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Another rave review has been published in the December 2019 issue of Genii, The Conjurors’ Magazine. Jeff and Burt will be appearing, talking and signing in a special evening at the Magic Castle, the magicians’ mecca in Hollywood, in February 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1577039197858-W80JFCV3ESLYVO5WQO23/SWGO+UGLY+THNGS+BOX.png BUY THE BOOK! Acclaimed rock ’n’ roll magazine Ugly Things features a review of The Show Won’t Go On and an interview with coauthor Burt Kearns in its Winter 2019 issue. It’s one of many accolades coming in as publications and critics add The Show Won’t Go On to their year-end best-of lists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1579226481948-7X2G8TRY0UWHTUG5IX9K/SWGO+MONTREAL+TIMES+BEST+of+2019+011520.png BUY THE BOOK! 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The legendary Michael Feinstein. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1592841305273-FAQ42M04H111XUP64SO0/Screen+Shot+2020-06-21+at+10.08.17+PM.png BUY THE BOOK! 21 JUNE 2020: The Show Won’t Go On promotion continues, as the world-famous Magic Castle in Hollywood invites Jeff and Burt back for a special, hour-long interactive discussion. 29 JUNE 2020: Jeff & Burt astound Torie Clarke and crew in Washington, DC, with their incredible stories on the Chatter On Books podcast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1630078146608-FO8O541PQBRXE5ZF430C/Screen+Shot+2021-08-27+at+8.27.47+AM.png BUY THE BOOK! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1576004760451-HRDNX1PHZ2FZR0MOPM0C/SWGO+PLAYBILL+PICK++120819.jpg BUY THE BOOK! PLAYBILL, the magazine for theatregoers, has named The Show Won’t Go On as one of 2019’s “best of written work related to the theatre.” …while Jeff & Burt’s appearance at STORIES BOOKS & CAFE in Los Angeles is now a special episode on Steven Cohen and Sasha Feiler’s SHUT UP I LOVE IT podcast! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/85b78bdf-9216-4bef-981e-18ee5ae76f07/Maltin+TSWGO.png BUY THE BOOK! Film critic, historian, and author LEONARD MALTIN singled out The Show Won’t Go On — and Jeff and Burt as “the only ones… to research every urban legend surrounding this topic and separate fact from fiction.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1588692708510-Y3IEBLTVBU1HLV2S4X7R/SWGO+TOP10+LOCKDOWN+BWY+WORLD+050320.png BUY THE BOOK! MAY 2020: Broadway World chooses The Show Won’t Go On as a Top 10 lockdown read. APRIL 2020: Jeff & Burt tell amazing stories on Rick Lertzman’s “The Life & Times of Hollywood” podcast. APRIL 2020: Jeff & Burt trade wild but true tales with Boston legend on “On Mic with Jordan Rich.” https://theshowwontgoon.com/media daily 0.75 2024-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1565021983103-77SO0IO2641GOOICQ21D/The+Show+Won%27t+Go+On+by+Jeff+Abraham+and+Burt+Kearns+cover.jpg FEATURES & REVIEWS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1591026052305-CNHI78J8BVXNMJNOS1LO/THESHOWWONTGOON+NY+DAILY+NEWS+082519.png FEATURES & REVIEWS New York Daily News, 25 August 2019 https://theshowwontgoon.com/recent-deaths-of-performers-onstage daily 0.75 2025-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1570984450286-A17KYWF355MCVBSNOHLD/72486682_1830166757128618_3190233576402583552_n.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 12 OCTOBER 2019: GERRY McGEE, former lead guitarist for The Ventures, died after falling into a coma following a heart attack onstage while on a solo tour of Japan. He was eighty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/74abb4aa-a940-432a-ba3a-f77b25db34d4/Screenshot+2024-01-30+at+12.54.10%E2%80%AFPM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 28 JANUARY 2024: At the Pantnagar Poetry Festival in India, SUBHASH CHATURVEDI recited, “There is a time limit...The stage is a punishment, I will not miss the opportunity,” stuttered and dropped. He was sixty-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1569090013920-YTEN0G8AM48W61WN5A37/KUNDAN%2BLAL%2Bramleela%2B091719.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 17 SEPTEMBER 2019: Actor KUNDAN LAL died shortly after his character Dasharatha’s death scene in a Ramleela play in Juhnjuhnu, India. His brother died in a similar fashion, in the same role, several years earlier. Lal was sixty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/693fb584-5248-4ead-84eb-fd90ff3a5982/Jean+Pormanove.png RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 18 AUGUST 2025: French livestream star JEAN PORMANOVE died during a twelve-day live video stream on the Kick platforn, during which he endured violence and humiliation. He was forty-six. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/2640d409-d445-4898-a173-c50b1ee2baf2/JUAN+CARLOS+FORMELL.JPG RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 26 MAY 2023: JUAN CARLOS FORMELL, bassist for the Cuban orchestra Los Van Van, collapsed from a heart attack while performing at the Lehman Center in New York City. He was fifty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1600962452538-YUI5HNZSKJTH9WSLHZKA/CHEN%252BPEIWEN%252B111719.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 17 NOVEMBER 2019: CHEN PEIWEN, chairman of a health company, collapsed from a heart attack in Zhangzhou, China, while giving a speech on longevity. He was sixty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/450948d9-4d85-4996-b050-8c68ba4041ae/TSWGO+AYERS+SASAKI+071324.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 13 JULY 2024: Brazilian rocker AYERS SASAKI was playing a hotel in Silanipolis when a soaking wet fan jumped onstage and hugged him, causing a cable to deliver an eletrical charge. He was thirty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563981175964-G881B03I9T0P9HNEEBF9/1563691647-mango_manju.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 19 JULY 2019: Standup comedian MANJUNATH NAIDU had a heart attack onstage at the Signature Hotel in Al Barsha, Dubai. He’d been talking about his anxiety; the audience thought he was acting out a scene. He was thirty-six. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1582477725606-FANOI2RS9P3EZ6799BUW/87489927_1012283522477258_2103255715463299072_n.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 22 FEBRUARY 2020: Daredevil and flat earth conspiracy theorist “MAD MIKE” HUGHES crashed his steam-powered rocket in Barstow, California, while filming a segment for the Science Channel series, Homemade Astronauts. He was sixty-four. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/b9870018-e32e-408e-87d8-52e177c3d295/singaporesijavi.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 12 OCTOBER 2024: ASOKAN MUNIYANDY AKA “SINGAPORE SIVAJI” for his impersonations of Tamil screen legend Sivaji Ganesan, collapsed in Singapore during a Sivaji lip-synching show. He was sixty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1600962404845-IXXGD431J95D8FFAEWPD/fritzvonweizsacker.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 19 NOVEMBER 2019: DR. FRITZ von WEIZSACKER, son of a former German president, was delivering a medical lecture when a man jumped onstage and stabbed him in the neck. He was fifty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/e439f037-dc8d-400a-bf62-2db0d23fc387/Screenshot+2025-10-02+at+22.10.34.png RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 1 OCTOBER 2025: Climbing influencer BALIN MILLER fell 2400 feet while livestreaming a climb on Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan rock formation. He was twenty-three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/5662cdbf-50e9-44f6-90f1-c5274e370a1f/310899476_529223595874699_462434573666997107_n.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 2 OCTOBER 2022: The artist PATIRAM was in the role of Ravan during Durga Puja festivities in Uttar Pradesh, India when he complained of chest pains, clutched his chest and collapsed. He was sixty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1600962223736-1PDHO5X6JDKS22SJPS8E/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-09-22%252Bat%252B9.03.41%252BAM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 2 SEPTEMBER 2020: PAOLA DE SIMONE, world history professor at Universidad Argentina de la Empresa in Buenos Aires, collapsed during a Zoom lecture. She’d had COVID-19 symptoms. She was forty-six. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/8dbe66c8-15b2-4db1-a773-0befccbdd0ac/KERALI+WHEELCHAIR.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 22 FEBRUARY 2023: Singer ABDUL KABEER, a member of the All Kerala Wheelchair RIghts Federation, collapsed on his three-wheel scooter during a show in Kodungallur, India. He was forty-two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/6a21d07b-cce1-49d2-9023-62e1d4096f6a/son-dakika-metin-arolat-hayatini-kaybetti.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 21 SEPTEMBER 2024: Singer and filmmaker METIN AROLAT felt numbness and pain in his hand before stepping onstage in Instabul, Turkey. He carried on performing before collapsing. He was fifty-two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/3d0cfb05-549d-453e-a6a0-067783f02863/Screen+Shot+2022-08-08+at+10.08.00+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 7 AUGUST 2022: RYAN FELLOWS, star of the Discovery television series, Street Outlaws: Fastest In America, lost control of his car while racing for the series outside Las Vegas. He was forty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/14ec5df5-c466-4441-8740-8c3a6fc878aa/Screen+Shot+2021-12-11+at+7.46.06+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 5 FEBRUARY 2021: TIMOTHY WILKS was wielding a butcher knife in a parking lot in Nashville, filming a robbery “prank” for a YouTube channel, when a man shot him. He was twenty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/28bf49c0-c2a9-4394-b6d0-526862a09ca1/IMG_6610.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 6 AUGUST 2023: Kathakali dancer RAGHUNATH MAHIPAL collapsed while performing at the Maruthorvattom Dhanwantari Temple in Alappuzha, southern India. He was twenty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/54ce269a-6693-4a1e-b9c5-2f28d17e827e/50831953-10230857-Footage_shared_online_shows_some_of_the_dancing_grannies_just_se-a-8_1637674723071.