YoungWillz

Not seeing "Queen's favourite and convicted tax dodger" in the headlines. Sure it will come: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/23/newsid_3755000/3755282.stm

Because only English jockeys matter? You need to read flippancy into nearly every response of mine on this Forum that isn't truly a death or deep sorrow.

A tip of the derby hat Time to open the Willie Carson thread.

Scottish folkie Alex Beaton has died aged 77, according to his website: https://www.alexbeaton.com/glenfinnan-news/ Resident in the US since 1972 - could have been our Ambassador!

Patricia Brake much more than Porridge of course, she appeared in The Two Ronnies show on many occasions and was a stalwart soap actress, having been in the Big Three of Corrie, Eastenders and Emmerdale Farm - but also in the ill-fated Eldorado in which she had a leading role. Younger readers may also remember her turn in the kids' show Tickle On The Tum. Anyhow, in case it hasn't been noticed she was picked by a Porridge Theme Team in the DDP as far back as 2013: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2013/celebs_B.html#brakep @Death Impends so List of the Missed. That team's an interesting one, still more alive than dead.

Bujar Nishani reportedly dead: https://english.a2news.com/2022/05/28/former-albanian-president-bujar-nishani-passed-away-at-55/

Bujar Nishani reportedly dead: https://english.a2news.com/2022/05/28/former-albanian-president-bujar-nishani-passed-away-at-55/

Hmm. I have this for Don McKellow, Team GB cyclist at the 1952 Games time trial: DDP pick for The Final Whistle, though I have not been able to source a QO for him, despite him having reportedly died on 4th May. So a candidate for the List Of The Lost @Death Impends.

Maybe shut this given Desmond Tutu's death some time ago?

Andy Fletcher is a miss for my TOTP Team for 1986, as Stripped reached #15 in the UK chart that year: Truly saddened by this loss. RIP.

Seemingly not in imminent danger, but there is an update on the health of DDP Pick Bobby Caldwell: https://www.soultracks.com/story-bobby-caldwell-ailing

I'm sure she was the one who built Dick Tracy Island!

Curtis Plum, alt rapper, apparently, reported dead:

Sharon opens up about recent events: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10852659/Sharon-Osbourne-69-makes-emotional-return-TalkTV-near-fatal-family-tragedy.html

I mean, there's a list a mile long already of how shite he is. So instead of making that list, in summary: "From Let The Bodies Pile High To Let The Bottles Pile High".

The Gambia to prosecute OoO DDP survivor Yahya Jammeh, according to Africa live newsfeed on BBC. No extradition with Equatorial Guinea where Jammeh is in exile. Jammeh bastard.

50 year old Thomas Ulsrud, prolific and successful Norwegian curler who won silver at the Vancouver Games in 2010, reportedly dead from cancer: https://www-vg-no.translate.goog/sport/i/Pol1o0/curling-legenden-thomas-ulsrud-er-doed?_x_tr_sl=no&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Been thinking a lot about how times have changed. I have no idea how Sweet Caroline became adopted as a great English anthem. There are better Diamond songs. The Queen has had a lot of luck with anniversaries of her reign, compared with the suffering of her subjects at the same time, save for the annus horribilis. I was tempted to post summat about that in her thread, if only to annoy the fuck out of LFN and Windsor. Anyway, sounds like summat akin to banging pots and pans for the NHS. The country being persuaded into yet another empty gesture, benefiting nobody but the elite's control over the populace.

Thom Bresh, country singer and composer, reportedly dead aged 74: https://steveandjohnnie.wordpress.com/2022/05/24/r-i-p-thom-bresh/ Illegitimate child of Merle Travis, who swore Bresh to secrecy about his true parentage until Bresh's stepfather died. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2133980/ Various country hits in the 1970s, including:

Colin Cantwell, designer of various ships on A New Hope including the TIE Fighter and X-Wing, reportedly dead: https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/film-music-tv/rip-star-wars-designer-colin-cantwell/ Worked on visual effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey and nominated for a special effects Academy Award for War Games. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134764/

Leeds Rugby League player Les Dyl reported dead aged 69: https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/leeds-rhinos-confirm-the-passing-of-legend-les-dyl-53476/ Played for England and Great Britain at representative level. His testimonial game was as long ago as 1980.

They'll put him on a course of meds and whip him into shape. Or he'll flatline.

Report of the death of mezzo-soprano Anne Howells from myeloma aged 81: https://slippedisc.com/2022/05/great-british-mezzo-soprano-dies-of-myeloma/ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0398084/

Norm Dolph, who produced The Velvet Underground & Nico album, also wrote the lyrics to Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) by Reunion and other songs. Reportedly dead aged 83: https://news.yahoo.com/r-p-norman-dolph-early-165430090.html Life Is A Rock reached #8 in the US Hot 100, but also hit #33 in the UK in September 1974: