Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....
A nice obituary for Tony Taylor, a man who did my avatar proud:
I've been wearing my John Lewis T Shirts all summer. Except for Civil Disobedience Necessary Trouble, that's for special occasions. So, yes, today.
One of my favorite John Lewis quotes.
7/17/2020 - Rev. C.T. Vivian
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/ct-vivian-dead.html
The Rev. C.T. Vivian, an early civil rights organizer and field general for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the historic struggle for racial justice a half-century ago, died on Friday at his home in Atlanta. He was 95.
Emitt Rhodes, pop craftsman.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/arts/music/emitt-rhodes-singer-dies.html
The Ross in Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, tongue-tripping troubadors of vocalese and “the hottest new group in jazz.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/arts/music/annie-ross-dies.html?referringSource=articleShare
Rene Carpenter, wife of astronaut Scott Carpenter and the last of The Right Stuff cohort.
annielou said:
Olivia DeHaviland. 104. She really hung in there.
geez. I would've bet 10-1 she was dead already.
John Saxon, an instantly recognizable actor who was Henry Fonda-like in his ability to play a stand-up guy (good enough for Mary Richards) or someone far more sinister.
From the world of weird coincidences, I was watching Captain Blood the same day Ms DeH passed on. I rented it a week ago, but watched it Saturday. Great movie with Errol Flynn, DeHaviland and Basil Rathbone.
Peter Green, original guiding light of Fleetwood Mac.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/arts/music/peter-green-dead.html
ridski said:
Doesn't usually get the love it deserves...
Before that, before Fleetwood Mac: hauntingly beautiful "The Supernatural"
Danish pianist and composer, Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, better known internationally as Bent Fabric, has died at the age of 95.
He is probably best known for his 1961 instrumental, 'Alley Cat'.
'Alley Cat' won a Grammy Award for the best Rock and Roll recording of 1962.
marksierra said:
Danish pianist and composer, Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, better known internationally as Bent Fabric, has died at the age of 95.
He is probably best known for his 1961 instrumental, 'Alley Cat'.
'Alley Cat' won a Grammy Award for the best Rock and Roll recording of 1962.
All very interesting. I would have guessed that Alley Cat was decades older. And a Grammy for best rock and roll recording? You could’ve knocked me over with a swatch of bent fabric.
marksierra said:
Danish pianist and composer, Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, better known internationally as Bent Fabric, has died at the age of 95.
He is probably best known for his 1961 instrumental, 'Alley Cat'.
'Alley Cat' won a Grammy Award for the best Rock and Roll recording of 1962.
at 0:58
Wilford Brimley, played Pop Fisher in “The Natural”. One of my favorite movie characters ever.
Singer and actor Trini Lopez, dead at the age of 83, after contracting Covid-19.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/12/trini-lopez-covid-19-frank-sinatra-dirty-dozen
Here’s another obit:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53749488
it seems a man generous with his talent, even to the end.
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49 years old. Such a bright and energetic personality. It doesn't seem possible.