Sleuthing reveals his wife died early last year, but I can't find anything on his dying other than that Lucas post.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:22 (eight years ago)
Maura - thank you for that Betty Willis obit, very sad, but nice they spoke with her daughter, former coworker and Bill Medley to tell a little of her story.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:50 (eight years ago)
Starting to look like Jeff Cotton isn't true, but nothing more than FOAF reports either way. I do know his wife died of cancer last year -- that might be the source of the rumors.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 19:54 (eight years ago)
Neave Brown, architect of low-rise social housing in Camden, recently awarded RIBA medal for same. Lived until his death in north London’s Dunboyne Road flats, which he designed. Here’s an interview from October conducted by one of my best friends:
https://www.ribaj.com/culture/humanity-as-a-design-tool-riba-royal-medal-neave-brown
― kim jong deal (suzy), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:54 (eight years ago)
BREAKING: Edgar Ray Killen, convicted in 1964 'Mississippi Burning' slayings of 3 civil rights workers, dies in prison. https://t.co/dKu8bikhBC— The Associated Press (@AP) January 12, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:20 (eight years ago)
college football broadcaster keith 'whoa, nellie' jackson
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 January 2018 20:53 (eight years ago)
First celebrity I ever saw opening something, Bella Emberg
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/bella-emberg-dead-blunder-woman-actress-russ-abott-show-costume-tributes-dies-died-tv-shows-a8157636.html
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 13 January 2018 20:56 (eight years ago)
‘opening something’
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 13 January 2018 20:57 (eight years ago)
25 years old, my god ;_;
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/13/model-killed-in-latest-london-stabbing
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 13 January 2018 22:36 (eight years ago)
Doreen Tracey, Mousekateer who later worked with Frank Zappa.
http://beta.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-doreen-tracey-20180111-story.html
― nickn, Saturday, 13 January 2018 23:56 (eight years ago)
Bloody hell, Bella Emberg, that's someone for the people you didn't realise were still alive except now they aren't thread
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 13 January 2018 23:58 (eight years ago)
https://www.rte.ie/amp/933526/?__twitter_impression=true
Dolores O’Riordan.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 15 January 2018 17:14 (eight years ago)
Gobsmacked and then some.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:17 (eight years ago)
46
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Monday, 15 January 2018 17:19 (eight years ago)
I just found out that Chu Ishikawa died at the end of last year. He was 51 and apparently was battling a long illness. He did the soundtracks for most of Shinya Tsukamoto's films and must have been quite influential in industrial music but he could do quite a variety of styles. I did think he looked alarmingly thin at times but I knew nothing about his illness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_L6tVsg2o
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:50 (eight years ago)
Dr Mathilde Krim
http://www.newnownext.com/mathilde-krim-dead/01/2018/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 17:08 (eight years ago)
Edwin Hawkins, hitmaker of "Oh Happy Day"
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/16/578235211/gospel-star-edwin-hawkins-known-for-oh-happy-day-dies-at-74
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:54 (eight years ago)
as noted elsewhere, Joe Frank
https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/173192/joe-frank-influential-radio-monologuist-dies-at-79
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:56 (eight years ago)
Doug Harvey, the baseball umpire known as "God"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/obituaries/doug-harvey-dead-baseball-umpire.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 21:05 (eight years ago)
Jo Jo White
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22124169/jo-jo-white-boston-celtics-great-basketball-hall-famer-dies-71
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 22:52 (eight years ago)
Peter Wyngarde:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/18/actor-peter-wyngarde-department-s-dies
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 18 January 2018 09:38 (eight years ago)
Oh no! RIP Peter ;_; That's it I'm pulling out my copy of his album to listen to.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 January 2018 09:42 (eight years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_HiW9J5prc
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 January 2018 09:48 (eight years ago)
Mike Carroll, of Poison 13 and Lord High Fixers
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Thursday, 18 January 2018 10:35 (eight years ago)
Stansfield Turner, CIA chief 1977-81
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/adm-stansfield-turner-who-led-major-cia-overhaul-as-director-of-central-intelligence-dies-94/2018/01/18/eac46390-fc99-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 January 2018 17:48 (eight years ago)
Artist Ed Moses, 91.
