RIP Rory O'Donoghue

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

Sad passing of an Australian icon

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/...19-h071hl.html

[gary]

Very sad to hear this. He was so very, very talented.

https://www.youtube.com/user/roryrac...able_polymer=1

[ChrisV (Chris)]

Very sad. I watched the aunty and Thin Arthur at a very impressionable age. One of my favourites was Nazrat Super Ape!

[Boozlefoot]

The only one able to keep Aunty Jack from ripping everybody's bloody arms off. Bless you, Rory! "Sunny"

[erick (Eric)]

Yes, sad. I'm sure that I remember joining the studio audience for one Aunty Jack show taping back in the 70s but when I look at the historical dates I'm not so sure. Maybe in my dreams?

[Ric]

RIP Rory, very sad indeed.

I remember seeing them at the Canberra Theatre in the early 70's. They were doing a live show called "Auntie Jack sings Wollongong the Brave".

[Visionary (David)]

A great talent, a sad loss, RIP Rory O'Donoghue. They were so cheeky, famously broadcasting in colour before the officially gazetted time, brilliant!

[gary]

Originally Posted by erick

Yes, sad. I'm sure that I remember joining the studio audience for one Aunty Jack show taping back in the 70s but when I look at the historical dates I'm not so sure. Maybe in my dreams?

Hi Eric,

Still sad about this days later and even more sad to hear of the circumstances
surrounding Rory's death.

I was lucky enough to see them on a few occasions including at the ABC
studios in Gore Hill for the recording of some of the Farrelly Brother
sketches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wYM7mve7lI

In the late 70's or early 80's they performed Boys Own Mcbeth in the
Cleveland Street Theatre, not far from where Rory and Graham first
met at Sydney U. It had over 600 performances.