Did not know they died.

[roadman65]

I do not have cable nor do I watch TV or the news either local or network, so I find out later sometimes when certain stars die.  Recently I found out that Ken Kercheval ( Cliff Barnes on the TV show Dallas) had passed away last Spring.  Then Jerry Reed I found out here on the Burt Reynolds thread when he passed on that he died years ago.

I also found out Dan Fogelberg had died years after he passed, and even Jerry Van Dyke (Luther Van Dam on Coach) passed away last year and found out only a few months ago while surfing the web.

How many stars you have found that they have been gone long after they died?

[J3ebrules]

You know whose death was not very well publicized, but was a big loss? Paul O'Neill, who we lost in April 2017.

Who's Paul O'Neill? Founder, songwriter, composer/lyricist, and producer for Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I was devastated - he was the driving force behind the band.

[SP Cook]

I find the recent deaths listing on Wikipedia's home page to be quite adequate for that information. 

In fact, I find the opposite to be true.  Somebody who was once famous and long past the average life expectancy will pass on and I have assumed that had been gone for a long time.

[Stephane Dumas]

I find the recent deaths listing on Wikipedia's home page to be quite adequate for that information. 

In fact, I find the opposite to be true.  Somebody who was once famous and long past the average life expectancy will pass on and I have assumed that had been gone for a long time.

Yeah, one case who happened recently when Doris Day died.

[Roadgeekteen]

Most memes.

[ErmineNotyours]

I didn't know Karen Carpenter died until I saw her mausoleum in Time Magazine.  She died around the time I was watching MTV, and they never covered it for some reason.

[GCrites]

I don't think MTV knew who Karen Carpenter was.

[PHLBOS]

I didn't know Karen Carpenter died until I saw her mausoleum in Time Magazine.  She died around the time I was watching MTV, and they never covered it for some reason.

I don't think MTV knew who Karen Carpenter was.

Karen Carpenter died on Feb. 4, 1983 when MTV was still in its infancy.  IIRC, most of the music videos MTV (when the acronym actually matched what the station was airing) was showing were predominantly current & top-40 songs... well after The Carpenters' heyday (the 1970s).  While MTV may have known who Karen Carpenter was; her music wasn't their genre/target viewing audience.

OTOH, had VH1 been around (such came into existence on Jan. 1, 1985) at the time; they certainly would've mentioned such.  In VH1's early years; they aired music videos that were largely too old for MTV.

[jon daly]

I didn't know that Lee Iacocca was still alive this year when I read his obituary.

I heard a Leon Redbone song the other day and that prompted me to look him up and I found out that he died in May.

[Henry]

I was born around the time that Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin died, so I didn't learn of their respective deaths until my teenage years.

[sparker]

I was born around the time that Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin died, so I didn't learn of their respective deaths until my teenage years.

We should all be giving thanks for recorded music, which (in most cases) outlives the creators.  Still have many original Hendrix/Joplin LP's (with CD backup!). 

[kendancy66]

I just found out that Ed King died last year.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/lynyrd-skynyrd-guitarist-ed-king-dead-at-68-714847/

[kevinb1994]

I just found out that Ed King died last year.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/lynyrd-skynyrd-guitarist-ed-king-dead-at-68-714847/

Yeah that's another casualty of the so-called southern rock curse.

[Richard3]

...and what about those who died twice?

I mean, some media, for some obvious reasons, announced the death of those persons, but in fact, they were still alive. Then they really died many months, or years, later.

In province of Quebec, NHL head coach Pat Burns, and TV and radio host Huguette Proulx had to deal with that situation.

[KeithE4Phx]

...and what about those who died twice?

I mean, some media, for some obvious reasons, announced the death of those persons, but in fact, they were still alive. Then they really died many months, or years, later.

In province of Quebec, NHL head coach Pat Burns, and TV and radio host Huguette Proulx had to deal with that situation.

Or the Poster Child for Early Reported Death:  Abe Vigoda.  He was "dead" years before he died, in 2016.

[Verlanka]

...and what about those who died twice?

I mean, some media, for some obvious reasons, announced the death of those persons, but in fact, they were still alive. Then they really died many months, or years, later.

In province of Quebec, NHL head coach Pat Burns, and TV and radio host Huguette Proulx had to deal with that situation.

Or the Poster Child for Early Reported Death:  Abe Vigoda.  He was "dead" years before he died, in 2016.

Not just once, but many times.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

For those who "died" twice see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premature_obituaries. Mark Twain was reported to be dead twice, and St. John Paul II three times (one of them in a draft leak which included several others).

As for the thread subject, it has never occurred to me.

[roadman65]

I don't think MTV knew who Karen Carpenter was.

Her music was more Easy Listening that may be why. She was in the Barbara Streisand and Barry Manilow category.  I do not think they had more upbeat songs except maybe Top Of The World.

I never knew Leon Wilkinson of Lynyrd Skynyrd had died.  I knew Allan Collins died and of course the one's in the 1978 plane crash,   but now Wilkinson.