RIPs

[johnnystress]

Alvin Lee RIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5M5xljdCI

[rogue69]

Jazz trumpet player Kenny Ball aged 82 passed away of pneumonia

[Frank]

Jazz trumpet player Kenny Ball aged 82 passed away of pneumonia

If, a couple of hours ago, you'd asked me to list everything I knew about Kenny Ball, I'd have said that his band were called The Jazzmen and that he looked like Malky McCormick. Thanks to the radio, I realise that I know their biggest hit Midnight In Moscow from somewhere. I'm fairly sure I recognise it from a film, but I can't think which  - anyone have a better visual/auditory memory than me?

I've become a google expert on the song now, and - rather than being an original composition by Ball or a ragtime standard - it was a product of the Soviet version of Tin Pan Alley and the cultural equivalent of the command economy. In case anyone's wondering what the song would sound like sung by outgoing Chinese head of state Hu Jintao, here it is. It's Trad, comrade (Dad).

[HdE]

Only just heard about the death of Toren Smith, who founded Studio Proteus back in the late 1980s, and was instrumental in bringing manga to the West.

Absolutely gutted. His translation and repackaging of seminal works like Appleseed and Akira quite literally opened the eyes of a generation to wider world of comics. 

[Professor Bear]

That is gutting news for this old-school manga and anime fan.
Before the default state of westernised manga was shoddily-produced shit aimed at weeabo nerds and tossed off in one afternoon with babelfish and a pirated copy of photoshop, Smith was working hard on translating epic works like Akira and Nausicaa on the understanding that they deserved to travel outside their tiny niche and be enjoyed by as many people as possible just as he had enjoyed them himself, which told in how he was personally sought out by Japanese creators to translate their work for the west.  He was unsurprisingly left out in the cold when care and attention started to become dirty words in the manga translating world, but I and many others will forever see his work as a benchmark in bridging a cultural gap and finding that common ground between creators and readers that would share universal experience between us all rather than elevating our differences as if that were all that manga - or comics - had to offer.

A genuinely sad day for comics.

[Hawkmumbler]

Indeed, RIP Mr. Smith, a true legend. 

[M.I.K.]

Those Dirty Pair stories he wrote were rather good as well.

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/21740038

[CrazyFoxMachine]

Clive Burr, original Iron Maiden drummer and fearsomely awesome chap.



Do yourself a favour and go and watch a clip of Maiden with him in the lineup - it's quite glorious.

\m/

[Hawkmumbler]

Damn, alas it was bound to happen sooner rather than later. RIP, Mr.Burr. 

[von Boom]

I'm truly gutted. Iron Maiden has been one of my favourite bands right from their beginning. Sad, sad news. RIP Clive.

[shaolin_monkey]

Yeah, gutting about Clive. He'd been ill for such a long time too. Killers is in my top twenty albums of all time, and that's in no small part due to his sterling drumming.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=8SEcxL_FB3Y&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8SEcxL_FB3Y

[vzzbux]

Damn. Such a shame Clive Burr has passed on. R.I.P.




V

[rogue69]

Yes guitarist Jerry Ewing died on the 8th March of a heart attack aged 65

[Albion]

Yes guitarist Jerry Ewing died on the 8th March of a heart attack aged 65

I think you mean Peter Banks.
Jerry Ewing is a music journalist.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21771444