Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Cinamon Hadley, the model for Death in Gaiman's The Sandman:

https://www.comicmix.com/2018/01/06/cinamon-hadley-the-girl-who-was-death-has-died/

Peter Preston

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/07/peter-preston-former-guardian-editor-dies-aged-79

France Gall, ye-ye star and singer of Gainsbourg's Poupee de Cire Poupee de Son.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/france-gall-dead-french-singer-eurovision-michel-berger-a8146276.html

France Gall

http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2018/01/07/03004-20180107ARTFIG00037-mort-de-france-gall-une-chanteuse-qui-donnait-tout-pour-la-musique.php

Ray Thomas of the Moody Blues

http://teamrock.com/news/2018-01-05/ray-thomas-r-i-p

Geez, Jerry Van Dyke:

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/06/entertainment/jerry-van-dyke/index.html

Not sure if "stay safe" really applies to either Dick Van Dyke (92) or Carl Reiner (95).

Producer Chris Tsangarides. A huge loss to rock and metal in particular, but the dude worked on an unbelievable number of records.

People I know who recorded with him said he was a really good guy, sad news.

Tony Calder, promoter and co-founder of Immediate records with Andrew Loog-Oldham.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/07/tony-calder-obituary

xpost -- yeah Tsangarides's death is a real loss, what a credit list. Remember being happy to see him turn up in Anvil! The Story of Anvil and he had some of the best moments! Would have been great to get a book from him at some point, probably would have been the hard rock/metal equivalent to something like Are We Still Rolling?.

2018 is warming up now, the deaths are beginning to roll in.

Jesse Crumb, artist and son of Robert

https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2018/jan/8/jesse-crumb-eureka-resident-and-son-famed-cartooni/

aw man, that's sad.

Mikio Fujioka, aka Ko-Gami of Babymetal's backing band, age 36.

“Kami Band member Mikio Fujioka has passed away at the age of 36. Mikio Fujioka fell from a high astronomical observation deck on December 30, and died on January 5, with his 2 daughters next to him.”

The “Little” Guitar Kami of #BABYMETAL ‘s #Kamiband has passed away in the METAL GALAXIES. We hope that he is now with his GUITAR MASTER A.Holdsworth and enjoying an epic guitar session with him.

We are the one
Together
We're the only one
You are the one
Forever#RIP #THEONE pic.twitter.com/NMUg3mhmes

— BABYMETAL (@BABYMETAL_JAPAN) January 9, 2018

Jeff "Antennae Jimmy Semens" Cotton of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, 68.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cotton

Cotton died from complications of cancer on January 6, 2018.

The Boogie Report email newsletter and folks on Facebook are reporting that Denise LaSalle, Mississippi born r’n’b/soul singer has died as a result of surgery complications. Her biggest hit was “Trapped by a Thing called Love.” This century she recorded some great Southern soul for labels like Malaco and Ecko.

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/news-soul/denise-lasalle-r-i-p-r3749/

RIP. In the UK she's definitely best known for her cover of 'My Toot Toot', which was a top ten hit in 1985.

that was a big morning-zoo hit in the '80s too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL3Wwo6RGyw

betty jane willis, who released a couple of singles in the '60s, including this leon russell-produced cover of buck owens' 'act naturally'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5NShyAiE1I

this is an in-depth obituary

https://www.ocregister.com/2018/01/04/betty-jane-willis-more-than-another-homeless-death-she-was-a-soul-singer/

Any source for the Jeff Cotton death other than wikipedia (which is no source at all)? He's been notoriously hard to find for decades.

Only Gary Lucas's Facebook page, which is probably no source at all either. Hmm. Let's see if a proper statement comes out, apologies for jumping the gun if it turns out to be a false alarm.

Sleuthing reveals his wife died early last year, but I can't find anything on his dying other than that Lucas post.

Maura - thank you for that Betty Willis obit, very sad, but nice they spoke with her daughter, former coworker and Bill Medley to tell a little of her story.

Starting to look like Jeff Cotton isn't true, but nothing more than FOAF reports either way. I do know his wife died of cancer last year -- that might be the source of the rumors.

Neave Brown, architect of low-rise social housing in Camden, recently awarded RIBA medal for same. Lived until his death in north London’s Dunboyne Road flats, which he designed. Here’s an interview from October conducted by one of my best friends:

https://www.ribaj.com/culture/humanity-as-a-design-tool-riba-royal-medal-neave-brown

BREAKING: Edgar Ray Killen, convicted in 1964 'Mississippi Burning' slayings of 3 civil rights workers, dies in prison. https://t.co/dKu8bikhBC

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 12, 2018

college football broadcaster keith 'whoa, nellie' jackson

First celebrity I ever saw opening something, Bella Emberg

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/bella-emberg-dead-blunder-woman-actress-russ-abott-show-costume-tributes-dies-died-tv-shows-a8157636.html

‘opening something’

25 years old, my god ;_;

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/13/model-killed-in-latest-london-stabbing

Doreen Tracey, Mousekateer who later worked with Frank Zappa.

http://beta.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-doreen-tracey-20180111-story.html

Bloody hell, Bella Emberg, that's someone for the people you didn't realise were still alive except now they aren't thread

https://www.rte.ie/amp/933526/?__twitter_impression=true

Dolores O’Riordan.

Gobsmacked and then some.

