I can remember my mother-in-law saying she was saddened that loads of people she used to know were dying, so much so that her first port of call in the local paper was the Obituaries.
She also said that all the singers and actors that she used to like were popping their clogs as well. There have always been those who have gone before their time through misadventure such as James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Buddy Holly, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, George Harrison and half of Lynyrd Skynyrd; but they all went through drugs overdose or car and plane crashes. Or in the cases of Gaye, Lennon and Harrison through violent acts, but now Jon Lord has died from a Pulmonary Embolism after fighting Pancreatic Cancer, aged 71. Chris Rea also suffered from Pancreatic Cancer but survived after surgery.
This is sad for me as "Fireball" by Deep Purple was the first album I bought in 1972 and I also saw them on a couple of occasions in the '70s. Deep Purple were probably the one band most responsible for heavy rock as it was then and still is today. He used to play a Hammond B3 or C3 organ which wasn't really popular except in soul groups. Heavy rock, hard rock, thrash metal etc., etc. In fact about the only genres of rock music Purple either weren't involved in or influenced were Grunge, Death Metal and Punk.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18864409
http://jonlord.org/
http://www.deep-purple.net/related-news/jon-lord.htm
Perhaps what's bothered me almost as much as Jon's death is that like my mother-in-law, this is perhaps as an indication of my own mortality. I might have been in my mid teens in 1972 but Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Glover were still young men then.
Ah well, perhaps it's time for a large Bowmore.....or two, now, where's the obituary section?
She also said that all the singers and actors that she used to like were popping their clogs as well. There have always been those who have gone before their time through misadventure such as James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Buddy Holly, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, George Harrison and half of Lynyrd Skynyrd; but they all went through drugs overdose or car and plane crashes. Or in the cases of Gaye, Lennon and Harrison through violent acts, but now Jon Lord has died from a Pulmonary Embolism after fighting Pancreatic Cancer, aged 71. Chris Rea also suffered from Pancreatic Cancer but survived after surgery.
This is sad for me as "Fireball" by Deep Purple was the first album I bought in 1972 and I also saw them on a couple of occasions in the '70s. Deep Purple were probably the one band most responsible for heavy rock as it was then and still is today. He used to play a Hammond B3 or C3 organ which wasn't really popular except in soul groups. Heavy rock, hard rock, thrash metal etc., etc. In fact about the only genres of rock music Purple either weren't involved in or influenced were Grunge, Death Metal and Punk.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18864409
http://jonlord.org/
http://www.deep-purple.net/related-news/jon-lord.htm
Perhaps what's bothered me almost as much as Jon's death is that like my mother-in-law, this is perhaps as an indication of my own mortality. I might have been in my mid teens in 1972 but Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Glover were still young men then.
Ah well, perhaps it's time for a large Bowmore.....or two, now, where's the obituary section?
my parents used to hate me for constantly play them and Pink Floyd most days. :slayer:
