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

Some songs carry me back more than others to a specific moment in time. This is one of them.


It’s impossible to overstate how ubiquitous it was. Later on I discovered Spooky Tooth — an impulse purchase in a used record store, and an antidote to the earlier overexposure. I became a Gary Wright fan.

I knew he had played on All Things Must Pass, and so must’ve been a buddy of George Harrison, but Harrison’s spiritual influence on Wright (recounted in this Times obituary) was news to me.


They moved away some time ago, but I’m sure some people remember Anita and Irwin Wolk (of local corrugated cardboard fame.) I’m sad to to pass on the news of Irwin’s death last week:

https://obituaries.neptunesociety.com/obituaries/plantation-fl/irwin-wolk-11439496

Irwin was my David’s cousin, via my FIL’s mother and her relatives. Such a joy to know the Wolks, of all generations, and to have met Irwin and Nita when they visited here. I think Nita may have known Joan in one of their volunteering circles? 
We’ll miss them both, and keep their memories shining brightly.


Just changing the picture because looking a Sinead made me sad.


joanne said:

This has hit me hard: Roger Whittaker, who I’ve recently been really enjoying again

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66843162

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/18/roger-whittaker-folk-singer-famous-for-durham-town-dies-aged-87 (Different details)

my mother’s favorite song, I just listened to it and all my childhood memories just ran down my cheek. Sad, 


Some great songs from The Association.



Scottish-born actor David McCallum - of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and NCIS - at the age of 90.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-26/david-mccallum-actor-dies-90s-cbs-ncis/102900304

(Image courtesy of CBS)


marksierra said:

Scottish-born actor David McCallum - of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and NCIS - at the age of 90.

Not to mention: Ashley-Pitt, dispersal.


Him and Joanna Lumley in Sapphire & Steel were phenomenal. Just the creepiest TV I've ever seen, and it was broadcast at 7pm, just before Coronation Street! By no means should kids have been watching this, but we all did. 


Less well-known fact about McCallum was that he recorded a few albums in the 60s, too (not usually as a vocalist, but as a musician and conductor. On one of those albums, titled Music: A Bit More of Me, the second from last track is called The Edge.

It was sampled by Dr. Dre for his collab with Snoop Dogg "The Next Episode"


ridski said:

Less well-known fact about McCallum was that he recorded a few albums in the 60s, too (not usually as a vocalist, but as a musician and conductor. On one of those albums, titled Music: A Bit More of Me, the second from last track is called The Edge.

It was sampled by Dr. Dre for his collab with Snoop Dogg "The Next Episode"

One of the most recognizable hooks in rap music.


drummerboy said:

Some great songs from The Association.


Never My Love is one of my handful of favorite "sunshine pop" era songs.  I stream it pretty regularly.  Wasn't familiar with the individuals in group but sorry to hear about this. 


British-Irish actor, Sir Michael Gambon, has died at the age of 82, following a bout of pneumonia.

Working as an actor for over 50 years, he was known more recently for his role as Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies.  He also appeared in 'The King's Speech' and, earlier, in 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-28/actor-michael-gambon-dies-aged-82/102915378

(Image courtesy of Warner Bros)


marksierra said:

British-Irish actor, Sir Michael Gambon, has died at the age of 82, following a bout of pneumonia.

Working as an actor for over 50 years, he was known more recently for his role as Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies.  He also appeared in 'The King's Speech' and, earlier, in 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-28/actor-michael-gambon-dies-aged-82/102915378

(Image courtesy of Warner Bros)

For me, he will always be Badger, from 'The Wind i the Willows'. The very next time this happens, I shall be exceedingly upset! Rik Mayall as Toad, Alan Bennet as Mole, and Michael Palin as Ratty. The perfect casting, in the best adaptation of one of my favourite books. Maggie Smith intro'd and outro'd in a short live section. I must have seen it a thousand times back when my kids were small, and loved every time.


I was a fan of those surreal Dennis Potter films and Gambon was great in The Singing Detective.


Jaytee said:

my mother’s favorite song, I just listened to it and all my childhood memories just ran down my cheek. Sad, 

When I went on safari, I couldn't escape this one... 


Dianne Feinstein, 90.

too much to say.


marksierra said:

British-Irish actor, Sir Michael Gambon, has died at the age of 82, following a bout of pneumonia.

Working as an actor for over 50 years, he was known more recently for his role as Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies.  He also appeared in 'The King's Speech' and, earlier, in 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-28/actor-michael-gambon-dies-aged-82/102915378

(Image courtesy of Warner Bros)

This article is somewhat morbid....

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/28/entertainment/harry-potter-deaths/index.html

The “Harry Potter” franchise is beloved around the world, and the loss of anyone connected to it has been met with mourning.

More than two dozen actors from the “Potter” films have died in the two decades since the franchise began, most recently Michael Gambon. The actor, who starred as Albus Dumbledore in the films, died of pneumonia this week at age 82.


Rudolph Isley, 85, one of the original Isley Brothers who wrote 'Shout" and sang with the group well into the 80s. 


If you were at all into comic books in the 80s, 90s and beyond, Keith Giffen is a name you’ll remember. He had a unique style of drawing and also a penchant for genre-tweaking humor. Died at 70. 

He wrote his own final social media post and asked his family to post it, er, post-mortem (he might have appreciated the grim humor). 

“I told them I was sick…Anything not to go to New York Comic Con, Thanx,

Keith Giffen 1952-2023.

Bwah ha ha ha ha.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/keith-giffen-dead-blue-beetle-and-rocket-raccoon-1235616096/


Suzanne Somers lost her fight with breast cancer, 76.


Richard Roundtree, star of "Shaft." Dead at 81 from pancreatic cancer.


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