Heartbroken Over a Heartbreaker: RIP Tom Petty
In recent years we've lost an awful lot of notable musicians and actors -- particularly those that were at the top of their game in t...
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Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
9 Songs Written By Prince Covered By Other Artists
Not long ago here on Go Retro I lamented about how homogenized pop music has become...every song and performer sounds the same to me. Not...
10 Favorite David Bowie Songs
"Planet earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do." Like a lot of music fans today I'm shocked and saddened to hear...
RIP Dr. Wayne Dyer
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Dr. Wayne Dyer He wasn't an actor, a singer,...
He Lived Long and Prospered: RIP Leonard Nimoy
I'll be honest--I'm not and never was a Trekkie. The Star Trek phenomenon just wasn't my bag, but that doesn't mean I ca...
Bon Voyage On the Good Ship Lollipop: RIP Shirley Temple
I've never been a fan of child actors/actresses, and even less of a fan of today's mini-sized reality TV "stars" such a...
The Hidden Talents of Sherman Helmsley and Chad Everett
Photo from Starztrax.com The retro world lost two beloved television icons this week: Sherman Helmsley, of the hit 70s sitcom The Jeffer...
Go Retro's Retro Hottie of the Month: Steve Jobs
Photo: Rolling Stone Magazine Sometimes it's fun to just be superficial. I know that Steve Jobs is going to be remembered as a vision...
Defunct Amusement Park: Pleasure Island
It's a shame that I was born too late to visit Pleasure Island--an amusement park close to my hometown that went out of business in 1969...
RIP Jack LaLanne
By now you've probably heard that Jack LaLanne passed away on Sunday. As THE original health and fitness guru, it seemed that LaLanne wo...
Oh, Oh, Oh, It's Magic!
The week is proving to be busy, so it's time for a perfectly irrelevant post - how many songs can I list off the top of my head that are...
Retro Scandals: When Eddie Fisher Dumped Debbie Reynolds
Eddie Fisher died last week at the age of 82. As a 1950s teen idol, Fisher was popular with the teeny bopper set and had a crazy amount of...
Leaving On a Jet Plane
Phots courtesy www.peterpaulmary.com There have been so many celebrity deaths this year that I've noticed that my fellow retro bloggers ...
RIP Ted Kennedy, Dominick Dunne, and Ellie Greenwich
While I'm sad about Senator Ted Kennedy's death, I did want to draw attention to two other notable people who passed away this week....
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