Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

Jackie Lane, 60s British actress probably only known as Dodo Chaplet, a particularly short lived black and white era Doctor Who companion.

It is with deep regret that we announce that actress and friend Jackie Lane has sadly passed away. We pass on our sympathies to her family and friends.
Jackie was best known to Doctor Who fans as companion Dodo Chaplet.
RIP 1941 - 2021 pic.twitter.com/z4qACvYbuw

— Fantom Tweets (@fantomfilms) June 23, 2021

it was bizarre what they did with her, "here's a new companion!, um yeah not really working for a variety of reasons, hey let's just lock her out of the tardis and leave her in London as a joke then never ever mention her again"

I think the reputation of the stories she's in is far worse than the stories themselves. I actually *like* The Gunfighters.

the gunfighters is OK apart from that bloody song

Ellen McIlwaine, blues singer and slide guitarist, dies at 75

https://www.straight.com/music/ellen-mcilwaine-blues-singer-and-slide-guitarist-dies-at-75

RIP. Back in the 90s in Hackney I heard a DJ play an amazing track and asked him what it was. He told me it was by Ellen McIlwaine, and I dutifully noted her name down then eventually got a CD of hers, which sounded very little like my memory of the song I'd heard. I never did find what it was.

Gunfighters rules, and the song is fine as something that you hear four times in a month

Dodo being written out off-screen mid-story especially sucks since she's the first hip groovy sixties companion, and doesn't even get to vibe in the show's only hip groovy sixties London story (half a point for The Invasion)

((I've not watched any of her episodes other than Gunfighters and War Machines tho))

The Ark is a good story. She's more than a bit wooden in it but isn't given much to do. She's good in the surviving Celestial Toymaker and sounds fine in the others.

I'm struggling to remember The Savages if I'm honest.

Ellen McIlwaine, blues singer and slide guitarist, dies at 75

― nickn, Thursday, 24 June 2021 18:23 (two hours ago) link

She'll be up in heaven shouting. RIP.

Tony Selby, British comic character actor in more things you know that you can shake a stick at.

So sad to hear about Tony Selby passing away. His turn as Glitz in Doctor Who is one of my earliest TV memories. RIP pic.twitter.com/Y3IarisxHQ

— CuriousBritishTelly (@CuriousUkTelly) June 24, 2021

RIP Redaction

Good news! In an unexpected but clever twist worthy of the intergalactic rogue himself, it seems Glitz actor Tony Selby has not died. It appears to be a case of mistaken identity with a former BBC Pebble Mill employee of the same name. Condolences to the late Mr Selby's family. https://t.co/7K6bweMRm3

— Doctor Who Cast and Crew 👾 (@DrWhoCastCrew) June 25, 2021

Good news!

Well not for the pebble mill producer

Unbelievable Jeff

Man this sucks

It is with heavy hearts and great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear brother Timothy J Parker aka The Gift of Gab,” announces his crew Quannum. “Tim departed this earth to be with our ancestors on Friday, June 18, 2021.

/1

— Lateef (@TruthspeakerHQ) June 25, 2021

Fuuuck. RIP :(

Does everyone know that Mumford is the name of the main guy in Mumford & Sons? Who I just found out today is married to Carey Mulligan!

Oops, wrong thread. Mumford lives.

...for now.

Peter Zinovieff, composer of electronic music and co-founder of the instrument manufacturer Electronic Music Studios Limited. In the late '60s he co-designed the VCS 3, the first British synthesiser. The VCS 3 and its successor, the Synthi AKS, have been in nearly continuous production for over fifty years. They have been used by (among others) Pink Floyd (most notably in "On the Run"), Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Hawkwind, Jean-Michel Jarre, Spectrum and Aphex Twin.

RIP. His libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's The Mask of Orpheus is also a remarkable achievement in its own right.

RIP :(

And he did some electronic music with Birtwistle in the 70s. Had no idea he did the libretto to Mask of Orpheus as well, and I even own the CD. RIP.

BBC Radiophonic Workshop also all over the EMS synths. he was also part on Unit Delta Plus with Delia and Brian Hodgson

Cameroonian singer Wes (Madiko):

https://then24.com/2021/06/26/singer-wes-madiko-author-of-the-hit-alane-died-at-the-age-of-57/

Per a statement from his family, Jon Hassell

aw, damn. glad I was lucky enough to see him play live once

Losing Jon Hassell, Frederic Rzewski, and Peter Zinovieff in the course of a single day is a rough ride for all the gentle nerds — stay plugged in

— Sasha Frere-Jones (@zombiesfj) June 26, 2021

RIP Jon :(

mike gravel, 91

BREAKING: Former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska, who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record in 1971 and decades later ran for the Democratic presidential nomination as a critic of the Iraq war, has died at age 91. https://t.co/5wqxNsR83u

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 27, 2021

his twitter account might not have really been him, but he was a real one

pianist-composer Burton Greene, a collaborator with/contemporary of Marion Brown, Alan Silva, Sunny Murray, and many others.

Aw, man. RIP. He was Patty Waters' pianist, and his first album (on ESP-Disk, of course) had Marion Brown on alto and Henry Grimes on bass.

‘Cops’ Creator John Langley Dead at 78
Reality television pioneer suffers fatal heart attack while racing in Baja, Mexico

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/cops-creator-john-langley-dead-obit-1189920/

Cool, fuck that guy.

Rest In Tasers

Lauren Berlant.

I've cited Berlant frequently in my academic writing. RIP.

Manfred Fricke of MFB, designer of a huge number of great drum machines.

https://cdm.link/2021/06/rip-berlin-synth-drum-machine-legend-manfred-frickes-of-mfb/

David Gamble, drummer for the Method Actors

A statement from the family of Donald Rumsfeld: pic.twitter.com/AlKYxVvqgF

— Donald Rumsfeld (@RumsfeldOffice) June 30, 2021

Wow, Rumsfeld... some grave dancing is in order. History may remember him for a lot of things.

Wish Morbs were here to get a few kicks in.

hope whatever killed him was painful and drawn-out

Whenever God closes a door (Cosby released on a technicality), He opens a window (rest in shit, Rumsfeld)

jesus, I thought that piece of shit was already dead. At least now the cunt really knows the unknowns

earlier today on ILX:

i had a vivid feeling of the W years being well & truly over

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), woensdag 30 juni 2021 14:39

He was doing a book tour not all that long ago

RIP Donald Rumsfeld, you taught me it was okay to be wired to a car battery

— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) June 30, 2021

He was surrounded by family, now he's surrounded by cackling demons