YoungWillz

Just to finally nail Wally K Daly: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/241655/daly

Violet Davies-Evans has, as you say, relinquished any hope of becoming the UK's oldest: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-second-oldest-woman-who-21990981

On the basis that Steve Blackmore died this morning, awarding 127 Points to the two teams who picked him. If an alternative definite date is found, I'll alter. Grim Up North - 491 Points (7 Hits) (Doleman; Andretti; K. Douglas; P-Orridge; S. Moss; Finkel; Goldberg) Joey Russ - 466 Points (8 Hits) (Scruton; T. Jones*; arap Moi; K. Douglas; Watanabe; P-Orridge; S Moss; Gascoine) The Unknown Man - 401 Points (8 Hits) (T. Jones; Doleman; Andretti; arap Moi; K. Douglas; de Cuellar; P-Orridge; Lloyd) Captain Chorizo - 397 Points (8 Hits) (Belso; Scruton; Jones; Ebbers; Watanabe; P-Orridge; Harris; Goldberg) Death Impends - 389 Points (6 Hits) (Hoare; Carr; Cary; de Cuellar; Frankland; S. Moss) John Key - 340 Points (7 Hits) (Qaboos; Doleman; Andretti; K. Douglas; Gray; P-Orridge; Lloyd) the engineer - 339 Points (6 Hits) (Scruton; Doleman; Andretti; K. Douglas; Gascoine; Goldberg) Banana - 315 Points (7 Hits) (Belso; Hannesschlager; T. Jones; Doleman; G. Lewis; Richard; Blackmore) NB Pena is a null entry as underage. Banana playing a team of 24. The Quim Reaper - 310 Points (5 Hits) (T.Jones; Parsons; K. Douglas; de Cuellar*; S. Moss) msc - 304 Points (4 Hits) (Parsons; K. Douglas; Dyson; Frankland) RadGuy - 319 Points (5 Hits) (Long; T. Jones; Andretti*; Robinson; Lloyd) GraveDanger - 296 Points (5 Hits) (T. Jones; Doleman; Andretti*; P-Orridge; Gascoine) drol - 293 Points (7 Hits) (Qaboos; Scruton; Kyuk-ho; Andretti; arap Moi; P-Orridge; Goldberg) The Old Crem - 282 Points (4 Hits) (Parsons; K. Douglas; S. Moss; Gascoine) theoldlady - 281 Points (5 Hits) (arap Moi; K. Douglas; Gray; de Cuellar; S. Moss) JiroemonKimura - 272 Points (4 Hits) (Hannesschlager; Watanabe; P-Orridge; Blackmore) JoeMoneyPenny - 251 Points (3 Hits) (P-Orridge; Pei-tsun; Glezos) The Mad Hatter - 249 Points (7 Hits) (Scruton; Heath; T. Jones; Andretti*; arap Moi; K. Douglas; P-Orridge) Wormfarmer - 234 Points (5 Hits) (Stern; arap Moi; K. Douglas; P-Orridge; Frankland) Etushispushingupdaisies - 225 Points (7 Hits) (Scruton; T. Jones; Allen; Andretti; arap Moi; K. Douglas; P-Orridge) Yorkshire Banker - 207 Points (5 Hits) (B. Brown (1923); arap Moi; Gray; Johnson; Dyson) Toast - 204 Points (3 Hits) (Carr; Medwin; S. Moss) Prophet - 201 Points (5 Hits) (Scruton; Andretti; arap Moi; K. Douglas; Frankland) An Fear Beag - 189 Points (5 Hits) (T. Jones; Doleman; arap Moi; K. Douglas; P-Orridge) Skinny Kiltrunner - 188 Points (4 Hits) (Doleman; Andretti; Ebbers; Obayashi) Great Uncle Bulgaria - 171 Points (3 Hits) (arap Moi; K. Douglas; S. Moss) gcreptile - 169 Points (5 Hits) (Simpson; Oosthuizen; Portune; Velasquez; Bonetti) Torva Messor - 162 Points (3 Hits) (K. Douglas; Cary; P-Orridge) Sean - 145 Points (4 Hits) (T. Jones; Parsons; K. Douglas; de Cuellar) Fixed Business - 142 Points (3 Hits) (arap Moi; K. Douglas; P-Orridge) markb4 - 140 Points (4 Hits) (Tolkein; Parsons; K. Douglas; de Cuellar) Whoaml - 138 Points (4 Hits) (T. Jones; Andretti; K. Douglas; Johnson) Clorox Bleachman - 106 Points (3 Hits) (Truong; Andretti; Watanabe) Pedro67 - 55 Points (2 Hits) (T. Jones; K. Douglas) Predictor - 54 Points (1 Hit) (Cooper) Book - 47 Points (1 Hit) (Ziemann) Etib80 - 35 Points (1 Hit) (K. Douglas) LizLemon - 35 Points (1 Hit) (K. Douglas) YoungWillz - 27 Points (1 Hit) (Parsons) nantonian2013 - 11 Points (1 Hit) (Scruton) Everyone Else (Deathray and Bibliogryphon)- 0

