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Anton Yelchin, ‘Star Trek’ Actor, Dies at 27 After His Car Pins Him Against Mailbox at L.A. Home

Actor Anton Yelchin, 27, who played Chekov in recent “Star Trek” movies, was killed in a freak accident early Sunday morning, police told CNN.

Actor Anton Yelchin attends ‘Burying The Ex’ Premiere during the 71st Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2014 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Yelchin, who also acted in “Like Crazy” and “Alpha Dog,” died outside his home in Los Angeles, according to law enforcement.

Yelchin stepped out of his car in the driveway of his Studio City home at around 1:10 a.m. PT when the car slid backwards and pinned him against a brick pillar and a security fence, causing trauma that led to his death, said Jennifer Houser with the Los Angeles Police Department.

“The victim was on his way to meet his friends for a rehearsal and when he didn’t show up, his friends went to his house where they found him deceased by his car,” Houser told CNN. “It appears that he momentarily left his car, leaving it in the driveway. He was behind the vehicle when it rolled backward and pinned him to the brick pillar causing the trauma that led to his death.”

Houser says Yelchin’s family was notified by the friends that found him. She did not know whether the car was running when he was found.

J.J. Abrams, whose Bad Robot Productions produced recent “Star Trek” features, took to twitter to voice dismay about Yelchin’s death, saying: “Anton, you were brilliant. You were kind. You were funny as hell, and supremely talented. And you weren’t here nearly long enough. Missing you…”

Other friends, actors and celebrities also took to social media with their condolences.

“Devastated to hear about the brilliant Anton Yelchin. He was thoughtful, kind, and gifted. My thoughts and prayers are with his family,” posted actor Chris Evans.

“I had dinner with Anton Yelchin 2 nights ago we talked about shooting together and making movies he is a great guy very sad to see him go,” Tyler Shields said.

I know that no death is pleasant, but this is especially a “what the hell?” kinda thing. Twenty-seven is really young. 

 

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Necko hit nails on heads and all that 

I know that no death is pleasant, but this is especially a “what the hell?” kinda thing. Twenty-seven is really young. 

My thoughts precisely. RIP. 

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Bernie Worrell, Parliament-Funkadelic Keyboardist, Dead at 72

Bernie Worrell, keyboardist for Parliament/Funkadelic and Talking Heads and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, passed away Friday following a battle with cancer. He was 72.

“Bernie transitioned Home to The Great Spirit,” Worrell’s wife Judie wrote on Facebook Friday. “Rest in peace, my love — you definitely made the world a better place. Till we meet again, vaya con Dios.”

In January, Worrell revealed that he was battling a “mild form” of prostate cancer and stage-four liver cancer. At the time, Worrell’s wife Judie appealed to fans asking for $10,000 in donations so that the keyboardist could complete his final album Retrospectives within his lifetime. A YouCaring page seeking $75,000 was also initiated in order to help Worrell alleviate the financial burden of his medical bills.

Born in Long Branch, New Jersey in 1944, the Julliard-trained Worrell met George Clinton, then leader of a doo-wop act called the Parliaments, in the early 1970s. Soon after, Worrell – along with the rest of Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic crew, including guitarist Eddie Hazel, singer “Fuzzy” Haskins and “Billy Bass” Nelson – moved to Detroit, where they completed work on their 1970 debut Funkadelic. Five months later, the group released their Free Your Mind… and Your Ass Will Follow.

Dubbed the “Wizard of Woo,” Worrell is credited with giving the funk outfit their futuristic sound. “I wasn’t really interested in technology, but when I was in college, at the New England Conservatory in Boston, I used to listen to Emerson, Lake & Palmer. I loved the Tarkus album. Keith was the first guy I heard using the Moog. I liked the sound of that album and the things he was doing with the instrument,” Worrell told Music Radar. “I found out that it was a Moog synthesizer, and later on I purchased my own Minimoog – or George did. I started messing with the sounds. That’s all I really do: I turn the knobs until it does what I want.”

