Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....

galileo said:

2 moms died this month - Liz Sheridan, Jerry's mom on Seinfeld,93 and Estelle Harris, George's mom on Seinfeld,93.

Yeah, I got confused when I heard Sheridan had died. I was thinking, wait, didn't she die a few weeks ago?

Odd coincidence.



Robert Morse, Broadway star (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) and TV actor (Mad Men).

What a long career.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/21/entertainment/robert-morse-death-mad-men-broadway-cec/index.html



yahooyahoo said:

Robert Morse, Broadway star (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) and TV actor (Mad Men).

What a long career.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/21/entertainment/robert-morse-death-mad-men-broadway-cec/index.html

great quote:

”I love getting to the theater early, going out on the stage with that one light burning,” he told the New York Times in 1989, as he was about to debut his Tony Award-winning performance as Truman Capote in a one-man show. “I find the center of the stage, I find the center of me, and I feel like I belong. It’s my happiest moment.”


yahooyahoo said:

https://news.yahoo.com/hockey-hall-famer-guy-lafleur-135206737.html

Guy Lafleur, one of the greatest hockey players ever.

Coming on the heels of Bossy and Gillies, this is truly weird as well as sad.   None very old either.  From an era of three consecutive historic NHL dynasties.  First late 70s "Habs," then the Isles, followed by the Oilers.   


bub said:

yahooyahoo said:

https://news.yahoo.com/hockey-hall-famer-guy-lafleur-135206737.html

Guy Lafleur, one of the greatest hockey players ever.

Coming on the heels of Bossy and Gillies, this is truly weird as well as sad.   None very old either.  From an era of three consecutive historic NHL dynasties.  First late 70s "Habs," then the Isles, followed by the Oilers.   

Bossy and Lafleur were both pretty heavy smokers in their playing days and suffered from lung cancer. 


I used to watch hockey, and had watched Strange Brew two or three times. So, enjoyed this beer ad with Guy Lafleur back in the day.


"Goon" is a pretty good hockey movie.  Sacrilege I guess but I like it more than "Slap Shot."

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/goon


Just reading the news about Senator Orrin Hatch. That’s a very long life, let alone in federal politics. 


Belatedly, like the way I came upon the Saints, Chris Bailey:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-11/the-saints-chris-bailey-dies/100981356

A friend made a tape of four Australian bands in the 1980s, and the cuts from the Saints’ All Fools Day knocked me out. (The only other band I can remember from the tape is the Triffids, joanne, if you were curious.) Different from the punk rock that made Bailey’s reputation, but it’s an album I still go to for a lift.



Regine Zylberberg, who claimed she invented the first discotheque, has died in France at the age of 92.

Zylberberg, who had also appeared on the stage as a singer and actress, says she started the world's first disco at a nightclub she opened in Paris in the 1950s.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-61292332


Naomi Judd, 76, who had some massive success on the country music charts singing with her daughter, Wynonna, and who was also the mother of actress Ashley Judd.

https://www.today.com/popculture/music/naomi-judd-country-icon-dies-76-rcna26792


Not looking for a fight and not naming names but this is called the "celebrity" death thread but people come up with decedents who they must know are so obscure and historically marginal that they will be unknown even among this sophisticated knowledgeable MOL crowd.  It's bad enough hearing about death.  I don't need to hear about the death of a guy who shook a tambourine on one cut of a minor band's first, indy label album.


Bub, if you’re referring to The Saints, they’re not exactly ‘minor’. Hall of Famers, pioneers of punk, influenced heaps of other performers including Nick Cave and Bob Geldof; formed in the 1970s and still playing now. Even had hits in the US charts. 

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saints_(Australian_band)

bub said:

Not looking for a fight and not naming names but this is called the "celebrity" death thread but people come up with decedents who they must know are so obscure and historically marginal that they will be unknown even among this sophisticated knowledgeable MOL crowd.  It's bad enough hearing about death.  I don't need to hear about the death of a guy who shook a tambourine on one cut of a minor band's first, indy label album.


joanne said:

Bub, if you’re referring to The Saints …

I hope not, because (a) I thought bub was a fellow fan of musical discovery; (b) he’d be underrating one of the allures of obituaries, which can also be described as discovery; and, above all else, (c) I was sure at least one sophisticated knowledgeable member of the MOL rabble would recognize the celebrity of Chris Bailey.


