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Following on from the Ideas and Possibilities thread, Steve Harley of Cockney Rebel fame has a 'nasty' cancer. https://m.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=100058063000040 All tour dates cancelled. Famous enough in my opinion without being lumped into a generic music thread.

Austrian Painter, performance artist, and co-founder of the controversial Viennese Actionism movement Günter Brus, died at 85 years: https://www.bazonline.ch/praegende-figur-des-wiener-aktionismus-skandalkuenstler-guenter-brus-gestorben-176355212641 He was sentenced to a prison term for his shocking, revolutionary performance "art and revolution" at the University of Vienna in which he sang the Austrian National Anthem while masturbating. He was also recipient of the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1997 and foremost figure of the NO!Art movement.

Toby Keith six feet blunder 2+1 Zsa Zsa's leg 0+1 Prophet 4+1 ThereWillBeDeaths7 2+1 ladyfiona 3+1 John Key 2+1 The Immortal 6+1 theoldlady 2+1 Charles De Gaulle 0+1 MariNisia 3+1 Death Duke 3+1 Philip 3+1 Book 5+1 @max_bossetti 3rd sub Nick 3+1 Wannamaker 3+1 Sean 3+1 LizLemon 2+1 Joltin Joe 2+1 Salmon Mousse 2+1 The Old Crem 3+1 Perhaps 2+1 Dries Van Agt @Prophet 2nd sub The Immortal 7+1 Wannamaker 4+1 Seiji Ozawa max_bossetti 5+1 Captain Chorizo 5+1 Scoreboard The Immortal 8/50 gcreptile 6/50 CaptainChorizo 6/50 Max_bossetti 6/50 Book 6/50 Prophet 5/50 Wannamaker 5/50 jonnythegamemaster 4/50 Torva Messor 4/50 Thatcher 4/50 Imelda 4/50 BuffaloPhil 4/50 Nick 4/50 ladyfiona 4/50 Death Duke 4/50 MariNisia 4/50 Philip 4/50 The Old Crem 4/50 Sean 4/50 Main Deathlist 3/50 Steve 3/50 markb4 3/50 The Daredevil 3/50 dimreaper 3/50 St3ve 3/50 DeathBecomesThem 3/50 MrShadrak 3/50 six feet blunder 3/50 ThereWillBeDeaths7 3/50 Perhaps 3/50 LizLemon 3/50 Joltin Joe 3/50 John Key 3/50 theoldlady 3/50 Salmon Mousse 3/50 livingbygrace 2/50 polar duck 2/50 Etushispushingupdaisies 2/50 LWCZ 2/50 Grimgrass 2/50 Bibliogryphon 2/50 TQR 2/50 Diego 2/50 Khthonia 2/50 Windsor 2/50 Chalres De Gaulle 2/50 Superstar 2/50 Brad252 1/50 Earl 1/50 Hell 1/50 Morrisey 1/50 Heiheiheihei 1/50 Redrumours 1/50 Zsa Zsa's leg 1/50 Charles De Gaulle 1/50 Pop_Zeus 0/50 Trome 0/50 Gooseberry Crumble 0/50 Arghton 0/50 Kissofdeath 0/50 Johnnas 0/50 Tomtomtelekom 0/50 Nasquacker 0/50

11/Feb/2024 64 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor +4 45 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 36 The Supermen Lovers & Mani Hoffman — Starlight 35 Daft Punk — One More Time 34 Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue — Kids 29 U2 — Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of 28 Sonique — Sky 26 S Club 7 — Reach -4 25 Moloko — The Time Is Now 20 Samantha Mumba — Gotta Tell You 19 Zombie Nation — Kernkraft 400 18 Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson — Movin’ Too Fast 18 Mis-Teeq — All I Want 17 Outkast — Ms. Jackson 16 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This 00 Destiny’s Child — Bootylicious -2

11/02/2024 64 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor 45 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 38 Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue — Kids 35 Daft Punk — One More Time 33 The Supermen Lovers & Mani Hoffman — Starlight 28 Sonique — Sky 27 U2 — Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of 25 Moloko — The Time Is Now 22 Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson — Movin’ Too Fast 20 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This 19 Zombie Nation — Kernkraft 400 18 Mis-Teeq — All I Want 18 S Club 7 — Reach 17 Outkast — Ms. Jackson +4 7 Samantha Mumba — Gotta Tell You -6 Fighting a losing battle here, I sense

That's the most important Italian sports journal. The same author already announced dead in 2021 Tommy Robb, while he is still alive. Should be fired.

Dennis Skinner, a British politician who served as MP for Bolsover from 1970 to 2019, is 92 today.

