Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

California historian and former state librarian Kevin Starr
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-kevin-starr-obit-20170115-story.html

RIP, Gene. Elvis you need to come post that over on DSKY-DSKY Him Sad: Official ILB Thread For The Heroic Age of Manned Spaceflight

Elvis that is so cool, what a great memory/experience!!!

Also, that signed stuff is worth an absolute fortune now.

overlooked last week: CORE reactionary Roy Innis

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/roy-innis-embattled-leader-of-the-congress-of-racial-equality-dies-at-82/2017/01/09/674873ec-d681-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html

That explains why he hasn't met with Trump.

Producer-engineer Bill Price (Clash, Sex Pistols, Pete Townshend, Pretenders, many others).

(actually passed away December 22, 2016)

Nigerian funkateer William Onyeabor

^ I listened to his records on the plane back from London a few weeks ago, great stuff

At least he got some recognition before he died.

huh, for some reason I thought he had passed away a long time ago.

Mark Fisher. Man that blows.

Indeed it is. Just found out today.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/18/mark-fisher-k-punk-blogs-did-48-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Wtev, we've been mourning and collecting obits in this thread

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-38664893

had no idea that former Wolves director Rachael Heyhoe Flint was 77

Wtev, we've been mourning and collecting obits in this thread🔗

Thanks

soprano Roberta Peters

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/arts/music/roberta-peters-soprano-with-a-dramatic-entrance-dies-at-86.html?_r=0

George Beall, US attorney for Maryland who torpedoed Spiro Agnew

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/maryland-news/george-beall-who-led-prosecution-of-vice-president-spiro-agnew-dies-at-79/2017/01/18/9f498460-dcef-11e6-acdf-14da832ae861_story.html?utm_term=.f125faa64eea

had no idea that former Wolves director Rachael Heyhoe Flint was 77

One of the great musical names remembered from childhood - RIP

yeah I was going to type 'a classic name' but didn't in case that might diminish the scale of her achievements but then really it's true

Miguel Ferrer

http://deadline.com/2017/01/miguel-ferrer-dead-ncis-los-angeles-crossing-jordan-1201890002/

NOOOOOO

Holy shit, what?

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9b/44/c4/9b44c47d3267ceb6d4a0924882f9955d.jpg

what

just this morning The Hollywood Reporter announced that (Ferrer) will be playing iconic DC Comics villain Deathstroke in the animated film Teen Titans: The Judas Contract.

jesus

wayne barrett, formerly of the village voice

^muckraking foe of Trump and Ed Koch

http://www.wnyc.org/story/personal-remembrance-wayne-barrett

Wayne Barrett was a good guy, this sucks

rip usa

Maggie Roche of the Roches
Karl Hendricks of the Karl Hendricks Trio

bad day for members of eponymous bands

corrs heading for bunker

Jim's already in there wearing his tin foil hat.

claiming for the setup there but nice finish regardless

rip karl. only 46

Mike Kellie, drummer for Spooky Tooth and the Only Ones

Jan Stoeckart aka Jack Trombey, Dutch composer. Best known for the theme from 'Callan' and the theme from 'Van der Valk ', 'Eye Level' which was a U.K. Number one in 1962.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0O-2oAvNTo

Um, 1972.

wasn't a hit as such until 1973, i only mention this because it's a vivid childhood tune and both years are a little earlier than i'd've guessed

Heh, our school band played Eye Level terribly.

that Eye Level theme was used as a jingle in the US for... Royal Dutch Airlines?

RIP Yordano Ventura and Andy Marte.

Two baseball players killed in separate car accidents today.

Jaki Liebezeit :(
http://pitchfork.com/news/71067-can-drummer-jaki-liebezeit-dead-at-78/?mbid=social_twitter

Pete Watts from Mott The Hoople.

http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2017/01/passings-pete-overend-watts-of-mott.html?m=1

Gorden Kaye: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38718282

I somehow never noticed he spelled his first name a weird way until he died.

That's not much of a tribute, sorry.

he's from my neck of the woods so this will be front page on the local rag, he nearly died in a car crash 20 odd years back so was on e/t. Allo Allo was absolute cack, but he seemed like a nice guy.

People you thought were dead. RIP.

More than 20 - 1990 Burns night storms

Apocryphally lead to schoolyard jokes and one school head declaring that there is nothing funny about Gorden Kaye.

Actually lead to a crucial privacy case when a Sunday Sport journalist snuck into the hospital and photoed / "interviewed" him recovering from brain surgery. He lost the case - there is no common-law right to privacy.

1,200 performances of 'Allo 'Allo on stage, apparently.

I thought he was dead too!

Allo Allo is a crappy show that makes me feel inordinately nostalgic when I think of it. I loved it as a kid.