Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

Fuck, just saw

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Andy Rourke after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer.
Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by those who knew him and as a supremely gifted musician by music fans. 
We request privacy at this sad time pic.twitter.com/KNehQxXoFz

— Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) May 19, 2023

Andy Rourke of The Smiths RIP. My father in law taught him at school.

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Andy Rourke after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer.
Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by those who knew him and as a supremely gifted musician by music fans. 
We request privacy at this sad time pic.twitter.com/KNehQxXoFz

— Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) May 19, 2023

Andy Rourke of The Smiths RIP. My father in law taught him at school.

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Andy Rourke after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer.
Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by those who knew him and as a supremely gifted musician by music fans. 
We request privacy at this sad time pic.twitter.com/KNehQxXoFz

— Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) May 19, 2023

Sorry xps.

Spent so much time thinking about how I'd feel when Morrissey dies I'd never considered the others

RIP

andy rourke made the radio 4 news

Horrible sad news. Fuck cancer. RIP to a lovely, talented man.

That is really sad, RIP.

rip andy, incredible player

A great tribute from Johnny Marr

https://www.facebook.com/officialjohnnymarr/posts/pfbid0Rc6NUzsvh2SNiy5xpcfjCmS19UG9BMemA6vRenZX2pok53uFKiKU79y5jqUxpiKyl

I don't think I've ever heard The Queen is Dead before, that is a great bassline.

Football legend and actor Jim Brown, 87

Huge. I paid some attention to football in the mid-'70s, but missed him. Read a biography last year: heroic acts and villainous behaviour all the way through.

huge is right

Cream lyricist Pete Brown, 82

https://deadline.com/2023/05/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-star-rick-dalton-dead-quentin-tarantino-declares-1235373860/

Martin Amis?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/books/martin-amis-dead.html

looks like it tes

*yes

didn’t see that coming at all.

Wow, with the Jonathan Glazer film at Cannes, thought he may be due a revival.

Oof, weren't we just talking about how he'd fallen off a (non-literal) cliff just last month?

we were.

Cream lyricist Pete Brown, 82

I met him once. I was with a friend of mine who knew him in the 60s... though I think its fair to say they were not exactly bosom buddies!

also he was a bit more than just "cream lyricist" -- pre-cream he was a key mid-tier musician-poet who linked the beats and jazz to the various scenes that orbited the underground press, before it all fused into the proggy amalgam it became; when i was researching that era for my book his name kept cropping up; for a while he was just busily around the place i guess

Amis, wow. Will always treasure attending a reading of London Fields at Shakespeare &Co in NYC with my late best friend who was absolutely beside herself because Richard Butler showed up to see him too!

Favourite Amis: Time’s Arrow.

The guy who described football fans as "a solid mass of swearing, sweating, retching, belching sub-humanity” is dead, and I can't say I'm too sad about that https://t.co/jhcLfIPbmJ

— The Justin Horton Show (@ejhchess) May 20, 2023

love some of his books still.
rip
darts keith

Rushdie tribute to Amis:

From Kingsley, he inherited comedy. (Often this was low comedy. Kingsley used to tell a joke about encountering a dog whose bark sounded like the words “Fuck off.” In Martin’s novel “Lionel Asbo,” there are two dangerous dogs who bark in exactly that way, only doubled: “Fuckoff! Fuckoff!”)

From Nabokov, he learned a kind of high intellectualism, and would explain, Nabokov-fashion, that it was less important for readers to see themselves in characters than for them to identify with the author as he struggled to create his art.

And from Bellow he gained a reverence for style—beginning with the sentence, which, for Bellow as for Amis, is the level at which literature is born—and also for the riff. Moses Herzog’s tirades are reborn in Martin’s brilliant paragraph-long, sometimes page-long, rants.

Shocked and sad at the death of Martin Amis - the greatest, darkest, funniest satirist since Evelyn Waugh. If you want cheering up, re-read the tennis match in Money. RIP.

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) May 20, 2023

Looks like Amis found his perfect audience.

Shocked and sad at the death of Martin Amis - the greatest, darkest, funniest satirist since Evelyn Waugh. If you want cheering up, re-read the tennis match in Money. RIP.
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) May 20, 2023

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Shouldn't this cunt be changing nappies right now, not guffawing on twitter about his favourite comic novel scene?

Other than Experience (we should poll writers whose best books are memoirs) and maaaayybe Money I couldn't finish a single thing. His more disgusting father wrote at least three novels I like, so I guess we'll remember him as "Martin's dad."

I met Martin Amis once. He was charming and surprisingly unassuming. A couple of his novels remain on my list of all-time favourites. I was also very impressed by a number of his non-fiction works. RIP.

Christian Aaron Boulogne

Nico’s son with Alain Delon. Just saw Roy Montgomery post about it.

I saw an ILX0r post about it elsewhere. RIP.

Bill Saluga. If you're American and of an age, you know him.

What did they call him at his funeral?

George Logan (Hinge)

RIP George Logan.

Dr Evadne Hinge of Hinge & Bracket.

The one who played the piano. pic.twitter.com/YRtziWvdpB

— David Brunt (@David__Brunt) May 21, 2023

He was charming and surprisingly unassuming.

Surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny.

Lol

Ha, I thought the very same.

Not familiar with, but RIP anyway. Resisting posting one of those “Reacts” videos. “America reacts to…”

Algy Ward of NWoBHM band Tank, also in the Damned and the Saints (didn't know about that last one)
https://www.loudersound.com/news/algy-ward-former-bassist-with-tank-the-damned-and-the-saints-dead-at-63

"William Boyd on his friend Martin Amis: ‘He was ferociously intelligent – and very funny’"

I wonder if 'ferociously intelligent' ever means anything other than 'horrible to people they consider intellectually inferior to them'.

good call

i wouldnt like to have to share a plate of spuds with someone ferociously intelligent

oh fuck, Algy Ward. The 1-2 of being the bassist on The Saints' Eternally Yours and The Damned's Machine Gun Etiquette earned him a spot in my all-time bass pantheon.

Can still picture Anne Nightingale introducing them on Whistle Test with Vanian mucking about behind her and then her trying to jump scare Algy.

Picture it? You can see it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ76LC_l8yk

posted that video to facebook, an all-time favorite!