OT: Obituaries Thread

[medinabuckeye1]

If You Could Read My Mind was a great song, Edmund Fitzgerald kind of sucked


https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1653215662783823873?t=v7YMv1ublqLIWIWp66Z9EA&s=19

Saw him in Akron almost exactly a year ago, May 14, 2022.

And I disagree, I love "Winds of November".

[ELA]

I think I went too hard. It's a decent song. But it's very repetitive for being like 7 minutes long. It's the first song that is always brought up when he is mentioned. And I don't think it deserves to be that

[longhorn320]

I think I went too hard. It's a decent song. But it's very repetitive for being like 7 minutes long. It's the first song that is always brought up when he is mentioned. And I don't think it deserves to be that

"Early Morning Rain" is another great song he wrote made famous by Peter, Paul and Mary

[NorthernOhioBuckeye]

I think I went too hard. It's a decent song. But it's very repetitive for being like 7 minutes long. It's the first song that is always brought up when he is mentioned. And I don't think it deserves to be that

I always liked some of his music. Sundown was a good song and a decent album. RIP

[MrNubbz]

If You Could Read My Mind was a great song, Edmund Fitzgerald kind of sucked

Um No actually compelling and haunting,kid from my home town went down on it.Many Buckeyes went down with the ship. The Captain was living in the Toledo area at the time. But Lightfoot songs were established before it came out. Always liked Care Free Highway the most,Sundown was clever also.
lines like
I can see her lyin' back in her satin dress
In a room where ya do what ya don't confess

She's been lookin' like a queen in a sailor's dream

I can see her lookin' fast in her faded jeans
She's a hard lovin' woman, got me feelin' mean
RIP Gordon

[MrNubbz]

Saw him in Akron almost exactly a year ago, May 14, 2022.

And I disagree, I love "Winds Gales of November".
 

FIFY but the point still stands

[ELA]

He was a good songwriter, but a GREAT storyteller.  His songs were never background music. Every single one was worth listening to the lyrics

[GopherRock]

https://youtu.be/PIq1ELxH2do

[Riffraft]

When I moved to the Phoenix Area, I assumed that Carefree Highway was named after the song not the other way around. 

[MrNubbz]

JIM BROWN 1936-2023 RIP JIMMY

May 19 (Reuters) - Jim Brown, one of the greatest running backs in the history of the National Football League who quit the game at the height of his career to act in Hollywood movies and add his voice to the civil rights movement, has died. He was 87.
Brown died on Thursday night, his wife Monique Brown said on Instagram.
"To the world he was an activist, actor, and football star. To our family, he was a loving and wonderful husband, father, and grandfather. Our hearts are broken," she wrote.

[MarqHusker]

Rip Iron Sheik.   Hogan defeated him to win the belt almost 40 years ago.

[CatsbyAZ]

Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto dies at 83, famous for ‘The Girl From Ipanema’




https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sVdaFQhS86E&pp=ygUhZ2lybCBmcm9tIGlwYW5lbWEgYXN0cnVkIGdpbGJlcnRv

[utee94]

RIP

I'm forever grateful that song exists, to provide us with this classic scene:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AZQox85JLI

[longhorn320]

Actor Treat Williams killed in motorcycle auto accident

He was 71

I first saw him in the movie 1941

RIP

He comes in around 3:14


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blDj_E0X9xI&t=157s