Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

Outlived her sister Joan Fontaine, and you can bet that mattered to her! RIP.

need to know abt their cousin pioneer aviator hereward de havilland tbh

Awwwwwww, RIP OdH ;_;

i think she outlived most of the rest of the cast of Roots: The Next Generation

Annie Ross scared the shit out of me as a kid when she got turned into a computer/robot in Superman 3

Oh, that's who Annie Ross is.

that was indeed a freaky scene

that's what kept her alive so long

Maybe Carl Switzer would still be alive if he had sealed his deal with Henry Brandon.

Oh wait, wrong Annie Ross movie, sorry.

The Heiress is her masterpiece

really the most
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoY_xppQ6kk

Longtime comic industry pro (DC, Marvel, Defiant, Valiant, Topps Comics, probably others) Carl Gafford died July 13, complications from diabetes, age 66. Gaff was a member of CAPA-alpha all the years I was in that APA, and was Central Mailer for the last several years. For the last few years, he went by the name Douglas Jones for reasons I was never 100% clear on.

Topps Comics, that takes me back...

The last print mailing of K-a was December 2016; Gaff's health was too poor to carry on collating and mailing the thing in physical form, and nobody else was willing to be CM. It switched over to an electronic form in 2017, still with Gaff CMing, still monthly. With the constraints of paper lifted, Gaff started doing zines of hundreds of pages per month, collections of comic strip reprints from what I could tell from the zine titles. (I still look at the Central Mailer's Comments each month, but left the APA in 1994 or 1995 so I didn't see anyone's zines except a few that were mailed to me directly.)

Kansai Yamamoto, fashion designer to David Bowie, 76.

Singer Denise Johnson

Yeah, that news is making the rounds now -- a terrible shock. Lovely insta-thread by Sonic Cathedral with some of her best performances:

RIP Denise. No one person has sung on so many of my favourite records ever. Including this one. What desperately sad news 💔 https://t.co/wsm0EGZe4c

— Sonic Cathedral (@soniccathedral) July 27, 2020

Fuck

RIP

The Guardian and The Independent both using pictures of a woman who isn't Denise Johnson in their reports

Elijah Cummings in a wig?

Thanks for the Carl Gafford remembrance, Wm - I know him from Paul Levitz' 1980s run on the various LSH books, which can't have been an easy gig.

I met Denise when she sang with A Certain Ratio at one of the two Part Time Punks fests in LA (was that the one where I met Ned, or the other, I can't remember). My friend Adesh helps them out so we hung out with them. Right before ACR's show she had a crazy allergy attack so I had to drive her back to the Standard LA to get her inhaler or something. Had a nice chat, she was charming. Her loss is being felt big-time esp amongst manchester music world.

xp thanks, sic. From Dwight Decker's obit thread on Faceache, Gaff didn't like the name Carl (and liked the original spelling of Karl even less), so later in life he took the name Douglas (his middle name) Jones (his wife's last name). He always went by Gaff on K-a though.

Danish Pianist Bent Fabric

Miss Mercy of The GTOs

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/miss-mercy-gtos-obit-1034820/

Gisèle Halimi, Tunisian-French lawyer and highly influential feminist activist who campaigned for the right to abortion and who defended Algerian freedom fighters during the War of Independence. She was 93. RIP.

Malik B :(

Fuck. :(

RIP

He was only 47.

herman cain

for real?

I’m very saddened to learn of the passing of my former boss, Herman Cain. I’m bracing for the cruelty online about how he deserved to get COVID and die because of his politics. We’re living in a dark time. But, they didn’t know him. I did.

— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2020

I didn't know him but I do know it's funny that he's dead

He didn't deserve to get COVID and die because of his politics, but he did get COVID and die because of his politics. And lots more people will get COVID and die because of his politics.

“He died doing what he loved: sucking up to racists.”

— Kashana (@kashanacauley) July 30, 2020

Irl lols Simon

harsh but fair

He didn't deserve to get COVID and die because of his politics, but he did get COVID and die because of his politics. And lots more people will get COVID and die because of his politics.

extremely well put

Yes, sums it up nicely.

He didn't deserve to get COVID and die because of his politics

not sure I agree with this but it's a fair point to diverge pn

*on

ghouls

Keep the obit thread clean I've already removed bookmarks from almost everything

*hits start button on Roomba*

https://i.gifer.com/IbFo.gif

this guy sucked

If only Herman Cain had become president, the President of the USA would now be dead of COVID. Makes u think!

Cain had attended a Trump rally in Tulsa on June 20 without wearing a mask or socially distancing.[114] On the day he was hospitalized, Cain praised South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem for not requiring masks at an upcoming Trump campaign event, tweeting "Masks will not be mandatory for the event, which will be attended by President Trump. PEOPLE ARE FED UP!"[115]

he totally deserved it

Balla Sidibé, founder member, lead singer, percussionist and composer of Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab passed away at age 78

https://pitchfork.com/news/balla-sidibe-orchestra-baobab-singer-dead-at-78/

(This was back in May, but only learned of it now)
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/people/derek-underdown-designer-iconic-vox-amplifiers-has-passed-away-aged-92-2661041

Derek Underdown, chief engineer for Vox amplifiers during the swinging sixties, lived in Aylesbury in the latter part of his life. He died this week after a short battle with Covid-19 at the Freemantle Court care home in Stoke Mandeville. An integral figure in the Vox’s history, he helped design the iconic sound of the Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Shadows and Hank Marvin, to name but a few.

Alan Parker