Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

I think the last time he was playing with them, he'd only come in for a couple songs

I was thinking he would have been the oldest musician to come up in the punk/new wave scene, but Alan Vega was a couple of months older.

Vi Subversa of the Poison Girls was older I think?
anyway RIP Jet Black, cool name cool guy

Vi Subversa was 80 when she died in 2016.

An evil Tory, 90. How do they all live so long?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/09/lord-young-conservative-minister-and-businessman-dies-aged-90

Ronnie Turner, Tina's son, 62:

Ronnie Turner’s brother, Craig Turner, died by suicide in 2018. His aunt, Alline Bullock, Tina Turner’s sister, passed away in 2010. His father, Ike Turner, died in 2007.

Jo Carol Pierce.
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2022/12/08/jo-carol-pierce-austin-death-obituary-wellington-jimmie-dale-gilmore-bad-girls/69703288007/

Was just thinking about her recently because she wrote a funny song about Jerry Lee Lewis that I can’t seem to find much trace of on the intranetz.

american soccer journalist grant wahl, 48

wtf

Ruth Madoc

Tony Hill, fuzzmaster guitarist of 70s UK psych band High Tide

Richard Miller, aka the man who created Princess Leia’s gold bikini, 80: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/richard-miller-dead-ilm-sculptor-star-wars-1235279457/

J.J. Barnes, much admired singer/songwriter in Northern Soul circles, 79. He had one US hit, "Baby Please Come Back Home", but his big Northern tunes were "Our Love Is In The Pocket", "Real Humdinger", "Please Let Me In" and "Sweet Sherry".

New Yorker cartoonist (+ art director and cartoon editor) Lee Lorenz, 90.

Mankoff described Mr. Lorenz as a “jazz cartoonist” — a dual reference to Mr. Lorenz’s longtime musical sideline playing cornet with his Creole Cookin’ Jazz Band, and how he crafted his drawings. Mr. Lorenz did not first make a pencil sketch or other under drawings. He would start with an ink wash or pen and build the images in one go.

Chris Boucher, script editor for Blakes 7 and writer of several episodes including the finale, and writer of three great Doctor Who serials (creating Leela in the process) one of which (Robots of Death) is among the undisputed best of the show.

Paul Silas:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/us/paul-silas-nba-player-coach-obit-spt-intl/index.html

I remember him as a key player on the '74 Celtics team--with Dave Cowens, Jo Jo White, and Havlicek--that won the title.

Apparently Manual Gottsching passed earlier this month.

jeez, first Schulze and now Göttsching - bad year for Ash Ra Temple :( https://www.ashra.com/

Victor Lewis-Smith

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/12/victor-lewis-smith-writer-and-broadcaster-dies-at-65

:-(

That TV column he wrote for The Standard was often the only thing worth reading in that rag.

His album Tested On Humans For Irritancy was big for me as a kid, my mate taped a copy for a bunch of us and we'd play it incessantly during art lessons. Pretty sure I committed most of it to memory.

I never know who any of these UK celebrities are, but I knew this guy for one thing at least:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEc8_2NAy4E

He always seemed to be on the verge of becoming better known with the wider public. Bit of a shock that he was 65.

xpost First thing I thought of.

Yeah, he was still doing that "True Stories" in Private Eye, wasn't he?

65? Blummin Eck, thought he was at least ten years older than me!

angelo badalamenti :(

oh no ;_;

nooooo, fuck, that's a rough one

tragic news
rip

this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-eqgr_gn4k

him and julee cruise in the same year :/

I never get tired of that clip

same, it's beautiful

oof. I love his album with Tim Booth and Bernard Butler.

A particularly lovely Badalamenti effort that was one of the first things I encountered from him after Blue Velvet: his orchestration on the Pet Shop Boys' "It Couldn't Happen Here"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJRTjR2QJVo

yes the above clip of angelo composing laura palmer's theme - that is peak youtube right there. all time fav vid

Ah man. RIP.

RIP, love Badalamenti. His work with Lynch especially was just such a perfect partnership.

i still love the stuff he did on the Lost Highway soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-e08eBbNv0

The cassette of the Twin Peaks soundtrack was jammed in my car’s tape player on the first date that my future husband and I went on in 2011. Has a very special place for me as a result— also has somehow led to him giving me cassettes for every major gift giving occasion, which I don’t mind, but which is a bit funny, too.

Also really funny and sinister in his one acting role

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVI-Jew-iHo

dark mood low

Super Sky Point to Stuart Margolin, who made Angel such a memorable and endearing character on The Rockford Files. I hope his first act in the hereafter is to call his old pal Jimmy and tell him he’s in trouble and needs his help. And may old friends be together again. #RIP pic.twitter.com/5mycPoTxPP

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) December 13, 2022

noooooooooo

;_;

legendary college football coach mike leach, 61

here's a great thread about his impact on football strategy

Incredibly momentous for football that Mike Leach has passed away. It is no understatement whatsoever to say that Leach fundamentally changed football forever, and I am not sure there was any more influential coach in the last 40 years, when you include high school and college.🧵

— Chris B. Brown (@smartfootball) December 13, 2022

The character Angel from The Rockford Files is responsible for one of the best off-the-cuff puns I have ever heard.

One time, my dad was talking about this show and called Angel "a conniver."

One of us kids asked "what's a conniver?"

My sister piped up, "Someone who doesn't know how to pronounce the word 'knife.'"