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Clive Barker reportedly dead: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-12180499/Former-South-Africa-coach-Clive-Barker-dies.html The horror writer was picked for the DDP, rather than this guy.

10th June 39 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire 34 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising 34 Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World 34 Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine 26 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je T´aime... Moi Non Plus 24 Manfred Mann – Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) 24 The Beatles & Billy Preston – Get Back 24 The Archies – Sugar, Sugar 22 The Rolling Stones – Jumpin´ Jack Flash +4 22 The Love Affair – Everlasting Love 22 Tommy James & The Shondells – Mony, Mony 21 Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) 21 The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women 21 Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air +1 20 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – The Legend Of Xanadu 20 The Equals – Baby Come Back 20 The Beach Boys – Do It Again 20 Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days 20 Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 20 The Move – Blackberry Way 20 Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 20 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites 20 Tommy Roe – Dizzy 20 Bobbie Gentry – I´ll Never Fall In Love Again 19 Georgie Fame – The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde 18 Gary Pucket & The Union Gap — Young Girl 16 The Scaffold – Lily The Pink 16 The Marmalade – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 16 Fleetwood Mac – Albatross 15 Zager & Evans – In The Year 2525 14 Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends 14 The Beatles – Lady Madonna -1 12 The Bee Gees – I´ve Gotta Get A Message To You 00 The Beatles — Christ, You Know It Ain't Good -5

Saturday June 10 39 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire 36 Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World 34 Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine 32 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising +4 26 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je T´aime... Moi Non Plus 24 The Archies – Sugar, Sugar 22 The Beatles & Billy Preston – Get Back 22 The Love Affair – Everlasting Love 22 Tommy James & The Shondells – Mony, Mony 21 The Rolling Stones – Jumpin´ Jack Flash 21 Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) 21 The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women 20 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – The Legend Of Xanadu 20 Manfred Mann – Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) 20 The Equals – Baby Come Back 20 The Beach Boys – Do It Again 20 Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days 20 Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 20 The Move – Blackberry Way 20 Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 20 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites 20 Tommy Roe – Dizzy 20 Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air 20 Bobbie Gentry – I´ll Never Fall In Love Again 19 Georgie Fame – The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde 18 Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends 18 Gary Pucket & The Union Gap — Young Girl 16 The Scaffold – Lily The Pink 16 The Marmalade – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 16 Fleetwood Mac – Albatross 15 The Beatles – Lady Madonna 15 Zager & Evans – In The Year 2525 14 The Bee Gees – I´ve Gotta Get A Message To You 05 The Beatles — The Ballad of John & Yoko -3 04 Des O´Connor – I Pretend -3 I moved Gary Pucket up to his correct placement here. I am working on my song killing addiction. Pray for me.

39 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire 36 Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World 34 Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine 28 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising 26 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je T´aime... Moi Non Plus 24 The Archies – Sugar, Sugar 22 The Beatles & Billy Preston – Get Back 22 The Love Affair – Everlasting Love 22 Tommy James & The Shondells – Mony, Mony 21 The Rolling Stones – Jumpin´ Jack Flash 21 Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) 21 The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women 20 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – The Legend Of Xanadu 20 Manfred Mann – Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) 20 The Equals – Baby Come Back 20 The Beach Boys – Do It Again 20 Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days 20 Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 20 The Move – Blackberry Way 20 Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 20 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites 20 Tommy Roe – Dizzy 20 Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air 20 Bobbie Gentry – I´ll Never Fall In Love Again 19 Georgie Fame – The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde 18 Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends 16 The Scaffold – Lily The Pink 16 The Marmalade – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 16 Fleetwood Mac – Albatross 15 The Beatles – Lady Madonna 15 Zager & Evans – In The Year 2525 14 The Bee Gees – I´ve Gotta Get A Message To You 18 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap – Young Girl +4 08 The Beatles — The Ballad of John & Yoko -6 07 Des O´Connor – I Pretend  I'm simply voting for songs I like or dislike.

