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TDCTDI
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Astronaut Paul Weitz who commanded the maiden voyage of NASA's Challenger.
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102317a-obituary-paul-weitz-astronaut.html
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GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
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MrBreeze
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 12:00 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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George Young, guitarist with the Easybeats and co-writer of their hit, “Friday On My Mind” (#16-1967), died Sunday (October 22) at the age of 70. George was the brother of Angus and Malcolm Young of AC/DC and produced the group’s early albums such as “Let There Be Rock” and “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”. George also wrote the John Paul Young tune, “Love Is In The Air” (#7-1977).
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 1:04 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Robert Guillaume.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.chicagotribune.com/...y,amp.html
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calvinater
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 1:59 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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so long Benson
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hazetguy
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:44 am Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Fats Domino, dead at 89.
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jwp67
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 3:37 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| Fats Domino, dead at 89. |
Ain't that a shame. 
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widefivebug
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 3:46 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| hazetguy wrote: |
| Fats Domino, dead at 89. |
Ain't that a shame. |
Yes, that is. |
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Q-Dog
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:12 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Fats says he didn't believe he invented rock and roll, but he couldn't remember anyone else playing that stuff before he did.
RIP Fat Man. 
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Zundfolge1432 
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| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2017 12:20 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Chuck Blackwell dead at 77. Chuck was a session drummer for Leon Russell and is closely associated with a genre of music known as the Tulsa Sound which was made famous by Russell,Eric Clapton,JJ Cale and others. He also worked with Joe Cocker, Taj Mahal, Little Richard, The Everly Brothers among others and picked up three gold records along the way.
After graduating high school he along with Leon Russell and David Gates moved to L.A. to be part of the Wrecking Crew. Later he toured with the Everly Brothers and in 1970 with Joe Cocker on the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour.
He also appeared on Shindig an ABC variety show. He also appears as session drummer for The Rolling Stones in the documentary "Rock and Roll Circus"
He retired in the 70s moved back to Tulsa and opened a stained glass business.
Another rock legend gone, although more obscure influential by any measure. |
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:15 am Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Robert Knight, original singer/song writer of "Everlasting Love".
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| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2017 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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WOW, that sucks! bummer!!!!
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KTPhil
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| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:33 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Richard Gordon, Apollo 12 astronaut.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Gordon_Jr.
I know today we take space for granted, either in real life as in the last Apollo and Shuttle missions, to the sci-fi, oh-so-easy world of Star Trek.
But think for a minute just what balls it took back in those early days to go into space. You had no backup, no rescue, no proof that the shit worked. You were the beta tester, and when it crashed, you crashed.
He started on Gemini in the mid-'60s.
Then on Apollo12, this guy circled the moon, a quarter of a million miles away, and all by his lonesome as the pair in the lander headed to the surface, and he orbited the dark side of the moon, so to speak, out of both visual and radio contact of any human being.
And we all know what happened on the next Apollo mission.
Big ones, man!
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coad
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| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:56 am Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Irv Refkin, one of the last spies who operated behind German lines in WWII:
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Irv Refkin, an impromptu but daring spy who served the United States and Britain as a saboteur, assassin and courier behind enemy lines in Europe during World War II, died on Thursday at his home in San Diego. He was 96.
. . . Mr. Refkin, a scrappy 5-foot-6 Wisconsin native, was said to have smuggled explosives to the French Resistance in Paris, infiltrated Nazi Germany to kill specific targets integral to the Nazi war machine, and sabotaged train tracks to slow the deployment of German tanks to Normandy before the Allied invasion on D-Day.
On his clandestine missions inside Germany, he would disguise himself in a Wehrmacht corporal’s uniform.
“No one,” he explained, “has ever noticed a corporal.”
He also carried out assignments in Italy, the Soviet Union and South Africa.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/obituaries/irv-...ottom-well
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Jon Schmid
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| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 12:50 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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On his clandestine missions inside Germany, he would disguise himself in a Wehrmacht corporal’s uniform.
“No one,” he explained, “has ever noticed a corporal.”
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Cpl. Klinger might beg to differ.  All kidding aside, this guy must have had church bells to do this kind of service for our country. |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:16 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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On his clandestine missions inside Germany, he would disguise himself in a Wehrmacht corporal’s uniform.
“No one,” he explained, “has ever noticed a corporal.”
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Cpl. Klinger might beg to differ. All kidding aside, this guy must have had church bells to do this kind of service for our country. |
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We missed this one way back in February, but Fritz Koenig who designed The Sphere placed between the Twin Towers died at age 92 on February 22, 2017.
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MrBreeze
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John Hillerman, who played stuffed-shirt Higgins to Tom Selleck's freewheeling detective Thomas Magnum in the 1980s TV series "Magnum, P.I." has died, his nephew said Thursday. Hillerman was 84.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 6:35 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| John Hillerman, who played stuffed-shirt Higgins to Tom Selleck's freewheeling detective Thomas Magnum in the 1980s TV series "Magnum, P.I." has died, his nephew said Thursday. Hillerman was 84. |
Blazing Saddles. |
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