Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

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rip DC... I worked with one of his kids for a while, sharp, talented guy who's life seemed completely overshadowed by his dad. Sad :(

― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 08:56 (eight years ago)

Hvorostovsky ;_;

He made a huge comeback after his cancer treatment about two years ago.

― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 09:22 (eight years ago)

― Modern Zounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 11:29 (eight years ago)

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Silver-Maned Baritone From Siberia, Dies at 55
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/arts/music/dmitri-hvorostovsky-dead.html

― Modern Zounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 11:37 (eight years ago)

Loved this little interview with him and Sondra:
http://nymag.com/arts/classicaldance/classical/features/65112/

― Modern Zounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 12:31 (eight years ago)

Wayne Cochran (C C Riders), 78.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article186039993.html

― nickn, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 21:27 (eight years ago)

George Avakian at 98, quite simply a giant in jazz and American popular music. Should be more famous. This personal memory will give a sense of the impact:

http://dippermouth.blogspot.in/2017/11/in-loving-memory-of-george-avakian.html

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 22:31 (eight years ago)

vocalist - composer Jon Hendricks:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/obituaries/jon-hendricks-96-who-brought-a-new-dimension-to-jazz-singing-dies.html

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 23:09 (eight years ago)

Ah RIP :( Knew that was coming but still

― Modern Zounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 23:43 (eight years ago)

RIP Hendricks, will be missed. Was still touring near to the end!

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 23 November 2017 17:18 (eight years ago)

Right. Think it was like one of those Glen Campbell situations, where he could still perform even if he couldn’t have a conversation

― Modern Zounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 November 2017 17:32 (eight years ago)

As opposed to Junior Mance situation

― Modern Zounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 November 2017 17:33 (eight years ago)

Tommy Keene

― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 24 November 2017 01:11 (eight years ago)

Just came on to post the same.

http://www.pollstar.com/article/new-wave-icon-tommy-keene-dies-133786

I've had Run Now and Based on a True Story for years, but I don't think I gave them more than one or two plays when I bought them--no recollection at all of either. He's highly regarded as a power-pop guy, so I'll make an effort to revisit.

― clemenza, Friday, 24 November 2017 01:16 (eight years ago)

Songs From the Film, from 1986, is my fave and, as far as I can tell, the one that is generally regarded as his best (the CD reissue I owned, and sadly lost during a move, contained that Run Now EP as well), but I have a few of the records he made since then. Always good, often great.

― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 24 November 2017 01:22 (eight years ago)

well shit. he was great

― mookieproof, Friday, 24 November 2017 01:57 (eight years ago)

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/community/article/2121124/mona-fong-widow-hong-kong-movie-mogul-sir-run-run-shaw-dies

Mona Fong: singer, actress and producer of a ton of films.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 24 November 2017 03:37 (eight years ago)

Ken Shapiro, writer-director of The Groove Tube

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/ken-shapiro-dead-dies-the-groove-tube-1202623976/

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

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:33 (eight years ago)

Slobodan Praljak, Bosnian Croat engineer, film and theatre director, businessman, author, after a short illness in the Netherlands

― moyesery loves kompany (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:28 (eight years ago)

"a short illness" that's one way of describing it!

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:31 (eight years ago)

philosopher jerry fodor has passed

http://dailynous.com/2017/11/29/jerry-fodor-1935-2017/

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:29 (eight years ago)

AP is reporting Jim Nabors.

BREAKING: Husband says Jim Nabors, who starred as Gomer Pyle on TV's `The Andy Griffith Show,' dies at Hawaii home at age 87.
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 30, 2017

― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 November 2017 18:15 (eight years ago)

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 November 2017 19:28 (eight years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw1SpY6Y_XU

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 November 2017 19:29 (eight years ago)

we had several of his LPs, my mom liked really colorless singers like him

RIP Gomer

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 November 2017 19:37 (eight years ago)

yeah my Dad liked him too

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 November 2017 21:12 (eight years ago)

Sign that you're old: when you heard stories about Jim Nabors's secret marriage to Rock Hudson, you had no way to even process that.

― clemenza, Friday, 1 December 2017 00:54 (eight years ago)

omg i never knew that rumor! poor Jim, it basically ruined his career :(

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 1 December 2017 01:38 (eight years ago)

I dunno, he did pretty well with what he had.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 December 2017 01:43 (eight years ago)

Evidently, if he landed Rock Hudson!

― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Friday, 1 December 2017 01:44 (eight years ago)

not sure they ever had a relationship beyond "two guys in showbiz whose gayness hit the mainstream rumor mill in the '70s". Did they?

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 December 2017 01:54 (eight years ago)

It started as a joke: "If Gomer Pyle married Rock Hudson, then that would make Rock Pyle!"

Seriously.

― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 December 2017 02:10 (eight years ago)

yeah, by their friends in Hawaii, apparently.

the stones on this horrid woman

So sad to hear about the passing of Jim Nabors. We heard him sing "Back Home Again in Indiana" at the Indianapolis 500 countless times. We will miss his beautiful voice. https://t.co/56kx5DVpeM
— Karen Pence (@SecondLady) November 30, 2017

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 December 2017 02:11 (eight years ago)

Barf

― flappy bird, Friday, 1 December 2017 02:43 (eight years ago)

Wait jim nabors was gay?!

― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 December 2017 02:46 (eight years ago)

Yea was news to me too

― flappy bird, Friday, 1 December 2017 02:47 (eight years ago)

my coworker from Indiana said the same thing re Indy 500, idk i thought it was kinda nice

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 December 2017 02:57 (eight years ago)

long known; he married his partner of 38 years in 2013

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 December 2017 03:03 (eight years ago)

Veg, i'm sure your coworker's spouse isn't an advocate of conversion therapy like Mother Pence's.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 December 2017 03:04 (eight years ago)

oh oops sorry I didnt catch that drift - roger that

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 December 2017 03:44 (eight years ago)

robert oswald, lee harvey's brother:

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/obituaries/article187524003.html

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 1 December 2017 23:33 (eight years ago)

Jack Doroshow aka Flawless Sabrina, the drag impresario seen in The Queen

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/11/27/remembering_the_queer_mentorship_of_flawless_sabrina_jack_doroshow.html

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 December 2017 02:02 (eight years ago)

Shashi Kapoor
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-42225524

― MrDasher, Monday, 4 December 2017 18:13 (eight years ago)

John Anderson, recipient of my first presidential vote

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/363168-former-illinois-congressman-john-anderson-dies-at-95

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 December 2017 21:32 (eight years ago)

Christine Keeler

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/05/christine-keeler-former-model-at-heart-of-profumo-affair-dies

― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 19:41 (eight years ago)

... people you thought were dead.

― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:15 (eight years ago)

just days after it was revealed Profumo was also having affairs with a Nazi spy.

― calzino, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:16 (eight years ago)

Johnny Hallyday, 74.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42247551

― nickn, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 04:31 (eight years ago)

missed ken shapiro, rip

groove tube is several kinds of great

― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 08:43 (eight years ago)

William H. Gass (The Tunnel)

― Josefa, Thursday, 7 December 2017 15:30 (eight years ago)

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