News Obituaries

[SuicideBlonde]

Pete Burns: Dead or Alive singer dies aged 57 - BBC News

 

[KLS52]

1960s pop singer Bobby Vee also died.

Bobby Vee: 1960s pop singer dies aged 73 - BBC News

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I don't think he had a song that I didn't love.

 

[MadamSarcastra]

I don't think he had a song that I didn't love.

Listening to the Fresh Air interview with him now....

 

[Joe]

Jack Chick died recently.

Jack Thomas Chick (April 13, 1924 – October 23, 2016) was an American cartoonist and publisher, best known for his evangelical fundamentalist Christian "Chick tracts", which presented his perspective on a variety of issues through sequential-art morality plays.

Many of Chick's views were controversial, as he accused Roman Catholics, Freemasons, Muslims, Jews, and many other groups of murder and conspiracies.[3] His comics have been described by Robert Ito, in the Los Angeles magazine, as "equal parts hate literature and fire-and-brimstone sermonizing".[4]

Jack Chick - Wikipedia

See also:

The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated Chick Publications as an active hate group.[57] The group was listed due to its strong anti-Catholic, anti-Muslim, and anti-homosexual rhetoric.[58] Chick's views on homosexuality have angered gay activists since his first tract on the subject in 1972. ("The Gay Blade" tract warned of a gay agenda to push for same sex marriage and urged homosexuals to repent so they could make it into heaven.)

Chick's critics (such as talk.origins, Hindu American Foundation, and Catholic Answers) have accused him of misrepresentation.

Chick tract - Wikipedia

 

[Joe]

Elvis Presley has been dead since 1977.

And he is still topping the charts with album sales.

Elvis Presley beats Madonna to album chart record - BBC News

 

[Joe]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/us/janet-reno-dead.html

 

[shyvas]

Marianne Ihlen: More than Leonard Cohen's muse

Leonard Cohen dead at 82: tributes pour in to legendary singer-songwriter

RIP

 

[MadamSarcastra]

I watched Pump Up The Volume (1990) last night because Cohen's "Everybody Knows" is featured heavily... Love that tune! Extremely appropriate for now... and quite eerie how, at about 1 minute, the silhouette in the candle looks like Trump!

Leonard Cohen Is Gone: The Broken-Hearted Scoundrel and Master of Lament Dies at Home, 'Writing up Until His Last Moments'

R.I.P.

 

[Amy SF]

Rocker Leon Russell, whose hits included 'Tight Rope' and 'Lady Blue,' dies at 74

 

[MadamSarcastra]

PBS NewsHour Co-anchor Gwen Ifill Dies at 61 | Press

 

[Mischief]

PBS NewsHour Co-anchor Gwen Ifill Dies at 61 | Press

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This is a great, great loss, especially at this time.

 

[silva]

I was completely floored by that, I didn't know she had cancer!
She was such a great journalist!

 

[Joe]

Actor and activist Robert Vaughn has died.

See: Robert Vaughn, ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Star, Dies at 83

On his activism, see: Robert Vaughn Was The Greatest Actor-Activist You've Never Heard Of - The Establishment

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Sharon Jones, Powerhouse Soul Singer, Dies at 60
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/arts/music/sharon-jones-dap-kings-dead.html

Miss Sharon Jones, a
Queen Among Dap-Kings
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/miss-sharon-jones-a-queen-among-dap-kings/

I'm listening to her Fresh Air interview from last July right now. Jesus, what a voice... in every sense of the word.

 

[Amy SF]

Florence Henderson, 'The Brady Bunch' mom, dies at 82

 

[silva]

Florence Henderson, 'The Brady Bunch' mom, dies at 82

I had the tv on while browsing and at the same moment i read this, there was the Hair club commercial on tv with Peter Brady!

 

[Amy SF]

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies aged 90

 

[Joe]

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies aged 90

Folk singer David Rovics has a song in tribute to Castro.

 

[Joe]

CBS News on Florence Henderson's death.

 

[Amy SF]

John Glenn, American hero, aviation icon and former U.S. senator, dies at 95



Goodbye to a genuine American hero.

(2016 just keeps getting worse.)