Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

There's a funny account in Dr. John's biography of playing on some Spector gigs in the early-mid '60s. He and the rest of the players were contemptuous of the whole thing, just banging on the same chords all at the same time.

I'd say that Jack Nitzsche deserves a great deal of the credit for the Wall of Sound, but he was also a pretty terrible human being.

The proximity of Spector and Sylvain Sylvain resonates.

Jason ‘Rowdy’ Cope, Guitarist for the Steel Woods, Dead at 42

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/jason-rowdy-cope-steel-woods-dead-obituary-1115742/

jazz pianist Junior Mance, RIP.

Ah, man, RIP. Been a long time coming though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-55709000

Andy Gray, Scottish comedy actor maybe best known for City Lights.

Jean-Pierre Bacri (69), actor/writer/director

https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/cinema/mort-de-l-acteur-jean-pierre-bacri-a-69-ans-18-01-2021-8419788.php

RIP

this one hurts

RIP Winfield Parker, 1960s Baltimore soul singer whose song "Mr. Clean" on Ru-jac Records became a Northern soul favorite. A retrospective Ru-jac compilation was issued a few years ago. He later acquired a new audience singing gospel, and also gained new fans for his soul music via gigs at Ponderosa Stomp, Dig Deeper, & MOJO WORKIN' Donostia R&B Weekend in Spain. He got Covid a few weeks ago, and didn't recover.

Hearing on Facebook that the great English improvising guitarist John Russell has just passed. RIP, and fuck cancer.

Saw him play lots of times when he ran that improv night in the Red Rose club, just up the road from where I live. His own stuff was not really my thing but he put on lots of interesting music, even if there were sometimes more people playing than watching and seemed like an affable chap. RIP John.

Baseball's Don Sutton

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30743861/hall-fame-pitcher-don-sutton-dies-75

A tribute to John Russell by Evan Parker:

https://londonjazznews.com/2021/01/20/a-tribute-to-john-russell-1954-2021-by-evan-parker/

Important chapters of a biography would feature the Red Rose Club in Stoke Newington, walking distance from where John lived during that whole era, the pre-Vortex versions of Mopomoso.

Sub-editor sleeping on the job there, the Vortex was in Stoke Newington, the Red Rose Club in Finsbury Park, walking distance for me and John Russell it seems - cheap booze too.

Chances of londonjazznews.com having subeditors are rather slim I would say.

Mira Furlan, best known for Babylon 5:

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— Mira Furlan (@FurlanMira) January 22, 2021

one of my best friends named his daughter after her. he's very upset

i guess her illness wasn't widely known?

First I'd heard of it.

Straczynski's tribute

It is a night of great sadness, for our friend and comrade had gone down the road where we cannot reach her. But as with all things, we will catch up with her in time, and I believe she will have many stories to tell us, and many new roles to share with the universe. pic.twitter.com/HyQlqyC19v

— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) January 22, 2021

very memorable in Lost too

I never watched Babylon 5, so I couldn't place her, but once I learned she was also on Lost I realized exactly who she was. R.I.P.

aww RIP, she was so good as Ambassador Delenn. about time I gave B5 another rewatch.

Hank Aaron

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

damn, rip hammerin' hank

Nathalie Delon

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210121-glamorous-french-star-nathalie-delon-dies-at-79

Her fling with Bobby Keyes was one of the more surprisingly amusing revelations from Keef's book.

Ah man, stunt driver supreme Rémy Julienne

Stunt driver extraordinaire Rémy Julienne has died at the age of 90 from Covid-19. He worked on six James Bond films. pic.twitter.com/hWZzvkefFw

— James Bond (@jamesbondlive) January 22, 2021

Julienne is all-timer. In addition to the Bond films he worked on dozens of Eurocrime movies, injecting his Buster Keaton meets Evel Knievel style into scene after scene of tiny European moto mayhem. This chase from THE BURGLARS is a personal favorite: https://t.co/MZPvN2zohs https://t.co/s8DRa33Y4T

— Cinema Elevator (@pobrecito) January 22, 2021

Hank Aaron was the Class Day speaker the year I graduated from college

Fantastic (did you get to speak to him?). Happy to say I was watching when he hit #715--the whole story around that (Bowie Kuhn's embarrassing behaviour, the death threats, the kid tearing around the bases with Aaron, the fact it was his first swing of the season) is amazing.

Aaron was still playing when I was 6-7 yrs old and I was in awe of him, he seemed possessed of superpowers. And always seemed like such a gracious man.

otm

hank aaron killed by the covid shot!

Ugh

(I did not get a chance to speak to him. It's always been a regret.)

Gregory Sierra, actor of many TV credits, perhaps best remembered for playing Julio on Sanford and Son and Det. Sgt. Chano Amenguale on Barney Miller.

He died on January 4, though the news just broke today.

hank aaron killed by the covid shot!

this is xzanfar posting, take with grain of salt

RIP, Gregory Sierra.

aw :(

RIP to Pop Surreal Legend, Van Arno

https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/rip-to-pop-surreal-legend-van-arno/

RIP Julio. You were the GOAT. (sorry)

Gregory Sierra, actor of many TV credits, perhaps best remembered for playing Julio on Sanford and Son and Det. Sgt. Chano Amenguale on Barney Miller.

He died on January 4, though the news just broke today.

RIP. I've never seen "Sanford and Son" but "Barney Miller" was a late night treat on Scottish TV.

Barney Miller = best cop show ever.

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— Larry King (@kingsthings) January 23, 2021

RIP

The end of this tiktok is maybe the hardest I've ever laughed pic.twitter.com/XhDowMP7lT

— Kristin Chirico (@lolacoaster) December 22, 2020

Don't know anything about the guy but I just noticed on wiki that he was married 7 times - 8 if you included the wife he married twice - and he separated from his last wife in 2019. Larry King that is.