I literally feel like someone just punched me in the solar plexus.
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
Rolling Stone and CNN are reporting it now.
― nickn, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
And in other news Richard Lyons of Negative has died, also at 57, from cancer.
― nickn, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link
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
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 April 2016 05:32 (eight years ago) link
:( RIP
― Freakshow At The Barn Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 April 2016 09:34 (eight years ago) link
Can't we impose a moratorium on dying in May and June of 2016 or something?
― StanM, Friday, 22 April 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
Patton Oswalt's wife, writer Michelle McNamara:
http://www.startribune.com/michelle-mcnamara-writer-and-wife-of-patton-oswald-dies/376795131/
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 23 April 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link
jeez
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 April 2016 02:10 (eight years ago) link
My god. That's awful.
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Saturday, 23 April 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
Feeling all kinds of terrible for both Patton and their 7-year-old daughter right now.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, 23 April 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
damn.
― how's life, Saturday, 23 April 2016 23:59 (eight years ago) link
Papa Wemba died on stage: http://www.apanews.net/news/fr/article.php?id=851616
I didn't know about the "high and low times" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Wemba
― StanM, Sunday, 24 April 2016 10:37 (eight years ago) link
He had some great records and was impressive live. He also influenced fashion as part of the sapeur thing. 66 years old
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 April 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
http://hyperallergic.com/292105/remembering-malick-sidibe-the-photographer-who-captured-modern-malian-life/
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 April 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
Terry Nutkins, TV wildlife bloke
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19520824
― Mark G, Sunday, 24 April 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
again?
― Half-baked profundities. Self-referential smirkiness (Bob Six), Sunday, 24 April 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
He was only hibernating last time.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Sunday, 24 April 2016 22:31 (eight years ago) link
http://www.soultracks.com/story-billy-paul-dies
This is a shitty occasion to go digging into his catalogue beyond Me and Mrs. Jones, and I should've done it a long time ago, but thank you Billy Paul. This shit is rad.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 24 April 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
yeah i think andy k3llman did the liners maybe for the reissues that came out a few years back and that is someone who's taste i defer to so i checked out those first few albums, great stuff
― balls, Monday, 25 April 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
I somehow lived my whole life up to now without knowing that the "whammy bar" on a guitar was named for the Lonnie Mack song
― Lee626, Monday, 25 April 2016 05:10 (eight years ago) link
original polvo drummer eddie watkins
― mookieproof, Monday, 25 April 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
billy paul so underrated! rip.
― -_- (jim in glasgow), Monday, 25 April 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
Madeleine Sherwood, who played the mother superior on The Flying Nun. Did not remember her being in Night of the Iguana.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/arts/madeleine-sherwood-93-actress-on-the-flying-nun-stage-and-screen-dies.html
― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 11:18 (eight years ago) link
or know she was in the original Broadway casts of The Crucible & Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
i didn't understand in 1970 why the nuns who taught me didn't have those wingy white hats.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 20:50 (eight years ago) link
Ha, me neither. I always wondered why she would want to brakes on Sally Field's hijinks but in retrospect she may have been the most likable of old school sitcom wet blankets of authority.
― Radio Free European Son (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 April 2016 04:11 (eight years ago) link
Jenny Diski, writer, of cancer (she was writing her decline in the LRB). She was 68.
― jedi slimane (suzy), Thursday, 28 April 2016 10:50 (eight years ago) link
Philip Kives, Canadian, created K-Tel: in a bizarre sort of way, as definitively '70s as David Bowie.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/philip-kives-founder-of-k-tel-dead-at-87-377361531.html
― clemenza, Thursday, 28 April 2016 12:15 (eight years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3563439/Grange-Hill-Minder-actor-Mark-Farmer-53-dies-short-battle-cancer.html
Mark Farmer, probably best known as Gary Hargreaves in Grange Hill but most memorable as Johnny Jarvis in the drama of the same name.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Friday, 29 April 2016 09:37 (eight years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/28/13/339D6FE200000578-3563439-image-m-21_1461847245317.jpg
spit of bernard sumner there
― real orgone kid (NickB), Friday, 29 April 2016 09:51 (eight years ago) link
I loved Johnny Jarvis as a gloomy teen, tho I remember v little now beyond the theme tune
― some men just want to watch the world Bern (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 April 2016 09:59 (eight years ago) link
Daniel Berrigan
― I have also been to Maine and, briefly, Nebraska (doo dah), Sunday, 1 May 2016 00:52 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxWaV_QZAzA
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 1 May 2016 01:05 (eight years ago) link
Donald Thorin, cinematographer of Thief, Purple Rain, Midnight Run
http://varietylatino.com/english/2016/gente/noticias/donald-e-thorin-dies-cinematographer-purple-rain-237956/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 May 2016 18:50 (eight years ago) link
Marisol
― I have also been to Maine and, briefly, Nebraska (doo dah), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:35 (eight years ago) link
Marisol Escobar Popularity # 33943 Most Popular Person# 18 Sculptor# 33 85 Year Old# 3 Person Named Marisol# 2 Gemini Sculptor
http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/marisol-escobar.html
Strange things, internet pages...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:42 (eight years ago) link
Afeni Shakur
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/arts/music/afeni-shakur-mother-of-tupac-shakur-is-dead.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=https://t.co/RtXBV9VTpa
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
:-(((
― jedi slimane (suzy), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
Isao Tomita, synth pioneer
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 8 May 2016 09:13 (eight years ago) link
John Stabb
http://wtop.com/music/2016/05/d-c-punk-rocker-john-stabb-dies-after-cancer-battle/
― Camberwicker Man (onimo), Sunday, 8 May 2016 15:47 (eight years ago) link
Reg Grundy:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-36222958?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central
― ailsa, Monday, 9 May 2016 00:33 (eight years ago) link
That Lonnie Mack track upthread is so great. A lot of guys play the same notes and runs in the blues, so to shine you really have to bring something special to the table. Whatever that thing is, Lonnie had it.
― calstars, Monday, 9 May 2016 00:39 (eight years ago) link
Indeed. I saw him once at the Bottom Line in NYC decades ago and he really delivered the goods. I believe there may have been at least one other future ilxor in the audience that evening.
― Wrecka Stow Ralph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 May 2016 00:41 (eight years ago) link
William Schallert
― I have also been to Maine and, briefly, Nebraska (doo dah), Monday, 9 May 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
Oh no, RIP. I can only imagine he must have been heartbroken when his TV daughter died. But that is pure speculation of course.
― Old Familiar Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 May 2016 17:45 (eight years ago) link
Your link is hinky, hold on.
― Old Familiar Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 May 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
― Old Familiar Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 May 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
In an interview for this obituary in 2009,
"Hey, you're old and probably going to die soon, so maybe you could give us some exclusive quotes to remember you by...?"
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 9 May 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
Oops. I actually thought he was older.
― I have also been to Maine and, briefly, Nebraska (doo dah), Monday, 9 May 2016 19:02 (eight years ago) link
Had never really thought about the fact that Tomita must be old by now.
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 9 May 2016 19:22 (eight years ago) link
Tony Cozier. A great. RIP
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link