Celebrity death thread

[bl5150]

Sorry to hear about Lance Reddick .  I'm not much of a TV watcher but did follow Fringe and Bosch and he was a key to both series - amazing screen presence as others have noted. 

[wolfking]

Sorry to hear about Lance Reddick .  I'm not much of a TV watcher but did follow Fringe and Bosch and he was a key to both series - amazing screen presence as others have noted. 

Jeez, I never heard of him or these two tv shows!  60 though is so young.

[ReaPsTA]

RIP Lance Reddick

[ErHaO]

Man, loved him in the Wire and several videogames (namely Horizon). RIP.

[SoundscapeMN]

Willis Reed, 80.

Knicks Captain.

[hefdaddy42]

Willis Reed, 80.

Knicks Captain.

RIP for sure, but honestly, I thought he had died several years ago.

[Stadler]

Willis Reed, 80.

Knicks Captain.

RIP for sure, but honestly, I thought he had died several years ago.

I'm reading the Steve Lukather autobiography and he talked about his good friend Miguel Ferrar passing from cancer, and I was like... he's gone? Wha?  When?

[Cool Chris]

I'm reading the Steve Lukather autobiography and he talked about his good friend Miguel Ferrar passing from cancer, and I was like... he's gone? Wha?  When?

If I recall correctly, he was sick when they worked on the 3rd season of Twin Peaks a few years ago, but he toughed it out to let us all enjoy the wit and wisdom of Albert Rosenfeld one final time, and he died shortly after filming.

[TAC]

Not really familiar with the band..

https://bravewords.com/news/saliva-guitarist-wayne-swinny-dies-of-brain-hemorrhage-while-on-tour

59 y/o. WTF??

[Adami]

Oh snap. I read about the hemorrhage but he was still alive last I checked. Damn.

[Zydar]

Keith Reid, the lyricist for Procol Harum, has passed away. He wrote almost all their lyrics.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/30/keith-reid-lyricist-for-procol-harum-dies-aged-76

[SoundscapeMN]

Ray Shulman of Gentle Giant 
https://www.facebook.com/gentlegiantband/posts/pfbid02XP1hfYTCgERrLAn2kKzWSobqqSuJRZGBLmqbdZyRem2XCbFzD5ad9utv2dofJJNcl

[SoundscapeMN]

Seymour Stein, Record Label Executive and founder of Sire Records, 80.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/seymour-stein-record-exec-signed-madonna-dead-80-rcna77854

[SoundscapeMN]

Harry Belafonte, 96

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/25/harry-belafonte-singer-dies-actor-singer-activist?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[hefdaddy42]

Belafonte did a lot of civil rights work.  Honestly, I never cared very much for him as an actor.

Also honestly, I thought he was already dead.

[lonestar]

Belafonte did a lot of civil rights work.  Honestly, I never cared very much for him as an actor.

Also honestly, I thought he was already dead.

I was listening to a bit about him on the radio yesterday, and his classmates in an acting workshop in his early career were Tony Curtis, Walter Matheau, Bea Arthur, Sidney Portier, and Marlon Brando. Jfc man....

[Zydar]

Jerry Springer has died.

https://www.tmz.com/2023/04/27/jerry-springer-dead-dies/

[lonestar]

Wow... Didn't see that one coming.

[Stadler]

79; my brother met him a couple times (he lived in Sarasota), said he was the nicest, humblest guy on the planet. 

[lonestar]

79; my brother met him a couple times (he lived in Sarasota), said he was the nicest, humblest guy on the planet.

Doesn't surprise me a bit... I always felt the real Jerry was less of the shit show guests he had, and more of his final thought segment

[SoundscapeMN]

not really a highly known celebrity, but someone who was known among the Prog Rock and Chapman Stick, and Dave Mathews Band fans communities,

Greg Howard, 59

https://snbc13.com/greg-howard-charlottesville-va-well-known-stick-musician-died-from-pancreatic-cancer-death-obituary/

this is really sad. I saw him at Nearfest in 2001, then opening for Tim Reynolds later that year in Minneapolis, and then opening for Porcupine Tree a year in Milwaukee.

I remember him kindly giving me a copy of his "Water on the Moon" CD for my radio show on KFAI.

Fantastic Chapman Stick player, and only 59?..way too young.

[KevShmev]

The local legend Mike Shannon, the longtime announcer for the St Louis Cardinals, has passed.

Back when I cared about baseball, he had more memorable calls than I can count.

R.I.P.

[gmillerdrake]

The local legend Mike Shannon, the longtime announcer for the St Louis Cardinals, has passed.

Back when I cared about baseball, he had more memorable calls than I can count.

R.I.P.

Saw that. He was an iconic figure in St. Louis baseball for sure.

[SoundscapeMN]

Gordon Lightfoot, 84 Canadian Singer/Songwriter

https://apnews.com/article/gordon-lightfoot-folk-music-diedc-4c5f0763797da6a5f3ea8c90947352fc

[jingle.boy]

That's a legendary loss right there.  He was basically the Canadian Bob Dylan.

[Stadler]

Big loss; "Sundown" is a legendary tune, and "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was a song that my stepson and I were able to bond over (he's on the spectrum and went through a ship/shipwreck phase).   

[romdrums]

That's a legendary loss right there.  He was basically the Canadian Bob Dylan.

Having lived all but a few years of my life in the Great Lakes Region of the US, he got a ton of airplay around here as well.  The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of those "I remember doing X when I heard the news" moments in our regional history.  Besides the song, I remember seeing a play about it at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in high school, and I think there's also a classical piece about it as well.  Great Lakes Brewing Co. makes an Edmund Fitzgerald Porter.  My Dad was obsessed with the story.  I think, if he had been independently wealthy, he would have funded some of the expeditions to go down to the wreckage! 

