Pop singer George Michael died on Christmas Day, 2016 (WP) and Prince on April 21st. Both were in their 50s. They are remembered in this south Belfast mural by Glen Molloy.
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Christopher Walken, Adam Ant, and Harrison Ford are the final three figures from Glen Molloy’s gallery of stars on Corporation Street. The wide shot below also shows Noel Gallagher and Bruce Lee in the second and third spots.
See previously: Jack Nicholson | Billy Casper | Shaun of the Dead/Leo DiCaprio/Bowie
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Three more panels from the Glen Molloy gallery on Corporation St: Shaun (of Shaun Of The Dead, played by Simon Pegg), Dom Cobb (from Inception, played by Leonardo DiCaprio), and David Bowie.
Previously: Jack Nicholson in God Of Madness | Billy Casper from Kes.
Shaun replaces DMC’s Three Missed Calls, below.
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The hopeless case, Billy Casper (played by David Bradley), from the Ken Loach film Kes, flashes two fingers at the world – as seen in the poster for the movie.
This is another of the 10 panels by Glen Molloy on Corporation Street. See also: Jack Nicholson in God Of Madness.
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Despite the “Work in progress!” tag, this Glen Molloy (ig) mural to the recently deceased Carrie Fisher (in the guise of Princess Leia from Star Wars) didn’t go any further. Fisher died two days after George Michael, to whom Molloy also painted a tribute.
Loopland Park, Belfast.
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Glen Molloy’s Jack Nicholson takes the place of Jonny McKerr’s Bacchus on the wall of Direct Wine Shipments in Corporation Street.
See the final entry in the series for an overview.
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“Hasta siempre, Comandante” is a 1956 song celebrating the life of Che Guevara, with Fidel Castro appearing in the final verse to join the Cuban people in saying “Hasta siempre, Comandante” to Che as he departs Cuba for the Simba Rebellion in Congo. The slogan is here applied to Fidel himself on the occasion of his death in November 2016 at the age of 90.
Here is French singer Nathalie Cardone’s version on the song, which reached #2 in France and #1 in Belgium in 1997:
The Castro mural is next to one for fellow Marxist Salvadore Allende of Chile: see La Historia Es Nuestra.
See also Hasta La Victoria Siempre.
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Children’s drawings of houses complete a mural for the Equality Can’t Wait/Build Homes Now (Fb | web) mural that has remained unfinished for a long time on Northumberland Street – the intermediate stage in the last image below, beneath a lamppost sticker for the campaign.
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“¡Hasta la victoria siempre!” (“Ever onward to victory!”) was a saying of Che Guevara’s. It is used in this mural as a valediction to Che comrade and long-time Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who died at the end of November (2016). The portrait of Castro is perhaps this Korda image of Castro entering Havana after the deposition of Batista in 1959.
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A good or bad sign of things to come? Wild-style writing in McKibben’s Court, Belfast.
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