BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / When a beloved celebrity dies

**Posted by Ivy** January 11, 2016 2:36 pm

That new album is literally his testament. His new song is called Lazarus, weird for us isn't it. But that one won't come back.

**Posted by Vhanja** January 11, 2016 3:28 pm

I'm listening to it right now. The song Blackstar is amazing.

**Posted by Ivy** January 11, 2016 3:30 pm

I'll definitely have a Bowie medley this evening.

**Posted by Yitzock** January 11, 2016 4:41 pm

I actually haven't really heard much of the new album, just a bit of Lazarus that they showed on TV, with the hospital imagery - makes sense when you know what he had been going through. Will have to listen to it today.

**Posted by tonnaree** January 11, 2016 4:46 pm

Right now David Bowie and Freddie Mercury are somewhere in heaven catching up on gossip over a nice cup of tea.

**Posted by Yitzock** January 11, 2016 4:59 pm

That's a nice picture.

**Posted by besleybean** January 11, 2016 5:00 pm

Loved him. Gutted.

**Posted by Vhanja** January 14, 2016 12:49 pm

And now Alan Rickman. One of the Big Ones for me. This is too much.

**Posted by ukaunz** January 14, 2016 12:57 pm

No no no. This can't be. (crying)

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** January 14, 2016 1:00 pm

No. What?

*cries*

**Posted by gently69** January 14, 2016 1:09 pm

I'm shocked, honestly, I'm really shocked.

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**Posted by stoertebeker** January 14, 2016 1:12 pm

Just heard it on the radio and could hardly believe it. Horrible news . He was such a wonderful and diversely actor. Robin Hood, Dogma, Galaxy Quest, Snow Cake and Harry Potter of course - that are just the movies I recall instantly by thinking of him.
Lemmy, Bowie and now Rickman, can somebody please stop that?

**Posted by tonnaree** January 14, 2016 1:18 pm

Losing Rickman hurts so much. He's helped tell so many wonderful stories and seems an honestly good man.

**Posted by Ivy** January 14, 2016 1:31 pm

I just read it online. Like Bowie 69, cancer.

OMG! What a week til now.

He was so brilliant. Great voice.

**Posted by SolarSystem** January 14, 2016 1:38 pm

He was a true giant. So versatile, he was able to make me laugh and cry. He will be missed, truly, madly, deeply.

**Posted by Yitzock** January 14, 2016 2:20 pm

I can't believe the people we have lost just this week. Alan Rickman I know as Snape, though I have seen parts of at least a couple of his other movies, but just because I haven't seen him in a lot of different things, I still couldn't believe the news. Sad that he, too, was only 69.

**Posted by tonnaree** January 14, 2016 2:46 pm

My daughter is going to be devastated. Of all the Harry Potter characters she adored Snape.

**Posted by Mattlocked** January 14, 2016 3:00 pm

I had to be brave since I still was at the office.
But now that I'm home.... Never before I cried like this over the loss of an actor.

**Posted by Harriet** January 14, 2016 3:09 pm

Mattlocked, the first thing I did when I heard the news was thinking of you - ((((BIG HUG))))

**Posted by gently69** January 14, 2016 3:19 pm

I first thought of you too, Mattlock... As you know...