RIP Thread for Notable People

George Foreman will be mourned by his five sons from various marriages - George , George, George, George and yes you’ve guessed it George .
All named so that they’d have something in common .
Iconic fighter and barbecue master - R.I.P.
 
Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in Tombstone is one of my all time favourite movie characters (ignore the complete historical inaccuracy of just about everything in the film). Sure you'd nearly put up with the whole dying from Tuberculosis thing to be that cool.
 
Reading back over his credits, he was in a lot of big films of the time, I'd forgotten that he was in (nothing to do with his acting though).
He tried his best to rescue The Doors but it's a film that time has not been kind to but his performance was note perfect.
 
As a child growing up I'd hear him going on every year about how he was expecting a tough battle from Cork and then his Kerry team would beat the .... out of us. Remarkable man, met him once and he always came across as a genuinely decent man as well.
 
Today is the 5th anniversary of John Prines's passing, an early American COVID victim and long-term cancer survivor. A poet and a crafter of songs, a soldier, a mailman, a genius.

What a legacy he left us in his songs, and The Hello In There Foundation run by his widow Fiona (née Whelan), the record label and his surviving bandmates touring as The John Prine Band, and so on.

Fiona, John & family spent 20 glorious summers in their holiday home outside Kinvara, Co. Galway, gigging in Green's pub of an evening.

Sleep well, John.
 
Agreed - John Prine was a peerless songwriter and performer - and a true original. Saw him live several times and met him once in the 1990s (Roisin Dubh, Galway.)

His double album compilation Anthology is perfection and a go-to album for me.

(Not quite sure that it was Covid that killed him in the end. He'd had cancer, was very fragile and had developed pneumonia in the lungs. Picking up Covid probably didn't help but I remember his death being politicised at the time which I found distasteful.)

I'll listen to some prime Prine this evening...
 
" Not a day goes by that I don’t think about him AND the families of more than a million Americans who died, like John, in that first brutal wave of Covid."

The quote above is from Fiona's latest Hello In There Foundation email. A bit of conflation on my part. I've always associated John's death with COVID in the States, and yes he was very frail at that time. I can never forget his anniversary day, just five days after my son's, although 19 years apart.
 
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