Celebrity Deaths 2025 - Under 90s only

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Stu Wilson, the great New Zealand winger of the late 1970’s/early 1980’s.

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Beach boys Brian Wilson

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Shit. RIP(current)

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That’s all the brothers dead now, he was some songwriter but had been in a bad way for a long time. :pensive:

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Not a great couple of days for the Wilson clan. Owen and Rebel must be woried

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He had a good innings despite his mental issues.

God Only Knows will be his gift to the world.

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My favorite

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Pet Sounds must be considered one of the greatest albums of all time.a true song writing genius.his legacy will live on forever.RIP.

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And Sammy

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Brian Wilson was a bona fide musical genius. May he rest in peace.

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I don’t really remember the Beach Boys being a big thing when I was growing up in the 80s, the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks and lots of other bands from that era seemed to get more radio play, you’d get a bit of California Girls or Barbara Ann on Larry’s Golden hour but you wouldn’t hear Wouldn’t it be nice (though it was made into an ad for Sadolin wood paint, wooden it be nice) or Sloop John B.
In the 90s when I started buying music papers and magazines Pet Sounds kept coming up as a top 5 all time album, so I bought it on cassette in Comet records and I played it on repeat for about 6 weeks, an absolute masterpiece from start to finish, but you’d never tire of God only Knows, you couldn’t, it’s a masterpiece, if it was a painting it would be in the Louvre with an hour long queue
But God only knows is a sort of outlier on that album, it doesn’t fully fit with the sound, what a great album,
I don’t have it on vinyl so I’ll buy it this week,
RIP anyway :man_shrugging:

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Paul McCartney says God only knows is the greatest song ever and the one he wished he wrote .
Pet Sounds was all Brian Wilson, the rest of them were touring while he was sitting in a sandbox recording it at home

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Excellent post.

I would have been similar. In fact I would have been of the view that the Beach Boys were a bit naff growing up.

My brother brought home Pet Sounds which surprised me somewhat and while I wouldn’t be an expert on the album, I think God Only Knows is just majestic.

I had a gripe against Wilson for a while for reasons I can’t even remember now. RIP to him.

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Michael Madsen :confounded:

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Heart attack. I’d say he lived a full life.

His Mr Blonde was the epitome of menace, on a scale rarely seen. A great voice.

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Yep, a cardiac arrest as the Yanks call it. 67.

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That scene in Reservoir Dogs.

One of the greatest in cinema.

RIP

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He had an unreal aura about him as the final boss fella in Donnie Brasco too. One of those lads that delivered in any scene he was in.

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Only watched it again recently. Great scene / great movie

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My brother Michael has left the stage.

He was thunder and velvet. Mischief wrapped in tenderness. A poet disguised as an outlaw. A father, a son, a brother—etched in contradiction, tempered by love that left its mark. We’re not mourning a public figure.

We’re not mourning a myth — but flesh and blood and ferocious heart. Who stormed through life loud, brilliant, and half on fire. Who leaves us echoes—gruff, brilliant, unrepeatable—half legend, half lullaby.

’ll miss our inside jokes, the sudden laughter, the sound of him. I’ll miss the boy he was before the legend; I miss my big brother.

Thank you to everyone reaching out with love and memory. In time, we’ll share how we plan to celebrate his life—but for now, we stay close, and let the silence say what words can’t.

— Virginia Madsen on behalf of the Madsen family

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