The Dead Of 2011

[time 8,599]

Get sentimental with a review of the dead of 2011: http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-16299678

 

...and another one, more general (as opposed to just 'the arts').

[angryGreatness 96]

http://www.sporcle.com/games/SporcleEXP/notabledead_2011#

 

 

Another lookback, this time in the form of a quiz.

[Guest Guest]

The British pop music industry is mourning the death of Mike Smith http://www.independe...es-6283369.html

[sympathyforthedevil 11]

The British pop music industry is mourning the death of Mike Smith http://www.independe...es-6283369.html

 

So he was 'the man who turned down the Beatles'. What a fool

[themaninblack 2,112]

The British pop music industry is mourning the death of Mike Smith http://www.independe...es-6283369.html

 

So he was 'the man who turned down the Beatles'. What a fool

 

I thought that was Dick Rowe?

[Estuarian Float 97]

Ceramic artist Eva Zeisel is dead at 105.

[deadsox 894]

Ceramic artist Eva Zeisel is dead at 105.

 

A pity. She was going to be a Gray Panther in 2012.

[Guest Guest]

goodbye 2011 you useless shit of a year. may you never be repeated! 7 bloody hits.pathetic !

[Guest Lukas Tucek]

Vaclav Havel died today as well-

if PM stands for Prime Minister - you might be wrong by Vaclav Havel - he was a President

[Guest Guest]

I thought this thread was locked....

[Paul Bearer 6,101]

Barry Clayton who has died aged 80, was a pioneer of black TV and radio programming. More famously, he narrated Count Duckula and also did the spoken intro for Iron Maiden's Number of The Beast.

 

Can anybody confirm the date of his death please?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cancel that, just found out it was 21.12.11.

Edited January 10, 2012 by Paul Bearer
found date

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

^{Just listening to the Radio Four obit for Barry Reckord, d 20 Dec.}

 

 

 

^{http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsR/reckord-barry.html}