Celebrity death thread 2022

If I was a rock star, I’d add random sires just to fark with people in their cars.

They always make me check my mirrors….
 
Wow! That is a definite second. The Ronettes' hits include Baby I Love You, Walking In The Rain, Be My Baby, I Can Hear Music, Do I Love You and The Best Part Of Breakin' Up. Ronnie had a solo hit in 1971 with Try Some, Buy Some, written by George Harrison.


 
The Platters formed in 1952 in Los Angeles. Their hits include Only You, My Prayer, The Magic Touch, The Great Pretender, With This Ring, Harbor Lights, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and I Love You 1000 Times. Turner replaced Tony Williams as lead singer in 1959 and remained with the group until 1976. He also performed in Las Vegas with Keith Blake, Daemine Lowe and Michelle Johnson in a group billed as Sonny Turner's Platters.

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Legendary Platters singer Sonny Turner dies at 83 - Press Las Vegas

Sonny Turner, the last link to the legendary R&B vocal group the Platters to headline in Las Vegas, died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was
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Frazier wrote the Hollywood Argyles' 1960 number-one hit Alley Oop. He also wrote Elvira, Mohair Sam, There Goes My Everything, Don't Anyone Make Love At Home Anymore, If My Heart Had Windows, The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp and Ain't Had No Lovin' and co-wrote Johnny One Time, Fourteen Carat Mind, All I Have To Offer You Is Me, Touching Home, Then Who Am I, What's Your Mama's Name, and The Baptism Of Jesse Taylor. As a recording artist, Frazier had eight country hits, 1967-72, including Big Mable Murphy and Everybody Oughta Sing A Song.

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Dallas Frazier, Country Songwriter Behind ‘Elvira,’ ‘Beneath Still Waters’ & More, Dies

Frazier also co-wrote four No. 1 hits for Charley Pride.
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From 1957 to 1972, Emery worked overnights at WSM in Nashville. He hosted the syndicated program Pop Goes The Country from 1974 to 1980, the Nashville Network's Nashville Now from 1983 to 1993 and RFD-TV's Ralph Emery Live from 2007 to 2015. He was inducted into the Country Music Disc Jockeys Hall Of Fame in 1989, the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 2007 and the National Radio Hall Of Fame in 2010.

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Ralph Emery, famed country music broadcaster, dies at 88

Ralph Emery, who became known as the dean of country music broadcasters over more than a half-century in both radio and television, has died
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Greg Webster formed the Ohio Untouchables in 1959 in Dayton. They became the Ohio Players in 1965. Webster was the last surviving original member. Their 1970s hits include Fire, O-H-I-O, Skin Tight, Love Rollercoaster, Who'd She Coo, Funky Worm, Jive Turkey, Sweet Sticky Thing and I Want To Be Free.

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Ohio Players original drummer and leader Greg Webster dies

Greg Webster, the last surviving member of the original Ohio Players, died early this morning, Fri. Jan. 14, at 84 years old.
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The all-too-brief Bob Saget tribute that aired last night on America's Funniest Home Videos can be seen here:

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Bob Saget Honored by ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ With Special Tribute

“America’s Funniest Home Videos” paid special tribute to Bob Saget, who was the original host of the ABC comedy show in the ’90s, after the iconic comedian died suddenly last week at the age of 65. The tribute aired at the beginning of Sunday’s episode, exactly one week after Saget died at the...
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Mimieux appeared in 24 movies including Syjacked, Looking For Love, The Black Hole, The Time Machine, Toys In The Attic and Disney's Monkeys, Go Home! She also appeared in 16 TV-movies, 12 episodes of Berrenger's (1985) and 12 episodes of The Most Deadly Game (1970-71).

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'Where the Boys Are' Actress Yvette Mimieux Dies at 80

Actress Yvette Mimieux, remembered for '60s movies like "Where the Boys Are," died just over a week after celebrating her 80th birthday.
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Ulliel appeared in 29 movies, three shorts, four TV-movies and six episodes of the upcoming Disney+ series Moon Knight. He played a young Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising (2007) and played fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in Saint Laurent (2014).

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French actor Gaspard Ulliel dead in skiing accident at 37 | CNN

French actor Gaspard Ulliel, best known for playing Hannibal Lecter in "Hannibal Rising," has died at the age of 37 after a skiing accident in southeastern France.
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Krüger appeared in 62 movies including Alibi, The Last Summer, The Wild Geese, The Spy Who Never Was, My Friend The Thief and Hatari! He played Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in three episodes of the 1988-89 ABC mini-series War & Remembrance.

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German Actor Hardy Krüger, Who Starred in Barry Lyndon and A Bridge Too Far, Dies at 93

Hardy Kruger, who starred in more than 60 films including 'A Bridge Too Far,' has died at his home in Palm Springs
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Who? j/k

Never much been a fan of his music and I only heard of him from the movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show".

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I do like this one song.

 
Fourth on Mr Loaf.

HIGH FIVE:

1. I'd Do Anything For Love
2. Paradise by the Dashboard Light
3. Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
4. You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth
5. Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through
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Meatloaf Top 10:

10. Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere) [II]
9. Heaven Can Wait
8. I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) [II]
7. Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through [II]
6. All Revved Up With No Place to Go
5. Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
4. For Crying out Loud ****
3. You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) ****
2. Bat out of Hell ***** (#97 on my 442)
1. Paradise by the Dashboard Light ***** (#83 on my 442)

[II] from Bat out of Hell 2. Everything else from the original. *** unless otherwise indicated.
 
We will definably be doing a '22 CDT Madness towards end of the year.

These are other celebrities' that pasted away. So far these are the ones that received a 2nd or more nomination from this thread.

Dan Reeves
Peter Bogdanovich
Sidney Poitier
Bob Saget
Ronnie Spector
Meatloaf

Getting close to end of the month, to me the biggest celebrity is Bob Saget.
 
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