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14 April 2010
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The last human to walk on the moon has died.
R.I.P. Eugene Andrew “Gene” Cernan, CAPT, USN
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1 November 2013
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The last? More like the latest. I’m sure that more will be up there.
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14 April 2010
Offline She’s gone. My first TV crush. Laura Petrie. Mary Richards. Gone. I am glad I was home when I heard the news of Mary Tyler Moore’s passing at age 80. More than one tear was shed. I remember being filled with sadness as the credits rolled on the last episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1977. Today, my heart aches.
R.I.P. Mary Tyler Moore
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12.20am
11 November 2010
Offline This happened a couple days ago, but I wasn’t aware until an hour or so ago.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Butch Trucks, a co-founder and drummer for the Allman Brothers Band, passed away Tuesday night at his home in West Palm Beach, Florida, his booking agent, Page Stallings, told CNN. Trucks was 69.
Trucks fell in love with playing the drums as a young man — despite his Baptist parents not wanting him to be involved with secular music. The Jacksonville, Florida, native was raised in a strict religious home.
In an interview with Classic Bands, Trucks said he briefly worked a “straight job” before linking up with what would become the Allman Brothers Band in 1969.
“About a week into that job, Duane and Gregg [Allman] were in town playing with the Allman Joys and I got a call from ’em saying their drummer had just quit, and they wanted me to come fill in, so I did,” Trucks said. “I filled in for a couple of nights. After a couple of nights they said, ‘Hey, your band is great. You guys like Bob Dylan? This club owner loves Bob Dylan. You played Dylan, Byrds, and that kind of thing. Why don’t you guys audition and you can all just take over our gig for us?’ So we did and the club owner loved us, and we wound up working there for the next two years.”
That came after promising live gigs around the South and a disastrous stint in Los Angeles, where a record label had tried to mold them into a psychedelic rock band.
Gregg became the band’s chief songwriter, while Duane, who had played on records by Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett as a session picker, was its guitar whiz and de facto leader.
For years, Trucks and drummer Jai Johanny “Jaimoe” Johanson kept the beat side by side.
The Allman Brothers Band eventually settled in Macon, Georgia, and are widely considered among the pioneers of Southern rock.
In 2016, Trucks told Forbes that becoming stars in the music industry was one of the worst things that could have happened.
“The music became secondary to being rock stars,” he said. “The sex and drugs outweighed the rock and roll.”
Duane Allman died in a Macon motorcycle crash in 1971. Bassist Berry Oakley was killed in a motorcycle crash the following year
The Allman Brothers continued to play on — breaking up and reuniting multiple times in the decades that followed.
The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
They retired in 2014, but Trucks still performed with his son Vaylor and Oakley’s son Berry Jr. as a part of Freight Train Band. His nephew, Derek Trucks, also has had a successful music career.
“Something happens when the music starts and all that tiredness just goes away,” Butch Trucks said about performing in his 60s. “When it’s going like that, I’ll take on any 20-year-old hot-shot drummer who wants to try me. In those hours, I’m just soaring.”
Rest in peace.
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RIP John Hurt http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/ce…..ho-9709268
I had a strange premonition about this (or deja vu). I thought I saw a headline about John Hurt this week and at the time thought “Oh no he must have died” and reading the article he hadn’t.
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ewe2, moriz, Pablo Ramon, BeatlebugPivotal Moments in Beatles History No.118: Yoko helps herself to one of George's digestives.
8.35am
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17 December 2012
Offline RIP to the American Constitution under President Trump.
She was a real beauty who will be missed by much of the rest of the world.
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9.33am
1 November 2013
Offline Rip the sun
Haven’t seen you in a few days so you must be dead.
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12 November 2015
Offline RIP John Wetton.
These are depressing times for prog fans.
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Evangeline, sir walter raleigh, ewe2Grooving some cookie spaghetti since 1968.
6.09pm
26 January 2017
Offline Wetton is another guy I couldn’t appreciate until his passing. While I prefer late sixties King Crimson, and I see Robert Fripp as the mind behind the magic, Wetton is a lot more responsible for the great music from Asia.
