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Posted: 21-07-2004 21:16 Post subject: peeps you thought were dead part 2

I remember watching an edition of the 'The Tube', a British eighties pop programme,circa 1985/86. The presenter, Jools Holland,was at the piano with Alison Moyet(I think) and Eric Burdon - he of The Animals fame. Now, I think I remember before the programme aired or during it,i'm sure which that this particular clip was being aired as a tribute to Eric Burdon who had just died !

Fast forward to 2002. One of our friends is having a birthday. His wife tells us that she has arranged a surprise for him. He's a big Eric Burdon fan. She's booked two tickets for one of his gigs...I protest to her that they can't see Eric Burdon, he's dead!!! She looks at me like i'm crazy....

Sure enough, they saw him,in the flesh,in glorious technicolour,still alive! I was overjoyed obviously,but none-plussed:confused: !!Fast forward again to 2004 and Eric announces his new autobiography and tour on Radio2!! .......did I imagine his death??? Did anyone else see that item on the Tube???

Posted: 21-07-2004 21:58 Post subject:

Can't comment on Eric Burdon or The Tube I'm afraid, though until (literally) last week I was convinced Gerry Anderson had been dead for about five or six years.

Rather bizarrely, my partner's reaction on being asked 'Gerry Anderson? But he's dead isn't he?' was:

'No, but by all accounts he's an utter git.'

The brain that can produce that thought process alone has to qualify as an area if Forteana doesn't it?

Posted: 21-07-2004 22:12 Post subject:

That's odd cos I thought he was dead for a bit. Maybe we're getting him mixed up with Gene Roddenbury, or maybe it was his wife who did the voice for Lady Penelope. That would explain Thunderbirds-themed obits.

Posted: 22-07-2004 00:54 Post subject:

Anyone seen this site? http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/pages-nf/main

Americentric, but useful!

Posted: 22-07-2004 06:32 Post subject:

Nah, Mrs Anderson is alive. She was on Sky TV News this week praising the new Thunderbirds fillum.

This 'thought they were dead' has happened so often to me that I'm only faintly surprised when it happens now.

What's that other new fillum..... The Stepford Wives........

Posted: 22-07-2004 15:45 Post subject:

years ago i went to a talk by that anderson and he might as well have been dead for all the excitement he generated

eric burdon will never die

Posted: 22-07-2004 16:20 Post subject: Re: peeps you thought were dead part 2

Oh good -- I'm SO glad someone else has raised this issue of near-dead experiences!!
About 5 yrs ago me and my partner were listening to the radio when the DJ got all maudlin and started talking about his 'old mate' Holly Johnson (from Frankie Goes to Hollywood -- massive 80s band) and wondering how he was ... well, I turned to my husband and said 'Holly Johnson -- he died of AIDS a few years ago, didn't he?'
Husband duly agreed and called DJ a stupid **** for going on about someone when they were so obviously dead.
Roll on to recent years ... and suddenly Holly Johnson IS alive again.
SO -- either he has unlocked the secret of the Undead, or me and husband both entered a 'celeb-is-dead' parallel universe.

Posted: 22-07-2004 19:40 Post subject:

Yes, I thought Holly Johnson had died from AIDS years ago too.
Maybe celebrities have some way of faking their deaths legally or something.
Applying that line of logic, perhaps this means that Elvis, Marilyn etc. are still alive? roll eyes (sarcastic)

Posted: 22-07-2004 19:46 Post subject:

Turns out that Holly contracted AIDS then retired from public life.
He is still alive, but not doing much.

Posted: 22-07-2004 23:15 Post subject:

I could swear I saw a tribute to Roger Moore on TV after his death a few years ago. I'm sure I even remember the obituaries. I was utterly convinced he was six feet under until I saw a recent interview with him. He looked alive enough to me. Unless it was the interview I imagined and he is dead. Is he?
Someone also convinced me Beach Boy Brian Wilson was dead. He still managed to go on tour recently.
Finally, and I suppose it was just too ironic to be true, a friend of mine was fully convinced that Bobby McFerrin committed suicide years ago. Also currently touring.

Posted: 23-07-2004 03:01 Post subject:

The bf has somehow contracted the notion that either Albert Finney or Terence Stamp has died and all the googling in the world won't shift him. roll eyes (sarcastic)

Posted: 23-07-2004 07:40 Post subject:

Elvis is definately dead
no one would fake such a pitiful death
He would have done a John Entwistle I reckon.bag of coke,profesional lady,aging rocker=heart explosion

Posted: 23-07-2004 08:06 Post subject:

John Entwhistle went the way I want to go...... Cool

I was convined for years that Axel Rose had died. I swear I heard it mentioned on MTV. Like wise i was convinced that Alaistair Cooke was dead and was very pleased he wasn't...and then he died.

If only I had known about theDead people server

Posted: 23-07-2004 08:08 Post subject:

HOW peeps have died seems to change too.

I was certain that Mick Ronson had died in a helicopter crash but now it seems he had liver cancer. This crash also killed Alice Cooper Band member Glen Buxton, who actually died of pneumonia at least a year later.

Lost Idols has a list of who, when and how in relation to rock'n'roll deaths.

Sad reading it makes too. Sad

Evilsprout- yup, deadoralive is great. I looked when you posted it recently and noticed some names which the media here seemed to have missed.

Aha, Stevie Ray Vaughan died in 1990 in a helicopter crash. I wonder if that's where I got the idea from.

Posted: 23-07-2004 14:23 Post subject:

Lord, I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that SRV was gone. I was gutted.

And yet Justin Timberlake walks among us. There is no God.