It's Amazing That These People Are Still With Us
Thought about this today while listening to Harry Belafonte, who only recently (!) died. Just a random list of influential people who are still around and feel like theyve been around forever, in the sense that their careers have spanned my entire life and most of my parents lives.
If you were in a coma starting in 1967, and woke up today 56 years later, much of the following list would make you feel right at home.
[list]
[*] [s]Tony Bennett[/s]
[*] John Kander
[*] Johnny Mathis
[*] Bobby Vinton
[*] Dion
[*] Julie Andrews
[*] Bob Dylan
[*] Frankie Valli
[*] Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr
[*] Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
[*] Van Morrison
[*] [s]Brian Wilson[/s] & Mike Love & Al Jardine
[*] Roger Waters & Dave Gilmore
[*] Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
[*] Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel
[*] Willie Nelson
[*] John Fogarty
[*] Neil Young
[*] Cat Stevens
[*] [s]Bob Newhart[/s]
[*] Dick van Dyke
[*] Bill Cosby
[*] Doc Severinsen
[*] Woody Allen
[*] Mel Brooks
[*] Jane Fonda
[*] Carol Burnett
[*] Carlos Santana
[*] Noam Chomsky
[*] [s]Henry Kissinger[/s]
[*] Pat Buchanan
[*] [s]Jimmy Carter[/s]
[*] [s]Bob Barker[/s]
[*] Irving Yalom
[*] [s]Jimmy Buffett[/s]
[*] John Williams
[*] Johnny Gilbert
[*] Dick Cavett
[*] William Shatner
[*] [s]Jane Goodall[/s]
[*] Buzz Aldrin
[*] Eva Marie Saint
[*] Gloria Steinem
[*] Dolores Huerta
[*] Ralph Nader
[*] [s]Phil Donohue[/s]
[*] [s]Quincy Jones[/s]
[*] Sophia Lauren
[*] Rex Reed
[*] Robert Wagner
[*] Richard Dawkins
[*] William Daniels
[*] Alfonso Arau
[*] Elaine May
[*] Clint Eastwood
[*] [s]Gene Hackman[/s]
[*] [s]James Earl Jones[/s]
[*] David Attenborough
[*] Warren Beatty
[*] [s]Dr. Ruth[/s]
[*] Isabel Perón
[*] [s]Ethel Kennedy[/s]
[*] Don King
[*] Bob Cousy
[*] Sam Donaldson
Many more Ive missed, so feel free to add. But these people started so young and got so famous so quickly that its as if theyve been in the background since the 1880s.
Pat Sajak retiring from Wheel of Fortune is another catalyst. Gordon Lightfoot and Tina Turner dying also got me thinking.
[Written in June 2023 originally]
If you were in a coma starting in 1967, and woke up today 56 years later, much of the following list would make you feel right at home.
[list]
[*] [s]Tony Bennett[/s]
[*] John Kander
[*] Johnny Mathis
[*] Bobby Vinton
[*] Dion
[*] Julie Andrews
[*] Bob Dylan
[*] Frankie Valli
[*] Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr
[*] Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
[*] Van Morrison
[*] [s]Brian Wilson[/s] & Mike Love & Al Jardine
[*] Roger Waters & Dave Gilmore
[*] Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
[*] Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel
[*] Willie Nelson
[*] John Fogarty
[*] Neil Young
[*] Cat Stevens
[*] [s]Bob Newhart[/s]
[*] Dick van Dyke
[*] Bill Cosby
[*] Doc Severinsen
[*] Woody Allen
[*] Mel Brooks
[*] Jane Fonda
[*] Carol Burnett
[*] Carlos Santana
[*] Noam Chomsky
[*] [s]Henry Kissinger[/s]
[*] Pat Buchanan
[*] [s]Jimmy Carter[/s]
[*] [s]Bob Barker[/s]
[*] Irving Yalom
[*] [s]Jimmy Buffett[/s]
[*] John Williams
[*] Johnny Gilbert
[*] Dick Cavett
[*] William Shatner
[*] [s]Jane Goodall[/s]
[*] Buzz Aldrin
[*] Eva Marie Saint
[*] Gloria Steinem
[*] Dolores Huerta
[*] Ralph Nader
[*] [s]Phil Donohue[/s]
[*] [s]Quincy Jones[/s]
[*] Sophia Lauren
[*] Rex Reed
[*] Robert Wagner
[*] Richard Dawkins
[*] William Daniels
[*] Alfonso Arau
[*] Elaine May
[*] Clint Eastwood
[*] [s]Gene Hackman[/s]
[*] [s]James Earl Jones[/s]
[*] David Attenborough
[*] Warren Beatty
[*] [s]Dr. Ruth[/s]
[*] Isabel Perón
[*] [s]Ethel Kennedy[/s]
[*] Don King
[*] Bob Cousy
[*] Sam Donaldson
Many more Ive missed, so feel free to add. But these people started so young and got so famous so quickly that its as if theyve been in the background since the 1880s.
