[sherlock]

Sylvain Sylvain, New York Dolls. 69. Cancer.

[GCW]

John Kynaston.  Only just found out, but he died a few days ago.  A familiar face in many Ultra running events and very generous with his beta videos and blog.

[Mike Highbury]

Phil Spector - genius and monster.

I agree that Spector was a monster, but I take umbrage with calling Spector a genius.

Fair enough, some unnecessary hyperbole.

Today's Jewish Chronicle obituary has the title, Phil Spector: musical pioneer and murderer

[andy popp]

Phil Spector - genius and monster.

I agree that Spector was a monster, but I take umbrage with calling Spector a genius.

Fair enough, some unnecessary hyperbole.

Today's Jewish Chronicle obituary has the title, Phil Spector: musical pioneer and murderer

A number of headlines I saw specifically included the word murderer. It is accurate, after all.

[duncan]

Cesare Maestri's death is closing a massive chapter of mountaineering.

Id assume that as he has told the same story about what happened in 1959 there was no deathbed confession.

If he did it has not yet emerged.

The Runout Podcast with Kelly Cordes (author of The Tower, biography of Cerro Torre) on Maestri is well recommended. It’s especially good on the socio-cultural background to why the lie came to be told and why he continued to be supported by many Italians of a certain generation.

[cheque]

Mary Wilson of The Supremes.

With the arguable exception of The Four Tops, soul vocal groups from that era had a kind of “Trigger’s Broom” approach to personnel but Wilson was the one constant in The Supremes for their entire existence.

[Teaboy]

I doubt this will mean anything to anyone else here but when I was a kid if you were in goal you weren’t Peter Shilton or Ray Clemence but Dai Davies.
Maybe I’m just mourning a time when Wrexham had international players in their ranks.

[jwi]

[cheque]

Rupert Neve, both the Rolls and the Royce of audio recording technology and arguably the inventor of the solid-state recording console.

[andy popp]

U-Roy.

[mrjonathanr]

That famous Scouse graffito added to ‘Jesus Saves’ «... and St John scores on the rebound » can no longer be true:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/mar/02/ian-st-john-liverpool-forward-and-tv-personality-dies-aged-82

[SA Chris]

Bunny Wailer

[Oldmanmatt]

Cliff Simon.

Movie/TV villain and face you knew.

He was also a bit of a nutter and “Benchmark for the Elderly” playing athletic characters and pursuing extreme sports, until his death (58).

In fact, he died in a Kitesurfing accident...

[sxrxg]

Murray Walker. The voice of F1 for me growing up, so passionate about the sport.

[SamT]

Oh wow,  Murray Walker was such a huge part of my TV watching as a kid.   

In fact was watching an ancient clip of him earlier interview a young Damon Hill, before a motorbike race.
(who knew Damo was more interested in bikes before moving onto 4 wheels  )

RIP Murray.

[DAVETHOMAS90]

Genuinely really sad about this.
Complete gem.

[sheavi]

Marvelous Marvin Hagler RIP - truly great boxer.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/mar/13/marvin-hagler-dead-middleweight-champion

[Nibile]

"If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it."

[SA Chris]

I was never a big boxing fan but used to watch a few matches, and remember MH as being a figure of grace and power in a time of palookas.

[SamT]

Sabine Schmitz 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/56420308

F*$£ing Cancer

[remus]

Prince Philip

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11437314

[205Chris]

Sabine Schmitz 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/56420308

F*$£ing Cancer

I thought the Top Gear tribute was brilliant

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09cgpdj/top-gear-a-tribute-to-sabine-schmitz

[cheque]

DMX

[gollum]

Michael Collins, who apparently said that his greatest fear during the Apollo 11 mission was that he might just have to make the journey home on his own, if Armstrong and Aldrin didn’t make it back off the surface.

[andy popp]

Paul Van Doren, founder of Vans, aged 90. Not exactly a household name but there are some skaters (or ex-skaters) here who might enjoy this - and it really is a fascinating story.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/business/paul-van-doren-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1