RIP Donna Summer

She was a great singer.

I did not realise that she spent a lot of her early career in Germany.

What a powerful voice.

RIP.
 
RIP
but why here in 'letting off steam' ?

From the boss himself:


 
I get a bit fed-up that everybody now has to be lamented, mourned and deeply regretted.

It was much more fun back in the days when a celebrity death was greeted by deathly puns and grosser-than-you jokes.

I've a Facebook friend who posts almost daily "Sad news. <insert name of obscure jazz drummer/Eastern European poet/Asian peacenik> has left us." I mean, really - who cares most of the time?
 

Some friend
 
Today he wrote: "Sad news. The renowned German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has died."

You should now post that this is the 910th anniversary of the death of Stephen the second, Count of Blois, who we all remember as one of the leaders of the First Crusade, killed at the Battle of Ramla at the tender age of 57. His son later went on to become king Stephen of England.