Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

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.

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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

Bishan Bedi

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/oct/23/bishan-bedi-former-india-cricket-captain-spinner-dies-aged-77

Richard Roundtree

https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/richard-roundtree-dead-shaft-1235767495/

Damn

Fuck

Shut yo mouth!

Man I love the Shaft films. Dude was cooler than cool could be

rip king

They want me to pigeon

But I just said UP YOURS BABY

Great in every film big or small. After Shaft, I immediately thought of his part in Speed Racer as the former racer-turned-commentator who in one oblique sentence, reveals to Speed that the World Racing League has been fixed since the beginning.

RIP

His album, The Man From Shaft, was pretty great too.

Japanese music promoting legend Seijiro Udo aka Mr Udo who pretty much promoted just about EVERY US and UK and beyond act who toured the country across literal decades. Seen his name more times than I can count in various stories, articles and biographies.

RIP Mr Udo! A man with seemingly infinite patience for dealing with rock star clowns.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/nikki-sixx-japanese-jail/

Nikki Sixx briefly declined to write a letter that would have gotten the Motley Crue bassist and his former manager Don McGhee out of jail. It took an assist from one of Japan's most famous promoters to finally free them.

“We played Japan in December of ’87 and took the bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka for a show,” McGhee told Rock Candy magazine. “On the way back, Nikki was all messed up. Mick Mars and Nikki started getting into each other and Nikki threw donuts at Mick while he was drinking a bottle of Jack.

“There wasn’t a fist fight because Mick couldn’t fight anybody," added McGhee, who is also known for his work with Kiss and Bon Jovi. "Nikki threw a bottle and hit a Japanese guy in the back of the head. Blood was pumping and they ended up dragging the guy out like he’d survived a battle.”

When Motley Crue arrived back in Tokyo, they were confronted by “a couple of hundred Japanese police with riot gear,” McGhee added. “I went up and said, ‘I’m Doc McGhee, the manager of Motley Crue.’ They grabbed me, threw me on the ground and zip-tied my hands behind my back. Then they went and got Nikki. They dragged him out and threw him beside me and took the two of us off to jail.”

He believes they spent “four or five hours” behind bars while promoter Mr. Udo worked frantically to resolve the issue, eventually persuading the authorities to release them if they wrote a letter of apology. “Mr. Udo went through hell on that tour,” McGhee said. “He came down and sorted things out so that all we had to do was write that letter of apology. But Nikki didn’t want to do it. I wanted to kill him, because I’m in jail because of him.”

With the letter presumably written at last, the pair were allowed out of prison – but McGhee reflected that if it hadn’t been for Mr. Udo, “we’d probably still be there.”

lol what do Nikki Sixx and Mitt Romney have in common?

they stand on stage pretending to do things

West coast DJ Dusty Street of KROQ, KMPX, KSAN etal

what do Nikki Sixx and Mitt Romney have in common?

Double consonants in their names?

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Give Nikki this, he apparently remembered who got him out of that jam:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyv9hjmpc2S/

richard roundtree was apparently only 6 years older than samuel l. jackson? that blows my mind

Minimalist artist Robert Irwin, 95
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/robert-irwin-sculptor-light-and-space-dia-beacon-dead-1234684773/

Richard Moll

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/richard-moll-dead-night-court-1235771133/

This has been a bad last few years for Night Court.

Including the reboot.

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NOOOOOOO NOT “BULL”

the worst day ;_;

Matthew Perry, 54 :[

BREAKING: ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry is dead at 54

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— UPROXX (@UPROXX) October 29, 2023

What the hell?

jesus