I mean, Steve Blackmore is dead: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/52573066

Atkinson is NOT a miss for me, their 1984 debut single only reached #41. I will have to remove Atkinson for consideration from my 1987 list.

BBC have it now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52564281?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment_and_arts&link_location=live-reporting-story I'll point out he's List of the Missed as I picked him in 2018 for the DDP. I'll also point out he's a miss for my TOTP team, as Tour De France hit #24 in the UK charts in September 1984. Two misses in 3 days!

Some silly rumours that Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk has died. Let's see if that firms up to an actual report.....

My team was withdrawn ages ago.

If The Sun says he's dead, that's good enough for the DDP: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11559593/beat-poet-michael-mcclure-dead/

Doesn't really matter now Joey, but thanks for watching! I have applied the appropriate "there's got to be fucking consequences sometime" rule.

Hasselhoff's stunt double on Knight Rider, Donald Frank "Buzz" Bundy, reportedly dead: Other stunt work includes Diamonds Are Forever and the original Police Academy.

Reports of the death of British ballerina Anne Heaton: And: https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwdance/article/Anne-Heaton-Renowned-Ballet-Dancer-and-Wife-Of-BRB-Founder-John-Field-Has-Passed-Away-20200505

Unless I'm wrong, this is the date I picked. Sayonara Leslie Phillips!

Maybe the phone was just high up on the wall?

John Ogilvie, Scottish defender for Hibs, Leicester and Mansfield, dies at 91 from COVID-19: https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/popular-leicester-city-veteran-defender-4102231

Well, Dave Greenfield goes before Jet Black? Who would have thought it? He is unsurprisingly a miss for my TOTP theme team. Guess I had better place their 1984 #15 hit Skin Deep up to flagellate myself over it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqd9oWSqWIE

Don Shula apparently dead this morning. Dolphins Statement:

I doubt it, reports coming in Don Shula has expired.

Lord Rockingham's XI. Kenny Packwood. I found an article here which indicates Kenny was from Norwich and was 16 in 1958: https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/what-s-on/poignant-last-visit-to-norfolk-by-rock-n-roll-legend-billy-fury-1-3593377 I also found this post from Vince Eager on Facebook which ties the same Kenny Packwood to Lord Rockingham's XI, and which also, I'm afraid, indicates that Kenny Packwood is dead: What surprises me more is that Vince Eager is still alive! Anyhow, it's very late and I'm off to bed. I'll look anew at the various bands tomorrow when I can.

Found the sleeve notes for Johnny Angel here: https://www.rootsvinylguide.com/ebay_items/patti-lynn-patti-ep-uk-1962-fontana-45 Patti Lynn born in Sunderland on November 5th, 1943. You're welcome!

Betty Wright seems to be in a bad way. Chaka Khan asking for prayers... She had a couple of UK top thirty hits in the mid-seventies.

Report of the death of Andrew Christine, creator of the Beau Peep and A Man Called Horace cartoon strips:

John Ridley, player for Port Vale, Chesterfield and Leicester City, reportedly dead at 67: https://www.onevalefan.co.uk/2020/05/former-port-vale-player-john-ridley-passes-away/

Clorox Bleachman cleans up! Hall of Fame for you!

Someone is reporting that Doreen Taylor, who played Maude on EastEnders from 1985, has died: