The RIP Famous Person Thread

[SKkin]

I hope they say where he's being buried. There will be a queue of people waiting to piss on it.

The same goes for David Rockefeller...

[oxxo]

RIP. Chuck Barris, Gonged off the stage of life.

[UrbanMan]

Sorry, can't find the famous dead person's thread.

https://www.yahoo.com/music/ex-bosto...161854462.html

Former Boston drummer Sib Hashian has died, TMZ reports. According to his son, Hashian was performing on stage at the Legends of Rock Cruise when he collapsed and died. He was 67 years old.

Hashian joined Boston in 1975. He played on the band’s 1976 self-titled debut, which includes “More Than a Feeling,” perhaps their best known song. Rolling Stone named Boston the 41st best debut album of all time, praising Hashian’s “climactic drum fills in the final fade-out” on “More Than a Feeling.” He also played on the follow-up (1978’s Don’t Look Back) and began recording on their third LP—1986’s Third Stage—before leaving the band.

He's the guy in the center with the drummer's arms.

[ENT]

....... drummer's arm....

Crab claw.

[Cujo]

Holy smokes. More than a feeling, 40 years ago? WTF.

[patsycat]

Love that song!

Just listening to it again brings back lots of memories!

[Stinky]

Timeless

[harrybarracuda]

Lola Albright, Sultry Actress in 'Peter Gunn' and Kirk Douglas' 'Champion,' Dies at 92
12:51 PM PDT 3/24/2017 by Mike Barnes



Married to actor Jack Carson and then pianist Bill Chadney, she also starred as a temptress in 'A Cold Wind in August.'
Lola Albright, the charming actress with the smoky voice who sang and starred on TV's Peter Gunn and was spurned by the back-stabbing Kirk Douglas in the classic 1949 boxing drama Champion, has died. She was 92.

Albright died Thursday in a home in the Toluca Lake enclave of Los Angeles, her friend, Eric Anderson, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. News of her death was first reported by the Akron Beacon Journal; she was born and raised in the Ohio city.

Albright was perhaps best known for playing the sultry singer Edie Hart, the girlfriend of private eye Craig Stevens, on all three seasons of the Blake Edwards NBC-ABC series Peter Gunn. She received an Emmy Award nomination in 1959 for her work.

While the series was on the air, Albright released the album Dreamsville, backed by Henry Mancini’s orchestra (he, of course, composed the theme song for Peter Gunn), in 1959. She had done an album two years earlier, Lola Wants You.

On the big screen, the blue-eyed blonde was memorable in a leading role as an aging burlesque stripper who seduces a teenager (Scott Marlowe) in A Cold Wind in August (1961), and she received the best actress award at the Berlin Film Festival for portraying Tuesday Weld's suicidal mother in Lord Love a Duck (1966).

In Champion, an adaptation of a Ring Lardner story, Albright played the spoiled Palmer Harris, the wife of a manipulating boxing manager, who falls for fighter "Midge" Kelly (the Oscar-nominated Douglas). The manager offers Kelly a bigger percentage of the gate to leave his wife alone, which the boxer agrees to, leaving Palmer devastated.

Albright also appeared on the big screen in Tulsa (1949), The Good Humor Man (1950) — opposite her future husband, Jack Carson — The Killer That Stalked New York (1950), Frank Sinatra's The Tender Trap (1955), The Impossible Years (1968), Elvis Presley's Kid Galahad (1962), Joy House (1964), Douglas' The Way West (1967) and Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968).

She stepped in for Dorothy Malone, who had suffered a pulmonary embolism, to play Constance for several episodes of ABC's Peyton Place in 1965-66.

Albright was born on July 20, 1924, in Akron. She graduated from West High School in 1942, worked as a receptionist at radio stations and was discovered by a talent scout while she was modeling in Chicago.

Albright made her big-screen debut in The Unfinished Dance (1947), starring the youngster Margaret O'Brien, and appeared in two Judy Garland movies, The Pirate and Easter Parade, the following year.

Albright played Bob Cummings' love interest on his 1955-57 NBC-CBS comedy and guest-starred on such shows as Lux Video Theatre, Panic!, The Beverly Hillbillies, Branded, Burke's Law, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Columbo and Airwolf.

Albright was married to Carson from 1952-58 and then to Bill Chadney, who played her pianist at the bar called Mother's on Peter Gunn, from 1961-71. (Chadney also owned L.A. restaurant-clubs that bore his name). Both marriages ended in divorce.

