Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025 RIP For many young men growing up in Europe during the 60s and 70s Brigitte Bardot represented the epitome of sensual womanhood... long before most…
Sir Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard 1937 – 2025 RIP Those who are no strangers to rambling the raggle-taggle byways of this eclectic journal will doubtless have observed that I am in the habit…
Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson 1942 – 2025 RIP Whenever I post one of these messages lamenting the loss of one of the great figures of my (or the adjacent) generation(s) I do…
Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack 1937 – 2025 RIP Regulars on these pages will be familiar with the occasional but still all too frequent tombstones that mark the passing of those iconic figures…
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones 1933 – 2024 RIP Quite possibly the greatest and most gifted record producer of the age. Definitely irreplaceable... From the many, many obituaries and retrospectives published since his…
Dame Maggie Smith
Dame Maggie Smith 1934 – 2024 RIP The British thespian profession has always punched well above it's weight - from the secularisation of drama that followed the Reformation onward. This…
Robbie Robertson
Robbie Robertson 1943 – 2023 RIP It has been a sad year for those who are involved with... or who have an interest in... or who are passionate about... the…
Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson 1936 – 2023 RIP Very sad to hear of the passing of Glenda Jackson. The United Kingdom has - during my lifetime - produced such an extraordinary…
Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach 1928 – 2023 RIP I mentioned only the other day in this forum that it was deeply saddening that we seem in these times to be losing so…
Jonathan Raban – David Crosby
David Crosby 1941 – 2023 Jonathan Raban 1942 – 2023 RIP It is a sad fact that the passing of those who have shaped our lives - those who have,…