RIP Andraé Crouch
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 January 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
Comic actor and calypso singer Lance Percival:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30746784
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 9 January 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
Francesco Rosi:
http://www.dw.de/italian-director-francesco-rosi-dies-at-92/a-18183765
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 10 January 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
RIP:(
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 January 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link
Taylor Negron according to Twitter.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 11 January 2015 02:52 (nine years ago) link
No!
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Sunday, 11 January 2015 03:07 (nine years ago) link
http://deadline.com/2015/01/taylor-negron-dead-57-after-long-battle-with-cancer-1201346798/
:-(
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Sunday, 11 January 2015 03:08 (nine years ago) link
RIP. Did not notice mention of The Aristocrats in that obit.
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 January 2015 03:17 (nine years ago) link
I think I'd heard something about him being sick, but I'd totally forgotten it. R.I.P.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 11 January 2015 04:24 (nine years ago) link
Anita Ekberg?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 January 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
Yes:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/anita-ekberg-of-la-dolce-vita-fame-dies-1.2897039
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o15UTomYsc
― clemenza, Sunday, 11 January 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/drummer-vocalist-popsy-dixon-holmes-brothers-dies-28125004
Soulful falsetto vocalist
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 11 January 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
Very sad.
This is beautiful and amazing and heartbreaking:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPNhnIwT920
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 11 January 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2015/01/brian-clemens-dead-83/
Probably best known for The Avengers, also lots of other British TV and some film work including the Golden Voyage Of Sinbad.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 12 January 2015 08:20 (nine years ago) link
Oh sad - definitely one of the major figures of British genre film/tv. I'm particularly fond of Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, perhaps the most polymorphously perverse of all Hammer movies.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 12 January 2015 08:37 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, shame, RIP Brian.
― The World's Strangest Man 2014 (Tom D.), Monday, 12 January 2015 10:14 (nine years ago) link
Tim Drummond:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tim-drummond-bassist-neil-young-bob-dylan-dead-20150112
Hear him walk a little bit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP1wtIfs8lg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
Oh no, that is terrible news. RIP.
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
Samuel Goldwyn Jr., key arthouse distributor of the 1980s
http://thedissolve.com/news/4434-samuel-goldwyn-jr-1926-2015/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
Dozy!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-30811311
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 12:26 (nine years ago) link
RIP Dozy. I always mean to investigate DDDBMT, I like them, but I never do.
― Peas Be Upon Ham (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 12:29 (nine years ago) link
Now, they are Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich
You want awesome?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51lxwZXeNSI
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
Novelist Robert Stone
― Brad C., Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:08 (nine years ago) link
RIP Kim Fowley
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6443507/kim-fowley-legendary-record-producer-dead-at-75
― Basically / I Don't Wanna Be / An mp3 / 3-2-0 kb / ps (Craigo Boingo), Friday, 16 January 2015 01:00 (nine years ago) link
o
― Mark G, Friday, 16 January 2015 07:36 (nine years ago) link
Shocker, RIP Kim!!!!!!!
― Peas Be Upon Ham (Tom D.), Friday, 16 January 2015 10:09 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/arts/music/ervin-drake-composer-of-pop-songs-dies-at-95.html?action=click&contentCollection=Music®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article
Ervin Drake’s “Now That I Have Everything” debuted the same day he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983, a fitting coda for a career that was punctuated by hit versions of his songs, like Frank Sinatra’s “It Was a Very Good Year,” Billie Holiday’s “Good Morning Heartache” and the inspirational “I Believe,” sung by Frankie Laine.
