Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Fuck, that's horrible news about Neil Kulkarni, RIP

Very sorry to hear about your dad, Toshiro, condolences

Absolutely reeling from the news about Neil. Fuck.

Kulkarni was also a mainstay of The Wire for about the last decade too.

the Local BBC radio station, CWR, Coventry and Warwickshire Radio have mentioned Neil, on the BBC News app / website

Tributes are paid to Coventry musician and critic Neil Kulkarni.

Tributes are paid to Coventry musician and critic Neil Kulkarni.

Tap to read: https://t.co/YNomtnX65m

— BBC CWR (@BBCCWR) January 23, 2024

Frank Farian, 82

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68065904

Terrible news about Neil Kulkarni too, he was the shake-up MM needed back then.

https://kaptainkulk.medium.com/dissidence-to-britpop-exhibit-a-fbcfefdc8e8d

Thanks guys for the kind words about my dad.

David Stubbs has set up a gofundme for Neil's daughters. I'll post the link here if anyone would like to donate to a former ilxor.
Obviously I read him in MM in the 90s but it was through ILX I got to 'meet' him online. He will be missed and I feel so bad for his girls whom he utterly adored.

https://gofund.me/af6ec158

I wasn't familiar with his work sadly, but am as always shaken by young people having heart attacks. Obviously there can be a lot of other pre-existing conditions/medical history that feeds into things, but I'm grateful for the ability to look into these things as I near that age. There are things to do like getting your cholesterol checked, taking a stress test etc, but there's another thing that's kind of newer called arterial calcium scoring where they can take a simple non-invasive scan, like a CT scan, and measure build-up of deposits in the heart arteries. Of course the United States healthcare companies will not cover it and it costs 1 or 2 hundred dollars, but according to any number of doctors, it's worth the money, esp if you have family history of heart disease, high cholesterol, overweight etc etc.

obv no idea what his situation was or whether there was anything that would've predicted this happening, but it's something I think a lot about and would suggest.

he wasn't particularly known for his own music, but you might enjoy some of it dan - very much in the vein of the television personalities...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZBQIN8v9D8

cool, will check it out.

Physicist & radio astronomer Arno Penzias, 90 - discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation leftover from the Big Bang.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/science/space/arno-a-penzias-dead.html

I haven't quite been able to rewatch this since the news last night, but I do think Neil's band recorded one of the greatest xmas songs of the 21st century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6GV4f0adwk

Cant help thinking how much he sounds like Terry Hall with that Coventry accent

Charles Osgood

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/23/1226384995/charles-osgood-cbs-died-91

"People You Thought Were..."

Oh wow... 'The Osgood Files' were almost a daily thing for me years ago.. he was basically doing the Paul Harvey thing, but a bit more urbane

Frank Farian.. RIP.

Melanie, 76

Melanie Safka has died and this is one of the greatest things you will ever see on YouTube. RIP.https://t.co/O52mbb2hDO

— Rob Chapman (@rcscribbler) January 24, 2024

https://variety.com/2024/music/obituaries-people-news/melanie-dead-brand-new-key-singer-woodstock-1235886892/

In early January, according to her label, Melanie recorded a cover of Morrissey’s “Ouija Board Ouija Board” for a forthcoming tribute album celebrating his music. (Morrissey was known to be a fan of hers, having covered “Some Say (I Got Devil).”)

Morrissey being a fan I get; her covering, of all things, that song is befuddling me.

oh man, a shame. that margie;s birthday party live record is fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w--u8pcLFNs

RIP Melanie

RIP

Love her; at least three really great singles.

Carl André died in hospice this morning. Hope he burns in hell.

RIP DJ Katapila from Ghana, born Ishmael Abbey. He blended Ghana styles with Chicago & Detroit style dance. He dj’d parties, funerals and more at home, and after Brian of Awesome Tapes from Africa found 2 of his tapes and re-released them, he did Europe gigs as well.

There’s a long heartfelt Awesome Tapes from Africa Instagram post

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2iRl0mo2ud/?igsh=aWQwamF1dWNuemNz

nooo rip

Word from his family that one of the last of his kind, famous boxcar and mail artist buZ blurr has passed on.

His work graced thousands of train cars all over the US, and his other art was exhibited widely. A kind, learned, and excellent person.

More of his famous “Colossus of Roads” moniker here: https://www.northbankfred.com/buz.html

And more on his life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuZ_blurr

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/660696/doo-wop-till-you-drop-in-memory-of-ron-poozie-miles/

RIP Washington DC doo wop singer Ron Poozie Miles of the Rainbows best known for their song “Mary Lee.” He continued to sing on and off over the years.

He’s in the bozo texino doc, which is highly watchable xp

yeah Bill is an acquaintance of mine, love that documentary.

House singer Michael Watford, who did some great tunes in the 90s (Holdin On, So Into You, Come Together with Robert Owens).

Holdin' On is the shit, RIP Michael

Noted fetish/pinup model and internet star Masuimi Max, 45.

Wow, and apparently former porn actress Jesse Jane died this week too, at 43.

🫡

Noted fetish/pinup model and internet star Masuimi Max, 45.

― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson),

DJ Slick Rick (not the rapper) https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/26/memphis-dj-slick-rick-decapitated-beheaded-death-police-investigating/

NEW ORLEANS — Harry Connick Sr., who was New Orleans’ district attorney for three decades and later faced allegations that his staff sometimes held back evidence that could have helped defendants, died Thursday at age 97.

I hadn't heard till now - on January 3rd, Tawl Ross of the original Funkadelic group, at the age of 75. Billy Nelson is now the only member of the instrumental quintet left.

RIP Tawl

Wow at Jesse Jane. She used to date Kid Rock, because of course she did. I heard a story once that during a lull in their relationship Kid Rock literally sent her an 18-wheeler full of Budweiser to try and woo her back.

Didn't break till his wife announced it yesterday, but British Lovecraftian fiction writer Brian Lumley died at the beginning of the month.

Sandra Milo

https://variety.com/2024/film/global/sandra-milo-dead-federico-fellini-8%c2%bd-juliet-of-the-spirits-1235890276/

people u thought

oh no, I had no Tawl Ross had passed :(

He gets a spot in my pantheon just for singing "Funky Dollar Bill" (the 45 mix below is rougher than the LP but interesting):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjQi0UAHFaY

Shelley Ganz of The Unclaimed (per their Facebook page)

Awesome UK photographer Brian Griffin, so many incredible album covers and press shots in the 1980s in particular.

Ah he did the covers for the first four Echo & the Bunnymen albums, have always loved those