Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

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bad day for members of eponymous bands

― Immediate Follower (NA), Saturday, 21 January 2017 19:12 (nine years ago)

corrs heading for bunker

― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 January 2017 19:16 (nine years ago)

Jim's already in there wearing his tin foil hat.

― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Saturday, 21 January 2017 19:42 (nine years ago)

claiming for the setup there but nice finish regardless

― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 January 2017 20:22 (nine years ago)

rip karl. only 46

― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 January 2017 20:55 (nine years ago)

Mike Kellie, drummer for Spooky Tooth and the Only Ones

― Ρεμπετολογια, Sunday, 22 January 2017 00:13 (nine years ago)

Jan Stoeckart aka Jack Trombey, Dutch composer. Best known for the theme from 'Callan' and the theme from 'Van der Valk ', 'Eye Level' which was a U.K. Number one in 1962.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0O-2oAvNTo

― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 22 January 2017 08:05 (nine years ago)

Um, 1972.

― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 22 January 2017 08:06 (nine years ago)

wasn't a hit as such until 1973, i only mention this because it's a vivid childhood tune and both years are a little earlier than i'd've guessed

― In the Ways of John Scales (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 January 2017 08:37 (nine years ago)

Heh, our school band played Eye Level terribly.

― Madchen, Sunday, 22 January 2017 09:40 (nine years ago)

that Eye Level theme was used as a jingle in the US for... Royal Dutch Airlines?

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 January 2017 13:40 (nine years ago)

RIP Yordano Ventura and Andy Marte.

Two baseball players killed in separate car accidents today.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 22 January 2017 16:31 (nine years ago)

Jaki Liebezeit :(
http://pitchfork.com/news/71067-can-drummer-jaki-liebezeit-dead-at-78/?mbid=social_twitter

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 22 January 2017 22:36 (nine years ago)

Pete Watts from Mott The Hoople.

http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2017/01/passings-pete-overend-watts-of-mott.html?m=1

― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Sunday, 22 January 2017 23:28 (nine years ago)

Gorden Kaye: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38718282

― ailsa, Monday, 23 January 2017 15:35 (nine years ago)

I somehow never noticed he spelled his first name a weird way until he died.

That's not much of a tribute, sorry.

― Alba, Monday, 23 January 2017 15:43 (nine years ago)

he's from my neck of the woods so this will be front page on the local rag, he nearly died in a car crash 20 odd years back so was on e/t. Allo Allo was absolute cack, but he seemed like a nice guy.

― calzino, Monday, 23 January 2017 15:44 (nine years ago)

People you thought were dead. RIP.

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 23 January 2017 15:48 (nine years ago)

More than 20 - 1990 Burns night storms

Apocryphally lead to schoolyard jokes and one school head declaring that there is nothing funny about Gorden Kaye.

Actually lead to a crucial privacy case when a Sunday Sport journalist snuck into the hospital and photoed / "interviewed" him recovering from brain surgery. He lost the case - there is no common-law right to privacy.

1,200 performances of 'Allo 'Allo on stage, apparently.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 23 January 2017 16:05 (nine years ago)

I thought he was dead too!

― Madchen, Monday, 23 January 2017 16:47 (nine years ago)

Allo Allo is a crappy show that makes me feel inordinately nostalgic when I think of it. I loved it as a kid.

― Dysphagia Nutrition Solutions (stevie), Monday, 23 January 2017 16:58 (nine years ago)

^^ otm. 'twas simpler times.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 23 January 2017 17:00 (nine years ago)

rip

― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Monday, 23 January 2017 17:06 (nine years ago)

another local luvvie once asked him if he supported Town and he replied " no, they don't come and watch me when I'm performing badly".

― calzino, Monday, 23 January 2017 18:02 (nine years ago)

Ha! Nice.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 23 January 2017 18:41 (nine years ago)

RIP

― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Monday, 23 January 2017 19:40 (nine years ago)

Jean Georgakarakos, the "G" in legendary free jazz label BYG Records.

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 21:45 (nine years ago)

butch trucks

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/butch-trucks-allman-brothers-founding-member-dead-at-69-w462870

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:59 (nine years ago)

How have I never heard that there was a southern rock dude named Butch Trucks.

― Transformed From The Norm By The Nuclear Goop (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:18 (nine years ago)

Dunno but having to refrain from SBing you for that

― In Walked Bodhisattva (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 18:35 (nine years ago)

Or FPing you, whatever the kids are doing today.

― In Walked Bodhisattva (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 18:36 (nine years ago)

gil ray of game theory/loud family

rough week for drummers

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 18:52 (nine years ago)

Aww man. RIP.

He had apparently just finished work on the upcoming Game Theory album, which was already tragic as it was being pieced together (by Ray and friends and former bandmates) from material that Scott Miller left behind upon his death in 2013.

― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 18:58 (nine years ago)

mary tyler moore

https://twitter.com/AP/status/824341181140258833

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 19:46 (nine years ago)

oh man

― nomar, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 19:48 (nine years ago)

holy shit, noooooooooooo

― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 19:48 (nine years ago)

well it's you, girl, and you should know it.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 19:51 (nine years ago)

my goodness

she was so great in ordinary people

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 19:54 (nine years ago)

2016, man

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 19:54 (nine years ago)

I'm worried about how my wife will take this. She's watched and re-watched the full run of Dick Van Dyke many times over and recently also went through the full set of the MTM show. I'd call her a true fan.

― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 19:54 (nine years ago)

meow

― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 21:45 (nine years ago)

she's so goddamn delightful & cool in the Dick Van Dyke Show, i have been watching a lot of those reruns lately

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 21:52 (nine years ago)

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/01/25/harry-mathews-1930-2017/

― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Thursday, 26 January 2017 00:32 (nine years ago)

― In Walked Bodhisattva (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 January 2017 00:39 (nine years ago)

rip hm

― no lime tangier, Thursday, 26 January 2017 00:58 (nine years ago)

Tam Dalyell

... people you thought were etc

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 January 2017 18:47 (nine years ago)

Mike Connors of Mannix, at 91 of leukemia, after being diagnosed just a week ago.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/mike-connors-dead-dies-joe-mannix-1201971140/

― nickn, Friday, 27 January 2017 05:45 (nine years ago)

Patricia Crampton, translator of children's literature including the Miffy books.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/27/patricia-crampton-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

― Madchen, Friday, 27 January 2017 19:33 (nine years ago)

nc state great, nba not-so-great charles shackleford, 50

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/college/article129133999.html

― mookieproof, Friday, 27 January 2017 19:47 (nine years ago)

John Hurt

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-hurt-dead-elephant-man-809521?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=Direct

― monotony, Saturday, 28 January 2017 01:24 (nine years ago)

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