YoungWillz

I do love an inadvertent pun. Anyway, just been speaking to two friends this evening - also redundant with immediate effect.

Headboys Revisited. Not that it's going to be much help, but found out Lou Lewis' real first name was Brian (So possibly Brian Lou[is] Lewis?) and he attended Harris Academy, Dundee, later becoming a teacher? Calum Malcolm appears to have attended Edinburgh Academy, leaving there in 1971: https://web.archive.org/web/20131019072238/http://www.linnrecords.com/linn-calum-malcolm.aspx

Headboys. Nothing of import - I saw a lovely interview with them which referenced another initial interview with them - unfortunately that initial interview is not available on the net. And it's the one we need! Although I think they may have been formed in Edinburgh where they were at the time, the preceding group Badger originally seemed to hail from Dundee. That is apparently where Lou Lewis is today. Plenty on Calum Malcolm except a bleeding bio. Heatwave. All I have is Eric Johns Rasmussen. Apparently born in Jamaica, his artist page says out of Los Angeles and now seemingly based in Australia (Sydney?): https://www.sydneypartyentertainment.com.au/eric-rasmussen Can't find a lot on Roy Peter Carter (English by Jamaican descent) or Bill Jones (aka William L Jones) (b. Dayton, Ohio): https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/70s/1979/CB-1979-06-02-OCR-Page-0008.pdf Calvin Duke serves up nada.

Plane from Dubai to Calicut skids off runway on landing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-53699857 There are dead being reported....

Brexit? That'll be a good redundancy bung, given your service, but coming out to a world of job losses...feel for you Biblio. Good luck getting something new quickly.

Twitter reporting that Brent Scowcroft, NSA to Ford and Bush Senior has died. Edit: https://krdo.com/politics/2020/08/07/brent-scowcroft-longtime-bush-confidant-and-former-national-security-adviser-dies-at-95/ Edit2: DDP QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-8604715/Former-U-S-national-security-adviser-Scowcroft-dead-95.html

Wayne Fontana is for the List Of The Missed: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2011/celebs_F.html#fontaw

Got him: Probate granted in Winchester on 2 May 2018 for Thomas Hildred Christie, died 11 October 2017: https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Wills?Surname=christie&SurnameGrants=christie&YearOfDeath=2017&YearOfDeathGrants=2017&IsGrantSearch=True&IsCalendarSearch=False&page=4#wills

Could be he became mentally incapable of dealing with his own affairs and a court awarded control to another. Many reasons possible, not just the dead option.

I'm about done - doesn't include the last round of possible QOs Fi Munro, Ron Tauranac and Hans Jochen Vogel. I'll bring it all forward just before the next round-up. Just doing this as I think perhaps some lazy folk only check the DDP list when making up their teams, see there's no death mentioned which is why year on year there are people dead from the previous year. Tom Christie, Olympic rower is a mystery. Wiki and one other source say he's dead in 2017. But I can't find your actual obituary.

@msc Just if you are struggling for a news spot on the DDP, here's a lovely recent story on John Cruickshank VC: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/2240459/woman-thanks-aberdeen-war-hero-for-miracle-rescue-of-her-australian-pilot-dad/ Nice for me to have something positive to post, rather than the miserableness of trembling low hanging fruit....

Cockney Rebel. All I can find is the website of his brother David: http://www.crocker.me.uk/ John and David Crocker from E Riding of Yorkshire? Guess he'll never be found!

Harley Quinne. John Kitchener probably died of lung cancer in or around 1998. Here is the death notice of his wife from 2008: https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/3949449.jane-kitchener/ References his time in Country Fever and therefore by dint of this site, he was the same John Kitchener who was in Harley Quinne: http://www.peteroakman.com/history.html

Cullan Brown reportedly dead: https://eu.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/kentucky/2020/08/05/kentucky-golfer-cullan-brown-dies-after-battle-osteosarcoma/3297412001/

Pete Hamill reportedly dead: One of the men who disarmed Sirhan Sirhan after the Robert F Kennedy assassination. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357687/

Oh look, LFN has joined in. Contributes nothing to the Forum or the whole sum of knowledge on here. I don't believe he's ever posted a death while I've been here. I'm sure whatever he said has the whole audience on their feet applauding. Meantime, I'm in the bar having him heavily on ignore. Has he even fucking realised? Dolt.

No. Witty is lost on the fuckers on here. Now, I'm off to concentrate on deaths, thank you very much. More tea, vicar?

Hmm, read it any way you want. I have seen everything play out mostly as anticipated. It's taken longer because of the incompetence of Westminster and it's now going to be an utter disaster by virtue of Blibberwimble getting the job. Look I've been quite consistent if you read the thread. Scotland was always going to vote No, England was always going to vote Yes. You can't say my vote in Scotland changed very much as if it was a deciding factor. I voted no because of the choice of two loathesome opposing factions. I simply added weight to the get out option would lead to a split between Scotland and Westminster - that much was inevitable and entirely predictable. If anyone had said Blibberwimble would be PM back in 2014 or 2016, they'd have been laughed out of the Commons bar - that was not predictable. I don't think Scotland's miserable at all. I think it's rather optimistic actually, more powers over it's affairs and having a leader who cares about the people - rather than Blibber who only ever wanted power and is now leaving the "world leader" status to a certain D Cummings who doesn't give a shit about anything, least of all spreading corona between London and the North East.

Ahem. You've extrapolated that too far. The English voted Blibberwimble in with a mahoosive majority. The English voted for Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party. I didn't vote for that - Blibberwimble is actor #3 in post long after my vote counted. There's been no deaths from COVID in ages in Scotland and every day our leader is on the stand in front of the people regardless. Blibberwimble didn't even do every day and his team gave it up weeks ago. Whether I'm on board with everything the SNP want or not, I know what a world leader looks like. And it ain't any of the Unionist leaders in Westminster. If you think Blibberwimble is a "world leader" by default of being in post of PM, you haven't seen the world leaders I have over the years. The only thing he's been good at leading is coke up his nostrils and his cock into various tunnels. Ignoring the demand for at least a vote on independence if requested will make him a hypocrite. I'm sure he's not bothered about that - he'll be more concerned about the oncoming storm of terrorism in Northern Ireland.

Oh, it wouldn't have mattered. Do I vote with loathesome Cameron or loathsome Blibberwimble? That was the choice. Not voting wasn't an option for me. My one and only concern was to ensure the heightening of desire for independence from the United Kingdom. And that has worked. Every day that passes, Scotland looks on in horror at the total crap we have for supposed leaders in the South. Mwahahahahah.

Could this be an overreaction to the deaths of Stirling Moss, Vera Lynn and Olivia de Havilland?

Moving this here to reply briefly to the last two sentences. No, I would still vote leave today. Almost everything I predicted would happen has come to pass. The Westminster Government of the day (whatever colour it would have been) would have fucked it up - perhaps not quite as badly as Blibberwimble and his circus of clowns, alleged rapists, sex offenders and expenses gobblers. No regrets, no tears goodbye...

Also posted in the 100 Club but worthy of a mention here, Bob Ryland, the US' first African-American professional tennis player, dead at 100: https://patch.com/new-york/upper-west-side-nyc/bob-ryland-first-black-pro-tennis-player-u-s-dies-100

Hey, serving up a Bob Ryland is dead post: https://patch.com/new-york/upper-west-side-nyc/bob-ryland-first-black-pro-tennis-player-u-s-dies-100

While we were all looking at Brian Travers, UB40's Duncan Campbell suffers stroke: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8591433/UB40-singer-Duncan-Campbell-62-hospitalised-suffering-stroke.html