Mais uma vez a notícia, desta vez na Blitz...
Bolas, que ainda não estou em mim... 33 aninhos... toda uma vida pela frente...

Morreu Stephen Gately, membro dos Boyzone, aos 33 anos (actualizado) Cantor estava a passar férias em Maiorca, Espanha. A causa da sua morte é desconhecida. Elton John, Andrew Lloyd Weber e governo irlandês apresentam pêsames.

Stephen Gately , membro da boysband irlandesa Boyzone , morreu este Sábado, 10 de Outubro, em circunstâncias ainda por apurar.

De acordo com o NME, o cantor encontrava-se a passar férias em Maiorca, Espanha , para onde os seus companheiros de banda deverão voar ainda hoje.
Segundo a mesma fonte, o manager da banda revelou que "ainda na Segunda-feira" estivera com Stephen Gately numa entrega de prémios e que a entourage dos Boyzone desconhece, por enquanto, o que possa ter causado a morte do intérprete. "Era um grande homem" , disse.
Chamada ao apartamento que Stephen Gately tinha em Maiorca na tarde de Sábado, a polícia espanhola não encontrou, no local, quaisquer indícios de que a morte tenha tido contornos violentos ou associados a consumo de estupefacientes. As autoridades irão agora tentar apurar as causas da morte do jovem.

Por seu turno, os restantes quatro membros dos Boyzone - Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham e Shane Lynch - emitiram um comunicado onde se mostram "arrasados" com a perda do seu " amigo e irmão , Steven. Partilhámos tempos maravilhosos e esperávamos vir a partilhar muitos mais. O Stephen era uma pessoa linda, tanto em corpo como em espírito. Iluminou as nossas vidas e as dos muitos amigos que tinha por todo o mundo".

Também o Ministro irlandês das Artes, Desporto e Turismo , Martin Cullen, salientou o trabalho de Stephen Gately como cantor e actor, afirmando que a sua morte "numa idade tão jovem é uma perda profissional e também pessoal".

Elton John, Stephen Fry e Andrew Lloyd Webber são outras das figuras do espectáculo que fizeram questão de manifestar o seu pesar pela morte de Stephen Gately.

Antes de os Boyzone se reunirem, em 2008, Stephen Gately dedicou o seu tempo a gravar um álbum a solo , New Beginning , bem como a experimentar a representação.
Stephen Gately tinha como parceiro amoroso o empresário Andrew Coles, que lhe fora apresentado por Elton John e David Furnish. Em 2006, o cantor e o companheiro celebraram em Londres uma cerimónia de compromisso civil.

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eu também fiquei tão chocada quando ouvi!!!! nem queria acreditar.....tal como tu também tinha uma relação de amor/ódio com os Boyzone (até cheguei a comprar um cd). É mais uma morte desnecessária, e que a meu ver, nunca se saberá ao certo o que aconteceu.....

Eu como fã de Rock e Metal (quando digo que a minha banda favorita são os TT as pessoas nem acreditam devido ao meu gosto musical), nunca fui ligada a outras boyband, conhecia as musicas porque ouvia na rádio e mais nada. O que me deixa realmente chocada é a idade com que ele morreu e assim de repente durante o sono, dá mesmo para pensar que a vida realmente é bastante curta e que a temos de aproveitar ao máximo.   

Stephen Gately: Why the Boyzone singer's death is the biggest story in the UK

Declaração oficial dos nossos babes relativamente ao desaparecimento do Stephen:

 
Monday, 12 October
Stephen Gately

We were deeply saddened to hear about Stephen Gately’s tragic passing over the weekend. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Andrew and Stephen’s family, friends and bandmates Ronan, Keith, Mikey and Shane.
Mark, Howard, Jason and Gary.

Stephen Gately, dos Boyzone, morreu devido a um edema pulmonar

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^ bem!! que foto mais macabra!
e os pomenores sobre a posição do corpo e tal.... que detalhe!!
que descanse em paz.

^ bem!! que foto mais macabra!
e os pomenores sobre a posição do corpo e tal.... que detalhe!!
-sofi

 
Podes crer! Pensei o mesmo qd vi a foto...

