Could have sworn Terry Riley died a few years ago! Though I might have been La Monte Young? Nope! Still here at 88
Were you thinking of Tony Conrad (RIP, 2016)?
― the scouse that roared (Matt #2), Friday, 12 April 2024 16:55 (one month ago) link
Dabney Coleman, 92
― jaymc, Friday, 12 April 2024 22:56 (one month ago) link
Suge Knight, thought he died a few years ago.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 13 April 2024 00:55 (one month ago) link
Is Corey Feldman dead? I can never remember
― brimstead, Saturday, 13 April 2024 00:59 (one month ago) link
why am I asking this on a message board
Tom Courtenay, 87
― Mark G, Saturday, 13 April 2024 07:42 (one month ago) link
Kenneth Cope, 93 today
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Sunday, 14 April 2024 19:37 (one month ago) link
Buzz Aldrin, 94.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Monday, 15 April 2024 03:35 (one month ago) link
Marty Wilde, 85 today.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 15 April 2024 12:32 (one month ago) link
Brit strongman and Highland Games competitor Geoff Capes, 74. Could have sworn he died years ago, maybe I was thinking of Giant Haystacks.
― the scouse that roared (Matt #2), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 12:38 (one month ago) link
things that big ppl can hide beneath: capes and haystacks
― mark s, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 12:43 (one month ago) link
And daddies.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 12:44 (one month ago) link
Gary Busey, 79.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 12:47 (one month ago) link
Giant Haystacks was 6'11" and weighed 49 stone. Had no idea he was quite that big
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 12:49 (one month ago) link
Geoff Capes otoh was 6'5" and a slender 26 stone. Tiny man in comparison
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 12:56 (one month ago) link
Is there a more famous budgie fancier? Not sure I can think of one.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 12:59 (one month ago) link
Siouxsie
― subpost master (wins), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:04 (one month ago) link
loool!
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:05 (one month ago) link
Geoff Capes otoh was is 6'5"
as per the thread
Although maybe he's shrunk a bit now, as you do when you age
― the scouse that roared (Matt #2), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:20 (one month ago) link
Bernard Purdie - 84, genuinely thought he had passed away some years ago
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 15:29 (one month ago) link
purdie has to outlive ringo so he can re-up his claim it was him playing all the beatles drum parts
― mark s, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:24 (one month ago) link
lol
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 17:38 (one month ago) link
Somebody once had a theory that he might once have actually overdubbed some tracks with Pete Best but who really knows or cares.
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 17:39 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahpGCrlQc0k
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 17:42 (one month ago) link
ymmv for 'famous' but British character actor Arnold Yarrow - most famous to me as Bellal in Death To The Daleks, the Pertwee-era Doctor Who story - is 104 today. He's the oldest living Who-related actor.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 09:02 (one month ago) link
Also apparently in Eastenders for a while but he died in 1989.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 09:58 (one month ago) link
yarrow with pertwee in his youth:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BY2IzMTUyZDYtNDdjNy00NTc5LWFhYmEtYThjYzVmZGQxMDFkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjc0ODQ0NzM@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 10:12 (one month ago) link
Geoffrey Robertson KC, he worked on the OZ trial along with many other cases defending civil liberties and free speech, he's only 77
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:28 (one month ago) link
Wow.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:29 (one month ago) link
Whitey Herzog was still alive this week.
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:25 (one month ago) link
This isn't really that surprising, because he isn't that old, and he certainly isn't famous but the boy who provided the voice on Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge is still alive. Which makes me happy. His name is Josef Protschka and he was 80 this year.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 April 2024 07:28 (one month ago) link
this reminded me that one of my most vivid music listening experiences was on a train out of Rome listening to Gesang der Jünglinge, so this also makes me happy. Good work, Josef.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:44 (one month ago) link
gnna to tell my grandchildren that herbert halbik and josef protschka are the same age and the same guy
― mark s, Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:55 (one month ago) link
He did become an operatic tenor as an adult, he didn't end up as a bus driver or something. That would have been cool though.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:56 (one month ago) link
Masanori Murakami, turns 80 in a couple of weeks--first Japanese MLB player, pitched for the Giants in '64 and '65. And pitched really well: 90 innings, 65 hits, 100 strikeouts, 23 walks. He was 21 years old. I was mystified, so checked his Wikipedia page; the Japanese commissioner, Yushi Uchimura--Bowie Kuhn's brother, evidently--forced him to return to Japan after the '65 season.
https://i.postimg.cc/7PJ017j8/masanori.jpg
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 April 2024 02:31 (one month ago) link
(Wasn't another Japanese player till Hideo Nomo in 1995.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 April 2024 02:33 (one month ago) link
Jackie Robinson's widow Rachel (101!)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 21 April 2024 20:54 (one month ago) link
I know...I've posted about her at least once in this thread. Time passes, I'll assume she died and I forgot about it, and then she'll be in the news--she was in one of the clubhouses (Mets', I think) on Jackie Robinson Day last week.
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 April 2024 22:01 (one month ago) link
I've posted her once too, itt.
― nickn, Monday, 22 April 2024 17:49 (one month ago) link
PJ Proby, 85.
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Monday, 22 April 2024 19:10 (one month ago) link
Norman "Spirit in the Sky" Greenbaum, 81.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 19:22 (one month ago) link
Picked up a nice copy of this not two weeks ago.
https://www.discogs.com/release/1684951-Norman-Greenbaum-Back-Home-Again
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 19:24 (one month ago) link
Howard Wilkinson, 80
― prog ain't no religious cult (Matt #2), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 20:23 (one month ago) link
Having belatedly learned of the death of Bruno Latour and Jean-Luc Nancy, I checked up on big names in French Philosophy and many I figured were gone are still here - most surprisingly Luce Irigiray at 93 and Helene Cixous at 86 (I thought both had died decades ago)
Also the painter Alex Katz (who I knew was old and living, but wasn’t sure he was ~still~ living) is in fact alive at 96
― ed.b, Friday, 26 April 2024 17:53 (one month ago) link
Robert Duvall, 93
― suicide is painful (Matt #2), Monday, 20 May 2024 12:19 (one week ago) link
Don McCullin (b.1935)
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:44 (six days ago) link
"Bones" Howe... I mean I suppose he's not that famous but he is still alive.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:14 (six days ago) link
Is that surprising?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:19 (six days ago) link
He's 91!
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:20 (six days ago) link
I was confusing him with Bones Hillman LOL
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:21 (six days ago) link