He had an amazing life, for an obscure Irish kid who went to school in Queensland with Ivor Hay, and later appeared on Letterman cheese    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bailey_(musician)

(Aargh, my links aren’t working properly today)


bub said:

Not looking for a fight and not naming names but this is called the "celebrity" death thread but people come up with decedents who they must know are so obscure and historically marginal that they will be unknown even among this sophisticated knowledgeable MOL crowd.  It's bad enough hearing about death.  I don't need to hear about the death of a guy who shook a tambourine on one cut of a minor band's first, indy label album.

I haven't heard of 75% of the people mentioned in here, but it always leads me to interesting places.


It wasn't the Saints post.  I know of the Saints.  My comment suggested I was referring to a music related post but it was just a made up quip. 

Dave, I'm soon going to post a youtube Tiny Desk Concert clip in the long dormant power pop thread.   Whether its power pop I don't know.  More pop punk but so damn cute.


Yummy apples with great crunch. We owe a lot to this clever orchardist:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-05-12/john-cripps-pink-lady-apple-creator-dies/101058312

Pink Lady apples are also known as Cripps Pink (the old name) in your part of the world, and are grown over there too. 


Fred Ward, actor.  He was such a great everyman.  

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fred-ward-star-stuff-tremors-145427674.html

Fred Ward, who starred in films including “Henry and June,” “Tremors,” “The Right Stuff” and “The Player,” died May 8, his publicist confirmed to Variety. He was 79.

Among his other prominent roles were parts in “Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins,” “Miami Blues” and “Short Cuts.”


 No! Vangelis has died! I’m in total shock…I can’t believe he was 79. 
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/19/vangelis-greek-composer-chariots-of-fire-blade-runner-dies

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-61514850 (If the Please Register box comes up, just close it)

May his memory be eternal. 


joanne said:

 No! Vangelis has died! I’m in total shock…I can’t believe he was 79. 
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/19/vangelis-greek-composer-chariots-of-fire-blade-runner-dies

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-61514850 (If the Please Register box comes up, just close it)

May his memory be eternal. 

oh.

now that's very sad. one of my favorites.  LOL

RIP


That was my first thought about Ward.  79?  A quietly good career.


Firstly, I watched The Right Stuff again last weekend after hearing about Fred Ward. I saw a press screening of the Remo Williams movie when I was a teen and thought he was great in it and that the movie was done a great disservice by TV pilot script-writing and ridiculous miscasting of Joel Gray, but his turn in The Right Stuff is phenomenal.

Secondly, I've written about my love for Vangelis here before, but two of the albums he released in the 70s, Albedo 0.39 and Spiral were mind-expanding for me. It was literally music from the future I wanted to live in. His movie scores were crazy good (we all know Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire, but his score for 1492: Conquest of Paradise is my favorite) and while some may dismiss this as Chariots of Fire Lite, this haunting piece from the end titles of The Bounty (only found on his Themes compilation album) is my idea of gothic bliss.

Not even mentioning his work with Jon Anderson! I'll Find My Way Home and State of Independence were always on the radio in the early 80s, and I still consider the Donna Summer version of the latter one of the best songs ever recorded. Oh, boy. I wrote a few experimental electronica albums for mp3.com back in the early 2000s and described myself as "808 State meets Vangelis", so let's say that he was a major part of my childhood and I'm going to miss hearing new things exploding from his fertile imagination.


yeah, Albedo was my first Vangelis album (not counting 666 by Aphrodite's Child) Still listen to it.

(Speaking of Jon Anderson, he'll be at the Wellmont in July

https://wellmonttheater.com/shows/jon-anderson-with-the-paul-green-rock-academy/ )


I’ve always totally lost myself in the Antarctica soundtrack (love the movie too, cry each time we watch it). 
I’ve learnt from the comments to this clip that his was a covid-related death. 
It’s a long clip, being the sound track, feel free to jump around. 


ridski said:

Not even mentioning his work with Jon Anderson! I'll Find My Way Home and State of Independence were always on the radio in the early 80s, and I still consider the Donna Summer version of the latter one of the best songs ever recorded. 


Love. Mowed the lawn yesterday to J&V, the whole Friends of Mr. Cairo plus some random songs from other albums, including the very (imho) under the radar Page of Life. And Chariots remains one of my 3 favorite movies of all time. RIP


Ray Liotta, 67. 
Died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, he was filming a movie there. 
Newark native.


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