[QUOTE=pinhodecarlos;549868]My wife is sad....[/QUOTE]
We salute a great talent and mourn his passing.

[QUOTE=firejuggler;549865]Ennio Morricone, Prolific Italian Composer for the Movies, Dies at 91

[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_Morricone[/URL][/QUOTE]

[U]The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly[/U], [U]Once Upon A Time In The West[/U] and many others with Sergio Leone.

Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels, country music legend and recipient of numerous awards
[URL]https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/country-music-legend-charlie-daniels-dies-at-83[/URL]
A sample of his work, [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_XGnxTi-fE[/URL] or in concert with video, [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBjPAqmnvGA"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBjPAqmnvGA [/URL]
or decades later, this hit was still a crowd pleaser [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7p817ErVsQ[/URL]
[SPOILER](Arthritis be damned. Along with petty tyrants whereever found)[/SPOILER]

[QUOTE=ewmayer;549238]The one exception is cases where the link URL itself provides the context.[/QUOTE]Seems like a sample of a musician's work in concert would meet that exception's requirements.

[QUOTE=kriesel;549903]Seems like a sample of a musician's work in concert would meet that exception's requirements.[/QUOTE]

No. The point is, can the reader gleam the context just by looking at the URL without going to the linked page. So youtube URL is useless for that purpose.

But the fox new URL [B]is[/B] helpful, to wit: "Country music legend Charlie Daniel dies at 83"

[QUOTE=kriesel;549903]Seems like a sample of a musician's work in concert would meet that exception's requirements.[/QUOTE]In addition to axn's post, a youtube video of a concert does not give Obit type info: what did they do in addition to the video, how old, analysis of their life.

Someone I know from another forum posted this about CD (edited):
[QUOTE]Charlie Daniels died. People [are] posting tributes...
...[H]e was a Bigoted Racist man whose idea of America was White Straight Christians. I had an email exchange with him years ago based on one of his soapbox blog posts when he called all queer people pedophiles. Pretty disgusting human.[/QUOTE]

Posted elsewhere in the MF
[QUOTE]Don't post "bare" links. Tell us why we should follow it. In the 'RIP' thread, tells about the person, what they did or who they are.[/QUOTE]

“To tell you the truth, I am sick and tired of politics.” [URL]https://www.thewrap.com/charlie-daniels-says-hes-sick-and-tired-of-politics-calls-out-trumps-acerbic-rhetoric/[/URL]
Me too.
His open letter here is a good read. [URL]https://www.charliedaniels.com/soap-box?b_id=3339&pg=4[/URL]
Photo of him with Sam Moore in Mike Huckabee's writeup about Daniels; Sam's expression seems inconsistent with the anonymously quoted claim of racism. [URL]https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/farewell-charlie-daniels-mike-huckabee[/URL]

A lot of Charlie Daniels' expressed political beliefs were heinous. However, there is a nontrivial segment of the US population that revered his musical talents. Growing up, whenever The Devil Went Down to Georgia came on the car radio, there was an immediate stop-everything-all-conversation-ends-now-listen-to-this-song vibe. Very few songs ever got that treatment.

[QUOTE=masser;549930]A lot of Charlie Daniels' expressed political beliefs were heinous. However, there is a nontrivial segment of the US population that revered his musical talents.[/QUOTE]

Most people with ugly views and personalities of one kind or another never create anything positive during their time on earth. The ones who do leave us with something worthwhile, which brings people joy, perhaps we should consider that a blessing.

Perhaps the prototypical example is classical composer Richard Wagner - long after the person and his ugly views is dead and gone, we can ask "is the world in some way better for his having lived?" Of course there might be a lively debate between those who are fans of his monumental Nordic-legend-themed operatic works, and those who aren't. :)

There's a post on Reddit saying that Ronald Graham (the namesake of Graham's number) has died: [url]https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/hmngx7/ron_graham_passed_away_earlier_this_evening_at[/url]

However, I couldn't find any reliable sources to corroborate this.