However what I have read about him this last week he certainly was a very respected musician and was so big in his field of music. I am sure he will be missed by his thousands of fans.For the record in the UK he had many songs make our charts between 1966 and 1993 but only once made the prestigeous top ten. In 1986 he reached No6 with "Living in America".
Anyway thinking about this got me asking the question "who else that have dedicated their lives to entertaining us have we had to say goodbye to this year ?"
So here is a few and I'm sure you can add more ?
Soul Star Wilson Pickett age 64
Ron Greenwood former England Football manager aged 84
Former Celtic Winger Jimmy Johnstone aged 61 (he could play)
Gene Pitney singer/songwriter aged 66
Earl Woods father of Tiger aged 84
Jamaican Musician Desmond Decker aged 64
June Pointer of the Pointer sisters aged 52
Freddie Trueman Yorkshires greatest ever fast bowler aged 75
Charlie Williams Comedian aged 77
Steve Irwin Aussie Naturalist doing what he loved aged 44
Paul Hunter cancer took this star of snooker aged 27 Leeds lad as well
Jack Palance Oscar winning actor aged 87
Desert Orchid probably the greatest National Hunt racehorse ever aged 27
Syd Barrett former lead singer of Pink Floyd aged 60
Alan "Fluff" Freeman radio DJ aged 79
Charlie Drake comedian aged 81
Mike Dickin Talk Sport presenter aged 63
Two other people I will mention
Kenneth Cummin aged 106 who was the last Briton to fight in both world wars.
Elizabeth Bolden aged 116 American who was the oldest person in the World.
God bless them all.
Three who maybe won't be remebered with the same affection -
Slobodan Miloosevic aged 64 did while on trial for his war crimes
Augusto Pinochet aged 91 ex Chile President was indicated for war crimes
Saddam Hussein aged 69
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Here's some for the list, Mick:
Lou Rawls (singer). 73. Lung/brain cancer.
Shelley Winters (actress). 86. Heart failure.
Ann Richards(politician) -- 73. Cancer. Texas governor of recent times, she famously said of George H. W. Bush's gaffes, "Poor George. He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
Gerald Ford (politician) -- 93. USA's first unelected president, took the presidency after Nixon's resignation and then turned around and pardoned Nixon. Not a popular move.
June Pointer died,Oh no I love the Pointer sisters, do you know what she died of?
Rachel,
There seems to be quite a few gone this year and I'm sure we have missed some.
Celtic,
Thanks for looking up my blog.
June Pointer died of Cancer in April she had been in hospital two months.
I didn't know we lost one of the Pointer Sisters! I loved them back in the 80s. Great music!
Also, a surprise to me was Syd Barrett. Woah. I love Pink Floyd, too.
I must have had my head in the sand part of this year.
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