Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5K9j7xIEAAkolG.jpg

l-r: Crumb, Hyzagi

arnold wesker

I have a very powerful reaction reading that piece, but the repugnant fuck is courting his own destruction; he is best left

NY Observer owned by Trump's son-in-law.

http://bigdipper.no/Media/Cache/Images/2/7/WEB_Image%20Jock%20Scott%20My%20Personal%20Culloden%20(LP)%20-413800947.Jpeg

Jock Scott, apparently (not famous enough for a Wiki page)

oh dammit

I have vague sort of fond memories of My Personal Culloden, even though they are very hazy memories of listening to it stoned. Was he possibly an influence on Morris's Blue Jam or influenced by it? I notice the poor bugger got the dreaded kiss of death Irvine Welsh patronage back then, that's probably why there is no wiki.

Anyway RIP.

RIP, My Personal Culloden is an immense statement that I need to revisit, Nectarine No. 9 all over it iirc. I remember him compering for Nick Cave in Prince Street Gardens some years ago, taking great pleasure winding up the abusive Birthday Party type crowd down the front as the evening wore on and Cave got increasingly late.
Farewell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzIjLizm-3I

Dammit can't find My Personal Culloden in my house, tomorrow I shall have to visit My Mother and make up some excuse to scuttle around her attic. I did find "Going Off Someone" from that album on a Nectarine No.9 compilation (cannae find it on youtube tho), and, on a Creeping Bent sampler, their cover of Rocket No.9 with the Jock Scot intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cicq7tA-_4I
This is a big deal for me, somehow. Many deaths of Icons this year, but this one seems a bit closer to home.

Yeah, I need to have a wee revisit of My Personal Culloden. Got into it off the back of Nectarine No 9's Saint Jack, which I also haven't listened in years. Both of them appear to be on Spotify, so that'll be rectified v shortly.

Gareth Thomas who played Blake in Blake's 7

http://www.blakes7online.com/news.php

Anne Jackson, veteran stage/screen actress (and spouse of Eli Wallach) no doubt best known to most of you from The Shining

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/anne-jackson-dead-eli-wallach-883838

xp just found out
RIP

London Underground's 'mind the gap' man Phil Sayer dies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-36052363

James Redd mentioned this over on ilm

http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/salsa-great-ismael-quintana-dies-at-78-116041800074_1.html

He sang with Eddie Palmieri's La Perfecta band in the '60s and with others

doris roberts, grandma from grandma's boy and bunny from the honeymoon killers, dead at 90

^ v chilling in A New Leaf

Made some pretty prominent films in the early '70s too: Little Murders, A New Leaf, Such Good Friends, The Heartbreak Kid, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Hester Street. (She plays Charles Grodin's mother in The Heartbreak Kid...don't remember her at all in that.)

also unintentionally chilling in that fucking Raymond sitcom

Oh, so that's who she is.

Victoria Wood

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/20/victoria-wood-dies-aged-62-comedian

Oof.

can't remember the last time I felt this gutted by a celebrity's death. RIP

that's v sad. great/underrated eye& ear for Real England (non-grotty wing)

totally missed that Jock Scot had died too, wack

she was a proper genius, as both writer and performer.

What?!?!?

dwayne 'pearl' washington

Joanie "Chyna" Laurer

http://ktla.com/2016/04/20/wwe-legend-chyna-found-dead-in-her-home-at-age-45/

Ronit Elkabetz, actress and co-director of Gett

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ronit-elkabetz-israeli-actress-dead-885465

Guy Hamilton

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/21/james-bond-director-guy-hamilton-dies-aged-93

"No Mr Hamilton, i expect you to DIE!"

TMZ reporting Prince...

https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/723192305587490819

My god! No one is gonna make it outta this year alive, are they?

No matter how we struggle and strive

What the fuck. What the absolute fucking fuck.

no one but TMZ and Daily Mail as yet... let's see...

Yup:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/21/entertainment/prince-estate-death/index.html

'Police investigating death in singer Prince's estate
Updated 12:57 PM ET, Thu April 21, 2016
(CNN)Police are investigating a death at the estate of superstar Prince in Carver County, Minnesota, according to Carver County Sheriff spokesman Jason Kamerud.

"We are not releasing any information regarding the identity of the person who died until next of kin is notified," Kamerud said.'

I literally feel like someone just punched me in the solar plexus.

Rolling Stone and CNN are reporting it now.

And in other news Richard Lyons of Negative has died, also at 57, from cancer.

Lonnie Mack

http://blogs.post-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/pop-noise/46490-rip-blues-guitar-great-lonnie-mack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ta5T8cg3c0

:( RIP

Can't we impose a moratorium on dying in May and June of 2016 or something?

Patton Oswalt's wife, writer Michelle McNamara:

http://www.startribune.com/michelle-mcnamara-writer-and-wife-of-patton-oswald-dies/376795131/

jeez

My god. That's awful.

Feeling all kinds of terrible for both Patton and their 7-year-old daughter right now.

damn.