Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

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

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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.

RIP :(

:-(

Now seeing that Chomsky has died

Anouk Aimee, 92.

Had me looking into buying or streaming A Man and a Woman--doesn't look to be easy or cheap.

xp May he sleep furiously

can't be that surprised as he was old and ill, but still such a loss

Actually awaiting confirmation on this, not coming rn

yeah hoping it's a hoax

0-0 at half time. These guys not read the memo.

Sorry wrong thread

is it

looks like Chomsky is alive!

His wife says he's alive

And she should know.

so happy to hear.

New Statesman published an obit:

https://archive.ph/P35WA

must be quite a thing to be able to read your own obituaries

James Chance, after a long period of illness.

aaaw

https://www.gofundme.com/f/for-james-chance-and-judy-taylor?viewupdates=1&rcid=r01-171875274229-2af0ec102dc911ef&utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_email%2B1137-update-supporters-v5b

I read a few days ago that Chomsky had a massive stroke and is now non-verbal...

WILLIE MAYS

deserves the all caps. so long say hey kid

Damn, Willie definitely in that category of "didn't know he was still alive" for me. R.I.P. to an utter legend.