Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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Dave Riley of Big Black, 59.

https://www.punknews.org/article/71539/inmemoriam-dave-riley-of-big-black-has-passed-away

― nickn, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 22:25 (five years ago)

Damn. RIP.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 22:26 (five years ago)

noted cincinnati bengals coach sam wyche, 74

― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 January 2020 21:02 (five years ago)

Very Toronto-centric: Marilyn Lastman, Toronto's version of Martha Mitchell, sort of.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6358472/marilyn-lastman-wife-mel-lastman-dies/

As coincidence would have it, I passed the Kitchener Bad Boy store on the way home tonight.

(Also, as posted on ILB, Don Larsen.)

― clemenza, Friday, 3 January 2020 00:03 (five years ago)

A minute of "wait, why would a Mad Magazine artist / writer show up first on I Love Books rather than I Love Comics?"

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 3 January 2020 00:11 (five years ago)

Rapper Lexii Alijai

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/lexii-alijai-dead-kehlani-jealous-1203454960/

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 3 January 2020 15:56 (five years ago)

sad news, but man, that URL is particularly unfortunate.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 3 January 2020 16:14 (five years ago)

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/21107896/rosetta-thompson-19392019

DC promoter for the last 40 years of old-school style Gospel quartet shows , died after a long illness in December 2019

― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 January 2020 16:59 (five years ago)

TV "psychic", exploiter of the vulnerable, and smarmy fuck who didn't see this one coming, Derek Acorah

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/04/tv-mystic-derek-acorah-dies-aged-69

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 4 January 2020 09:42 (five years ago)

coming soon ...most haunted dead tosser haunts himself.

― calzino, Saturday, 4 January 2020 09:57 (five years ago)

be a little more sensitive calz, he might be reading this from beyond the grave

― NickB, Saturday, 4 January 2020 11:15 (five years ago)

he's pretending to be possessed in heaven now

― Kebabs Windsor (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 January 2020 11:22 (five years ago)

he's doonstairs

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 4 January 2020 11:42 (five years ago)

Norma Tanega:

http://usa.inquirer.net/50263/norma-tanega-maker-of-60s-hit-walkin-my-cat-named-dog-dies-at-80?fbclid=IwAR3y6ICz_Q2GNLFBEEBGQdZTosrK1d7NcCzrXRTF6zf-777nKRA-N7SirEU

Fantastic:

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

― clemenza, Saturday, 4 January 2020 15:11 (five years ago)

John Baldessari:

RIP: John Baldessari, a giant of Conceptual art for 50 years, has died. He was 88. A full obituary will follow. https://t.co/CWIiwkIQyu
— Christopher Knight (@KnightLAT) January 5, 2020

― ... (Eazy), Monday, 6 January 2020 00:46 (five years ago)

Nancy Lewis, American manager/publicist for Monty Python, the Who, Hendrix, and Genesis, among others, in the ‘60s-‘70s.

https://deadline.com/2020/01/nancy-carol-lewis-jones-dead-monty-python-manager-the-who-jimi-hendrix-publicist-1202822557/

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 11:54 (five years ago)

Elizabeth Wurztel, 52, from cancer complications

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/elizabeth-wurtzel-prozac-nation-author-who-spurred-a-memoir-boom-dies-at-52/2020/01/07/fc1a040e-2fcf-11ea-91fd-82d4e04a3fac_story.html

― Alba, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:17 (five years ago)

Elizabeth Wurtzel, sorry.

― Alba, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:18 (five years ago)

she had just been writing for New York mag again, that's a surprise to me

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:22 (five years ago)

Wow

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:57 (five years ago)

very sad :(

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 17:54 (five years ago)

Christopher Beeny, jobbing British actor probably best known for playing Thora Hird's son in In Loving Memory although he was also in Upstairs Downstairs and the last 10 years of Last of the Summer Wine.

― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 20:42 (five years ago)

Now I can no longer say Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up! about him and Christopher Timothy, as mentioned recently on the thread of that name :(

― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:26 (five years ago)

It's Christopher Blake I confuse him with.

― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:42 (five years ago)

Errrrrrrrr, what was he in again? Don't tell me....

― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:45 (five years ago)

... OK, two sitcoms I have absolutely no memory of, though I remember him, only 55 when he died :(

― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:47 (five years ago)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71woVOFnmOL._SY445_.jpg

― calzino, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:49 (five years ago)

I fucking hated that crap when I was a kid!

