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

DaveSchmidt said:

joanne said:
It seems like almost every few hours, there’s another door closing on a chapter of our lives...
The Beatles’ recording engineer Geoff Emerick has just died following a heart attack, aged 72. 
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/03/beatles-recording-engineer-geoff-emerick-dies-age-72

 Engineered “Odessey and Oracle” and “Bridge of Sighs,” and produced “Imperial Bedroom.” What was that other band, again?

He was the house engineer during Cheap Trick's Sargent Pepper's residency in Las Vegas. Got his autograph. Very approachable. 

cuethesun said:

He was the house engineer during Cheap Trick's Sargent Pepper's residency in Las Vegas. Got his autograph. Very approachable. 

 Unless you were George or Ringo, apparently.

Cool anecdote.

Leon Lederman

https://physicsworld.com/a/nobel-laureate-leon-lederman-dies-aged-96/

May his memory be for a blessing.

Our world would seem so different without all these wonderful and talented people who have all influenced our culture and our lives in so many, often subtle ways. 

Sigh.

Another fabulous voice silenced. Montserrat Caballé has gone, perhaps to sing with the angels and with Freddie.... 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45769808 

Hamiet Bluiet. Baritone sax master. 78

oh no! Another great talent.  

Raye Jordan Montague, one of the now famous “Hidden Figures” women. She was the first person to design a naval ship using computers.

Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, has died, after his cancer returned earlier this year. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-16/microsoft-co-founder-paul-allen-dies-aged-65/10381174

This will mean nothing to anyone here, but I grew up watching this show and I just found out we lost one of its main presenters at the beginning of the month. 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/oct/01/rainbow-host-geoffrey-hayes-dies-aged-76

We remember Z Cars, and the last season of The Last Leg featured several running jokes about Zippy so I'd looked up the reference...

A sad day indeed, Ridski. 

(I also remember Sooty, with great affection)

Thanks, ridski. The best parts of this thread are the departeds who meant something specific to someone.

Dorcas Reilly,92,creator of the green bean casserole. A New Jersey native who worked in the Campbell Soup kitchens.

Longtime character actor James Karen died at age 94. He appeared in numerous movies and TV shows including "Poltergeist" and "Cheers." However, for people my age who grew up in the New York area, it's hard not to immediately think "The Pathmark guy" when we see him.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-karen-dead-poltergeist-china-syndrome-actor-was-94-722368

I remember seeing Poltergeist the first time and saying “Hey! It’s the Pathmark guy!”.

Ntozake Shange, age 70. 

And Richard Gill

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/28/richard-gill-world-renowned-conductor-and-music-educator-dies-age-76

I was browsing the US online edition of the Guardian when I saw this. For marksierra and I, we've almost never known a time without Richard Gill influencing both Australian classical music performance and teaching. 

In the early comments there's a wonderful quote from Richard on how he'd reform school curricula to reinforce literacy, numeracy, coding, languages all through the teaching of music, time for playing of music and singing, and allowing time for 'mere' play. Worth looking up. 

https://www.abc.net.au/classic/features/richard-gill-dead-at-76-obituary/10183180

The jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove, at just 49.

https://nyti.ms/2CZkrs2?smid=nytcore-ios-share

A favorite:

Another, with Christian McBride, Joshua Redman, Cyrus Chestnut, et al.:

Wow. So young.

A bad week for jazz greats: Sonny Fortune, dead at 79.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/obituaries/sonny-fortune-dead.html

I heard this on the radio in bed one night in Philadelphia, his home town. The first thing I did the next day was buy the CD.

Hugh McDowell. Cellist extraordinaire of the Electric Light Orchestra. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_McDowell?fbclid=IwAR1-fXVtK3atbnSq_HcywxV8oRE0jrYdxEqf-_bNwKz3wgOiCQQ_rqFF8Hs

In the striped orange shirt to Roy Wood’s right:

I just read on the BBC news site that Francis Lai, who wrote the score for Love Story, has died in Nice. 

This Lai composition takes me back, too:

Ah dear. The lovely resonant voice of HAL has gone. Farewell, Douglas Rainn.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46178930

RIP Stan Lee....

Yep, RIP Stan the Man. I wasn't big reader of superhero comics, but I appreciated what Stan Lee stood for.

Stan was a local boy. This is from my HS' 1966 yearbook...

-s.

Wow, that's sad.  He was really talented, had a great career and I enjoyed him on the the Big Bang Theory too.