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Features, In Memoriam

Reflecting On The 2017 Deaths In Music

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If you’ve been reading the PiercingMetal website for a while then you already know that I occasionally need to share the sad news about deaths in the entertainment world. Historically speaking, I’ve been doing them since the days when I had “PiercingMetal Musings” as a side blog that had not yet been integrated into the main site as you see now. Back then I always felt weird about doing such posts but as much as good news should be announced so should the bad stuff and as a known “voice” for the Metal Scene, I try to keep up on them when the news hits the wire. Now with this being said, there is no way possible for me to address every single one of them based on the size of the team and the time that we have so starting this year I will be doing a larger rundown of many of the names that I think you would know. Some have already been discussed in our “In Memoriam” Features, and those artists will be highlighted so you can examine the longer toast that we did. Let’s start from the beginning of the year and raise a glass to their memories one more time.

January 16, 2017: Steve Wright (66), American power pop bassist and songwriter (The Greg Kihn Band)
January 18, 2017: Mike Kellie (69), British psychedelic rock and power pop drummer (Spooky Tooth, The Only Ones)
January 22, 2017: Pete Overend Watts (69), British glam rock bassist (Mott the Hoople)
January 24, 2017: Butch Trucks (69), American rock drummer (The Allman Brothers Band, Les Brers)
January 28, 2017: Geoff Nicholls (68), British rock musician and keyboardist (Black Sabbath, Quartz)
January 31, 2017: John Wetton (67), British progressive rock singer, bassist, and songwriter (Asia, King Crimson)

February 1, 2017: Robert Dahlqvist (40), Swedish alternative rock guitarist and singer (The Hellacopters, Thunder Express, Dundertåget)
February 4, 2017: Steve Lang (67), Canadian rock bassist (April Wine)
February 8, 2017: Tony Särkkä (44), Swedish black metal multi-instrumentalist
February 12, 2017: Al Jarreau (76), American jazz singer
February 13, 2017: Trish Doan (31), American heavy metal bassist (Kittie) (death announced on this date)
February 19, 2017: Larry Coryell (73), American jazz fusion guitarist
February 25, 2017: Rick Chavez, American progressive metal singer and guitarist (Drive)
February 25, 2017: Bill Paxton (61), American new wave keyboardist (Martini Ranch) and actor
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Features, In Memoriam

Sir Roger Moore (James Bond 007) Has Passed Away (1927-2017)

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We’ve just learned of the passing of the great Sir Roger Moore from Variety.com; Moore was most famously known to us all as the legendary Ian Fleming spy James Bond, Agent 007. While he followed the great Sean Connery in the role, based on my age and seeing films from a certain time, Moore was the Bond that I grew up with and as result remains an important part of my cinema appreciation. Moore’s Bond was the epitome of class, and suave manners along with a clever, fun approach to dealing with insidious villainy. Sir Roger Moore was 89 years old and his family posted the news on his Official Twitter which has been embedded below.

The work of Sir Roger Moore is too great to even do more than touch upon here in this reflection so as usual I will defer you to the actor’s official Wikipedia entry as its loaded with details about his storied career. Over the years I was able to enjoy Moore’s earlier work such as “Maverick” and “The Saint” (which was more up my alley based on the level of intrigue involved) when they were in syndication but I never did manage to catch “Ivanhoe” or “The Persuaders”. Perhaps with his passing we shall find these classic shows appearing on Netflix or some other streaming service. Thinking back on when I first watched Moore in the role of James Bond, I think that the first film I would see with him in it was “The Spy Who Loved Me” which would have been his third. I would catch “Live and Let Die” and “The Man With The Golden Gun” when they were broadcast on television. The VCR was not a common device in the home way back when and as result there were no video stores to rent films from. You younger readers probably don’t even know what I mean with the reference or view this as ancient history stuff. Thank you Sir Roger Moore for bringing such works to life and thrilling so many of us again and again with your exploits. May you Rest In Peace.

Official Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Moore