Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

Poor guy fell and broke his thigh. RIP.

What a musical legacy. RIP, maestro.

rip xxxx xx

Since Johnny Mandel died I’ve kept hearing coincidental Emily references in reading and music - I’m working my way through the BBC Desert Island Disc archive and today was Bruce Forsyth from 1996. He picks the Bill Evans Trio - Emily as his first track and they play it at 45 rather than 33! Oh dear..

Bill Evans did a lot of Mandel songs. His version of 'Suicide is Painless' is remarkable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spHZjZV4i3c

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ennio-morricone-dead-prolific-italian-composer-was-91-858358

Rudolfo Anaya

https://www.abqjournal.com/1471290/beloved-nm-author-rudolfo-anaya-passes-away.html

Charlie Daniels
https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/07/06/charlie-daniels-country-music-dies/5384087002/

kevin rafferty, director of 'the atomic cafe'

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-kevin-raffery-obit-20200703-b2ibkeinxvg5pbeoczca5upwbm-story.html

Joe Porcaro, patriarch of the Toto brethren, as well as having his own notable career as a drummer.

Just heard that Mary Kay Letourneau died (colon cancer, age 58).

She was famous for having sex with her 13 yr old student, getting pregnant, getting sent to jail, and later marrying him and having another kid.

Read up on her background on wiki. Her dad had some extra-marital kids with a mistress/student while he was in office. And one of her brothers works for the Trump administration. Great family!

In 1978, her father was re-elected as a Republican to the California State Senate. He intended to run for the U.S. Senate in 1982, but his political career was permanently damaged that year when it was revealed that he had fathered two children out of wedlock during an affair with a mistress, a former student at Santa Ana College, where he had taught political science.[13]

Letourneau's brother John Schmitz was the deputy counsel to President George H. W. Bush.[11] Her other brother, Joseph E. Schmitz, was Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense under President George W. Bush,[15] was a senior executive with Academi, and is a foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump.[16]

She was famous for having sex with her 13 year old student

you misspelled "raping" there

Oof I’m remembering now a terrible article in the 90s in Spin magazine about how maybe,maybe, hers was a pure love that should be celebrated by society. She “fell in love with him” when he was 8.

I’ll be damned if I can link to google books, but just google “spin magazine Letourneau” and it’s right there. Spin Magazine was shit in a lot of ways, but goddamn do I give them a lot of credit for putting every single issue out there for everyone to see.

Not sure I can get past the headline, wtf

https://books.google.com/books?id=ij4Wc-5krxYC&lpg=PA122&ots=0BZFPJhBWI&dq=spin%20magazine%20Letourneau&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q&f=false

yeesh

i remember that article! i had that issue of spin. i remember finding the article gross and disturbing when i was 15, not sure i can bring myself to reread it now.

The writer's wiki page has a strong "he wrote this" vibe to it.

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

He might have.

I will say, though I've never met the guy and haven't read the Letourneau article, his work as an editor and publisher is really indispensable-- so many of the best non-commercial books of the past three decades have come from Clear Cut Press or Publication Studio.

Now You Don't See Him

Johnny Beattie, Scottish entertainer of yore

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53354314

... people you thought were...

Stanley Baxter the last one standing now

I hadn't realized Johnny Beattie was in River City for over a decade because obviously Ive never watched River City, am no daft

Now you come to mention it it wasn't that long ago he was in River City.

Una McLean is not only still going at 90 but she was in River City too up till last year.

Is Mary Lee (Jack Milroy's wife) still alive?

Don't know, tried googling, five years ago she was described as being 'in her early 90s', with the suspicion that she was lying about her age.

Dorothy Paul's still standing.

Oh she's just a wee young thing though.

Glen Michael, 94 btw.

Jack Charlton, 85

Was listening to him last night watching programme about Nottingham Forest’s European cup wins.

Jack Charlton's Match Fishing was a legendary ZX Speccy game!

Musician Judy Dyble

Elvis's grandson:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/us/benjamin-keough-elvis-presley-grandson-death/index.html

(Elvis's granddaughter, Riley Keough, is in American Honey.)

Kelly Preston

https://people.com/movies/kelly-preston-dies-of-breast-cancer-at-57/

I was today years old when I learned that Riley Keough is Elvis's granddaughter.

Did you mean to post that on Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I figured since I saw it here I'd post it here.

#onethread

Naya Rivera

Swamp Pop singer Rod Bernard ("This Should Go On Forever")

https://www.katc.com/news/iberia-parish/swamp-pop-legend-rod-bernard-dies

Man this is shitty -- Grant Imahara from Mythbusters and other things:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-mythbusters-host-was-49-1303101

That's really sad

Thank you @grantimahara for being (and building) a friend. Your genius and creative spirit will be sorely missed. “My heart? He’s got a place there.” -Geoff Peterson 💔 pic.twitter.com/fgdNr1YDuW

— Josh Robert Thompson (@joshrthompson) July 14, 2020

Thank you @grantimahara for being (and building) a friend. Your genius and creative spirit will be sorely missed. “My heart? He’s got a place there.” -Geoff Peterson 💔 pic.twitter.com/fgdNr1YDuW

— Josh Robert Thompson (@joshrthompson) July 14, 2020

This thread made me cry
RIP Grant

Grant was the kind of person who always had something encouraging to offer when times were tough, and always made you feel so incredibly special. I feel so fortunate to call him a friend. pic.twitter.com/C19mPLmLs5

— Bobak Ferdowsi (@tweetsoutloud) July 14, 2020