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Edit: Errm, this is definitely one of those "good idea poorly executed" jokes, lol.

Emi Wada, Oscar-winning costume designer for Akira Kurosawa's Ran, has died at 84: https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14486179 DDP pick for the Japanese theme team.

Peter Aykroyd, former cast member of Saturday Night Live, and writer for it, dead at 56: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/peter-aykroyd-dies-saturday-night-070340253.html

Sure fire sign that Beatrice's baby has pancratic cancer and could die any second now.

Reg Beresford, who like Alf Patrick, celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this year, has, like Patrick, died a few months later. He died on the 14th October 2021 - see link here: https://www.walsallswimmingclub.com/post/reg-beresford-club-president-1921-2021 It's a lovely tribute on there as it shows these guys are often more than someone who played football once or twice:

The younger generations have decided that it's time for the Queen to go. Dying from exhaustion at multiple christenings.

https://ria.ru/amp/20211119/aktrisa-1759821628.html Soviet actress Nina Agapova dead at 95. I'm back. Just been lazy. But I won't be announcing obituaries anymore, because I've lost any interest in doing so. I'll just play deadpools.

Just serving a reminder that “left” and “woke” are not negative traits, and the practice you speak of, common though it may be with the left, is a matter of morals rather than political alignment. Of course, one can often influence the other, but it’s really quite self-defeating (not to mention conflict-stoking) for one to use “left” (as it is “right”) as a qualifier for one’s dislike of someone. Sure, this is coming from someone often seen in the PDR thread trashing the shit out of people on the right, but it’s never because they’re right-wing, it’s because they’re nasty cunts. Correlation is not causation and all that.

'....entered Edward.....' I think Edward has been entered quite a few times.

Do you have a Floyd Little shaped hole in your shortlist you want to fill? Then don’t fear, Curley Culp can fit as he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer

Don't forget a certain Olivia Newton John's interest in all of this: I preferred this to Musclebound by Spandau Ballet, simply for the decoration of the ahem set....

Kane is now 100 years older than people born 100 years after her.

Billy Lamont, former goalkeeper with Albion Rovers and Hamilton, turned manager with spells at Dumbarton, Falkirk and Partick Thistle, dead aged 85: https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/sport/football/ex-falkirk-and-east-stirlingshire-manager-billy-lamont-dies-at-age-of-85-3413397

Marina Tucakovic, Yugoslavian born Serbian who provided the lyrics for three Serbian entries in 2010, 2012 and 2013, has died of COVID aged 67: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sr&u=https://www.danas.rs/scena/preminula-marina-tucakovic/&prev=search&pto=aue Piet Veerman's Dutch hit, Sailin' Home, was a translation of one of her songs. Best placed finish for her was 2012, finishing third with Nije Ljubav Stvar:

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Report by a BBC reporter of the death of Mike Smith, manager of Wales for 5 years in the 1970s, followed by a spell in charge of Egypt, winning the African Cup Of Nations in 1986:

Report of the death of Tommy Leishman, Scottish Cup winner with St Mirren in 1959 who went on to play for Shankly's Liverpool and take Linfield FC to the quarters of the European Cup in the same year Celtic won:

Apparently former Uriah Heep singer John Lawton was part of the 1976 Eurovision entry for Germany, the Les Humphries Singers. Lawton reportedly died at the end of last month: https://blabbermouth.net/news/former-uriah-heep-singer-john-lawton-dead-at-74/ I'll go out on a limb here and suggest he's far right in this clip from the Contest - not Germany's finest hour, but I think they were jumping on the previous winner from Netherlands: Edit: Comments in YT suggest the guy in blue in the clip is John Lawton. Well, I had a 25 per cent chance of guessing right.

Paul Koulak, French composer of France's 1973 entry Sans Toi has reportedly died: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://www.leprogres.fr/culture-loisirs/2021/06/30/les-obseques-de-paul-koulak-compositeur-de-la-musique-de-fort-boyard-auront-lieu-a-saint-chamond&prev=search&pto=aue He also did all the music including the credits music for Fort Boyard. Anyway, here's Martine Clemenceau: IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1065753/

Patrick Juvet, represented Switzerland in 1973, dead at 70: https://escxtra.com/2021/04/01/patrick-juvet-passes-away/ Je Vais Me Marier, Marie Couple of UK Top 40 hits in the 1970s as well, including I Love America (UK #12, November 1978)

Dominic Grant of Guys N Dolls whose death was reported over in the UK Singles thread, apparently sang backing vocals on the UK's 1988 entry Go by Scott Fitzgerald. Blink and you'll miss him and really the backing singers only come in at the end.

Do you mean this Ian Anderson? Those darn smoke machines should be outlawed or at least come with stern warnings.

According to Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan suffers from severe health problems and had 25 surgeries in the past 10 years: https://www.cbr.com/wwe-hulk-hogan-health-issues/