Geoffrey Hughes died today after a two year fight with prostrate cancer - probably best remembered as lovable rogue/ dustman Eddie Yates in Corrie during its heyday, he also played amongst others Twiggy in the Royle Family and Vernon in Heartbeat as well as providing the voice of Paul McCartney in The Yellow Submarine.

Writer Gore Vidal has passed away.
RIP Gore.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19074230

And who could forget Onslow in keeping up appreances

RIP Geoffrey

Darryl Cotton, former lead singer of late 60's / 70's Australian band Zoot has died from liver cancer at 62 years of age after only being diagnosed just two months ago. Zoot was the band that also launched the careers of Rick Springfield and Beeb Birtles (Little River Band). After Zoot split up Darryl spent most of the seventies in Los Angeles mainly as a songwriter for many other artists and at one stage was in a band with pop songwriters / performers Boyce & Hart.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainme ... 6436417718

Far too young.R.I.P. Marvin Hamlisch
Particularly liked his efforts when the audience asked him to play in a style that they chose.
This clip isn't it but nevertheless here it is

Elton John's bassist:

http://www.spinner.com/2012/08/15/bob-b ... d-suicide/

Winnie Johnson RIP.

Scott McKenzie of "San Francisco" fame.

http://news.yahoo.com/scott-mckenzie-si ... 43211.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bch1_Ep5M1s

Phyllis Diller
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... iller.html

RIP Neil Armstrong.

One of the most iconic figures of our generation and featured front and centre in one of those "I remember where I was when I saw / heard the news" moments.

In my case I was in primary school and the teachers had small black and white televisions set up in the class room so we could watch one of our most historical moments,

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/wo ... 6458176249

It was my 13th birthday - Goodnight Mr Spaceman.

Hal David, aged 91.

The team of Bacharach/David was simply immense. I remember hearing Elvis Costello doing 'I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself' on the Stiffs Live album and being floored by the depth of emotion that such a seemingly simple song expressed. One of my all-time favorite bands, Love, covered a Bacharach/David song as their first single ('My Little Red Book') and another fave (The Stranglers), recorded a version of 'Walk On By'.

Great songs are great songs, no matter who records them, and Hal David was responsible for a boatload of them.

Jusitn
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Max Bygraves RIP

http://m.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/20 ... pe=article

Sadly, no one has yet mentioned Max Bygraves. Who can forget that classic: 'I'm a blue toothbrush, you're a pink toothbrush, will you marry me'
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Michael Clarke Duncan Best known for his role as John Coffey in the film adadptation of Stephen King novel The Green Mile
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/actor-mich ... 40462.html