If you could. ...

If you could bring one person back to life (*excluding the obvious family and friends) Who would it be?

Also maybe a little "why" as well.



I was reading "HARPO SPEAKS!" by Harpo Marx and a co author. Somewhere in the middle this was mentioned with Alexander Woolcott (*practically half the book is devoted to his friendship with Woolcott)

It's apparently a good sign of personality.

I'm sticking with Nikola Tesla, although he'd probably have relatively little power to change things in his idealistic way. Society being as it is.

I'd also hope he wouldn't just die again in like two minutes.

I would have said Freddie but this question wasn't relegated only to musicians.

For the greater good, Tesla

Keith Moon. The world needs more Keith Moon.

If I had to choose one, it'd be... [b]Carl Sagan[/b] - The world needs more people like him. If you're not familiar with his work, here -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan I'd advise reading his book 'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark'. It's full of gems such as these... [i]“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”  [/i]And... [i]"I find many adults are put off when young children pose scientific questions. Why is the Moon round? the children ask. Why is grass green? What is a dream? How deep can you dig a hole? When is the world’s birthday? Why do we have toes? Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else: ‘What did you expect the Moon to be, square?’ Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys the grown-ups. A few more experiences like it, and another child has been lost to science. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before 6-year-olds, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that we don’t know something? Is our self-esteem so fragile?” [/i]Others that spring to mind... Freddie Mercury and John Deacon, obviously.  Albert Einstein - I think he'd still have a thing or two to work out and  share with us all. That could come in handy.  Jesus - Just to see if he'd come back to life, because, if he didn't, then he never existed. Then that'd be settled for me once and for all. Although, I don't believe for one fraction of a second he had magical powers.  Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy - In my opinion they're the funniest comedians ever. Absolute legends.  Elvis Presley - I'm not really a fan as such, but it's Elvis!  There's others, but it's late. I might add more later.

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[b]Day dop wrote: [/b] If I had to choose one, it'd be...

Others that spring to mind...

Freddie Mercury and John Deacon, obviously. 

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John is alive!!

Did you kill him? TELL ME YOU DIDN'T! ;(

Klaus Kinski in his prime :) I really would like to see him, teamed up with Werner Herzog again, and makin a movie like "The Wrath of God" Part 2 or something.
And of course Klaus will do promotion for that film in a late night talk show, were he`s having one of his legendary coke rants about nowadays celebreties.

Niccolo Paganini...just curious if he is really that bloody good...Louis Spohr wasn`t too impressed..so I want to see who`s right and who`s wrong.

Leonardo da Vinci...I would like to give him the opportunity to work with Computers...I think he will understand them quite quickly.

Freddie...with the implied condition to go on Tour/ Recording with Queen again :) ...selfish me, I know....

For the musicians' department, I'd choose John Bonham and John Entwistle, just to see them perform, and perhaps have a masterclass from them on drums and bass respectively. Frank Zappa deserves a resurrection too, both for his music and his opinion on the world now.

For non-musicians, Groucho Marx and John Belushi are my top choice, because I'm curious about their style of comedy.

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[b]Day dop wrote: [/b] If I had to choose one, it'd be...

Others that spring to mind...

Freddie Mercury and John Deacon, obviously. 

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John is alive!!

Did you killed him? TELL ME YOU DOESN'T! ;([/QUOTE]

*kill, *didn't ;)

Fleegle from the Banana Splits. Sadly missed. Or possibly Jesus, the central figure in the Christian religion and son of God. Tough choice. On balance, Fleegle is slightly in the lead.

Day dop wrote: If I had to choose one, it'd be...

Elvis Presley - I'm not really a fan as such, but it's Elvis! 
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 Day dop, don't you know Elvis is still alive? ;)

And as far as I can tell, he has spent the last couple of decades on the internet, claiming Crazy Little Thing Called Love as his own.

Check this out:   [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flt0aKtklXs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flt0aKtklXs[/url]

And : [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceUT4f2fVho]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceUT4f2fVho[/url]

I think I might just have to say FDR. The world could sure use some Roosevelt today...

But I really have to give this question a little more thought.

anyone not quite "out to grass" at the time of their leaving

Rik Mayall, Ronnie Dio, Peter Sellers, (a burger-free) Elvis, Douglas Adams, Robin Williams, John Wayne, Frankie Howerd, Jon Lord and finally...
Cushing-Lee-Price (the unholy trinity of horror).


reason i don't pick the under 40s? they'd be so full of themselves...they'd kill themselves the self-same way again

Thanks Chief! :)

Cool question.

First choice would be Freddie.

Other possible choices: George Carlin, Christopher Hitchens, Mozart. John Lennon, James Dean, Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix.

brENsKi: So no Freddie?

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brENsKi: So no Freddie? [/QUOTE]

definitely not!!! for the same rule I used for the under-40s. Freddie was on a one-way-ticket-to-self-ruin. pity is, if he'd had the nine lives of one of his cat's, he'd have used every last one of them being the same hedonistic, irresponsible prick he was from 78-86

no point whatsoever in saving those who won't be saved