Rip John Wetton
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-Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues
"We could ride and surf together while our love would grow"
-Brian Wilson, Surfer Girl
6.40am
17 January 2016
Offline With every paper I’d deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn’t take one more step.
When I read about his widowed bride
Something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.
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9.26am
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17 December 2012
Offline Half of one of the great British comedy writing partnerships, Alan Simpson of Galton and Simpson, has passed at the age of 87. Their star shone briefly but brightly in the late fifties and early sixties, when they created two of British comedies shining gems: Hancock’s Half Hour
and Steptoe and Son (remade as Sanford and Son in the US).
Galton and Simpson have a small role in Beatles history in that Paul’s grandfather as played by Wilfred Brambell in A Hard Day’s Night (“He’s very clean”) was created as the opposite to the “dirty old man” he played as Steptoe.
RIP Alan, and thanks for the laughter.
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8.28pm
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17 December 2012
Offline The funky drummer, the great Clyde Stubblefield, has passed at the age of 73 from kidney failure.
One of the backbone members of the Famous Flames from 1965 on, his place in history was set during the 1970 nine minute + Funky Drummer jam.
After a request from the Godfather of Soul, at 5:21 Stubblefield knocks out an eight-bar break that would go on to become the most sampled piece of music in history, with it used in over 1300 songs and counting.
And unreported at the time, it has emerged this week that Bobby Freeman, who did the original of Do You Want to Dance, passed away following a heart attack on 23 January at the age of 76.
Two great losses. This year ain’t gonna be any better for losing the pioneers and the greats. Feck!
RIP Clyde! RIP Bobby!
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12.08am
8 January 2015
Offline Awww Clyde 🙁 Beautiful feel, irreplaceable.
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1 December 2009
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RIP jazz (and jazz-rock) guitar legend Larry Coryell (I posted about him once in passing https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..-5/#p78819)
(Listen quick for the “Eleanor Rigby ” quote)
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12.37am
8 February 2014
Offline 8 I hope this doesn’t creep anyone out too much but this Is Matt’s wife. I finally just had the courage to come on here and read the wonderful things that were said about him. It means so much to read these things.
My husband loved this forum so much and he always talked about what great people you were. Thank you everyone.
Zig said
@Joe , @meanmistermustard , @Ahhh Girl and fellow Fab Forum members:I am deeply saddened to inform you that our friend and fellow Forum member Matt Busby has passed away. On Facebook, his wife informed us today that he died on 7 October. The cause was not listed. He was 53.
From the outpouring of FB posts from family and friends it is apparent he was loved and respected by many. All of us who have read his posts here in the Forum know that he was incredibly friendly, open, honest and had a deep affection for The Beatles. He attended many Fab Festivals and always shared those experiences with us. It comforts me a little to know that he finally got to see Paul McCartney this past summer. Now, he will be with John, the Georges, Brian, Mal, et al.
On a personal note, he and I shared many PM’s and had great conversations about The Beatles, the Forum, family and life. I affectionately referred to him as “old man” because he was only a few months older than I. Then, on my birthday, he would return the “old man” barb right back at me. My heart aches over the loss of our beautiful friend.
“And in the end…the love you take is equal to the love you make”. He will take a lot. Please join me in saying goodbye.
R.I.P. @Matt Busby
With much love,
Zig
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20 August 2013
Offline Thank you for reaching out to us, @Matt Busby’s wife, aka our Mrs. Busby. I hope he is grooving to some Beatles tunes wherever he is now.
Peace & Love from us to you.
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9.23am
18 April 2013
Offline Yes, I appreciate your comment as well, @Matt Busby’s wife. I hope you are doing well. We are always here if you need us.
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1.52pm
19 October 2016
Offline A fantastic tribute to the late Allan Williams featuring Mark Lewisohn this week on the Something About the Beatles podcast.
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17 December 2012
Offline Rest in peace, Friendly.
My deepest condolences, @Ahhh Girl.
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11.48am
11 November 2010
Offline RIP Friendly. 🙁
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