Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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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
xpost

― 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)

whoa, 99! amazing career (much more apparent from his bio on Spotify than his Wikipedia entry)

― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Sunday, 8 November 2020 12:29 (five years ago)

Octavian Nemescu, Romanian composer of classical music, 80. RIP.

― pomenitul, Sunday, 8 November 2020 14:04 (five years ago)

RIP. Only heard one album of his stuff but it was good.

― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 November 2020 14:14 (five years ago)

The 4-disc set Musique pour réveil is the one I've listened to the most, although I question the accuracy of its title. Much of it is quite sleepy and meditative.

His son, Cristian Nemescu, who died in a car crash in 2006, was a noted film director.

― pomenitul, Sunday, 8 November 2020 14:38 (five years ago)

*Musique pour réveil 2, rather. There are 3 volumes in all, if memory serves.

― pomenitul, Sunday, 8 November 2020 14:39 (five years ago)

Oh shit, I have a single of his.

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 8 November 2020 17:22 (five years ago)

Alex Trebek

― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 November 2020 17:30 (five years ago)

Noo!

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 November 2020 17:33 (five years ago)

aw man, RIP

― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Sunday, 8 November 2020 17:39 (five years ago)

RIP. A great French Canadian.

― pomenitul, Sunday, 8 November 2020 17:40 (five years ago)

wow he was hosting Jeopardy! two years longer than I've been alive. pretty sweet gig/life tbh

― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Sunday, 8 November 2020 18:28 (five years ago)

I love that Trebek basically insisted on working until he died. He obviously loved doing that show.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 8 November 2020 18:53 (five years ago)

Only guy ever to make "game show host" seem like a noble pursuit.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 8 November 2020 18:54 (five years ago)

well at least he outlasted connery

sad he slipped away in the middle of the joepardy tho

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 November 2020 19:42 (five years ago)

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