Are we over emotional ?

I didn't finish that! (I've got low blood sugar - long stry)

The rest of it is:

Nope! I can't make head nor tail of that.

I'm sorry. I don't seem to have any idea what anyone is saying on here today!

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You're not the only one, jngl. The first sentence of your post, WhenIWas didn't make sense to me at all...

I think it has obviously been a " slow news day"!

I was never a fan, but can understand people who were fans being sad. What makes me shout at the radio are phrases like " the world is in mourning", or " outpouring of grief".

Anyway, Jinglebellsfrocks, I looked at the video too, and found it really creepy ( and not very good!)

I also thought "Lazarus" was a strange name for it. Lazarus rose again, didn't he?

I think it's a horrible video! Makes me to NOT want to buy the album.

perhaps he thought he was going to get a second coming

Perhaps I've said enough now!

Alvin Stardust
No, grumppa, Alvin was previously Shane Fenton (of Shane Fenton and the Fentones) and aka Bernard William Jewry (27 September 1942 – 23 October 2014)
It says on Wikipedia that he was from Muswell Hill, but I always thought he was from Fenton in the Potteries, as he had (I thought) a Potteries accent.

Anyway, I digress, back to over-emotional.

I grew up loving David Bowie's music. I'm sad that he's gone but have enjoyed all the music/documentaries over the past 2 days.
But I've just realised that I always read threads to see what jinglbellsfrocks has commented and what others think of it!!! Usually hilarious!

And thank goodness they are not making 'food drops' from planes, they have sent in convoys of lorries, so I hope it gets through to the right people.

Digressing again, but answering a couple of previous posts re more important news!

Anniebach - they have a huge influence

jinglebellfrocks - absolutely

In reply to NanKate

Greatest popular entertainer/artist of C20

For me it would be,

Elvis Presley
Michael Jackson
Freddie Mercury

Can't think of anyone else of their calibre for me, not even the Beatles.

Elton John

ps Elvis didn't write his own material

I thought I was being a bit heartless so glad others feel the same yes he was a good entertainer but the media goes over the top nowadays they did the same with cilla until you got fed up of hearing about it.

as you can probably tell from my name on here, I am a HUGE fan of mr jones and have been since I was 11. My daughter rang me on my way to work at 7am to tell me the sad news. I blocked it out till i got home at 6pm, then listened to an hour of his music on radio 2. Watched some of the news and listened to his fans talking of their memories. I have all his albums and was lucky enough to see him in concert many times.

I was quite surprised about how much coverage there was on TV and radio but no one is forced to watch or listen. Nowadays there are so many channels!

In my opinion he was a very talented musician and for me personally his music helped me cope with the death of my husband then my father (both died from cancer)

It seems from all the coverage I'm not the only fan lol. Maybe, now that awful programs like X factor have taken over in the music industry, people are mourning the way music has died as well as the death of a very talented man who battled addiction to drugs and drink and through his music brought pleasure to many (me included)

My partner tells me that he was listening to R6 yesterday and someone phoned in to complain about the amount of coverage and the man on the radio [ I don't know who it was] said 'can I just tell you that my daughter found me crying yesterday and it was the first time in her life that she had ever seen me cry'. My daughter phoned me about it [she hardly ever phones me] and even my son, who isn't one for talking a lot, talked about him for ages on the phone. My partner was really emotional when I spoke to him about it on Monday .

No-one denies that David Bowie was a great and innovative musician and that his sudden death has come as a shock to his many followers. It is not that his death should be reported extensively but it has been the blanket coverage of his death that has been so ridiculous. Although the brouhaha has died down a bit now, for two days there was nowhere you could go to get away from it, every form of media was wall to wall David Bowie.

At least half the population had no interest in him and his music. I know no-one who was a fan of his or listened to his music, even though most had heard of him and appreciated his talent.

The day or so before David Bowie died, Pierre Boulez died. A famous classical music conductor and composer and as innovative and avant garde as DB. In the world of classical music as important as DB, if not more so. His death barely got a mention in the newspapers.

i will be interested to see how much tv/radio coverage there will be today following the sad death of the talented, funny Terry Wogan. Wonder if fans will think it is 'too much' or we are being over emotional

I bet there'll be loads of coverage but the Beeb will have masses of film of him as he was one of their own. I'm sad and very sorry he's gone but I won't be piling up plastic wrapped flowers on some sort of shrine to him. Maybe there'll be a service of remembrance at the 'Tan and touch up emporium' or the 'Swimerama'? Its what he would have wanted! Maybe Chuffer Dandridge will contribute a white fiver to the collection?

I don't think we are being over emotional, both our most recent departees Bowie and Terry Wogan were both great talents and will be missed.

I don't think we're too emotional, but I do think because we now have 24/7 news they have to fill it with somthing and anything will do, be it the death of a celebrity, a football match, an election. The media go on and on and on. It stirs up emotion to fever pitch.

Genuinely sad to hear of the death of Terry Wogan. As my parents listened to radio 2 as I was growing up, it felt as if he was a part of the household - and then he morphed into a TV and broadcasting legend. I will remember him fondly as someone who exuded a rare sense of charm and gentle wit. I also respect the work he did for children in Need. Yes, great respect. However, I am not devastated, distraught, shocked, grief-stricken etc. For me those emotions belong with grieving people I actually know.

Perhaps the heart of this thread chimes with comments made elsewhere about people not actually knowing how to grieve.

I cannot make a judgement about how anyone else feels / felt in relation to Bowie or Wogan or any other person who has had a great deal of influence through the media. At the end of the day, it is personal, but as someone who has lost close family members, it just feels odd to hear such strong emotion being expressed about people who, for most of us, are not significantly connected.

One last thought - sometimes a more removed loss triggers other losses we have not dealt with. Sometimes we can be surprised by the emotion that is unlocked.

I think, personally, when a person we may never have met BUT was a massive part of our life dies, we are grieving for that time as well as feeling sad that person will no longer be in our life. Bowie was a massive part of my life as a teenager and when I listen to his music it takes me right back to those days. The same way as I now remember all the laughter driving to work each morning listening to Wogan on the radio and remembering how he made even the bleakest day happier.

People may call it being over emotional but who has the right to judge how others deal with grief.

As I said originally no one is forced to watch coverage on TV, listen to radio or buy papers/magazines