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I will of course, although many sadly won't be. The first episodes are 11th February 1980 and 27th April 1990 though; so there could be some good pickings for deadpooling in them. EDIT: Update to this; they are now starting from 1986 and going in order.

To be fair - really early Chicago were an ambitious bunch hell-bent on pushing the same limits the likes of Blood, Sweat and Tears were pushing; it's just that hits and radio play were essential because there were so fucking many of them on stage; so the blanding out was inevitable.

The Crowdsourced Deathlist is basically a forum poll. Top 50 carry through.

I know people don't like seeing a lot of polls, but I think this will be a good food for thought. Plus, it's not another one of those pointless celebrity with one common trait poll (which unless it's Megrahi vs Robin Gibb, it's going to be shit). This is more because I am seeing people bringing up the question of whether 2017 is going to be bigger than 2016, and I could see arguments going both ways. Personally, I think that 2017 won't be bigger than 2016 due to the quality of the names in 2016 that 2017 lacks (not saying 2017 doesn't have quality, it just that it doesn't have the same quality of names as 2016, if you know what I mean). However, I do think these two years is only the start of an even bigger celebrity death epidemic that'll last decades. Actually, people could argue that it started back in 2012 even...

Sparks are back in the UK top 10 albums chart. Amazing!

I do Toastie.

I didn't look but would find it hard to believe it was posted -- Goodling's wife, Hilda, died March 18 of this year. SC

He wasn't booked, you see.

That Morrissey link just led me down the rabbit hole of discovering there's been a twitter storm about James Corden being friendly with Sean Spicer at the Emmys. Kiss on the cheek or some thing. And to be fair, for once I can understand the furore. I mean, hanging out with James Corden is going to be really bad for Sean Spicer's reputation...

Judy Parker Gaudio (IMDb, IBDb), actress and songwriter whose best known songs include December 1963 (Oh, What A Night) and Who Loves You from The Jersey Boys, has died aged 79. She was married to Bob Gaudio.

Yeah, his 'comeback' record was on Radio 2 this morning. I thought Chris Evans was going to ejaculate onto his underlings, such was his excitement. It was ok. Sparks new single shits all over it.

Hoist the main sail are ye be walkin the plank!

It's been suggested that I post these people as if they're somehow famous in the States. Nothing could be further from the truth, I've never heard of any of them. No one has. But you created a thread and I'm populating it, period. That for 80% of my posts anywhere, including American politicians. So don't get all self-righteous as if you know the names of all the MPs in the UK past or present. Hell, I'm in the Bi-Election pool so probably know more MP names than you. But I don't know any from 1980. And I don't know a single university president. Ronald E. Carrier, who served as James Madison University's president for 27 years, died Monday. At the age of 85, Carrier has left behind evidence of a transformation of the university from a small college to a major regional university during his tenure. Carrier became president in 1971 at 38 years old, when the 4,000-student school was still Madison College and predominantly populated by women training to be teachers. When Carrier became president, he was the youngest Virginia college president at the time. Before arriving in Harrisonburg, he was vice president of academic affairs at Memphis State University. When he arrived on campus, it was only half a decade after the college started allowing male students to live on campus. SC

gcreptile may have had a built-in advantage as to why he knew about Mohren...

Guys. It finally fucking happened. Sort of completely not. But I'll fucking take it. They are repeating Coronation Street on ITV3; not in order and not from the beginning but it's a step towards the goal - appears at moment to be selected "highlight" episodes. Hopefully the plan is to see how many people tune in for these to see if it's worth going from the beginning or releasing a DVD Box set. Please for crying out loud be the case. I'm going to take small credit for this in that my numerous emails nagging ITV for back episodes/DVD releases may have played a small part in this decision. Yes, I'm being self-indulgent. It feels bizarre not to be posting about this topic in the Room 101 thread for once.

Six years since Dolores Hope left us aged 102. Her finest hour, finally getting her own back on Bob for all his philandering by propping his senile, barely functioning body up in this 90s TV variety show as Jack Frost

According to a post in the fanmail forums, Mandan had a stroke and is now in poor health and unable to respond to mail. You get your leads where you can find them, but the incessant autograph hunters do tend to have a higher hit rate than, say, the Inquirer.

You better believe it. Loved these guys since the 70s. They were on news night tonight bbc2.

I would probably say the DoE. Funny fucker he is. Failing that, it'd be the revered, enigmatic, fascinating, legendary, god-like figure that is JP de Cuellar

Still going, still fucking ace.....IMHO.

Tessa Jowell is not minor if you live in Britain.

The mention elsewhere of this thread reminded me to check up on my favourite royal correspondents. Man, Dying Queen is making Zsa Zsa look weak willed at this rate for grasp on life...

I think there is a topic called Sad Last Days, or similar.

Unless somebody very big (a US president, Hillary, The Queen...) dies, i'd say NO. I mean just look at the music business. 2016 took Bowie, Prince, Cohen, White, Haggard, George Michael, Scotty Moore, Sinatra Jr., Emerson...Whilst The biggest music death in 2017 so far is Chuck Berry, and he was freaking ninety, which in rock and roll circles, is equivalent to Jeanne Calment levels.

Morrissey is a twat. Just on general principle, you know.