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 21 NOVEMBER 2021: Milwaukee Dancing Grannies VIRGINIA SORENSON, 79, LeANNA OWEN, 71 & TAMARA DURAND, 52, were struck by an SUV that tore through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563400184857-FXBK09ETN09J78XKG30X/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-07-17%2Bat%2B2.41.03%2BPM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 11 APRIL 2019: Standup comedian IAN COGNITO sat down and died onstage at the Atic Bar's Lone Wolf Comedy Club in Bicester, England, shortly after joking about having a stroke "and waking up speaking Welsh.” He was sixty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/f46ced67-f678-440b-afc1-427b6a3e3b82/The+Show+Wont+Go+On+cover+with+borders.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out THE SHOW WON’T GO ON: THE MOST SHOCKING, BIZARRE, AND HISTORIC DEATHS OF PERFORMERS ONSTAGE goes where no other has gone before; a highly-entertaining and thought-provoking work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1577916316902-49DVQ327JOY9PYNEYO3M/The%2BShow%2BWont%2BGo%2BOn%2Bcover%2Bwith%2Bborders.jpg RECENT PASSINGS CLICK THE COVER TO ORDER THE SHOW WON’T GO ON! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1579452129972-RBG507TYYHKKB16CF27F/82400491_3195648630448785_5352980752193552384_n.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 18 JANUARY 2020: Singer-songwriter DAVID OLNEY, onstage with Amy Rigby and Scott Miller at the 30A Songwriter Festival in South Walton, Florida, stopped in the middle of his third song, apologized, and closed his eyes. He was seventy-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/bba99ff3-10b5-40ea-ad9a-296f8a54b4cf/Screen+Shot+2022-10-03+at+8.48.08+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 1 OCTOBER 2022: RAM SWAROOP was playing the role of Hanuman in a Ramlila in Salempur village in Uttar Pradesh, India when, soon after his tail was set on fire, he suffered a heart attack. He was fifty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/e4bd5e73-0d23-461d-9e80-6971774255ec/IMG_5862.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 19 NOVEMBER 2020: MICHAEL PAREDES, a contestant on the TBS game show Wipeout, the day after he collapsed on set and suffered cardiac arrest after completing an obstacle course challenge. He was thirty-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/6dcfaf1b-aacc-43ff-ad54-5fe38eac85f6/MIKABEN+101522.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 15 OCTOBER 2022: Haitian singer MICHAEL BENJAMIN, better known as MIKABEN, was performing in Paris with the konpa band CaRiMi when he collapsed from an apparent heart attack.. He was forty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1a5528c5-82f0-4668-ac1a-e5589776c6d2/Screen+Shot+2021-07-12+at+7.48.29+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 8 JULY 2021: ZERAIL DIJON RIVERA, the rapper known as INDIAN RED BOY, was in his car in Hawthorne, California, talking on Instagram Live when he was shot on camera. He was twenty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/656d2ca3-2783-42ef-b90a-a9dfad8a55be/paranita+jain.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 8 FEBRUARY 2025: PARINITA JAIN was dancing onstage to the Bollywood song 'lehra ke balkha ke’ at a wedding function in Vidisha, India, when she suffered cardiac arrest. She was twenty-three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/d1062814-3dc0-499f-b56f-c01e141c2ec9/Screen+Shot+2023-05-13+at+10.10.43+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 10 MAY 2023: DILIP RAUTKA was performing a very vigorous dance onstage at a wedding in Chhattisgarh, India, when he sat down, smiled at the crowd, touched his mouth and fell back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1577903512335-WHUSVS9QLN3UBEK7B68G/p06y1yhq.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 14 JANUARY 2019: PAWEL ADAMOWICZ, mayor of Gdansk, Poland, was stabbed to death by a mentally disturbed man during the finale of a children’s hospital charity event. He was fifty-three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/432bcab2-9d50-4d8a-b07f-e2e343eb60e7/dj+johnny+walker.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 5 NOVEMBER 2023: Filipino radio journalist JUAN JUMALON, aka DJ JOHNNY WALKER, was shot in the face by a man who entered the booth during a live radio and Facebook broadcast. He was fifty-seven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/a49b6e45-dd6d-45bb-8166-bb718f51956d/rylo+huncho.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 16 MAY 2024: Rapper and social media personality RYLO HUNCHO accidentally shot himself in the head while livestreaming on Instagram from his home in Suffolk, Virginia. He was seventeen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/b2f417c6-e073-44f3-80c1-81d21a4720fd/rubbyperez.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 8 APRIL 2025: Merengue singer RUBBY PÉREZ was performing onstage at the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo when the roof collapsed, killing dozens. He was sixty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1600962345123-QR1DT4JGPWH9ECGE9V3Y/jeremiahdickey.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 4 FEBRUARY 2020: JEREMIAH DICKEY was in a parked car in Brooklyn, NY, on Facebook Live, rapping along to 30 by Blizzy Banks, when he was shot in the head. He was nineteen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/8815265c-c435-4556-9e2c-fc447db51200/LucasGarcia-86f008c9fdc24937a80ab4a1fb815054.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 18 APRIL 2025: Respected Argentinian actor LUCAS GARCIA began feeling ill about thirty minutes into a performance of the play 1580 – Rebelión de los 7 Jefes in Santa Fe. He was sixty-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1607879040499-MN7XAWEA5IYMW9XOWVYQ/sudhakar.png RECENT PASSINGS 24 SEPTEMBER 2020: Indian actor ROCKLINE SUDHAKAR, famous for playing comic, villain and father roles, collapsed from cardiac arrest on the set of the Kannada film, Sugarless. Recently recovered from COVID-19, he was sixty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/992abb6b-a977-4556-b831-a6a8e2ed809d/Screen+Shot+2022-10-03+at+8.52.59+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 2 OCTOBER 2022: ANDRÉS PANCHO, singer for the Antihéroes Rock Band, suffered a heart attack on stage while performing at a private event at the Velá de San Miguel in Seville, Spain. He was fifty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/e528ea99-e10c-4a0a-b268-af01ba30c29f/Screen+Shot+2021-11-02+at+7.13.14+PM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 14 OCTOBER 2021: Actor RAJENDRA SINGH suffered a heart attack onstage in Hasanpur, India, while playing Lord Ram’s father, King Dashrath, in a Ramlila. He was sixty-two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1633817277318-0MJDMOP8450YDG5HEPDX/Screen+Shot+2021-10-09+at+3.07.43+PM.png RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 30 JULY 2021: Actor and former soap opera star JAY PICKETT was sitting atop a horse on the set of the movie Treasure Valley in Idaho, ready to shoot a scene in which he ropes a steer. He was sixty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1567698826928-91Z4GYB6I7TLFDEI2FPS/jerry%2Bbajjodi%2B090319.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 3 SEPTEMBER 2019: Popular Indian singer and composer JERRY BAJJODI suffered a heart attack while performing at a Ganeshotsava celebration in Bejai. Video of his fall from the stage quickly went viral. He was fifty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/5a5e3992-436a-4588-b049-36a54c844204/lewis%2Bstevenson.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 13 OCTOBER 2024: British daredevil and social media influencer LEWIS STEVENSON fell 630 feet from the Castila-LaMancha bridge in Spain while filming his climb for social media. He was twenty-six. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/f88bedba-b4f6-4ae8-b522-df080ce2fdb0/Screenshot%2B2025-05-05%2Bat%2B7.58.44%E2%80%AFPM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 28 APRIL 2025: Popular Jamaican TikTok influencer JABARI JOHNSON, aka BABA SKENG, was livestreaming with another creator when he was shot by a masked gunman. He was twenty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/cbd1cbff-85aa-4e81-bc63-749f085ea2ce/FATMAN+SCOOP+083024.png RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 30 AUGUST 2024: Rapper FATMAN SCOOP urged the crowd to “make some noise” before dropping the mic and collapsing before a crowd at Town Center Park in Hamden. Connecticut. He was fifty-three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/7eb2d643-38d8-45e7-855a-635970c656ab/polina+menshikh.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 19 NOVEMBER 2023: Actress POLINA MENSHIKH was performing at a concert for Russian soldiers in the Moscow-occupied Donetesk region of Ukraine when a Ukrainian missile struck. She was forty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/e21b194a-c879-4ebc-af05-aa6e50019a0f/pedro+henrique.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 13 DECEMBER 2023: Brazilian gospel singer PEDRO HENRIQUE was urging the crowd to sing along when he collapsed during a live-streamed performance in Feira de Santana, Bahia. He was thirty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/3e01517e-174e-44f6-817a-f9b22b77f618/tim-gough.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 24 OCTOBER 2022: British radio presenter TIM GOUGH was about an hour into the breakfast show on GenX Radio when the song he was playing stopped midway through. He was fifty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/fc86a5c1-d984-4006-bd21-cb60d43e8bd2/SHOW+WONT+GO+ON+COVER+DISPLAY.png RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out THE SHOW WON’T GO ON: THE MOST SHOCKING, BIZARRE, ND HISTORIC DEATHS OF PERFORMERS ONSTAGE by Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/b33870e8-d105-4d25-8e84-d9bd42ee080b/afcd8ee5-bd7e-43d9-9835-7c77c9b93882_750x422.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 5 JULY 2021: RANDY CHANDLER was playing guitar with the Les Masters Band when he collapsed after the third song during a Battle of the Bands in Louisville, Kentucky. He was fifty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1565289852840-ELHEVY40WHCR62MAPS66/RUBEN+CARBONELL RECENT PASSINGS 7 AUGUST 2019: Daredevil BASE jumper RUBEN CARBONELL was recording for his YouTube channel at one a.m.when he threw himself off a 150-foot chimney in Alicante, Spain. His parachute did not open. He was twenty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/899a06d3-fda9-45d8-bfe2-64856372936d/Screenshot+2023-12-27+at+9.21.42%E2%80%AFAM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 14 DECEMBER 2023: In a live-streamed parliament speech, Turkish politician HASAN BITMETZ said Israel “will not escape the wrath of Allah”; adding “I salute you all,” before his head hit the floor. He was fifty-four. