... after contracting a non-trivial virus.

That could have been any one of us!

Aged 69 (OK not 70; I apologise). Probably smoked. May even have done drugs or alcohol, who knows. Flu kills millions every year. Some who die will once have been (slightly) famous.

JK2006 wrote:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52089768

More than slightly.

Cy Tucker was bursting with health before it got him.

It is not a trivial virus. Maybe politically, but not to the poor people killed by it, (or other illness) and those they leave.

Fame (or infamy) is not the point here. It's the pernicious, unpredictable nature of this ghastly virus that is. Even if it affects a smaller number of people who contact it than the flu due to social distancing. It's unclear at this point if the virus manifests itself in different strains around the world, or if it is mutating very quickly.

But just to be on the safe side you can make yourself a facemask out of underwear. Just make sure they've been washed first!

youtu.be/E004Fo6_BSk

Havana wrote:
... after contracting a non-trivial virus.

That could have been any one of us!

Yep Havana; any one of us could indeed die!

Just read has Joe Diffie died. This is Getting more scary. His duet with Mary Chapin Carpenter is a superb song
(Not Too Much To Ask).

Joe was special for the country scene. His first 4 albums are marvellous.

news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-grammy-wi...ng-covid-19-11965496

So has Kenneth King ever written a platinum selling, Billboard One Hundred Number 1 single, which incidentally was the third best selling Stateside hit in 1982? It turns out it came in just ahead of Ebony and Ivory, that very irritating collaborative single recorded by a couple of highly talented megastars down in Dorking all those years ago. Billboard 100 1982?

Green Man wrote:
Just read has Joe Diffie died. This is Getting more scary. His duet with Mary Chapin Carpenter is a superb song
(Not Too Much To Ask).

Joe was special for the country scene. His first 4 albums are marvellous.

news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-grammy-wi...ng-covid-19-11965496

Yes, when one country singer dies, yeah, it all gets far more scary. Sheesh, the world has gone crazy.

Tom wrote:
Green Man wrote:
Just read has Joe Diffie died. This is Getting more scary. His duet with Mary Chapin Carpenter is a superb song
(Not Too Much To Ask).

Joe was special for the country scene. His first 4 albums are marvellous.

news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-grammy-wi...ng-covid-19-11965496

Yes, when one country singer dies, yeah, it all gets far more scary. Sheesh, the world has gone crazy.

It does when he has just finished a tour.

Havana wrote:
So has Kenneth King ever written a platinum selling, Billboard One Hundred Number 1 single, which incidentally was the third best selling Stateside hit in 1982? It turns out it came in just ahead of Ebony and Ivory, that very irritating collaborative single recorded by a couple of highly talented megastars down in Dorking all those years ago. Billboard 100 1982?

I think only one of them was in Dorking?