Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

One day in Paris he visited Wanda Landowska, grande dame of the harpsichord, to show her a concertino he had written: “No sooner had I entered than she took the pins from her hair, which fell in waves to her waist. ‘Take it,’ she said. ‘Take it in handfuls and pull, pull it hard and never go tell people I wear a wig!’”

George Lois (who i did not think was with us!)

Danny Kalb of the Blues Project, 80.

SF author Greg Bear, 71
https://file770.com/greg-bear-1951-2022/

jean-marie straub, i'm hearing

Jason David Frank, who played Tommy the Green Power Ranger, 49

Damn, that's sad to hear. Both of my kids had their phases of binge-watching Power Rangers re-runs. I'll be honest that I didn't follow the show all that deeply, but he was one of the longest-running cast members through all of the series. Through multiple line-up changes of sometimes forgettable/interchangeable faces, his character kept coming back and was a huge through-line for the series. R.I.P.

Michael Feingold, Village Voice theater critic for decades, 77

Wilko Johnson, 75

RIP to these last two.

Oh no Wilko.

Bernadette Mayer, one of the finest poets of her generation and a countless inspiration to many, died last night in her sleep.

https://allenginsberg.org/2022/11/bernadette-mayer-1945-2022/

Wilko! It's sad but he also got a second act that few of us will likely receive

If you haven't seen Oil City Confidential, it's well worth tracking down.. I think I finally found it on Amazon

loving everybody sharing Bernadette’s poems on twitter this morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2bOIK_L4As

Hans Magnus Enzensberger has died aged 93, his publishers have announced this morning. Here's my interview with the "political dandy" of German letters from 2010: https://t.co/LW0wtLN3Vm

— Philip Oltermann (@philipoltermann) November 25, 2022

RIP. I saw him speak once at NYU. He lived up to his billing, was very witty and entertaining. Andrew Ross was in the audience. I tried to talk to him for a bit but had laryngitis and couldn't say more than "Are you Andrew Ross?" DIdn't speak at all to HME.

RIP Hans Magnus Enzensberger pic.twitter.com/wQ0NwoA5QP

— Tobi Haslett (@tobihaslett) November 25, 2022

Cool. I thought I had a Bloodaxe bilingual best-of but can’t seem to find it. Do have my English language copy of Mausoleum and another one collection I bought in Germany.

Found it!

Mausoleum is a favourite. Sadly I don't have my own copy but hope we can see a reissue.

Tim Beddows, founder and CEO of Network Distribution - the absolute boss of period UK television re-releases.

Irene Cara

This is the absolute worst part of being a publicist. I can't believe I've had to write this, let alone release the news. Please share your thoughts and memories of Irene. I'll be reading each and every one of them and know she'll be smiling from Heaven. She adored her fans. - JM pic.twitter.com/TsC5BwZ3fh

— Irene Cara (@Irene_Cara) November 26, 2022

only just learned that amapiano pioneer DJ Sumbody was murdered last Sunday. so fucking tragic. hope he can rest in peace.

https://ra.co/news/78132

She's gonna live forever

Simon Peter Edmund Cosmo William Koch de Gooreynd aka Sir Simon Towneley aka elder brother of Sir Peregrine Worsthorne. Landowner and amateur dendrologist.

Aged 100: “He died fortified by the rites of the Holy Church, and a partridge and a bottle of champagne.”

TIL rites of partridge

One of the best Bosom Manor episodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbJzDDUaPw0

Doddie Weir, Scotland rugby international and MND campaigner

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/63768331

Albert Pyun

https://variety.com/2022/film/obituaries-people-news/albert-pyun-dead-nemesis-cyborg-captain-america-1235173286/

red letter media just did a tribute to him last night or so, because his wife had posted that he was on his last legs and could use some positive thoughts.

'the QUARTERback is toast' is one of the greatest line-reads in history imo, rip

Clarence Gilyard Jr., the actor best known for playing computer hacker Theo in “Die Hard” and naval flight officer Marcus “Sundown” Williams in “Top Gun,” has died at the age of 66 https://t.co/phN1W9z8gc

— CNN (@CNN) November 29, 2022

Artist Tom Phillips, who taught and collaborated with Eno among many other things:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/nov/29/tom-phillips-obituary

Davide Rebellin, 51 (cyclist)

https://road.cc/content/news/davide-rebellin-killed-hit-and-run-collision-297743

(xp) RIP

i know this is now like my doom to keep point such things out but my portal to tom phillips's a humument was the fkn nme

https://www.tomphillips.co.uk/images/stories/artists/HUMtete1_750.jpg

I guess it was through Eno's relationship to Fripp that Phillips designed the cover of Starless and Bible Black: "this night wounds time".

Jiang Zemin, former Chinese leader, 96

Uh, seeing preliminary reports that Christine McVie has passed away.

xxp -- that's the most likely and the most direct link i guess, tho eno and the obscure label were plugging into phillips's presence on a pre-existing music circuit (the one that michael nyman's experimental music was also chronicling), plus his visual work and versions of a humument were certainly available as cultural information within the then alt.listings world

Rest In Peace Christine McVie pic.twitter.com/sJwlqgsBLw

— Christine McVie (@christine_mcvie) November 30, 2022

Obvs skeptical of anything on Twitter these days, but this message was also shared on what purports to be her official Instagram as well.

Yeah being confirmed everywhere now

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63812952

RIP, so glad I got to see her with the classic lineup on their last tour.

Fuck.

Rolling Stone (I don't subscribe so I haven't read it)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/christine-mcvie-fleetwood-mac-dead-obtuary-1234638903/

honestly shocked by this

oh man, awful news

goddamn it

Oh no…