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When I started this thread, I would never have thought I'd be mentioning Adam Schlesinger, whose death is reported elsewhere, but who I hope you don't me adding here, as songwriting was his true talent. I'd call him more an acquaintance than a friend, but two memories stand out. The first was when he and Chris stayed at my flat as members of The Wallflowers, a name they gave up to Jacob Dylan soon after, before forming FoW. They had the misfortune to be there while a 'party' was going on, and spent half the night sequestered in a bedroom playing Scrabble with my flatmate Nic. The other was getting me a pass to see them play Stacy's Mom on Top of the Pops, as a besotted teenager of... 36! I stayed well out of camera shot and made my way to the legendary TVC bar after their slot. Thanks for reading, and look after yourselves and your loved ones in these strange days. Should I link a YouTube, if i can remember how?

Looks like he’s tested positive for cake also.

Just a small request, when we do these updates can we please highlight the name gone in red and/or strikethrough so we can see which lists they came off of?

The Hollywood Reporter has checked up on him and he's doing fine during this coronavirus situation. It's also interesting to note that Norman Lloyd lived through the 1918 flu epidemic. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/norman-lloyd-is-surviving-his-second-global-epidemic-1286735

Notable Slovene writer Boris Pahor, 106 year old and best known for his autobiographical novel, Necropolis, which is narrated by a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, would surely get an Obit. He received the prestigious Preseren Award in 1992 and the BBC has made a documentary about his life through Nazi Germany: "The Man who Saw too much", definetely worth seeing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bqt9

Ah, such a upper-middle class crime. If he'd stayed in Glasgow, he'd have been belt buckling fellow inebriates outside the Horseshoe Bar....

QO: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-eddie-large-dead-coronavirus-21800410 Say what you like, at the time they were a great double act and I'm sorry to see the big man go, despite his *ahem* abrasiveness. RIP Mr McGinnis.

Ok, maybe I’m missing something on this Deane Sutherland debate. Surely the obituary posted above is the typical paid for obit that families and funeral directors pay to put into local papers every day of the week. I am very new to this whole deadpooling thing, but my understanding was that these type of obits are not accepted in any pool, regardless of how august the publication is. Otherwise any of us could pay to put a death notice in a local rag and claim it as a legitimate obit. Or am I missing some obvious (or indeed subtle) aspect of deadpooling?

Eileen Ash and Fauja Singh (both born 1911, but Singh's birth is dubious) will definitely both obit.

Dan Snow has reported his death, aged 108, on Twitter.

We live in hope.

He'll get obits across the board by evening or else I will be majorly fucked off.

As also noted in the Death by Jazz thread, Ellis Marsalis Jr., patriarch of the legendary music-making Marsalis family, has died from the coronavirus. He was 85. https://www.cnn.com/videos/entertainment/2020/04/02/ellis-marsalis-jr-new-orleans-jazz-legend-dies-coronavirus-ctn-vpx.cnn

Fucking hell. “Utopia Parkway” was a massive album for me as a 16-year-old. On a side note though, with this coming just a year after Nipsey Hussle’s death, do we get a “Curse of Crazy Ex Girlfriend” thread going?

William Helmreich, a prominent sociologist perhaps best known for walking nearly every block of New York City, died Saturday morning of coronavirus (NO SHIT?). He was 74. Helmreich wrote nearly 20 books, including "The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City," which chronicled his walks through New York City talking to and learning about its residents. SC EDIT: oh and for those bitching at SC for keeping it real around here. "After testing positive for coronavirus, Helmreich's symptoms appeared to be improving when he died suddenly on Saturday." It's what this thing does over and over. So when someone thinks they're feeling better....it's the most dangerous of times. They need to double down on whatever precautions or remedies they are doing. I wasn't put on earth to make friends and I surely ain't on a website -- about death -- sugar-coating reality. This thing is a killer. Know the symptoms and course that it takes.

President XI if he is still arround as a conventional or even nuclear war with China feels likely.

First check that the cat is fine, then think about me and do two fantastic things: reading and drinking

UP KING BILLY!!!!!!!!!

Prince Charles has been tested positive for Coronavirus https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/uk-coronavirus-live-boris-johnson-facing-further-calls-to-halt-construction-work-as-experts-warn-half-of-country-could-be-infected/ar-BB11Cu9g?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=spartanntp

Happy birthday Captain, 89 today.

105 today!

I wouldn't shed a tear if this clown popped off

slipping in the bathtub. sounds like a big exit sign for 2005

Well Howdy Parten-ers A nicely argued case by Birdie there but I have to agree with Mr Stats again that theres wishful thinking there. Birdie will however be pleased to see Phil happily nominated on the 1000 people more annoying that Mick Hucknall site - some good discussion there too http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/showthread.php?threadid=4636