Celebrity Death Thread

[Malto Marko]

Good music and bad music comes from all genres....except Polka and Tejano.

I'm no fan of the accordion.

I do not consider Rap music.

I consider it lyrics to a meter. No melody or counter melodies involved. Only primal inspired tempo with objectionable word smithing.

[bimmer84]

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[mason reese]

Good music and bad music comes from all genres....except Polka and Tejano.

I'm no fan of the accordion.

No fan of the accordion? It seems like you can't get on the subway without hearing accordion music lately. Accordions are the pan flutes on the 2010's.

[CGVT]

Did somebody say pan flute?

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[Tony G]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBws-gApi0A"]Kill Bill Soundtrack - The Lonely Shepherd - YouTube[/ame]

[*JD*]

I do not consider Rap music.

I consider it lyrics to a meter. No melody or counter melodies involved. Only primal inspired tempo with objectionable word smithing.

I disagree. Sure, you get that with some (maybe most) artists but there are exceptions.

[*JD*]

Now why are you busting on Selena?

Did she really have songs where the "Oom-pah" accordion dominated? Wasn't her biggest hit a pop song?

[Tony G]

Did she really have songs where the "Oom-pah" accordion dominated? Wasn't her biggest hit a pop song?

Actually I was putting her in as a Tejano singer

[*JD*]

I'm talking accordion dominated Tejano.

[-Deborah-]

My favorite DS song:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5AztWseIdU"]Donna Summer Love To Love You Baby original long version (Disco 70s) - YouTube[/ame]

[FVD]

Robin gibb has passed away.

[Tony G]

one BeeGee to go
Robin Gibb, member of the Bee Gees, dies after battle with cancer

By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 7:35 PM EDT, Sun May 20, 2012

Robin Gibb, one of three brothers who made up the disco group The Bee Gees, died Sunday, May 20. He was 62.

(CNN) -- Robin Gibb, one of three brothers who made up the disco group the Bee Gees behind "Saturday Night Fever" and other hits from the 1970s, died on Sunday, according to a statement on his website.
He was 62.
Gibb "passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery," said the statement, which was attributed to his family. He died in England at 10:47 a.m. (5:47 a.m. ET), according to a post on his official Twitter feed.
Diagnosed with colon and liver cancer, Gibbs had been in a coma as he battled pneumonia earlier this spring, representative Doug Wright said.
Doctors believe that Gibb had a secondary tumor, Wright said April 14, confirming a news account in the U.K. newspaper The Sun. Gibb had emergency surgery in 2010 for a blocked bowel and then had more surgery for a twisted bowel, Wright confirmed.
Reflecting on the career of Robin Gibb
The only surviving member of the three Bee Gees is brother Barry, 65.
Robin's twin brother, Maurice, died in 2003 from a twisted bowel.
And younger brother Andy Gibb died at age 30 from a heart infection.
The Brothers Gibb -- calling themselves the Bee Gees -- soared to renown after the 1977 film "Saturday Night Fever" starring John Travolta was built around the group's falsetto voices and disco songs.
In the latter part of the 1970s, the British-born Bee Gees "dominated dance floors and airwaves. With their matching white suits, soaring high harmonies and polished, radio-friendly records, they remain one of the essential touchstones to that ultra-commercial era," the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says on its website.
"Saturday Night Fever" and the group's 1979 album "Spirits Having Flown" yielded six No. 1 hits, "making the Bee Gees the only group in pop history to write, produce and record that many consecutive chart-topping singles," according to the Hall of Fame.
While often more in the background, Robin Gibb was the lead singer on several of the Bee Gees' top tunes including "I Started a Joke" and "I've Gotta Get a Message to You." He also recorded several solo albums during his career.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, the Bee Gees sold more than 200 million albums, and their soundtrack album to "Saturday Night Fever" was the top-selling album until Michael Jackson's "Thriller" claimed that distinction in the 1980s.
Robin Gibb was born in 1949 on Isle of Man off the British coast, and the Gibb boys grew up in Manchester. They later moved to Redcliffe, Australia, where their group performed on television as the B.G.'s -- a moniker they later altered to the Bee Gees. Their father, Hughie, was a drummer and big-band leader.
The family returned to England in the 1960s.
In a 2008 interview with Music Week, Robin Gibb shared one of his all-important rules for songwriting: "always keep a tape running," in order to capture a moment of brilliance and inspiration.
"You never know in a three-hour writing session when you are going to come up with something and then if you'll remember it completely," he said. "All the ideas, everything, will be on tape and then you can always refer back at any time.
"Melodies will be born for the first time during writing and unless you have it on tape you haven't got any way of remembering them. That is a cardinal rule."
He also spoke of how he found it "good to have deadlines and pressure."
"We certainly had a deadline with 'Fever' to write all those songs. I think, in one week, we wrote 'How Deep Is Your Love,' 'Night Fever,' 'Stayin' Alive,' 'If I Can't Have You' and the rest. Having a deadline sharpens you up, it gets you out of bed and it stops you going to bed, too," Gibb said.
Gibb is survived by his wife, Dwina; his daughter, Melissa, and sons Spencer and Robin-John.

[Chuck Cunningham]

Disappointing. I thought after he got out of the coma he would live longer than this.

[CGVT]

40 fucking years too late for each of them...

[CGVT]

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