Os nossos meninos estão no funeral do Stephen...

Stephen Gately funeral: Grieving Boyzone in night vigil with coffin ahead of Dublin church service

By Chris Johnson and Tom Worden
Last updated at 9:25 AM on 17th October 2009

• Band expected to sing at the ceremony
  
• Boyzone show new tattoo tributes to Stephen Gately as police reveal his final few hours
• Bulgarian's statement to authorities revealed Gately, husband and Dochev were 'intimate' on night he died
• Dochev had seen Gately smoking cannabis joint in flat

Boyzone's Stephen Gately was given an emotional homecoming last night as the pop star made his final journey back to his working class roots.

Heartbroken parents Margaret and Martin joined the singer's four devastated bandmates and manager Louis Walsh to pay respects at a private prayer vigil and wake in Dublin's north inner city.

About 300 local people and fans lined streets near St Laurence O'Toole Church paying their own tribute to the West End star with a gentle applause.

 

Local resident Bernadette Manly said they had come out in support of Gately's parents, brothers Mark, Alan and Tony and devoted sister Michelle.

'You couldn't get better people,' said Mrs Manly.
Irish boyband Westlife joined mourners in paying tribute to Gately last night.
'We are here today as friends of Stephen, not as popstars,' the band said in a statement.
'It's a shame that today we have to say goodbye to him like this. Our love and support goes out to Andy and the rest of Stephen's family. Also to Keith, Mikey, Ronan and Shane, who have lost their best friend.'

Earlier yesterday, the four remaining members of Boyzone arrived in Majorca to take Stephen's body home, revealing matching tattoos in his memory. 
All of them have an 'S' for Stephen and the numbers 76 09, the years of his birth and death.

Ronan Keating, whose tattoo was visible on his right bicep, paid an emotional tribute to the singer, saying nothing will ever be the same again after his tragic death.

A source said: 'The tattoos were done as a mark of respect for Stephen.'

Mikey Graham and Keith Duffy dressed in pinstripe suits

 

Keating, 32, Shane, 33, Graham, 37, and Duffy, 35, and Gately's husband Andrew Cowles brought the body home from Majorca today. They arrived in Dublin late this afternoon.
The band plan to keep a vigil overnight in the church where the service will be held and will carry the casket alongside Gately's relatives.
They will also sing at the service in St Laurence O'Toole Church.

Keating said today in Majorca: 'Last Saturday our world changed forever when we lost our friend and brother Stephen.
On the verge of tears, he continued: 'Stephen lived to perform and truly loved being centre stage.

'You can be sure he's looking down on us now wishing we'd move over so he could flash his smile for the cameras one more time.'
He thanked fans for their support, adding: 'What the future holds for the four of us is too hard to think about. We know that nothing will ever be the same without our dear friend Stephen. Farewell brother.'
The funeral will be a very musical affair as the family believe 'it's what he would have wanted'.

Much of Dublin is expected to join in the emotional farewell for a favourite son.
As preparations continued, the exact details of  what happened on the night of his death emerged for the first time.
A Majorcan police statement taken from Bulgarian Giorgio Dochev, 25, who was in their holiday apartment that evening, reveals that Gately had smoked a cannabis joint and that the trio had been 'intimate'.

Gately, 33, was found dead in the living room of the £1m flat where he and internet tycoon husband Andrew Cowles, 32, were staying.

He died of natural causes after a fatal build-up of fluid in the lungs, thought to have been brought on by a heart attack.
Police said there were no suspicious circumstances regarding his death.

Gately and Cowles had met Dochev at a gay club called The Black Cat, in Port Andratx, in the south-west of the Mediterranean island, and taken him back to the apartment.
The police statement after Dochev's interview last Saturday reads: 'Last night at around 1.30am, the witness found himself in a bar Euphoria in Palma.

'He stared a friendship with a couple of lads whose names he does not know. That after a while, in this bar, they left together to another bar called Black Cat, staying there until approx 4am - and they invited him to accompany them home to carry on having a few drinks.

