The music industry's brutal year continues:
Keith Emerson, from Emerson, Lake & Palmer, passed away.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...m_content=link
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The music industry's brutal year continues:
Keith Emerson, from Emerson, Lake & Palmer, passed away.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...m_content=link
Dupe sorry.
Now I have this going through my head along with images of the arcade classic Spy Hunter:Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v8VvJjM65I
I had *no idea* that they did that song.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
I played spy hunter for YEARS.
welll.... technically, they didn't write it. Mancini composed it ages ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merrick ap'Milandra
Yeah, they just did a very well-known cover, but others have covered it too -- I'm not sure which version is used for Spy Hunter.
The Art of Noise did a really good cover as well, but pretty sure it wasn't that one in Spy Hunter.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
My favorite cover of that song will always be the Blues Brothers version.
Toronto's former mayor, Rob Ford, dead at age 46 to cancer:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/us/rob...ies/index.html
The family had just announced yesterday (or I had just read) that he was receiving "palliative care" in the Chemo Ward he was undergoing treatment.
Andy Grove, former Intel CEO.
Dang, we just lost Phife Dawg :(
Legitimate skills, one of the few rappers I could stomach. And at 45 too.
Diabeetus sucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grindel
Dude was far from obese, too, so it wasn't like he wasn't taking care of himself on the weight front.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GyUDX45U4QQuote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Most U.S. sports fans won't be familiar with this guy, but he's a world sports icon:
Johan Cruyff dies at 68
If a football player the caliber of, say, Johnny Unitas or Otto Graham had gone on to become Tom Landry or Bill Walsh, then you'd have the NFL's version of Cruyff.
Yep. My decidedly Euro-focused facebook feed is a pile of "Holy crap, Cruyff died!" right now. I'm not into soccer at all, but growing up with it as a national sport, it's impossible not to be familiar with the icons of the sport.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
And he was indeed an icon. RIP.
Legend indeed. Greatest European football player ever.
Garry Shandling, didnt see that coming, only 66
Article for Shandling: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/24/entert...eat/index.html
I used to love the Larry Sanders Show. He'll be missed.
That's awful. I just listened to an interview with him about a month and a half ago, and he seemed in great health.