oh shit, MArk B :(
― Less surprised by the total lack of surprises (stevie), Sunday, 3 January 2016 09:49 (eight years ago) link
Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/vilmos-zsigmond-dead-dies-cinematographer-1201670799/
― nickn, Sunday, 3 January 2016 20:08 (eight years ago) link
The cinematographer of the 70s?
― Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko), Sunday, 3 January 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
Yep, turns out he shot a few Mindy Project episodes too. Gotta keep busy!
― nickn, Sunday, 3 January 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
Robert Stigwood
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/robert-stigwood-dies/
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 January 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
Zsigmond and Wexler so close together (five days) is almost a match for Antonioni/Bergman on the same day.
― clemenza, Monday, 4 January 2016 23:45 (eight years ago) link
Mind=blown
― Green Dolphin Street Hassle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 January 2016 23:58 (eight years ago) link
Pianist-composer Paul Bley.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 04:45 (eight years ago) link
:-(
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 04:59 (eight years ago) link
his open, to love album is some of my favourite solo piano playing
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 05:01 (eight years ago) link
Pierre Boulez
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35241250
Elizabeth Swados
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/elizabeth-swados-obituary_75480.html
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 12:34 (eight years ago) link
Christy O'Connor Jr
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/35241893
― ailsa, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 14:19 (eight years ago) link
Cuban trumpeter Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros. http://www.salsaforums.com/threads/rip-alfredo-chocolate-armenteros.26427/
― Green Dolphin Street Hassle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 January 2016 12:20 (eight years ago) link
Pat Harrington Jr.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pat-harrington-jr-dead-one-844621
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 January 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
I had no use for his signature sitcom, but RIP anyway.
― Green Dolphin Street Hassle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
big band singer Kitty Kallen
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/kitty-kallen-silken-voiced-pop-singer-of-little-things-mean-a-lot-dies-at-94/2016/01/07/e4819528-b571-11e5-a842-0feb51d1d124_story.html
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 January 2016 23:01 (eight years ago) link
André Courrèges.
― chicken danczuk (suzy), Friday, 8 January 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
http://theboot.com/red-simpson-dead-dies/
Red Simpson, a pioneer of the “Bakersfield sound” and an icon in the sub-genre of country trucking songs, has died unexpectedly. He was 81.According to the Bakersfield Californian, Simpson had suffered a heart attack on Dec. 18, after returning from a tour. Family friend Gene Thome tells the paper, “He seemed to be doing better,” but on Friday night (Jan. 8), Simpson went into cardiac arrest and could not be revived.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 9 January 2016 16:37 (eight years ago) link
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2016/01/09/Soul-legend-Otis-Clay-dies-at-73/stories/201601090143
Mr. Clay, a 2013 inductee to the Blues Hall of Fame, grew up in the '40s in the small Mississippi town of Waxhaw, singing in church and hearing blues and soul on the radio.
In the late '50s he sang in Chicago gospel groups, and in 1962 split off with his first secular soul songs. He had his first R&B hit in 1967 with "That's How It Is (When You're in Love)" and a pop hit in 1968 with a cover of Sir Douglas Quintet's "She's About a Mover."
In 1972, he moved to Hi Records (home of Al Green) and released "Trying to Live My Life Without You," produced by Willie Mitchell, the man behind the Green hits. The song later became a No. 5 hit for Bob Seger.
Those early albums made him a popular touring attraction in Europe and Japan, where he recorded a number of live albums. He was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance.
In recent years, he recorded for Bullseye Blues and he recorded a gospel album in 2007 called “Walk a Mile in My Shoes.”
