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Whoever that is - it's his 83rd birthday today.

Allow me...

At this rate, we're going to have half the punters one hit away from victory before anybody wins.

Cutting all the egg-chasing chat out of it:

An even older-timer, lyricist Don Black is 82. He wrote the lyrics to the opening theme of The Italian Job, Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever, To SIr With Love and many many more (as the adverts go).

I was quite harsh in my assessment so any names that I only encountered on here got a no. Even though that might make my Shadow List look hypocritical.

I see Johnson’s million pound plane makeover is nearly done:

She’s a cunt and no mistake.

Up to the end of 1969 and with it the first of 6 corrie decades (probably 7 by the time I'm done) to sift through. This is who I have as living from episodes between 9th December 1960 and 31st December 1969 - as with the previous list minor characters have been ignored and I've attempted to stick to notable characters but a few nobodies might have made it through the cracks....... 70s will be added in the next update. A couple of actors who appeared in minor roles in the 60s but later returned as major characters also feature based on the later character... The Coronation Street Survivors Book - (1960-1969) (Episodes 1 to 942) Ernst Walder / 17 November 1927 / (Ivan Cheveski) Graham Rigby / 1927 / (Sid Lambert) Barabra Ashcroft / 1927 / (Mary Jackson) Eileen Kennely / 2 November 1928 / (Brenda Reilly) Patricia Routledge /17 February 1929 /(Sylvia Snape) Frank Coda / 14 May 1931 / (Mario Bonarti) Kenneth Cope / 14 June 1931 / (Jed Stone) Stanley Meadows / 14 July 1931 / (Laurie Frazier) Eileen Derbyshire / 6 October 1931 / (Emily Bishop) Jack Smethurst / 9 April 1932 (Fred Clark / Percy Bridge / Johnny Webb) William Roache / 25 April 1932 / (Ken Barlow) Barbara Knox / 13 September 1933 / (Rita Littlewood/Tanner/Fairclough et al ) Patricia Heneghan /2 March 1934 / (Marian Lund) Jacquiline Jones / July 1934 / (Phillipa Scopes) Renny Lister / 24 May 1934 / (Jean Stark) Anne Reid / 28 May 1935 (Valerie Barlow nee Tatlock) June Barry / 15 June 1935 / (Joan Davies) Prunella Scales / 22 June 1932 / (Eileen Hughes) Maureen Davis / October 1935 / (Mavis Fox) Angela Crow / 13 December 1935 / (Doreen Lostock) Barabara Young / 9 February 1936 / (Doreen Fenwick) Diana Davies / 20 July 1936 / (Norma Ford) Billy Walker / 18 April 1936 / (Billy Waker) Philip Lowrie /20 June 1936 / (Dennis Tanner) Clare Owen / October 1936 / (Rosemary Fraser) Colette O’Neil / 1937 / (Ruth Winter) Alan Rothwell / 9 February 1937 / (David Barlow) Anne Cunningham / 1 March 1937 / (Linda Cheveski ne Tanner) Pamela Craig / 1937 / Jackie Marsh Lucille Soon / 15 August 1938 / (Jasmine Choong) Ray Brooks / 20 April 1939 / (Norman Philips) Christopher Sandford / 6 June 1939 / (Walter Potts) Angela Douglas / 29 October 1940 / (Joyce Bond) Patrick Stewart / 13 July 1940 (Fire Officer) Susan Jameson / 13 August 1941 / (Myra Dickinson) Leslie Southwick /1942 / (Skinny Williams) Julie Goodyear / 29 March 1942 / (Bet Lynch) Barbara Ferris / 27 July 1942 / (Nona Willis) Patricia Shakesby / 6 November 1942 / (Susan Cunningham) Dilys Watling / 1942 / (Merlye Baker) Eileen Meyers / 1942 / (Sheila Birtles) Amanda Reiss / 1943 / (Caroline Critchley) Leslie Lawton / 1943 / (Clive Owen) Ronald Cunliffe / 9 March 1943 / (Stanley Fairclough) Sandra Gough / 2 August 1943 / (Irma Barlow) Judith Barker / 22 June 1943 / (Janet Barker) Ben Kingsley / 31 December 1943 / (Ron Jenkins) Bonnie Hurran / 11 May 1944 / (Jane Maxwell) Frazer Hines / 22 September 1944 / (Roger Wain) Bill Kenwrighgt / 4 September 1945 / (Gordon Clegg) Patricia Fuller / 1946 / (Sandra Butler) Roy Holder / 15 June 1946 / (Michael Butterworth / Micky Lister) Peter Noone / 5 November 1947 / (Stanley Fairclough) Geoffrey Leesley / 1 June 1949 / (Gordon Clegg) Gillian McCann / 1949 / (Audrey Fleming) Nigel Humphreys / 1951 / (Dickie Fleming) Heather Moore / Unknown / (Sandra Petty) Kevin Williams / Unknown / (Alan Platt) Maureen O’Reilly / Unknown / (Joan Corrie) Beatrice Neald / Unknown / (Mrs Toft)

