Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....
Bedazzled and Singin’ are two of my very favorites. Charade is up there, too.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/obituaries/stanley-donen-dead.amp.html
I’ve just read this news! A long life, with such jewels for us to remember.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/23/stanley-donen-director-singin-in-the-rain-dies
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47343460
Each article lists different movies 
So many wonderful, and creative, visionary musical talents have gone in the last couple of years. A wide age range too.
When did we start getting bogged down in daily details and lose the wonder and magic of just being lost in their music while we worked/studied?
I’m really crying now. I didn’t realise Katherine Helmond had Alzheimer’s.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47423586
Such a wonderful actress, with beautiful poise and timing. And I loved her voice.
Her husband seems so devoted; I hope that the flood of love from millions of fans provides some comfort.
Geesh. The fifty somethings are too young to go! RIP in your new zip code, dude.
Last week I read that Luke Perry’s stroke was minor even though he was hospitalised, now it’s being described as major. Makes you wonder how people decide the definitions.
Sad news.
I missed most of his early TV stuff, but he was very good in "John From Cincinnati"...
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joanne said:
Keith Flint, The Prodigy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47442312
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/04/prodigy-singer-keith-flint-dies-aged-49
This one hit closest to home for me. I've been a Prodigy fan since their first single in 91, and may be accused of copying Keith's spiky blonde haircut and eye-make-up for a bit after Firestarter came out. Finally got a chance to see them live in 2009 and stood feet away from Keith as he crowd-surfed past us at the Hammerstein, massive grin on his mad face.
A delightful piece by Maris Kreizman in the NYT - "Luke Perry Was The First Bad Boy I Loved." We know Maris - actually,we know her parents.
Drummer Hal Blaine.
Can’t believe he was 90.
joanne said:
Jan-Michael Vincent (Airwolf) has died this week, only 74years old.
I associate him most with the original early 70s version of "The Mechanic," with Charles Bronson.
Guitarist Dick Dale.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47606592
There are no words left, everyone has used them already. 
May he be always remembered, and his music cherished.
Renowned for her considered work with special needs children, recommending they be educated in schools with children without disabilities; and also for her work in the IVF field, ethicist Baroness Mary Warnock has died. She was aged 94years, and her work has influenced most modern policy in these fields around the world, in some way.
Scott Walker, of the Walker Bros - can’t believe he was 76!
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47691705
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/25/scott-walker-experimental-pop-hero-dies-aged-76
joanne said:
Scott Walker, of the Walker Bros - can’t believe he was 76!
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47691705
Just saw this. What a phenomenal and brilliantly strange songwriter he was. Beautiful voice, tremendous talent. Such a shame to hear of his passing.
what I’m grieving the most, with each obituary added to those over the past few months, is the variety in styles of music and expression over just a few decades, and we loved each so much, often at the same time. Each spoke to us so clearly, summing up a part of our lives and now recalling it as if we’re still that age so it’s more of a shock to read of the performer’s or songwriter’s death.
So much good music.
joanne said:
what I’m grieving the most, with each obituary added to those over the past few months, is the variety in styles of music and expression over just a few decades, and we loved each so much, often at the same time. Each spoke to us so clearly, summing up a part of our lives and now recalling it as if we’re still that age so it’s more of a shock to read of the performer’s or songwriter’s death.
So much good music.
So many songs I could post here from such a varied career. I first heard him on those 60s Walker Brothers hits like Take It Easy, The Sun Ain't Gonna Sun Anymore and later the phenomenal No Regrets, but I have to post this one from his reunion with the Walker Brothers in the 70s when it was obvious he wasn't ever going to write anything but dark, uncomfortable music ever again, no matter how bad the sales figures were. He was dropped from a thousand record companies, began so many projects which never saw the light of day and yet never compromised his own artistic vision.
This song preceded goth and new wave by a couple of years and influenced countless artists like Ultravox (a direct inspiration for Vienna, according to Midge Ure), Iggy Pop, David Bowie (which is obvious here), Peter Murphy, Laurie Andersen, and Richard Butler of the Psychedelic Furs. It's almost impossible to listen to this without checking the date of its release - 41 years old and it sounds like it could have been recorded yesterday. I utterly adore this strange and moody song, and it was my gateway into the impenetrable world of Scott Walker.
oh. I couldn't get it to play. (Maybe geoblocked? Never mind, I'll look it up)
Listened offlist. Chilling. And yeah, sooooooo good.
I had never made the connection between the Scott Walker I read about in record guides and mags like MOJO (but never listened to) and those ’60s hits. Wow.
Director Larry Cohen, too, aged 77 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/25/larry-cohen-dies-director-its-alive-maniac-cop#comments
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