Sat 10 June 37 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire 32 Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World 26 Creedence Clearwater Revival — Bad Moon Rising 26 Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine 23 The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women +4 23 The Beatles – Lady Madonna -4 22 Beatles & Billy Preston – Get Back 22 The Archies – Sugar, Sugar 22 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je T´aime... Moi Non Plus 22 The Love Affair – Everlasting Love 21 Zager & Evans – In The Year 2525 21 The Rolling Stones – Jumpin´ Jack Flash 21 Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) 20 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – The Legend Of Xanadu 20 Manfred Mann – Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) 20 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap – Young Girl 20 The Equals – Baby Come Back 20 Tommy James & The Shondells – Mony, Mony 20 The Beach Boys – Do It Again 20 Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days 20 Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends 20 Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 20 The Move – Blackberry Way 20 Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 20 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites 20 Tommy Roe – Dizzy 20 The Beatles – The Ballad Of John & Yoko 20 Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air 20 Bobbie Gentry – I´ll Never Fall In Love Again 19 Georgie Fame – The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde 16 The Scaffold – Lily The Pink 16 The Marmalade – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 16 Fleetwood Mac – Albatross 15 Des O´Connor – I Pretend 14 The Bee Gees – I´ve Gotta Get A Message To You 00 Cliff Richard – Commiserations -2

1923    Archduchess Yolanda of Austria    / David H. Murdoch 1924 Anne Vernon /  Richard Rohmer 1925 Lucine Amara / Leo Esaki  1926  Rowena Jackson / Robert McGinnis 1927 Genevieve Page  / Frank Sedgman  1928 Yvonne Furneaux / Joss Ackland    1929 Lady Pamela Hicks / Stuart Hall 1930 Sara Jane Moore  / Robert Wagner  1931 Eve Queler / Robert Duvall  1932 Shirley Conran / Dennis Skinner Corrected list to correct 1926 and 1931 Thanks Mari for being on the ball x

I see. Corrected.

Les Dawson died on this day 30 years ago, aged 62. - Initially, Dawson was a piano player- he entered comedy when he began joking to his audience when he played the wrong keys. - Dawson would appear on the talent show Opportunity Knocks in 1967, cementing him in British comedy. He would end up becoming the host of the show during its final season in 1990. - Opportunity Knocks wasn't the only show he hosted- he presented Blankety Blank from 1984 until its initial cancellation, also in 1990. - Among his most notable comedic routines were a drag performance as the elderly Ada Shufflebotham (in which he would be the vulgar foil to Roy Barraclough's Cissie Braithwaite), playing a song correctly before soon playing the wrong notes (in a similar vein to Victor Borge), and making a myriad of funny faces (credited to him breaking his jaw in a boxing match): - Dawson would be the star of several comedy shows, including Sez Les, Listen to Les, and The Les Dawson Show. - Dawson was known to drink a bottle of whiskey and smoke 50 cigarettes daily. This lifestyle led to his prostate failing in 1985, and he nearly died from the resulting sepsis. He had a heart attack in 1988, and died from a second one five years later. - Dawson was one of the inaugural DeathList names (#13 on the 1987 list). He would appear again in 1990 and 1993, being the fourth out of five deaths that year

Wish I’d seen this before I did my scores. Utterly scandalous.

Helmar Müller has died aged 85, he competed for West Germany at the 1968 Summer Olympics, held in Mexico City, Mexico, in the 4 × 400 meter relay, where he won a bronze medal with teammates Manfred Kinder, Gerhard Hennig and Martin Jellinghaus https://www.vfb.de/de/vfb/aktuell/neues/club/2023/trauer-um-helmar-mueller/

Breaking bad actor Mike Batayeh dead at 51.

Tactical voting is everything. Lab, Lib, Grn, Ind and whoever else, BACK THE MRLP.

Alexandra Stan is 34.

