Passings...

[Loxuru]

There are very few athletes who can be said to have totally changed their sport. And very few who have a technique named for them.
Dick Fosbury died on the 12th of lymphoma at the age of 76.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/sports/olympics/dick-fosbury-dead.html

In the 1970's in the sports lessons, we had to try out his Fosbury flop during high jumping. It was very difficult and needed a very good coordination of running speed, place and motion. No one from the class managed to perform it.
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[ducon007]

There are very few athletes who can be said to have totally changed their sport. And very few who have a technique named for them.
Dick Fosbury died on the 12th of lymphoma at the age of 76.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/sports/olympics/dick-fosbury-dead.html

Yes, Mexico 1968! The world discovers his awesome jump...!

 

[Darkprincess69]

She died much too early. Very sad.

Agreed - another good one taken by that most vile of diseases.

Fuck cancer

 

[Loxuru]

Agreed - another good one taken by that most vile of diseases.

Fuck cancer

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Sadly, it is there, and it causes the death of almost half the human population.
Somehow, one has to learn to live with it and hopes it stays away as long as possible.

 

[wulf]

Agreed - another good one taken by that most vile of diseases.

Fuck cancer

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Sadly, it is there, and it causes the death of almost half the human population.
Somehow, one has to learn to live with it and hopes it stays away as long as possible.

It took my father in 1956 just short of my ninth birthday.

So yeah.... fuck you cancer.

 

[Darkprincess69]

It took my father in 1956 just short of my ninth birthday.

So yeah.... fuck you cancer.

Mine too, in january 2016

Just over 7 years now - still feels like it was only yesterday

 

[Naraku]

It took my father in 1956 just short of my ninth birthday.

So yeah.... fuck you cancer.

Mine too, in january 2016

Just over 7 years now - still feels like it was only yesterday

And mine. August 2013.

 

[Crux-Emperor Baracus X]

Paul O'Grady,MBE the Liverpudlian Comedian and Media personality, ( AKA "Lily Savage") passed away aged 67,after a short illness.
14 June 1955--29 March 2023
He did much charity work for animal causes.
R.I.P.

 

[Hugin&Munin]

Paul O'Grady,MBE the Liverpudlian Comedian and Media personality, ( AKA "Lily Savage") passed away aged 67,after a short illness.
14 June 1955--29 March 2023
He did much charity work for animal causes.
R.I.P.
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Oh, same age as mine.

 

[Apostate]

Oh, same age as mine.

Same here.

Cheer up. We’ve lived long enough to see a time when people who pass in their 60s count as lives tragically cut short.

 

[Loxuru]

Keith Reid (1946-2023). Former non-performing member of the British band Procol Harum, who wrote the lyrics of most of their original songs, including 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'.

 

[Migoz2]

Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1952-2023. Composer and musician.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...-oscar-winning-composer-dies-aged-71#comments

 

[Eulalia]

Keith Reid (1946-2023). Former non-performing member of the British band Procol Harum, who wrote the lyrics of most of their original songs, including 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'.

For those who want that wonderful melody in their ears for hours to come, there's a link in this obit:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65122226

 

[Apostate]

I got to see him in concert once, back in 1989 in NYC.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/arts/mark-russell-piano-playing-political-satirist-dies-at-90.html

Mark Russel was pretty much unknown outside the US, and because his venue was PBS, probably to a majority of people over here.

But I busted a gut laughing, that is to say I deeply appreciated, his political satire in song. And he made it all the way to 90, not bad for a national treasure.

Samples of his stuff may seen here, and be may incomprehensible if you not a political geek like me.

 

[Zardoz]

Al Jaffee, MAD Magazine cartoonist. I owe him many a smile from my childhood.

To be honest, I thought he had died a long time ago....

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/arts/al-jaffee-dead.html

 

[Apostate]

Al Jaffee, MAD Magazine cartoonist. I owe him many a smile from my childhood.

To be honest, I thought he had died a long time ago....

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/arts/al-jaffee-dead.html

I too lost track of him decades ago. At least his fold ins are available online in places like this.

https://13thdimension.com/13-mad-fold-ins-an-al-jaffee-birthday-celebration/

 

[Loxuru]

Mary Quant (1930-2023). British fashion designer, even iconic, in the late 1960's, the Flower Power Age. From that era, she is famous as the 'inventor' of the miniskirt and the hot pants.

 

[Eulalia]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-65265873

 

[Apostate]

This Yank heard of Dame Edna at all because during Reagan's first term 60 Minutes did a profile of her/him,



and the New York Times has put it best.

Oh, Possums, Dame Edna is no more.

To be unflinchingly precise, Barry Humphries, the Australian-born actor and comic who for almost seven decades brought that divine doyenne of divadom, Dame Edna Everage, to delirious, dotty, disdainful Dadaist life, died on Saturday in Sydney. He was 89.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/theater/barry-humphries-dead.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20230422&instance_id=90834&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=86036594&segment_id=131104&te=1&user_id=bb3b3eeaa69babe50ba185fb39d04dc4

In case the paywall blocks the reader,

https://apnews.com/article/australia-barry-humphries-dead-a9ee087f22a99facebb3c7b134dc0186

 

[phlebas]

This Yank heard of Dame Edna at all because during Reagan's first term 60 Minutes did a profile of her/him,

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and the New York Times has put it best.

Oh, Possums, Dame Edna is no more.

To be unflinchingly precise, Barry Humphries, the Australian-born actor and comic who for almost seven decades brought that divine doyenne of divadom, Dame Edna Everage, to delirious, dotty, disdainful Dadaist life, died on Saturday in Sydney. He was 89.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/theater/barry-humphries-dead.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20230422&instance_id=90834&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=86036594&segment_id=131104&te=1&user_id=bb3b3eeaa69babe50ba185fb39d04dc4

In case the paywall blocks the reader,

https://apnews.com/article/australia-barry-humphries-dead-a9ee087f22a99facebb3c7b134dc0186

His best known characters had modest roots and grew over time. Dame Edna started as a dowdy suburban housewife, Sir Les started at a performance in a Sydney football club "Humphries claimed to be that club's own entertainments officer as he introduced the next act, Dame Edna Everage"

Humphries was one of that generation of young postwar Australian intellectuals who left the supposed cultural wasteland of Australia for the brighter lights of London. I hope things have improved since . . . . . . . .