Would it have been better if Mac had died after Ocean Rain?

[KillingMoon]

A poet lives forever in his verses

A musician lives forever in his music

Artistic life is another dimension

[camden jack]

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness"

[Dave Smith]

Never eat yellow snow.

[kook]

Never eat yellow snow.

Chrissakes, Dave! They're being poetic.

Watch out where the huskies go
Don't you eat that yellow snow

There, that's better

[KillingMoon]

Never eat yellow snow.

Speaking from experience,Mr?

[withahip]

Oh snap!

Oh no you didn'!

woomp there it is!

[Scouser]

I wish Mac a long, happy life. I look forward to many, many great gigs in the future.

[withahip]

Think about it.

We would have been left with four peerless albums, his image would never age...he would forever have that hair, that voice, those interviews. There would be plays, films... a museum. Will, Les and Pete could have retired on the royalties. Pete would never have needed to get on his motorbike that fateful day and would still be with us.

Every generation would discover the Bunnymen like they do Joy Divison and The Doors - they would, in short, be immortal.

Just a thought.

I wish Mac a long, happy life. I look forward to many, many great gigs in the future.

[DivaDiana77]

I still wish someone one would grab a hold of him and make him well. I mean, seriously, peeps Depeche Mode sound absolutely fabulous. Martin Gore's voice on the one solo track he sang on Sounds of the Universe (Jezebel) was exquisitely beautiful. Dave Gahan can still belt out the tunes, but Gore's voice is really full yet light and sweet. They sounds just as good if not better than 30 years ago. Mac's voice on the old albums takes your breath away like that. How much better could he be if he were in better vocal health? I feel cheated out of the Mac that could have been. And I mean seriously, out of all the 80s groups, who knew that one of the weirdest of them would last the longest. OK, at least in the US they were considered weird, though I hear they were teen idols in Germany.

[In The Margins]

I still wish someone one would grab a hold of him and make him well. Mac's voice on the old albums takes your breath away like that. How much better could he be if he were in better vocal health?

Agreed.

If he was sober and in good physical condition (no bronchitis, acid reflux, sore throats) he would rule the world.

Maybe this is his own particular form of suicide.

It's such a shame.

[DivaDiana77]

For comparison--2009 video for Fragile Tension from Sounds of the Universe

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[kook]

they were teen idols in Germany.

They weren't

[tonywojo]

words never die

[Dr Cheese]

I wish Mac a long, happy life. I look forward to many, many great gigs in the future.

Stop taking the piss.

[Scouser]

Arse licking posts like that seems to be the way VT is going nowadays. I prefer the old days when all we talked about was Kook's tits and Frank was still Frank.