Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Andy Anderson, drummer for The Cure

https://pitchfork.com/news/the-cure-drummer-andy-anderson-dead-at-68/

Gaffer Tape inventor Ross Lowell at 92. I suppose responsible for many gigs going to plan.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ross-lowell-dead-oscar-recipient-inventor-gaffer-tape-was-92-1190871

Also received a Technical Achievement Oscar in 1979 for "the development of compact lighting equipment for motion picture technology"and photographed various documentaries for directors John Boorman and Robert Aldrich.

Oops double post - apologies it's early

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/obituaries/dorothy-masuka-dead.html
RIP to one of the greats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytZayivmedU

andre previn

Argh, RIP. Highly recommend his memoir, No Minor Chords.

yep, and easily predicted that he would write and relate so well

Here is a relevant link: Major vs. Minor

mike willesee

actress katherine helmond of 'soap', 'who's the boss', time bandits,brazil and more, 89

noooooooooo ;_;

she was so wonderful in Soap

Aww. She was always great, even in something as mediocre as Who’s the Boss?

Keith Flint of The Prodigy, 49 (!)

wtf

Just saw this. Wtf was my exact reaction as well.

RIP

Fuck, really?

Found him at home, apparently.

Holy shit.

Police said they were "called to concerns for the welfare of a man" just after 08:00 GMT. "Sadly, a 49-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.

"The death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner."

Wow, shocker.

Ted Lindsay, Gordie Howe's linemate:

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2019/03/04/ted-lindsay-dies-detroit-red-wings/579477002/

Yeah keith flint. A definite shock. :-(

the prodigy instagram account says "our brother Keith took his own life over the weekend"

:(

This is so incredibly sad.

luke perry, 52

oof...that is insane to me

He had a massive stroke three days ago, so I'm less shocked by that one.

yeah the stroke ok but...wow

damn

It's still pretty terrible, don't get me wrong.

https://frinkiac.com/video/S04E22/0Pka44ZkOT1y7PjeAx-QPmhqEYM=.gif

Oof, RIP X 2. Please take care of yourselves today, people who came to fame in the '90s.

farewell, Byron-quoting rebel without a pause Dylan McKay.

Jfc this one def hurts. I was so happy to see him in Riverdale. Teen me is crying.

so sad ;_;

He was the best parent on Riverdale (the bar is v low given everyone is a murderer but still, love u Fred)

ah jeez, that’s rough

sara romweber, north carolina drummer with let's active, snatches of pink and her brother dexter

wrestler king kong bundy, 61

Magenta Devine, presenter, 61.

oh no!

Yeah, that's a thing. Network 7 well ahead of its time. RIP

I doubt anyone here cares, but…

Antoine Emaz, French poet, 64.
Jean Starobinski, Swiss literary critic, 98.

RIP

RIP Magenta :(

Eusebio Pedroza, featherweight world champ for 7 years

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/26113169/hofer-pedroza-dies-pancreatic-cancer-62

Magenta was the first person whose style I knowingly tried to copy. 1980s Madchen couldn’t have chosen a cooler style icon imo.

I doubt anyone here cares, but…

I would like to very sincerely entreat you not to let this stop you (or anyone else). I don't know any of those two, but a) it is good to be prodded to research a bit outside the anglosphere, and b) the next time it could be some other relative non-celeb I actually really care about. In other words, thanks.

Happy to hear it. Both of those two are very much worth exploring btw, although I have no idea whether their works have been translated into English at all.

So sad to hear about Magenta. Madchen otm, she was cool af!