Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

Frank Bough, bejumpered soothing grandma's TV host who at the age of FIFTY FIVE got sacked over a coke 'n' hookers newspaper sting operation.

An obvious candidate for Up-the-Arse Corner there.... too soon?

Selina looks into it.

no article that i can see yet but numerous poets i know are reporting that diane di prima has died

Was coming here to post that. Let us heed her exhortation: 'ALL POWER/ TO JOY, which will remake the world.'

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-coal-murray/coal-baron-murray-a-trump-ally-who-fought-environmental-regulation-dead-at-80

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqt5iE1vhFw

Jerry Jeff Walker
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/jerry-jeff-walker-remembered-by-lyle-lovett-lucinda-williams-dan-rather-and-many-many-others/

Ned already posted something earlier, I see.

Rest in peace to Outlaw Country legend Billy Joe Shaver, who has died at the age of 81. https://t.co/jS0fI5IOlH pic.twitter.com/n4eQCsshKF

— SiriusXM (@SIRIUSXM) October 28, 2020

well fuck

Going to be that guy and ask, who will complete the triple?

Aw. That guy is so good. I saw him play a show once and mid-set he opened up his shirt to show the giant heart-shaped scar where he recently had heart surgery.

Also, shot someone in the face for allegedly picking a fight with him a few years ago.

Tracy Smothers, 58

xxp kinda feel like Willie Nelson would make the most sense but I'm not ready for that

fuck you for suggesting it tbh

Willie smokes way too much weed to ever die

He's keeping young, hanging out with Karen O.

and, amazingly, still dropping pretty good music! there's a case to be made that no musical artist in the recording era has been as productive or maintained such a high level quality over the course of so long a career.

for fuck's sake the dude writes Crazy in 1961 and then drops this about sixty years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyqjMpKHsrE

I love Willie and his music! He's a friend and supporter of the boss of the farm where I used to work. He digs the product, iykwim.

Bobby Ball, or Robert Winston, whatever

This is not Bobby Ball. pic.twitter.com/4kOQF9WjU7

— Tim Gatt (@TimGatt) October 29, 2020

looking forward to the Cannon & Little Show at Skegness. Sorry too soon, another comedy duo mercilessly halved by the Rona.

I saw Bobby in the 70's doing Jack and the Beanstalk at Bradford Alhambra. Which i enjoyed much more than when my parents took me back to the same venue for The Dubliners.

also got memories of watching Boys In Blue at the Cinema and laughing loudly at the bit where he jumps onto a cowpat.

The only time I saw him in person was in a hotel lobby checking out in the morning, complaining that someone on reception had crank called him in the night.

omg I watched that at the cinema too!! haha watching it on YT now

I was once on a long coach trip where the 'entertainment' was a video screening of Boys in Blue. It was the last film directed by Val Guest, who also made The Day the Earth Caught Fire, the first two Quatermass films, Expresso Bongo, Confessions of a Window Cleaner etc etc. I believe Boys in Blue is a revamping of the Will Hay comedy Ask a Policeman, which Guest co-wrote.

The Boys in Blue, a seminal “there’s nothing else in, I suppose this’ll do” VHS rental choice of my childhood

See also the curse of the pink panther, cannonball run 2, cloak & dagger

RIP Bobby. I thought he was funny when I was a youngster. I think I still would.

I saw The Boys In Blue in the cinema.

Cannon & Ball's cover of Oliver's Army > Blur's cover of Oliver's Arm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Sr05-j3BI

I can remember a friend when I was a kid coming back from his holiday in Blackpool wearing some "Rock on Tommy" braces, they were the height of fashion!

Never a fan of them as a kid but they were good in panto in Hull a few years back, they seem like decent lads really.

I definitely did the "rock on Tommy" thing a bunch as a kid, though I was too young really to have watched the TV show. Tommy Cannon's a born-again, isn't he? I thought that was what broke up their partnership in the first place.

After re-watching Boys in Blue today I've realised that I misremembered this one because I always thought there was a person going around pretending to be the headless horseman, and I had a pretty vivid image in my mind of it. Turns out there isn't (they just mention it as a myth) and in my childhood just decided to make it up.

btw I'm pretty gutted about it.

My folks went to see C&B at the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton - early '90s, maybe? First half: rock on, you really 'ate me, you've got me skin, etc. Second half: praise Jesus. They walked out.

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/local/2020/10/27/stan-kesler-obit-memphis-music-elvis-jerry-lee-lewis-sam-the-sham/3746810001/

RIP guitarist, songwriter, producer, engineer Stan Kesler who wrote “I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone," & "I Forgot to Remember to Forget” for Elvis, engineered soul classic “Dark End of the Street,” played w/ Jerry Lee Lewis on “Great Balls of Fire,” and produced Sam the Sham’s “Wooly Bully “.

Quite a life and never got that much attention

what a great career, RIP Stan Kesler

I'm genuinely surprised they avoided the second verse!

Cecilia Chiang
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Chiang

Pianist-composer Nadi Qamar, aka, Spaulding Givens, died on October 21 of covid-19 at 103. Many collaborators over the years, among them, Nina Simone and Charles Mingus.

Nobby Stiles

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/oct/30/nobby-stiles-world-cup-winner-with-england-1966-manchester-united-dies

RIP, a proper midfielder. Alzheimer's can fuck off.

RIP Puerto Rican salsa singer Cano Estremera

https://heavy.com/entertainment/cano-estremera-death/

Still with us from the 1966 England WCF team:
George Cohen
Bobby Charlton
Geoff Hurst
Roger Hunt

James Broad, singer-songwriter with Britppop era band Silver Sun .

Aw, my neice and nephew were listening to the 7" of Julia just the other day, and they seemed to dig it.

Sean Connery