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Good to see the back of that greasy twat early doors.

29/05/2024 25 Lorde — Royals 24 John Newman — Love Me Again 23 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 23 Psy — Gangnam Style 22 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 22 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 22 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 22 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 22 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know +1 22 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball +1 22 Rihanna — Diamonds +1 22 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky +1 21 Coldplay — Paradise 21 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 21 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It 21 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 21 Cheryl Cole — Call My Name 21 Jessie J — Domino 21 Swedish House Mafia ft. Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 21 Avicii — Wake Me Up 21 One Republic — Counting Stars 21 Katy Perry — Roar 20 Flo Rida — Good Feeling 20 Cover Drive — Twilight 20 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 20 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 20 Chris Brown — Turn Up The Music 20 Tulisa — Young 20 Rita Ora ft. Tinie Tempah — R.I.P. 20 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 20 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 20 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 20 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 20 Wiley ft. Ms D — Heatwave 20 Rita Ora — How We Do (Party) 20 Little Mix — Wings 20 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You 20 Script ft. Will.I.Am — Hall Of Fame 20 Calvin Harris & Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Robbie Williams — Candy 20 One Direction — Little Things 20 Gabrielle Aplin — The Power Of Love 20 James Arthur — Impossible 20 Justice Collective — He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother 20 Will.I.Am ft. Britney Spears — Scream & Shout 20 Bingo Players ft. Far East Movement — Get Up (Rattle) 20 Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis & Wanz — Thrift Shop 20 Avicii Vs Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 20 Justin Timberlake — Mirrors 20 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us 20 Duke Dumont ft. Ame — Need U (100 Percent) 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Miley Cyrus — We Can’t Stop 20 Ellie Goulding — Burn 20 Jason Derulo ft. 2 Chainz — Talk Dirty 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Martin Garrix — Animals 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 20 Sam Bailey — Skyscraper 17 Sam & The Womp — Bom Bom 14 One Direction — One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) 14 Eminem ft. Rihanna — The Monster 12 Gary Barlow ft. Commonwealth Band — Sing 00 Robin Thicke ft. T.I. & Pharrell — Blurred Lines -6

This is a slam dunk for a billboard campaign in Tunbridge Wells, surely...?

I quite liked that song but now you’ve drawn attention to the lyrics I’m ready to embrace old age and retire from keeping abreast of popular culture.

Much improved in (christ, it's really....) 18 months since we all thought the like button had been stuck down with superglue. Polite and everything. Your taste in music is still far too slushy though

Pillock.

Bob Rogers (wiki) dead at 97.

Elizabeth MacRae (wiki) dead at 88. Played Lou-Ann Poovie in "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.", also had a recurring role in "General Hospital". Only standout film credit was in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation" (1974). That film starred surviving ancients Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall, as well as Harrison Ford and Teri Garr.

Several others Pearl Harbor survivors have died over the past few weeks/months : James W Kimmerly died on 6 January aged 100 Cedric Stout died on 17 January aged 102 Richard Schimmel died on 3 February aged 101 Marvin Emmarson died on 11 February aged 102 Edward Caroll died on 12 February aged 99 Leonard Crofford died on 16 April aged 103 George Blake died on 8 May aged 103

True, I forgot to change their values, thank you very much and sorry

29/05/24 75 R. Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House 35 Lulu — The Man Who Sold The World 34 Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle 30 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil +4 30 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run -6 19 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 16 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 16 Slade - Bangin’ Man

Who said ‘beautiful’ and ‘perfect’ can’t be nouns? Everyone? Oh okay.

Casting personal bias aside, whilst it's no match for R Dean Taylor, it's jolly, brings back happy memories and is definitely better than 3 uninspiring fragments stitched together in the vain hope it might make an epic, 3 minutes of self-indulgent drum solo and a harmless but hardly classic MOR soul song - and as such deserves to progress.

From wiki Upon reaching number one, fans asked Labrinth via social networking website Twitter about the spelling. He replied "Can I make something clear! this is twitter! Not an English GCSE haha I’ll spell as BADLY as I wish awritemayte!... Oh is this about #Beneath”YOUR”Beautiful I love how crazy this has sent people…. It was to annoy English teachers and grammar Nazis." FWIW surely Labrinth himself is a spelling mistake....

