Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Wearside Jack aka John Samuel Humble aka Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer numpt.

Richard Booth, King of Hay, bookseller extraordinaire.

He was responsible for transforming the market town in Powys into the world's foremost home for books.

RIP the Mole, here is one of his best basslines...

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

I don't know anything about Canned Heat, but I love his playing with Tom Waits, and while it's hard to say who is doing what, he's on Martinis & Bikinis by Sam Phillips (along with Colin Moulding and Jerry Scheff, so ... good company) and there is some awesome bass playing on that album.

Played on dozens of Monkees tracks too.

NBC News perennial Jack Perkins

https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/former-nbc-newser-jack-perkins-dies-at-age-85/412187/

https://farsider.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/jack-perkins.jpg?w=450

hah forgot all about that

Sources close to the family say David Koch has died.

— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) August 23, 2019

oh what a world, what a world

https://media.tenor.com/images/c39d3d1ff1b99b4ba39db44ba1ffd84c/tenor.gif

at least his place as one of the biggest Kochs in history is secured

https://abc7.com/amp/politics/billionaire-political-activist-david-koch-dies-at-79/5487884/?__twitter_impression=true

If he can die in his 70s so can Trump

BILLIONAIRE POLITICAL ACTIVIST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iZW909WuB4

Wasn't one brother at least a hair shittier than the other? Anyway, death comes for everyone, asshole, but at least you donated piles of money to some not-evil things while you were around, which someone perhaps will think about every time they see your name on something and wonder, "hey, wasn't that that asshole?"

Yeah, Charles is even more evil, somehow, but just slightly

there are plenty of critiques to make of Jane Mayer's work, but you can't say that she didn't report that baby David and Charles Koch were made to shit "precisely on schedule" by a Nazi pic.twitter.com/kEBnkZWMms

— Brendan O'Connor (@_grendan) August 23, 2019

just lolled loudly at this.

lmao

Is it churlish to point out that it was child abuse, and chronologically predated any acts that could justify it?

you might have a point, but different rules apply to the vile ruling classes imo

I watched the video of Bill Koch crying about being sold counterfeit wine to get in the mood for the weekend.

you might have a point, but different rules apply to the vile ruling classes imo

― calzino, Friday, August 23, 2019 4:07 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean the psycho abusive Nazi nanny probably had a hand in making them as insanely avaricious and evil as they were/are

not that they would've become 'benevolent billionaires' like a Buffett or Gates necessarily but still goddamn fuck that nanny!

Andrew Horn, director of The Nomi Song and We Are Twisted Fucking Sister!

Ah man, that's a real shame. Is there a specific source or link?

Ah, never mind, finding links.

Tim Bell

Repulsive Man Dies.

If Hitler had emerged alive and well that cunt would have been first in line to do his PR.

Neal Casal :(

Actress and presenter Sheila Steafel, seen here in Quatermass and the Pit:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hZsXG2IGRvY/T5qiW2il6xI/AAAAAAAAAGM/DXoyqZCYJKQ/s1600/steafel.gif

Oh, shame, RIP Sheila.

... married to Harry H. Corbett for a while, yes can see that.

Neal Casal obit from Rolling Stone

Isabel Toledo, fashion designer, 59.

My girlfriend was absolutely crushed by that news. A long time lodestar for her.

Other crushing news just now reported -- Pedro Bell has left us.

We lost the Master Mind behind the Graphic's & Artwork of Funkadelic. Mr. Pedro Bell is an American artist and illustrator best known for his elaborate cover designs and other artwork for numerous Funkadelic and George Clinton solo albums. Thxs for yr service our brother.😲🙏 pic.twitter.com/PsD8TRxlRU

— Bootsy Collins (@Bootsy_Collins) August 28, 2019

Funky Donnie Fritts

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/donnie-fritts-songwriter-dead-obit-877617/

Something something end of the Rainbow Road RIP

I only know her from Mythbusters but
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-jessi-combs/u-s-driver-jessi-combs-killed-in-bid-to-break-land-speed-record-idUSKCN1VI268

holy shit :(

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/08/30/us/politics/30Jim-Leavelle/merlin_159911220_dc1d8d60-372c-49ff-b980-df3cea08a9ca-articleLarge.jpg

Jim Leavelle, the Dallas police detective (with the hat)
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/obituaries/2019/08/30/jim-leavelle-detective-in-historic-photo-of-lee-harvey-oswald-s-shooting-dies-at-99/

A photo I'd not seen before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby#/media/File:Lee_Harvey_Oswald_being_shot_by_Jack_Ruby_as_Oswald_is_being_moved_by_police,_1963.jpg

Valerie Harper dies at the age of 80.

#BREAKING Actress Valerie Harper, known for 'Rhoda," 'Mary Tyler Moore Show," dies at 80, family sayshttps://t.co/ker20tZqPf

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) August 30, 2019

DJ Arafat, 33, one of the giants of the Ivorian coupé-decalé genre and one of the biggest stars of francophone Afropop, buried today after he died two weeks ago in a motorcycle accident in Abidjan.

https://www.france24.com/en/20190831-ivorian-music-star-dj-arafat-gets-royal-send-off-with-grand-funeral-concert

22 y/o French F2 driver Anthoine Hubert, in a crash at the Belgian Grand Prix.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/49537761

I stopped watching motor racing when Jules Bianchi died. This poor boy was just over a year older than my son.

tragic

A photo I'd not seen before:

wow, he shot Dan Clowes too?

Night in the Woods developer Alec Holowka

the guy who took that second oswald picture never got over having missed the moment of the shooting by a split second:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2002/06/30/photographer-snapped-oswald-s-murder-a-hair-too-soon-lost-pulitzer-place-in-history-to-rival/