Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Gary John Bassett aka Johnny Strike of Crime.

Fenella Fielding

I loved Fenella Fielding, such a unique character, I feel like she never found a vehicle big enough for her.

Gary John Bassett aka Johnny Strike of Crime

Ah man. Now there's a band.

Is that the Crime who did Murder By Guitar?

yes

Piss On Your Dog is sort of classic!

I mean the gutter-punk song by Crime, of course.

As opposed to no you don't understand its the name of, urrr

apparently the song was originally called Prisoner Dog but they changed it because someone misheard the lyrics and they liked the misheard version better

RIP Fenella

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6e/ce/33/6ece33078efd9ca8739535f9e49bfdbf.jpg

Rachid Taha.

What?! Aw, man.

Only 59. https://m.france24.com/en/20180912-french-based-algerian-singer-rachid-taha-dies-59

Beloved theatre veteran and three-time Tony nominee Marin Mazzie has passed away at 57 https://t.co/kCKouXuy0W pic.twitter.com/p3HwwzPmbo

— Playbill (@playbill) September 13, 2018

I saw Marin Mazzie in Kiss Me, Kate in '99; an immense talent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yiKD64iqh8

Dudley Sutton (actor who appeared in The Leather Boys, The Devils and lots of other stuff)

absolute classic character actor

;_; RIP Dudley

He was brilliant in The Beiderbecke Affair, so many lines I repeat to this day. I made soup in a cooking contest in China and told a local journalist it was "lurking vegetable soup" and she actually printed it in the paper. RIP Dudley.

RIP Zienia Merton

https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5524/10731396224_82865de63e_b.jpg

https://mindreels.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/doctor-who-e28093-marco-polo-charming.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5524/10731396224_82865de63e_b.jpg
https://mindreels.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/doctor-who-e28093-marco-polo-charming.jpg

(dumb script mixup)

NOOOOOO I have been on a huge Space: 1999 jag lately and she is my favourite! 72 is far too young, how unfair.

RIP Dudley

Wrecking Crew bassist Max Bennett, at 90. Accompanied Peggy Lee, Joni Mitchell and countless others:
https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/330291-rip-max-bennett/
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/another-bass-giant-has-passed-rip-max-bennett.1363977/
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/farewell-max-bennett.1363947/
https://observer.com/2016/04/the-unbelievable-true-story-of-the-wrecking-crews-max-bennett/

According to Ted Gioia on Twitter, saxophonist Big Jay McNeely has died at 91. I had no idea he was still alive. You can figure out everything you need to know about his style from this immortal photo:

https://marmosetmusic-com.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/artist/photo/1050/homepage_large_a65d9fe5-2bd0-4e86-9e0e-3fad2be96326.jpg

Damn. RIP

RIP Dudley Sutton, I love you forever as Tinker from Lovejoy (which Zienia Merton was also in an episode of, so double RIP)

We saw Big Jay at Viva Cantina in 2013 - what a show! He was 85 but one of those pure charisma folks who lived to play. RIP

Almost a week late with this but RIP Fenella Fielding, you scared the shit out of young me as Voice of the House in Dougal & The Blue Cat.

Wrecking Crew bassist Max Bennett, at 90. Accompanied Peggy Lee, Joni Mitchell and countless others:
https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/330291-rip-max-bennett/
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/another-bass-giant-has-passed-rip-max-bennett.1363977/
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/farewell-max-bennett.1363947/
https://observer.com/2016/04/the-unbelievable-true-story-of-the-wrecking-crews-max-bennett/

RIP but what a career/life. Even gets a credit on Blue Lines for an L.A.Express sample. Pity he didn't get round to writing the book mentioned in the last of those interviews.

Great interview with Big Jay McNeely:

http://www.jazzwax.com/2018/09/big-jay-mcneely-1927-2018.html

Can't believe he's not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Freddie Oversteegen: picked up occupying Nazis at the bar; shot them in the head.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/freddie-oversteegen-dutch-resistance-fighter-who-killed-nazis-through-seduction-dies-at-92/2018/09/16/7876eade-b9b7-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html

Alan Abel, America's greatest hoaxer til 2016

(this is his second NY Times obit; the first came 38 years before his death)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/obituaries/alan-abel-dies.html

yes, that is Buck Henry as the face of SINA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fopTx_qNb4Q

critic Annette Michelson

http://www.artnews.com/2018/09/17/annette-michelson-pioneering-film-critic-cofounder-october-dies-96/

Dennis Norden. RIP.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45569460

people you thought were etc etc

it didn't quite end up alright on the night etc..

Paul Virilio.

dunno, getting to 96 seems pretty alright to me

that all depends on how broken your body has become, for some 96 might be a living hell!

people you thought were etc etc

He was a regular on there. RIP Dennis.

Denis, Denis.

I thought it was Denis but someone else put Dennis so I changed it.

Marceline Loridan-Ivens, 90

RIP Denis. Back in the early 2000s I worked in Central London and walked to work in Clerkenwell along Oxford Street. Often walking in the opposite direction was Denis Norden. Very tall, even taller than you might imagine, and very pale. More or less dressed exactly as he appeared on TV in later years: dark blue blazer, light brown trousers, white shirt, cravat, all at quarter to eight in the morning.

Arthur Mitchell
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-45583244

Kirin Kiki, so good in so many Kore-eda movies

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/09/16/films/veteran-japanese-actress-kirin-kiki-dies-75/

Robert Venturi (1925-2018), whose early writings and buildings defined an aesthetic of "complexity and contradiction" that would later be taken - especially after his collaborative work with Denise Scott Brown opened up new frontiers in the theory of the Pop landscape - as one of the first signposts of "postmodernism," though he did not originate or use the term.