You wouldn't Adam'n'Eve it, would you ?
I think it's god's way of telling him he was on the wrong train
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Can you imagine the difficulties if he is cremated?
That amount of alcohol and cocaine in such a small package could cause all sorts of problems.(Don't worry. I wrote a similar sub about Fort William crematorium when Charles Kennedy died, and no-one laughed then either.)
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Rudy Giuliani - so many embarrassing things have happened to him in the past year, you'd have to guess that he's about to drop off his perch soon, with the Borat sex scandal, Four Seasons shithole and hair dye images the ones all the newspapers use for his obit.
Posted 4 months ago # -
John Le Carre. Charley Pride. Barbara Windsor. This year just keeps on giving.
Joan Collins next, maybe?
Also since the Boys of '66 are going down like flies this year any of the 4 still on their perches: George Cohen, Bobby Charlton, Roger Hunt, Geoff Hurst
Posted 4 months ago # -
Phil dies, and becomes a Spector. (Oxy got there first.)
A troubled man but a sad loss to music.
If this is true, it is a particularly tragic way for a musician to go:
He has been an inmate at the California Health Care Facility (a prison hospital) in Stockton since October 2013. In September 2014, it was reported that Spector had lost his ability to speak, owing to laryngeal papillomatosis.
Spector died on 16 January 2021 from COVID-19 complications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Spector
I know from from the families of deceased friends that prison hospital care is not always of the highest quality, and that if you're in prison and you suffer from anything serious, there's a good chance that you're doomed.
Laryngeal papillomatosis, also known as recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) or glottal papillomatosis, is a rare medical condition in which benign tumors (papilloma) form along the aerodigestive tract ... The tumors may lead to narrowing of the airway, which may cause vocal changes or airway obstruction.
Posted 2 months ago # -
This is why he was inside:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6455171.stm
.. and I know, from the orphaned family of a murdered close friend, that people don't celebrate the life of a murderer
End of this discussion ?
Posted 2 months ago # -
he's dead, that's it for this thread.
Oh, sorry. I didn't realise you ran NewsBiscuit. It may be all you wish to say; fair enough, your call.
However.
Spector's genius in the recording studio did not diminish the bad things he did in his life.
And the bad things he did in his life did not diminish the wonderful work he did in the recording studio, which has brought endless delight, pleasure and excitement to millions of people, and (being recordings!) will continue to do so.
It is rather childish to try to conflate / confuse the two aspects of his life. And the relative magnitude / importance of these to aspects need to be bourn in mind too.
Richard Wagner had some rather unpleasant right-wing views, but for most people this is fairly trivial and irrelevant to the genius of the vast legacy of wonderful music which he gave us us.
Adolf Hitler (sorry, Mr Godwin!) painted some pictures. Competent but uninspired ones. The pictures can validly be criticised, but only that their artistry was mediocre in quality and that human society would not have been greatly deprived if they had not been created.
But it would be childish and irrational to say the paintings are in any way 'bad', 'evil' or 'disgusting' because of the massively and disgustingly evil political career of their creator.
As I implied in this thread:
'Spector didn't just murder someone; far worse than that ... '
The reason why some people trying to silence any appreciation of Phil Spector's recording studio genius is, not so much that he was a murderer, but that he had a (currently terribly unfashionable) politically-incorrect attitude towards women.
In fact, I suspect that if he had just been an ordinary gangland-shooting or a got-out-of-hand-fight-in-a-pub murderer, he would have got far less flack and fewer people would have been deterred from publicly acknowledging his musical talent.
As I think some playwright bloke once said:
“The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.”Luckily, recordings live on.
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