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Composer Walter Arlen reportedly no more aged 103:

Streaming services:

It's my birthday today Someone a bit more famous than me is Beyonce who is 42 today

Rupert Holmes is definitely still alive.

@RIP Wee Jum needs to report/change their posting using @wannamaker’s New updated posting. Then @CaptainChorizo needs to change their posting after Rip Wee Jim posts their renewed posting. Then @Toastor the next person can post.

Harold Shipman:

Tbh he's not all that regular a poster here so no guarantees he'll respond to this fan mail of yours.

Ok, I'll continue, but I'll take wannamaker's edited voting and skip RIP Wee Jum and CaptainChorizo. Reason: Both voted for songs that had already been eliminated. So it would be better if they just vote again. 04.09.2023 61 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy 59 Nelly Furtado — Maneater 51 Scissor Sisters - I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ 50 Robyn with Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat +4 50 Rihanna ft. Jay Z — Umbrella 45 Mika - Grace Kelly -6 41 Orson - No Tomorrow 31 Timbaland ft. Keri Hilson - The Way I Are 20 Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down 20 Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean — Hips Don’t Lie 18 Beyoncé & Shakira - Beautiful Liar 14 Razorlight - America

04/09/2023 35 Bangles — Manic Monday +4 31 George Harrison — Got My Mind Set On You 30 Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield — What Have I Done To Deserve This 29 Kim Wilde — You Keep Me Hangin' On 28 Erasure — Sometimes 27 George Michael — Faith 25 Nu Shooz — I Can't Wait 25 Simply Red — Holding Back The Years 25 Dire Straits — Walk Of Life 23 The Pogues Ft. Kirsty MacColl — Fairytale Of New York 22 Percy Sledge — When A Man Loves A Woman 22 Sam Cooke — Wonderful World 22 Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald — On My Own 22 David Bowie — Absolute Beginners 21 Rod Stewart — Every Beat Of My Heart 21 Madonna — Live To Tell 20 Jermaine Stewart — We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off 20 Five Star — Rain Or Shine 20 Pepsi & Shirlie — Heartache 20 Abigail Mead & Nigel Goulding — Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor) 20 Jan Hammer — Crockett's Theme 18 Judy Boucher — Can't Be With You Tonight 18 Tom Jones — A Boy From Nowhere 18 Nana Mouskouri — Only Love 16 Fat Boys & The Beach Boys — Wipeout 16 Rick Astley — When I Fall In Love / My Arms Keep Missing You 12 Spagna — Call Me 00 Status Quo — In The Army Now -6 Thank you @RIP Wee Jum & @Toast

OK, entries are closed. I have to sort through my message folder but I think we got a similar number of entries as last year, maybe more. Please give me a couple of weeks to organize and post the teams, and sort out any subs and other issues to get the teams in order. My team was sent to Bibliogryphon before the deadline, and I shall post it here as well prior to getting all the teams posted on page one of the thread. No hits for me yet. I am working on the rosters . . . . bud anderson (WW2ace) barbara barrie jimmy carter derek draper carl erskine frank field lloyd geering roy haynes paul ignatius abe jacobs (wrestler) ramzan kadyrov phyllis latour morton mintz linda nolan maria oggay (tattoos) priscilla pointer marita camacho quiros rachel robinson june spencer eric tweedale ian underwood dick van dyke woody woodbury xaviera hollander arnold yarrow khaleda zia

You're thinking of the margarita guy.

04/09/2023 31 George Harrison — Got My Mind Set On You 31 Bangles — Manic Monday 30 Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield — What Have I Done To Deserve This 29 Kim Wilde — You Keep Me Hangin' On +4 28 Erasure — Sometimes 27 George Michael — Faith 25 Nu Shooz — I Can't Wait 25 Simply Red — Holding Back The Years 25 Dire Straits — Walk Of Life 23 The Pogues Ft. Kirsty MacColl — Fairytale Of New York 22 Percy Sledge — When A Man Loves A Woman 22 Sam Cooke — Wonderful World 22 Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald — On My Own 22 David Bowie — Absolute Beginners 21 Rod Stewart — Every Beat Of My Heart 21 Madonna — Live To Tell 20 Jermaine Stewart — We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off 20 Five Star — Rain Or Shine 20 Pepsi & Shirlie — Heartache 20 Abigail Mead & Nigel Goulding — Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor) 20 Jan Hammer — Crockett's Theme 18 Judy Boucher — Can't Be With You Tonight 18 Tom Jones — A Boy From Nowhere 18 Nana Mouskouri — Only Love 16 Fat Boys & The Beach Boys — Wipeout 16 Rick Astley — When I Fall In Love / My Arms Keep Missing You 12 Spagna — Call Me 06 Status Quo — In The Army Now 00 Madonna — Borderline -6

Yep

The state of the British press. Not a single paper ran with the headline Di's Dodi's Dad Dead

My money’s on a record year – however, with JC dying only in January 2024.

He hasn't been able to walk at all since he broke his pelvis several years ago

4th September 61 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy 59 Nelly Furtado — Maneater 52 Rihanna ft. Jay Z — Umbrella 52 Mika - Grace Kelly +1 43 Scissor Sisters - I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ 43 Robyn with Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat 41 Orson - No Tomorrow 35 Timbaland ft. Keri Hilson - The Way I Are 23 Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean — Hips Don’t Lie +3 18 Beyoncé & Shakira - Beautiful Liar 14 Razorlight - America 06 Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down -6

OK, I've deleted mine. @RIP Wee Jum suggest you delete or edit yours and repost using wannamaker's latest post

On this day 31 years ago, American Nobel Prize-winning cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock passed away at the age of 90.

R.I.P. fella

Reminds me a bit of Gerry Rafferty. The final illness was drawn out but he never left the hospital again alive.

It’s going to be a race to the pun when Sydney Crooks dies.

A fun fact about Georg Hille is that both his father and grandfather have been bishops of the same diocese before him.