Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

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!

https://jalopnik.com/nathalie-maillet-boss-of-spa-francorchamps-murdered-b-1847489854

(Belgian Formula 1 circuit Spa-Francorchamps director Nathalie Maillet and her mistress killed by her husband who then called the police and killed himself.)

jesus

Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer, 88.

Sean Lock

#Breaking Comedian Sean Lock, best known for panel shows 8 Out Of 10 Cats and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, as well as sitcom 15 Storeys High, has died from cancer at the age of 58, his agent told the PA news agency pic.twitter.com/BB6hIa8atp

— PA Media (@PA) August 18, 2021

damn

Wow

what the hell??

My God. The only funny man in the UK dead ;_;

whoa
poor guy.

This is horrible, he was undoubtedly the funniest person on all those panel shows

V sad. 15 Storeys High remains the greatest britcom of the 21st century.

Austin Mitchell

Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for Great Grimsby 1977-2015, has died age 86: https://t.co/hLfXNptqtK

— Mr Memory (@AmIRightSir) August 18, 2021

YTV presenters who were old when you were a kid and you thought they would be at least a hundred by now

still an MP until 2015 as well.

Just found out about Sean Lock. RIP.

Gutted about Sean Lock. I saw him do an amazing show, completely by accident, at Edinburgh in 1995 - I was only seventeen, and walked in because they were giving away free 20 packs of Marlboro Lights (!) over the festival that year. Anyway - he was fucking hilarious, and then I spent the next several years wondering who the hell he was until he popped up on QI.

Ignoring life and watching "8 Cats" videos on Facebook has been my greatest pandemic guilty pleasure.

Sonny Chiba

Actor Sonny Chiba, the father of Arata Mackenyu passed away at the age of 82.https://t.co/57gWiax24I pic.twitter.com/BHKXtg3JlG

— ハズキ (@cloverblossoms_) August 19, 2021

Person I didn’t know was still…RIP.

Sadly per the followup it was COVID-related

Sonny Chiba passed away at a hospital in Chiba Prefecture at 5.26 pm due to pneumonia. Affiliated office announced he has been hospitalized for the Covid-19 since August 8. https://t.co/igdeeFEajW

— ハズキ (@cloverblossoms_) August 19, 2021

Austin Mitchell, archetypal self-serving melt cunt boohoo

he was no Roscoe Mitchell, that is for sure!

RIP Sonny Chiba

https://www.thesefistsbreakbricks.com/nowplaying/viva-chiba

The artist Chuck Close, who rose on the acclaim from his Photorealism portraits and fell from grace among sex harrassment allegations, has died. Our obit posting shortly from @nytimes #chuckclose @PaceGallery #artists

— Robin Pogrebin (@rpogrebin) August 19, 2021

belated RIP to legendary surf rock guitarist Takeshi Terauchi

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar/comments/o4wf8f/news_takeshi_terauchi_known_as_the_god_of/
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20210619/k10013093571000.html

Damn. I just got into the Rashomon album this year!

Jill Murphy, author of the Worst Witch, from cancer, 72.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58283965

Peter Corby, of Corby Trouser Press fame

Peter Corby, inventor of the Corby trouser press, has died. Remarkable businessman who managed to keep selling a product (mainly to hotels) despite the fact that most guests never used it. pic.twitter.com/1jxvaqgDHL

— Martin Knight (@MartinKnight_) August 20, 2021

RIP, guy I never knew existed, even though I was a big fan of the song and especially the magazine.

Salsa star Larry Harlow, 82

I got to see Harlow sit in with the Mars Volta in 2005:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86qMBnXpxgE

The great Tom T. Hall

https://blog.siriusxm.com/siriusxm-remembers-tom-t-hall-dead-at-85/

I seriously thought he'd passed already.

Loved his Nashville wiseguy schtick in the Ken Burns' doc.

wow, I could have sworn he died 2 years ago.

james loewen, author of "lies my teacher told me":

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/books/james-w-loewen-dead.html

pretty sad about this one, that book was an incredible eye-opener when i was 17 and still holds up well

Wow yeah... I read it early on in college and had one of those before and after reading moments.

Damn RIP Larry Harlow

“History is by far our worst-taught subject in high school,” Dr. Loewen told The Atlantic in 2018. “I think we’re stupider in thinking about the past than we are, say, in thinking about Shakespeare, or algebra, or other subjects.”

this feels pretty right

Lies Across America, his book about misleading historical monuments is also really good.

Peter Corby
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