For me it was Cheater Bennington. Linkin Park music helped me through some hard times and I know some of the more impactful lyrics came from him and what he experienced.
Knowing he couldn’t take it anymore definitely hit Me hard particularly as someone I looked up to from young age …
Who was yours ?
Terry Pratchett
Chris Cornell, he always seemed like a classy and cool if somewhat aloof guy, extremely talented vocalist.
It’s extra unsettling when a 50+ year old commits suicide. This was someone who had a thriving career, loved by millions, had a family and kids. It just shows that you have to take care of your mental health. It’s not going to magically get better with age.
Robin Williams, on my birthday. Great guy, a gamer, and knew his way around computers. It might not have hit as hard if it hadn’t been my birthday.
I don’t know if he counts as a celebrity but, Aaron Swartz.
David Bowie. I really mourned him, didn’t expect to feel so strongly about someone I never met. Feel like the world got significantly duller and darker since he took off.
Douglas Adams.
That was the first time it really hit home to me how much it hurts to lose real talent from this world.
John “TotalBiscuit” Bain.
Hit at a rough time for me and at that point I had been following his content for many years.
Chadwick Boseman. I was 24 when he died. I’m mixed and a huge nerd. He was one of the first times I saw representation like that in a comic book hero in a movie or TV show. T’Challa was a king, and his death came out of nowhere
Stalin
Definetly Chester Bennington. Linking park inspired me to be a muscisian, Chester inspired me to become a singer. His passing was really hard on me. I really gave up on linking park after the minutes to midnight album, since I see it as the last album where they were honest to their roots and still not too experimental. But after many years I was talking to my wife, and we agree that next time they played in our country, we would see them nomatter what. I shit you not, the next day we saw on the news he was dead. It was almost like we knew it was about time to go watch a show since they wouldn’t be around for long. Anyways, I have massive respect for Chester as a guy who delt with my own mental sickness and also have had thoughts of sucide and so on. Chester and linkin park helped me through a lot of tough times. I wish his family all the best.
Anthony Bourdain
Phil Hartman
I remember the day. So sad. My husband still gets emotional when the topic comes up.
I wonder if Joe Rogan would be less of an idiot if Phil had lived? Probably not. At one taping of News Radio when Rogan did the warmup he said, “i just flew in from the million man march and boy is my hatred of white people tired.” We should have known.
Probably Chris Cornell. (I’m old)
It hit Chester hard too
Yeah, I know that they were close. 😢
I was at a Devin Townsend concert when the news broke. I remember it well
Sean Lock
The first time I’ve felt genuine shock at a celebrity death, RIP undisputed Carrot in a Box champion
I don’t see him on here, but Trevor Moore hit me super hard. I grew up watching WKUK, and was a big fan. He was only a couple years older than me, and what really resonated with me was that he had a son the same age as mine. It just got me thinking about my own mortality and what grief I would put my wife and son through if I’d passed away, and really put me in a dark place for a while. R.I.P. Trevor.
THIS. came here to post this. R.I.P to a real local sexpot
WKUK was making a comeback during COVID with lots of small videos and I really enjoyed them.
Yeah, and I was watching them starting to get back into them and the news hit. Super sad.
