Greatest news stories of your lifetime?

[Supernova]

Like many I could have had a bigger list.

Aberfan - the first big news story that stuck in my memory. I was 8 years old.

9/11 also the death of Osama Bin Laden. 

Chernobyl

[bobAlike]

1986 Challenger
1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
2008 Financial crash

[Pokerpops]

1966 - I was 12 and away at Boys’ Brigade Camp. Took the ferry to the Isle of Wight and kept my radio to my ear. When Hurst scored the goal that put us ahead in extra time I ran up Ryde Pier and slipped on the damp boards nearly losing my radio over the side.

1968 - the first English team to win the European Cup. Yes, I am aware that Celtic did it the year before and that too was memorable.

2001 - my daughter rang me to say that a plane had hit a skyscraper in New York.

There were any number of others but the first two were joyful memories and we need more of those.

[tikay]

Well if the passing of Elvis gets in, then I'll have to add the murder of John Lennon. One of those "I remember where I was when I heard the news" things.



Also, Grenfell.

[RED-DOG]

Elvis: Went to see my now wife, then fiancé and found her crying her eyes out.

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Lennon: I was 25 and on my way to play a snooker tournament. I heard it on the radio in my truck and was devastated the needless tragedy.

Such a waste.

[Kev B]

Lennon, what a terrible waste of a talent and decent human being. Been passed away now longer than he was alive.

So difficult only choosing 3 things on this thread. It's like being asked your favourite 5 songs, just impossible.

[Pokerpops]

Lennon, what a terrible waste of a talent and decent human being. Been passed away now longer than he was alive.

So difficult only choosing 3 things on this thread. It's like being asked your favourite 5 songs, just impossible.

Favourite five songs is easy

Get Back
Sympathy for the Devil
Heroes
Common People
Learn to Fly

It’s so easy that I can do it again tomorrow

[Kev B]

Lennon, what a terrible waste of a talent and decent human being. Been passed away now longer than he was alive.

So difficult only choosing 3 things on this thread. It's like being asked your favourite 5 songs, just impossible.

Favourite five songs is easy

Get Back
Sympathy for the Devil
Heroes
Common People
Learn to Fly

It’s so easy that I can do it again tomorrow

Great choices there.

I think music is mood dependant. I could choose 5 today and a totally different 5 on another day. I couldn't even do a top 5 singer/group, just impossible for me.

[tikay]

Jimmy Saville, and I suppose  in the same genre, Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall, and Max Clifford.

[Supernova]

I agree Kev, totally depends on mood. I don't think mine would be the same 5 bands for weeks, maybe months.

[Kev B]

Jimmy Saville, and I suppose  in the same genre, Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall, and Max Clifford.

That list makes you shudder. A friend of mine worked in the prison where Harris was detained.

Have you seen the drama where Steve Coogan played Jimmy Savile called "The reckoning"? Coogan was eerily impressive as Savile.

[Kev B]

It's 30 years since Dunblane. Another tragic news story. 😪

[Pokerpops]

Lennon, what a terrible waste of a talent and decent human being. Been passed away now longer than he was alive.

So difficult only choosing 3 things on this thread. It's like being asked your favourite 5 songs, just impossible.

Favourite five songs is easy

Get Back
Sympathy for the Devil
Heroes
Common People
Learn to Fly

It’s so easy that I can do it again tomorrow

Great choices there.

I think music is mood dependant. I could choose 5 today and a totally different 5 on another day. I couldn't even do a top 5 singer/group, just impossible for me.

That was pretty much my point. Tomorrow’s 5 will almost certainly be different, even if only by one song. Although all 5 could be different.

[Pokerpops]

Jimmy Saville, and I suppose  in the same genre, Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall, and Max Clifford.

The Savile saga produced more and more revelations as it progressed and I don’t think we will ever know the full truth about who knew what and when.
I wonder if he could have got away with it for so long had the internet existed when he was active.