Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/dwight-twilley-dead-im-on-fire-1235761600/

RIP Burt & Dwight

Somehow, some way, I’m going to find an excuse to say “You can’t eat the Venetian blinds, Curly, I just had them installed” to someone today.

wow, rude

But how can you get around that? He played that up his whole career, and that was central to what made him so perfect in his best roles.

cartoonist Tony Husband

It is with a torn apart heart that I must announce the passing of my Dad. The beautiful @tonyhusband1 pic.twitter.com/TvnItOCSkL

— Paul Husband (@PaulHusband_) October 19, 2023

Awful news. Was a fan, from Oink onwards to reading Private Eye.

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/dwight-twilley-dead-im-on-fire-1235761600/

It occurs to me that anyone unfamiliar with Twilley's biggest hit may very well be horrified by the implications of this url.

...and if they used his other big chart hit it would have been just as bad.

Mark the 45 King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4aFDaFWHrY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdg_KUP-GUU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgC6uS_AA0A

wow RIP 45 King, a true pioneer

not only is this sad news but now i'll have The 900 Number stuck in my head all evening

Jamie Tiller, of Music From Memory

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyloaJFsa3W/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Obligatory for readers/viewers of a certain age...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99lwNnrUNs8

Jamie Tiller, of Music From Memory

Jesus christ no way! Fuuuuuuuck

I keep telling myself I’m going to make 900 Number my ring tone but I never did it. Finally going to, sorry I was too late big man. RIP

Absolutely dumbfounded about JT, so sad

Fuck ☹️

RIP Jamie

Stepping back a bit, I didn't know Tony Husband's work, at least not directly, but I've just read this -- hell of a thing.

http://www.caroncares.co.uk/caron-cares/saddest-goodbye/

fuck, music from memory is a fantastic label.

rip 45 king

Haydn Gwynne, only 66

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67172672

Bobby Charlton, 86. How many of the 1966 team does that leave?

GK 1 Gordon Banks
RB 2 George Cohen
CB 5 Jack Charlton
CB 6 Bobby Moore (c)
LB 3 Ray Wilson
DM 4 Nobby Stiles
RM 7 Alan Ball
AM 9 Bobby Charlton
LM 16 Martin Peters
CF 10 Geoff Hurst
CF 21 Roger Hunt

only Geoff Hurst remains according to wikipedia

(and Willi Schulz, Wolfgang Weber, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, Franz Anton Beckenbauer, Wolfgang Overath, Sigfried "Siggi" Held from the german side all still alive)

wow, something in their diet maybe...

RIP Bobby I will not post in the people you thought were dead but weren't but now are thread out of respect

RIP Bobby. Along with Stanley Matthews the most famous English footballer in the world? Before Beckham etc.

J. Satz Beret, singer of the Lewd.

Dave Courtney, east end gangster fella. Suicide, apparently, pillowcase over the head and gunshot. Wasn't that one in that "five boards near Hibbing" movie?

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/viz/images/e/ef/Big_Vern.png/revision/latest?cb=20191111131029

(xp) songwriter for Leo Sayer and Roger Daltrey too.

https://assets.londonist.com/uploads/2006/12/i730/big_vern.jpg

Natalie Zemon Davis, who helped to revolutionize historical writing.

I still have to get round to her book on Leo Africanus; The Return of Martin Guerre is probably her most famous work.

world’s oldest dog dead

A 31-year-old dog in Portugal that had been ranked as the world’s oldest dog ever has died, his owner said Monday.

The guard dog, called Bobi, died over the weekend in a veterinary hospital, Leonel Costa told The Associated Press.

Bobi lived on a farm in the village of Conqueiros in Portugal with Costa and four cats. He was born on May 11, 1992, when his owner was just 8 years old. That made Bobi more than 217 years old in dog years when he died.

;_;

ugh, awful

Bill Gates

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67196473

Bobi lived on a farm

sure he did

Pioneering Radio DJ Dusty Street

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/dusty-street-dead-kroq-dj-siriusxm-1235764948/

Angelo Bruschini of Massive Attack/Blue Aeroplanes. Going to play 'And Stones...' very loud now.

oh thats sad! his guitar is all over Mezzanine, but yeah, there's a run of Blue Aeroplanes albums that are some of my favourite guitar records ever, and he plays no small part in those

Dave Courtney, east end gangster fella. Suicide, apparently, pillowcase over the head and gunshot.

i knew him in the 90s when he was a reformed character and got into clubbing. he was very entertaining, though also on a couple of occassions the underlying anger and violence was all too evident, so i was slightly relieved when he moved on to pastures new. not surprised at all to hear this is how he chose to go out.

Bruce Reynolds also big on the gangsters who went clubbing scene, if not slightly more boho thanks to his musician son.

I remember him from being on a Jerry Sadowitz TV show as his "security" - he had a habit of looking "over there" to the right whenever he laughed at something.

I'd no idea he played on Mezzanine.

Yes, but BILL GATES! ^^

I remember him from being on a Jerry Sadowitz TV show as his "security"

I saw a few of those and recall him manhandling, not as easily as he might've expected, a guy from the audience off stage whose time was up. At least one punch thrown. Probably not the only violence on that live show.

Bill Kenwright

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/oct/24/bill-kenwright-dies-everton-chairman-theatre-impresario