The RIP thread...

My mum will be shedding a tear. Shelley was before my time but I do remember him as Ricki Tarr.

Ángel Nieto RIP.

Beat me to it. Just like with Nicky Hayden earlier this year - you spend a dangerous career racing motorcycles (Nieto's era, in particular, being when the only track safety was the odd lamppost, wire fence and solid earth mound...) and you're tragically taken riding a vehicle for leisure.

Those Derbis were classics.

Farewell Glen Campbell.

Loved the way he could take piano ballads like this and made them even more poignant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7bTaZAOpQA

RIP Rhinestone Cowboy

Thats a great shame, though he had had Alzheimer's for a few years.

Wichita Lineman is all the music you'll ever need.

Galveston - so evocative, that song. He was a great singer and a great session musician too, early on.

A really great guitarist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0nMPVwdmjk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7kw5zXVFVQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETkzK9pXMio

@kl indeed,
https://youtu.be/4qoymGCDYzU

Luciano Berruti of Eroica fame :(

I somehow expected him to live a lot longer. It was easy to imagine him still riding into his 90s. RIP Luciano.

Riposa in pace, Luciano.

Farewell Stephen Wooldridge.

From the links at the bottom, it looks like suicide which seems to be overly common for retired cyclists.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/aug/15/stephen-wooldridge-australian-olympic-cycling-champion-dies-aged-39

Bruce Forsyth.

Almost like a family member for Forumengers of a certain age.

'Nice to see you, to see you nice'!

End of an era. RIP Brucie!

pray for bruce

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Will be reading Day of the Jackal tonight in tribute

That is Jimmy Hill no ?

"here kitty kitty" - thats a catsphrase .

"Life...is the name of the game..."

Higher than an ace you say? ...... Ohhhhh

Goodbye Sonny Landham.

'You ain't afraid of no man!'
'There's something out there waiting for us. And it ain't no man.'