Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

i was half asleep, gimme a break

Cesare Maldini. I saw him in 1997 in Bergamo, near the Atalanta stadium, where we were both headed. Always presumed he was there to check out Inzaghi, who got his first cap shortly after.

Getatchew Mekuria, aged 81. Posted by The Ex.

http://www.theex.nl/news.html

RIP, Getatchew, great sax player

merle haggard

http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/country-music-legend-merle-haggard-turned-79-years-old-wednesday

holy fuck

AAAAGHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

this year is so fucking lame

What???!?

rip to merle haggard, okie from muskogee is one of my karaoke go tos

Love Merle, RIP

79 added to 69 on the list of years under evaluation.

(Also, fuck)

Jesus Merle better get his own RIP thread as long as Bowies or this place can go to hell

Aw, man, this year is the worst :-(

bowie drummer dennis davis

http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/92812

Bummer, what a rhythm section that was. RIP Dennis.

Bill Henderson, jazz vocalist who did quite a bit of acting in the 80s and 90s (he was as the cop in Clue!).

Barbara Turner, screenwriter (Petulia, Georgia, The Company) and mother of Jennifer Jason Leigh

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/barbara-turner-dead-screenwriter-producer-881262

Jim Ridley, editor and longtime film critic for the Nashville Scene, dies at 50:

http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2016/04/08/scene-editor-jim-ridley-dies-at-50#more

I think he hadn't been writing as much about film since he became editor in chief, but he was a good critic. He got national distribution for a while, while the Scene was part of the Voice/New Times empire.

RIP, 50 is way too soon! i grew up reading ridley, he was one of the few consistently good writers in local nashville media in the 90's.

musician/composer Tony Conrad

Almost getting blasé to this succession of excellent people dying. RIP Tony.

Howard Marks. Currently honouring his memory in an obvious way, RIP.

No more "Mr Nice" guy.

Winston Moseley, killer of Kitty Genovese
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/nyregion/winston-moseley-81-killer-of-kitty-genovese-dies-in-prison.html

(genuinely surprised that he was still alive)

David Gest

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7070076/David-Gest-has-been-found-dead-in-his-hotel-room.html?token=1434403479

David, who appeared on the most recent series of Celebrity Big Brother, was set to begin a UK tour 'David Gest Is Not Dead, But Alive With Soul' in July.

The show must go on!

It probably seems kind of ghoulish - in fact (I'm assuming) it's incredibly ghoulish since it refers to the scene where he was asleep in the Celebrity Big Brother house when Angie Bowie heard that her ex-husband was dead. She told a US reality TV show star "David's dead", and before she could clarify, the younger lady ran off to tell everyone else that Gest was dead.

Reminds me of Joan Rivers' sadly unfulfilled 'Before They Close The Lid' tour

Mr. Moseley, a psychopathic serial killer and necrophiliac

nytimes not really beating around the bush there

Hearing R Crumb, hoping not so.

maybe in reference to this?
http://observer.com/2016/04/robert-crumb-is-dead/

thankfully i'm not seeing anything else.

omg plz no

^ xp this is an immensely shitty profile btw

Sorry - false alarm

also yeah wtf at that piece totally terrible, near incoherent

Jesus Christ that profile!

He spends his days looking at his old comix and fucking that disgusting wife of his which might very well explain why every man over 70 is looking for his Tadzio.

His wife, Aline the star fucker, is vile. She is what you would imagine the screaming brunette standing at the stage door on 53rd of the Ed Sullivan theater on that chilly 9th of February 1964 who left with one of them would look like today. She hated me on the spot. Vermin have a chemical way to sense their own kind.

Maybe Crumb is indeed a nasty antisemite, but what has Aline Crumb done to deserve this?!

ffs, that piece is beyond horrendous.

Vermin have a chemical way to sense their own kind.

he accuses Crumb of anti-semitism and then literally drops an anti-semitic insult on his wife a few sentences later!

Aline's Jewish btw (not sure Tuomas was aware of that)

I wasn't, but apparently the writer is too. So he thinks Aline and himself are both "vermin"? I thought the Observer was some kind of a quality paper, why would they publish self-centred, misogynist "gonzo" shit like that?

the line about Howard Stern being the embodiment of the jock ethos in a reject's carcass is otm, though.

he's an ex-hebdo guy doing the "gonzo" thing by way of being a generally embarrassing writer
recently kicked up a lot of dirt and created an internet kerfuffle over a spiked piece for Elle
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/03/how-to-alienate-everyone-in-your-industry.html

profile reminds me of this: http://www.sparehed.com/2014/03/05/high-times-r-crumb/

I thought the Observer was some kind of a quality paper, why would they publish self-centred, misogynist "gonzo" shit like that?

this is a different Observer from the UK newspaper the Observer, I don't know if that is the one you were thinking of?

Ah, okay,

that's the one I thought it was.

ohhhhhhhhh THAT GUY

the most obnoxious element of that piece is the obviously misleading clickbait URL which I presume led to this conversation in the first place!

Observer US is owned by Trump's son iirc