RIP Alan Rickman

It’s been a sad week in the world of show business, losing 2 iconic figures in the world of music and film. 

  

First we mourned the death of the one and only David Bowie (aka The Starman aka Ziggy Stardust aka The Thin White Duke, I could go on and on) and now we are mourning the death of Alan Rickman (aka Professor Snape aka Hans Gruber aka The Sheriff of Nottingham again I could go on..). Talk about chameleons! Alongside the death of Motorhead’s Lemmy a few weeks ago there is another factor linking these three man apart from showbusiness.. and that’s cancer.

Cancer is a horrible disease and no doubt you all know someone who has been affected by cancer, directly or indirectly. I’m not going to dedicate a blog post to this vile disease but would just like to leave a gentle reminder that a donation to your local cancer charity, or a national charity such as Cancer Research will go along way in fighting this hideous vermin.

Admittedly, when talking about these 3 men, the one I’m most familiar with is Alan Rickman. Having been born in the Love Actually/Harry Potter generation I have literally grown up with him and the rest of the HP cast. I’m sure this will be a very hard time for them all and it’s sad to know the Professor Snape really is gone forever. I couldn’t have pictured a better man for the role, let's hope he's up there somewhere, still reading his book.

As for David Bowie, I didn’t think I knew too many of his songs… until they started playing them on every radio station that is, and I realised that I had subconsciously been a Bowie fan my whole life. Strange that you can know so much about a person without even realising it.

So I want to dedicate this blog post to Rickman, Bowie and anyone else affected my Cancer. I am confident we will beat this cruel disease one day, we have to. 

Since writing this post only 2 weeks ago we have now lost Sir Terry Wogan to this disease, please do what you can to support the fight to find a cure. 

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org