Sol Bamba, football player, has died aged 39. Condolences to his family. Did he not play for us at one time? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...sbrough-defender-tragically-dies-aged-39.html
Think you may be getting mixed up with Christopher Samba...one of the crazier deals of the PL era RIP Sol Bamba
Sol Bamba, the former Leeds United, Leicester City, Cardiff City and Hibernian defender, has died at the age of 39. The Ivory Coast centre-back, who began his career with Paris St-Germain and also played for Dunfermline and Middlesbrough, was part of the Cardiff side that won promotion to the Premier League in 2018. He overcame non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2021 during his playing days at Cardiff and had been working at Turkish club Adanaspor, who announced the news on Saturday night. A statement from Adanaspor said: "Our technical director Souleymane Bamba, who fell ill before the match against Manisa Football Club yesterday, was taken to Manisa Celal Bayar University Hospital and unfortunately lost his battle for life there. Our condolences to his family and our community." Cardiff said the news was received with "the deepest sadness", describing Bamba as a "club legend" and adding: "As a player and coach, Sol's impact on our football club was immeasurable. He was a hero to all of us, a leader in every dressing room and a true gentleman." Taken far too young. RIP
That's so tragic, he had Non Hodgkins Lymphoma but had previously been clear, cancer is one bastard. RIP Sol...
Liverpool have announced the death of their legendary former club captain Ron Yeats at the age of 86. RIP
Always remember the press conference when Shankly signed him, never one for understatement he said "He's a colossus, take a walk around him", he wasn't far wrong. RIP Ron...
Will Jennings, co-writer of Titanic's My Heart Will Go On, dies - reports 10 hours ago Share Guy Lambert Entertainment Reporter please log in to view this image Getty Images Jennings won three Academy Awards in an illustrious career Will Jennings, the co-writer of smash hits such as Steve Winwood’s Higher Love and Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On, has died at the age of 80, according to multiple US media reports. Jennings died in his Texan home, his caregiver told the Hollywood Reporter. A cause of death was not identified. In a career spanning five decades, the man from the small town of Kilgore, Texas, began his Hollywood career in 1976, and in 1977 teamed up with composer Richard Kerr to write Barry Manilow’s Looks Like We Made It. The pair reunited for the artist’s top 10 hit, Somewhere in the Night, two years later. please log in to view this image Getty Images My Heart Will Go On has become synonymous with the 1997 film Titanic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet Jennings went on to write for a number of legendary artists, including B.B. King, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Jimmy Buffett and Roy Orbison. During his career, Jennings collaborated on a range of songs for film soundtracks, bringing him acclaim in the process. It was in 1983 that Jennings won his first Academy Award for the song Up Where We Belong, written for Taylor Hackford’s An Officer and a Gentleman. Eight years on and he won a Grammy Award, as well as a Golden Globe nomination, for writing the lyrics to Eric Clapton’s Tears in Heaven for the film Rush. But above them all came the Celine Dion classic My Heart Will Go On, written for James Cameron’s Titanic – sweeping home an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award in 1998. He was nominated for a total of six Grammy Awards and had three to his name. In 2006, his legacy was cemented when was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. please log in to view this image Getty Images James Horner (left), Celine Dion (centre), Will Jennings (right) won an American Academy Award, Golden Globe Award and the Grammy for Song of the Year with 'My Heart Will Go On' Singer Peter Wolf paid tribute to his friend on social media writing: "A sad time, the passing of Will Jennings, a maestro, brilliant mind and a gentle spirit." The former J. Geils Band frontman went on: "Will shared his talents with me, ever patient and generous; he was a treasured friend and teacher, enriching my life in so many ways. "It was an enormous honour to have worked with such a musical genius for so many years… To quote one of his favourite poets, W.B Yeats, 'Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.'"
Kenneth Cope has died aged 93. Arguably his most famous role was Marty Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) RIP
Randall & Hopkirk was one of those programmes that stick in the mind for being unique at that time. I also remember Cope playing Jed Stone in Coronation Street back in the 60s but he'll always be remembered in that white suit as a ghost. RIP...
Yes - I still watch the occasional episode on TV. Amazing to think that his co-star Mike Pratt died 48 years ago ….
