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Forbes
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
David Bowie's ‘Legacy' Continues To Grow Years After His Death
David Bowie's Legacy compilation reaches 450 weeks on the U.K.'s Official Albums chart, marking his ... More first time hitting such a large number on the tally. NEW YORK - MAY 5: (U.S. TABS AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER OUT) Singer David Bowie stands backstage at The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Tribute to Susan Sarandon at Avery Fisher Hall May 5, 2003 in New York City. (Photo by) Throughout the years, there have been several David Bowie compilations that have become hugely successful in the United Kingdom, where the rocker is still regarded as one of the most creative and beloved musicians, even nearly a decade after his passing. Among his many popular collections of singles, live recordings, and other tunes, one stands out as perhaps the most commercially viable of the bunch: Legacy. The title can always be found on the weekly rankings in the U.K., as people never stop listening to his catalog. Legacy brings Bowie's name to a special landmark this week — one he never reached during his lifetime. Legacy Reaches 450 Weeks on the Official Albums Chart Bowie's Legacy continues to grow, as the compilation hits 450 weeks spent on the Official Albums chart. The tally ranks the most consumed EPs and full-length projects of any genre or format in the U.K. each week. The compilation is far and away Bowie's longest-running success, and has been for quite a while, and every time it reaches another special figure, Bowie posthumously does as well. At the moment, Legacy sits at No. 74 on the Official Albums chart, down just a few spaces from several days ago. The compilation previously peaked at No. 5 — a somewhat surprisingly low position for a title that has managed to live on the ranking for years and will likely remain there for several more. Plays on Spotify, Apple Music, and other platforms are largely keeping Legacy afloat, as the compilation does not currently appear on any sales rankings, but it does rise to No. 59 on the Official Albums Streaming chart. No Other David Bowie Album is Even Close No other album by Bowie has managed to crack 200 weeks on the Official Albums chart, aside from Legacy. His early set The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ranks as his second-longest-running, with 168 weeks. That figure narrowly beats Best of, which has racked up 163 stays on the tally. Legacy Was Released Months After David Bowie's Death Legacy was released in November 2016, less than a year after Bowie passed away at age 69. The compilation didn't differ much from several past projects, but its timing turned it into a bestseller, as the world was mourning Bowie's creative vision and voice at the time. It is still the title that people focus on when listening to the late star's music, so it's the one that remains on the charts.
BBC News
04-07-2025
- General
- BBC News
Elizabeth Emblem awarded to Manx firefighter killed on duty 1965
An Isle of Man firefighter who died in the line of duty in 1965 has been posthumously honoured for his "extraordinary courage and selfless service".Henry Bertram Kenna has been awarded the Elizabeth Emblem, which is named after the late Queen and recognises public servants who died in the line of Officer Kenna collapsed and died after attending a commercial building fire in Douglas on 22 November is among 100 people being posthumously recognised across the British Isles and is the first person on the Isle of Man to receive it. Mr Kenna attended the blaze on Athol Street on foot as emergency teams were already attending a separate entered the building alone to search of people inside, but collapse after emerging from the of Man Lieutenant Governor Sir John Lorimer said the award, which will be formally presented to Mr Kenna's family, honours his "selfless actions and ultimate sacrifice" that day. 'Immensely proud' Sir John said: "This long-overdue recognition honours not only his bravery, but the enduring contribution of our island's emergency services."Chief Fire Officer Mark Christian said: "The actions of station officer Kenna on that fateful day were nothing short of heroic."He said he firefighter, who was known to his friends as Bert, "showed no hesitation in entering the building to try and help others and, tragically, made the ultimate sacrifice"."We are immensely proud to see station officer Kenna and his family recognised for his bravery and selflessness," he Elizabeth Emblem was extended to the Crown Dependencies and devolved administrations last year. Read more stories from the Isle of Man on the BBC, watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer and follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and X.