Pat Sajak retiring from Wheel of Fortune is another catalyst. Gordon Lightfoot and Tina Turner dying also got me thinking.
[Written in June 2023 originally]
Comments (64)
The only name of the still-living that surprises me on this list is Keith Richards. :death: :flower:
True but you know what really surprised me? Frankie Valli. He was big before Dylan and the Beatles!
:confused:
If the list were in order, Mick Jagger & Keith Richards would be at the top...
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Thats cool!
Jane Birkin - Je t'aime.
https://youtu.be/JIQiGN-vO-g
They sneaked this into the 9th Grade end of year dance, Oh the memories of being 15!
It would be a shame to lose him, great music over so many decades.
A little young for the above list, but Ive added anyway because it FEELS like hes been around since the Big Bang.
I was also surprised to hear Tommy Steele was still alive!
Kissinger yeah. Dont know if its fantastic, but certainly bizarre.
Hey, he is older than Cat Stevens and only a couple of years younger that Niel Young.
Touche.
If you watch his videos, quite a few of the band's members get a moment of solo playing, something a lot of the great artists don't do. Even with guests, he takes backseat quite often.
https://youtu.be/6Whgn_iE5uc
One of my favorites.
Charles Munger, 99.
Because there are still a few days until she is 80, on March 26.
My fear though is that one day I'll log on and find my name crossed off from the living. I think I'll feel somewhat slighted, having been alive all this time and then only learning second hand by reading about it on a website. I just feel like something like that deserves an in person conversation, or at least a phone call.
Every time I see or hear a name, or come across some legend on Wikipedia that only has a born date, I add it to the list. Robert Wagner? I couldnt believe that he was still alive.
Some people seemed old even when I was a kid, like the same age they are now. Which is strange, because from a certain perspective they havent aged in 40 years.
And just how many persons from 1967 would know many from that list? Somebody not from Georgia surely will have difficulties to know the Georgia State Senate member Jimmy Carter, who had then only lost a Georgia gubernatorial election. You also have to be quite a Space fan to know Buz Aldrin in 1967, even if he then had I guess two space missions on his record (and the longest space walk). Then it was the Mercury Astronauts that were famous. Not the Gemini and the Apollo missions were just going on...
Makes me think how many will be around when it is 2080. Yep, there surely will be those that are now for example 10-29 years and we have no idea of them how powerful and well known they will be in the 2080's. However, there are those who we might know.
Justin Bieber, 86 years.
Jennifer Lawrence, 90 years.
Taylor Swift, 91 years.
Cristiano Ronaldo, 95 years.
Madonna, 122 years.
Now, when they estimate that people born now will likely to reach an average age of 100, I'm sure the list will be long.
Ive gradually added to the list. It made more sense in the original list. But good point.
Quoting ssu
Hopefully not. Good lord.
RFK got killed in 1968 and they already had 11 kids.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/willie-nelson-turns-91-today-130000313.html
I hope Willie lives another 15 years
RIP Duanne Eddy
I have no idea who that is.
Your loss youngster. :rofl: :lol:
:shade:
Hey, sometimes they slip through the cracks.
:lol: :rofl:
Iggy Pop is the one that gets me. I saw him when he was probably like 65 or so and he still put on a hell of a show.
Kind of like Richard Simmons very big in the 80s, but havent really heard from them in a long time and just assumed they died a long time ago and I never heard about it.
But no. Still alive. Cool! :up:
She has been living in Madrid since the end of the 1970s.
She is 93 years old, and she was briefly the President of Argentina in 1974.
Isabel Perón
I added to the list. Nutty that shes around too.
I used to always get him confused with the Dad from A Christmas Story.
I honestly thought he had died years ago.
Hey I like most of those people. I originally titled it bizarre and fantastic, but then I remembered Kissinger was on there. Not so fantastic.
He showed up to Occupy Vancouver!
Another one off the list.
Shannon Dorherty wasnt one I expected.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/jerry-fuller-songwriter-whose-hit-113043618.html
Another one bites the dust.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/alain-delon-frances-flawed-screen-064114112.html
Another one off the list.
I heard carbon monoxide more specifically. But I dont think they know yet nor why (ordinary) pills were scattered everywhere.
He was very old in any case but still. Id like to know, just out of curiosity.