Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

xposts lol, I wrote and deleted a post earlier about only knowing anything about snooker because of Mitchell and Webb, glad to see I'm in good company

my dumbo Kerryman dad's completely selfish and dumb justification for us still only having an ancient black and white valve television right up to the mid to late 80's was "I only watch the snooker on it".

"He's left the grey behind the not quite so grey there, that'll make potting the even less grey more difficult".

some Scottish c86 artist

I was down a wee internet rabbit hole earlier looking for some Scottish and/or C86 and/or Creation-ish artist and it was basically "Oh! I Always Get Those Seventeen Mixed Up!"

If nobody else remembers it then I must just have misremembered then. As you were.

Eyup, Vera Lynn's copped it.

(Too soon?)

RIP Dame who everyone was surprised was still alive

Well, every time there was a comp that hit the chart, she became "the oldest person ever to have made the chart" each time, even though she's not exactly been adding to the recordings for ooh decades..

irl lols at 'and he's potted the grey...'

4 entries on the thread!

Xpost Petula Clark has her eyes set on that prize now.

Fuck me she's fallen off the perch at last! Can old Phil be far behind? Looking forward to the footage of celebratory street parties-cum-coronavirus infection dishes to follow.

irl lols at 'and he's potted the grey...'

― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Thursday, June 18, 2020 11:00 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

haha

RIP old lady. Expecting Boris to commission a statue to stand alongside Winnie's - together again.

She headlined a GLC anti-heroin benefit gig in my local park (decades before I lived here) in ‘85, along with Hawkwind, Spear of Destiny and Comsat Angels.

Excellent.

The best photo of Dame Vera Lynn is when she posed with Hawkwind after they joint headlined a 1980s anti-heroin gig. pic.twitter.com/N2PLBTcwo7

— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) June 18, 2020

that is some next-level dad-joke your dad was running there calzino, respect

alas, if only it was a joke Stevie. But at least he got to the next level in the end!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jean-kennedy-smith-kennedy-sister-and-architect-of-peace-in-northern-ireland-dies-at-92/2020/06/18/a236b0b0-b15a-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html

Jean Kennedy Smith, 92

in the States we only know Vera Lynn cuz of Kubrick

First British act to have a US number one single, back in 1954, obviously before your time.

(xp) I assume that's why the Byrds covered "We'll Meet Again" on their first album.

Xpost Correction, 1952.

well yeah, only the olds know her from then

the mushroom cloud gave her immortality

in the States we only know Vera Lynn cuz of Kubrick

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, June 18, 2020 6:32 AM (seventeen minutes ago)

Pink Floyd's The Wall 2xLP sold almost 12 million copies in the USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl20jlVnvYs

(...which makes it the #7 most sold record in USA history)

she also gets referenced in ebeneezer goode by the shamen

how many (living) Pink Floyd fans can name her...

https://dcist.com/story/20/06/17/maiesha-rashad-the-first-lady-of-go-go-dies-of-stomach-cancer-complications/

Maiesha Rashad, of Maiesha and the Hip Huggers

Pink Floyd's The Wall 2xLP sold almost 12 million copies in the USA

FTR, for purposes of music industry accounting fuckery, double albums count as 2 sales to the RIAA, so 6 million actual physical objects.

Actually 12 mil is about right, as it was awarded 23X Platinum in 1999 (so 12 1/2 mil physical copies then, and a bunch more since).

11 1/2 mil, my bad.

In After the Ball, by the recently deceased Ian Whitcomb, there's a funny account of him meeting the Byrds on a TV show and asking them about We'll Meet Again:

They sang Mr Tambourine Man to the accompaniment of drums, and electric guitars (notably a twelve-string affair that sounded Elizabethan). Afterwards I went up to their rostrum and, flashing a smile, asked them who wrote the song (just for polite conversation). The twelve-string guitarist, wearing National Health type glasses and a wry look said softly so I could hardly hear: 'Dylan, man, like don't you know?' I said no but I do know the other song you sang, We'll Meet Again, originally made famous by Vera Lynn, the Forces Sweetheart. 'We think it's kinda funny and old,' said their spokesman. I said that the song meant an awful lot to those who had fought in the Second World War. 'I trust everything will turn out right,' replied the spokesman mysteriously.

Malayalam filmmaker Sachidanandan "Sachy"

https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/malayalam-filmmaker-sachidanandan-passes-away-he-was-48-126855

Author Carlos Ruiz Zafón, aged 55

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/19/carlos-ruiz-zafon-author-of-the-shadow-of-the-wind-dies-aged-55

Ian Holm, 88:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/19/ian-holm-dies-alien-chariots-of-fire-bilbo-baggins

aw man!

... people you thought...

RIP though. Good actor.

The last thing I saw him in was the framing device of The Hobbit, I should rectify that.

RIP, and what a shame nerdmovies dominate the obits

outstanding in The Sweet Hereafter, Dreamchild (as Lewis Carroll), Big Night, etc.

what a shame nerdmovies dominate the obits

As ever. Just be glad he was never in a Harry Potter film.

I don't remember his Cronenberg period at all...

With my daughter, just been watching him in The Borrowers. Great actor.

RIP. Think I liked him in that one with Gandolfini too, let's see, Sidney Lumet, Night Falls on Manhattan.

Allen Baekeland's old radio station is having a tribute to him Thursday night.

cjsw.com

http://www.facebook.com/CJSWRadio/photos/a.184964652829/10157667984587830/?type=3&theater

― clemenza, Saturday, June 13, 2020 9:45 PM (six days ago)

RIP Ian Holm. He's terrific in the film version of Pinter's The Homecoming, which you can watch in full here:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vkk0a

loved him.

https://i.redd.it/fvlqdmz8gjgz.jpg

Great in Brazil as head of the contact tracers:

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