obituary
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So Farewell China and Nana : RIP
To borrow an expression from H.M. The Queen, 2016 has been an ‘annus horribilis‘, and the LGBT community in particular has said goodbye to so many icons/allies/friends that the deaths of some of the less famous ones are sidelined and almost over-looked. queerguru wants to honor a couple of amazing women from totally different walks…
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Fawlty Tower’s Manuel dies
The actor Andrew Sachs who played the hapless and much beloved waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers (ranked number one in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programs by the British Film Institute) died recently aged 86. Sachs had a long and distinguished career on TV and in Films that lasted almost 60 years, but…
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1950’s Pop singer Kay Starr dies aged 94
The American singer Kay Starr died yesterday aged 94 years old. Starr was a pop star in the 1950’s when glamour was an important element of a singer’s success. She had a string of hits including two that were at No 1 on the Billboard Charts for some weeks. When the 1960’s heralded in a…
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1960’s Teenage Heartthrob Bobby Vee dies aged 73.
Bobby Vee the clean-cut all American pop singer who was a teenage idol and heartthrob in the 1960’s who died yesterday couldn’t have been more worlds apart than the androgynous singer Pete Burns who also passed away this week. Vee was just 15 years old when got his first break and answered an advert for musicians…
