Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

5 posts up but this could be the start of a beautiful new meme.

oops sorry! fucking shit eyesight!

peter sissons

My memory of him is he was a complete bell-end and I lolled when Brass Eye made it look like he was getting blown off under the news at 10 desk

seter pissons

fuck pissons

Following his retirement, Sissons published his 2011 autobiography When One Door Closes in which he was highly critical of his former employer, the BBC. He argued that the organisation had a left-wing mindset "in its very DNA" and that the BBC News had a bias towards New Labour, the United Nations, the European Union, environmental groups, Islam, ethnic minorities and women. He claimed that "I am in no doubt that the majority of BBC staff vote for political parties of the Left".

Humphrys will be joining him soon enough

Wasn't he at school with Paul McCartney?

Peter Sissons. And juggalos.

"Sissons attended the Dovedale Junior School with John Lennon and Jimmy Tarbuck."

must been one of biggest classroom of cunts of the northern post-war era

LOL

:D

apparently it was sissons that came up with the line "i read the news today oh boy"

im hearing peter sissons has gone to chelsea?

https://i.imgur.com/B99Re2V.png

Beverly 'Guitar' Watkins.

Peter Sissons, John Lennon and Jimmy Tarbuck all in the same Dovedale Junior school photo on a trip to the Isle of Mann in 1951. pic.twitter.com/tKvUarEc2g

— Jamie Bowman (@JamieBowman77) October 2, 2019

Kim Shattuck, of the Muffs, Pandoras, and Pixies.

??!?

From ALS apparently.

https://www.thewrap.com/kim-shattuck-lead-singer-and-songwriter-for-the-muffs-dies-at-56/

Followed by a very long list of 'other people who also died this year'!

Oh man, that's sad

Diahann Carroll, 84

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/diahann-carroll-dead-pioneering-actress-julia-dynasty-was-84-1196051

"Julia" is one of the first sitcoms i remember watching in its original run.

Hearing news that Ed Ackerson of Polara and friend to a lot of folks in Minneapolis passed from cancer. (a gofundme was set up for his family yesterday)

Ah man.

Man, no Polara thread on here! I've fixed that.

Polara and the work of Ed Ackerson

Ginger Baker

Baseballer Andy Etchebarren, 2x All-Star catcher; 2 World Series rings with Baltimore ('66, '70); together with Elrod Hendricks caught the 1971 Baltimore pitching squad that boasted four 20-game winners. Also was of Basque descent and had great eyebrows.

Rip Taylor

there is confetti in heaven

No way did he just die. Really?

Wow, people you thought were, etc.

Just googled and the third image seems to be a Rip Torn mugshot.

Wish I could watch a video of that SNL Superbuzzers sketch.

torn and taylor in the same year. rip rips.

Rip it up and start again.

riptide

Militant's Tony Mulhearn

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/veteran-liverpool-political-campaigner-tony-17044088

Bassist-composer William Folwell, probably best known for his stint in Albert Ayler's band.

Marshall Efron, a '70s TV creator/actor who's hard to describe

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/arts/television/marshall-efron-dead.html

They play his Better Living Through Chemistry clip on a loop at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.

Vinnie Bell :(

Oh no--[checks Vinnie Bell wiki]

His first hit was in 1962 as a member of the band The Ramrods, whose version of (Ghost) Riders in the Sky made the UK top 10 and US top 40 in 1961.[4][5]

By 1962, Bell decided to devote his energies to working as a studio musician in New York and Los Angeles, developing a "watery" guitar sound popular in instrumental recordings in the 1960s.[6] He also helped design a number of electric guitar models with the company Danelectro for it’s “Coral” line of instruments, including the first electric 12-string guitar,[7] and the electric sitar,[8]

Seems like my friend the former Sounds, NME etc writer Tommy Udo has died. :(

Yeah, seeing other posts on that too. A real damn shame.

RIP cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, first person to do a spacewalk

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexei-leonov-died-cosmonaut-first-man-to-walk-in-space-dead-age-85-cause-of-death-not-released-2019-10-11/

He wrote an interesting (terrifying) account of that spacewalk mission which you can read here:
https://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-nightmare-of-voskhod-2-8655378/

Oh and here's a gallery of his paintings (some painted by him, some by an artist friend, some a collaboration between the two): https://gizmodo.com/the-first-spacewalker-and-his-painter-friend-created-th-1729276737

That account is fantastic, thanks for sharing. Lots of amazing details but this one jumped out at me first

The serious problems I had experienced when reentering the spacecraft were, thankfully, not televised. From the moment our mission looked to be in jeopardy, transmissions from our spacecraft, which had been broadcast on both radio and television, were suddenly suspended without explanation. In their place Mozart’s Requiem was played again and again on state radio. My family was therefore spared the anxiety they would have had to endure had they known how close I came to being stranded in space.

yeah! even aside from being a requiem you'd think the broadcast suddenly halting and being replaced by looping music would be unnerving, but I guess maybe the awareness that "uh-oh, seems like a broadcast emergency procedure" wasn't so public in 1965...

'terrifying' kinda undersells the constant piling on of disaster after disaster on top of leonov and his co-pilot, holy shit