Irish Times
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Ólafur Arnalds & Talos: A Dawning review – Five stars for this emotion-filled celebration of Eoin French's life
A Dawning Artist : Ólafur Arnalds & Talos Label : Deutsche Grammophon Operating under the stage name Talos, Eoin French was an unheralded virtuoso of Irish dream pop. Each of his three studio albums was sublime in its own distinct way, whether conjuring beautifully untethered soundscapes or cradling his expressive voice in otherworldly folk arrangements. Halfway between My Bloody Valentine and The Lord of the Rings, these were songs that took you somewhere else, constructed with an artisan's eye for detail (French was a qualified architect) and a poet's mastery of emotion. Sadly, French died last year aged just 36. The depth of that loss is underscored by his posthumous new release. A Dawning is a collaboration with the Icelandic composer, producer and DJ Ólafur Arnalds that brims with feeling yet is ultimately not an elegy for French but a celebration of his life. Given the context, it's an understandably challenging listen at times. But, in its totality, it is also a hugely comforting one, and credit is due to Arnalds for persevering with finishing the project on his own at his studio in Reykjavík. READ MORE Arnalds is renowned for his sweeping, cinematic work, as perhaps best exemplified by the soundtrack to the ITV drama Broadchurch. Here, however, it is the moments of intimacy that land the heaviest, such as when French takes vocals on the hushed Signs, singing of 'our setting sky / that burns across the ocean'. It's a poignant image that locates the song in west Co Cork, where a substantial chunk of the LP was recorded and where the coastline can offer stunning views of the Atlantic. Much of A Dawning was written before French became unwell. For that reason it feels trite to read it as a swansong or his way of saying goodbye to his audience. There is also the fact that his voice has always been marked by melancholy, and A Dawning is in the same register of regretful wonder. That hush falls heavy as morning snowfall on Bedrock. Here a stark piano backs French's high-pitched voice; think the Weeknd or Bon Iver standing on a clifftop of the Beara Peninsula, singing to the sheep and the waves. Because Arnalds and French are so dialled into each other musically, it can be challenging to say where one's contribution ends and the other's begins. That they had a natural chemistry was first identified by Mary Hickson , who encouraged them to work together at her Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival, in Cork. 'She seemed very sure that we would get along musically,' Arnalds has commented. 'She was right, of course. It was the start of an incredible, inspiring, heartbreaking but heartfelt journey that took us places we could never have imagined in our wildest dreams.' Holed up together in a hotel suite – not the sort of place redolent of epic sunsets or craggy cliffs – they hit it off immediately. Signs, the first song they wrote, crackles with the aura of artists comfortable in each other's company. The process continued even after French's cancer diagnosis: the material is alive with a diaristic sense of time in place, such as on the gossamer-light West Cork. Beautifully attuned, French and Arnalds evoke the craggy majesty of the hinterland around French's home in Clonakilty, where it can feel as if you have travelled to the ends of the earth and that nothing is left but sky, sea and mystery. The record's centrepiece, paradoxically, arrives right at the end, with We Didn't Know We Were Ready. Be warned that this is a heart-wrenching number that is going to reduce even the most insensitive listener to a quivering wreck. It opens with French wondering about the meaning of life and beyond: 'With the answers at our feet / Will we break the grounds beneath?' The song is a hurricane of feeling packed into four minutes, as was made clear when Arnalds performed it on The Tommy Tiernan Show, on RTÉ, accompanied by Dermot Kennedy, The Staves and the track's co-writers, Niamh Reagan and Ye Vagabonds. They will play it again when Sounds from a Safe Harbour hosts an evening in French's memory in September. If this astonishing record is any clue, it promises to be a tear-jerker for the ages.
CTV News
03-07-2025
- Health
- CTV News
Town awards highest honour posthumously to former advanced care paramedic
Town awards highest honour posthumously to former advanced care paramedic The Town of Newmarket awards its highest honour posthumously to former advanced care paramedic Kevin Mills.
