Guess who died in 2023

[Benjamin Grimm]

Chinese film director Wei Lian, 77. He directed On the Mountain of Tai Hang.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Modest Mouse drummer Jeremiah Green. Way too young at 45.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/01/entertai ... index.html

[TransMonk]

Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters dies at 74

[metirish]

Gianluca Vialli , the great Italian died age 58. When Irish State TV (RTE) started showing Seria A in the mid 80s Vialli was a star , a wonderful player in the great Sampdoria team ( one of the best classic team shirts ) ,went to Juve then Chelsea .

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... won-hearts

[Edgy MD]

Walt Cunningham is a fond reminder of a time when a good astronaut always wore a cravat, along with a haircut you could rest your beer on.

[G-Fafif]

Adam Rich of Eight is Enough fame, 54.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv ... 235293072/

[G-Fafif]

TV journalist Bernard Kalb, 100.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituari ... list-dies/

[Edgy MD]

Adam Rich of Eight is Enough fame, 54.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv ... 235293072/

Adam had previously participated in the faking of his death as a publicity gimmick for Might magazine. I imagine this one is for real.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Brooklyn-born Owen Roizman, groundbreaking cinematographer who re-invented the car chase with his brilliant work on Academy-award winning The French Connection, 86. Among Roizman's many other credits are The Excorcist, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Network, Tootsie, Three Days of the Condor and Play it Again, Sam.

[Fman99]

Author Russell Banks, age 82, from cancer.

Wrote a number of novels nominated for the Pulitzer, several of which I read and enjoyed. I'm partial specifically to Rule of the Bone, which is a coming of age story, as well as Cloudsplitter (a fictional biography of John Brown as told by a surviving son) and The Darling.

Also wrote the books on which the films The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction were based.

[cal sharpie]

That is sad. I've also read a number of his books. Saw him speak once as well. Always worth reading.

[Lefty Specialist]

'Diamond' of 'Diamond and Silk' fame. I guess it's just 'Silk' now. No cause of death yet, but she was an ardent vaccine denier.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/1 ... 1-00077184

[Edgy MD]

"Without Walt Cunningham, there would be no moon landing" — Buzz Aldrin

[G-Fafif]

Blake Hounshell, political journalist, 44.

According to a family statement, Blake died “after a long and courageous battle with depression.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... t-00077366

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Legendary guitarist Jeff Beck passed away today at age 78, per the New York Times.

[kcmets]

This album was the cats ass when I was in high school.
Hey Humphrey, you gonna pass that bong or just stare at it?



RIP, Sir...

[Fman99]

Brilliant guitarist, he was

[Edgy MD]

Little Steven's Underground Garage has been pimping the hell out of traxx from a recent Jeff Beck/Johnny Depp collaboration. I've found them to be a tough listen, but I'm kinda allergic to Depp and his musical ambitions.

Bacterial meningitis is a beast that can wipe you out pretty quickly. Survivors frequently don't come out whole.

There's little that can be said about Beck that hasn't been said. More than once I've heard older music fans say that when Led Zeppelin started, they were seen as copycats of The Jeff Beck Group.

I love that he played almost exclusively with his fingers, and still was one of the handful of guitarists whose tone and texture you knew instantly. I love that he had a lot of weird, cross-genre collaborations (Depp aside). I love that, without Jeff Beck, there would have been no Nigel Tufnel.

[batmagadanleadoff]

There's little that can be said about Beck that hasn't been said. More than once I've heard older music fans say that when Led Zeppelin started, they were seen as copycats of The Jeff Beck Group.

Even beyond the musical similarities, which I believe are quite striking and obvious, the very first studio session for Truth gave Jimmy Page the name Led Zeppelin which he would use a year later you know where.

That session yielded Beck's Bolero, an instrumental that would eventually find it's way on Truth. This session was pre Rod Stewart but included future Zeppeliner John Paul Jones. Jimmy Page produced it and Keith Moon guested on drums. The session went over so well that the group briefly considered forming a new group. Moon contemplated leaving The Who. That band would've taken the name Led Zeppelin. Or perhaps, Lead Zeppelin.

[G-Fafif]

Lisa Marie Presley, 54.

[Edgy MD]

Gosh.

[metirish]

Such a sad life in many ways , RIP

[G-Fafif]

Robbie Bachman, BTO drummer, 69.

[Frayed Knot]

So Priscilla Presley, now 77, was, though divorced by that point, widowed at age 32, and has now outlived one of her two children (Lisa Marie has a half-brother)
as well as one of her four grandchildren (Lisa's son was a suicide in 2020).
That's a bit of a rough ride.



Bad week or so also for drummers as the skin pounders for Modest Mouse, BTO, and Earth Wind & Fire, all died recently.
Stay safe Ringo.

[Fman99]

Lisa Marie Presley, 54.

What did she ever actually do, aside from have famous parents? I mean, if her last name was Smith no one would have ever heard of her. Celebrity inherited, meh.

I'm not saying it's not sad, having your dad die when you're 9, or dying at 54 and losing a son to suicide, it's all tragic, but I always reject this country's celebrity obsession. It's a Kardashian sized world and I want no part of it.