So farewell then...

**nigel-harps1954** · 14/04/2015, 7:13 PM

http://www.northjersey.com/news/acto...e-88-1.1308067

Grandma Addams from the Addams Family died there a couple of days ago.

**Lionel Ritchie** · 15/04/2015, 3:06 PM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Away off to the dark end of the street.

I have to admit I thought he was dead 20 or 30 years.

I must be mixing him up with Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson AND Marvin Gaye.

**nigel-harps1954** · 28/04/2015, 11:03 AM

A sad day for Orville the Duck as Keith Harris tips on.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra...th-harris-dies

**Mr A** · 28/04/2015, 1:06 PM

Simply have to post this piece of brilliance.

https://twitter.com/profanityswan/st...00734414786560

**OwlsFan** · 30/04/2015, 5:34 PM

The Michelin man, the real one: Mr. François Michelin http://www.michelin.com/eng/media-ro...ncois-Michelin

I think her deserves a thread.

**Eminence Grise** · 01/05/2015, 5:59 PM

First Percy Sledge, now Ben E King.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/01/ben-e-king

And, a few days ago, lead singer of The Kingsmen, Jack Ely.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/ar...t-71.html?_r=0

**nigel-harps1954** · 06/05/2015, 3:35 PM

It's not been a good time for music recently.
Errol Brown is the latest to hit the great gig in the sky.

**OwlsFan** · 06/05/2015, 4:38 PM

I remember him well on Top of the Pops. He's had his last hot chocolate.

**The Fly** · 07/05/2015, 1:59 AM

Jerome Boateng.

**Spudulika** · 13/05/2015, 2:16 PM

Derek Davis passed on today. Kind of staple person from my tv childhood. Not a very pleasant person to deal with and not very polite. But he was very funny.

**nigel-harps1954** · 13/05/2015, 2:22 PM

Originally Posted by Spudulika

Derek Davis passed on today. Kind of staple person from my tv childhood. Not a very pleasant person to deal with and not very polite. But he was very funny.

That's made me very sad. Easily one of the most recognisable faces from Irish TV in the 80's and 90's.

**TheBoss** · 15/05/2015, 5:52 AM

Yet another musical icon has died, B.B King. He was in ill health for some time now but still crazy amount of US musicians leaving this world lately. I suppose that generation of musicians would be of a certain age now so perhaps one or two more will join them before the year is out.

**Crosby87** · 24/05/2015, 8:08 PM

John Nash, portrayed by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, and his wife Alicia, portrayed by Jennifer Connelly, have died in a car wreck.

**OwlsFan** · 25/05/2015, 11:13 AM

Bill O'Herlihy http://www.thejournal.ie/bill-oherli...23320-May2015/

**Crosby87** · 27/05/2015, 10:26 PM

Longtime U2 manager Dennis Sheehan has taken the forever nap.

**OwlsFan** · 28/05/2015, 8:55 AM

Former Everton et alia player Andy King http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/32906192 He had a VERY brief spell as manager of Waterford United and also played for Cob H possibly even more briefly.