Rolling Obituary Thread 2013

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As a native of Tillsonburg, this is sad news.

Kenny Ball :(

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

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

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

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

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

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

Norman Collier, R_P

proper Hull :(

rest in pea ig ma

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

winding car window up and down

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/

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."

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

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

:(

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

James Herbert

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

Harry Reems - http://dangerousminds.net/comments/deep_throat_xxx_porn_actor_harry_reems_has_died

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.

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.

James Herbert is a real blow to adolescent me.

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

Rest in peace, Chinua Achebe:

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

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2013/03/22/175080694/bebo-vald-s-giant-of-cuban-music-is-dead

Ray Williams : (

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/sports/basketball/ray-williams-and-micheal-ray-richardson-shined-together.html

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.

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.”

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.

A man who breaks policemen's noses.

A man who breaks into policemen's noses.

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

Anthony Lewis, longtime NY Times columnist/Supreme Court reporter

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-anthony-lewis-20130326,0,1080917.story

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

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.

RIP Uncle Monty

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21973505

only 65 :-(

RIP Monty, you terrible cunt. I always thought he was about 65 in Withnail, tbh!

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).

He was great, twice, in that Naked Gun sequel he's in.

Like I needed another excuse to watch Venus. RIP.

RIP Uncle Monty :( (and fuck the BBC for referring to him constantly as 'Harry Potter actor, Richard Griffiths')

Eh, the Harry Potter films were quite successful, you know.

He himself said on Desert Island Discs that's the role he's most recognised for. News broadcasters look for the opposite of a Pointless answer innit.

RIP, Reid Flair, Ric Flair's 24 year old son:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-reid-flair-dies-20130329,0,704880.story

Former Alberta premier/asshole Ralph Klein:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/03/29/ralph-klein.html

Producer Phil Ramone

Jesus/Jess Franco