The rolling RIP/obituary thread

I didn't know Iain Cuthbertson passed away earlier this month. RIP.

William Garvey, the guy who wrote "Goodbye Horses" died of heart failure last month at 51.

xpost -- RIP to Cuthbertson! Funny as hell as the one thing I know him from offhand, an episode of Ripping Yarns.

lucy 'in the sky' vodden

producer Greg Ladanyi (Church, Jackson Browne, Fleetwood Mac etc) died yesterday morning

http://prosoundnews.com/article/24448

RIP Amy Farris

News spread today to shocked friends and fans that local musician Amy Farris had died over the weekend. As a member of Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women, Farris played the fiddle, viola and sang harmony vocals. An Austin, Texas native, Farris moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to record a solo album produced by Dave Alvin. She also played backup for a number of musicians including Exene Cervenka, Stan Ridgway, Brian Wilson, Peter Case and Ray Price.

According to newspaper Austin 360, Farris was found dead in her Los Angeles home. Suicide is suspected, but the cause of death is still being investigated. Farris was 40 years old.

Little Britain star Matt Lucas' former civil partner has been found dead in his flat after leaving a tragic message on Facebook.

Police found the body of Kevin McGee at his Edinburgh flat.

The television producer, who "wed" Lucas, 35, in December 2006, had posted a message on Facebook three hours earlier.

It read: "Kevin McGee thinks that death is much better than life."

Robert Kirby, college chum of Nick Drake's, arranged all his strings, went on to arrange for Elton John, John Cale, Costello, etc. Only 61.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirby

RIP, loved his arrangements

Belgian cyclist Vandenbroucke dead at 34

;_;

Reposting outside of the Who thread.

Barry Letts RIP

hearing rumours around facebook that brendan mullen, owner of the masque and co-author of some ace la punk, germs and janes addiction biogs (and very much a loveable and larger-than-life character himself) has passed away after a massive stroke.

I don't know much about him outside of the Germs book but that's a good read so on that basis I hope it's not true

WTF @ Frank VDB :(

Reposting outside of the Who thread.

Barry Letts RIP

That's Doctor Who, not "The Who" to clarify...

Damn, the Vandenbroucke news is depressing.

Captain Lou:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/10/captain-lou-albano.html

and Al Martino (he had a #1 twenty years before The Godfather):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/6326236/Al-Martino.html#

RIP, Capt. Lou...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8M8I2SYEiA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdAYDL8CJy8

hilarious real-life mob details in that Martino obit btw

"I can put one of these in my nose and it comes right out the other side. Because I'm well groomed, brother."

VDB dying isn't that big of a surprise: the amount of drugs he took, multiple attempts at suicide,.. It is a loss, but otoh his rap sheet wasn't clean. He terrorized his wife for fucking years. Slapping her around, stalking her,... I'm not saying good riddance, but just a sad case of unfulfilled talent. (Same nationality: Dré Steemans, a Belgian presenter.)

Ian Wallace, beloved of anyone who owned this album.
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/ciu/d6/20/81f1c27a02a00bb4cdf43110.L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Because of this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzg4ALLYnXE

RIP Anne Friedberg. Postmodern/film/architecture/design/everything crit. Had her for a few classes back at UCI and she was a huge influence in how I perceived the world (and still do)

Kazuhiko Kato of 1970's band Sadistic Mika Band, seems he committed suicide : http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/musician-kazuhiko-kato-found-hanged-at-karuizawa-hotel

vic mizzy, composer of "addams family" theme and other things.

Ludovic Kennedy, broadcaster, justice campaigner, author of 10 Rillington Place.

RIP Anne Friedberg. Postmodern/film/architecture/design/everything crit. Had her for a few classes back at UCI and she was a huge influence in how I perceived the world (and still do)

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, October 16, 2009 12:30 AM (4 days ago)

I too had a few classes with her, and was friendly with her husband. She was a really really great woman, mother, and teacher.

Ludovic Kennedy, broadcaster, justice campaigner, author of 10 Rillington Place.

Apparently Thatcher blocked him from getting a knighthood as long as she was in office, well done Ludo

xpost Anne Friedberg also taught my wife (who was at UCI about 15 years ago) and she remembers her fondly

Joseph Wiseman, aka Dr. No in the first James Bond film.

he's super in Detective Story

One hell of a cast for that one.

"Asked in 1964 by his friend David Levy, the head of programming for NBC, to provide music for a new comedy called 'The Addams Family,' based on Charles Addams’s sinister cartoons, Mr. Mizzy came up with a da-da-da-dum beat followed by two finger snaps. The parody of beatnik ennui fit with the show’s satirical, proto-hipster humor. The theme, sung by Mr. Mizzy, was so distinctive that it remained popular far beyond the series’s two seasons."

R.I.P. George Tuska, who probably drew more issues of Iron Man than anyone else:

http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/george_tuska_1916_2009/

Mizzy did the "Green Acres" theme (sampled on "Licensed To Ill") too :(

Yes. RIP, another guy who I never knew existed until you died whose various works I have been enjoying since I was a lad.

rip kazuhiko kato

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

He's great in the film Little Murders:

Lou Jacobi, a scene-stealing actor who made a film and stage career playing comic ethnic characters but was lauded for serious dramatic roles as well, has died in New York. He was 95.

Jacobi made his Broadway debut in 1955 in “The Diary of Anne Frank,” playing a less-than-noble occupant of the Amsterdam attic where the Franks were hiding, and reprised the role in the 1959 film version. Among his other films were “Irma La Douce,” “My Favorite Year,” “Arthur,” Woody Allen’s “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex” and Barry Levinson’s “Avalon.” He also appeared frequently on television on such shows as “Playhouse 90,” “The Man From UNCLE,” “That Girl,” “Love, American Style” and “The Dean Martin Show.”

From Wikipedia:

He made a spoof record album for Capitol Records called Al Tijuana and his Jewish Brass

Looks like he is interviewed in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Talking-Piano-Player-Stuart-Oderman/dp/1593933207

HERE we go!

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

Norman Painting, who held a world record for his near 60-year role in the BBC radio soap The Archers, dies at 85.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46631000/jpg/_46631258_painting1_226bbc.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8331558.stm

given the response to the Irving Penn RIP thread, I thought I'd just post this here.

RIP Roy DeCarava

I had a chance to check out a retrospective book on him, and the man did great work. not much of a eulogist, so I'll leave it at that - also recommending that jazz fans seek out all the photographs he's made of famous jazz musicians.

Robert H. Rines, inventor who claimed to have seen Loch Ness Monster, dies at 87

RIP famous UFO eyewitness Lonnie Zamora (I have a Stan Ridgway t-shirt with a picture of Zamora on it)

Robert H. Rines, inventor who claimed to have seen Loch Ness Monster, dies at 87

― Zeno, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 4:27 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

RIP famous UFO eyewitness Lonnie Zamora

coincidence?

zamora's sighting one of the best/most documented "unexplained" sightings from blue book

RIP Roy DeCarava

Saw a cool retrospective of his work in St. Louis about a decade ago.

Armin Gessert, CEO of Spellbound Entertainment and co-creator of Commodore 64 classic The Great Giana Sisters, passed away last Sunday after suffering a heart attack

RIP Hannover and former Barca keeper Robert Enke, all very heartbreaking.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5A94JL20091110