Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

I remember eons back reading the entry in Dave Marsh's original Book of Rock Lists and when the Who was mentioned the only comment was "Dressed the part."

An announcement… pic.twitter.com/KMJ7pG4R5Z

— TheBillRussell (@RealBillRussell) July 31, 2022

Nichelle Nichols.

Hold the front page! RIP ;_;

NOOOO ;_;

Bill Russell is up near the top of my wish-I'd-seen-him-play list; along with Jim Brown, one of the few non-baseball players on there.

I have this feeling Shatner is going to outlive the entire cast of Star Trek...RIP Nichelle :(

i thought the romulan commander was still with us but she died last summer : /

Oh no NN, we’ve been watching the original series and just passed the ep where she sings a song for the lonely engineer while he drinks poisoned milk. Such a presence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs4mbHLAFuU

What was Bill Russell's life like while he was racking up 11 rings? His daughter writes: pic.twitter.com/ETKKvEbDfX

— austin walker (@austin_walker) July 31, 2022

Our Uhura is far beyond the stars now. In January 1967, Ebony declared Nichelle Nichols the first Negro astronaut, a triumph of modern day television over modern day NASA.

We are here because you were there.

May our Queen Rest in Power and Forever Glory 🖖🏽

1932-2022 pic.twitter.com/c8ukMlRdS0

— Prof. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Child of Uhura (@IBJIYONGI) July 31, 2022

Pat Carroll

Mo Ostin -- 95!

https://variety.com/2022/music/news/mo-ostin-dead-warner-bros-records-chief-1235330951/

Ayman al-Zawahiri, assassinated by as yet unidentified US forces

Feeling safer already

Definitely someone I thought was already dead

John King, Ardent Records cofounder:

R.I.P. John King. Co-founder of Ardent Records & a brilliant promo man from Memphis music's golden era, he helped build the legend of Big Star (coming up with the idea for the 1973 Rock Writers Convention). Here's a look at his colorful life and legacy. https://t.co/SDn63gPOnF

— Bob Mehr (@BobMehr) August 2, 2022

RIP

Stepping back a bit to Nichols' passing, a truly lovely thread of memories from Takei

I have been truly moved by the tributes and messages honoring the life and work of Nichelle Nichols, our very own Lieutenant and later Commander Uhura on Star Trek. Although our original series ran only three seasons, we became bonded /1 pic.twitter.com/v1pZtQBU3a

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) August 2, 2022

Beautiful tribute.

John "Yogi" Hughes, Lisbon Lion.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/john-hughes-dies-79-celtic-27633326

The great one's gone -- RIP Vin Scully

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— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 3, 2022

oh man. what a legend. him and Bill Russell in the same week.

greatest of all time

As a kid I only saw Braves, Cubs, and Yankees games because they somehow had national deals with cable providers, but I somehow still knew exactly who Vin Scully was despite ever seeing very very few Dodgers games. Loved him.

So many moments but this one, man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4nwMDZYXTI

boggles my mind that he started his career doing play by play for the **brooklyn** dodgers

All off the top of his head

https://www.salon.com/1999/10/12/scully_koufax/

he called henry aaron’s record-breaking homer and that dwight clark catch for the 49ers too. just the best

I love this one

how the hell do you tell the story of a wolf attacking a boy during an at bat calmly, colorfully and without missing a pitch? Vin Scully was an absolute artist pic.twitter.com/aLjUYv7mme

— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) August 3, 2022

RIP Vin. Never will be another like him.

Nicky Moore, British blues-rock hollerer who sang with Samson, Uli Jon Roth, Big Jim Sullivan and shitloads more, 75.

Alistair Little, chef.

Vin's truest peer with the salute.

Se ha ido el más grande de los cronistas de béisbol y otros deportes. He perdido al arquitecto de mi vida profesional; un amigo entrañable: Vin Scully. Experimento ahora lo más difícil para hilvanar mis pensamientos y solo puedo decir paz en su tumba,volveremos a vernos pronto.

— Jaime Jarrín (@JaimeJarrin) August 3, 2022

Amazing

Oh, we’re all telling our Vin Scully stories? Alright, here’s mine.

I was working for a radio station in LA and helping where I could. They asked me to call Vin and get him ready to be on the radio in the next few minutes…

— John Gennaro (@johnmgennaro) August 3, 2022

Sam Gooden, vocalist with The Impressions.

Larry Josephson, pioneer of '60s New York liberal talk radio at WBAI alongside Bob Fass and Steve Post.

that absolutely awful slaphead cunt with the moustache from the recurring oxo family ads in the 80's. Can neither remember his name, nor do I care to find it. Special place in hell for people that accept gravy that looks like sewerage mixed with wallpaper paste.

That'll be Michael Redfern you're talking about, also notable for playing the copper who busts up the house party in an episode of The Young Ones. Plus he was in Terry and June once. Thanks, Wikipedia!

yeah I think he was a bald copper in Filthy, Rich & Catflap as well!

other people from awful recurring UK television ads like Kris Marshall and Maureen Lipman are probably far more annoying than he was tbf. But I really loathed that oxo family when I was a kid.

Judith Durham of The Seekers, rather a curious character and a group I am entirely indifferent to

Clu Gulager, 93

Man THERE was a lifer.

Still tickled to see him as the bookstore guy in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I remember first time through I saw his name in the credits I was all "Wait WTF" and then looked for him again on a rewatch.

Just found that one of my school classmates was in those OXO adverts - and is currently masquerading as some kind of songwriter and producer.

Nice thread on Gulager from an acquaintance of mine:

I had the pleasure of meeting Clu a couple of times. Well, the first time, I didn't actually meet him. I was attending my first movie at The New Bev, back in 2010, I think. He just happened to be there. I kept my distance, because I was in awe of his presence. 1/ https://t.co/sGJ68nFlhR

— Jeremy Sumrall - Flickmaker (@JNSumrall) August 6, 2022

Wow, Clu stood out even among other frequently amazing quotees of "Splendor in the Short Grass," dispatches from the set of The Last Picture Show: one of those pieces by Grover Lewis that really helped to establish/firm up Rolling Stone's New Journalism cred. Gallagher was very articulate about his ambitions, creative and commercial, and this was the ideal step from TV cowpoke journeyman to big screen Texasestenial star, or at least worth a shot. Somebody should do a streaming docudrama of this report, which earns its approx. 1400 words. Looks like online Stone doesn't have it,but Splendor In The Short Grass:The Grover Lewis Reader is still fairly easy to find. Lots of loose talk on sets and elsewhere back then, though GL's edits are a bit "flinty," as Roy Blount Jr. observed (suck it up, Jr.)https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/books/review/splendor-in-the-short-grass-romancing-the-stoned.html

Let's make that "Texastential."

Hold on, it's my job to mention Clu Gulager on this thread.