Sat 10 Jun 39 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire 36 Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World 34 Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine +4 28 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising 23 The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women 22 Beatles & Billy Preston – Get Back 22 The Archies – Sugar, Sugar 22 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je T´aime... Moi Non Plus 22 The Love Affair – Everlasting Love 21 Zager & Evans – In The Year 2525 21 The Rolling Stones – Jumpin´ Jack Flash 21 Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) 20 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – The Legend Of Xanadu 20 Manfred Mann – Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) 20 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap – Young Girl 20 The Equals – Baby Come Back 20 Tommy James & The Shondells – Mony, Mony 20 The Beach Boys – Do It Again 20 Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days 20 Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends 20 Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 20 The Move – Blackberry Way 20 Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 20 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites 20 Tommy Roe – Dizzy 20 Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air 20 Bobbie Gentry – I´ll Never Fall In Love Again 19 Georgie Fame – The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde 16 The Scaffold – Lily The Pink 16 The Marmalade – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 16 Fleetwood Mac – Albatross 14 The Beatles – The Ballad Of John & Yoko 14 The Bee Gees – I´ve Gotta Get A Message To You 11 The Beatles – Lady Madonna -6 09 Des O´Connor – I Pretend

Uxbridge and South Ruislip are to have a by-election as a result of their elected filthy piece of toerag walking immediately after receiving the Partygate report.

My cousin used to buy singles play them and then give them to my brother and sister (One of these tracks was No.1when I was born) We had in our house Cinderella Rockerfeller, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and Lily the Pink I loved the fact that at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert the BBC camera man was obsessed with Rowan Williams and it was very clear when Paul McCartney was playing that he was word perfect on Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and he also kept cutting back to him during Stevie Wonder playing Superstition

Thank bloody christ. One of the biggest clowns at long last ejecting herself from the circus. Mid Bedfordshire is an incredibly solid tory seat, but as we've seen with by-elections in the past that does not stop Lib Dem gains against unpopular conservative incumbents.

Dead at 71. Second breaking News from Le Monde today. Will there be a third ?

UPDATE: they just Fed Pat Robertson's soul to Jimmy Carter's Hospice throne.

Andrew Jackson died on this day 178 years ago, aged 78. - Jackson was fatherless- Andrew Sr. died three weeks before his birth in a logging accident. - When he was 13 years old, Jackson served in the American Revolution with his brothers Hugh and Robert, and he was a courier and scout. Andrew and Robert were captured by British troops in 1781; he famously refused to polish a British officer's boots, leading to him striking him with a sword and leaving scars on his hand and face. - Jackson was also well known for his service in the War of 1812 (particularly as the commanding American general at the Battle of New Orleans) and the Creek War. - Jackson also survived at least 13 duels- historians suggest that all the bullets lodged in his body made Jackson rattle when he walked. - Jackson won the electoral and popular vote in the 1824 election, but since he did not receive 50% of the votes, the House of Representatives voted to elect John Quincy Adams. Jackson would defeat him in a rematch in 1828. - Jackson is considered the founder of the modern Democratic Party, alongside Martin Van Buren (who would serve as his Vice President from 1833 to 1837, and who he handpicked as his successor). - In 1835, Jackson became the only US president to pay off the US's national debt, a task which is virtually impossible almost 200 years later (31 trillion dollars and counting). - Jackson was the first US president to have had an assassination attempt made against them: in 1835, a man named Richard Lawrence tried to shoot Jackson twice, but both of his pistols backfired. Jackson then beat Lawrence with his cane. - In his post-presidency, Jackson advocated for the admission of Texas to the union, arguing that the British could use it as a base to threaten the US. - Jackson's death was caused by a combination of heart failure, tuberculosis, and edema. His deathbed regrets were that he didn't kill Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun (the latter being his first VP from 1829 to 1832). His pet parrot, Poll, would be brought to his funeral, but had to be removed because she wouldn't stop swearing (a habit she took from him). - Jackson first appeared on the $20 bill in 1928 (with its current variant being made in 2003). In recent years, there have been calls to have him removed due to him being a slaveowner and his cruel treatment towards Native Americans (particularly during the Indian Wars and his initiation of the Trail of Tears). Harriet Tubman is expected to replace him on the bill by 2030 at the earliest, although he is expected to remain on the reverse side.

The film, to this day, is still one of the best movie musicals ever made, and is a perfect example for writers of both stage and film musicals in regards to structure, pacing, and characterization.

Hmm. Coffee whore.

Anything else happen to be delivered with the letter?

American character actor John Petlock - best known to you as either Dan Marsh in Dallas or Uncle Phil's partner at the law firm Henry Furth in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is listed as dying in 2020 on IMDB. However I can't find any news reports of this from a brief Google/search of the socials. The fact that he shares his name with a murderer makes it a little harder to research as well. Any ideas?