http://beta.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-me-ed-moses-dies-20180118-story.html#nt=oft12aH-2gp2
― nickn, Friday, 19 January 2018 21:09 (eight years ago)
Bradford Dillman https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bradford-dillman-dead-actor-compulsion-way-we-were-was-87-1075818
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:36 (eight years ago)
Peter Mayle
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/obituaries/peter-mayle-who-wrote-of-a-year-in-provence-is-dead-at-78.html
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:38 (eight years ago)
I did not know til a month ago that Dillman had been the first Edmund in Long Day's Journey.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 January 2018 22:16 (eight years ago)
Dorothy Malone
http://variety.com/2018/film/people-news/dorothy-malone-dies-dead-peyton-place-1202670315/
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:00 (eight years ago)
RIP, Dot :(
― Curly Morlocks (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:37 (eight years ago)
:o
i'm sorry I reminded everyone she was alive yesterday.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:05 (eight years ago)
Legendary French chef Paul Bocuse
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 20 January 2018 12:52 (eight years ago)
Jim Rodford.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/20/kinks-zombies-bassist-jim-rodford-has-died-aged-76/
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 21 January 2018 01:57 (eight years ago)
christian burchard of embryo died on jan. 17
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Sunday, 21 January 2018 02:12 (eight years ago)
Bob Smith, first out gay comedian to appear on The Tonight Show, of ALS
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-smith-pioneering-gay-comedian-writer-dies-at-59-1076420
I took an improv class with Bob in 1985; he was sweet, acidic and very cute. I would've hit on him if I'd been gay then.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 January 2018 09:42 (eight years ago)
Oh, what a shame, they played in London recently - or maybe they're scheduled to play? Anyway, I have got some Embryo on my mp3 player, so can listen to them today - I'm at my mum's this weekend. RIP Christian.(xp)
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 January 2018 10:08 (eight years ago)
Steve Nisbett, Steel Pulse drummer
https://www.reggaeville.com/artist-details/steel-pulse/news/view/steve-grizzly-nisbett-passed-away-founding-member-of-steel-pulse/
― i am a skinematographer (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 January 2018 11:21 (eight years ago)
Bob Wakelin, creator of instantly recognisable art for a generation of Brits and designer of the Ocean software logo.
RIP Bob Wakelin - Any 80's gamers will be familiar with his iconic covers. pic.twitter.com/uOtlRWcv9l— Stu Wood (@DigitalWood) January 21, 2018
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 21 January 2018 12:55 (eight years ago)
"A couple of times the guys at Ocean said to me 'Look Bob, this game really isn't very good so we need an extra special cover.'
I suppose I should feel guilty for it."
― nashwan, Sunday, 21 January 2018 13:53 (eight years ago)
Howard Lew Lewis, best known as Elmo in Brush Strokes but also one of the main cast in Maid Marian and her Merry Men.
http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/54752/howard-lew-lewis-1941-2018
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Monday, 22 January 2018 13:39 (eight years ago)
Aw :(
― Madchen, Monday, 22 January 2018 13:57 (eight years ago)
Hugh Masekela
https://www.timeslive.co.za/tshisa-live/tshisa-live/2018-01-23-breaking-legendary-musician-hugh-masekela-has-died-report/
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 07:55 (eight years ago)
Oh man, RIP hugh
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 08:46 (eight years ago)
RIP, he was a legend and had an amazing life
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:04 (eight years ago)
simon “tinky winky” barneshttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/23/teletubbies-tinky-winky-actor-simon-barnes-dies-aged-52
― maura, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:47 (eight years ago)
Mary Lee Berners-Lee
― Madchen, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:17 (eight years ago)
Girl From the North Country
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:31 (eight years ago)
aw RIP Mary Lee Berners Lee and Bob Wakelin (only just seen that post)
as a child I studied the Rainbow Islands box art in great detail and decided that, since Taito was a Japanese company and the colourful big-eyed box art seemed vaguely like the Euro-Japanese coproduction cartoons imported to mid/late-80s CBBC for my daily viewing, the signed name "Wakelin" must clearly be Japanese, pronounced wa-ké-lin
it took many years to realise that this was quite a silly thought
https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Bob_Wakelin
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:59 (eight years ago)
I missed the France Gall post too :(
Catchiest German song about computer dating of the 1960s:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rtdb_zgqdQ
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 21:02 (eight years ago)
RIght. Or every once in a while Tom Jobim even wrote them himself. Not a big fan of the Gimble or Gilbert bossa lyrics tbh.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 December 2018 01:50 (seven years ago)
Okay, I guess I like some of his lyrics more than I thought. "How Insensitive" for bossa, "Sway" and "Bluesette" in other styles.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 December 2018 01:56 (seven years ago)
Ray Sawyer.
http://www.wkrg.com/news/mobile-county/dr-hook-s-ray-sawyer-chickasaw-native-dead-at-81/1681232151
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ux3-a9RE1Q
"Oh, that's beautiful."
― clemenza, Monday, 31 December 2018 21:16 (seven years ago)
Oh noooooooo. Will be watching this epic triumph / trainwreck in tribute:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4c3W-XoNXM
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:48 (seven years ago)
aw shithttps://youtu.be/7LXpnNKNxJI
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 01:29 (seven years ago)