After the Pharaoh Saunders news I wholly expected to have missed Marshall Allen's passing but was delighted to be wrong.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Sunday, 25 September 2022 11:45 (one year ago) link
Sonny Rollins is a mere slip of a lad in comparison.
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 September 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
lou adler, 88, is still around
― circles, Monday, 26 September 2022 02:27 (one year ago) link
xxp saw Sun Ra Arkestra earlier this summer at Solid Sound Fest and Allen was presented with a cake onstage for his 98th birthday! Band was smokin’ too.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 26 September 2022 02:40 (one year ago) link
I notice there's a Bert I. Gordon film on tonight. He'll be 100 in September.― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Friday, June 3, 2022 11:52 AM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Friday, June 3, 2022 11:52 AM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Unless the family is holding back bad news, he made it to 100 on 24 September.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 26 September 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
Raoul Vaneigem, 88.
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2022 11:47 (one year ago) link
he'll be happy w/how things are turning out
― mark s, Thursday, 29 September 2022 12:44 (one year ago) link
Roberta Flack, 85
― Alba, Sunday, 2 October 2022 12:45 (one year ago) link
Composer (Mission Impossible theme, among others) Lalo Schifrin, 90
Heard an interview on NPR this morning.
― nickn, Sunday, 2 October 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
Richard Stilgoe, the UK's answer to Tom Lehrer, 79
― *wonders what he's got himself into* (Matt #2), Sunday, 2 October 2022 23:47 (one year ago) link
Jerry Lee Lewis, 87.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 October 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
WHole lotta livin goin on
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 21 October 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
I watched the 1956 musical comedy The Girl Can't Help It last night; Fats Domino and Little Richard are gone, but which musical performers from the film are still around?
Johnny Olenn, 85Nino Tempo, 87Ray Anthony, 100
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 21 October 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
On a tangent Mamie Van Doren - I was thinking of MST3K - is still around. She's 91.
Eddie Cochran was in The Girl Can't Help It and Untamed Youth, so he must have met both Mamie Van Doren and Jayne Mansfield. Thus packing a lot into a short life.
This photo from Wikipedia, although small, radiates late-80s energy:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/MamieVanDoren87AlanLight.jpg
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 22 October 2022 13:05 (one year ago) link
Though Cochran only appears in The Girl Can't Help It alone on a TV program watched by the other characters; I suspect it's likely he never met Mansfield.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 22 October 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
had work-reason to google mangosuthu gatsha buthelezi earlier today and he's still with us
― mark s, Saturday, 22 October 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
Had no idea Roberta Flack was still alive. 85.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 October 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
I mentioned journalist/non-fiction writer Gay Talese on another thread, he's 90.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
John Kander, of the songwriting team Kander and Ebb, 95.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
Ted Turner, 83.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
Bob Ezrin, 73. Which isn't old but I had no idea he was barely into his twenties when he began producing Alice Cooper records.
― zeuhl's forgotten man (Matt #2), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
Jimmy Swaggart!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 29 October 2022 05:09 (one year ago) link
Cleo Laine
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Saturday, 29 October 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
Saw today that Morton Subotnick will be at the 2023 Big Ears festival. 89
― nickn, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
Until I saw this tweet, Pete Murray.
RIP whoever used to have the hair currently residing on David Hamilton's head.
Over Christmas, listen out for Pete Murray and David Hamilton - together. With a combined age of 181 - we think it's radio's oldest double act! Pete's radio career began in the early '50s; David's in the late '50s. Pete was David's hero - now his friend. pic.twitter.com/Em9kXE114C— BoomRadioUK (@BoomRadioUK) December 10, 2022
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Saturday, 10 December 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
Frank Drebin, by the looks of it
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 11 December 2022 10:51 (one year ago) link
Pete Murray is 97! And still has his own hair! Whereas David Hamilton hasn't had his own hair since he was 27.
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 December 2022 11:04 (one year ago) link
Until I saw this tweet, Pete Murray
You can't have been paying attention when I shouted him in this thread a couple of months ago, then.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Sunday, 11 December 2022 11:47 (one year ago) link
You're right, I wasn't. My fault, not yours.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 11 December 2022 12:28 (one year ago) link
Edna O'Brien, 92.
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
Tom Lehrer, hanging in there at 94.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 December 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
Garnet Mimms, 89
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
Wow!
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 02:40 (one year ago) link
richard hell
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 05:41 (one year ago) link
Murray Melvin, 90
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
I saw him in the street once, in Soho, like 10 years ago, he looked great.
― Kiss Me, Dudley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
Pele
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/football/pele-health-christmas-spt-intl/index.html
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
A perennial (and only just turned 90) but still:
Merry Christmas! pic.twitter.com/LCEN46v5ry— Sir Quentin Blake HQ (@QuentinBlakeHQ) December 24, 2022
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 24 December 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
Fair play to the guy for rolling along still but his artwork enrages me
― Hello I must be Göring (Matt #2), Saturday, 24 December 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
i like him but there was a smart point in a recent LRB that QB's artwork greatly launders the nastiness in roald dahl's writing
― mark s, Saturday, 24 December 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
yesterday was reading The Enormous Crocodile (a book set in Africa) and thinking about exactly this
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 24 December 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
Just watching "White Christmas" and noticed one of the dancers in one of the musical numbers was George Chakiris... still alive at 90.
― Twa pehs an' an ingin ane an' aw (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 December 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link
Okay, that I am really surprised about.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 December 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
Columnist/author/humorist Dave Barry, 75.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 December 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
Garnet Mimms, 89― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, December 20, 2022 2:35 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, December 20, 2022 2:35 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ah grand: my first single I bought (well, I won it at a fete) was "It's been such a long way home" and it's a great track.
― Mark G, Monday, 26 December 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
Stuart Hall (the paedo one), 93 on Christmas Day.
― Twa pehs an' an ingin ane an' aw (Tom D.), Friday, 30 December 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
the restorative benefits of a prison diet in the nonce wing for a few years did him no harm at all!
― calzino, Friday, 30 December 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
There might be something in that, Rolf's 92 after all.
― Twa pehs an' an ingin ane an' aw (Tom D.), Friday, 30 December 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
my brother once made a complete feigning arsewipe out of himself when he met Stuart Hall by excitedly blurting out to a friend "I can't believe we are talking to Stuart Hall" mid conversation.
― calzino, Friday, 30 December 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
Political satirist Mark Russell, 90 (active on Twitter, per the current politics thread).
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 30 December 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link