Billy Mackenzie
Isabella Blow
L'Wren Scott
Angela Scoular ............
OK two of those had me shrugging "who?" and the other two had more famous husbands. I don't think this invalidates my argument.
But we all like a good list.....
I think you'll find that they've all "featured on this site". Why would it matter if they had a more famous partner?
I am shocked that you had heard of Stuart Adamson but not Billy Mackenzie.
Really? I have just wiki'd him and unless this is a Scottish thing Big Country were much bigger than the Associates and he left before their only noteworthy hit.
The point about having more famous husbands is that although they were famous in their own right if they had not had such famous husbands their death would have been less noticiable in the media and as nobody had picked L'Wren in the DDP it goes to show suicides are hard to predict.
The list I would like to see is how many suicides have actually scored DDP points.
Yes, but what you said was:
"There are only a small number of celebrities who commit suicide maybe 1 a year who would feature on this site"
- and that is what I responded to.
Nothing to do with how famous they are in relation to anyone else, how predictable they might be, or whether they have been picked for the DDP.
Or whether you personally have heard of them. There are loads of people I've never heard of who get mentioned on here. Doesn't mean they're not famous to those who follow their sport, watch their TV programme, buy their products or whatever.
Oh, and The Associates had two hit singles (Club Country and Party Fears Two), both of which Billy Mackenzie sang on. I'm not aware that they ever had another lead singer?
I stand corrected on Billy Mackenzie I misread his wiki article. I was thinking of Party Fears Two.
I wasn't trying to have an argument but this whole thing developed from the comment about whether theoretical potential suicides should be good picks for general deathlisting.
Looking at the list of unnatural deaths on the DDP website only 4 count as suicide and a couple of those were potential picks because of age &/or lifestyle.
I am rapidly having to reassess my idea of famous as nobody seems willing to publish an obit for Val Biro.
Look here
Anyone seen anything resembling a qualifying obit for Ronnie Masterson?