Joey Russ

Sutcliffe’s Deathlist obit is definitely one of the better modern deathlist obits for sure. Alas, the typos on Stiles’ and Trebek’s obit remain...

Joanna Harcourt-Smith, socialite who is best known for her association with Timothy Leary has died at 74

METAL DEATH 16/50 20th August 2020 Heavy metal drummer Frankie Banali has hit his last beat to bring the Crowdsource list another success. He began his career as a session drummer, where he was considered a very prolific session drummer. He also had a brief stent with Steppenwolf during that time. Though most of the stuff he played on became forgotten, he did land a successful single with Billy Idol's rendition of "Mony Mony" in 1981. In early 1982 he joined a revived version of Quiet Riot, where he joined Kevin DuBrow, Chuck Wright, and Carlos Cavazo into forming the new version of the band after previous Quiet Riot guitarist Randy Rhoads gave them his blessing. They recorded the album Metal Health later that year, which ended up landing Quiet Riot on the charts. Indeed, it became the first metal album to top the Billboard 200 charts, replacing The Police's Synchronicity to top the charts. As such, it could be said that this album help lead into the horror that was glam metal (though this album isn't bad). Tensions began to break Quiet Riot apart in 1984, but Banali held on despite those tensions, and basically was in the band until his death. Later on he played a stint with W.A.S.P., and joined Father Pussycat for one tour. Banali was diagnosed with the dreaded pancreatic cancer in 2019, and along with forum support in mid to late December got him a spot on the list, albeit only sneaking on to spot 48 due to multiple DQ's. His death at 68 equals the 2019 score, and it's only August too...

DYING ON THESE LONG SUMNER NIGHTS 15/50 13th August 2020 Media magnate and well known lover of steaks Sumner Redstone has died at 97 to give the Crowdsourced list another hit. He began his career as a special assistant to US attorney general Tom C Clark. Afterwards he joined his father's theatre chain National Amusements, and in 1967 he became the CEO of that company. After suffering and recovering severe burns at a fire at the Copley Plaza, he set his eyes at Viacom, which he ended up getting after a four month hostile takeover in 1987. He next went to purchase Paramount Communications in 1994, and won after a bidding war with Barry Diller and John Malone. His biggest acquisition was that of CBS, however, which was the company that used to own Viacom before Redstone got it. He was executive chairman of both CBS and Viacom before he resigned in 2016. In recent years, he was more known for being one of the immortals that would never seemingly die, and was also known for his profound love of the tasty steak. He finally died at 97 to the surprise of everyone, who all thought he would live on forever, but just like Clive Dunn, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Le Duc Anh, it is proven once again that immortals don't exist. He scores after two years of being off the list, in what I believe is the first successful boomerang pick (ie returning after being dropped off the previous year).

Yeah, sorry to being a skeptical bastard. In case you haven’t noticed the United States justice system is really fucked up on how they give folk sentences...

Tbh, I don’t think Trump’s going to jail. Folk like him usually don’t serve any meaningful time for their crimes because they’re rich...

Kudos to Lafaucheuse and TomTomKeletom for getting the daily double with a serial killer and a star of a bad music genre.

And the hits seem to keep on coming. I had Doug Supernaw on my team, and once again I don’t expect any bonus points to happen with his death...

Mohammad Ali dead Yep, that’s right, Bangladesh politician Mohammad Ali has died at 76.

I don’t think that’s a new photo.

Which one?

True, although his total share of the vote was less than Sutcliffe

Pretty sure Ginger Baker and Errol Christie had more when it was obvious they were going to die soon...

Dick Cheney so there’s back to back celebratory deaths

Good riddance to the cunt

Bob Gibson and Bullet Bob are two you missed.

He would’ve gotten a QO btw. I imagine a few folk were considering him (a research miss on my end though)

I actually don’t know who Bill Russell is, so I can see why he was DQ’d. Although given that he has an H by his name, I imagine Quim has some health reasons for why he ended up being DQ’d....

Would be a nice contrast to the sad death of Trebek.

Oh, this is so amazing:

I asked Hulka about it earlier today. Apparently the record is Etta James with a whopping 47 hits!