Entries Tagged as 'Obituary'
Aspects for the week beginning 20 July 2025
Fauja Singh (1911 – 2025) “The first 20 miles are not difficult. As for last six miles, I run while talking to God.” ~ Fauja Singh Fauja Singh, a British Indian marathon runner, died last Monday aged 114. I was interested to investigate his birth chart. The problem is, he did not have a birth […]
Aspects for the week beginning 13 July 2025
Norman Tebbit (1931 – 2025) “I grew up in the 1930s with an unemployed father. He didn’t riot. He got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking until he found it.” ~ Norman Tebbit Norman Tebbit, the often unpopular right hand man of Margaret Thatcher died this week, aged 94. He […]
Aspects for the week beginning 27 April 2025
Pope Francis (1936 – 2025) “What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly.” ~ Pope Francis Pope Francis died last Monday at 7.35 a.m., Rome, aged 88, from double pneumonia and a stroke. He had been […]
Categories: News · Obituary · Peacemakers · Spirituality
Aspects for the week beginning 20 April 2025
Jean Marsh (1934 – 2025) Actress and writer Jean Marsh passed away last Sunday at the age of 90. She was in a way a pioneer of the dramatic genre concerning those upstairs and those downstairs, the haves and the have nots. And the works she created with her co-writer Eileen Atkins had mileage, they […]
Categories: Celebrities · Film · Obituary
Aspects for the week beginning 6 April 2025
Richard Chamberlain (1934 – 2025) “His mini-series were luxury liners and time machines, whisking audiences to other lands and ages in a way that workaday series couldn’t.” ~ James Poniewozik, The New York Times It was announced last week that actor Richard Chamberlain, romantic lead par excellence, who embodied that role in a bygone age, […]
Categories: Celebrities · Film · Obituary
Aspects for the week beginning 9 March 2025
Jack Vettriano (1951 – 2025) “I have what I want and that is the support of the public and that means far more to me than the approval of a bunch of well-educated art buffs” ~ Jack Vettriano It was reported this week that the controversial and self-taught artist Jack Vettriano died at his home […]
Aspects for the week beginning 2 March 2025
Roberta Flack (1937 – 2025) “What I consider myself is a soulful singer, in that I try to sing with all the feeling that I have in my body and my mind.” ~ Roberta Flack The soul singer Roberta Flack died this week, at the age of 88. There was something about her voice I […]
Categories: Celebrities · Obituary
Aspects for the week beginning 2 February 2025
Marianne Faithfull (1946 – 2025) “When I was at school at Leighton Park…She was the most beautiful girl any of us had met and had the charisma of a superstar.” ~ Robin Denselow Staying with the 1960s, after last week’s Dylan blog, I am writing about Marianne Faithfull who passed away aged 80 peacefully this […]
Categories: Celebrities · Obituary
Aspects for the week beginning 19 January 2025
Tony Slattery (1959 – 2025) “I was struck by his stage presence, his comic energy, his fierce intelligence, and his devastatingly good looks” ~ Paul Merton Brilliant comedian Tony Slattery died last Tuesday, at the age of 65, having suffered a heart attack last Sunday. He was the archetypal comedian hiding an unfathomable sadness, who […]
Categories: Celebrities · News · Obituary
Aspects for the week beginning 12 January 2025
Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928 – 2025) “We knew, by fighting him, what a fighter he was” ~ Francois Bayrou Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the “Front National” in France, died this week at the age of 96. He founded the movement in 1972, long before Nigel Farage took us into Brexit and Europe was hit […]