She had no children. Survivors include her step-daughter, Susan Chadney.

Lola Albright Dead: 'Peter Gunn,' 'Champion' Actress Was 92 | Hollywood Reporter

[misskit]

Foundations singer Clem Curtis dies aged 76



The original lead singer of the British band The Foundations, Clem Curtis, has died at the age of 76.

Curtis, who lived in Olney, Buckinghamshire, was singer on the band's 1967 number one hit Baby, Now That I've Found You.

The song is claimed to be the first chart-topper by a British multi-racial band.

Curtis left the band before it scored a hit with Build Me Up Buttercup but occasionally sang in various line-ups.

He also had a solo career in the 1970s and appeared on the West End stage in musicals.

His family confirmed he had died on Monday morning.

Foundations singer Clem Curtis dies aged 76 - BBC News

[misskit]

If you are my age, get ready for a flashback.






Loved those songs when I was a kid.

[misskit]

Don Rickles, Comedy’s Equal Opportunity Offender, Dies at 90

Don Rickles, the acidic stand-up comic who became world-famous not by telling jokes but by insulting his audience, died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 90.

The cause was kidney failure, said a spokesman, Paul Shefrin.

For more than half a century, on nightclub stages, in concert halls and on television, Mr. Rickles made outrageously derisive comments about people’s looks, their ethnicity, their spouses, their sexual orientation, their jobs or anything else he could think of. He didn’t discriminate: His incendiary unpleasantries were aimed at the biggest stars in show business (Frank Sinatra was a favorite target) and at ordinary paying customers.

His rise to national prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s roughly coincided with the success of “All in the Family,” the groundbreaking situation comedy whose protagonist, Archie Bunker, was an outspoken bigot. Mr. Rickles’s humor was similarly transgressive. But he went further than Archie Bunker, and while Carroll O’Connor, who played Archie, was speaking words someone else had written — and was invariably the butt of the joke — Mr. Rickles, whose targets included his fellow Jews, never needed a script and was always in charge.

One night, on learning that some members of his audience were German, he said, “Forty million Jews in this country, and I got four Nazis sitting here in front waiting for the rally to start.” He said that America needed Italians “to keep the cops busy” and blacks “so we can have cotton in the drugstore,” and that “Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.” He might ask a man in the audience, “Is that your wife?” and, when the man answered yes, respond: “Oh, well. Keep your chin up.”

More https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/a...dian.html?_r=0



Funny man. Had a good long run.

[misskit]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=F4m5HLVwsco

[taxexile]

Very funny guy, sadly these days that kind of humour will result in you being ostracised from society, society, reviled by the media and locked up for 10 years.

Where did it all go wrong.

[Eliminator]

^ It was all lost with all the PC NUTTERS in the world today.

[Bazzy]

RIP Fred Dagg

Renowned satirist John Clarke dead at 68

[Latindancer]

Ouch ! That hurt ! He was a funny guy. At least he died doing what he loved : hiking and taking bird photos with friends and family.

[Ukan Kizmiaz]

Ouch ! That hurt !

yes indeed, he'll be greatly missed sticking the fork into the pompus political buffoons

[Cujo]

RIP Fred Dagg

Renowned satirist John Clarke dead at 68

Yes that absolutely sucks. I feel like a part of my life has been stripped away or something.
RIP Fred dagg.

[David48atTD]

Who?

You might not know the name, but you know the song. John Geils, the guitarist and founder of the J Geils Band, which had the 1983 hit single Centrefold, has died at his home in Massachusetts at the age of 71.



Television networks in the United States are reporting the musician died of natural causes.

He was born John Warren Geils Jr in New York City on February 20, 1946 and grew up listening to jazz artists including Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.
He played jazz trumpet and drums, before switching to blues guitar.

His first album with the J Geils Band was released in 1970 and throughout that decade the group recorded songs including Lookin' For A Love, Cry One More Time, Must Of Got Lost and Give It To Me.

The band's sound evolved to a more new wave rock sound as the 1980s progressed and they reached their greatest success with the singles Freeze Frame and Centrefold, which stayed at number one on the Billboard charts for four weeks and six weeks respectively in 1983.

Musical acts including The Eagles, U2, Billy Joel and ZZ Top all opened for the band while on tour.

The band broke up in 1985.
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[misskit]

Well, damn. Seventy one isn't that old.

