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We will be covering the sad celebrity news and, where available and appropriate, the celebrity deaths causes, to honor their memory and celebrate their legacies. The celebrity deaths of 2025 have been heartbreaking, and in this video, we take a moment to reflect on the lives of these icons. Please share your memories of these stars in the comments below as we remember them together.
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00:00Okay, so we've just waded through this pretty big compilation of celebrity news, focusing on the losses from September 2025.
00:08And for this deep dive, we want to go beyond just, you know, listing names.
00:12We're aiming to give you the context, the legacies, maybe some surprising bits about the people we lost last month.
00:17Right, that's the idea.
00:18To quickly pull together this really diverse group, I mean, ages 28 up to 91, what's kind of striking about September, I think, is how it just lays bare the evolution of fame itself.
00:29You've got these, like, pillars of traditional Hollywood passing at the same time as these totally new kinds of digital stars.
00:36Exactly. The range is just, wow, we're talking screen icons, people who basically built rock and roll, modern reality stars, Grammy winners.
00:44Okay, let's unpack this.
00:45And I think we really have to kick things off with a name that, well, defined American movies for decades.
00:50You knew Robert Redford, of course.
00:52Passed away September 16th, age 89, natural causes.
00:55Now, everyone knows the movie star, right?
00:57Butch Cassidy, The Sting, that leading man.
01:00But if you step back and look at the bigger picture, Redford the actor is almost maybe secondary to Redford the institution builder.
01:09That's, yeah, that's a really interesting way to put it.
01:11Does that happen often?
01:12You know, where their later work, like activism or building something like Sundance, starts to overshadow the acting for later generations?
01:20It certainly can, especially with something as lasting and impactful as the Sundance Film Festival.
01:25I mean, that festival is just critical for independent film worldwide.
01:28And it came directly from his commitment to artists, you know, outside the big studios.
01:33Plus his lifelong environmental work, social activism.
01:36You see a legacy that's not just about being on screen, but about making real change.
01:40He really showed how celebrity could be used to build something, well, permanent.
01:44Okay, and then another really long, impressive career.
01:47Pat Crowley, also natural causes, passed away at 91.
01:50Yeah, decades in film and TV.
01:52The sources mention she actually won a Golden Globe really early on, which shows that initial buzz.
01:57But I think for a lot of people, she's probably most remembered for Please Don't Eat the Daisies, the 60s sitcom.
02:03It really says something about classic TV, doesn't it?
02:05That a role from, wow, over 60 years ago is still so recognizable.
02:09Definitely. And rounding out this sort of classic screen talent group, there's Graham Greene.
02:15He passed on September 1st, age 73, after a long illness.
02:19Ah, yes. His cultural impact is significant, especially around representation.
02:23The key thing here really is that Greene was a First Nations Oneida actor.
02:27He broke major ground in Hollywood, got that Oscar nomination for Dances with Wolves in 1990.
02:33His visibility, his success.
02:34It really helped open doors for more authentic Indigenous stories in mainstream film.
02:39That nomination wasn't just for him. It felt like a, well, a cultural turning point.
02:43Right. Okay, let's shift gears a bit to the music world, because September was rough there, too,
02:48particularly for, like, foundational rock and roll figures.
02:51Yeah, what's fascinating here is how influential these musicians were,
02:55even if they weren't always the household name frontman.
02:57Sometimes they were working more, you know, behind the scenes or just alongside maybe slightly more famous bandmates.
03:03Sonny Curtis is a perfect example, right?
03:06Died at 88. Complications from pneumonia. An influential guy.
03:09Oh, absolutely. Curtis was, like, one of the architects of that classic rock and roll sound.
03:15Fantastic singer, songwriter, guitarist.
03:17And crucially, he was in Buddy Holly's band, The Crickets, after Buddy died.
03:22He wrote so many classic songs, rock, country, pop.
03:26We tend to forget that these guys often cross genres, you know.
03:29They weren't just rock guys or country guys. They were the backbone of that whole era's sound.
03:33Then there's Mark Vollman, another key founder of a major band.
03:36He passed on September 5th, age 78, from complications related to a blood disease.
03:41Vollman's legacy is really multifaceted.
03:43Co-founded the Turtles, obviously, you know, massive hits like Happy Together, singer, guitarist, songwriter there.
03:49Oh, yeah. Huge band.
03:50Huge. But what's interesting, the sources noted he later completely shifted gears and became a professor.
03:55Talked music business. That's pretty unique, isn't it?
03:59Being a genuine rock legend and teaching the next generation about the industry.
04:03That really is amazing. I didn't know he was a professor.
04:06Balancing, like, Turtles fame with lectures.
04:09Yeah.
04:09It highlights a legacy that's performance, creation, and education. That's quite something.
04:14It really shows a commitment to passing on knowledge.
04:17A different kind of institution building than Redford, maybe, but still lasting.
04:21We also lost Rick Davis, English musician, co-founded Supertramp.
04:24Another giant band.
04:26Right. He passed from cancer, September 6th, age 81. He was their key vocalist and keyboardist.
04:32So, another foundational piece of a major sound gone.
04:35And while those feel like, you know, the end of an era for classic rock, the shift to modern country feels quite abrupt with the next loss, Brett James.
