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Previous post: Following post: Then... 18 Ray Stevens — Misty Corrected list (with my points): 15/Jul/2023 44 Queen — Killer Queen +4 31 Roxy Music — Love Is The Drug 30 Sparks — This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us 28 Gloria Gaynor — Never Can Say Goodbye 28 Greg Lake — I Believe In Father Christmas 22 Sweet — Fox On The Run 22 Bachman-Turner Overdrive — You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet 22 Ralph McTell — Streets Of London 22 Sweet — Teenage Rampage 22 Mud — The Cat Crept In 20 Leo Sayer — The Show Must Go On 20 The Hollies — The Air That I Breathe 20 Bay City Rollers — Shang-A-Lang 20 Stephanie De Sykes — Born With A Smile On My Face 20 The Stylistics — You Make Me Feel Brand New 20 The Glitter Band — Goodbye My Love 20 The Carpenters — Please Mr Postman 20 Guys & Dolls — There’s A Whole Lot Of Loving 20 Showaddywaddy — Three Steps To Heaven 19 Leo Sayer — Moonlighting -1 19 Hot Chocolate — You Sexy Thing 18 Roger Whittaker — The Last Farewell 18 Donny & Marie Osmond — I’m Leaving It All Up To You 18 Ray Stevens — Misty 16 Showaddywaddy — Hey Rock And Roll -1 15 Bobby Goldsboro — Honey 14 The Wombles -- Wombling Merry Christmas 13 Charlie Rich — The Most Beautiful Girl 12 Minnie Ripperton — Loving You -4 10 Andy Kim — Rock Me Gently 07 The Drifters — Kissin’ In The Back Row Of The Movies

So do we Linda, so do we

Steps down from as President of Rainbow/PUSH coalition he founded in 1971 due to his health. Successor will be named on Sunday.

Cops believe they have caught the perp responsible for the Bodies on the Beach murders: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12301665/Gilgo-Beach-Inside-hunt-serial-killer-sex-worker-killing-spree.html Wealthy architect Rex Heuermann.

Van der Sar back to the Netherlands and apparently out of coma.

Worth remembering that Greg Lake and The Wombles will both be back in December for our Christmas special. Be interesting to see whether they do better against normal hits or similar songs slathered with sleigh bells.

James Scott (the 1st Duke of Monmouth) died on this day 338 years ago, aged 36. - Scott was a bastard child of King Charles II, with his mistress Lucy Walter. - In 1658, Scott was kidnapped by his father's men and put into the care of Baron Crofts, and he took his surname. When he married his wife Anne Scott in 1663, he took her surname. - Scott would serve in the Royal Navy during the Anglo-Dutch war, serving from 1665 to 1673. After the war's end, he became the chancellor of Cambridge University. - Following the death of his father in 1685, Scott would lead a rebellion against his uncle King James II for the throne, and would be captured by his troops after his escape from a battle at Sedgemoor. He would be sentenced to death for high treason, and would be beheaded by the notoriously half-assed executioner Jack Ketch; Ketch hit Scott multiple times with the axe before successfully decapitating him. - Allegedly Scott had no official portrait at the time of his execution, so his head would soon be reattached to his body, which was posed for said portrait.

11/55.

The top 5 oldest living people has stayed the same for almost half a year now (since 17 January 2023 - Randon's death).

Kazimierz Klimczak is a hit for @Summer in Transylvania and @gcreptile CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Kazimierz Klimczak reportedly dead aged 109: https://www-polsatnews-pl.translate.goog/wiadomosc/2023-07-14/nie-zyje-plk-kazimierz-klimczak-najstarszy-zolnierz-wp-powstaniec-warszawski-mial-109-lat/?_x_tr_sl=pl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Warsaw insurgent.

RIGHT, that does it. Let’s have a look who had all the gunpowder and gelatine this round: LadyFiona - 5 theoldlady - 5 BuffaloPhil - 3 Drewsky - 3 Commtech - 1 justonecornetto - 1 DoltonMoney - 1 DiegoReactedToAPost - 1 RoverAndOut - 1 Wannamaker - 1 Joey Russ - 1

Remember Clarke talking about Gillian. He said he smoked, drank a fair amount, was overweight and had a stressful career whereas none of these applied to Gillian and yet he's already outlived her by 8 years.

Raúl Castro and Captain Tom Moore

14-7-23 75 David Bowie — The Jean Genie 62 Elton John — Rocket Man 55 Sweet — Ballroom Blitz 50 T. Rex — Children Of The Revolution  18 Don McLean — American Pie +4 12 The Carpenters — Yesterday Once More -6 I strongly considered voting down Bowie just to piss SC off.

In Russia for medical treatment.

Oh, the government has now "found" the pin number for Boris' old phone. I wonder who was being threatened with the sack when the number was found: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66199658 Either way, d'ya think this'll show Boris was across all the details, expressing significant concern for the people of this country and calmly controlling the pandemic?

Just to be clear, when Don McLean sang of the day the music died he was clearly being prescient and envisioning the day Mariah Carey and Westlife got to No.1 with a cover version of Against All Odds

Because he was mentioned here. Nowt to stop others posting in any other relevant threads is there? Edit: Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12194107/Chelsea-legend-John-Collins-dies-aged-76-John-Terry-leads-tributes.html

Taiwan’s last known survivor of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery has died at the age of 92, according to the island’s foreign ministry, which called the issue a “wound in human history”. Referred to as “comfort women”, more than 200,000 women were sexually enslaved by Japan’s military during the second world war, mostly from South Korea but also from Taiwan, China, and Indonesia. In Taiwan, which Japan ruled from 1895 to 1945, nearly 60 women had come forward over the years as survivors, according to Taipei’s Women’s Rescue Foundation, which estimates there were at least 2,000. The foundation said on Monday the island’s last known survivor – who did not want her name made public– died on 10 May at the age of 92. SC

Sir William Ramsay, discoverer of Argon and the noble gases - 100 years ago Montgomery Clift - 50 years Van Heflin - 45 years Jean Muir (1st actress blacklisted as a Commie sympathizer in 1950) - 20 years

Fucking hell

Joe Royle? He's never been England manager. I think you're thinking of Joe Mercer, who I mentioned earlier. He was caretaker for a few games, played the flair players & he won most of the games they played in. Think he was caretaker between Ramsey & Revie if my memory serves me correctly.

Thank you. That is exactly the reason that I started the thread.