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Famous people who you are perhaps surprised died quite some time ago
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Butterfield
Posts : 19778 Karma : 413 Join date : 2018-05-03
Subject: Famous people who you are perhaps surprised died quite some time ago Sun Jul 08, 2018 10:58 pm
I've just found out that Fat Larry, of Fat Larry's Band, of "Zoom" fame, died of a heart attack in 1987, aged 38.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Larry%27s_Band
Nightjar
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Subject: Re: Famous people who you are perhaps surprised died quite some time ago Sun Nov 25, 2018 7:27 pm
Syreeta Wright.
She died in 2004.
I had no idea.
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Butterfield
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Subject: Re: Famous people who you are perhaps surprised died quite some time ago Sat Mar 13, 2021 8:21 pm
Gram Parsons died in 1973; I thought he was either still alive or died about five years ago. He hasn't even been alive since I was born.
Butterfield
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Subject: Re: Famous people who you are perhaps surprised died quite some time ago Tue Sep 14, 2021 1:27 pm
Janet Brown isn't alive - she died 10 years ago!
Butterfield
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Subject: Re: Famous people who you are perhaps surprised died quite some time ago Tue Sep 14, 2021 1:28 pm
Actually, I've always got mixed up between Janet Brown and Faith Brown. I think they're one of those examples where I've always thought they were the same person.
Nightjar
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Subject: Re: Famous people who you are perhaps surprised died quite some time ago Fri Nov 26, 2021 8:15 pm
Hardly all that long ago, but...
Hywel Bennett.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hywel_Bennett
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Butterfield
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Subject: Re: Famous people who you are perhaps surprised died quite some time ago Fri Jan 28, 2022 2:47 pm
Sam Brown's mother and wife of Joe Brown, Vicki Brown, who we saw as a prominent backing singer on Sam's appearances on Top of the Pops 1989 singing "Stop!", died just two years later in 1991 of breast cancer, aged 50.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Brown
(The backing singer on the left)
Vicki Brown also had a solo career in her own right and did backing vocals for loads of other famous acts.
Butterfield
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Subject: Re: Famous people who you are perhaps surprised died quite some time ago Fri Jan 28, 2022 2:53 pm
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Butterfield
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Subject: Re: Famous people who you are perhaps surprised died quite some time ago Mon Feb 28, 2022 5:02 pm
George Gershwin died in 1937, aged 38; I know he's a name from decades ago but I presumed he died in the 60s or even 70s.
Butterfield
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Subject: Re: Famous people who you are perhaps surprised died quite some time ago Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:48 pm
I couldn't think if Clarissa Dickson Wright of "Two Fat Ladies" chef fame was still alive or not - and she died in 2014, 10 years ago!