Whitney Houston died on this day 12 years ago, aged 48. She was an American singer and actress. She was one of the first black women to appear on the cover of Seventeen after becoming a teen model in 1981. With the guidance of Arista Records chairman Clive Davis, Houston signed to the label at the age of 19. Her first two studio albums, Whitney Houston (1985) and Whitney (1987), both peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 and are among the best-selling albums of all time. Hit singles from the albums, including “How Will I Know”, “Greatest Love of All” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)”, established her as a catalyst in the acceptance of black female artists on MTV. Her third studio album, I’m Your Baby Tonight (1990), yielded two Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, the title track and “All the Man That I Need”. Houston’s rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Super Bowl XXV in 1991 received widespread media coverage. Houston made her acting debut with the romantic thriller film The Bodyguard (1992), which despite its mixed reviews became the tenth highest-grossing film to that date. Its soundtrack won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and remains the bestselling soundtrack album of all time. It generated multiple hit singles, including “I Have Nothing”, “I’m Every Woman” and “I Will Always Love You”; the latter won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, spent a then-record 14 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 and became the best-selling single by a woman in music history.

Pope Paschal I died on this day 1200 years ago, aged 49. - Born around the year 775, Paschal was part of the ancient Massimo family (reportedly descendants of the Roman Maximus family), and his parents' names were Bonosus and Theodora. - During the reign of Pope Leo III, Leo would entrust Paschal with caring for pilgrims visiting the Vatican. Leo would also anoint him as a cardinal. - Paschal would be elected pope in 817 after the death of Pope Stephen IV, and his election took just one day- without the approval of Louis the Pious (the Holy Roman Emperor). Paschal himself apologized for the hasty election. - Paschal's reign is best known for the restoration of several basilicas in Rome, and mosaics of Paschal would be made in these buildings. He would also help construct additions to other places of worship. - Paschal would also suppress a revolt against papal authority in northern Italy, in which two of its leaders were killed. Emperor Lothair I ordered an investigation into the matter, which Paschal refused to cooperate in, and Lothair's father and co-emperor (the aforementioned Louis) soon dropped it. - Paschal died after a seven-year papacy. His successor was Pope Eugene II.

11/Feb/2024 60 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor 45 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 36 The Supermen Lovers & Mani Hoffman — Starlight 35 Daft Punk — One More Time +4 34 Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue — Kids 30 S Club 7 — Reach -3 29 U2 — Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of 28 Sonique — Sky 25 Moloko — The Time Is Now 20 Samantha Mumba — Gotta Tell You 19 Zombie Nation — Kernkraft 400 18 Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson — Movin’ Too Fast 18 Mis-Teeq — All I Want 17 Outkast — Ms. Jackson -3 16 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This 02 Destiny’s Child — Bootylicious

Italian news site reporting the death of Aussie world champion motorcycle road racer Kel Carruthers (wiki) aged 86. Outright denial from a family member here insisting he isn't even sick. It's 2024. Nobody dies!

Is it some sort of weird cosmic joke that, as they age, Jon Culshaw and Rory Bremner are turning into the same person?

Yeah like that's easy to write on the search function!

