Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

For some reason I visualise memories of Cheggers Plays Pop in colour, even though it was watched on a b/w valve television.

I have vivid memories of kids jumping around on trampolies while Captain Beefheart sang "Hard Workin' Man" on the soundtrack.

he never seemed to be a bad guy even if I couldn't say I enjoyed his work

addiction is a horrible disease that's still criminally improperly supported

He died from a degenerative lung condition!

I followed him for a while on Twitter - he mostly tweeted corny oldschool jokes that wouldn't have been out of place in a 60s nightclub (or The Beano) - but he seemed to have a facility for it - they were often pretty good jokes. I'm not sure if he wrote them himself or sourced them elsewhere, but for a while he had a weirdly high hit rate

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2010/jul/22/keith-chegwin-comedians-jokes-twitter

xp

yeah but the physical toll of his drinking is certainly a possible contributing factor, smoking is the major cause of the pulmonary fibrosis that killed him.

xp

oh dear now I just feel doubly bad for the possibility that I unknowingly laughed at an Ed Byrne joke

Chegwin was talking about smoking 60 a day and beginning to get lung problems back in 2001: https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2001/nov/03/weekend7.weekend6

I struggled to smoke 20 a day when I had young fresh teenage lungs, 60 sounds insane to me, like verging on the impossible (not that I don't believe it, but still)

even if doing an all-nighter on the 'phet, you'd be struggling to smoke 60.

i can only imagine that he was smoking ten at a time simultaneously like he was playing a wee set of smokey panpipes

Not uncommon, maybe less common nowadays, but people used to smoke more than that, especially when smoking was allowed in offices, it'd be more difficult to smoke that much and hold down a job these days

I smoked 40 a day for a couple of years when I was a much younger ne'er-do-well and all week drinker

Both my parents probly had several years at 60 a day I'd say

https://miepvonsydow.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/ttil5qs.jpg
"these new Silk Cult ultra low tar ciggies are not quite hitting the spot.."

remember one time I was chemically enhanced at an Ozric Tentacles gig, went to put a cig in my mouth and realised I was already smoking one

rip cheggers, i wish i never saw your penis

A idiot friend of mine used to have a "lung-fish" theory, that the phlegm in smoker's creates a protective layer against asbestos. All based on an old chainsmoker in his 70's we talked to who worked with asbestos, and said that it was "bollocks" that it was harmful!

i imagine that has happened to, at minimum, 25 people at every ozric tentacles gig in history xxp

*phlegm in a smoker's lungs

Don't want to disagree with calz as it would only lead to an online phlegm war

Phleg Post

Cough uck yourself

walking away from thread in phlegmatic silence..

rip cheggers, former singer for the Third Ear Band

Genesis P-Orridge and John Lydon owe their careers to you.

Can we not give it a day or two before scathing criticism pls

Surf film god Bruce Brown

http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/iconic-california-surf-filmmaker-passes-away-rip-bruce-brown-1937-2017_150881/

RIP Cheggers

SF Mayor Ed Lee

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ed-lee-san-francisco-mayor-dead-at-65-cbs-san-francisco-says/

Suzanna Leigh, star of a couple of Hammers, the usual UK 60s TV suspects and Elvis' leading lady in Paradise, Hawaiian Style.

No obits I can see.

Anthony Harvey, editor of Lolita and Dr. Strangelove and director of The Lion in Winter

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/08/anthony-harvey-obituary

Bassist Mike Leech of the American Studios band, known for his work on Sweet Caroline and this classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG3Hr7n7YCU

Ugh. RIP :(

Don’t sleep on his work with Elvis- “Suspicious Minds”! Think he did some arranging too, which he learned from Noel Gilbert.

Whom he would often invite to add strings on sessions. First string arrangement he did was for “The Letter”!

Um, he died in 2015.

Oh wait, maybe that’s a different guy

Boby Emmons from the same band died in 2015, maybe that's who you're thinking of.

Reported on the Smithereens thread, but repeating here. Pat DiNizio, 62.

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2017/12/12/pat-dinizio-smithereens-dead/

haven't thought about that band for a long, long time but that is sad news

Heinz Wolff, Great Egg Race presenter and scientist

https://m.facebook.com/BoydRiceNon/posts/1751380601548375

First wave Industrial/noise artist Z'EV.

R'IP

TCM's annual tribute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA0-1QvnTA8

RIP Keely Smith :-(

Ah, RIP

Ralph Carney, 61, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist who played with Tin Huey, Tom Waits, Galaxie 500 and a shitload of others.

Louis Prima and Keely Smith were a fantastic act. Check out this clip, the only color footage I've ever seen:

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

SHINee singer Kim Jong-hyun, 27 :(

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/18/shinee-kim-jong-hyun-lead-singer-of-south-korean-boy-band-dies

Earle Hyman, Tony nominee best known as Russell Huxtable on The Cosby Show.

http://www.playbill.com/article/tony-nominee-earle-hyman-known-for-tvs-the-cosby-show-dies-at-91

posted that a couple weeks ago