Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

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!

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.

Fuck yeah, RIP Algy.

Never a fan of the Saints or the Damned, but Tank were a really good band in a Motörhead-ish vein.

Actor Ray Stevenson

RIP. 58 is too young. Punisher War Zone is my favorite Marvel movie and his performance is a significant part of the reason why.

Yeah, that's a good and still underrated film. Great ensemble all around.

Excellent scenery chewing in RRR, that's for sure. I did appreciate how casting assholes of the Raj meant going for Irish actors.

Wow, I guess I didn't even recognize him in RRR. Loved Punished War Zone, though, what a bonkers movie that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xop8yqgDMo4

Aw man this sucks. RIP Ray Stevenson! Titus Pullo one of my fave TV characters and he was just fun to watch in anything.

otm he was fantastic in Rome, loved him as Titus

also he was quite good in Kill The Irishman, the 2006 movie about Danny Greene/Cleveland mob

I kind of want to suggest that we rewatch Rome, at least those of us who are so inclined. I had already been thinking about it. I hope it holds up, assuming it will.

Maybe I should watch Kill the Irishman first.

Rewatched Rome a few months ago - third or fourth rewatch - and it was just as great as ever. Possibly my most rewatched series.

Nice. Saw James Purefoy in something else recently, can’t remember what. Oh, High-Rise.

My strongest memory of Punisher: War Zone was that the casting director seemed to have stacked the rest of the cast with people of below average height so that Stevenson, who was 6'3", looked about seven feet tall.

Linda Cardellini is in KILLING THE IRISHMAN too?

KILL THE IRISHMAN

I remember a really early episode of "How Did This Get Made," where they had the director of "Punisher: War Zone" on, and one of the things the hosts talk/joke about is how Stevenson, padded up with vests and weapons, actually seems to get winded during action sequences, which is an oddly realistic detail in a ridiculous movie.

Kill the Irishman is not exactly good but it is entertaining if that makes any sense

. I did appreciate how casting assholes of the Raj meant going for Irish actors.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 May 2023 17:58 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

rip to this guy and not to be that guy but if you allow for the fact that his irishness is the "born in northern ireland on an army base" flavour the i think you'll find it not at all peculiar tbh

Haven't seen it, but I should think that Linda Cardellini would also make him look about seven feet tall.

she all time

RIP writer John Nova Lomax at 53 who wrote about Houston , Texas culture including music like zydeco, hiphop and more

"Whether covering crime or culture, streets or songs, Lomax overturned all stones."

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/article/john-nova-lomax-writer-houston-texas-dies-18088579.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG91c3RvbmNocm9uaWNsZS5jb20vbGlmZXN0eWxlL2FydGljbGUvam9obi1ub3ZhLWxvbWF4LXdyaXRlci1ob3VzdG9uLXRleGFzLWRpZXMtMTgwODg1NzkucGhw&time=MTY4NDc4ODIwOTczNw==&rid=YzVkMmE5M2QtNGU1Yy00ZmI4LWI0YzEtMjBjMjFjZGUyMTNm&sharecount=MQ==

Ferrari 250 GTO and Lamborghini Miura chief engineer Giotto Bizzarini, 96.
https://jalopnik.com/engineering-legend-giotto-bizzarini-dead-at-96-1850438909

Rolf Harris, 93

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60393842

Oops.

not exactly a huge fan of Sky News lol but this is exactly how this kind of thing should be reported imo pic.twitter.com/6UctNkiHwS

— HoxtonHill (@HoxtonHill) May 23, 2023

I think he was the first big 'catch' of Operation Yewtree - Glitter was already known as a paedophile, DLT got very little in the end, and you had to know who Max Clifford was to care - but this was Rolf Harris! So not surprised there's a full lineup of papers giving him a kicking. The ITV documentary last week probably seals the deal.

Who's DLT?

Dave Lee Travis.

The Hairy Cornflake, in fact

Kenneth Anger (1927 — 2023) pic.twitter.com/phD7ufES8c

— MUBI (@mubi) May 24, 2023

oh damn, I was just watching his film collection a few days ago

Ian McEwan on martin amis reminded me of some upthread posts

"A friend may ripen over the years into a sibling, and after forty-nine years I’ve lost a brother. Martin Amis’s reputation in the press—as coruscating wit, intellectual cool dude, controversialist—hardly touched the surface. Close up, he was tender, generous, warm, and heroically funny."

Anger rest in peace

Rip

Tina Turner, 83

!

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bill-lee-jazz-bassist-father-spike-lee-dead-obit-1234741152/

Bill Lee, Spike's father and contributor to his early soundtracks, 94

Big :( to both Tina and Bill news