Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

it's like non-music guys and the Beatles

Not really, because the Beatles are unfortunately popular with music guys too.

Dude, it's me

Fuck stan lee btw

(xp) lol

Forgot about Ditko dying! Please stop dying, comics people!

As I alluded to in another thread, there are plenty of legit reasons to criticize Stan, but he seemed like a pretty amiable dude and, if nothing else, he was a solid cheerleader for that little corner of the comics world to the broader world beyond.

I'm cool with people in their 90s dying. #challopcelsior

Local Cleveland writer and journalist Nikki Delamotte. Not someone well-known, obviously, but she was a casual friend of mine (I just saw her right before Halloween) and was a much-beloved booster of the Cleveland music, arts, food and culture scenes. She was shot and killed over the weekend, apparently while visiting family in Toledo. Details are still somewhat sketchy. She was just the nicest, sweetest person, a terrific writer and a wonderful chronicler of Northeast Ohio. As it happens she once rounded up a bunch of her own favorite pieces at

This year, I had the chance to tell stories about so many Clevelanders that make me really proud to live here. A few of my favorites in this thread.

— nikki delamotte (@nikkidelamotte) December 31, 2017

thanks for sharing, Eliza, I will def check those pieces out. RIP

Yeah, I just saw a guy I know - a former editor at Cleveland-based Alternative Press - tweet about Delamotte. Sucks.

Apparently her uncle killed her then himself.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2018/11/woman-man-found-dead-at-wood-county-trailer-park-where-clevelandcom-reporter-nikki-delamotte-reported-missing.html

Jesus, that's awful

David Pearson, second only to Richard Petty in NASCAR wins.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/obituaries/david-pearson-nascar-dead.html

RIP. Pearson was my fave of the old school NASCAR drivers

“Herbert London, a self-described ‘New York liberal mugged by reality’ who was transformed into an eloquent and consistently conservative academic, social critic and political candidate, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 79. The cause was complications of heart failure, his wife, Vicki London said. A 6-foot-5 former scholastic basketball star and incipient pop singer, Dr. London later was a founding dean of the innovative Gallatin School for Individualized Study at New York University and a prolific voice for scholarly think tanks. He interrupted his career to seek elective office in New York State. In 1989, Dr. London briefly sought the Republican mayoral nomination in New York City." - Sam Roberts, NYT

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46209959

Babs Beverley, leaving only one surviving Sister.

Aw :(

I just got word that Katherine MacGregor passed away yesterday.

This woman taught me so much...
about acting...
vintage jewelry...
life.
She was outspoken and hilariously funny. A… https://t.co/I4F9XA1Fa4

— Melissa Gilbert (@MEGBusfield) November 14, 2018

R.I.P. Mrs. Oleson

aw ;_;

Roy Clark

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/country-star-roy-clark-has-died-at-age-85-according-to-his-publicist/2018/11/15/724c5d7a-e8fa-11e8-8449-1ff263609a31_story.html

Good lord could the man cook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrcNtH5pu8

Used to live in my tiny town; was always friendly at the post office. RIP Roy.

a+ guitar face

rip roy ;(

Another Mick Fleetwood School of Concentration graduate.

Hee-Haw was, without doubt, part of my childhood--more than even Laugh-In, in that it lasted longer.

Same thing with Jerry Reed when he died, I knew them as sort of comic relief on Hee Haw and Cannonball Run and didn’t realize how fucking good they were at playing the guitar

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/16/butch-cassidy-and-princess-bride-scriptwriter-william-goldman-dies-aged-87

aww :(

His (first?) two books about his time in Hollywood (Adventures in the Screen Trade and Which Lie Did I Tell?) are absolutely great, full of gossip and stories and a view of how things actually work. Plus, he wrote the Princess Bride.

RIP William G

Is it safe?

Richard Baker

... people you thought were already dead.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-46248990

Al James, founding member of Showaddywaddy.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/9e/27/549e27fb78eb8e150bbda60daac496a0.jpg

Never forget one of the greatest live bills of all time.

John Bluthal. Though the BBC hasn't got round to mentioning it yet.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/john-bluthal-dead-vicar-dibleys-13605877

Goodnight and expenses.

They just did a wee tribute to him on the BBC news there.

Frances Davis, an actress, dancer, and Miles Davis's first wife. There was actually some controversy in the 1950s when he insisted on putting her on the cover of Someday My Prince Will Come:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TvSQ25yJL.jpg

belated RIP to Greenwich Village folkie Vince Martin, who died in July

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/vince-martin-cindy-oh-cindy-singer-early-folk-rock-pioneer-dead-at-81-696767/

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

oh i missed that one too. i have the record he did with fred neil which is pretty good

Patrick Mathé founder of New Rose Records.

British comics artist Mike Noble:

https://www.gerryanderson.co.uk/tv21-comic-artist-mike-noble-has-died/

British folk singer Bill Caddick

Cyril Pahinui, Hawaiian slack key guitar great, dies at 68.

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/20/669530870/cyril-pahinui-crown-prince-of-hawaiian-slack-key-guitar-dies-at-68?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2049&fbclid=IwAR27ineq0F0eyFBtSqU79aVfLn-7GX5k0m23sp3m-1nunstaTjHS2a6N2s8

Nicolas Roeg

:(

I always forget that he did the 1990 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches, which would make it the first Roeg film I ever saw. Need to revisit that one someday soon.

It’s good!

It’s good!

Saw his thread revived and wondered :(

His best films are great