Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

nothing I heard about RC was at all Savile-like

Phew, thanks.

Ted White, 96, who played Jason in Friday the 13th (4): the Final Chapter

https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3736642/ted-white-jason-voorhees-actor-from-friday-the-13th-the-final-chapter-has-passed-away/

Feels sorta ironic that he passed on Friday the 14th.

LMAO at the (new to me) ASF, thanks Ned

Joyce Sims

We are devastated to pass on the news of the death of R&B music great Joyce Sims at age 63. A great talent who sang, wrote and played for us for more than three decades https://t.co/FubXJ6ba3w pic.twitter.com/s4jn3uQAZr

— soultracks (@soultrackscom) October 15, 2022

Oh no - that’s way too young. RIP.

oh joyce :(

that’s so sad. RIP Joyce

Shit news. RIP

Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 commander Jim McDivitt, 93.

aw RIP

Carmen Callil, publisher of Virago Press among many other things.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/18/carmen-callil-pioneering-champion-of-female-writers-dies-aged-84

Latter-day rockabilly singer Robert Gordon, 75, of leukemia. I saw him once about 25 years ago. An absolutely tremendous voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VwzuzhWv3A

Oh, RIP. That’s sad. Was just thinking of him over here on New York Dolls

Aww, he was great!

Revived this thread for further discussion
Chris Spedding

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Chris Spedding

That made me think Chris Spedding died.

Oops! So sorry.

Can't forget what an impact Robert Gordon's style and commitment to rockabilly & roots music had on us back in the punk days in NYC, saw him with Link Wray and yes Professor Longhair opening one night! Loved him with Chris Spedding too. He was so cool and elegant. pic.twitter.com/RItbnuHMwl

— Amy Rigby (@AmyRigby) October 18, 2022

If you click on the image of that poster, you'll see Professor Longhair on there too.

He opened for Roxy Music in Detroit (Manifesto tour). The crowd was giving him a hard time, and he turned his back on the audience and COMBED HIS HAIR. For a really long time. He won them over! Badass.

— Anthony M. Kaczynski (@FirekingRocks) October 18, 2022

Red Bull has announced that company founder, Dietrich Mateschitz, has passed away at the age of 78.

Mateschitz bought the Jaguar team in late 2004 and renamed it Red Bull Racing. He helped drive his team around from midfielders to world champions in just 6 seasons. pic.twitter.com/TJBuBq8bx0

— Autosport (@autosport) October 22, 2022

Three or four posts on my FB wall about Mary McCaslin:

https://celebrityaccess.com/2022/10/21/folk-singer-mary-mccaslin-dead-at-75/

(There's a Times obit behind a paywall.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuGMHTOEUG8

Apparently Ki Longfellow (novelist, playwright and widow of Vivian Stanshall) died in June, can't find any obituaries, but the date is there on Wikipedia.

Oh RIP. Totally remember reading about her during a Viv Stanshall jag.

Actor Leslie Jordan, dead at 67 following a car crash

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/leslie-jordan-dead-at-67-obit-1234617162/

A non-paywall article. Apparently a medical issue preceded the crash.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/obituaries-people-news/leslie-jordan-dead-will-and-grace-american-horror-story-1235412784/

terrible news

awful :-(

Suffolk's GenX Radio presenter Tim Gough dies on air

55, had come out of retirement after a decade:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-63377458

Jules Bass of Rankin/Bass, 87.

;_;

Mike Davis

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mike-davis-obituary/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=thenation&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Aw man

fuck

Mike Davis has passed. He was my favorite writer, and through coincidence and his down to earth nature I got to know him personally. As a human being he was a hundred times what he was as a writer. Everyone dies but I long irrationally believed maybe somehow we’d never lose Mike.

— rustbeltjacobin 🌹 (@rustbeltjacobin) October 26, 2022

oh shit, I've just got into him recently - RIP

oh damn

yeah i just got into his writing the past few years, what a real one

I've only read Late Victorian Holocausts, and I have City of Quartz queued up - but yeah what a real one indeed.

Fuck. sigh...

A privilege to audit his some of his classes at UCI. My business/online presence is named "Quartz City" because of....

RIP that is a real loss

He's free of pain after a long illness and he did the work and set an example. Be glad he was here.

A nice piece from max: https://maxread.substack.com/p/a-mike-davis-reader

Pierre Soulages

damn… his recent book old gods new enigmas was super interesting even for a wannabe leftist dummy like me. city of quartz is epic.

(Re mike Davis)

JERRY LEE LEWIS

https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/26/jerry-lee-lewis-dead-dies-87/

Mourned by . . . no one.

Is Wanda Jackson the last of that generation left?

TMZ have taken that story down, so ???

https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/26/jerry-lee-lewis-not-dead/

Schrödinger's Killer