That’s very sad indeed, and another reminder to get on and enjoy life while you can, and not put everything off until retirement, as so many seem to do.
Just a quick reminder that friend's and family are gathering to pay their respects tomorrow, at Newlands corner for 11AM.
RIP John Kear, Rugby League player, coach, commentator & evangelist, who was responsible for one of the worst sporting afternoons of my life when in 1998, his Sheffield Eagles team beat Wigan at Wembley in the Challenge Cup Final; but such was his attitude & enthusiasm for the game, you couldn't begrudge him his win even as an opposition fan. Also coached Hull FC to a Cup Final win over Leeds in 2005. RIP John, thanks for the memories. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/articles/c20237xk2z0o
Peabo Bryson, R&B singer behind Beauty and the Beast, dies aged 75 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy826nlp158o
RIP Anthony Head, who appeared in Godspell, Chess, The Rocky Horror Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Merlin, Ted Lasso & was one half of the Nescafe coffee couple.
Sad to read, i met him in Belgium in a bar about 10 years ago where he and several others were taking a break mid-filming. I only stopped to talk to them because Miriam Margolyes asked me a question (bless her). Got all their autographs for someone in the cycle group i was with - he said he would only sign if the (rather shy) young lady came over to meet them. Probably was one of the above productions mentioned.
RIP Dr. Richard Scolyer, who on discovering he had a cancer regarded as incurable, became a guinea pig for a new method of treating these particular tumours. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14yz5jg476o Glioblastomas, found in the brain's connective tissue, are notoriously aggressive and the general protocol for treating them - immediate excision then radiotherapy and chemotherapy - has changed little in two decades. Most patients with Scolyer's form of tumour survive less than a year. "It didn't sit right with me… to just accept certain death without trying something," Prof Scolyer said. "It's an incurable cancer? Well bugger that!"
Sad news. i studied sculpture and was lucky enough to meet him on a few occasions. A true groundbreaker that ignored the rules, forced the RCA and others to change theirs, and led life how he wanted to live it.
