Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Seems like my friend the former Sounds, NME etc writer Tommy Udo has died. :(

Yeah, seeing other posts on that too. A real damn shame.

RIP cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, first person to do a spacewalk

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexei-leonov-died-cosmonaut-first-man-to-walk-in-space-dead-age-85-cause-of-death-not-released-2019-10-11/

He wrote an interesting (terrifying) account of that spacewalk mission which you can read here:
https://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-nightmare-of-voskhod-2-8655378/

Oh and here's a gallery of his paintings (some painted by him, some by an artist friend, some a collaboration between the two): https://gizmodo.com/the-first-spacewalker-and-his-painter-friend-created-th-1729276737

That account is fantastic, thanks for sharing. Lots of amazing details but this one jumped out at me first

The serious problems I had experienced when reentering the spacecraft were, thankfully, not televised. From the moment our mission looked to be in jeopardy, transmissions from our spacecraft, which had been broadcast on both radio and television, were suddenly suspended without explanation. In their place Mozart’s Requiem was played again and again on state radio. My family was therefore spared the anxiety they would have had to endure had they known how close I came to being stranded in space.

yeah! even aside from being a requiem you'd think the broadcast suddenly halting and being replaced by looping music would be unnerving, but I guess maybe the awareness that "uh-oh, seems like a broadcast emergency procedure" wasn't so public in 1965...

'terrifying' kinda undersells the constant piling on of disaster after disaster on top of leonov and his co-pilot, holy shit

tot knew Leonov's name when i was a 7-year-old space addict

The movie Spacewalker from a couple years back is worth watching if you want to see a highly dramatic version of Leonov life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp8_4RXuDdk

In 1976, I got to meet Leonov and the entire crew of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project at the IAU conference in Anaheim. I was ten years old and I felt like I met Elvis.

Robert Forster!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-forster-dead-resurgent-oscar-nominee-jackie-brown-was-78-1218184

:(

noooooooo 😫

So sad, what a great guy

Medium Cool

oh shit, even the timing is sad

Fuck.

FUUUUCK

one of the most soothing and just fucking cool screen presences ever

Did the work and did it damn well. Glad the Twin Peaks return will serve as a partial sendoff for him in retrospect.

i listened to his audiobook recording of 'roadside picnic' last year. he had a wonderful voice.

Max Cherry ❤️

John Giorno

shit man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2aE8UdMBzE

Somebody was just talking on Twitter last week about wanting to try and get all the Giorno Poetry Systems albums reissued on CD.

RIP

Stephen Moore :(((((

which one?

Good question

Dalkey Archive guy?

He spells it with a ‘v’ so I guess not

Our dear friend Stephen Moore has died. A fine actor, a lovely man and the original and most iconic voice of Marvin The Paranoid Android in The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. Our thoughts are with his family and our memories of him will always make us smile. RIP Stephen. pic.twitter.com/d01PFDpVDq

— Dirk Maggs (@DirkMaggs) October 12, 2019

I thought it was him but then I didn't think he famous enough to end up itt.

He was also in Clockwise, and Adrian Mole, and The Queen's Nose, and Harry Enfield, loads of other stuff too.

He even had a hit single.

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

https://www.lococofineart.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Slaughter-We-got-here-Text.251.jpg

there was another Marvin single which included "Marvin, I Love You" which is probably better known than the above.

i listened to his audiobook recording of 'roadside picnic' last year. he had a wonderful voice.

Anna Quayle

http://www.playbill.com/article/anna-quayle-tony-award-winner-for-stop-the-worldi-want-to-get-off-dies-at-86

Her scene with John Lennon in A Hard Day's Night is so, so great. And Lewy body dementia is a hell of a way to go. That's what took my grandfather. :(

Never knew who that was. RIP

https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/10/13/milcho-leviev-bulgarian-jazz-great-dead-at-82/

Milcho Leviev, Bulgarian jazz pianist of some renown - worked with Don Ellis and Billy Cobham in the 70's.

Sophia Kokosalaki, fashion designer.

western canonizer harold bloom

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/books/harold-bloom-dead.html

Architecture writer Charles Jencks, 80. Also co-founded Maggie’s cancer centres with his late wife.

RIP Harold Bloom

Sophia Kokosalaki, fashion designer.

It usually takes a bit to make me really sit up and take notice of a dress at televised events of various sorts. The stadium-covering one worn by Björk when performing "Oceania" at the Athens Olympic opening ceremony in 2004 sure did.

Scotty Bowers, self-proclaimed Hollywood pimp to the closeted stars

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/scotty-bowers-dead-male-madame-stars-was-96-1247422

Kate Braverman
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2019-10-14/kate-braverman-poet-author-obituary

RIP

i know this is a RIP thread, but i went out and got a celebratory beer when i heard about Bloom yesterday. what a racist old shithead.

Yeah, also:

https://jezebel.com/a-look-back-at-how-the-media-demonized-naomi-wolf-for-a-1839046051