Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015

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freaky! (xpost)

np Gary Stewart's Out of Hand album in Wayne's honor (or more to the point, it was already a Gary Stewart kind of night, and reading about Wayne gives me a bittersweet excuse to put his music on). it looks like Wayne also wrote the underrated "Oh, Sweet Temptation".

stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 00:54 (ten years ago)

Theodore Bikel

http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles-theater/news/fiddler-on-the-roof-star-theodore-bikel-dies-at-91_73606.html?cid=homepage_news

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 20:26 (ten years ago)

E.L. Doctorow

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/books/el-doctorow-author-of-historical-fiction-dies-at-84.html

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 01:46 (ten years ago)

i thought for sure both those last two were gone already

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 05:42 (ten years ago)

English jazz pianist John Taylor:

http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/music/jazzblog/rip-john-taylor

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 23 July 2015 06:49 (ten years ago)

Ingrid Sischy, editor in chief of Interview in the 90s/2000s

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2015/07/graydon-carter-remembers-ingrid-sischy

... (Eazy), Friday, 24 July 2015 19:12 (ten years ago)

Flora MacDonald:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/flora-macdonald-longtime-politician-dead-at-89-1.3168239

She ran for the PC leadership in 1976, the first political convention I ever paid attention to--wrote a paper on it for a high school history class. She was fifth on the first ballot with 9.1%; Joe Clark ended up winning, then beat Trudeau in the next election.

clemenza, Sunday, 26 July 2015 20:21 (ten years ago)

In other "thought they'd died years ago" news: Sir Peter O'Sullevan. 97!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/horse-racing/33709124

ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:53 (ten years ago)

As noted on the Apprentice thread, Stuart Baggs:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-33719515

ailsa, Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:06 (ten years ago)

http://bangordailynews.com/2015/07/29/obituaries/coleen-sheran-singer

mookieproof, Friday, 31 July 2015 04:49 (ten years ago)

Kind of definitively 1971 for me. This was great too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAw-YYKkqWE

clemenza, Friday, 31 July 2015 21:39 (ten years ago)

roddy piper

mookieproof, Friday, 31 July 2015 22:03 (ten years ago)

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

Johnny Fever, Friday, 31 July 2015 22:37 (ten years ago)

what a bummer

let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 August 2015 02:21 (ten years ago)

Cilla Black has gone.

Alba, Sunday, 2 August 2015 11:33 (ten years ago)

Buddy Emmons

Eternal Return To Earth (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 01:46 (ten years ago)

richard schweiker, one of the last moderate/liberal republicans, and reagan's proposed running mate in 1976:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/us/richard-s-schweiker-reagan-confidant-dies-at-89.html?_r=0

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 03:04 (ten years ago)

Billy Sherrill:

http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2015/08/04/breaking-legendary-producer-billy-sherrill-dies/31110363/

I know him primarily for The Fabulous Charlie Rich, but I know he was behind a ton of famous records.

clemenza, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:36 (ten years ago)

Sherrill's a big co-star in Jimmy McDonough's Tammy Wynette bio. Very strange man...RIP.

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:43 (ten years ago)

NOOOOOOOOOO

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 19:06 (ten years ago)

robert conquest

mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 19:41 (ten years ago)

Canadian TV host Chris Hyndman:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/christopher-hyndman-co-host-of-cbc-s-steven-and-chris-dead-at-49-1.3178833

The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 01:58 (ten years ago)

George Cole

http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=41280

Alba, Thursday, 6 August 2015 10:18 (ten years ago)

Until quarter of an hour ago, he could easily have gone on the "people you were surprised to find out were still alive" thread.

ailsa, Thursday, 6 August 2015 10:28 (ten years ago)

Neville Neville (you've torn your dress)

Madchen, Friday, 7 August 2015 22:22 (ten years ago)

frank gifford

mookieproof, Sunday, 9 August 2015 18:58 (ten years ago)

rip :(

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 August 2015 19:11 (ten years ago)

maybe i should reread 'a fan's notes'

mookieproof, Sunday, 9 August 2015 19:13 (ten years ago)

David Nobbs, creator of Reggie Perrin

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/09/david-nobbs-reginald-perrin-creator-dies

ailsa, Sunday, 9 August 2015 22:40 (ten years ago)

Coleen Gray, self-described 'Goody Two Shoes' girl in The Killing, Nightmare Alley, Red River, Kiss of Death

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-coleen-gray-20150804-story.html

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 August 2015 04:20 (ten years ago)

Uggie - the scene stealing dog from The Artist

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/12/uggie-the-dog-star-of-the-artist-dies-aged-13

Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 09:06 (ten years ago)

What a pup!

Madchen, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 09:16 (ten years ago)

i hated your movie, dead dog

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 12:04 (ten years ago)

tbf he didn't have final cut

Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 12:42 (ten years ago)

lol goddamn

goole, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 16:18 (ten years ago)

:( RIP Blakey. I hope he finally has Butler.

Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 13 August 2015 16:36 (ten years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33914037

Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 13 August 2015 16:39 (ten years ago)

film and television director Herbert Wise, who earned Bafta and Emmy nominations for helming all 13 episodes of I, Claudius (1976)

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/12/herbert-wise

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 August 2015 14:26 (ten years ago)

Butler died some years ago, so yes he did.

Mark G, Saturday, 15 August 2015 18:15 (ten years ago)

Julian Bond: http://twitter.com/splcenter/status/632796265894555648

;_;

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 August 2015 09:14 (ten years ago)

Music manager Jazz Summers
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33950404

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 16 August 2015 20:35 (ten years ago)

David Prior, the schlock auteur

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0697935/#director

polyphonic, Monday, 17 August 2015 20:44 (ten years ago)

Yvonne Craig, Batgirl on the TV show.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/yvonne-craig-dead-batgirl-1960s-816226

clemenza, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 05:03 (ten years ago)

...and the heroine of Mars Needs Women!

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 05:58 (ten years ago)

awww

Mark G, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 09:26 (ten years ago)


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