Darius

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I'm a 41 year old Scottish male and I absolutely loved Darius. Back in 2002/3 my musical tastes were anything but his style, but for some reason I adored his music. I was listening to his album 'Dive In' just a couple of weeks ago and was remarking at what a banger it is and how it still holds up. I'm genuinely devastated at his passing.

I saw him live around 2002 at a Party In The Park type thing and that was where I got together with my girlfriend at the time properly. We bonded over Darius and we used to listen to him all the time.

In 2004 when his second album 'Live Twice' came out I happened to be in town one day and was passing Woolworths when I saw a sign saying that Darius was signing copies of his new album. I went in and joined the queue, being the only male in a sea of women and teenagers. When it was my turn I spoke to him for a couple of minutes and told him that I really liked his music and he could not have been more appreciative. He signed my CD (which I still have) and signed one for my girlfriend.

It wasn't until I'd left the shop I looked at the CD he'd signed for my girlfriend and he had written 'To xxx, Lucky Girl. Darius' That really made me smile and is something I still remember nearly 20 years later.

It says a great deal that of all the comments and tributes I have read about him over the last 24 hours or so, not a single bad word had been said about him. He'll really be missed.

 

[HaloGirl]

RIP Darius Campbell - such sad news.

 

[Hollie Day]

People will of course speculate, it happens all the time with celebrities when they die. As much as I liked and admired Darius tattle is the wrong place to try and police thoughts and comments around the demise of a celebrity.

 

[Sriracha_on_everything]

I saw a YouTube comment which mentioned he was derided for saying stuff like 'can you feel the love in the room' but nowadays people do say things like this.

I admired his self belief, the bold statement when he wasn't picked for Popstars which he fulfilled.
And he was soooo handsome, like a movie star of old. I think both his talent and looks were underrated.

 

[Milliemoo99]

I’ve just posted this on the celebrity gossip thread. If Darius was, as is being reported, undergoing treatment for an illness, and dealing with it privately, then that courtesy should be extended to him in death as well. It’s not fair to his family and friends to speculate wildly about what was wrong with him.

The trouble is, until i read this thread I had no idea he was undergoing any kind of treatment for an illness and/or dealing with it privately!

I thought he was a brilliant singer and fascinating personality, and was surprised to hear of his death. It isnt that odd to wonder how someone who was only 41 died, surely that is natural curiosity.

I find it odd that we live in such strange times, that its seen as disrespectful to wonder how a 41 year old man died? Sometimes a simple factual statement is all that is needed.

Its like all the GDPR stuff to protect everyone's personal data at work, if someone is off work sick, now you aren't allowed to tell anyone, in case it infringes on their personal privacy.
Yet years ago if someone was off sick, someone would organise a whip round and deliver a bunch of flowers to cheer the sick person up. or if someone had a sick child, in hospital, it would be reported discreetly round the office, so that everyone could be supportive.
Generally I think most people do tend to be supportive, if they are allowed to be. When everything is kept private and privacy is upheld to the nth degree, you cant be sympathetic or supportive, because everything is now so secretive, and all emotions are to be kept strictly in check and not discussed at work.

 

[What's your point]

Prescription drug addiction is a terrible thing and quite common after that kind of injury. I think you may be right he was there for addiction rehab. And possibly was using this as a less prohibited alternative. If he was having regular sessions at the Mayo Clinic, they may have raised the alarm when he didn't show up as scheduled, if they couldn't reach him by phone etc.

So sad though, especially as it sounds like it was accidental rather than a deliberate decision to end his life.

I had a prescription painkiller addiction, still have lapses now. Mine came from breaking my neck and for months was on some heavy painkillers and then sleeping medication.

I can stay off them for months and months then just like that I take one and for weeks they control my life.

Luckily I can now break the cycle very quickly and it has never escalated into anything other than medication available on prescription (I get them off other people as my GP won't prescribed any kind of painkiller).

Dread to think what damage I have done to myself over the years and I am not proud of it but it is so easy to get overly reliant on medication.

 

[TheShire]

I’ve just posted this on the celebrity gossip thread. If Darius was, as is being reported, undergoing treatment for an illness, and dealing with it privately, then that courtesy should be extended to him in death as well. It’s not fair to his family and friends to speculate wildly about what was wrong with him.

Isn't the main rule of tattle not to dictate what you think is acceptable to post? I don't know why some read a thread to tell others of their moral compass.
No one is being disrespectful to his family or friends, what would be disrespectful is standing outside their house asking them questions. But the press don't do that anymore.
He was someone young living next door to a hospital so people will wonder.

I didn’t know any of that..was he swimming in the Thames? Where did his car accident happen? Would make sense if his medical issues were related to both those incidents. Similar thing happened to a friend of mine, one event after another that greatly impacted his health, he passed away at 37

He was recording an advert for a water filter so drank dirty water near a sewerage outlet in the Thames and ended up in a coma.
Later they said it was because he used a demo filter rather than a real one, which sounds very unlikely and was probably to protect the water filter brand.

 

[Wee Nora]

I'm a 41 year old Scottish male and I absolutely loved Darius. Back in 2002/3 my musical tastes were anything but his style, but for some reason I adored his music. I was listening to his album 'Dive In' just a couple of weeks ago and was remarking at what a banger it is and how it still holds up. I'm genuinely devastated at his passing.

I saw him live around 2002 at a Party In The Park type thing and that was where I got together with my girlfriend at the time properly. We bonded over Darius and we used to listen to him all the time.

