Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid watching it on a b+w valve television

I can never remember whether he was Starsky or Hutch.

he was Starsky, the smart one.. Hutch was the 'street' one

xp Yeah, Tobe Hooper directed it, he didn't pull any punches with the scary stuff

James Mason as the vampire's henchman and keeper was so cold blooded, actually he was much scarier than the vampire

A lot of it was filmed up in Humboldt County (where I'm from), my uncle got paid $15 to put a Massachussetts plate on his car

The house was totally fake, we drove out to have a look at it while they were filming

I think you've got your cops mixed up. Paul Michael Glaser was Starsky (the street one), while David Soul was Hutch (the smart one.)

Ahh okay

See?

I felt so sure of myself

You don't have many of those renaissance men much anymore: stage actor, film actor, television, successful pop singer

it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid

Seeing a *trailer* for it freaked me out!

Vampire raising up through the kitchen floor with evil James Mason and killing the kid's parents in front of him seemed pretty hardcore for post watershed television at the time.

Heard some work people today commiserating with Kate Garraway but I said nothing because lol fuck Draper not soon enough

Died of long covid? weird

he was already dead tbf! When he got covid he was in an induced coma for 10 weeks, covid hated him more than uk ilx does.

I keep misreading gushing tributes to him as "lobbyist turned psychopath"

"turned" being the solecism

Glad to see that David Sole was well prepared, just in case he bumped into Derek Draper…. pic.twitter.com/ky1Ax5OTOc

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I keep misreading gushing tributes to him as "lobbyist turned psychopath"

Same, except when hearing it.

Silver Lady is a banger and fuiud tbh

don't give up on us baby

calz isn't that the unfunny racist Zarah Sultana "parody" account?

yeah I just posted the first offensive post about Draper I found, apols

O T MF M

Draper Death is long overdue and

Welsh flag and horrid name should have been a dead giveaway, but I'm slightly pished tonight.

David Soul was a guy who had a lot of acting chops. Weirdly my first exposure to him was as one-half of a psychotic bank robbing duo in the TV film In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders. The other psycho was Michael Gross! They were both superb and the final shootout is genuinely intense and bleak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBGfKtuo2AM

Mário Zagallo

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/06/mario-zagallo-world-cup-winning-player-and-coach-for-brazil-dies-aged-92

Cindy Morgan, who played Lacy Underall in Caddyshack.

And Yori in Tron

Rip Zagallo

Joan Acocella, New Yorker staff writer and dance critic, at 78:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/obituaries/joan-acocella-dead.html

Hearing reports that Iasos has passed into the crystal realm. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKRgNcqnoV8

I remember reading an Acocella review of Cirque du Soleil in the 90s in the Wall Street Journal (where she wrote before the New Yorker)...

Ahh here it is.

The "new circus" people are on the wrong track, I think. In their view, it seems, the acts are corny; what is important is the meanings that can be attached to them. But in fact it is those meanings that are corny. What is serious is the acts.

Del Palmer RIP

https://www.loudersound.com/news/del-palmer-dead-at-71?fbclid=IwAR2bmBVz2NTu9ifU2NUxvadA8-kqS6wdDgS5ZoBUFzehDN1LPzF0fvysocs

Franz Beckenbauer

According to David Grubbs, composer Phill Niblock has passed.

yeah all over facebook from people who know.

rip franz

2/3 men to ever win a world cup as both player and coach died on the same weekend

Lol that's incredible

RIP Phill Niblock, the Emperor of Drone

Saw Beckenbauer play in the first soccer match I ever attended, 1977 or '78 when he was with the New York Cosmos. Great team that was.

Saw him with The Cosmos often as well. Amazing. RIP

Oh man, Phill and Franz RIP

I never got to see the Cosmos play live, but to the extent there was soccer on TV in the western U.S. (which was almost not at all), I did get to see that club, which consisted of several aging greats and Italian fugitive Giorgio Chinaglia. IIRC, they did play some friendlies with German clubs and got pasted.

But RIP Der Kaiser, the original sweeper.

rip franz. the first image of him to come to mind is always him playing in a sling during what I think was the 1970 world cup due to a broken collarbone.

JPR Williams

Larry Collins of early Rockabilly outfit The Collins Kids

https://www.vintageguitar.com/58564/renowned-guitarist-larry-collins-passes/

Shel Talmy. The Kinks. The Who. the Creation. Easybeats. Lee Hazlewood. Had just started following him on Facebook. Great stories. Great career.

Oh shit... legend! He was recording bands in california until fairly recently

Crikey! A giant.

wow. what a legend. tbh I had no idea he was still alive.

Creation's 'Making Time' gets me bobbing my head against my will

That song is all-time for me.

Even if I slightly prefer Lord High Fixers' obliteration of it.

Pete Sinfield, 81. From 21st Century Man to Think Twice via The Land Of Make Believe is quite some journey.

Oof, RIP.

He needed to suck the breasts of time and freeze her milk in ink, to juggle cruets full of dreams and balance on the brink, and he did!

Confusion will be his epitaph, RIP

Princess Yuriko of the Japanese imperial family, 101!

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/15/japan/princess-yuriko-obituary/

I was just wondering the other day if Sinfield was still alive! I have his solo album. It's...okay

Wasn't familiar with Sinfield. Apparently produced the first Roxy Music album and Virgina Plain.

Confusion will be his epitaph

Maybe, maybe not

James McMahon, former NME writer.

Creation's 'Making Time' gets me bobbing my head against my will

Oh this was about Shel Talmy, not Peter Sinfield.

The James McMahon news will cheer me up, at least. He was an enormous abusive pile of shit to a friend of mine that he was dating for a few years, really did some damage.

seemed like a total prick

RIP to Pete Sinfield. A seminal figure in prog. Salute.

I kinda wonder what all that 1969-1971 prog would sound like if not for his influence

It would be instrumental! I've written at great length about my total and utter hatred of Sinfield's lyrics in the 1970s, but I have nothing against the stuff he wrote in the 1960s.

So, Pete Sinfield, you are okay. No more will you struggle to find rhymes for "ladder".

I’m totally the opposite. I loved his bizarro poetry and used to try to write my own similar as a youth. His solo album Still used to be one of my favorites, I need to play it tonight.

Was at Silver Platters SODO in Seattle yesterday. They have a written list of yearly passings behind the counter, like this thread. As I was leaving, one of the clerks asked another if they'd heard that Peter Dinklage had died. Sad feeling, then, but turns out he's the latest viral "not really dead" person. Not sure how those start or propagate, but glad it was false.

It makes me smile to know that Gordon Haskell's little chuckling fit that climaxes KC's "Indoor Fireworks" was caused by his scoffing at Sinfield's lyrics to that one

No more will you struggle to find rhymes for "ladder".

OK, no blaming Sinfield for "Still...You Turn Me On". That's 100% Greg Lake.

As Sinfield said, "Greg told me he needed help with lyrics...and boy, did he need help!"

gymnastics coach bela karolyi, 82

Many xxxp re: Sinfield’s Still: it makes The Moody Blues sound like Motörhead. Your hippy-dippiness mileage may vary.

I really like that tune on “Still” where Greg Lake pops in on the choruses.

Don't know this song but I just looked up the lyrics and wow - even Bernard Sumner couldn't do better!