'Afterwads at around 4.10am, the three of them took a taxi and went to the address of the couple he had met in Port Andratx. Once at the residence, they were talking and became intimate, until 5.30am.'
Giorgio at this point went to a bedroom, leaving Stephen and Andrew on the sofa. The statement added the couple were both sleeping.
Five hours later, at around 10.30am Giorgio heard a long, loud doorbell but stayed in bed.

Around half-an-hour later he got up and saw the couple still on the sofa. One had his feet stretched out and the other was curled up.
Giorgio went back to bed, then heard Andrew get up and go into the main bedroom.

The Bulgarian wandered back into the lounge to have a cigarette and saw Stephen was still sleeping on the sofa.

'He then went into the bedroom where the other boy was until 1pm,' the statement read.
At that point, Dochev described getting up, having a shower and getting dressed being sitting on the sofa. 
The police statement continues: 'He sits next to the boy on the sofa and looking at him gets the feeling there's something wrong as he was very motionless and he could see no breathing movements or little snores.
'He then took him by the hand and tried to wake him up without success.
'He headed quickly into the partner's bedroom and woke him up, saying there was something wrong.

'Both of them headed to the lounge and tried to sit him up, seeing that he was very stiff and in a foetal position with his face on the cushion.

'On sitting him up they saw his lips and face were blue and that liquid was coming out of his mouth.
'As they thought he might have swallowed his tongue, his partner put a finger in his mouth. At this moment, they realised he was dead so they called the emergency services at between 1.15 and 1.30pm.'

Giorgio, who also said he had seen Gately smoke a cannabis joint in the flat, claimed last night he had been invited to the funeral at St Laurence O'Toole Church in Dublin.
Louis Walsh, who is missing X Factor this weekend, Sir Elton John and members of Take That are expected to join Gately's parents Margaret and Martin among the mourners.

They have been inundated with messages and condolence cards.

The couple said last night: 'It's been a great deal of comfort through this terrible time. All of your kind throughts and prayers have helped us to get through this horrendous ordeal.'
Last night Dochev, who is in the third year of a psychology degree, told a Bulgarian radio station he was traumatised by the death - and that he knew his attendance in Dublin might prove controversial.
'I don’t know what the people will tell about me going to the burial, because I know there will be some talking — if I’ve been his lover or not.'
'I feel bad, I don’t feel good at all.

'You don’t find a dead man in the house every day . . . Do you understand what I mean?

 

'I’m a strong man, the time heals everything, my boyfriend is here and with time passing everything will be healed. Everything will be clear when I do the interview for the British press.'
Dochev is in negotiations to sell his story for upwards of 70,000 euros.
Earlier this week, the Boyzone band members were flanked by security as they discussed the funeral arrangements at the St Laurence O'Toole Church with local police.
Local children cheered as the solemn-looking singers walked from a school adjoining the church before being driven out in the back of a police van.

During the poignant visit to see where Gately's body will be brought during his final journey home, Graham walked about the small churchyard with officers.

His three bandmates stood back, hidden in the darkness of the church doorway.
Friends of Gately have revealed he was a regular user of Class B drug cannabis.

'Yes he did enjoy smoking cannabis quite often but his lifestyle was far from rock and roll,’ said one.
Margaret Gately also revealed yesterday that there was a family history of heart problems.
The family’s lawyer, Gerald Kean, said: ‘There is a heart condition on his dad Martin's side of the family. Stephen would have had no idea he had this condition.
‘As soon as I heard he had died I knew it was a heart problem. It has lifted a huge burden off our family's shoulders,’ he added.
After seeing several family members die of heart problems, Gately's relatives will now undergo checks to see if they have any similar health issues.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1220657/Boyzone-new-tattoo-tributes-Stephen-Gately-police-reveal-final-hours.html#ixzz0UBKAEcTT

O Ronan está mesmo com um ar abatido...

foi maravilhoso a sua homenagem.
Isto custa mesmo, mas vê-los a sofrer custa ainda mais

Os nossos babes acabaram por não ir ao funeral (o que também seria de esperar, uma vez que tb estão a chorar a perda de um ente querido... que raio de semana...!), mas mandaram as suas mensagens de condolências.
Quanto ao funeral em si, apesar de não terem autorizado câmaras na igreja, colocaram altifalantes para as milhares de pessoas que estavam lá fora ouvirem a cerimónia fúnebre.
Os Boyzone cantaram e dedicaram uma música ao Stephen (Ronan sempre irrepreensível, mesmo com as emoções à flor da pele consegue cantar na perfeição...!), e que música...! Bem, e quanto ao discurso do Ronan... é de partir o coração... posso dizer que chorei baba e ranho a ouvir a parte final do discurso...
 
