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Easier to see why prog rock was popular when the alternative was Tie a Fuckin Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree (edit: Which will be getting -6 from me until it's gone). Now that probably was Dawns most gut wrenching track ever.

Sunak’s first PMQs was fucking dismal. Truss was karaoke Johnson, and Sunak is karaoke Truss. Piss-weak obfuscation, non-answers, a large Sue Ellen-shaped scandal after just hours, and the nerve, in light of how far down the swanny we’ve sunk in the past 12 years (particularly the last few months of that) to suggest that the opposition are the ones who can’t be trusted with economic matters, and to paint Starmer as the one who’s out of touch because he’s based in North London, coming from the man who’s rich as Croesus and is on record boasting about funnelling money away from deprived areas into rich leafy towns. The grown ups are still not in the building, and never will be under the Tories until they are demolished and rebuilt. Oust these clowns at once.

Omar Borras, who as Uruguay manager in 1986 coined the "Group of Death" moniker, has died aged 93. This happened last week, @Octopus of Odstock, but a quick forum search suggested it hadn't been mentioned yet. All Scotland had to do was beat his ten-man side. Sigh.

Francisco Juarez Iglesias dead at 111.

It's common in America, particularly in states like Oklahoma where Elizabeth Warren is from. It's usually a folktale handed down by the family, about their great-great grandparents. So they're not exactly lying, even though it's not true. Usually they claim Cherokee, due to the infamy of the Trail of Tears. Johnny Depp, Miley Cyrus, and Johnny Cash are other examples. I think Heather Locklear is actually Native American (Lumbee tribe). To the extent of Sacheen Littlefeather or Iron Eyes Cody (the Crying Indian), no that is extremely bizarre. To get college subsidies, you'd have to be an official member of a tribe and go through the tribe's education department.

Times death notice for Joyce Aylard (wiki), aged 97, codebreaker at Bletchley Park during WWII. Just four surviving Bletchley Park WRENs and codebreakers with Wiki pages now: Ruth Bourne (wiki, b. 1926) Phyllis Dalton MBE (wiki, b. 1925) Eleanor Ireland (wiki, b. 1926) Betty Webb MBE (wiki, b. 1923) I'd say each of them will get a QO, so worthy DDP material for next year. There will be a few others without Wiki pages also.

DJ Mighty Mouse, House DJ of the 2000s dies of a brain aneurism at 48: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/mighty-mouse-death-cause-dj-house-music-b2210949.html

Yeah, I listened to the ones I couldn't put a tune to on YouTube. Usually quickly followed by "Oh christ, not that one..."

Lia Origoni dead at 103.

38 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel 35 Freda Payne – Band of Gold 33 Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) +1 32 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 29 Slade - Coz I Luv You 28 T. Rex – Get It On 28 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 27 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 26 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking 18 Rod Stewart - Maggie May 17 T. Rex – Hot Love 17 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) 15 Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime +1 9 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord +2 8 Lee Marvin - Wanderin' Star -6 Noticing that people here either love or hate "My Sweet Lord"- I'm in the former group.

All this reminds me why I detest Karaoke. If you like the track - you don't want to hear it tunelessly slaughtered by tone-deaf drunks. If you don't like the track - you don't want to hear it at all, whether rendered by tone-deaf drunks or not. The very definition of lose lose.

Amazing Grace by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Band beats the shit out of both of them.

Oh when it gets to 1972-73, I foresee 90% of my positive points going to Alice Cooper. There isn't a lot of other options, bar T. Rex, Slade and the Van der Valk theme.

That’s not very nice.

American actress, singer and fashion designer Juli Lynne Charlot (Wiki) turns 100 today

35  Freda Payne – Band of Gold +2 34 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel 32 Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) 32 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown +2 29 Slade - Coz I luv you 28 T. Rex – Get It On 28 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 27 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 26 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking 18 Rod Stewart - Maggie May -1 17 T. Rex – Hot Love 17 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) 14 Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime 14 Lee Marvin - Wanderin' Star 8 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord 5 Matthews Southern Comfort - Woodstock 0 Diana Rots - I'm Still Waiting -5 Sorry Di, the solo stuff just doesn't have the same spark Supremes does for me

34 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel 33  Freda Payne – Band of Gold 32 Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) 30 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 29 Slade - Coz I luv you 28 T. Rex – Get It On 28 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 27 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 26 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking 29 Slade - Coz I luv you +4 19 Rod Stewart - Maggie May 17 T. Rex – Hot Love 17 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) 14 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord +2 14 Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime +2 14 Lee Marvin - Wanderin' Star 5 Matthews Southern Comfort - Woodstock 1 Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting -6

First Briton to win Tour de France stage Brian Robinson dies at age of 91 (yahoo.com) Confirmed (with QO). Nearly (a week off) a decade to the day another British cycling legend, Tommy Godwin, died at the same age.

Hearing that Brian Robinson, the first British rider to complete the Tour de France, has died aged 91.

Should be a hell of a funeral mind, a human pyramid tumbling the coffin into the ground, or summat!

Lauren Tewes, American actress, who made her television debut in mid-1974 in a Lipton Ice Tea commercial, who is known for her performance of Julie McCoy on the ABC television series "The Love Boat", is 69 today. In 1984, she was replaced by Pat Klous, as Julie's younger sister, on "The Love Boat" due to her cocaine addiction. Lauren Tewes is also a cheese expert and sous-chef for a catering company. Keith Urban, New Zealand-born and Australian-raised contemporary/pop rock country music singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was a member of the country rock trio "The Ranch", is 55 today. The accomplished guitarist has sold more than five million albums, written five number one singles. He is married to Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman. They recently celebrated their 16th wedding anniversary.

Tomasz Wojtowicz is a unique hit for myself in Summer Olympic champions

Hungarian photographer and Holocaust survivor Ágnes Bartha (Wiki) turns 100 today

Replacing Mike Davis with Hawai'ian princess Abigail Kawananakoa. Edit: Or to be more precise, Mike Davis out, Abigail Kawananakoa in as 3rd sub. Michael Tilson Thomas joins the roster.

Well, they are coming to take him away, ha-haa!!