― calzino, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:50 (five years ago)

take it to up the arse corner

― Death to (NickB), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:52 (five years ago)

lol!

― calzino, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:53 (five years ago)

in the pic to the bottom left it looks like Thora Hird got first dibs on the strap on and is giving it him hard.

― calzino, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:57 (five years ago)

rip

― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:59 (five years ago)

i guess this is the thread for tears after all

― Death to (NickB), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:09 (five years ago)

still not as painful as the other ilm tbf

― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:11 (five years ago)

The obituary thread is where to come for lolz, folks.

― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:13 (five years ago)

if you can't laugh at the idea of corpse thora hird fucking another corpse with a dildo then this just isn't the thread for you!

― calzino, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:23 (five years ago)

stairlift to heaven

― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:42 (five years ago)

new year, similar UK unknowns dominating the rolls

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:26 (five years ago)

don't want to sic you but "uk unknowns" are in no way "dominating" the list in this thread thus far

― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:29 (five years ago)

idk morbs if a fella so much as looked at a can of film in 1947 he gets his due from yerself in the rip threads, no harm in the bar being low

i never even posted larry gogan today, like

― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:32 (five years ago)

howbout the last 3 hours xp

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:32 (five years ago)

there really is a vast world of dead britishes sitcom actors fucking each other with dildos that i know nothing of

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:35 (five years ago)

so... Jack Sheldon of "Schoolhouse Rock" fame

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/01/entertainment/jack-sheldon-dead/index.html

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:37 (five years ago)

theatre and film director/producer Jack Garfein (The Strange One, Something Wild (1961, with his wife Carroll Baker))

http://www.playbill.com/article/jack-garfein-acclaimed-director-and-producer-dies-at-89

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:43 (five years ago)

Holy shit Carroll Baker is still alive

― Josefa, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:20 (five years ago)

I saw her do a Q&A in the last couple years, after Something Wild

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:25 (five years ago)

Never saw that, know her from The Carpetbaggers and Harlow and Sylvia and the '50s things she was in

― Josefa, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:34 (five years ago)

Thought she just passed. Oh wait that was Sue Lyons. Guess I should post them on Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:42 (five years ago)

sorry Sue Lyon, no final ‘s’

― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:44 (five years ago)

Bosley Crowther thought the same

― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:47 (five years ago)

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Sometimes there's no English-language obituary available for some of my RIPs – or at least not yet.

― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 19:57 (four years ago)

I always try to post a link.

― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 19:58 (four years ago)

a complex web of links

― plax (ico), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 19:59 (four years ago)

My links are sometimes limited to the only other person on twitter who has heard of them.

― pedantly admonishment (aldo), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 20:05 (four years ago)

In British terminology, an obituary:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/11/paolo-rossi-obituary

Not an obituary:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/10/paolo-rossi-italian-football-great-and-world-cup-winner-dies

― Alba, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 20:07 (four years ago)

The day will come... when all of the American and British ILXors meet... and we stand off... and we decide, once and for all, the proper style guide for this board... but, I assure you... oh yes, I assure you!!... blood must spilled...

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 20:13 (four years ago)

im reading too much celine

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 20:13 (four years ago)

I’m sure you’ll be fine, most of the blood spilled will probably be of us non-American and non-British sacrificial pigs

xp

― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 20:35 (four years ago)

Indeed.

― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 20:42 (four years ago)

oh we dont even exist hadnt you heard

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 21:15 (four years ago)

Alto Reed (real name Thomas Neal Cartmell), saxophonist in Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band, of colon cancer at 72.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 17:53 (four years ago)

Wow. A bunch of friends and I saw Seger at MSG in January, and we found it endlessly amusing that his trench coat wearing sax player was named Alto Reed.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 18:16 (four years ago)

Dawn Wells, from Covid-19

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/dawn-wells-dead-gilligans-island-mary-ann-1234876755/

― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 20:12 (four years ago)

Claude Bolling, composer who scored some classic ‘70s French films including “Borsalino”, “Flic Story” and a ton of others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW3JT4yXDwU

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 20:12 (four years ago)

Mary Ann with the Shaky Hand.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dawn-wells-dead-mary-ann-gilligans-island-was-82-1149549

― clemenza, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 20:12 (four years ago)

(Missed C. Grissom's post.)

