YoungWillz

Never mind.

He will be sorely missed from our screens - proper independent voice.

No actually. I remember him as slim and curlyish haired. And beige. It was the 1970s way.

Toodle-oo the noo as Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland's political correspondent since I was a lad, retires. Huge, rough and breathless on his last report from Holyrood. Keep him in your sights.

Welsh Rugby star JJ Williams, 72: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/54571230

How did Starmer miss him?

Lou Pallo, band member with, and close friend of, Les Paul:

Or you could just lift their birthdates from this article (scroll to the bottom): https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-UK/Music/Archive-Record-Mirror-IDX/IDX/70s/76/Record-Mirror-1976-01-03-OCR-Page-0007.pdf Edit: Possible they've knocked a year or two off their ages - if Rover is right about Croshaw being 1954, rather than 1956, for example.

Ray Blacklock is dead. Obit is behind a paywall on Australian Daily Telegraph.

John Rolfe's death is noted in the Autumn 2020 Equity Magazine. There's only one John Rolfe for whom probate was granted this year, and that with a date of death on 2 January 2020. Appears to be no non-will John Rolfe mentioned in The Gazette. So it's him. And he's dead. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0738214/

Will ye no come back again? Arrest warrant annulled: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-54705168

Frank Bough for me. YW - 13; DL - 14

Obit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54684374 Dang, ninja-ed. Anyway, think he's on a list of mine somewhere.

Make of this report of the death of Johnny Leeze what you will:

Anyone need a Viola Smith Qobit? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/24/viola-smith-swing-big-band-drummer-dies-aged-107

Was barely worth reporting previously I see.

John Powley, former Tory MP, Norwich South: https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/remembrance-of-departed-colleagues

Going to do it. Kenny Williams, played the shopkeeper in these: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/beloved-star-tudor-crisps-adverts-22893961

Slick. Billy Ingram. Found this New Jersey reference to Billy's son Nate (Nathan): https://www.njpen.com/beats-business-and-building-relationships-in-collingswood-high-school-digital-production-class/ Now there is a Nathan T Ingram from....Camden, New Jersey https://www.spokeo.com/Nathan-Ingram/New-Jersey/Camden/p40183698132 related to a William Ingram who is aged 66? Too good to be true? Can you use this to extrapolate out for other family members?

Slick. Just popping it here cos straightways found it: Butch Ingram was 71 last year. https://www.evensi.us/butch-ingrams-birthday-celebration-and-concert-pj-whelihans/312530323

Gordon Astall https://www.thefa.com/news/2020/oct/22/gordon-astall-passes-away-221020

Sine. Might not be of much help but article here suggests Venus Dodson grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/108122380/ This includes her education here: http://nebula.wsimg.com/73317d5ae4ac57be59c89fa116f2cb8d?AccessKeyId=B02E3AF3852E5EE44AB0&disposition=0&alloworigin=1

Silver Convention. Pic: https://www.oocities.org/thesilverconventionstory/scbravo1.jpg From ages of other girls, suggests this from late 1975 or early 1976 - Betsy Allen 30, so born c.1945/46 Jacqueline Nemorin-Carter was and may still be resident in Balham: https://www.192.com/atoz/people/nemorin/carter/sw12/1124143438/ so on Electoral Roll? Edit: This from May 1975 suggests Jackie was 23 then, so born c. 1952, Mauritius. https://www.oocities.org/thesilverconventionstory/jrlart.jpg

R.I.P. Off Britain?

Alas....