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The celebrity that hit me like this was Anthony Bourdain. It sucks to lose someone who you identify with, even if you never met them.
Robin Williams for me. I was at a bar with friends when I found out and just sat in stunned silence for at least a half hour.
Was at a restaurant with my wife when it came on the news and we both started crying and everyone looked at us like we were crazy and the waitress brought us a free appetizer and cried with us.
Never had a celebrity death affect me like that.
Yeah, Robin hit me hard, too, but not as hard as Bourdain. I liked Robin more from when I was a kid while I identified with Bourdain as an adult. He inspired me to travel and is the reason I met my wife.
Yeah, that was really hard for me as well. He, Bourdain, and even Hunter S. Thompson as well. For musicians, Freddy Mercury is the famous one that was rough, and a buddy of mine who killed himself back in '04 and got me into using DAWs and such initially. More recently, LaForge from Skeleton Dick, 30 Foot Fall, and sometimes a band I was in as well (among others).
MCA for me. changed my entire life when that happened
Douglas Adams for me.