Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

Ah, see, I love the Man With The Stick. Graham Lister on Novelty Island doing Three Laughs With Lard was the first real WTF moment for the viewing public I think.

Maudlin and full of self-pity. He's magnificent:

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

i feel like hags was at death's door ever since dallas ended, feel like there was a time when the tabs were showing him exiting hospitals and crowing about "months to live", and this was pre-"nixon". good for him for hanging around to a respectable age tbh.

He looks older in that Primary Colors than he did last week.

Michael Dunford of the progressive band Renaissance. Had no idea he was in the Nashville Teens too.

http://www.progrockmag.com/news/renaissance-guitarist-michael-dunford-dies/

RIP strugatsky

Frank Barsalona

One of Barsalona's lasting legacies was to see that musicians' compensation and treatment improved whereby they could earn a good portion of their living through touring and beyond selling records. He is also credited with vastly improving the fan experience upgrading the quality of live rock performances.

Almost as important to sport in the 20th century as Robinson, Ruth, or Ali:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ex-players-association-exec-marvin-miller-dead-95-article-1.1208710?localLinksEnabled=false

damn.

possibly the most significant person I have shared an elevator with.

dang RIP

Mickey "Guitar" Baker, of Mickey & Sylvia and who knows how many classic blues and R&B sessions.

Great photo/interview here, from a few years ago: http://jimherrington.tumblr.com/post/16519854865/mickey-baker-musician-toulouse-france-c-jim

aw :(

I was just listening to Love is Strange this morning

"Love Is Strange" was great in Casino. Classic album cover:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tyNeUNytv6s/TzEtE_4JrJI/AAAAAAAAHpA/esOsGgEZfbs/s1600/Mickey%2BBaker%2B-%2BThe%2BWildest%2BGuitar.jpg

bummer. RIP, Mickey.

About half a year too late to be turning over in his grave re: the Pitbull sample.

Seriously, though, RIP.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/cadillacs-singer-earl-carroll-dead-at-75-20121127

RIP Spain Rodriguez:

http://comicsbeat.com/rip-spain-rodriguez/

Re "Speedo": another song I identify with Scorsese (Goodfellas, first time we meet Jimmy Conway). One of the greatest fast doo-wop songs ever.

RIP Spain. :-(

Rest in peace, Spain.

just saw that about Spain. RIP dude. made my neighborhood a more beautiful place

Jack Brooks, pro-civil rights Texas Dem legend who was Nixon's "executioner."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/us/politics/jack-brooks-former-texas-congressman-dies-at-89.html

Dave Brubeck :(

oh whoa

bummer.

awww man

Off to that Sunday brunch in the sky.

Jonathan Harvey today as well.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/05/jonathan-harvey-dies-73-composer

posting here re: Spain Rodriguez' passing:

http://images.tcj.com/2012/11/Nestor-Makhno-page-1-650x796.jpg
http://images.tcj.com/2012/11/Nestor-Makhno-page-2-650x828.jpg

Oscar Niemeyer, aged 104. What a day.

Huw Lloyd Langton of Hawkwind, aged 61

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/hawkwinds-huw-lloyd-langton-dies/

Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster, dies aged 89

RIP Mr Moore, he was a legend.

No Moore Mr. Night Guy.

aw RIP

Don't know how I feel about this guy, seemed to get away with saying a lot of very horrible things on the grounds that he was just a funny old eccentric.

I mean sure, it's Wikipedia and all but:

Proudly declaring himself to be English (rather than British) with "not the slightest wish to integrate with anybody",[60] he stated his admiration for controversial former MP politician Enoch Powell.[64] Moore devoted an entire chapter ("The Weak Arm of the Law") of his autobiography to denouncing modern British society, particularly "motorist-hunting" policemen, sentencing policy, as well as the Race Relations Act, Sex Discrimination Act and the "Thought Police / Politically Correct Brigade".[65] He later wrote that "homosexuals are mainly responsible for the spreading of AIDS (the Garden of Eden is home of Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve)".[66]

You don't need to go to Wikipedia, there are newspaper reports of a lot of them; not least in 2002 when at an Age Concern function he described immigrants as parasites and that we should send them all back where they came from. Or the May interview for the Radio Times where he said:

“We must take care,” warned Moore. “There may be another war. The Germans will try again, given another chance. A Kraut is a Kraut is a Kraut. And the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut.

“There can be good, free, honourable, decent Germans," he conceded. "I haven’t met them myself, but I’m sure they exist.”

UKIP since the 90s to boot.

on the other hand, he did love cats

OK, I didn't know that, although I do recall some women-should-be-in-the-kitchen remarks. Ho hum.

(I remember liking the guy as a kid but I've no idea when or why I would ever have seen him - my Dad watched The Sky at Night semi-regularly but I'm sure I only saw it very occasionally, if at all)

Gamesmaster, maybe?

That's a good thought but I think I liked him before that and found his appearances on it kind of silly? (I was a stuffy little kid.)

Probably my Dad just told me he was good or something. My mum had one of his 50s fiction books, which was pretty tedious and outdated even to a kid like me who'd grown up reading my parents' old Jennings books and Eagle annuals.

wasn't his fiance killed in a bombing raid during the war? Perhaps explains anti-German sentiments, without wishing to try to excuse them.

Yes, but when that interview (from May this year) also contains such gems as "the French betrayed us, the Belgians did nothing and the Italians are only good for ice cream" and "those countries were much better off when the English ran them" (where "those countries" are the Commonwealth) you quickly get the concept that he wasn't particularly anti-German, he was anti-foreigner.

Still he wore a monocle. How could anybody that wore a monocle ever be bad?

it was genuinely moving to hear him talk on tv about his fiancees death. he himself flew with raf bomber command during the war btw but i'm sure he only ever killed bad guys

Think he was a navigator wasn't he? Having little Englander views might make him a bore, but I don't think it necessarily makes you a bad person- I'm not sure you it's possible to judge people on those terms.

sorry that sentence got a bit mangled!

saying "homosexuals are mainly responsible for the spreading of AIDS (the Garden of Eden is home of Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve)" makes you a bad person

hah true enough

I saw a bit of the Patrick Moore tribute thing last night. It featured a man saying "We were the luckiest boys alive, being invited to his house to see his telescope."

Jimmy Savile has tainted everything :(