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

Also, have just read that Walter Cunningham has died. The last remaining crewman of Apollo 7.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/03/walter-cunningham-apollo-7-nasa

Book clubs the world over will be devastated to hear that novelist Fay Weldon has died, aged 91 years. 
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64160732

Test cricketer Norma Johnston has died, aged 95 years

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-09/australian-cricket-norma-johnston-dies-aged-95/101838650
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Whiteman 

There are some cricket followers in the USA, apart from Ridski and Jonesy. Norma was a great mentor to young players and she will be greatly missed. 

Jim Fosgate, inventor of the car amplifier, died last month. He was also involved in the invention of surround sound for TVs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fosgate

joanne said:

Test cricketer Norma Johnston has died, aged 95 years

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-09/australian-cricket-norma-johnston-dies-aged-95/101838650
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Whiteman 

There are some cricket followers in the USA, apart from Ridski and Jonesy. Norma was a great mentor to young players and she will be greatly missed. 

Ooh, count me out on cricket. I still don't understand the scoring rules and I played all through school. 

My favorite of the guitar gods.

DaveSchmidt said:

I now (1/11/23 7:38 P) see the NYT obit. I wonder if chronic CSF rhinorrhea from the (very remote) 1969 skull Fx explains it.

Jeff Beck died.

The least conventionally successful of the big Brit guitar gods but the best, most interesting and most creatively restless of them.   Sorry but Clapton doesn't stand up to him.  Clapton is/was IMO largely a technically masterful bore as well as a major league a-hole.

Lisa Marie Presley, after 54 years in spotlights and shadows.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lisa-marie-presley-singer-songwriter-dead-obituary-1234660333/

DaveSchmidt said:

Lisa Marie Presley, after 54 years in spotlights and shadows.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lisa-marie-presley-singer-songwriter-dead-obituary-1234660333/

She attended the Golden Globes on Tuesday.

Robbie Knievel, stuntman and son of Evil Knievel.

Age 60

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/evel-knievels-son-daredevil-robbie-181033336.html

Aged 95, Gina Lollobrigida - Italian actress, accomplished photojournalist and sex symbol in the 1950s and 60s - has died in a clinic in Rome.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64292026

Photograph: Girolamo di Majo/AP

marksierra said:

Aged 95, Gina Lollobrigida - Italian actress, accomplished photojournalist and sex symbol in the 1950s and 60s - has died in a clinic in Rome.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64292026

Photograph: Girolamo di Majo/AP

Nice camera.  Canon 7 with the 50mm f1.2 lens.  

JEFF BECK, 6/24/1944 - 1/10/23 -- One of the rare Rock stars to nearly reach his '80s, Many, but not all, considered Beck the greatest guitarist ever.  He was inducted into the R&R HOF twice, once with the Yardbirds, and again as a solo artist. He won eight Grammy awards; In 2015, he was dubbed #5 in Rolling Stone's rankings of the great guitarists. Always quiet, he'd kept particularly mum about the musical work he'd been doing with his friend Johnny Depp over the last few years. Mostly cover song -- not sure this album was ever released.  Another great one .... checks out.

Earlier this week, Renée Geyer (69 years) and now - David Crosby ((81 years)!

I didn't pay much attention to Crosby's early solo stuff. Was generally aware of his bad boy reputation and substance abuse.  But he has some very recent solo stuff, in collaboration with others, that really appealed to me.    

I’ve got to stop paying attention to news: just found out David Sutherland, Dennis the Menace cartoonist, has died (89 years)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/19/david-sutherland-beano-cartoonist-dies-aged-89

It’s too much. Too much lost talent all at once. I can’t process it all.

A song that made me laugh out loud the first time I heard it on the radio in the mid-’70s.

DaveSchmidt said:

A song that made me laugh out loud the first time I heard it on the radio in the mid-’70s.

An affecting song, one way or another.  I remember almost weeping when i first heard it (must have been 1970), had been thinking at the time about cutting my hair

Belatedly, saw this:

DaveSchmidt said:

Belatedly, saw this:

stay on and watch the second video with Beck. Great.

That time James lost his virginity. I don’t recall watching the episode, just the hoopla.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/obituaries-people-news/lance-kerwin-james-at-15-1235502420/

The novel scared the s out of me and for a 1970s TV production starring of all people, David Soul, the movie was surprisingly scary and effective too.  I'm not familiar with this guy's other work including the kid TV show.  

DaveSchmidt said:

That time James lost his virginity. I don’t recall watching the episode, just the hoopla.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/obituaries-people-news/lance-kerwin-james-at-15-1235502420/

Well, damn. I just learned yet another Beastie Boys reference I didn't know.

bub said:

The novel scared the s out of me and for a 1970s TV production starring of all people, David Soul, the movie was surprisingly scary and effective too.

I had never read any Stephen King and didn’t feel a need to, so a co-worker in the late ’80s, a big fan, lent me her copy of Salem’s Lot. Once I picked it up I literally couldn’t put it down. Finished it on the couch around dawn.

The movie messed me up for a while. My sister put it on TV when I was under 10. For a long time I was afraid to look out the window when I was laying in bed and heard something. 

Stephen King is special kind of crazy. My first book was Cujo… made me scared of saint Bernard’s for years after.

I always thought this guy found salvation in a pen and paper… thank goodness.

Probably Public Enemy No. 2 among my fellow Chapel Hill basketball fans during the mid-1980s. Go figure.

https://apnews.com/article/emmy-awards-entertainment-sports-television-magic-johnson-537ff2cc8e99eeece7c14e11dff9c170

(That URL, too: Go figure.)

DaveSchmidt said:

Probably Public Enemy No. 2 among my fellow Chapel Hill basketball fans during the mid-1980s. Go figure.

https://apnews.com/article/emmy-awards-entertainment-sports-television-magic-johnson-537ff2cc8e99eeece7c14e11dff9c170

(That URL, too: Go figure.)

I'm not sure there was any traditional ACC fan base that didn't feel Billy Packer went out of his way to rip their school more than everyone else's, including Wake's, which felt he bent over backwards to show he wasn't favoring his alma mater. 

Cindy Williams, age 75.
Best known as Shirley on "Laverne & Shirley."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/laverne-shirley-actor-cindy-williams-233048244.html