DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[dh66]

Artist Elsworth Kelly has also passed. I believe he was 92.

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[1mach1]

Artist Elsworth Kelly has also passed. I believe he was 92.

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Bummer. I have seen his work several times. An interesting man, too.

 

[Zombie_61]

Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, frontman of Motorhead, died of cancer today, aged 70.

According to a couple of online sites I read, he was informed on Saturday that he had an aggressive form of cancer. That's gotta' suck. "Mr. Kilmister, you have cancer." "Yeah? How much time do I have left?" "Uhhh...two days."

 

[Cocker]

According to a couple of online sites I read, he was informed on Saturday that he had an aggressive form of cancer. That's gotta' suck. "Mr. Kilmister, you have cancer." "Yeah? How much time do I have left?" "Uhhh...two days."

IF this is true, he went the same way he lived, fast. I couldn't imagine him living two years with a cancer.

I'm not the one to usually mourn the death of celebrities, but Lemmy was way more than that to me. With him, the last rock'n'roll legend is gone.

RIP Lemmy, you'll be sorely missed.

 

[MisterCairo]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/motorhead-lemmy-kilmister-dies-1.3382600

Rock and punk just lost their souls...

 

[LizzieMaine]

New Englanders everywhere are pausing to remember former Red Sox third baseman Frank Malzone, who died today at 85. A working member of the Sox organization for 68 of the past 69 years, Malzone had the great misfortune of having his playing career fit almost completely into that bracket of time in the fifties and sixties when the Sox were the dregs of the American League, and of having his career parallel the rise of the only third baseman who could beat him with the glove, Brooks Robinson of the Orioles.

His greatest contributions to the club came after his playing days -- for nearly fifty years he'd been a coach, advisor, and special instructor in the Red Sox farm system, and every infielder to come up thru the system from Rico Petrocelli to Nomar Garciaparra to Dustin Pedroia learned from him. RIP, #11, a nice guy who never got the breaks he deserved.

 

[Zombie_61]

...With him, the last rock'n'roll legend is gone...

Jerry Lee Lewis and Keith Richards are still alive and kicking.

 

[Nobert]

John Bradbury, drummer for The Specials. Two-tone is probably the most recently recorded music I still have much interest in listening to.

 

[Touchofevil]

Former Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon dies at 83

One of my great memories as a child was my Dad taking me to see Meadowlark Lemon and his Bucketeers. We went on a whim on a school night. I had the time of my life. Sadly, Wilt Chamberlain was not there that night but Marques Haynes was. Great night.

 

[Zombie_61]

John Bradbury, drummer for The Specials. Two-tone is probably the most recently recorded music I still have much interest in listening to.

And only 62 years old; that's a shame. As I remember it, and I could be wrong, The Specials were modestly successful here in the U.S. in the late-1970s and early- to mid-1980s, but because Americans were just discovering 2-Tone, Ska, and Reggae, along with Punk, they tended to get confused with other bands and sort of lost in the mix.

 

[Kirk H.]

Wayne Rogers, best known for playing Captain “Trapper” John McIntyre from 1972-1975 on the long-running CBS dramedy "M.A.S.H." has died today following complications from pneumonia. His publicist confirmed the news to Deadline: he was 82.

 

[MisterCairo]

Oh my goodness, actors from MASH are dying of old age! Time is flying...

 

[Giftmacher]

RIP Trapper!

 

[Kid Mac]

RIP--Wayne Rogers, City of Angels

 

[Trenchfriend]

 

[Trenchfriend]

Natalie Cole.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

http://my.xfinity.com/articles/entertainment/20160101/US--Obit-Natalie.Cole/

 

[MisterCairo]

Oh my gosh this is so sad about Natalie Cole.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/natalie-cole-dead-obituary-1.3386833

 

[MisterCairo]

Talk about a golden era guy, Dalls "Dal" Richards, Vancouver's King of Swing who played at 79 consecutive new year's eve dances up to 2014, has died.

He would have been 98 on January 5th:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dal-richards-dead-1.3385221

 

[Doctor Strange]

Master cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/arts/vilmos-zsigmond.html

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