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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6570 on: September 17, 2019, 10:53:45 am »
Cookie Roberts. 75 is the new 27.

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6571 on: September 17, 2019, 11:39:42 am »
It's almost shocking, that famous people die, of old age now.

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6572 on: September 17, 2019, 12:58:33 pm »
It's almost shocking, that famous people die, of old age now.

Given that I'm closer to 75 than 27, I'm going to argue that 75 is not old age.

Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6573 on: September 17, 2019, 01:30:52 pm »
Was kind of joking of my mid-life crisis purchase recently and realized that my mid life was over a decade ago with males avg age of 76 in the US.
I'd have to live to 96 for that purchase to be mid-life
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6574 on: September 17, 2019, 03:29:32 pm »


https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend   

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But there's another sense in which rock is very nearly dead: Just about every rock legend you can think of is going to die within the next decade or so.

Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month).

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6575 on: September 17, 2019, 03:32:31 pm »
There's already like a whole thread on this topic...SMH


https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=24988.0

Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6576 on: September 17, 2019, 03:59:00 pm »
I like Blondie....but putting Debbie Harry in that list is re-duck-u-less
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6577 on: September 17, 2019, 04:01:39 pm »
I like Blondie....but putting Debbie Harry in that list is re-duck-u-less

You're right. Women do tend to live longer.

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6578 on: September 17, 2019, 04:04:30 pm »


https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend   

TL;DR

But there's another sense in which rock is very nearly dead: Just about every rock legend you can think of is going to die within the next decade or so.

Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month).

Those people might be alive but their rock sauce is weak dead...they are legends for their contributions four or five decades ago except Neil

If there is any hope it’s the young


The word rock has come to mean whatever young people play...it has little connection to chuck berry or rock and roll

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6579 on: September 17, 2019, 04:10:29 pm »
I like Blondie....but putting Debbie Harry in that list is re-duck-u-less
One could make the argument she has sold more records than Bryan Ferry, Van Morrison, or Ray Davies (unless I am way off on my sales figures I just googled) and probably has more "recognizable to common people in 2019" songs than all three together. Debbie Harry being on this doesn't seem absurd to me.
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6580 on: September 17, 2019, 04:12:53 pm »
Rock and roll in modern times is more a verb than a noun

More embodying an attitude (which changes) than a style of music

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6581 on: September 17, 2019, 04:15:39 pm »
I will only be sad when the following famous people die:

* Ric Flair
* Remaining Beastie Boys
* Robert Pollard
* Mick Foley

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6582 on: September 17, 2019, 04:21:03 pm »
I will only be sad when the following famous people die:


* Robert Pollard



That will be a sad day indeed

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6583 on: September 17, 2019, 04:21:11 pm »
I will only be sad when the following famous people die:

* Ric Flair
* Remaining Beastie Boys
* Robert Pollard
* Mick Foley
You forgot the inventor of the Wet Willie.
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #6584 on: September 17, 2019, 04:25:42 pm »
You forgot the inventor of the Wet Willie.

already dead AND I DIDN'T TAKE IT WELL