Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Françoise Hardy

;_;

aww shit :(

I read somewhere that she was the most photographed woman in history... until Madonna came along

:(

I don't listen to my old CDs that much, but hers get played now and then

R.I.P., quelle légende. Love her so much.

the Queen of Gallic Cool

https://best-fit.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/Francoise_Hardy.jpg

https://www.formidablemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/006_francoise_hardy_formidablemag-4.jpg

Jazz producer Jean-Philippe Allard.

Jerry West “The Logo”

Howard Fineman

(xpost) Old enough to have watched him when I was too young to appreciate him (probably saw him a couple of times on TV in the early '70s).

Tony LoBianco

http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/beefcake/tonylobianco/tonylobianco3.jpg

http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/beefcake/tonylobianco/tonylobianco3.jpg

sigh

terrific in the bonkers-mad God Told Me To

oh man - so great in Honeymoon Killers! RIP

Mark James, 83---wrote or co-wrote "Always On My Mind," Suspicious Minds," "Hooked On A Feeling." Songs with legs, as this reminds:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/mark-james-dead-elvis-suspicious-minds-hooked-on-a-feeling-1235921647/

RIP, great songwriter!

'Always On My Mind' is an absolute gem of regret

Sidney Felsen, beloved co-founder of Gemini G.E.L., dies at 99

The Melrose Avenue artists’ workshop and lithography publisher, which opened its doors in 1966, took off fast, attracting the likes of Josef Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra, Roy Lichtenstein and others, who produced pieces of modern printmaking history there over the years.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-06-10/sidney-felsen-dead-gemini-gel

Kevin Campbell, 54.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/15/kevin-campbell-former-arsenal-and-everton-striker-dies-aged-54

Also Matija Sarkic, Millwall and Montenegro goalkeeper, 26

https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/15/matija-sarkic-millwall-and-montenegro-goalkeeper-dies-aged-26

fuck sake

Angela Bofill, 70.

The BBC's headline was something like "ex-Arsenal striker Campbell dies", so my initial thought was that Sol Campbell had died. Which made me feel old. Sol Campbell made his international debut in Euro '96, which was only yesterday. It's hard to think that "Three Lions" etc is twenty years old. Why is everything so dark nowadays. Why do I have to use a torch to read things.

And when I realised it was Kevin Campbell, a completely different footballer. I'm also now terrified that I'm a subconscious racist because I mixed the two players up. It was accidental, but racism is racism. Do I say racist things when I'm asleep? You tell me, Ilxor. Are my paragraph breaks racist?

The headline got me wondering about relative levels of fame. Presumably if Sol Campbell had died the headline would be "Sol Campbell dies" because everybody knows Sol Campbell. He's Sol Campbell. The most famous man to be named after the sun. I wonder if the BBC deliberately wrote the headline in an ambiguous way in order to maximise engagement. In which case it worked.

It's hard to think that "Three Lions" etc is twenty years old.

twenty-eight years old to be precise.

Angela Bofill, 70.

― mike t-diva, Saturday, June 15, 2024 7:27 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

:(

I wonder if the BBC deliberately wrote the headline in an ambiguous way in order to maximise engagement.

Sol Campbell was very much not a striker.

Yoshiko Kuga, 93, actress in many classic Japanese films.

Aww man. What a week - Françoise Hardy and Angela Bofill. Two favorite voices.

RIP Ms. Kuga. What a remarkable career.

Sol Campbell was very much not a striker

Also he didn't make his international debut at Euro 96. Quite a litany of errors in that original post!

But, never mind that, RIP Kevin Campbell.

Angela Bofill was incredible, massive versatile voice and completely nailed the transition to the synthetic 80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtPec862uyY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ_E3hP6v0k

Jeremy Tepper. https://variety.com/2024/music/news/jeremy-tepper-outlaw-country-dead-1236039151/

https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/sirius-xm-outlaw-channel-chief-jeremy-tepper-passes/

#BREAKING Paul Pressler, the monumental Southern Baptist leader and Republican activist at the center of a massive sex abuse scandal, died on June 7. He was 94. https://t.co/Km6uMmocv0

— robert downen (@RobertDownen_) June 15, 2024

Monumental? How fat was he? I mean, he looks John Goodman-sized in that photo, but that's hardly cause for "monumental."

did you honestly think this was funny?

you are the ilx bill maher

Graham ‘Dids’ Dowdall, longtime music guy in a ton of interesting projects from the UK, both on his own and with others, including Ludus and Gagarin.

Not familiar w the later, but I’m constantly going on about how wildly underrated Ludus is.

dario g

Terrible! Sunchyme >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Life in a Northern Town

the Sunchyme video is very much "Something you couldn't make anymore."

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

Loved how it was used in Derry Girls.

Anouk Aimee, 92.