Celebrity Death Thread

[Drew]

Aw, come on, Britney isn't dirty.

[Tony G]

But talented and not a dirty tramp.

That's just because Annette didn't live in the paparazzi/tabloid era. Annette probably got busy when she got the chance

[Nick Pappageorgio]

The "dirty tramp" part was always what I liked most about Britney

[Chuck Cunningham]

But talented and not a dirty tramp.

I know I am disrespecting the dead, but what is the talent you speak of other than her 2 talents?

[DanO]

Rip Maggie and Annette.

[Marko69]

Britain's "iron lady" Margaret Thatcher dies
Margaret Thatcher, the former U.K. prime minister who helped end the Cold War and was known as the ?Iron Lady? for her uncompromising style, has died. She was 87. ?She had a stroke and died peacefully,? her spokesman, Tim Bell, told Sky News television today. ?We?ll never see the like of her again. She was one of the great prime ministers of all times. "

A woman who had serious bowel problems and REGULARLY had to sit on her toilet. She had to use her toilet so much that she actually named it. She named it "Scotland". The woman dumped so much on my country. Almost the entire side of my dads family were fucked by dear old Maggie. The stress caused marriage break ups and death to many uncles, aunties and cousins. Coupled with privatising everything she looked at, she also unleashed the crippling Poll Tax on Scotland. This was done as an "experiment" to see how it would work for the UK. Again, using her toilet Scotland to sort out her upper class policies.
She made the rich richer, and the poor, hard working man, poorer.
So fuck you Maggie. You will NOT be missed.

April 2013, the gates of Hell open and Maggie enters
May 2013, Hell privatised.

[Tony G]

Morrissey: ‘Thatcher Was a Terror Without an Atom of Humanity’

by Morrissey Apr 8, 2013 1:59 PM EDT Singer Morrissey, of the seminal 1980s band The Smiths, reacts to news of the death of former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

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Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen to others.

Morrissey and Margaret Thatcher. (Getty; AP)
Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor and did nothing at all to help them, she hated Greenpeace and environmental protectionists, she was the only European political leader who opposed a ban on the ivory trade, she had no wit and no warmth and even her own cabinet booted her out. She gave the order to blow up The Belgrano even though it was outside of the Malvinas Exclusion Zone—and was sailing AWAY from the islands! When the young Argentinean boys aboard The Belgrano had suffered a most appalling and unjust death, Thatcher gave the thumbs-up sign for the British press.

Iron? No. Barbaric? Yes. She hated feminists even though it was largely due to the progression of the women's movement that the British people allowed themselves to accept that a prime minister could actually be female. But because of Thatcher, there will never again be another woman in power in British politics, and rather than opening that particular door for other women, she closed it.

Thatcher will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists who did not suffer under her leadership, but the majority of British working people have forgotten her already, and the people of Argentina will be celebrating her death. As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity.

MORRISSEY.

[Tony G]

Zeppelin, Stones engineer Andy Johns dead at 61

By Todd Leopold, CNN
updated 4:12 PM EDT, Mon April 8, 2013

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• Andy Johns was engineer on several classic albums
• He worked on Led Zeppelin's "Led Zeppelin IV," Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main Street"
• "1 of the great engineer/producers of our time," tweeted Slash

(CNN) -- Andy Johns, the engineer and producer who worked on albums by Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Television and Van Halen, has died, according to guitarist Stacey Blades, who was collaborating on a project with him.
Johns, who died Sunday, was 61.
Blades noted that Johns had entered the hospital about 10 days ago. "Andy's health wasn't all that great over the last six months or so, but he was still Andy," he told CNN. "When I got the call yesterday I was shocked."
Johns, the younger brother of famed producer Glyn Johns, was the engineer for most of Led Zeppelin's output, including "Led Zeppelin II," "Led Zeppelin IV," "Houses of the Holy" and "Physical Graffiti." He was known for his skill at recording a range of guitar sounds and, especially, John Bonham's room-shaking drums.
He also had a hand in the Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers," "Exile on Main Street" and "Goats Head Soup," Van Halen's "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" (which he produced) and two albums by guitarist Joe Satriani.
"Lovely guy -- patient, skilled, funny, encouraging, sharp ... all the qualities you want in someone who is getting your music on to tape," wrote Queen's Brian May on his website. Queen recorded at London's Olympic Studios, where Johns also worked.
"1 of the great engineer/producers of our time," tweeted guitarist Slash.
Johns also co-produced New York punk band Television's seminal "Marquee Moon," though the result wasn't quite what the band was looking for. Johns went for a booming drum sound with the sharper-edged New Yorkers, but it didn't fit, Television's Richard Lloyd told CNN in 2003.
"If the drums were that big, it wouldn't be us," Lloyd said.
Johns did, however, grab Television's wiry, entangled guitar sound -- which Lloyd described as "two gears in a clock" -- perfectly. The album, like many of Johns' recordings, has since become a classic.
Johns' more recent recordings included albums by the Steve Miller Band, Chickenfoot and Sabyrtooth.
Blades, a former member of L.A. Guns, called Johns "amazing."
"It was just amazing to watch him work, and how he would place mics in the recording room, and his ideas while you're tracking. I learned a lot from him, he was inspiring and taught me so much about sound and thinking outside of the box," he said. "You always took his suggestions, because how can you argue with a guy who produced the Stones?"
Blades and other musicians who have worked with Johns are organizing a memorial concert for him next month. The producer and engineer leaves behind a wife and two children.
"Andy will be sorely missed," said Blades. "He was a good friend, a great producer, and a great guy. The industry will definitely mourn his loss."

[Tony G]

This one slipped through the cracks

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/20/showbiz/porn-star-harry-reems-dead/index.html

[DanO]

Sorry to hear that Marko. Tony's article is revealing as well. Just goes to show ignorance is bliss. My opinion of her has changed.

[The Cat]

Regarding Morrisey's comments, I am surprised anyone cares about his opinion at all.
I'll take my comments to the politics thread.

[Panoptes]

Regarding Morrisey's comments, I am surprised anyone cares about his opinion at all.
I'll take my comments to the politics thread.

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[Tony G]

She was the female counterpart to Reagan. Through distance, I didn't dislike her as much as Ronnie but I think that was just because I didn't see her on the tube everyday.

[bimmer84]

Political comments belong in the Political thread.

[Rocky Bleier]

More on Thatcher's tax. This time from a famed economist:

http://mises.org/daily/6403/Mrs-Thatchers-Poll-Tax