[TAC]

Big loss; "Sundown" is a legendary tune, and "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was a song that my stepson and I were able to bond over (he's on the spectrum and went through a ship/shipwreck phase).

Interesting. My son had a Titanic fetish. Still kind of does.

[Stadler]

Big loss; "Sundown" is a legendary tune, and "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was a song that my stepson and I were able to bond over (he's on the spectrum and went through a ship/shipwreck phase).

Interesting. My son had a Titanic fetish. Still kind of does.

Same here!  He and I went down to NYC to see a Titanic exhibit in November of last year.  It was pretty cool.

Funny story: Titanic is my daughter's favorite movie, so one day a couple years ago (he had to be about 8 or so) my stepson says to her "Hey, do you want to watch Titanic with me?" and she was all fired up to have something in common to share.  She gets some popcorn, puts the movie on... and my stepson proceeds to fast forward through every scene with Leo and Kate.  All he wanted to see were the scenes after they hit the iceberg!  They made it through the entire movie in about 45 minutes.     We laugh about it now.

[El Barto]

Big loss; "Sundown" is a legendary tune, and "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was a song that my stepson and I were able to bond over (he's on the spectrum and went through a ship/shipwreck phase).

Interesting. My son had a Titanic fetish. Still kind of does.

Same here!  He and I went down to NYC to see a Titanic exhibit in November of last year.  It was pretty cool.

Funny story: Titanic is my daughter's favorite movie, so one day a couple years ago (he had to be about 8 or so) my stepson says to her "Hey, do you want to watch Titanic with me?" and she was all fired up to have something in common to share.  She gets some popcorn, puts the movie on... and my stepson proceeds to fast forward through every scene with Leo and Kate.  All he wanted to see were the scenes after they hit the iceberg!  They made it through the entire movie in about 45 minutes.     We laugh about it now.

There's actually a fan-edit that does that. I think it's called "The Historical Edition." Knocks it down to about an hour-ten.

[Chino]

Big loss; "Sundown" is a legendary tune, and "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was a song that my stepson and I were able to bond over (he's on the spectrum and went through a ship/shipwreck phase).

Interesting. My son had a Titanic fetish. Still kind of does.

Same here!  He and I went down to NYC to see a Titanic exhibit in November of last year.  It was pretty cool.

Funny story: Titanic is my daughter's favorite movie, so one day a couple years ago (he had to be about 8 or so) my stepson says to her "Hey, do you want to watch Titanic with me?" and she was all fired up to have something in common to share.  She gets some popcorn, puts the movie on... and my stepson proceeds to fast forward through every scene with Leo and Kate.  All he wanted to see were the scenes after they hit the iceberg!  They made it through the entire movie in about 45 minutes.     We laugh about it now.

There's actually a fan-edit that does that. I think it's called "The Historical Edition." Knocks it down to about an hour-ten.

I definitely have a Titanic fetish  I first took a liking to it when I was about 6, and when the movie came out when I was in 3rd grade, I was hooked. I even wrote a poem about it in 5th grade that got published in some national poems book.

That NYC exhibit was pretty cool, but I'd argue it was more of a White Star Line/Olympic Class exhibit more than a Titanic one. I love all of that stuff though, so I didn't care, but I know a handful of people that reviewed it poorly because they felt like it was misrepresented. They were expecting tons of artifacts that were lifted from the wreck itself, not just a few items pulled off bodies that were found or heirlooms that were donated by the decedents of survivors. There's actually a huge exhibit out in Vegas (at the Luxor I believe) that features all of that stuff. I wish I had known that was out there the five times I went between 2016 and 2020.


To the movie:

I used to dislike the love story aspect to Cameron's film, but I've come to really appreciate it as I've grown older. Not only have I come to like it, but I think it was necessary to give us an un-forced tour of the ship in under 3 hours while also acting as perfect mechanism to properly highlight the class differences of the time, both on the ship itself and in general culture.   

There's a movie from the 1950 called A Night To Remember that's really phenomenal. It's a Titanic movie that was every bit as big of a production at the time as Cameron's version was. Cameron actually incorporated a number of intentional calls/nods to that film, some shots being almost 1:1 colorized recreations. Fun fact, the guy who played Archibald Gracie in Cameron's Titanic also played Frederick Fleet (guy who spotted the iceberg) in the ANTR. I always thought that was pretty cool.

[HOF]

A celebrity so minor I didn't even know his name before today, but I think many of us have heard his work and I'm a little surprised I wasn't more familiar with him until now.

John Giblin played bass for Simple Minds but also played on In The Air Tonight and other tracks by Phil Collins, as well as several other songs by Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Sting, Fish, Mark Knopfler, etc. He apparently played on the song "Chalk Lines" for Randy McStine's Lo-Fi Fidelity project, which is an awesome song (I only have that on download so wasn't familiar with the personnel). Anyway, can't even find a news article about it, just mentions by people in the circles he played on. Kind of sad when someone who contributed to so much music passes in obscurity.

https://www.genesis-news.com/news-John-Giblin-has-died-n875.html

https://www.katebushnews.com/2023/05/16/remembering-bassist-john-giblin/

[Zydar]

Andy Rourke, bassist for The Smiths, has died.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/19/andy-rourke-bassist-for-the-smiths-dies-aged-59

[SoundscapeMN]

Jim Brown

NFL Legend, Actor and Social Activist.

Arguably the greatest and most dominant Running Back in the History of American Football.

[pg1067]

Had no idea he was still alive.