First of the year.
Fred E. White (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_White_(musician)) (born Frederick Eugene Adams; January 13, 1955 – January 1, 2023) was an American musician. He was one of the early members of Earth, Wind & Fire. He previously played drums on Donny Hathaway's Live album.
Adam Rich has long been out of the public eye, but if you were a child in the late 1970's in America you certainly know who he is. He was a child actor who played Nicholas on the TV drama "Eight Is Enough" at a time when there weren't many children on prime time American television. He was also the voice of Presto, the Magician on the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon series. He passed away yesterday at the age of 54.
He was a year younger than me.
Geoffrey Arnold Beck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Beck) (24 June 1944 – 10 January 2023) was an English guitarist. He rose to prominence as a member of the rock band The Yardbirds, and afterwards founded and fronted The Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice. In 1975, he switched to an instrumental style with focus on an innovative sound, and his releases spanned genres and styles ranging from blues rock, hard rock, jazz fusion and a blend of guitar-rock and electronica.
Beck was ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone and other magazines' lists rankings of the greatest guitarists. He was often called a "guitarist's guitarist". Rolling Stone described him as "one of the most influential lead guitarists in rock".
Lisa Marie Presley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Marie_Presley) (February 1, 1968 – January 12, 2023) was an American singer and songwriter. She was the only child of singer and actor Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, as well as the sole heir to her father's estate after her grandfather and her great-grandmother died. Presley developed a career in the music business and issued three albums: To Whom It May Concern in 2003, Now What in 2005, and Storm & Grace in 2012. Her first album reached Gold certification with the Recording Industry Association of America. Presley also released non-album singles, including duets with her father using tracks he had released before he died.
Robin Peter Kendall Bachman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Bachman) (February 18, 1953 – January 10, 2023) was a Canadian drummer and the youngest brother of guitarist, singer and songwriter Randy Bachman. He was the original drummer for both the Brave Belt and Bachman–Turner Overdrive bands. He also was sometimes credited as "Robin" or "Rob" on the liner notes of Brave Belt and BTO albums.
And again the Legends go away.
Inna Mikhailovna Churikova (October 5, 1943 - January 14, 2023).
Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema; People's Artist of the USSR (1991), laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997), the State Prize of the RSFSR named after the Vasiliev Brothers (1986) and the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1976). Full Knight of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.
The ugly girl became a great actress.
The phrase that Churikova invariably repeated in all interviews sounded like this: "If you want to be happy, love."
Kikabidze Vakhtang Konstantinovich (July 19, 1938 — January 15, 2023)
A talented Soviet actor.
Les Barker, the author of comedy songs and poems many of us have loved, E G. Guide Cats For The Blind, I Can't find my Camouflage Net, I Demand To Go On An Assertiveness Course. is dead.
David Van Cortlandt Crosby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crosby) (August 14, 1941 – January 19, 2023) was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of the Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/david-crosby-obit-1.6719892 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/david-crosby-obit-1.6719892)
Lloyd N. Morrisett Jr. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Morrisett) (November 2, 1929 – January 22, 2023) was an American experimental psychologist with a career in education, communications, and philanthropy. He was one of the founders of the Children's Television Workshop (now known as Sesame Workshop), the organization that created the children's television show Sesame Street, which Morrisett created with writer/producer Joan Ganz Cooney and puppeteer Jim Henson.
This won't mean much to most people, but to anyone from Southern Ontario it's significant.
"Hurricane" Hazel McCallion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_McCallion), CM, OOnt (née Journeaux; February 14, 1921 – January 29, 2023) was a Canadian businesswoman and politician who served as the fifth mayor of Mississauga, Ontario, from 1978 until 2014.
McCallion was first elected in November 1978, and is the longest-serving mayor in the city's history, having served for 36 years at the time of her retirement in 2014. She was a successful candidate in twelve municipal elections, having been acclaimed twice and re-elected ten other times. Her supporters gave her the nickname "Hurricane Hazel" because of her outspoken political style with reference to the Hurricane of 1954, which had a considerable impact.
Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Adams of the small screen, has passed away from a stroke at the age of 64.
Quote from: RJBowman on January 30, 2023, 10:02:14 PM
Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Adams of the small screen, has passed away from a stroke at the age of 64.
Died young by today's standards
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O_hMkUqyEpc
Cindy Williams, Shirley of "Laverne and Shirley", has passed away at 75.
