Honestly,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6281309.stm
Slan,
D.
Oh wow. 
I often feel old, Dubh, tis true, but it seems they all died rather young. Even Doherty.
Like I needed another reminder that I’m getting old, thank you very much. 
Now where did I put my glasses…
Kinda puts a bit of perspective on things, eh?
Slan,
D.
Kinda puts a bit of perspective on things, eh?
As my momma says- “There’s no guarantee of tomorrow for any of us…”
we’re getting old…
only if we’re lucky - for what’s the alternative…
“I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now”
Slan,
D. 
First Gilligan, now this!
Alas!
“Too old to Rock n’Roll, Too Young to Die”
Entertainment world does have shorter life-span methinks. Too much turnin’ on in the 60s for a lot of our cultural icons.
Despite the fact that they were before my time (just thought I’d throw that in there 
), they have always been one of my favorite groups. Rest in peace, Denny
Interesting. I was singing that song earlier tonight.
Its difficult for me to relate to your sense of loss for someone who was only ink on a page, sounds from a speaker, an idea at best. I wonder who’s death will make me feel old when I grow up. 
djm
In a way, that’s how it is for me. I don’t feel older because of his death, although is death is a great loss to me.
I felt old the first time I heard Hendrix as background music for a tv commercial. That was just wrong. 
Actually, I may feel old on occasion, but I refuse to act old, ever. Innapropriate on occasion, ridiculous perhaps, old? Never!
I felt old when I first heard an instrumental version of a Beatles song as elevator music. (I’ll be 52 next Wednesday.)
who were the mamas and the papas?
still under 30
I’m less than 10 yrs younger than Doherty and I sometimes feel old, but I also sometimes feel juvenile, more the later than the former.
The Mamas and the Papas were a short-lived rock pop group in the mid 1960s. While most of their contemporaries relied on guitars to drive their songs, the mamas and papas (2 men, 2 women, complicated relationships) relied on soaring vocals and harmony. They were hugely successful for a time and some of their songs are now hard wired in the brains of those of us who began our endless adolesence at the time.
They were a lot of fun.
for me, it was Led Zepplin…
Some of the “short lived” (as far as hits go) groups from that era (even if individual members went on to further success) - Mama’s and Papa’s, Paul Revere with Mark Lindsey, Yardbirds, Cream, were seen as “fluff” back then, but as time goes on one begins to realize some of the novel things they were attempting to do with their music.