Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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Head 'em off at the Khyber Pass.

― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Sunday, 1 November 2020 12:11 (five years ago)

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How did I not dig into gospel great Rance Allen's singing and guitar playing till now. Some great video footage out there from Wattstax through recent years. I think he stopped playing guitar awhile ago, but his vocals could go deep and low as well as falsetto high

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 1 November 2020 18:08 (five years ago)

Robert Fisk, 74

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/veteran-journalist-and-author-robert-fisk-dies-aged-74-1.4397069

― Alba, Sunday, 1 November 2020 20:27 (five years ago)

I’m actually super bummed about this. In the age of click-bate and auto-generated articles, will we ever see a writer like this again?

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 1 November 2020 21:56 (five years ago)

pity the nation is a classic

― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Monday, 2 November 2020 19:36 (five years ago)

John Sessions, 67

Comedian and actor John Sessions dies https://t.co/UA88yFgrAj
— The Independent (@Independent) November 3, 2020

Sessions suffered a heart attack on Monday (2 November) and, according to his agent, he “died at his home in South London from a heart condition

― liberté, égalité, scampé (gyac), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 13:08 (five years ago)

tbh I think the guy was a fucking waste of space. It makes me feel old remembering watching Porterhouse Blue as a kid, with him playing a "young student".

― calzino, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 13:15 (five years ago)

Although he was probably in his late 30's

― calzino, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 13:16 (five years ago)

He was really great in Stella Street, and I loved him on Whose Line as a kid.

― Change Display Name: (stevie), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 13:17 (five years ago)

I was referring to his very vocal support of UKIP more than his work, which I can't stand either tbh!

― calzino, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 13:19 (five years ago)

A complete arse and about as funny as Keir Starmer but RIP nonetheless, 67 is too young.

― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 13:22 (five years ago)

He was a Ukipper? Fucking hell!

― Change Display Name: (stevie), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 13:22 (five years ago)

Not many actors have played Harold Wilson AND Ted Heath on the big screen.

― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 13:28 (five years ago)

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

― logout option: disabled (Matt #2), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 14:14 (five years ago)

lol

― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 14:16 (five years ago)

originally from Largs, explains a lot

(I jest, or do I?)

― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 19:25 (five years ago)

Baron Wolman, Rolling Stone Photographer Who Captured Rock Gods, Dead at 83

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/baron-wolman-photographer-dead-1070786/

― nickn, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 23:22 (five years ago)

oh bummer

i saw an exhibition of his photos a few years back :(

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 23:25 (five years ago)

Uriah Heep guy, Ken Hensley.

https://www.loudersound.com/news/ken-hensley-ex-uriah-heep-dead-at-75

― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 November 2020 13:35 (five years ago)

TIL that hensley's three bands before UH were called:
• Head Machine
• Toe Fat
• Weed

off to spotify in his honour

― mark s, Thursday, 5 November 2020 13:45 (five years ago)

He was in The Gods too.

― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 November 2020 13:47 (five years ago)

Toe Fat LP cover is such a cursed image

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 5 November 2020 13:49 (five years ago)

the gods isn't funny in the context of that list tho

― mark s, Thursday, 5 November 2020 13:53 (five years ago)

He was a busy boy pre-UH.

― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 November 2020 13:55 (five years ago)

Once you got past the album covers, Toe Fat were pretty good.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 5 November 2020 13:57 (five years ago)

What with Lee Kerslake dying the other month too, this leaves Mick Box as the only survivor of the 'classic' Heep line-up, depending on whether you think they had one. Anyway this is probably Ken's finest moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_5CgNbo0ns

― logout option: disabled (Matt #2), Thursday, 5 November 2020 14:02 (five years ago)

excellent herbert van thal pan horror vibe there

― mark s, Thursday, 5 November 2020 14:11 (five years ago)

Toe Fat was actually an attempt to devise the most disgusting group name possible. They might have been successful, at least before punk.

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 5 November 2020 15:41 (five years ago)

Geoffrey Palmer, 93

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41311326

― Alba, Friday, 6 November 2020 13:40 (five years ago)

awww RIP Geoffrey, he was a doctor and he wanted his sausages

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 6 November 2020 13:44 (five years ago)

I am an ‘merican but I remember that scene lol

― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Friday, 6 November 2020 13:51 (five years ago)

Oh man, heartbroken. One of the greatest sitcom actors ever.

― Change Display Name: (stevie), Friday, 6 November 2020 13:58 (five years ago)

RIP Geoffrey :(

― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Friday, 6 November 2020 13:59 (five years ago)

Balloon gone up ... Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, neo-Trotskyists, crypto-Trotskyists, namby pamby probation officers etc will be in mourning.

― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 6 November 2020 14:09 (five years ago)

can't believe Geoffrey has died for at least the third time in my memory

― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 November 2020 14:30 (five years ago)

I used to often get him mixed up with Nigel Hawthorne who was brown-bread yonks ago

― calzino, Friday, 6 November 2020 14:34 (five years ago)

I still do sometimes!

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 6 November 2020 14:45 (five years ago)

they were both in madness of king george together, right?

― Change Display Name: (stevie), Friday, 6 November 2020 14:48 (five years ago)

Maybe that's why I confuse him with Geoffrey Rush (who was in the King's Speech).

― Madchen, Friday, 6 November 2020 14:50 (five years ago)

pretty sure Palmer isn't in Madness of King George but haven't fact-checked

― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 November 2020 14:53 (five years ago)

Oh man, farewell GP. Going to go on a lockdown Fairly Secret Army binge now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nxo0fS2VMM

― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 6 November 2020 14:57 (five years ago)

he was per the article above
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― na (NA), Friday, 6 November 2020 14:58 (five years ago)

yeah i remember now, he has about 3 lines tho

― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 November 2020 15:00 (five years ago)

John Fraser, British actor who was Alfred Lord Douglas in the Trial of Oscar Wilde, also in El Cid and Repulsion, and maybe best known to Brits of a certain age as The Monitor in the Doctor Who serial Logopolis.

Also, until maybe Stanley Baxter's, author of one of the most gossipy gay actor autobiographies.

― pedantly admonishment (aldo), Saturday, 7 November 2020 18:54 (five years ago)

But did he ever do an episode of Bosom Manor???

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Saturday, 7 November 2020 19:06 (five years ago)

(xp) Never knew he was gay tbh.

― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 November 2020 19:18 (five years ago)

Also, like Stanley Baxter, born in Glasgow!

― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 November 2020 19:19 (five years ago)

Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi, 72.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 7 November 2020 19:20 (five years ago)

Norm Crosby, malaprop king of US comedy

― Josefa, Sunday, 8 November 2020 04:47 (five years ago)

Candido, Cuban percussionist best known for the disco-era tracks "Jingo", "Dancin' & Prancin'" and "Thousand Finger Man", 99.

― mike t-diva, Sunday, 8 November 2020 12:22 (five years ago)

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