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@DarthDimi
Thank you both, I’m very lucky to have a support system both here and in real life. Always best to remember in sad times too is how things could be worse.
https://variety.com/2022/film/obituaries-people-news/lenny-lipton-dead-puff-the-magic-dragon-3d-movies-1235411994/
Lenny Lipton, 3D Film Technology Trailblazer and ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ Lyricist, Dies at 82
Puff the magic dragon, live by the sea.
......In the land of Colony (forgot the other lyrics, and am I right in the lyrics either? 😅)
I think we all had our own lyrics at some point for that song. Mind started like this…
♫…Pewee, the talking doggie lived up the street….♫
As I stated on the other thread, no matter how old I get, that song always makes me cry. I think it's due to my childhood interpretation of the lyrics (I thought that little Jackie Paper had died at one point) and then later - as I got older - my empathy for Puff being abandoned.
Puff the magic dragon/Lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist/In a land called Honalee
Little Jackie Paper/Loved that rascal Puff
And brought him strings and sealing wax/And other fancy stuff
Etc. One of the songs I discovered (belatedly) in the 1970s, and which was a staple of my repertoire while I strummed my guitar at appropriate occasions about 40 years ago, ideally with a lot of attentive girls around. :-)
I never wondered who that "Lipton" was who co-wrote this song with Peter Yarrow, but now I know.
I must admit the same applies to me, especially in connection with the death of its lyricist, and while I used to sing it all the time while still strumming my guitar under the circumstances then, it now has a very special meaning to me. I guess you get more sentimental or at least nostalgic about it when you get older. But I'm wondering if that sentimentality or nostalgia isn't also a positive thing. I'll shed a tear if I listen to Peter, Paul & Mary singing this, but don't we love this feeling? I'm still breaking up over the Seekers' recordings of the likes of You'll Never Find Another You, Georgy Girl or The Carnival Is Over. I guess with increased age, one does simply feel more of a loss for the pleasures of one's youth. But hey, it's okay, isn't it?
Thanks for that really thoughtful reply. Getting older is hard, but, of course, the alternative isn't great either. What hurts (if I may use that term), is seeing family members, people (or things) that you admire pass away and into history.
Its' hard to describe, but with the passage of time, one feels both more distanced from the past, but also more closely connected to it (and certainly more protective of it). While it's easier said than done, I think the key is never to let our nostalgia overwhelm us to the point where we lose sight of today's possibilities.
♫…All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all…♫
Goodness gracious, great balls of fire...
Yeah, scandal was very much his companion throughout his professional life...but rock & roll wasn't exactly respectable when The Killer first started playing it!
Father : "Are you a pothead , Focker ?" :D
Other source: https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artikel/5344876/aaron-carter-overleden-34-jaar
He could now be with his wife.....RIP to him
R.I.P. Leslie Phillips. Like Terry-Thomas, Phillips could play all those skirt chasers, and still make them likeable through his charm.
:(
Phillips and Thomas were indeed legendary Cad's of British cinema.
98 is great age though incredible really.
Leslie Phillips discusses Catch Phrases
The Sorting Ceremony | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Superb actor. Sorry to hear of his passing. :(
https://comicbook.com/comics/news/kevin-oneill-league-extraordinary-gentlemen-comics-dead-obituary/
The artist Brian O'Doherty has died at the age of 94.
A spokesperson for the Arts Council confirmed that Mr Doherty died yesterday in New York.
He was often described as one of the pioneering generation of conceptual art.
Mr O'Doherty's work is held in numerous private and public collections including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the George Pompidou Centre in Paris.
https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2022/1108/1333983-brian-odoherty-death/
But he also was one of people who send Sieneke to Eurovision 2010
Vader Abraham (Pierre Kartner) rip. 11 April 1935 - 08 November 2022
A sad day. He IS the voice of Batman. He will be truly missed.
We spoke once. Such a nice man! There will never be a Batman like him anymore.
You were vengeance, Kevin. You were the (k)night. But you'll always remain Batman! Rest in peace, and from the bottom of my heart, as a Batman fan, Thank you! Thank you so much.