 

Stephen Gately funeral: Ronan Keating breaks down in tears as he pays tribute to Boyzone star

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 3:22 PM on 17th October 2009

Boyzone star Ronan Keating today performed a moving musical tribute at the funeral of former bandmate Stephen Gately.
The star sang In This Life as friends and family gathered to say farewell to the singer at the St Laurence O'Toole Church in Dublin.
Later, surrounded by bandmates Mikey Graham, Shane Lynch and Keith Duffy, Keating delivered a stirring eulogy, paying tribute to the man they called their 'little brother'.
He broke down in tears as he said: 'The world has lost one of its brightest stars. We have lost a brother and I have lost my wing man.
'For Stephen, we will carry on but it will never be the same without him.
'Forever young and never forgotten. A man, a friend, a brother, a son, a husband and a hero.
'We are going to miss you brother, we love you and we always will. We know you have found peace, perfect peace.'
He also told Gately's civil partner Andrew Cowles that he now had 'four new brothers' and Gately's parents Martin and Margaret they had 'four new sons', adding in a light moment that they should expect an expensive Christmas now they've also got 'eight new grandchildren'.
He also revealed Gatley's loved ones would 'by hook or by crook' finish a book that he had nearly completed about his life.

Band mate Graham added: 'He brought colour to the band - and that band now feel black and white without him.'
Gately was found dead on the sofa in his apartment in Port Andratx after a night out with Mr Cowles and Bulgarian clubber Georgi Dochev.
A post-mortem examination found he died from natural causes, the medical report recording pulmonary oedema or fluid on the lungs.

Ronan Keating (front left) and Boyzone members Mikey Graham (front right), Shane Lynch (back right) and Keith Duffy (back left) carry the coffin of Stephen Gately from St Laurence O'Toole Church in Dublin after
today's funeral service

 
Fans showered the coffin with white roses after the ceremony

 

Thousands of loyal Boyzone fans lined to streets to farewell the pop star

 

A devastated Louis Walsh, who managed Boyzone for 16 years, said outside the church: 'It's a difficult day but we have to celebrate his life.'
'It's an incredible atmosphere in the church, all his best friends are there, his family are there, it's what he would have wanted. He was just a great person.'
In a written tribute, the X Factor judge added: 'Stephen was one of life's positive people with a lovely nature and he was someone who always had a smile on his face. He loved to laugh and joke and was always the life and soul of the party and would give everyone he met his time.
'He would always thank me for the success he'd gained through Boyzone but on reflection I should be the one to have thanked him as he brought so much into my life, and the career I've loved in pop music is largely down to Stephen and the rest of Boyzone.

'I have still not come to terms with the fact that I won't see Stephen again, I keep expecting him to just turn up with a big grin on his face and deliver a cheeky wisecrack.
'I and all of Boyzone are completely broken, I've lost one of my best friends and Boyzone have lost a brother. The bond between the five was just amazing.

'They were always there for each other and always supported each other in everything that they did. The way the four guys have rallied around each other, Andy and Stephen's family this week is testament to the brotherhood of the group, I've truly never seen such closer bonds between anyone.'

