YoungWillz

Well, well, well. Of course, I am a loyal player of this game. So I'll be in touch towards the end of the year. Thanks for running this, @Book. I look forward to coming well off the pace and still beating the Committee.

Very reliable source posting that Michael King of The King Brothers, who had a 1957 hit with A White Sport Coat...., has died aged 83.

BBC News just trailed they will be speaking to Grace Jones, Britain's oldest dame, about the Armistice. She will then perform Private Life and Slave To The Rhythm.

Nah. I only saw the bit where he was attempting to attack the bobbies. But how many dead in the Good Ole USA in Pittsburgh and Thousand Oaks when the attacker had a gun? And how many dead in Melbourne? I'm not for armed police for the sake of it and it works better where targeted I think in countries where guns aren't carried as a matter of course. America seems to have several problems here in reducing the love affair with the gun, exacerbated by the current orange bawbag in the Whitehouse. Coppers with guns still have a problem dealing with minorities, I mean they are shooting and tasering to death people with mental issues, never mind the clear racism problem. So you are perhaps needing a gun to protect yourself against folk who think they are all Boss Hogg without the personality. And is it possible that they didn't section the veteran in California because (I) he was white; and (II) they were fearful of losing their jobs? Hasn't Trump introduced some sort of rule that is you offend a veteran you get your jotters? Thus making veterans less likely to get arrested or sectioned, when these are exactly the same kind of people to have mental health issues and access to military grade weaponry. Insanity.

Video footage showing attacker swinging his weapon aimlessly at 3 armed officers, before being shot, online. When the bad guy doesn't have a gun and the "good guys"* do. *Apologies to Charon in advance....

Vic Emerson, best known for his period with Sad Café and who co-wrote Every Day Hurts for them, has died aged 69 from pancreatic cancer. https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2018/nov/08/vic-emerson-obituary (Did a search a nothing came up). Edit: Looks like he died around 13 October.

Trump: If you have a bad guy with a gun, all you need is a good guy with a gun. Thousand Oaks: Good guy with gun shot dead immediately. Oh say can you see........

Brett Kavanaugh was seen in the area....

Hmm. Love Shack a 90s hit here. You mention 2 other numbers which haven't hit the charts here, but don't mention Roam, or Good Stuff, which did.

Why don't the Press Corps just come out in sympathy, now Acosta has been banned from the Whitehouse? Major networks stop covering his "rallies", press stop attending his conferences and press briefings, small quotes in the papers about the President's travels, about an eighth of a page should cover what he's actually doing. Meantime, for a while now, I've been considering just how alike Trump and William McKinley are in their policies, particularly economic. And we all know what happened to McKinley.....

A-ha were on the 1985 list I did. Although the sun did shine on TV in 1986. I can only pick one #1 - went for the seminal Berlin song as they won't appear on any other 80s list! And before the Madonna fans come down on me...I don't like Madonna. My choice, my list.

Sledgehammer peaked at #4 for 4 weeks in May/June 1986. So now you see my problem, I have loads to pick from at the top of the chart, so I button down on one. I actually bought Cutting Crew, and so....'twas picked.

Sneaked it across...

I can only pick one #1 ha! West End Girls, obvs #1, I chose different 'cos I'm waiting to complete 1987, I like their #1 from that year a touch better.

Ah well. Here's 1986, take your pick. 1986 #01 - Take My Breath Away - Berlin #02 - Walk Of Life - Dire Straits #03 - Lessons In Love - Level 42 #04 - I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight - Cutting Crew #05 - Just Say No - Grange Hill Cast #06 - Calling All The Heroes - It Bites #07 - Look Away - Big Country #08 - Is This Love - Alison Moyet #09 - Power Of Love - Huey Lewis And The News #10 - Don't Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders #11 - Rise - Public Image Limited #12 - Rock Lobster - B-52s #13 - Higher Love - Steve Winwood #14 - Have You Ever Had It Blue - Style Council #15 - The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby And The Range #16 - Life's What You Make It - Talk Talk #17 - Imagination - Belouis Some #18 - Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs #19 - World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope #20 - Shot In The Dark - Ozzy Osbourne #21 - Marlene On The Wall - Suzanne Vega #22 - Boys Don't Cry - The Cure #23 - Rough Boy - ZZ Top #24 - Wonderland - Paul Young #25 - This Is The World Calling - Bob Geldof #26 - Stars - Hear 'N Aid #27 - Call Of The Wild - Midge Ure #28 - Calling America - Electric Light Orchestra #29 - Heartland - the The #30 - Always The Sun - The Stranglers

