Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

celine dion's 59yo brother, jeez

Knew it was coming, but still very upset about Paul Ray. Heard so much great music on his shows.

celine dion's 59yo brother, jeez

― mookieproof, Saturday, January 16, 2016 2:58 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xp and her husband/manager
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Angélil

http://www.eonline.com/news/731872/celine-dion-s-brother-daniel-dies-of-cancer-at-age-59-days-after-her-husband-rene-angelil

blowfly :(

aw, man. i heard he was ill but didn't know how badly. sad to hear.

Great r'n'b songwriter as well as proto-rapper

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/clarence-reid-r-b-singer-known-as-blowfly-dead-at-76-20160117

As one of the main songwriters for Miami label TK Records, Reid penned a string of songs in the Sixties and Seventies for numerous soul and funk artists, including Gwen McCrae's "Rocking Chair" and Betty Wright's "Clean Up Woman." He also wrote tracks for KC & The Sunshine Band, Sam & Dave and Bobby Byrd before giving birth to Blowfly, his outlet for performing comedic, explicit songs that over the years traversed the genres of soul, R&B and hip-hop; Blowfly is considered one of the earliest rappers. "He laid the foundation for hip-hop with 'Shake Your Ass' and 'Rap Dirty'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35342699

Dale Griffin, drummer for Mott The Hoople and arguably best known as producer of a great many Peel Sessions.

Wow, didn't realize he was the same guy as the Beeb producer.

RIP Buffin.

when i saw whiney last night we talked about how gen xers and earlier are gonna have near meaningful daily celebrity deaths now because we're in an era now of people aging out who made their bones in the first generation of 70's / 80's media saturation. I don't THINK this is just a lot of us getting old?

i'm just glad Springsteen is gonna outlive me at this point, cuz i would not be able to take the 6 weeks of gnashing after that one.

Springsteen is going to outlive us all.

Glenn Frey.

xp
Bruce and Keef will create the last "Rockin' Out In Heaven" poster.

The H is No Mo.

Man, though - a whole lot of aging boomer musicians in the bullseye. :(

next step

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-o7_VVAoU

obit marked frey

Andy 'Dog' Johnson, brother of The The's Matt Johnson and artist on a number of his album sleeves (my source is Paul Gravett, who published his work in Escape magazine)

Sucks when you don't realise that "your hero" died five years ago

https://twitter.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fmusic%2F2010%2Fapr%2F08%2Fmalcolm-mclaren-dies-sex-pistols

Jeez, I just got word that the guy who got the local branch of the Quiz company I'm with going (and who'd since left for other ventures, but remained our mentor and guru) passed from a massive heart attack last night.

Else Marie Pade

Saw a report (in Italian) that film director Etore Scola has passed.

Kevin Junior of The Chamber Strings, Epic Soundtracks, Nikki Sudden, etc.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/6844129/kevin-junior-chamber-strings-dies

http://www.euronews.com/2016/01/19/italian-film-director-ettore-scola-dies-aged-84/

David Hartwell, sci-fi/fantasy editor.

Andy Dog, Matt Johnson's brother and the artist for all of The The's art/album covers over the years has passed away. He actually sent me a nice message once after I'd written about the art for the "Sweet Bird of Truth" sleeve. R.I.P. to him.

Didn't realized Johnson had two brothers. (Also didn't realize that apparently Matt Johnson has a cameo in Star Wars.)

Sandra Dee, who I didn't know was still around.

...because she died 11 years ago...fuckin' internet.

Ted Marchibroda, legendary NFL coach who was mentioned once before on ILX in '06

Rainbow / Dio / er, Wild Horses bassist Jimmy Bain:

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-rainbowdio-bassist-jimmy-bain-dead-at-68/

Born in Newtonmore!

when did 68/69 become such a dicey age for rockers??

It's an improvement on 27, you must admit that, RIP Jimmy btw.

rip Jimmy :/

Cecil Parkinson

He leaves a wife and a 30 year old injunction...

I actually didn't know about that. Holy fucking shit:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1380529/The-only-promise-Cecil-Parkinson-ever-kept-never-to-see-his-daughter.html

SHE was, until six days ago, the young woman who did not exist. Excised from school photographs, barred from class theatrical productions and left off the list of scholastic achievements displayed on her college noticeboard, Flora Keays has been forced, by law, to remain invisible. Until now.

Yep.

I get the impression Sara Keys agreed to the injunction initially for "not being bothered by press, allowed to live their life in privacy" reasons, until she discovered what it actually meant, at which point it was too late..

"A particularly nice man", according to William Hague.

Didn't know that about Cecil Parkinson, what an abominable fucking scumbag.

nor did i, that's fucking heavy reading.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/business/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88.html

Concepcion Picciotto: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/concepcion-picciotto-who-held-vigil-outside-the-white-house-for-decades-dies/2016/01/25/e0f829e2-c3b0-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html

Colin Vearncombe from Black

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/26/colin-vearncombe-dies-the-voice-of-black-aged-53

abe vigoda

No way. He has defeated death for so long