04:44Yeah, that sudden change in the cause of death, you know, from natural causes or long illness to a sudden accident, it always hits differently.
04:51Wait, that plane crash. That was Brett James. I knew the songs, of course, but maybe not the name behind them. This was shocking, yeah.
04:58Age 57. Plane crash in North Carolina. And here's where it gets, well, really interesting, I think.
05:04James' legacy is tied up in this sort of hidden structure of 21st century country.
05:09Exactly right. He was incredibly prolific. A Grammy-winning country songwriter and producer.
05:15His defining moment, the one that got him that Best Country Song Grammy, was co-writing Jesus Take the Wheel for Carrie Underwood back in 2005. Huge hit.
05:24Massive. Yeah. So, he represents that kind of behind-the-scenes celebrity. The songwriter whose work everyone knows, even if they don't recognize his face, his impact is felt every time that song plays.
05:35It's interesting comparing his loss to, say, the Super Tramp or Cricket's founders. James' work might be less varied, maybe, but just incredibly powerful commercially in the modern music scene.
05:45It says a lot about how music works now, definitely. Okay, so, shifting back to TV and film for a moment, let's talk about some small screen icons.
05:52Like Polly Holiday. Died at 88 from pneumonia.
05:55And she's instantly recognizable for that one role, right? Flo Castleberry, the waitress on Alice in the 70s.
06:02Kiss my grits.
06:03Exactly. That character became, like, cultural shorthand for a certain kind of sassy Southern personality.
06:10Flo was so iconic, it almost defines her whole career, which happens a lot with great character actors, doesn't it?
06:14They find immortality through that one perfect part.
06:17True. And then Paula Shaw passed at 84 after a long illness.
06:21Her career really showed incredible versatility across decades.
06:25The sources highlighted how she moved between, like, darker stuff she was in, Freddy vs. Jason.
06:30Oh, wow.
06:31Yeah. And then also being this reliable presence in tons of, you know, much softer Hallmark Channel movies.
06:37That kind of range, from horror slashers to feel-good Christmas romance, it really speaks to a character actor's adaptability.
06:44Definitely.
06:44Okay, now we get to some of the younger losses, the more tragic and unexpected ones.
06:50And these really underscore that whole evolving idea of celebrity we mentioned earlier.
06:54Brad Everett Young died at just 46 in a car accident September 14th.
06:58He seems like a very modern kind of multi-talented person.
07:02Absolutely. Young had this really busy, varied career you couldn't just pin down to one thing.
07:07He was an actor, yes, but also a celebrity photographer, quite sought after, apparently.
07:11And he founded this arts education initiative, Dream Loud Official.
07:16So his legacy is about using talent across different creative fields and trying to drive social change through art.
07:22Sort of fits that modern entrepreneurial celebrity mold.
07:25And then the really tragic story of Joshua Allen, only 36.
07:29Struck by a train in Fort Worth, Texas on September 30th, his fame came specifically through, like, competitive TV, right?
07:37That's right. Widely known as the season four winner of So You Think You Can Dance.
07:41That win really defined his public persona.
07:44It's another example of how modern fame can be almost instantaneous achieved through reality TV or a competition, rather than, say, decades of touring or acting training.
07:53And finally, representing maybe the newest form of celebrity, the viral star we have, Rolling Ray, the youngest person on this list passed away September 3rd at just 28.
08:00Rolling Ray really embodies a completely different kind of fame.
08:03Social media influencer, reality TV personality, known mainly from the Zeus Network.
08:09His whole career basically existed online, digitally, impacting a generation who, you know, might genuinely not know who Robert Redford was.
08:17His death, which was confirmed by his mother and the network, it rippled instantly across social media.
08:22Very modern phenomenon.
08:23So what does this all mean?
08:25When you step back and look at just one month, September 2025, the sheer breadth of talent lost is kind of staggering.
08:32From people who built institutions and died naturally in their 90s, to people who found fame through a viral moment and died suddenly in their 20s or 30s from accidents or illness.
08:40It really does raise an important question, I think, about how we perceive fame and legacy now.
08:45You have these foundational figures, the Walk Band co-founders, the songwriters like Brett James, whose work is everywhere but whose name might not be.
08:53The institution builders like Redford, their influence stretched over 50, 60 years.
08:59And then you have figures like Rolling Ray, their entire career, their community, their impact.
09:04It's all within the digital sphere and they pass away decades younger.
09:08It just clearly shows this rapid ongoing shift in media, in consumption and, well, what even counts as a celebrity loss today.
09:17Yeah, it's like looking at a cross-section of entertainment history through the lens of who we lost in just 30 days.
09:22It proves celebrity means something totally different now compared to when, say, Pat Crowley or Robert Redford were starting out.
09:28Exactly. And when you think about the legacy, someone like Redford, who literally built Sundance, this whole ecosystem, versus a viral star whose impact might be incredibly intense and immediate within their specific online community, but perhaps more fleeting.
09:44How will future generations weigh that?
09:47You know, what defines a meaningful celebrity loss?
09:50Will the size of the online audience eventually matter more than traditional cultural impact?
09:54That's definitely something for you to chew on.
09:57Absolutely. Well, if you want more deep dives like this into celebrity news, pop culture, all that stuff, make sure you subscribe to Stateside Gossip.
10:04We'll catch you on the next one.
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