Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

Paul English, Willie Nelson's long-time (and I mean LOOOOOOOOONG-time) drummer. It is amazing how long Willie kept that band together.

Yeah, just astounding. Almost fifty-five years as the drummer, a couple of years aside! Crazy.

....for dyin?

Hell of a read from a few years ago

https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/463-watching-willie-s-back

Oh no! Of "Me And Paul" fame??

The Same!

Christophe Desjardins, French violist – one of the all-time greats. He was only 57. RIP.

Christie Blatchford:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/amp/entry/christie-blatchford-dead_ca_5e441a56c5b6d0ea3811ad5e/

I personally couldn't stand her--she was Canada's version of a Hannity or Kellyanne Conway--although being one of the first female sports journalists in the early '70s was an achievement. The Sun had far and away the best baseball coverage in the pre-internet '80s and early '90s, so I read her compulsively and said nasty things about her in year-end music ballots and letters to the editor, published and unpublished.

We snarked a bit about her over on the Worst National Post Columnist thread, but this was a far more reasoned and appropriate acknowledgement of her passing that still manages to convey that she was, in fact, terrible.

the other koch brother, 86

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/business/frederick-koch-dead.html

good good good

oh shit it was the not evil one

bad bad bad

Lila Garrett had the typical for Pacifica horrible for radio voice but i never knew her tv background. RIP

― buzza, Monday, February 3, 2020 3:50 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lila Garrett's daughter is actress Eliza Roberts (fka Eliza Simons) who is married to actor Eric Roberts and the two Robertses are on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast this week with lotsa great anecdotes about Lila Garrett (recorded prior to her death)

good koch bad koch

Yes, the other bad Koch, Charles, still lives.

I'm not sure about the fourth of the Kochs, Bill. I think he's average Koch.

amazing poster artist Bonnie MacLean

Saw Bill in a Netflix doc about wine-collector swindles (he bought wine that was said to belong to Thomas Jefferson for half a mil).

lol wot a rube

Composer, conductor, pianist Reinbert de Leeuw.

RIP.

Oh no. Fuck, that one stings. Such an incredible artist – he will be dearly missed.

RIP

Incredible artist and just one of the sweetest guys.

Fucking hell, Caroline Flack at 40.

Jesus.

Ah fuck that's awful

It's just awful. Genuinely shaken by that news. Was just chatting this afternoon about the trivial bit of shite doled out to me when I was on a TV show and how it disproportionately affected me. Was also talking about Gail Porter's tremendously affecting documentary about struggling to stay afloat in the public eye when all of your private issues become public property. This seems like the culmination of this kind of thing.

RIP.

Lots of angry piling on David Walliums twitter

I imagine her recent problems were handled with the utmost sympathy by the British press.

I can't believe The Sun have the audacity to promote mental health awareness when they harassed Caroline Flack to a point of no return. They and the rest of the gutter press need to be held accountable for the abhorrent way they treat people. SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE. pic.twitter.com/uW2bCOpy0n

— Mrs Griffiths (@MrsGriffMusic) February 15, 2020

A FB group of journos I mostly lurk on now because quite a few of them are a) terfy and b) exercised about anything ‘woke’ are really not covering themselves in glory right now trying to blame this on trolls.

The piling on on Walliams is terrifically unedifying and lacking in awareness.

No surprise tbh

fuck the sun

Amen. Next time this thread is revived, I want it to be an obituary for the tabloid press.

Actress Lynn Cohen, who every obit's headline tells me was in Sex and the City. OK then. I knew her from appearances on Law & Order and a bunch of other stuff; she was one of those "Hey, it's her! I bet she did it" types.

Lovely and detailed obituary for Barbara Remington, who as an artist seems to have worked with and known a ton of folks and lived a heck of an interesting long life, but whose greatest fame was near-anonymous as the designer of the 1960s US paperback covers of The Lord of the Rings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/books/barbara-remington-dead.html

weird i dont remember those tolkien covers

A E Hotchner

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/16/ae-hotchner-author-playwright-ernest-hemingway-dies-102

wasnt he part of newman’s own thing or something? i think i met him as a kid

Pearl Carr, singer and UK Eurovision entrant (with Teddy Johnson), 98.

Remington’s LoTR covers were the ones I grew up with; weirdly trippy and of course not at all evocative of the books

Vaguely remember them but still don't seem quite right.

Falling James posting on the death of John McDermott aka Skinny John of the Reverb Motherfuckers. It's a very moving and detailed remembrance.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2862489707149017&set=a.237542139643800&type=3

Harry Gregg, the Northern Ireland and Manchester United goalkeeper, has died aged 87.

In 1958, Gregg escaped from the burning wreckage of the Munich air crash but went back in and brought Vera Lukić, the pregnant wife of a Yugoslav diplomat, and her young daughter, Vesna, to safety.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/30383827

Andrew Weatherall .. apparently.

My close friend H introduced him to Primal Scream and it is her birthday today, FUCK.

We are deeply sorry to announce that Andrew Weatherall, the noted DJ and musician, passed away in the early hours of this morning, Monday 17th February 2020, at Whipps Cross Hospital, London. The cause of death was a pulmonary embolism.

...early report: pulmonary embolism (says someone on Dave Haslam’s FB).

fuck

Shit 😢 RIP