preserved the moment when the first flag was set up. Yet it was Rosenthal’s more potent image which became iconic, symbolising as it did the struggle to raise freedom’s flag high over Japanese territory. It won the Pulitzer Prize and served as the inspiration for the Marines war memorial at Arlington, Virginia.

Severance believed that the picture’s popularity stemmed in part from people thinking that it marked the end of the war. In fact, there was still much hard fighting to be done on Iwo Jima to winkle out the defenders. Three of the six Marines who had raised the second flag were killed over the next few days, as was Johnson by a mortar round.



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A bullet passed between Severance’s legs and hit a lieutenant behind him. Of the 247 soldiers under his command, 84 per cent became casualties on Iwo Jima, a figure comparable to most of the other companies in the regiment. Only 216 Japanese soldiers – 1 per cent of the garrison – were taken alive. Severance remained the only officer in his company who was not wounded.

Severance was awarded the Silver Star, the third-highest Marine honour. It was not until the release of the John Wayne film Sands of Iwo Jima in 1949 that he realised the impact on the American public of the flag-raising. As it was, his version differed in some respects from the official one, which in recent years has changed several times as the identities of those holding the flag has been revised.

Severance would say only that he had not been invited to contribute to any of the inquiries.

David Elliott Severance was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on February 4 1919. He grew up in Greeley, Colorado, where his father had a coal business. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle, but when his family could no longer afford the fees he enlisted in the Marine Corps, intending to learn to fly.

Instead he was trained as a parachutist, and by the outbreak of war with Japan he was a sergeant. He was then commissioned, and in 1943 sent to the island of Bougainville, in the Solomons, which had been occupied by the Japanese.

There he proved his mettle when the platoon he was leading was cut off by an ambush a mile behind enemy lines. Although encircled, Severance and his men fought their way out, losing only one Marine.

After the war ended, Severance was stationed in Japan. In 1946 he finally got his chance to become a pilot, and during the Korean War flew 69 combat missions. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with four Air Medals.

Severance later served during the Vietnam War and was assistant director of personnel at Marine Corps headquarters before retiring in 1968.

He settled in La Jolla, California, and – only partly in jest – attributed his long life to giving up smoking at the age of 80. Reflecting that he had been “a Marine for 30 years and never ended up in jail”, he observed at 100 that “I look back and I didn’t die, as a matter fact I didn’t even get hit, I came close a couple of times – I made it through three wars.”

He organised many reunions for Iwo Jima veterans and acted as a consultant for Clint Eastwood’s film Flags of Our Fathers (2006), in which he was played by Neal McDonough.

Dave Severance’s first marriage, to Margaret Heins, ended in divorce. He was then married for 49 years to Barbara Austin. She died in 2017 and he is survived by two sons and a daughter of his first marriage, and by another daughter from the second.

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#209 Post by G-CPTN » Thu Aug 12, 2021 2:54 pm

Una Stubbs.

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#210 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Aug 12, 2021 3:18 pm

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Una Stubbs.
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Actor Una Stubbs, known for her roles in TV series such as Worzel Gummidge, Sherlock and EastEnders, has died at the age of 84.

Her agent said she died at home in Edinburgh, surrounded by her family. They told BBC News she had been ill for several months.

In a statement, her sons Joe and Christian Henson and Jason Gilmore said: “Mum passed away quietly today with her family around her, in Edinburgh. We ask for privacy and understanding at this most difficult and sad of times.”

Stubbs, who was born in Hertfordshire and started out as a dancer, rose to fame in the 1960s when she starred alongside Cliff Richard in Summer Holiday, and the films Swingers’ Paradise and Three Hats for Lisa. That same decade, she was cast in the sitcom Till Death Do Us Part.

Speaking to The Independent about the popularity of Till Death Do Us Part in 2013, Stubbs said: “The police always knew when we were on. Everyone stayed home. We had 23 million viewers a week.”

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Nanci Griffith

#211 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Aug 14, 2021 4:52 am

Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning folk singer known for her literary songwriting, has died at age 68. Her management confirmed her death in a statement on Friday afternoon, but did not specify a cause.

“It was Nanci’s wish that no further formal statement or press release happen for a week following her passing,” Gold Mountain Entertainment said in a statement.

