Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015

http://www.people.com/article/jackie-collins-dead

Jackie Collins

:(

a thing I didn't say on facebook is that all my mum's jackie collins paperbacks (or at least the best sexy ones) had broken spines at all the sexy parts thanks to my Dad

:D

lol

Lady Bo (Peggy Jones), guitarist with Bo Diddley:
http://sheshredsmag.com/lady-bo-mother-of-rock-n-roll-dead-at-76-years-old/

Jack Larson, Jimmy Olsen on TV's "Superman," librettist for Virgil Thomson, lover of Monty Clift

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/arts/television/jack-larson-a-playwright-better-known-as-jimmy-olsen-in-superman-dies-at-87.html

he swore off fan events after a 1988 incident in Cincinnati in which Sharpie-wielding autograph seekers permanently stained a white linen suit he had had made in Italy

Ben Cauley, session trumpeter, member of the Bar-Kays, and the only survivor of the plane crash that killed Otis Redding:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/entertainment/music/Bar-Kays-trumpeter-Ben-Cauley-dies-328639071.html

RIP

Poet C.K. Williams:

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-award-winning-poet-ck-williams-dies-20150921-story.html

His book Flesh and Blood is one of my favorites. As good a sequence as The Dream Songs.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-yankees-yogi-berra-dies-90-20150922-story.html

It's over.

shit, RIP CK Williams… read the old Selected a ton back in the day, a fine fine poet.

"no Yogi Berra"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2UyqUfe5SY

Log lady http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/catherine-coulson-log-lady-twin-peaks-dies-dead-1201604367/

:(

John Guillermin

https://www.thewrap.com/john-guillermin-director-of-the-towering-inferno-dead-at-89/

Frankie Ford

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/arts/music/frankie-ford-singer-of-sea-cruise-dies-at-76.html?_r=0

awwww man, that was one of my favorite songs as a kid

That whole album was great. RIP.

Brian Friel

Simon Cowe, founding member of Lindisfarne and Jack the Lad

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/much-loved-lindisfarne-founding-member-10173895

Denis Healey

people were saying this a few months ago when Charles Kennedy died, but Healey must have been one of the last living politicians held in genuine affection by a lot of people? to the extent of appearing in an adverts for visa. I can't imagine any of his successors as chancellor being able to say the same, even if they stick around until they're 98

https://youtu.be/T-KDKA5FQJI

RIP Denis

I guess that there is a kind of affection for John Major + Alistair Darling, but that seems more on the basis of them being dull, decent types and more a lack of any strong feelings at all than really being liked as such

Not much affection for Alistair Darling in Scotland these days.

Healey must have been one of the last living politicians held in genuine affection by a lot of people?

We'll see what the Mail et al have to say about him.

surely the Mail's approach will be concern trolling about the sad decline of the Labour party, towering figure of the Labour right, fought off Tony Benn's deputy leadership challenge to help make the party electable again and dies as the bennites have snatched control etc

Bankrupted the country, had to go cap-in-hand to the IMF, national disgrace etc

98% tax rate, "tax the rich until the pips squeak", Winter of Discontent etc

Henry Jacobs aka Shorty Petterstein

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/03/445015413/remembering-henry-jacobs-the-goof-off-who-pioneereed-surround-sound

Healey must have been one of the last living politicians held in genuine affection by a lot of people?

We'll see what the Mail et al have to say about him.

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, October 3, 2015 4:00 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah, but the Mail loves the old left-wing politicians from the past. The ones with a real cause, the ones that activated for it, even if they succeeded (but preferably if they did not), but the older the better.

It's this lot: Not worthy, boots, etc.

Wallander writer Henning Mankell dies

oh :(

Singer Billy Joe Royal ("Down in the Boondocks").

http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/30202602/singer-billy-joe-royal-dies-at-73

https://www.offbeat.com/news/new-orleans-drummer-smokey-johnson-dies/

New Orleans drummer who played on Professor Longhair's "Big Chief," Earl King's "Trick Bag," and, under his own name, the Mardi Gras classic "It Ain't My Fault."

Knew that's what the post would be. RIP.

RIP

Gail Zappa

http://m.tmz.com/#article/2015/10/07/gail-zappa-dead-frank-widow/

Longer obit here, didn't know she made an LP with Kim Fowley.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/frank-zappas-widow-gail-zappa-dead-at-70-20151007

Yeah, I don't think I knew that either.

Hmm, the only thing I can find online is a single 45 called "America's Sweethearts" from 1966, but no actual LP. Also, no youtube. :(

Wow, RIP.

http://www.offbeat.com/news/photographer-syndey-byrd-passes/?utm_source=WB+10+08+2015+&utm_campaign=WB+10+08+15&utm_medium=email

New Orleans photographer since the 1970s

http://www.neworleansphotoalliance.org/grants/MPS_Fund/2009/Sydney_Byrd/index.php

Don Edwards, who became dean of the California delegation during 32 years in the House and was one of the chamber’s most steadfast defenders of civil rights and civil liberties, died Oct. 1 at his home in Carmel, Calif. He was 100.

A wealthy title company executive, former FBI agent and onetime president of the California Young Republicans, Mr. Edwards defied the expectations of an establishmentarian, becoming a liberal crusader, slayer of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and advocate for laws to promote the First Amendment and prohibit racial discrimination.

Although he remained on friendly terms with many Republicans, Mr. Edwards said he was persuaded to switch his political affiliation because of HUAC excess in the 1950s and his distaste for the isolationist wing of the GOP. He was elected to the House in 1962 from a newly formed district that included San Jose and a swath of the San Francisco Bay area and set out to focus his legislative efforts on fighting what he considered constitutional abuses.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/don-edwards-former-democratic-congressman-from-california-and-champion-of-civil-liberties-dies-at-100/2015/10/02/b151b476-949f-11e2-ae32-9ef60436f5c1_story.html

Gail Zappa

http://m.tmz.com/#article/2015/10/07/gail-zappa-dead-frank-widow/

― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, October 7, 2015 7:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Soooo is this gonna finally clean the way for a Wild Man Fischer re-release?

Chef Paul Prudhomme

http://www.nola.com/dining/index.ssf/2015/10/paul_prudhomme_dies.html#incart_breaking

ohhh :( i have made quite a few of his recipes

aww RIP

http://www.globallygorgeous.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/OF011789.jpg

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3256/2472016361_5c2b26ddf6.jpg

Oh shit, that dude!

:((( used to have pots of his rubs, etc, in my kitchen cupboard. never really knew how to properly use them, but his gleeful Dom DeLuise face always greeted me whenever I went to grab some herbs.