Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

*dies*

According to his son on FB, Outlaw Country singer Steve Young.

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.

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.

http://www.savingcountrymusic.com/outlaw-country-songwriter-steve-young-dead/

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.

Joe Santos, the harried Sgt Dennis Becker of The Rockford Files

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/joe-santos-dead-dies-rockford-files-1201733894/

Barry Hines

RIP Barry:( Kestrel For a Knave and Threads were classics.

;_; RIP Mr Hines, Threads is one of the greatest things ever created... and Kes isn't too bad either.

RIP BH

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.

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

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.

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.

Hopefully will be reading soon.

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.

Czech New Wave director Jan Němec

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-jan-nemec-1936-2016

RIP. Really like The Party and the Guests, and Diamonds in the Night. Seems like a tough year for Eastern European cinema.

Barry Hines' brother Richard was interviewed by Jarvis Cocker on 6Music a few weeks ago; it was Richard who trained the kestrel - he published his memoir recently, No Way But Gentlenesse. Barry got into grammar school, but Richard was the secondary modern kid. It was such an odd, faltering, downbeat bit of radio, but all the better for it.

Barry H's The Price Of Coal (also directed by Loach) is worth seeing too.

Richard was on radio4 last week too (i heard the trailer, not that actual show)

MidWeek Wed 16 Mar 2016
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0738hlr

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lee-andrews-doo-wop-singer-and-questloves-father-dead-at-79-20160317

Adrienne Rich RIP

Rob Ford

Andy Grove - early Silicon Valley guy:
http://fortune.com/2016/03/22/andy-grove-engineer-rest-in-peace/

Adrienne Rich, that's terrible.

Adrienne Rich died in 2012.

whoops! blame my stupid fb friends.

i really need to make it a rule to double check the date of every article that gets posted on facebook

Got a facebook post about the death of Leo Fender and how disgusting it is that the mainstream media ignored it but still fawns over Kanye's latest attrocity. Fender died on March 21, 1991.

To be fair, Polaris High School 9th graders did find him pretty odious.

Phife Dawg, of A Tribe Called Quest.

http://allhiphop.com/2016/03/23/phife-dawg-of-a-tribe-called-quest-dead-at-45/

:( ok, feelin that one

That's terrible. Didn't he just have a transplant?

a few years ago acc to that obit

Bet it was cancer from the immunosuppressants.

joe garagiola

ken 'the white shadow' howard

I watched the almost the whole White Shadow series when it was on Hulu and it was free a couple of years ago. Was great to see again.

oof I feel like I am at an odd cultural nexus where losing Phife and the White Shadow coach in one day feels especially acute.

Watched White Shadow a lot as a kid (in retrospect primarily because my dad liked it, being a school b-ball coach himself), distinctly remember it as my first real exposure to a certain strain of late 70s/early 80s black culture; like that was the first time I saw a "realistic" (as opposed to sitcom) depiction of black teenagers.

Joe Garagiola was an American TV icon who p much doesn't mean shit to anyone under 50... the ultimate jock turned ubiquitous bald TV guy.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/joe-garagiola-dead-dies-cardinals-baseball-broadcaster-1201737655/

never saw a full ep of The White Shadow, know him mostly as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and one of those kinda crappy "swingin" Otto Preminger films i just saw, Such Good Friends.

http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnsqdcYOEx1qfrw84o1_500.jpg

btw Fred Willard based his Best in Show announcer on Garagiola

Under-50 here--do know Garagiola, but as a Today show personality mainly.

i had no idea he came back to Today for two years in the '90s -- didnt think they hired anyone in Willard Scott's generation. He'd been on it in his '70s heyday.

It was also in that period that I learned he had Topps make his business cards.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8BVcGoREYwc/TCq1k_XPJyI/AAAAAAAAGf0/E-HxiNvPuZ8/s400/garagiola+front+cleaned+up.jpg

Johan Cruyff :(

(if anyone can do a Cruyff-turn emoji, this would be the time... Maybe I'll settle for a gif)

RIP

http://45.media.tumblr.com/d0be1772d8f2c84cfaa08d9ea3df233e/tumblr_n4k5pl1czK1tp5565o1_400.gif

^that and a drop of the shoulder were all your needed to be a tricky winger in my day. CR7 & Co incorporating backflips and elbow drops has killed that off.

"I played 18 years in top football and seventeen times for Sweden but that moment against Cruyff was the proudest moment of my career. I thought I'd win the ball for sure, but he tricked me. I was not humiliated. I had no chance. Cruyff was a genius."

—Sweden defender Jan Olsson, victim of the Cruyff Turn at the 1974 FIFA World Cup

RIP Johan ;_;

From a friend of mine on Facebook:

Met him once in Barcelona, I said "You're Johan Cruyff" he said "I know ".

Joe Garagiola was an American TV icon who p much doesn't mean shit to anyone under 50... the ultimate jock turned ubiquitous bald TV guy.

The very first MLB game I ever attended was the July 24, 1976 game between the Indians and the Tigers at Cleveland Stadium, which was also an NBC Game of the Week. (Mark Fidrych was pitching, and had a rare bad appearance, but the Tigers still won 5-4.) I very vividly remember my dad catching a view of the broadcast booth from our seats and saying, "Hey, look! It's Joe Garagiola!"