Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Peter Schreier, German tenor and conductor. He was 84. RIP.

Sleepy LaBeef

Jerry Herman

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2019/12/27/535371796/broadway-legend-jerrry-herman-is-dead-at-88

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jerry-herman-dead-broadway-composer-lyricist-hello-dolly-was-88-1141052

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEyYx7mTEsU

George Michael’s sister. :-(

muckraking journalist Bill Greider

https://www.rollingstone.com/author/william-greider/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2019/12/27/william-greider-political-writer-dead-83/2755289001/

Peanuts TV producer Lee Mendelson

https://padailypost.com/2019/12/27/lee-mendelson-executive-producer-of-peanuts-tv-specials-dies/

This one is strictly for US ILXors: racist radio talk show host Don Imus.

loooong overdue

Whoa

Can't wait to hear what Howard has to say

Good riddance.

Classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5J7OeY8lx4

*George Costanza voice* That's a shame.

Sue Lyon

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/movies/sue-lyon-dead.html

Fuck Don Imus, good riddance

hell yea shakey
rip sue Lyon tho

RIP. She’s in the classic Night of the Iguana

also John Ford's last film

Don Imus was king until Howard Stern blew him out of the water. Imus scrambled ever after, courting favor with NY/DC insiders who felt that Imus gave them street cred. They tolerated his racism until it became too much. Lesson? Keep your racism on low. Don't be obvious. pic.twitter.com/zp8xMGu4Xy

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) December 27, 2019

Alasdair Gray: https://canongate.co.uk/news/alasdair-gray-author-and-artist-has-died-aged-85/
Sad news.

Ah, shame, RIP Alasdair.

i saw him read once, a very long time ago. seemed like a good guy.

RIP fat Glaswegian pedestrian

Shame about his response to the queasy Hillhead Station mural.

bloody hell, that was a bit of rum business.

Oh bloody hell I am reading Lanark again at the moment, prompted, I have to say, by the thought that he couldn't be long for this world. Massive RIP

Very sorry to learn about the mural. I didn't know about that.

Oh no, now Vaughan Oliver

Desperately sad to announce that Vaughan Oliver died peacefully today, with his partner Lee by his side. Great loss of friend and design hero. Vaughan Oliver (1957—2019.

— Adrian Shaughnessy (@AJWShaughnessy) December 29, 2019

Oh fuck no, he was my friend.

I'm very sorry, suzy x

Wow, pretty young ... rip.

The first time I met him, the Guardian sent me to interview him at 4AD the morning after the Jarvis moons Jacko Brits, both of us had stinking hangovers and had to drink about a gallon of tea each to get through the task at hand. Still delightful and intelligent in an inclusive way, had zero side. Latterly he’d been head of the design department at UCA Epsom (and was posting absolutely as normal on FB on Thursday, so this must be sudden, which makes it worse).

Yeah just running through the classic covers in my head he did — what an achievement.

Alasdair Gray was maybe my first favourite author and a very important formative influence on my tastes and sense of humour. Was so good to visit Glasgow, my ancestral town, with my dad this summer and to see his murals
RIP

RIPs.

Trying to remember that Anthony Burgess pull-quote on the cover of Lanark. Something like “Heaven needed a shattering work from Scotland in the modern idiom. This is it.”

Interesting interview with Vaughan Oliver here: https://www.longlivevinyl.net/cover-star-vaughan-oliver-interview/

Simon Raymonde just now on Oliver:

https://m.facebook.com/?_rdr#!/story.php?story_fbid=10158151851003714&id=502913713

For a split second I thought Simon died, too ...

RIP Jack Scott , rockabilly singer who did “The Way I Walk”

Norma Tanega, folksinger and songwriter (including "You're Dead" the What We Do In The Shadows series theme). It seems she ended up teaching in Claremont, California, and knew a friend of mine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Tanega

Simon Raymonde just now on Oliver:

is this publicly readable anywhere?

memorial threads by J0hn D4rnielle:

this is hard news. I will tell you a story https://t.co/4vdrQzvEro

— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) December 29, 2019

and Emma Anderson:

Absolutely gutted to hear about Vaughan Oliver.
Someone asked me recently if working with him had been ‘claustrophobic’ as he seemed to thrust his ideas onto the artists and he didn’t seem to care what they felt about his designs.
Well, I’ll tell you what happened.. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/hckA503rbe

— Emma Anderson 🇪🇺 (@evjanderson) December 29, 2019

Warren Defever:

he was a beast he used to send me naked selfies before it was cool. he put a wedding photo from his first marriage on the back of our single the b-side was called Your Word Against Mine. when i slept in the apt above the 4ad office you could hear him howling late into the night pic.twitter.com/3M8mgp2NsA

— Warren Defever (@hisnameisalive) December 29, 2019

Nice focus on Alasdair gray in the National today, if you can find it

Neil Innes

Deeply saddened by the death of Neil Innes. I fell for Neil’s humour and humanity with the Rutland Weekend Television album in 1976. Big fan ever since and saw/met him many but not enough times. Loved his brilliant witty music, loved him. Mankind will miss his wry sagely wisdom.

— Mark Lewisohn (@marklewisohn) December 30, 2019

Ugh. RIP :(

:(

great story-teller as well as a songwriter whose pastiches i often prefer to the original

RIP, but at least he’ll live on in the form of all the money Eric Idle ripped him off for over the decades

Oh fuck, what a way to end the year.

RIP Neil ;_; The Rutles are only the band the Beatles could have been.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lplGAiqgPwQ

RIP Neil ;_; The Rutles are only the band the Beatles could have been.