In 2004 when his second album 'Live Twice' came out I happened to be in town one day and was passing Woolworths when I saw a sign saying that Darius was signing copies of his new album. I went in and joined the queue, being the only male in a sea of women and teenagers. When it was my turn I spoke to him for a couple of minutes and told him that I really liked his music and he could not have been more appreciative. He signed my CD (which I still have) and signed one for my girlfriend.

It wasn't until I'd left the shop I looked at the CD he'd signed for my girlfriend and he had written 'To xxx, Lucky Girl. Darius' That really made me smile and is something I still remember nearly 20 years later.

It says a great deal that of all the comments and tributes I have read about him over the last 24 hours or so, not a single bad word had been said about him. He'll really be missed.

Love this. Just read a comment on YouTube from someone who worked at a radio station saying that Darius was so nice and polite to everyone and the staff loved to see him come in. Another person said they know his Dad, a doctor, and said he was so proud of Darius. Speaks volumes that he’d been in the industry so long and there hasn’t been a single bad word said about him.

 

[OatMatchaLatte]

I adored Darius. I used to travel all over the country to his shows / tv appearances with fellow fans who became two of my best friends.

He always made time for us, and was such a gentleman. Incredibly talented, absolutely gorgeous, and most importantly of all, he was a beautiful soul.

I am so sad that he has passed. I hope that he wasn't alone and didn't suffer.

My heart breaks for his family.

 

[TwooTwooTwitTwitTwoo]

I think it's fairly likely that his route into this substance was to manage pain, not get
high. Living with constant pain is really hard and I understood why addition occurs.

It also led to me considering that a vast proportion of recreational drug use stems from emotional pain. Why do we automatically view those that medicate emotional pain as weak but those that treat medical pain as stronger?

The sadness of his death isn't lessened for me due to the cause. It's no age and the comments from those that knew him show he was a lovely person.

It reminds me a bit of Kristian Digby. Very well spoken of yet slightly tainted due to his cause of death.

 

[Serene Serena]

I’ve just posted this on the celebrity gossip thread. If Darius was, as is being reported, undergoing treatment for an illness, and dealing with it privately, then that courtesy should be extended to him in death as well. It’s not fair to his family and friends to speculate wildly about what was wrong with him.

 

[Lalla]

Colorblind is no.1 again apparently - exactly 20 years since it last was. Such a shame that it was his death that caused it. I hope he knew in life how much people thought of him

 

[Gingerlover]

I wont pretend to be a huge fan of Darius' music, but I really admired him as a person. He certainly had charisma, went his own way, and didn't give a monkeys about what people thought. I can only dream of being as brave as he was

 

[HaloGirl]

Colourblind is currently no 1 in the iTunes chart.

 

[Kurrikawari]

I think the last few years were probably quiet because of a car accident and then the dirty water in the Thames that gave him meningitis and he ended up in a coma, pretty significant medical and health scares that would take ages to recover from.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Daily Mail reporting that his apartment block was next to the world famous hospital, The Mayo Clinic. Wonder if he was undergoing medical treatment and passed away from that. Very sad news, he was very young

They’re doing their usual ‘ we have something we want to say but can’t so we’ll drop lots of very cryptic clues’ . Except it’s not even that cryptic in this case. Clearly he was unwell and was under going treatment for something, and no doubt it will come out in the wash as the saying goes when there is an inquest etc. Very sad situation all around though.

 

[NowIsGood]

I may know Colourblind but not know that I do if that makes sense? I'll have to play it then might think yea yeah yeah of course I know that.

2 months is an awfully long time to wait for a reason for death, the press will be all over it and if I was family/friend I'd feel impatient about the wait and a bit traumatised by media intrusion.

I have a feeling his family/ close friends probably know what was going on health wise (although maybe didn't realize the seriousness of it), and are not talking to the press out of respect for him.
The scummy 'friends' selling their stories 'Darius went off grid/ didn't return my texts ect' are the sort of people who know nothing because Darius probably tried to keep them out his life.

 

[maytoseptember]

It comes in a spray so if he’s spraying it on his neck and he’s spraying loads, he could easily inhale it that way?

What I keep coming back to is that if these muscle sprays were THAT dangerous, they wouldn’t be available over the counter. If it was genuinely possible to inhale a lethal amount by accident, just by spraying too much on your body, then they wouldn’t be allowed to be sold.

So bearing that in mind, it seems more likely that he was snorting it on purpose.

 

[SaLou]

You don't inhale that drug though if you are given it for pain. You do if you are taking it recreationally.

 

[Lalla]

I don't get a gay vibe from Darius at all. It was probably because they were all three close friends and would often visit him. Who knows. VVery sad indeed.

Clearly Darius and Gerard had been mates for years, my thought was that maybe GB had paid for the hotel (or was helping towards his medical bills - treatment of any kind in the US is expensive, and whilst I'm sure Darius wasn't penniless, I wouldn't expect him to have hundreds of thousands at his disposal, and would he have had medical cover in place?), and his PA or whoever booked it in the girlfriends name for anonymity, especially as the name Morgan can be used for men or women.

Whatever the reason, illness, other medical issue, gay fling even (which I don't feel is at all likely), his death is really shocking and sad. I think because he was relatively young, and no one knew he was unwell. When Sarah Harding or Tom Parker died for example both deaths were incredibly sad too, but they'd been known to be suffering from terminal cancer whereas this just feels out of the blue. Even if Darius was ill, he had concerts and things booked for the next few months, so whatever the issue he was expecting to still be here.

It's his birthday tomorrow too, that must be devastating for his family.