If that’s not bad enough, apparently “Big Spider Beck” is really Bix Beiderbecke.
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Françoise Hardy was a great singer, and by all accounts a nice person, even if she was a little bit right-wing politically. She also had a really bad time with long-term cancer, in particular of the larynx, which gave her some years of pain, before finally finishing her. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, least of all on a professional singer. Requiescat in pace, enfin.
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Here’s another one.
The Danish drummer Alex Riel (1940-2024) died on 9 June. He played with top-range musicians such as Lockjaw Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Bob Brookmeyer, Ben Webster, Donald Byrd, Don Cherry, Art Farmer, Hank Jones and Bill Evans - but I know him best as a regular drummer with Dexter Gordon in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. Here’s a fairly recent photo:
Photo by Goffredo Loertscher.
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Is it bad that I’ve never heard of the last several “celebrities” in this thread? I think they fall into the “not so” category.
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Noam Chomsky and Anouk Aimee
A man and a woman.
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It appears reports of Noam’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
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I should have checked with his wife. Sorry
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Ha, yeah, apparently a lot of people jumped the gun on this one.
Myself included.
Given his legacy is on media literacy I felt rather embarrassed
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Willie Mays aged 93
One of the greatest legends of baseball. Amazing sportsman and amazing person
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This guy??? 
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Runs like Hayes, hits like Mays?
American Express - don’t steal home without it.
Him?
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He may run like Mays but he hits like ■■■■
Donald Sutherland, aged 88
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Obviously remembered for heaps of performances but one of the first I remember was in the film JFK, where he had a cameo with a monologue that ran for around 15 mins and absolutely smashed it out of the park.
Brilliant actor
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WW2’s only hippie, about 30 years before it was cool. RIP.
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RIP.
What’s Hollywood gonna do now? He’s been their slightly left-of-centre, advanced age gentleman and/or father of the main character go-to man for so many years (well, him or Alan Alda). In the same way that Serbian fella (name escapes me right now) has been their go-to as a Russian/anything European crime syndicate boss… they’ll be buggered when he passes…
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I recommend his performance in Klute with Jane Fonda.
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Or “The eagle has landed”
To be fair, he really stood up in most if not all of the roles he took on.
Great actor, and a loss.
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