Mr Jimmy Savile RIP

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2055045/Jimmy-Savile-dead-Jimll-Fix-It-presenter-dies-home-aged-84.html

Lived near me and was always in the local curry house. Once kicked my sleeping brother in the park and asked me if he was dead.
Goodnight Jimmy,

Out-take 3:09'36
During the headline round:
DEAYTON: You used to be a wrestler didn't you?
SAVILLE: I still am.
DEAYTON: Are you?
SAVILLE: I'm feared in every girls' school in the country.
(Audience laugh)
DEAYTON: Yeah, I've heard about that.
SAVILLE: What have you heard?
DEAYTON: I've...
MERTON: Something about a cunt with a rancid, pus-filled cock.
(Huge audience laugh; Awkward pause)
SAVILLE: I advise you to wash your mouth out, my friend...
MERTON: That's what she had to do! (Audience laughs)

Wasn't that exchange fake though?
Anyway, a fb friend reckons he'll be dressed as Zombie Jimmy Saville for halloween, so it was all worth it just for that.

Not that he wasn't a slighty creepy chap, but I believe that above exchange is fake, prefered Ross Noble's take https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vILQhDGO8Xg

yeah that's totes urban myth

lot of 'I have some mindblowing stories about him but I need to wait for him to be dead before they can be told' talk over the years tho, so stoked for the madness

Presenter Dave Lee Travis told Sky News: "We are all going to be worse off without him around."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15507374

What are your memories of Sir Jimmy Savile?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wwPeSDCCAs&feature=fvwrel
was worth it all for that often shown piece. Shame the full clip is not around.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wdZXQTQyY8Q/SaZUOi8-tQI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/RSU1t8JYvkw/s400/sutcliffe-bruno-saville.jpeg

RIP befriender of the friendless.

Jimmy Saville is still alive...

Lock Thread.

The stories about him are almost all horrible but he was truly a very generous person who really did do things for nothing which other celebs wouldn't touch, such as working at Broadmoor and being a hospital porter. And didn't he claim to invent DJ-ing or something? So kudos for that.
http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/27782/photos/PHOTO_13481060_27782_7200331_ap.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcFE7HEgX3g

Showaddy Waddy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECWu9hAvar8

lot of 'I have some mindblowing stories about him but I need to wait for him to be dead before they can be told' talk over the years tho, so stoked for the madness

― We All Had Guess Papers (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 29 October 2011 15:44 (2 hours ago)

forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=827628&postcount=15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzf_o71tn7w

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/29/article-2055045-00625DE200000578-838_634x836.jpg

Best advert for the BUPA Great North Run ever.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/oct/29/jimmy-savile-dies-aged-84

His death is not being treated as suspicious.

hm

informal euthanasia, maybe

Is this the most British thread ever?

wat

I don't think I've ever heard of this guy, let alone been aware of his fame or importance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_turntables_and_a_microphone

inventing the entire genre of hiphop isnt enough for u?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2510/4058534600_f2fe2b4d9b.jpg

Ringo is the only one in that photo still alive.

http://www.musicrooms.net/files/artists/paul_weller_891970206.jpg

RIP big man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddNr7rebaQo
If I told my dad "clunk click" once, I told him a hundred times...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd3NRr4SYiA

RIP London-Brighton @ £4.94

"Your letter was only the start of it... "

I don't think I've ever heard of this guy, let alone been aware of his fame or importance.

Going by that logic fully half of ilx is "most American thread ever"

Louis Theroux's tribute:

http://louistheroux.com/blog/?p=63

that's quite lovely :)

I've got mixed feelings about Jimmy's passing, despite his massive popularity I never really cared for him in the way you do with some other broadcasters. I think his spiky toughness is a little too close to the surface for me to warm to him, the rumours that he hated children seemed all too believable. Nevertheless I grew up listening to him and watching him, so still feel some sadness at his passing.

There's a great interview with Bill Brewster in the book 'Last Night a DJ Saved my Life', http://djhistory.com/interviews/jimmy-savile which hints at his ruthlessness and vision. I know he's regarded as a creepy comedy figure now but he was one of the pivotal figures in the prehistory of club culture and for that alone he's worth remembering.

Thanks for that Alba, lovely read

RIP you old weirdo.

Personal ancedote, years ago I used to go out with a girl who was a nurse at Stoke Mandeville at the time when Sir Jimmy virtually lived there, she told me that nurses refused to be alone in the same room as him.... uh.... RIP nonetheless!

The Theroux doc was good in that it did (at least briefly) seem to get over the actual person rather than "Jimmy Savile" - clearly he was a man with some issues, but he was also resolutely an outsider. The tracksuits, the unabashed mother love, the (as I mentioned previously) unfashionable charity work. I think his refusal to play anything other than his own (slightly odd) game certainly made him an easy target for rumour and innuendo but I think he was a genuinely interesting character.

That doesn't read right, he had some issues AND he was an outsider, etc.

And some of the innuendo seesm to have been justified

That djhistory interview is great! Thanks Billy.

(Kept seeing that book at a cheapo bookshop which has now closed down, should've bought it - had it in my hands so many times but it was always the first to be put back when I felt guilty about buying another armful of books I'd never read)

http://www.maxfarquar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Did-Jimmy-fix-it-for-you.jpg

Jimmy Savile, star of children’s television favourite Jim’ll Fix It, sued the Sun in 2008 over a series of articles linking him to Haut de la Garenne, the Jersey children’s home where human remains were found and children were allegedly tortured and sexually abused. He initially denied ever visiting the home, despite photographic evidence to the contrary.

The conspiracy nutter blog community is really big into Savile, huh.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-15632264

It's how he would have wanted it.

As per Sir Jimmy's wishes, the casket will be at an angle of 45 degrees in the grave so he can see the sea.

Thinking he might have asked for some sort of periscope had he thought this through properly.

My director and I were somewhat anxious about showing Jimmy the film before transmission. It was very much a warts-and-all portrait. Will travelled up to Leeds for a special screening. Afterwards Jimmy said, “Yeah, that’s good, that is.”

Noel's catchphrase!

Flag at half mast outside his Glen Coe cottage on Thursday. Flag gone, wreaths on the door on Monday.

Did anyone else, as a kid, think his name was Jimmel Fixit?

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/06/world/europe/uk-tv-presenter-abuse/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

RIP you old weirdo.

Personal ancedote, years ago I used to go out with a girl who was a nurse at Stoke Mandeville at the time when Sir Jimmy virtually lived there, she told me that nurses refused to be alone in the same room as him.... uh.... RIP nonetheless!

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 October 2011 12:11 (11 months ago) Bookmark

hmmmm...

omar, there is more discussion of this whole thing on this thread:

Jimmy Saville is still alive...