Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

(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.)

It's good that he managed to see ninety. https://t.co/ls9mcvGGYf

— Jonny Morris (@jonnymorris1973) March 10, 2021

that's funny

Would have been funnier ...

Also, C-30, C-60, C-94, Go!

RIp Josky Kiambukuta of Tpok Jazz from the Congo. The 72-year-old singer, songwriter and performer had been ill for several years.

Josky was one of the last stars of Tout Puissant Ok Jazz (TPOK Jazz), founded by Luambo Luanzo Makiadi, better known as Franco

https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/magazine/tpok-jazz-josky-kiambukuta-dies-3315198

Facebook ppl announcing the death of British horror auteur Norman J Warren:

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1109079/index.html

RIP was only looking at the bluray box set the other day and wondering if I could justify it.

Slide it to the left of your bookshelf.

That indicator bluray set is very nice but I already have the Anchor Bay coffin DVD collection so haven't upgraded.

Roger Trigaux of uneasy listening Belgian avant-prog bands Univers Zero and Present: http://www.expose.org/index.php/articles/display/rip-roger-trigaux-3.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FceSW5MivAo

Murray Walker, over-excitable motorsports commentator, 97.

Sally Grossman, the woman in red on the cover of Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home album. Was the wife of Dylan's manager Albert Grossman and the photo was taken in their house.

Oh, RIP

Marvin Hagler

RIP

Met him once or twice when I was a kid

definite case for him being the G.O.A.T.

:(

RIP also (xp) wow

Leroy Radcliffe of The Modern Lovers and Robin Lane & the Chartbusters, towards the second half of January.

:( RIP