That's not what a "Portillo moment" is though.

Wed 29 May 26 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know +4 25 Lorde — Royals 24 John Newman — Love Me Again 23 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 23 Psy — Gangnam Style 22 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 22 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 22 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 22 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know 22 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 22 Rihanna — Diamonds 22 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 21 Coldplay — Paradise 21 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It 21 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 21 Cheryl Cole — Call My Name 21 Jessie J — Domino 21 Swedish House Mafia ft. Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 21 Avicii — Wake Me Up 21 One Republic — Counting Stars 21 Katy Perry — Roar 20 Flo Rida — Good Feeling 20 Cover Drive — Twilight 20 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 20 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 20 Chris Brown — Turn Up The Music 20 Tulisa — Young 20 Rita Ora ft. Tinie Tempah — R.I.P. 20 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 20 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 20 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 20 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 20 Wiley ft. Ms D — Heatwave 20 Rita Ora — How We Do (Party) 20 Little Mix — Wings 20 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You 20 Script ft. Will.I.Am — Hall Of Fame 20 Calvin Harris & Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Robbie Williams — Candy 20 One Direction — Little Things 20 Gabrielle Aplin — The Power Of Love 20 James Arthur — Impossible 20 Justice Collective — He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother 20 Will.I.Am ft. Britney Spears — Scream & Shout 20 Bingo Players ft. Far East Movement — Get Up (Rattle) 20 Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis & Wanz — Thrift Shop 20 Avicii Vs Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 20 Justin Timberlake — Mirrors 20 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us 20 Duke Dumont ft. Ame — Need U (100 Percent) 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Miley Cyrus — We Can’t Stop 20 Ellie Goulding — Burn 20 Jason Derulo ft. 2 Chainz — Talk Dirty 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Martin Garrix — Animals 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 20 Sam Bailey — Skyscraper 17 Sam & The Womp — Bom Bom 15 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful -6 14 One Direction — One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) 14 Eminem ft. Rihanna — The Monster 12 Gary Barlow ft. Commonwealth Band — Sing There's a lot here that I don't know, but I will start by penalising a glaring grammatical error.

Wednesday 29-5-24 75 R. Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House 36 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run 35 Lulu — The Man Who Sold The World 34 Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle 26 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil +4 19 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble -6 16 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 16 Slade - Bangin’ Man I mean, I like The Wombles but there's no way this song is in the top 5 of any list (except novelty songs).

Because she published some racist comments and then made an excuse about it being an early draft (wtf) sent early and then various influential groups said publicly Labour would be judged on their decision to let her stand again. She doomed herself.

. Usual caveat of "The Only Poll that counts is the one one election day" etc .. but even still

29/5/24 92 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé — Telephone 83 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls 82 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love -1 72 Owl City — Fireflies 62 Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano +4 59 Cee Lo Green — Forget You 00 Rihanna — Only Girl (In The World) -5

29th May 73 R. Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House 41 Lulu - The Man Who Sold The World 36 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run +4 34 Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle 30 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 25 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil -6 17 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 16 Slade - Bangin’ Man

Miguel Ángel López (Zurdo) hospitalised, in ICU with lung infection. Colombian footballer and manager Pedro Sarmiento hospitalised with acute polycythemia. Danilo Carrera Drouet, Ecuador's "great godfather of corruption", hospitalised with heart problems. Last and least, Roberto Lückert León, perennially ailing Venezuelan bishop hospitalised with heart and lung failure.

Elmer Boyd, last living homicide detective from the Dallas police force who took Oswald in and interrogated him, reportedly dead aged 96: https://ktxs.com/news/local/last-surviving-dallas-detective-from-kennedy-assassination-case-passes-away That would be the widely discredited and corrupt Dallas force that planted evidence, claimed Oswald killed Tippit with a gun Oswald didn't have and failed to record any of the interrogations they carried out. There's more on him, but I cannot be arsed rehearsing at this late hour. I might follow up tomorrow. Edit: Pic of him escorting Oswald.

Coffee. One of the few things Rudy doesn't drink. If he was true to himself, he'd being selling hairspray flavoured wine boxes.