Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

John Hutchinson

Co-founder of Bread & Puppet Theater.

What she and Peter made, thousands of enormous faces in farm buildings in a Vermont field, gigantic expressive bodies at rest, tiny beings, caricatures, demons, pests--brought back from the dead--spared! at random each week for a circus. Great American artists, mark me https://t.co/nYbkMpaeqL

— Dan Chiasson (@dchiasso) August 3, 2021

RIP, total badass

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/huddersfields-jake-manglewurzel-has-died-21221300

tedious "eccentric" Jake Manglewurzel. To quote my late uncle on him who also lived in Salendine Nook: basically a very typical and normal Yorkshire bigoted bastard in very silly clothes.

Kelli Hand aka K-Hand, Detroit techno pioneer

https://mixmag.net/read/detroit-techno-legend-k-hand-acacia-died-news

Paul Cotton, from Poco

https://bestclassicbands.com/paul-cotton-poco-obituary-8-2-21/

Kelli Hand RIP. I saw her open the Detroit stage at Tribal Gathering ‘97. So much good music to her hand. RIP. Candlelights.

Also Chicago DJ Paul Johnson:

this mix is a personal favorite he drops suavemente between two acid tracks before going into hands up sunrise mode with Change for Me among other fun moments covid took a legend today :(https://t.co/SyMmIJ1pG2

— Carlos (@ballesteros_312) August 4, 2021

get get down obviously a massive tune as well

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Had a massive, sudden heart attack, apparently.

oh damn

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, Rock Writer and Jim Morrison’s Partner, Dead at 75.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/patricia-kennealy-morrison-jim-morrison-dead-obit-1207804/

I used to work with her. She was a proofreader at FCB advertising in NYC around 2000-ish. Never actually spoke to but always walked by her desk and though "whoah, cool"

Pitcher JR Richard, whose career was cut down in his prime by a stroke in 1980.

https://www.chron.com/sports/astros/article/Houston-Astros-pitcher-JR-Richard-dead-obituary-16366608.php

Xpost Dan did you work at FCB at the same time as my friend Tom K@czyn5k1?

Does not ring a bell. But it was a very large company.

Markie Post :(

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/markie-post-night-court-star-122200002.html

Bobby Bowden, also cancer

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/2021/08/08/bobby-bowden-dies-fsu-florida-state-football-coach-obituary-covid-coronavirus/3699190001/

Comedian and sketch comedy guy Trevor Moore, 41.

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/trevor-moore-dead-dies-comedian-whitest-kids-u-know-1235036956/

Whaaaaaat the fuck

When I die I want the obituary to refer to me as "local sexpot".

— Trevor Moore (@itrevormoore) July 8, 2021

I was watching the teenage Moore’s show on Charlottesville cable access in the late 90s. RIP, he’s now counting Shiffletts in heaven.

https://deadline.com/2021/08/jane-withers-dead-former-child-star-and-voice-actress-was-95-1234811168/

Jane Withers, 95. I remember her best as Shirley Temple's antagonist in Bright Eyes (1934) (and didn't realize she was still around).

Seeing on Facebook and Twitter-RIP dc raised producer Chucky Thompson at 53 from Covid complications. Producer for Mary J Blige , Also produced Chuck Brown and many others

Former CBS Records president Walter Yetnikoff

Not sure how I should feel about that.

I know a few folks who are probably lining up to piss on his grave once he's in the ground.

Threatened to pull all CBS Records’ music videos from MTV unless the racist pieces of shit played “Beat It”. Also bought Billy Joel’s contract from Artie Ripp and gave it to him for free.

Pat Hitchcock

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/pat-hitchcock-dead-alfred-daughter-1234995917/

:(

NPR's Neal Conan... Grew up with his voice.

Conan hosted NPR's "Talk of the Nation" for 11 years. After spending 36 years with the organization, he moved to Hawaii to become a macadamia nut farmer...

Una Stubbs; one time Cliff co-star, Worzel Gummidgr icon, ISIHAC punchline.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58190446

RIP Aunt Sally

scene-stealing guest appearance in Bosom Manor S4E3

I was shockingly old when I learned that she was married to the bloke who later played the lothario in my favourite episode of Fawlty Towers, The Psychiatrist, but they split up when he had an affair with Susan Hampshire.

I think I only realised it when he died.

Only found out yesterday that she was the mother in law of the singer Dot Allison.

Nanci Griffith, very sadly.

What??

The big c

Fuck.

Wow.

Had she been sick for a long time? She supposedly retired ten years ago, and I wondered why.

Zouk legend Jacob Desvarieux

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/08/arts/music/jacob-desvarieux-dead.html

No official obit yet, but have heard from a friend of his that percussionist-composer Michael Evans has passed away. From his own web page:

As an active and versatile New York City musician, he has worked with a wide variety of artists of all sorts including Ron Anderson, Jeff Arnal, Audio Artists, Claire Barratt, Samm Bennett, Jac Berrocal, Carla Bley, Naval Cassidy, James Chance, Martha Colburn, Combustible Edison, Lol Coxhill, EasSide Percussion (ESP), Roger Ely (the Devil’s Chaueffeur), Nicolas Dumit Estevez, Ken Filiano, Fast Forward (Gobo), Chris Ferris, Michael Gira (Angels of Light, Swans), Gisburg, Gilbert Godfried, God Is My Co-Pilot, David Grubbs, Alexander Hacke (Einsturzende Neubauten), Susan Hefner, Steve Horowitz’s Code Ensemble, Jarboe (Swans), Pamelia Kurstin, Skip LaPlante’s Music for Homemade Instruments, Zach Layton, Gen Ken Montgomery, Neil Leonard, Aimee Mann, Karen Mantler, Sean G. Meehan, Donald Miller, Eric Mingus, Gordon Monahan, Joe Morris, Michelle Nagai, Anders Nilsson, Evan Parker, Andrea Parkins, Maxime De La Rochefoucauld, William Parker, Yvette Perez’s Birdbrain, Yvette Perez’s Mitra Sumara, Gino Robair, Lary Seven, Elliot Sharp, Moe! Staiano, LaDonna Smith, David Simons, Jesse Stewart, the Talking Band, Toronto Dance Theatre, Stephen Vitiello, Christopher Walken, Jason Willet, Peter Zummo’s Noisy Meditation Band and John Zorn. The links page more comprehensively describes Michael’s orbit.

FC Bayern are mourning the passing of Gerd Müller.

The FC Bayern world is standing still today. The club and all its fans are mourning the death of Gerd Müller, who passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 75.

— FC Bayern English (@FCBayernEN) August 15, 2021

Man, thats no age

I saw Gerd Müller several times playing for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers at the end of his career. His name was always spoken with reverence.

Oh man, what a goal machine. RIP Gerd.

398 goals in 453 games for Bayern. 68 goals in 62 games for Germany!