Deaths of famous people (2025)

[JCA-CrystalCity]

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

I believe that Duff McKagen and Sly were neighbours in some condemned flophouse in LA when Duff first moved there from Seattle

[varoadking]

Man. You’re old dude.   

Ordinarily I would say "Don't remind me"...but at my age I need someone to remind me of most everything...

[1995hoo]

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.

[Natsinpwc]

Just saw that.  Legend.  What a musician. 

[1995hoo]

He had been suffering from dementia and when his wife died last year, I think it was pretty clear the time was coming sooner rather than later. So glad I got to see him play live at the Nissan Pavilion back when he toured with Paul Simon.

[imref]

The Beatles and George Martin rolled into one. Absolute genius. ☹️

[1995hoo]

They say these things come in threes. Sly Stone was 82. So was Brian Wilson. I hope Paul McCartney, who is 82, exercises due care over the next few days!

[varoadking]

I saw the Beach Boys in '71 also...George Carlin opened for them...

It was at Northern Illinois University, so naturally the house came down at when they sang "...and the Northern girls..."

[JCA-CrystalCity]

They say these things come in threes. Sly Stone was 82. So was Brian Wilson. I hope Paul McCartney, who is 82, exercises due care over the next few days!

did anyone catch Paul's appearance with Springsteen a few days ago?

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

In Liverpool no less

did anyone catch Paul's appearance with Springsteen a few days ago?

[1995hoo]

did anyone catch Paul's appearance with Springsteen a few days ago?

Unfortunately only on YouTube, not in person.

[imref]

Willie Nelson is on the clock

[imref]

I highly recommend the Long Promised Road documentary from a few years ago as well as the movie starring John Cusack (Love and Mercy). Both fantastic but very different.

[imref]

"I figure no one is educated musically 'til they’ve heard 'Pet Sounds,'" Paul McCartney once said. "I love the orchestra, the arrangements — it may be going overboard to say it’s the classic of the century — but to me, it certainly is a total, classic record that is unbeatable in many ways. I’ve often played 'Pet Sounds' and cried."

It has often been written that Sgt. Peppers was the Beatle's attempt to top Pet Sounds.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/brian-wilson-founding-member-beach-boys-dies-82-rcna212400

[JCA-CrystalCity]

It has often been written that Sgt. Peppers was the Beatle's attempt to top Pet Sounds.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/brian-wilson-founding-member-beach-boys-dies-82-rcna212400

and I think Pet Sounds was trying to top Revolver. Really amazing the back and forth at the time. The Byrds also pushed the Beatles.

[1995hoo]

We listened to his 2004 release of Smile while eating dinner last night and I commented on how making an album that way, where he tried to record all sorts of pieces and then put them together like a puzzle, has to be far easier in the 21st century with digital recording than it was in the 1960s when everything was on analog tape. It gives a different meaning to the Pet Sounds track "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times."

Whereas my brother said he listened to the following yesterday. He says it's the only time the Grateful Dead and the Beach Boys played together:

https://archive.org/details/gd1971-04-27.sbd.miller.106550.flac16

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Sound familiar?

https://wtop.com/entertainment/2023/07/40-years-ago-the-beach-boys-fourth-of-july-concert-on-the-national-mall-was-canceled/

[blue911]

Sound familiar?

https://wtop.com/entertainment/2023/07/40-years-ago-the-beach-boys-fourth-of-july-concert-on-the-national-mall-was-canceled/

Back when we were allowed living room furniture on the Mall.

[imref]

Anne Burrell of the food channel:

https://people.com/anne-burrell-food-network-star-dies-at-55-11756639

[Natsinpwc]

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/mick-ralphs-bad-company-mott-the-hoople-dead-1236438527/

Mick Ralphs. Guitarist and founding member of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company. 

[imref]

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/mick-ralphs-bad-company-mott-the-hoople-dead-1236438527/

Mick Ralphs. Guitarist and founding member of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company. 

Bummer. He lived long enough to find out that Bad Company made it into the R&R HoF (many years too late). He had suffered a severe stroke years ago that IIRC, left him partially paralyzed.

[Natsinpwc]

Bummer. He lived long enough to find out that Bad Company made it into the R&R HoF (many years too late). He had suffered a severe stroke years ago that IIRC, left him partially paralyzed.

Yea the article notes he’s been bedridden for a while so wouldn’t have made the ceremony. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GZQKILDM_dY&pp=ygUaYmFkIGNvbXBhbnkgcmVhZHkgZm9yIGxvdmU%3D

[imref]

[English Natsie]