Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

Jane Freeman aka Ivy from Last Of The Summer Wine. The last of the original cast members.
Also I had no idea she was Tully Applebottom in the 1st series of Blackadder!

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/apr/17/jane-freeman-obituary

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Like the TV news obits of Truffaut, which seemed to think his biggest accomplishment in film was playing a scientist in Close Encounters.

Aaron Hernandez committed suicide.

Motown's Sylvia Moy, key Steveie Wonder collaborator

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-sylvia-moy-20170418-story.html

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/people/2017/04/20/cuba-gooding-sr-reportedly-found-dead-car-california/100721088/

Cuba Gooding, Sr.

Wow--knew nothing about the Main Ingredient connection.

OMG I never in my life thought there'd be an occasion to namecheck Stretch Princess in 2017. I'm as happy about this as I am the Charly Bliss album itself.

Erin Moran--Joanie on Happy Days.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/happy-days-star-erin-moran-dies-at-56-1202393048/

so sad, i loved Joanie

Oh I thought that was Aerosmith posting just now

Ha

Robert M. Pirsig :'-(

never occurred to me he was still alive

RIP dude

Not dead yet, but Gregg Allman is rumored to have entered hospice care.

Jonathan Demme, apparently.

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/04/jonathan-demme-dead-73-silence-of-the-lambs-1201809289/

Wow.

whoa

Reading on Facebook that Leo Baxendale has died, aged 86 :-(

RIP. Coincidentally, on Friday I should be seeing the person who borrowed my copies of 'On Comedy: the Beano and Ideology' and 'A Very Funny Business'. Perhaps this will be an opportunity to ask for them back (it's been years...).

I love three Demme films--Melvin & Howard, Married to the Mob, and Silence (the last has lost a little over the years)--and like a bunch more. Had no idea he was 73, but he started in the '70s, so why wouldn't he be?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39730388

Comic artist Leo Baxendale of Minnie The Minx and Bash Street Kids fame:(

Performance artist Vito Acconci.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vito-acconci-dies-77-941138/amp-page

Just to mention a "lesser" Demme work: New Order's "The Perfect Kiss" is one of my favourite music videos ever.

i don't think anyone classifies it as such

Sorry, always thought of Demme as a hit-or-miss talent. Still need to see Stop Making Sense, though/

I hadn't heard of it before, thanks for the tip, there is something exceptional about it.

(about The Perfect Kiss)

http://music.blog.ajc.com/2017/05/02/col-bruce-hampton-dies-hours-after-70th-birthday-celebration-at-the-fox-theatre/

Someone on twitter said he was such a badass he "played his own wake."

RIP Col. Bruce

Consistently the least sucky thing associated with the jam band scene, which should now collectively resign in his honor.

Damn, just found out about this.

Kevin Garcia, bassist for Grandaddy.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kevin-garcia-grandaddy-bassist-and-co-founder-dead-w480373

Had heard unofficial word earlier -- damn shame.

Oh god, how horrible.

“We were heartbroken to learn that Jean Stein, the writer and editor who chronicled the venal underside of celebrity, has died at 83,” writes Dan Piepenbring of the Paris Review. “When she was still a teenager, she interviewed William Faulkner, an exchange that appeared in this magazine in 1956…. With George Plimpton, she edited Edie: American Girl, an oral history of Edie Sedgwick… Last year, Stein published West of Eden, an oral history of Los Angeles, full of myth and rancor and especially desolation.”

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/05/01/jean-stein-1934-2017/

vague rumors that ye olde Prince Philip might have kicked the bucket

no confirmations from anywhere official yet tho

sounding flakier by the minute now

yeah i think this might have been a kite flying expedition lol

kinda was hoping a little tbh tho, is that bad

no, prince philip is bad

i thought maybe the emergency was that he met some people in the south pacific and didn't once call them "pygmies"

he is going to 'retire' from public life it seems

so a living death

I'm sure everyone knows but Prince Phillip is stepping down from public engagements from September onwards - whether this is due to some specific setback that might have also caused the rumours is as far as I know not public.

sorry for xping a doctor!

Saxa of The Beat. :(

RIP :(

;_;

Wow, how old was Saxa?