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And the FAQ's at the end of the article took a very grim turn:

30 Althea & Donna – Up Town Top Ranking 28 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights 24 The Buggles – Video killed the radio star 24 Police – Walking on the moon 24 Tubeway Army – Are “friends” electric 23 Blondie – Sunday Girl 22 Art Garfunkel – Bright eyes 22 ABBA – Take a chance on me +2 22 Police – Message in a bottle +2 21 Blondie – Heart of glass 21 The Boomtown Rats – Rat Trap 21 The Boomtown Rats – I don´t like Mondays 20 Brotherhood of Man – Figaro 20 Bee Gees – Night Fever 20 Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta – You´re the one that I want 20 10CC – Dreadlock Holiday 20 Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta – Summer Nights 20 Rod Stewart – Da ya think I´m sexy 20 Boney M. – Mary´s boy child / Oh my Lord 20 Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Hit me with your rhythm stick 20 Bee Gees – Tragedy 20 Gloria Gaynor – I will survive 20 Anita Ward – Ring my bell 20 Cliff Richard – We don´t talk anymore 20 Gary Numan – Cars 14 Pink Floyd – Another brick in the wall 14 The Commodores – Three times a lady 14 Brian & Michael – Matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs 14 Village People – Y.M.C.A. 10 Lena Martell – One day at a time -4 6 Boney M. – Rivers of Babylon / Brown girl in the ring 0 Dr. Hook – When you´re in love with a beautiful woman -2

Pink Floyds most overrated song being their most succesful in the charts is and will always be a disgrace. It's not an outright bad song, but I won't stick my neck out for it like I would've for Time, Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pts. 1-5, Wish You Were Here etc.

The last part about eating chocolate reminded me of the late Gabrielle des Robert. The French secret for longevity is chocolate!

Who did they cremate at the ceremony the day before? Oh dear, starting to worry for Zhu Rongji

Thought me entering the top 10 would be a very shortlived adventure as I had Doddie at no. 19, but a short look at the stats shows more than half the field selected him. Think I might even stay in 10th place for now!

Ah, the "Jimmy and Rosalynn look like munchkins compared to the Bidens from this angle" perspective strikes again!

Congrats Drol!

And I'm out. Had a Sinterklaas-party with my in-laws (could you call it that? Girlfriends family) yesterday evening, and the consensus happened to be "since there are virtually no Sinterklaas-songs tolerable for sane adults, let's play a christmas-playlist instead". About halfway through dinner, not a cloud in sight. Well, I'd probably heard up to five Bublé versions of classics at that point, which must be four too many at least, but not a single sound of our infamous English pop duo. Then it all went down suddenly. As I went for a second round of meat with some salad and baguette, I heard the vaguest beginnings of a song, which I suddenly realised turned out to be the all too well known song by George and Andrew. I silently accepted my defeat. Oh well. Had a fun evening anyway! And for whom the above seemed way too over the top and dramatic, just wait till you hear Wham! once released a christmas song

Was caught off guard in a bookstore this evening by some sudden christmas tunes, luckily it turned out to be Chris Rea.

That's actually quite great! Works much better than I expected.

Really shocked about her death. As others before me have written, she had such an enormous influence over the succes of Fleetwood Mac, both in songwriting and her vocals. Had you asked me to predict who would be the last one standing of the main line up, I'd have said Christine without a second thought only this afternoon. Really the end of an era, could see Buckingham and another one of the classic line up go in the next couple of years. But for now, I'll just honour this wonderful musician, songwriter and human being. RIP Christine

Fucks sake... Never would've guessed Christine would be the first of my list to go. Not a great start to the game for me. But I'll keep my Dreams of winning this pool alive, her death isn't The Chain by which I'll plummet to the depths of the ranking. Now I'll stop with the puns, I'm just sad about her being gone so sudden.

James Whale

Guillermo Rodriguez Lara please

85 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 77 David Bowie – Space Oddity +4 67 ABBA – Waterloo 46 10CC – I’m Not in Love 36 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 36 Bay City Rollers – Bye bye baby 32 Barry White – You`re the first, the last, my everything 27 Ken Boothe – Everything I own 17 The Three Degrees – When will I see you again 16 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Make me smile (Come up and see me) -6

76 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 67 David Bowie – Space Oddity +4 63 ABBA – Waterloo 54 10CC – I’m Not in Love 39 Barry White – You`re the first, the last, my everything 35 Ken Boothe – Everything I own 27 Bay City Rollers – Bye bye baby 26 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Make me smile (Come up and see me) -6 25 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 24 The Three Degrees – When will I see you again 21 George McCrae – Rock your baby 15 Tammy Wynette – Stand by your man 6 Typically Tropical – Barbados

Not too late for that...

69 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 66 David Bowie – Space Oddity +4 62 ABBA - Waterloo 56 10CC - I’m Not In Love 44 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make me smile (Come up and see me) 33 Barry White - You`re the first, the last, my everything 30 Ken Boothe - Everything I own 29 Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive 25 Bay City Rollers – Bye bye baby 23 The Three Degrees – When will I see you again 22 Tammy Wynette – Stand by your man -6 22 George McCrae – Rock your baby 18 Typically Tropical – Barbados 10 Johnny Nash - Tears on my pillow

65 David Bowie – Space Oddity +2 62 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody +2 59 10CC - I’m Not In Love 55 ABBA - Waterloo 52 Barry White - You`re the first, the last, my everything 50 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make me smile (Come up and see me) 28 Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive 26 The Three Degrees – When will I see you again 25 Tammy Wynette – Stand by your man -4 24 Bay City Rollers – Bye bye baby -2 24 Ken Boothe - Everything I own 22 George McCrae – Rock your baby 20 Typically Tropical – Barbados 15 Johnny Nash - Tears on my pillow 13 Pilot – January 9 The New Seekers - You won't find another fool like me

60 David Bowie – Space Oddity +2 58 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody +2 51 Barry White - You`re the first, the last, my everything 50 ABBA - Waterloo 50 10CC - I’m Not In Love 50 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make me smile (Come up and see me) 50 Tammy Wynette – Stand by your man 28 Ken Boothe - Everything I own 28 Bay City Rollers – Bye bye baby 26 The Three Degrees – When will I see you again 26 Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive 22 George McCrae – Rock your baby 19 Typically Tropical – Barbados 18 Johnny Nash - Tears on my pillow 15 Pilot – January 13 The New Seekers – You won't find another fool like me 9 Rod Stewart – Sailing -6 7 Bay City Rollers – Give a little love  7 Mud - Oh Boy

60 David Bowie – Space Oddity +4 50 Tammy Wynette – Stand by your man 50 10CC - I’m Not In Love 49 Barry White - You`re the first, the last, my everything 47 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 46 ABBA - Waterloo 45 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make me smile (Come up and see me) 33 Ken Boothe - Everything I own 29 Bay City Rollers – Bye bye baby 26 The Three Degrees – When will I see you again 24 Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive 22 George McCrae – Rock your baby 21 Johnny Nash - Tears on my pillow 20 Mud – Oh boy 19 Typically Tropical – Barbados 19 Rod Stewart – Sailing 16 The New Seekers – You won't find another fool like me 13 Pilot – January 12 Bay City Rollers – Give a little love -2 9 The Tymes - Miss Grace 8 Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun 7 The Rubettes – Sugar Baby Love 0 John Denver - Annie's Song -4

Yeah, we DL'ers are weird ... On that note, I believe one of my most accurate dream/death predictions was Bush 41. About two / three weeks before it happened I dreamt about how the push notification of the Dutch NOS would look for his death.