Deaths in 2023

[flamingpig0]

What are Artic Monkeys?

Believe me; you are better living in ignorance

[Ithoriel]

I rather like The Arctic Monkeys. "Why do you only call me when you're high," "Flourescent Adolescent," "Mardy Bum," "Cornerstone," and "I bet you look good on the dancefloor" spring to mind.

[Leon]

I've tidied up this thread a bit, let's leave Rolf to rot. 

Sad to hear about Tina, really enjoyed her music and she was a hell of a role model after everything she went through.  The What's Love Got To Do With It movie was a very difficult watch and I struggled to see Laurence Fishburne as Morphius after his portrayal of Ike. 

There's a weird link up here in Middlesbrough as a local chain of car dealerships used Simply The Best in their advertising for most of the 90's.  So anytime the song comes on the radio now, it's immediately followed by:

(Video by a DJ we used to know at the time, not great quality though!)

[John Cook]

I've tidied up this thread a bit, let's leave Rolf to rot. 

Good decision.  He's best forgotten in my view. 

[fsn]

There's a weird link up here in Middlesbrough as a local chain of car dealerships used Simply The Best in their advertising for most of the 90's.  So anytime the song comes on the radio now, it's immediately followed by:

       

[Gwydion]

Good decision.  He's best forgotten in my view. 

Happy to agree with that.

[FierceKitty]

Glenda Jackson. One of the greatest. 

[Gwydion]

Her Elizabeth I in the 1971 TV series 'Elizabeth R' was captivating (and breathed life into my A level history studies!).
Quite a career, quite a woman.

[fsn]

I think she was at her finest playing Cleopatra and Victoria

[Gwydion]

I think she was at her finest playing Cleopatra and Victoria

Yes, but the quality of the cast carried her to new heights there.
She had to put up with a load of duffers in Elizabeth R.

[John Cook]

Yes, but the quality of the cast carried her to new heights there.
She had to put up with a load of duffers in Elizabeth R.

Indeed so but don't forget the fantastic scripts what Wise wrote  

[fsn]

      

[T13A]

Angela Thorne (To the Manor Born) 

Paul

[FierceKitty]

Milan Kundera. 

[fsn]

Jane Birkin! Only 76!


For me, she is somewhat iconic for her classic duet with Serge Gainsbourg.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Thik Y'Tem is iconic for most of our age group.

[jimduncanuk]

Thik Y'Tem is iconic for most of our age group.

Might be for a youngster like you.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Its 1970 Jim

[jimduncanuk]

Its 1970 Jim

I was much older then!

[Ithoriel]

Ah! Jane Birkin. Fond memories of a teenage me playing "Je t'aime, moi non plus" at a church jumble sale and realising no one knew enough French to understand the words so playing it again.