Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Was just coming here to post that http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43183354

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43171117

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-crystals-singer-barbara-ann-alston-dead-at-74-w517091

She sang lead on early songs including “Uptown “ & “He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)”

“He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)”

jesus christ

oh shit :( Barbara was the living end, i love the Crystals so much
rip lady <3

like Ronnie was THE voice but Barbara had such a sweet sincerity, I really love her early songs

https://youtu.be/gkpeUDbVAlE

Would never have guessed the lead singer of the Crystals was still alive. Close call between them and the Ronettes--they're even tied in the iconic-Scorsese-shots department.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCYwcObxl78

ronnie? i meant darlene ugh ugh

also xposts to AA: the girls all HATED the song. written by Goffin & King

I was a little confused too..."sang lead on early songs"--so it's Darlene Love on "Then He Kissed Me"?

No, that's LaLa Brooks.

The Crystals started out as a quintet with Barbara in lead til 62

Spector pulled a switcheroo & recorded Love’s group The Blossoms AS the Crystals doing He’s A Rebel while the real Crystals were on the road touring. Suuuuuuper dick move
Then the real Crystals were back on deck with LaLa in 63 and she sang Then He Kissed Me and Da Doo Ron Ron

it’s sad tho bcz I always forget it’s LaLa and not Darlene on those 2!

> Would never have guessed the lead singer of the Crystals was still alive.

They were all terribly young at the time though, all born in the '40s. Darlene is still alive and kicking up a storm at 76

also xposts to AA: the girls all HATED the song.

oh thank god

Harriet Fier, Rolling Stone editor.

I still have a few of those issues--a friend gave some of his brother's, the first time I'd really read the magazine (I knew about it). The reviews section was fantastic during those three years: Paul Nelson was editor, and Marcus, Bangs, Marsh, and a bunch of other people--the Stranded writers, basically, minus Christgau--were all in there at the same time.

x-post- Carole King soon came to hate the song too. Goffin said the lyrics were based on something Little Eva told him about her boyfriend

Lewis Gilbert, aged 97

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lewis-gilbert-dead-alfie-james-bond-director-dies-at-97-1088811

Ah man. My gran was best friends at school with Lewis Gilbert. As a child it felt like a secret connection to Roger Moore.

Aw RIP Lewis. What an innings tho! 97!
He had the cutest Elmer Fudd speech impediment

African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo

http://variety.com/2018/film/global/idrissa-ouedraogo-dies-dead-tilai-1202704129/

Peter Miles, British actor you'll mainly recognise from 70s TV (and especially as Nyder in Genesis of the Daleks) but also a jazz singer and guitarist who was a close friend of Dusty. He played guitar on the first record The Springfields made and appeared on other Dusty recordings like this one:

https://youtu.be/yLMrMMSFviU

Jackson Galaxy's main cat, Veloouria, at the fairly unbelievable age of 26.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b3/a2/fd/b3a2fd00c29cf16de87146bf55434b47.jpg

very distinguished looking cat, rip veloouria

cynthia heimel

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/obituaries/cynthia-heimel-irreverent-writer-about-sex-dies-at-70.html

:-(( RIP improver of my 1980s.

comedian/activist Barry Crimmins

https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-barry-crimmins-comedian-and-activist-1823430381

RIP <3
Anyone who hasn't seen "Call Me Lucky" definitely should

Guardian columnist Michele Hanson.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/03/michele-hanson-warm-witty-much-loved-columnist-dies-guardian

It's a bit unnerving that her Twitter account is retweeting tributes to her without anyone announcing that they are in control of it and that she's not tweeting from beyond the grave!

https://twitter.com/michelerhanson

David Ogden Stiers

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/david-ogden-stiers-emmy-nominee-005402748.html

he was so great on MASH <3

I like how he pronounced "cretins"

Harvey Schmidt, composer of The Fantasticks

http://www.playbill.com/article/harvey-schmidt-fantasticks-composer-dies-at-88

MASH was good at replacing people

winchester, hunnicutt and potter were all better than burns, trapper and blake

The first one maybe, the second definitely not, flip a coin on the third.

DOS was good in everything I watched him in. i remember him being particularly outstanding in the very good, totally slept on mid-'90s thriller Bad Company w/Laurence Fishburne, Ellen Barkin, Frank Langella, etc...

Fun Fact: DOS went to high school w/Roger Ebert.

Davide Astori, the Fiorentina captain, dies last night at 31.

*died

Roger Bannister too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lKcSIKkI2A

Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind-up radio: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/05/trevor-baylis-inventor-wind-up-radio-dies-aged-80

re Sir Rog

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/05/590792079/roger-bannister-first-runner-to-break-4-minute-mile-dies-at-88

russ solomon, founder of tower records (also rip)

http://amp.sacbee.com/latest-news/article203542104.html

"Ironically, he was giving his opinion of what someone was wearing that he thought was ugly, then asked (his wife) Patti to to refill his whisky," Solomon said. When she returned, he had died.

Much worse ways to bow out, really.

xp
"Either that outfit goes or I do!"

I just watched that Tower Records doc a week or so ago. He seemed like a dude!

Historian Hayden White. One of very few people that I read as an undergraduate who - cliché alert - really changed the way I viewed history.

André S Labarthe. Film critic and filmmaker behind the great "Cinéastes de notre temps" series of filmmaker docus ( snippets often appear nowadays on Criterion releases).

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

The Volkswagen Beetle (again)
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-show/volkswagen-confirms-beetle-wont-be-replaced