# Ray Charles dead at 73

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-at-73/249699>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 10, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-at-73/249699 "2004-06-10T20:21:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-at-73/249699/1 "2004-06-10T20:21:02Z")

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[“Music was one of my parts … Like my blood. It was a force already with me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me, like food or water.”](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040610/ap_en_mu/obit_charles_8)  
-from his autobiography _Brother Ray_.

I am saddened beyond words. We shall not see his like again.

“Let’s Go Get Stoned”

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-at-73/249699/2 "2004-06-10T20:24:52Z")

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Two other threads on this already, right here in Cafe Society. What are you, bli—ooops . . .

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**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-at-73/249699/3 "2004-06-10T20:30:09Z")

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They weren’t there when I hit the new thread button.

_sigh_

Guess I’m “Born to Lose.”

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**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-at-73/249699/4 "2004-06-10T20:33:33Z")

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> [@Eve](#):
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> Two other threads on this already, right here in Cafe Society. What are you, bli—ooops . . .

Now _that’s_ funny! (But I’m really gonna miss ol’ Ray…)