"I told Bruce Land of Hope and Dreams was on my bucket list, and he said he would play it for me. I played my voice app and I really believe we connected. He added: "Bruce was so kind and a fantastic human. Sharing a photo of himself with Springsteen and his wife, Claire, Charlie described it as a "magical moment." Īs well as getting a shoutout on stage, Bird also got to meet his music idol this weekend too. On Friday night at his first of three shows in Dublin, Springsteen played 27 songs, and dedicated 'Land of Hope and Dreams' to his "friend" Charlie Bird.įor all the latest news straight to your inbox, sign up for our FREE newsletters here. The former RTÉ broadcaster is terminally ill with Motor Neurone Disease, or ALS as it is commonly known in the US, and is a huge Springsteen fan who has long dreamed of meeting The Boss. The National Enquirer defended publishing a picture of Whitney Houston in her coffin by saying the image was "beautiful," while a photo of the singer's daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown netted its unscrupulous photographer over $100,000.Charlie Bird has described the "magical moment" Bruce Springsteen dedicated a song to him in front of 18,500 fans in Dublin's RDS Arena. Assumedly some people then buy those publications, so there's at least a segment of the population that's still fascinated in seeing them. Those who are willing to take sneak pictures of celebrities in their caskets can make a quick payday from the sleaziest tabloids, who splash the images across their covers. ![]() This fascination with the dead bodies of famous people has never really stopped, but by making death more illicit - something not to be seen or talked about - these photos now have a much seedier side to them. Still, the photography boom saw sales of images of all kinds, so why not throw some death photography into the mix? Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, was a massive celebrity in his day, and the image of him taken after he died (pictured) was sold as a card, according to History. Fortunately, the January 1871 edition of the Philadelphia Photographer had just the solution for exposing those peepers: "This you can effect handily by using the handle of a teaspoon put the lower lids down, they will stay but the upper lids must be pushed far enough up, so that they will stay open to about the natural width, turn the eyeball round to its proper place, and you have the face nearly as natural as life." Death photography may have been an important cultural practice, but it sounds like calling it an "unpleasant duty" was an understatement. ![]() If that was the photographer's goal, they were going to need to open the corpse's eyes. (This of course meant actually moving the dead body, which was literally deadweight at that point.)īut even bright sunlight couldn't make a dead body look alive. ![]() Death photography was such a big business, the Order of the Good Death reports that trade journals like the Philadelphia Photographer gave tips to "afford assistance to some photographer of less experience, to whom it might befall the unpleasant duty to take the picture of a corpse." An 1869 edition said to place the corpse near a window, to take advantage of the natural light.
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