Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

This is just horrible. Daughter and mother in consecutive days. Really devastating for the family.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xphwl0_the-long-day-closes-tammy-by-debbie-reynolds_shortfilms

her singing voice was so warm & beautiful

Thanks for that link Dr. M.

https://scontent.fbos1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15726740_10155437349902137_4557479705149858241_n.jpg?oh=c8ab98ffa9f448d43cc6b2e5818f0b5c&oe=58DF9382

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.

Edward Albee y'all?

Completely missed that Geek Love author Katherine Dunn passed this year too

any other year i'd still be mourning ralph stanley

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.

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

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)

Awful year for classical music too with Boulez, Maxwell Davies, Harnoncourt, Marriner, etc all going. The tenor Johan Botha as well.

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.

French musician/composer Pierre Barouh died yesterday.

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

Ulysses, don't sleep on Bobs Hutcherson and Cranshaw...they're on at least one album together

...and the engineer was Rudy Van Gelder

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.

Alf

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/arts/music/alphonse-mouzon-jazz-and-fusion-drummer-dies-at-68.html

Reported three days ago (though of course it's been a busy three days)

^Just breaking

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

Just remembered Michael Cimino

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.

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.

The Beatles' first manager Allan Williams

Wow. RIP, Man Who Gave The Beatles Away

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

William Christopher (MASH's Father Mulcahy)

http://abc7.com/entertainment/william-christopher-father-mulcahy-on-mash-dies-at-84/1680901/

Just came to post that. RIP

:(

he was so good

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

'ilxor'

rip mariah carey

sad they paraded her half naked body around times square in the year's waning moments, 2016 is really ruthless

rip jim calhoun

I think Don Lemon is going to kill himself tonight.

Animation great and artistic pioneer Tyrus Wong, dead at 106 at the end of 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/movies/tyrus-wong-dies-bambi-disney.html
http://tyruswongthemovie.com/

Ross Johnson, RJR Nabisco chief exec in '80s

just so we could go on an up note

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

Is there a 2017 thread yet?

yes.

Specifically Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

thanks guys