The Crystals started out as a quintet with Barbara in lead til 62Spector 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 moveThen the real Crystals were back on deck with LaLa in 63 and she sang Then He Kissed Me and Da Doo Ron Ronit’s sad tho bcz I always forget it’s LaLa and not Darlene on those 2!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
> 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
― koogs, Sunday, 25 February 2018 04:36 (six years ago) link
also xposts to AA: the girls all HATED the song.oh thank god
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 February 2018 10:08 (six years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 February 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 February 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
Lewis Gilbert, aged 97
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lewis-gilbert-dead-alfie-james-bond-director-dies-at-97-1088811
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
Ah man. My gran was best friends at school with Lewis Gilbert. As a child it felt like a secret connection to Roger Moore.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
Aw RIP Lewis. What an innings tho! 97! He had the cutest Elmer Fudd speech impediment
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo
http://variety.com/2018/film/global/idrissa-ouedraogo-dies-dead-tilai-1202704129/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
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
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
Jackson Galaxy's main cat, Veloouria, at the fairly unbelievable age of 26.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b3/a2/fd/b3a2fd00c29cf16de87146bf55434b47.jpg
very distinguished looking cat, rip veloouria
― soref, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
cynthia heimelhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/obituaries/cynthia-heimel-irreverent-writer-about-sex-dies-at-70.html
― maura, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 11:27 (six years ago) link
:-(( RIP improver of my 1980s.
― kim jong deal (suzy), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 11:29 (six years ago) link
comedian/activist Barry Crimmins
https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-barry-crimmins-comedian-and-activist-1823430381
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
RIP <3Anyone who hasn't seen "Call Me Lucky" definitely should
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link
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
― Alba, Saturday, 3 March 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
David Ogden Stiers
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/david-ogden-stiers-emmy-nominee-005402748.html
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 March 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
he was so great on MASH <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:09 (six years ago) link
I like how he pronounced "cretins"
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
Harvey Schmidt, composer of The Fantasticks
http://www.playbill.com/article/harvey-schmidt-fantasticks-composer-dies-at-88
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
MASH was good at replacing people
winchester, hunnicutt and potter were all better than burns, trapper and blake
― mookieproof, Sunday, 4 March 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link
The first one maybe, the second definitely not, flip a coin on the third.
― Whiney On The Moog (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 March 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
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...
― omar little, Sunday, 4 March 2018 04:13 (six years ago) link
Fun Fact: DOS went to high school w/Roger Ebert.
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 March 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
Davide Astori, the Fiorentina captain, dies last night at 31.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 4 March 2018 11:46 (six years ago) link
*died
Roger Bannister too.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 4 March 2018 11:50 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lKcSIKkI2A
― scott seward, Sunday, 4 March 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
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
― brain (krakow), Monday, 5 March 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
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
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 March 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
russ solomon, founder of tower records (also rip)http://amp.sacbee.com/latest-news/article203542104.html
― maura, Monday, 5 March 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
"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.
― maura, Monday, 5 March 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
Much worse ways to bow out, really.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 March 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
xp"Either that outfit goes or I do!"
― nickn, Monday, 5 March 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
I just watched that Tower Records doc a week or so ago. He seemed like a dude!
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Monday, 5 March 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
Historian Hayden White. One of very few people that I read as an undergraduate who - cliché alert - really changed the way I viewed history.
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
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
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
The Volkswagen Beetle (again)https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-show/volkswagen-confirms-beetle-wont-be-replaced
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
my mom had this type/color when i was small. not as clean and shiny tho
https://i.imgur.com/qpwW6Xk.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
saw one of those on the street the other day... on a tow truck
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
the print NME
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 March 2018 03:15 (six years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43367267
Ken Dodd
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link
Gary Burden
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-album-cover-artist-gary-burden-dead-at-84-w517736
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 March 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
Didn't recognize the name, but Gold Rush and On the Beach are brilliant album covers.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
Ken Dodd was terrifying.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 12 March 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
XP There's a good doc about Burden and Henry Diltz called "Under the Covers - A Magical Journey: Rock N Roll in L.A. in the 60's - 70's" that used to run on PBS as a pledge programmer 10-15 years ago. IIRC, it only touches on Neil through CSNY, but Crosby is interviewed (among others), and he's in rare form (even for him).
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 March 2018 02:16 (six years ago) link
Ken Dodd managed to spend a very long career surrounded by young kids without getting yewtreed, sad that this is in any way notable of course. My mum's cousin was a diddyman and as far as I'm aware he was fine.His single "Tears' was also the third best selling single of the 60s in the UK, he was hugely popular in his time and still doing ridiculously long shows to packed houses aged 90.With the death of my last great aunt in Liverpool late last year, this really feels like the end of the WW2 generation (on a personal level, I know)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 12 March 2018 07:40 (six years ago) link
RIP Ken
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Monday, 12 March 2018 08:30 (six years ago) link
He lived in the same house he was born in for 89 of his 90 years apparently.
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 09:02 (six years ago) link