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 9 January 2016 16:40 (eight years ago) link
Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 January 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link
Phantasm star Angus Scrimm:
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/10/angus-scrimm-obituary-phantasm
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 10 January 2016 08:05 (eight years ago) link
just seen that, v. sad, such a great monster
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 10 January 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link
aw :(
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 January 2016 15:48 (eight years ago) link
Italian actress and director Silvana Pampanini, who worked with Buster Keaton, Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi, Totò, Jean Gabin, Henri Vidal, Abel Gance and Vittorio De Sica, passed away on January 6, reports the AFP. She was 90. “Pampanini never married but was reported to have sparked the romantic ardor of a string of famous men, from Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Egypt’s King Farouk I to Orson Welles and Omar Sharif.”
http://artdaily.com/news/84178/One-of-Italy-s-leading-post-war-cinema-stars--Silvana-Pampanini--dead-at-90-according-to-local-media#.VpJ9-PkrLDc
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 January 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
Richard Libertini.
― Three Word Username, Sunday, 10 January 2016 18:55 (eight years ago) link
oh no
you are verrry handsome *smak smak*
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 January 2016 18:58 (eight years ago) link
Hopefully someone put his soud backinbowl.
― Three Word Username, Sunday, 10 January 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9bkwy2w4qI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI8o5C5l9J8
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 January 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
Bowie :(
― not_goodwin, Monday, 11 January 2016 07:25 (eight years ago) link
Ridiculous. Absurd.
― Saoirse birther (darraghmac), Monday, 11 January 2016 07:56 (eight years ago) link
David Bowie R.I.P
― bored at work (snoball), Monday, 11 January 2016 07:59 (eight years ago) link
Darragh OTM.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 11 January 2016 09:48 (eight years ago) link
probably time to move to a planet that doesn't seem quite as unhealthy as this one. place is a fucker
― seb mooczag (NickB), Monday, 11 January 2016 10:17 (eight years ago) link
This has carried on all day and its gone well past annoying at this stage.
Presumably it'll all be sorted out in the morning.
Night.
― Saoirse birther (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 01:04 (eight years ago) link
baseball Hall of Famer Monte Irvin, 96, denied the major leagues til age 30 by segregation
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/sports/baseball/monte-irvin-star-outfielder-who-lost-his-prime-to-racism-dies-at-96.html
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
Lorraine Hearne, my great aunt, at age 100.
― Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 03:25 (eight years ago) link
Good vibes crypto.
― markers, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 03:37 (eight years ago) link
sorry, crypto
Stanley Siegel, goofy New York TV morning-show host of the '70s who had himself psychoanalyzed on air for 10 minutes every week. I also remember him interviewing a coked-up Truman Capote, who'd just come from Studio 54.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/arts/television/stanley-siegel-a-riveting-and-irrepressible-talk-show-host-dies-at-79.html
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 06:13 (eight years ago) link
What about the punk rock episode(s), Morbs!
― Bewlay Brothers & Sister Ray (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 06:21 (eight years ago) link
The non-fictional rival of the Quincy punk rock episode.
― Bewlay Brothers & Sister Ray (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 06:22 (eight years ago) link
saw this for the first time (i remember) last night. he's pretty benign about it as these things went. his Sparks interview is on YT as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k37XXZL1YY
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 11:56 (eight years ago) link
Seeing things on FB about Giorgio Gomelsky passing away from cancer at age 82.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
C.D. Wright, Poet
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/stanza/c-d-wright-january-6-1949%E2%80%93january-12-2016
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:18 (eight years ago) link
More on Gomelsky: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_mad_genius_behind_the_rolling_stones_and_yardbirds_giorgio_gomelsky
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:30 (eight years ago) link
Somehow completely missed that Brett Smiley died! Love this album so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4vn-c9iD8c
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/6836578/brett-smiley-dead
― polyphonic, Thursday, 14 January 2016 02:00 (eight years ago) link
Really weird series of events: I posted "Va Va Va Voom" on a friend's FB wall Sunday morning, not because I knew Smiley had died (I didn't...actually, I thought he'd been dead for a few years, and that's why someone made a documentary about him), but because I'd finally burned his album onto a CD after it had sat on my hard drive for a year-plus and I thought he might like the song. Someone pointed his death out to me in a comment, then later that day news of Bowie's death.
