Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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now truly a flat earth scientist, rip dude

― ymo sumac (NickB), Sunday, 23 February 2020 11:14 (six years ago)

Lloyd Pinchback played sax, flute, & cowbell with Chuck Brown’s Soul Searchers. First sat in with Chuck Brown on a gig that still happened in SE DC on the day MLK was killed in 68. He wrote Soul Searchers song “Ashley’s Roachclip “ that had a drum break sampled on many rap records . Here’s my obituary for him

https://thedcline.org/2020/02/22/the-cowbell-king-memorial-service-saturday-to-celebrate-the-life-of-lloyd-pinchback-who-played-with-chuck-brown/

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 February 2020 15:42 (six years ago)

nice piece. thanks, curmudge

― breastcrawl, Sunday, 23 February 2020 16:27 (six years ago)

Thanks. Real interesting guy. I went to the memorial service Saturday. His current DC gogo band Proper Utensils did some songs, and the Pastor’s son did an incredible version of Sam Cooke’s A Change is Gonna Come. Plenty of speakers as well who all brought tears as well as smiles

― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 February 2020 14:38 (six years ago)

Yeah, that was a great piece. I tweeted the link.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 24 February 2020 14:40 (six years ago)

We regret to inform you that comics publisher Russ Cochran has passed away. He was best known for taking painstaking efforts to reprint the classic EC comics line in beautiful collected editions.

Goodbye Russ, thank you for your contributions to the world of comics. pic.twitter.com/tz9tCtz5p5
— San Diego Comic Fest (@sdcomicfest) February 24, 2020

Russ Cochran, EC Comics archivist and arguably inventor of the prestige format reprints market.

― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Monday, 24 February 2020 14:45 (six years ago)

Katherine Johnson, who retired from NASA in 1986, has died at the age of 101. Over her decades of service, she played a role in every space program the agency launched https://t.co/62Sm0sh3k9
— National Geographic (@NatGeo) February 24, 2020

― mookieproof, Monday, 24 February 2020 15:24 (six years ago)

wow

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 February 2020 15:27 (six years ago)

Another 101-yr old, Baby Peggy.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/baby-peggy-dead-silent-film-star-was-101-831926

― nickn, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 01:34 (six years ago)

Linked from that article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/child-star-baby-peggy-publishes-her-first-novel-at-99-1071326

― the punk wars are over and prog rock won (Matt #2), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 01:43 (six years ago)

Anybody read it?

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 05:32 (six years ago)

will she be a ghost writer now

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 05:33 (six years ago)

Jahn Teigen, 70: lead singer of Popol Vuh, and the first act ever to score nul points at Eurovision in 1978.

― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 10:21 (six years ago)

(not that Popol Vuh, tragically)

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 10:28 (six years ago)

You'd prefer if one of the members of the other Popol Vuh had died?

― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 10:29 (six years ago)

People die all the time.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 10:31 (six years ago)

Daniel S. Fichelscher will live forever.

― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 10:32 (six years ago)

RIP Jahn Teigen, I appalled a Norwegian friend once by singing Mil Etter Mil to her.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:05 (six years ago)

Jahn Teigen's entrance here is a thing of beauty, RIP just for that

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

― the punk wars are over and prog rock won (Matt #2), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:10 (six years ago)

Oh, there were two Popol Vuhs? It did seem like a bizarre career trajectory.

Popol Vuh (2)
Profile: Norwegian progressive rock group, established 1972, renamed in 1974 to Popol Ace to avoid confusion with the German Popol Vuh.

― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:10 (six years ago)

Uniquely, but not wholly unexpectedly, Geir preferred the Norwegian one.

― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:11 (six years ago)

I never got to ask him what he makes of black metal.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:13 (six years ago)

Too black

― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:16 (six years ago)

Haha

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:17 (six years ago)

Hosni Mubarak

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:52 (six years ago)

Def thought he died when Murphy brown was originally on air

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:43 (six years ago)

I was supply teaching literally two weeks ago in a class where I'd been left a picture-book about Katherine Johnson to read to the students. We looked up some YouTube clips afterwards and were amazed to find out she was still alive at 101.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:35 (six years ago)

World's oldest person is dead, long live the new world's oldest person (whoever they may be).

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/oldest-person-world-record-death-japan-chitetsu-watanabe-niigata-a9356351.html

― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:46 (six years ago)

Yeah, but the next one is just a Chitetsu wannabe.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:22 (six years ago)

Oldest man is not the oldest person, it's not even close. There are 50 older women.

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:00 (six years ago)

tea

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:15 (six years ago)

mazzy star's david roback, 61

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:38 (six years ago)

Holy shit

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:42 (six years ago)

Yeah, WOW.

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:43 (six years ago)

https://pitchfork.com/news/mazzy-stars-david-roback-dead-at-61/

― nickn, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:44 (six years ago)

whoa what the fuck no!!!!

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:46 (six years ago)

omg no

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:46 (six years ago)

For real? Fuck.

RIP.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:48 (six years ago)

61. Gosh.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:54 (six years ago)

Jesus, another one gone.

― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:55 (six years ago)

Oh no. One of the greats.

― ShariVari, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 23:05 (six years ago)

Michael Medwin, British character actor, age 96. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51649817

― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 19:44 (six years ago)

Clive Cussler

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:22 (six years ago)

Enver Hoxha's widow Nexhmije Hoxha

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-albania-hoxha/albanian-dictator-hoxhas-widow-his-staunchest-defender-dies-at-99-idUSKCN20K30K

― soref, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:26 (six years ago)

First Norman Wisdom and now this

― the punk wars are over and prog rock won (Matt #2), Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:14 (six years ago)

Mathematician And Physicist Freeman Dyson Has Died At Age 96

https://www.mainepublic.org/post/renowned-mathematician-and-physicist-freeman-dyson-has-died-age-96

― nickn, Friday, 28 February 2020 18:51 (six years ago)

Nick Apollo Forte of Broadway Danny Rose

agita, my goombah, in the bonzo

https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ny-nick-apollo-forte-dies-20200228-lfkqoiii7nbolf6lr7rg2ylt6i-story.html

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 February 2020 20:17 (six years ago)

Joe Coulombe, founded Trader Joe's in 1967

― Josefa, Saturday, 29 February 2020 15:06 (six years ago)

Came to post that.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/founder-of-trader-joes-markets-dies-at-89/2319749/

― nickn, Saturday, 29 February 2020 18:28 (six years ago)

The photo in the article is the original store, which is near where I work.

― nickn, Saturday, 29 February 2020 18:35 (six years ago)

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