Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

State funeral anyone?

Just your standard-issue British ghoul, complaining about "imbalance" that has led to a "disproportionate" focus on criminal inquiries involving former soldiers, on the 45h anniversary of Bloody Sunday.

just a Tory mediocrity, but still evil enough to warrant a bit of glee in his passing.

Mr Brokenshire in charge of the six counties is all-time great nominative determinism.

I'm very sad to report that Rick Jones, aka Yoffy from Fingerbobs has passed away aged 84. I initially interviewed him for my book many years ago and we stayed in touch. He was a huge creative spirit, a talented musician and a lover of life. I shall miss him greatly pic.twitter.com/6RHV4ebyW8

— Garry Vaux Illustrator (@GarryVaux) October 8, 2021

"Yoffy from Fingerbobs" is perhaps the most British thing I've read in my entire life.

He was Canadian!

RIP. 5 yr old me loved you deeply and always wanted more fingerbobs.

Also lol

Heading for dinner break doing Playschool, Humpty under my arm, I ran for a closing lift door, and inside was a terrified Danny Cohn-Bendit. He thought I was there for the hit.

— Rick Jones (@MrFingerbobs) June 22, 2020

He was good in superman

A fondly remembered figure from my childhood; on Play School, I had him down as one of the cool ones.

Damn, no way The Beat would have sounded so urgent without our his contribution on the drums.

We are deeply sad to announce we have lost another friend & brother today, Everett Morton. Everett was a humble & gentle man in life, but a dynamo on the drums. He was the beat of The Beat. We feel his loss tremendously. Our deepest condolence to his family. #RIPEverettMorton🕊️💔 pic.twitter.com/d99Y8NlfSM

— The English Beat (@TheEnglishBeat) October 8, 2021

Aw shit. That's Everett, Saxa and Ranking Roger all gone in the last few years :(

Wow. One of the greatest, most underrated bands of its era (and beyond), imo.

Fantastic drummer.

Yeah just listen to the start of Mirror In The Bathroom

I never even thought about him but those records sound so good so will be paying closer attention from now on. RIP.

Have seen in the past couple days that Drew Steele of the Surf Punks, and Dee Pop of the Bush Tetras (and more) have passed.

Also Jim Pembroke of 70s prog band Wigwam.

Dee Pop passed in his sleep last night. We’re Facebook friends and lots of NY folk and the no wave Facebook group are posting about. Very sad. He was really upset at the passing of Charlie Watts who was a hero and seemed like some kind of mentor or something.

The mighty Deon Estus

It is with real sadness I post that Deon Estus passed away This Morning. Deon was mostly known as the third member of Wham! Deon was passionate about music and loved interacting with his loyal fans.#onlyloveisreal @billboard @RollingStone @BBCBreaking pic.twitter.com/uGje66JDTa

— Deon Estus (@DeonEstus) October 11, 2021

He was ridiculously talented.

Paddy Moloney, who founded The Chieftains in the early 60s

:(

...and who was sworn at by Van Morrison onstage in the late 80s.

I love his work on a few of Mike Oldfield's records, and the Barry Lyndon soundtrack.

...and who was sworn at by Van Morrison onstage in the late 80s.

And Van normally so mild mannered and even tempered too.

Goodbye Alan Hawkshaw. He wrote The Champ. He played on Melody Nelson. He was in the Shadows. He wrote the themes for Grange Hill, and Countdown, and Channel 4 News. Can’t be many days in my life where I haven’t heard at least one of them. Oh, and this https://t.co/f39gBuXydE

— bob stanley (@rocking_bob) October 16, 2021

oh damn

_...and who was sworn at by Van Morrison onstage in the late 80s._

And Van normally so mild mannered and even tempered too.

And whose daughter Kirsty sang the vocal on It’s A Fine Day.

one of the greats tbh

wait, is there really no hawkshaw thread on ilm?

RIP Alan, had some serious bangers under his belt

His Great Mysteries Of The World library record is my big fave
RIP

v sad about Paddy :(

Ronnie Tutt - original member of Elvis’s TCB band & all round killer drummer

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ronnie-tutt-drummer-elvis-presley-jerry-garcia-band-billy-joel-dead-obit-1243434/

RIP

Man, that is one Mad TV parody-level worn out Elvis in that video.

Colon, covid.

To clarify: Colin Powell, of Covid complications

Crazy

Powell was always a centrist political shithead, following and amplifying whatever he thought was politically popular.

for instance, https://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/clinton-documents-gays-in-the-military-111784

Skin color is a benign, nonbehavioral characteristic. Sexual orientation is perhaps
the most profound of behavioral characteristics. Comparison of the two is a
convenient but invalid argument. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as
well as an African-American fully conversant with history, I believe the policy we
have adopted is consistent with the necessary standards of order and discipline
required of the armed forces.

Powell said he was making “no moral judgment” on gays but believed “they can best serve in other areas.”

...

Marine Commandant Gen. Carl Mundy may have been the most strident opponent of allowing gays to serve openly. Quoting someone involved in a Queer Nation parade, Mundy said people associated with “gay pride” are licentious and unconstrained by law or morality. Mundy, who died earlier this year, also suggested that announcing “I’m gay” was the “same as I’m KKK, Nazi, rapist,” the notes show.

...

Powell said Friday that he did not believe that Mundy breached decorum with his remarks.

“Carl Mundy who died recently was the most outspoken, but I don’t think that he crossed a line, nor has that ever been mentioned to me,” Powell wrote in an email to POLITICO.

“I’ve never seen these notes before, of course,” the general said, while adding that they appeared to be accurate. “The Chiefs head these services, not me, and I wanted (the) President to hear their views. The real story was Congressional opposition. The Dems came back after the Easter Recess pleading for a compromise. DADT was that compromise. Congress might well have gone back to greater restrictions. (The) President was pleased by June to get it off the table.”

As for the comparison between gays and African-Americans, Powell said: “I did not think they were equivalent; although both were discriminatory. The armed force(s) to do their job have to do things that are discriminatory, e.g. capital punishment for walking off the job.”

ngl, I do not give a rat's ass what some asshole homophobe has to say about gay people or other bigots. The guy directly contributed to the deaths of millions. Hope he's being chopped up a distributed in equal measure to the lowest circles of Hell.

Jerry Pinkney, awesome children’s book illustrator.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/20/1047786312/jerry-pinkney-illustrator-obituary?t=1634833802641

He was the best. My kids loved to get lost in his pictures. Just looked at his wikipedia and my god he illustrated a lot of books!

Peter Scolari

https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/peter-scolari-obituary_92907.html?

oh no!

Bernard Haitink

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/22/celebrated-conductor-bernard-haitink-dies-aged-92

Been listening to live radio recordings of Haitink all day

Newhart on Scolari:

Bob Newhart, who is 92, just issued a statement to us (I cried as I added it): https://t.co/PT6gfTxxHc pic.twitter.com/kpfG0JYjNK

— Kate Aurthur (@KateAurthur) October 22, 2021

Wonderful runner Agnes Tirol. Terrible news, which I’ve only just read.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58919391.amp

Agnes Tirop, sorry, not Tirol.