Wednesday, October 14, 2009

RIP Captain Lou

Captain Lou Albano, wrestling star and pop culture figure, passed away today at the age of 76:

Captain Lou Albano, who became one of the most recognized professional wrestlers of the 1980s after appearing in Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" music video, died Wednesday. He was 76.

Albano, whose real name was Louis Vincent Albano, died in Westchester County in suburban New York, said Dawn Marie, founder of Wrestlers Rescue, an organization that helps raise money for the health care of retired wrestlers. He died of natural causes, Marie said.

World Wrestling Entertainment called him one of the company's "most popular and charismatic legends."

With his trademark Hawaiian shirts, wily goatee and rubber bands hung like piercings from his cheek, Albano was an outsize personality who, in a career spanning nearly five decades, was known as much for his showmanship as for his talent in the ring.

I also found this little ditty on teh Intertubes:



3 comments:

  1. wow...I thought it was Ron Jeremy that played Mario...anyways, its one of those people u dont expect to die..mario?!

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  2. NRBQ is fantastic, you should check out their other material.

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  3. Oh, shoot, I remember him.... from the 80s!

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