Strange timing. Of course it’s just how the universe “works”, but it is a bit surreal…
Jeff Beck (meningitis), I don’t know all that much about, but I’ve heard some of his music/playing before… Definitely talented, but I’m surprised he lasted this long, as a formerly drug-taking rocker…
Pell (“complications arising from hip surgery”) - a very controversial figure, in Australia and beyond. Takes his secrets to his grave, and obviously can no longer defend his own name…
Lisa-Marie (heart attack, declared brain dead after being “revived”) - that’s the most tragic one, I think. 54, tragic family history and clearly went through a lot. Seemed like a sad, damaged, volatile, fragile person. You might disagree with some of what she did, and some of the choices she made, but she certainly lived a complex life, and tried to manage the spotlight literally from when she was born, as best she could. It’s very unfortunate that, like so many celebrity families, here has been full of so many early “departures”…
Vale. Vale all. “Advertising Space” rings even more hollow now.
“There’s no earthly way of knowing what was in your heart, when it stopped going.” - 😳
I mean, sure, but you have to factor in age, there…
Benedict/Ratzinger was 95, I believe. Pell was 81. If anyone else of that age died, we wouldn’t be at all surprised…
Hence, I’m much more shocked by a 54 year old dying…
It’s certainly noteworthy to lose those two in quick succession, but possibly not all that surprising, as such…
Would have been considerably more dramatic if Francis, who is also quite frail of course, had also died…
So yeah, you’re not wrong, I guess, arguably, but Presley was the only one who died before approximate normal human life expectancy…
I guess it also a little shocking given that Pell had just been at Benedict’s funeral, and Presley was at the Globes two days ago.
Other than that, it’s just shitty timing, really.
Presley might have been 54, but she was a cokehead for much of her adult life. Add to that a certain genetic predisposition towards heart issues and dying young, and it's not all that surprising.
I agree. Beck was near 80 . . . not a bad run for a major rock star.
Presley must have been an alcoholic or druggie. Like father, like daughter.