General "RIP" announcements that might be of interest

Quote from may2

Robin Gibb, one of three brothers who made up the disco group the Bee Gees behind "Saturday Night Fever" and other hits from the 1970s, died on Sunday, according to a statement on his website.

He was 62.

Gibb "passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery," said the statement, which was attributed to his family.

Diagnosed with colon and liver cancer, Gibbs had been in a coma as he battled pneumonia earlier this spring, representative Doug Wright said.
Doctors believe that Gibb had a secondary tumor, Wright said April 14, confirming a news account in the U.K. newspaper The Sun. Gibb had emergency surgery in 2010 for a blocked bowel and then had more surgery for a twisted bowel, Wright confirmed.

The only surviving member of the three Bee Gees is brother Barry, 65.
Robin's twin brother, Maurice, died in 2003 from a twisted bowel.
And younger brother Andy Gibb died at age 30 from a heart infection.
The Brothers Gibb -- calling themselves the Bee Gees -- soared to renown after the 1977 film "Saturday Night Fever" starring John Travolta was built around the group's falsetto voices and disco songs.

In the latter part of the 1970s, the British-born Bee Gees "dominated dance floors and airwaves. With their matching white suits, soaring high harmonies and polished, radio-friendly records, they remain one of the essential touchstones to that ultra-commercial era," the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says on its website.

"Saturday Night Fever" and the group's 1979 album "Spirits Having Flown" yielded six No. 1 hits, "making the Bee Gees the only group in pop history to write, produce and record that many consecutive chart-topping singles," according to the Hall of Fame.

While often more in the background, Robin Gibb was the lead singer on several of the Bee Gees' top tunes including "I Started a Joke" and "I've Gotta Get a Message to You." He also recorded several solo albums during his career.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, the Bee Gees sold more than 200 million albums, and their soundtrack album to "Saturday Night Fever" was the top-selling album until Michael Jackson's "Thriller" claimed that distinction in the 1980s.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/20/…obin-gibb-dies/index.html

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A shame that many people don't realize the BeeGees were topping the charts internationally and in the US years before Saturday Night Fever and disco took over.

RIP Robin

I was disappointed to learn that only a few years ago Gibb had a kid with his housekeeper, it makes me feel sorry for the loyal wife who was at his bedside to the end. While I respect his musical talents, I find this aspect to his life to be disgraceful.

Actress Janet Carroll died. She had recurring roles on Married … With Children and Murphy Brown. She had many TV credits.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.c…ilm-sitcom-actress-328741

RIP Janet

Yes, Rest in Peace, Janet Carroll.

Doc Watson, Blind Guitar Wizard Who Influenced Generations, Dies at 89

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05…?_r=2&pagewanted=1&emc=na

I remember working the sound systems back in the day, 1964 or '65, for the Berkeley Bluegrass Festival, and seeing and hearing Doc Watson perform. Bluegrass is one of my favorite kinds of music.

May he rest in peace.

Chester

I also love Bluegrass music,
in my teens listening to The Carter Family.
Now one of it's heroes has slipped away.
RIP Doc

Kathryn Joosten of 'Desperate Housewives' dies at 72

She was great.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.co…ousewives-dies-at-72.html

RIP Kathryn

Oddly enough, Joostens character on Desperate Housewives also died of cancer in the last show of the series.

Richard Dawson from Family Feud and Hogan's Heroes has died at 79.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/en…-family-feud-host-was-79/

Really liked him on Hogan's Heros. Among my favorite on the show becuase of his way of his con artist schemes and disguises. I also enjoyed him on the Match Game shows and of cousre who could forget him as the host of the Kissing host on Family Feud. I also recall him from the movie The Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenneger.

Carl, you might recall the movie, The Devil's Brigade with William Holden and Cliff Robertson. The 1968 movie had Dawson as Pvt. Hugh MacDonald. Don't remember him in the movie, but I'll watch to see him.

RIP Richard Dawson aka Cpl. Newkirk.

Cheers Hondo

Ray Bradbury has died at 91.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/b…-bradbury-dies/55417888/1

Herb Reed, Last of the Original Platters, Dies at 83

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06…-platters-dies-at-83.html

Hi

Richard dawson was born in Gosport Hampshire just across the water from Portsmouth almost a neighbour.

RIP

Regards

Arthur

Quote from may2

Ray Bradbury has died at 91.

RIP Ray,

Also Richard Dawson

RIP Herb Reed.
The Platters, their music very much part of my growing up,
and their songs, still part of my life.

Singer Bob Welch, who was with Fleetwood Mac at one time before going solo died from suicide at 65. In his solo career, he had the songs Sentimental Lady and Ebony Eyes.