Mr. Drake, who wrote lyrics and music, produced television programs and was president of the American Guild of Authors and Composers, died on Thursday at 95 at his home in Great Neck, N.Y. The cause was complications of bladder cancer, said his stepson, Jed Berman.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 17 January 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Takao Saitô, Kurosawa's cinematographer on Ran, Sanjuro and many others
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/takao-saito-cinematographer-18-kurosawa-761859
Faten Hamama, actress who was "Lady of Arabic Cinema"
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-faten-hamama-1931-2015
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 18 January 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2015/01/17/dixie-hall-prolific-bluegrass-songwriter-dies/21914181/
Dixie Hall, wife of Tom T. Hall. I didn't really know anything about her before this article, but what a life.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 January 2015 05:38 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2015/01/bo_dollis_longtime_big_chief_o.html
Theodore Emile "Bo" Dollis, the longtime Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras Indians, died at his home in New Orleans on Jan. 20, 2015, his son confirmed. He was 71.
....He was among the first to bring the culture and sound of the Indian culture to national prominence, recording the first commercial album of Mardi Gras Indian music, the single "Handa Wanda," in 1970 – the same year that he and Monk Boudreaux of the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians appeared at the first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. In 1974, along with his wife Laurita Dollis, keyboardist Willie Tee, Snooks Eagilin, percussionist Uganda Roberts and saxophonist Earl Turbinton, Dollis recorded the groundbreaking album "The Wild Magnolias," melding Indian chants with sizzling funk. ...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
Saw that coming. RIP
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Leon Brittan
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/leon-brittan-dead-thatcher-minister-accused-of-failure-to-act-on-child-sex-abuse-dossier-dies-9995572.html
― ailsa, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
(also Anne Kirkbride the other day, mentioned on Coronation Street thread but not here)
― ailsa, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Frank Mazzola, editor of Performance (amongst other extraordinary things):
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/frank-mazzola-film-editor-and-rebel-without-a-cause-actor-dies-at-79-1201410982/
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
@jeremyscahillThese obit headlines are puke-worthy: "Saudi King Abdullah: patient reformer who battled hardliners"
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 January 2015 06:34 (nine years ago) link
He's getting no RIPs from me.
― A trumpet growing in a garden (Tom D.), Friday, 23 January 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link
For constant larfs, make sure you read Greenwald's twitter today.
@ggreenwald 2h2 hours agoNext on CNN: Was the dearly departed King Abdullah more like MLK or Gandhi? Our panel remembers this beloved figured of peace and reform.
@ggreenwald · 1h 1 hour agoUK orders flags flown at half-mast for King Abdullah. Will return to lecturing the world about democracy tomorrow
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 23 January 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
faith seidenberg, who desegregated mcsorley's ale house in manhattan, among other things
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 January 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Joe Franklin
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 January 2015 06:11 (nine years ago) link
bummer.
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 25 January 2015 06:13 (nine years ago) link
http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/12219755/ernie-banks-former-chicago-cubs-great-dies-age-83
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 25 January 2015 07:26 (nine years ago) link
I got through to Joe Franklin once, as a teenager in the mid- or late-'70s. He must have been syndicated, because I'm pretty sure it was a station out of Cleveland that you could pick up in Toronto. Zero recollection of what we talked about.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 January 2015 10:29 (nine years ago) link
(Check that--think it was this guy instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Franklin.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 January 2015 10:31 (nine years ago) link
VERY DIFFERENT GUY.
I interviewed Joe in his office in 1980. (The OLD office, not the neater one below.) Papers and folders and God-knows-what stacked floor-to-ceiling. He was yakking on the phone about "Gore Vidal's Caligula" ("It's terrible, people are asking for their $10 back").
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr2s7K8Qmdk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFXsMTS9MS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpf1j0cA5Hg
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 January 2015 14:11 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30984851
Demis Roussos. I suspect he might get his own thread, or the Aphrodite's Child one.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 26 January 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
:((((((((
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=321JxxzlGio
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Monday, 26 January 2015 12:43 (nine years ago) link
rod mckuen
can't understand it anymore
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:54 (nine years ago) link
Colleen McCullough, author of The Thorn Birds: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31036362
― ailsa, Friday, 30 January 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
What not to do. Seriously, what NOT TO DO:
http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/01/30/why-the-oz-called-colleen-mccullough-fat-and-ugly-in-her-obituary/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 January 2015 05:04 (nine years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Marie_McCoy
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100823151
Prolific songwriter who had songs recorded by Big Maybelle, Elvis Presley, Little Jimmy Scott, Nat King Cole, Ike & Tina Turner and others died on January 20th at age 92 according to Wiki and a Yahoo Southern Soul group email listserv thing I get. She was a New Jersey-based independent songwriter who rejected offers to join well-known house songwriting operations at Stax, Motown and elsewhere
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 January 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
GODDAMMIT FACEBOOK, QUIT CIRCULATING 3 YEAR OLD STORIES!
