Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Just ask at least one of his former wives. Oh, you can't, because she's dead.

The Reaper might have stopped for a drink on the way, but will be there eventually.

is Jerry Lee Lewis nog de moeite waard?

He played Prague in 2004, I was writing listings for a city magazine, my blurb said "Yes, he's still alive.' My editor spiked it. He would have been just 68 then.

surprised he was only 87 tbh.

jerry lee lewis is somewhat immortal i think

Yes, like the cockroach and some other entities I don’t care to name on this thread at the moment.

wait did he die again

wow first time I've ever seen TMZ get it wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UisBEPccc4M

Trying to remember the name of the singer in Austin who had a song about him where she would sing 'He'll leave you breathless!" and then make a self-choking motion.

Right now if you google his name you get like a 50/50 mix of new articles confirming his death and articles from like 12 hours ago insisting he is still alive.

Schrodinger's pedo.

I know he's a sonofabitch, but kinda was the last of the Sun Records gang, yeah? Everyone else is long gone.. end of an era

Rolling Stone reporting it now.

wait he came back to life and died again?
that's so rock n roll

the end of an era stuff is making me sad, jerry lee lewis finally kicking it...not so much

The Killer.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-strange-and-mysterious-death-of-mrs-jerry-lee-lewis-179980/

https://wtop.com/national/2022/10/jerry-lee-lewis-outrageous-rock-n-roll-star-dies-at-87/

Ohio underground rocker Tommy Jay of True Believers, Mike Rep and the Quotas, Ego Summit etc.

Haven't seen an official obit yet but there's a number of FB/twitter posts circulating saying that R&B/disco singer Geraldine Hunt has passed - whenever I think of my all-time favorite disco singles, "Can't Fake the Feeling" is always one of the first tracks that comes to mind. RIP

Ian Jack, journalist, 77.

that's sad about geraldine hunt. she also wrote 'murphy's law' for cheri, another absolutely top tune

D H Peligro

Dead Kennedys' drummer D.H. Peligro (Darren Henley) passed away in his Los Angeles home yesterday, Oct 28th. He died from trauma to his head from an accidental fall. Arrangements are pending will be announced in the coming days. Thank you for your thoughts and words of comfort pic.twitter.com/PC7sF87f6c

— Dead Kennedys (@DeadKennedys) October 29, 2022

:(

Calvin Butts III
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/us/calvin-butts-iii-dead-reaj/index.html

Geraldine Hunt’s death now confirmed (i.e. her Wiki page has been updated)

“Can’t Fake The Feeling” is immortal.

weird that around the same time she finally had her big hit, two of her kids were already having theirs - Freddie James “(Everybody) Get Up And Boogie” in ‘79 and Rosalind Hunt (as part of Cheri) with “Murphy’s Law” in ‘82.

Sad news, if pushed I sometimes think it's my favourite disco track. And I like a lot of disco.

I am so so sorry to hear that the brilliant Herman Daly - founding father of ecological economics - has died. His paradigm-changing work flipped my little econ head inside out & inspired me to write a book on rewriting economics… Here are just some of his big ideas 1/n. pic.twitter.com/uLAcIh67Mz

— Kate Raworth (@KateRaworth) October 30, 2022

Takeoff supposedly shot and killed in Houston??!?

Yeah looks like it's confirmed.

Fucking hell

Gael Greene, restaurant critic for New York magazine, 1968-2008… 88

Julie Powell of ‘Julie & Julia,’ blog, aged 49!

:(

Ronnie Radford, scorer of the most memorable and repeated FA Cup goal of all time.

Always worth watching again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFH57dA446s

I expected to see him at the match on Friday night, so I suppose now the BBC will make a big deal out of it during the coverage.

Aw man :(

And all those kids on the pitch are pushing 60 now.

oh shit, rip Ronnie!

xp My stepdad was there, he's 64 now

Actor Andrew Prine, 86

sad news. UK soul singer Noel McCoy has passed away. his voice was ever present on so many tunes... https://t.co/mKq1D70H21

— Gilles Peterson (@gillespeterson) November 4, 2022

uk music writer colin irwin:

Sad news. Colin Irwin died suddenly last night. Our love to those who knew and loved him. Colin famously shadowed The Fall on their trip to Iceland. His piece on the trip is here. https://t.co/4G82DpZmiS pic.twitter.com/i3XfWliCDi

— Route (@Route_News) November 4, 2022

sorry to anyone here that was close to him btw

aaron carter, 34

insane and sad

I saw him perform when he was 13 or something. My friend Joe and I were the only adults in the place not there with little kids. It was pretty awkward, especially the bathroom line. On the way in we saw an excited kid race across the parking lot yelling "Aaron Carter! Aaron Carter!" And he ran straight into a lamppost with a dramatic, cartoonish "clang!" and fell right over like a Looney Tune character before he got up and started crying; it sounded like an olde timey firetruck. He was OK, though, afaict, and I'm sure he had a great time.

RIP Aaron Carter.

Yeah, really terrible

fuck. RIP

whoa.