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  3. Posted

    On 19/12/2019 at 17:56, dean1991 said:

    I think all of the Stones will bow out in the 20s. Starting with Wyman next year.

     

    All of them?

     

    Wyman and Richards probably, less sure about Jagger and the rest

     

    I honestly think there should be a thread about which 60s and 70s rock stars will still be alive in 2030

  5. Posted

    On 28/11/2019 at 20:21, Fantomasss said:

    -Tony Bennett (1926)

    -Leontyne Price (1927)

    -Juliette Gréco (1927)

    -Gina Lollobrigida (1927)

    -Noam Chomsky (1928)

    -Gena Rowlands (1930)

    -Jasper Johns (1930)

    -Robert Wagner (1930)

    -Lalo Schifrin (1932)

    -Yoko Ono (1933)

     

     

    Noam definitely needs to make his debut

     

    There has been a general lack of academic/intellectual type people on the main list IMHO except for the really big names

     

    And in certain circles Chomsky is a really big name

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  6. Posted

    On 28/11/2019 at 16:41, Book said:

    Who should be/could be No.1?

     

    I think it's time for a change:

    a) not Kirk Douglas for the fourth time in a row

    b) it should be a woman at the top!*

     

    *The last time a woman sat at the top of the DeathList was in 2015 with Zsa Zsa Gabor.

    Before that only 3 other women were No.1s: Queen Mother (1991 and 2000), Doris Speed (1993) and Etta James (2012). Really a bad quote!

     

    Only 2 women are eligible imo, Vera Lynn and Olivia de Havilland.

    So I say it should be Vera Lynn, if she makes it to 2020.

     

    I support making Vera Lynn #1, then Kirk Douglas at #2, Olivia de Haviland at #3 and Prince Philip at #4 provided they all make it that long especially given recent news

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  7. Posted

    I'm really not on DeathList a lot these days as don't consider it to be a particularly productive use of my time, but here are my thoughts

     

    Desmond Morris

    On 28/11/2019 at 13:51, ebless said:

    My 2020 list

     

    Keep

     

    Kirk Douglas 

    Olivia De Havilland 

    Duke of Edinburgh 

    Vera Lynn

    Jimmy Carter

    Pierre Cardin

    Bob Dole

    Henry Kissinger

    Javier Perez De Cuellar 

    Bob Barker

    Murray Walker

    Emperor Akihito

    Betty White 

    Stirling Moss

    Nobby Stiles

    Barbara Walters

    Honor Blackman

    Harry Belafonte 

    Jimmy Greaves

    Sidney Poitier

    Mikhail Gorbachev 

    Tony Britton 

    Prunella Scales

    Little Richard

    Larry King

     

    New and returning

     

    Pope Benedict
    Olivia Newton John
    Jill Gascoine
    Leslie Phillips
    Mel Brooks
    Sean Connery
    Stanley Baxter
    Rolf Harris
    Ennio Morricone
    Tom Baker
    Barbara Windsor
    Nicholas Parsons
    Kenneth Cope
    Sandy Gall
    John Hume
    Terry Jones
    Angela Lansbury
    David Bellamy
    David Prowse
    David Attenborough 
    Tony Bennett
    George Alagiah
    Jack Charlton
    Desmond Morris
    Alex Trebek
     

     

    These are all good recommendations, except David Bellamy who is already dead

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    22 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

    Iain Sutherland of The Sutherland Brothers reported dead on his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/iainsutherlandsongs/ and here: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/1899314/ellon-singer-songwriter-iain-sutherland-most-famous-for-sailing-and-arms-of-mary-dies-aged-71/

     

    UK #5 (1976) Arms Of Mary

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpT7hbVWJDQ

     

    I'm not on DeathList much now but that's yet another musical legend gone

     

    Just one of those nice songs that gives you a nice feeling every time you hear it

     

    They were clearly not musical megastars, just honest guys who could write a good song with melody, emotion and feeling

     

    Given all the recent deaths this past couple days, would be easy to overlook Iain Sutherland's death so worth remembering anyway

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  15. Posted

    This is going to sound absolutely crazy, but hopefully at least one person will kind of understand what I'm talking about

     

    I'm gonna be honest and say I always thought Peter Sissons had a face like a lion when I was younger - large head, flat face and flowing mane of hair

     

    He was a good newsreader. The most obvious parallel today would be Huw Edwards.

     

    Also interesting if you read his Wikipedia bio, it says that after he left the BBC and retired from work, he wrote about how the BBC was inherently left-wing and politically correct.

     

    RIP Peter "The Lion" Sissons

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  18. Posted

    1 minute ago, maryportfuncity said:

     

     

    Harsh IMHO - of late I have been slamming to the most recent Bat for Lashes album and played the most recent - i.e. last year - Let's Eat Grandma album on my way to work yesterday. I'd have to say the best and most vital popular music talents these days are female IMHO.

     

    Well maybe it's me that's the dinosaur then, even though I'm only in my 30s

     

    I saw the band Chvrches at a festival this year - I'm guessing you like them as well?

     

    This is just me personally, but anything that had politically correct or feminist themes I would not be caught dead listening to

     

    And if that makes me a cunt like Boris Johnson and all the rest of the right wing deplorables that society loves to hate then so be it

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  19. Posted

    3 hours ago, maryportfuncity said:

     

     

    Aye, and it's struck me before now that Ginger is a name like Dick that's pretty much had its day.  He's Peter Edward Baker on his birth certificate btw.

     

    Shame really, because as the last notable person known as "Ginger" I was about to tap him up to provide the theme tune to my latest attempt at creating reality television gold. I had this idea for a show called Fat Ginger Scots Benefit Cases vs Relentless Desert Sunshine. I could see that working

     

    Rock music in general has pretty much had its day - hell, you could say the same about good music full stop

     

    All these old grandads who made this cool as fuck music in the 60s and 70s are dying off and now we just have EDM (Electronic Dance Music) as the main genre that young people listen to

  22. Posted

    On 07/09/2019 at 12:59, Donald said:

    Manolis Glezos, 97 years old, Greek left-wing politician and guerilla, best known for his participation in the World War II resistance

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    (May 2019 photo)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manolis_Glezos

    https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-48880717

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/30/greek-resistance-manolis-glezos-planted-bomb-athens-winston-churchill

     

    Jeremy Corbyn in the year 2040

  23. Posted

    5 minutes ago, FixedBusiness said:

    You do have to keep in mind that The Cars were formed in 1976 and The Police in 77

     

    Here's wiki's current "Death" entry under Ocasek

    Ocasek was found dead at his New York City townhouse by Porizkova on September 15, 2019, where he had been recovering from surgery. The Chief Medical Examiner office reported that Ocasek died from natural causes; Ocasek suffered from both hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases.

     

    Ric Ocasek would have been 32 and Andy Summers 35 when they joined their most famous groups

     

    Similarly Leonard Cohen released his first album in 1967 aged 34

     

    A more extreme example was the drummer Ed Cassidy, who was born in 1923 and was a founding member of the psychedelic rock band Spirit in 1967, so would have been 43-44

     

    But the best example of an older rock musician finding success for the first time is Seasick Steve, not a shadow of a doubt about it

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  24. Posted

    On 16/09/2019 at 03:31, Cant Wait said:

    Ric Ocasek found dead in his NYC Apartment, he was 75. Cause of death is unknown for now...

     

    The Cars were a New Wave band, weren't they? And the New Wave movement was most active in the late 70s and early 80s

     

    Surprising then that he was born as early as 1944, definitely must have been one of the oldest members of that movement - same with the guitarist from the Police as well born in 1942 but best known for being in a New Wave group

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