Griffith, who came of age in the mid-70s folk scene in and around Austin, Texas, was a celebrated country-folk artist – “folkabilly”, as she called it – considered a master of the songwriting craft, with such classics as Love at the Five and Dime and Outbound Plane.

Born on 6 July 1953 in Seguin, Texas, Griffith was raised in Austin. According to a 1999 profile in Texas Monthly, she wrote her first song, A New Generation, and played her first gig at age 12. Griffith worked her way up through Austin clubs in the 1970s before releasing her debut album, There’s a Light Beyond These Woods, in 1978.

She moved to Nashville in the 1980s, where she became a close collaborator of other folk artists, helping the early careers of singer-songwriters such as Emmylou Harris and Lyle Lovett.

Her album Other Voices, Other Rooms won the 1994 Grammy for best contemporary folk album. She was also known for her recording of From a Distance, from her 1987 album Lone Star State of Mind, which went on to become a popular Bette Midler cover.

Griffith’s work became increasingly political with age, openly criticising George W Bush and supporting Barack Obama. She described her 2012 record Intersection as “a protest album” and called herself too radical for the current state of politics in an interview at the time. It was her last album before she retired in 2013.

“Artists don’t choose to be artists, writers or singers,” she said in 2010. “It’s just something you know you have to do.”

Don McLean paid tribute to Griffith in a statement. “Nanci was a lovely person,” he said. “I worked with her on a TV special we did for PBS TV and on that show, we sang two duets. They were And I Love You So and Raining in My Heart. I never heard anyone sing harmony in a more beautiful way. We should have done an album together. At this taping in Austin, Texas she brought her father to see it. I really loved her spirit it was warm and loving and I’m really sorry to hear she has gone.”
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#212 Post by Karearea » Mon Aug 16, 2021 7:02 am

Bayern Munich and Germany legend Gerd Muller has died at the age of 75.

One of the best strikers in history, Muller scored 68 goals in 62 appearances for West Germany, including the winning goal in the 1974 World Cup final against the Netherlands. ...
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#213 Post by Wodrick » Wed Aug 18, 2021 5:10 pm

Yvonne Sintes (born Yvonne Elizabeth van den Hoek on 8 September 1930 in Pretoria, South Africa.) Britian's first commercial aircraft Captain died 16/08.
She started commercial flying with Morton Air Services before becoming a Captain with Dan Air.
Met her many times.
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#214 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Aug 21, 2021 5:25 pm

Wodrick wrote:
Wed Aug 18, 2021 5:10 pm
Yvonne Sintes (born Yvonne Elizabeth van den Hoek on 8 September 1930 in Pretoria, South Africa.) Britian's first commercial aircraft Captain died 16/08.
She started commercial flying with Morton Air Services before becoming a Captain with Dan Air.
Met her many times.
RIP
She was born in my hometown.

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#215 Post by Wodrick » Sat Aug 21, 2021 5:26 pm

I threw the SA bit in for you :)
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#216 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Aug 21, 2021 5:54 pm

Wodrick wrote:
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I threw the SA bit in for you :)
Much appreciated Wodrick! ;)))
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Don Everly RIP

#217 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Aug 22, 2021 9:02 am

Don Everly of the iconic rock 'n' roll duo the Everly Brothers has died at the age of 84 at his home in Nashville.

The singer's family told the Los Angeles Times through a spokesperson this Saturday that he had passed on that day.

His death comes seven years after he lost his brother Phil, with whom he formed the iconic rock 'n' roll duo that rocketed them both to stardom.

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#218 Post by FD2 » Sun Aug 22, 2021 11:38 am

Sad news GG. Early C&W days:


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#219 Post by Wodrick » Sun Aug 22, 2021 1:15 pm

It is sad such a natural harmony in their day.

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#220 Post by Undried Plum » Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:15 pm

There's a bloke who's died who I must confess I'd never heard of as I don't watch telly and on the few occasions I do it's never game shows.

I'm gonna try to find a single GooChoob summary of how funny he is/was. I may be some time, but it will be worth it. He really was very funny.

I may be some time, as someone said.



The wait was worth it. He really was very funny.


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