Quote from: RJBowman on January 31, 2023, 05:55:23 PM
Cindy Williams, Shirley of "Laverne and Shirley", has passed away at 75.
It's very sad to see every celebrity I knew in the 70s and 80s pass away. Unfortunately her passing may not resonate much with our BG members outside of the USA. Myself, only one country away, really didn't know Laverne & Shirley outside of our hotel room when we came to visit family in Texas every year, same for popular US shows like "Happy Days" and "The Brady Bunch," whereas series like Star Trek, The Adams Family, The Munsters and such, traveled as reruns around the World.
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Quote from: RJBowman on January 31, 2023, 05:55:23 PM
Cindy Williams, Shirley of "Laverne and Shirley", has passed away at 75.
It's very sad to see every celebrity I knew in the 70s and 80s pass away. Unfortunately her passing may not resonate much with our BG members outside of the USA. Myself, only one country away, really didn't know Laverne & Shirley outside of our hotel room when we came to visit family in Texas every year, same for popular US shows like "Happy Days" and "The Brady Bunch," whereas series like Star Trek, The Adams Family, The Munsters and such, traveled as reruns around the World.
Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days and the Brady Bunch all played down here in Australia. Also Star Trek, The Adams Family and the Munsters. The Adams Family was far more popular in Australia than it did in the US when it first came out - as was MASH.
Burt Freeman Bacharach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Bacharach) (May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. As of 2014, he had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. He was one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music.
David Jude Jolicoeur, aka Trugoy the Dove, Plug 2 and Dave, (September 21, 1968 – February 12, 2023) was one of the three members of De La Soul, the hugely influential hip hop act, famous for their extensive use of samples, positive lyrics and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres. Their music in the 90's was a huge contrast to the growing popularity of gangsta rap, but legal problems with the licensing of their use of samples meant that they couldn't stream their music, so haven't been part of the growth of digital music. That was finally sorted out and as of 1 March all their music will be available online.
Sadly Trugoy won't be able to enjoy the upsurge in the group's popularity that will bring, but in his last broadcast he sounded very happy to have finally sorted out the problems after all these years.
A man who took old things, reimagined and repurposed them, and produced wonderful, new, positive creations.
Jo Raquel Welch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raquel_Welch) (née Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she won a contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although Welch had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became bestselling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), and Hannie Caulder (1971).
Quote from: von Corax on February 16, 2023, 04:08:18 AM
Jo Raquel Welch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raquel_Welch) (née Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she won a contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although Welch had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became bestselling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), and Hannie Caulder (1971).
one I would truely say is a 1960's Iconic image.
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/02/15/21/67732467-11755689-image-m-2_1676497522445.jpg)
Quote from: von Corax on February 16, 2023, 04:08:18 AM
Jo Raquel Welch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raquel_Welch) (née Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she won a contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although Welch had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became bestselling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), and Hannie Caulder (1971).
'Being a huge fan of the 'Spaghetti' western genre I have to say 'Hannie Caulder' is my favourite of those being the closest that a British film company (Tigon) came to producing something in that style. And Raquel Welch's death was coincidentally announced on the very same day I had taken delivery of the remastered Blu-ray of that film.
Gordon Edward Pinsent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Pinsent) CC FRSC (July 12, 1930 - February 25, 2023) was a Canadian actor, writer, director, and singer. He was known for his roles in numerous productions, including Away from Her, The Rowdyman, John and the Missus, A Gift to Last, Due South, The Red Green Show and Quentin Durgens, M.P. He was the voice of Babar the Elephant in television and film from 1989 to 2015.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon aka Ricou Browning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricou_Browning) (February 16, 1930 – February 27, 2023) was an American film director, actor, producer, screenwriter, underwater cinematographer, and stuntman. He is best known for his underwater stunt work, especially in the 1954 film Creature from the Black Lagoon, in which he portrayed the titular Gill-man during the film's underwater scenes (actor Ben Chapman played the Creature on land). Browning reprised the role for the underwater scenes in the film's sequels Revenge of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956). Browning also co-created Flipper with Jack Cowden, and directed a number of episodes of the 1960s television series.
Quote from: von Corax on February 26, 2023, 04:25:56 AM
Gordon Edward Pinsent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Pinsent) CC FRSC (July 12, 1930 - February 25, 2023) was a Canadian actor, writer, director, and singer. He was known for his roles in numerous productions, including Away from Her, The Rowdyman, John and the Missus, A Gift to Last, Due South, The Red Green Show and Quentin Durgens, M.P. He was the voice of Babar the Elephant in television and film from 1989 to 2015.
