Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

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

my mom had this type/color when i was small. not as clean and shiny tho

https://i.imgur.com/qpwW6Xk.jpg

saw one of those on the street the other day... on a tow truck

the print NME

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43367267

Ken Dodd

Gary Burden

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-album-cover-artist-gary-burden-dead-at-84-w517736

Didn't recognize the name, but Gold Rush and On the Beach are brilliant album covers.

Ken Dodd was terrifying.

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).

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)

RIP Ken

He lived in the same house he was born in for 89 of his 90 years apparently.

Carol Vorderman was a former Diddyman btw.

Tory indoctrination club?

Diddymen were non-union labour iirc

living in the same house you were born into all your life is sometimes a very bad option for some people!

yeah it didn't work out so great for the Fritzls

I wish Ken has made funnies like that!

had

Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead and now so is Ken, RIP Doddy.

nv in with the fritzl gag right after 9 on a monday, gonna be a belter of a week of ilxor dot com for sure

apparently ken dodd singles charted 19 times in the uk, maybe we should have an in-memoriam poll thread

Ahem, can I point you in the direction of the opening track of this ILX Compilation:

https://soundcloud.com/nedraggett/tom-d-happiness-in-spite-of-the-death-of-his-fathers-dog?in=nedraggett/sets/ilx-precovers-the-pet-shop-boys-super

Kate Wilhelm died yesterday, never knew she wrote crime fiction as well as great SF.

https://boingboing.net/2018/03/11/the-sweet-birds-sang.html

Hubert de Givenchy, 91

https://fashionista.com/.amp/2018/03/hubert-de-givenchy-death?__twitter_impression=true

Craig Mack. I liked his debut album but can't recall anything else he did.

some of these effusive RIP legend/icon comments seem to be laying it on a bit thick, he dropped one mixtape that disappeared without a trace in the last 20 years.