― clemenza, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 20:13 (four years ago)

Adolfo Quiñones, Dancer, Choreographer and Cultural Icon Known as Shabba-Doo, Dies at 65. (Was right under the Dawn Wells obit.)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/adolfo-quinones-dancer-choreographer-and-cultural-icon-known-as-shabba-doo-dies-at-65

― nickn, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 20:33 (four years ago)

Adele Rose, creator of Byker Grove

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-55488255

― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 21:23 (four years ago)

Might be first woman to write on Coronation Street too, if my friend who is currently writing it has his facts right.

― scampopo (suzy), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 21:44 (four years ago)

Joe Clark, the NJ high school principal played by Morgan Freeman in the movie Lean On Me.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 21:49 (four years ago)

Friends and neighbors of mine went to Eastside HS under “crazy” Joe Clark and other friends were extras in “Lean On Me”!

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 21:57 (four years ago)

the reaper is filling out his quota for the year I suppose

― flappy bird, Thursday, 31 December 2020 02:42 (four years ago)

Frank Kimbrough, jazz pianist.

― calzino, Thursday, 31 December 2020 02:55 (four years ago)

just saw that, RIP

― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 December 2020 03:32 (four years ago)

Tommy Docherty

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55501754

― groovypanda, Thursday, 31 December 2020 16:54 (four years ago)

RIP - will always remember him like this:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/12/31/16/37457240-0-image-a-39_1609430508566.jpg

― kites aren't fun (NickB), Thursday, 31 December 2020 16:58 (four years ago)

:( RIP Doc

― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 December 2020 17:01 (four years ago)

Kimbrough put out a six-CD set of every Thelonious Monk composition in late 2018 that's well worth hearing. The full band was a quartet (sax, piano, bass, drums) but they subdivided a lot from track to track. Some are piano solos, some are sax/drums, like that.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 31 December 2020 17:09 (four years ago)

I didn't know much about him but did enjoy his Solstice album a few years back.

― calzino, Thursday, 31 December 2020 17:12 (four years ago)

Oh, RIP Tommy D!

― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 December 2020 17:39 (four years ago)

Not sure how Tommy Docherty managed to reach 92, to be honest. He must have been the oldest living man from the Gorbals ever.

― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 December 2020 17:50 (four years ago)

I had no idea that Byker Grove lasted that long, I thought it was just 4 or 5 years. Many years after the last time I saw the show, I saw Purely Belter late one night and it seemed like it had a good chunk of Byker Grove's cast and it was such a weird time capsule into such a specific time and place.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 31 December 2020 18:48 (four years ago)

Eugene Wright, Dave Brubeck Quartet bassist, 97

A final piece of sad news in the last hours of this worst of all years...
The bassist of the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, the great Eugene Wright, has died. He was 97. pic.twitter.com/ST92HuUG38
— Philip Clark (@MusicClerk) December 31, 2020

― Alba, Thursday, 31 December 2020 19:15 (four years ago)

MF Doom, 49

― maura, Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:30 (four years ago)

aww no RIP

― calzino, Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:35 (four years ago)

Vaudeville Villain is classic!

― calzino, Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:36 (four years ago)

Damn he died 2 months ago!

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:38 (four years ago)

Fuck. :(

― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:39 (four years ago)

what!

― Cheese flavoured Momus (wins), Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:46 (four years ago)

wtf

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:48 (four years ago)

COME ON

― flappy bird, Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:59 (four years ago)

Noticed that Frank Kimbrough Monk recording but haven't tried it yet. Seems like a really good band.

― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 December 2020 22:03 (four years ago)

Oh, wow. Too young... this is terrible. RIP.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 December 2020 22:18 (four years ago)

MF :’-(

― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 31 December 2020 22:18 (four years ago)

Phyllis McGuire (Feb 14, 1931 – 29 Dec 2020) The youngest of the harmonizing ‘The McGuire Sisters’ died at her estate in Las Vegas at age 89.

― nickn, Friday, 1 January 2021 07:09 (four years ago)

McGuires' version of "Sincerely" is all time

― Josefa, Friday, 1 January 2021 07:27 (four years ago)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55508606

Mark Eden; British actor most widely known from a long role in Coronation Street but also Marco Polo in the oldest missing Doctor Who story.

― pedantly admonishment (aldo), Friday, 1 January 2021 14:23 (four years ago)

This year...

― Mark G, Friday, 1 January 2021 14:33 (four years ago)

I think I posted him in the People You Were Surprised to See Were Still Alive thread last year, he was 92!

― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Friday, 1 January 2021 14:41 (four years ago)

Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Friday, 1 January 2021 14:49 (four years ago)

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