i'm glad someone saw that through the obscure Brit figures that are clogging this thread now
i'm posting more Chuck McCann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5g4YW-6HsA
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
Yes, there's never any obscure Yank figures on this thread. ^^^^
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
ours are better
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:54 (six years ago) link
At dying?
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
Sometime in early 2000 I stayed overnight in a cheap hotel in Central London. It had been a pretty grim day for me and I was feeling miserable. I sat down on the bed and switched on the TV, and it happened to be some Dale Winton (possibly Lottery related) programme. Not my kind of thing but for some reason it cheered me up a bit.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Thursday, 19 April 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
^^^on the tombstone
― imago, Thursday, 19 April 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
That obit from some newspaper above had a Euro millions advert in the middle of it...
― koogs, Thursday, 19 April 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
you've gotta be in it to win it!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
just reading Dale's wikipedia earlier. His father died on the day of his bar mitzvah and his mother died from suicide after suffering depression when he was 21 :(
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 19 April 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
his mother was an actress and i think the last film she was in was eric sykes' 'rhubarb'
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
this was good: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/4/17/17248358/harry-anderson-obituary-night-court-magic
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 April 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link
here's a harry anderson magic special from 1986.https://youtu.be/JlthbJTv39U
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 20 April 2018 03:01 (six years ago) link
Avicii. 28 years old.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
what?!?
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
Link.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
jeez, poor guy
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
wtf
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
Oh no.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
Fuck. to get pancreatitis from drinking too much in your mid-20s seems insane to me. Really sad
― flappy bird, Friday, 20 April 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
I've not seen it, but Netflix had a new documentary about him out a couple of weeks ago? I saw the press release at the time, and it said something about how those close to him sometimes feared he'd be a member of the "club of 27" (dying at 27 like Joplin, Cobain etc).
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
So then the doc has a happy ending.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 20 April 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
jeez louise eric 😳
― flappy bird, Friday, 20 April 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
This will add an undeserved poignancy to 'I Took A Pill In Ibiza'
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 April 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
I follow some Swedish news Twitter accounts because I'm studying the language, and there are comments coming out from the Swedish prime minister and the crown prince and princess and people like that - this is like a full-on national tragedy, it seems.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 20 April 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
rip aviici
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Friday, 20 April 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
I'm like 7 months older than he was, it's almost unfathomable to me that in the same time I've been alive, someone else managed to become an incredibly successful performing artist, retire, and (apparently) drink themselves to death. I don't have that much energy.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 20 April 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
I have known quite a few people with a boundless energy for the drink and without the distraction of a successful career, who didn't manage to die from it until late 30's/early 40's.
― calzino, Friday, 20 April 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
Bix Beiderbecke also managed to drink himself to death at the age of 28, so it's not a unique case
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 April 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
definitely not unique and sometimes other underlying health issues could be a factor.
― calzino, Friday, 20 April 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
Considering my own state, I'm in awe at how Avicii managed to die of drinking at 28 tbh. Not in bad faith this, counting every new year as a gift.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 20 April 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
a guy from my high school drank himself to death at age 20. it's not impressive.
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 20 April 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
Seek Brobituary
― mick signals, Saturday, 21 April 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
http://www.tmz.com/2018/04/21/verne-troyer-dead-at-49/
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 21 April 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
First Ermey, and now Troyer: Bad Week for Guys I Met At Car Shows.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 April 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
never heard of Avicii, but that's very sad
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 April 2018 07:16 (six years ago) link
one should also take in account that Avicii probably didn't sleep much, if he did 800 dj gigs a year at some point. (i mean this combined with excessive alcohol use)
― Ludo, Sunday, 22 April 2018 11:07 (six years ago) link
Pamela Gidley, who played Teresa Banks in twin peaks: fire walk with me
― The Rachel Supremacy (wins), Monday, 23 April 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
oh whoa. RIP
― flappy bird, Monday, 23 April 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
oh no
― omar little, Monday, 23 April 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
i am extremely saddened by that. i kind of knew her briefly, though we hadn't talked in an extremely long time. probably since 2005 or something. RIP Pamela...you were a very decent person.
― omar little, Monday, 23 April 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
Bob Dorough:
https://www.thewrap.com/bob-dorough-schoolhouse-rock-dies/
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 10:12 (six years ago) link
Oh :(
― Madchen, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 10:21 (six years ago) link
I'd never heard of Bob Dorough until I (tried to) read John French's book about his time with Captain Beefheart where he says Beefheart was a fan of his and used to play his records to the band
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 10:22 (six years ago) link
Norwegian pop art artist Terje Brofos, aka Hariton Pushwagner.
I can't find an article in English as yet, but here's one in Norwegian https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/3jgGBM/Pushwagner-er-dod
https://morgenbladet.no/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/legacy_images/MO200610102240041AR.jpg?itok=bUlu2Rqd
― Øystein, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
It nearly always registers a bit when these notable people younger than me die, but looking up Verne Troyer at Wikipedia caused an extra level of memento mori, in that he was apparently born on the exact same day as me.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
Rick Dickison, who designed the ZX Spectrum keyboard for Sinclair
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/tech/industrial-designer-rick-dickinson-passes-away/1/
― Alba, Thursday, 26 April 2018 12:13 (six years ago) link
Dickinson, rather.
Charles Neville passed away today at age 79. Charles was the second oldest of the four brothers who formed the core of the Neville Brothers. #RestInPeace https://t.co/ulqwsNaBI9— NOLA Jazz Museum (@nolajazzmuseum) April 26, 2018
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 April 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
Nelson Pereira dos Santos, a key figure in Brazil’s Cinema Novo of the 1960s and 70s, has passed away at the age of eighty-nine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/obituaries/nelson-pereira-dos-santos-89-dies-lifted-brazilian-film.html
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 April 2018 10:14 (six years ago) link
‘The Frenchman was tasty’ or whatever it was called, I remember liking. Not sure if I’ve seen anything else.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 28 April 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link