News Obituaries

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Sadness


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[Moll Flanders]

I liked her in ELR and her Christmas films.

 

[Joe]

Victoria Wood CBE, English comedian, actress, singer and songwriter, screenwriter and director dies.

Victoria Wood: 'Her shining genius never stopped unfurling'

 

[Moll Flanders]

Only 62 years old. F***ing cancer.

 

[peacefulveglady]

Prince the singer died they think
Prince Found Dead At Paisley Park Home

 

[Moll Flanders]

I read he had to be taken off a plane the other day because he was ill.

 

[Second Summer]

Prince the singer died they think
Prince Found Dead At Paisley Park Home

Oh no!

 

[Amy SF]

 

[peacefulveglady]

I read that Prince was found unresponsive in an elevator at his mansion type building.

 

[Joe]

Prince's publicist confirmed his death.

Prince's Publicist Releases Statement Confirming His Death

 

[Joe]

NFL video in remembrance of Prince, who did the half-time show during the Superbowl in 2007.

Remembering Prince's halftime show

 

[MadamSarcastra]

"thank u 4 a funky time"

 

[Moll Flanders]

I had forgotten that he wrote songs for other artists. Songs Prince Wrote for Others : People.com

 

[Joe]

Tavis Smiley interviews Prince on his PBS show.

Watch Full Episodes Online of Tavis Smiley on PBS | Singer-songwriter Prince: January 15th, 2013

 

[Joe]

A tearful Van Jones talks about Prince's humanitarianism and kindness on CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed....van-jones-remembers-prince-lemon-intv-ctn.cnn

 

[Spang]

[Prince] made ****-shaming irrelevant. By inviting women to be sexual on their own terms, to play with camp, to wear lingerie and throw down insane guitar licks, the women in Prince's crew presented power in myriad forms, and showed they were in on the joke, beating sexist reductions to the punch and turning them on their ear musically and otherwise.

Remembering Prince's Promotion and Celebration of Women

Also,

From 2004:

It’s that preposterous one-man-band virtuosity that insures Prince’s place in the rock-and-roll pantheon. In terms of sheer musical talent, Prince has no peer. He is both an anomaly in the history of twentieth-century pop music and that history’s logical end point–all of the excitement and grandeur and nonsense of rock and roll (and virtually every subgenre) embodied in one preening, doe-eyed, androgynous, biracial, sartorially resplendent, sexually and spiritually obsessed musical polymath. When he emerged from Minneapolis in the late 1970s wearing thigh-high boots and bikini underwear, he seemed like a period curio: a creature sprung from disco-era clubland who played choppy funk on New Wave keyboards. But by the time of Purple Rain, it was clear that Prince was a musician for the ages. He mashed together gospel, soul and funk, gentle folk, hard rock, Tin Pan Alley pop and a dozen other styles, sometimes–often–in the space of a single song. He played guitar like Jimi Hendrix and wrote melodies like the Beatles; in his remarkably nimble voice you could hear echoes of guttural James Brown, silken Al Green and John Lennon, in his hoarsest primal-scream mode. No one before Prince had done so many things so well; twenty-five years later, his successor has yet to arrive.

 

[Joe]

Billy Paul died Sunday, April 24, 2016.

 

[MadamSarcastra]

And the hits just keep on comin'....

 

[Amy SF]

It's a bad year for music - and it's only April.

 

[MadamSarcastra]

R.I.P. Morley Safer....

Morley Safer, CBS news legend, dies at 84