Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

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Anne Rice, author of ‘Interview with a Vampire’.

As if millions of goths cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

out in terror-lust

ftfy

how can we be sure she's dead?

hunting for further unkind joeks made me think of aaliyah and now im sad for reals 😔

rip anne rice yr books were p bad but i have friends who loved you

Vicente Fernandez

Such an amazing performer. I took my mom to see him in 2010.

Rest In Peace to el mas grande. Also, PYTWAD

"Problematic" and flamboyant Toronto politician Mel Lastman, 88.

Oh wow, as a native of North York (where he held office until his contentious mayorship - which has course been since vastly eclipsed as far as problematic and flamboyant figures go), he was an ever-present name growing up and, later, a kind of emblem of a certain time and place.

The death of an unlikely hero: Riccardo Ehrman, the Italian journalist whose question at an East German press conference on 9 November 1989 triggered the unexpected opening of the Berlin Wall, has died aged 92.

Ehrman asked the East German press secretary, Günter Schabowski, when new travel regulations were going to come into force which meant that East Germans could apply for permission to travel abroad without having to meet the previous requirements for these trips. Schabowski, who hadn't been present at the Central Committee meeting when the text on travel regulations was discussed, improvised an answer: "As far as I know... effective immediately, without delay." East Berliners rushed to the city's six border crossings and the Wall was opened the same evening.

Addio a Riccardo Ehrman, fece cadere il Muro di Berlino. Era corrispondente ANSA a Berlino est, pose la domanda cruciale #ANSA https://t.co/wyMaJia7RN

— Agenzia ANSA (@Agenzia_Ansa) December 14, 2021

Les Emmerson, frontman for Five Man Electrical Band and songwriter of the hippie-era classic "Signs," has died at the age of 77.

RS paywalled article.

bell hooks. RIP.

ah fuck :(

ah dammit

:( :( :(

:( and ffs

dammit

I just found out that she was still alive just at the time she died. Thought she had been dead for a while.
Whodathunkit.
Think I was just looking up what she'd written since I was just starting to read her. & wanted to know what else I needed to read

https://www.fayobserver.com/obituaries/m0028451

RIP Leonard "Hub" Hubbard, founding member and bassist of the Roots.

so sad :(

RIP hub

aw no!

Eve Babitz:

RIP Eve Babitz, the L.A. Woman incarnate, the insider-outsider whose books & life reveled in the absurd, flamboyant, and technicolor. A genius in a feather boa, poet laureate of Tana's & Musso, all dissolute Hollywood glamour & gilded insight, who said all the wrong things right. pic.twitter.com/6g00SXnAZM

— Otto Von Biz Markie (@Passionweiss) December 18, 2021

Eve's Hollywood is so good, and I thought I would hate it, thinking OK this is probably gossipy bullshit from yet another shallow LA "personality," but in fact it was engaging and she was surprisingly likable as the narrator.

She was such a brilliantly enjoyable writer, as effervescent about LA as Frank O'Hara was about NY. Very sad this morning.

Only read Eve's Hollywood and Slow Days, Fast Company, and they were both incredibly compelling and well-written

And as well as being a sublime writer, she also designed this beautiful cover for Buffalo Springfield!

https://fanart.tv/fanart/music/22dc19af-d085-4c9b-adfb-22ec256251f1/albumcover/buffalo-springfield-again-52c91e01dc22d.jpg

Melvin Parker, 1944-2021

"The greatest drummer I ever had in my life was Melvin Parker," said James Brown. "'I Feel Good', 'Papa's Bag'—nobody ever did that. Nobody. And they can't do it now."https://t.co/OTiYsabljB

— Sean Howe (@seanhowe) December 18, 2021

RIP :(

80 year old Wurzels drummer, John Morgan after contracting Covid-19 on tour.

ooh-ah, ooh-RIP-ay

Sorry to hear that Tam Harvey - Alex's cousin, and original Humblebum - has left us.

Here's he is, caught in the crowd, to the right of the Big Yin, at the UCS protest, on Glasgow Green, in 1971.

Pic: Newsquest pic.twitter.com/NgWdg8ZuJv

— Lost Glasgow (@LostGlasgow) December 18, 2021

Richard Rogers, architect, 88.

Not a good time to be a leading architect, Chris Wilkinson (Guangzhou Tower, Gateshead Millenium bridge etc) at 76 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/17/chris-wilkinson-obituary

Not a good time to be old tbf

rarely is tbf

Rapper Drakeo the Ruler

Carlos Marín, of the popera group Il Divo, at 53: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/il-divo-singer-carlos-marin-dead-obit-1274032/

Toby Slater, of Britpop band Catch (who were victims of a cut-away from their video playing on ITV to news of Diana, POW’s death). He later became a leader in organising queer spaces in London and was just 42.

Margaret Atwood, 88 - just announced by her Canadian publishers.

Nope nope nope sorry, hoax, please delete. Attwood safe.

Morphine Drummer Billy Conway Dead at 65 (cancer)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/morphine-billy-conway-dead-1274065/

shit :(

Oh damn.

Morphine played one of the greatest gigs I've ever seen. I'm sure I'm not alone in having uttered that phrase.

i was listening to them recently & got so verklempt just thinking about how much was lost with Sandman’s suicide, the “could’ve” beens of the music yet to come

such a great, great fucking band

suicide? erk, i meant heart attack.
weird typo