Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Not much up in the way of clips, but one of my favourite portrayals of melancholy ever.

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

:( What a day. Posting this to cheer myself up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJsaujSs7Fw

Geoff Emerick

https://variety.com/2018/music/news/geoff-emerick-beatles-engineer-dead-1202966681/

Damn! RIP

Seeing on FB that Joop Roelofs guitarist of Q65 has passed away.

About a month ago: actor Peter Benson, whom I first noticed as an astonishingly meek Henry VI in the BBC Shakespeare DVD set.

https://i2.wp.com/www.loways.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/heartbeat-and-blackadder-actor-peter-benson-dies.jpg

And of course he was Henry VII in Blackadder in between those and reprising the role in Richard III.

I'll remember him as Bor, the most confused of the Vanir in the Doctor Who serial Terminus.

Juan Romero, the young man who was working as a busboy at the Ambassador Hotel when RFK was shot and held him after he fell (as seen in the photo in the story.)

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/654282422/juan-romero-busboy-who-cradled-dying-rfk-dies-at-68

Baritone saxophonist and founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet (along with Julius Hemphill, David Murray, and Oliver Lake) Hamiet Bluiett.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3T-MdIoo8Y

Animator Will Vinton (California Raisins, The PJs), 70

Bluiett :( when I think of Bari sax I think of him.

My girlfriend’s a big fan, we played some cuts of WSQ in his honor before we headed out tonight.

https://stljazznotes.blogspot.com/2018/10/hamiet-bluiett-1940-2018.html

rip Hamiet.

Steptoe and Son creator Ray Galton, 88:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/oct/06/ray-galton-co-creator-of-steptoe-and-son-dies-aged-88

The great Montserrat Caballé, who for some reason I thought had died a few years ago.

I always remember her from the Freddie Mercury hit, what a voice!

RIP Ray (xxp)

awww, man, hamiet did some fantastic duo gigs with don pullen back in the day

The great Montserrat Caballé, who for some reason I thought had died a few years ago.

You may have been thinking of Montserrat Figueras, another Spanish classical singer, who died in 2011.

Scott Wilson

https://comicbook.com/thewalkingdead/2018/10/07/the-walking-dead-scott-wilson-dead-age-hershel/

I'm seeing John Wicks of The Records, but no link.

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2018/10/07/john-wicks-the-records-dead/

RIP Scott. Magnificent in The Ninth Configuration which will be getting a rewatch tonight.

Pascale Casanova, French literary critic, author of The World Republic of Letters. RIP.

I always got Scott Wilson confused with Clu Gulager.

Actress Celeste Yarnall.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/celeste-yarnall-dead-star-trek-885728

Japanese composer Takehisa Kosugi (of Taj Mahal Travellers and the solo album Catch-Wave, a minimalist drone classic)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Stafford

Greg Stafford, creator of the fantasy world Golorantha and the setting for seminal RPG Runequest.

Betty Grissom, widow of astronaut Gus Grissom, who sued North American Rockwell over the Apollo 1 fire in which he died

https://apnews.com/d90d71139414422e94774fb83ec167ec

aw Betty <3

talk about a flamekeeper.

i agree but uh that might not have been the first word i would have chosen :/

ugh fuck yr right

let’s just say the definition of steadfast

done

Paul Spudis, regarded as one of the most important lunar scientists ever.
https://spacenews.com/lunar-scientist-and-exploration-advocate-paul-spudis-passes-away/

Peter Brackley, the voice of 90s Italian football.

William Coors, right-wing beer mogul, at 102

Coors brewery workers struck in 1977 over many issues, including the use of lie-detector tests to ferret out employees who were gay or whose politics were considered radical.

lovely guy, hope he took some time to drink some of that fine stuff!

Paul Allen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/technology/wp/2018/10/15/paul-allen-microsoft-co-founder-and-billionaire-investor-dies-at-65-2/

I'm seeing Kat Arthur, singer of Legal Weapon. No link.

Wow Paul allen dying is kind of nuts considering his real estate company has been a big part of the construction boom out here. Wonder what’s gonna turn out to be in his will.

Maybe $1 billion to me

I hope it all goes to the Allen Brain Institute, that group has been doing some fine work and making their data freely accessible.

Allen is kind of a mythical figure to me - I worked at WSU, where he dropped out of after two years in the 70s and there were always rumors that he was on one of the private jets that would show up on home football game days.

And I don't know if it was amazing trolling or just weird timing, but Bill Gates gave the school $25 million for a animal health research building, and a year later Allen gave $26 and they ended up naming it after him.

One of the bad things Paul Allen did (long-ish, but mentioned at the end):

https://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/lost-hollywood-the-enchanted-hill-of-fred-thomson-and-frances-marion/

based on the rotation of costumes exhibited at Cinerama, he also owns…most Hollywood memorabilia. Like possibly most of it that exists.

Wouldn't anything in the property rooms of any Hollywood studio have been in one or more movies? So, it might just be memorabilia of some forgettable short feature from 1936, but it would still be "Hollywood memorabilia".

$26?

rip paul allen, who will play shreddin' blues licks on your obscenely giant yacht now