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
Paul Bearer (William Moody)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/06/uk-usa-people-moody-idUKBRE9251I220130306
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5230/5617825645_f59c337c25_z.jpg
― am a big fan ay Nani (onimo), Thursday, 7 March 2013 11:37 (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
Harry Reems - http://dangerousminds.net/comments/deep_throat_xxx_porn_actor_harry_reems_has_died
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:13 (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
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2013/03/22/175080694/bebo-vald-s-giant-of-cuban-music-is-dead
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 March 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
Ray Williams : (
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/sports/basketball/ray-williams-and-micheal-ray-richardson-shined-together.html
― buzza, Saturday, 23 March 2013 04:43 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Peter Scott, king of the cat burglars:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9949054/Peter-Scott.html
You may have died broke but you left us a fun obituary.
― woof, Saturday, 23 March 2013 10:35 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't aware of him, but this quote in the obituary is fantastic: “The people I burgled got rich by greed and skulduggery. They indulged in the mechanics of ostentation — they deserved me and I deserved them. If I rob Ivana Trump, it is just a meeting of two different kinds of degeneracy on a dark rooftop.”
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Saturday, 23 March 2013 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I'd never heard of him before but I thought the whole thing was great.
this country needs more criminals like him - a charmer, an entertainer, a man of principle.
― woof, Saturday, 23 March 2013 11:02 (eleven years ago) link
A man who breaks policemen's noses.
― Madchen, Saturday, 23 March 2013 11:09 (eleven years ago) link
A man who breaks into policemen's noses.
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 March 2013 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
Joe Weider, the 'father of bodybuilding'
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/sports/joe-weider-founder-of-a-bodybuilding-empire-dies-at-93.html
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 March 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
Anthony Lewis, longtime NY Times columnist/Supreme Court reporter
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-anthony-lewis-20130326,0,1080917.story
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 04:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/entertainment/20130326/US--Obit-Richards/
Motown songwriter-producer Deke Richards has died at a Bellingham, Wash., hospice at age 68.
Peace Health St. Joseph Medical Center spokeswoman Amy Cloud confirms that Richards, whose real name was Dennis Lussier, died Sunday at the Whatcom Hospice House.
A statement from Universal Music said Richards had been battling esophageal cancer.
Universal Music says that as leader of the Motown songwriting, arranging and producing team known as The Corporation, Richards was involved in writing and producing many Jackson 5 hits. Those songs included the Jackson 5's first three No. 1 hits - "I Want You Back," ''ABC," and "The Love You Save."
He also co-wrote "Love Child" for Diana Ross & The Supremes, as well Ross' solo "I'm Still Waiting."
Associated Press
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
NOT the singer. But probably someone more important:
http://www.gollancz.co.uk/2013/03/in-memory-of-paul-williams/
In the wider realm of popular culture, you should honour him as the founding father of rock journalism. The magazine he founded as a 17-year-old college student in 1966, Crawdaddy!, was the first publication to focus on serious writing about the then-new music. It launched the career of writers such as Jon Landau (who went on to become Bruce Springsteen’s manager), Sandy Pearlman, and Richard Meltzer. It was the inspiration for subsequent magazines, notably Rolling Stone. Paul wrote many books about music, and particularly about Bob Dylan.As an sf reader, which I assume you probably are, you should honour him as one of the two principal figures who kept the name of Philip K. Dick alive in the decades following his death. Paul was a close friend of Dick’s, and his 1975 Rolling Stone article “The True Stories of Philip K. Dick” was the most significant piece of writing about him published during his lifetime. (It later formed the basis of a book, Only Apparently Real, which was in turn the first book about Dick.) When Dick died in 1982, Paul was named his Literary Executor, and he worked tirelessly in conjunction with Dick’s long-time literary agent Russ Galen (the other hero of this story) to keep his name alive. Paul founded and ran the Philip K. Dick Society, which attracted hundreds of members in scores of countries. The small publishing company he ran together with David Hartwell published Dick’s novel Confessions of a Crap Artist – the first time any of Dick’s non-sf novels from the 1950s saw the light of day.
As an sf reader, which I assume you probably are, you should honour him as one of the two principal figures who kept the name of Philip K. Dick alive in the decades following his death. Paul was a close friend of Dick’s, and his 1975 Rolling Stone article “The True Stories of Philip K. Dick” was the most significant piece of writing about him published during his lifetime. (It later formed the basis of a book, Only Apparently Real, which was in turn the first book about Dick.) When Dick died in 1982, Paul was named his Literary Executor, and he worked tirelessly in conjunction with Dick’s long-time literary agent Russ Galen (the other hero of this story) to keep his name alive. Paul founded and ran the Philip K. Dick Society, which attracted hundreds of members in scores of countries. The small publishing company he ran together with David Hartwell published Dick’s novel Confessions of a Crap Artist – the first time any of Dick’s non-sf novels from the 1950s saw the light of day.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 March 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Uncle Monty
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 29 March 2013 10:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21973505
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 29 March 2013 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
only 65 :-(
― Neil S, Friday, 29 March 2013 11:15 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Monty, you terrible cunt. I always thought he was about 65 in Withnail, tbh!
― emil.y, Friday, 29 March 2013 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't recognize the character name having only seen W&I once. Richard Griffiths is very funny in A Private Function, tho I don't remember him in Gorky Park (or Chariots of Fire).
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 March 2013 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
He was great, twice, in that Naked Gun sequel he's in.
― The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck (stevie), Friday, 29 March 2013 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
Like I needed another excuse to watch Venus. RIP.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Friday, 29 March 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Uncle Monty :( (and fuck the BBC for referring to him constantly as 'Harry Potter actor, Richard Griffiths')
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Friday, 29 March 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link