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My Bowie records

My Bowie records

Lemmy! OK he died in late 2015 but he set the trend and was buried in 2016! ­ ­­– age 70

JANUARY

04 – Robert Stigwood, age 81

10 – Much much lamented David Bowie, age 69

14 – Alan Rickman, age 69

28 – Should’ve mourned him more, but I didn’t find out until later, being in Mozambique: Paul Kantner, age 74

FEBRUARY

03 – Maurice White, age 74

19 – Harper Lee, age 89

28 – George Kennedy, age 91

MARCH

06 –Don’t much care about her, but she was a feature in the 80s:  Nancy Reagan, age 94

08 – Sir George Martin, age 90

10 – Keith Emerson, age 71

22 – And a mention for  Rob Ford, crack smoking Mayor of Toronto, Canada – age 46. He sure lived it up.

APRIL

06 – Merle Haggard, age 79

20 – Victoria Wood, age 62

21 – Prince, age 57

24 – Burt Kwouk, Clouseau’s Chinese manservant, – age 85

JUNE

03 – Muhammad Ali, age 74

16 – Much much lamented  Jo Cox, British Labour Party Member of Parliament , age 41

27 – Bud Spencer, Spaghetti Western actor. I loved him in God Forgives… I Don’t! – age 86

28 – Scotty Moore, Guitarist in Elvis Preseley’s backing band – age 84

JULY

02 – Michael Cimino, age 77

02 – Elie Wiesel, age 87

02 – Caroline Aherne, age 52

AUGUST

29 – Gene Wilder, age 83

SEPTEMBER

16 Edward Albee, age 88

17 – Charmian Carr, Liesl Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, age 73

28 – Added because he was a huge personality: Shimon Peres, age 93

OCTOBER

23 – Pete Burns, age 57

24 – Bobby Vee, age 73

NOVEMBER

07 – Leonard Cohen, age 82

11 – Robert Vaughn, age 83

13 – Leon Russell, age 74

23 – Andrew Sacks, “Manuel” in Faulty Towers – age 86

25 – Fidel Castro, age 90

28 – Jim Delligatti, created The Big Mac and single-handedly invented obesity – age 98

DECEMBER

07 – Greg Lake, age 69

08 – John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth – age 95

18 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, age 99

24 – Richard Adams, age 96

24 – Rick Parfitt, age 68

25 – George Michael, age 53

27 – Carrie Fisher, age 60

28 – Debbie Reynolds, age 84

Finally, a song in their memory.