Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

One of the few who had a solo career after too. Like, him and Leon Russell?

Dr. John?

Aw geez, I was feeling like dirt the other day and spun a few of his early singles, gentle on my mind indeed. The sun shone in his voice.

All gone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkDAPl8-Soc

That's fantastic.

Really is.

<3

Anytime I hear "Rhinestone Cowboy" or "Wichita Lineman" or any of his gorgeous hits I'm a little kid sitting in front of my parents console record player

I said on the other thread that "It's Only Make Believe" gives me Roy Orbison vibes and I think that is true of his voice for me in general, the way he can just reach in and pluck that string of sadness/yearning/etc deep inside you with so little effort

rip Glen

Why would someone say Dr john

Because he did a stint in the Wrecking Crew

I mean I know that now but I mean jesus

I mean I know that now but I mean jesus

Don't tell me something's happened to jesus now

Lebowski.jpg

RIP Jesus.

heaven needed a son of god

Actor/Director Joe Bologna.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/joe-bologna-dead-82-my-favorite-year-renee-taylor-1202526371/

Eugene Burger, magician and dean of a magic school

Missed Joe Bologna. You can get Made for Each Other, sort of a precursor to Annie Hall, off YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYwO8vxC7iY

Joe Bologna in "My Favorite Year," so, so great.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6c3D-z_bvo

He was a p good Sid Caesar.

I remember watching Made for Each Other on TV in '77 when it was interrupted by the NYC blackout.

Bruce Forsyth.

fuckin' get in

nice to see you (dead) etc...

"his warmth and wit were legendary.." Yeah mainly because nobody actually ever witnessed these attributes!

just in time for a new series of strictly too, what a pro

Never forget that Triumph Of The Will had 20m+ audiences as well.

Brace Forsyth
(oh man if he dies in the next couple of weeks I'm going to feel like shit, but he did tweet last week that he was fine and that he wanted people to stop asking if he was well)

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He got his wish, they'll stop asking

14 dead and 100s injured in terrorist attack in Barcelona, fuck that shit, let's roll those Brucie tributes and talk to everybody who even slightly knew the 89 year old entertainer for the next few hours.

Derek & Clive to thread

didn't he do well

This even got a fucking newsflash before Pointless, I got all excited and assumed the queen had popped off.

now that he's dead are we allowed to speculate that he has some yewtree dirt on him that will come out soon enough without being sued for defamation?

ha, i've been thinking for years that it was odd brucie's name never came up in relation to yewtree

be careful there, Tarby might challenge you to a duel.

well, tarbuck [REDACTED COMMENT]

holy shit bbc one is showing a new bruce forsyth documentary right now, they've clearly been cued up for this like a fucking military operation for months

god help us when brenda finally carks it

Yeah, there's a danger with these pre-built ones.

Who was it recently who died, and amongst the tributes and sad-eyes was someone who you'd expect to have outlived the subject, but didn't?

Sonny Landham

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/arts/music/paul-oliver-authority-on-the-blues-dies-at-90.html?emc=edit_ms_20170818&nl=louder&nlid=37355772&te=1&_r=0&referer=

Blues and architecture historian

Sonny Burgess

Shit. Thought he died years ago. He made a great album with Dave Alvin in 1992 called Tennessee Border; it's on Spotify.

Twitter is saying Dick Gregory. Nothing official yet, but he was hospitalized Friday.

(hospitalized several days ago, actually)

Dick Gregory, 84.

RIP Dick

He was great :( RIP

https://movies.mxdwn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/KingofComedy2.jpg

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/advance-obit-jerry-lewis-dead-721408