Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

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RIP Bernie, dude was a total master, did a bunch of stuff that has def stuck w me through the years.

― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 March 2017 18:12 (nine years ago)

David Rockefeller

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/20/520841767/david-rockefeller-philanthropist-banker-and-collector-dies-at-101

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 March 2017 20:20 (nine years ago)

trisha brown

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/arts/dance/trisha-brown-dead-modern-dance-choreographer.html?_r=0

― donna rouge, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:19 (nine years ago)

http://dcist.com/2017/03/local_jazz_legend_buck_hill_dead_at.php

Buck Hill could have been a jazz big name playing in NY and touring, but he instead stayed in DC working as a Postal Service letter carrier by day, sax blower by night

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 03:56 (nine years ago)

Martin McGuinness
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-39185899

― Madchen, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 06:37 (nine years ago)

That's a big one

― The night before all about day (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 07:40 (nine years ago)

Wondering who will be 'paying tribute' to him... oh, here's one just as I was typing this, Alastair Campbell.

― Ongar Is An Energy (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 09:01 (nine years ago)

Colin Dexter
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/21/inspector-morse-creator-colin-dexter-dead

― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 14:51 (nine years ago)

RIP

― well the bitter comes out better on a stolen Switch cartridge (snoball), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 18:39 (nine years ago)

;_;

― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 18:50 (nine years ago)

Chuck Barris

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chuck-barris-dead-gong-show-929310

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 06:36 (nine years ago)

NSFW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDxDYIQL6Nc

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 06:37 (nine years ago)

Berry & Barris, helluva deadpool combo

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 07:15 (nine years ago)

High school: Neil Young, Fernwood 2 Night, and The Gong Show. (Too ashamed to post a Gene Gene clip after the James Baldwin documentary.)

― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 11:24 (nine years ago)

RIP Chuck. I was a devoted Gong Show fan summers and holidays during its run.

― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 12:40 (nine years ago)

poisoned by a cia umbrella tip.

― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 14:01 (nine years ago)

re: that gong show clip, the 70s sure were a creepy time.

― Moodles, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 14:08 (nine years ago)

It's been a bad week for people called Chuck B.

― heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 15:15 (nine years ago)

rip sib

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/sib-hashian-dead

― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:26 (nine years ago)

― And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:46 (nine years ago)

poisoned by a cia umbrella tip.

― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 14:01 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kind of amazing that this was posted less than an hour before the new most famous murder(s) on westminster bridge

― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:50 (nine years ago)

James Cotton

http://www.memphisflyer.com/MusicBlog/archives/2017/03/16/james-cotton-king-of-the-blues-harp-dead-at-81

― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2017 14:28 (nine years ago)

xp that was waterloo bridge

― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Friday, 24 March 2017 18:53 (nine years ago)

Alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe, of Parkinson's disease.

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 27 March 2017 19:14 (nine years ago)

:( RIP Arthur.

― Bill Teeters (Tom D.), Monday, 27 March 2017 23:49 (nine years ago)

[really, this ought to teach me to double-check dates. i would appreciate if a mod were to delete my previous post.]

― Diana Fire (j.lu), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 19:44 (nine years ago)

David Stoey, playwright-novelist (This Sporting Life, Home)

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/27/david-storey-author-of-this-sporting-life-dies-aged-83

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 02:40 (nine years ago)

^Storey

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 02:41 (nine years ago)

Home was really good. An old man's play before he was one.

― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 02:43 (nine years ago)

Ahmed Kathrada, South African freedom fighter jailed for 26 years

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/29/ahmed-kathrada-obituary

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 21:33 (nine years ago)

Bill Minor, Mississippi journalist of the civil-rights era

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/wilson-bill-minor-conscience-of-mississippi-journalism-during-civil-rights-era-dies-at-94/2017/03/28/870cd774-13c4-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.a271215fe457

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 21:35 (nine years ago)

Gilbert Baker, designer of the rainbow LGBT flag. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/31/gilbert-baker-rainbow-flag-inventor-gay-rights-dies

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 1 April 2017 07:12 (nine years ago)

James Rosenquist
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/arts/james-rosenquist-dead-pop-art.html

I just saw F111 for the first time, still an essential piece of painting

― PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 1 April 2017 18:51 (nine years ago)

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2017/04/01/roland-founder-ikutaro-kakehashi-has-died/

― how's life, Saturday, 1 April 2017 20:04 (nine years ago)

Elyse Steinman, guitarist for criminally underrated NYC-based retro Southern rock band Raging Slab.

― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 1 April 2017 21:18 (nine years ago)

Club Penguin

― I Ville Valo HIM (unregistered), Saturday, 1 April 2017 22:51 (nine years ago)

Yevtushenko

― Bill Teeters (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 April 2017 23:14 (nine years ago)

I only got around to reading Yevtushenko last year (maybe even this year), which was an odd blind spot for me as I read quite a lot of Russian poetry. RIP

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Saturday, 1 April 2017 23:59 (nine years ago)

Brian Oldfield, '70s icon of the shot put

http://www.mastersathletics.net/uploads/pics/brian_Oldfield.jpg

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-brian-oldfield-20170328-story.html

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 April 2017 01:18 (nine years ago)

Darcus Howe

― Alba, Sunday, 2 April 2017 11:35 (nine years ago)

I used to like the "what say you?" cut of his jib on The Devil's Advocate. RIP

― calzino, Sunday, 2 April 2017 12:24 (nine years ago)

just watching a youtube of the one where he causes rasta uproar by alleging that Haile Selassie had a Swiss bank account and was bit of a sybarite/rum bugger!

― calzino, Sunday, 2 April 2017 12:36 (nine years ago)

Radley Metzger

http://www.therialtoreport.com/2017/04/02/radley-metzger-2/

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 April 2017 17:49 (nine years ago)

Used to see Darcus Howe on TV all the time in the 90s, still remember this best of course -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vou_Ani-lKE

He was a good sport to put up with it

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 2 April 2017 17:57 (nine years ago)

Metzger wow, rip, that's very sad. The Opening of Misty Beethoven is classic.

― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 2 April 2017 18:11 (nine years ago)

I remember Darcus Howe going nuts at Joan Rivers for saying that race doesn't mean a damn thing and everyone should just relax. For some reason I was off work and listening to Radio 4 that day.

― Madchen, Sunday, 2 April 2017 19:39 (nine years ago)

I have strong memories of him getting shouted down by an impartial BBC interviewer for saying he wasn't surprised by the 2011 riots

― a Brazilian professional footballer (wins), Sunday, 2 April 2017 19:46 (nine years ago)

provocateurs can be so boring but i always enjoyed Darcus, he looked like he was having fun and like he realised what a load of bollocks opinions on TV are

― Django Chutney (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 April 2017 19:49 (nine years ago)

Howe, Metzger, Kakehashi and Yevtushenko all going within twenty four hours is a weird quadfecta of my interests.

My mother hated Darcus and there was a sense he was probably more of a jerk offscreen than on but he was such a huge and important voice - and as has been said - a rare and necessary provocateur.

― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 2 April 2017 20:42 (nine years ago)

the Imran Khan ball tampering episode of The Devil's Advocate, quite oddly, features G Boycott getting a round of applause by the Asians in the audience for condemning the "paki-bashing" of The Telegraph and British tabloids at the time. Mind you, being a wife-beater doesn't necessarily make one a racist as well.

― calzino, Sunday, 2 April 2017 21:13 (nine years ago)

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