Magician Roy Horn famous for his Las Vegas shows has disappeared for the last time 75.
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Yes, big influence on The Beatles in their formative years
They covered a bundle of his tracks in their early years.
Used to love listening to my Dads 78s of Little Richard when I was a kid
RIP
How off the wall is that? Both gone to a better place...
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What? The parrot’s dead too? Was it a Norwegian Blue?
Jerry Stiller, from the Seinfeld fame, has died.
‘Festivus for the rest of us’
‘You want a piece of me?
Classic actor and one of my favourites.
‘Festivus for the rest of us’
‘You want a piece of me?
Classic actor and one of my favourites.
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https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-...einfeld-actor-dies-at-92-20200511-p54ryx.html
Father of Ben Stiller. Reached a good age, 92
Gutted to hear this. The Pretty Things in old cinema size venues were truly a fantastic live band, never quite got the kudos their talent deserved. RIP Phil...
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Bollocks. An incredibly funny and talented man, in all of the great improvised Christopher Guest films like Spinal Tap and Best in Show. Shame. RIP.
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RIP to another Airborne warrior - see you in Valhalla
Veteran WW2 paratrooper Sandy Cortmann dies at 97
A WW2 veteran, whose parachute jump to mark the 75th anniversary of a major wartime operation went viral last year, has died at the age of 97.
Sandy Cortmann, from Aberdeen, made an emotional return to the Netherlands to commemorate the anniversary of Operation Market Garden last September.
He was just 22 when he parachuted near Arnhem in 1944, before being taken prisoner by the Germans.
The events in 1944 were immortalised in the 1977 epic A Bridge Too Far.
Mr Cortmann's family said he had passed away at his care home in Aberdeen on Saturday.
Mr Cortmann described the jump last year as "thoroughly terrifying but wonderful".
Footage of the jump went viral on social media, and not long after returning to Scotland from his adventure he received hundreds of fan letters from people in the Netherlands.
Dutch people were so moved his his story, a campaign was launched to send well wishes and thank you messages to the Aberdonian.
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Operation Market Garden saw 35,000 British, American and Polish troops parachute or glide behind German lines in a bid to open up an attack route for allied forces.
The fighting around Arnhem saw more than 1,500 British soldiers killed and nearly 6,500 captured.
Some 1,500 people took part in a mass parachute drop to commemorate the allied assault.
Recalling 1944, Mr Cortmann said: "When the fighting started we were just in amongst it.
"You can describe it as brave, you thought you were brave, but once you got down there, Jesus Christ, terrified, absolutely terrified.
"You just heard bangs and machine guns. I didn't understand what that was all about."
Image captionSandy Cortmann did the tandem jump last year
Allied soldiers had been parachuted in to secure bridges on the Dutch and German border.
Mr Cortmann remembered seeing treatment areas for the wounded "strewn with bodies".
He recalled one young soldier calling out repeatedly for his mother and being told to help quieten him.
"I crawled out, I just touched his hand, grabbed it and he died," he said.
"I thought, 'what a thing to happen'. I was choking, but I was alive."
'Humble kind gentleman'
The veteran paratrooper and his comrades had tried to escape the fighting by crossing a river to safety, but Mr Cortmann was forced to admit he could not swim.
He said that instead of abandoning him his fellow soldiers put their clothes back on and stayed.
Mr Cortmann was eventually captured and endured a seven-hour train ride in a packed wagon to Germany where he was held for a year.
Friend Bob Crocker, a fellow member of the Aberdeen Airborne Alliance, said: "I'm really saddened by the passing of Sandy, the humble kind gentleman Airborne soldier.
"Sandy was a treasure in many ways and especially to us in the Airborne community, we've not only lost an Airborne brother but a friend and a gentleman. It was a privilege knowing and spending time with him, we'll all miss him and his spirit. Rest in peace warrior."
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A WW2 veteran, whose parachute jump to mark the 75th anniversary of a major wartime operation went viral last year, has died at the age of 97.
Sandy Cortmann, from Aberdeen, made an emotional return to the Netherlands to commemorate the anniversary of Operation Market Garden last September.
He was just 22 when he parachuted near Arnhem in 1944, before being taken prisoner by the Germans.
The events in 1944 were immortalised in the 1977 epic A Bridge Too Far.
Mr Cortmann's family said he had passed away at his care home in Aberdeen on Saturday.
Mr Cortmann described the jump last year as "thoroughly terrifying but wonderful".
Footage of the jump went viral on social media, and not long after returning to Scotland from his adventure he received hundreds of fan letters from people in the Netherlands.
Dutch people were so moved his his story, a campaign was launched to send well wishes and thank you messages to the Aberdonian.
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Operation Market Garden saw 35,000 British, American and Polish troops parachute or glide behind German lines in a bid to open up an attack route for allied forces.
The fighting around Arnhem saw more than 1,500 British soldiers killed and nearly 6,500 captured.
Some 1,500 people took part in a mass parachute drop to commemorate the allied assault.
Recalling 1944, Mr Cortmann said: "When the fighting started we were just in amongst it.
"You can describe it as brave, you thought you were brave, but once you got down there, Jesus Christ, terrified, absolutely terrified.
"You just heard bangs and machine guns. I didn't understand what that was all about."
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Image copyrightMODImage captionSandy Cortmann did the tandem jump last year
Allied soldiers had been parachuted in to secure bridges on the Dutch and German border.
Mr Cortmann remembered seeing treatment areas for the wounded "strewn with bodies".
He recalled one young soldier calling out repeatedly for his mother and being told to help quieten him.
"I crawled out, I just touched his hand, grabbed it and he died," he said.
"I thought, 'what a thing to happen'. I was choking, but I was alive."
'Humble kind gentleman'
The veteran paratrooper and his comrades had tried to escape the fighting by crossing a river to safety, but Mr Cortmann was forced to admit he could not swim.
He said that instead of abandoning him his fellow soldiers put their clothes back on and stayed.
Mr Cortmann was eventually captured and endured a seven-hour train ride in a packed wagon to Germany where he was held for a year.
Friend Bob Crocker, a fellow member of the Aberdeen Airborne Alliance, said: "I'm really saddened by the passing of Sandy, the humble kind gentleman Airborne soldier.
"Sandy was a treasure in many ways and especially to us in the Airborne community, we've not only lost an Airborne brother but a friend and a gentleman. It was a privilege knowing and spending time with him, we'll all miss him and his spirit. Rest in peace warrior."
The was a good programme on Sky Arts (I think) about all the music stars that had died in the ‘naughties’.
There seemed so many. Not my cup of tea music wise but I didn’t realise what an amazing voice Whitney Houston had.
There seemed so many. Not my cup of tea music wise but I didn’t realise what an amazing voice Whitney Houston had.
Houston was a wonderful singer, beautiful woman, great dancer, talented, respectable and supportive family - it's just a shame she had such a susceptibility to drugs. I hadn't realised that it was really her and less so Bobby Brown that was the driving force into the drug scene.
If Millwall begins with an M most of us have been pronouncing it wrongly all the time.
Tony Scannell dead at 74: The Bill's DS Ted Roach and Flash Gordon star passes away from unknown causes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8365413/Tony-Scannell-dead-Bill-star-passes-away-aged-74.html
RIP
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RIP
Michael Angelis has passed away at the age of 68. Best known for the voice of Thomas the Tank Engine but I remember him from the Liver Birds. RIP.
Thats sad. He was Lucian in the Liver Birds with his rabbits too. Also Palin’s brother in law in the magnificent GBH. I think he did a few Bleasdales?