What celebrity death has hit you hardest?

[Tangled up in Blue]

John Lennon and Billy Fury.
Pehaps I'm showing my age!;)

 

[Swiss Tony]

Big John Wayne and John Candy.

 

[Uncle Leo]

King Henry VIII

 

[chadded]

King Henry VIII

Cricko was a Coffin bearer....

 

[C C Csiders]

Stuart Adamson. My favourite live band & one my all-time favourite bands. Saw them live so many times too!

Great line from Mark Lamarr about him. He said "after leving The Skids Stuart became a Big Country member. And, yes Stuart, we do remember"

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I can see it hit you hard. Did it hit you as hard as the death of Tosh Lines, or Kevin Lloyd?

Cheers Chadded, I knew someone would understand.

 

[Lester Bangs]

Probably Rob Collins of the Charlatans back in 1996.

He was an unlucky bugger, firstly his mate asks him to stop outside an off licence and his mate robs it at gunpoint, firing off a shot, which gets Rob 8 months inprisonment although he always maintained that he had no idea what was going on.

Then a few years later he dies in a car crash, ok I know he was over the limit and not wearing a seltbelt but even so he was a fantastically gifted keyboard player and the Charlatans were recording Tellin Stories at the time. A real shame that could've been avoided but I guess thats rock n roll!

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

Stuart Adamson. My favourite live band & one my all-time favourite bands. Saw them live so many times too!

when and how did he shrug off this mortal coil?

 

[C C Csiders]

when and how did he shrug off this mortal coil?

Topped himself about 8 years ago. IIRC in a hotel room in Finland. Can't be bothered to Google it, so take that as gospel.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Topped himself about 8 years ago. IIRC in a hotel room in Finland. Can't be bothered to Google it, so take that as gospel.

On 16 December 2001 he was found dead, by self-strangulation, in a room at the Best Western Plaza Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. At the time of death he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.279%

Allow me...That Michael Hutchence has got a lot to answer for....

 

[Rob Noxious]

when and how did he shrug off this mortal coil?

Took his own life at least five years ago.

 

[chadded]

Cheers Chadded, I knew someone would understand.

It hit me hard too. It's taken about 15 years for the Bill to recover.

 

[southend4ever]

Anyone said Jade Goody?

George Best.

 

[londonblue]

Cricko was a Coffin bearer....

You sure? I thought they told him where to go after he dropped Henry VII?

 

[palexander]

Kurt Cobain and Ayrton Senna for sure... **** couple of months that was in '94...

 

[grassroots]

Barry Sheene(cancer), James Hunt(heart attack), Graham Hill (plane crash) and Mike Hailwood(killed on way to get fish and chips, but hit lorry which was doing an illegal u-turn). All had retired from very dangerous carreers - I found that ironic.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Pete Duel.

 

[C C Csiders]

Pete Duel.

Yes me too. Both of him.

 

[Tinks]

Marc Bolan for me. I cried for days after although at the time I was in my teens

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Marvin Gaye.


I didn't hear about it on the news tho, ''I heard it through the grapevine''


Seriously tho, it was Marvin Gaye for me.