My favorite J. Geils song.

Love Stinks

[harrybarracuda]

Clifton James, Sheriff J.W. Pepper in James Bond films, dies aged 96


April 16 2017



Clifton James, best known for his indelible portrayal of a southern sheriff in two James Bond films but who was most proud of his work on the stage, has died. He was 96.

His daughter, Lynn James, said he died Saturday at another daughter's home in Gladstone, Oregon, due to complications from diabetes.

"He was the most outgoing person, beloved by everybody," Lynn James said. "I don't think the man had an enemy. We were incredibly blessed to have had him in our lives."

James often played a convincing southerner but loved working on the stage in New York during the prime of his career.

One of his first significant roles playing a southerner was as a cigar-chomping, prison floor-walker in the 1967 classic "Cool Hand Luke."

His long list of roles also includes swaggering, tobacco-spitting Louisiana Sheriff J.W. Pepper in the Bond films.

His portrayal of the redneck sheriff in "Live and Let Die" in 1973 more than held its own with sophisticated English actor Roger Moore's portrayal of Bond.

James was such a hit that writers carved a role for him in the next Bond film, "The Man with the Golden Gun," in 1974. James, this time playing the same sheriff on vacation in Thailand and the epitome of the ugly American abroad, gets pushed into the water by a baby elephant.

"He wasn't supposed to actually go in," said his daughter. "They gave him sugar in his pocket to feed the elephant. But he wasn't giving it to the elephant fast enough."

She said her father met with real southern sheriffs to prepare for his role as Pepper. Of his hundreds of roles, it was the Louisiana sheriff that people most often recognized and approached him about.

His daughter noted that her father sometimes said actors get remembered for one particular role out of hundreds.

"His is the sheriff's, but he said he would have never picked that one," she said.

George Clifton James was born May 29, 1920, in Spokane, Washington, the oldest of five siblings and the only boy. The family lost all its money at the start of the Great Depression and moved to Gladstone, just outside Portland, Oregon, where James' maternal grandparents lived.

In the 1930s, James got work with the Civilian Conservation Corps and then entered World War II in 1942 as a soldier with the U.S. Army in the South Pacific, receiving two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star.

Lynn James said one of the Purple Hearts came when a bullet pierced his helmet and zipped around the inside to come out and split his nose. The second Purple Heart, she said, came from shrapnel that knocked out many of his teeth.

She said her father rarely spoke about the war and never described events leading to his receiving the Silver Star.

"He lost too many friends," she said.

After the war, James took classes at the University of Oregon and acted in plays. Inspired, he moved to New York and launched his acting career.

Later in life, he spent the fall and spring of each year in New York. In the winter, he lived in a condo in Delray Beach, Florida. During the summer he lived in Oregon.

James' wife, Laurie, died in 2015. He is survived by two sisters, five children, 14 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Lynn James said a celebration of her father's life will be held in Gladstone in August, but there are no other plans so far. She said some of his ashes will likely be spread in the Clackamas River in Oregon, in which he swam as a boy, and in New York Harbor, where some of his wife's ashes were spread.

Copyright © 2017, Orlando Sentinel

Clifton James, southern sheriff in 2 James Bond films, dies at 96 - Orlando Sentinel

[SKkin]

The band's sound evolved to a more new wave rock sound as the 1980s progressed

I'm liked em better before all that... "raputa the buta!"

RIP J. Geils




To me, an even better example of what I liked about their earlier style...Monkey Island:

[harrybarracuda]

Sylvia Moy, Motown pioneer and Stevie Wonder collaborator, dies at 78
Brian McCollum , Detroit Free Press Pop Music Critic Published 10:05 p.m. ET April 16, 2017



Songwriter and producer Sylvia Moy, who helped spark Stevie Wonder’s career while breaking barriers for women at Motown Records, died Saturday night at Beaumont (Oakwood) Hospital in Dearborn. She was 78.

Moy, a Detroit native, gave Wonder his second Top 10 hit with 1965’s “Uptight (Everything’s Alright).” The song's success won over Motown chief Berry Gordy Jr. and earned Moy a trusted spot on the label's creative team.

Often in tandem with collaborator Hank Cosby, she went on to co-write other key Wonder hits — including “I Was Made to Love Her” (1967) and “My Cherie Amour” (1969) — along with the Isley Brothers’ “This Old Heart of Mine” and the Marvin Gaye-Kim Weston duet “It Takes Two.”

