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Watched his show after school when I was a kid. Was always hilarious entertainment.
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
Easy E wrote: Before the show he was also the mayor of Cincinnati.
Between the being the mayor of Cincinnati and the show he was a popular news anchor in Cincinnati.
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'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
He was a compassionate and entertaining guy. Sadly he was a major factor in the popularity of a show format which led to abusive comperes like Kilroy Silk and Jeremy Kyle. His legacy is complicated.
Henry wrote: He was a compassionate and entertaining guy. Sadly he was a major factor in the popularity of a show format which led to abusive comperes like Kilroy Silk and Jeremy Kyle. His legacy is complicated.
He also did this...
Spoiler:
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Just Tony wrote: Sadly nobody has documented the passing of Gordon Lightfoot until right this second...
I might have to listen to his song about the Edmund Fitzgerald again now. I don't know why I like that song so much, it's a tragic tale. Must be the way Lightfoot sang it.
My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
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Mr_Rose wrote: Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
I spent my early life in a muffled daze, though (malformed outer ear canals - a quasi-deafness) so I didn't hear a lot of music in the early to mid 70s anyway and even after surgery to remedy that, I was still a more visual (I preferred to read, rather than listen to things) keyed kid.
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
BobtheInquisitor wrote: If You Could Read My Mind is one of those songs you know and love without knowing that you know and love it. Give it a listen.
I love when people tell me these things.
Its even better when they eventually realize that what they grew up with (or adopted as a teen and worked into their base musical knowledge as a default) isn't universal.
Had a friend who made an absolutely lovely infuriated face every time Beatles' songs and references produced little more than a blank stare and a shrug.
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I feel like I’m more familiar with a cover version, with a female singer?
Wikipedia to the rescue:
In 1987, Lightfoot filed a lawsuit against Michael Masser, the composer of Whitney Houston's hit "The Greatest Love of All", alleging plagiarism of 24 bars of "If You Could Read My Mind"; the transitional section that begins "I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow" of the Masser song has the same melody as "I never thought I could act this way and I got to say that I just don't get it; I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back" of Lightfoot's song.
Other notable cover versions
A 1980 cover by Viola Wills peaked at No. 2 for five weeks on the dance/disco charts with a dance version of the song[45] and at No. 80 in Australia.[46] Duane Steele reached No. 32 on the Canadian country charts with his version in 1998.[47]
So you could be either misremembering the similar-sounding Whitney Houston piece, or actually remembering one of the cover versions, probably the one by Viola Wills.
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Just Tony wrote: It's never too late to expose yourself to said music. I'd recommend in this order:
If You Could Read My Mind
Sundown
Rainy Day Women
The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
I gave it a try (exposing myself) - and the police were called ...
So I tried listening to the music ... and it's a hard nope from me. There's something either about 1970s audio Or the general pitch or something, but it just gives me a headache (the architecture for my outer ear canals means certain frequencies echo more than others ... they end up interfering with each other and it muddies the sound to a whine that's just painful to listen to and there's a lot of stuff that falls into that range ... so this alone explains why I'm a musical philistine.)
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
Jim Brown is another one of those famous people I thought had passed away years ago. Obviously he was best known for being a legendary football player, but one thing I know him from is the movie The Dirty Dozen (probably my second-favorite WW2 movie of all after Kelly's Heroes). RIP to a real one, and my condolences to his family and friends.
My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
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Mr_Rose wrote: Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
RIP Legionary Titus Pullo. HBO's Rome is where I was introduced to him and I'd been a fan ever since.
And he was right on the cusp of being introduced to Star Wars fans in the Ahsoka series. Sad.
Ray Stevenson, a towering and imposing character actor best known for starring roles in "Punisher: War Zone" and the "Rome" television show, has died at the age of 58. While his passing has been confirmed by his publicists, the cause of death is currently undisclosed.
George Raymond Stevenson was born in Lisburn, Ireland, on May 25, 1964. He was the second of three sons, and his father was a Royal Air Force pilot. He moved to England at the age of 8 and eventually attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He graduated at the age of 29. Stevenson had been a regular fixture at the movies and on television since the early 1990s.
His breakout movie role came in 1998's "The Theory of Flight," in which he played a gigolo tasked with helping Helena Bonham Carter's character lose her virginity. His most notable big screen roles include the title role in Lexi Alexander's R-rated cult favorite "Punisher: War Zone," Volstagg in Marvel's "Thor" movies and real-life Irish-American mob figure Danny Greene in "Kill the Irishman."
Stevenson had most recently made his Indian cinematic debut playing the imperialist bad guy in S.S. Rajamouli's Tollywood smash "RRR." His final completed film was "Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday," co-starring Scott Adkins.
He co-starred as Titus Pullo in all 22 episodes of HBO and BBC's "Rome." His television resume is peppered with guest-starring roles and reoccurring appearances in the likes of "Dexter," "The Walking Dead," "Black Sails,' various "Star Wars" animated shows and "Vikings." He will next be seen in this summer's Disney+ "Star Wars" series "Ahsoka."
Stevenson had recently signed up to replace Kevin Spacey in the Genghis Khan action drama "1242: Gateway to the West," in which he would have played a Hungarian Priest standing up against the Mongol army.
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"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
Algy Ward, probably best known as the bassist on The Damned’s “Machine Gun Etiquette”, and indeed being ejected from the band due to allegedly punching Rat Scabies, the drummer.
If you’re not familiar with The Damned, perhaps this is one that’ll ring your memory bell. Covered by The Offspring, used in one of the Joel Schumacher Batman movies, and so Algy lived a pretty comfortable life off the royalties.
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Hate to even mark the passing of a dirty old rock spider such as him, but Rolph Harris has died. Supposedly it happened 2 weeks ago but was kept quiet for some reason.
This one hits hard for me. When I was growing up the Damned was always on high rotation on my dads record player. And I wore more then one needle down listening to Tank too.
Bummer.
This one hits hard, she was a staple of the 80's, seemed her music was everywhere back then. So hearing of her passing, just cements the closure of an era.
She had a rough life, but had a great character and seemed to be full of life.
The objective of the game is to win. The point of the game is to have fun. The two should never be confused.
Snrub wrote: Hate to even mark the passing of a dirty old rock spider such as him, but Rolph Harris has died. Supposedly it happened 2 weeks ago but was kept quiet for some reason.
This one hits hard for me. When I was growing up the Damned was always on high rotation on my dads record player. And I wore more then one needle down listening to Tank too.
Bummer.
If it helps? I knew Algy personally. You know the adage about “never meet your heroes”? Yeah, sadly.
This one hits hard, she was a staple of the 80's, seemed her music was everywhere back then. So hearing of her passing, just cements the closure of an era.
She had a rough life, but had a great character and seemed to be full of life.
Contrary to the song? We need another hero ☹️
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~15000 Astra Militarum: 
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