https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lKcSIKkI2A
― scott seward, Sunday, 4 March 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind-up radio: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/05/trevor-baylis-inventor-wind-up-radio-dies-aged-80
― brain (krakow), Monday, 5 March 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
re Sir Rog
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/05/590792079/roger-bannister-first-runner-to-break-4-minute-mile-dies-at-88
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 March 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
russ solomon, founder of tower records (also rip)http://amp.sacbee.com/latest-news/article203542104.html
― maura, Monday, 5 March 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
"Ironically, he was giving his opinion of what someone was wearing that he thought was ugly, then asked (his wife) Patti to to refill his whisky," Solomon said. When she returned, he had died.
― maura, Monday, 5 March 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
Much worse ways to bow out, really.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 March 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
xp"Either that outfit goes or I do!"
― nickn, Monday, 5 March 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
I just watched that Tower Records doc a week or so ago. He seemed like a dude!
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Monday, 5 March 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
Historian Hayden White. One of very few people that I read as an undergraduate who - cliché alert - really changed the way I viewed history.
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
André S Labarthe. Film critic and filmmaker behind the great "Cinéastes de notre temps" series of filmmaker docus ( snippets often appear nowadays on Criterion releases).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivWNpDngpYs
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
The Volkswagen Beetle (again)https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-show/volkswagen-confirms-beetle-wont-be-replaced
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
my mom had this type/color when i was small. not as clean and shiny tho
https://i.imgur.com/qpwW6Xk.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
saw one of those on the street the other day... on a tow truck
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
the print NME
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 March 2018 03:15 (six years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43367267
Ken Dodd
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link
Gary Burden
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-album-cover-artist-gary-burden-dead-at-84-w517736
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 March 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
Didn't recognize the name, but Gold Rush and On the Beach are brilliant album covers.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
Ken Dodd was terrifying.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 12 March 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
XP There's a good doc about Burden and Henry Diltz called "Under the Covers - A Magical Journey: Rock N Roll in L.A. in the 60's - 70's" that used to run on PBS as a pledge programmer 10-15 years ago. IIRC, it only touches on Neil through CSNY, but Crosby is interviewed (among others), and he's in rare form (even for him).
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 March 2018 02:16 (six years ago) link
Ken Dodd managed to spend a very long career surrounded by young kids without getting yewtreed, sad that this is in any way notable of course. My mum's cousin was a diddyman and as far as I'm aware he was fine.His single "Tears' was also the third best selling single of the 60s in the UK, he was hugely popular in his time and still doing ridiculously long shows to packed houses aged 90.With the death of my last great aunt in Liverpool late last year, this really feels like the end of the WW2 generation (on a personal level, I know)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 12 March 2018 07:40 (six years ago) link
RIP Ken
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Monday, 12 March 2018 08:30 (six years ago) link
He lived in the same house he was born in for 89 of his 90 years apparently.
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 09:02 (six years ago) link
Carol Vorderman was a former Diddyman btw.
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 09:03 (six years ago) link
Tory indoctrination club?
― Alba, Monday, 12 March 2018 09:26 (six years ago) link
Diddymen were non-union labour iirc
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:27 (six years ago) link
living in the same house you were born into all your life is sometimes a very bad option for some people!
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 09:31 (six years ago) link
yeah it didn't work out so great for the Fritzls
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:39 (six years ago) link
I wish Ken has made funnies like that!
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 09:41 (six years ago) link
had
Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead and now so is Ken, RIP Doddy.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:49 (six years ago) link
nv in with the fritzl gag right after 9 on a monday, gonna be a belter of a week of ilxor dot com for sure
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:52 (six years ago) link
apparently ken dodd singles charted 19 times in the uk, maybe we should have an in-memoriam poll thread
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:54 (six years ago) link
Ahem, can I point you in the direction of the opening track of this ILX Compilation:
https://soundcloud.com/nedraggett/tom-d-happiness-in-spite-of-the-death-of-his-fathers-dog?in=nedraggett/sets/ilx-precovers-the-pet-shop-boys-super
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:58 (six years ago) link
Kate Wilhelm died yesterday, never knew she wrote crime fiction as well as great SF.
https://boingboing.net/2018/03/11/the-sweet-birds-sang.html
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 11:10 (six years ago) link
Hubert de Givenchy, 91
https://fashionista.com/.amp/2018/03/hubert-de-givenchy-death?__twitter_impression=true
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
Craig Mack. I liked his debut album but can't recall anything else he did.
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 08:15 (six years ago) link
some of these effusive RIP legend/icon comments seem to be laying it on a bit thick, he dropped one mixtape that disappeared without a trace in the last 20 years.
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 08:38 (six years ago) link
Nokie Edwards, the Ventures' Lead Guitarist, Dead at 82.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/nokie-edwards-the-ventures-lead-guitarist-dead-at-82-w517837
― nickn, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
Stephen Hawking. daaamn.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
oh no
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 03:54 (six years ago) link
eaten by wolves
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 03:54 (six years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-matt-dike-obituary-20180313-story.html
Collaborator and co-producer of Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique album, Delicious Vinyl label co-owner ( Tone Loc), club Dj for Ice-T, and more , dead from cancer at 56.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 03:56 (six years ago) link
Oh damn that's awful
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 08:58 (six years ago) link
Jim Bowen, who I would genuinely have sworn was dead for a decade or so.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43403178
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link
RIP Jim. that Bully had 20m viewers at it's peak is quiet staggering.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
Imagine the conversation between him and Stephen Hawking.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link
Same here. RIP Jim tho.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
jim bowen is he dead
About 1,380,000 results (0.29 seconds)
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYPqrZhXkAAFnUD.jpghuge amounts of predictably abelist crap about Hawking is popping up in multiple obits. Dr Francis Ryan has a huge dedicated thread of them.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
Bullseye is a staple of the "Challenge" TV channel, on a nightly basis. They show three or four shows a night, then when they've played them all, they start over again!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link