Here is the next round material. Compared to the beginning of the year, those choices tends to be a little bit more spaced than they used to considering our 2 hits per months pace has been broken with the only passing of Stiller in may. Wish you all good luck ! June 21st : Miracle Aligner June 26th : bentrovato June 27th : Sir Creep June 28th : Joey Russ June 29th : Putin June 30th : DCI Frank Burnside July 1st : chilean way July 2nd : Book July 3rd : The Old Crem July 4th : theoldlady July 5th : ThePrematureBurial July 6th : CastAway July 7th : The Quim Reaper July 9th : Deadpool July 10th : paddyfool July 11th : Cant Wait July 12th : philheybrookbay July 13th : Etushispushingupdaisies July 14th : Genfærd July 15th : ladyfiona July 18th : roaming_comrade July 21st : YoungWillz July 22nd : Exu July 23rd : Perhaps July 28th : bibliogryphon July 30th : redrumours August 1st : Kenny McCormick August 2nd : ThereWillBeDeaths7 August 9th : Death Duke August 23rd : The Red Death August 30 : msc @ladyfiona , @The Old Crem and @Bibliogryphon your dates were already spoken for, please select another one !

Yes, taking cricket off free-to-air TV ruined everything (I know )

David E. Gluck who infamously lip-synched songs with his anus muscle in John Waters' movie "Pink Flamingos" has died at 70: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/20/the-singing-anus-from-john.html

A Bibliogrpyhon Deadpool: slowly moving to an exciting climax...

Whippersnapper!

Lalo Schifrin - 88 Salome - 77 Nils Lofgren - 69 Marcella Detroit - 68

There are days (Days?) when The Kinks are my absolute favourite band that ever existed, and other days its Queen, but both produced some top tunes. But beyond The Kinks greatest hits which everyone knows and loves, here's a random mostly forgotten track from one of their last albums (UK Jive, 1989) which I'm quite fond of. PS I was going to link to The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society but the full album on YouTube has songs missing, so feck.

Ahmed Radhi, former Iraqi national team captain who was part of their squad at the 1986 World Cup, dead at 56 from COVID-19. He was also the inaugural Asian Player of the Year in 1988.

17 deaths in 2017 .Maybe as it's 2020 we'll end on 20 deaths this year !

I’m the one who tweeted this! Quite pleasantly surprised how many people found it interesting.

Richard Fleischman, an award-winning Cleveland architect and member of that city's International Hall of Fame, has died. He was 91. Fleischman co-founded the firm Conrad and Fleischman with Bill Conrad in 1961 and led the firm for 57 years. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/06/cleveland-architect-richard-fleischman-has-died-at-age-91.html

She’s a tedious talentless troll who is fast running out of well paid options

David Perlman, award winning science journalist, died at 101 years: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/David-Perlman-award-winning-Chronicle-science-15353853.php

I am old enough to have actually had one of the enamel golly badges that you got if you saved up enough jam labels. My mum was keener on them than I was. I hated golliwogs, they frightened me. It's important to note, though, that I never associated them with black people. They were fictional creatures like Noddy and Big Ears, not human beings. I did have a black doll at one time and had no problem with her.

Actually, ignore the last two. I think they're likely to be this person instead.