Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

Coccoluto and Greavsie was of course cancelled after a single very confusing series covering highlights of Seria B on Channel 5.

did Greavsie have any alcoholic relapses since the 70's? A friend of mine had lots of tacky charity shop books and amongst them was a dog eared late 70's Greavsie autobiography entitled My Name is Jimmy Greaves and I am ...

greavsie was on itv4 saturday morning repeat of 1990 england cameroon the other day

Sad to report Vernon Jordan has passed away. One of the great civil rights leaders of our time. Adviser to @BillClinton and many other leaders.

— Andrew Ross Sorkin (@andrewrsorkin) March 2, 2021

Bunny Wailer

Legendary reggae singer Bunny Wailer died in the Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston this morning. He was 73. https://t.co/dD8ABgDvnO

— Jamaica Observer (@JamaicaObserver) March 2, 2021

:(

;_;

Oh no!

Oh no. Also didn’t realize he had a couple of strokes in recent years and had been rehabilitating from them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jfoScCnjRY

RIP. Some great productions on other artists too, this is one of my favourite Gregory cuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfXBSn-hcCg

https://www.gq.com/story/bunny-wailer-john-jeremiah-sullivan

(longish piece from 2011, v. worth your time)

Oh yeah, believe I read it in his book.

Barbara Ess - photographer (& professor-of @ Bard), No Wave musician (The Static, Disband, Y Pants, Branca et. al.) and editor of Another Asshole, the legendary No Wave zine.

Nicola Pagett, star of BBC dramas of the 70s/80s. Quirky detail from her Guardian obituary: "Her behaviour became increasingly erratic and she developed an obsession with Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s spokesperson, whom she bombarded with love letters".

wow that is a very bizarre and unexpected detail

A friend of mine was mourning Barbara Ess, wrote that she was one of the best teachers he's ever had

(xp) I remember reading about that, bizarre but sad story. RIP Nicola, my goodness she was gorge in her heyday.

I think I'm going to invest in some bagpipes! But joking aside I suppose it is quite sad really, she obviously had some kind of breakdown.

'Jazz Giant' Chris Barber:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56270163

walter gretzky, father of wayne. i thought walter had passed years ago

> Nicola Pagett, star of BBC dramas of the 70s/80s.

watching random old avengers episode from 2 weeks ago, Have Guns Will Haggle, and look up the cast list on imdb because i think i recognise someone from somewhere else (Mr Benn was in the the other day!) and it's Nicola Pagett...

Tony Hendra, who acted in the Cambridge Footlights, wrote early Spitting Image episodes and played the manager in Spinal Tap.

Oh damn and blast, RIP.

Also big mover behind National Lampoon

i really enjoyed this book of his btw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Too_Far

RIP but thats a charmless cv tbh

Duggie Fields, British artist and one-time flatmate of Syd Barrett.

Entombed singer Lars-Göran Petrov. Bile duct cancer.

Comics artist - and cosplay wizard - Frank Thorne:

https://www.cbr.com/frank-thorne-obituary/?fbclid=IwAR19B7mvkXXjg41Ei4BBPuZH_U8Xrp1chlT7GYSiPbFSofeX6EQz-jg7VuI

^ From the 'people you thought were dead' file. Dude looked like he was in his seventies for decades.

Magma guitarist James Mac Gaw:

https://www.loudersound.com/news/magma-pay-tribute-to-former-guitarist-james-mac-gaw

No no no no no no yes, Jim Trott has died.

https://metro.co.uk/2021/03/09/trevor-peacock-dead-the-vicar-of-dibley-actor-dies-89-14212451/

People you thought...

Apparently he also wrote a number of songs, including "Mrs Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter" and "Gossip Calypso"

I think I put that on the "old when you found out" thread recently.

He was also the keyboard player in Uncle Peter's band on Smell of Reeves & Mortimer.

Also in the “already thought” category here but I’m very glad he had such a long life: the stellar Norton Juster:

My lunch partner, Norton Juster, ran out of stories & passed peacefully last night.

Best known for THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH + THE DOT & THE LINE, Norton’s greatest work was himself: a tapestry of delightful tales.

Miss him.

"To the vector goes the spoils." pic.twitter.com/9PObTjRes7

— Mo Willems' Pigeon (@The_Pigeon) March 9, 2021

Aw.

Phantom Tollbooth was big for me as a kid. Now as a parent, Mo Willems pretty much owns my house. When we got our first book of his I thought it was OK and couldn't imagine what a phenomenon he was. He's like a god especially in Brooklyn. There's TV footage of my daughter at the unveiling of the Knuffle Bunny brass statue in Park Slope.

i absolutely loved phantom tollbooth. still do, really.

RIP. There are several Phantom Tollbooth metaphors for life that pop into my head quite often... moving a pile of sand with tweezers just because someone says so, the house with four doors all answered by the same guy under different names, etc.

Not a celebrity or anything, just a refreshing example of an obit you don't see every day. Published this week in one of the local weeklies my company puts out. Wish more families would submit obits like this. Favorite line: "Ben lived life his way and had no regrets, except maybe accidentally burning down a slide at the park when he was around 13."
https://www.eastbayri.com/stories/benjamin-andrew-cook-26-of-bristol,88616

aww RIP Norton Juster. Phantom Tollbooth was huge for me too; I wish I had a copy in the house right now. I watched the animated version a few weeks ago. I liked it more than I expected to, but the book creates such a special universe.

Very rare that I remember when I learned certain words. I remember first hearing the word "debris" on 9/11. When I read The Phantom Tollbooth, I was introduced to "the doldrums." Thank you Norton Juster, and fuck Ariel Pink.

so many words i learned from that book. not only "the doldrums" but "lethargic," "din," "macabre," and probably more

yeah, same, esp "doldrums."

Yeah, lethargic! That one too for me.

Roger Mudd

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/roger-mudd-dead/2021/03/09/78ddf308-8117-11eb-9ca6-54e187ee4939_story.html

Most famous of course for...

Just finished Roger Mudd profile of Sen. Ted Kennedy I only intended to watch for the “Why do you want to be President?” bit, but stayed the whole hour. Mudd’s subtle & simple style asking Q’s only highlighted evasive answers more. Here’s the gem from ‘79 https://t.co/KQJ5MfCnqY

— Morgan Chesky (@BreakingChesky) March 10, 2021

(And in checking I realized that Mudd did an interview with RFK just minutes before the latter was killed so that makes the Teddy interview even more of a moment.)