The RIP Thread...

[Altissimus]

Harry Belafonte , multi discipline artist ... Civil Rights work as well

 

[stikine]

Gordon Lightfoot

 

[cory]

It is fascinating to me that Gordon read about TWEF in a Time magazine article and adapted most of the song's lyrics directly from the article. Tens of thousands of people read the same article yet only he wrote a huge hit directly from it, of course adding the beautiful melody.

#genius

How ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Defied Top 40 Logic (Published 2023)

Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 folk ballad told the true story of a shipwreck on Lake Superior. One of his old friends called it “a documentarian’s song.”

www.nytimes.com

 

[cory]

Whutta song

 

[stikine]

Tina Turner...83.

 

[Altissimus]

Big talent with a tough story ...

 

[pigwot]

Milan Kundera at 94

“Mr. Kundera himself wrote in “Insignificance,” “We’ve known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There’s been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.”

He had struck a similar note in 1985, on accepting the Jerusalem Prize, one of several honors he received:

“There is a fine Jewish proverb,” he said in his acceptance speech: “Man thinks, God laughs.” And then a fine Kunderian flourish:
“But why does God laugh? Because man thinks and the truth escapes him. Because the more men think, the more one man’s thought diverges from another’s. And finally, because man is never what he thinks he is.””

 

[pete mctree]

Sinead O’Connor passed yesterday- a brilliant but troubled soul who spoke her mind. I admired her passion and loved her music

 

[stikine]

Robbie Robertson, Master Storyteller Who Led the Band, Dead at 80

The Band’s guitarist and primary songwriter collaborated with Bob Dylan and penned “The Weight,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” and “Up on Cripple Creek,…

www.rollingstone.com

 

[CurSedVoyce]

This is one of my favorite songs from him...

 

[vharrison]

Jimmy Buffet, 76 years old

Damn.

His lyrics are my signature

Just damn, a Key West Legend.

My dentist was his dentist

Damn

 

[Burnham]

The sounds of our youth, Gigi.

 

[treebilly]

Richard Affolter Obituary - Canton, OH

Celebrate the life of Richard Affolter, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Karlo-Libby Funeral Home & Sunset Hills Memory Gardens.

www.dignitymemorial.com

 

[lxskllr]

Condolences Rich :^(

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Sorry man 😔

 

[flushcut]

I am sorry for your loss Rich! Air hugs.

 

[stikine]

Sorry Rich.

 

[Mick!]

That’s rough Rich, losing your dad is tough, your whole world changes because your reference point is gone.
70 is no age.
Best to your mum and family.

 

[pete mctree]

So sorry Rich.

 

[Bermy]

Condolences Rich. (hug)

 

[Cobleskill]

Sorry Rich.

 

[Steve Mack]

Sorry Rich, my condolences.

 

[vharrison]

So sorry for your loss. 70 is to young to go.

 

[treebilly]

Thank you all. It’s rough but not unexpected. Failing health since a stroke in early 2020. Smoking from 12 till 66 did not help things.

 

[Burnham]

I have no helpful words but send real sympathy. I still miss my father greatly after more than 20 years.