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John Hughes, at the young age of 59.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/677412

Some of those films look hokey now, but back in the 80s a John Hughes film was a film worth seeing.

He may have only directed 8 films (wrote and produced many more very popular films that you may know, but only actually directed 8 )... what what an 8 !!!! He seemed to "connect" through all of those films. Other than the directing aspect, his films had an inate ability to leverage great music of the day (mostly 80's) that captured the teen essence... and by artists that were "just off to the side". I still listen to the soundtrack from "Some Kind of Wonderful"... and the Breakfast Club's anthemic song "Don't you forget about me" by Simple Minds will forever symbolize the 80's for an entire generation...

A sad loss at a relatively young age...

Roman

My favourite: "Pretty in Pink". OMD, Suzanne Vega, Psychedelic Furs, Belouis Some, INXS, Echo, The Smiths, New Order. Can't get better than that. Awsome soundtrack. Can you believe they were trying to cast Anthony Michael Hall and then Robert Downey Jr. as Duckie? Glad that did not happen. And for 'Andie', Justine Bateman and Jodie Foster?

Hey guys, do you know the third song by New Order in the movie? There was Shellshock and Thieves Like us, but there was a third song. Don't cheat by googling. You gotta be a true New Order fan to know that song.

LEN

Elegia. I actually didn't know that when I first saw the film. I'm not a big fan of pop/rock instrumentals and tend to skip over them on albums, so I'd probably only heard Elegia once or twice at the time, and it wasn't until years later that someone told me it was in the film.

I never got that into "Pretty in Pink," though it probably had the best soundtrack of all Hughes' films. "Sixteen Candles" had some great music, too. Ironically, the film with the best-known of all the Hughes-film anthems was "The Breakfast Club," but aside from "Don't You Forget About Me," the soundtrack was pretty, well, forgettable.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a John Hughes tribute compilation release -- you could make a killer compilation out of songs from his films.

It's an awesome body of work but I missed him long before he died because that 80s magic disappeared on Jan 1 1990.
Well seriously, that kind of work roughly and gradually petered out with the decade. But he was really brilliant.

Len Knows that I don't know New Order.