In Memoriam

[GoCubsGo]

I was unaware of all the health problems he had, sort of amazing he lived as long as he did much less touring.

https://geniuscelebs.com/gordon-lightfo ... %20reasons.

[GoCubsGo]

Bye bye.

Trending on Twitter....Rest in Hell.



https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Rest%20 ... cal=trends

[Vrede too]

GoCubsGo BARELY beat me to it.

Controversial Televangelist Pat Robertson Dies At 93
Robertson built an empire but ultimately became a caricature of the angry, bigoted Christian.

Suffer in Hell, Pastor Pat.

[GoCubsGo]

GoCubsGo BARELY beat me to it.

Controversial Televangelist Pat Robertson Dies At 93
Robertson built an empire but ultimately became a caricature of the angry, bigoted Christian.

Suffer in Hell, Pastor Pat.

God works in mysterious ways.

[neoplacebo]

So long to that asshole. Here's a better one. Oldest CA state worker dies after 80 years of service. She died late last month; would have been 103 later this month.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-go ... 98921.html

[O Really]

The world is a better place, less one miserable hate-monger.

[billy.pilgrim]

https://news.yahoo.com/cormac-mccarthy- ... 30329.html

Cormac McCarthy

[Vrede too]

The world is a better place, less one miserable hate-monger.

The world is a worse place, less one brilliant peace activist:
History-making whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has died at 92

Hero, RIP.

We were at the same events several times, but we never spoke.

[Vrede too]

Former Connecticut Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., maverick senator during Watergate, dies at 92

One of the last decent Republicans. He was the only U.S. senator, Dem or GOP, to get arrested at the South Africa embassy in the 80s, a fact I delighted in throwing in the face of Dem Sen Max Baucus (MT) during a town hall. RIP.

[Vrede too]

Alan Arkin

... For his performance as a foul-mouthed grandfather in Little Miss Sunshine (2006), he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor....

Brilliant in this and so many other roles. RIP.

[billy.pilgrim]

"Birthed from the desolate hollers of Southeastern Kentucky (and coming of age near Dayton, Ohio), the Osborne Brothers kicked things up a few notches, taking the traditional bluegrass of Monroe and pushing it across the once-forbidden musical boundaries into popular country music. Radio jingles like “Rocky Top”'

https://youtu.be/mJNU7YqTBks

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... 234780880/

[Vrede too]

"Birthed from the desolate hollers of Southeastern Kentucky (and coming of age near Dayton, Ohio), the Osborne Brothers kicked things up a few notches, taking the traditional bluegrass of Monroe and pushing it across the once-forbidden musical boundaries into popular country music. Radio jingles like “Rocky Top”'

https://youtu.be/mJNU7YqTBks

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... 234780880/

Bluegrass Lost Two Pioneers in Mere Days: Why Bobby Osborne and Jesse McReynolds Matter
The mandolin players were members of the first class of bluegrass. Says contemporary picker Ronnie McCoury: "This is the end of that generation"

Bobby Osborne, 91
Osborne Brothers, until 2005

Jesse McReynolds, 93
High Fidelity (feat. Jesse McReynolds), "Tears of Regret" [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO], just 2 1/2 years ago

RIP

Ronnie McCoury

[GoCubsGo]

She struggled with mental health. Hope she's found peace.

What a wonderful song.

[Vrede too]

She struggled with mental health. Hope she's found peace.

What a wonderful song.

https://twitter.com/DannyDeraney/status ... 8826600448

She was right about John Paul II and the Church, years before it was cool.

Full version:


Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (Official Music Video) [HD]

Very very few people can say without question that they did a Prince song better than Prince. That's not to say that his version wasn't great, too, greater than even he knew until Sinéad covered it.

Prince - Nothing Compares 2 U (Official Music Video)

The following is previously unseen rehearsal footage of Prince & The Revolution from the summer of 1984. It was in this very room at Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse in Eden Prairie, Minnesota that Prince created and committed to tape one of his most beloved and iconic compositions, which six years later would become a worldwide hit for Sinead O’Connor. Prince’s original studio version of "Nothing Compares 2 U" is presented here for the first time.

https://www.eightieskids.com/why-sinead ... -her-head/

RIP

[GoCubsGo]

Thought I'd heard he wrote it for her. Guess not.

Cool to hear though.

[Vrede too]

Thought I'd heard he wrote it for her. Guess not.

Cool to hear though.

Right.

Nothing Compares 2 U

[GoCubsGo]

Thought I'd heard he wrote it for her. Guess not.

Cool to hear though.

Right.

Nothing Compares 2 U

Sinéad O'Connor recorded the song for her 1990 second album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got with a completely new arrangement by her and producer Nellee Hooper. O'Connor's version is in the key of F major

[Vrede too]

Sinéad O'Connor recorded the song for her 1990 second album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got with a completely new arrangement by her and producer Nellee Hooper. O'Connor's version is in the key of F major

Nellee Hooper has a helluva resume'.

Since NBC News chose to cut from holding up the intace pic to tossing the pieces - stupid, mean and cowardly:


Sinéad O'Connor rips up picture of Pope John Paul II
SNL 3 October 1992



Fwiw, Entertainment Tonight, also on NBC, showed the full clip. Go figure.

[O Really]

Randy Meisner - nobody ever did "Take It To The Limit" like he did.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/music/news/ra ... 8339&ei=77

[neoplacebo]

Yeah, that was the first story I saw this morning on yahoo. Or at least the first one I clicked on. RIP