Rolling Obituary Thread 2013

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R.I.P. Shadow Morton

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 15 February 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2013/02/16/76d3ebba-5f44-11e2-a389-ee565c81c565_story.html

Recluse Tandyn Almer wrote Along Comes Mary and did other interesting things

curmudgeon, Sunday, 17 February 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9876075/Tony-Sheridan.html

curmudgeon, Sunday, 17 February 2013 23:21 (eleven years ago) link

RIP, Jerry Buss:

EZ Snappin, Monday, 18 February 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link

former duke basketball player phil henderson, best known for dunking on alonzo mourning in 1989. he was 44.

железобетонное очко (mookieproof), Monday, 18 February 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link

richard briers

: ; : (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 18 February 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link

Donald Richie, scholar/critic of Japanese film and culture

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-donald-richie-1924-2013

Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link

Kevin Ayers, the founding member of 1960s psychedelic band Soft Machine, has died aged 68.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21517041

curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link

Wow, Richie was a nice guy, the few times I talked to him. And Kevin Ayers! Sad.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 20:19 (eleven years ago) link

Awww RIP Bob Godfrey of Henry's Cat and Roobarb fame (also that Isambard Kingdom Brunel cartoon I was allowed to stay up late and watch a couple of times) (also an animated Kama Sutra which I have never seen)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21552718

susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 22 February 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link

Two Roobarb-connected deaths in the space of a week!

Madchen, Friday, 22 February 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link

RIP

These goons are from Galactor and who gives a s*** (snoball), Friday, 22 February 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link

RIP, Cleotha Staples, who was the oldest, apart from Pops of course: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/arts/music/cleotha-staples-of-the-staple-singers-dies-at-78.html?_r=0.

Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 February 2013 01:17 (eleven years ago) link

Van Cliburn

Alma Mattar Paneer (doo dah), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link

Bonnie Franklin of TV's "One Day at a Time"

Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 March 2013 01:15 (eleven years ago) link

peter harvey

canberra

≪江南Style≫ (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 March 2013 08:47 (eleven years ago) link

oh no :(

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 March 2013 09:02 (eleven years ago) link

Chávez has just died, according to the Guardian.

emil.y, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link

all righty then

≪江南Style≫ (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 22:28 (eleven years ago) link

maybe that horse will look to the right again

≪江南Style≫ (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link

Rest In Peace, Alvin Lee.

http://www.eastvillageradio.com/content/content.php?id=5747

EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:39 (eleven years ago) link

Stompin' Tom Connors, eh!
http://www.globaltoronto.com/music+legend+stompin+tom+connors+77+dies/6442822944/story.html

kate78, Thursday, 7 March 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link

good ol' hockey game

mookieproof, Thursday, 7 March 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link

As a native of Tillsonburg, this is sad news.

Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Thursday, 7 March 2013 02:07 (eleven years ago) link

Kenny Ball :(

the so-called socialista (dowd), Thursday, 7 March 2013 10:44 (eleven years ago) link

Bummer! I somehow missed his passing. RIP, wonderfully creepy man.

EZ Snappin, Thursday, 7 March 2013 11:56 (eleven years ago) link

The geezer might have been a Nazi at one point but I reckons Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist is worthy of an RIP

Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 12:05 (eleven years ago) link

the thing about peter banks dying is that the headlines look like they're saying 'that's right, he's dead'

badg horror stories (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link

noted elsewhere on Maiden thread but: former Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/clive-burr-ex-iron-maiden-drummer-dead-at-56-20130313

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21798955

Norman Collier, R_P

Mark G, Friday, 15 March 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link

proper Hull :(

poking pocong (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 March 2013 13:33 (eleven years ago) link

rest in pea ig ma

Habemus mundissimo ostentus nomen (onimo), Friday, 15 March 2013 13:35 (eleven years ago) link

He had the faulty microphone gimmick but I'm sure he had another one as well that I've completely forgotten

Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Friday, 15 March 2013 13:56 (eleven years ago) link

winding car window up and down

The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck (stevie), Friday, 15 March 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago) link

RIP Leroy Fleming, sax player in Chuck Brown's Soul Searchers, best known for "Bustin' Loose"

http://www.tmottgogo.com/the-passing-of-leroy-fleming/

curmudgeon, Friday, 15 March 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.soultracks.com/bobby-smith-dies

Singer from the Spinners ("He was also the group's original lead singer, and was the voice on the Spinners' first hit, "That's What Girls Are Made For" and shared the lead with Philippe Wynne - and later, John Edwards - on the group's biggest hits in the 1970s, including "I'll Be Around," "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love" and "Games People Play."

curmudgeon, Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link

Jason Molina http://stereogum.com/1290512/r-i-p-jason-molina/top-stories/lead-story/

Jeff, Monday, 18 March 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21828965

Frank Thornton aka Captain Peacock of Are You Being Served & Truly from Last Of The Summer Wine

:(

Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 18 March 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link

David Dewaele, 37, actor in the last 2 Bruno Dumont films.

Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link

James Herbert

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21870413

Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link

Wow! I've never actually seen Deep Throat, but some of the stories in Inside Deep Throat were great. There was some awful Canadian film that would play on TV here now and again that Reems was in...can't remember the title.

clemenza, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link

I went through a teenage phase of hoovering up James Herbert books - I remember Shrine in particular freaking me out, but I haven't given him a second thought for years. RIP.

Habemus opiniones pro vobis (onimo), Thursday, 21 March 2013 00:13 (eleven years ago) link

James Herbert is a real blow to adolescent me.

the so-called socialista (dowd), Thursday, 21 March 2013 00:24 (eleven years ago) link

Risë Stevens, star mezzo-soprano of the '40s and ’50s

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/rise-stevens-dead-mezzo-soprano-star-dies-at-99_n_2927143.html

Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 March 2013 04:08 (eleven years ago) link

Rest in peace, Chinua Achebe:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/22/novelist-chinua-achebe-dies

EZ Snappin, Friday, 22 March 2013 13:19 (eleven years ago) link


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