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/f7ef3c8a-57d9-4f21-a1fa-d535c4d97ed8/Screen+Shot+2023-03-12+at+9.10.56+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 11 MARCH 2023: South African rapper COSTA TITCH collapsed onstage at the Ultra Music Festival at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg. He got up, finished the song; fell again. He was twenty-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1607879192205-K2NALW3S01UTDERHPP0Q/34055940-8810735-image-a-11_1601995490676.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 2 OCTOBER 2020: ARELEINE MARTINEZ of Chihuahua, Mexico was accidentally shot in the head while filming a “behind the scenes” TikTok video in which she and ten friends staged her kidnapping. She was twenty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1577916046358-F9I8Q4F9QMXE55NEZO2Q/Juliano%2BCezar%2B123119.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 31 DECEMBER 2019: Brazilian country music star and Latin Grammy nominee JULIANO CEZAR died after collapsing onstage of a heart attack, midsong, in the city of Uniflor. He was fifty-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/8b403f45-4caf-4ce4-8b3e-7660d91d099d/ALEJANDRO+MEERAPFEL.JPG RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 22 SEPTEMBER 2023: Argentine baritone ALEJANDRO MEERAPFEL suffered a heart attack while performing the oratorio “Dono della Vita Eterna” at the Ambronay Festival in France. He was fifty-four. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/b57013e2-7263-4879-9a19-e70bcf47f5c2/annapolly.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 23 JANUARY 2025: OnlyFans model ANNA BEATRIZ PEREIRA ALVES, aka ANNA POLLY, fell from a hotel balcony in Nova Iguacu, Brazil while filming content, a sex scene, with two men. She was twenty-seven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1574873039200-YZ1VNRKEVO18ZT5DW7K6/gettyimages-175711911_1.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 27 NOVEMBER 2019: Actor and model GODFREY GAO suffered a heart attack while competing on the Chinese sports reality show Chase On. His last words were, “I can’t carry on!” He was thirty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/058ce3e8-b54f-47f0-9a78-a62491a26c91/airi+soto.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 11 MARCH 2025: Japanese online influencer AIRI SATO was stabbed by a man described as a follower with a grudge, while she stood livestreaming on a busy Tokyo street. She was twenty-two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563295005512-NW2JZURERJM94A1E1FTX/ELMER%252BHOPPER%252B1.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 5 MAY 2019: ELMER HOPPER, a former lead singer for The Platters (1974-1995), was pronounced dead hours after collapsing onstage at the Cicada Club in Los Angeles. He had just sung ’Twilight Time.’ Hopper was seventy-six. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1580227048393-ILVMG8CS54JV08OOWK4A/bumpa_2.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 23 JANUARY 2020: Popular Dancehall dancer ROXANNE “BUMPA” EVANS broke her neck when another dancer fell on her head during a risky, acrobatic routine at a competition in Lucea, Jamaica. She was twenty-seven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/ebeffc54-038c-406d-b4b1-1ecfd3602ea9/guru-750x430.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 9 JUNE 2023: Guru SRI GANESAN collapsed while lighting a lamp onstage after a dance performance but before receiving an award at a festival in Bhubaneswar, India. He was about sixty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1566832244912-PD147J69MO17HM7STB3R/TIM%2BCURRIE%2B082419.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 24 AUGUST 2019: TIM CURRIE, drummer and leader of Tim Currie’s Motown Review Band, had a heart attack while performing on the Green in Norwalk, Connecticut. He also led 60s tribute group, Tumblin’ Dice Band. He was sixty-six. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/173ce74e-c42e-4101-8fb0-021e2647bf35/Screen+Shot+2022-09-15+at+8.47.02+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out SEPTEMBER 2022: GANESH GUPTA was dancing as the goddess Ma Parvati during a Ganesh Puja wedding ceremiony in Kothe Sainiya, India, when he suffered a heart attack and collapsed. He was twenty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/76709cd4-79d2-437d-9d05-ca48e442d040/Screen+Shot+2021-12-21+at+4.58.59+PM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 20 DECEMBER 2021: QUINCY DAVIS, Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s popular DJ THRILLER, was on the second deck of a float in a Christmas parade when he hit his head on a tree and fell. He was thirty-six. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/22f9dbb6-80c0-432d-9fdf-1ef7d90abac1/Screen+Shot+2023-06-18+at+9.32.57+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 18 JUNE 2023: Pioneering Houston rapper BIG POKEY, microphone in hand, collapsed during an appearance at the Pour 09 Bar in Beaumont, Texas. Born Milton Powell, he was forty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563295522145-TKRB8R3497ZMC383QVWP/SILVERKING.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 11 MAY 2019: Actor & professional wrestler CESAR BARRON, aka SILVER KING, suffered a heart attack and died in the ring during The Greatest Show of Lucha Libre at the Camden Roundhouse in London. He was fifty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/afd5a655-55a9-4f72-b290-ed5f50043f6b/Screenshot+2024-01-21+at+8.10.40%E2%80%AFAM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 18 JANUARY 2024: In a grand entrance to a company party in Hyderabad, India, Illinois tech CEO SANJAY SHAH was descending to the stage in an iron cage— when the cable snapped. He was fifty-six. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1607879275423-VF9TRNO7HC9Z8JP8XP1Q/grigoryeva.png RECENT PASSINGS 2 DECEMBER 2020: VALENTINA 'VALYA' GRIGORYEVA was forced onto an outdoor balcony in subzero temperature as a stunt during her YouTuber boyfriend’s livestream show in Ivanovka, Russia. She was pregnant and twenty-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1574615780659-Y3XEBRGDBLS1VUTJN716/IMG_8408.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 23 NOVEMBER 2019: Juno Award-winning musician GERRY ATWELL died after collapsing from a heart attack at his keyboard, onstage with Hit Boss at the Pony Corral in Winnipeg, Canada. He was sixty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/e8e054a4-b0b9-470f-b5b6-ddd75f71284e/ben+ramaker.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 2 NOVEMBER 2023: Dutch actor BEN RAMAKER had finished filming most of his scenes when he was stricken on the set of Elixir, an eight-episode television series about Big Pharma. He was sixty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/6778de9e-9404-4230-a090-fca51ce38957/Screen+Shot+2021-07-25+at+8.46.08+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 20 JULY 2021: XIAO QIUMEI, a crane operator and social media influencer, was live-streaming from a crane cabin in Quzho, China, when she fell 160 feet with camera in her hand. She was twenty-three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/fd48e68d-7e5b-4921-b912-fe941100cf59/TSWGO+ERIC+SMASHING+BURRITOS+110422.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 4 NOVEMBER 2022: ERIC COUGRAND, drummer for the French blues band Smashing Burritos, collapsed at his kit after perfoming a solo at the Café de la Terrasse in Marseillette. 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She was thirty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/c09690cc-81dc-424c-9c0e-4e3f6ccf6877/sun+moumou.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 15 APRIL 2023: Acrobat SUN MOUMOU lost her grip and fell thirty feet to a hard stage during an aerial performance with her husband in Hougao, China. She’d refused to wear a safety line. Sun was thirty-seven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/b0b985f5-4e22-4ed3-96dd-e8c2216ea0e0/finleys.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 8 JUNE 2025: YouTube content creators RODNEY & TANISHA FINLEY were livestreaming on the Las Vegas Strip when they were shot by a rival streamer. 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She was twenty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/df54bc00-55fb-40e0-aa48-5ab8df123209/grandfather+frost.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 21 DECEMBER 2023: A man dressed as Grandfather Frost - the Russian Santa Claus - fell 24 stories while attempting to scale down an apartment building to meet and greet children waiting by a Christmas tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1566833961769-KX6K1CDHNMVTUUYXHXQ2/MASON+SWEARINGEN RECENT PASSINGS 23 AUGUST 2019: MASON SWEARINGEN, singer and bassist of Chicago tribute band Beginnings, suffered a fatal heart attack onstage during a concert at Newbridge Road Park in Bellmore, L.I., N.Y. He was fifty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/17ae370c-75ca-44f1-ac2f-296b0064ce1c/Screen+Shot+2022-06-04+at+4.00.19+PM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 4 JUNE 2022: Playback singer EDAVA BASHEER was onstage in Kerala, India, when he collapsed, dramatically, after singing the Hindi song, ‘Mano ho thum.’ He was seventy-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1572470783582-WKEGRN95HMLPCC549ZJ1/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-10-30%2Bat%2B2.24.03%2BPM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 25 JANUARY 2019: DOUG “DJ” JAMES, drummer for the Rockin’ Hollywoods, slumped over his drum kit, drumsticks clutched in hands, before the band’s third set at Mancini’s Char House in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was sixty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/a99c0cee-6b5b-47f6-a0f7-8a5477b1870d/SEOUL+AMBROSE+*SWGO+PASSION+PLAY+NEKEDE+NIGERIA+041522.