RIP Paul Daniels
 

Magician Paul Daniels dies aged 77.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35829251

Not surprising as we know but still sad nevertheless.:(

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RIP Paul

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Well, as you said not a surprise but still very sad news.

Paul Daniels single handedly made me a fan of magic and the art of illusion and he will be fondly remembered by many I'm sure. I went to see him at the Bedford Corn Exchange around 10 years ago and even up close and personal, his magic tricks fooled me with ease. He really was a master of his art and magic at its best is pure artistry.

RIP.

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RIP Paul Daniels.

A true all round entertainer and will be missed.

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I absolutely loved his TV show in the 80s and would have liked to see more of him on the telly in more recent times.

RIP Mr Daniels.

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When a Sunday paper reported he had been released to spend his final days at home, knew it wasn't going to be long. He'll be much missed. Cancer takes yet another victim. Scientists, instead of telling us how to make the perfect cuppa, how about finding cures for cancer?

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Scientist's are working damn hard to try to find a cancer cure Mark but its not that easy when you are tackling such a formidable foe.

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RIP Paul Daniels

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The problem is, Cancer isn't one condition with one cure and one cause. It's hundreds, if not thousands of conditions that all share one or more similarities, and has multiple causes, and multiple potential treatments. What works for one cancer won't work for another.

That's why the Cancer probably has more researchers looking for a cure or treatment than any other condition.

It's not much comfort if you know someone who has died from cancer (believe me, I know this from experience) but cancer treatment has come on in leaps and bounds even in the last 5 years, and from what i've ready, most sufferers have a far better chance of being cured than even a few years ago.

I'm said to see Paul Daniels go. In his heyday, he was funny, but he was also a good magician. It's a shame that none of the mainstream channels seem interested in magic shows now. I think the problem is that while Paul Daniels and other UK magicians were happy sticking to card tricks and making people vanish, the likes of David Copperfield were busy making the Statue of Liberty and Helicopters apparently vanish. The thought they'd have to pay a lot of money to improve on what the Americans were doing is probably what put off the mainstream channels.

Sadly, the nearest I came to seeing Paul Daniels live is when I was taken by my then Girlfriend to see a production of "The Invisible Man" at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley. Martin Daniels (his son) apparently designed the special effects, which were excellent, and made it hard to remember there wasn't an invisible man in the auditorium.

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I spoke to him a few years back when hew came on our radio show, sadly he was not the man I hoped he'd be. I was a massive fan when I was a kid and they say to never meet your heroes. RIP indeed though, he'll be greatly missed.

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I met him when I appeared on his gameshow Every Second Counts with my then wife.
He stole her watch without her realising.

RIP Paul.

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He played a trick on me at a school fete (1980), just a guess which hand the coin is which obviously he made it disappear then reappear to pay for me to play a game on one of the stalls.

The last time I saw him was only less then 3 months ago at the Christmas panto in Ipswich.

His chop cup routine was one of the best trick I've seen, I think it was voted No2 or 3 of all time on some TV show I saw a while back.

RIP Paul. :(

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Sadly not a magic ending for him. Thoughts go to Debbie.

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I loved his shows, R I P,

I read of this first the other day,very sad indeed..........