YoungWillz

I've been concerned about Boris breathing for a long time..... I'll be less concerned when he's not!

Could have gone with the drummers thread but not going to. Patrick Gibson (aka Patrick Francfort) of The Gibson Brothers, reportedly dead possibly of the COVID-19: https://www.soultracks.com/story-patrick-gibson-dies Que Sera Mi Vida (UK #5, December 1979)

Former interim PM of Libya, Mahmoud Jibril, being reported as dead: http://en.alwasat.ly/news/libya/279080

Dougie Morgan, 21 appearances as a scrum half for Scotland in the 1970s, dead at 73: https://www.theoffsideline.com/stewarts-melville-scotland-and-lions-great-dougie-morgan-passes-away/

Here's the Marquess making a cameo in the Pet Shop Boys' Rent:

Pretty sure then I had him in the Hare's Pool at some point and also on my shadow list. Quite simply, I didn't believe he'd be a unique this year.

Lawdy, wee while since I picked him for anything. RIP, was quite a character. Pretty sure he's one for the List of the Missed.

Actually, it appears that Jack The Groove was probably the second house music chart hit, following hot on the heels of the Darryl Pandy/Farley Jackmaster Funk hit Love Can't Turn Around. The latter I thought more of a dance record at the time, however it seems it is classed as house. Anyhow, I wasn't part of the acid trippin' rave scene at the time, just a chart watcher.

Vaughan Mason, US musician best known in the UK for producing possibly the UK's first house music hit Jack The Groove, dead: https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/72381 He wrote Raze's UK #28 Break 4 Love (February 1989)

The measure of the US President: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52161032 Trump goes cap in hand to Putin for supplies, while days later trying to stop necessary equipment going to Canada and Latin America. As Mr Rogers might have said, there's a massive turd in the neighborhood…..

I don't have access, @msc seems to have had a workaround in the past I believe.

Times Obit (Paywall) for Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster, former civil servant who was Principal Private Secretary to The Prime Minister between 1970 and 1975, and served as Cabinet Secretary to Thatcher: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-armstrong-of-ilminster-obituary-5pc83xlt2 His Wiki linked above is worth a read regarding the Spycatcher trial and his seemingly ambivalent attitude towards paedophilia.

Oh I don't know, the kid will be ok for formula.

Only thing I beat Spade on, and here's the QO: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-bill-withers-dead-aint-21808901

Report that family reporting that Bill Withers has died of heart complications: https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/us/article/Alert-Family-says-Lean-on-Me-15176618.php

Judgement Day.

Still waiting for Obits for Johnny Harris and Deane Sutherland. Meanwhile update for Frankland (Wildcard for msc) msc - 304 Points (4 Hits) (Parsons; K. Douglas; Dyson; Frankland) Death Impends - 287 Points (5 Hits) (Hoare; Carr; Cary; de Cuellar; Frankland) The Unknown Man - 281 Points (7 Hits) (T. Jones; Doleman; Andretti; arap Moi; K. Douglas; de Cuellar; P-Orridge) 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) Joey Russ - 246 Points (6 Hits) (Scruton; T. Jones*; arap Moi; K. Douglas; Watanabe; 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) John Key - 220 Points (6 Hits) (Qaboos; Doleman; Andretti; K. Douglas; Gray; P-Orridge) The Quim Reaper - 208 Points (4 Hits) (T.Jones; Parsons; K. Douglas; de Cuellar*) Yorkshire Banker - 207 Points (5 Hits) (B. Brown (1923); arap Moi; Gray; Johnson; Dyson) Prophet - 201 Points (5 Hits) (Scruton; Andretti; arap Moi; K. Douglas; Frankland) Captain Chorizo - 199 Points (6 Hits) (Belso; Scruton; Jones; Ebbers; Watanabe; P-Orridge) An Fear Beag - 189 Points (5 Hits) (T. Jones; Doleman; arap Moi; K. Douglas; P-Orridge) Banana - 188 Points (6 Hits) (Belso; Hannesschlager; T. Jones; Doleman; G. Lewis; Richard) NB Pena is a null entry as underage. Banana playing a team of 24. theoldlady - 179 Points (4 Hits) (arap Moi; K. Douglas; Gray; de Cuellar) GraveDanger - 178 Points (4 Hits) (T. Jones; Doleman; Andretti*; P-Orridge) drol - 174 Points (6 Hits) (Qaboos; Scruton; Kyuk-ho; Andretti; arap Moi; P-Orridge) Grim Up North - 164 Points (4 Hits) (Doleman; Andretti; K. Douglas; P-Orridge) Torva Messor - 162 Points (3 Hits) (K. Douglas; Cary; P-Orridge) JiroemonKimura - 145 Points (3 Hits) (Hannesschlager; Watanabe; 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) the engineer - 102 Points (4 Hits) (Scruton; Doleman; Andretti; K. Douglas) Toast - 102 Points (2 Hits) (Carr; Medwin) Skinny Kiltrunner - 88 Points (3 Hits) (Doleman; Andretti; Ebbers) RadGuy - 81 Points (3 Hits) (Long; T. Jones; Andretti*) Great Uncle Bulgaria - 69 Points (2 Hits) (arap Moi; K. Douglas) gcreptile - 67 Points (4 Hits) (Simpson; Oosthuizen; Portune; Velasquez) The Old Crem - 62 Points (2 Hits) (Parsons; K. Douglas) 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

Baby got an obit: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/04/02/william-frankland-global-authority-treatment-allergies-obituary/

Linda Lusardi is out of hospital as she pays tribute to the big man: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/11311986/linda-lusardi-tribute-eddie-large-dead-coronavirus/

Roger Marshall, British screenwriter who wrote for The Avengers, The Sweeney, Lovejoy and London's Burning among many other UK shows, reported dead by his son: http://avengersfanforum.s2.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=3829 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551139/

Ah, such a upper-middle class crime. If he'd stayed in Glasgow, he'd have been belt buckling fellow inebriates outside the Horseshoe Bar....

Not a damn newspaper report anywhere and he's marked as dead.

The Hares Pool used to accept such obits, but that has gone now. There's still a wide open field of possible QOs on that pool, and Sutherland hasn't got one yet as far as I know.

QO: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-eddie-large-dead-coronavirus-21800410 Say what you like, at the time they were a great double act and I'm sorry to see the big man go, despite his *ahem* abrasiveness. RIP Mr McGinnis.

Report of the death of Tony Lewis, one of those who created the Duckworth-Lewis method for cricket: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/28983084/tony-lewis-duckworth-lewis-rain-rules-fame-dies-aged-78