For me it was Cheater Bennington. Linkin Park music helped me through some hard times and I know some of the more impactful lyrics came from him and what he experienced.
Knowing he couldn’t take it anymore definitely hit Me hard particularly as someone I looked up to from young age …
Who was yours ?
Dolores O’Riordan
Anthony Bourdain
Grant Imahara, first person I had a parasocial relationship who died. It was also such a sudden and tragic death.
Neil, of course.
John Peel. He was devoted to all music without prejudice or judgement, and was host on a BBC radio show for years and had on some of the greatest bands ever.
Joan Rivers, I really miss Her, she was a comedic genius
Margaret Thatcher.
What a happy fucking day.
Had me in the first half…
Robin Williams, on my birthday. Great guy, a gamer, and knew his way around computers. It might not have hit as hard if it hadn’t been my birthday.
Leonard Nimoy. Grew up with a lot of Star Trek. Both him and Keanu Reeves helped me understand that it’s entirely fine to be introverted.
As I understood it, Nimoy’s death was from lung problems that developed as a result of his smoking habit - even though he had quit smoking many years prior that. It was the catalyst I needed to finally say, “I can’t wait anymore, time may already be up. I need to quit smoking now.” And that was when I finally did quit smoking and make it stick.
Norm Macdonald
Ozzy Osbourne.
His death is signaling a more greyer world coming, the more legendary rock stars we lose.
John “TotalBiscuit” Bain.
Hit at a rough time for me and at that point I had been following his content for many years.
Fred Rogers, it was like a grandfather died when he passed.
David Bowie. I really mourned him, didn’t expect to feel so strongly about someone I never met. Feel like the world got significantly duller and darker since he took off.
Everything went to shit after Bowie died
Took a lot of scrolling to see his name. And I couldn’t have phrased it better.
So. Of my two favorite artists one is just about to become an octogenarian and the other is a nonagenarian. So I feel like their deaths are something that can happen at any moment.
