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Old 26-12-2016, 00:19
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Doubtful he'd lain in bed at home for over thirteen and a half hours without one person calling him, especially being Christmas day too. The poster i replied to suggested he may have died last night, the 24th.
It's possible.
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:19
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2016 certainly has been a dark year for celebrity deaths.

Some of us course however have still had big losses to our own families.

I lost my father back in September to bowel cancer, only 58, same age as some of these musicians, we always keep hearing the fact that the life expectancy keeps going up and up, yet some through no fault of their own still get absolutely nowhere near that and die way too young. If there is somehow an afterlife I guess my dad would be in good company right now.

My dad was exactly three weeks younger than Prince.
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:22
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After looking for the Freddie Mercury tribute he did ("Somebody to Love"), i found this clip as well where he's in rehearsal. Does the entire song in one take. Faultless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpTD_7iwDns

and if you missed it, here's the concert performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvM2Cmi-YRU
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:30
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I don't know. I'm gobsmacked by this. 53?!?!?!? No age. At all. George Michael was a star when I was but a child but I had an almighty crush on him and couldn't understand why my brothers were laughing at me. I LOVED Carless Whisper at an age before I became more discerning (up my own arse?) about music. A huge part of my and many more childhoods. A really beautiful man with a great voice and oodles of charisma. I'm just deflated by 2016; personally and universally. It's been a political pile of poo and I can't even remember all the great people who have died.

We actually discussed it at dinner today before I heard this (as I'm sure many did). We talked about the poetic wonder of Leonard Cohen, the genius of Bowie, the stupendous talent of Rickman etc. etc. ad infinitum. 2016 - there's your coat, there's your hat, there's the door - don't let it hit you on the way out you absolute bast**d.


Geldof is certianly a 'legend' as far as his celebrity goes.... But musically? Not so much.....
Well I'm one of those who knew and appreciated Geldof more for his music than his frankly bizarre ex-music persona.

'I don't like Mondays' is and always will be the song I HAVE to turn up to full volume. I think it's quite simply brilliant. As are Rat Trap and Banana Republic and Looking After No.1. I think people just trot out the 'but he wasn't actually a musician' nonsense because they've never heard of or actually listened to his music.

I only wish he'd concentrated more on his obvious musical and, particularly, lyrical, talent.
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:31
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2016 certainly has been a dark year for celebrity deaths.

Some of us course however have still had big losses to our own families.

I lost my father back in September to bowel cancer, only 58, same age as some of these musicians, we always keep hearing the fact that the life expectancy keeps going up and up, yet some through no fault of their own still get absolutely nowhere near that and die way too young. If there is somehow an afterlife I guess my dad would be in good company right now.

My dad was exactly three weeks younger than Prince.
Sorry for your loss, my step dad also died well before his time.

Obviously people need to keep these celebrity death things in perspective - but it's also fair to say that celebrities are part of people's lives and it's not unusual to grieve their passing. There will be big George Michael fans sad that they will never see him in concert again or listen to a new piece of music from him.
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:32
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13.42 GMT means 13.42pm today, Sunday 25th December 2016!
I know!

Doubtful he'd lain in bed at home for over thirteen and a half hours without one person calling him, especially being Christmas day too. The poster i replied to suggested he may have died last night, the 24th.
What has "without one person calling him" got to do with anything? If he died last night it's hardly inconceivable that they didn't remove his body until the following afternoon. And his family could have been there with him all day.
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:41
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What a shock did anyone predict this?
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:41
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What do you think was his best song

I would have to say Careless Whisper
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:43
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What has "without one person calling him" got to do with anything? If he died last night it's hardly inconceivable that they didn't remove his body until the following afternoon. And his family could have been there with him all day.
In your scenario not removing his body until 13.42pm wouldn't have been inconceivable, i'll grant you that. But had he died fourteen hours prior to, which he'd have had to to make it the 24th, i would find it not only inconceivable but totally puzzling as to why the news wouldn't break for almost 24 hours!

Think about it!
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:44
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Drugs caught up with him then - live by the sword etc.
I don't think there's any reason to believe that at the moment.

Quite surprised how this made me feel actually, very sad.
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:46
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Not removing his body until 13.42pm wouldn't have been inconceivable, i'll grant you that. But had he died fourteen hours prior to, which he'd have had to to make it the 24th, i would find it not only inconceivable but totally puzzling as to why the news wouldn't break for almost 24 hours!

Think about it!
I am thinking! I just checked. Thank you for your concern.

Perhaps the news didn't break because... and I know I may be taking a wild stab in the dark here... the family wanted a bit of privacy, rather than there being a crowd of onlookers present while they wheeled his corpse into the ambulance.
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:48
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I don't think there's any reason to believe that at the moment.

Quite surprised how this made me feel actually, very sad.
Was he ill this year and people thought he would not pull through
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:48
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I'm sitting here in an absolute state of shock, just as I felt at the start of the year with the awful news of David Bowie and a bit later in the year, Prince.

I saw him at Wembley for Wham: The Final concert when I wasn't a huge fan (I was working there that day, but lucky enough to have finished by the time they came onstage), but I must admit I was very impressed with the show they put on - they really gave it their all and I really enjoyed his solo work after that, which showed a maturity beyond his years.

