The Ones That Will Truly Be Missed Who Died In 2013.

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Iain Banks, one of my favourite authors.

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Lou Reed

Chrissie Amphlett

Ray Manzarek

Jeff Hanneman

Bernie Nolan

Richard Briers

 

All of whom had some influence, great or small, on my childhood and teenage years.

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Allan Arbus and Jon Finch. I know the latter died in 2012 but we didn't know until 2013 so he counts. I'm surprised no-one has said Bob Godfrey yet.

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Bob Godfrey of course! Throw in Richard Briers as well while we're at it...

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Notable deaths according to the BBC

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Avoided posting in this and the opposite thread (till now) because I have a habit of mistaking opposites, and knowing me I'd have said "the three Nazis come to mind" in this one by accident.

 

 

So I'll say most of the writers. Been a bit of a crap year for lit.

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Richard Briers

Lou Reed

Mel Smith

 

are probably the ones who've made the biggest impact on my life in a non-political sense.

 

James Gandolfini was probably the most surprising death of the year. Ray Manzarek and Peter O'Toole will be missed, though I wasn't a major fan of either. Chrissy Amphlett, Jeff Hannemann. Bernie Nolan was one of the few Nolan sisters I've not seen in the flesh. And Kevin Ayers joins an ever-increasing list of people I've got into just before they died... he was so beautiful when he was young.

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Notable deaths according to the BBC

 

That's a real tough one to watch, just seeing how many left us in the past year.

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_{I wilI miss Dennis Farina, Jean Stapleton, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Peter O Toole, Eileen Brennan, Annette Funicello, and Joan Fontaine}

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Tony Gubba for me, as I have a signed picture of him which I'm sure has virtually doubled in value.

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Tony Gubba for me, as I have a signed picture of him which I'm sure has virtually doubled in value.

 

Standard British sarcasm aside.... he was a decent and coherent commentator in a sea of utter wank and drivel that we have to listen to when we put the sports on.

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Tony Gubba for me, as I have a signed picture of him which I'm sure has virtually doubled in value.

 

Standard British sarcasm aside.... he was a decent and coherent commentator in a sea of utter wank and drivel that we have to listen to when we put the sports on.

 

I'm sure this is true, I'm not a huge football fan but do appreciate a good commentary, as my love of James Whitham and Jack Burnicle proves.

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Fairy nuff.

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A little part of my memory will always have a place for Tony Gubba with Paul Canoville at Hillsborough in a common or garden League Cup tie in the mid-1980s...

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Sir David Frost

Mick McManus

And the two old rascals Ronnie Biggs & Bruce Reynolds.

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Ronnie Biggs

Nelson Mandela

Richard Briers

Margaret Thatcher

Reg Presley

Bernie Nolan

Peter O Toole

Anna Wing

Sir David Frost

 

I was saddened by these deaths but didnt shed a tear _but that is more due to a lack of showing emotion !

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Geoffrey Wheeler, devised Winner Takes All. absolute gent

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Alan Whicker (Whickers World).Motorcyclist Andrea Antonelli (World Supersport)

 

Biggest honor Whicker got was an island named after him.

 

 

(Any excuse to post this clip of course!)

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Just found out that a week ago someone posted the BBC tribute for Mel Smith on Youtube, in it's full length. I'm not British but NTNOCN was also broadcast in the Netherlands. So Smith is also well known to me. I saw this tribute first time around on TV. Nice to know you, who missed the opportunity, can watch it now as well. I'm not to ashamed to say I was a bit emotional as well. I miss the geezer...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cYhMtF1ceo

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Conrad Bain

Giulio Andreotti

Jiroemon Kimura

Tonino Accolla

Nelson Mandela

Enzo Jannacci

Margherita Hack

Marcia Wallace

James Avery

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James Herbert

Iain M Banks

Mel Smith

Frank Thornton

Ray Harryhausen

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My dog.