Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Bloody hell, Bella Emberg, that's someone for the people you didn't realise were still alive except now they aren't thread

https://www.rte.ie/amp/933526/?__twitter_impression=true

Dolores O’Riordan.

Gobsmacked and then some.

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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

Dr Mathilde Krim

http://www.newnownext.com/mathilde-krim-dead/01/2018/

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

as noted elsewhere, Joe Frank

https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/173192/joe-frank-influential-radio-monologuist-dies-at-79

Doug Harvey, the baseball umpire known as "God"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/obituaries/doug-harvey-dead-baseball-umpire.html

Jo Jo White

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22124169/jo-jo-white-boston-celtics-great-basketball-hall-famer-dies-71

Peter Wyngarde:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/18/actor-peter-wyngarde-department-s-dies

Oh no! RIP Peter ;_; That's it I'm pulling out my copy of his album to listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_HiW9J5prc

Mike Carroll, of Poison 13 and Lord High Fixers

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

Artist Ed Moses, 91.

http://beta.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-me-ed-moses-dies-20180118-story.html#nt=oft12aH-2gp2

Bradford Dillman
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bradford-dillman-dead-actor-compulsion-way-we-were-was-87-1075818

Peter Mayle

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/obituaries/peter-mayle-who-wrote-of-a-year-in-provence-is-dead-at-78.html

I did not know til a month ago that Dillman had been the first Edmund in Long Day's Journey.

Dorothy Malone

http://variety.com/2018/film/people-news/dorothy-malone-dies-dead-peyton-place-1202670315/

RIP, Dot :(

:o

i'm sorry I reminded everyone she was alive yesterday.

Legendary French chef Paul Bocuse

Jim Rodford.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/20/kinks-zombies-bassist-jim-rodford-has-died-aged-76/

christian burchard of embryo died on jan. 17

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.

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)

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/

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

"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."

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

Aw :(

Hugh Masekela

https://www.timeslive.co.za/tshisa-live/tshisa-live/2018-01-23-breaking-legendary-musician-hugh-masekela-has-died-report/

Oh man, RIP hugh

RIP, he was a legend and had an amazing life

simon “tinky winky” barnes

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/23/teletubbies-tinky-winky-actor-simon-barnes-dies-aged-52

Mary Lee Berners-Lee

Girl From the North Country

aw RIP Mary Lee Berners Lee and Bob Wakelin (only just seen that post)

as a child I studied the Rainbow Islands box art in great detail and decided that, since Taito was a Japanese company and the colourful big-eyed box art seemed vaguely like the Euro-Japanese coproduction cartoons imported to mid/late-80s CBBC for my daily viewing, the signed name "Wakelin" must clearly be Japanese, pronounced wa-ké-lin

it took many years to realise that this was quite a silly thought

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Bob_Wakelin

I missed the France Gall post too :(

Catchiest German song about computer dating of the 1960s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rtdb_zgqdQ

Ursula K Le Guin

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html

oof, RIP

oh fuck what a shitty day this is for human culture

fuuuuuck

The worst of news. RIP.

Just read earthsea this past few months. Lovely.

RIP

All the times I linked to her blog saying m/l "you won't believe who's still around and still blogging", and now I can't believe she isn't.

Thanks for all the books (still so many more I haven't read, too), new ways of thinking for teenage me about fantasy and SF and gender - and the blog posts and cat pics too...

yeah, what a hero. earthsea books, with the amazing Tehanu reprise, were formative for me. Left Hand of Darkness and Lathe of Heaven also, later on. RIP. wonderful writer.

I’m so sad about this loss.

I really hoped she'd make it to 100. RIP and thanks for changing the world for the better.