On Worrell’s official site, he said of his experimentation with the instrument, “When the synthesizers came about, my having been brought up classically and knowing a full range of orchestra, tympanis and everything, I knew how it sounded and what it felt like. So, if I’m playing a horn arrangement on keyboard, or strings, it sounds like strings or horns, ’cause I know how to phrase it, how a string phrases, different attacks from the aperture for horns, trumpets, sax or trombones.”

Worrell was among the 15 members of Parliament-Funkadelic to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. The keyboardist remained one of the collective’s most reliable mainstays, appearing on everything from 1971’s Maggot Brain to Parliament’s 1975 space-funk masterpiece Mothership Connection to Funkadelic’s 1979 One Nation Under the Groove, Number 177 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums list.

Worrell would later earn co-songwriting credits on Parliament hits like “Up on the Down Stroke,” “Chocolate City,” “P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up),” “Mothership Connection (Star Child)” and “Flash Light,” which featured Worrell’s now-legendary Minimoog bass line.

Following the Parliament-Funkadelic’s insanely prolific Seventies, Worrell parted ways with the collective after Clinton dissolved the groups for business and managerial issues. While Worrell would continue to contribute to Clinton’s solo albums in the Eighties – notably 1982’s “Atomic Dog”-featuring Computer Games – the keyboardist was recruited to join another emerging act at this time: Talking Heads.

“The Talking Heads wanted to funk,” Worrell told New Times in 2014. “I found out after I joined them that David (Byrne) and Chris Frantz used to sneak into P-Funk concerts when they were students at the art school in Providence. I didn’t know that, they must have been the only white kids there. The other similarity is the way they work in the studio and the freedom that I had. When I first got a call from the Talking Heads I didn’t know who they were. The Talking who? I’d heard of New Wave but I had to look it up.”

After releasing their landmark LP Remain in Light in 1980, Talking Heads were faced with translating the album’s complex, layered rhythms to the stage. To help them perform that album live, Worrell and King Crimson guitarist Adrian Belew were added to strengthen the touring lineup. Worrell ended up remaining the band’s keyboardist and unofficial member for the next dozen years until their 1992 breakup.

Worrell contributed synthesizers to Talking Heads’ 1983 album Speaking in Tongues and featured prominently in the band’s 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense. Although not inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Talking Heads, the keyboardist was invited to join them onstage for their one-off reunion in 2002.

In addition to his work within Parliament-Funkadelic and Talking Heads, Worrell released five solo albums, beginning with 1978’s heavily P-Funk-assisted All the Woo in the World, co-produced by Worrell and Clinton. In 1990, Worrell released his second solo LP Funk of Ages, an all-star affair that featured guests like Keith Richards, Talking Heads’ Byrne and Jerry Harrison, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, Sly Dunbar, Herbie Hancock and many more.

Over the years, Worrell has also collaborated with Jack Bruce, B-52’s Fred Schneider, Mos Def, Les Claypool, Fela Kuti, Ginger Baker and many more. Worrell was also a part-time member of the Bill Laswell-led group Praxis, featuring Buckethead and drummer Bryan “Brain” Mantia.” Worrell also appeared in the documentary Moog and played Meryl Streep’s keyboardist in the 2015 film Ricki and the Flash, which reunited him with Stop Making Sense director Jonathan Demme.

I knew it was coming, but still…

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Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley Guitarist, Dead at 84

Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley’s longtime guitarist and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, died Tuesday at his home in Nashville, the Commercial Appeal reports. No cause of death was provided, but Moore had been in poor health in recent months. He was 84. Karen Fontana, the wife of Presley drummer D.J. Fontana, also confirmed Moore’s death to Rolling Stone. 

“We lost one of the finest people I have ever met today,” Sun Studio engineer Matt Ross-Spang wrote on Instagram. “I was lucky to call you a friend and I’m very glad I got to see you just a few days ago. The guitarist that changed the world … especially mine; I hope you don’t mind if I keep stealing your licks. Love you Scotty.”

