Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

RIP Zienia Merton

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NOOOOOO I have been on a huge Space: 1999 jag lately and she is my favourite! 72 is far too young, how unfair.

RIP Dudley

Wrecking Crew bassist Max Bennett, at 90. Accompanied Peggy Lee, Joni Mitchell and countless others:
https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/330291-rip-max-bennett/
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/another-bass-giant-has-passed-rip-max-bennett.1363977/
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/farewell-max-bennett.1363947/
https://observer.com/2016/04/the-unbelievable-true-story-of-the-wrecking-crews-max-bennett/

According to Ted Gioia on Twitter, saxophonist Big Jay McNeely has died at 91. I had no idea he was still alive. You can figure out everything you need to know about his style from this immortal photo:

https://marmosetmusic-com.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/artist/photo/1050/homepage_large_a65d9fe5-2bd0-4e86-9e0e-3fad2be96326.jpg

Damn. RIP

RIP Dudley Sutton, I love you forever as Tinker from Lovejoy (which Zienia Merton was also in an episode of, so double RIP)

We saw Big Jay at Viva Cantina in 2013 - what a show! He was 85 but one of those pure charisma folks who lived to play. RIP

Almost a week late with this but RIP Fenella Fielding, you scared the shit out of young me as Voice of the House in Dougal & The Blue Cat.

Wrecking Crew bassist Max Bennett, at 90. Accompanied Peggy Lee, Joni Mitchell and countless others:
https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/330291-rip-max-bennett/
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/another-bass-giant-has-passed-rip-max-bennett.1363977/
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/farewell-max-bennett.1363947/
https://observer.com/2016/04/the-unbelievable-true-story-of-the-wrecking-crews-max-bennett/

RIP but what a career/life. Even gets a credit on Blue Lines for an L.A.Express sample. Pity he didn't get round to writing the book mentioned in the last of those interviews.

Great interview with Big Jay McNeely:

http://www.jazzwax.com/2018/09/big-jay-mcneely-1927-2018.html

Can't believe he's not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Freddie Oversteegen: picked up occupying Nazis at the bar; shot them in the head.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/freddie-oversteegen-dutch-resistance-fighter-who-killed-nazis-through-seduction-dies-at-92/2018/09/16/7876eade-b9b7-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html

Alan Abel, America's greatest hoaxer til 2016

(this is his second NY Times obit; the first came 38 years before his death)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/obituaries/alan-abel-dies.html

yes, that is Buck Henry as the face of SINA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fopTx_qNb4Q

critic Annette Michelson

http://www.artnews.com/2018/09/17/annette-michelson-pioneering-film-critic-cofounder-october-dies-96/

Dennis Norden. RIP.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45569460

people you thought were etc etc

it didn't quite end up alright on the night etc..

Paul Virilio.

dunno, getting to 96 seems pretty alright to me

that all depends on how broken your body has become, for some 96 might be a living hell!

people you thought were etc etc

He was a regular on there. RIP Dennis.

Denis, Denis.

I thought it was Denis but someone else put Dennis so I changed it.

Marceline Loridan-Ivens, 90

RIP Denis. Back in the early 2000s I worked in Central London and walked to work in Clerkenwell along Oxford Street. Often walking in the opposite direction was Denis Norden. Very tall, even taller than you might imagine, and very pale. More or less dressed exactly as he appeared on TV in later years: dark blue blazer, light brown trousers, white shirt, cravat, all at quarter to eight in the morning.

Arthur Mitchell
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-45583244

Kirin Kiki, so good in so many Kore-eda movies

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/09/16/films/veteran-japanese-actress-kirin-kiki-dies-75/

Robert Venturi (1925-2018), whose early writings and buildings defined an aesthetic of "complexity and contradiction" that would later be taken - especially after his collaborative work with Denise Scott Brown opened up new frontiers in the theory of the Pop landscape - as one of the first signposts of "postmodernism," though he did not originate or use the term.

Wow I just bought Learning from Las Vegas at the MIT Press Bookstore last week. Can’t wait to read it.

I've loved Kirin Kiki in everything I've ever seen her in. She was still married to Yuya Uchida despite separating from him in 1975! Their daughter Yayako and Kirin recently played younger and older versions of the same character in a film.
She was so great in Still Walking and After the Storm - apparently-sweet-old-lady characters with subtle depth and complexity, she was a true master. Damn.

Hearing on FB that Hardy Fox of Residents fame has died.

Man, not another. i would've guessed, from appearances, that he was healthiest of the bunch. I swear this never-ending rolecall of dying/dead u-ground peeps of importance in my life totally fucking SUCKS!!

Still here, but not for very long :( https://www.residents.com/news/?article=20180921-0732

Chas from Chas and Dave.

Thanks Tom. I was going by the mentioned dates on his website. Still sucks etc. What an amazing body of work though. Not perfect of course, nothing is. But definitely amazing.

Some think Chas never really wanted Gor to blimey him. It was just the way he talked probably.

hearing his dying wish was for Spurs to play out an error-strewn 2-1 defeat to Brighton this evening

apparently he had the best medical ppl on it but unforch twas eric dier tasked with handing them the implements and well

lettuce pray that Spurs shit defence will struggle to cope with a 34 year old carthorse and deliver this last wish to Chas!

NYers: Anne Russ Federman, 97, the last surviving daughter of Russ & Daughters appetizing store. She started working at the store at age 14, which means c. 1935. She died one day after Yom Kippur, one of the rare days in the year Russ & Daughters is closed.

Ok, I just heard about Chas Hodges and had a genuine 'Oh No' reaction. RIP.

RIP Russ daughter. I recently mail ordered my wife some smoked fish from there as a birthday gift.

i wonder whether dave will pull a sam and dave and replace chas with another chas?

hes hooking up with the other krankie and the last beegee

Former Lucasfilm producer Gary Kurtz

(xp) just realized deems has got his Chuckle Brothers and Krankies mixed up, not on, frankly.

the other krankie

both krankies are still alive and well u heathen

tom d and me, united in our kneejerk defence of scottish light entertainers