Celebrity death thread 2022

Allison co-wrote Peggy Sue, That'll Be The Day, Look At Me, Think It Over, Tell Me How, Well All Right and More Than I Can Say. In October 1958, calling himself "Ivan," he had a #68 hit with Real Wild Child.

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Jerry Allison, Drummer and Songwriter for Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Dead at 82

Jerry Allison, the drummer for Buddy Holly and the Crickets, who helped co-write some of the early rock and roller's biggest songs, has died.
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Channel98 said:
Allison co-wrote Peggy Sue, That'll Be The Day, Look At Me, Think It Over, Tell Me How, Well All Right and More Than I Can Say. In October 1958, calling himself "Ivan," he had a #68 hit with Real Wild Child.

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Jerry Allison, Drummer and Songwriter for Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Dead at 82

Jerry Allison, the drummer for Buddy Holly and the Crickets, who helped co-write some of the early rock and roller's biggest songs, has died.
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Second. Hadn't realized he was still around.
 
I like this bit o' related trivia

The song was originally going to be titled “Cindy Lou”, named after Holly’s baby niece Cindy and his sister Patricia Lou, but Crickets drummer Jerry Allison asked Holly to change the name to impress his then-girlfriend Peggy Sue Gerron.

Holly obliged, but when the recording engineer threatened to change the song back to “Cindy Lou” if Allison didn’t stop making mistakes, he took a few moments to go through a drumming exercise. Holly liked the feel of Allison' drum exercise, changed his guitar licks to better fit with it, and that became the new beat for the song.

Allison married Gerron in 1958. They divorced in 1965.
 
Channel98 said:
And that reminds me of this 1975 country hit by Jud Strunk:
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I've heard a zillion nicknames for breasts, but parakeets is a new one on me!

Speaking of euphemisms for tatas, that reminds me of The Fools "I Love Your Tits" - which has at least a dozen

 
On June 12, 1987, President Reagan stood on the West German side of the Berlin Wall and said, "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!!” Two and a half years later, the wall was dismantled.

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Former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91 | ITV News

The former president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev has died, according to Russian news agencies. | ITV National News
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Channel98 said:
On June 12, 1987, President Reagan stood on the West German side of the Berlin Wall and said, "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!!” Two and a half years later, the wall was dismantled.

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Former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91 | ITV News

The former president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev has died, according to Russian news agencies. | ITV National News
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2nd. As if it needed it.
 
Bob Hope made this observation in 1988: "Everything Reagan does, Gorbachev does him one better.
Reagan wears the flag of his country on his lapel. Gorby wears the map of his country on his forehead."

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