Rolling Obituary Thread 2013

Richard Coughlan, drummer for Caravan, on Dec 1.

From the Caravan facebook page:
It is with a very heavy heart that we announce that Richard Coughlan passed away on Sunday 1st December.

Richard was a founder member and drummer for Caravan for over forty three years. Richard died at his home and had been in poor health for the last few years.

He has played on all of the band’s releases to date and was one of the early birds in the history of the Canterbury bands having sessioned with The Wilde Flowers and predecessors. Despite not being well Richard played percussion at Caravan’s reunion gig in London in December 2010 and received a standing ovation.

His unique style of playing and wonderful character will be sorely missed. We pass our sincere sympathies to Richard’s wife Sue, his daughter Beth, and all his family.

We will publish a fuller obituary in due course and will have a book of condolences on the website so that his friends and fans can leave a message.

Richard was 66 years old
May he Rest in Peace.

Oh shame, RIP Richard

Edouard Molinaro, writer-director best known for La Cage aux Folles

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-edouard-molinaro-1928-2013

I see that aldo has already clocked the death of colin wilson, i only heard of his passing today via this obit. there has been nobody else quite like him in british culture:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/10504201/Colin-Wilson-obituary.html

I forgot to come back and post an obit, thanks for doing it. I once attended a lecture on Atlantis given by a VERY VERY drunk Wilson which was undoubtedly a life highlight. He probably did more work in more things I'm interested in than anybody else.

RIP Joe, was involved in music biz from 1940s to the 70s :

Joe Bihari, 88, the co-founder of a family record company that exposed blues performers such as B.B. King, Little Richard, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James and Etta James to a wider audience, died Nov. 28 in a Los Angeles hospital, family members said.
"The Biharis had one of the most important companies in the history of rhythm and blues," said Jim O'Neal, founding editor of Living Blues magazine, "and Joe was the one who produced most of the sessions."
O'Neal said the family's labels, including Modern Records and RPM, inspired other companies "to go looking for down-home blues."

http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-1208-passings-20131208,0,7881454.story#ixzz2n1UrdBJ5

Dick Dodd of the Standells

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/arts/music/dick-dodd-lead-singer-of-the-standells-dies-at-68.html

Actress Eleanor Parker

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/eleanor-parker-oscar-nominated-actress-and-baroness-in-sound-of-music-dies-at-91/2013/12/09/e4a3fc34-c5db-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html

I mostly remember her wicked turn in The Man With the Golden Arm

Jazz guitarist Jim Hall

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/arts/music/jim-hall-jazz-guitarist-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

Mac McGarry, host of regional high school quiz show "It's Academic" (which I appeared on (my team lost))

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-ob-mac-mcgarry-dead-20131213,0,3081383.story

Used to watch him on that show a fair amount. RIP Mac

Audrey Totter, '40s/50s Hollywood bad girl

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-audrey-totter-1917-2013

Kate Barry, daughter of Jane Birkin and John Barry.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/12/jane-birkin-daughter-kate-barry-dies-fall-paris-flat

Peter O'Toole, Lawrence of Arabia star, dies aged 81

Ouch.

Tom "Billy Jack" Laughlin

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-tom-laughlin-billy-jack-films-dies-20131215,0,5952470.story#axzz2nZw0q8TO

nooooo

Joan Fontaine too, according to people on twitter. Any stories about this yet?

Joan Fontaine, Oscar-Winning Star of Hitchcock Classics, Dies at 96

I guess Olivia de Havilland wins.

crikey, Olivia's still alive!

She's probably rung the Oscar people to arrange some kind of victory lap during the In Memoriam montage.

Pianist-composer Horace Silver.

RIP Horace. Needs his own RIP thread p'raps?

Country singer Ray Price a couple days ago. Pancreatic cancer at age 87.

Wasn't that retracted?

This time for real, I guess. RIP.

the horace silver story was

it was a fauxbituary

They jumped the gun on Ray Price too, over the weekend

Wasn't that retracted?

I thought that might have been some sort of medical term for a minute

Reminds me off some time travel off-color patter I heard Ray Price deliver when I saw him perform a decade ago.

yeah I heard Ray Price's obit on NPR last night and went huh, they're 2 days late...

Jazzwise ‏@Jazzwise 3m

Jazzwise apologises unreservedly for passing on reports on social media websites that Horace Silver had died and any offence this caused

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Exactly

Ronnie Biggs

legendary Chicago radio DJ Larry Lujack

Al Goldstein, Screw magazine publisher and cable pioneer

http://www.technologytell.com/entertainment/33980/remembering-al-goldstein-midnight-blue-and-channel-35/

Reading the Playboy interview with him in '74 when I was 13 (courtesy the for-show subscription belonging to my pretty-sure closeted uncle) was eye-opening.

oh man, the Gilbert Gottfried interview in that TT obit.

"Are there any animals you wouldn't fuck?" "You."

wow gilbert is SO coked up there

v v v funny tho
"when you're done masturbating how do you know you've cum?"
"well i'm generally notified by mail"

kinda feeling watching midnight blue on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wQCe_5wY6A

i mean goddamn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A98NnK8IWo

Jerry Lewis' technologized lifestyle in the '70s could be the subject of a v dark Wes Anderson film.

The host there is Stanley Siegel, who was a bit of a NY TV star in the late '70s cuz his therapist wd come on once a week and do a session w/ him.

Ned Vizzini, teenage columnist for NY Press in the '90s and YA author, a suicide at 32

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-writer-ned-vizzini-has-died-20131220,0,6354622.story#axzz2o4yJaNjc

David Coleman

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25476438

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