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 15 APRIL 2022: SUEL AMBROSE, a seminarian at Claratian University of Nigeria in Nekede, collapsed while playing St. Peter in an Easter Passion Play on Good Friday. He was twenty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/6b203d3c-07bc-41dd-8781-94cc0ac98bd7/AA1mUZyv.img.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 12 JANUARY 2024: Agriculture expert DR. ANI S DAS collapasd from an apparent heart attack on live television during a discussion on the Krishi Darshan show in Karala, India. He was fifty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/7c2286db-2153-4f49-a284-f50af17b47d9/SHOW+WONT+GO+ON+COVER+DISPLAY.png RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out THE SHOW WON’T GO ON is the perfect gift for holidays — or any time — for that show business fanatic in your family! Now on sale — in many formats— discounted — at AMAZON.COM! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/71efa391-63d0-4c84-87e9-efb22a7894a5/SHOW+WONT+GO+ON+AUDIO+BOOK+COVER.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out Hear the unvbelieveable but true tales on THE SHOW WON’T GO ON audiobook and 8 hour, 17 minute audio CD, narrated by Michael Butler Murray, available at Amazon.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563981266690-GKQOEQ0FSBFWNWDLXIHF/0_Alf-Nguyen.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 13 JULY 2019: Popular DJ ALF NGUYEN suffered cardiac arrest while performing at the Tokyo Sing Song Club in Sydney, Australia. An autopsy revealed he was in advanced stages of ischemic heart disease. He was forty-two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1600962305023-EB7KA5KDMYIUHJVN31E8/revfatherjude.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 30 AUGUST 2020: REV. FATHER JUDE, spiritual director of the Catholic Men Association in Douala, Cameroon, was wearing a coronavirus mask and preaching a homily when he fell back from the pulpit of his church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/86d0dd1f-6c3e-47a1-9d42-ae94ae7d216e/nesaku.jpg.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 12 MAY 2024: Popular TikToker NESAKU was smoking a cigarette and livestreaming outside his home in a slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when he was shot four times by “hitmen,” reportedly “settling a score.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/0b482c47-9216-4aa5-b5e4-03e594dcaaa0/Screenshot+2025-05-15+at+8.30.56%E2%80%AFAM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 13 MAY 2025: Mexican beauty influencer VALERIA MARQUEZ was shot by a masked man while livestreaming on TIkTok from a beauty salon in Jalisco. She was twenty-three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/b62a81bf-7821-4e22-ae60-acd08218940c/468664680_1114974717299581_4297553062478080056_n.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 24 NOVEMBER 2024: Actor JULIEN ARNOLD collapsed while playing Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, Canada. Arnold, who also played Marley in the show, was sixty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/bb7d13f9-40e3-48a2-bb64-350f649b710e/AA1396rF.img.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 14 OCTOBER 2022: High school senior DANIEL MOSHI passed out while singing a solo at the All State Honors Show Choir at Naperville North High School in Illinois.. He was seventeen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563985224692-UJCZ7CGPXI5KBR528YKO/SUN%2BVLOGGER%2B072019.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 20 JULY 2019: Chinese video blogger SUN collapsed and died in his flat during a live-stream session in which he ate live poisonous geckos and centipedes. He used a spinning wheel to determine what he ate. He was thirty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/24539d29-5283-4716-9978-1c2613747877/andrej-1.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 16 MARCH 2025: ANDREJ GJORGIESKI, founder and a singer in the hip-hop group DNK, and six backing musicians were among fifty-nine killed in a nightclub fire in Kocani, North Macedonia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/a3869c5f-f208-4707-ad09-e8c2f42250bc/Screen+Shot+2021-11-08+at+8.40.55+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 5 NOVEMBER 2021: RAMAZAN GUNAY, one of the most popular names in Rumelia music, had a heart attack onstage in Zeytinburnu, Turkey, during a duet of the song “Oh Doctor.” He was seventy-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/b84197e6-db37-41d2-8d86-7603729083ea/Screen+Shot+2022-09-15+at+3.42.18+PM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 12 SEPTEMBER 2022: Drag artist VALENCIA PRIME, “Philadelphia’s plus-size dancing diva,” collapsed during a performance at the Tabu Lounge and Sports Bar. The transgender woman was twenty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1591668672871-5PATNVT408OSZZFOHXLI/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-06-08%2Bat%2B7.10.01%2BPM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS MID-MAY 2020: Uraguayan trapeze artist GUADALUPE VIDELA, trapped for weeks with Il Circo Italiano in Beasain, Spain because of the coronavirus crisis, fell five feet and smashed her skull during a rehearsal. She was twenty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1605549438704-OX674P762K3OYYSDE8RV/PETE+WRIGHT RECENT PASSINGS 12 NOVEMBER 2020: Broadway stagehand PETE WRIGHT was doing restore work in Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre when he fell from a raised platform to the stage. He was fifty-four. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/de3743d1-6c53-4d55-894c-a6c7aec40c43/murali-mohapatra.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 2 OCTOBER 2022: After singing at a Durga Puja celebration in Odisha, India, popular singer MURALI MOHAPATRA sat on a chair and was listening to other singers when he collapsed onstage. He was fifty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563402889160-V1UP9GETMF0BT74G0AGM/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-07-17%2Bat%2B3.32.19%2BPM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 26 MAY 2019: P. VISHNUPRASAD of Kerala, India, collapsed onstage on the eve of his daughter’s wedding, while performing 'Raakili Ponmagale' - sung by a father for his daughter in the hit Malayalam film ‘Amaram.’ He was fifty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/0ff76e05-6aab-497d-af69-c280a1172489/Screen+Shot+2023-03-12+at+9.21.06+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out ORDER THE SHOW WON’T GO ON AT AMAZON.COM… BOOK… KINDLE... AUDIO BOOK! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1569090273345-TCIAO7HTHRCAQ0JHCZS1/DANWARNER.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 4 SEPTEMBER 2019: “Groove is everything” were the last words of Grammy-winning guitarist DAN WARNER before a heart attack at the bar of Fat Cat’s in Fort Lauderdale, moments after playing a set. He was forty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563295064304-05FML6Y9GGKKXNVAXGHP/bobcampanelljdspub.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 20 MAY 2019: New Jersey rocker BOB CAMPANELL (formerly of Jersey shore favorites, The Shakes) was stricken onstage at JD’s Pub in Galloway, New Jersey while playing a benefit show for his pal Ernie Trionfo. He was sixty-seven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1569089911219-L4MKQMY4YKSU9CZHBFLR/Thami-Shobede-2.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 12 SEPTEMBER 2019: South African singing star THAMI SHOBEDE, a runner-up on the reality series Idols SA, died in a Pretoria hospital after collapsing onstage days earlier. He was thirty-one and had survived a road rage shooting in 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/b72a3a36-ab03-4586-874b-67cd1446a476/JOANNE+EPPS+091923.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 19 SEPTEMBER 2023: Temple University acting president JOANNE A. EPPS slumped in her chair onstage during a memorial service at the school in Philadelphia. She was seventy-two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/000fb768-30c4-4df1-a5ca-ad34fac6232d/Screenshot+2023-09-02+at+7.35.32+PM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1577916606796-8BAU7ADOINYZZXNUZACV/andreiaribeiro.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 29 DECEMBER 2019: Brazilian singer-songwriter and pop star ANDREIA RIBEIRO suddenly became ill and collapsed onstage during a concert and in Jose de Freitas in the state of Piauí. She was twenty-four. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1633817409178-LKP2I58DCVSDP3XC4AOC/Screen+Shot+2021-10-09+at+3.00.50+PM.png RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 9 OCTOBER 2021: Bolshoi Theatre mime performer YEVGENY KULESH, was crushed by falling decor during a scenery change in the Rimsky-Korsakov opera, Sadko. He was thirty-seven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/bb24d6d1-a181-451c-9ea2-b0eb1d93c6c0/Jo-El+Sonnier.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 13 JANUARY 2024: Grammy-winning Cajun and country music star JO-EL SONNIER suffered a heart attack after his encore at the Llano Country Opry in Llano, Texas. He was seventy-seven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1567383102204-MVOA5P60U4RWCBU4GZIN/JOANA%2BSAINZ%2BGARCIA.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 1 SEPTEMBER 2019: JOANA SAINZ GARCIA, singer and dancer with Orquesta Super Hollywood, was onstage in Las Berlanas, Spain when a pyrotechnic rocket hit her in the abdomen and exploded. She was thirty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/f2bdf6cc-6fb9-4888-a8a4-de7c1fc296ed/Screen+Shot+2023-03-07+at+8.29.00+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 23 DECEMBER 2022: GURUVAPPA BAYARU collapsed while performing the role of Shishupala in the Trijanma Moksha Prasanga of Kateel Sri Durga Parameshwari Mela in Kateel, India. He was fifty-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/e62c0068-5259-482d-83e8-ed54419cee9c/%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 13 SEPTEMBER 2025: Iranian pop singer and actor OMID JAHAN was pronounced dead after collapsing from a heart attack onstage the previous evening at the Bam Date Festival. He was forty-three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/7dab0075-a025-4f3e-9c76-9e4ea57cbbe5/SCOTT+ALEXANDER.jpg.