I usually don't get taken by these, but...
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 28 December 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
Ellsworth Kelly
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/arts/ellsworth-kelly-artist-who-mixed-european-abstraction-into-everyday-life-dies-at-92.html
― nickn, Monday, 28 December 2015 04:37 (eight years ago) link
Carson Van Osten, bass player for the (Todd Rundgren) Nazz, and later an artist for Disney
http://www.noise11.com/news/r-i-p-carson-van-osten-of-nazz-1945-2015-20151227
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 December 2015 05:10 (eight years ago) link
Meadowlark Lemon!
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/28/entertainment/meadowlark-lemon-obit-globetrotters-feat/
I'm not 100% sure, but I think I did see them at Maple Leaf Gardens when I was kid.
― clemenza, Monday, 28 December 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
I gasped when I read that, coming back on the train to London. RIP big guy.
― voodoo rage (suzy), Monday, 28 December 2015 20:10 (eight years ago) link
Lemmy.
― Vernon Locke, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:20 (eight years ago) link
Oh, damn. His recent interview with Marc Maron was hilarious. RIP.
― Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:35 (eight years ago) link
aw, fuck.
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:36 (eight years ago) link
Well, that seems unlikely. RIP.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:47 (eight years ago) link
There's no question that the news is true, but allow me to not believe it for a while longer. R.I.P. Lemmy
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 02:32 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/10710773_1106121706072795_6645400775584024850_n.jpg?oh=5c0f1489cd175d37201045b21bd96b00&oe=5717672D
― nomar, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 02:38 (eight years ago) link
RIP stormin norman
― the late great, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 02:47 (eight years ago) link
RIP Lemmy - Killed by Death, just like he predicted.
― StanM, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 04:39 (eight years ago) link
it's like when Ronnie James Dio died. I knew he was sick but it never crossed my mind to picture what it would be like without him
and now bummertown usa ;_;
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 05:12 (eight years ago) link
Let me get this straight, Lemmy is dead?
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 10:06 (eight years ago) link
Meadowlark Lemmy
― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
I don't wanna live forever ;_;
― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link
Czech goalie Pavel Srnicek, 47:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/dec/29/pavel-srnicek-newcastle-united-sheffield-wednesday-west-ham-dies-aged-47-cardiac-arrest
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 15:38 (eight years ago) link
The Specials' John Bradbury
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/29/john-bradbury-of-the-specials-dies-ages-62
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
Guru Josh
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/9092/Muzieknieuws/article/detail/2570076/2015/12/29/Danceproducer-Guru-Josh-Infinity-overleden.dhtml
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
Hearing Guru Josh as well, but can't find a link
xpost, ah there we go
― ailsa, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
And there's your English-language report:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/29/guru-josh-rave-star-dies-aged-51
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link
Aidan Higgins.http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/acclaimed-irish-writer-aidan-higgins-dies-aged-88-1.2478631
― gradually louden lots (Øystein), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
http://tvline.com/2015/12/31/wayne-rogers-dead-age-82-mash/
R.I.P. Trapper John
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 1 January 2016 03:13 (eight years ago) link
No way. He always had that youthful glow. RIP
― Instant Karmagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2016 03:32 (eight years ago) link
natalie cole
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 1 January 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link
rip
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/singer-natalie-cole-dead-65-article-1.2482580
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 January 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
Ring out the old: Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016
― Green Dolphin Street Hassle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link