This is a fillum I was watching last night about a kid from small town Arkansas who was so affected by the death of James Dean that it changed his life forever.

Do any of the older Bunkerites remember the day Dean died. Did it change your life? Make it want to comb your hair? Or has anyone actually been "moved" by the death of someone they've idolised?

My earliest recollection of stopping to think about a celebrity who died was March 27, 1968, when Yuri Gagarin was killed. I was so into all the space stuff at the time.

Lately, George Harrison's death saddened me.

Cyril Knowles

Fred Dibnah

John Peel

I think I'll blart my eyes out when David Attenborough dies.

Bon Scott probably - ingeniously funny lyricist, AC/DC were never the same again

Joe Strummer

I didn't know who Joe Strummer was until I started to read messageboards.

John Lennon.

Helen Daniels on Neighbours

Helen's DEAD. Oh Nooooooooooo

Helen was quite dishy. But I bet in your student days you lusted over Lorraine Kelly.

I never had any student days.

I'd still do Lorraine Kelly now.

A brave man!

Jimi Hendrix. I can still remember where I was, junction of York Road and Elwick Road and I saw the newsagents board two doors down from Bianco's. The first time I ever bought a newspaper, The Daily Mirror.

Toni and Pacci Bianco.

Steve Irwin

Sir Bobby Robson

Michael Maidens

no becasue I am not an old git

39 years ago TODAY

What? Sgt Pepper taught the band to play?

Stop being silly now. 39 years ago today since Hendrix died.

I hate this modern celebrity culture. Famous people are not friends or family.

But I fell sadness and loss when John Peel died. No-one else I can think of has affected me in the slightest.

The next one to affect me I hope will be Margaret Hilda. I've kept a bottle of Bollinger on ice for 10 years now. And still she clings on.

Truly the good die young.

I will also be seriously affected on that day. Gordon Brown should call a national day of celebration, that will raise his popularity tenfold. Sadly he will probably be out of office before he would get a chance to do it.

And 31 years since my daughter was born. Spooky eh??

I think the day she carks it, I will drink and vomit til I can drink and vomit nay more.
Can't be long now. The waiting is quite sweet actually.

I couldn't be any further away from being a royalist, but I do remember clearly the Diana thing. We went to sleep hearing she'd been in a crash, and had a scratched arm or something.
I said to the missus, 'She's a gonner.' How perceptive of me

Tonights lottery numbers are as follows...

President Kennedy, we were on the bus travelling back from Sunderland and word spread around the bus. I was with my mother and was only in the juniours....when I asked who and she told me, I still didn't have a clue what she was on about, the clip over the head helped.

I remember the morning after Lennon was shot, I was at junior school & one of my classmates mentioned it to the teacher and she hadnt heard about it, had to leave the classroom she was that upset!! I dont think any particular persons death affected me as much as 911. People die, life goes on, but when you have a mass murder like that (in a place I'd been to weeks earlier) it doesnt half give you a shock.

Harold Hornsey & Cyril Knowles

I was around at the time but probably too young to appreciate it was the death of a legend. i would say however that the big name at the time who had revolutionised the approach to fillum acting was Marlon Brando.

I have to agree with this statement, about the culture of mourning people we don't know.

When i find out a celebrity has died, i go awww thats a shame, then get on with my life, i didn't know him or her, they didn't know me, so can't really grieve.

I was well pissed off when diana died, but only cos they shut the town and i used to go there every Saturday and i couldn't, ruined my bloody week.

9-11 has to be a shocker for most. Within recent memory, so we probably all have our own stories to tell. As it unfolded, and we watched in shock on PC's at work, as the pictures emerged, work had just come to a halt. In the end people were just being sent home, because nobody could concentrate, and there seemed little point to sorting invoices and deliveries.

What about the fashion diva Stan Ogden with his donkey jacket

Ayrton Senna for me.

You'd do Ayrton Senna?

That tickled me Mr R!

As usual, the usual bollox about party-times for Mrs Thatcher's death.

Disgusting. Shame on you.

No,shame on her.

She and her cronies ripped up the social contract that had existed since the war. She told people it was OK to enrich themselves and that they had no need to care for the poorer members of society.

She destroyed the manufacturing base and deregulated the financial institutions - creating the casino economy that denies hard working people the rewards of their honest labour -preferring instead to reward the spivs and speculators that make nothing other than large sums of money for themselves.

A uniquely evil woman. Responsible, as the popularising ideologue, for the shameful mean-spirited right wing governments that have governed Britain without a break since 1979.

Judge a woman by the company in which she is comfortable : Pinochet, Reagan and Botha. Murderers by proxy each and every one.

Shame on her and anyone that would shed a tear for her worthless life.

Thank you, Ben Elton.

Tosh, tosh, tosh, tosh, tosh.

Wow, so much tosh in one post.

Tell me which bit you disagree with and I'll explain why you're wrong.

Are you saying Gordon Brown is right wing?

I thought he would've been more of hooker myself ..

All of it.

Twice.

The Blair/Brown government that slavishly followed Bush foreign policy and took us to war again and again.

The Blair/Brown government that has done nothing except exacerbate a regressive tax system that means that the gap between rich and poor has widened under their stewardship.

The Blair/Brown government that has done nothing to restrict the casino economics of the city and repeatedly states ' we are very comfortable with the super-rich'.

The Blair/Brown government that would offer not one penny of support to save jobs at Rover or Woolworths but can release unlimited billions (£170,000,000,000 so far) for their friends in the city so they can keep their bonuses.

You're damn right that they are right wing. Not only are they to the right of all previous labour governments but on any objective scale they are to the right of the Heath and MacMillan Conservative governments.

Often the truth is told more clearly in the foreign press than our own. The day after Blair's election in 1997 the Washington Post leader stated 'the ideology of Margaret Thatcher won its greatest victory when Tony Blair was elected Labour Prime Minister of Great Britain'

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I'll take that as you not being able to put together a reasonable argument with any point.

Or, you could tell me what in that you believe is wrong and why.

You sir are blinded by the facts of looking into something to much. The British car industry was dying on its arse and shouldnt have been saved, (lets save a couple of Brummies jobs just for the sake of it when they are not pulling their weight) as this only affects the small minority of people who work there maybe 2000+ (i dont know exactly). However the reason the banks were saved is because if they cannot trade with eachother the whole economic world will collapse and would lead to a longer recession and everyone loosing their jobs

Rover made shite cars and Woolworths was shite

Infact the amount of cash both Labour & the Tories pumped into the British car industry beggars belief

No one in their right mind would of bought a Rover made in the last 30 years

To be fair, I was desperate and I did not have it for long (before the head-gasket went )

You could do.

Or you could take it as being that not only was every point you made socialist claptrap so beloved of the working man who has never done a day's work in their life, the fact that the subject has been done to death over the years on The Bunker and you leftie types still get some kind of sexual kick from describing The Iron Lady as the antichrist and the fact that while I'm at work I have neither the time nor the inclination to get into a long drawn out argument to try and enlighten a blinkered man to the facts of the matter.

Nobody's perfect but Thatcher did more good than bad. FACT.