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    Okay, so I'm not really on this site a huge amount these days, which probably isn't such a bad thing to be fair - but do enjoy coming back here at this time of year to think about who should be on next year's list.

     

    So just thought I'd mention a few names to consider, at least some of whom are very seldom mentioned on this site:

     

    John Cantlie (b. 1970) - ISIS captive, possibly already dead according to untrustworthy news report from earlier this year

    Kurt Westergaard (b. 1935) - Danish cartoonist and critic of Islam

    Roman Polanski (b. 1933) - film director and sexual abuser

    Nicholas Parsons (b. 1923) - veteran British radio host, a must for next year as turning 95

    Egidius Braun (b. 1925) - German football guy, UK obit chances negligible

    Udo Walendy (b. 1927) - German Holocaust denier, UK obit chances low

    Louis Farrakhan (b. 1933) - Leader of the Nation of Islam, I would say a good pick for next year

    Richard Sherman (b. 1928) - Disney songwriter
    Robbie Coltrane (b. 1950) - Scottish actor
    Brian Blessed (b. 1936) - English actor

    Peter Tobin (b. 1946) - Scottish serial killer

    Dennis Nilsen (b. 1945) - Scottish serial killer

    Josef Fritzl (b. 1935) - Austrian incest dad

    Gary Glitter (b. 1944) - rock musician and paedo

    Ian Watkins (b. 1977) - nu metal musician and paedo, yes he's young but anything could happen in prison including suicide

    Anders Breivik (b. 1979) - Norwegian mass murderer, yes he's young but anything could happen in prison including suicide, he has also been on hunger strike and done all sorts of crazy shit

    Micheline Bernardini (b. 1927) - French woman who modelled the first bikini in 1946 - never mind all these dying porn stars, here's an even better pick!

    Walter Mondale (b. 1928) - American politician

    Ross Perot (b. 1930) - American politician

    Alan Greenspan (b. 1926) - American economist

    Jurgen Habermas (b. 1929) - German sociologist

    Richard Lynn (b. 1930) - British eugenicist and scientific racist

    Jean Raspail (b. 1925) - French author

    Jean-Marie Le Pen (b. 1928) - French far-right politician

    Cecil Taylor (b. 1929) - American jazz musician

    Eugene Wright (b. 1923) - American jazz musician and member of Dave Brubeck's band

    Berry Gordy (b. 1929) - American Motown musician and manager

    E. O. Wilson (b. 1929) - American biologist

    Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) - English hymnwriter

    I. M. Pei (b. 1917) - Chinese-American architect

    Hosni Mubarak (b. 1928) - former Egyptian president

    Lyndon LaRouche (b. 1922) - American political activist

    Jean Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1921) - former Grand Duke of Luxembourg

    Jacques Delors (b. 1925) - French politician

    Norman Tebbit (b. 1931) - British politician

    Gaston Glock (b. 1929) - Austrian firearms manufacturer

    Mark E. Smith (b. 1957) - British post-punk musician with The Fall, and yes mentioned several times here already but wanted to just mention him again

    Irmin Schmidt (b. 1937) - German keyboardist with Can, most of his bandmates are now dead and he was always the oldest and fattest member of the group

    Charles Aznavour (b. 1924) - Armenian-French singer

    Little Richard (b. 1932) - American rock and roll musician

    Rex Garrod (b. 19??) - British engineer and inventor, created Brum from the children's TV series and also entered into Robot Wars with Cassius, now apparently living in a care home with dementia, not sure of his exact age but would imagine him to be at least 70

    Chris Rea (b. 1951) - British musician, not in the best of health at the moment

    Roberta McCain (b. 1912) - American mother of John McCain, don't see why they can't both be on this year's list to be honest!

    Gudrun Ure (b. 1926) - Scottish actress, Supergran

    Jan Svankmajer (b. 1934) - Czech filmmaker

    Arvo Part (b. 1935) - Estonian composer

    Quentin Blake (b. 1932) - British cartoonist

    Desmond Morris (b. 1928) - British biologist and author - a potential good pick here that I don't see being talked about much

     

    Opinions on any of these picks would be appreciated, thanks!

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    I was going to say these things come in threes (Shyla Stylez, August Ames, and Yurizan Beltran) but then Tera Bond was another one!

     

    Probably about the only person who has been in porn I can think of who is still alive and is actually Deathlistable is Ron Jeremy. These young women dying cannot really be predicted, but an ageing fat sleazy bastard who looks like death warmed up has got to go sooner or later, and probably sooner rather than later.

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    Who should be on the list? Well, people who are still alive who were good picks who have been missed in previous years!

     

    But, we need to start including big names with no particular health problems who were born around 1930 - that means your Sean Connerys and Clint Eastwoods need to start making an appearance on the list around now as they are old enough and it would be bad to miss them.

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    I'm amazed with how this year's list has managed to turn itself around.

     

    We were not doing particularly well at all mid-summer with quite a few obvious misses including some big names, but then August and then September have brought a lot of hits.