I have just finished (re)watching Season 1 of Due South and had been looking him up. He did a good job as the hero's ghostly father.
Sorontar
The news emerged yesterday (https://hackaday.com/2023/03/25/gordon-moore-1929-2023/) that Gordon Moore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore) (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023), semiconductor pioneer, one of the founders of both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, and the originator of the famous Moore's Law, has died. His continuing influence over all aspects of the technology which makes our hardware world can not be underestimated, and his legacy will remain with us for many decades to come.
RIP Xavier López-Rodríguez aka "Chabelo" (1935_2023), a US born Mexican American comedian, television presenter, game show host and children's music singer who had been working on television for over sixty years. He was famous for being able to make a very high pitched falsetto voice and impersonating a child character named "Chabelo."
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsFuv41WwAI7XtM?format=jpg&name=large)
Harry Belafonte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte) (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, activist, and actor. As arguably the most successful Caribbean-American pop star, he popularized Jamaican mento folk songs which was marketed as Trinbagonian Calypso musical style with an international audience in the 1950s.
Harry Belafonte, legendary performer and activist, dead at 96 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-harry-belafonte-1.6821464)
Quote from: von Corax on April 25, 2023, 02:45:05 PM
Harry Belafonte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte) (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, activist, and actor. As arguably the most successful Caribbean-American pop star, he popularized Jamaican mento folk songs which was marketed as Trinbagonian Calypso musical style with an international audience in the 1950s.
Harry Belafonte, legendary performer and activist, dead at 96 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-harry-belafonte-1.6821464)
One thing about his songs that I loved was that the lyrics tended to have strong social messages that were hidden in the joy of them. His most famous song (at least over here), Day-O The Banana Boat Song is about working all night at the plantation, trying to avoid the poisonous spiders and then having to wait for the foreman to count up what has been picked as the workers are paid per bunch.
(I made the mistake of looking at the lyrics of Shaggy's cover of the song. It's all about partying all night... :-X )
Quote from: Sir Henry on April 27, 2023, 06:43:40 PM
Quote from: von Corax on April 25, 2023, 02:45:05 PM
Harry Belafonte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte) (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, activist, and actor. As arguably the most successful Caribbean-American pop star, he popularized Jamaican mento folk songs which was marketed as Trinbagonian Calypso musical style with an international audience in the 1950s.
Harry Belafonte, legendary performer and activist, dead at 96 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-harry-belafonte-1.6821464)
One thing about his songs that I loved was that the lyrics tended to have strong social messages that were hidden in the joy of them. His most famous song (at least over here), Day-O The Banana Boat Song is about working all night at the plantation, trying to avoid the poisonous spiders and then having to wait for the foreman to count up what has been picked as the workers are paid per bunch.
(I made the mistake of looking at the lyrics of Shaggy's cover of the song. It's all about partying all night... :-X )
By his own description he wasn't a performer who became an activist, he was an activist who became a performer.
Quote from: von Corax on April 28, 2023, 03:51:46 AM
Quote from: Sir Henry on April 27, 2023, 06:43:40 PM
Quote from: von Corax on April 25, 2023, 02:45:05 PM
Harry Belafonte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte) (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, activist, and actor. As arguably the most successful Caribbean-American pop star, he popularized Jamaican mento folk songs which was marketed as Trinbagonian Calypso musical style with an international audience in the 1950s.
Harry Belafonte, legendary performer and activist, dead at 96 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-harry-belafonte-1.6821464)
One thing about his songs that I loved was that the lyrics tended to have strong social messages that were hidden in the joy of them. His most famous song (at least over here), Day-O The Banana Boat Song is about working all night at the plantation, trying to avoid the poisonous spiders and then having to wait for the foreman to count up what has been picked as the workers are paid per bunch.
(I made the mistake of looking at the lyrics of Shaggy's cover of the song. It's all about partying all night... :-X )
By his own description he wasn't a performer who became an activist, he was an activist who became a performer.
I think you will find he was working all night loading bananas on a boat - can't work at night on the plantation as you would have to be able to see what you were doing.
Quote from: Synistor 303 on April 28, 2023, 04:36:09 AM
I think you will find he was working all night loading bananas on a boat - can't work at night on the plantation as you would have to be able to see what you were doing.
