[2024] Gone But Not Forgotten

pdxKingsFan

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Mark James, songwriter for Elvis Presley's Suspicious Minds, 83

The man responsible for Elvis's last #1 hit (not counting the posthumous Junkie XL remix of A Little Less Converstation) has died. I remember when I visited Graceland last year the tour bus driver from the hotel to the mansion lead us all in singing the song which was her favorite. It was probably the first Elvis song I ever sang in front of people too. He originally wrote it about a past love he was pining over despite both being in other relationships hoping it would be a hit for himself but didn't gain traction until it was given to Elvis. Apparently Elvis had a fondness for James until his death and would ask those in the studio if James had sent him any more tracks.

He also co-wrote Always On My Mind, originally performed by Brenda Lee but also performed by Elvis, the Pet Shop Boys and perhaps most famously Willie Nelson; Sunday Sunrise, also originally performed by Lee and covered by Anne Murray; BJ Thomas's Hooked on a Feeling; Blood, Sweat and Tears Roller Coaster as well as a few songs for David Cassidy.



Take him out King.
 
pdxKingsFan

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wow kinda thought the worst based on something I read the other day. this year man. RIP to another real one.
 
QWERTYLICIOUS

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Also, @Mr. S£im Citrus, it looks like the tweet you have embedded is just one in a long chain of retweets of the original tweet from back when he passed. It has just been retweeted so many times, that here we are, in 2024, still retweeting it, I guess...:):):)
 
pdxKingsFan

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Y'all never get a chain letter before? You have 3 days to copy paste this to someone else or you'll get herpes simplex-10.
 
pdxKingsFan

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RIP Greg Kihn, 75



Best known for the songs Jeopardy and The Breakup Song. The latter was one of my favorites on the radio growing up, the former hilariously covered by Weird Al.


Guitar nerds should hunt down the video of him performing with Joe Satriani (before Surfing With the Alien hit) in his band.
 
Löwenherz

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Legend of French Cinema's golden era, once described as the most beautiful man in movies, Alain Delon died today at 88-years-old following several years of debilitating health issues that ostensibly forced him into reclusion.

Star of 60s French classics including The Leopard, Purple Noon, L'Eclisse and one of my personal top 5 favorite films of all time, Le Samouraï - which Quentin Tarantino once described as "the closest thing to a perfect movie that I have ever seen."

Of course, Tarantino was mostly praising the director, Jean-Pierre Melville, but Le Samouraï does not remotely work without Delon's mesmerizing screen presence and impossibly cool persona as stoic contract killer and "modern samurai" Jef Costello.

Delon would become a polarizing figure in his later years, espousing controversial political opinions and facing a petition to strip him of his honorary Palme d'Or due to allegations of domestic abuse and misogyny.

But this is where it becomes important to separate the man from the artist, and the artist from the art. As a person, Delon was not someone with whom I'd feel compelled to associate. But as an actor and artist, he was positively sublime.

There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai, unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle ...

perhaps ...
 
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pdxKingsFan

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He tweeted less than a month ago he hoped to be in the next class and the clock was ticking. As far as dudes that didn't do much in the ring he was one of the first that had a killer look I didn't care who he was aligned with, and the powerbomb was one of the coolest looking moves back then before everyone was doing them. Always preferred Sid Vicious for slightly obvious reasons, but Sycho Sid certainly fit. Hope there's a nice softball game for him tonight. RIP
 
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