Which celebrity death affected you the most?

Williams was difficult to deal with because I loved so much of his work and because it was a challenging discussion with my daughter. I can't say I was shocked, though, given his history with substance abuse.

 

Bonzo's death, like Keith Moon's and to some extent Cobain's, was not exactly shocking.

John Entwistle's was -- he had the public reputation of being the strait-laced member of The Who.

 

Not sure whether she qualifies as a celebrity, but when Judy Resnik died in the Challenger accident our entire community shut down. She attended my grade school (which now is named for her), junior high and high schools. The high school library also bears her name. She was a larger-than-life figure and remarkably has been gone almost as long as she lived. Some of her remains are buried in a Challenger memorial at Arlington. Seeing that in person was very moving. I had never been to Arlington and didn't know the memorial existed.

 

The other thing about Williams' death that was particularly hard was that he brought so much laughter and joy into the world - I'm sure I'm not the only one who wished he had that same laughter and joy.

 

Entwhistle died the day before my wedding. My best man and I had grown up huge Who fans and i saw the news first. I told him as we were getting beer that morning. Without missing a beat, he goes , “oh wow, he was totally my fourth favorite member of The Who.”

 

Pretty much any of the Sixties rock dinosaurs who are still alive and touring, I'd be pretty surprised to hear of them dying by drink or OD.

Even Keith, at this point.

You figure if they were gonna go out in drug-fueled oblivion, they'd have done it 30 years ago.

 

Huh? Entwistle was known to have a pretty crazy lifestyle. "My Wife" wasn't pure fiction. He frequently had money trouble (Pete would agree to tour to help him out) because of his profligate style. Roger Daltrey was the straight laced one. He is a saint for putting up with the bunch of them.

 

Well, compared to Moon, whose partying was off the charts, and Pete, who played out his booze and drug dalliances publicly (although usually a couple years after the fact) Entwistle seemed fairly laid-back. But obviously you never really know for sure. For all we know Paul McCartney is mainlining heroin.

 

Entwistle died in Room 658 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada, on 27 June 2002, one day before the scheduled first show of the Who's 2002 United States tour. He had gone to bed that night with a local stripper, who awoke the next morning to find Entwistle cold and unresponsive. The Clark County medical examiner determined that his death was due to a heart attack induced by a cocaine overdose. – WIKI.

 

Star didn't know, so it was not known.

 

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