The Notable Death Thread

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  1. Iain Aschendale

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    They just don't make villainous henchmen (or tough guys who don't play by the rules, depending on your political persuasion) like they used to, do they?
     
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    They’ve tried. I think it’s akin to sophomore syndrome, though. Once you debut that first big hit impression, follow up efforts are never of quite the same cloth.
     
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    Prince Phillip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, has died aged 99.
     
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    Ooh! Just missed out on his telegram from the missus!
     
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    Young women and POC all over the world must be weeping at having lost their chances to be belittled or insulted.
     
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    Piers Morgan is still alive.
     
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    DMX has died, aged 50. Let us now Party Up in memoriam:

     
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    one that hits closer to home for the self publishers among us Kamel Dupuis-Perez and his wife Lauren died in a car crash last tuesday... leaving two young children.

    For those that don't know Kamel was one of the KDP Author Relations team... i met him a couple of times at conferences and he seemed like a really good guy and very committed to helping authors get the best out of the at times confusing KDP architecture

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    Bernie Madoff's debts have come due.
     
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    Rusty Young has passed. Founding member of the southern rock band Poco and member of Buffalo Springfield, pedal steel guitarist and Hammond organ player.
     
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    Hester Ford, America’s oldest person died at 116 years old.
     
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    Helen McCrory passed away from cancer. She was 52. I love her work on Peaky Blinders and her performance as Narcissa Malfoy brought an otherwise unnoticeable character to life for me.
     
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    I think "Good Feeling to Know" is one of the classic songs of the era, and the steel guitar on it makes the song.
     
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    I've always been a big fan of Already Gone, You Better Think Twice, Heart of the Night and Crazy Love
     
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    Former US Vice President Walter Mondale. He may have lost the 1984 presidential election in a landslide, but like half of everything in Minnesota is named after him, so there's that.
     
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    Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf’s thinner half, and songwriter died this morning. Cause of death hasn’t been disclosed, but he was 73.
     
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    Sad to hear it. Enjoyed his work with Meatloaf and also found out today he was involved with Sisters of Mercy at one point.
     
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    There's a fun Twitter thread here about some of the weirder things he got up to.
     
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    I used to assume Meatloaf's writer was Bernie Taupin, who writes most of Elton John's songs. And I always wondered if the motorcycle association with Bat Out of Hell was to connect it up with the Rocky Horror Picture Show, where Meat played a biker.
     
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    Put on your fake nose, find a loved one (or any consenting adult) and head to the nearest Burger King bathroom and pound one out for Humpty Hump, aka Shock G.



    Lord how I hated that song when it came out. The nostaligia tastes a little like vomit even now.
     
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    Shock G died? That was my wedding song.
     
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    I don't think Jesus Christ Himself would have beaten Ronald Reagan. But Mondale proved to be a great vice president under Clinton, sharing a lot of credit for Clinton's successes.
     
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    I think you mean Carter... not Clinton
     

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