Actor Joseph Pilato dead at 70. He was in Day of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Gong Hu and Pulp Fiction.

Ranking Rogers, lead singer of the 80s bands of English Beat and General Public, dead at 56 from a brain tumor.

(03-27-2019 12:28 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  Ranking Rogers, lead singer of the 80s bands of English Beat and General Public, dead at 56 from a brain tumor.

NO!!!!
I was just listening to this last week. terrible news. One of the best in ska. Will be missed. RIP Ranking Roger.

Roger Charlery (21 February 1963 – 26 March 2019), known professionally as Ranking Roger was a British musician. The son of Jean Baptiste Charlery and his wife Anne Marie, he was of West Indian descent; his mother and father being from Saint Lucia. Roger became a punk rock fan as a teenager and was the drummer in the Dum Dum Boys before joining ska revival pioneers The Beat in the late 1970s. He was a vocalist in the 1980s two-tone band The Beat (known in North America as The English Beat) and later General Public. Later he headed up a reformed Beat lineup.

The "Ranking" moniker is short for "top-ranking" or "high-ranking", and is a boast typical of many MCs.

In January 2019 it was announced that Roger had undergone surgery for two brain tumours, and was undergoing treatment for lung cancer. He died at his home on 26 March 2019 at the age of 56. Roger had five children, including son Ranking Junior (Matthew Murphy) and daughter Saffren who both featured with their father in a Beat revival band.

Artists: Pato Banton and Ranking Roger With (Special Guests) Steel Pulse
Album: Never Give In
Track: "Pato And Roger Come Again"
1987 Primitive Man Recording Company




Artist: Ranking Roger
Album: Radical Departure
Track: "So Excited"
1988 I.R.S. Records




Artist: Ranking Roger
Album: Radical Departure
Track: "One Minute Closer (To Death)"
1988 I.R.S. Records




Artists: Pato Banton and Ranking Roger
Album: (single)
Track: "Bubbling Hot "
1992 Virgin Records

Justice in the City of Chicago.

March 4, 1837-March 26, 2019.

RIP

(03-27-2019 12:28 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  



Ranking Rogers, lead singer of the 80s bands of English Beat and General Public, dead at 56 from a brain tumor.

I wouldn't say he was the lead singer. He and Dave Wakeling (sp? - the white singer in the videos) would each take turns singing. Still, that's a bunch of classic songs from my college days I remember well - Save It For Later and Tenderness, most prominently.

Stunt man and actor James Reynolds dead. He was Burt's adopted brother. He worked as an actor in Burt's movie, the Longest Yard, and did stunts in Strokers Ace and Cop and a Half which were his brother's starring roles. In later years, Burt and James were estrange, and he was not invited to his brother's funeral.


Back to Luke Perry? I mentioned in the Lounge that his son signed a contract to wrestle in the new All Elite Wrestling which is going to be on TBS. Jim Ross just got signed on as a commentator.

Country singer Earl Thomas Conley died.

Actress Georgia Engel dead at 70. She played Georgette Franklin Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Just found out that my brother-in-law died.

(04-15-2019 09:44 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Actress Georgia Engel dead at 70. She played Georgette Franklin Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Just found out that my brother-in-law died.

Sorry to hear that DavidSt.

(03-27-2019 01:21 PM)NIUAlum90 Wrote:  Justice in the City of Chicago.

March 4, 1837-March 26, 2019.

RIP

ooooh burn... +3

(03-27-2019 03:27 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  

(03-27-2019 12:28 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  



Ranking Rogers, lead singer of the 80s bands of English Beat and General Public, dead at 56 from a brain tumor.

I wouldn't say he was the lead singer. He and Dave Wakeling (sp? - the white singer in the videos) would each take turns singing. Still, that's a bunch of classic songs from my college days I remember well - Save It For Later and Tenderness, most prominently.

Ugh, pop music. WTF...

(04-10-2019 02:22 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Country singer Earl Thomas Conley died.

Damn, now that's a loss.

(04-15-2019 09:44 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Actress Georgia Engel dead at 70. She played Georgette Franklin Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Just found out that my brother-in-law died.

Sorry for your loss David. Prayers for you and your family.

Sorry to hear of your loss David. Many prayers.

Sorry for your loss, David. Prayers for you and your family.

Lorraine Warren, Longtime paranormal investigator and horror film consultant, dead at 92.

The Amityville Horror
The Conjuring 1 and 2 Vera Farmiga played Lorraine and Patrick Wilson played her husband Ed.
The Nun
Annabelle
The Haunting In Connecticut 1 and 2
The Haunted
Paranormal State
Paranormal Lockdown
Annabelle doll used in an episode of Ghost Adventures
A Haunted

She appeared as an extra in The Conjuring and another movie. She was a consultant on The Conjuring and Amityville Horror 2: The Possession.

(04-21-2019 05:37 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Lorraine Warren, Longtime paranormal investigator and horror film consultant, dead at 92.

The Amityville Horror
The Conjuring 1 and 2 Vera Farmiga played Lorraine and Patrick Wilson played her husband Ed.
The Nun
Annabelle
The Haunting In Connecticut 1 and 2
The Haunted
Paranormal State
Paranormal Lockdown
Annabelle doll used in an episode of Ghost Adventures
A Haunted

She appeared as an extra in The Conjuring and another movie. She was a consultant on The Conjuring and Amityville Horror 2: The Possession.

Yes, but will she back as a free floating full torso apparition?

~253* Christians and other innocent souls at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.

Edit - additional death toll added.

(04-21-2019 09:02 PM)king king Wrote:  207 Christians and other innocent souls at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.

Dallas actor, Ken Kercheval dead at 83.