YoungWillz

Butch Miles, Count Basie Orchestra drummer who has also drummed for the greats such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dave Brubeck, etc etc, reported dead: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0gnA7b3sngKxFnXeUNnmAdWiRcXogmage9Kxpz11cgy8RHVpJLvKU7FhCouqrF4J9l&id=730466776

Alan Hurst, Labour MP for (unusually) Braintree (1997-2005), reported dead aged 77 by his successor:

Tim Quy former drummer/keyboards/substitute bass of The Cardiacs reportedly dead: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0598wovNKbEho6qJZmBNw4Yu1YsjQ7v9NSDxJ1XxWNRjJZn9nBX4sQGTMCA8geb2cl&id=100032042187218&__cft__[0]=AZUljjHVB1FlQu2rHmWAzGtcx9ui9iJ7RWjFUktdClN26yefm3Wes0aliYphwX7CEUejKtnaZ3VCHYpTcx6syBVvIw1OCbITG9RL-4SYBzrYPD-QH2Ni2p2KHhibCvCpPcY&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

Lanny Poffo, The Genius, reportedly dead:

He’s only on IMDb!

Paul Stewart Laing, British TV producer and director associated with Celebrity Squares and This Is Your Life, reported dead by his daughter: https://twitter.com/jemimalaing/status/1620023125143584768

I'll remember him best for Kit And The Widow (didn't know he'd written for the film Maurice).

Kit Hesketh-Harvey, reportedly dead: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/kit-hesketh-harvey-dead-age-cause-b2273706.html

Age is just a number. Marking the march between birth and death.

My littlest brother was born 6 and a half years after me, and it's his boy. Although we have good genes (mid-late 20s I was still being ID-ed for clubs), my nephew is quite simply a stunning heartbreaker and the lassie that gets him shall be lucky indeed. I still look younger than most of my contemporaries. But with one heart attack behind me and the future full of no heating, eating porridge and sandwiches, I'm definitely feeling the age I am. (Late 50s, baby!)

I think my point was that, being on a Forum where no one was alive from the the time of Queen Victoria, it was a very poor "joke", exacerbated by the fact that that part of January was the anniversary of my late little brother''s death, which always gets me thinking about my own mortality. Wrong time, wrong place, plus I can be a miserable bastard sometimes. Hey, it's February, I'm in a better place and looking forward to my nephew's 21st.

Blatant racism...

In the same way I can make jokes about poofs....

Not helped by the fact that one of her albums was called Jackie. Terribly confusing for an old man.

Yeah, very unclear from the post, bad phrasing. That might clear it up then. Ciara should release a cover of Scott Walker's Jackie - ("about the time they called me Jackie").