Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Sam Gooden, founding member of the Impressions soul group, dies at 87 https://t.co/gbZ3KusXSg

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 12, 2022

Abdul Wadud, cellist with Julius Hemphill's jazz band and many others. Was 75

Wadud's son r'n'b singer Raheem DeVaughn posted about his father on IG

https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChH9jhdlJAR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Anne Heche

Confirmed that Anne Heche has passed

Sad ending

I liked her in the things I saw, but didn't realize she did so many movies:https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/12/anne-heche-death-actor-dies-week-after-car-crash-aged-53

I'm a big fan of her and her work and I'm really upset

Terrible. RIP Anne.

Had no idea she was only 53. For some reason I thought she was older. She was really a good actress; if she didn't do so much high-profile "wacky antics"-type stuff (much of it apparently rooted in childhood trauma) she'd be much better thought of, like, Laura Linney-level, I think.

Yeah, lots of joeks at her expense back in the day, like with Britney and Anna Nicole Smith.

Rosie O'Donnell just now apologized.

Wrecking Crew session guitarist Bill Pitman (who was 102):

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/arts/music/bill-pitman-dead.html

Wow, RIP. Hadn't know he was that old.

Played on some big shit:
Pitman became an in-demand guitarist in the ’60s, and he played on some of the era’s most enduring songs: Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers In The Night,” Elvis Presley’s “Blue Hawaii,” Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were,” the Ronette’s “Be My Baby,” the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations.” He played the ukulele on “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head,” the Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid soundtrack song that won an Academy Award.

Pitman also performed on the soundtracks for countless films and television shows. Among them: M*A*S*H, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Dirty Dancing, Goodfellas, I Love Lucy, Bonanza, The Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour, Star Trek...

Spinning the Ronettes b-side “Tedesco and Pitman” in remembrance

Pitman was #1 on a website listing the "100 Oldest musicians". That title now goes to the still-living 101 year-old Mervin Shiner.

BBC News - Darius Danesh: Pop idol and West End star dies aged 41
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62564721

What?!

Christ. RIP. I liked him back in those primal days of reality pop tv - a little odd, ridiculous, a different era's good looks, a knowing air sometimes.

Yeah, that's a shocker. RIP.

yeh that sucks, rip
thoughts for the family x

Wolfgang Petersen, who rode his acclaimed German-language film “Das Boot” into a career directing Hollywood blockbusters such as “In the Line of Fire,” “Air Force One,” “The Perfect Storm” and “Troy,” has died. He was 81.https://t.co/rqJHzNn5vX

— Variety (@Variety) August 16, 2022

dang, RIP, was just wearing my promotional bucket hat for his 2006 remake Poseidon at Six Flags this weekend.

Couple of great movies, couple of kitsch classics, couple of camp classics, handful of garbage. Kind of epitomized the trajectory of so many non-English speaking directors who go Hollywood, but to be honest the only German film of his I've seen is Das Boot.

Diane Luckey aka Q Lazzarus of "Goodbye Horses"

https://www.stereogum.com/2196708/goodbye-horses-singer-q-lazzarus-has-reportedly-died/news/

Fuller obit here, with the news that there will be a documentary and retrospective album next year:

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/25644374/diane-luckey/neptune/new-jersey/jackson-funeral-home

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/17/1118090168/hanae-mori-a-designer-for-japans-films-working-women-and-an-empress-dies

Designer Hanae Mori, 96

didn't know about that Q Lazarus movie, the director Eva Aridjis is an old friend from NY in the early 00s. Really cool to hear.

She just posted this on facebook:

"Now that her obituary has been published and the news of Q’s tragic and untimely passing is public, I just want to say how grateful I am to have met Q three years ago and to have been entrusted by her to help tell her incredible story. Over the past three years Q became one of my closest friends and we were in touch almost daily, sometimes to talk about the film or her music, but mostly just to talk about our personal lives and everyday matters. She used to come over and we’d sit in my living room eating Middle Eastern food, listening to records and having drinks and cigarettes. She loved my daughter Josephine- she said it was when she saw a picture of her that she decided she could trust me- and she always insisted on picking up my elderly parents at the airport when they arrived from Mexico, on bringing me medicine if I was sick, and on cooking for me and my crew when we filmed at her house. She was simply one of the most generous people I have ever encountered, and a wonderful story teller with a great sense of humor. She had an amazing sense of style all her own, and turned heads and lit up the room wherever she went. Despite having had a very hard life, she was not jaded at all. On the contrary- she was full of enthusiasm, passion and humor. Q had one of those life forces that you simply can’t imagine being extinguished or ceasing to exist, because it was so vital and radiant and exuberant.
In addition to being a wonderful person, mother and friend, Q was of course an incredibly talented singer and songwriter who never got her due. It is truly tragic that, when she finally does, she will not be here to see it happen. But I like to think that she will and that, as she sang in Goodbye Horses, “I’m flying over you". I am heartbroken knowing I will never see her again and I am devastated for her family. I am also now more determined than ever to get her incredible story and amazing music out into the world. RIP beautiful Q, thank you so much for everything you shared with me and taught me 💔✨🌹 💛"

ah fuck what a sadness :(

Mr Veg and I were talking this morning about how if you leave one song behind, make it this: a vast, beautiful song that always sounds like it’s from some ~other time~

even when it was new it sounded like maybe it had bled over from an alternate universe, yknow?

<3 RIP

Josephine Tewson, British sitcom great.

Americans may know her as Elizabeth the next-door neighbour in Keeping Up Appearances.

Also, she was married to Leonard Rossiter!

Also female lead in Clarence, the ill-fated Ronnie Barker vehicle.

RIP, excellent comic actress. Had no idea she was married to Leonard Rossiter either.

Oliver Frey RIP

It's with great sadness that we have to announce that Oliver Frey passed away this morning at 7.55.

Rest in Piece Oli - hope you are up there in heaven painting the angels.#ZXSpectrum #commodore64 #cpc464 pic.twitter.com/TP2pjxPdMO

— Fusion Gaming Magazine (@FusionGameMag) August 21, 2022

Oh no! RIP

https://pic.ebid.net/upload_medbig/9/4/2/uo_1567270903-16278-225.jpg

his pull out Valentine's Day poster from Zzap! 64.

I'm not happy with that ZX Spectrum bias in the obit photo

RIP, Oli. I spent a lot of time as a kid admiring his cover art and illustrations for Crash.

Fuck. Leon Vitali.
https://www.instagram.com/p/ChhNfxLoICR/

xxp

obviously the more popular home computer got listed first

the C64 community ran things at the community centre computer club I went to. Spectrum owners were tolerated but remained a quiet minority. That Dragon 32 owner didn't last long, lol.

The great Tom Palmer, comics inker extraordinaire, at 81. If you ever read “Tomb Of Dracula” or the early Marvel Star Wars comics you’ll know the man’s work. A master with a brush.

Science Fiction writer and critic Alexei Panshin:

https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/panshin_alexei

RIP Person I heard of but can’t remember reading at all.

Maybe finally time to read Rite of Passage.

Surprised nobody else seems interested in Leon Vitali! Key Kubrick legacy curator, unforgettable as Lord Bullingdon.

oh, he was the Filmworker guy

yep