Yahoo
29-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Dead members of Congress can't stop posting
After Zohran Mamdani's apparent victory in the New York Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, former Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) liked an Instagram post congratulating him on his win. The only problem — Jackson Lee died last July. From ghost-likes and new profile pictures to a posthumous endorsement, accounts for dead lawmakers have seemingly resurrected on social media in an unsettling trend of beyond-the-grave engagement. 'Dear White Staffers,' an anonymous account dedicated to highlighting experiences and perspectives of non-white congressional staffers, on Wednesday posted a screenshot of a notification that the late Texas representative's account had liked the congratulatory post for Mamdani, captioning the screengrab with a quizzical emoji. But Jackson Lee isn't the only deceased lawmaker whose presence continues to be felt online. Rep. Sylvester Turner, a Democrat who filled Lee's Texas seat for a brief two months before his own passing in March 2025, appeared to change his profile picture on X three weeks after he died. 'Happy #OpeningDay!' Turner's personal account posted on MLB Opening Day, adding the hashtag 'NewProfilePic' along with a photo of the late lawmaker holding a baseball. A community guidelines note affixed by X to the post noted that 'Sylvester Turner died on March 5, 2025.' The post appeared to shock many X users, who commented on how uncanny it was to see the deceased lawmaker active on their feeds. 'Grim,' one user wrote, while another asked: 'So no one on his team thinks this is weird?' Former Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Virginia Democrat who died in May, has also continued to make waves from beyond the grave, as his political social media accounts chugged back to life to notify followers that early voting had begun in the race to fill his vacant seat. Before his passing, Connolly had endorsed his former chief of staff, James Walkinshaw, to replace him, having announced that he planned to step away from Congress after his esophageal cancer returned in April. People on Connolly's mailing list have also reportedly continued receiving emails from the late representative's campaign encouraging Virginians to vote for Walkinshaw in Saturday's special election, the newsletter Chaotic Era highlighted — and directing donations to Walkinshaw's campaign. But after Connolly's posthumous post came under scrutiny this week, it disappeared from the late Virginian's page on Thursday. Brian Garcia, communications director for Walkinshaw's campaign, emphasized that the campaign does not direct the content posted from Connolly's accounts. "Supervisor Walkinshaw is proud to have earned the support of Congressman Connolly before he passed away and to now have the support of the Connolly family,' he said. The bio for Connolly's page notes that the lawmaker died in May, and says that posts on the page are made with Connolly's family's consent. Turner's account also appears to be run by his family, with the account recently posting a video featuring his daughter promoting a Houston parade he championed. But the case of posthumous tweeting fingers isn't a new phenomenon. An account for political activist, brief 2012 GOP presidential primary leader and staunch Trump supporter Herman Cain resurfaced two weeks after he died in July 2020 from a weekslong battle with Covid-19. The account posted attacks at then-presidential candidate Joe Biden and pro-Trump content — as well as conspiracy theories about the virus that had taken Cain's own life. The posts initially appeared under Cain's original account, bearing his name and profile picture. But his daughter shortly thereafter explained in a blog post that members of his family had taken over his social media presence and would continue posting under the new name 'Cain Gang.' The account remained active until March 2021, when it released its final post, saying 'It's time.' How to handle the social media presence of politicians when they die is a fairly new phenomenon. If a member of the House dies, for example, their office often remains open to fulfill constituent services — and sometimes continues posting to social media, albeit not typically under the lawmaker's name. And there's even less clarity around lawmakers' social media accounts that they use for campaigning, as opposed to official work. Zack Brown, who was the communications director for Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) when he died in office in March 2022, said there is no official process for handing off control of lawmakers' social media accounts if they die while still serving. That leaves communications staff in an awkward bind on how to proceed with languishing accounts, he said. Although there were content rules on what staff members were allowed to post to Young's accounts — political, policy-related and ideological posts were off-limits — there was no guidance on what to do with the accounts themselves. 'When a member of Congress dies, nobody seems to care about getting the log-ins from you, or assuming control of the Facebook page,' Brown said. 'I still, if I wanted to, could go post to Facebook as Congressman Young — I could still tweet today as Congressman Young. And nobody from archives or records or from House administration, or anybody, seems to give a shit.' Brown continued serving in the Alaskan's office for four months after his death, administering the affairs of the office and helping wind down its operations to prepare for Young's replacement after the special election. While the process of physically closing down Young's office was 'meticulous,' with individual files and knickknacks from the lawmaker's office requiring logging, the 'digital aspect of it was completely ignored,' Brown said. Brown noted that failing to properly administer a lawmaker's social media presence is also a constituent services issue, as many people reach out to their representative's offices via direct message for assistance. But most of all, Brown cautioned, a lack of procedure for how to handle dead lawmaker's' socials poses a host of security risks that would normally be unthinkable for physical record-keeping. 'I can't walk into the National Archives right now and just go behind closed doors and take whatever files from Congressman Young that I want,' Brown said. 'Why does somebody who had social media access have that power to do that with tweets?' Nicholas Wu contributed to this report.
