RIP thread

[Arthur Crabtree]

Pele 82

greatest footballer ever?

Slightly before my time (I remember him at New York Cosmos) but until Maradona, pundits seemed to assume Pele was the greatest. After Maradona, they weren't sure.

Played almost all of his career in Brazil with Santos. So, a different football world back then. Until the late seventies, we only saw South American players at WCs. Three Argentinians coming to England in '78 was a big deal.

[GarlicJam]

John Bird 86

The last of the George Parrs

I did not get the reference, but google tells all. This show was out when I was living in Britain. I loved it, but only saw a few of them. Very clever.

Very similar to the Australian show, Clarke and Dawe which ran for decades, just five minutes once a week. The difference with that is that John Clarke would actually be a person of name, usually a politician, whilst making no effort to look or sound like them.

Bird was a face that has been around for so long, even for Australians.

[Durhamfootman]

Coming thick and fast

Vivienne Westwood 81

never really understood it all, myself

[sussexpob]

Gianluca Vialli.... 58, cancer.

A seemingly very decent man, who mostly always had a cheeky smile on his face and sense of warm. RIP

[Gingerfinch]

RIP

Didn't know he was ill but has been for some time apparently.

Always came across as a decent bloke.

[Durhamfootman]

I was surprised he was 58. It only seems like a few years ago that he was playing. RIP

[Arthur Crabtree]

Jeff Beck, guitarist, Yardbirds and more, aged 78.

[Durhamfootman]

Lisa Marie Presley, cardiac arrest, 54

jeez I'm glad I didn't have to live her life

[Arthur Crabtree]

Just take the money.

[Durhamfootman]

not sure it's worth it

[Durhamfootman]

Gina Lollobrigida 95

if the Presley girl's life seemed like a mess, I get the sense that this life was probably a wild ride. A fine racehorse of a life, not lived by a goat

[Arthur Crabtree]

One of those big European stars of the post war era who seemed to bring a lot of glamour and sex appeal to the screen in a time of austerity, which UK actors didn't really have.

And I say that as a big fan of Patricia Roc. Gina played a lot of passionate Italians in English language films, but I don't think I've seen her in an Italian film. She was in Fanfan la Tulipe, but I think that was French. She crossed over to UK and then US films quite quickly.

Favourite film was Trapeze in a ménage à trois with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis.

[Durhamfootman]

I read that in 2006 she was supposed to marry someone 30 or 40 years her junior and then backed out, but he went ahead and pretended to marry her using an imposter pretending to be her and then told the court that GL had agreed to marry him by proxy... and she lost the case, so who knows what on earth happened there

Then her son took her to court for control of her finances when she was in her 80's and started a relationship with a man in his 20's

clearly she stayed in the game for a very long time

[Arthur Crabtree]

I think she dabbled in politics towards the end.

[Durhamfootman]

Sister Andre, 118, died in her sleep

she became the oldest person in the world last April and famously became the oldest person to recover from covid