Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

lol how long did that ball even spend at pitch level?

this is where I recommend watching The Second Game by Corneliu Porumboiu.
the director watches a fuzzy VHS of a very snowy Bucharest derby from 1988 with his hilariously surly dad, who was the referee for the match.

https://i.imgur.com/58fW8Dk.png

Richie Albright, long-time drummer & right-hand man to Waylon Jennings.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/richie-albright-waylon-jennings-drummer-dead-obit-1126223/

Because I'm ignorant I was surprised to hear this, due to me confusing him with Paul English, long-time drummer & right-hand man to Willie Nelson, who died nearly exactly a year ago.

Not to be confused with those two Wings drummers.

Larry Flynt

^^People you thought were already...

^Seconded

Seriously, I could have sworn he died at least 10 years ago.

Fourthed

Yup, came here to post same

Surprised he was "only" 78. He seems to belong to several lifetimes ago.

I've never seen People vs. Larry Flynt, but it seems like all of its thunder was stolen by Boogie Nights the next year.

Those two only a year apart? Seem to remember more time between. Guess I was younger then.

he looked 70 when the movie came out ~ 20+ years ago~ lol

PvLF: 1996
BN: 1997

I've never seen People vs. Larry Flynt, but it seems like all of its thunder was stolen by Boogie Nights the next year.

Courtney Love was pretty good--her first film, I think--but I didn't care for it that much. It was weighed down by all the stuff Boogie Nights just breezed past.

Courtney Love was pretty good--her first film, I think

She was in Sid & Nancy a full decade before PvLF.

I wasn't particularly close--it was her seventh film. Maybe the first one she got a lot of attention for?

It established her as a actress/Movie Star.

I too was shocked that Larry Flynt was only 78. He's looked like shit my entire life. Also thought he was dead.

Good for him for taking a bullet for love

I've never seen People vs. Larry Flynt, but it seems like all of its thunder was stolen by Boogie Nights the next year.

I remember it being a pretty great movie, and courtney was excellent in the role

Yep, P v LF written by the same team who wrote Ed Wood and the Eddie Murphy Dolemite movie, and equally entertaining - tho possibly problematic nowadays in presenting Flynt solely as a roguish free speech rebel. Definitely think it's a much better film than Boogie Nights fwiw.

(In the same vein they also created/head-wrote/showran the American Crime Story: OJ Simpson maxiseries, and (to lesser effect) the Margaret Keane bio Big Eyes, if Ward's triangulation sparks anyone to collect the set. In all instances it's more useful to see them as sketched stories about weird people having an against-the-odds-of-mainstream-culture success, rather than a detailed and accurate portrait of real events and lives.)

Yep, also Forman's next film, Man in the Moon, which again conforms to type.

thought I was forgetting another - have always avoided that one.

Man On The Moon was fab. I really like Forman's movies - Taking Off is realy, really wonderful.

I mean, I saw Man On The Moon hortly after reading the Szmuda boo so it was annoying how it needlessly futzed the details and narrative, but it's an effective biopic.

Love Taking Off too, going in my top 10 if / when I vote in the movies poll.

Fond memories of TPVLF and MOTM though haven't watched either in about 20 years.

For some reason MotM has been on BBC iplayer forever and is probably still there

It definitely is - I was browsing yesterday.

some mandela effect shit going on with larry flynt, i also thought he was already dead

i don't think there's much mystery, he's looked like he *ought* to be dead for a long time

I can't fucking believe he was only 78 lmao

I mentioned it last night in a room with three other people and all four of us felt certain that he died like a decade ago

Prolly thinking of Al Goldstein...

After the Olmos/Elizondo thing perhaps I'm a bit cautious but nonetheless

Just got the terrible news of Chick Corea passing.
Stunned

— Vernon Reid (@vurnt22) February 11, 2021

It was posted on his official FB page: https://www.facebook.com/27696763923/posts/10158422599898924/?d=n

Wtf

His original Return to Forever album on ECM was one of my eBay finds last year that helped get me through a long stretch of quarantine

Total virtuoso genius that I admittedly still mostly knew best for being a scientologist.

Johnny Rogan, music writer and journalist, 67.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/johnny-rogan-leading-music-biographer-dies-aged-67-1.4483058

Aww, he wasn't a very good writer but in retrospect The Severed Alliance was where I first learned Morrissey was a massive racist, so props for that.

I read Rogan's Kinks and Neil Young books back in the 80s, and his Ray Davies biography more recently. Not a great prose stylist, but he could convey controversial opinions that, I think, would be frowned upon by more contemporary biographers and their readers. People nowadays aren't usually picking up a book about a favourite musician to hear about all the things they did wrong.

Brayden Smith, the controversial final big money champ of the Trebek-era on Jeopardy.

https://tvline.com/2021/02/12/jeopardy-brayden-smith-dead-age-24-five-time-champion/

Percussionist - composer Milford Graves.

I am gutted.

Ooof, huge one for several of us. Sydney Devine.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/sydney-devine-dead-scots-showbiz-23494635

RIP Sydney. I imagined him like Glen Michael and Stanley Baxter, living forever.