Nanette Fabray
http://deadline.com/2018/02/nanette-fabray-dies-stage-tv-comic-actress-was-97-1202301558/
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 February 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
Eddy Amoo
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-band-real-thing-star-14330919
Anybody who says You To Me Are Everything hasn't touched them is a liar.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 24 February 2018 01:38 (six years ago) link
rip eddy my man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDboC4mBYk
― alien lames (NickB), Saturday, 24 February 2018 11:29 (six years ago) link
I see on the Stern’s music store & label blog that singer Medoune Diallo has died. He was in the great West African groups Orchestra Baobab and Africando.
http://sternsmusic.blogspot.com/2018/02/medoune-diallo-11021949-10022017-rip.html?m=1
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 February 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Emma Chambers, from Vicar of Disley, 53
― Mark G, Saturday, 24 February 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
Was just coming here to post that http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43183354
― ailsa, Saturday, 24 February 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43171117
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-crystals-singer-barbara-ann-alston-dead-at-74-w517091
She sang lead on early songs including “Uptown “ & “He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)”
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:53 (six years ago) link
“He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)”jesus christ
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:22 (six years ago) link
oh shit :( Barbara was the living end, i love the Crystals so much rip lady <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link
like Ronnie was THE voice but Barbara had such a sweet sincerity, I really love her early songs
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/gkpeUDbVAlE
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
Would never have guessed the lead singer of the Crystals was still alive. Close call between them and the Ronettes--they're even tied in the iconic-Scorsese-shots department.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCYwcObxl78
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 February 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link
ronnie? i meant darlene ugh ugh
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
also xposts to AA: the girls all HATED the song. written by Goffin & King
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 00:04 (six years ago) link
I was a little confused too..."sang lead on early songs"--so it's Darlene Love on "Then He Kissed Me"?
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 February 2018 00:04 (six years ago) link
No, that's LaLa Brooks.
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 February 2018 00:35 (six years ago) link
The Crystals started out as a quintet with Barbara in lead til 62Spector pulled a switcheroo & recorded Love’s group The Blossoms AS the Crystals doing He’s A Rebel while the real Crystals were on the road touring. Suuuuuuper dick moveThen the real Crystals were back on deck with LaLa in 63 and she sang Then He Kissed Me and Da Doo Ron Ronit’s sad tho bcz I always forget it’s LaLa and not Darlene on those 2!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
> Would never have guessed the lead singer of the Crystals was still alive.
They were all terribly young at the time though, all born in the '40s. Darlene is still alive and kicking up a storm at 76
― koogs, Sunday, 25 February 2018 04:36 (six years ago) link
also xposts to AA: the girls all HATED the song.oh thank god
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 February 2018 10:08 (six years ago) link
Harriet Fier, Rolling Stone editor.
I still have a few of those issues--a friend gave some of his brother's, the first time I'd really read the magazine (I knew about it). The reviews section was fantastic during those three years: Paul Nelson was editor, and Marcus, Bangs, Marsh, and a bunch of other people--the Stranded writers, basically, minus Christgau--were all in there at the same time.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 February 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
x-post- Carole King soon came to hate the song too. Goffin said the lyrics were based on something Little Eva told him about her boyfriend
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 February 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
Lewis Gilbert, aged 97
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lewis-gilbert-dead-alfie-james-bond-director-dies-at-97-1088811
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
Ah man. My gran was best friends at school with Lewis Gilbert. As a child it felt like a secret connection to Roger Moore.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
Aw RIP Lewis. What an innings tho! 97! He had the cutest Elmer Fudd speech impediment
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo
http://variety.com/2018/film/global/idrissa-ouedraogo-dies-dead-tilai-1202704129/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
Peter Miles, British actor you'll mainly recognise from 70s TV (and especially as Nyder in Genesis of the Daleks) but also a jazz singer and guitarist who was a close friend of Dusty. He played guitar on the first record The Springfields made and appeared on other Dusty recordings like this one:
https://youtu.be/yLMrMMSFviU
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
Jackson Galaxy's main cat, Veloouria, at the fairly unbelievable age of 26.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b3/a2/fd/b3a2fd00c29cf16de87146bf55434b47.jpg
very distinguished looking cat, rip veloouria
― soref, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
cynthia heimelhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/obituaries/cynthia-heimel-irreverent-writer-about-sex-dies-at-70.html
― maura, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 11:27 (six years ago) link
:-(( RIP improver of my 1980s.
― kim jong deal (suzy), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 11:29 (six years ago) link
comedian/activist Barry Crimmins
https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-barry-crimmins-comedian-and-activist-1823430381
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
RIP <3Anyone who hasn't seen "Call Me Lucky" definitely should
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link
Guardian columnist Michele Hanson.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/03/michele-hanson-warm-witty-much-loved-columnist-dies-guardian
It's a bit unnerving that her Twitter account is retweeting tributes to her without anyone announcing that they are in control of it and that she's not tweeting from beyond the grave!
https://twitter.com/michelerhanson
― Alba, Saturday, 3 March 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
David Ogden Stiers
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/david-ogden-stiers-emmy-nominee-005402748.html
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 March 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
he was so great on MASH <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:09 (six years ago) link
I like how he pronounced "cretins"
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
Harvey Schmidt, composer of The Fantasticks
http://www.playbill.com/article/harvey-schmidt-fantasticks-composer-dies-at-88
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
MASH was good at replacing people
winchester, hunnicutt and potter were all better than burns, trapper and blake
― mookieproof, Sunday, 4 March 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link
The first one maybe, the second definitely not, flip a coin on the third.
― Whiney On The Moog (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 March 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
DOS was good in everything I watched him in. i remember him being particularly outstanding in the very good, totally slept on mid-'90s thriller Bad Company w/Laurence Fishburne, Ellen Barkin, Frank Langella, etc...
― omar little, Sunday, 4 March 2018 04:13 (six years ago) link
Fun Fact: DOS went to high school w/Roger Ebert.
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 March 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
Davide Astori, the Fiorentina captain, dies last night at 31.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 4 March 2018 11:46 (six years ago) link
*died
Roger Bannister too.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 4 March 2018 11:50 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lKcSIKkI2A
― scott seward, Sunday, 4 March 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind-up radio: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/05/trevor-baylis-inventor-wind-up-radio-dies-aged-80
― brain (krakow), Monday, 5 March 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
re Sir Rog
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/05/590792079/roger-bannister-first-runner-to-break-4-minute-mile-dies-at-88
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 March 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
russ solomon, founder of tower records (also rip)http://amp.sacbee.com/latest-news/article203542104.html
― maura, Monday, 5 March 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
"Ironically, he was giving his opinion of what someone was wearing that he thought was ugly, then asked (his wife) Patti to to refill his whisky," Solomon said. When she returned, he had died.
― maura, Monday, 5 March 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
Much worse ways to bow out, really.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 March 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link