Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

He's looking well there!

Just caught a small fish though

weird, I saw gerry adams in that pic the first time!

That's who it was!

There'll be something good written about the limits of state broadcasters to actually push stuff leftwards, and how they get all the credit for the (poorer, usually female) people actually doing the hard graft, and how he made a decent fist of it all the same - but there will also be a lot of valedictory shite.

I remember as a kid seeing two punk types in the audience sniggering and absolutely taking the piss out of some emotional trad Irish song type dirge someone was singing on the late late show while the credits were rolling and some of the old bastards were wiping a tear of the corner of their eye. It was quite funny at the time and was sort of what passed for rebellious counter-culture back then!

The problem with Gay Byrne, in a way, is that he made his style of broadcasting look so easy that everyone thinks they can do it, especially when it comes to taking calls from members of the public.

The musical policy was fairly decent, but I assume that had nothing to do with him. I like the fact that he was over in the UK working for Granada when he became the first person to introduce the Beatles on TV.

RIP Gay.

not my cuppa but wouldnt want anything taken away from him, was installed at rte along with the cabling and floors

rip

longtime ECM engineer jan erik kongshaug

https://www.dagsavisen.no/kultur/musikk/jan-erik-kongshaug-er-dod-1.1613025

White Ring’s Kendra Malia Dead at 37.

https://pitchfork.com/news/white-rings-kendra-malia-dead-at-37/

Rest In Peace Christopher Dennis. Hollywood Superman. pic.twitter.com/u3ClbLBVsV

— Shadi Petosky (@shadipetosky) November 7, 2019

Robert Freeman, photographer who shot five of The Beatles' album covers

Bob Norris, the original "Marlboro Man" from cigarette ads, at 90. Was not a smoker.

*one of the original Marlboro Men, evidently

Sad news for Twin Cities punk rock aficionados, Terry Katzman has left us.

devastating. Terry was the best.

Jackie Moore, soul singer.

aww no! this tune is classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7wgSguvOcE

"Precious Precious" is one of my alltime favorite songs.

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

I played "Both Ends Against The Middle" out a couple of months ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK8KyAmEtr4

Frank Dobson, former Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras, Health Secretary and London Mayoral candidate, 79. Lived just around the corner from me, as it happens.

RIP Frank, never cared for you as Uncle Albert in "Only Fools and Horses" though.

Low on the beeb - an ignominious death.

He can have a chat with Uncle Albert in heaven about how PFI's reinvigorated the NHS and how little anybody cares about the deaths of plodding professional pols.

Ted Cullinan, architect, 88.

If you were a fan of the Too Pure label, his son Tom was in Th’ Faith Healers.

Comics journalist Tom Spurgeon

Terry O'Neill

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/nov/17/photographer-of-swinging-60s-terry-oneill-dies-aged-81

... married to Faye Dunaway at one point, that I didn't know.

That’s when I first heard of him!

Tom Lyle, comic artist. Judging by the reaction on Twitter, he seems to be best remembered as a Spider-Man artist, though I knew him from the early Tim Drake Robin stories. RIP.

Michael J. Pollard

https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3595146/r-p-house-1000-corpses-actor-michael-j-pollard-passed-away/

Gahan Wilson

RIP CW

lol horror guys xp

damn, i met Wilson at a college publication event when i was in school. worthy of Charles Addams' company.

this was a couple of weeks back but: https://www.courthousenews.com/widow-of-french-novelist-celine-dies-aged-107/

cool that the article has a file photo of him but not the person who died, or even her name in the first graf

But his reputation was sullied by his collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of France in World War II, during which he wrote virulently anti-Semitic pamphlets.

oh worm?

French publisher Gallimard sparked controversy last year by announcing plans to reissue a collection of the violently anti-Semitic pamphlets but then shelved the idea in the face of public outrage.

oh okay

if you GIS Lucette Destouches almost all of the pictures have her and/or ol' louis posing with an animal, usually a cat

well at least that's relatable

Wow @ Celine's wife (!) I started reading Journey to the End of the Night a couple weeks ago

he died when i was one year old and i am very old!

(the only celine i've ever read was some extracts in kristeva's book on abjection, trotsky liked his writing but not his politics, he was a popular and diligent doctor in a poor district apparently -- except also a nazi)

I gave money to the fundraiser for Gahan Wilson's assisted living this spring; hope he had a comfortable end.

Journey to the End of the Night is an inarguable classic. So much of its language is hyperbolically oral, like, so overwhelmingly reliant on slang that it could only have been written and composed. I can't imagine what it sounds like in translation.

Nor is it overtly problematic™ like his subsequent writings.

(Beckett loved it, of course.)

I mean surely literal anti-semitic propaganda isn't "problematic" in scare quotes it's, y'know, a scourge

I wasn't just thinking about the pamphlets but fair point nonetheless.

i liked journey to the end of the night but it was definitely a book that i knew would've been a thousand times better in the original (an example that i've read bilingually would be vargas llosa's la ciudad y los perros, which loses of the slangy, demotic spanish in translation, hell even the translated title "the time of the hero" loses something)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/05/fierce-row-over-plans-to-publish-antisemitic-texts-by-french-writer-louis-ferdinand-celine

It seems like most of the controversy wasn’t so much about whether the pamphlets should be published, it was about Gallimard’s imprimatur being associated with the writings. Like this would mean giving the pamphlets some kind of prestige as canonical literature.

I'd say that as historical documents, they should be available in some form or another.