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Earliest memory of a celebrity death that shocked you?
Just wondering who your earliest memory of a celebrity death that genuinely shocked/saddened you?
Mine was Sid James in 1976 when I was around 10. Everyone I knew at school was shocked because we all loved Sid from the Carry on films and Bless This House. |
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Kurt Cobain. I knew he had a drug problem but I thought he's sort himself out for the sake of his baby.
Why do we always remember where we are when we hear of shocking deaths? I was in the Town Hall car park when I heard Cobain has died, weird. |
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I think it must have been Elvis Presley.
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Just wondering who your earliest memory of a celebrity death that genuinely shocked/saddened you?
Mine was Sid James in 1976 when I was around 10. Everyone I knew at school was shocked because we all loved Sid from the Carry on films and Bless This House. Although I was 25 years old I had never really been touched by death at that time, but I was in total shock for several days afterwards. Everyone seemed to be touched by the tragedy, Richard Dimbleby even hosted a special Panorama programme on Marilyn. All I could think was, "what a terrible waste" and 54 years later I still feel the same. The one consolation is that Marilyn will always be young and beautiful, while if she had lived she would be 90, the same age as the Queen.l |
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Charlie Chaplin.
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John Lennon.
I was only a little kid, 5 or 6 but I can still remember the profound shock and sadness around me even though my parents weren't exactly fans. I was ill with tonsillitis and I seemed to be struck down with it on the anniversary of his death for a good few years, I wondered if it meant something, such a morbid child ![]() Freddie Mercury was the first one that meant something though, he was always part of my life, Dad used to play Queen tapes in the car and his iconic Live Aid performance on my birthday, then suddenly he was gone. So so shocking, probably made more so due to the cause of death if I'm honest. |
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Marty Robbins in 1982, I recall my mum coming into my bedroom and telling me the sad news.
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I was very young, but I remember my mum being incredibly upset at Tommy Cooper's death - he did die on live TV, so I guess there was a much more immediate impact of a death like that. However, the first celeb death I can remember having my own visceral reaction to was Freddie Mercury's death. Having loved Queen's music since I was a little kid, finding out he had died was really upsetting.
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I don't even like referring to her as a "celeb", but for me it was Princess Diana.
I was only nine but I remember it being 6am and having the TV on while eating my breakfast and the news stating that she had been killed in Paris. |
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Marc Bolan....I was 9 when he died and he was my first musical hero. It was tough at that age to try and understand that he had gone.
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An actor called Pete Duelle who was in a TV show Alias Smith and Jones, I watched as a child. Very early 70s and I think I was 11? He killed himself over the christmas period. I remember crying and being so upset.
The next person I cried over was Eric Morecambe, he was such a part of my childhood. |
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Elvis Presley when I was nine years old.
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An actor called Pete Duelle who was in a TV show Alias Smith and Jones, I watched as a child. Very early 70s and I think I was 11? He killed himself over the christmas period. I remember crying and being so upset.
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An actor called Pete Duelle who was in a TV show Alias Smith and Jones, I watched as a child. Very early 70s and I think I was 11? He killed himself over the christmas period. I remember crying and being so upset.
The next person I cried over was Eric Morecambe, he was such a part of my childhood. I also remember Roger Delgado who played the original Master in Dr Who being killed in a car crash in 1973, but I was probably a bit too young to fully understand it. |
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Mine was Princess Di. I had been out clubbing and was staying at a mates house. There was a few of us there and we was all a little worse for wear shall we say. Think the news broke very early Sunday morning/Saturday night and we all sat there in a state of shock. I thought I'd dreamt the whole thing.
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Elvis Presley when I was nine years old.
Bing Crosby went that year too! Remember that well!! |
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Yeah, Diana here as well. I remember we even got a special talk about it in assembly.
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Richard Beckinsale
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There's a lot of these that do stick in my mind, probably Elvis being the first, but also Richard Beckinsale (so gorgeous!), Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and John Lennon. The one that was the biggest shock though, has to be Princess Diana.
(This year, and it has certainly been a year when sadly there have been a lot of celebrities we have lost, David Bowie was the most affecting, for me anyway.) |
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The first celebrity death that I remember getting upset about was Freddie Mercury. I was 13 at the time. It came out of blue as he only announced that he had HIV the day before his death so I never had time to digest that info before he passed.
I still can't watch the These Are The Days Of Our Lives video all the way through as that was one of if not the last video he ever made. He looked so gaunt and pale and when he says/sings "I still love you" down the camera at the end it was like he knew he was saying goodbye. |
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Buddy Holly/Big Bopper/Ritchie Valens when I was 9.
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An actor called Pete Duelle who was in a TV show Alias Smith and Jones, I watched as a child. Very early 70s and I think I was 11? He killed himself over the christmas period. I remember crying and being so upset.
The news of Pete's death - not mum cutting my hair! |
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I don't even like referring to her as a "celeb", but for me it was Princess Diana.
I was only nine but I remember it being 6am and having the TV on while eating my breakfast and the news stating that she had been killed in Paris. |
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Mine was Princess Di. I had been out clubbing and was staying at a mates house. There was a few of us there and we was all a little worse for wear shall we say. Think the news broke very early Sunday morning/Saturday night and we all sat there in a state of shock. I thought I'd dreamt the whole thing.
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An actor called Pete Duelle who was in a TV show Alias Smith and Jones, I watched as a child. Very early 70s and I think I was 11? He killed himself over the christmas period. I remember crying and being so upset.
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