RIP thread

[Decadence]

Charles Neville (1938-2018).

The former BB King back up musician & brother to Aaron and the rest of Neville Brothers passed after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 79.

Neville’s career dated to the 1950s when he performed with King and other musical greats. Yet he was best known for three decades of performances with his siblings Aaron, Art and Cyril as the Grammy-winning Neville Brothers band. The band was formed in the 1970s and gained fans with high-energy performances featuring a distinctive fusion of funk, jazz and New Orleans rhythm and blues.

https://www.jambase.com/article/nevi...ille-1938-2018

[K_D]

Charles Neville
December 28, 1938 - April 26, 2018

[otoshi]

Confirmed death of Nichole Van Croft : She died while sleeping

[otoshi]

Originally Posted by Athanatophobos

Do you have a reference? OMG, she was so beautiful.

your friends are commenting on Facebook : I could post the prints but I do not know if it's allowed

[Wendigo]

Alfie Evans: Legal battle toddler dies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43933056

"Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old toddler at the centre of a High Court legal battle, has died, nearly a week after his life support was withdrawn."

It is a tragic story but in the end there could only have been one result, it was purely a matter of time.
Hopefully the wall of hatred raised by many against the staff at Alder Hey Hospital will subside and they can get on with their valuable work helping other sick children.

[Sam Spade]

I am sure some of you will recognise the name of Paul Junger Witt ~ 1943 - 2018, he was the producer behind such shows as Soap, Benson, The Golden Girls, Nurses, Blossom, Herman's Head, etc, etc.

He was also the husband of Susan Harris, writer and creator of many of those shows.

[brudor]

Burning Man founder Larry Harvey died today, after suffering a stroke April 4th

https://journal.burningman.org/2018/...vey-1948-2018/



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Harvey

[gedly]

Former Commons Speaker Michael Martin dies aged 72.

https://news.sky.com/story/former-co...ed-72-11352224

[patwynnfan]

Former House of Commons Speaker Lord Martin of Springburn, has died aged 72, his family have said. The ex-Labour MP, who represented Glasgow, died on Sunday morning after a short illness, his son Paul confirmed. As Michael Martin, he was Speaker from 2000 to 2009 but resigned in the wake of the expenses scandal, the first Speaker to resign in 300 years. Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said Lord Martin had been "an authentic working-class voice in Parliament". "He never forgot where he came from, the community he served and the trade union movement, which gave him his education," Mr Leonard said. "My thoughts are with his family at this time." In a statement, Lord Martin's son Paul said: "He passed away peacefully with his family. "We would be grateful for our privacy to be respected at this difficult time." Lord Martin - latterly Lord Martin of Springburn after the Glasgow constituency he represented from 1979 to 2005, succeeded Baroness Boothroyd as Speaker in 2000. From 2005 to 2009 he also was the Glasgow North East MP. By tradition, Speakers are elevated to the Lords, but the decision to grant Lord Martin's peerage was controversial. As Speaker he came under fire for his own past expenses claims, but it was his reaction to the allegations against others that provoked criticism. He told the Commons there should be a police investigation into the source of the leak to the Daily Telegraph, which broke the story of MPs expenses. Lord Martin was succeeded as speaker by John Bercow.

[patwynnfan]

Rick Dickinson, the designer of Sinclair computers, has died in the US while receiving treatment for cancer. The British designer, thought to be in his 60s, worked in-house for Sinclair Research and oversaw the creation of its home computers in the 1980s. He was responsible for the boxy look of the ZX80 and ZX81 and the Bauhaus-inspired appearance of the Spectrum. Mr Dickinson also helped to develop the technologies for the UK company's touch-sensitive and rubber keyboards. He was recently linked to a crowd-funded project by Retro Computers to turn the Spectrum into a handheld computer. Some of the early reference designs for the machine were drawn up by him. In an interview with the BBC in 2012, Mr Dickinson said the development of the keyboards had been driven by a desire to cut costs. The touch-sensitive mats used in the Sinclair machines were much cheaper and simpler than traditional keyboards made of hundreds of components. In the interview, he said he had had doubts that the first machines would be successful but the company had been "overwhelmed" by interest and demand once they had launched.

He said the machines had "spawned a generation" of coders that had helped to establish the UK's reputation as a creative, game-making powerhouse. He added: "Sinclair products were born out of staggering innovation and clever shortcuts to get things into ever smaller packages at lower costs." The drawing board on which Mr Dickinson designed the Spectrum is now in the Science Museum. A graduate in industrial design from Newcastle Polytechnic, he joined Sinclair in 1979. After leaving the company, Mr Dickinson set up an industrial design consultancy Dickinson Associates. Through the Cambridgeshire-based firm, he was involved with the design of the first Amstrad portable computers, early mobile phones and game consoles. The first news of Mr Dickinson's death came via an email sent by his wife, Elizabeth, to family and friends, asking that it be sent on to all those might want to know of his passing. A spokesman at Dickinson Associates confirmed he had died earlier this week. The email said Mr Dickinson had been diagnosed with cancer in 2015, for which he had received successful treatment. However, it said, the cancer had returned last year. Mr Dickinson had then travelled to the US for specialist care but had died suddenly between bouts of treatment.