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Arno Hintjens being reported dead on the Tweetmeats. Edit: And indeed here and there: https://www-standaard-be.translate.goog/cnt/dmf20220423_95435808?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Third hit on my Theme Team when a QO arrives. Rising Damp wasn't consummate writing but by gawd with that cast it was AWESOME. If he doesn't broadsheet, I'll be astonished, redtops should cover him. RIP.

Report of the death of Clive Collins, cartoonist for various publications - Reader's Digest AND Playboy? Brother of Phil Collins as you can see. Phil to follow soon?

I remember Prime Time on which she shared lead vocals - #34 in June 1979:

Sir Geoffrey Howlett Death Notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/256810/howlett

Stage Obit for actor turned fight arranger/director Malcolm Ranson: https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--archive/obituaries/malcolm-ranson Billy Fisher in the 1960 adaptation of The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer. Probably more relevant to folk here was that he was the fight arranger on the original pilot for Blackadder. Can't read the obit, so I have no idea if he was related to Mavis Ranson, uncredited passenger in A Night To Remember and a schoolgirl in the pilot of Doctor Who, but possible?

Ian Eyre, bassist with Curved Air who also co-wrote their hit Back Street Luv which reached #4 in the UK charts in September 1971, reportedly dead aged 70: https://www.loudersound.com/news/curved-air-bassist-ian-eyre-has-died-aged-70

John Rutherford reported dead: https://www.sportfm.com.au/post/john-rutherford-wa-s-first-test-cricketer-dies-age-92

(cockney accent) 'Ere yer Maj, can yer lend us a pony?

Robert Morse reportedly dead aged 90: https://abc7.com/robert-morse-dead-obituary-mad-men/11775650/ Might have preferred Broadway thread but this is where he is mentioned. Without looking, he's probably a DDP pick as he has been for years.

Leo Barnes, saxophonist/backing vocalist with the Hothouse Flowers who reached #11 in the UK Chart in May 1988 with Don't Go, has died: https://www.hotpress.com/culture/tributes-pour-in-following-the-death-of-hothouse-flowers-saxophonist-leo-barnes-22901982 Sound of that summer for me.

Hossain QO: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/cricket-bangladesh-mosharraf-hossain-death-26750683

Anyone who has watched any 1960s pop based movies knows there are a bunch of musicians essentially playing themselves. The 1970s movie Never Too Young To Rock has a bunch of glam rock stars of the time. These are not cameos, but rather vehicles for the bands/artistes. I was going to say what about documentary features? Full of folk being themselves. Maybe documentaries could be excluded entirely as a sop to the nay sayers? Otherwise, who cares? Only those who want to win I'd say.

Now that Mike Gregory's death is seemingly confirmed, LotM last picked 2011 @Death Impends. http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2011/celebs_G.html#gregm In eleven years since that darts themed team was entered, I think that's 5 are dead?

Sounds like Brad Ashford is dead:

Awful reports coming through that Mike Gregory has died aged 65 - George Noble has replied to this post on Twitter seemingly confirming it: Hugely successful player and well known face. RIP if true.

It's been ten years today that Greg Ham, multi-instrumentalist with the Australian band Men At Work, was found dead down under, aged 58.

You can almost feel the electricity between them. (Anyone who doesn't get the reference is far too young).

From the Dead of 2007 thread above. The original link to Thompson's death (not quoted) is as dead as Thompson, as OP originally thought it was a drug overdose, but turns out Thompson died of poisoning from a faulty air-con unit. Anyhoo, there's a report here (how reliable I dunno, but the sources quoted seem genuine) of original member of Hi-Five Roderick Pooh Clark's death aged 49 here: https://icecreamconvos.com/roderick-pooh-clark-original-hi-five-member-passes-away-at-49/ A Billboard number one as reported above, but only 43 in the UK in June 1991: Clark had been paralysed in a car accident in 1992.

He ended up being fourth reserve, absolutely highlighted for this year. Typical, he's gone and done a Des O'Connor on me. Last picked for the DDP in 2008 I think!

Harrison Birtwistle being reported dead: Been on my long list for ages. Should have known...

Heavyweight sometime out of Leamington Spa and minder to the stars, Tony Banger Walsh being reported dead:

Not an Obit but Henry Plumb confirmed dead by the NFU: https://www.nfuonline.com/media-centre/releases/tributes-paid-to-former-nfu-president-lord-plumb-who-has-died-aged-97/

Report of the death of Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, just after his 97th: Former MEP and the only Briton to hold the Presidency of the European Parliament. Mistook Barbara Castle for Margaret Thatcher, receiving a biting response. Anyhoo, awaiting the usual confirmations. DDP Pick @gcreptile.

Con Sullivan dead: