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Postly them weekly feels less like "here's a form guide for an old bastard not going to die anytime soon" (we can see it already) and more like promoting Le Pen, imo.

So there is any interest in continuing the KoS with the UK #1-songs of the 90s?

What do you mean finally? You had no clue who she was 3 days ago. How can you have such a big reaction to her moving house...?

Time for an update I reckon. Things have been a little slow of late, and what better way to stimulate a few hits than to post up an update to the scoreboard. The following deaths have been noted since the last update - if I have missed any, please let me know. 1st January: Miiko Taka 30th January: Felix Sienra 6th February: Greta Anderson 8th February: Burt Bacharach 8th February: Ivan Silayev 8th February: Miroslav "Ciro" Blasevic 12th February: Billy Two-Rivers 12th February: Ted Lerner 15th February: Raquel Welch 16th February: Tim Lobinger 18th February: Jim Broyhill 22nd February: Augie Nieto So @arghtongets a chance to see their name on top of the leaderboard, with a Joker hit of Ivan Silayev and a Tim Lobinger hit putting them top of the podium with 4 hits. That shouldn't last for too long, but lets allow them to enjoy their day in the sun, before the chasing back hunt them down. @WEPscored a quick double with their first hits of the year to lift hem up into second, with Captain Chorizo making up an early top-3. @LizLemon, @Gooseberry Crumbleand @When Theall join the race having sat out the first lap @tracy loses out on a potentially vital 3 points due to Miiko Taka's family's strange reluctance to say when the hell she actually died. Should a definite date of death emerge later in the year, points will be awarded. If it turns out that she died in late 2022, a sub will be allowed. @RadGuygets a first scoring hit to join their FrankMcGarvey duck-egg, to leave 17 players still sitting it out on the sidelines. Here is the top-10. The full scoreboard is on Page 1. Arghton (137 points) 4 hits [Gianluca Vialli, Ivan Silayev*, Rafiq Nishonov, Tim Lobinger) WEP (98 points) 2 hits [Augie Nieto, Tim Lobinger] Captain Chorizo (77 points) 2 hits [Billy Two-Rivers, Pervez Musharraf] BabyBlue (67 points) 2 hits [Greta Anderson, Leonard Pietraszak] Dying Probably (56 points) 1 hit [Hazel McCallion*] Im Not Hades (55 points) 2 hits [David Crosby, Miroslav Blasevic] Book (53 points) 2 hits [Burt Bacharach, Gina Lollobrigida] Drol (50 points) 3 hits [Gianluca Vialli, Pervez Musharraf, Shimon Baadani] Buffalo Phil (49 points) 3 hits [Gianluca Vialli, Hazel McCallion, Lucille Randon] Gcreptile (46 points) 2 hits [Burt Bacharach, William Consovoy] The RadGuy (46 points) 2 hits [Frank McGarvey, Tim Lobinger]

Is this really necessary?

She's bought the farm?

Mentioned in the Elizabeth II thread before but more appropriate here as he was a biographer of a number of Royals... Philip Ziegler (wiki) dead from cancer at 93. Times obit. A unique DDP hit.

The 90s is my ballpark of knowing songs. After 2003-ish is when I get lost and just instinctively voted for Rihanna. The only Taylor Swift song I know didn't even get to number one, I'll be even more lost than I thought. Looking it up, the only number ones from the last decade I know without listening to them are Get Lucky, Blurred Lines (couldn't avoid it at the time), Wake Me Up (due to Rad and Joey), Wrecking Ball (Masked Singer), Somewhere Only We Know (assuming its a cover), Happy, Uptown Funk, Writing on the Wall (its a crap Bond theme), No Time to Die (ditto Bond), Someone You Loved (the Lewis Capaldi song), Blinding Lights (actually, The Weekend seems decent), We Dont Talk about Bruno (I am a dad), and old stuff like Kate Bush and Whamageddon obviously. Oh and Escapism because Clorox was all "this is amazing you need to listen to it now" and I did, and it was alright. Which is probably high praise from a stick in the mud. Which is more than I thought, but still about 1%. Anyhow, the 90s is where I'm more comfortable. I'll be downvoting Doop like it's on special offer.

100%! I basically gave up on chart music about 2005. The 90's saw a decline in standards from the 80's - that decade was the real high point for quality and creativity.

I’d love to see a 90s game! A 60s game could work too. 00s onwards may not prove so popular but I’d still take part if it came about. And then maybe a shift to No.2s? And a Christmas No.1 game to start in mid-November? The possibilities are endless, as long as it sticks to music!

American mountaineer and rock climber Allen Steck (wiki) dead at 96/97 according to this Facebook post. (photo from his 90th birthday) Gurdial Singh (wiki), 99, and Gwen Moffat (wiki), 98, still at peak positions as the oldest mountaineers.

The absolute legend Denis Law who played over 300 games for Manchester Utd scoring nearly 200 goals and who famously ended up playing for Manchester City for a second spell scoring a goal in the game which relegated Man Utd, also holds the joint scoring record for Scotland with 30 goals is 83 today.

The categories I've already got lined up if I ever win this game are absolutely fucking horrid, so it's really in everyone's best interests that I don't take the W here.

Devisingh Ransingh Shekhawat dead at 88.

Ok, feel free to create a KoS. I'm only here for the #1-songs.

Edward James Olmos, Mexican-American activist, actor, and director, who started his acting career in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, probably remembered for his famous roles as Lieutenant Martin Castillo on the hugely successful television series "Miami Vice", and as the Admiral William Adama on the SYFY television series "Battlestar Galactica", is 76 today. Alain Prost, the intelligent French racing driver, one of the greatest Formula One World Champions with 4 World Titles, 1985, 1986, 1989, and 1993, who began karting at the age of 14, remembered for his competitive rivalry with Ayrton Senna, who was nicknamed 'The Calculator' for his smooth driving style, and 'The Professor' for his cerebral approach to racing, is 68 today.

Hiroshi Mizuta, Japanese economist and activist died on the 3rd February aged 103. Obit (In Japanese).

Yoko Ono QUITS NYC after 50 YEARS to move to rural upstate farm https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11784689/Yoko-Ono-quietly-QUITS-New-York-City-50-YEARS-rural-upstate-farm.html?ito=native_share_article-top She has moved to a farm near Franklin.

Really sorry to read this Paul.Thoughts are with you and your family.Losing a pet is always awful but especially at such a young age.

New article about former US Senator Jim Inhofe that briefly touches on his much-speculated health: At 88, Inhofe says he intends to remain involved in politics but admits to still suffering the long-term effects of COVID-19. It is the reason, he said, he left the Senate. “Five or six others have (long COVID), but I’m the only one who admits it.”

Archaeologist Alexander Avdonin who discovered the burial-site of the Romanov family in 1979 is still alive. Born in 1932, he will be turning 92 in 2024 if he makes it.

I agree that it's silly to blame Yoko for breaking up the Beatles but I'll admit that I laughed at this meme.

Say what you like about John Lennon and there's plenty of people of the belief that he wasn't as nice as some of his lyrics, but to his eternal credit the man isn't responsible for 'Pipes of Peace' or 'Mull of Kintyre'. It's ridiculous to suggest that Yoko split them up though it's a commonly enough cited reason for hating her. That's ascribing them with little will of their own in the matter which is ludicrous in the extreme especially given they weren't exactly short of an opinion or two of their own. Name a band that hasn't had issues of personal friction with or without 'girlfriend/boyfriend' interference. Her godawful caterwauling being passed off as music is a better reason or her (and his....) abysmal treatment of Julian.

Fifth place - I'll take that

Did she record a rap album that I didn't hear about?!? Yeah, like Book says, she was one of the first rappers in the world in Rapture. But the point is: Debbie Harry is not a rapper but a pop-wave-punk-singer (and should be mentioned in the pop thread or whatever). Blondie didn't record a whole rap album, just that one funky-disco-pop-track with a very impressive rap-part in it (as long as I know). This track was the very first "rap-song" which topped the Hot100 - and was sung by a blonde white female!!! Haha!!! There had been rappers before, of course, but "Rapture" is the first No.1.