     

    So it looks like 2017 will almost certainly be the record-breaking year - still got 3 months left to go and there's no way all 36 living people on that list will last that period of time!

     

    (Although stranger things have happened...)

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  17. Posted

    15 hours ago, Life Is Beautiful said:

    Unless somebody very big (a US president, Hillary, The Queen...) dies, i'd say NO.

    I mean just look at the music business. 2016 took Bowie, Prince, Cohen, White, Haggard, George Michael, Scotty Moore, Emerson...Whilst The biggest music death in 2017 so far is Chuck Berry, and he was freaking ninety, which in rock and roll circles, is equivalent to Jeanne Calment levels.

     

    Who's White? Just not registering right now. Last time I checked Jack White was still alive and Barry White was long dead.

     

    It's true that Chuck Berry was ancient for a rock and roller but truth be told the majority of the most important rock musicians were born in the 1940s or 1950s and haven't had the chance to reach that age yet. I could quite easily see guys like Peter Gabriel, Steve Winwood, Brian Eno and others reaching their 90s (although I've probably just cursed them all by saying that which means they'll all be dead within a year).

     

    2017 has still taken a lot of important names, both in music and outside it. It seems that this year it's been about the more minor heroes of rock - everyone from John Wetton to Grant Hart to Holger Czukay to Allan Holdsworth to Walter Becker - plus a couple of high profile rock suicides like Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington, as well as some not unexpected deaths like Chuck Berry and Glen Campbell and Duane Allman.

     

    And let's not forget that 2017 is far from over just yet. Still three and a half months to go.

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    On 9/14/2017 at 20:29, DevonDeathTrip said:

    I'm really sad, but not that surprised to read about the death of Grant Hart.  In my view his musical and songwriting talents were incredibly underrated and I hope history will be kind to him, as he never achieved the recognition he deserved in life.   There aren't that many drummers who sing lead vocals, and Grant Hart was right up there with the best of them.     

     

    Years ago, when I was a teenager getting into grunge,  lots of these bands cited Husker Du as a huge influence on them, so bought their live album on cassette and was blown away.  Eventually I ended up owning all of Husker Du's albums and, to this day, some of them still get played regularly.   As Vinegar Tits points out above, Hart's next project, Nova Mob, were pretty damned good as well, but he never saw much in the way of chart action.  Nova Mob's concept album The Last Days of Pompeii really deserved far more airplay than it actually got, but Hart seemed destined to forever remain in obscurity.

     

    His solo career never took off and he spent years playing in bars for very little money.  There were rumours going around a few years ago that he had HIV, which given the fact he was a promiscuous gay man with a raging heroin habit in the late 80s and early 90s, may have had some substance to them.  Grant Hart never made much money; he lived in his late parents' home until he accidentally set fire to it a few years ago.  But he kept of writing and performing right up to the end, in the face of complete indifference to anyone but his minuscule fan base.  If ever there was a case of life not being fair, Grant Hart probably fits the bill as a prime example.  :rip:

     

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    Oh, and the name of the album that got me hooked?  The Living End.     

     

    I'm not really that big a fan of punk (well except Husker Du, Television, The Fall, Public Image Ltd, Gang of Four, Wire, Joy Division, etc and yes I'm aware some of these are post-punk) when compared with prog rock but I was sad to hear of the death of Grant Hart.

     

    I actually liked Candy Apple Grey the most out of all their albums.

     

     

  20. Posted

    On 9/7/2017 at 16:52, Sir Creep said:

    First the drummer, now the bassist, half of Can in the can in 2017.
    That video posted above set videography back 35 years. 
    SC

     

    Unfortunately!

     

    To lose John Wetton, Allan Holdsworth and Jaki Liebezeit and Holger Czukay this year has made 2017 every bit as bad as 2016.

     

    But to lose all these ageing prog musicians is hardly unexpected to be honest. What's been more surprising has been the deaths of guys like Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington...

  21. Posted

    On 9/7/2017 at 17:20, maryportfuncity said:

    And in other news, Yes (or what passes for the legendary band these days) are doing a 50th anniversary tour next year. Ironically, I'm likely to miss their big London date because I'm otherwise engaged at a dead pooling convention

     

    I saw them in 2016 and don't feel the need to go see them again, but will be catching the Jethro Tull 50th anniversary tour.

  23. Posted

    45 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

    German media says he was "found dead" in his flat. The way it is worded is usually codeword for suicide.

     

    He was an old man, his wife was a lot younger and had only died less than two months before ...

     

    We will just have to see, it wasn't immediately obvious that it was suicide after Keith Emerson and Chris Cornell's deaths were reported.

  25. Posted

    12 hours ago, maryportfuncity said:

     

     

    That two Cans and two significant Allman Brothers all gone in the same year

     

    People said that 2016 was cursed, but 2017 is much the same. Truth is there are a lot of ageing musicians and celebrities, some of whom have abused their bodies a fair bit through the years. So hardly unexpected that so many of them are dying!

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