Fair enough. Still, he was hefting 6/7/8 foot bunches of bananas all night rather than partying like Shaggy.
Quote from: Sir Henry on April 28, 2023, 07:48:13 AM
Quote from: Synistor 303 on April 28, 2023, 04:36:09 AM
I think you will find he was working all night loading bananas on a boat - can't work at night on the plantation as you would have to be able to see what you were doing.
Fair enough. Still, he was hefting 6/7/8 foot bunches of bananas all night rather than partying like Shaggy.
Yep, and no doubt the work was far worse than working in daylight hours, where at least you can see the tarantulas...
Of course down here our banana growers/harvesters have to contend with angry brown snakes as well as spiders. They also have other work/life options if they really don't want to continue that work.
Traditionally, a Queenslanders first job was always in the banana-bending factory.
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot) CC OOnt (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and was known internationally as a folk-rock legend. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness."
Canadian folk music icon Gordon Lightfoot dead at 84 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/gordon-lightfoot-dead-1.6828991)
Tina Turner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Turner) (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was an American-born and naturalized Swiss singer, dancer, actress, and author. Widely referred to as the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue before launching a successful career as a solo performer.
CBC: Tina Turner, powerhouse singer dubbed the queen of rock 'n' roll, dead at 83 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tina-turner-obit-1.6853363)
If you are of an age to remember the popularity of bossa nova in the 1960s, you will know the song "The Girl from Ipanema." The singer who made that song famous, Astrud Gilberto (29 March 1940 – 5 June 2023) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrud_Gilberto), passed away on Monday.
Quote from: von Corax on June 07, 2023, 02:05:44 PM
If you are of an age to remember the popularity of bossa nova in the 1960s, you will know the song "The Girl from Ipanema." The singer who made that song famous, Astrud Gilberto (29 March 1940 – 5 June 2023) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrud_Gilberto), passed away on Monday.
You beat me to it. It's sad, but most people today will say "Bossa-what?"
Astrud, together with João Gilberto, Luis Bonfa, all from Brazil, and American saxophonist Stan Getz, were at the epicenter of the birth of a new Jazz Genre called Bossa Nova, which is a blend of Brazilian "Samba" and American "Cool Jazz." The genre became popular in the US and around the world in the 1960s, but by the 70s it died out in the US and continued as a "national music" of sorts in Brazil. During the early 2000s it was reborn into a new genre called "New Bossa" or"Electronic Bossa Nova" which blended Acid Jazz with Bossa Nova and was popularized by Bebel Gilberto, the American born daughter of João Gilberto and Brazilian singer Miucha.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sVdaFQhS86E
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxd4LKSecEM
Not every cultural icon is a hero:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-found-dead-jail-cell/story?id=99984583
The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, is dead.
I don't know if this man could be a cultural icon, but he might as well be, because we all use his co-invention every day.
Dr. John Goodenough from my alma mater (and whom I knew personally, though never taught me) passed away at the age of 100. He's the co-inventor of the Lithium Ion battery together with two other scientists and they were awarded the Nobel Price of Chemistry for their work recently. Just before the pandemic, his graduate students were working on solid electrolyte batteries which promise to triple the energy storage of Lithium Ion batteries and it also prevents the formation of string like metallic "dendrites" that tend to form over time inside the liquid electrolytes of batteries and which make a old charged battery short circuit and ignite.
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/ut-professor-john-goodenough-worlds-oldest-nobel-prize-recipient-dies-aged-100/amp/ (https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/ut-professor-john-goodenough-worlds-oldest-nobel-prize-recipient-dies-aged-100/amp/)
When I saw him mentioned on the news, I thought
- Got a Nobel Prize for his scientific contributions to society
- Lasted till 100 years old
After all of that, I certainly would consider his life to have been good enough in name and nature.
Sorontar
Popular and renowned Canadian sex educator Sue Johanson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Johanson), host of the radio shows Sunday Night Sex Show and Talk Sex with Sue Johanson, has died at the age of 93.
Sue Johanson, beloved Canadian sex educator, dead at 93 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/sue-johanson-obit-1.6892524)
Sex educator Sue Johanson 'broke all the rules — and it was fabulous,' says daughter (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/sue-johanson-daughter-1.6892910)
Remembering Sue Johanson, Canada's no-nonsense sex-ed pioneer (https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2239735363962)
Alan Wolf Arkin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Arkin) (March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter. In a career spanning eight decades, he received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award. For his work on television, he received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Alan Arkin, Oscar-winning character actor known for Little Miss Sunshine and Argo, dead at 89 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/alan-arkin-obit-1.6893976)
American singer Tony Bennett has died at age 96. May he rest in piece.
