George Martin dead

[garbon]

Age probably has played a role in those differing outcomes.

[Josquius]

Even though I saw this news elsewhere and didn't for a second think it meant the fat man, for some reason seeing this thread on languish made that disappear from my mind and my heart sink in my chest as I couldn't think of anyone else but GRRM.


A thought that has just come to me:
An awful lot of famous people seem to be dying lately.
Could this be the shape of things to come?
Consider: the age of the celebrity and omnipresent media only really began in the 60s. It just so happens that now we're getting to the time when people who were in their 20s and 30s in the 60s are at that age where the odds are against their continued existence.

[Eddie Teach]

The older you get, the more of these you'll recognize.

[Jaron]

The older you get, the more of these you'll recognize.

Yap.

[garbon]

Until you hit the point where you start to recognize no one.

[The Brain]

I recognize no earthly authority.

[Eddie Teach]

Until you hit the point where you start to recognize no one.

Unlikely, unless you either have some sort of dementia or stop consuming media at a fairly young age.

[celedhring]

People that were famous in our childhoods/20s are getting near "drop dead ages", and those are more likely to have had an impact on us, and thus we recognize those deaths.

[Josquius]

I really don't think it's just that. I think there are more celebrities from later decades.  It's an exponential growth.
Before the 60s it was mostly just movie stars and the occasional musician.
But from then on you have popular music of various sorts and tv too.
We just live in a much more media focused celebrity obsessed world now than several decades ago

The more omnipresent news today will help too

[Liep]

When the last baby boomer hero is dead all we're left with is Kanye West.

[Capetan Mihali]

WTF Phil Spector invented the wall of sound!

Indeed.   JM and Norgy are dead to me.  Or at least I'd smack them around a bit before letting them back in my good graces. :ronnie:

[Norgy]

Pity. I think only JM is into punishment. He is an American lawyer, well-read and educated.

Me, I'd just shiv you.

[grumbler]

Who is JM?

[Capetan Mihali]

JMMRobinson.

[Capetan Mihali]

Me, I'd just shiv you.

Shiv me, and you shiv one man.  You shiv one weak mortal man, prematurely soft in the mid-section, albeit in slightly better condition than Calif. Prisoner #1234567 Philip Spector, whom I'm sure more skilled shiv operators than you have already aimed for. 

But it's like Fidel's exploding cigar.  Shiv me, shiv Phil, shiv Khrushchev, enjoy a moment of glory. But shiv the Wall Of Sound, well, then you're really somebody, cause that's something.  That's something.