Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Blimey, used to see him back in my "Comedy Gig-Going" days - he was really good!

I dunno, what can you do? The price of staying alive, I guess.

tommy cooper, too

Appropriately enough Jerry Sadowitz had a routine about this - and some horse that died running the Derby.

(american) football player and coach (bengals, packers) forrest gregg

Tommy Smith, Liverpool FC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47913937

virulently racist piece of shit who leaves the world a richer place for his having left it

I did not know about that. But yes, checks out :(

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/03/howard-gayle-being-liverpool-first-black-player-was-difficult

google his interview with Dave Hill, warning it's exceedingly unpleasant

Gary Stewart, Veteran of Rhino Records and Apple Music, Dies at 62

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/gary-stewart-rhino-records-apple-music-dies-1203188602/?fbclid=IwAR1oDF_TelOhb0J6ODMkyHXtFzONQQthWpLj-fJ4Dv-_29pTJowHlfTeNmc

Avant-guitarist and Curlew member Davey Williams, 67:

https://guardiansofguitar.com/2019/04/08/davey-williams-1952-2019/

Bibi Andersson

Oh no.

aw man RIP

We named our cats Harriet and Bibi. Our Bibi also went first :(

RIP :(

Scottish newspaper cartoonist Malky McCormick, best known for his Billy Connolly Big Yin strip in the Sunday Mail (which also featured him as Wee Man) and then the following lightly satirical stuff (when Billy had fallen out with the Record about something and refused his likeness).

Paul Raymond from UFO

SF/fantasy writer Gene Wolfe

Scottish newspaper cartoonist Malky McCormick, best known for his Billy Connolly Big Yin strip in the Sunday Mail (which also featured him as Wee Man) and then the following lightly satirical stuff (when Billy had fallen out with the Record about something and refused his likeness).

People you thought were dead. RIP Malky.

https://i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article14330233.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_THE-BIG-YIN-CARTOON.jpg

I thought you'd be the one guy who definitely knew who he was.

You might even say I was Lucan out for you. *

*niche joke

i remember his drawings from the record, though the specific big yin strip must be from before my time

You might even say I was Lucan out for you. *

I almost did.

david brion davis, historian of slavery

SF/fantasy writer Gene Wolfe

No! Fuck, this one hurts. RIP.

Les Reed, songwriter, composer of "Delilah", "It's Not Unusual", "There's a Kind of Hush" et al.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47948530

Kazuhiko Katou aka Monkey Punch, most famous for writing and drawing the Lupin III manga

Georgia Engel, most know for playing Georgette on the Mary Tyler Moore show.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/713892952/georgia-engel-sweet-voiced-star-of-mary-tyler-moore-show-dies-at-70

Kazuhiko Katou aka Monkey Punch, most famous for writing and drawing the Lupin III manga

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oh man rip

it'd hard to play a wide-eyed innocent for laughs and not be boring; she was masterful

xp

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sl3-117-2109_large.jpg

Skylab/Space Shuttle scientist-astronaut Owen Garriott
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/skylab-and-space-shuttle-astronaut-owen-garriott-dies-at-88/

I’ve got a tattoo of Skylab with an astronaut on a space walk so apparently I have a 1/7 chance that I have a tattoo of that guy

J. Geils

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/guitarist-j-geils-dead-at-71-108373

^^Two Years Ago. It's been going around again.

jesus my blood ran cold there for a second

Being Dead Stinks

j. geils: dead and loving it

damn it

FWIW, I've probably seen that link shared more over the past few days than I did when it actually happened.

my dad got tricked by the J Geils thing the other day.... and these obituaries, we keep tabs on them. we play games. and I think about this

Alan Garcia, who was President of Peru for ten years (iirc) has shot himself rather than getting arrested in a corruption probe.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-latin-america-47965867

Watergate burglar Janes McCord (in 2017 but just reported now)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-mccord-jr-watergate-conspirator-who-linked-break-in-to-the-white-house-dies-at-93/2019/04/18/11c2082e-6195-11e9-9ff2-abc984dc9eec_story.html?utm_term=.ab19488ddd41

Manga writer Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf & Cub, Hanzo the Razor, Lady Snowblood, Crying Freeman), 82 (pneumonia).

I don’t read comics so had no idea those were all written by the same person!

8( i have a 3ft pile of his manga.

(LW&C books are currently £2 each on comixology btw. there are 28 of them, over 8000pp total)

I had no idea he was still alive! And now I miss Martin Skidmore.

wrote lots of golf manga as well. but i don't think this ever reached a western audience.

Just saw this. I do read comics but basically zero manga. Koike's work, though, is an exception because it's exceptionally good.

Just saw that disco producer Don Ray died last month.

truly surreal that it took two years (!!) for anyone to get around to noticing that a major figure in the watergate scandal had died.

lyra mckee, journalist, 29 years old

Just saw that disco producer Don Ray died last month.

RIP, responsible for some great tunes.