Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

oh no not Pluto :(

one day i will find a karaoke that's got "Your Honour"

Laurie Johnson, composer of great TV, film and library music. Not least one of the greatest title sequences of all time.

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

And the Jason King theme, too.

Conductor of a fantastic LP version of Herrmann’s North By Northwest also
And his Hammer score for Captain Kronos is really special

Norman Jewison, 97. Definitely assumed he died like 20 years ago.

Gigi Riva, at the age of 79.

R.I.P Gigi Riva 💔

Italy’s greatest ever striker & STILL their top scorer 50 years after his last game

Scored in Euro 68 final win, a legend at World Cup 70

Led Cagliari to historic 1970 Scudetto

His left foot shot was so powerful it once broke the arm of a fan in the crowd pic.twitter.com/KPJgJCfc47

— Carlo Garganese (@carlogarganese) January 22, 2024

David Emge (from Dawn of the Dead)

https://ew.com/david-emge-died-dawn-of-the-dead-8547146

Oh, this one hurts. The great David Emge passed away Saturday in his hometown of Evansville IN at age 77.

DAWN OF THE DEAD is one of the best social and commercial commentaries ever set to film, and David’s nerve-addled “Flyboy” ties the movie together with heart and humanity. pic.twitter.com/iXoLVeKkIG

— Ted Geoghegan (@tedgeoghegan) January 22, 2024

Apparently Neil Kulkarni? I can't find it anywhere official, but a mutual friend (who I don't think posts here any more) mentioned it, and the most recent post on his Facebook wall (from someone else) says something similar.

I had heard word earlier today, sadly.

Wow, that's a genuine shock.

Knocked me flat when I heard it. It's just...wrong. Completely wrong.

Oh god that's awful :(

holy shit, that is terrible

Does anyone know what happened?

My understanding was a heart attack.

That's awful. His poor kids. They lost their mother too, right?

Yes, they had. This is devastating.

I can’t believe this one :(

Really sad to hear this, RIP.

:-(

What the actual fuck? He was so consistently great on the Chart Music podcast. Massive shock, big loss.

No way - Used to enjoy his writing for melody maker and vox and was consistently interesting on Twitter. RIP.

Really sad. And he posted here a few times, so one of the ILX fallen.

Damn - loved his writing, a true giant. RIP

Ugh.

Norman Jewison too RIP.

... and Gigi Riva RIP.

Totally gutted about Neil. Couldn't believe it when I heard it last night, he only posted on my wall the day before.

What a shitty year this is already (my dads funeral is on thursday).

oh shit sorry to hear that mate x

Condolences

sorry to hear that too Toshirō, sending my best.

David Stubbs has set up a crowd-funder for Neil Kulkarni should anyone be interested in contributing: https://www.gofundme.com/f/neil-kulkarni

"for Neil Kulkarni's family" that should have read

Erwin James, 66

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/23/erwin-james-former-guardian-prison-columnist-dies

Fuck, that's horrible news about Neil Kulkarni, RIP

Very sorry to hear about your dad, Toshiro, condolences

Absolutely reeling from the news about Neil. Fuck.

Kulkarni was also a mainstay of The Wire for about the last decade too.

the Local BBC radio station, CWR, Coventry and Warwickshire Radio have mentioned Neil, on the BBC News app / website

Tributes are paid to Coventry musician and critic Neil Kulkarni.

Tributes are paid to Coventry musician and critic Neil Kulkarni.

Tap to read: https://t.co/YNomtnX65m

— BBC CWR (@BBCCWR) January 23, 2024

Frank Farian, 82

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68065904

Terrible news about Neil Kulkarni too, he was the shake-up MM needed back then.

https://kaptainkulk.medium.com/dissidence-to-britpop-exhibit-a-fbcfefdc8e8d

Thanks guys for the kind words about my dad.

David Stubbs has set up a gofundme for Neil's daughters. I'll post the link here if anyone would like to donate to a former ilxor.
Obviously I read him in MM in the 90s but it was through ILX I got to 'meet' him online. He will be missed and I feel so bad for his girls whom he utterly adored.

https://gofund.me/af6ec158

I wasn't familiar with his work sadly, but am as always shaken by young people having heart attacks. Obviously there can be a lot of other pre-existing conditions/medical history that feeds into things, but I'm grateful for the ability to look into these things as I near that age. There are things to do like getting your cholesterol checked, taking a stress test etc, but there's another thing that's kind of newer called arterial calcium scoring where they can take a simple non-invasive scan, like a CT scan, and measure build-up of deposits in the heart arteries. Of course the United States healthcare companies will not cover it and it costs 1 or 2 hundred dollars, but according to any number of doctors, it's worth the money, esp if you have family history of heart disease, high cholesterol, overweight etc etc.

obv no idea what his situation was or whether there was anything that would've predicted this happening, but it's something I think a lot about and would suggest.

he wasn't particularly known for his own music, but you might enjoy some of it dan - very much in the vein of the television personalities...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZBQIN8v9D8

cool, will check it out.

Physicist & radio astronomer Arno Penzias, 90 - discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation leftover from the Big Bang.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/science/space/arno-a-penzias-dead.html

I haven't quite been able to rewatch this since the news last night, but I do think Neil's band recorded one of the greatest xmas songs of the 21st century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6GV4f0adwk

Cant help thinking how much he sounds like Terry Hall with that Coventry accent

Charles Osgood

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/23/1226384995/charles-osgood-cbs-died-91

"People You Thought Were..."

Oh wow... 'The Osgood Files' were almost a daily thing for me years ago.. he was basically doing the Paul Harvey thing, but a bit more urbane

Frank Farian.. RIP.

Melanie, 76

Melanie Safka has died and this is one of the greatest things you will ever see on YouTube. RIP.https://t.co/O52mbb2hDO

— Rob Chapman (@rcscribbler) January 24, 2024