2020 Celebrity Deathpool

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  • Right wing conspiracy theorist Philip Haney has died. He was convinced that his fellows in the Obama-era Department of Homeland Security were covering up for terrorists. His death was originally attributed to a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but later the Sheriff's Department walked that back and said they hadn't officially determined a cause of death yet. He would have wanted it that way.
  • Wesley JWesley J Shipmate
    edited March 2020
    Priest, poet and politician from Nicaragua, Ernesto Cardenal, has died.

    Funny how he had completely vanished from my radar these past years, or even... decades. I wouldn't even have had him on my list, had I done one this year!
  • Who will James Lipton interview next? It will be an awkward interview if there is a God.
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    @lilbuddha recommended watching: An Interview with God...
  • CrœsosCrœsos Shipmate
    Theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson has died.
  • lilbuddhalilbuddha Shipmate
    edited March 2020
    One of the three Supremes you don’t remember, Barbara Martin has died.

    [Fixed broken link - la vie en rouge, Circus Host]
  • lilbuddhalilbuddha Shipmate
    edited March 2020
    Cut and pasted into the afterlife, Larry Tesler, from the division of a company that made Apple possible, has died.
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Jazz Pianist McCoy Tyner has died.
  • No link - the only ones I can see are to papers I don't link to - Dave "Tremedous Knowledge" Rainford from Eggheads has died aged 51. Quite a bit younger than me. He always seemed like a decent sort of chap.
  • Ming the Merciless (and many other characters) has died.
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    The Rogue wrote: »
    Ming the Merciless (and many other characters) has died.
    You wrong-footed me on this one! My initial reaction was "But Charles Middleton has long been dead!"
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    I always thought it was kinda far-fetched that Father Merrin got called in to exorcise the same demon that he had accidently set loose in northern Iraq. I assume they wanted to fulfill the foreshadowing scene of him facing down the idol in the desert, but if that's the theme they were going for, they should have made it more part of the story, ie. Merrin slowiy coming to the horrified realization that he is the indirect cause of Megan's anguish.

  • Max von Sydow loses his final game of chess.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    The Rogue wrote: »
    Ming the Merciless (and many other characters) has died.
    I thought there for one awful moment that Menzies Campbell had died. As far as I know he's very much alive.
  • SpikeSpike Admin Emeritus
    Former Virgin Radio and Radio 2 DJ Pete Mitchell has died
  • Spike wrote: »
    Former Virgin Radio and Radio 2 DJ Pete Mitchell has died

    I used to listen to him an Geoff on Absolute. RIP Pete.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited March 2020
    The Rev'd David Moseley, known to Guardian crossword fans as Gordius, has died.

    Vague shape in a cemetery (3,2,4,2,5)
  • Roy Hudd is reading the Huddlines to the angels.
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    A little delayed on this one, but it looks like nobody else has posted it: Lyle Waggoner who appeared on the Carol Burnett Show and was "Steve Trevor" on the 1970s "Wonder Woman" TV show, has died.
  • Country music star Kenny Rogers has died at 81.
  • A talented artist whose release in 1969 of Ruby (Don't take your love to town) gave much greater circulation to the first pop single to address the subject of the Vietnam War.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    @Hedgehog - sorry, but your link's behind a paywall.
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    My apologies! I didn't think they would put a paywall on obits. :disappointed:
  • BakerBaker Shipmate
    I thought maybe someone would have Rogers, but no, they don't.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    It's just a pity that our weekly singing session has stopped for the duration - Bob the organiser does a good version of The Gambler, with his gravelly voice.
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    sionisais wrote: »
    Country music star Kenny Rogers has died at 81.

    So, I guess we know what condition his condition was in.

  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited March 2020
    A talented artist whose release in 1969 of Ruby (Don't take your love to town) gave much greater circulation to the first pop single to address the subject of the Vietnam War.

    Wikipedia lists the original version of Ruby as being recorded by Waylon Jennings in 1966, with Johnnie Darrell's cover topping the charts in 1967.

