Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_o5-fMQoE&

RIP Thomas Denis (aka Qebrus).

wow end of an era wrt barlow

i forget what his well username was

Another obituary from the other side of his career: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018

Lovebug Starski, 57.

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/02/09/584488179/lovebug-starski-rapper-and-dj-who-stood-at-the-vanguard-of-hip-hop-dead-at-57

This obit says he was first to rap the term hiphop

damn, Reg E. Cathey at age 59 per David Simon's twitter.
He'll always be first and foremost one of the hosts of PBS's Square One TV to me, but had a great run in the 2000s between Pootie Tang, the Wire, House of Cards, Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter, etc.

wow, way too young.

John Gavin

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-gavin-dead-dies-psycho-spartacus-1202694312/amp/

Reg E. Cathey was also a guest star on the greatest SVU episode ever.

He played a homeless guy on regular Law & Order, too. He was great.

Liam Miller, former Irish international footballer and player with Utd and Celtic among others

... Celtic, Utd, among others.

If you must

John Gavin was Reagan's ambassador to Mexico as well as a boring actor

Always got him and John Saxon mixed up.

^^^^^

Lol

Johann Johannsson

https://deadline.com/2018/02/johann-johannsson-dies-obituary-the-theory-of-everything-composer-1202284591/

Wow

Really shocking. Reports indicate he was found in his Berlin apartment yesterday, and that there'll be an autopsy, cause of death unknown.

RIP John Gavin - I read somewhere on Fbk that his passing now only leaves Vera Miles (aged 88) and Pat Hitchcock (89) still with us from the cast of Psycho.

sad that johannsson's obit has the theory of everything as his most famous work

horrible

Ghanian singer Ebony Reigns

https://www.fashionghana.com/site/ghana-mourns-death-of-dancehall-afrobeats-artiste-ebony-and-two-others/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI1caSAjTgk

http://www.wideopencountry.com/daryle-singletary-dies/

Oof, only 46.

Per Damon Krukowski on Twitter, Pearls Before Swine's Tom Rapp.

Vic Damone

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8099139/vic-damone-dies-89

People you thought were.... RIP Vic.

Tom Rapp, according to his daughter-in-law, on Twitter

(oh, missed your post there Ned)

Just heard about Reg Cathey yesterday--excellent in House of Cards, especially the big episode involving his son.

Marty Allen--some other world, one I remember.

http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/marty-allen-died-dies-comedian-daytime-tv-favorite-1202696418/

goodbye dere, Marty

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Kenneth Haigh, who played Jimmy Porter in the original Look Back in Anger production, and told George Harrison "You can be replaced, chickie baby" in A Hard Day's Night.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/feb/13/kenneth-haigh-obituary

Peggy Cooper Cafritz, DC-area patroness of the arts.

https://wtop.com/dc/2018/02/peggy-cooper-cafritz-influential-education-and-arts-patron-dies-at-70/

As the obit notes, she fought against racism as a young student at George Washington university in the 60s and then later co-founded the Duke Ellington School for the Arts. For those 2 things alone she deserves kudos.

Norm Rogers, drummer for the Cows, the Jayhawks and more besides

http://www.startribune.com/former-jayhawks-and-cows-drummer-norm-rogers-dies-of-cancer/474613843/

Boyd Jarvis, House music producer. https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=41107

Billy Graham
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/billy-graham-dead_us_566e7e34e4b011b83a6bb479

and no link available yet, but Detective Chief Inspector Peter Jay, who arrested Muswell Hill Murderer, Dennis Nilsen.

Nanette Fabray

http://deadline.com/2018/02/nanette-fabray-dies-stage-tv-comic-actress-was-97-1202301558/

Eddy Amoo

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-band-real-thing-star-14330919

Anybody who says You To Me Are Everything hasn't touched them is a liar.

rip eddy my man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDboC4mBYk

I see on the Stern’s music store & label blog that singer Medoune Diallo has died. He was in the great West African groups Orchestra Baobab and Africando.

http://sternsmusic.blogspot.com/2018/02/medoune-diallo-11021949-10022017-rip.html?m=1

Emma Chambers, from Vicar of Disley, 53

Was just coming here to post that http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43183354

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43171117

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-crystals-singer-barbara-ann-alston-dead-at-74-w517091

She sang lead on early songs including “Uptown “ & “He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)”

“He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)”

jesus christ

oh shit :( Barbara was the living end, i love the Crystals so much
rip lady <3