Celebrity deaths that hit you hard

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Prince, really hit me hard. My first celebrity crush as a kid, my first concert as a teen, slept with the purple rain album cover under my pillow. First record I ever bought with my $3.25 an hour job. I cashed my McDonalds check and took the bus from the suburbs to F street waxi maxi to buy the album. Proceeded to spend the entire weekend listening to it on repeat.

That one is the only one to hit hard. I still get choked up when purple rain comes on the car radio. My kids laugh at me. They have no clue.

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Anonymous wrote:David Bowie - because I had no idea he was sick. His death was a shock.

And Alan Rickman so soon afterwards. Then Prince. 2016 was the year that kept taking.

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Gene Anthony Ray (Leroy from Fame)
Irene Cara (also from Fame)

I loved that show, that school, those actors, with my whole heart.

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Robin Williams
Anthony Bourdain
David Bowie

It was a kick in the gut the first time Kurt Cobain nearly died (I saw the news headline and thought he was dead), but when it actually happened I was no longer surprised, although I was still expecting an OD.

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River Phoenix. To this day it still makes me sad to think what he could have been, beyond what he already was.

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John Lennon: so completely shocking and such a horrible, senseless act to end the life of a musical genius

John Belushi: it seemed unbelievable that someone so funny could die in such a way at such a young age

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Anonymous wrote:Prince, really hit me hard. My first celebrity crush as a kid, my first concert as a teen, slept with the purple rain album cover under my pillow. First record I ever bought with my $3.25 an hour job. I cashed my McDonalds check and took the bus from the suburbs to F street waxi maxi to buy the album. Proceeded to spend the entire weekend listening to it on repeat.

That one is the only one to hit hard. I still get choked up when purple rain comes on the car radio. My kids laugh at me. They have no clue.

My first album was Photographs & Memories by Jim Croce, and I felt similarly when he died in a plane crash.

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Anonymous wrote:Glenn Brenner

Locals will know and understand.

I felt so sad when I heard about his death.

I also felt bad when Wendy Reiger died.

Wendy Reiger, Joe Krebs, Jim Vance . . . so many recent cancer deaths of long-time newscasters at the NBC affiliate here.

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Luke Perry - Dylan McKay

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Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston.

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I don't know why, but I was surprisingly shocked and saddened when Luke Perry died.

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Anonymous wrote:Robin Williams. He committed suicide after being diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia. My mother died of it. I am 65. If I get diagnosed with it, I am moving to Oregon to let myself go. It was the most horrific dementia and I will not go through that or subject my family to it.

just to say, backing your choice.

This. What a horrifically sad story, about one who was known for being very compassionate and kind to others.

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Paul Walker

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:David Bowie - because I had no idea he was sick. His death was a shock.

Wait, what? David Bowie is dead?

You didn’t know that?

David Bowie
Luke Perry
Kobe Bryant
Princess Diana
JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

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When River Phoenix died, my sisters and I were glued to the TV watching MTV News and sobbing. That one really hurt.

When Corey Monteith died, I would cry for days out of nowhere. By that point I was barely watching Glee and he was never my favorite character. But for whatever reason, it hit me so hard. Maybe because it was so unexpected and he just had this sweet baby face.