Dead Pop Stars

[Thatcher 2,417]

Laudir de Oliveira, a Brazilian percussionist who played with Chicago from 1973-1982, has died aged 77. He played on their albums Chicago VI until Chicago XIV. Their biggest hit was If You Leave Me Now, which went to #1 in the UK and USA, as well as Australia and Canada.

 

[YoungWillz 21,050]

3 minutes ago, Thatcher said:

Laudir de Oliveira, a Brazilian percussionist who played with Chicago from 1973-1982, has died aged 77. 

Link requires some sort of sign in, unavailable to read for me.

[Thatcher 2,417]

8 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Link requires some sort of sign in, unavailable to read for me.

Does it work if you try the original?

[YoungWillz 21,050]

1 minute ago, Thatcher said:

Does it work if you try the original? 

Nope, some kind of facebook thing comes up and freezes the page.

[Thatcher 2,417]

14 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Nope, some kind of facebook thing comes up and freezes the page.

That's strange, it's working alright for me. Here is the tweet from their account which announces the death, maybe we'll have to wait for another source to provide an obituary.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

14 hours ago, Thatcher said:

Laudir de Oliveira, a Brazilian percussionist who played with Chicago from 1973-1982, has died aged 77. He played on their albums Chicago VI until Chicago XIV. Their biggest hit was If You Leave Me Now, which went to #1 in the UK and USA, as well as Australia and Canada.

 

Pretty damn sure Chicago needs no introduction.

[Whitehouse 872]

I fucking hate that song! I was eight years old and it was playing every hour on the radio. 

 

[FixedBusiness 407]

21 minutes ago, Whitehouse said:

I fucking hate that song! I was eight years old and it was playing every hour on the radio. 

 

I'm with you on that one. I actually hate Chicago as a whole, but only because of the anus vocals that sound like Chad Kroeger trying to do a Pee Wee Herman impression.

[Toast 16,140]

1 hour ago, Whitehouse said:

I fucking hate that song!

 

That makes three of us.  It has bad associations.

[msc 18,476]

It doesn't have bad associations for me, I just think it's shite.

 

RIP anyhow.

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218]

I like it

Fuck you all.

[Toast 16,140]

Well, it was on the bloody radio all the time following the sudden and traumatic death of a friend, so you can probably understand where I'm coming from.

[themaninblack 2,112]

I think it's a nice cheesy song but whenever I see their TV appearance from 1976 performing it, I always think "that's why punk had to happen..."

 

[Lard Bazaar 3,799]

 

Best love song ever

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

18 hours ago, FixedBusiness said:

I'm with you on that one. I actually hate Chicago as a whole, but only because of the anus vocals that sound like Chad Kroeger trying to do a Pee Wee Herman impression.

 

 

To be fair - really early Chicago were an ambitious bunch hell-bent on pushing the same limits the likes of Blood, Sweat and Tears were pushing; it's just that hits and radio play were essential because there were so fucking many of them on stage; so the blanding out was inevitable.

[YoungWillz 21,050]

Mark Lewisohn reports the death of Fourmost bassist Billy Hatton: https://twitter.com/marklewisohn/status/910147523934908417

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourmost

 

UK #6 A Little Loving

 

 

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218]

20 hours ago, Toast said:

Well, it was on the bloody radio all the time following the sudden and traumatic death of a friend, so you can probably understand where I'm coming from.

I do Toastie.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

30 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Mark Lewisohn reports the death of Fourmost bassist Billy Hatton: https://twitter.com/marklewisohn/status/910147523934908417

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourmost

 

UK #6 A Little Loving

 

 

 

[bladan 293]

Is there already a thread for completely dead rock bands? I mean bands like Jimi Hendrix Experience or Emerson, Lake & Powell? Which band will be next – Bee Gees?

[ObakeFilter 902]

13 minutes ago, bladan said:

Is there already a thread for completely dead rock bands? I mean bands like Jimi Hendrix Experience or Emerson, Lake & Powell? Which band will be next – Bee Gees?

There was a discussion about it in the Eric Clapton thread.

Neu can be a good choice, but I don't know if Michael Rother is old/ill enough.

The Stooges is also close to it.

[Thatcher 2,417]

On 28/08/2017 at 19:55, Spade_Cooley said:

Charles Bradley cancelling yet more shows due to "colitis". 

He couldn't, could he?

Dead aged 68 - a DDP pick.

 

Edit: Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Guardian, The Independent, The Times, The Sun, The Telegraph, BBC obituaries.

[Joey Russ 7,228]

1 minute ago, Thatcher said:

Dead.

Ah, FFS...

[Death Impends 7,976]

Mirror's the first with the QO

[Spade_Cooley 9,528]

RIP big man, you were good as Krampus in American Dad,

[drol 11,947]

This teaches you to never underestimate colithis, expecially if you are a deadpooler.