Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

louis tomlinson’s sister felicite, 18

What??? Oh no. Only lost his mom not too long ago

I don’t know to what extent people outside the skateboarding world know Jake Phelps, but it’s impossible to understate his importance to skateboarding. He brought a larger than life influence to a huge culture, and was instrumental to its development since its adolescence. A week ago I bought a back issue of the first issue of Thrasher I ever had, and it was poignant to reflect on the significance that magazine had at a formative time. All that’s to say I’m shocked and saddened by that news and feel compelled to write this out to feel more grounded. R.I.P.

ah fuck i hadn’t heard about Jake.. RIP

W.S.Merwin

:(

Fuck drunk drivers. A friend just got killed in an accident. 26. Fuck. Life had just started for this sweet sweet girl.

Sorry shldnt have posred here.

I'm so sorry, nathom

Thanks. Fuck drunk drivers.

Michael Wycoff, whose best known track was "Looking Up To You".

Also Frankie Smith, of "Double Dutch Bus" fame.

Sad to hear about Frankie, RIP.

Hadn’t heard of Michael Wycoff, but in things you were shockingly old when you learned: Zhané’s “Hey Mr DJ” is based in large part on “Looking Up To You”, so RIP Michael as well.

Barbara Hammer, art filmmaker, 79.

Richard Erdman, actor in Stalag 17 and Leonard in Community.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-erdman-dead-community-stalag-917730

Dick Dale, King of the Surf Guitar.

Bernie Torme, Ozzy Osbourne and Ian Gillan Guitarist, Dead at 66

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bernie-torme-ozzy-osbourne-ian-gillan-obituary-795089/?fbclid=IwAR3jIfox1ZWtPbetlGy1TvTvKRbwljcKWETZSsCakPoRn5Rjlk3We8-Ndco

Andre Williams, R&B/soul legend, 82

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-rafi-eitan-ex-mossad-agent-who-led-eichmann-s-capture-dies-at-92-1.7045841

Rafi Eitan, top Mossad agent who led the operation to capture Eichmann, fought against the British in the Mandatory Palestine, led mossad operations in Paris in the 70's, handled US spy Jonathan Pollard. Fair to say he saw a bit of action did this fellow!

Cult filmmaker Larry Cohen (God Told Me To, It's Alive, Q) at 77.

We're talking about him over here: On Larry Cohen

Scott Walker. Damn.

Oh, fuck.

Father of Sandy Hook victim Avielle Richman found dead outside of Newtown Town Hall after apparent suicide https://t.co/JD57vIihNA

— Hartford Courant (@hartfordcourant) March 25, 2019

jesus, that's tragic.

yeah, and right after two parkland survivors took their own lives, too

Fuck the NRA.

Joseph Pilato, one of the stars of Romero's Day of the Dead:

https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3552534/r-p-day-dead-scene-stealer-joseph-pilato-died-70/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/obituaries/jh-kwabena-nketia-dead.html?fbclid=IwAR2Yd1IT6I-WFidBpyxJAvNqkAlQPnw9E1seAj0YXnUT41g4fMm1VzZtMYg

RIP 97-years old Ghanaian scholar and author re African music J.H. Kwabenia Nketia

His 1974 book, “The Music of Africa,” is widely considered a definitive historical study, and “Ethnomusicology and African Music,” a collection of his writings published in 2005, is used in classrooms throughout Africa ...

Ranking Roger, from the (English) Beat and General Public.

RIP Roger Charlery aka Ranking Roger.

“Goodnight sweet prince. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest”. pic.twitter.com/6kVr49cJJH

— pauline black (@paulineblack) March 26, 2019

Oh fuck no

RIP FULL STOP

.. Am ded!

Wilum 'Hopfrog' Pugmire, Lovecraftian author, 67

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Pugmire

Russia’s space agency says pioneering Soviet-era cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, who made the first of his three flights to space in 1963, has died at age 84.

Roscosmos said Bykovsky died Wednesday, but it didn’t state a cause of death.

Bykovsky was one of 20 Soviet military pilots in the first group picked to prepare for space. He first flew to space in June 1963 as a member of the Vostok-5 crew.

He underwent training for a moon mission before the United States won the race to the moon and the Soviet Union canceled its plans to go there.
Bykovsky made his second space flight in 1976 and his third in 1978. He spent nearly 21 days in orbit in all.

wow air https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/03/28/business/wow-air-scli-intl/index.html

Liverpudlian duo Her's and their manager in a car crash in US. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/members-and-tour-manager-of-liverpool-band-hers-killed-in-us-car-crash

Agnès Varda

:(

I suppose she couldn't live forever ;_;

☹️

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-shane-rimmer-dead-voice-14202785

Shane Rimmer, with one of the most magnificent and varied acting careers.

Don't know the band Her's, but the story is horrible. Having done both, I'd rather sleep in a parked van than drive in the night after a gig every time and I hate when I get outvoted on that. The accident was pretty clearly the other party's fault, but there are fewer drunks on the road in the morning.

The last time I drove that stretch of I-10 in Arizona late at night, the driver of a truck-trailer fell asleep at the wheel fell asleep at the wheel, crossed the median-strip, and head-on'ed into a SUV going the other way. We got there 10-15minutes after it happened and everything was still on fire - 3 dead. I'd sleep in the van too.

Sad about Pugmire, had just heard last week that he was in a hospice. I did wonder if he was suffering from something new because he was seeming very slow in his youtube videos. He had earlier brushes with death and seemed to surprise himself with his productivity after that. I'm sure I'll hear more details soon enough.

i hate driving late at night, anytime after midnight. i think lonely interstate driving at that time is reasonably okay, but on city streets and freeways and wide-open suburban roads it's pretty dangerous. especially in L.A. and the surrounding counties. every other day there's a wreck and five people die.

geoff harvey

Nipsey Hussle, Grammy-Nominated Rapper, Shot Dead in L.A.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nipsey-hussle-grammy-nominated-rapper-shot-dead-in-l-a-815476/?fbclid=IwAR2SPPiyvj6zzLG-S1g_etKl2qf2B3j-RzpTHscAj37ygFd5pqi2Z0TP1Zs

Ken Gibson, first black US mayor of a Northeast city (Newark)

https://www.nj.com/essex/2019/03/ken-gibson-newarks-trailblazing-mayor-and-the-first-black-mayor-of-a-major-northeast-city-dies-at-86.html

T Mallet

Bloody hell I thought that was going to be Timmy Mallett for a moment, don't do that to me

SF author Vonda N. McIntyre, 70

http://file770.com/science-fiction-author-vonda-n-mcintyre-official-obituary/