Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

I think he deserves his own RIP thread, surely?

Fuck yes.

RIP Neil Armstrong

Singer Gene Thomas of "Sometimes" and Gene & Debbe's "Playboy" fame.

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2012/08/gene_thomas_rip.php

Rhodes Boyson, hero of mutton chops, homophobia, and legislated S+M for minors.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02322/boyson_2322970b.jpg

RIP big man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB3mvNeiNtc

Shulamith Firestone, author of The Dialectic of Sex

http://www.thevillager.com/?p=7172

I only read that a couple of months ago, enjoyed it. Plus, super name. RIP.

Max Bygraves:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19450696

Someone on Twitter posted this: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/1sma8d

Looks like Jim Davidson's autobiography has a lot to live up to.

Hal David

Aw :(

Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/02/reverend_sun_myung_moon_dead_at_92/

Green Miles actor Michael Clarke Duncan (no details yet)

mile*

Had suffered a heart attack recently:

On July 13, 2012, Duncan was sent to the hospital after suffering from a heart attack.[17] It was reported that his girlfriend, Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, potentially saved his life by performing CPR before he was transported to the hospital.[18]

Duncan's publicist Joy Fehily said in a statement on August 6, 2012 that he was moved from the intensive care unit but remained hospitalized following his July 13 heart attack.[19]

On September 3, Duncan's fianceé told the Associated Press that he had died that morning in a Los Angeles Hospital

I missed the heart attack news, so I'm doubly sad now.

He was a mighty Kingpin.

rip big guy

damn

rip

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/62663000/jpg/_62663818_62663817.jpg

RIP, very big guy

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/09/04/vance-bockis-d-c-punk-rocker-dies-at-age-50/#more-78620

Griselda Blanco, Colombia's infamous "queen of cocaine" of the 1970s: murdered in Medellin

DJ Matthew Africa

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2012/09/rip_matthew_africa_beloved_oak.php

Kinda ripped up about this one. Listened to him on KALX all the time.

aw, R.I.P.

his DJ Quik mix is essential:

http://matthewafrica.podomatic.com/entry/2009-07-31T18_06_33-07_00

Wildlife presenter Terry Nutkins RIP:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19520824

:(

Aw :( My dad knew him a bit, and one of my favouritest bits of rubbish memorabilia is a script for Animal Magic autographed by Terry Nutkins and Johnny Morris.

Not rubbish!

Terry you were cool. RIP dude!

rev. howard moody, pastor at judson memorial church in NYC, who did so many amazing things

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/nyregion/howard-moody-minister-of-judson-memorial-church-dead-at-91.html

Wow, a very impressive life

Did we miss Derek Jameson? We surely did.

James 'Sugar Boy' Crawford, New Orleans rhythm & blues singer of 'Jock-A-Mo,' dies at 77
Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune By Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune

James “Sugar Boy” Crawford, the New Orleans rhythm & blues singer who wrote and recorded the enduring Mardi Gras season standard “Jock-A-Mo,” died early Saturday after a brief illness. He was 77.

“Jock-A-Mo” borrowed its lyrics from age-old Mardi Gras Indian chants. It was later remade by the Dixie Cups as “Iko Iko.” Artists as diverse as Dr. John, the Grateful Dead and Cyndi Lauper also recorded variations.

Mr. Crawford’s own career came to a premature end following a police beating in 1963. Only in recent years did he return to the stage, and then only occasionally.

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Wow, I didn't even know Sugar Boy was still alive! I knew about the police beating and the legal fights over "Iko Iko." I only know a few songs besides "Jock-a-Mo," but they're all great.

I at first didn't clue into why I'd seen two or three Sam's-related posts on Facebook:

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/23/sam-the-record-man-sniderman-dies

It's late--I'll post something on the Toronto Record Stores thread tomorrow. If you lived in Toronto anytime before 2000, and especially during the '60s or '70s, this counts as a major death.

http://www.pete.at/SamRecordManNight.jpg

RIP SVEN HA↯↯EL

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g38mFozSZLw/TmkNQmk5jnI/AAAAAAAADDU/5IgD3E7pIbM/s400/n123752.jpg

The teenage me thought he was great.

Was gonna say "I though Sam died years ago" but I was confusing him with Honest Ed.

Anyways, RIP. I bought lotsa gems at that store. (And hey, Goin' Down The Road)

That's what I thought for years and years, but I found out last year that that scene was actually shot in A&A's. I think there might be an exterior shot of Sam's just before they walk in that creates some confusion. The Satie girl...sigh.

Andy Williams http://www.19actionnews.com/story/19643579/singer-andy-williams-dead

Nooooo!!!

RIP Chief Inspector Dreyfus, Herbert Lom: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19745910

RIP Herb, wasn't sure he was still around. Last of The Ladykillers?

i thought he died a year or two ago? weird.

RIP

Frank Wilson RIP

RIP Miami-based Cuban pianist Francisco “Paquito” Hechavarría.

He´s the one who played the exacting, driving tumbao (a repeated pattern) in Gloria Estefan’s monster hit “Conga.” And well before that he played on Mongo Santamaría´s classic Our Man in Havana. But also you probably heard him on Barry Manilow’s “Hey Mambo,” or with David Byrne, or Ricky Martin, or Israel “Cachao” Lopez, or Christina Aguilera. The list is long.