Here we go... Political git, Kate Garraway squeeze, and COVID hanger-on Derek Draper was the token name to be super ill at the last minute and then make an early exit. As it was due to a massive heart attack rather than end stage cancer, he was more of a gamble than Gary Burgess or Gianluca Vialli, but most of his pickers went high with some variance. Also, extra .19 points as his death was COVID complications, even for his sub picker, because why not. BabyBlue, Banana, Perhaps, Sean, Torva Messor, YorkshireBanker 50.19 points. drol and theoldlady 45.19. Book and Imelda 40.19. ladyfiona and Pedro67 35.19. Captain Hemlock and Thatcher 30.19. Funeralopolis 25.19. Prophet 20.19. Hell 10.19 The Unknown Man 5.19. John Key sub 25.19. Five votes for Glynis Johns! The beloved Mary Poppins mum also had panto on her CV. chilean way and diego get 49 points (35 base + 14 bonus), Grimgrass and livingbygrace 42 (30 + 12), and markb4 35 (25 + 10). And the DeathList hit trio was rounded off with football legend Franz Beckenbauer. Der Kaiser ushers in a reign for Imelda of 21 points (15 base + 6 bonus), alongside Grimgrass hitting the first sub for 25 points. Another name who was circling the drain around New Year's was director/Kate Beckinsdale stepdad Roy Battersby. Like Beckenbauer, he was unique by virtue of being only on one main team, despite being another team's sub. RadGuy is the big winner with 56 points (40 base + 16 bonus) while Thatcher also moves onward with 25 sub points. As the last surviving cast member of the earliest non-Lucy US sitcom to still have a pop cultural footprint, Honeymooner Joyce Randolph had been a great WTF still alive deadpooling pick for ages. She went bang, zoom, straight to two subs benches - MariNisia and markb4 pow 25 points. We go from a 50s sitcom star to a YouTube star. Deadpooling really gets around sometimes. Snake-hassler Brian Barczyk slithers four teams up the scoreboard - Perhaps by 35, DevonDeathTrip 30, Banana and gcreptile 25. Venerated film director Norman Jewison wasn't terribly popular in deadpooling for a 97-year old of his stature, perhaps in part due to many assessing him a likely centenarian. I mean, he was a Norman - Lear made 101, Lloyd made 106, Tebbit is currently 666. One team that defied the norms was markb4, who accrues 21 points (15 base + 6 bonus). Sometimes, the celebrity death who defines the year happens very early on. Take Bowie, for instance. Indeed, even if tomorrow we lost Jimmy Carter, Pope Francis, and King Charles, we'd still remember 2024 as the year where legendary councillor Jason Smith died. Curiously, all he got was local BBC press, but it was all that was needed for HPDP pointery. Banana gains 45 points, Book, maryportfuncity, and Perhaps 35, and An Fear Beag and gcreptile 30. Footballer Stuart Gray was another of the DDP canon to leave early. The cholangiocarcinoma-afflicted full-back found himself on 6 HPDP teams, gaining Etushispushingupdaisies 50 points, wannamaker 40, Banana and justonecornetto 30, Perhaps 20, and msc 10. The last of this jam-packed January was popular Broadway actress Chita Rivera. She was on the subs bench of MalePoster, who dances to the tune of 25 points. And phew, the January scoreboard. Everpresent Banana takes an early lead with Perhaps nipping at his heels, but it's still very early days. 1. Banana 150 2. Perhaps 140.19 3. markb4 81 4. Book 75.19 5. Grimgrass 67 6. Imelda 61.19 7. RadGuy 56 8. gcreptile 55.47 9. Thatcher 55.19 =10. BabyBlue 50.19 =10. Sean 50.19 =10. Torva Messor 50.19 =10. YorkshireBanker 50.19 14. Etushispushingupdaisies 50 =15. chilean way 49 =15. diego 49 =17. drol 45.19 =17. theoldlady 45.19 19. livingbygrace 42 20. wannamaker 40 =21. ladyfiona 35.19 =21. Pedro67 35.19 23. maryportfuncity 35 24. Captain Hemlock 30.19 =25. An Fear Beag 30 =25. DevonDeathTrip 30 =25. justonecornetto 30 =28. Funeralopolis 25.19 =28. John Key 25.19 =30. MalePoster 25 =30. MariNisia 25 32. Prophet 20.19 33. Hell 10.19 34. msc 10 35. The Unknown Man 5.19 36. DeathByArsenic 0.98 37. CaptainChorizo 0.84 =38. Everyone else 0

Reading between the lines he seems to have lost the ability to speak, so I presume it was a massive stroke. Seems rather a miracle he survived. At 95 and in those conditions he is surely on his way out anyway.

Noam Chomsky's long-time MIT assistant, Bev Stohl, recently posted an update on Reddit. The main takeaway is that he suffered a medical event last June and has been recovering since. We'll apparently know more about his prognosis soon. The wording (e.g., "He's still with us") isn't great, but it doesn't sound like his death is imminent, either.

Sir Anthony Epstein is a hit for @Death Impends, @Bibliogryphon, @Yvonne, @Summer in Transylvania, @theoldlady, @Hell and @Book CONGRATULATIONS!!!

10/Feb/2024 55 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor 43 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 35 Daft Punk — One More Time +4 35 S Club 7 — Reach 32 The Supermen Lovers & Mani Hoffman — Starlight 31 Outkast — Ms. Jackson 28 Sonique — Sky 28 Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue — Kids 27 U2 — Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of 25 Moloko — The Time Is Now 22 Samantha Mumba — Gotta Tell You 20 Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson — Movin’ Too Fast 18 Mis-Teeq — All I Want 18 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This 15 Zombie Nation — Kernkraft 400 14 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Take Me Home 07 Destiny’s Child — Bootylicious 07 Sweet Female Attitude — Flowers -6 06 iiO — Rapture

Robert Badinter is a solo hit for me: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/obituaries/robert-badinter-dead.html

Congratulations, @DoorSlammer! 1924 Khamtai Siphandone / Ella Jenkins 1925 Calvin Tomkins / Ruth Slenczynska 1926 Philip Springer / Irene Camber 1927 Arthur Cohn / Geneviève Page 1928 Noam Chomsky / Ethel Kennedy 1929 Len Deighton / Joan Plowright 1930 Thomas Patten Stafford / Joanne Woodward 1931 Norman Tebbit / Alice Munro 1932 Tep Vong / Naina Yeltsina 1933 Alexander Mitta / Barrie Chase

German actor Achim Benning (Wiki) dead at 89

After years of you telling us to get him on the list. Are you ever fucking consistent?