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 January 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link
Brian Bedford, 7-time-Tony-nominated actor
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/brian-bedford-peerless-classical-actor-at-stratford-and-broadway-dies-at-80-379395
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 January 2016 05:00 (eight years ago) link
Alan Rickman :-(
― ailsa, Thursday, 14 January 2016 12:38 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, link: http://gu.com/p/4fym5/stw
― ailsa, Thursday, 14 January 2016 12:39 (eight years ago) link
Fuck this
― Saoirse birther (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 January 2016 12:51 (eight years ago) link
This is just horrible. Daughter and mother in consecutive days. Really devastating for the family.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 29 December 2016 03:19 (seven years ago) link
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xphwl0_the-long-day-closes-tammy-by-debbie-reynolds_shortfilms
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 December 2016 03:24 (seven years ago) link
her singing voice was so warm & beautiful
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 December 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for that link Dr. M.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 29 December 2016 03:42 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent.fbos1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15726740_10155437349902137_4557479705149858241_n.jpg?oh=c8ab98ffa9f448d43cc6b2e5818f0b5c&oe=58DF9382
― scott seward, Thursday, 29 December 2016 03:57 (seven years ago) link
I think the fix was in when Abe Vigoda, classic example of a celebrity everybody assumed was already dead, died at the end of January.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 29 December 2016 04:39 (seven years ago) link
Edward Albee y'all?
Completely missed that Geek Love author Katherine Dunn passed this year too
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 29 December 2016 07:38 (seven years ago) link
any other year i'd still be mourning ralph stanley
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Thursday, 29 December 2016 07:39 (seven years ago) link
Debbie Reynolds was 84 and just experienced the massive trauma of her child dying before her, after 48 hours or so of her life hanging in the balance. This isn't 2016 at work, just the tragic result of massive emotional strain on someone who was perhaps physically fragile to begin with. My grandmother was a decade or so younger than Debbie when my dad died, and I was seriously worried the shock and strain would kill her.
― There shouldn't be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets (stevie), Thursday, 29 December 2016 07:56 (seven years ago) link
This isn't complete just yet (sadly) but it's something I've been putting together for some time: a playlist populated by songs from artists who have passed in 2016. I'll be adding and rearranging; would welcome input on anyone I've missed or necessary tracks for inclusion.
Thankful for the Fallen: A Playlist of Those Lost to 2016
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Thursday, 29 December 2016 07:58 (seven years ago) link
Colonel Abrams also died this year, I think you missed him? I'd add at least "Trapped" and "I'm Not Gonna Let" from him to the list.
Also, since I see you have Päivi Paunu on the list, an even more important Finnish musician who died this year was Lasse Mårtenson. Here's a few suggestions for his essential songs:
- "Laiskotellen" (the Finnish entry to the 1964 Eurovision song contest) - The theme from the TV series "Myrskyluodon Maija" (his best-known composition)- "Hän on mennyt vuorten taa" (incredible folk duet with Cay Karlsson)
― Tuomas, Thursday, 29 December 2016 08:28 (seven years ago) link
Awful year for classical music too with Boulez, Maxwell Davies, Harnoncourt, Marriner, etc all going. The tenor Johan Botha as well.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Thursday, 29 December 2016 08:38 (seven years ago) link
Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds is giving me eerie flashbacks to this summer, when my grandma and her sister and her brother-in-law all died one after another within a span of about four days. Shit like that makes everything feel so fragile. Guh.
― what is the lever disease? (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 December 2016 08:55 (seven years ago) link
French musician/composer Pierre Barouh died yesterday.
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 29 December 2016 13:15 (seven years ago) link
Miruts Yifter, a pioneering Olympic-gold-winning runner from Ethiopia, died recently (I saw him run several times in the '70s).
