Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

François Hadji-Lazaro (frontman of French bands Pigalle and Les Garçons Bouchers)

RIP my old friend Clive Sall, founding member of FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste), 60.

Lindsay Hoyle has announced the death of Betty Boothroyd aged 93 pic.twitter.com/s2OqOdW9Yu

— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) February 27, 2023

there is an interesting interview with her on the british archives page. iirc she's talking about how her dad was deeply ashamed about being unemployed and doing housework while her mother worked in 30's depression era Dewsbury.

misread that as “Depression era Doonesbury” which was a wild ride

tbh Dewsbury was probably far less of a depressing shithole in the 1930s than it has been since the 90's, as probably never referenced in any WP cartoons! I'm trying to keep it polite about Boothroyd but she was just basically as awful as any of the Labour Right, including all of them from w/c backgrounds.

surprised no fan has ever attempted "Doonesbury in other time periods." feels like a good recurring fake strip for when Tom the Dancing Bug does its fake comics page.

Trudeau did that a little bit with Zonker's colonial ancestor, around the bicentennial.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1975/07/29

Jeez, that went harder than I ever would have guessed!

^true

Ismaïla Touré, founding member of the Senegalese band Touré Kunda. (Link is in French.)

Ricou Browning at 93, director and stuntman for underwater scenes, played The Creature From The Black Lagoon and co-created Flipper

RIP Gill-Man

Be kind to your web-footed friends

Be kind, rewind.

Manson Family member and murder lookout Linda Kasabian

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/us/linda-kasabian-dead.html

Man I didn't even know Browning was still with us! Also did the underwater sequences for Thunderball.

people it hadn't occured to you were still alive - Just Fontaine, World Cup legend, RIP

RIP Just.

the live version of Em'ma from Toure Kunda's 85 Paris-Ziguinchor album is one of my faves and deeply important to me,

if i recall correctly, one of the (3) brothers shortly after that collapsed on stage from exhaustion and died on the way to hospital and the other brothers took an (understandable) long break from touring

got to see them perform New Years Eve 1999 in Addis and had tears in my eyes as never thought would get to see them live

RIP

tom sizemore

people it hadn't occured to you were still alive - Just Fontaine, World Cup legend, RIP

― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Had no idea. It's insane to score that many in a single world cup.

In just 6 games

Steve Mackey of Pulp. I am absolutely shocked!

Oh, that's sad news. I guess that's why he wasn't going to be a part of the reunion shows this year.

what?!?!

fuck!

I live near the best friend of Steve’s wife, saw the best friend yesterday in passing, who was on her way to see Mrs Steve and now I know why she was telling me it was a really shitty time. Very very sad news.

RIP :(

I had a similar experience once of running into somebody who clearly looked like they had been crying in the night and were still at it and then shortly afterwards finding out a famous musical acquaintance of theirs had just passed.

Just checked in with another friend close to Mrs Steve who said that my friend was on her way to the hospital when we saw each other.

Never heard a bad word about him from anyone, with one exception.

https://i.postimg.cc/ZqdhX05X/20230302-161904.jpg

Seeing reports on Facebook that Wayne Shorter has passed :-(

Alex James likes birds.

NYT confirms Wayne Shorter

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/arts/music/wayne-shorter-dead.html

Maybe if he weren’t chasing birds all over the world that were not his long-suffering ex, I might have one shred of sympathy for Alex there. But he was the biggest slut of them all!

wayne shorter :((((((((((

Damn

Do British people still talk like that, or is he mugging for the audience?

Wayne

Do British people still talk like that, or is he mugging for the audience?

It sounds like Cheech and Chong's parody of spoiled British rock stars.

Too bad about Wayne Shorter. :(

mockney tory cheesemonger pricks are not representative of the British public

Hardly think a member of blur would be mugging for the audience in a way that had no connection to the reality of Brit life lol xp

i've heard loads of people who talk like Alex James, Me and My Girl is a great show

And all along I thought it was only Whiney doing a bad imitation on that one thread.

No, blur also did a bad imitation

tom sizemore

― Mr. Snrub, 1. mars 2023 18:02 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Apparently he’s still with us, but near the end following an aneurysm.

A hard life, and some quite good movies. I always liked the way he looked on film.

I knew the girlfriend in question and she was a particular evil genius to revenge-shag the tallest, best looking and most intelligent of all the bassists of that era, and it will have really, really hit Alex in the nuts.

Sizemore beat up women & was probably a nonce just to flesh out the “hard life” bit

Had a good scene in twin peaks where he sobs “I only want to die or change”

Has Julian Sands been found? If not, can we add him to the thread?