Everyone Murders

December 27th, 2016 at 5:02 PM ^

Especially when he claims to not know a single David Bowie song.  That's either breathtaking or (more likely) a bit of a troll.

But let's face it.  Popular music celebrity skyrocketed about 50 years ago with artists who were largely in their 20s and 30s.  Guess what?  A bunch of them are going to die in the coming years.  They're getting old, and most did not lead exemplary lifestyles.  So the coming years are going to be similar, I think, to 2016 just because of the volume of musicians in their 70s and 80s now who will be passing away.

And more to the point, you'll get more of these deaths just due to the sheer volume of well-known musicians compared to a couple of generations ago.  The spread of FM radio, album-oriented rock, multiple genre stations, R&B into the mainstream ... . That had a big multiplier effect on who was a musical star compared to the 1960s and before.

Bowie and Prince were hard to take in part because they were genre benders who had influence across an incredibly broad musical spectrum.  So 2016 has been rough in that sense.  That said, I suspect that we'll lose many more pop superstars in the next few years. So folks might as well get used to it, and celebrate the lives of the musicians that we're losing.

And the fact that Keith Richards is still alive and kicking!  NEVER bet against Keith.*

*This is an opportunity for WD to reply "Keith Richards?  The Rolling Stones?  Couldn't name a single song by them!"

 

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mgoaggie

December 27th, 2016 at 3:16 PM ^

Now this is just ridiculous. I'm sitting on upwards of +14 that isn't rightfully mine. I'll go seek him out. I need to find a good non-profit to link in my profile now.

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CTG

December 27th, 2016 at 1:30 PM ^

I'm guessing you are very young and/or didn't pay attention to history (or have a history lesson).  There have been many years much worse than 2016 - look up any war, plague, famine, massacre, etc.

Your response has to be a joke.  Family and friends pass all the time.  My condolensces for her friends and family but her passing doesn't make this year one of the all time crappy years.  It's called perspective.

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CTG

December 27th, 2016 at 1:42 PM ^

Not at all presumptive.  Trying to make sense how you could categorize this year (even with "trying") as one of the worst years ever.  Frankly, I was simply asking how you could say that... either you don't know history or are too young to understand.  I thought they were logical assumptions given your hyperbole.

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JFW

December 27th, 2016 at 1:29 PM ^

1914-1918 - that war still has effects that ring through to this day. 

IIRC in one of the early battles the French lost 75K men in like 3 days. That in an era when national populations were much smaller. 

And while these celebrity deaths are tragic, and I feel for their families,  I also thank God every day I'm not in Aleppo or Northern Iraq. 

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M-Dog

December 27th, 2016 at 2:41 PM ^

And the Brits lost 10,000 men dead in about 10 minutes on the first morning of the Somme.  

When the generals heard of that failed first wave, they immediately sent another wave and lost 10,000 more men dead in another 10 minutes. 

Lost more than a million more in a few months, to gain about 10 miles of territory.

Brutal disregard for soldier's lives back then. They were just "inventory" to be used up.

 

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