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Suffers stroke, "on the road to recovery".

Paul Harrell's channel has just released a prerecorded video in which Harrell himself states that he has passed.

4/9/23 46 Madness - Baggy Trousers 37 The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian 33 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 32 The Damned - Eloise 30 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 28 Queen - I Want it All 27 Tears for Fears - Mad World 25 Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes 22 Roy Orbison - You Got It 18 Aztec Camera— Somewhere In My Heart 18 Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye +3 18 Queen - A Kind of Magic -6 15 The Vapors - Turning Japanese +1 13 Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) 10 Eurythmics - Who's That Girl Saw the Vapors live (supporting the Jam) about 35 years ago. They were pretty good. Given the standard of most support groups of that era they were amazing Saw Marc Almond live about 20 years ago, singalonga Say Hello Wave Goodbye was the final encore. I was one of only about 10 people in the audience who knew the words. He moved around/among the audience while we sang, I got a shoulder squeeze. Have to say being pulled onto the stage and cuddled by Tracie Young in 1983 was more fun though.

South African military commander Georg Meiring (Wiki) dead at 84

Bora Dordevic dead at 71.

I was no expecting such a forthright title of that video. It was, interestingly, taken closer to 10 months ago than recently (before Christmas 2023), and even then he thought he'd only have a few months...

Times death notice for Lady Diana Wolfe Murray (née Douglas-Home), aged 83. Alec Douglas-Home's children are dying backwards it seems. Lady Caroline Douglas-Home (born 1937) Lady Meriel Douglas-Home (born 1939) Lady Diana Douglas-Home (1940–2024) David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home (1943–2022) wiki

Jesse Ventura

He was SA's last living white chief of army. The oldest chief of Army is Gilbert Ramano (1939), who was the first black chief of army.

Lt. Stitchie unresponsive after brain hemorrhage https://t.co/C3NrbfvEDI

Wed 4 Sep 47 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover +4 45 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock 43 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 43 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 37 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon 36 The Platters — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 36 Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls Of Fire 35 Jerry Keller — Here Comes Summer -4 34 Perry Como — Magic Moments 21 Conway Twitty — It’s Only Make Believe 20 Elvis Presley — One Night / I Got Stung 18 Buddy Holly — It Doesn’t Matter Anymore 12 Marvin Rainwater — Whole Lotta Woman 12 Russ Conway — Roulette 05 Emile Ford — What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For 0 Shirley Bassey — As I Love You -2

4/Sep/2024 45 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock +1 43 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 43 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover 43 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette +1 37 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon 36 The Platters — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes +1 36 Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls Of Fire 35 Jerry Keller — Here Comes Summer 34 Perry Como — Magic Moments +1 21 Conway Twitty — It’s Only Make Believe 20 Elvis Presley — One Night / I Got Stung 18 Buddy Holly — It Doesn’t Matter Anymore 12 Marvin Rainwater — Whole Lotta Woman 12 Russ Conway — Roulette 11 Emile Ford — What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For 02 Shirley Bassey — As I Love You -6

4th September 43 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 43 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover 44 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock 42 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 37 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon 36 Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls Of Fire 35 Jerry Keller — Here Comes Summer 35 The Platters — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 33 Perry Como — Magic Moments +4 21 Conway Twitty — It’s Only Make Believe 20 Elvis Presley — One Night / I Got Stung 18 Buddy Holly — It Doesn’t Matter Anymore 12 Marvin Rainwater — Whole Lotta Woman 12 Russ Conway — Roulette 11 Emile Ford — What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For -6 08 Shirley Bassey — As I Love You

If the deaths don't pick up may i propose a topic for next year dedicated to the large number of people dropped from this years list due to only 25 being allowed to remain on the list. The list of the dropped should be called "Missed it by That Much"

Goran Fristorp of the band Malta which competed at the 1973 Eurovision for Sweden and came 5th with You're Summer, reportedly dead: https://eurovoix.com/2024/09/03/sweden-eurovision-1973-participant-goran-fristorp-has-died/ They had to perform under the name Nova to avoid confusion with the country Malta.

New interview with The Times with new pics. Discusses her marriage. Still working as she said retirement would bore her. Ain't dying this year. May even outlive husband Timothy West, 89, at this rate. Scales is a lesson for DeathList – unless you know the type of dementia affecting the subject then don't put them on the list. Scales was officially diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2014, but was showing symptoms of it as far back as 2001. It really isn't as quick to progress as other forms such as Alzheimer's.

I was just thinking about the fact that Rosalynn's funeral was about as long ago from today as this picture of Prince Philip was taken before his death. He looked so incredibly ill compared to Phil and yet, he's still going.

Been a bad year for Derek Drapers

Oh the irony.

Adam Epstein, a Tony Award-winning producer, has died. He was 49. Epstein had been battling a brain tumour. He won the Tony for his 2002 adaptation of John Waters’ 1988 film, “Hairspray.” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-08-15/adam-epstein-broadway-producer-dead-49

It also means that the thread will show up when people click on Unread Content, which is what I normally do. That brings up a list of threads that have new posts since I last visited.

You are of course correct that he could die of a sudden heart attack but literally every human could suffer the same fate at any time. My opinion from watching the video of his speech is that he does not appear frail or sickly meaning that all things being equal I doubt he will die soon. Sure he could bang his head and die like Bob Saget but compared to other people of his age he looks healthy and together.

Sheila Smith, one of the few remaining cast members of the original Broadway production of Mame, has died aged 90. She was understudy to both Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury (and deputised for both at various points).