Moy died of apparent complications from pneumonia, following a stay in Detroit's Harper University Hospital, said her sister Anita Moy.

"She broke that glass ceiling for women in the music industry," said her brother Melvin Moy. "In the '60s, women weren't encouraged to play instruments, let alone be producers."

Moy was one of nine children in a Detroit family with "music in our bloodlines on both sides," as she told the Free Press last year, chuckling as she recalled the barbs from Motown staff that she'd "never make it as a songwriter."

A 2006 inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Moy spent her later years mentoring Detroit music students and operating Masterpiece Studios, the west side Detroit recording facility that has drawn artists such as Kem.

Schooled in music at Northern High School, she was encouraged by teachers to trek to New York for singing auditions, which failed to pan out. But back at Detroit's Caucus Club in 1963, Moy was spotted by Motown's Marvin Gaye and Mickey Stevenson, and was invited to head down to the label's West Grand Boulevard complex.

"Motown came forth with a recording contract for me, a management contract and a songwriter's contract — which shocked me," she told the Free Press in 2016. "Then I was told, 'Sylvia, we'll get to you as a singer. But in the meantime, we've got all these artists and they have no material. You're going to have to write.' I said OK. Because I was kind of shy anyway. And so that's what I started doing. I got into it, and the hits started coming."

Despite early admonishments that "women don't produce," Moy recounted, she found herself increasingly welcomed to Motown's competitive production meetings while holding her own.

The big break came via "Uptight," which Moy co-wrote with Cosby after hearing Wonder fiddling around on piano.

"His voice had changed, and he just wasn't selling for a period," she said of the stretch following Wonder's 1963 breakthrough hit, "Fingertips." "But I just believed in him. I knew it was possible (the label) might let him go. I was begging: 'Please give him to me.' That's when I was finally told, 'Well, if you can come up with a hit on him, we'll keep him.'"

Unable to transcribe her lyrics into braille for the blind teen singer, Moy guided him during the "Uptight" recording session by singing into his headphones as he went.

"I stayed one line ahead of Stevie on 'Uptight,'" she said. "That's how we got that done."

The track, cut with Cosby, Stevenson and Clarence Paul, soared to No. 1 on Billboard's R&B chart and No. 3 on the pop side. More prime-time credits followed for Moy: "I Was Made to Love Her," "This Old Heart of Mine," "It Takes Two," "My Cherie Amour," and "Never Had a Dream Come True," a Wonder cut later covered by the Jackson 5.

Wonder paid tribute to Moy in 2006 at the Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony in 2006, showing up as a surprise guest to play "Uptight."

"Stevie gets an awful lot of credit, but as far as I'm concerned, she was the beginning of so many of those songs," said Pat Cosby, widow of Hank Cosby. "Between the three of them, Sylvia with her imaginative mind was just (groundbreaking). If she were a man instead of a woman, there would have been a lot more you’d have heard from her. But once her work became known, the resistance waned away, and the producers started looking at her differently and could see the value of what she was trying to do."

Moy eventually launched a Detroit non-profit group called Center for Creative Communications, working with underprivileged Detroit children "trying to encourage them to live a good life, to do, because that's how our parents were," she told the Free Press last year.

Sylvia Moy, Motown pioneer and Stevie Wonder collaborator, dies at 78

[harrybarracuda]

Erin Moran, Joanie on 'Happy Days', Dies at 56
6:18 PM PDT 4/22/2017 by THR Staff



The actress was best known for her role as Ron Howard's little sister on the '70s sitcom.
Erin Moran, best known for her role as Joanie Cunningham on the sitcoms Happy Days and its spinoff Joanie Loves Chachi, has died.

Moran was found by Harrison County dispatch officers in Indiana responding to an "unresponsive female" report. Upon arriving at the scene, officers identified Moran and she pronounced dead at the scene, a Harrison County Sheriff official confirmed.

Moran rose to stardom on the 1970s sitcom Happy Days, in which she played the younger sister to Ron Howard's Richie Cunningham. She later went on to star in her own spinoff show centered around her character's relationship with Chachi Arcola (Scott Baio).

Other credits on Moran's resume include a series regular role on the '80s romantic series The Love Boat, as well as appearances on Murder, She Wrote and Diagnosis Murder.

Erin Moran Dead: 'Happy Days' Star Dies at 56 | Hollywood Reporter

[Davis Knowlton]

^Quite young. Drugs?