Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

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

fuck, did not see that one coming, RIP Tina

Damn, Tina.

I am going out to play music tonight and I feel like twelve people will request "Proud Mary" when I would way rather do "What's Love Got to Do With it."

Sigh. Okay, here's "Proud Mary." Again.

noooo Tina no ;_;

My mom LOVED her, which is why I’m in tears on line at MSP airport…

Saint Vitus bassist Mark Adams

https://blabbermouth.net/news/original-saint-vitus-bassist-mark-adams-dead-at-64

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/05/23/floyd-newman-obit-stax-records-memphis-music/70249053007/

Floyd Newman , horn player on Stax sessions and with Mar-keys and who once was in BB King’s band dead at 91

I went out to play music tonight and as I suspected, there were multiple tributes. Slow acoustic "What's Love Got to Do With It" almost always works, especially with a mandolin solo.

Despite what i said earlier, at the end of the night we got everybody we could find onto the stage to do a drunken "Proud Mary" jam, because why not.

Bill Lee, jazz bassist & composer (also his son makes movies)

https://pitchfork.com/news/bill-lee-jazz-musician-and-father-of-spike-lee-dies-at-94/

Ed Ames, pop singer, wearer of redface for a TV show, and known for a tomahawk toss in juuuuuust the right place.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ed-ames-dead-daniel-boone-1235501603/

RIP, famous crossword answer of yore.

George Maharis

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/george-maharis-dead-route-66-star-1235502542/

Ed Ames, '50s Pop Singer and '60s TV Star in ‘Daniel Boone,' Dies at 95

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/ed-ames-50s-pop-singer-and-60s-tv-star-in-daniel-boone-dies-at-95/3161053/

OK, after posting just saw Ned's post. And didn't remember reading it yesterday, which shows how large Ed loomed in my life.

Peter Simonischek, who found mainstream fame late in life as the father in Toni Erdmann

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/peter-simonischek-austrian-actor-dies-aged-76/

Fraser Moss, half of fashion label YMC.

Superstar Billy Graham, two weeks ago. the wrestler, not the antisemite.

Ama Ata Aidoo
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65765581

Cynthia Weil, Hit Songwriter for Chaka Khan, Barry Manilow, Dolly Parton and More, Dead at 82

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cynthia-weil-hit-songwriter-chaka-164000688.html

wait I thought Barry said HE wrote the songs

Quite an ouevre

Throughout the 1960s, they wrote hit songs including Paul Peterson's "My Dad," Eydie Gorme's "Blame It on the Bossa Nova," The Drifters' "On Broadway" (which was later covered by George Benson), The Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" and "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" as well as Paul Revere & the Raiders' "Kicks" and "Hungry," among others.

Other successful songs penned by the pair include Dolly Parton's "Here You Come Again," Dionne Warwick's "Never Gonna Let You Go," Bette Midler's "All I Need to Know," Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram's "Somewhere Out There" and Hanson's "I Will Come to You."

Aside from her work with Barry, Weil also penned famous songs including The Pointer Sisters' "He's So Shy," Lionel Richie's "Running Through the Night," Julio Iglesias & Diana Ross' "All of You," Chaka Khan's "Through the Fire"

He was being worked like a puppet when he sang that.

RIP Cynthia.

RIP

yeah, she was super prolific

Hell of a body of work. RIP indeed.

More small scale note, but Scott Colan, bassist for great/underrated 90s Philadelphia psych/shoegaze band Lenola. (Revived the ILM thread about the news as well.)

Margit Carstensen

Margit Carstensen, who appeared several films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and also worked with Werner Schroeter and Christoph Schlingensief, has died at 83.@derspiegel — https://t.co/FEuuiHBrlF pic.twitter.com/USP4fo4jNc

— The Daily (@CriterionDaily) June 2, 2023

Oh no. Loved her in everything she was ever in.

RIP :(

Damn, RIP. I sent her a soppy email years ago to let her know how much the song “nobody’s fool” (performed by bill labounty) means to me. she said thank you and also relayed a thank you from Barry Mann.

(Cynthia Weil)

Kaija Saariaho, composer, 70.

what????? Saariaho>?????? (also sad about Carstensen!)

Jesus, lots of great women dying tonight!

whoa Jesus died too?

Don't worry, he's coming back.

...and this time, he wanted to go back to the basics

Jesus with a four track in a cabin, stripping away all the embellishments

"I just wanted to get back to the sound of one guy on a cross"

"We need you for one more mission."

Cynthia Weil got out of this place