The R.I.P. Thread

[Quirkafleeg]

Denis Law sadly passes away.

 

[leedswolf]

A true legend.

 

[Wolftone]

I watched the documentary 'Lawman' recently.
Remember him from when I was a kid.
Great player, clever, skilful and TOUGH.
A legend.
R.I.P.

 

[leedswolf]

I watched the documentary 'Lawman' recently.
Remember him from when I was a kid.
Great player, clever, skilful and TOUGH.
A legend.
R.I.P.

Yeah, I was privileged to see him play several times (along with Charlton, Best et al).

 

[KiwiWolf61]

Yeah, I was privileged to see him play several times (along with Charlton, Best et al).

Likewise.

One of the greats.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

Yeah, I was privileged to see him play several times (along with Charlton, Best et al).

Me too.great player.

 

[Loki]

Last of the holy trinity. Also privileged to have seen them.

 

[leedswolf]

John Sykes, aged 65 years

 

[sycophantia]

John Sykes, aged 65 years

A year younger than me, sobering. Terrific guitar player, saw him with Thin Lizzy.

 

[Lupo]

Marianne Faithful, 78

 

[Wolftone]

Marianne Faithful, 78

....as tears go by...
R.I.P.

 

[Keef]

Andree Dumon 102,
nobody famous just one of the members of the comet line which helped allied airmen escape back to the UK during the war, eventually captured aged 20 after a comet line member told the Germans, sent to various concentration camps including Ravensbruck the all women camp, and Mauthausen where she was liberated, her health had suffered so badly, it was a year before she could stand and walk.
As always one step closer to not being living history and just being history

 

[leedswolf]

Slimming World founder, Margaret Miles-Bramwell, aged 76 years.

 

[leedswolf]

The infamous farmer Tony Martin, who shot dead a burglar in 1999, has died aged 80, his friend has said.

 

[DogWeasel]

Brian Murphy (92), actor, George & Mildred.

 

[Kenny]

I have moved the sitcom stuff over to the TV thread. Makes a couple of my death comments look odd but just keeps this thread tidy as the discussion on sitcoms went on a bit

 

[Keef]

P.H Moriarty 85, actor, probably best known as razors in the long Good Friday, and hatchet Harry in lock stock

 

[darlowolf64]

Surprised that this slipped through but Virginia Halas McCaskey, 102, principle owner of the Chicago Bears, passed away on 6th Feb

 

[Jack Regan]

Keef not an NFL fan.

 

[Keef]

Keef not an NFL fan.

Lot of the people I mention on here are from BBC news alerts, hearing it on radio news bulletins or twitter, so I’m not the only one who doesn’t care about NFL, especially if twitter never mentioned it.
I got Gary Shaw spectacularly wrong, because my villa mate said it on Facebook, then a couple of ex villa footballers from around the same time as Gary Shaw were mentioning him, then the club announced it so at that point it’s true isn’t it? Only it wasn’t.
P.H Moriarty came up on a usually reliable twitter feed, checked, couldn’t see it anywhere else so didn’t say anything, 3 days later other twitter feeds were talking about him dying, I checked and he’d died the day the first twitter feed said he had