Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

David McCullough

Gord Lewis. This will register with anyone older and Canadian (with the details shocking):

https://globalnews.ca/news/9044029/man-60s-dead-homicide-central-hamilton-aug-2022/

Just posted on the official FB page of @olivianj: Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends. We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time. pic.twitter.com/fvovpW8kEC

— David Whisenant WBTV (@DavidWhisenant) August 8, 2022

Oh no! :-(

I wanted to marry her in third grade, but then I realized by her last name that she was already married to Elton John

she was such a huge star when I was a child, the Grease soundtrack was one of the first records I owned. RIP

Xanadu!

she was magic!

Judith Durham, who as part of the Seekers sang the brilliant "Georgy Girl" (but was not part of the New Seekers or "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing").

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/06/entertainment/judith-durham-the-seekers-singer-death/index.html

cannot cope w this ONJ news
gutted

yeah she was THE icon when I was a kid

I'm old enough to remember when "Physical" was really controversial, which is odd because it's not at all rude by modern standards and wasn't even all that rude back then. I've always wondered if they made the video in a deliberately Benny Hill style to distract people from the fact it was about... kissing, and stuff.

I mean, it was three years after "Hit me With Your Rhythm Stick" and "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll", but people expected Ian Dury to be rude.

"Make a Move on Me" was my jam on that album.

RIP ONJ. I love “Magic” so much

I came to ONJ earlier: “If Not For You” and “What Is Life” are glorious.

lamont dozier, 81

whoa, damn

RIP

Also Issey Miyake
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japanese-fashion-designer-issey-miyake-dies-cancer-aged-84-media-2022-08-09/

I misheard her name as "olivia's nude with john" when I was a little kid and knew of John Travolta in Grease so she always seemed kind of salacious

gord lewis, guitarist of teenage head, apparently murdered by his own son

indeed: https://exclaim.ca/music/article/teenage_heads_gord_lewis_reportedly_found_dead_in_homicide

Pogues bass player, Darryl Hunt.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/09/the-pogues-bassist-darryl-hunt-dies-aged-72

Raymond Briggs :(

RIP. My favourite quote from him - "Travel narrows the mind"

Can you imagine releasing this as a kids picture book in the 1980s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rq2tkepYHM

really thought Briggs was already dead

Oh no! There was a good episode of Backlisted about him quite recently: https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/159-raymond-briggs-fungus-the-bogeyman

I once interviewed him on the phone about When The Wind Blows -- not as a journalist, but as a student journalist, writing my dissertation -- which was nice of him.

I told him how much WTWB had scared me as a kid, and he laughed and said "Great! It was supposed to." He told me he'd read a news story about boarding school kids who fainted after reading it, and "I was really proud of that".

I remember that the film had a distinctive style - like the Paddington Bear cartoons it had animated two-dimensional cut-out figures in little three-dimensional sets. Except that Paddington was a stop-motion bear and the characters in Blows were also cartoons.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bSyt4tYd7nY/hqdefault.jpg

Years later I remember watching Threads and thinking about the parallels between the two. Threads also has an elderly couple who survive the nuclear exchange, but they aren't out in the countryside, so without spoiling anything their fate is... I mean, they have the same ultimate fate as the people in Raymond Briggs' book, but they get there by a different route.

Can you imagine releasing this as a kids picture book in the 1980s?

― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, August 10, 2022 8:58 AM

I was just wondering who drew that one today. In highschool I met a really serious looking kid who showed me that book in the library and he was laughing hysterically at most of the pages

Gene LeBell Dies: Stuntman, Actor And Wrestling Legend Who Fought Bruce Lee & Chuck Norris Onscreen Was 89

One of my favorite anecdotes period. R.I.P. https://t.co/C5J62dYF28 pic.twitter.com/MX7R0hxgQk

— Vikram Murthi (@fauxbeatpoet) August 10, 2022

Never heard of him, but I like this guy.

RIP Judo Gene ... choking out Seagal was one of his less significant accomplishments

https://blackbeltmag.com/judo-gene-lebell-passes-away

Avant-garde/out-jazz cellist Abdul Wadud (born Ronald DeVaughn; R&B singer Raheem DeVaughn is his son). Best known for his collaborations with saxophonist Julius Hemphill. An amazing player and a real visionary in terms of expanding the cello's role in jazz.

his playing on those Hemphill albums was a massive part of what makes them so great.

Absolutely. And the two trio albums he did with James Newton and Anthony Davis in the '80s are brilliant.

Sempé, of a million charming New Yorker covers and Mr. Summer’s Story, a book I love that he did with Patrick Süsskind.

Le dessinateur Jean-Jacques Sempé, co-créateur du "Petit Nicolas", est mort à l'âge de 89 ans
👉 https://t.co/Fmp0F1VBiX via @BFMTV pic.twitter.com/0FtWAInf4l

— Jérôme Lachasse (@J_Lachasse) August 11, 2022

Had no idea about Raheem being Wadud’s son!

Sam Gooden, founding member of the Impressions soul group, dies at 87 https://t.co/gbZ3KusXSg

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 12, 2022

Abdul Wadud, cellist with Julius Hemphill's jazz band and many others. Was 75

Wadud's son r'n'b singer Raheem DeVaughn posted about his father on IG

https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChH9jhdlJAR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Anne Heche

Confirmed that Anne Heche has passed

Sad ending

I liked her in the things I saw, but didn't realize she did so many movies:https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/12/anne-heche-death-actor-dies-week-after-car-crash-aged-53

I'm a big fan of her and her work and I'm really upset

Terrible. RIP Anne.

Had no idea she was only 53. For some reason I thought she was older. She was really a good actress; if she didn't do so much high-profile "wacky antics"-type stuff (much of it apparently rooted in childhood trauma) she'd be much better thought of, like, Laura Linney-level, I think.

Yeah, lots of joeks at her expense back in the day, like with Britney and Anna Nicole Smith.

Rosie O'Donnell just now apologized.

Wrecking Crew session guitarist Bill Pitman (who was 102):

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/arts/music/bill-pitman-dead.html