Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Jordan, also known as Pamela Rooke, probably the most important British punk figure not in a band or a manager.

(she was briefly in an early version of Adam and the Antz but the point standz, RIP either way)

Potentially the hardest pivot I’ve ever read in an obit pic.twitter.com/TUmqHaVX0y

— Jessica Hayden (@_JessHayden) April 4, 2022

Yow!

!

"What's up doc...oh wait OW!"

Roger Corman (b. April 5, 1926) is still alive. Happy Birthday, Roger!

RIP at 93 guitarist Joe Messina from Motown’s Funk Brothers band

http://www.soultracks.com/story-joe-messina-dies

Man, what a career that guy had. RIP.

Philadelphia Legend Bobby Rydell, ‘Wildwood Days’ Singer, Dies

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/04/05/philadelphia-legend-bobby-rydell-wildwood-days-singer-dies/

Journalist Eric Boehlert

1/oh my goodness: Just got crushing news from Tracy Breslin, wife of @EricBoehlert https://t.co/l0nOnE0Tad Has died in a bike accident, age 57. Adored his kids Jane and Ben, his dogs, biking and running and basketball and good friends, a fierce and fearless defender of the truth

— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) April 6, 2022

Singer Bobby Rydell, Aged 79

ope, somebody beat me to it

I guess he was the last of the Bobbys, after Darin and Vee

Not quite, Bobby Vinton's still with us, at 86.

Lol at these last two posts

Oh man, I forgot Bobby Vinton, the Polish Prince. One of the first singers I remember bc my family watched his variety show in the mid-'70s.

Journalist/critic John Swenson died on March 27. Many of us likely know him best from the 1979 and 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guides which he co-edited with Dave Marsh.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/nehemiah-persoff-dead-some-like-it-hot-yentl-1235126111/

Actor Nehemiah Persoff, 102.

RIP. A Tom D favorite, I believe.

Oh no!!!!

The world might be in a terrible state but at least Nehemiah Persoff is still alive.... so what now?

I'm sorry, Tom. I'm sorry for all of us.

Some say a little TOO sorry!

Sorry.

He was like the patron saint of the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive, both of you posted about him multiple times on that thread.

We need a new centenarian

As long as Stanley Baxter is still alive I can wake to face a bright new day. I just hope I haven't jinxed him.

Then there is this oft-mentioned dichotomy if not rivalry: Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Francisco González, a founding member of Los Lobos, has died. He was 68.
In the early 1970s, González joined fellow musicians Louie Perez, David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas and Conrad Lozano to form one of East LA's most eclectic bands.
Los Lobos paid tribute to González on its Instagram page.

"We are deeply saddened by the passing of our brother and founding member, Francisco González. He, along with Cesar, started the group in 1973 for the purpose of 'playing Mexican music for our mothers,' as he always put it. Francisco was a brilliant musician, and after leaving the group in 1976 to follow a different musical path, he went on to master the Veracruz harp, then became the musical director of El Teatro Campesino theatre group—always shining across a lifetime of accomplishments."

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/05/1091007144/los-lobos-francisco-gonzalez-obituary

Eric Boehlert!

A bicyclist who was killed by a New Jersey Transit train Monday night was writer Eric Boehlert, founder and editor of Press Run, a blog about the media, according to his wife, Tracy Breslin.

Boehlert, 57, was a veteran writer and media analyst and a frequent television and radio guest discussing politics and the press on CNN and CNBC. He was a founding editor of Salon magazine, a fellow with Media Matters, and a former writer with Rolling Stone and Billboard magazines. He wrote two books, "Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush," and "Bloggers on the Bus."

Journalist Soledad O'Brien tweeted, "Just got crushing news from Tracy Breslin, wife of

@EricBoehlert https://pressrun.media Has died in a bike accident, age 57. Adored his kids Jane and Ben, his dogs, biking and running and basketball and good friends, a fierce and fearless defender of the truth."

Then there is this oft-mentioned dichotomy if not rivalry: Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Assumed that was going to link to Stanley Baker/Stanley Baxter tbh.

Motoo Abiko aka Fujiko A. Fujio, one half of the team that created Doraemon, Q-Taro etc and the sole creator of Ninja Hattori-kun

TS Persoff vs. Tamiroff

Elmer and Mr Benn author David McKee, 87

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/07/elmer-and-mr-benn-author-david-mckee-dies-at-87

pvmic and probably only of interest to me and maybe Ward Fowler and one or two others

Renee Glynne, continuity girl (her term) in the prime Hammer era and a welcome face in the Indicator releases spinning tales about work on various films.

Chris Bailey of the Saints

Oh, that’s too bad. RIP.

Not seeing that elsewhere.

Very sad. Hell of a band

posted on the band's Facebook:

It is with great pain in our hearts that we have to inform you about the passing of Chris Bailey, singer and songwriter of The Saints, on April the 9th 2022.
Chris lived a life of poetry and music and stranded on a Saturday night.
Family and friends

aw fuck

xpost Thank you aldo, yes I saw about Renee Glynne on various Facebook Hammer groups. I know she was a regular at Hammer events and genre film conventions, which I must admit hold no appeal to me - ever been to any, aldo?

RIP Henry Patterson aka Jack 'The Eagle Has Landed' Higgins

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/09/henry-patterson-author-of-the-eagle-has-landed-dies-aged-92

xpost

noooo fuck
rip Chris ;_;

glad i got to see him once - had no idea he was on the bill but i went to see nick cave years ago and as i walked into the theatre, the opening bars of 'just like fire would' started ringing out and i was so taken overcome with excitement, i missed my seat and sat down on the man next to me

Wow, great story!

RIP Chris ;_;

Hmm, Wikipedia had him passed on March 9th

Well that's what the Facebook post says too, TBF.

Right now Wikipedia says April 9, 2022. Earlier today there was no evidence his passing.

Am...I missing something? The official post says he passed on the 9th, so Wikipedia gets updated to reflect that.