Steve Wright DJ RIP

[Citizen of Legoland]

I'm sorry, but I can't get the hang of all this 'celebrity' grieving.

Did anybody know Steve Wright personally, or any deceased celebrity come to that?

Sure it's disappointing that he has gone at 69, far too young in this day and age, but it's also disappointing that Jane Jones or Simon Smith who live in the neighbourhood also died at 69.

Celebrities are just people who have been lucky, talented or both, that's all. I'm sure you're important in your job as well. They don't, or shouldn't affect your daily life, there are more important and significant people in your life to be that.


My all means live for today, but you'll be making a huge mistake if you don't live for tomorrow as well........and some person who you've never met, or doesn't know you from Adam shouldn't influence you.

You can grieve for times in the past that you used to enjoy. And people like to reminisce about those times and now’s as good a time to do that and pay respect to the person who provided the joy.

 

[Slipper One]

Strange thing to say.
No, nobody knew him personally, but its someone who many may have listened to on a daily basis.

Still a person, and a father. Just scroll on

Not strange at all.

69 year old man dies who people never personally knew and as a result they are considering substantial lifestyle changes?

Seriously?

Sure it's disappointing, especially if you've been listening to him over the years and 69 is far too young, but that's really it. I can totally understand people grieving over a family member, a friend or their dog, but a celebrity/personality?

Each to their own I suppose.

 

[Slipper One]

You can grieve for times in the past that you used to enjoy. And people like to reminisce about those times and now’s as good a time to do that and pay respect to the person who provided the joy.

I look at things differently I suppose Citizen of Legoland, to me the past is the past.

Sure, like you I can reminisce at times, but not grieve or reminisce too deeply, I can't change anything that's happened.

For instance, I'll reminisce about my best mate who was killed many, many years ago when he was 17. He's missed out on some fun, missed out on a family, all those things, but I don't grieve. When I'm back in May, I'll go to his grave and clean the leaves and crap off his granite marker, because nobody else does, but that's it.

A celebrity is a celebrity, that's all.

 

[RayCTID]

I am just about old enough to remember his shows although I never attended any of Radio One's Roadshows. 69 years no age to go whether he is a celebrity or not.

 

[Gabriel]

Haven’t seen much mention of it in regards his career, but one thing I do remember about him in the later 1980s was him being one of the first to bang the ‘environmental’ drum.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

I look at things differently I suppose Citizen of Legoland, to me the past is the past.

Sure, like you I can reminisce at times, but not grieve or reminisce too deeply, I can't change anything that's happened.

For instance, I'll reminisce about my best mate who was killed many, many years ago when he was 17. He's missed out on some fun, missed out on a family, all those things, but I don't grieve. When I'm back in May, I'll go to his grave and clean the leaves and crap off his granite marker, because nobody else does, but that's it.

A celebrity is a celebrity, that's all.

I do understand it, there’s actually a condition that people can suffer from where they obsess over the past and struggle to move on as a result, even over something simple like a bad decision made decades earlier. I think in this case though it’s not really grieving unless there’s a personal connection, just stories about their experiences of listening to his show, especially since it’s linked to music. I miss plenty of musicians who are no longer with us. And then there’s all those ex City players …

 

[marco]

what a shock,used to tune in to his afternoon shows Mr angry and all that

 

[A57 the snake]

Not strange at all.

69 year old man dies who people never personally knew and as a result they are considering substantial lifestyle changes?

Seriously?

Sure it's disappointing, especially if you've been listening to him over the years and 69 is far too young, but that's really it. I can totally understand people grieving over a family member, a friend or their dog, but a celebrity/personality?

Each to their own I suppose.

I don’t think it’s so much grieving mate , it’s just remembering someone who’s provided quite a few of us of happy memories and reminiscing of us growing up in happy times . There’s no harm in that pal , can we not just live and let live. People are looking at their own surroundings and taking stock that’s all it is.

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

I was quite saddened to hear he's died, his radio shows in the 80s were the soundtrack of many an afternoon at the weekend. At the time, I don't remember anyone sounding like him and he was quite ground-breaking at the time I believe (I was only an early teen) and remember plenty of adults liking his shows.

I do think that there's some people who have the ability to be on the TV/radio/CD/LP whatever and have that ability to speak to 30 million people, but you think they are talking just to you. They make it seem so simple, so easy and almost so matter-of-fact that you think anyone can do it, but it's far harder than it looks. I think Steve Wright had that ability.

RIP Steve and thanks for the memories.

 

[Vienna_70]

At the time, I enjoyed listening to him but wonder if he really was genuinely ‘innovative’, or simply fortunate enough to have an American wife and access to American culture at a time when it didn’t cross the Atlantic as quickly as today. That said, for nearly half a century he proved himself an outstanding radio communicator, and whenever I read the Daily Mail letters page, I only ever hear the voice of Mr Angry.

You might have a point, but to those of us, who had very little exposure to American pop culture, it was very definitely innovative and like nothing we had ever heard on the radio previously.

I clearly remember talking to mates about what we’d heard.