Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid

Seeing a *trailer* for it freaked me out!

Vampire raising up through the kitchen floor with evil James Mason and killing the kid's parents in front of him seemed pretty hardcore for post watershed television at the time.

Heard some work people today commiserating with Kate Garraway but I said nothing because lol fuck Draper not soon enough

Died of long covid? weird

he was already dead tbf! When he got covid he was in an induced coma for 10 weeks, covid hated him more than uk ilx does.

I keep misreading gushing tributes to him as "lobbyist turned psychopath"

"turned" being the solecism

Glad to see that David Sole was well prepared, just in case he bumped into Derek Draper…. pic.twitter.com/ky1Ax5OTOc

— Zarah Bukake MP. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dim ond parodi ydy (@XRLlareggub) January 5, 2024

I keep misreading gushing tributes to him as "lobbyist turned psychopath"

Same, except when hearing it.

Silver Lady is a banger and fuiud tbh

don't give up on us baby

calz isn't that the unfunny racist Zarah Sultana "parody" account?

yeah I just posted the first offensive post about Draper I found, apols

O T MF M

Draper Death is long overdue and

Welsh flag and horrid name should have been a dead giveaway, but I'm slightly pished tonight.

David Soul was a guy who had a lot of acting chops. Weirdly my first exposure to him was as one-half of a psychotic bank robbing duo in the TV film In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders. The other psycho was Michael Gross! They were both superb and the final shootout is genuinely intense and bleak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBGfKtuo2AM

Mário Zagallo

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/06/mario-zagallo-world-cup-winning-player-and-coach-for-brazil-dies-aged-92

Cindy Morgan, who played Lacy Underall in Caddyshack.

And Yori in Tron

Rip Zagallo

Joan Acocella, New Yorker staff writer and dance critic, at 78:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/obituaries/joan-acocella-dead.html

Hearing reports that Iasos has passed into the crystal realm. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKRgNcqnoV8

I remember reading an Acocella review of Cirque du Soleil in the 90s in the Wall Street Journal (where she wrote before the New Yorker)...

Ahh here it is.

The "new circus" people are on the wrong track, I think. In their view, it seems, the acts are corny; what is important is the meanings that can be attached to them. But in fact it is those meanings that are corny. What is serious is the acts.

Del Palmer RIP

https://www.loudersound.com/news/del-palmer-dead-at-71?fbclid=IwAR2bmBVz2NTu9ifU2NUxvadA8-kqS6wdDgS5ZoBUFzehDN1LPzF0fvysocs

Franz Beckenbauer

According to David Grubbs, composer Phill Niblock has passed.

yeah all over facebook from people who know.

rip franz

2/3 men to ever win a world cup as both player and coach died on the same weekend

Lol that's incredible

RIP Phill Niblock, the Emperor of Drone

Saw Beckenbauer play in the first soccer match I ever attended, 1977 or '78 when he was with the New York Cosmos. Great team that was.

Saw him with The Cosmos often as well. Amazing. RIP

Oh man, Phill and Franz RIP

I never got to see the Cosmos play live, but to the extent there was soccer on TV in the western U.S. (which was almost not at all), I did get to see that club, which consisted of several aging greats and Italian fugitive Giorgio Chinaglia. IIRC, they did play some friendlies with German clubs and got pasted.

But RIP Der Kaiser, the original sweeper.

rip franz. the first image of him to come to mind is always him playing in a sling during what I think was the 1970 world cup due to a broken collarbone.

JPR Williams

Larry Collins of early Rockabilly outfit The Collins Kids

https://www.vintageguitar.com/58564/renowned-guitarist-larry-collins-passes/

He co-wrote "Delta Dawn"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAQvu7OqrY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ1TYUK8T8

Kind of hard to believe that no one here is a Iasos fan— him and Niblock dying around the same time seems wild to me

I can't call myself a fan but I have enjoyed what I've heard, he seems a true character. Wouldn't mind taking a deeper dive.

Damn, RIP Iasos. Was just listening to Bora Bora 2000 yesterday.

Confessing my own ignorance — I've never listened to Niblock (had him confused with Phil Minton in my head, in fact) and never even heard of Iasos.

Those Larry Collins clips are amazing, thanks for sharing

Confessing my own ignorance — I've never listened to Niblock (had him confused with Phil Minton in my head, in fact) and never even heard of Iasos.

It was Phillip Corner I used to confuse him with. Ditto on Iasos btw.

Tony Clarkin of pomp rockers Magnum :(

Sad to hear that. Never the hippest of bands, but I heartily enjoyed seeing them back in the early 80s (less so in the mid-80s).

Johnnie Walker, BBC radio DJ, dies at the age of 79.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/dec/31/johnnie-walker-bbc-radio-dj-dies-aged-79

Oof. Perfect timing though, a pro to the end.

Easily the best DJ on daytime radio 1 back in the day. His "keep fitx spot was introduced with a snip of the intro to "Kick out the jams"

I never got onto "Pop The Question" but.

"keep fit" obviously

Dax Pierson of Anticon band Subtle and later solo projects

Man that is TERRIBLE news.

RIP

Dax Pierson has passed away…
My best friend, band mate, mentor and Hero.
To meet and have loved a singular human being with such strength and a heart the size of the entire sky, is my life’s honor.
To loose him is unbearable…
I will post more about supporting him in passing… pic.twitter.com/OX1ou63XHG

— doseone (@doseone) December 31, 2024

Lots of people on Facebook reporting the death of prolific Science Fiction etc author Barry N. Malzberg. Can't yet find an obituary online.

https://locusmag.com/2010/10/barry-n-malzberg-a-measure-of-peace/

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 20 December 2024 11:19 bookmarkflaglink

only just saw this! really loved what i read of his. which it’s fair to say is not *all* of it by any means. Intro for me was Underlay, which is extremely entertaining.

jeet heer appreciation

Lots of people on Facebook reporting the death of prolific Science Fiction etc author Barry N. Malzberg. Can't yet find an obituary online.

https://locusmag.com/2010/10/barry-n-malzberg-a-measure-of-peace/

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 20 December 2024 11:19 bookmarkflaglink

only just saw this! really loved what i read of his. which it’s fair to say is not *all* of it by any means. Intro for me was Underlay, which is extremely entertaining.

jeet heer appreciation

I'll try a couple.

Russian international footballer, Aleksey Bugaev.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jan/02/aleksey-bugaev-russian-footballer-death-in-ukraine

Gianni Savio, 76. Italian cycling team manager for 30 years & cult hero

Time for a new thread, surely!

But people from last year are still dying!

Yes, let's wait till someone dies this year.

xp lol

We had to get the Malzberg situation cleared up first.

Boring Bob Grover, singer in the Piranhas and writer of the words to Tom Hark. (Christmas Eve apparently so belongs in 2024 thread)

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/01/01/don-nix-obituary-stax-artist-songwriter-producer/77388086007/

Memphis Music Hall of Famer Don Nix has died. On December 31

A member of the early Stax group The Mar-Keys, Nix went on to a prolific career as a songwriter, producer and arranger. His blues anthem “Going Down” would become a standard of the genre, and Nix produced acclaimed albums for Freddie King, Albert King, Jeff Beck and Furry Lewis, as well as worked with The Beatles' George Harrison on The Concert for Bangladesh.

Also a photographer and longtime unique Memphis guy

Okay, time to finally lock this, we do have a new thread!

Rolling Obituary Thread 2025