Wiki:
Anthony Dominick Benedetto (August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023), known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett amassed many accolades throughout his career, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He was named an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree, and was the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York. Bennett has sold more than 50 million records worldwide.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r6DUwMnDxEs
a complicated and controversial one but in the words of captain jack sparrow, "but you have heard of me." Sinéad O'Connor has passed away at the age of 56.
Quote from: rovingjack on July 27, 2023, 08:23:20 PM
a complicated and controversial one but in the words of captain jack sparrow, "but you have heard of me." Sinéad O'Connor has passed away at the age of 56.
Loved her music. Not the least bit controversial to us. Tragic childhood.
Paul Reubens passed away today after struggle with cancer. He was the waiter in The Blues Brothers, the arcade owner in Midnight Madness, the Penguin's father in Batman Returns, and the vampire Amilyn in the original film Buffy the Vampire Slayer among numerous other movie roles, but he was best known and will forever be remembered as Pee Wee Herman.
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William David Friedkin (August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023).
American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter.
The French Connection (1971), The Exorcist (1973), Sorcerer (1977),Cruising (1980) and many others.
Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson) OC (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician, guitarist, songwriter and music producer. He is recognized for his work as lead guitarist for Bob Dylan in the mid-late 1960s and early-mid 1970s; as guitarist and songwriter with The Band (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band) from their inception until 1978, and for his career as a solo recording artist.
I was saddened to hear that Arleen Sorkin passed away today. She was the original voice of Harley Quinn. Her passing may not get much press attention but she is much beloved among the fandom.
David McCallum 19 Sept 1933 - 25 Sept 2023
Most famous for 'The Man From Uncle', but I enjoyed him most in 'Sapphire and Steel'.
Quote from: Cora Courcelle on September 26, 2023, 09:12:21 PMDavid McCallum 19 Sept 1933 - 25 Sept 2023
Most famous for 'The Man From Uncle', but I enjoyed him most in 'Sapphire and Steel'.
I loved him as Dr. Mallard "Duck" in NCIS. He will be sorely missed but at least he lived a long and fruitful life. May he rest in peace.
Richard Moll, of "Night Court "fame passed away yesterday at age 80. Honestly, I didn't know that he was still alive. The whole cast except for John Larroquete are gone.
Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (25 December 1957 – 30 November 2023) was an Irish musician who was best known as the lead singer and songwriter of Celtic punk band the Pogues.
Television producer and writer Norman Leer has died at 101. I don't know if he is known outside the United States, but his impact on popular culture here is massive.
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/norman-lear-dead-dies-tv-legend-all-in-the-family-1235823995/
Chad Allan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Allan_(musician)) (March 29, 1943 – November 21, 2023, born Allan Peter Stanley Kowbel) was a co-founder and original lead singer of Canadian rock band The Guess Who (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guess_Who).
Myles Francis Goodwyn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myles_Goodwyn) (June 23, 1948 – December 3, 2023) was a Canadian musician and the lead vocalist, guitarist, and principal songwriter of the rock band April Wine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Wine).
Ryan O'Neal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_O%27Neal) (April 20, 1941 – December 8, 2023) was an American actor who, after starting out in soap operas, found success in films including the romantic drama Love Story (1970), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama; Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972); Paper Moon (1973), which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy; Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), in which he portrayed the titular character; Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far (1977); and Walter Hill's The Driver (1978).
Quote from: von Corax on December 12, 2023, 01:51:00 AMRyan O'Neal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_O%27Neal) (April 20, 1941 – December 8, 2023) was an American actor who, after starting out in soap operas, found success in films including the romantic drama Love Story (1970), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama; Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972); Paper Moon (1973), which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy; Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), in which he portrayed the titular character; Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far (1977); and Walter Hill's The Driver (1978).
That was an actor before my time, but what I did know about him is that his personal life and his family's was as tumultuous and convoluted as the character he played in Stanley Kubric's movie "Barry Lyndon."
Ian Gibson (20 February 1946 – 11 December 2023) was a British comic book artist, best known for his 1980s black-and-white work for 2000 AD, especially as the main artist on Robo-Hunter and The Ballad of Halo Jones, as well as his long run on Judge Dredd.