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Death Notice for Mike Peters (aka Mike Best), bass guitarist with The John Barry Seven , who has died aged 84: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/251429/peters Difficult to tell how many of their hit records he played on, but if IMDB is correct, all of them. He's certainly on their first charting hit as he's up on the podium at the back, bass guitaring away on Hit Or Miss, the theme to Juke Box Jury (I've seen pictures on Google Books which confirm it's him): Yeah, not The Alarm Mike Peters either, before the smart aleck remarks come...

Your maths are shit - I’ll play teacher. Number of deaths UK/USA 130k/635k = c 1/5 Correct well done Sir Creep. Population UK/USA 68m/333m = c 1/5 oh your 1/9 was quite a lot wrong - keep trying and you’ll get better. It's still pretty bad that Boris’s UK have as many pro rata covid deaths as Trump’s America but not surprising. GUN

Not on this list, but Adela Forestello, one of the Mothers of the Plaza 25 de mayo is dead aged 98: https://redaccionrosario.com/2021/08/11/fallecio-adela-forestello-la-ultima-de-nuestras-madres-de-plaza-25-mayo/ I'll update the list to include more of them as most of them are very old nowadays

Dead: https://mmnews.tv/veteran-actress-durdana-butt-passes-away/amp/

Keyboard player and singer Mike Finnigan, particularly known for his performances on the Hammond (electric) Organ, died at 76 years: https://celebrityaccess.com/2021/08/11/legendary-keyboardist-session-player-mike-finnigan-dead-at-76/ He won and was nominated for several Blues Music Awards for his performances with the Phantom Blues Band.

Yes, the graphics do take some deciphering, but the information is only the same as presented for other formats, so it strikes me as different for the sake of being different. Some of the other things that particular annoyed me - - the false(-sounding) bonhomie of Vaughan & Tufnell, which sadly Isa Guha seems to have caught. Its worse than anything I've ever heard on TMS. - the constant cutting away to the pros around the ground for their opinion (does it add anything, having a chat with Carlos Brathwaite about Halle Berry in between balls?) - the Vick Hope vox pops with kids, which just grate after the first couple of times. The sponsorship has raised a few eyebrows as the competitions stated target audience is women & kids and targeting junk food ads at kids is supposedly a no-no!

https://www.showbiz411.com/2021/08/07/hollywood-squares-original-host-peter-marshall-mourns-death-of-68-year-old-son-from-covid-in-hawaii Peter Marshall's 68-year old son David LaCock was not so lucky.

Internet detectives have discovered that Jeff Stacy, who was the mark in one of the most famous To Catch A Predator stings, died in February this year from a drug overdose aged 41.

Facebook reminds me that 9 years ago today several of us were indulging ourselves at this place: Probably about time we did something similar again before we're all too old (OK, before I'm too old)!

Brian Knobbs hospitalized with “major stomach issues” according to various reports and a GoFundMe. Claims he is expected to be in the hospital for a couple of months. Hmm…

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/15815311/sugababes-heidi-range-gives-birth-second-daughter/ Sugarbabes singer Heidi Range has given birth to her second daughter.

Donald Kagan, conservative expert on Greek history, dead at 89: https://news.yale.edu/2021/08/10/donald-kagan-celebrated-historian-ancient-world-and-revered-teacher

Murray Melvin turned 89 yesterday, and looks good for his age. (Not a fan of the look of that pesto he's eating though!) (Alfie, Barry Lyndon, shitloads, passing "who is that?" youngsters...)

Tempted me to look up other names over 80 from kids TV in my youth. (Using the kids TV caption more than the Playschool one, tbh.) Peter Renaday - voice of Master Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, born 1935. Patricia Edgar - producer of Round the Twist, born 1937. The author Paul Jennings is alive aged 78. Christopher Awdry - carried on the Thomas the Tank series when his father retired. born 1940. Alan Hawkshaw - composer of the Grange Hill theme (also the Countdown theme). born 1937. Anne Wood - Teletubbies creator, also behind Rosie and fucking Jim. born 1937. Carlo Bonomi - The, err, voice of Pingu! Born 1937 Vivian Pickles - Secret Agent Cynthia Birdwood in the Uncle Jack series, a role that doesn't even make her Wiki! born 1931 Laurent de Brunhoff - Babar writer/exec, born 1925. Allan Ahlberg - Co-writer of Woof! with his late wife, born 1938 Colin Wyatt - Poddington Peas creator born 1939. Peter Sasdy - Director of the Adrian Mole TV series but somewhat better known for The Stone Tape! born 1935. John Alderton - You know who he is, but alongside his CV he was also voice of Fireman Sam. born 1940 Claudio Biern Boyd - The chap behind Dogtanian and Willy Fogg, born 1940 Brian Patton - the surviving Patton Brother, real life brothers of the Chuckle Brothers and also kids entertainers, born 1933 Roger Greenaway - Songwriters Hall of Fame writer, probably for The Family Ness theme tune. born 1938 Anna Home - creator of Dramarama, also produced The Changes, commissioned Grange Hill and cancelled Play School, born 1938 Well there's a decade anyhow, and not exhaustive or particularly new names but reminders of some still breathing.

