Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

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

rip the greatest ponytail in sportscasting

one of the best ads they ever ran

Yeah by all accounts a real genuine and nice man, heard nothing but good things about him

Madeleine Albright, 84.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/madeleine-albright-obituary/index.html

Oh shit

I feel like I've heard her punditry fairly recently

Kissinger manages to outlast yet another monster.

Peter Goddard--anyone with any connection to Toronto in the '70s or '80s will know him.

https://www.torontomike.com/2022/03/peter-goddard-dead-at-62/

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/23/22992066/stephen-wilhite-gif-creator-dies

Inventor of the gif. Soft g for life.

Aoyama Shinji, director of Eureka

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOtgqmPVgAQkoaB?format=jpg&name=large

Taylor Hawkins, of the Foo Fighters

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/taylor-hawkins-foo-fighters-drummer-dead-at-50-20220326-p5a86r.html

Wow, RIP

Denise Coffey, British comedienne and actress. Should have been a Python.

do not adjust yr set was my first tv fave, bcz of her :(

i would watch it on the staff TV at the place mum and dad then worked: we didn't even own a TV yet (so it must have been the first season)

Yeah, ditto. I passed my "Adjust" dvd set onto the kids back in the day. I got it back now they both doing uni.

One for very limited appeal outside of me and Tom D I suspect, and very much one from the 'people who you thought were dead' file, but Mary Lee - Scottish variety act, singer, comic and unfortunately probably only remembered as the wife of Jack Milroy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lee_(singer)

Philip Jeck, electronic music and sound artist.

Jon and Mike are deeply saddened to tell you that Philip Jeck died peacefully on Friday after a short illness. Please read more here... https://t.co/JIPfW90hV1 @philipjeck #philipjeck pic.twitter.com/852tfGKoBg

— Touch (@touchmusic) March 27, 2022

aw man, no way

The Dansette King will spin the 78s no more :(

fucking hell, Mira Calix!

https://www.facebook.com/9075937685/posts/10158988128342686/

oh ffs no

DAMN

wtff

Fuck. RIP

Wow. I knew her solo work superficially but her version of “In a Beautiful Place in the Country” with Oliver Coates is one of my favourite tracks of all time.

Oh no! Truly awful news with an undercurrent of’what HAPPENED?!?’

Having lost a classmate last week aged 51, my immediate guess is a cancer of some kind, but I've no idea.

Richard Moore, cycling journalist, author and host of The Cycling Podcast

A message from The Cycling Podcast. https://t.co/zZ3O0XaxTx pic.twitter.com/fFjI87v51h

— The Cycling Podcast (@cycling_podcast) March 30, 2022

reeling from that - he was only 49. him, birnie and friebe had such a great interplay - it was like eavesdropping on friends chatting about your favourite sport, replete with gentle ribbing

rest in peace, RM

oh no! thats terrible news. rip

i really loved the Cycling Podcast, def added to the enjoyment of the Tour De France every year. I had been meaning to read his book too :(

yeh I'm gutted by this, he (and Lionel and Daniel) was a constant companion over the years via the podcast.
his book Slaying the Badger is amazing, one of the best sports books I've read.

beautiful piece
https://derailleur.substack.com/p/on-richard-moore

Not a surprise but hell, 33 is way too young https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/30/the-wanted-singer-tom-parker-dies-from-brain-cancer-aged-33

Tabby Shaw of the Mighty Diamonds. RIP

Awful news.

Wow that is horrible to learn about.

Patrick Demarchelier

C.W. McCall, ‘Convoy’ Country Singer, Dead at 93

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/cw-mccall-convoy-dead-obit-1302155/

Gee, I had no idea he was 47 when “Convoy” hit

https://www.bionicdisco.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Midland_CBs_CW_McCall_Popular_Science_May_1976-290x400.jpg

Estelle Harris

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/estelle-harris-dead-seinfeld-toy-story-1235124023/

Can't believe this was her first episode...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0GuecuiOH8

Aw that’s too bad. She is so great in the show.

damn. RIP, a legend

Still bemused that McCall having that hit, as well as the earlier ad spot popularity, was the inadvertant foundation of the full Mannheim Steamroller empire.

Thanks to you all for your kind and sweet messages and remembrances of #EstelleHarris. She would be so touched. As am I. And as she would say, “WHY CANT YOU BE MORE LIKE LLOYD BRAUN!!??”

— jason alexander (@IJasonAlexander) April 3, 2022

Man who spent 19 years in a coma before regaining awareness dies at 57 But got another 21 years of consciousness (quite a mixed blessing since Nov. 2016, at least, but still): warning: incl. pic of him in coma--as in all other coverage I've found---but also incl. link to BBC coverage of his wake-up in '03, with more backstory: https://www.yahoo.com/now/man-spent-19-years-coma-175157771.html