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 5 FEBRUARY 2023: Magician SCOTT ALEXANDER suffered a stroke while performing on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Known for his appearances on America’s Got Talent and Penn and Teller: Fool Us, he was fifty-two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/b25355a0-29b4-45bb-a945-cbe5f544881e/swgo+pan+xiaoting+071424.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 14 JULY 2024: Chinese extreme eater PAN XIAOTING was hosting a “mukbang” livestream session, eating large quantities of food while interacting with the audience. She was twenty-four. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/8d43c9da-ea7f-4634-b23b-7449372b836d/Milan_Lasica_%28feb._2012%29.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 18 JULY 2021: Slovak comedian and author MILAN LASICA, performing with Bratislava Hot Serenaders in Bratislava, sang I Am an Optimist, bowed and slid down the stage. He was eighty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/55e47f18-4c9c-41c4-aa7a-f5848680b743/IMG_8550.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 22 JULY 2022: Austrian conductor STEFAN SOLTESZ collapsed at his podium while conducting the Richard Strauss opera “The Silent Woman” at the Bayerische Staatsopera in Munich. He was seventy-three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/dcea61c0-411c-4fcd-bf94-814ad5ff8e03/0_Arsenio-Puro.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 15 OCTOBER 2022: Spanish magician ARSENIO PURO collapsed during a show at the Houdini Room in Madrid, where he’d performed every week for the past for twenty-five years. He was forty-six.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/4d59822d-e5bf-405a-9887-9135f04d7fe9/Harish+Mehta.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 22 JANUARY 2024: HARISH MEHTA was portraying Lord Hanuman in a Ramlila in Bhiwani, India, and was in the middle of a dance, when he dropped from a heart attack. He was sixty-three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563294823003-OUSQKJCDPA3QLFBLM4FP/38310910_1554615356804012_r.jpeg RECENT PASSINGS 6 APRIL 2019: YU ZHAO GU, first violinist for the Symphony of Southeast Texas, died of a heart attack onstage at the Julie Rogers Theatre in Beaumont. His violinist wife was at his side when he collapsed. He was sixty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/9af2a97b-7193-4958-942c-39e53b6598d5/The+Show+Wont+Go+On+cover+with+borders.png RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out “Abrahan and Kearns have managed the impossible: an obsessive book about death that is truly a celebration of life.” — Kliph Nesteroff, author, The Conedians https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/4af29a18-7404-4531-b060-11c0b1019e24/MARK+INFANTE+061422.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 14 JUNE 2022: Harmonica player and singer MARK INFANTE was performing at the Petroleum Club in Bakersfield, California, when he smiled and fell backwards from his stool. He was sixty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563295472125-NRXPRYT6WLD9SZTYJ6EF/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-05-12%2Bat%2B5.28.10%2BPM.png.jpeg RECENT PASSINGS 27 APRIL 2019: Runway model TALES SOARES made a swift turn on the catwalk, appeared to trip over his shoelaces and fell flat on his face during a Fashion Week show in Sao Paolo, Brasil. He was pronounced dead at twenty-six. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1c6f1386-5c69-4688-9b4b-2fa1fb48c034/VOLKAN+KOLNAK.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 31 MARCH 2025: Popular Turkish singer VOLKAN KONAK collapsed during a perfornance in Cyprus. Video of the performance shows band member and organizers coming to his aid. ” Konak was fifty-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/6e0b7b66-2f9b-4797-a3f2-57987e896f58/queenzycheng.jpg RECENT PASSINGS - Make it stand out 28 NOVEMBER 2023: Malaysian singer, actress, and member of the M-Girls pop group QUEENZY CHENG was shooting a YouTube video when she began vomiting gastric acid. She was thirty-seven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1607878844523-XXKMN226C0XO92V5GANY/YENG.jpg RECENT PASSINGS 5 SEPTEMBER 2020: Taiwanese folk music star YEN YUNG-NENG, lead singer of the band Takao Run, waved to the crowd and then collapsed face-first onto the stage during a performance at Daxian Temple in Wandan Township. He was fifty. https://theshowwontgoon.com/photos daily 0.75 2022-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1569196617640-UGV5TXSPUMBDRSAVZFR7/IMG_4758.jpg PHOTOS 21 SEPTEMBER 2019: THE SECOND STOP ON JEFF & BURT’S APPEARANCE TOUR FOR THE SHOW WON’T GO ON IS AT THE DARK DELICACIES, THE RENOWNED “HOME OF HORROR” BOOKSTORE & GIFTSHOP IN BURBANK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1568164978679-BL1SNOZH323AQ19FQ41K/Screen+Shot+2019-09-10+at+6.20.28+PM.png PHOTOS THE SHOW WON’T GO ON ARRIVES IN THE NEWSROOM OF THE JOHNSTOWN BREEZE NEWSPAPER IN JOHNSTOWN, COLORADO; ACCORDING TO EDITOR AND PUBLISHER MATT LUBICH, FOR “READING AND REFERENCE.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1570845442933-MDEFBPKK7HCFIRVAUO31/IMG_6447.jpg PHOTOS ROCK ’N’ ROLL LEGEND WILLIE NILE SHOWS OFF HIS SIGNED COPY OF THE SHOW WON’T GO ON. COINCIDENTALLY, THE SINGER-SONGWRITER, WHOSE LATEST ALBUM IS CHILDREN OF PARADISE, RECORDED THE SONG, PEOPLE WHO DIED. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1569092541664-3MBT1I1XBX18MJT02CG8/BOOK+SOUP+COUNTER+0919.jpg PHOTOS THE SHOW WON’T GO ON RECOMMENDED AT THE ICONIC BOOK SOUP IN WEST HOLLYWOOD: “PREPARE FOR LOTS OF ‘HOLY SHIT’ MOMENTS! RECOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE: STARING INTO THE ABYSS” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1572115384974-861ROF9MM8OT1T1F9G5V/Screen%252BShot%252B2019-10-24%252Bat%252B8.04.00%252BAM.jpg PHOTOS RAQUEL, QUEEN OF BAIL, RENOWNED HOLLYWOOD BONDSWOMAN, WRITER AND ENTREPRENEUR, IS A VALUED SUPPORTER OF THE SHOW WON’T GO ON. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1572114990095-VF0BJ9K6ALSK0L3NGT9S/Screen%252BShot%252B2019-10-24%252Bat%252B8.20.39%252BAM.jpg PHOTOS 16 OCTOBER 2019: BURT AND JEFF OUTSIDE KABC RADIO STUDIOS, FOLLOWING THEIR INTERVIEW WITH PETER TILDEN (PICTURED RIGHT) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1577129797637-95U6KC69BQ1KPWGL3QNL/Screen+Shot+2019-12-23+at+11.35.15+AM.png PHOTOS 21 DECEMBER 2019: BURT IMMORTALIZES THE SHOW WON’T GO ON AND CELEBRATES ITS COVER STAR WITH INK! A TATTOO ON HIS ARM BY CRANKEE AT THE INKPIRE TATTOO STUDIO IN NORTHRIDGE, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1581699748822-VMWYWUIUNWB9H5P3TE5F/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-02-14%2Bat%2B9.00.39%2BAM.jpg PHOTOS 11 FEBRUARY 2020: A HISTORIC APPEARANCE, AS JEFF & BURT ARE INVITED TO PRESENT THE SHOW WON’T GO ON TO AN ELITE CROWD IN THE INNER CIRCLE OF THE WORLD-FAMOUS MAGIC CASTLE IN HOLLYWOOD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1594762432255-FV6PAWSS6J4LZQF18CHA/IMG_8529.jpg PHOTOS 11 JULY 2020: RICHARD HALPERN, aka MR. TIN PAN ALLEY, PLUGS THE SHOW WON’T GO ON DURING HIS POPULAR SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC FACEBOOK LIVE SHOW, LIVE FROM THE HOLLYWOOD PENTHOUSE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1570319519579-E08IQX3OSJ3WY4QV5BW9/IMG_5979.jpg PHOTOS AMONG THE MANY PRESS AND MEDIA MENTIONS FOR THE SHOW WON’T GO ON WAS A RECOMMENDATION IN THE 2 OCTOBER 2019 EDITION OF THE NEW YORK POST. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1568913508416-6VKXZ21Q285TZZ3MFMD8/SHUT+UP+I+LOVE+IT++14+SEPT+2019.jpg PHOTOS BURT & JEFF TALK ABOUT THE SHOW WON’T GO ON — AND DEFEND JERRY LEWIS AND HIS LOST MOVIE THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED ON THE SHUT UP I LOVE IT PODCAST, HOSTED BY SASHA FEILER & STEVEN COHEN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1581699283759-1IGNZWLM6TTICD5VXL5R/IMG_2802.jpg PHOTOS 11 FEBRUARY 2020: BURT & JEFF AFTER THEIR PRESENTATION OF THE SHOW WON’T GO ON BEFORE AN ELITE CROWD IN THE EXCLUSIVE, WORLD-FAMOUS MAGIC CASTLE IN HOLLYWOOD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1567960700118-1RF7M4D7AS1GN4N0K7EY/68640894_10157583182089138_2692437546717151232_o.jpg PHOTOS BARNES & NOBLE, UNION SQUARE, NYC, 9 AUG 2019: FIRST VERIFIED BOOKSTORE SIGHTING OF THE SHOW WON’T GO ON https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1571929767552-WBJTAW1GXSX1WVNFEPS7/IMG_6861.jpg PHOTOS 19 OCTOBER 2019: SCOTT MICHAELS, FOUNDER OF HOLLYWOOD’S DEARLY DEPARTED TOURS, INTRODUCES JEFF & BURT BEFORE THEIR PRESENTATION AT THE DEARLY DEPARTED ARTIFACT MUSEUM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1593097553084-Y9P4GBJU8D8OCV3HDTRW/Magic+castle+21+June+2020 PHOTOS 21 JUNE 2020: JEFF & BURT ARE INVITED BACK TO THE WORLD-FAMOUS MAGIC CASTLE, FOR AN EXCLUSIVE “MEMBERS’ PERK” ONLINE, LOCKDOWN PRESENTATION OF THE SHOW WON’T GO ON. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/a201b7db-574f-42f3-8b41-3642fc14643e/AMNW.jpg PHOTOS - Make it stand out HALLOWEEN 2022: JEFF & BURT CARRY ON THE SHOW WON’T GO ON HALLOWEEN TRADITION ON LIVE TV… TELLING TALES TO HELEN RAPTIS, HOST OF AM NORTHWEST ON KATU-TV IN PORTLAND, OREGON https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1594485293972-SNIABB152UIVJ4L26YB3/BOBBY+BLAIN PHOTOS POSTED ON AMAZON.COM: CONNECTICUT’S BOBBY “BLUE” BLAIN SHOWS OFF HIS RECOMMENDED BEACH READ — AND AS YOU CAN SEE, HE’S ALMOST THROUGH THE ENTIRE BOOK! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1571930685804-UD8ZONF5LBN6D5NBBUH1/waynefederman.jpg PHOTOS COMEDIAN, ACTOR, WRITER, MUSICIAN & PODCASTER WAYNE FEDERMAN (A MAN OF MANY TALENTS) SHOWS OFF HIS COPY OF THE SHOW WON’T GO ON. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1572115134985-UHGQWELA9JW4J7EBO6U7/IMG_2491.jpg PHOTOS 22 OCTOBER 2019: STEVEN COHEN AND SASHA FEILER, HOSTS OF THE SHUT UP I LOVE IT PODCAST,INTERVIEW JEFF & BURT AT STORIES BOOKS & CAFE IN LOS ANGELES’ ECHO PARK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1569196560398-7WTHNZSN8PK6IT32JWTM/IMG_2226.jpg PHOTOS WRITER, PRODUCER, SHOW BUSINESS HISTORIAN AND COMIC BOOK LEGEND MARK EVANIER WAS SPECIAL GUEST MODERATOR FOR THE WELL-ATTENDED DARK DELICACIES DISCUSSION. (CLICK PHOTO FOR STORY) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1572490148757-K4D3PIJM8GDVPE4XA3O4/IMG_7579.jpeg PHOTOS BURT & JEFF GET SERIOUS BEFORE THEIR APPEARANCE ON SIRIUSXM VOLUME. THINGS LOOSENED UP CONSIDERABLY ONCE THEY GOT TALKING WITH MARK GOODMAN & ALAN LIGHT ON DEBATABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1572990340345-YNKPIU5ZCGHM81MVYDRB/75223628_1529507390520489_294718955044470784_n.jpg PHOTOS “I CALL IT ‘DEATH POTATO CHIPS.’ YOU KEEP READING, SAYING, ‘I’M JUST GOING TO READ ONE MORE…” — MATT LUBICH, NEWSPAPER EDITOR & PUBLISHER & WINNER OF THE PLEASEKILLME.COM SIGNED COPY CONTEST. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1571930888531-ZXJ2SY7CPM22TCNFKAYE/IMG_7177.jpg PHOTOS STEVEN ALAN GREEN IS A COMEDY STORE LEGEND WHOSE ONE-MAN SHOW, I EAT PEOPLE LIKE YOU FOR BREAKFAST, RECOUNTS HIS (UNPLEASANT) EXPERIENCE WITH JERRY LEWIS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1572115510920-Y47AVC8I3C5M58H7GFJ6/IMG_7150.jpeg PHOTOS 22 OCTOBER 2019: BURT WITH COMEDY WRITER AND IMPROV PERFORMER SASHA FEILER, HOST OF THE SHUT UP I LOVE IT PODCAST. THE DISCUSSION AT STORIES BOOKS MAY TURN UP AS A PODCAST BONUS EPISODE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1571932385071-EL8ZVLQR6AM17YN39DU5/IMG_7160.jpeg PHOTOS 22 OCTOBER 2019: COMEDIAN STEVEN COHEN GETS A LAUGH FROM JEFF’S RESPONSE ABOUT THE INITIAL INSPIRATION FOR THE SHOW WON’T GO ON. HINT: IT WAS ELVIS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1633298324348-DYTV17VM7MBKD7QCJHLH/SWGO+AUTHORS+092221EFF+BURT.jpeg PHOTOS - Make it stand out SEPT 2021: COVID RESTRICTIONS THREW A WRENCH INTO THE BOOK PROMOTION, BUT ON THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF PUBLICATION, BURT & JEFF ARE STILL AT IT! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1567959791535-M9OYZC95SADXFG3MTCBN/RITCH%2BSHYDNER PHOTOS COMEDY LEGEND RITCH SHYDNER, AUTHOR OF KICKING THROUGH THE ASHES: MY LIFE AS A STAND-UP IN THE 1980s COMEDY EXPLOSION, SHOWS OFF HIS LATEST PURCHASE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1567960678419-FT2AZ2SUJVDSYPRAY9ZY/SWGO%25252BMURRAY%25252BNARRATOR.jpg PHOTOS MICHAEL BUTLER MURRAY NARRATES THE SHOW WON’T GO ON AUDIOBOOK, WHICH IN ITS FIRST WEEK ON SALE WAS AMAZON’S #1 NEW RELEASE IN THE THEATRE BIOGRAPHY AND PERFORMING ARTS HISTORY & CRITICISM CATEGORIES. MURRAY IS ALSO A HIGHLY-REGARDED ACTOR AND MUSICIAN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1572115682778-YK2D2M54WCEGICAV0QH0/IMG_2494-1.jpg PHOTOS 22 OCTOBER 2019: WITH STEVEN COHEN & SASHA FEILER, HOSTS OF THE SHUT UP I LOVE IT PODCAST, AT THE STORIES BOOKS & CAFE EVENT. JEFF & BURT WERE GUESTS ON THE PODCAST IN SEPTEMBER. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1582478563659-3OHG2YW40XGAHLZH5GG0/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-02-23%2Bat%2B9.21.51%2BAM.jpg PHOTOS WORLD-RENOWNED PIANIST, SINGER, MUSICIAN, ARCHIVIST, AND ENTERTAINER MICHAEL FEINSTEIN TOLD JEFF HE’S “DYING TO READ” THE SHOW WON’T GO ON! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1572115060538-TWHZXK54LRI7VY1H5AY7/IMG_2430.jpg PHOTOS 19 OCTOBER 2019: JEFF & BURT, SITTING IN FRONT OF TINY TIM & KARL WALLENDA DISPLAYS AT The DEARLY DEPARTED ARTIFACT MUSEUM, SHARE UNTOLD STORIES ABOUT PERFORMERS WHO DIED ONSTAGE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1577130558434-BJ1FL4X7Y8YHTANSIPDZ/gilbert%2Bpodcast.jpg PHOTOS GILBERT GOTTFRIED’S AMAZING COLOSSAL PODCAST’S FIRST PATREON BONUS EPISODE FEATURED A CAMEO FROM JEFF AND KIND WORDS FROM COHOST FRANK SANTOPADRE ABOUT JEFF & BURT’S EARLIER APPEARANCE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1567960716063-5LBUS9IZ7KZ5QVZ0Z8AJ/GGACP%2B073119.jpg PHOTOS FRANK SANTOPADRE & GILBERT GOTTFRIED, HOSTING GILBERT GOTTFRIED’S AMAZING COLOSSAL PODCAST (in NYC) with JEFF & BURT (in LA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1568654258624-ASKWRLDJQ4SBDXAPX1PO/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-16%2Bat%2B10.01.46%2BAM.jpg PHOTOS 15 SEPTEMBER 2019: THE FIRST BOOK SIGNING IS AT THE ICONIC BOOK SOUP ON THE SUNSET STRIP. THE EVENT IS HOSTED BY CRITIC AND AUTHOR RAY RICHMOND. CLICK THE PHOTO FOR THE FULL STORY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1577130847397-VBK1Z3VHIYG5FEGTUAT5/PhotoFunia-1576467982.jpg PHOTOS ADDED TO YEAR-END BEST-OF LISTS AND STILL GENERATING PUBLICITY, THE SHOW WON’T GO ON PROVED TO BE A POPULAR GIFT DURING THE 2019 HOLIDAY SEASON. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1572115330547-U18D1WML6IKMIX6ZPF55/IMG_6445.jpg PHOTOS JOHNNY PISANO, WILLIE NILE’S BASS PLAYER AND STAR IN HIS OWN RIGHT, POINTS OUT HIS PERSONALIZED COPY OF THE SHOW WON’T GO ON. JOHNNY IS KNOWN FOR HIS SPLIT JUMPS AND JOHNNY PISANO’S PUNK ROCK PIZZERIA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1581699125712-GPNO91E004QHRN5C7FYG/DSC05162.jpg PHOTOS 11 FEBRUARY 2020: MAGICIAN & WRITER DAVID REGAL MODERATES JEFF & BURT’S MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION OF THE SHOW WON’T GO ON IN THE INNER CIRCLE OF WORLD-FAMOUS MAGIC CASTLE IN HOLLYWOOD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1568933206976-L48SVMZOLSACW3EHZUZ4/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-09-19%2Bat%2B3.45.47%2BPM.jpg PHOTOS THE AUTHORS FORGO A FORMAL PORTRAIT FOR A ROUGH “SELFIE” AT NPR WEST STUDIOS, WHERE THEY RECORDED AN INTERVIEW WITH SCOTT SIMON FOR NPR’S WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1567960602555-9YESQTCU3ZLSNYFIK7GV/IMG_4028.jpg PHOTOS WHEN AMAZON.COM BEGAN DELIVERING THE FIRST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER, WASHINGTON STATE ROCK STAR DAVID B. ERONEMO WAS AMONG THOSE WHO SPREAD THE WORD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1568399666454-4XPIJ4CLFVUJRDLZ99Y5/IMG_4199.JPG PHOTOS RADIO STAR TIM CONWAY JR., HOST OF THE TIM CONWAY JR. SHOW ON KFI-AM IN LOS ANGELES & iHEART RADIO, SHOWS OFF HIS COPY OF THE SHOW WON’T GO ON AFTER HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE BOOK’S AUTHORS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1567960658730-IKZ37QUSIWKJYGJ2ZC1S/67943065_2691622450871164_4887187692061720576_o.jpg PHOTOS “I HAD A CHOICE. I COULD SIT AROUND AND WAIT TO DIE, OR I COULD GO BACK ON THE ROAD AND DIE ONSTAGE. THAT WOULD BE SO AWESOME!” — THE AMAZING JOHNATHAN IN THE AMAZING JOHNATHAN DOCUMENTARY (AT THE 15 AUGUST 2019 ADVANCE SCREENING WITH THE SHOW WON’T GO ON COAUTHOR JEFF ABRAHAM) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1570845210730-6CTSSTT50JCJD38BSQ6S/The%2BShow%2BWont%2BGo%2BOn%2BAudio%2Bborders.jpg PHOTOS THE COVER OF THE AUDIOBOOK VERSION OF THE SHOW WON’T GO ON. EIGHT AND 1/2 HOURS, NARRATED BY THE GREAT MICHAEL BUTLER MURRAY. CLICK THE COVER TO ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY! https://theshowwontgoon.com/tv-radio-podcasts daily 0.75 2024-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1583339022882-KKGTONLFCTSRNK6FSFAT/Screen+Shot+2020-03-04+at+8.05.36+AM.png TV RADIO AND PODCASTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/71d19fac-6c97-4cc1-a8e7-2f95e77b9e80/SWGO+DANA+GOULD+TESTIMONIAL.png TV RADIO AND PODCASTS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1571107833031-ZFD97UBONM9QHZ4Y5FI8/SHOW+WONT+GO+ON+AUDIO+BOOK+COVER.jpg TV RADIO AND PODCASTS https://theshowwontgoon.com/welcome-1 daily 1.0 2022-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/aaa5844b-76f7-4bce-9dc3-c7e2124a245c/IMG_5656+%281%29.jpeg WELCOME - Many thanks to Gilbert Gottfried. https://theshowwontgoon.com/recent-passings-copy daily 0.75 2023-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/dcea61c0-411c-4fcd-bf94-814ad5ff8e03/0_Arsenio-Puro.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 15 OCTOBER 2022: Spanish magician ARSENIO PURO collapsed during a show at the Houdini Room in Madrid, where he’d performed every week for the past for twenty-five years. He was forty-six.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/3e01517e-174e-44f6-817a-f9b22b77f618/tim-gough.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 24 OCTOBER 2022: British radio presenter TIM GOUGH was about an hour into the breakfast show on GenX Radio when the song he was playing stopped midway through. He was fifty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1577916316902-49DVQ327JOY9PYNEYO3M/The%2BShow%2BWont%2BGo%2BOn%2Bcover%2Bwith%2Bborders.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) CLICK THE COVER TO ORDER THE SHOW WON’T GO ON! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/6778de9e-9404-4230-a090-fca51ce38957/Screen+Shot+2021-07-25+at+8.46.08+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 20 JULY 2021: XIAO QIUMEI, a crane operator and social media influencer, was live-streaming from a crane cabin in Quzho, China, when she fell 160 feet with camera in her hand. She was twenty-three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/17ae370c-75ca-44f1-ac2f-296b0064ce1c/Screen+Shot+2022-06-04+at+4.00.19+PM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 4 JUNE 2022: Playback singer EDAVA BASHEER was onstage in Kerala, India, when he collapsed, dramatically, after singing the Hindi song, ‘Mano ho thum.’ He was seventy-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/7dab0075-a025-4f3e-9c76-9e4ea57cbbe5/SCOTT+ALEXANDER.jpg.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 5 FEBRUARY 2023: Magician SCOTT ALEXANDER suffered a stroke while performing on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Known for his appearances on America’s Got Talent and Penn and Tellker, Fool Us, he was fifty-two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/b84197e6-db37-41d2-8d86-7603729083ea/Screen+Shot+2022-09-15+at+3.42.18+PM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 12 SEPTEMBER 2022: Drag artist VALENCIA PRIME, “Philadelphia’s plus-size dancing diva,” collapsed during a performance at the Tabu Lounge and Sports Bar. The transgender woman was twenty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1569090013920-YTEN0G8AM48W61WN5A37/KUNDAN%2BLAL%2Bramleela%2B091719.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 17 SEPTEMBER 2019: Actor KUNDAN LAL died shortly after his character Dasharatha’s death scene in a Ramleela play in Juhnjuhnu, India. His brother died in a similar fashion, in the same role, several years earlier. 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VISHNUPRASAD of Kerala, India, collapsed onstage on the eve of his daughter’s wedding, while performing 'Raakili Ponmagale' - sung by a father for his daughter in the hit Malayalam film ‘Amaram.’ He was fifty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/e4bd5e73-0d23-461d-9e80-6971774255ec/IMG_5862.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 19 NOVEMBER 2020: MICHAEL PAREDES, a contestant on the TBS game show Wipeout, the day after he collapsed on set and suffered cardiac arrest after completing an obstacle course challenge. He was thirty-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563985224692-UJCZ7CGPXI5KBR528YKO/SUN%2BVLOGGER%2B072019.