betty jane willis, who released a couple of singles in the '60s, including this leon russell-produced cover of buck owens' 'act naturally'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5NShyAiE1I
this is an in-depth obituary
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/01/04/betty-jane-willis-more-than-another-homeless-death-she-was-a-soul-singer/
― maura, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
Any source for the Jeff Cotton death other than wikipedia (which is no source at all)? He's been notoriously hard to find for decades.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
Only Gary Lucas's Facebook page, which is probably no source at all either. Hmm. Let's see if a proper statement comes out, apologies for jumping the gun if it turns out to be a false alarm.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
Sleuthing reveals his wife died early last year, but I can't find anything on his dying other than that Lucas post.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
Maura - thank you for that Betty Willis obit, very sad, but nice they spoke with her daughter, former coworker and Bill Medley to tell a little of her story.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
Starting to look like Jeff Cotton isn't true, but nothing more than FOAF reports either way. I do know his wife died of cancer last year -- that might be the source of the rumors.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
Neave Brown, architect of low-rise social housing in Camden, recently awarded RIBA medal for same. Lived until his death in north London’s Dunboyne Road flats, which he designed. Here’s an interview from October conducted by one of my best friends:
https://www.ribaj.com/culture/humanity-as-a-design-tool-riba-royal-medal-neave-brown
― kim jong deal (suzy), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
BREAKING: Edgar Ray Killen, convicted in 1964 'Mississippi Burning' slayings of 3 civil rights workers, dies in prison. https://t.co/dKu8bikhBC— The Associated Press (@AP) January 12, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
college football broadcaster keith 'whoa, nellie' jackson
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 January 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
First celebrity I ever saw opening something, Bella Emberg
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/bella-emberg-dead-blunder-woman-actress-russ-abott-show-costume-tributes-dies-died-tv-shows-a8157636.html
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 13 January 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
‘opening something’
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 13 January 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
25 years old, my god ;_;
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/13/model-killed-in-latest-london-stabbing
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 13 January 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
Doreen Tracey, Mousekateer who later worked with Frank Zappa.
http://beta.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-doreen-tracey-20180111-story.html
― nickn, Saturday, 13 January 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
Bloody hell, Bella Emberg, that's someone for the people you didn't realise were still alive except now they aren't thread
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 13 January 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
https://www.rte.ie/amp/933526/?__twitter_impression=true
Dolores O’Riordan.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 15 January 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
Gobsmacked and then some.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
46
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Monday, 15 January 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
I just found out that Chu Ishikawa died at the end of last year. He was 51 and apparently was battling a long illness. He did the soundtracks for most of Shinya Tsukamoto's films and must have been quite influential in industrial music but he could do quite a variety of styles. I did think he looked alarmingly thin at times but I knew nothing about his illness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_L6tVsg2o
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
Dr Mathilde Krim
http://www.newnownext.com/mathilde-krim-dead/01/2018/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
Edwin Hawkins, hitmaker of "Oh Happy Day"
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/16/578235211/gospel-star-edwin-hawkins-known-for-oh-happy-day-dies-at-74
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
as noted elsewhere, Joe Frank
https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/173192/joe-frank-influential-radio-monologuist-dies-at-79
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
Doug Harvey, the baseball umpire known as "God"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/obituaries/doug-harvey-dead-baseball-umpire.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
Jo Jo White
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22124169/jo-jo-white-boston-celtics-great-basketball-hall-famer-dies-71
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
Peter Wyngarde:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/18/actor-peter-wyngarde-department-s-dies
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 18 January 2018 09:38 (six years ago) link
Oh no! RIP Peter ;_; That's it I'm pulling out my copy of his album to listen to.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 January 2018 09:42 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_HiW9J5prc
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 January 2018 09:48 (six years ago) link
Mike Carroll, of Poison 13 and Lord High Fixers
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Thursday, 18 January 2018 10:35 (six years ago) link
Stansfield Turner, CIA chief 1977-81
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/adm-stansfield-turner-who-led-major-cia-overhaul-as-director-of-central-intelligence-dies-94/2018/01/18/eac46390-fc99-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 January 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
Artist Ed Moses, 91.
