Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

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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)

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)

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” barnes

https://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)

Ursula K Le Guin

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:19 (eight years ago)

oof, RIP

a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:23 (eight years ago)

oh fuck what a shitty day this is for human culture

faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:27 (eight years ago)

fuuuuuck

Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:27 (eight years ago)

The worst of news. RIP.

pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:28 (eight years ago)

Just read earthsea this past few months. Lovely.

RIP

remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:28 (eight years ago)

All the times I linked to her blog saying m/l "you won't believe who's still around and still blogging", and now I can't believe she isn't.

Thanks for all the books (still so many more I haven't read, too), new ways of thinking for teenage me about fantasy and SF and gender - and the blog posts and cat pics too...

a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:34 (eight years ago)


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