Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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guilty lol

― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 2 April 2020 11:23 (six years ago)

inexplicably popular 70s/80s comedy act

Such a weird time in UK TV when when comedians and singers from working men's clubs got primetime slots and became household names.

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 2 April 2020 11:33 (six years ago)

In 2013, Large released his first single without Little, a parody of "Je t'aime... moi non plus" by Serge Gainsbourg entitled "Gee Musky... Moi Non Plus".[citation needed]

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 2 April 2020 11:34 (six years ago)

Such a weird time in UK TV when when comedians and singers from working men's clubs got primetime slots and became household names.

Syd's autobiography makes pretty clear it was inexplicable to them too why it was them and not other acts.

― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Thursday, 2 April 2020 11:47 (six years ago)

inexplicable to me too, although I remember actually watching their show in the 90s, so past me belongs to that different country as much as they do.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 April 2020 11:49 (six years ago)

Jacques Brel’s widow Thérèse.

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:02 (six years ago)

We are going to need a monthly thread for this for the foreseeable future :(

― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:09 (six years ago)

RIP Thérèse.

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:30 (six years ago)

RIP to Bucky Pizzarelli, lost to COVID
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/arts/music/bucky-pizzarelli-dead-coronavirus.html

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 April 2020 15:17 (six years ago)

RIP to Bucky Pizzarelli, lost to COVID
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/arts/music/bucky-pizzarelli-dead-coronavirus.html🕸

Wow, they mention The Guitar! That is deep.

― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:24 (six years ago)

I saw Vaughn Mason at the 1981 (?) New Music Seminar do “Bounce, rock, skate, roll”? RIP

― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 April 2020 12:36 (six years ago)

That should be spelled Vaughan Mason . Seeing that DJ Soul Sister has posted this on twitter and others on his Facebook page

― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 April 2020 13:35 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9s2kwfLmJE

^^^ immortal tune - RIP Vaughan Mason

― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:17 (six years ago)

Bill Withers, who wrote and sang a string of soulful songs in the 1970s that have stood the test of time, including “ Lean On Me, ” and “Ain’t No Sunshine,” has died from heart complications. He was 81. https://t.co/5LHt6D1AFB
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 3, 2020

― mookieproof, Friday, 3 April 2020 14:20 (six years ago)

OH FUCKING WHAT

― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:20 (six years ago)

... people you thought... RIP Bill, great artist.

― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:22 (six years ago)

aw fuck, that one hurts

― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:22 (six years ago)

:-(

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 3 April 2020 14:24 (six years ago)

fuck no!!! Bill was one of the best to ever do it.

― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:26 (six years ago)

Bill, Withers

― Mark G, Friday, 3 April 2020 14:33 (six years ago)

Genuinely thought he died a few years ago, still, RIP.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:35 (six years ago)

Rip Bill, one of the true stars.

― calzino, Friday, 3 April 2020 14:35 (six years ago)

augh dammit, that live at Carnegie Hall is all time

― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:43 (six years ago)

all time great

― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Friday, 3 April 2020 15:08 (six years ago)

This one's a gut punch. What an incredible talent, what a legacy of songs that have given so, so much to so, so many lives.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:04 (six years ago)

Seeing mention that Swiss artist and musician Walter Wegmüller famous for his album Tarot died at the end of March.

― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 3 April 2020 16:47 (six years ago)

RIP WW, if true.

― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Friday, 3 April 2020 17:23 (six years ago)

Patricia Bosworth, Celebrity Biographer and Former Actress, Dies at 86. Covid-19-related.

https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/patricia-bosworth-dead-dies-coronavirus-author-1234570604/?fbclid=IwAR0I_Ch9N7JJ-FmcimU0NLW5bGWLywmhrZPIlLzd1CmUj7ABSR5_EGaGkLE

― nickn, Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:57 (six years ago)

RIP. Enjoyed a couple of her books, the Brando one and the one about her dad.

― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:39 (six years ago)

heard her bio on Montgomery Clift is extraordinary

― flappy bird, Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:45 (six years ago)

fbclid=IwAR0I_Ch9N7JJ-FmcimU0NLW5bGWLywmhrZPIlLzd1CmUj7ABSR5_EGaGkLE

― donald failson (sic), Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:05 (six years ago)

C. W. Nicol, environmentalist and author. His 1975 memoir, Moving Zen, is a martial arts classic.

― Brad C., Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:27 (six years ago)

Daughter, grandson of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, RFK's daughter, presumed dead in canoe accident

https://abcnews.go.com/US/daughter-grandson-kathleen-kennedy-townsend-rfks-daughter-missing/story?id=69964861&cid=clicksource_81_null_headlines_hed

― nickn, Sunday, 5 April 2020 00:50 (six years ago)

at what stage do you start to wonder whether joe kennedy crossed someone badly enough that a multigenerational reprisal was designed

― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Sunday, 5 April 2020 01:05 (six years ago)

when the one OD'd on a plane or whatever

― flappy bird, Sunday, 5 April 2020 04:50 (six years ago)

Lord Armstrong, 93 - a lengthy career as a senior civil servant whose contribution to posterity will only ever be popularising the phrase "economical with the truth".

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/apr/04/former-top-civil-servant-lord-armstrong-of-ilminster-dies-aged-93

― threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Sunday, 5 April 2020 08:42 (six years ago)

The Marquess of Bath, owner of Longleat (he of the "wifelets"), 87, Covid-19.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-52173794

― mike t-diva, Sunday, 5 April 2020 12:59 (six years ago)

Shirley Douglas:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/shirley-douglas-dies-at-86-1.5522758

Kiefer Sutherland's mother, an activist, and--most relevant to the current situation--her father was Tommy Douglas, the architect of Canada's health system back in the late '50s.

― clemenza, Monday, 6 April 2020 11:40 (six years ago)

Honor Blackman

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/06/honor-blackman-james-bond-pussy-galore-avengers-dies-aged-94

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 6 April 2020 16:00 (six years ago)

Just heard 😢

― Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 April 2020 16:08 (six years ago)

She was also a staunch republican, and turned down a CBE in 2002 to avoid being a “hypocrite”.

nice

― silby, Monday, 6 April 2020 16:29 (six years ago)

RIP Honor Blackman, one of the first women to popularize martial arts and self defense training

http://fightland.vice.com/blog/how-honor-blackman-brought-womens-self-defense-to-television

― Brad C., Monday, 6 April 2020 17:03 (six years ago)

pooshy

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 April 2020 17:50 (six years ago)

RIP Honor. Not many people can have looked as good as she did for as long as she did!

― Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Monday, 6 April 2020 17:59 (six years ago)

Grime rapper Black The Ripper

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 6 April 2020 20:03 (six years ago)

did he die from embarrassment at that name

― na (NA), Monday, 6 April 2020 20:40 (six years ago)

Doesn't seem to be COVID-related (there was a health-related fundraiser for him last year) - pianist Onaje Allan Gumbs.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 6 April 2020 22:02 (six years ago)

Baseball Hall of Famer Al Kaline

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 6 April 2020 22:03 (six years ago)

There's a great joke in the Avengers where Stead gets a post card from Cathy from Fort Knox.

― koogs, Monday, 6 April 2020 22:04 (six years ago)

Louis Johnson the choreographer for the movies Cotton Goes to Harlem and The Wiz, who also got a Tony award, worked with Balanchine, and taught dance at Howard u in DC has passed due to coronavirus

http://outandaboutnycmag.com/3-31-20-oa-nyc-in-memorium-dancer-choreographer-louis-johnson-dies-at-90/

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 04:14 (six years ago)

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