    Hello Vietnam had already been released prior to that, in 1965, and is much more explicitly about Vietnam(*). Though Rogers' version of Ruby, due to its timing, likely became more closely associated with the backlash against the war, whereas Hello Vietnam probably didn't attain that sort of association until it was used in Full Metal Jacket in 1987.

    (*) In fact, the phrase "that old crazy Asian war" might imply that it is Korea, not Vietnam, being referenced in Ruby.

  • stetson wrote: »
    sionisais wrote: »
    Country music star Kenny Rogers has died at 81.

    So, I guess we know what condition his condition was in.
    My favourite track by Rogers, though a little ironically. The synopsis of the life of its author, Mickey Newbury is fairly interesting.

  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    lilbuddha wrote: »
    stetson wrote: »
    sionisais wrote: »
    Country music star Kenny Rogers has died at 81.

    So, I guess we know what condition his condition was in.
    My favourite track by Rogers, though a little ironically. The synopsis of the life of its author, Mickey Newbury is fairly interesting.

    Yeah, I think that's my favorite of his, too. The later stuff that he's better known for, I tend to associate with that late-70s pop-country revival, which turned me off the genre for quite some time. The Gambler is definitely a singable tune, but it's really hard for me not to slate it into the general milieu of B.J. And The Bear.

    Thanks for the heads-up on Newbury. I might try to give some of his stuff a listen.

  • Wesley JWesley J Shipmate
    Albert Uderzo, surviving member of the 'Asterix' comics creator duo, Goscinny and Uderzo, has died aged 92.
  • lilbuddhalilbuddha Shipmate
    edited March 2020
    Covid claims one of the greats of African music, Manu Dibango.
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Ditto an award-winning playwright, Terrence McNally.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Julie Felix folk style singer from the 1960s has just died. I think she performed at Glastonbury relatively recently.
  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    lilbuddha wrote: »
    Covid claims one of the greats of African music, Manu Dibango.

    I posted about this yesterday on the General Goodbyes and RIPS thread. Manu Dibango's music is playing on all the local radio stations, brilliant saxophone work.
  • balaambalaam Shipmate
    Not often an obituary notice comes from Kerrang!

    Bill Rieflin, drummer for, among others, R.E.M. and King Crimson has performed his last paradiddle today aged 59. A great musician.
  • He can’t do it any longer, William-Dufris dies at 62
  • Another musical great taken by the corona virus. Ellis Marsalis plays no more, but his influence will live on.
  • Just found that Eddie Large is no more :cry: Have to admit I hadn't realised he was still alive!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I just heard about him on the news - he'd apparently been ill, but it was complicated by coronavirus.

    RIP.
  • RIP Eddie. Their style of humour feels very dated now, but they were very good, very funny. They were still doing some of the celebrity circuit in the last few years (Pointless for example).
  • Tony Lewis of Duckworth Lewis fame (or infamy) has died at 78.
  • Bill Withers https://bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52155227 has died.

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  • balaambalaam Shipmate
    It's a lovely day --- NOT.
  • Ain’t no sunshine. Bad time for black music.
  • CrœsosCrœsos Shipmate
    Adam Schlesinger, who was fond of Stacy's Mom and wrote one of the biggest non-existant rock hits of the early 60s, has died of COVID-19 at age 52.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    That's way too young. How could he have written a hit of the early 60s if he was only 52?
  • CrœsosCrœsos Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    That's way too young. How could he have written a hit of the early 60s if he was only 52?

    The key word there was "non-existent".
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I had a vague feeling it might be, but the more I thought about it, the more my brain hurt ... :blush:
  • Lord Bath of Longleat has died of COVID19.

    And the third UK nurse, and five London bus workers
  • Lord Bath of Longleat has died of COVID19.

    That is a sad loss - he was a true crazy aristocrat. His son and wife are much better estate managers, but less fun (although Mrs Bath was on Strictly).

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