46

I just found out that Chu Ishikawa died at the end of last year. He was 51 and apparently was battling a long illness. He did the soundtracks for most of Shinya Tsukamoto's films and must have been quite influential in industrial music but he could do quite a variety of styles. I did think he looked alarmingly thin at times but I knew nothing about his illness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_L6tVsg2o

Dr Mathilde Krim

http://www.newnownext.com/mathilde-krim-dead/01/2018/

Edwin Hawkins, hitmaker of "Oh Happy Day"

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/16/578235211/gospel-star-edwin-hawkins-known-for-oh-happy-day-dies-at-74

as noted elsewhere, Joe Frank

https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/173192/joe-frank-influential-radio-monologuist-dies-at-79

Doug Harvey, the baseball umpire known as "God"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/obituaries/doug-harvey-dead-baseball-umpire.html

Jo Jo White

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22124169/jo-jo-white-boston-celtics-great-basketball-hall-famer-dies-71

Peter Wyngarde:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/18/actor-peter-wyngarde-department-s-dies

Oh no! RIP Peter ;_; That's it I'm pulling out my copy of his album to listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_HiW9J5prc

Mike Carroll, of Poison 13 and Lord High Fixers

Stansfield Turner, CIA chief 1977-81

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/adm-stansfield-turner-who-led-major-cia-overhaul-as-director-of-central-intelligence-dies-94/2018/01/18/eac46390-fc99-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html

Artist Ed Moses, 91.

http://beta.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-me-ed-moses-dies-20180118-story.html#nt=oft12aH-2gp2

Bradford Dillman
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bradford-dillman-dead-actor-compulsion-way-we-were-was-87-1075818

Peter Mayle

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/obituaries/peter-mayle-who-wrote-of-a-year-in-provence-is-dead-at-78.html

David Cavanagh, editor of Select in the 90s and author of some great, great books. (His Creation Records history also functions as a hell of a portrait of the UK indie scene as such in the 80s and 90s, and was the best source of a history of Postcard Records for a long while as well.)

Ringo Lam, director of (most notably) City On Fire.

that is a loss for sure, though for me Full Contact is the go-to Ringo Lam picture.

the shadow he cast was a bit larger than his filmography might indicate; he doesn't have nearly the number of films (nor quality films) to his name as someone like Johnnie To, nor the same number of outsized classics as someone like John Woo, nor the industry-wide domination of someone like Tsui Hark. Nor the arthouse bonafides of Wong Kar-Wai and others. He faded after awhile, and after he made a pair of well-received films in the late nineties w/Victim and Full Alert, he moved into making a lot of Van Damme films and the Dennis Rodman action flick Simon Sez. But City on Fire, Prison on Fire, and Full Contact are absolutely astonishing movies, the latter is probably one of the most awe-inspiring low-grade action films of all time, if not THE most.

Been meaning to see Burning Paradise but I might bump Full Contact ahead.

Yeah Full Contact is a hell of a thing. Should bust out my copy.

was disappointed to find how little of Lam, Woo, To, et al's filmography is available on streaming services.

Johnny To’s stuff sometimes pops up on Mubi but yeah

like, I can't even find the Killer or Hard Boiled

John Woo's got several up on Amazon/Netflix: Red Cliff (which is fantastic in its complete version, however this is the truncated version), Manhunt (his most recent one, mixed reviews abound), and his Dolph Lundgren flick Blackjack. The best Johnnie To available on streaming that I've seen is Breaking News, which is mid-tier To but pretty interesting as a police standoff thriller with *ideas*.

lots of the available To is from the '90s, before he hit his stride and he was at that point making pretty interesting but not very gripping films.

June Whitfield according to twitter, but haven't seen a legit source yet.

Agent has confirmed, according to PA.

Ab Fab's Dame June Whitfield dies aged 93

Man, that sucks.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46706705

Norman Gimbel, film and TV lyricist.

Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey (Chris Isaak, The Avengers) Dead At 61

http://stereoembersmagazine.com/chris-isaak-guitarist-james-calivn-wilsey-dead-at-61/?fbclid=IwAR09UBr-7Hpo-V_C3ESXICqNVgypOBxw0_PbEQm8wYRm0Eyq01OpgMzMZEI

☠️ is really cramming them in before the end of the year

like, what is that today? 6?

Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey (Chris Isaak, The Avengers) Dead At 61

was disappointed to find how little of Lam, Woo, To, et al's filmography is available on streaming services.

Randomly enough I just searched for Johnnie To movies on Netflix the other day and they have a pretty good set right now. None of the more famous Johnnie films but still pretty cool ... they used to only have Three (which I didn't like much).

Netflix has Loving You (1996), Lifeline (1997), Justice My Foot (1992), Mad Monk (1993), The Barefooted Kid (1993), Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011), Blind Detective (2013), Three (2016)

Norman Gimbel, film and TV lyricist

Whenever you hear a bossa nova classic sung in English it's about even odds the lyrics are his.

(Sometimes they're from Ray Gilbert or Gene Lees, who are also no longer with us).

RIght. Or every once in a while Tom Jobim even wrote them himself. Not a big fan of the Gimble or Gilbert bossa lyrics tbh.

Okay, I guess I like some of his lyrics more than I thought. "How Insensitive" for bossa, "Sway" and "Bluesette" in other styles.

Ray Sawyer.

http://www.wkrg.com/news/mobile-county/dr-hook-s-ray-sawyer-chickasaw-native-dead-at-81/1681232151

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ux3-a9RE1Q

"Oh, that's beautiful."

Oh noooooooo. Will be watching this epic triumph / trainwreck in tribute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4c3W-XoNXM

aw shit

https://youtu.be/7LXpnNKNxJI