Remember this? Yes, I gave three top 30 Charts for 1982, 1983 and 1984. I hope they are still on your playlists, ha! Anyhow, as I've completed my researches for 1985 and 1986, I thought I'd give you those too. 1986 will follow shortly, but here's a top 30 for 1985 using the same conditions as above: 1985 #01 - I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner #02 - Take On Me - A-ha #03 - Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush #04 - Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen #05 - Since Yesterday - Strawberry Switchblade #06 - Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones #07 - One Vision - Queen #08 - Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr. #09 - Wide Boy - Nik Kershaw #10 - Slave To Love - Bryan Ferry #11 - Run To You - Bryan Adams #12 - Slave To The Rhythm - Grace Jones #13 - Money's Too Tight To Mention - Simply Red #14 - Black Man Ray - China Crisis #15 - Life In A Northern Town - Dream Academy #16 - Can't Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon #17 - Love Is A Battlefield - Pat Benatar #18 - Shake The Disease - Depeche Mode #19 - Rage To Love - Kim Wilde #20 - Round And Round - Spandau Ballet #21 - This House (Is Where Your Love Stands) - Big Sound Authority #22 - Now That We've Found Love - Third World #23 - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - The Smiths #24 - This Is England - The Clash #25 - When Love Breaks Down - Prefab Sprout #26 - The Whole Of The Moon - The Waterboys #27 - So In Love - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark #28 - No Rest - New Model Army #29 - 20/20 - George Benson #30 - You Are My World - The Communards

She'll probably die of catharsis...fnah fnah...

Chubby Tavares undergoes heart surgery after heart attack: https://www.soultracks.com/story-chubby-tavares-surgery Is Heaven missing an angel that much?

This thread is too quiet in light of the mid-terms in the USA. Now either (I) Americans are not as riled up about them as everyone is reporting; or (II) they're all too busy voting. Whatever happens, it's been a fascinating watch. I see not only has there been some fineckety-finackety already down in Georgia (who made the candidate the guy in charge of the voting rules? Isn't that insanity?), but now some of the voting machines have suffered "technical difficulties". And how is it possible in the 21st century that dead people are still on the voting rolls (according to reports)? Here when there is an election, there are canvasses and cross-checks prior to the vote. And when someone dies, generally a return is made to the local authority which is very simple to do and that takes people off liabilities for local taxes etc. and removes them from the voters' roll. In a country proud of it's democracy, why is it always problematic to do the voting thing, you know the foundation of democracy? *shrug*

80 today!

I think that's the first time all of the teams without exception (apart from solo picks - and I'm not sure that's happened) who picked a name last year dropped the same name and that name is a scorer this year for more than one completely different team. It's quite astonishing. An achievement...of sorts.

Additionally, special mentions must go to @Death Impends; @Joey Russ; and @gcreptile, who will all be added to the Hall of Cardblunts in the lavatories, as they all dropped Ted Mack this year.

The Mack shall never return to the casino, thanks to Ted's death. FujimoriNoMorey and Captain Chorizo score hits, thus closing the gap on the lead. No bonuses, leaderboard updated. A crack appearing in that dam about to burst?

What say you to Timothy Combe? Seems to be in very rude health for an 82 year old, but I'm working my way through Pertwee again....nice to see Paul Darrow standing up and running about the moors again!