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Everything has an end, even if we don’t want to believe it. This year, several celebrities and famous people who seemed immortal died.
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The third longest reigning monarch was one of them, but several legendary musicians and actors were also gone forever.
Queen Elizabeth II of England (96 years old)
The Commonwealth was left without its monarch on 8 September 2022. Elizabeth II died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland after spending more than six months in increasingly fragile health. Months before her death, in February, was able to celebrate his platinum jubilee: the 70th anniversary of his enthronement.
Her reign lasted 70 years and 214 days, making her the longest serving monarch in the Commonwealth. She leaves the heir who has waited the longest to take the throne and a family full of scandals, from her son the prince andrew to his nephew Harrynot forgetting what happened with the deceased Diana Spencerthe ex-wife of his son and successor Carlos.
Jerry Lee Lewis (87 years old)
Born in Louisiana, he was the last living legend of early rock and roll, whose sound he defined with his piano. He not in vain was part of what would be called The Million Dollar Quartet: the session they recorded during the meeting with the December 4, 1956 on Sun Records (Memphis), partly by accident, four of the most talented musicians of the moment: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis himself. The latter was by far the one who lived the longest of them all.
Nicknamed “The Killer” for how wild he was, he recorded more than 40 albums that earned him four Grammy Awards. He had twelve gold records and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.
He personally had seven wives and six children and committed bigamy. The first time he got married he was 16; The union lasted just 20 months and shortly before divorcing he had already remarried another young woman, with whom he had two children. Always without having obtained a divorce, He married his third wife, who was also his 13-year-old cousin Myra, who bore him two sons. The first of them was born when she was only 14 and died at the age of 3, accidentally drowned. His last wife, whom he married in 2012, was Myra’s brother’s ex-wife.
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Ray Liotta (67 years old)
For three decades now it has not been possible to name Ray Liotta without saying that he is “one of ours”. Scorsese’s acclaimed 1990 film changed the life of the New Jersey actor, who had been acting for a little over twenty years at that time. I would never match that success.
Liotta had toured four years before his big break ‘something wild’, with Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels. Shortly after titles such as ‘Narco’, ‘Blow’, ‘Hannibal’ or “John Q”. He has also been seen in seriesfrom “ER” or “Hannah Montana” to “Modern Family”. He also gave voice to animated characters in “Family Guy”, “SpongeBob” or “The Simpsons”.
Christine McVie (79 years old)
The history of the group Fleetwood Mac cannot be understood without the input of Christine McVie, original surname Perfect. At just 25 she was part of the blues band Chicken Hutbut was getting close to Fleetwood Mac, ended up marrying the bassist, John McVie, and joined the lineup.
She ended up being one of the composers, as well as keyboardist and backing vocalist. When her marriage exploded along with those of her three mates, Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks (the latter two married to each other), the group wrote and recorded the album “Rumours” amid large quantities of cocaine. They ended up selling around 40 million copies of the album, one of the most successful in history.
Christine McVie left the group in 1998 and six years later released a solo album, ‘Meanwhile’. Two years later, the British Academy of Composers, Writers and Authors awarded him the Gold Medal of Merit for Authors.
Jean-Luc Godard (91 years old)
He was one of the most influential directors of the ‘New Wave’, the revolutionary film movement born in France, antagonist of mass cinema. Magazine ‘Film notebooks’ has promoted this “new wave” and from his own editorial board have emerged talented filmmakers, such as Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, Eric Rohmer and Jean-Luc Godard.
Godard discovered his passion for cinema when he moved to Paris from his native Switzerland as a teenager. After showing his cinephilia as a film critic on the prestigious magazine, he began a career directing more than 130 works, including dozens of feature films. ‘At the end of the escapade’, ‘Band apart’, ‘Pierrot the mad’ or ‘Lemmy against Alphaville’ (the latter Golden Bear in Berlin) they were just a few of them. They also highlighted his documentaries ‘Histoire(s) du cinéma’ and “Sympathy for the Devil”about the band The Rolling Stones.