Indeed a unique DDP hit for Obituarynotice: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/08/11/stephen-wilkinson-composer-conductor-turned-bbc-northern-singers/

I'd add to this by noting that since we're discussing a Cosgrove Hall name, Brian Cosgrove himself is still alive. Mark Hall died years ago, though. So many childhood memories from that lot. Also speaking of 70s/80s/90s kids TV, Peter Maddocks is still alive. Who is Peter Maddocks? The creator of the Family Ness, Jimbo and the Jet Set and many others. He's 93 now. Was also a Telegraph and Private Eye (among many others) artist for ages too.

Well if the list of the recently shagged must continue then expect a few quips when the inspiration hits.

Yeah, I think so. For all the jokes about magical money trees, a lot of the stuff done during pandemic has a price tag - especially as it was done a lot of the time without any forward planning. Plus there's other issues on the horizon. Must stock up on tins this week... Sunak is very good at basking in the good publicity and doesn't like the bad stuff, like how his big Eat Out plan last summer helped usher in a new covid wave. The shine's going go off him very quickly when he's not handing people money. Well, other people. I got none of it, the bastard... Devils advocate - the way Boris JOHNSON (happy, @The Quim Reaper ) reacted to the Gove announcement by basically going "Woe is me", crying, and pulling out (not something he does a lot, by looks of things) of the leadership contest showed me exactly why he was unsuited to the job of Prime Ministers. A good PM doesn't wait for the job to come to them, they grab it. They'd have gone "Right, fucketybye Gove!" and then plotted to crush him in the leadership contest. He had enough friendly MPs onside and the membership, he just lacked the work ethic and effort. And he still fucking well does. This is why "great Prime Ministers we never had" Rab Butler didn't deserve it - you get 3 or 4 chances for the job and don't make the move, that's your fault. Ditto Dave Miliband. Whereas Thatcher took on Heath when it "wasn't the time" and undone most of the Tory heavyweights of the time by going for the jugular. She wanted it, she got it as a Cabinet outsider. Boris Johnson wants the plaudits and praise and historical praise of a Thatcher, Attlee or Churchill, but doesn't want to put in the actual work required to get there. And it was self-evident from 2001 or so on, but underlined in marker pen during that 2016 election.

ELLIS - Mary Irene Colette (nee McCrossan) (stage name Colette O'Neil) Mary Irene Colette passed away peacefully on Sunday 11th July 2021. Actress and much loved mother to Dominic, Lara, Natasha, sister to Pat and grandmother to Nyree, Aaron, Maisy, Mya and Grace. Family and friends welcome to attend a service to celebrate Colette's life held at St Gabriel's Church, Merrylee Road, Glasgow, on 11th August at 10am. Family flowers only, if wished donations to Alzheimer's Research UK please. In the Herald. This is for Scottish actress Colette O'Neil (born 1937). She appeared in Taggart, Shetland, Hamish MacBeth, Adam Adamant Lives, Wallander, Z-Cars and Doctor Who (Snakedance, she played Martin Clunes's mum) among many others. Looks like the family only just announced it 2 days ago. Lucky to make it to 84 after a near fatal accident performing on stage in the 1960s!

I knew I'd read it somewhere, you were probably the source! Grace Slick also claims their LSD was bought off university connections made fresh so nothing in it. (Although in line with Ulitzer, everyone looks at Grace, and ignores the rising death rate among her younger bandmates from that era). Also, yes, agreed. I take it you know the reasons booze/ciggies were available but weed and so on banned was due to heavy government lobbying. Not to ban dangerous drugs, but by the alcohol and smoking companies trying to get a rival successfully banned! I've often thought that legalising, say, weed and taxing it would de-stress a lot of areas of society all at once - criminal, medical, societal, etc. The biggest drugs killer worldwide tends to be the old "too many painkillers and a wee sip of something". And you can buy painkillers from nearly any shop in the UK, for around 50p a box! The one name playing in my head is Ozzy of course, who was fired from Sabbath due to being unfunctioning at the time, cleaned up several times briefly to record before crashing into incoherence again (he puts it that anytime he suffered a bereavement or depression he self-medicates...), and has the well documented genuine arrests/hospital stays on his CV. I've been around alcoholics and regular drug users and even before his Parkinsons you could see the familiar traits in Osbourne.

imo 1940s music stars is going to be the next big source of deadpool picks alongside aging footballers. Survival wise, I have a similar view of Grace Slick, who is somehow 81 these days despite her well documented vices. It's like that recent Scorsese film The Irishman says - sometimes those who assume they'll live fast get old and arthritic!

I think at least one will go within the next few years and I expect to see their names increasingly pop up in deadpooling. But I agree it's amazing they are all still standing especially with some of the excesses I imagine some of them indulged in! A lot more fortunate than the beatles who lost two members before the age of 60.

Raffaella Carrà's funeral will be shown live on Rai 1 (VPN needed to watch in the UK) on Friday at 11am UK time. Obviously I will be tuning in for the final farewell, but celeb spotting may be limited as I know very few Italian stars, and those that I may know are 30 years older than I last saw them.

Yes horrible. Doddie announced his diagnosis in 2017 though whereas Rob Burrow announced his diagnosis end of 2019. Burrow has been given an MND Fast Pass ticket.