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 20 JULY 2019: Chinese video blogger SUN collapsed and died in his flat during a live-stream session in which he ate live poisonous geckos and centipedes. He used a spinning wheel to determine what he ate. He was thirty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/8dbe66c8-15b2-4db1-a773-0befccbdd0ac/KERALI+WHEELCHAIR.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 22 FEBRUARY 2023: Singer ABDUL KABEER, a member of the All Kerala Wheelchair RIghts Federation, collapsed on his three-wheel scooter during a show in Kodungallur, India. He was forty-two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/55e47f18-4c9c-41c4-aa7a-f5848680b743/IMG_8550.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 22 JULY 2022: Austrian conductor STEFAN SOLTESZ collapsed at his podium while conducting the Richard Strauss opera “The Silent Woman” at the Bayerische Staatsopera in Munich. He was seventy-three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/a99c0cee-6b5b-47f6-a0f7-8a5477b1870d/SEOUL+AMBROSE+*SWGO+PASSION+PLAY+NEKEDE+NIGERIA+041522.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 15 APRIL 2022: SUEL AMBROSE, a seminarian at Claratian University of Nigeria in Nekede, collapsed while playing St. Peter in an Easter Passion Play on Good Friday. He was twenty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/fd48e68d-7e5b-4921-b912-fe941100cf59/TSWGO+ERIC+SMASHING+BURRITOS+110422.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 4 NOVEMBER 2022: ERIC COUGRAND, drummer for the French blues band Smashing Burritos, collapsed at his kit after perfoming a solo at the Café de la Terrasse in Marseillette. He was fifty-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1a5528c5-82f0-4668-ac1a-e5589776c6d2/Screen+Shot+2021-07-12+at+7.48.29+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 8 JULY 2021: ZERAIL DIJON RIVERA, the rapper known as INDIAN RED BOY, was in his car in Hawthorne, California, talking on Instagram Live when he was shot on camera. He was twenty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1607879040499-MN7XAWEA5IYMW9XOWVYQ/sudhakar.png RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 24 SEPTEMBER 2020: Indian actor ROCKLINE SUDHAKAR, famous for playing comic, villain and father roles, collapsed from cardiac arrest on the set of the Kannada film, Sugarless. 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He was sixty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/76709cd4-79d2-437d-9d05-ca48e442d040/Screen+Shot+2021-12-21+at+4.58.59+PM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 20 DECEMBER 2021: QUINCY DAVIS, Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s popular DJ THRILLER, was on the second deck of a float in a Christmas parade when he hit his head on a tree and fell. He was thirty-six. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563981266690-GKQOEQ0FSBFWNWDLXIHF/0_Alf-Nguyen.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 13 JULY 2019: Popular DJ ALF NGUYEN suffered cardiac arrest while performing at the Tokyo Sing Song Club in Sydney, Australia. An autopsy revealed he was in advanced stages of ischemic heart disease. He was forty-two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/4af29a18-7404-4531-b060-11c0b1019e24/MARK+INFANTE+061422.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 14 JUNE 2022: Harmonica player and singer MARK INFANTE was performing at the Petroleum Club in Bakersfield, California, when he smiled and fell backwards from his stool. He was sixty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/bb7d13f9-40e3-48a2-bb64-350f649b710e/AA1396rF.img.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 14 OCTOBER 2022: High school senior DANIEL MOSHI passed out while singing a solo at the All State Honors Show Choir at Naperville North High School in Illinois.. He was seventeen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/54ce269a-6693-4a1e-b9c5-2f28d17e827e/50831953-10230857-Footage_shared_online_shows_some_of_the_dancing_grannies_just_se-a-8_1637674723071.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 21 NOVEMBER 2021: Milwaukee Dancing Grannies VIRGINIA SORENSON, 79, LeANNA OWEN, 71 & TAMARA DURAND, 52, were struck by an SUV that tore through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/e528ea99-e10c-4a0a-b268-af01ba30c29f/Screen+Shot+2021-11-02+at+7.13.14+PM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 14 OCTOBER 2021: Actor RAJENDRA SINGH suffered a heart attack onstage in Hasanpur, India, while playing Lord Ram’s father, King Dashrath, in a Ramlila. He was sixty-two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/b33870e8-d105-4d25-8e84-d9bd42ee080b/afcd8ee5-bd7e-43d9-9835-7c77c9b93882_750x422.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 5 JULY 2021: RANDY CHANDLER was playing guitar with the Les Masters Band when he collapsed after the third song during a Battle of the Bands in Louisville, Kentucky. He was fifty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1600962404845-IXXGD431J95D8FFAEWPD/fritzvonweizsacker.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 19 NOVEMBER 2019: DR. FRITZ von WEIZSACKER, son of a former German president, was delivering a medical lecture when a man jumped onstage and stabbed him in the neck. He was fifty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/173ce74e-c42e-4101-8fb0-021e2647bf35/Screen+Shot+2022-09-15+at+8.47.02+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out SEPTEMBER 2022: GANESH GUPTA was dancing as the goddess Ma Parvati during a Ganesh Puja wedding ceremiony in Kothe Sainiya, India, when he suffered a heart attack and collapsed. He was twenty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1591668672871-5PATNVT408OSZZFOHXLI/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-06-08%2Bat%2B7.10.01%2BPM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) MID-MAY 2020: Uraguayan trapeze artist GUADALUPE VIDELA, trapped for weeks with Il Circo Italiano in Beasain, Spain because of the coronavirus crisis, fell five feet and smashed her skull during a rehearsal. She was twenty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1567383102204-MVOA5P60U4RWCBU4GZIN/JOANA%2BSAINZ%2BGARCIA.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 1 SEPTEMBER 2019: JOANA SAINZ GARCIA, singer and dancer with Orquesta Super Hollywood, was onstage in Las Berlanas, Spain when a pyrotechnic rocket hit her in the abdomen and exploded. She was thirty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/0ff76e05-6aab-497d-af69-c280a1172489/Screen+Shot+2023-03-12+at+9.21.06+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out ORDER THE SHOW WON’T GO ON AT AMAZON.COM… BOOK… KINDLE... AUDIO BOOK! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1633817409178-LKP2I58DCVSDP3XC4AOC/Screen+Shot+2021-10-09+at+3.00.50+PM.png RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 9 OCTOBER 2021: Bolshoi Theatre mime performer YEVGENY KULESH, was crushed by falling decor during a scenery change in the Rimsky-Korsakov opera, Sadko. He was thirty-seven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1607879275423-VF9TRNO7HC9Z8JP8XP1Q/grigoryeva.png RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 2 DECEMBER 2020: VALENTINA 'VALYA' GRIGORYEVA was forced onto an outdoor balcony in subzero temperature as a stunt during her YouTuber boyfriend’s livestream show in Ivanovka, Russia. She was pregnant and twenty-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1579452129972-RBG507TYYHKKB16CF27F/82400491_3195648630448785_5352980752193552384_n.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 18 JANUARY 2020: Singer-songwriter DAVID OLNEY, onstage with Amy Rigby and Scott Miller at the 30A Songwriter Festival in South Walton, Florida, stopped in the middle of his third song, apologized, and closed his eyes. He was seventy-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563981175964-G881B03I9T0P9HNEEBF9/1563691647-mango_manju.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 19 JULY 2019: Standup comedian MANJUNATH NAIDU had a heart attack onstage at the Signature Hotel in Al Barsha, Dubai. He’d been talking about his anxiety; the audience thought he was acting out a scene. He was thirty-six. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/e0daa98c-71b5-4349-8f7d-da3bec352333/Screen+Shot+2021-12-11+at+7.59.01+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 17 OCTOBER 2021: MADELYN “MADIE” NICPON, a student-athlete at Tufts University in Massachusetts, choked while participating in a charity hot dog eating contest. She was twenty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1569090273345-TCIAO7HTHRCAQ0JHCZS1/DANWARNER.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 4 SEPTEMBER 2019: “Groove is everything” were the last words of Grammy-winning guitarist DAN WARNER before a heart attack at the bar of Fat Cat’s in Fort Lauderdale, moments after playing a set. He was forty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1607878844523-XXKMN226C0XO92V5GANY/YENG.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 5 SEPTEMBER 2020: Taiwanese folk music star YEN YUNG-NENG, lead singer of the band Takao Run, waved to the crowd and then collapsed face-first onto the stage during a performance at Daxian Temple in Wandan Township. 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He was sixty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563295005512-NW2JZURERJM94A1E1FTX/ELMER%252BHOPPER%252B1.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 5 MAY 2019: ELMER HOPPER, a former lead singer for The Platters (1974-1995), was pronounced dead hours after collapsing onstage at the Cicada Club in Los Angeles. He had just sung ’Twilight Time.’ Hopper was seventy-six. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1580227048393-ILVMG8CS54JV08OOWK4A/bumpa_2.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 23 JANUARY 2020: Popular Dancehall dancer ROXANNE “BUMPA” EVANS broke her neck when another dancer fell on her head during a risky, acrobatic routine at a competition in Lucea, Jamaica. She was twenty-seven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/de3743d1-6c53-4d55-894c-a6c7aec40c43/murali-mohapatra.