YoungWillz

BBC QO: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65949435

Dead.

Rumours that Trevor Francis has died. Nothing concrete mind, next hours crucial in determining hoax?

Seiichi Morimura reportedly dead: The Devil's Gluttony revealed atrocities committed by the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese War. Edit: English Obit: https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/obituaries/20230724-125003/

Bam Margera releases diss track (warning strong language):

Marga Minco QO: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/marga-minco-obituary-c388vzlpv

Report of the death of Pamela Blair, actress who originated the role of Val in A Chorus Line (Dance 10, Looks 3) and played Angel/Amber in The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, singing the original lead on Hard Candy Christmas: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Original-A-CHORUS-LINE-Star-Pamela-Blair-Dies-at-73-20230723 Various soap opera roles on the tellybox and a stint as Sabrina's Mom in Sabrina The Teenage Witch. She was 73. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086322/ IBDB: https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/pamela-blair-79162

Vince Hill QO: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-66282835

Two fallers since April.

Here's Vince Hill's earlier mention also. And also the announcement on his official website: https://www.vincehill.co.uk/cheers-vince-heres-to-you/

Vince Hill reported dead by the great Jimmy Cricket: Easy listening, his chart career was technically dead with the advent of glam rock. A DDP pick. Edit: I'm sure he probably has a 60s entry as well as the 70s entry above @Ulitzer95.

Reports that the other founding member of the duo The Clarendonians, Peter Austin, has died:

Hopefully ones you picked this year rather than last year!!! I'm thinking of making a team next year called Crumble's Crumbs, see if I can do better with your survivors from this year.

Thought it quite extraordinary that the late Josephine Chaplin and Esther Rantzen look very similar in their younger days.

Already picked I'm afraid @thadee

Report of the death of Adolf Scherer, unused sub in 1958 and player in 1962 for Czechoslavakia: https://www-objectifgard-com.translate.goog/actualites/nimes-olympique-lancien-joueur-adolf-scherer-est-decede-113330.php?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

I think the above list has been updated since originally posted, but probably in a quote which makes it unsearchable. Anyhow, Ann Clwyd is another faller from the MEP list.

Tony Bennett takes me to 35 hits here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66271090

We are all having a swinging time. Me and the Committee both had Tony Bennett, so my tenuous lead continues! YW - 11; DL - 9.

Tony Bennett is dead. Think we need some updates here @machotrouts, it has been a while.

Tony Bennett and Jane Birkin for the updates anaw here.

One of those QO thingys: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-12323895/Tony-Bennett-masterful-stylist-American-musical-standards-dies-96.html

Dead. Link to follow.

Well, perhaps looking at its recent Parliamentarians including the latest inductee, that explains a lot!

So, I sat up until 04:30 watching the fun. By the time I went to bed, I was humming the old tune: "Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone, a comedy tonight!" My takeaways? Well, I don't really know. Somerton was always going back to the LibDems - my goodness, she was precisely what those who normally vote Tory love, from local stock, family in the area for over 200 years, I knew her granny - lovely woman, that kind of shit. Abandon your farmers and shit up your waterways and you will get exactly that result there. Selby wasn't even close in the end. Seems to be some kind of condemnation that the Labour winner is an Oxford boy with little life experience - that came from the Tories, the Eton boys and Roedean girls who got their money from Grandpapa and Grandmama. Ah, well do I recall Mhairi Black getting elected - underestimate youth at your peril. Again, that area isn't going to vote in a Dennis Skinner/John Prescott/Angela Rayner type. Labour have played a blinder by giving a candidate the normal Tory voters can recognise. Uxbridge - despite all the hype, I had a feeling this would stay blue. I don't know the area but nothing will trump the true blue voters with three cars in the driveway ("one of them is a classic y'know old boy") who spend all their spare cash on Glasto, Wimbledon, Henley Regatta, blah blah blah. Now you don't bring in a policy which hits them on top of all the other shite going on without having the necessary infrastructure in place - are the charging points there, for example? That doesn't mean this isn't now in play - still a swing to the red flag which shows the punters there this is a marginal. And if they think a Labour Government is a reality next time, they might decide to have a candidate who is on the inside. No news on the Ferrier saga? I should know, really, I'm there.