Obituary Thread

[Irish Saint]

 

[ivans82]

Raymond Froggatt singer songwriter died aged 81 .

[Phil]

17 hours ago, Irish Saint said:

Being reported that Sinead O' Connor 56  has sadly passed away.

Rest in Peace Sinead you were a tortured soul but with a heart of gold.

Morrissey can, sometimes,talk a lot of but this is absolutely spot on…

“She had only so much ‘self’ to give. She was dropped by her label after selling 7 million albums for them. 
She became crazed, yes, but uninteresting, never. She had done nothing wrong. She had proud vulnerability … and there is a certain music industry hatred for singers who don’t ‘fit in’ and they are never praised until death - when, finally, they can’t answer back. 
The cruel playpen of fame gushes with praise for Sinead today … with the usual moronic labels of “icon” and “legend”. You praise her now ONLY because it is too late. You hadn’t the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you. 
The press will label artists as pests because of what they withhold … and they would call Sinead sad, fat, shocking, insane … oh but not today! Music CEOs who had put on their most charming smile as they refused her for their roster are queuing-up to call her a “feminist icon”, and 15 minute celebrities and goblins from hell and record labels of artificially aroused diversity are squeezing onto Twitter to twitter their jibber-jabber … when it was YOU who talked Sinead into giving up … because she refused to be labelled, and she was degraded, as those few who move the world are always degraded. 
Why is ANYBODY surprised that Sinead O’Connor is dead? Who cared enough to save Judy Garland, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday? Where do you go when death can be the best outcome? Was this music madness worth Sinead’s life? No, it wasn’t. She was a challenge, and she couldn’t be boxed-up, and she had the courage to speak when everyone else stayed safely silent. She was harassed simply for being herself. Her eyes finally closed in search of a soul she could call her own. 
As always, the lamestreamers miss the ringing point, and with locked jaws they return to the insultingly stupid “icon” and “legend” when last week words far more cruel and dismissive would have done. Tomorrow the fawning fops flip back to their online shitposts and their cosy Cancer Culture and their moral superiority and their obituaries of parroted vomit … all of which will catch you lying on days like today … when Sinead doesn’t need your sterile slop.”

MORRISSEY
26 July, 2023

[Les Tonks Sidestep]

Randy Meisner of The Eagles aged 77

Edit, link added

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66334524

Edited July 28, 2023 by Les Tonks Sidestep

[Wolford6]

To me, the spirit of the Eagles died when Bernie Leadon left. Randy Meisner quit two years later. They stopped being a bandin 1980 and reformed in 1994. They spent the next twenty years as a corporation with two Managing Directors.

Shame, as a Gram Parsons and the Burritos fan I really liked the Eagles when they first came out. They played Witchy Woman on the Whistle Test and I thought they were brilliant. I was really keen to see them when I was working in Oxford in 1972/1973 ... they played Oxford Poly. Unfortunately, a gang from the rugby team I played for preferred to go and see the Decameron ... an overdubbed Italian soft porn  picture ... at the cinema.

They later played Huddersfield Football Stadium in 1996 but, by then, I couldn't be bothered.

 

[Wolford6]

Clive Rowlands, 85.

Hugely influential in Welsh Rugby Union. Not one of our great players but an outstanding captain and coach.

[Futtocks]

Flamboyant Welsh wrestler Adrian Street, aged 82: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66361848

[Futtocks]

Paul Reubens, aka Pee-Wee Herman: https://variety.com/2023/film/news/paul-reubens-dead-pee-wee-herman-1235683504/

[Liverpool Rover]

6 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Flamboyant Welsh wrestler Adrian Street, aged 82: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66361848

He must have been tough to use that gimmick in the promotions in the south of the USA.

[Wolford6]

Adrian Street was a decent bloke.

5 hours ago, Liverpool Rover said:

He must have been tough to use that gimmick in the promotions in the south of the USA.

From the Western Mail:

Settling on the Florida coast, Adrian and Linda created outfits for themselves as well as for a clientele as diverse as WWE legend Mick Foley, Elvis impersonators and Hollywood star Mickey Rourke in his 2008 comeback movie The Wrestler. Adrian retired from the sport completely in 2010, having just won the NWA Alabama heavyweight title at 70 years old. In total he performed for 50 years in more than 15,000 bouts.

[Futtocks]

15 hours ago, Liverpool Rover said:

He must have been tough to use that gimmick in the promotions in the south of the USA.

Runs in the family: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-27889890

"My Great Grandfather, Big Jim Arnold, was a mountain fighter. They used to go out into the mountains where they would fight with bare knuckles. He once had a fight that lasted one and a half days."

[Futtocks]

Composer Carl Davis: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/carl-davis-dead-french-lieutenants-woman-napoleon-composer-1235550307/ 

He wrote this for Leeds Rhinos a few years back. I don't know if the club still uses it for any events.

 

[DavidM]

2 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Composer Carl Davis: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/carl-davis-dead-french-lieutenants-woman-napoleon-composer-1235550307/ 

He wrote this for Leeds Rhinos a few years back. I don't know if the club still uses it for any events.

 

You just beat me . I’m reading his obituary . Talk about prolific , everything from Pride and Prejudice to The World At War

[Les Tonks Sidestep]

John Gosling of The Kinks

 

[Futtocks]

William Friedkin.

[DavidM]

Folllowing on from Carl Davis another great composer Jim Parker , who won 4 BAFTAs and wrote the music for every episode of midsomer murders 

[Jeff Stein]

Rodriguez, The film Searching for Sugarman is worth a couple of hours of anyone's time

[graveyard johnny]

Doreen Mantle 97 "I don't believe it!"

Edited August 9, 2023 by graveyard johnny

[Futtocks]

Robbie Robertson: https://variety.com/2023/music/news/robbie-robertson-dead-the-band-1235692172/ 

Only Garth Hudson left from the band, and he's pretty fragile these days.

[The Masked Poster]

10 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Robbie Robertson: https://variety.com/2023/music/news/robbie-robertson-dead-the-band-1235692172/ 

Only Garth Hudson left from the band, and he's pretty fragile these days.

 

It was one of his solo efforts but "Somewhere down the crazy river" was one of my favourites. 

It always reminded me of Dr John. 

Edited August 10, 2023 by The Masked Poster

[Farmduck]

Lil Tay, 14, circumstances unclear. Also her brother. I feel some sympathy for the brother. All the media reports get through the story of Tay then at the end, "Her brother is also dead."

Tay was internet-famous for 10 minutes a few years back.

[gingerjon]

15 hours ago, Jeff Stein said:

Rodriguez, The film Searching for Sugarman is worth a couple of hours of anyone's time

It is so good. As, indeed, is the music. Although, probably not planned, I did end up listening to a lot of Afrikaans music of the apartheid era as a result - i.e. the people who were passing the Rodriguez tapes around whilst playing music the authorities didn't like.

Searching for Sugarman looks like its available to anyone with a Now TV sub.

[Robin Evans]

Robbie Robertson 

[Futtocks]

11 minutes ago, Robin Evans said:

Robbie Robertson 

What, again?

[Farmduck]

22 hours ago, Farmduck said:

Lil Tay, 14, circumstances unclear. Also her brother. I feel some sympathy for the brother. All the media reports get through the story of Tay then at the end, "Her brother is also dead."

Tay was internet-famous for 10 minutes a few years back.

No, they're not dead. Supposedly her Instagram was hacked. And, to sum up internet fame, she gained 200K followers in 24 hours of "death." So expect her to "die" again soon. Pathetic.