Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

Terence Wilson aka Astro from UB40 after a short illness.

Blimey, rough year for UB40.

Bob Barker on the other hand is still alive

Ivy Nicholson, Model and Warhol Factory Star, Dies at 88

https://www.greenheartsuop.com/ivy-nicholson-model-and-warhol-factory-star-dies-at-88/

This obit is apparently written by a non-native English speaker.

There's a NYT obit too, but I didn't want to spend one of my monthly allowances.

Angelo Mosca--pretty famous Canadian.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/tiger-cats-great-angelo-mosca-dead-at-84-1.6240053

I hope there's more to her obituaries than "pretty famous Canadian".

Sorry, his. Misread his name as Angela. LOL.

... apparently he was American anyway!

Andy Barker :(

Sad to hear about the passing of Andy Barker from 808 State. Here’s one we’ve been rinsing recently… ‘Sunrise’ from their amazing 90 album. Respect. pic.twitter.com/zn8n310yIs

— Test Pressing (@Test_Pressing) November 7, 2021

Journalist Maureen Cleave, to whom John Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus (87)

Shame…From her infamous article, these are the words that probably most stung:

He looks more like Henry VIII than ever now that his face has filled out

damn i just heard the news about Andy Barker passing at the weekend.

Dean Stockwell

https://www.tmz.com/2021/11/08/dean-stockwell-dead-dies-quantum-leap-married-to-the-mob

oh no

ZIGGY NOOOOOOOO

Goddamn

any deaths are too many for yueh

Oh boy

https://media.giphy.com/media/3JyFXPFWNrpBhdSTfA/giphy.gif

Oh no, RIP Dean.

A candy-colored clown they call the sandman

Trying to remember what the Roy Orbison song in Eraserhead is and who sings it.

The last link to the Thin Man franchise?

well, shit
Hugely underrated, love him in PARIS, TEXAS.

Seanie Fitz, the most prominent and notorious banking executive during irelands boom, bust cycles of the nineties through to the big one in 2007

Dean Stockwell also central to Neil Young's After the Gold Rush, based on a Stockwell script that never got filmed.

A beautiful young man who grew into a helluva character actor. Although my first acquaintance with him, I found him obnoxious on Quantum Leap.

Seek: Compulsion, Sons and Lovers, Long Day's Journey Into Night.

RIP Gerald Sinstadt. Should be remembered as one of the very first broadcasters/commentators to call out racism, as he did during THAT #MUFC v #WBA game in 1978.
A brilliant commentator regardless; voice of the 'Granada' region on ITV's Big Match https://t.co/zAgd4K8pjf

— Chris Lepkowski (@chrislepkowski) November 10, 2021

I will probably remember him like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg1cQy5oh64

(The bizzies with their nightsticks there, worried that Gordon Lee might come on to the pitch)

(It's the sixth goal in particular, from around 6:05)

Sylvère Lotringer

It Is with great sadness that Semiotexte announces the death of our founder, Sylvère Lotringer. Sylvère passed away peacefully after a long illness on Monday November 8 in Ensenada, Baja California.

— Semiotext(e) (@SemiotextePress) November 10, 2021

Margo Guryan

Songwriter @MargoGuryan, whose 1968 album was "discovered" three decades later, has died at age 84. The release, "Take a Picture," has been hailed as one of the greatest "One-Album Wonders" ever. https://t.co/lp5dr2PFzg pic.twitter.com/SeNCVgKcMY

— Buzz Bands LA (@buzzbandsla) November 10, 2021

RIP. I came across her on social media in recent times. Maybe she was a friend of that photographer friend of Morbius.

And she had a remarkable second act, 39 years on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7soN6HNU3Y

I mean, can we actually talk about Lotringer, though? He founded the press that almost single-handedly introduced a lot of radical European social and political thought to English-speaking audiences. A real giant, and not a terrible writer himself— this text is absolutely bonkers, for example: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/overexposed

Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, founder of SomethingAwful

FW de Klerk, good riddance

so obscenely bald!

Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues. He was 80.

I guess he had to go now

Jim Reeves was calling him from The Great Beyond.

And as new life will come from death
Love will come at leisure
Love of love, love of life and giving without measure
Gives in return a wondrous yearn for promise almost seen
Live hand in hand and together we'll stand
On the threshold of a dream

My partner put Margo Guryan's Someone I Know on the first mixtape she made me, and it's still "our song". I mentioned as much in a friend's Twitter thread last year, and Margo herself liked it.

Indigenous Canadian writer Lee Maracle, 71: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lee-maracle-death-bc-indigenous-writer-poet-1.6245582

Terrible news.

John Goodsall, guitarist for Brand X and more.

https://dmme.net/john-goodsall-passed-away/

No official article I can find yet, but word from her friends that another giant of Canadian literature has left us: Phyllis Webb passed away yesterday afternoon.

It is with profound sorrow that I pass on the news that poet Phyllis Webb left us yesterday, November 11—maybe taking hold of Lee Maracle’s hand as they sped on to the stars. I have nothing but deep gratitude to have had her as a friend the past twenty years. pic.twitter.com/vIj51wc7Al

— Stephen Collis (@stephenscollis) November 12, 2021

Two British character actors whose names might be less than familiar but whose faces will be instantly recognisable, Henry Woolf and Roy Holder.

RIP Henry Woolf, Harold Pinter's old school chum and better known to many as Arthur Sultan, the Surrey mystic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU0QZQRTNr0