Peadar O’Brien formerly of the Irish Press group and GAA writer passed away.
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To be honest Flancake, i thought the exact same, no idea who he is.
Some will know, others won’t. Some might be a bit young.
And others don’t give a shit about no marks.
Hm.
God make their own importance.
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Malcolm McLaren, the former manager of British punk group the Sex Pistols, has died in New York aged 64.
Heard that earlier.
RIP Malcolm.
That’s a shame really. He was good value so he was. He had a huge impact on music in the 70s and 80s though he doesn’t get a whole lot of credit for it.
Great track by him on the Kill Bill ost
This one was a a shock. I wasn’t aware he had cancer. Fucked up shit altogether.
Christopher Cazenove star of films such as Three Men and a Little Lady and A Knights Tale, not to mention his star turn as the brother of Blake Carrington in Dynasty has died from septicaemia
Blake Carrington only died himself last week.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0410/breaking1.html
Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski, its central bank head and the country’s military chief were among 96 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to a Russian airport this morning…
Former IOC chief Juan Antonio Samaranch dies, aged 89
We may as well remove the word “celebrity” from the title of this thread and just scan up the death notices from the Irish Independent every day.
Jaysus Runt the head of the IOC would be well known! And I’ll take any man to task who tries to demean the great Dynasty…! :guns: *
Its been a quiet time for Celeb Deaths however, no doubt.
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We may as well remove the word “celebrity” from the title of this thread and just scan up the death notices from the Irish Independent every day.
[/quote]Yeah alot of who? gettin in here,mostly from MBB!
World Lightweight and Super Featherweight boxing champion Edwin Valero of Venezuela hanged himself in a police cell on Monday after murdering his wife last week. Won all his 27 fights by knockout.
Nobody had Gerry so its still all to play for…
67!!! Fucking hell.
Ronnie James Dio, a singer with the heavy-metal bands Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio, whose powerful, semioperatic vocal style and attachment to demonic imagery made him a mainstay of the genre, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 67.
His death was announced by his wife, Wendy, on his Web site, www.ronniejamesdio.com.
No cause was given, but in recent months Mr. Dio had spoken about suffering from stomach cancer, and his band Heaven and Hell canceled its summer tour because of his health.
A heavy-metal purist, Mr. Dio was known as much for his vocal prowess as for his Mephistophelean stage persona. He sang about devils, defiance and the glory of rock ’n’ roll with a strong, mean voice that rose to a bombastic vibrato, and he is credited with popularizing the “devil horn” hand gesture — index and pinky fingers up, everything else clenched in a fist — as a symbol of metal’s occult-like worship of everything scary and heavy.
Ronald James Padavona was born in Portsmouth, N.H., and grew up in Cortland, N.Y. He took his stage name in tribute to the gangster Johnny Dio, and he began his career in rockabilly bands in the late 1950s. By the early 1970s his group Elf became a regular opening act for the British band Deep Purple, and Mr. Dio gained his first wide exposure when Ritchie Blackmore, Deep Purple’s guitarist, recruited him in 1975 to sing for his new band, Rainbow.
When Ozzy Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979, Mr. Dio replaced him, staying until 1982. By then he had his own group, Dio. Its first album, “Holy Diver,” was released in 1983, and its cover art was typical of the band’s style, with a cartoonish painting of a red-eyed demon whipping a drowning priest with a chain. In various lineup configurations, Dio released material into the mid-2000s.
Mr. Dio briefly rejoined Black Sabbath in the early 1990s, singing on its 1992 album “Dehumanizer,” and in 2006 he began playing again with members of that band, naming the group Heaven and Hell after the title of the first Black Sabbath album on which he had appeared. Heaven and Hell toured widely and released one album, “The Devil You Know,” in 2009.
Other than his wife, who was also his manager, he is survived by his son, Daniel, his father, Pat Padavona, and two grandchildren.
Over the years Mr. Dio became a symbol of the glories and the silliness of metal, and sometimes both at the same time. In the 2006 film “Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny,” a boy whose father has forbidden him to play metal prays in his bedroom to a poster of Mr. Dio sitting on a hellish throne; Mr. Dio, holding a medieval-style goblet, comes to life and urges the boy to forge his own way.
“You will face your inner demons,” Mr. Dio sings. “Now go, my son, and rock.”
