Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

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/

He co-wrote "Delta Dawn"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAQvu7OqrY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ1TYUK8T8

Kind of hard to believe that no one here is a Iasos fan— him and Niblock dying around the same time seems wild to me

I can't call myself a fan but I have enjoyed what I've heard, he seems a true character. Wouldn't mind taking a deeper dive.

Damn, RIP Iasos. Was just listening to Bora Bora 2000 yesterday.

Confessing my own ignorance — I've never listened to Niblock (had him confused with Phil Minton in my head, in fact) and never even heard of Iasos.

Those Larry Collins clips are amazing, thanks for sharing

Confessing my own ignorance — I've never listened to Niblock (had him confused with Phil Minton in my head, in fact) and never even heard of Iasos.

It was Phillip Corner I used to confuse him with. Ditto on Iasos btw.

Tony Clarkin of pomp rockers Magnum :(

Sad to hear that. Never the hippest of bands, but I heartily enjoyed seeing them back in the early 80s (less so in the mid-80s).

RIP Larry Collins

xp

yeah, they had some nice songs at their heights

Artist Alexis Smith, 74

https://www.artforum.com/news/alexis-smith-dies-19492024-545853/

Tracy Tormé, writer for Sliders, Star Trek TNG, Carnivàle, and a lot of UFO shows.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tracy-torme-dead-sliders-star-trek-next-generation-1235783832/

Melania Trump's mother, Amalija Knavs

I really don’t care, do u?

That's exactly what Donald said to Melania.

she was my mahjong partner, I will miss her

jaysus the bar for the rip threads had better not be that because lads i could print the death notices of the mayo news each week here and make a case vs some of our entries

yes im gatekeeping the threshold for the rip thread what av it

fwiw i believe it’s fair game since it is technically “news” inasmuch as it relates to former president dipshit, my comment was more meant as a jest

mine too

mainly!

RIP Terry Bisson, author most famously of Fire on the Mountain, an excellent and politically radical sci-fi novel.

That sounds pretty good; might track down a copy. I only know Bisson from his stories "Bears Discover Fire" and "They're Made Out Of Meat," both of which are great.

It’s pretty good, my main complaint was that I wanted it to be longer!!

Tisa Farrow, one time film actress and sister of Mia (72)

Ed Broadbent, leader of the Canadian New Democratic Party from 1975 to 1989, aged 87.

Seemed to be about the most decent politician ever.

RIP Tisa Farrow - we'll always have Zombie Flesh Eaters.

RIP Gothic horror expert David J Skal
https://medicotopics.com/david-j-skal-historian-passed-away-car-accident/

Don't think it would even occur to anyone to make something like that now

Loved how it was used in Derry Girls.