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-miruts-yifter-20161223-story.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
Ulysses, don't sleep on Bobs Hutcherson and Cranshaw...they're on at least one album together
― “a tub of horses” (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
...and the engineer was Rudy Van Gelder
― “a tub of horses” (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
Another Hollywood familial death pair: Zsa Zsa Gabor's adopted son Oliver died a week after she did, after a motorcycle accident on the day she died.
― nickn, Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
Alf
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Thursday, 29 December 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/arts/music/alphonse-mouzon-jazz-and-fusion-drummer-dies-at-68.html
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 29 December 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link
Reported three days ago (though of course it's been a busy three days)
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 29 December 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link
^Just breaking
― The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 29 December 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
My mom, my wife and I just went through the long list of notable deaths, and, man, the number of people who meant something to me. Just horrifying. So many names I'm ashamed I'd already forgotten were this year. Alan Rickman, Harper Lee ... Curtis Hanson, Kenny Baker ... Alan Vega, Anton Yelchin ... Bernie Worrell, Bill Cunningham ... Tony Conrad, Garry Shandling ...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/notable-deaths/2016
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 December 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
Just remembered Michael Cimino
― flappy bird, Thursday, 29 December 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
Another bow to Carlos Nine, one of my favourite artists. Barely any comics sites gave a toss despite his mad skills shitting all over 99.8% of the artists in the industry.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 30 December 2016 00:05 (seven years ago) link
I saw on Facebook that Ethiopian drummer Temare Haregu, who played with Hailu Mergia and was a founder of the Walias Band and can be heard on an Ethiopiques compilation or 2, has passed away.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 December 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
The Beatles' first manager Allan Williams
― nate woolls, Friday, 30 December 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
Wow. RIP, Man Who Gave The Beatles Away
― The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 December 2016 22:21 (seven years ago) link
rage is playing music by deceased people, including people i didn't know had died (pm dawn, the drummer out of inspiral carpets), so i'm learning about musical deaths via this uplifting playlist
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 30 December 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
William Christopher (MASH's Father Mulcahy)
http://abc7.com/entertainment/william-christopher-father-mulcahy-on-mash-dies-at-84/1680901/
― nickn, Sunday, 1 January 2017 01:30 (seven years ago) link
Just came to post that. RIP
― The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 January 2017 01:31 (seven years ago) link
:(
he was so good
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 January 2017 02:10 (seven years ago) link
It feels so stupid to point out that this thread is almost over, but it also seems important. Need a good word for things that are important and stupid
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Sunday, 1 January 2017 04:37 (seven years ago) link
'ilxor'
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 January 2017 04:43 (seven years ago) link
rip mariah carey
― k3vin k., Sunday, 1 January 2017 04:48 (seven years ago) link
sad they paraded her half naked body around times square in the year's waning moments, 2016 is really ruthless
― k3vin k., Sunday, 1 January 2017 04:49 (seven years ago) link
rip jim calhoun
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 January 2017 04:52 (seven years ago) link
I think Don Lemon is going to kill himself tonight.
― Treeship, Sunday, 1 January 2017 05:33 (seven years ago) link
Animation great and artistic pioneer Tyrus Wong, dead at 106 at the end of 2016http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/movies/tyrus-wong-dies-bambi-disney.htmlhttp://tyruswongthemovie.com/
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Sunday, 1 January 2017 06:22 (seven years ago) link
Ross Johnson, RJR Nabisco chief exec in '80s
just so we could go on an up note
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 January 2017 09:59 (seven years ago) link
the Ghost Ship fire managed to escape mention on this thread. Cherushii at least deserves mention I'd suspect
http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2016/12/07/remembering-bay-area-producer-cherushii-a-victim-of-the-ghost-ship-fire
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 00:32 (seven years ago) link
Is there a 2017 thread yet?
― There shouldn't be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets (stevie), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link
yes.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 12:00 (seven years ago) link
Specifically Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 13:15 (seven years ago) link
thanks guys
― There shouldn't be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets (stevie), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link