Dead Celebs - 2004

[Wombat]

I'll have to haul out my Peel Sessions of Siouxsie & the Banshees now

(I mean, great music, just a sad loss -- someone who was willing to listen to all sorts of new music and find something great in it.)

 

[Dismas]

Listen to the Led Zep Peel session (it is on the Led Zepplin BBC Sessions album) it features the first ever performance of Stairway to Heaven, before Led Zepplin 4 had been released.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Archers actor Graham Roberts dies

Actor Graham Roberts, who played gamekeeper George Barford in The Archers, has died at the age of 75.

From BBC News

 

[Truth Seeker]

Gil Melle: 1931 - 2004

Composer Gil Melle, an innovator in mixing electronic and orchestral music(TV and Movies also), died last Thursday of a heart attack at his home in Malibu, California View

 

[Truth Seeker]

Howard Keel, Star of Musicals, Dies at 85

Howard Keel, the broad-shouldered baritone who romanced his way through a series of glittery MGM musicals such as "Kiss Me Kate" and "Annie Get Your Gun" and later revived his career with television's "Dallas," died Sunday. He was 85.

View...

 

[driver8]

Historian author Iris Chang author of The Rape of Nanking.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Books/Author-Iris-Chang-found-dead/2004/11/11/1100131124415.html

 

[Wombat]

Historian author Iris Chang author of The Rape of Nanking.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Books/Author-Iris-Chang-found-dead/2004/11/11/1100131124415.html

How terribly sad. Such an important historial writer to die so young.

 

[Fast Learner]

Indeed. Terrible loss.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Creator of Superhero 'The Flash' Dies

Source:Verizon News
Harry Lampert, the illustrator who created the DC Comics superhero 'The Flash' and later became known for his instructional books on bridge, died Saturday. He was 88. View...

 

[Brakkart]

Richard Biggs 22 May

Tim Choate 24 September

Well theres two that I'll certainly miss. Dr. Stephen Franklin and Zathras from Babylon 5, my favourite show of all time. I didn't even know until I read this that Tim Choate had died. Motorbike accident according to IMDB.