Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

shit - he was a tremendous intriguing presence on those early Faithless hits

RIP!

I saw Faithless three times before they went stadium sized, and they really were a fantastic live act back then, actually my favourite band for a couple of years. They got a good deal less interesting very quickly after that, but perhaps it’s time to reconnect with those first two albums and their attendant singles, as the later stuff has rather clouded my memories of when they were properly slamming.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/arts/music/tshala-muana-dead.html

RIP Congolese singer Tshala Muana at too young an age. I liked her album Mutuashi

https://www.offbeat.com/news/walter-wolfman-washington/

RIP at 79 New Orleans singer/ guitarist Walter Wolfman Washington. He started in Lee Dorsey’s band and later had his own group

Stephen Greif who played Travis in Blakes Seven Bosom Manor

Archer Maclean, UK game developer pioneer (IK+, Dropzone, Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker)
https://www.timeextension.com/news/2022/12/dropzone-and-ikplus-creator-archer-maclean-has-passed-away

Dropzone was a classic, it was just a Defender rip-off but it was a superb one.

Deeply saddened to hear that the great John Bird has left us. One of the most modest of men and most brilliant of satirists. And one of the last surviving pillars of the anti-establishment. 1/4

— Rory Bremner 💙🇺🇦 (@rorybremner) December 28, 2022

Thought he'd died years ago tbh.

Rory Bremner? me too

Archer Maclean :( I spent many an hour on that snooker game and to this day I still get the IK+ music going round and round in my head now and then.

Ruggero Deodato, Italian film maker best known for Cannibal Holocaust.

Dorothy Iannone

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/dorothy-iannone-whose-work-foregrounded-female-pleasure-died-at-89-1234652037/

BREAKING: Pelé, the exuberant Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and as standard-bearer of “the beautiful game” was one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died on Thursday. He was 82. https://t.co/2fP0AqqSVP pic.twitter.com/C4ILiba3VG

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 29, 2022

Pelé.

Oh, shit.

He was just mentioned on the "still alive" thread a few days ago.

:(

Deaths in the last few days of the calendar year remind me that back in the heyday of printed magazines, we used to do big year-end wrapups, including "in memoriam" segments about notable people who died that year.

These generally went to press before Christmas. So if you died on (say) January 29, it was too late to add you to a year-end issue, and by the time the next year rolled around, it was old news. Hence a lot of tributes got kinda lost. Similarly if you died on a day when someone more famous than you died (like Huxley / JFK). Some very caring editors would do a little feature on "people we weren't able to eulogize" either in January or as part of the next year's wrapup.

Gone, but (sort of) not forgotten

RIP. Regrettable that he became such a willing mouthpiece for FIFA and all the worst people in the football world but, along with Ali, he was the most famous sportsperson in the world for a long time.

He was just mentioned on the "still alive" thread a few days ago.

Heard on a radio station here that Ian Tyson has died.

And Vivienne Westwood?

29th December 2022. 

Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London.

The world needs people like Vivienne to make a change for the better. pic.twitter.com/YQwVixYUrV

— Vivienne Westwood (@FollowWestwood) December 29, 2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64122181.amp

Fuckin' hell.

FUCK.

:(

Tarkovsky composer Eduard Artemeyev

i watched stalker recently and every bandcamp drone/field recordings album i hear now sounds like his stalker score from 50 years ago

Similarly if you died on a day when someone more famous than you died (like Huxley / JFK)

CS Lewis not even making that quote shows how effective the curse is.

Damn this is a rough day, one of those 'the 20th century is disappearing' moments.

i watched stalker recently and every bandcamp drone/field recordings album i hear now sounds like his stalker score from 50 years ago

And yeah, truth.

Also seeing reports that solid journeyman producer Paul Fox, who worked with a ton of bands (XTC, Robyn Hitchcock, They Might Be Giants, 10,000 Maniacs, Sugarcubes etc. etc.) has passed; he'd suffered from early onset Alzheimer's for some years, sadly.

Was just listening to the Fox-produced Our Time in Eden on this morning’s dog-walk. RIP.

Singer-songwriter Ian Tyson, probably best known for “Four Strong Winds” (and, I learned about two minutes ago, a friend of my uncle’s).

Tarkovsky composer Eduard Artemeyev

What a day.

My sister worked with Vivienne Westwood for over 30 years and is in absolute pieces over this. I just spent an hour on the phone to her trying to cheer her up a bit and she told me some of the most hysterically outrageous VW acecdotes. What a character, what a life!

Celebrated Modernist architect Arata Isozaki, 91.

Barbara Walters, wow. One of those people who already seemed like she'd been around forever when I was a kid.

Damn. RIP

Wow, that’s huge - she was a huge benefactor for my alma mater and hers.

this is a bit late on Pele but there used to be this very rough as fuck pub down the road from me in the 90's called the Nelson. The landlord had a framed pic of himself tackling Pele from when he played in the US behind the bar. It's just come back to me who he was - it was Roy Ellam who is more famous for the big gym he now runs than he ever was as a football player, but tbf he did get into the Revie era dirty Leeds side.

Former Pope Benedict XVI, aged 95

one for the pope stats fans: first one to stand down while still alive in 6 centuries

"he was forced to join the Hitler Youth"

I've heard that one many times!

Well you would do in Huddersfield.

reading the wikipedia entry on papal renunciation and of the six historically reliable resignations, benedict 16's is literally the only "bored now" -- the other five were all political in some sense (deposed, stepped aside to solve a schism, stepped aside when realised way out of depth)

benedict 9 was like the covid-bolsonaro of popes and kept popping back for another go