Performers who died too young

[Ferretfancy]

See ##4, 23 & 24 above, Ferret, and the link to the Brilliant Classics CD set

Thanks for that Caliban, I'm sorry I overlooked the other links. I'm typing tonight with a big patch over my eye due to cataract surgery this afternoon!

The Ciani set has been duly ordered !

[Zucchini]

Freddie Mercury. 22 years ago and my eyes still well up thinking about such a great loss.

Somewhere on the London/Brighton road I think, he's well remembered by the hanging sign outside an inn - a portrait of FM confirms that it's called The Queen's Head.

[Beef Oven!]

Or maybe taken off the coat and gloves when indoors... so he "felt the benefit" on going outside (as my Granny used to say).

What's up, Beefy? You're in and out like a dog at a fair! (as my Granny also used to say!)

My gran was from Hoxton, so she had a slightly different saying that included the words "....on pay day". Too indelicate for such a genteel forum and I ain't giving you the chance just yet

[Nick Armstrong]

Thanks for that Caliban, I'm sorry I overlooked the other links. I'm typing tonight with a big patch over my eye due to cataract surgery this afternoon!

The Ciani set has been duly ordered !

No problem, Ff, glad to help, and best of luck with the recuperation!!

[Alison]

Happily it seems that Linda Esther Gray does not belong in this thread. Wikipedia offers this:"Gray retired from the opera stage in 1982 after an illness left her unable to continue. She has been described as "one of the most lyric of modern sopranos", and was "expected to be the next Callas".After many years of seclusion from the media she published her autobiography in 2007: A Life Behind Curtains: A Singer's Silent Sounds. She is now an opera coach working from her home in Surrey."

So sorry - very pleased to hear that.

[David-G]

From the HIP stable, harpsichordist/fortepianist Christopher Kite, violinist Micaela Comberti and oboeist David Reichenberg. All much missed by me.

And likewise - cellist Timothy Mason, one of the founders of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, who sadly died young of cancer; and another OAE member who died much too young, violinist Lucy Howard.

This list is shockingly long.

[Beef Oven!]

Somewhere on the London/Brighton road I think, he's well remembered by the hanging sign outside an inn - a portrait of FM confirms that it's called The Queen's Head.

[EdgeleyRob]

Welcome back BeefO,loving the shiny new !.

Geoffrey Tozer (I have a nice cd of his Rawsthorne Piano Concertos,Chandos).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Composers Bill Hopkins (1943-1981)

And Hopkins' teacher, Jean Barraqué (1928-73).

[Beef Oven!]

Welcome back BeefO,loving the shiny new !.

Geoffrey Tozer (I have a nice cd of his Rawsthorne Piano Concertos,Chandos).

Thanks Rob, hope you sank a few ice cold beers in Turkey

[EdgeleyRob]

Thanks Rob, hope you sank a few ice cold beers in Turkey

Yep,one or two,you were right about Alanya btw,a bit warm.
Istanbul,been there,that's one crazy city (in a good way) isn't it?

[Beef Oven!]

Yep,one or two,you were right about Alanya btw,a bit warm.
Istanbul,been there,that's one crazy city (in a good way) isn't it?

Of all the cities I've spent time in, Istanbul is tops!

[formbyman]

Hank Williams 29.

[Beef Oven!]

Sid and Nancy (21 & 20, respectively).

[salymap]

Gerry Shury, pop musician and later a producer. A nice man, a colleague in one job, killed in a car crash, think still in his twenties.