Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Doors Biographer Jerry Hopkins Dead at 82

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/doors-biographer-jerry-hopkins-dead-at-82-w521066

kate spade :(

i just heard that! :(

Apparent suicide says the beeb.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44374844

Metal guitarist Ralph Santolla (Death, Obituary, Deicide, Iced Earth, others) isn't dead yet, but he's been in a coma since last week and has been taken off life support.

Haven't seen anyone else mention Glynn Edwards, British TV actor (although of course he was in Zulu and played a policeman in a couple of Confessions films).

(Sorry about the paywall, only online obit I can find.)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/06/05/glynn-edwards-played-dave-barman-minder-obituary/

Frank Carlucci, NSA/CIA/DoD "operator" (asshole buddy of Cap Weinberger)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/frank-carlucci-defense-secretary-and-tamer-of-federal-bureaucracies-dies-at-87/2018/06/04/1e34535a-67f9-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html

Malcolm Morley, painter.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44371397

Jerry Maren, last adult actor who played a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz, 98.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/06/jerry-maren-munchkin-wizard-of-oz-obit

Misread that and wondered how many other Munchkins could've possibly detoured into adult films.

Mary Wilson, wife of Harold of Milnsbridge - only 102. that's no age at all these days, fuck this year etc!

peter stringfellol

about time!

RIP... Mary.

rip big man, heaven needed a perma-speedoed mahogany creep

he might be out of luck if heaven has had a me-too moratorium on bloated Tory sex-offenders!

Dull story - One time (1990 or thereabouts) we had our works' Christmas do in Stringfellows (me neither), it was alright but at one point I decided to go up to the DJ box and request some Stone Roses (I know, I know), dude said "yeah, OK" and about 10-15 mins later he played "Fools Gold". It wasn't until I looked again I realised it was the man himself.

So, why would he be running the DJ decks during a fairly nondescript corporate booking, being fairly low-key himself? I guess he enjoyed the work.

There you go, finished now, wake up..

did you have to tuck a fiver into his speedo?

can only presume he was hoping to emulate savile

pretty sure it was rod hull that was into emulating

lol

also eurgh

Fool's Gold = Stringo's brand of fake tan

vg+

i am both glad that this thraed might be an introduction to the glamorous world of peter stringfellow for non-britisher ilxors but saddened that they will not get an opportunity to experience it while he still walked among us

peter wadsworth stringfellow

still reeling from the introduction to ken dodd tbh

oh no

you diddynt

He lives on, in the fact that being compared to Stringfellows is an obvious claim of misogyyny.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html

:-(((((

Fuck. There has been way too much suicide on this thread this year.

What the fuck, I'm completely shocked, horrible news

danny kirwan, apparently

Robert Mandan of "Soap"

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-mandan-dead-actor-who-played-chester-tate-soap-was-86-1116697

awwwwww :(
he was such a great weasel on Soap

Yeah, Danny Kirwan

mick fleetwood posted

https://m.facebook.com/home.php#!/story.php?story_fbid=1754215541267665&id=680798011942762

Lorraine Gordon, owner of the Village Vanguard. Her husband Max opened the place in 1935; she took it over after his death in 1989. Max Gordon was her second husband; before that, she was married to Alfred Lion, co-founder of Blue Note Records.

Wow. RIP. What a character she was.

RIP Sylvia ;_;

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/obituaries/eunice-gayson-dead-bond.html

Sun Studios on FB is reporting that DJ Fontana has passed.

RIP :(

Does that make Elvis's Sun band one of the few groups along with the Ramones and Jimi Hendrix Experience where every member is now dead?

most bands are now all dead taken as a whole id imagine

The "classic" lineup of Motörhead (Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clarke, Philthy Animal Taylor) are all dead.

There's a thread for this iirc.

Bands in which all of the main members are dead

Bands formed in the 60s or later, with every single member dead

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/14/619932066/elvis-presleys-longtime-drummer-d-j-fontana-has-died

Leslie Grantham

civil rights leader Dorothy Cotton

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/dorothy-cotton-civil-rights-leader-and-confidante-to-martin-luther-king-jr-dies-at-88/2018/06/12/0f3e402c-6e4d-11e8-bf86-a2351b5ece99_story.html