RIP Whitney Houston

If Phil Collins was playing a free show in your town, would 5,000 people go?

 

I'm sure IJAG would save a prayer for him.

 

When Sam Mills finds this thread, y'all are screwed.

 

I have no idea what either of these posts reference. Was he one of the dudes from Duran Duran? I never listened to them.

 

I would not.

And that's even WITH Junkie jogging my memory with some Collins songs I'd completely forgotten, including "Take Me Home" which I didn't remember until I youtubed it, and then I said "Ohhhhhhhhh, I always called this 'I Don't Mind.'"

Also, he didn't believe me when I said I'd never seen the video. He said it aired every 48 seconds. I never saw it.

 

We're not talking about whom people would care about now. That's no contest. But back in the day, Phil Collins, oddly enough, was just as prominent as the Whitney/Prince/Madonna triumvirate

 

But we ARE talking about it. We're talking about who would deserve break-in coverage in news. That's how all this started.

 

The entire obit, or a mention? Definitely mentioned.

 

Both aspects are being discussed. The free-show thing is irrelevant. No one would break in for Phil Collins now. But if he died in 1985? Hell yes

 

Been watching Whitney videos on iTunes. She was outstanding.

I'm usually pretty unaffected by celebrity, but her death saddens me.

 

Not sure Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday and Anita O'Day are in second place to anyone. Let's just agree there is a short list of greats and Aretha and Whitney are on it.

 

I would guess 99.9 percent of newspapers in America were redoing A1 around 8:30 EST.