Steely_D wrote:

no, i'm going to walk my pet fish!

Len Goodman - Strictly Come Dancing  / Dancing with the Stars -78

Not a musician or celeb, but......



56-Year-Old Climber, a Hiking 'Legend' Who Summited Mt. Everest 10 Times, Dies on Mountain in Nepal (msn.com)

Father Bob, Australian treasure

Delivering his final mass in January 2012, he told crowds of people crammed into the church that his forced retirement would not stop him from working to improve the lives of those less fortunate.

"I can't take the church with me, and I don't have another church to go to, I'm still Bob Maguire the Catholic priest and I'm still Father Bob the citizen," he said.

RIP to one of the greats

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

wow. that's sad. i remember them well. naked eye was the first one i heard, i think they played it on a local station when it first came out. sad to hear the news.

 kurtster wrote:

I hadn't seen this.  Gone too soon, for sure.  

 pilgrim wrote:
Wow! 102.  I guess corrupting the minds of generations of young people is the key.

Who Me?    

 pilgrim wrote: 
Al Jaffee: 1921-2023

Al Jaffee -  May he be gently folded into his sarcophagus. 

Michael Lerner

Ian Bairnson

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

I only knew the band from "Naked Eye"—the video's a real hoot. "Deep Shag" is a good track, never heard it before. 

It's always a shame when you discover a band or an individual after they're gone, especially in the latter case. RIP. 

 kurtster wrote:
Damn, way too young. I obsessed about their music for a time—when I first heard them (I think on RP) I immediately scored their entire catalog. I don't usually fall this hard for a band, but that impulse was well rewarded.

I completely lost track of them after they broke up, thanks for the introduction to the follow-on projects.

 kurtster wrote:

Man, that sucks. They were never a "serious" band, kept that DIY feel all along but I know it would have been one of those shows where everyone's having a good time and when it's over the band goes to the bar and hangs out to watch the next band. We had them on our playlist at our coffeehouse eons ago but I never heard or noticed Naked Eye until I tuned into RP.

Luscious Jackson’s Vivian Trimble Dead At 59

 ptooey wrote:
And a fair sized chunk of my adulthood.

To Seymour 

Seymour Stein - the man who signed the bands who were the soundtrack of my youth.

Ryuichi Sakamoto, a godfather of electronic pop, has died