Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

I see that Christopher Priest along with David Langford recently wrote the Guardian obit for David D.G. Compton so RIP to him too.

^ most thrilling rock song ever imo xp

― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:44 bookmarkflaglink

the 1968 single version definitely is, the version on Back In The USA is a little tame by comparison

Just noticed that Carlos Lyra passed away in late December, don’t think it was remarked upon yet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/arts/music/carlos-lyra-dead.html

Not an obit but an interview and long overview from May of last year:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/16/bossa-nova-pioneer-carlos-lyra-at-90-we-wrote-songs-about-our-reality-the-beach-sun-and-love-stories

Barry John - not long after JPR Williams too.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/04/barry-john-welsh-rugby-legend-and-british-and-irish-lions-great-dies-at-79

Ian Lavender

Oh no, genuinely sad at this.

He was the last one left, no?

Yup.

The curse of Dad's Army strikes again.

I wonder if there's a particular Dad's Army clip news programmes will run to mark his passing?

Michael Jayston, according to Colin Baker.

I was literally watching Trial Of A Time Lord during lunch today

very much enjoyed his reading of tinker tailor on a driving holiday lately, rip

Great voice. RIP.

His finest moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsQ4n_XOgjs

As far as I'm aware neither Ian Lavender or Michael Jayston were in Harry Potter so I can read their obituaries without doing my nut in.

Jarvis' time will come...

I'll spin Finisterre by Saint Etienne today for good dose of Jayston voice.

The whole main cast of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has now passed

As far as I'm aware neither Ian Lavender or Michael Jayston were in Harry Potter so I can read their obituaries without doing my nut in.

― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:25 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

they were both in the early 90s Cluedo tv series though not at the same time and none of the obits I've read yet have mentioned this

Toby Keith. Wasn’t aware he was sick.

I liked to love his music between his late '90s and mid '00s breakthrough. His 9-11 song and pro-lynching duet with Willie Nelson remain gross.

Don't know much of his stuff beyond the gross ones, but "Somewhere Else" is great

wilhelmenia wiggins fernandez at 75 😔😔😔

Mickey Gilbert, stunt performer, 87.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mickey-gilbert-dead-stuntman-robert-redford-1235817432/

Mickey Gilbert, the fearless stunt performer who jumped off a cliff for Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and doubled for Gene Wilder in films including Blazing Saddles, Silver Streak and The Frisco Kid, has died. He was 87.

Gilbert died Monday of natural causes at his home in Camarillo, California, his oldest son, Tim Gilbert, also a stunt performer, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Early in his career, Gilbert was a horse wrangler in William Wyler’s Ben-Hur (1959) and a bank robber in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969). Years later, he took the lumps for Lee Majors’ Colt Seavers on the 1981-86 ABC action show The Fall Guy.

Seeing Mojo Nixon, from a "cardiac event," age 66

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mojo-nixon-dead-obituary-1234964257/

Oh no. I saw him (with Skid Roper) the night before I graduated from college, it was a religious experience.

oh man. My first memory when reading this was the Dead Milkmen reference, but I'm watching the Elvis is Everywhere video and my first impulse is "oh yeah, this used to be on all the time" followed by "oh right, this is catchy" followed by "oh shit, I forgot how hilarious this was. Elvis needs boats!"

Our store could use some fixin

Waiting for comment from Michael J. Fox

fuuuuck RIP mojo

no one rules harder

Wow… Mojo was a San Diego Comic Con regular all through the 80s - roaming the show with his guitar, busting out a song, and somehow operating and thinking at a higher speed than anyone else.

It's just goddamn weird to think of a world without him OR Country Dick in it.

The world needs "Don Henley Must Die" now more than ever.

Good story about that: https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2014-06-20/don-henley-must-die/

Well, yeah.

It's like that dril tweet about Coolio & Kissinger, except it's Mojo & Henley.

No more stuffin' Martha Quinn's muffin

If only Howlin Wolf were still alive to dig up Mojo Nixon :(

Seiji Ozawa. A titan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/arts/music/seiji-ozawa-dead.html

Henry Fambrough, last of the original Spinners, 85

The Murakami interview book had a ton of musical insights. Surprised at how enjoyable of a read it is.

Ozawa has highs and lows but his Chicago recording of le sacre is an absolute knockout, one of my three or four favorites (among many many) of that work.

Toni Stern, a breezy young Californian who became a trusted lyricist for Carole King, providing the words for the enduring standard “It’s Too Late” and many other songs during Ms. King’s flowering as a chart-topping solo artist, died on Jan. 17 at her home in Santa Ynez, Calif., near Santa Barbara. She was 79.

Her husband and only immediate survivor, Jerry Rounds, confirmed the death. He did not specify the cause.

Ms. Stern, a Los Angeles native, was an aspiring painter and poet living in Laurel Canyon, an enclave popular with the Los Angeles rock elite, in the late 1960s. It was there that she met Ms. King, who had moved west from New Jersey after a painful breakup with her husband and songwriting partner, Gerry Goffin, with whom she had formed one of the decade’s powerhouse hit-making duos.

The two hit it off immediately. “When I moved to California in 1968, she was the epitome of a free-spirited Laurel Canyon woman,” Ms. King wrote in a Facebook post after Ms. Stern’s death. “She lived in a hillside house with her dog, Arf, surrounded by books, record albums, plants and macramé.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/arts/music/toni-stern-dead.html

She lived in a hillside house with her dog, Arf, surrounded by books, record albums, plants and macramé

Life goals

Indeed. Wonder what else was in that house. Might be some stuff for In every 70s US home ever

did Arf choose his own name?

As posted on the Can thread, Damo Suzuki

Oh my god wow

Wow.