Celebrities We've Lost 2025

Aria

Pierre was a radio legend. He’d been on air since 1981, so almost anyone who ever lived in the Philadelphia region and listened to rock knew who he was. The man was so beloved by locals that any time he was covering a concert, the line to meet him would be almost as long as the line the meet the band. His love for music was legendary, as was his hilariously painted van “Minerva”, which was older than I am. His complete inability to keep to a schedule became a running joke that his audience dubbed “Pierre Standard Time” and his radio show frequently ran over just because he was jamming out and having a good time. He founded charities to fight food insecurity, launched city-wide holiday traditions, promoted small local bands, was willing to use his platform to cut off musicians who took extremist views or did a Philly audience dirty, and was always, always happy to stop and snap a photo with listeners.

For folks in Philly who love music, this one’s a kick in the teeth.

helvetica

@Aria My mother is touting a picture of him holding me as a baby, today.

I’m gonna miss that dude! I rarely go to fancy restaurants, but I feel like every time I ever do… he’s there, out with one or more beautiful twinks. smh. single tear drop.

Aria

@helvetica said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

@Aria My mother is touting a picture of him holding me as a baby, today.

I’m gonna miss that dude! I rarely go to fancy restaurants, but I feel like every time I ever do… he’s there, out with one or more beautiful twinks. smh. single tear drop.

I met him a couple of times and was just showing a friend the photo of me and @insomniac meeting him at a standing room only Green Day show, like, ten years ago. I didn’t realize he was live when the pic was snapped. He put me on air talking about how I’d been listening since I was 14 and when I was off at college and they weren’t broadcasting online yet, my mom’d put the phone up to the radio on Thanksgiving Day so we could sing “Alice’s Restaurant” all together and horribly off-key.

Rathenhope

For better or worse Dick Cheney

Wikibara

@Rathenhope
A tragedy to the entire Terminators-fueled-by-kittens community, I’m sure.

MisterBoring

Udo Kier, legendary German actor from hundreds of movies and TV shows.

Pavel

Legendary (Australian) vaudeville performer Toni Lamond dies aged 93

Wuff

Shang Tsung himself, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

somasatori

@Wuff said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

Shang Tsung himself, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

He was great in the Amazon “The Man in the High Castle” series

hellfrog

@somasatori RIP

Wuff

@somasatori said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

@Wuff said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

Shang Tsung himself, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

He was great in the Amazon “The Man in the High Castle” series

Good villain actors can make movies so memorable.

somasatori

Rob Reiner, director of such greats as Princess Bride, my dad’s favorite movie (Sleepless in Seattle), Wolf of Wall Street, and This Is Spinal Tap was apparently murdered in his home with his wife.

Edit: Evidently, they were murdered by their son.

KarmaBum

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Wizz

@somasatori said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

Edit: Evidently, they were murdered by their son.

People Mag willing to just jump on that conclusion within hours seems pretty irresponsible unless their sources are like…the son himself, so. still taking that with a small grain of salt. enormously tragic either way, those two were absolute legends and it makes me heartsick.

MisterBoring

@Wizz said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

People Mag willing to just jump on that conclusion within hours seems pretty irresponsible unless their sources are like…the son himself, so. still taking that with a small grain of salt. enormously tragic either way, those two were absolute legends and it makes me heartsick.

Well, he’s been arrested for the murder this morning.

Aria

@MisterBoring said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

@Wizz said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

People Mag willing to just jump on that conclusion within hours seems pretty irresponsible unless their sources are like…the son himself, so. still taking that with a small grain of salt. enormously tragic either way, those two were absolute legends and it makes me heartsick.

Well, he’s been arrested for the murder this morning.

Yeeeeah, I was a little suspicious when the police said they weren’t looking for a suspect at the time. That usually means some variation of, “We know who it was and we’re just getting the evidence we need to arrest them.”

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Raistlin

Buck Rogers

MisterBoring

James Ransone, actor in It, The Wire, and Generation Kill

somasatori

Perry Bamonte, the lead guitarist of the post-Disintegration-era of the Cure