Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

Green Miles actor Michael Clarke Duncan (no details yet)

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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.

Chris Economaki, Rumbling Voice of Auto Racing, Dies at 91

Missed the Frank Wilson notice. "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" is worth all the myth-making that surrounds it from the record-collector end of things.

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

Punch Sulzberger, NY Times publisher 1963-92

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/punch-sulzberger-rip/

RIP Michael O'Hare, who played Commander Sinclair on Babylon 5, one of my fave characters on the show. Very sad at this news. And this is the 4th actor from the series to have had an early death, now.

http://www.inquisitr.com/347878/michael-ohare-commander-sinclair-on-babylon-5-dead-at-60-report/

RIP Eric Hobsbawm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/01/eric-hobsbawm-died-aged-95?CMP=twt_fd

Love Hobsbawm, RIP

boo, very sad, although 95 is a ripe old age. Born 1917! Left Germany in 1933! Amazing.

Damn, Hobsbawm. When I was doing A-levels my history teacher, who was a massive H fan, kept on directing me to him. Good. RIP.

biologist/ecologist Barry Commoner

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/us/barry-commoner-dies-at-95.html

Recognized the name right away--my first-year roommate was always talking about him, and I think he probably voted for him in '80.

In a “Last Word” interview with The New York Times in 2006, videotaped to accompany this obituary online

never noticed this practice before

Michael Henry Heim, Russian and Slavic scholar and translator of writers like Kundera and Grass. Great, great instructor at UCLA and I remember both his classes I took as an undergrad on Russian and Soviet literature very well.

R.B. Greaves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Y0x1jLkLg