Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Terrible.

Calvin Simon, vocalist with the Parliaments, Parliament/Funkadelic etc

https://www.nme.com/news/music/parliament-funkadelic-co-founder-calvin-simon-has-died-3132791

... he also served in Vietnam!

This book has been on my list forever/pvmic

it's a brilliant, brilliant read

GLOW wrestler Dee Booher, aka Queen Kong/Matilda the Hun

https://heavy.com/news/dee-booher-dead/

no cause of death given :(

Michael "Woodstock" Lang, 77, of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/woodstock-michael-lang-dead-1281681/

He looked almost the same for 50 years... RIP

May his memory be a blessing, that is

Lyricist Marilyn Bergman died this week at age 93. She wrote the lyrics to all the songs in the film In the Heat of the Night including the title song that Ray Charles sings. She and Sidney Poitier passing at the same time has been rough for Quincy Jones, who was close friends with both of them.

Saxophonist Charles Brackeen. His first album, from 1973, was made with Ornette Coleman's former bandmates (Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell); later he was a member of Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society; and in the 80s he made a series of excellent albums with Olu Dara, Fred Hopkins and Andrew Cyrille. All of the latter are on Bandcamp.

James Mtume, apparently

aw no!

Dām-Funk is tweeting about it so i guess it's true

And to think his dad, Jimmy Heath, died in 2020. Sad.

Dwayne "Dobie Gillis" Hickman at 87.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/dwayne-hickman-dead-the-many-loves-of-dobie-gillis-actor-1235149782/amp/

Bob Saget:

Bob Saget has died.https://t.co/85nMLUQ4zl

— TMZ (@TMZ) January 10, 2022

Natural causes I'm sure.

what the hell

Eerie when this happens and the person was still tweeting early this morning:

Loved tonight’s show @PV_ConcertHall in Jacksonville. Appreciative audience. Thanks again to @RealTimWilkins for opening. I had no idea I did a 2 hr set tonight. I’m happily addicted again to this shit. Check https://t.co/nqJyTiiezU for my dates in 2022. pic.twitter.com/pEgFuXxLd3

— bob saget (@bobsaget) January 9, 2022

I'm amazed he was 65, looked great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEYoKxL3AiU

Damn, that's wild.

Earlier today, deputies were called to the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes for a call about an unresponsive man in a hotel room. The man was identified as Robert Saget & pronounced deceased on scene. Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case. #BobSaget pic.twitter.com/aB1UKiOlmi

— Orange County Sheriff's Office (@OrangeCoSheriff) January 10, 2022

aw man, that's a bummer

I am broken. I am gutted.  I am in complete and utter shock.  I will never ever have another friend like him.  I love you so much Bobby.

— John Stamos (@JohnStamos) January 10, 2022

Rip fella who seemed genuinely huge in the states but i still have no idea who or what he was or did

^^^

In guess that makes him the Jimmy Buffett of US television.

The who

no i've heard of them

lol

Rip fella who seemed genuinely huge in the states but i still have no idea who or what he was or did

One of many itt

I'm guessing that "obscure" UK famousers get less coverage in the US when they die than vice versa.

Ah im not picking on that niche usage of the thread im saying ive heard of bob saget for years but genuinely was he famous for maybe being in chat shows as a guest or what

He was a comedian who was on a hit sitcom and then became the host of America's Funniest Home Videos, but on the quiet was a pretty obscene stand-up. If you've seen the movie The Aristocrats, which is by no means obscure on either side of the Atlantic, you've seen Bob Saget and might remember him.

I've never heard of him tbh.

Famous for Ross from Friends looking like him iirc

He was a comedian who was on a hit sitcom and then became the host of America's Funniest Home Videos

RIP America's Lisa Riley

I actually do remember him from The Aristocrats and he was pretty funny in it but nothing outside of that

I only know of him because my kids watched Fuller House. RIP

2022 dead people i had never previously heard of:
Jeanine Ann Roose
Max Julien
Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff
Karl Clauss Dietel
Dee Booher
Calvin Simon
Michael "Woodstock" Lang
Marilyn Bergman
Charles Brackeen

may my lack of memories of them be a blessing anyway

Oh I know four of those!

Rip fella who seemed genuinely huge in the states but i still have no idea who or what he was or did

Yeah, although I knew he was in Full House I have never seen an actual episode. Bob for me was one of those names that always comes up in podcasts amongst other comedians. I recently watched him in an episode of Larry Sanders, which might have been the only time I've ever seen him perform.

RIP Bob!

Ah im not picking on that niche usage of the thread im saying ive heard of bob saget for years but genuinely was he famous for maybe being in chat shows as a guest or what

― pandmac (darraghmac), Monday, 10 January 2022 09:36 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

T'was not a comment about this thread, which is pan-world..

If you've ever watched three minutes of ANY retrospective on Woodstock, you've seen Michael Lang. You couldn't beat him away from a spot in front of an interview camera with a bat.

Actually that’s how he died

One for our American readers: Nicholas Donnelly, Mr MacKenzie in Grange Hill.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/nicholas-donnelly-dead-grange-hills-25897057

Investigative journalist Andrew Jennings died on Saturday January 8, 2022 after a brief, sudden illness.

During a lifetime of “chasing bad men” Andrew exposed corruption at Scotland Yard, at the Olympics and at FIFA.

obituary by @JensSejerAhttps://t.co/re0YtzrvcM

— Andrew Jennings (@AAndrewJennings) January 10, 2022

xp holy crap Donnelly seemed old back in GH when I watched in the 80's! RIP sir

Robert Durst, apparently. In prison.

An epic NYT obit for Robert Durst https://t.co/qTx7gg6F3D pic.twitter.com/KlTLpEx0q7

— erica orden (@eorden) January 10, 2022