The R.I.P. Thread

[Templeton Peck]

First news memory was what must have been the Falklands being on telly. I was 6. Also remember my dad being very upset about John Lennon.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I can also remember Lennon. Another from 1980 was a huge plane crash at Chicago O Hare that basically killed all trust in the DC 10

 

[Paul]

Veranda? Were the servants allowed out too?

Conservatory, Orangery whatever you want to call it, it was 8' x 4' and had my Dads Honda 50 in it

 

[AndyWolves]

Falcon from Gladiators

 

[Paul]

Falcon from Gladiators

Lightning lived in Cannock at the time. Lightning, Ian 'Sludge' Lees it was a Mecca for TV's nobility, think of anyone from Market Drayton?............exactly !

 

[Johnny75]

Lightning lived in Cannock at the time. Lightning, Ian 'Sludge' Lees it was a Mecca for TV's nobility, think of anyone from Market Drayton?............exactly !

Tiffany as well.

(She’s not died but she did live in Cannock, not sure that’s an improvement)

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I should probably remember the Tenerife airport disaster as I was about 5 and it was obviously the most horrendous thing but I think my parents kept me away from the media of it. Whereas O’Hare there had been a national journalist strike and it was the first thing covered when the papers were back so it was everywhere

 

[SSB]

Falcon from Gladiators

Only read yesterday that Gladiators is coming back on BBC.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I flew out to Rhodes on hols with mum and dad about a week after Manchester. I was bricking it about planes catching fire

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

Another one that was really chilling, the first gulf War, I was on nights, sitting having my 'dinner' listening to the radio, a BBC reporter based in Bagdad talking about a missile cruising past his hotel window.

jeez there are so many, kennedy, the moon, but the two that stick out are the tavern in the town bomb, as i was halfway down the stairs going in when it went off,
And surprisingly the start of the arab/ israeli six day war. Sitting in a cafe with matrs from school and we were all positive and a little panicky that we would be sent to fight.

 

[Tony Towner]

the tavern in the town bomb, as i was halfway down the stairs going in when it went off,

You were even luckier than my dad then, he left half an hour or so before.

 

[leedswolf]

You were even luckier than my dad then, he left half an hour or so before.

Both luckier than me and my mates, who decided not to go into the city centre that evening and stay local (Snow Hill).

 

[ROVERT47]

And was it?

Yeah.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

You were even luckier than my dad then, he left half an hour or so before.

The word lucky doesnt cover it, i saw things and was involved in things that night that are as vivid today as they were at the time.
Still cant talk about it without cracking up.

 

[sycophantia]

Conservatory, Orangery whatever you want to call it, it was 8' x 4' and had my Dads Honda 50 in it

Our neighbours had what would now be called a conservatory which they called the verandah.
Don't think they had any servants, would have been considered a bit showy on a 60/70s Dudley council estate.

 

[The Bear]

Your first memory of the news is from when you were in your 20s?

That was the one which had the most impact on me.

 

[Paul]

Our neighbours had what would now be called a conservatory which they called the verandah.
Don't think they had any servants, would have been considered a bit showy on a 60/70s Dudley council estate.

That's where we differ, I was raised in the gateaux of Cheslyn Hay (like a ghetto only sweeter)

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

I can remember my dad being very upset over Elvis popping his clogs

I remember mine being upset when Roy Orbison died. Must have been late 80s as I was very young

 

[Tony Towner]

I remember mine being upset when Roy Orbison died. Must have been late 80s as I was very young

Crying?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Orbison was late 1988.