http://beta.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-me-ed-moses-dies-20180118-story.html#nt=oft12aH-2gp2
― nickn, Friday, 19 January 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
Bradford Dillman https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bradford-dillman-dead-actor-compulsion-way-we-were-was-87-1075818
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link
Peter Mayle
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/obituaries/peter-mayle-who-wrote-of-a-year-in-provence-is-dead-at-78.html
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
I did not know til a month ago that Dillman had been the first Edmund in Long Day's Journey.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 January 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
Dorothy Malone
http://variety.com/2018/film/people-news/dorothy-malone-dies-dead-peyton-place-1202670315/
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:00 (six years ago) link
RIP, Dot :(
― Curly Morlocks (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:37 (six years ago) link
:o
i'm sorry I reminded everyone she was alive yesterday.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link
Legendary French chef Paul Bocuse
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 20 January 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
Jim Rodford.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/20/kinks-zombies-bassist-jim-rodford-has-died-aged-76/
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 21 January 2018 01:57 (six years ago) link
christian burchard of embryo died on jan. 17
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Sunday, 21 January 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
Bob Smith, first out gay comedian to appear on The Tonight Show, of ALS
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-smith-pioneering-gay-comedian-writer-dies-at-59-1076420
I took an improv class with Bob in 1985; he was sweet, acidic and very cute. I would've hit on him if I'd been gay then.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 January 2018 09:42 (six years ago) link
Oh, what a shame, they played in London recently - or maybe they're scheduled to play? Anyway, I have got some Embryo on my mp3 player, so can listen to them today - I'm at my mum's this weekend. RIP Christian.(xp)
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 January 2018 10:08 (six years ago) link
Steve Nisbett, Steel Pulse drummer
https://www.reggaeville.com/artist-details/steel-pulse/news/view/steve-grizzly-nisbett-passed-away-founding-member-of-steel-pulse/
― i am a skinematographer (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 January 2018 11:21 (six years ago) link
Bob Wakelin, creator of instantly recognisable art for a generation of Brits and designer of the Ocean software logo.
RIP Bob Wakelin - Any 80's gamers will be familiar with his iconic covers. pic.twitter.com/uOtlRWcv9l— Stu Wood (@DigitalWood) January 21, 2018
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 21 January 2018 12:55 (six years ago) link
"A couple of times the guys at Ocean said to me 'Look Bob, this game really isn't very good so we need an extra special cover.'
I suppose I should feel guilty for it."
― nashwan, Sunday, 21 January 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
Howard Lew Lewis, best known as Elmo in Brush Strokes but also one of the main cast in Maid Marian and her Merry Men.
http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/54752/howard-lew-lewis-1941-2018
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Monday, 22 January 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
Aw :(
― Madchen, Monday, 22 January 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
Hugh Masekela
https://www.timeslive.co.za/tshisa-live/tshisa-live/2018-01-23-breaking-legendary-musician-hugh-masekela-has-died-report/
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 07:55 (six years ago) link
Oh man, RIP hugh
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 08:46 (six years ago) link
RIP, he was a legend and had an amazing life
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
simon “tinky winky” barneshttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/23/teletubbies-tinky-winky-actor-simon-barnes-dies-aged-52
― maura, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
Mary Lee Berners-Lee
― Madchen, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey (Chris Isaak, The Avengers) Dead At 61
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 December 2018 00:18 (five years ago) link
was disappointed to find how little of Lam, Woo, To, et al's filmography is available on streaming services.
Randomly enough I just searched for Johnnie To movies on Netflix the other day and they have a pretty good set right now. None of the more famous Johnnie films but still pretty cool ... they used to only have Three (which I didn't like much).
Netflix has Loving You (1996), Lifeline (1997), Justice My Foot (1992), Mad Monk (1993), The Barefooted Kid (1993), Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011), Blind Detective (2013), Three (2016)
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 30 December 2018 00:27 (five years ago) link
Norman Gimbel, film and TV lyricist
Whenever you hear a bossa nova classic sung in English it's about even odds the lyrics are his.
(Sometimes they're from Ray Gilbert or Gene Lees, who are also no longer with us).
― Josefa, Sunday, 30 December 2018 01:48 (five years ago) link
RIght. Or every once in a while Tom Jobim even wrote them himself. Not a big fan of the Gimble or Gilbert bossa lyrics tbh.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 December 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
Okay, I guess I like some of his lyrics more than I thought. "How Insensitive" for bossa, "Sway" and "Bluesette" in other styles.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 December 2018 01:56 (five years ago) link
Ray Sawyer.
http://www.wkrg.com/news/mobile-county/dr-hook-s-ray-sawyer-chickasaw-native-dead-at-81/1681232151
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ux3-a9RE1Q
"Oh, that's beautiful."
― clemenza, Monday, 31 December 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
Oh noooooooo. Will be watching this epic triumph / trainwreck in tribute:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4c3W-XoNXM
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:48 (five years ago) link
aw shithttps://youtu.be/7LXpnNKNxJI
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link