Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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

That's a pretty big one. Big enough to close out the virtual Oscars?

https://assets.considerable.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/02115928/zardoz-12.jpg

damn, news that I subconsciously realized was coming for a while, but it still hurts a lot.

damn. RIP to a true screen legend imo.

he hit women

ah fuck. did not realize. had genuinely never really read much about him as a person.

Alex Trebek outlived Sean Connery.

— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) October 31, 2020

RIP SC https://youtu.be/ovXysYZTVzs

his most famous movie, where he rapes a lesbian into straightness

Margaret Nolan, who played Dink in that Goldfinger clip, only died a few weeks ago herself.

is the trebek stuff just from snl, or did they actually have some kind of relationship?? I feel like he did enough noteworthy things on his own to prevent the knee jerk reference to an impression.

abanana, were you actively expressing yr SC disdain while he was alive or were you just waiting to be a ghoul once he'd kicked it?

I've definitely referred to Bond raping a lesbian straight on here before, disagree with Connery's IRL policy of it being appropriate to beat women if they won't shut up, and greatly enjoy many of his film performances. There's no wrong time.

Post a controversial opinion

pointing out a couple unpleasant facts ≠ 'being a ghoul'

Sean Connery a total asshole? Yes.

Sean Connery a decent and rightfully legendary actor? Also yes.

Guitarist-vocalist-composer Rance Allen.

https://www.yourvalley.net/stories/gospel-star-bishop-rance-allen-dead-at-71,198620

hit me with some Connery deep cuts. Beyond the Bond films, Marnie, and a couple legacy roles from the 90s, I don't know of much. a friend of mine sent me a picture of a poster of some western he was in that she really liked. I know about Zardoz but Boorman is pretty chilly and kinda boring imo lol

The Man Who Would Be King is the poster she sent me

damn, news that I subconsciously realized was coming for a while, but it still hurts a lot.

― glengarry gary beers (voodoo chili), Saturday, October 31, 2020 8:44 AM

I've thought about it here and there, as well as with his contemporaneous retiree Gene Hackman, who's also 90. That'll be a sad day.

xp you should watch that.

yeah, Man Who Would Be King is a banger flappy. more talk over here: The Sean Connery Poll

the man who would be king isn't really a western unless you mean like idk "western" afghanistan or the "wild frontier" of the british empire or some shit

Head 'em off at the Khyber Pass.

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How did I not dig into gospel great Rance Allen's singing and guitar playing till now. Some great video footage out there from Wattstax through recent years. I think he stopped playing guitar awhile ago, but his vocals could go deep and low as well as falsetto high

Robert Fisk, 74

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/veteran-journalist-and-author-robert-fisk-dies-aged-74-1.4397069