Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

So RBG died 50 years to the day after Jimi Hendrix?

and she served on the Supreme Court for 27 years. spooky.

And Ruth Negga played Hendrix's girlfriend in that biopic...

Spookier still:
Hendrix used Marshall amplifiers, while Ginsburg was called the "Thurgood Marshall of gender equality law"....

This is probably apocryphal but I remember reading that when RBG wrote her Ledbetter vs Goodyear dissent she had like a whole sheet of acid tucked into her headband

Roy Head of "Treat Her Right" fame.

https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/music/roy-head-singer-who-took-houston-sound-up-the-15584781

Jan Reid, author of The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock, amongst others

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/remembering-jan-reid-a-defining-magazine-journalist-and-voice-in-texas-literature/

RIP ROY HEAD! "Treat Her Right" was used perfectly in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Best fuckin opening to a movie in a while

Jackie Stallone

Cinematographer Michael Chapman:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-chapman-cinematographer-on-taxi-driver-and-raging-bull-dies-at-84

UK musician Dave Kusworth died a few days ago. He’s best known for recording with Nikki Sudden sometimes billed as the Jacobites. They had a tuneful Rolling Stones Glimmer Twins aspect to their sound mixed with punk , but often handled by just the 2 of them

Gale Sayers

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29951448/chicago-bears-hall-fame-running-back-gale-sayers-dies-age-77

Brian's Song was Film Art when I saw it at 10.

Juliette Greco.

Juliette Greco.

Bonjour tristesse!

loved her in the Miles Davis documentary last year

RIP, existentialists muse with that voice

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/23/juliette-greco-face-of-chic-postwar-paris-dies-aged-93

Harold Evans, 92.

Read 'My Paper Chase' when studying journalism. Quite a nostalgic (obv) and overly romantic book iirc, but that's what drew me to it at the time. He was one of the good guys and fought back against Murdoch (and Thatcher). RIP

My mistake, it was 'Good Times Bad Times' I read during uni, not 'My Paper Chase'. I'm not that young. The latter v much recommended though.

photorealist painter Robert Bechtle, 88yo

one of Cobb's colleagues posted this overview/taste of his freewheeling thang, started w example of cool cover art for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction:
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2020/09/22/ron-cobb-1937-2020/

also some here, among a nova express of heads:
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2018/04/27/the-artists-of-future-life/

Also this guy, who was amazing, for many many years, so glad he came back to the community, still contributing, though just being there, as a living reminder of past achievement and survival, would have been enough:
Robert Graetz, white minister who supported Montgomery bus boycott and became KKK target, dies at 92
https://www.al.com/news/montgomery/2020/09/robert-graetz-white-minister-who-supported-montgomery-bus-boycott-and-became-kkk-target-dies-at-92.html See also NYTimes etc. coverage

original Small Faces keyboardist Jimmy Winston

Mark Stone, Van Halen's original bass player
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/mark-stone-van-halen-dies/

No-one mentioned Lee Kerslake, Uriah Heep and Ozzy Osbourne drummer, 73.

...and one of the guys whose work was stripped from the 2001 Rhoads-era Ozzy remasters. (since restored on later versions)

Philadephia DJ/musician/overall scene guy Sean O’Neal — far too young, and a personal favorite of mine thanks to his work in the wonderful Flowchart.

https://newsflash.bigshotmag.com/news/63621/

Damn. He was a good guy!

Yeah I've heard nothing but love for him. What a damn shame.

He recommended me the excellent Gez Varley 2xLP "Bayou Paradis" right toward the end of 611's time as a record shop. Really fantastic record.

Helen Reddy

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/trailblazing-australian-singer-helen-reddy-dead-at-78-20200930-p560i0.html

ohhhh helen ;_;

She was before my time, and "I Am Woman!" was basically a sitcom punchline by the time I heard of it, but I was amused to learn, very recently, that she sang backup vocals on Gene Simmons' s/t solo album (from that time all four KISS members released solo records on the same day).

RIP.

She used to host The Midnight Special (sometimes alongside Wolfman Jack!).

her voice is my entire childhood

Helen Reddy and Mac Davis dying the same day. If the used record stacks at Goodwill are the barometer, protect Judy Collins.

Big ole Ruby Red Dress

The AM Gold flag is at half-mast.

KEEP ON SINGIN'
DON'T STOP SINGIN'
YOU'RE GONNA BE A STAR SOMEDAY

^^ perennial earworm

rip Helen and Mac

Back when the only pop stars I knew were the ones who had their own TV shows Mac Davis was up there in the pantheon with Bobby Vinton, Sonny & Cher, and the Hudson Brothers

Yeah, and we had TV shows for Marc Bolan, and The Arrows.

(I discovered recently that The Arrows have all passed, but seeing as there isn't a 'people you hadn't realised were not still living' thread...)

Songwriter Mac Davis

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/30/mac-davis-songwriter-of-elvis-hits-in-the-ghetto-and-a-little-less-conversation-dies-aged-78

Tower of Power's founding bassist, Francis Rocco Prestia

RIP

Quino, Argentine cartoonist, creator of Mafalda, 88. RIP.

CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, son of actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, dies aged 19 https://t.co/Es6wrUG2tJ

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) October 1, 2020

Was just coming to see if Quino had been mentioned. Both my partner (who is Cuban Spanish) and my Spanish teacher are pretty sad about him dying - Mafalda was a big deal for them growing up as I understand it. I've tried to read it, but still struggle to really get the nuances.