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I see Bruce Kent also got a Guardian Obit, so much more readable. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/09/bruce-kent-obituary Never seemingly picked for the DDP? Astonishing. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2622743/

Above from the Happy Birthday thread. Sadly CND campaigner Bruce Kent Telegraph Obituary: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/06/09/bruce-kent-catholic-priest-led-campaign-nuclear-disarmament/ Putting him in the Cleric thread wouldn't do him justice - one of the big names of the 1980s.

James Caroll who played Brian Bumper Humphreys (credited as James Mawdsley) in Brookside, reported dead: https://www.thesun.ie/tv/8924369/james-caroll-dead-brookside-coronation-street-actor/

As if Sandie would have the bare-footed affrontery to show up....

Nah, if nothing's getting done, it's time to confront them with the true horror of this.

Blatter's evidence delayed by his breathlessness and chest pains. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61734017 Due to testify tomorrow, when I'm sure he will have fully recovered and not be dead.

Isn't it about time the US media broadcast video footage of the aftermath of these horrific events? Children with no or little fucking face left, bodies torn apart?

I've noticed over the last couple of months just how awful the Herald is at obituaries. Lucky if we get one a fortnight.

Tiffany Youngs dead: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10896843/Tiffany-Youngs-wife-ex-England-Lions-hooker-Tom-dies.html Don't think she now qualifies for the List of the Missed @Death Impends and she wouldn't be eligible for this year's comp?

Frankie Avalon?

Portuguese born British artist Dame Paulo Rego dead at 87: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/paula-rego-death-artist-age-b2096462.html DDP pick for All Death Is Consolation @gcreptile. Also a Hare's Pool pick I think.

Turns out Cesar Chanal was the one who died in a case of mistaken identification and that Lavorel remains in a critical condition: https://www.newsletter.co.uk/sport/motorcycling/sad-death-of-french-sidecar-driver-cesar-chanal-confirmed-after-crash-at-isle-of-man-tt-confusion-after-organisers-announce-mistaken-case-of-identity-3723869

Been brought to my attention that Bob Lockyer, essentially head of dance programming at the BBC for forty or so years has died aged 80: https://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/news/a-tribute-to-bob-lockyer Partner of the late Sir John Drummond until his death in 2006, Lockyer essentially championed dance on the BBC, particularly with an emphasis on contemporary dance and worked with some of the best choreographers and the Arts Council to keep dance in the public eye. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end of 2020. Now for some reason he's listed on IMDB as Bob Lockyear, but I cannot find any reference to him being named thus anywhere else. He is in fact fully named as Robert Lockyer-Nibbs here: https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/dance-honours-12763 He has a better resume on the BFI website: https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0d0197e. IMDB does not have a date of birth, but I've been doing some digging. He had a birthday bash for his 70th on 13 April 2012: https://dancetabs.com/2012/04/bob-lockyers-birthday-bash-london/ and he was definitely born in April 1942 by this Companies House entry: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/JYd5gwRBsKa0miz8BLlXXICREiQ/appointments which ties in with this: https://www.lostdogdance.co.uk/whoweare/boblockyer Think from everything he died on or around 5 June 2022, nothing certainly on Twitter before then. Just in case someone wanted to let IMDB know...

American sci-fi/mystery author Barbara Paul reportedly dead: Wrote a Star Trek novel Three Minute Universe.

Recreational drugs. Still makes it sound like a playground for grown ups. I blame the parents of course, bopping around to Robin S in barns in the early 90s.

Off to check whether he qualifies for my TOTP Theme Team next year. I've picked him previously. Edit: He doesn't. And not for the rest of the 1980s. Listing him for main team, so he'll die mid-November this year on previous form.

According to the Wiki the Tequila recording was only Danny Flores, Gene Alden and Buddy Bruce, and an unnamed session saxophonist. Seals joined afterwards as did Glen Campbell. Don't know who was on Too Much Tequila mind you. Don't think Seals and Croft did anything in the UK, save write Summer Breeze, which was a hit for The Isley Brothers and Geoffrey Williams, though much later.

Scot ex-pat Gibb Todd, who in his early days opened for The Dubliners and later supported The Fureys, reportedly dead: Long term fixture at Glasgow's Celtic Connections Festival since its inception in 1993. Moved to Australia in the early 2000s becoming a citizen there. Hence probably this number from his second album in preparation for his move:

Yer taxes are up. Yer petrol is up. Yer passport is in the system. Yer flights have been cancelled. Yer ambulance is in the queue. Yer GP appointment is 4 days away. Yer trains are disrupted. Yer energy bills are up. Yer kids' education is 18 months behind. Yer childcare is up. Yer first time buyers are down. Yer inflation and prices are up. What exactly of the people's priorities is he addressing? HS2? Bring back pounds and ounces?

Irish presenters having a good a time as Putin's enemies at the moment...

And in fact, I'd go as far to say that of all the Jubilees I've seen (and I was around for the Silver Jubilee), this was the most English centred celebration I've seen. Who was booking the acts? Boris Johnson?

No, nobody counts Rod. Charles was on the stage and his granny was Scottish, and nobody thinks Charles is Scottish.

John Bates, English fashion designer who worked under the name Jean Varon, dead after cancer battle: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/257632/bates Of particular interest to @msc among others here for his designs for Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in The Avengers. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0060944/ Wiki has him born 1938, IMDB has him born 1935. So who knows, the death notice isn't helping.

148 against. Wow...Dead Man Walking

Apparently it was a black lace affair. Later, she's off to push pineapple, shake the tree and grind coffee.