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David Crosby has died at 81.

Famous for various musical projects, especially The Byrds, but to me a thoughtful and frequent contributor to the mythology of the era in retrospective documentaries.

Boomers online feeling their approaching mortality.

Sylvia Syms at 89. Everyone remembers her for Ice Cold in Alex, which is a classic, and a few other war films, like Conspiracy of Hearts. Quite a babe for British films at the start of the sixties. Her best role, for me was in Victim ('61) with Dirk Bogarde where she was very affecting as the wife of a gay man in a very controversial and groundbreaking film. One of the great British female stars of the fifties.

earned 30 quid a week for her first major film role, seemingly, when contracted to one of the big film studios. My teenage daughter. Not a film I know, but Arthur and Colly might.

Yes, with Herbert Wilcox and Anna Neagle. Terrible film. As was her next with Neagle, No Time for Tears. But then she was the other woman in the excellent Woman in a Dressing Gown, and she was off on a run.

She was naturally very sexy in her earlier roles, but there wasn't really that outlet in mainstream fifties films in the UK. So she tended to be a nun or a nurse. Maybe that's what she wanted, but she could have been successful in sassier roles. Maybe Diana Dors got those jobs, such as they were, but SS was genuinely hot and could act too.

Familiar voice from Talking Pictures series on BBC.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Familiar voice from Talking Pictures series on BBC.

of course....... good shout

Burt Bacharach 94

one of the great songwriters

I didn't know that he'd been married to Angie Dickinson

Me neither. Yes, one of the greats, who influenced so many.

Guessing he wrote a 100s of songs I know by heart, but didnt know he wrote, based solely on scanning a list of 1% of song he did write. Obviously a great musicial talent...RIP

Raquel Welch, 82 peacefully after a short illness

deer skin bikinis will never be the same again.

Hadn't heard that. A great star of the sixties and seventies. And a remarkable looking woman.

she featured pretty highly in my adolescence

Pretty good in glamour and comedy roles. More of a star than anything else, but a natural presence on screen, even given the impediment of her costumes. It takes a lot of X factor to be a prehistoric hunter in a fur bikini, blow wave and full makeup, and not be absolutely ridiculous. I pick The Three Musketeers as her best picture. Bedazzled to showcase her looks. Fantastic Voyage as her star vehicle. And maybe Hannie Caulder as her best role.

I saw her play an older relative figure in Sabrina the teenage witch which my kids used to watch a lot. Presence is the right word, Arthur. Whenever she was on she dominated the episode.... and looked fabulous even though she would have been in her late fifties.... certainly worked for me