Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

I love three Demme films--Melvin & Howard, Married to the Mob, and Silence (the last has lost a little over the years)--and like a bunch more. Had no idea he was 73, but he started in the '70s, so why wouldn't he be?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39730388

Comic artist Leo Baxendale of Minnie The Minx and Bash Street Kids fame:(

Performance artist Vito Acconci.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vito-acconci-dies-77-941138/amp-page

Just to mention a "lesser" Demme work: New Order's "The Perfect Kiss" is one of my favourite music videos ever.

i don't think anyone classifies it as such

Sorry, always thought of Demme as a hit-or-miss talent. Still need to see Stop Making Sense, though/

I hadn't heard of it before, thanks for the tip, there is something exceptional about it.

(about The Perfect Kiss)

http://music.blog.ajc.com/2017/05/02/col-bruce-hampton-dies-hours-after-70th-birthday-celebration-at-the-fox-theatre/

Someone on twitter said he was such a badass he "played his own wake."

RIP Col. Bruce

Consistently the least sucky thing associated with the jam band scene, which should now collectively resign in his honor.

Damn, just found out about this.

Kevin Garcia, bassist for Grandaddy.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kevin-garcia-grandaddy-bassist-and-co-founder-dead-w480373

Had heard unofficial word earlier -- damn shame.

Oh god, how horrible.

“We were heartbroken to learn that Jean Stein, the writer and editor who chronicled the venal underside of celebrity, has died at 83,” writes Dan Piepenbring of the Paris Review. “When she was still a teenager, she interviewed William Faulkner, an exchange that appeared in this magazine in 1956…. With George Plimpton, she edited Edie: American Girl, an oral history of Edie Sedgwick… Last year, Stein published West of Eden, an oral history of Los Angeles, full of myth and rancor and especially desolation.”

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/05/01/jean-stein-1934-2017/

vague rumors that ye olde Prince Philip might have kicked the bucket

no confirmations from anywhere official yet tho

sounding flakier by the minute now

yeah i think this might have been a kite flying expedition lol

kinda was hoping a little tbh tho, is that bad

no, prince philip is bad

i thought maybe the emergency was that he met some people in the south pacific and didn't once call them "pygmies"

he is going to 'retire' from public life it seems

so a living death

I'm sure everyone knows but Prince Phillip is stepping down from public engagements from September onwards - whether this is due to some specific setback that might have also caused the rumours is as far as I know not public.

sorry for xping a doctor!

Saxa of The Beat. :(

RIP :(

;_;

Wow, how old was Saxa?

(Answer: 87!!!)

And Prince Philip still alive. What a world.

oh fuck, rip saxa

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/dsr.jpg

Daliah Lavi

Joanna Brouk, new age composer featured on the "i am the center" comp.

Frightwig drummer Cecilia Kuhn died of cancer at 61.

oh shit :/

Mary Tsoni, Greek actress ("Dogtooth"), at 30. This says she called the police police and when they came to her place she was dead.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/mary-tsoni-dead-dogtooth-1202421328/

Trance producer Robert Miles at the age of 47

woah

http://mixmag.net/read/legacy-trance-producer-robert-miles-passes-away-at-age-47-news

Holy shit @ tsoni

Michael Parks

He's one of those guys who was really good in everything I saw him in but I could never place his name. Great face for a character actor

oh shit, I just saw a revival of Kill Bill last week. Forgot that he played two characters. RIP

Marc Laurick, bassist for a ton of Philly and Seattle bands, including Bunnydrums

Geoffrey Bayldon, beloved to many generations of British kids for roles in Catweazle and Worzel Gummidge, and twice offered and declined the lead in Doctor Who.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/geoffrey-bayldon-beloved-star-catweazle-dead-93-1621161

"Nothing Works!...."

aw man, i loved catweazle

Always loved his cameo turn in the T Rex film Born to Boogie (scene filmed at John Lennon's country estate):

http://www.marcbolanmusic.com/bayldon.aspx

Q How did you get involved with the Born To Boogie film and what was it like at the location?

A Well Marc and The Beatles were all Catweazle fans and that was the whole connection. I arrived very early and there was nobody in the garden… there was someone with a camera and I asked where everyone was but he didn’t know. Ia asked about make-up but he didn’t know about that either! About 11.30 they all started coming in, I’d never seen a script or anything. Marc had said “We’ve got this marvellous idea because you’ve done Catweazle, we want you to dress up as a waiter, under a tree in John Lennon’s garden and the idea is that you dish out hamburgers.” And it just went on from there, on cloud cuckoo. It was a great day, we were all high as kites

Q Was there any rehearsing?

A There was a bit of rehearsing… “Have another hamburger”… they were from Fortnum (& Mason). It certainly made me realise what an enormous gap there was between the acting and pop world

Then we ended up going around the house. It hadn’t been lived in, I don’t know if it ever was, I’m not sure about that… There was a wonderful kitchen and on top of the fridge there were three plastic garden gnomes ‘having each other’, to put it mildly! There were pictures around the house of Yoko and John, starkers against the staircase!