Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

Ah well, been on the cards for a while, still though.

pour one out

The men’s clothing entrepreneur Herb Goldsmith had an instinct for capturing the public eye.

In the 1950s, when he was working for his father’s apparel company, he was among the first to use celebrities, among them Tony Curtis and Bing Crosby, to sell clothing. In the 1980s, he again used well-known figures to sell his Members Only racing jacket. Soon, stars like Frank Sinatra and Johnny Carson were sporting the jacket, as were Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush.

Then Mr. Goldsmith did something that few if any brands had ever done: He stopped all conventional advertising of his apparel and devoted his entire ad budget to public service announcements.

The first public service campaign addressed the crack epidemic of the 1980s, using sports figures like Lou Piniella, the manager of the Yankees at the time, and the country singer Larry Gatlin of the Gatlin Brothers, who struggled with addiction.

The second campaign urged people to vote by showing footage of Hitler and suggesting that voting was the way “to keep fools like these out of our government.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/fashion/herbert-goldsmith-dead.html

British comedian / actor / presenter Roy Hudd

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/mar/16/roy-hudd-dies-aged-83

RIP.

I always got him mixed up with Rod Hull

Wonder if his "short illness" was the virus?

This is going to be a busy thread this spring I'm afraid.

Never sure what Roy Hudd was famous for, other than this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMIdkWH1c2g

... I know he was on Radio 4 all the time but who listens to that?

Feel like I have spent a significant % of my life with Radio 4 on in the background

This is going to be a busy thread this spring I'm afraid.

Someone please check on Betty White to see if she's getting the proper amount of social distancing and isn't lacking for anything. :(

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/arts/vittorio-gregotti-dies.html

https://www.france24.com/en/20200316-french-actress-suzy-delair-who-won-fame-in-the-1940s-dies-aged-102?fbclid=IwAR30RFGmvkUqmvWp7OdwqrEdHkVtxWjsHlkL8Y4WoB1E5EAlOszF9RZODN8

Actress Suzy Delair, 102

Eduard Limonov.

Hell of a life.

Paul K of Paul K and the Weathermen.

RIP Suzy :(

Lyle Waggoner--he was funny on Carol Burnett (or made the people around him funny, anyway).

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ny-lyle-waggoner-dead-age-84-carol-burnett-show-wonder-woman-20200317-m4myqlvvubbuzbhhukmivd6b2q-story.html

RIP Suzy and Lyle

Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-statement-on-apollo-astronaut-al-worden

He flew to the Moon as command module pilot aboard Apollo 15. During this time he earned a world record as “most isolated human being" while his crew mates roamed the lunar surface, and he was 2,235 miles away from anyone else.

I never finished your book but RIP anyway.

RIP Al :(

Best part of Al's book:

I extended the mass spectrometer on a large boom, trying to sniff out any hint of lunar atmosphere or escaping volcanic gas. Scientists particularly thought that areas of lunar sunrises and sunsets might concentrate stray gases. They would be extremely tenuous, and that is where we ran into trouble. The spectrometer mostly picked up particles that we brought from Earth. We'd strayed clouds of urine along our flight path all the way to the moon, and these urine dumps continued in lunar orbit. My frozen pee is probably sprinkled all over the moon. Add rocket engine exhaust, and it is no wonder our mass spectrometer had trouble finding anything else.

klassik

actually I did finish his book and thought it was pretty good

that is very cool to consider and just, “know.”

https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_34ceafa6-6ae1-11ea-9608-63b33f054a0e.html

New Orleans bounce dj Black n Mild ( born Oliver Stokes) at 44 from Coronavirus

DC soul singer Skip Mahoney (aka Skip Mahoaney) from Skip Mahoney and the Casuals . Skip had a great falsetto

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

Kenny Rodgers

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/kenny-rogers-dead-dies-1203541233/

omg Kenny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meJP410N9Gg

so sad over Kenny :(

well fuck that

I thought of you immediately VG

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51978459

Aurlus Mabele, singer/dancer from Congolese rumba/ soukous band Loketo led by guitarist Diblo Dibala. He was 67 & died from stroke complications and coronavirus . Loketo was last based in Paris.

A charismatic performer back when, I saw he & Loketo a number of times

Really feeling it for loved ones of the just-passed now, being separated and unable to comisserate and console in person

Pourin one out for the Gambler

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETpq293WkAkAVt0?format=jpg&name=small

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCf01PGZO18

https://youtu.be/Utw30CKnATA

Lorenzo Sanz, Real Madrid President prior to the Florentino Perez era. Coronavirus.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/mar/21/former-real-madrid-president-lorenzo-sanz-dies-of-coronavirus

NZ musical legend Peter Stapleton, from cancer:

R.I.P. Peter Stapleton, New Zealand musical legend who drummed for The Pin Group, Dadamah, The Terminals, Vacuum, Scorched Earth Policy and others. What an amazing collection of phenomenal bands. He's on the left here w/ Bill Direen in Vacuum, 1978 or '79. pic.twitter.com/vNcTx92tXN

— Dynamite Hemorrhage (@DHemorrhage) March 22, 2020

Last year Bek Coogan @OonaCoogz & Mick Elborado were having a "you're cooler than me" battle, bowing down to each other until they were both snivelling on the concrete. I was asked to be the judge & I looked up & it was clear that Peter Stapleton was forever & always the coolest pic.twitter.com/bUedPUzNki

— Stabbies Etc (@StabbiesEtc) March 22, 2020

Saw elsewhere that actress Lucia Bose was passed away due to Covid-19.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/34/88/e5/3488e5222cb51d462b45bcff5bb6378a.jpg

Cover of Life in 1952.

ugh @ that subheader

how well we all remember the legendary Italian Beauty Harvest of 1952

Julie Felix

Oh, shame. RIP Julie.

Eric Weissberg, the banjo player

Saw elsewhere that actress Lucia Bose was passed away due to Covid-19.

🖼

Cover of Life in 1952.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMDo_bWizeo
I, um, identify with Gérard Depardieu in this scene with her and Jeanne Moreau.

Eric Weissberg, the banjo player

It still often takes me a day or two to figure out things like, "So that's why that 'Dueling Banjos' post turned up on my FB wall." Great scene.

I don’t if this is the right time, maybe no such thing anymore, but I feel I should share the news, for those who knew him, that our dear David Collings, actor, husband, father, died suddenly in the early hours of this morning. Perhaps we can celebrate him properly next year ...

— Karen Archer🇪🇺 (@Daisygraceful) March 23, 2020

David Fillings, mainstay of late 70s cult UK TV.

*Collings*