… and worth knowing about.
My Bowie records
Lemmy! OK he died in late 2015 but he set the trend and was buried in 2016! – age 70
JANUARY
04 – Robert Stigwood, age 81
10 – Much much lamented David Bowie, age 69
14 – Alan Rickman, age 69
28 – Should’ve mourned him more, but I didn’t find out until later, being in Mozambique: Paul Kantner, age 74
FEBRUARY
03 – Maurice White, age 74
19 – Harper Lee, age 89
28 – George Kennedy, age 91
MARCH
06 –Don’t much care about her, but she was a feature in the 80s: Nancy Reagan, age 94
08 – Sir George Martin, age 90
10 – Keith Emerson, age 71
22 – And a mention for Rob Ford, crack smoking Mayor of Toronto, Canada – age 46. He sure lived it up.
APRIL
06 – Merle Haggard, age 79
20 – Victoria Wood, age 62
21 – Prince, age 57
24 – Burt Kwouk, Clouseau’s Chinese manservant, – age 85
JUNE
03 – Muhammad Ali, age 74
16 – Much much lamented Jo Cox, British Labour Party Member of Parliament , age 41
27 – Bud Spencer, Spaghetti Western actor. I loved him in God Forgives… I Don’t! – age 86
28 – Scotty Moore, Guitarist in Elvis Preseley’s backing band – age 84
JULY
02 – Michael Cimino, age 77
02 – Elie Wiesel, age 87
02 – Caroline Aherne, age 52
AUGUST
29 – Gene Wilder, age 83
SEPTEMBER
16 Edward Albee, age 88
17 – Charmian Carr, Liesl Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, age 73
28 – Added because he was a huge personality: Shimon Peres, age 93
OCTOBER
23 – Pete Burns, age 57
24 – Bobby Vee, age 73
NOVEMBER
07 – Leonard Cohen, age 82
11 – Robert Vaughn, age 83
13 – Leon Russell, age 74
23 – Andrew Sacks, “Manuel” in Faulty Towers – age 86
25 – Fidel Castro, age 90
28 – Jim Delligatti, created The Big Mac and single-handedly invented obesity – age 98
DECEMBER
07 – Greg Lake, age 69
08 – John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth – age 95
18 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, age 99
24 – Richard Adams, age 96
24 – Rick Parfitt, age 68
25 – George Michael, age 53
27 – Carrie Fisher, age 60
28 – Debbie Reynolds, age 84
Finally, a song in their memory.
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