Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

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

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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

bob schick of richmond, va bands honor role/coral/dynamic truths etc.

:-(

One of my all-time favorite songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abzP3Y1BBSU

RIP Bob

big influence on drive like jehu iirc?

Caleb Carr, the son of the Beat poet Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his cat, Masha, has died at 68.

There's part of me that wonders "if you're going to die of cancer at 53, isn't it OK to enjoy every Big Mac along the way?"

yeah, I don't think a month of McD's is what killed him, he shoulda kept going with it

Ah man, sad news about Carr. The Alienist is a hell of a book.

Yeah RIP Carr. Alienist is an all-time great, for sure.

Had no idea about the range of his career, his wiki is a good read, "During this period, he published his first nationally noticed broadside: a long indictment, published on the letters page of The New York Times, of Henry Kissinger's foreign policy"

xpost RIP. Great book.

Doug Ingle of Iron Butterfly, 78. RIP Mr One Riff Guy, it was a good riff though.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/doug-ingle-iron-butterfly-dead/

Golfer Grayson Murray, 30.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/25/grayson-murray-golfer-death-obituary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulDC1w1ydLI