RIP George, and thank you for the music - you'll be sadly missed xx
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:49
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Awful news.

Wouldn't surprise me if the bout of serious pneumonia had weakened his lungs and he'd been ill and just passed away.
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:50
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Sorry for your loss, my step dad also died well before his time.

Obviously people need to keep these celebrity death things in perspective - but it's also fair to say that celebrities are part of people's lives and it's not unusual to grieve their passing. There will be big George Michael fans sad that they will never see him in concert again or listen to a new piece of music from him.
Oh no I'm not one of those types who criticises people for grieving for over celebrities I think its pretty normal actually.

It's just when people talk about what a terrible year 2016 has been, everytime another celebrity dies at the moment in 2016 I just can't help obviously think about my own father who I lost three months ago, I guess that's just natural really I wasn't meaning to hijack the thread, but that's what comes into my head obviously when I hear '2016' and 'deaths'.

It just makes me think, despite the great advancements in modern medicines, its far from a given any of us will get to 80+, and you shouldn't take it for granted.

RIP George.
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:54
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Don't know if it's the copious amount of alcohol or the shock of the news but in tears on the drive home listening to some of his songs on the radio.
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:55
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I am thinking. I just checked. Thank you for your concern.

Perhaps the news didn't break because... and I know I may be taking a wild stab in the dark here... the family wanted a bit of privacy, rather than there being a crowd of onlookers present while they wheeled his corpse into the ambulance.
Bib and you have it! Very much a wild stab! The ambulance crew who attended would have an approximate time and only a Coroner will be able to determine the precise exact time, and cause. The fact the authorities authorised the media to put the date out as 25th is good enough for me. I don't really need to know the exact time he died.
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:59
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Is it a coincidence that it is Twenty five years since Freddie Mercury passed away. And George Michael has now passed away. But before that he sang Somebody to love at his tribute concert. Also he has passed away on the Twenty fifth. So it is kind of spooky
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Old 26-12-2016, 00:59
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Bib and you have it! Very much a wild stab! The ambulance crew who attended would have an approximate time and only a Coroner will be able to determine the precise exact time, and cause. The fact the authorities authorised the media to put the date out as 25th is good enough for me. I don't really need to know the exact time he died.
Your point escapes me. The bit in bold is almost certainly wrong. It would be up to the family to inform the media. The authorities are bound by privacy laws. And nobody "put the date out as 25th", as you put it.

As for my stab in the dark, I was being sarcastic. The family have actually asked for their privacy to be respected, haven't they?

"The family would ask that their privacy be respected at this difficult and emotional time. There will be no further comment at this stage."
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Old 26-12-2016, 01:01
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After looking for the Freddie Mercury tribute he did ("Somebody to Love"), i found this clip as well where he's in rehearsal. Does the entire song in one take. Faultless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpTD_7iwDns
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and if you missed it, here's the concert performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvM2Cmi-YRU
Thanks he was very good looking as a young man... and what presence and charisma
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Old 26-12-2016, 01:04
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Bib and you have it! Very much a wild stab! The ambulance crew who attended would have an approximate time and only a Coroner will be able to determine the precise exact time, and cause. The fact the authorities authorised the media to put the date out as 25th is good enough for me. I don't really need to know the exact time he died.
And even then they might not, no one knows the exact time Marilyn Monroe died at, the media states her death date as 5th august 1962, the coroner states she actually died on the evening of the 4th August, but wiki and other sources still has her death date as the 5th, because that's when the hospital pronounced her dead.
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Old 26-12-2016, 01:08
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They can estimate from postmortem how long someone has been dead... I don't like the thought of him on a mortuary slab
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Old 26-12-2016, 01:09
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Last Christmas.

Too soon?


Too shocking for words. I've welled up a little. This has cut me and probably many teens in the 80's right down to the quick at the end of Christmas Day. We've only just seen his much noted debut on BBC4's Top Of The Pops 1982 this past week with Wham! doing Young Guns (Go For It).

Last Christmas, I suspect that will not be getting played for the rest of this Christmas on grounds of taste. But his last Christmas might probably have been expected in the 50's, not George's but the 2050's at the very least.
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Old 26-12-2016, 01:16
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After looking for the Freddie Mercury tribute he did ("Somebody to Love"), i found this clip as well where he's in rehearsal. Does the entire song in one take. Faultless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpTD_7iwDns

and if you missed it, here's the concert performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvM2Cmi-YRU
This also reminds me that George Michael was a pioneer of the 'designer stubble' look in the 1980s/90s

I also like how he makes the song his own rather than just a tribute act
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Old 26-12-2016, 01:18
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Your point escapes me. The bit in bold is almost certainly wrong. It would be up to the family to inform the media. The authorities are bound by privacy laws. And nobody "put the date out as 25th", as you put it.
Yes well it seems a lot is getting lost here in hair splitting postings! Obviously his family come first, then the media. Crikey i wasn't expecting to have to write an essay and now i see it's even brought out a Monroe CT'er! He died on 25th December 2016. Exact time as yet is unknown.

If death had occurred 24 hours prior then the news would have broke long ago.
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