By Associated Press’s Christine Fernando and Cory Williams
Chicago (AP) Outside of Chicago’s storied Wrigley Field, Kevin Huigens wipes away emotions as he looks at the statue of Cubs star Ryne Sandberg. The base and the ground below are covered in flowers, Cubs caps, American flags, and, of course, baseballs.
“I had faith in him,” Huigens, 68, of Berwyn, said. He added fun to being a Cubs fan.
Sandberg passed away on Monday from cancer.
Wearing a Cubs jersey and cap, Jessie Hill, 44, stated, “But even though he’s not physically here, he’s here in spirit, and he’s going to lift up our Cubs.”
Sandberg and other beloved personalities passed away last month, and social media is flooded with expressions of love, regret, and sadness.
On July 20, 54-year-old Malcolm Warner, star of The Cosby Show, drowned in Costa Rica. Legendary heavy metal and reality show icon Ozzy Osbourne passed away two days later at the age of 76 from Parkinson’s disease.Chuck Mangione, a jazz musician, passed away in his sleep on July 22 at the age of 84. Then, following a heart arrest on Thursday, former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan—real name Terry Bollea—was declared dead at a hospital. He was seventy-one.
According to Robert Thompson, a professor of television and modern culture at Syracuse University, when celebrities die quickly after one another, it serves as a reminder of their own mortality, if nothing else.
Thompson, 65, stated that those who played a significant role in the culture of the 1980s are reaching the age at which biology rules. It gains much more strength when it occurs in these large portions.
As television’s popularity skyrocketed in the 1980s, millions of people were introduced to Hogan, Warner, and Sandberg. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Mangione’s trumpet and fl gelhorn were commonplace on smooth jazz radio stations.
From the 1970s, when his band Black Sabbath ruled the heavy metal world, to the 2000s, when his family, The Osbournes, dominated reality TV, Osbourne’s career spanned several decades.
The bright side of celebrities is that, because we can still watch their TV shows or listen to their music after they pass away, they remain as relevant to us as they were before Thompson said.
“It’s sad and you grieve with your family when you lose a grandparent or an uncle,” he added. However, it’s a private matter. You may share the loss of a celebrity’s passing with everyone.
According to 59-year-old Robert Livernois, he was raised as an Osbourne enthusiast. He resides in Birmingham, a posh metropolis in suburban Detroit rather than the rough English Midlands city where Ozzy was born and reared.
His music was fantastic. A radio show host named Livernois stated, “I never subscribed to any of the theatrics.” At a live performance, Osbourne famously chewed off a bat’s head.
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Forty-year-old Robert West creates material for San Antonio’s The Wrestling Shop. He claimed that when Osbourne and Hogan passed away, he lost two icons in a matter of days.
He received a text from a buddy informing him of Hogan’s passing.
West remarked, “It feels like the last remnants of my youth are almost gone.” He was, I believe, a part of everyone’s life.
Like Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley in music, Hogan was a trailblazer in the entertainment and wrestling industries, West continued.
Indigo Watts, a 23-year-old heavy metal and Black Sabbath enthusiast, was working at Flipside Records, a store in Berkley, just north of Detroit, when he found out about the death of his hero.
Before leaving, a man asked if anyone had heard anything about Ozzy. “Watts said.” My heart just fell when he said it.
He claimed that the latest deaths of well-known people make him think of the terrible time in 2016 when Prince and David Bowie passed away.
Watts stated, “That hit me like a truck, even though I was still young.” You make a difference in the world when you pass away as a star.