Born in Gadsden, Tennessee, Moore began playing guitar at the age of eight, and after a stint in the U.S. Navy in the early Fifties, moved to Memphis and formed the Starlite Wrangers with bassist Bill Black. In 1954, Sun Records impresario Sam Phillips paired Moore with a teenaged Elvis Presley. Together, along with Black, they would record Presley’s first single, “That’s All Right (Mama).” The recording session was only meant to be an audition; instead, the trio made music history.

“I heard that Sam Phillips had a little studio and record label and I went to see him about getting a record out,” Moore told Rolling Stone in 2010. “I knew that if we could make a record, we’d get more places to play around town. Sam agreed to record us and he and I became good friends. Then one day we were having coffee, and his secretary actually brought up Elvis’ name. He had dropped by the studio with the hope of recording something. So Sam said, ‘Call this guy up and get him to go over to your house and see what you think of him.’ So he came to my house on the Fourth of July. It was kind of a pre-audition.”

Moore, Black and drummer D.J. Fontana would soon form the Blue Moon Boys , a union that would back Presley on dozens of legendary rock & roll songs over the next decade, including “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Mystery Train,” “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Hound Dog,” “Jailhouse Rock” and “(You’re the) Devil in Disguise.”

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I knew it was coming, but still…

RIP Bernie Worrell   

A bit late to this but :-[ Worrell redefined keyboard funk lead, it’s impossible to avoid his influence. He was a key member of Tom Tom Club also.

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Former Nine Inch Nails keyboardist James Woolley dead at 50

James Woolley, Nine Inch Nails keyboardist from 1991-1994, died over the weekend at the age of 50.

Wooley’s former wife, Kate Van Buren, announced his passing on Facebook, but stated the cause is yet unknown.

“James passed away this weekend. I wanted our friends to know so you can please keep Brendan, Mary and Anne, the Woolley family and all his loved ones in your prayers,” Van Buren wrote on Facebook.

Woolley joined the band, whch was founded by Trent Reznor, in 1991, after replacing Lee Mars on keyboards. He was with Nine Inch Nails during their Lollapalooza tour in 1991 and for the start of their 1994 Self Destruct tour. At the same time, Woolley chipped in on Sister Machine Gun’s album “Torture Technique.”

The keyboardist contributed to Nine Inch Nail’s 1994 album “The Downward Spiral,” which is considered one of the best in the band’s discography. He also can be spotted in the band’s music videos for “Wish” and “March of the Pigs.”

“James worked hard and played hard with NIN. He brought coolness to playing keyboards, which isn’t as easy to do as playing guitar or drums. Those years were truly magical and quite an adventure,” Van Buren wrote.

When he left the band in 1994, Woolley toured with Rob Halford’s band 2wo and later made music with his own group called V.O.I.D.

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Gene Wilder died. Now I’m going to go watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Young Frankenstein again. 

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I was just about to add that. 

RIP Gene Wilder

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Evangeline said
Gene Wilder died. Now I’m going to go watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Young Frankenstein again.   

That’s very sad to hear. I loved watching Willy Wonka when I was little. RIP Mr. Wilder. apple01

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Evangeline said
Gene Wilder died. Now I’m going to go watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Young Frankenstein again.   

 

:'(  His Willy Wonka was my childhood. And I’ll forever love him in Young Frankenstein. Godspeed, Gene. 

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He was hilarious in quite a few movies, my favorites of his being Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles.

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RIP Gene.

He was the best Wonka. F*ck Johnny Depp.

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Oh and Richard Pryor waiting for him at the Gates so he can walk in like

 

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Long day ahead, Blazing Saddles AND Young Frankenstein. I wish had had more on DVD…

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Oh and Richard Pryor waiting for him at the Gates so he can walk in like
 
  

 

Right! Then he and Peter Boyle will be singing ‘Puttin’ On The Ritz’!

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Jamaican bluebeat and ska pioneer Prince Buster passed at his Florida home earlier today at the age of 78.

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I’m a little late with this but here’s a nice interview with Gene Wilder and possibly one of his last. 

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