Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015

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/

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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.

Jim Diamond

Geoffrey Howe

RIP Jim

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zMAU0EaH1Bk/0.jpg

columbia records art director john berg

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/10/13/arts/13berg-obit-combo/13berg-obit-combo-articleLarge.jpg

Carey Lander

Hilla Becher
:(

Coleridge Goode, who I had the honour of meeting about eight or nine years ago.

RIP - love those Joe Harriot albs that he's on. And what a great name.

Gordon Honeycombe

Everyone who played on Funhouse but Iggy, RIP: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/12/stooges-saxophonist-steve-mackay-dies-aged-66

Robert "Prince of the City" Leuci, NYPD detective/informer

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/nyregion/robert-leuci-75-who-exposed-graft-among-fellow-detectives-in-70s-dies.html

WB '40s actress Joan Leslie (High Sierra, Sergeant York, Yankee Doodle Dandy)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/joan-leslie-dead-actress-sergeant-832376

aww rip :(

Michael Meacher MP

Can anybody remember what the source of Jaz Coleman's massive beef with him was?

something to do with Meacher's flirtation with 9/11 trutherism?

jaz is teacher, funk is the meacher iirc

lol i screwed that up

jaz is THE teacher obv etc

I think you're right (xpost to soref), I just remember quite a few unintelligible onstage rants about him.

IIRC he was agreeing with Meacher about 9/11, not having a beef with him.

Indeed, was having some difficulty with the idea of Jaz Coleman as a voice of reason and rationality using the platform afforded him by music to debunk conspiracy theories.

talking of conspiracies, meacher also made an appearance in Edge of Darkness

Comic book artist Murphy Anderson, one of the last remaining Golden Age veterans:

http://www.newsfromme.com/2015/10/23/murphy-anderson-r-i-p/

aw, sad to hear that.

Marty Ingels, comedian/actor/agent/crazy person and husband to Shirley Jones (both big Republicans)

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-marty-ingels-dies-at-79--20151022-story.html

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2012/06/interview-with-marty-ingels-part-one.html

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2012/06/interview-with-marty-ingels-part-two.html

Maureen O'Hara
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/maureen-ohara-spirited-movie-star-dies-95-34703112

Aw, I was just talking about her the other day (discussing Sitting Pretty).

Watched the Blu-ray of "The Quiet Man" last week. What a stunning woman she was. rest in peace.

Oh, just saw upthread Murphy Anderson passed. :(

Flip Saunders

aw

one of the great coaching faces, like a bball keitel

The excellent historian David Cesarani:

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/148060/david-cesarani-has-died-aged-58

Gave superb lectures at my school a couple of times.

Lisa Jardine, too.

Her Shakespeare course at QMW opened my mind to so many possibilities and lines of analysis and inquiry. she was a fantastic lecturer, and a very charismatic force of nature, and I always enjoyed seeing her on TV or hearing her on radio after I graduated.

^ I was likely at the very same lectures - she was terrific.

shit, RIP Jardine - real scholarly heft barely ever comes with her kind of lucidity, imagination, breadth, style… such good books & a real loss.

New Orleans Dj Soul Sister is posting on Instagram that guitarist Marlo Henderson who played with Patti Labelle,Minnie Ripperton, Teena Marie, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson and many more, has passed away.

http://marlohenderson.com/about_marlo

when were you there eyeball kicks? and do we already know each other??

Marty Ingels, comedian/actor/agent/crazy person and husband to Shirley Jones (both big Republicans)

And, most importantly to our own Dan Perry, the voice of Pac-Man on TV cartoons.