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 2 OCTOBER 2022: After singing at a Durga Puja celebration in Odisha, India, popular singer MURALI MOHAPATRA sat on a chair and was listening to other singers when he collapsed onstage. He was fifty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/f2bdf6cc-6fb9-4888-a8a4-de7c1fc296ed/Screen+Shot+2023-03-07+at+8.29.00+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 23 DECEMBER 2022: GURUVAPPA BAYARU collapsed while performing the role of Shishupala in the Trijanma Moksha Prasanga of Kateel Sri Durga Parameshwari Mela in Kateel, India. He was fifty-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/8d43c9da-ea7f-4634-b23b-7449372b836d/Milan_Lasica_%28feb._2012%29.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 18 JULY 2021: Slovak comedian and author MILAN LASICA, performing with Bratislava Hot Serenaders in Bratislava, sang I Am an Optimist, bowed and slid down the stage. He was eighty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1600962223736-1PDHO5X6JDKS22SJPS8E/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-09-22%252Bat%252B9.03.41%252BAM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 2 SEPTEMBER 2020: PAOLA DE SIMONE, world history professor at Universidad Argentina de la Empresa in Buenos Aires, collapsed during a Zoom lecture. She’d had COVID-19 symptoms. 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He was fifty-three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/bba99ff3-10b5-40ea-ad9a-296f8a54b4cf/Screen+Shot+2022-10-03+at+8.48.08+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 1 OCTOBER 2022: RAM SWAROOP was playing the role of Hanuman in a Ramlila in Salempur village in Uttar Pradesh, India when, soon after his tail was set on fire, he suffered a heart attack. He was fifty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/6adb3eab-5e37-41a8-ab93-4ac73b71c21f/Screen+Shot+2021-11-22+at+6.44.45+PM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1565289852840-ELHEVY40WHCR62MAPS66/RUBEN+CARBONELL RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 7 AUGUST 2019: Daredevil BASE jumper RUBEN CARBONELL was recording for his YouTube channel at one a.m.when he threw himself off a 150-foot chimney in Alicante, Spain. His parachute did not open. He was twenty-nine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1574873039200-YZ1VNRKEVO18ZT5DW7K6/gettyimages-175711911_1.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 27 NOVEMBER 2019: Actor and model GODFREY GAO suffered a heart attack while competing on the Chinese sports reality show Chase On. 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He was pronounced dead at twenty-six. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563643605320-XMPXGI2RG5PIFBKGKA4T/CKTVLCEQ3UI6TFLKRDBJDK24HA.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 16 JUNE 2019: Indian magician CHANCHAL LAHIRI, aka JADUGAR MANDRAKE (The Wizard Mandrake), was lost in an escape attempt after being lowered by crane into the Hooghly River, bound in rope and steel chains. He was forty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1572470783582-WKEGRN95HMLPCC549ZJ1/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-10-30%2Bat%2B2.24.03%2BPM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 25 JANUARY 2019: DOUG “DJ” JAMES, drummer for the Rockin’ Hollywoods, slumped over his drum kit, drumsticks clutched in hands, before the band’s third set at Mancini’s Char House in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was sixty-five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1582477725606-FANOI2RS9P3EZ6799BUW/87489927_1012283522477258_2103255715463299072_n.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 22 FEBRUARY 2020: Daredevil and flat earth conspiracy theorist “MAD MIKE” HUGHES crashed his steam-powered rocket in Barstow, California, while filming a segment for the Science Channel series, Homemade Astronauts. He was sixty-four. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1574615780659-Y3XEBRGDBLS1VUTJN716/IMG_8408.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 23 NOVEMBER 2019: Juno Award-winning musician GERRY ATWELL died after collapsing from a heart attack at his keyboard, onstage with Hit Boss at the Pony Corral in Winnipeg, Canada. He was sixty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1566833961769-KX6K1CDHNMVTUUYXHXQ2/MASON+SWEARINGEN RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 23 AUGUST 2019: MASON SWEARINGEN, singer and bassist of Chicago tribute band Beginnings, suffered a fatal heart attack onstage during a concert at Newbridge Road Park in Bellmore, L.I., N.Y. He was fifty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/6dcfaf1b-aacc-43ff-ad54-5fe38eac85f6/MIKABEN+101522.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 15 OCTOBER 2022: Haitian singer MICHAEL BENJAMIN, better known as MIKABEN, was performing in Paris with the konpa band CaRiMi when he collapsed from an apparent heart attack.. He was forty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/992abb6b-a977-4556-b831-a6a8e2ed809d/Screen+Shot+2022-10-03+at+8.52.59+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 2 OCTOBER 2022: ANDRÉS PANCHO, singer for the Antihéroes Rock Band, suffered a heart attack on stage while performing at a private event at the Velá de San Miguel in Seville, Spain. He was fifty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1600962345123-QR1DT4JGPWH9ECGE9V3Y/jeremiahdickey.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 4 FEBRUARY 2020: JEREMIAH DICKEY was in a parked car in Brooklyn, NY, on Facebook Live, rapping along to 30 by Blizzy Banks, when he was shot in the head. He was nineteen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/14ec5df5-c466-4441-8740-8c3a6fc878aa/Screen+Shot+2021-12-11+at+7.46.06+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 5 FEBRUARY 2021: TIMOTHY WILKS was wielding a butcher knife in a parking lot in Nashville, filming a robbery “prank” for a YouTube channel, when a man shot him. He was twenty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/f7ef3c8a-57d9-4f21-a1fa-d535c4d97ed8/Screen+Shot+2023-03-12+at+9.10.56+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 11 MARCH 2023: South African rapper COSTA TITCH collapsed onstage at the Ultra Music Festival at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg. He got up, finished the song; fell again. He was twenty-eight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563295522145-TKRB8R3497ZMC383QVWP/SILVERKING.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 11 MAY 2019: Actor & professional wrestler CESAR BARRON, aka SILVER KING, suffered a heart attack and died in the ring during The Greatest Show of Lucha Libre at the Camden Roundhouse in London. He was fifty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/5662cdbf-50e9-44f6-90f1-c5274e370a1f/310899476_529223595874699_462434573666997107_n.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 2 OCTOBER 2022: The artist PATIRAM was in the role of Ravan during Durga Puja festivities in Uttar Pradesh, India when he complained of chest pains, clutched his chest and collapsed. He was sixty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1566832244912-PD147J69MO17HM7STB3R/TIM%2BCURRIE%2B082419.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 24 AUGUST 2019: TIM CURRIE, drummer and leader of Tim Currie’s Motown Review Band, had a heart attack while performing on the Green in Norwalk, Connecticut. He also led 60s tribute group, Tumblin’ Dice Band. He was sixty-six. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1600962305023-EB7KA5KDMYIUHJVN31E8/revfatherjude.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 30 AUGUST 2020: REV. FATHER JUDE, spiritual director of the Catholic Men Association in Douala, Cameroon, was wearing a coronavirus mask and preaching a homily when he fell back from the pulpit of his church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1569089911219-L4MKQMY4YKSU9CZHBFLR/Thami-Shobede-2.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 12 SEPTEMBER 2019: South African singing star THAMI SHOBEDE, a runner-up on the reality series Idols SA, died in a Pretoria hospital after collapsing onstage days earlier. He was thirty-one and had survived a road rage shooting in 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/a3869c5f-f208-4707-ad09-e8c2f42250bc/Screen+Shot+2021-11-08+at+8.40.55+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 5 NOVEMBER 2021: RAMAZAN GUNAY, one of the most popular names in Rumelia music, had a heart attack onstage in Zeytinburnu, Turkey, during a duet of the song “Oh Doctor.” He was seventy-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1607879192205-K2NALW3S01UTDERHPP0Q/34055940-8810735-image-a-11_1601995490676.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 2 OCTOBER 2020: ARELEINE MARTINEZ of Chihuahua, Mexico was accidentally shot in the head while filming a “behind the scenes” TikTok video in which she and ten friends staged her kidnapping. She was twenty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1567698826928-91Z4GYB6I7TLFDEI2FPS/jerry%2Bbajjodi%2B090319.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 3 SEPTEMBER 2019: Popular Indian singer and composer JERRY BAJJODI suffered a heart attack while performing at a Ganeshotsava celebration in Bejai. Video of his fall from the stage quickly went viral. He was fifty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1577916606796-8BAU7ADOINYZZXNUZACV/andreiaribeiro.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 29 DECEMBER 2019: Brazilian singer-songwriter and pop star ANDREIA RIBEIRO suddenly became ill and collapsed onstage during a concert and in Jose de Freitas in the state of Piauí. She was twenty-four. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/3d0cfb05-549d-453e-a6a0-067783f02863/Screen+Shot+2022-08-08+at+10.08.00+AM.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) - Make it stand out 7 AUGUST 2022: RYAN FELLOWS, star of the Discovery television series, Street Outlaws: Fastest In America, lost control of his car while racing for the series outside Las Vegas. He was forty-one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba50f99e8ba446e4fc36e3e/1563295064304-05FML6Y9GGKKXNVAXGHP/bobcampanelljdspub.jpg RECENT PASSINGS (Copy) 20 MAY 2019: New Jersey rocker BOB CAMPANELL (formerly of Jersey shore favorites, The Shakes) was stricken onstage at JD’s Pub in Galloway, New Jersey while playing a benefit show for his pal Ernie Trionfo. He was sixty-seven.