Six years ago, our hero died.

[Deleted]

Too alarming now to talk about

Take your pictures down and shake it out

Truth or consequence, say it aloud

Use that evidence, race it around


There goes my hero

Watch him as he goes

There goes my hero

He’s ordinary


Don’t the best of them bleed it out

While the rest of them peter out

Truth or consequence, say it aloud

Use that evidence, race it around


There goes my hero

Watch him as he goes

There goes my hero

He’s ordinary


Kudos my hero leaving all the best

You know my hero, the one that’s on


There goes my hero

Watch him as he goes

There goes my hero

He’s ordinary


There goes my hero

Watch him as he goes

There goes my hero

He's ordinary

[ye5man]

*2 minutes silence*

[EnriqueH]

Hear, hear.

[Valentine Smith]

Woke up at 6, got in the car to go to the gym, turned on the radio, heard the news. Turned off the car and sat there for about 10 minutes in the cold and quiet.

One of about maybe 3 times a celebrity death has gotten to me. And probably the last one that ever will.

[Paul (ral)]

It was during the day when I heard.

I had called into a local newspaper to repair a machine. Once I was done I got into the car feeling pretty chuffed at a job well done and switched on the radio. i think it was about midday when the news came on.

I couldn't believe it.

As with Val it was the second time a celeb death had gotten to me...the other was Ayrton Senna.

[Kamdan]

I remember reading it on IMDB really early in the morning and I felt really sad when I remembered what Donner had said in one of the documentaries, "I've seen him and I will see him walk again."

[MAVERICK]

My Mom called me & told me. She knew how much he meant to me.
I'll never forget it. Got teared up & watched the news about it all day.
Looked at my memorabilia of him all day.
Watched STM that night. Very emotional, really.

[Knight]

...That's a great poem there,Kev.

I remember I had been sent on a course in Edinburgh,I got off the train and seen the news-stand headline.That memory is still fresh in my mind today.

I love that guy.

[stargazer01]

It was sometime after dinner. I was in my room doing something and then I saw it in the news. I cried.

I hadn't seen the Superman movies in a while, and I didn't even own them in any form. Yes, I liked them a lot but wasn't a huge fan like you guys. But I felt his death. I realized then that he meant a lot to me. He was Superman, my favorite hero.

RIP

[ye5man]

My Mum told me; was a major shock. I bought Remains of the Day in memory. Superman is associated with too many other things for it to have an effect.

[crazy_asian_man]

In thinking about it, it's hard to know what came as a bigger shock:
Reeve's accident with the horse, which (at the time) seemed like it was going to make him a prisoner of his own body for the rest of his life- or -
the sudden shock of his death, after seeing glimpses of how this man who I thoroughly enjoyed embodied a character full of hope and goodwill suddenly became a real Superman in another way--- and had lived a new life soon after the accident, one that no one would envy, committed to not let his imprisonment destroy his mind or life- but a life committed to a cause that could in the end benefit all mankind, without exaggeration.

It's been said before, but it's amazing how someone who played a fictional character that we aspired to behave and be like became a true hero in real life, nevermind what progress he was able to achieve, but even by just deciding to get out of bed every morning to face what he had to in real life, and not let it get the best of him.

Definitely something to remember, in the midst of enjoying and remembering the film part of his life- it's easy sometimes to remember the very real heroic aspect that his real life became. Thanks for reminding us in this post.

[matt]

My mom told me the news also, I couldn't believe it! I have my Christopher Reeve Superman posters and photos in my room, so I'm always reminded of him everyday.

[Matt in the Hat]

[Olly H 82]

I remember buying all the newspapers that day which covered his passing. Still got them.

[ye5man]

Same here Oli; there was a great pic of him flying from III on the top of 'The Sun'

[Deleted]

I was living with SupermanUF at the time in Los Angeles when it happened. I worked that day. When I was coming home, he called me. I answered. He simply said, "Chris Reeve died." I replied, "I'll be right home." Couldn't think the rest of the way there. When I got home, we watched the flying sequence from STM.

The next day, I placed a Superman doll at his star on the Walk of Fame and wept. That night, I went to a bar that did karaoke and did a pisspoor version of "My Hero" by the Foo Fighters, which is what I posted originally in this thread. I dedicated it to him.

I can never remember the exact day of his death for some reason. The night I created this thread, I was watching the Foo Fighters special at Wembley Stadium. They began to play "My Hero." It made me immediately think of Chris. I looked at the clock. It was October 10th, 12:00am on the dot. Then I looked up when he died. The 10th. I found that to be rather...bittersweet.

I'm pleased to have been able to meet the man, in a way, and make him laugh. I'll miss him forever.