Deaths
- 3 January - Alex Campbell, folk singer, 61
- 10 January – Marion Hutton, singer and actress, 67
- 13 March - Gerald Moore, pianist, 87
- 18 March - Elizabeth Poston, composer, 81
- 24 May – Hermione Gingold, actress and singer, 89
- 24 August - Douglas Byng, comic singer and songwriter, 94
- 19 October – Jacqueline du Pré, cellist, 42 (multiple sclerosis)
- 3 December - Marjorie Eyre, operatic soprano, 90
Read more about this topic: 1987 In British Music
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)