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Euphoria star Angus Cloud dies, aged 25
Cloud was best known for playing fan-favourite Fezco on the hit HBO show.
- by Osman Faruqi
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Paul Reubens, actor who portrayed Pee-wee Herman, dies from cancer at age 70
The actor and comedian whose character Pee-wee Herman became a cultural phenomenon through films and TV shows has died after a private struggle with cancer.
- by Andrew Dalton
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When I met Sinead O’Connor, she looked like a monk who smoked Marlboro Lights
She wanted to rescue God from the church; she sang of healing and compassion and spoke for the voiceless. I loved her.
- by Julia Baird
Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles, dies at 77
With an astonishing vocal range, he was also “the sweetest man in the music business”, according to former bandmate Don Felder.
- by Hillel Italie
The night Sinead O’Connor took on the pope on television
Under the guise of being a pop star performing a song, O’Connor held court for three minutes on the miseries of discrimination and abuses of power.
- by Jon Caramanica
Opinion
Sinead O'Connor
We needed you, Sinead, the crazy-brave anti-Barbie
You were unfiltered, unapologetic. The news of your death this morning had me weeping in bed.
- by Michelle Griffin
Sinead O’Connor, gifted and provocative Irish singer, dies aged 56
The Irish singer was known as much for her shaved head and outspoken views on religion, sex, feminism and war as for her music.
- by Sylvia Hui
Ewen Jones didn’t fit the mould. But he made federal politics a better place
Despite fewer than six years in parliament, the MP won’t be easily forgotten. It’s why the of grief in the week since he died, aged 63, was so genuine.
- by Rob Harris
A coke binge in his 50s almost killed Tony Bennett. He survived, reshaping his career
In crippling debt with a drug problem, Bennett hit rock bottom before his sons helped him change the trajectory of not just the singer’s career but also his life.
- by Timothy Bella
Legendary American singer Tony Bennett dies aged 96
Bennett, the legendary American singer who graced a decades-long career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died Friday aged 96.
The CEO who became one of the faces of the global financial crisis dies
In 2008, Time magazine named Angelo Mozilo as one of the “25 People to Blame” for the global financial crisis.
- by Patrick Oster