R.I.P.s

**Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:49 am**

Media are reporting that Tom Petty (66), has suffered a massive heart attack and has been taken off life support, although LAPD are not confirming he has passed Into The Great Wide Open. Guardian are now reporting he's in hospital, "gravely ill", his daughter has been on instragram saying "he's not dead yet!", seems like he Won't Back Down.

**Tue Oct 03, 2017 7:56 am**

RIP Mr Petty

**Tue Oct 03, 2017 3:30 pm**

Low D wrote:Media are reporting that Tom Petty (66), has suffered a massive heart attack and has been taken off life support, although LAPD are not confirming he has passed Into The Great Wide Open. Guardian are now reporting he's in hospital, "gravely ill", his daughter has been on instragram saying "he's not dead yet!", seems like he Won't Back Down.

Lots of info Low D, and you aren't even an American Girl. Sorry to say, Tom had his Last Dance with Mary Ann...

**Tue Oct 03, 2017 5:00 pm**

Took a while. He was learning to fly, but he didn't have wings....

**Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:50 pm**

Tom Petty RIP.Absolute legend,saw him play in Nederland and Belgium,amazing gigs!

**Mon Oct 16, 2017 11:59 pm**

Canadian actor John Dunsworth, best known & loved as the Trailer Park Boys' Mr. Lahey, dead at 71, after a "sudden and unexpected illness".

Also, 2017's entire generation of chicks from an Adelie penguin colony in the eastern Antarctic, of which one researcher said: "It's like`Tarantino does Happy Feet', with dead penguin chicks strewn across a beach in Adelie Land."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/antar ... -1.4344107

**Wed Oct 18, 2017 2:40 pm**

Gord Downie.....and a nation mourns

**Wed Oct 18, 2017 3:24 pm**

Pogues to Niagara wrote:Gord Downie.....and a nation mourns

Sad day for Canada. Being a hockey guy, Downie was a favorite, writing songs about the tragic death of Bill Barilko (scored the Stanley Cup winning goal for Toronto and then was killed in an off-season plane crash) and being the godson of Harry Sinden.

I know others have posted on the forum about separating young First Nation children from their families. Downie did a lot of work on this issue. I actually just watched the Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day Lewis-1990s) and the actor who played Uncas was one of those affected-pretty tragic.

**Wed Oct 18, 2017 6:09 pm**

Mike from Boston wrote:
Pogues to Niagara wrote:Gord Downie.....and a nation mourns

Sad day for Canada. Being a hockey guy, Downie was a favorite, writing songs about the tragic death of Bill Barilko (scored the Stanley Cup winning goal for Toronto and then was killed in an off-season plane crash) and being the godson of Harry Sinden.

I know others have posted on the forum about separating young First Nation children from their families. Downie did a lot of work on this issue. I actually just watched the Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day Lewis-1990s) and the actor who played Uncas was one of those affected-pretty tragic.

It's true, Downie & his band, The Tragically Hip, loom large on our cultural landscape. Recent national moves by our shiny happy Prime Minister towards reconciliation with our First Nations coincided with Downie's campaign, and PM Trudeau - who was a big fan - actually cried when making a public statement about Downie's death.

Meanwhile, the Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women & Girls (MMIWG) Inquiry is basically grinding to a halt from mis-management, so it would be nice if he put his tears to work. Part of being a progressive politician is to be able to accomplish more than a random pop star can, on account of you have the reins of State in your hands. If Trudeau really thinks Downie was so great, he can honour him best by fulfilling his literal dying wish - that Canada turns around our relationship with it's indigenous people.

**Wed Oct 18, 2017 6:35 pm**

Like a beaver eating poutine while wearing hockey pads, CBC actually did this....

Remembering Gord: Watch our Olympic montages set to Tragically Hip songs
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/olymp ... -1.4360098
Shared via the CBC News Android App

**Thu Oct 19, 2017 7:47 am**

Former member of The Dubliner's Eamonn Campbell has passed away after a short illness. :cry:

**Thu Oct 19, 2017 7:58 am**

Heather wrote:Former member of The Dubliner's Eamonn Campbell has passed away after a short illness.

RIP Eamonn. "Eamonn's looking like a pint of Guinness."

**Thu Oct 19, 2017 6:03 pm**

firehazard wrote:
Heather wrote:Former member of The Dubliner's Eamonn Campbell has passed away after a short illness.

RIP Eamonn. "Eamonn's looking like a pint of Guinness."

The internet tells me that the whole collaboration with The Pogues was Eamonn's idea (indeed, he's the producer on "Irish Rover" - and all Dubs material thereafter), and indeed it was only at/about that time he joined the band (although he'd worked with them and Ronnie previously). Not bad impact for a newcomer.

**Thu Oct 19, 2017 7:02 pm**

Heather wrote:Former member of The Dubliner's Eamonn Campbell has passed away after a short illness.

R.I.P.

**Sat Oct 21, 2017 10:15 am**

RIP Eamon Campbell. The first time i saw Eamonn perform was in November 1986, at the Theatre Fabrik Munich a double header featuring the Dubliners and The Pogues.What a night that was,not surprisingly the evening ended with both bands performing together,this could have been the first time that The Pogues and the Dub Liners{thank you Janice Long!]played together live.i I was there in Vienna in '85 when Spider jammed with 2 or was it 3? Dubliners in the restaurant at the Festival so that hardly counts.Getting back to Eamonn Campbell,he was a lovely bloke,i only met him a couple of times but like his fellow Dubliners he was funny, had to the odd story to tale and he was a very talented musician and producer.The Irish Rover need i say more?

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