Ike Turner Dead

I think Perez summed it up best...

Evel Knievel is Dead

Bit of a shocker, but CNN is reporting breaking news that he died yesterday, and Wikipedia is updating as fast as people find out any more info.

Colin McRae Dead

Totally shocking news just coming out that former World Rally Champion Colin McRae died today in a helicopter crash up near his home in Scotland.

He was 39, and the first (and I think still the only) British winner of the World Rally Championship in 1995, in the now famous blue Subaru WRX.

There are some reports that his son Johnny was with him in the copter, along wiht 2 others, but this is yet to be confirmed.

I'm gutted...

Pavarotti Dies

I guess the most famous of all opera singers (at least from where I'm sitting anyway) passed away last night after a battle with cancer.

I think he shot into the public eye in the UK when the BBC chose Nessen Dorma (sp?) for the World Cup theme tune one year (maybe 90 with Gazza etc?). Before that happened, I think you can count on one hand the number of Opera songs I had ever listened to, and there wasn't a single singer I could name.

This was followed up with various appearances with a number of different pop stars, and a bit of an upswelling in opera listening amongst the common man back home - The Three Tenors CD ended up in our house, along with a number of TV specials and the like.

Anyway, he's going to be missed - the BBC have a decent report up here.

Anna Nicole Smith Dead!

I'm slightly speechless, although given everyone else who seems to die around her, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

CNN story here, BBC story here.

What's the odds on TrimSpa doing huge press damage control now - I bet they're hoping it was just the usual overdose, rather than something connected to their product.....