Abba drummer found dead in Spain

[onehandle]

Source: Reuters

MADRID (Reuters) - The former drummer of 1970s Swedish pop group ABBA, Ola Brunkert, has been found dead after an apparent accident in the garden of his house in Mallorca, Spanish news agency EFE said on Monday.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080317/music_nm/spain_abba_dc

[xchrom]

1. blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.

peace be with his family and of course his fans.

sad news.

[slampoet]

2. That sucks. His work is considered great for sampling in the HipHOP and Electronic music community.

Such a bad way to go.

May he find peace.

[HughBeaumont]

3. He died in a gardening accident?

I mean, RIP . . . and all that . . .

[DRoseDARs]

6. Poisoned by chemicals, lawnmower ripping flesh etc. Seems odd but yes, even gardening can kill you.

I suppose there's worse places to die. :shrug:

RIP

[VWolf]

7. At least he didn't spontaneously combust

Apparently, it happens to dozens of people every year.


It's just not widely reported.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. I did a report on SHC in High School 20 years ago...

I sure wish I'd had the internets back then, I might have gotten an A instead of a B. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_human_combustion#Alleged_deaths_and_survivals

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. A bizarre gardening accident, at that

Yeah, RIP, but it's impossible not to think Spinal Tap ...

[DesertRat]

21. It wasn't a gardening accident

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3024086

[madaboutharry]

12. I have a friend whose sister was killed

mowing the lawn. The mower tipped over and killed her.

[grytpype]

14. The authoities said it was best to just leave it unsolved.

[zonkers]

27. Article says he smashed a glass pain and bled to death (from neck)

[indimuse]

4. oh....

very sad. love love them. Fernando.....

peace

[joeybee12]

5. That's really awful...

...I really disliked ABBA's music when it was out, but, like a lot of people, I love it now for its camp value and catchiness...if nothing else, that sound was very, very distinctive.

RIP

[kineneb]

19. good music survives and continues to be performed

"bad" music winds up buried in the back of the garage...

Abba's music is still played, because they were unique: cheery music often set against some fairly gloomy lyrics. It still speaks to me; I have the Abba Gold CD.

RIP

[WinkyDink]

8. Spain is DANGEROUS for rockers! The Dave Clark 5's lead singer just died, as a result

of having been injured in Spain!

"Mike Smith, the lead singer of The Dave Clark Five, died Thursday outside London, less than two weeks before the band is to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was 64.

The cause was pneumonia, a complication of a spinal cord injury he sustained in 2003 that had left him paralyzed below the ribs, according to Margo Lewis, his agent in New York."


"In 2006, he told the British newspaper The Daily Mail that he had injured his spinal cord when he fell while climbing over a locked seven-foot-high garden gate behind his home in the Costa del Sol region of Spain."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/arts/music/29smith.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[LeftHander]

15. Note to self: Avoid gardening in Spain....nt

[Doctor_J]

9. Looks like he met his...

Waterloo.

:shrug:

[MorningGlow]

16. !

:spank:

[KamaAina]

18. And where was Fernando on the night in question?

:shrug:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. Boinking some Chiquitita, no doubt. -nt

[AlCzervik]

13. Very sad, rip good sir.

[Vidar]

17. Damn, we lost another good one. Vaya con Dios, Ola.

[xxqqqzme]

20. Wow - My daughter was

playing Abba CDs all day yesterday while painting the bedroom. I even asked her 'why is it you've never seen Momma Mia - you're such a Abba fan? She shrugged & said 'I haven't seen Wicked either - go figure.' She was the one that got her friends to read Wicked.

[Codedonkey]

22. Was he suicided? You never know in the Bush world...

I'm kidding, chills.

This sucks though... Let this be a lesson to us all - don't plant magic beans in your garden and you won't be eaten by giants.

[DesertRat]

23. He accidentally walked through a glass door

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3024086&mesg_id=3024086

[Codedonkey]

26. Sounds like something I would do...

That really sucks. I'm never cleaning my windows again.

[goodgd_yall]

24. Aww---that's too bad. RIP, Ola n/t