Happy New Year and just to kick if off properly here on the Buzzyblog let’s talk some sex and death as in the passing of Brigette Bardot.
I remember reading some interview with her a few years back and came away thinking that I wish I hadn’t read that. It sounded like Brigette had become one of those kind of old people.
To confirm that years-ago impression, this recent NY Times article on her passing noted “At best, Ms. Bardot was considered eccentric in her later years, prompting observations that this former sex kitten, as she was often called, had turned into a “crazy cat lady.”
From Sex Kitten to crazy cat lady, c’est la vie! Such are the ironies of life I guess.
All this came to my mind and attention after Brady sent me the following:
So the very first Buzzyblog pop quiz of the year is for you to name the three still around. Answers are below but I bet you that one of the three listed you will still be asking “Who?”
I would play Start the Fire here for you, but I have talked about it before. Plus, of Billy’s great tunes, that one is not in my Top Ten of his. Too repetitious.
Instead, check out another one of those musicians whom you have probably never heard of, but was well respected in the business before his passing at the age of 59 Charlie Robison:
Answer: Bob, Fats and Bernie as in Bernie Getz. Here is betting that Bernie is at the top of the most Googled person on www today.