Pere Ubu guitarist Jim Jones dead. Jones also played in The electric eels.
posted on Feb 20, 2008 - View this thread

James Brown ...just died
posted on Dec 25, 2006 - View this thread

Adios Viejo! Pinochet dies!
posted on Dec 10, 2006 - View this thread

Sven Nykvist leaves us. A master at the subtle manipulation of light, the multiple academy award winner and longtime Ingmar Bergman collaborator (including Persona, and the Through a Glass Darkly/Winter Light/The Silence trilogy) has passed away at 83.
more obits [1] [2] more about him [1] [2]
posted on Sep 21, 2006 - View this thread

"Life is wise to deceive us," he once wrote, "for had it told us from the start what it had in store for us, we would refuse to be born." --Naguib Mahfouz, RIP --and more from when he won the Nobel in 1988
posted on Aug 30, 2006 - View this thread

Novelist Saul Bellow is dead. "Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love." Interviews: 1965, 1982, 1987. Partial bibliography. Saul Bellow Society. Wikipedia entry.
posted on Apr 5, 2005 - View this thread

Rick James dead. Big red breaking news box at CNN.com, also here. :(
posted on Aug 6, 2004 - View this thread

RIP Francis Crick. The man who helped discover the secret of life is dead.
posted on Jul 29, 2004 - View this thread

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time.
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
Because you're mine, I walk the line.

RIP Johnny Cash. He died last night at 71.
posted on Sep 12, 2003 - View this thread

Mordecai Richler dead at 70. Noted Canadian man of letters, political commentator, frequent imbiber and author of "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz," "Solomon Gursky Was Here," "Oh, Canada! Oh, Quebec!," and "Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang." He was undergoing cancer treatment.
posted on Jul 3, 2001 - View this thread