They found a body on Friday, and are presuming it's Derek because of "personal items". Autopsy pending, etc.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 11 March 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link
I was lucky enough to know Derek quite well when he was drinking in the Tavern (after the Tragic Box closed) and probably spent a couple of nights a week with him. We'd mainly talk about real ale and his next Wetherspoons trip, and Keith Hudson. Always Keith Hudson. Derek was definitely part of the Bristol obsession with such a relatively obscure reggae artist (along with Revolver dude who I also had many long discussions about KH). But his favourite was always Chase The Devil, which he had been playing since it was released.
RIP Iron Shirt.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Friday, 11 March 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
keith emerson?
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 March 2016 19:34 (eight years ago) link
I met Derek a couple of times, I'm pleased to say, at the dear old Star and Garter; seemed like a fine fellow. Listening to that documentary last month I learned his surname for the first time, and realised his older brother (Gerald on the doc, Gerry to us) had been big mates with my mum and dad in the 70s. That was a surprise.
― Tim, Friday, 11 March 2016 19:45 (eight years ago) link
Now seeing reports that music writer Ben Edmonds has died.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 11 March 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
Harsh fucking times. Not cool, planet earth, not cool
― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Friday, 11 March 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
Ben Edmonds obit:http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/03/11/music-journalist-ben-edmonds-dies/81659064/
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 11 March 2016 23:01 (eight years ago) link
http://dailynous.com/2016/03/13/hilary-putnam-1929-2016/
Aw, Hilary. RIP
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Monday, 14 March 2016 03:24 (eight years ago) link
RIP
― SIGSALY Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 March 2016 11:01 (eight years ago) link
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35802564
― ailsa, Monday, 14 March 2016 13:27 (eight years ago) link
Mondo we Langa/David Rice
http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/03/14/former-black-panther-mondo-we-langa-dies-in-nebraska-prison/
― onimo, Monday, 14 March 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
Anita Brookner
― soref, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 02:02 (eight years ago) link
Indiana Jones
― remove butt (abanana), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
No, wait, he died six years ago.
― remove butt (abanana), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
Sylvia Anderson, of Thunderbirds and that.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35818530
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 09:43 (eight years ago) link
> "voice of Thunderbirds' Lady Penelope"
hows about "co-creator"? and all the rest.
she was in a couple of episodes of the new series, playing the new lady penelope's snobby Great Aunt Sylvia, which was a nice touch.
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 10:25 (eight years ago) link
Ben Bagdikian, ace investigative reporter
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/03/ben-bagdikian-tribute
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 14:48 (eight years ago) link
The remains are confirmed as being DJ Derek.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
Frank Sinatra Jr.:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/frank-sinatra-junior-dies-at-72-1.3495035
When I looked at that obituary, at first I thought they'd accidentally used a photo of his father.
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2016 02:45 (eight years ago) link
about time
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 March 2016 03:40 (eight years ago) link
there's a nice bit in bob dylan's chronicles about him
― remove butt (abanana), Thursday, 17 March 2016 06:53 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35828566
Cliff Michelmore. Would have belonged in the 'people you thought were dead' thread a couple of days ago.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Thursday, 17 March 2016 08:26 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35829251
Paul Daniels
― nate woolls, Thursday, 17 March 2016 08:53 (eight years ago) link
:-(
― ailsa, Thursday, 17 March 2016 09:05 (eight years ago) link
I know
― nate woolls, Thursday, 17 March 2016 09:09 (eight years ago) link
it's like every single day now.
― koogs, Thursday, 17 March 2016 09:15 (eight years ago) link
like to think they'll saw his coffin in half at the funeral, just for old times sake
― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Thursday, 17 March 2016 09:34 (eight years ago) link
now that's tragic
― ripple-chested beefchrist (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 March 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
His political views were ridiculous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Daniels#Outspoken_views
Here's my favorite of his performances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7B0lf_CR0A
― remove butt (abanana), Thursday, 17 March 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
Larry Drake!
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 17 March 2016 23:37 (eight years ago) link
lol at lindsey graham now supporting cruz
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 March 2016 23:54 (eight years ago) link
Consistency...died.
― clemenza, Friday, 18 March 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
RIP Cruz
― Horse Throat (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 March 2016 00:02 (eight years ago) link
*dies*
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 March 2016 00:06 (eight years ago) link
According to his son on FB, Outlaw Country singer Steve Young.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 March 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
RIP. Met him once, talked about house sitting for him before he went out on one of those State Department tours, he was other going to or had recently come back from Mongolia but I ended up living somewhere else.
― Twin/Earthtone Records (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 March 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
Come to think about it, at that time in Austin, you would see certain people out on the scene over and over again, but rarely/hardly ever somebody at that level, of that generation. I didn't come across Jimmy Dale Gilmore until I moved back to New York and one day walked out of my office on 52nd Street and there he was walking by.
― Twin/Earthtone Records (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 March 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
http://www.savingcountrymusic.com/outlaw-country-songwriter-steve-young-dead/
― Twin/Earthtone Records (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 March 2016 16:31 (eight years ago) link
http://theind.com/article-22882-David-Egan-has-died.html
David Egan, one of the bright lights in South Louisiana’s musical firmament, has died. The singer-songwriter, whose tunes were covered (and on Grammy-nominated and -winning records) by Irma Thomas, Joe Cocker, Solomon Burke, Etta James and many others, succumbed to cancer after a two-year battle. He died at home surrounded by family.
Egan was a member of several trailblazing Louisiana bands including A-Train, Filé and Lil’ Band O’ Gold.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 March 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link
Joe Santos, the harried Sgt Dennis Becker of The Rockford Files
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/joe-santos-dead-dies-rockford-files-1201733894/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 March 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
Barry Hines
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Sunday, 20 March 2016 12:30 (eight years ago) link
RIP Barry:( Kestrel For a Knave and Threads were classics.
― calzino, Sunday, 20 March 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link
;_; RIP Mr Hines, Threads is one of the greatest things ever created... and Kes isn't too bad either.
― emil.y, Sunday, 20 March 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
RIP BH
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 March 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
When Threads first aired we still had this "duck and cover" leaflet from the local council that put us in the A-zone of a potential Soviet H-bomb attack, it was even scarier than Salem's Lot.
― calzino, Sunday, 20 March 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
RIP. Never read but loved the film Kes and see there is an ebook available from, of course, Valancourt. Also used it for a screenname once which I remember fondly: rejected JBR screen names
― The Very Low Funk Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 March 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link
A Kestrel for a Knave is a bloody great book and really deserves to be known as such rather than just the book that Kes is based on.
― Madchen, Sunday, 20 March 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link
Yes, great book. Somehow had no idea he did the screenplay for Threads - too busy hiding behind the sofa to read the credits I suppose.
RIP.
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 20 March 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
Hopefully will be reading soon.
― The Very Low Funk Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 March 2016 20:47 (eight years ago) link
One of the actors who worked with BH on Threads is a frequent contributor to another message-board I frequent. He says says in luvvie speak that he was a beautiful person, but you can tell he means it.
― calzino, Monday, 21 March 2016 00:05 (eight years ago) link