Is it going to be one of those years for famous people dying?

midlifecrisis

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We were discussing the amount of celebrity death recently and the apparent increase and one bright spark suggested that there's more celebrities.
If you think about it, the natural life span is around 70-80. So a 70 year old was 20 in the 1960/70s. At which point there was an big increase in personalities when TV, pop music and sports personalities became household names. So all those footballers, band members etc are sadly due.
 

Wack61

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Gina experiences the joys the Alfa Tipo33 in 1967...



I've never seen one of those before, spectacular

Just had a google, the comment at the end :D

It's unclear how much these Alfa recreations will run, but they probably won't be cheap.

Really ,you do surprise me
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MarkMas

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We were discussing the amount of celebrity death recently and the apparent increase and one bright spark suggested that there's more celebrities.
If you think about it, the natural life span is around 70-80. So a 70 year old was 20 in the 1960/70s. At which point there was an big increase in personalities when TV, pop music and sports personalities became household names. So all those footballers, band members etc are sadly due.

Also for the member age demographic on here (l'd guess peaking at 45-60) means that the people we considered celebrities when we were 15-25 are now 60-85 years old so are in the 'death zone'.
 

zagatoes30

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I've never seen one of those before, spectacular

Just had a google, the comment at the end :D

It's unclear how much these Alfa recreations will run, but they probably won't be cheap.

Really ,you do surprise me
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Pretty sure there is a guy over here building one of these or something very similar at the moment