The Celebrity Obituary Thread

I think it's the same thing down south. :D

Reminds me of the story about the hillbilly who had just gotten married. The next morning the new bride was gone. The groom’s family asked what had happened. The hillbilly replied, “Sheeet, turns out she was a virgin, so I tossed her out. If she weren’t good enough for her own family she sure as hell ain’t good enough for ours.”

Ba da boom. I’ll be here all week.
 
Autopsy on Tom Petty reveals he had massive amounts of painkillers in his body. He did the last tour with a fractured hip, and it only got worse.
 
opioid addiction probably too....from the hip pain.
i worked a pre-nursing home place for a few years and when the Hips went it was over, rarely...actually I cant remember a time, when the person recovered. It was done and off to the Nursing Home, no longer able to live in the assisted apartments.
something about the hip that really takes a lot of everything to heal, and Tom wasnt a spring chicken. The pills addicting so we take more and more. To me he died, its not that rare, he was old....he was a huge success, L5 as Maslow would say...he got to the top of the Life Pyramid.
Same with Elvis.... Lennon was shot so he got robbed more, but George and Ringo, Paul, Jagger, Clapton all of them it will be natural as they made it into the normal age death range, right?
 
Actually, hip replacement surgery is very successful these days. I know a drummer who was back on his kit 2 months later, and up to full speed 4 months after surgery.
 
I think if you are in a nursing home your probably already physically less robust, which would make recovery from any major surgery more problematic than if you were 66 years young. Live hard , die young is so rock & roll it's cliché. Seriously, so many of those who achieve fame abuse their bodies so much its not really surprising I guess.
 
Actually, hip replacement surgery is very successful these days. I know a drummer who was back on his kit 2 months later, and up to full speed 4 months after surgery.

technology is great, viagra, new bones, new technology for eyesight, rogaine and new teeth science...this opiod thing is for severe pain when others dont work. Prince and Tom Petty on the same Fen-drug, right?

technology's keeps raising the death age average, maybe the Rolling Stones will still be touring at 98yrs old.:eek:
 
Mickey Jones.

Best known as a character actor, looong list of credits in Movies and Television.

Less known as a musician, drummer. Played on 17 gold records. Trini Lopez, Johnny Rivers, Kenny Rogers and The First Addition, sat in for Levon Helms after Levon quit The Band for a time, backing Dylan on the famous/infamous '66 tour where Dylan was boo'd for going electric.

RIP big man.

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Mickey Jones.

Best known as a character actor, looong list of credits in Movies and Television.

Less known as a musician, drummer. Played on 17 gold records. Trini Lopez, Johnny Rivers, Kenny Rogers and The First Addition, sat in for Levon Helms after Levon quit The Band for a time, backing Dylan on the famous/infamous '66 tour where Dylan was boo'd for going electric.

RIP big man.

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Im always amazed these familiar faces then you find, as you posted , they played on 100 gold records and helped write a hit song or two then were the founding members of huge corporation and did 50000 other huge things...

I was at the Bob Dylan religious tour and the place emptied out, never seen that before. I mean there were a lot of us stayed. But a lot of people left....maybe 50%. Omaha NE I think it was or Kansas City?
Maybe Mickey was on that tour too?
 
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