Ronan, who performed his track In This Life, was joined by his wife Yvonne and their children

 

IN THIS LIFE - Ronan Keating

'Let the world
Stop turning
Let the sun
Stop burning
Let them tell me love's
Not worth going through
If it all falls apart
I will know
Deep in my heart
The only dream that
Mattered had come true
In this life,
I was loved by you'

Furnish, who introduced Gately to his civil partner Andrew Cowles, said: 'I just feel incredibly sad, it just seems so unfair, I just can't make sense of it. I know when Stephen died he was the happiest he's ever been in his life.' Of his partner Sir Elton, who will miss the ceremony because of commitments in Switzerland, Furnish added: 'He's completely bereft.'
Boyzone last night staged a vigil with Gately's coffin in the Dublin church.
They spent the night beside the body at the request of Gately's mother, who said he 'didn't like to be alone'.
The band emerged from the church at 6.30am this morning where they greeted somber fans, many of whom had slept outside.
Local resident Bernadette Manly, who was among the fans outside the church, said they had come out in support of Gately's parents, brothers Mark, Alan and Tony and devoted sister Michelle.
'You couldn't get better people,' said Mrs Manly.
Westlife issued a statement last night that read: 'We are here today as friends of Stephen, not as popstars.''It's a shame that today we have to say goodbye to him like this. Our love and support goes out to Andy and the rest of Stephen's family. Also to Keith, Mikey, Ronan and Shane, who have lost their best friend.'
 

Jason Donovan reads messages left by fans outside the church

 

The St Laurence O'Toole Church where the service will be held today

Messages of condolences have already been received from George Michael, David and Victoria Beckham, Simon Cowell, Take That, Westlife, U2, Robbie Williams, Cheryl Cole, Colin Farrell, Sharon Osborne, Brian McFadden and Delta Goodrem.
Furnish said: "I think sometimes God wants the good pure souls early and that's the way I think of it. I can't make sense of it any other way because he was such a good man."

Sir Elton, who is on tour, sent a bouquet of yellow flowers left just outside Laurence O'Toole Church, close to the main entrance.

Boyzone's manager and X Factor judge Louis Walsh arrived at the church half an hour before the service and was greeted by cheering fans.
"He would not believe the reception he's got today. He was living his dream," Walsh said.
"It's a fantastic feeling here today – we have to celebrate his life, he would absolutely love what was happening here today.
"He was always professional, he was so likeable. I wouldn't be where I was today if it wasn't for Boyzone. We're all in this together."
Gately's former band mates Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham and Shane Lynch were joined members of another Irish boyband, Westlife.

The church could only fit 550 mourners, but around 3,000 fans standing outside the church could listen to the ceremony via loudspeakers.
Mr Biggins, who stared in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with Gately, said: “He loved to work, he loved being with Boyzone, he loved singing, he loved everything.
“He was such a giver and that is what we will miss.”

Former Irish PM Bertie Ahern, father-in-law of Westlife star Nicky Byrne, said: “While this is very sad for the lads, people are so happy he achieved so much.
“It is nice to see so many people care about him.”

Gately, 33, was found dead on the sofa in his apartment in Port Andratx in Majorca last weekend after a night out with his civil partner Andrew Cowles and friend Georgi Dochev.

The Boyzone singers carried Gately's coffin to the church on Friday night and spent the night there with Gately's family in a vigil.

Mr Cowles asked that mourners make a donation to the Caudwell Children Charity, of which the pop star was an ambassador, instead of sending flowers.

brigada tânia pela pesquisa e por colocares aqui o acompanhamento a este caso.
Fico mto tocada, estou em lágrimas...

comentários... 1. ao menos não se trata de um caso de polícia que poderia denegrir toda a homenagem e valor que ele parece ter na sociedade irlandesa.
2 . a presença dos membros da banda é mesmo verdadeira e vâ-se mesmo que perderam um irmão. O Ronan esteve à altura, na sua presença, no discurso e na melodia.

que o Stephen (o rapaz dos lindos olhos) descanse em paz.

Muito obrigado Tânia. Eu também assisti em directo e fartei-me de chorar!!! Foi bonito de ver a maneira como o resto da banda reagiu e se uniu, passando a noite com a familia dentro da igreja......eram são realmente mais do que simples colegas de trabalho, e sofreram bastante com esta tragédia........Foi feita uma homenagem ao nivel do Stephen! Desejo muita força aos que cá ficaram e que vão sentir muito a falta dele....