Death didn’t take Chuck Norris – it just finally worked up the courage to ask for an autograph.
When Chuck Norris died, Death blinked.
(How can you resist?)
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Xander on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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So many individuals with Parkinsons! Sad.
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I’ve noticed that. I guess my FIL was really lucky, because he lived with Parkinson’s for 20-25 years before dying from complications (related to a fall) at 93.
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Tommy DeCarlo, Fan Who Became Lead Singer of Boston, Dies at 60
At home, Tommy DeCarlo liked to sing and sometimes record songs. He wrote and recorded some of his own music, but he also added his vocals—karaoke-style—to hits. Even as an adult, his favorite band was always Boston.
When Boston announced that there would be a tribute concert for Brad Delp (the lead singer who died in 2007) with a roster of guest singers, DeCarlo wanted to attend with his son, but couldn’t afford the trip. Then he noticed that some of the guest singers had dropped off the bill, and he got an idea. He sent a note to an email address associated with the band, shared his Myspace links and offered to sit in with the band at the concert.
His tracks made their way to Scholz’s wife, Kim. When Scholz (the leader of the band) heard her listening to DeCarlo’s recording of “Don’t Look Back,” he asked her if it was a live recording of Boston. No, she said, it was “some guy in North Carolina singing your songs.” He said to her, ‘I know Brad’s voice, and that’s Brad. She turned it up, and it was only when I heard the backing track that I knew it wasn’t us.”
Tommy had been known to surprise his Home Depot colleagues when they went out for karaoke. But before Scholz introduced the 42-year-old fan to the crowd at Bank of America Pavilion in Boston on Aug. 19, 2007, he had never performed with a band.
When Boston went to work on a new album, “Life, Love & Hope,” featuring vocals from Delp and others, DeCarlo sang lead on the title track and contributed to others. When the band went back on the road, DeCarlo went with them, eventually taking over solo lead-vocal duties. He performed with the band hundreds of times through 2017, the last time Boston played a concert.
In September, DeCarlo was diagnosed with brain cancer. He died at the age of 60 on March 9—which was 19 years to the day after Delp died.
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Oh it makes me sad that both Seals and Crofts are gone. “We May Never Pass This Way Again “ was my senior prom theme song. I still love it.
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Oh, that makes me so sad too. When I was in high school they played at a friend’s school and we were invited backstage before the concert and he gave me his mandolin pick. It was probably still in my guitar case, which I gave to my daughter-in-law and haven’t seen since.
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Tracy Kidder, a wide-ranging journalist and author whose deep reporting and novelistic prose illuminated worlds as diverse as home construction, disease prevention and — as portrayed in his Pulitzer-prizewinning 1981 breakthrough book, “The Soul of a New Machine” — the computer industry, died on Tuesday in Boston. He was 80.
Reading this book in high school was the catalyst for my engineering career. He made the work sound so enthralling it became something I wanted to do. And in a “small-world” turn of events I ended up meeting one of the engineers featured in the book who was working at the same West-coast firm I started at after college. I felt like I was meeting a celebrity (to engineers, anyway).
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They were one of my favorite groups around college age too. I just bought my daughter their greatest hits album earlier this month. 
One of my most fav songs EVER. Sentimental and yet uplifting and sweet.
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Mine, too, and will be hearing it at our 50th class reunion this September along with many of their other hits.
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Is that your kindergarten reunion? Because there’s no way ChoatieCpt’s mother can be the age you’re implying
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Upcoming HS 50th? You are youngsters!
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I love you @skieurope, but I was old when ChoatieBaby was born.
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edit. Apologies
Didn’t realize we lost Valerie Perrine https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/valerie-perrine-cause-of-death-emerges-after-quiet-health-battle
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And in what must be a generational difference…. David Muir mispronounced her name when he reported her death 
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Well, I’m older than David and I’m not sure I know how to pronounce it. Maybe his copy staff suggested wrong pronunciation.
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