Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

John Hawken, keyboardist, 84
Member of the Nashville Teens, Renaissance and the Strawbs

XP Cause of death was not disclosed.

uhh, maybe his age was a factor?

That's the joke around my house — "He died of being 92."

Overtoun House windows (aldo) at 1:40 14 May 24

I think I only posted her on 'people you didn't know were still alive' about a month ago.

That's me and Dabney Coleman. Just posted him to that thread on April 12.

John Hawken! I actually love that first Renassiance album. and a lot of the Strawbs stuff he was on. what a cool band they were. not really folk, not really prog, just kinda liable to go anywhere in between. Hawken I believe was the main reason for that. I wanna quote some Strawbs tune about wishing your dead friends well but there are just so damn many of them

Pedal steel guitarist, large-scale instrument builder and LAFMS affiliate Chas Smith. (all of his albums are great)

Minneapolis West Bank folk legend Spider John Koerner https://www.startribune.com/spider-john-koerner-obituary-minneapolis-minnesota-bob-dylan-ray-glover-bonnie-raitt-palmers-cancer/600366946/"> https://www.startribune.com/spider-john-koerner-obituary-minneapolis-minnesota-bob-dylan-ray-glover-bonnie-raitt-palmers-cancer/600366946/

xpost Yeah, Chas Smith plays on that forthcoming Lee Underwood reissue that I posted Drag City press sheet about (w video link) on the post-Fahey thread, followed by sleeves post of the Bandcamp link to a Chas album.

Roger Corman

A wait sorry. I am a week late to the party.

I see he was mentioned right before John Barbata.

Discussed briefly here as well: Roger Corman movies S/D

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/18/politics/alice-stewart-cnn-commentator-dies/index.html

CNN contributor, former Santorum/Bachmann/Huckabee/Cruz communications director Alice Stewart.

Communications directing for those people could be fatal to your health.

I was shocked by Alice Stewart's death in that she was still on air a week or two ago. Obviously she worked for some terrible people, but she was okay on the air.

I don't know if the reaper is taking requests, but iranian president Ebrahim Raisi next please thank u

You might as well root for Archduke Ferdinand to pass...

You mean he's already dead?

not looking good is it? how sad

he looks dead to me but theyre waiting on a VAR review, theyre struggling to draw a clear line across the balkans

The referee has pointed to the spot.

helicopter crashes very much the van Basten penalty of world leader deaths

Anyway, another to add: Australian yodelling pop-country star Frank Ifield, whose easy listening hits clogged up the UK charts in the pre-Beatles 60s. I thought he had died years ago, apparently not.

oh dear, a part of my childhood I recall was playing the She Taught Me How to Yodel 45 on my parents record player. It was bad, not good.

God, yes, I had no idea he was still alive.

Every few years I'd rediscover he was still alive

I really love "I Remember You"

He was only 25 when the Beatles had their first hit!

They also shared an LP iirc

Yeah, what was that again? It's been awhile

Palle Danielsson, 77, Jazz bassist

Member of the Keith Jarrett Quartet 1974-79 (Belong, Nude Ants, etc.) Also played on Jan Garbarek's Witchi-Tae-To and many other alubms.

"Spider" John Koerner, 84, singer/guitarist

"An important mentor to the young Bob Dylan."

“I Remember You-ooooooooh”

Ivan Boesky

I don't know if the reaper is taking requests, but iranian president Ebrahim Raisi next please thank u

You wish has been granted, apparently

(xpost)

I know him, so pretty infamous:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/investing/ivan-boesky-dies-wall-street/index.html

I Remember You - that's the one Bjork covered, right? it's lovely.

I remember this cover

https://content.time.com/time/magazine/archive/covers/1986/1101861201_400.jpg

Karl-Heinz Schnellinger has died at the age of 85.

RIP Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (1939-2024). He played in four World Cups but his only goal for his country forced the most famous period of extra-time of all time. I once read he admitted he was only at that end of the pitch because he’d started making his way towards the tunnel. pic.twitter.com/yUYXFzjVPf

— James Campbell Taylor (@jamestaylor) May 21, 2024

Hollywood Producer Fred Roos

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/fred-roos-dead-godfather-2-megalopolis-1236009965/

David Wilkie, 70: 200m breaststroke gold in Montreal '76, and double world champ:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3ggndekv8lo

Oh wow. RIP.

i have a photo, somewhere, of 11 year old me, puny, pasty, sat next to bronzed Olympic gold-winner David Wilkie after doing a sponsored swim.

Yeah, he was the face of "ok kids, swimming is great!" back in the day. Before that, it was Rolf Harris.

Kabosu of Doge meme fame, age 18

a decent innings then

Shiba Inus are, overall, a very healthy breed with an average lifespan of 13–16 years

Morgan Spurlock, 53

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/24/super-size-me-director-morgan-spurlock-dies-aged-53

REALLY.

Younger than I thought...

this is the perfect ending for Super Size Me 2 though

Greg Philo of the Glasgow University Media Group