Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Oh no! Truly awful news with an undercurrent of’what HAPPENED?!?’

Having lost a classmate last week aged 51, my immediate guess is a cancer of some kind, but I've no idea.

Richard Moore, cycling journalist, author and host of The Cycling Podcast

A message from The Cycling Podcast. https://t.co/zZ3O0XaxTx pic.twitter.com/fFjI87v51h

— The Cycling Podcast (@cycling_podcast) March 30, 2022

reeling from that - he was only 49. him, birnie and friebe had such a great interplay - it was like eavesdropping on friends chatting about your favourite sport, replete with gentle ribbing

rest in peace, RM

oh no! thats terrible news. rip

i really loved the Cycling Podcast, def added to the enjoyment of the Tour De France every year. I had been meaning to read his book too :(

yeh I'm gutted by this, he (and Lionel and Daniel) was a constant companion over the years via the podcast.
his book Slaying the Badger is amazing, one of the best sports books I've read.

beautiful piece
https://derailleur.substack.com/p/on-richard-moore

Not a surprise but hell, 33 is way too young https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/30/the-wanted-singer-tom-parker-dies-from-brain-cancer-aged-33

Tabby Shaw of the Mighty Diamonds. RIP

Awful news.

Wow that is horrible to learn about.

Patrick Demarchelier

C.W. McCall, ‘Convoy’ Country Singer, Dead at 93

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/cw-mccall-convoy-dead-obit-1302155/

Gee, I had no idea he was 47 when “Convoy” hit

https://www.bionicdisco.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Midland_CBs_CW_McCall_Popular_Science_May_1976-290x400.jpg

Estelle Harris

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/estelle-harris-dead-seinfeld-toy-story-1235124023/

Can't believe this was her first episode...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0GuecuiOH8

Aw that’s too bad. She is so great in the show.

damn. RIP, a legend

Still bemused that McCall having that hit, as well as the earlier ad spot popularity, was the inadvertant foundation of the full Mannheim Steamroller empire.

Thanks to you all for your kind and sweet messages and remembrances of #EstelleHarris. She would be so touched. As am I. And as she would say, “WHY CANT YOU BE MORE LIKE LLOYD BRAUN!!??”

— jason alexander (@IJasonAlexander) April 3, 2022

Man who spent 19 years in a coma before regaining awareness dies at 57 But got another 21 years of consciousness (quite a mixed blessing since Nov. 2016, at least, but still): warning: incl. pic of him in coma--as in all other coverage I've found---but also incl. link to BBC coverage of his wake-up in '03, with more backstory: https://www.yahoo.com/now/man-spent-19-years-coma-175157771.html

June Brown, 95

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60984231

RIP :(

Aw. I always think of her in Peter Finch's office in Sunday Bloody Sunday :(

Erm, ok..

"Straw Dogs (1971) as Mrs Hedden (scenes deleted)"

Jordan, also known as Pamela Rooke, probably the most important British punk figure not in a band or a manager.

(she was briefly in an early version of Adam and the Antz but the point standz, RIP either way)

Potentially the hardest pivot I’ve ever read in an obit pic.twitter.com/TUmqHaVX0y

— Jessica Hayden (@_JessHayden) April 4, 2022

Yow!

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"What's up doc...oh wait OW!"

Roger Corman (b. April 5, 1926) is still alive. Happy Birthday, Roger!

RIP at 93 guitarist Joe Messina from Motown’s Funk Brothers band

http://www.soultracks.com/story-joe-messina-dies

Man, what a career that guy had. RIP.

Philadelphia Legend Bobby Rydell, ‘Wildwood Days’ Singer, Dies

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/04/05/philadelphia-legend-bobby-rydell-wildwood-days-singer-dies/

Journalist Eric Boehlert

1/oh my goodness: Just got crushing news from Tracy Breslin, wife of @EricBoehlert https://t.co/l0nOnE0Tad Has died in a bike accident, age 57. Adored his kids Jane and Ben, his dogs, biking and running and basketball and good friends, a fierce and fearless defender of the truth

— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) April 6, 2022

Singer Bobby Rydell, Aged 79

ope, somebody beat me to it

I guess he was the last of the Bobbys, after Darin and Vee

Not quite, Bobby Vinton's still with us, at 86.

Lol at these last two posts

Oh man, I forgot Bobby Vinton, the Polish Prince. One of the first singers I remember bc my family watched his variety show in the mid-'70s.

Journalist/critic John Swenson died on March 27. Many of us likely know him best from the 1979 and 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guides which he co-edited with Dave Marsh.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/nehemiah-persoff-dead-some-like-it-hot-yentl-1235126111/

Actor Nehemiah Persoff, 102.

RIP. A Tom D favorite, I believe.

Oh no!!!!

The world might be in a terrible state but at least Nehemiah Persoff is still alive.... so what now?

I'm sorry, Tom. I'm sorry for all of us.