Ahhh … John will forever be “Kane” - the poor guy whose chest gave birth to an Alien. And the War Doctor. He had so many iconic rolls as well. I was sad when we lost him too 
Ugh my heart aches for John Hurt, loved him as the War Doctor <3
RIP Taylor
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One of the voices of my younger years … unfortunately a voice that was fingernails on a chalkboard to me. I couldn’t listen to him for very long. I know it was part of the schtick … but it really hurt my poor ears
RIP Gilbert 
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I saw that this morning. A very funny guy.
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Naomi Judd has passed at 76. I liked a lot of her singing back in the 80’s. RIP Naomi 
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I just read Ray Liotta has passed at 67. He has always been one of my favorite actors. RIP Ray
Hmm. I don’t know that name, and he doesn’t look too familiar to me. I’ve probably seen him in something, but I’d be hard pressed to say what it was.
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Believe it or not, I’ve never seen Goodfellas. Maybe I should check it out before it leaves the theaters. 
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At first I thought Ray Liotta was just a pretty face, but changed my mind when I saw him play Henry Hill in Goodfellas. He was good playing good characters, but brilliantly chilling playing mean ones.
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Seems to be the night of passings 
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Out of the three, Andy Fletcher would be the closest (not that any of them are really “close”). But my then girlfriend and now wife used to listen to a lot of Depeche Mode back in the day circa “Speak & Spell” and “Construction Time Again.” Great times and great music.
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Way, way back in nearly another lifetime, I had $5 to spend for lunch in Jr. High School. I decided to forgo lunch for a couple of days and buy a vinyl LP album (because that’s all there was back then).
Anyway, the album I settled on was Live Peace in Toronto by John Lennon’s The Plastic Ono Band. I mention this because Alan White played drums on that album.
However, it was without a doubt, by far and away, the weirdest, worst, most awful bit of so-called music I have ever purchased. Around half the album is dedicated to Yoko Ono screeching, howling, moaning, retching, and otherwise making the most ungodly noises with a human voice that I have ever heard.
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I’ve often wondered if people who thought she was fabulous were in fact tone deaf
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Lunch would have been a much better choice.
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I knew Alan White drummed on that recording, but I’ve only ever heard it once in my life when a group of friends and I marveled at its cacophony.
My primary association with him was with Yes. In high school, my favorite Yes era was 1970-71 when Bill Bruford drummed The Yes Album and Fragile, but in 1980, upon reaching the 6th week of US Army Boot Camp, my platoon was finally set free to visit the Post Exchange (or ‘PX,’ effectively thee one department store inside the fences surrounding Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri), and I went right to the music area and bought the only 2 cassettes there that could possibly appeal to a young, white art-rocker, Judas Priest’s Hell Bent For Leather and Yes Drama, along with some headphones and a just-right size ‘boom box’ in which those two tapes would be worn to their last micron over the balance of boot camp. To this day, Drama is one of my all-time favorite albums, and drumming along with Into The Lens never gets old. White’s rhythmic shapings on that album had a big impact on me. RIP.
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