Running 2023 RIP thread for musicians

[maumann]

Anita Pointer made it under the wire on the last day of 2022, so I'll start a new thread here. Hat tip to Jake from State Farm for the idea.

RIP, Anita. Just a string of memorable, danceable hits. Every time "Neutron Dance" came on the radio, I'd have to stop typing in the newsroom.

Her brother Aaron played baseball and was an NFL referee. Her cousin was Paul Silas.

I believe Ruth is the only original sister still living.

Singer Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters dies at age 74

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Jeremiah Green, founding member of Modest Mouse, dead from cancer at 45.

The band has been around since the mid 90s, but didn't become popular until the early 2000s.

Got diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer a few weeks ago. Again, fork cancer.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/modest-mouse-jeremiah-green-dead-obit-1234654944/amp/

Edit: this probably belongs in the 2022 thread. Sorry.

 

[DanOregon]

Anita sang lead on this - always a fan

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[maumann]

Oktoberfests and wedding receptions everywhere are in mourning.

Stanley Mills, the man behind 'The Chicken Dance,' dead at 91

 

[wicked]

Jeremiah Green, founding member of Modest Mouse, dead from cancer at 45.

The band has been around since the mid 90s, but didn't become popular until the early 2000s.

Got diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer a few weeks ago. Again, fork cancer.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/modest-mouse-jeremiah-green-dead-obit-1234654944/amp/

Edit: this probably belongs in the 2022 thread. Sorry.

May he float on in peace. RIP.

 

[TigerVols]

Oktoberfests and wedding receptions everywhere are in mourning.

Stanley Mills, the man behind 'The Chicken Dance,' dead at 91

I guess he'll put his left foot in the grave.

 

[swingline]

Why is it the Chicken Dance when everyone goes quack quack quack quack?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Three 6 Mafia's Gangsta Boo Dead at 43, Possible Overdose

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Why is it the Chicken Dance when everyone goes quack quack quack quack?

So according to unreliable sources, it's supposed to be about a duck. However, to explain the song for a tv broadcast in Oklahoma in 1981, they had a guy in a chicken suit do the dance because they couldn't find a duck costume.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[maumann]

Deat? Is that some combination of dead and beat?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Deat? Is that some combination of dead and beat?

Who deat?