Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015

jesus… really loved his work.

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/gary-owens-announcer-of-laugh-in-fame-dies-at-80-1201433731/

Brilliant voice

Indeed. RIP.

THIS STUPID WEEK.

cupping my ear in tribute

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5lhQ4Ejpmqg/UrwibzLVcnI/AAAAAAAAG-g/2TJgbCqIrf8/s1600/gary+owens+glasses.jpg

Alison Gordon, who covered the Jays from '79-84 for the Toronto Star--first female ever to cover a team full-time.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/2015/02/12/pioneering-toronto-star-baseball-writer-alison-gordon-dead-at-72.html

"We had four or five guys that really rallied around not letting her in the clubhouse, but I don't think Alison gave a damn, to tell you the truth," Lloyd Moseby said. "She could have very easily taken the words that a lot of guys said and took it to heart and went back to her bosses and said, 'I'm not doing this. I don't get paid to take abuse.' But she never did. She kept showing up. And it was amazing, really. I’m just proud to have known Alison."

Lizabeth Scott

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/movies/lizabeth-scott-film-noir-siren-dies-at-92.html

Sam Andrew, guitarist w/Big Brother & The Holding Company and Janis Joplin

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/big-brother-and-the-holding-companys-sam-andrew-dead-at-73-20150214

One of the big theatre companies here put on a production of "Love, Janis" about 7-8 years ago and Andrew was brought in as the music director. To promote the show, he did an evening signing meet & greet thing at the just-reopened Cactus Music. It was late into the appearance when I showed up with my dad--a big Janis fan--and the crowd (if any) had thinned considerably. Andrew signed several LPs we brought in addition to the then-new "Love Is The Song We Sing" San Francisco Nuggets box. That one he actually signed twice--once in his usual place of the picture on the page with the write up for "Down On Me" (complete with an arrow running from his signature to his picture), and the other in my requested spot on the inside front cover, a photo of Big Brother posing alongside The Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver, and The Charlatans at Golden Gate Park in 1967.

While looking at the later pic, he remarked about wanting to a reunion version of that photo, but "There's not as many of us now."

RIP

Nice story.

Michele Ferrero, richest living Italian, (apparently) inventor of Nutella, Kinder Surprise, Tic Tac, Ferrero Rocher.

http://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2015/02/14/news/e_morto_michele_ferrero_l_inventore_della_nutella_e_dei_tic_tac-107329807/

i didn't know anyone invented tic tacs, just thought they occurred naturally

lol.

RIP

Louis Jourdan

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/louis-jourdan-star-of-octopussy-gigi-dies-at-93-1201434557/

rip Louis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKc7wRLA-Z8

Tony Hart, children's TV presenter and artist
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jan/19/tony-hart

in 2009

Yeah, why was that trending on The Guardian?

i blame chas

Obituary: my early morning attempts to read dates.

apparently you're not the only one.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/11415068/Twitter-gets-very-confused-over-death-of-artist-Tony-Hart.html

Yeah - apparently some 1 Direction fans went off yesterday as well, being outraged at #ripharryyouwillbemissed trending, when it's actually a kid who died of cancer.

This would be pretty bad, except they (in fairness probably a different they) did the same thing when the kid actually died four years ago.

Louis Jourdan was a great Count Dracula in a BBC adaptation from 1977:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_w3acFydk4

http://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=12781

Assia Djebar, novelist and filmmaker - really like to see her films, they've been on my radar for a while.

Got a novel on order and looking forward to it, not much about in English.

AP and others reporting Lesley Gore has died.

I'll cry if I want to.

You would cry.

RIP.

Everybody's turn to cry

RIP

some talk on Facebook that 2000AD artist Brett Ewins has passed away

Looks like it's been confirmed. That's too bad. Skreemer blew my mind at an impressionable age.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/gavin-clark-dead-unkle-vocalist-dead-10051500.html

June Fairchild, most famous as "The Ajax Lady" from Up In Smoke, but was also "The Jumper" in Head, "Gloria" the hooker in Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, and the person who came up with the band name "Three Dog Night"

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/june-fairchild-up-in-smoke-dies-111478503802.html

Paco Carreno, 49, ex-drummer for Conflict (UK) and Inner Terrestrials.

Bruce Sinofsky, codirector of the Paradise Lost films about the West Memphis Three -- AND Some Kind of Monster. That's a hell of a legacy, really.

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/bruce-sinofsky-paradise-lost-trilogy-director-dies-at-58-1201438514/

Wow.

Yutaka Katayama, Nissan executive known as "the father of the Datsun Z cars"

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/02/21/yutaka-katayama-nissan-datsun-z-dead/

Trumpeter - composer Clark Terry:
http://jazztimes.com/articles/155902-clark-terry-1920-2015#.VOnaBwlrKEk.facebook

Collaborator with Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor, among others; longtime member of Duke Ellington's orchestra; and a major influence on Miles Davis.

RIP

Never did get to see him play. Wonder when the last time he was out there gigging. Also, hadn't known about that long Tonight Show stint. In theory I might be crossing paths this week with an old-timer who was in the band at that point but who knows if I will actually be able to ask anything about that.

I saw him once in the early 90s, co-leading a band with Louie Bellson. The warmth of Terry's sound that filled the room is something I've never experienced before or since.

Legendary Memphis session keyboardist Bobby Emmons

http://www.commercialappeal.com/go-memphis/music/news/american-studio-keyboardist-bobby-emmons-dies_50354474

RIP, Bobby.

Had not seen that Bobby Emmons with Dan Penn rendition of "Dark end of the Street" on Letterman, till now. Beautiful. RIP Bobby.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/music/ariel-camacho-dies-at-22-lead-singer-of-los-plebes-del-rancho.html?action=click&contentCollection=Music®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article

Young Mexican norteno and narcocorrido singer

leonard nimoy

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0

Twitter is saying Leonard Nimoy, don't see confirmation yet.

xp

Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition politician and critic of Putin, has been shot dead in the middle of Moscow.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/world/europe/boris-nemtsov-russian-opposition-leader-is-shot-dead.html

jesus, that does not bode well

Music journalist and producer Orrin Keepnews.