YoungWillz

Eckart Dux is a DDP pick. Any chance he'll QO? Quite frankly, I'd say stick him on the List of the Lost now.

Wasn't Akebono's real name Chad, or something like that?

Richard Rosser gets a mention here, which should be enough for Wiki, pending the inevitable (?) obit or the return of the Lords after Easter to update: https://www.isthmian.co.uk/lord-richard-rosser-rip-81320

Carol Jennings, Alzheimer's campaigner and activist and honorary VP of The Alzheimer's Society, reportedly dead aged 70: Began to show signs of the disease as long ago as 2008.

Yes. Ida Sahr was alive, but has now died aged 105: https://www.dailygazette.com/news/kirk-douglas-sister/article_c1b5d7fa-f750-11ee-9682-0b0c2125b38d.html

Repeating for the hard of reading.

Look at this stunning devil. There's been a lot of speculation about his private life for a long time. So up he pops again.

Phil Nimmons reportedly dead aged 100: https://jazz.fm/phil-nimmons-obituary/

I refer you to the Elvis Presley thread. *shrug*

Joe Haines getting it all out of his system before he pops his clogs. On my list for next year should he survive.

Richard Rosser, Baron Rosser, former General Secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association. reportedly dead:

Dan Goozee, US artist famed for movie posters for The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure and three Bond movies, reportedly dead: https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/dan-goozee-biography?id=05281

One of those DDP picks. But then if anyone knows that, it's time.

Peter Higgs Guardian straight to QO: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/09/peter-higgs-physicist-who-discovered-higgs-boson-dies-aged-94

Sir Paul Fox QO: https://metro.co.uk/2024/04/09/bbc-legend-sir-paul-fox-launched-classic-tv-shows-dies-aged-98-20613496/

Sir Paul Fox reportedly dead: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sir-paul-fox-former-bbc-100929700.html

I'll take your word for it, as I can't see that page. The possibilities of these guys having gone abroad (sounds like most of them) and then dying off radar just went up! Shame they are relatively forgotten about. I wonder if the Who site meant to say "the surviving drummer"? "The" is, as they say, the definite article, if he meant to say that other band members were alive, I'd expect him to say "a surviving member". Acht.

I think we previously discussed that Hoather had a FB page which may throw some light on the others since we last talked about them. Don't know if you tried to contact him or got anything then, but it's been 4 years.

I became intrigued by The Naturals recently. Interesting. There's this which is a possible obit for Curt Cresswell from 2018: https://www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/memorials/death-notices/death/30384999.curtis-william-cresswell-curt/ There's also this, an article bearing to be from October 2023 which indicates that Roy Hoather is the surviving member of the band: https://www.thewho.info/Other0.htm Don't know if further investigation might throw something up? Difficult one, I know.

Walid Daqqa(h) QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-13285715/Amnesty-International-urges-Israel-return-body-ailing-Palestinian-died-custody.html

Clarence Frogman Henry QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-13285547/Clarence-Frogman-Henry-New-Orleans-R-B-singer-1956-hit-Aint-Got-No-Home-dies.html

Report that Scott Westgarth's father John Westgarth, a boxer who fought Herbie Hide, Razor Ruddock and Glenn McCrory, has now died:

It's like something has passed in front of the sun and plunged us all into darkness. No, wait, that's in about an hour...

Out and about in a wheelchair: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13283041/Brian-Wilson-seen-public-dementia-diagnosis-wheelchair-Los-Angeles-Lakers.html

Dickie Rooks a hit for @Gooseberry Crumble: https://www.scunthorpe-united.co.uk/news/2024/april/in-memoriam-dickie-rooks/ Died 6 April.