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Sorry yes, know who he is too, but none of the others...

Yes, well done Toast, you win. The other hit was indeed the Stones' Ruby Tuesday and the successful British MOR band with two number ones that also had a minor hot with one of her songs was the New Seekers with 'Look what they've done to my song, Ma'.

congrats Clorox. ~and thank you for saving me wasting half an hour of my life indulging my curiosity by looking up all those people I've never heard of (barring bracknell and Ricksen) who everyone else chose...

The American singer song-writer is a woman

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And Emma Watson is indeed sufficiently drop dead gorgeous to play any role she chooses. She's in my 5 permissible infidelities (see 'Friends' episodes passim) along with Jenna Coleman, Madame Cholet, Anna Friel and Katharina Johnson-Thompson (scouse accent notwithstanding).

Saw Rocket Man (Elton John biog) today. Self-indulgent film about self-confessed drama queen, redeemed by the quality of his (1970s) musical output. His mother, father and long time manager/boyfriend all come out of it badly, presumably all are dead now so they can't sue.. Executive co-producer (and husband) David Furnish stopped the film in the early-mid 90s, just before his own entry onto the scene. This also conveniently saved him having to court controversy by including anything about Princess Diana.

the singer songwriter is American

BBC website has nothing about the death of prize-winning author, however it does have stories on the deaths of 'Internet sensation' grumpy cat and a blonde former WWE wrestler and playboy cover girl with large breasts. Skewed priorities?

This singer-songwriter only had 2 UK top ten hits - one of which was ironically a cover version (of an album track by one of the top 3 most successful bands ever). This act's biggest hit made the top 5, but was subsequently an even bigger hit in a parody version by someone else. Another of their compositions was a minor hit for a UK MOR group that had a couple of number ones during a chart career lasting several years. Name the singer-songwriter and their biggest UK hit.

National Enquirer True. Oggi Oggi Oggi, burn burn burn!

Saw Tolkien film this afternoon. Very little in it for LOTR geeks to get excited about. Mainly a coming of age drama about JRRT and three of his oxbridge chums growing up in the run up to the first world war. Only uncertainty was guessing which of them were going to get killed in the trenches. Rather like chariots of fire, personally had little connection with any of these upper class oxbridge types so didn't get too upset at the outcome. Lead actor (can't be bothered to look up who) looked disconcertingly like a young John Redwood. Lily Collins as his love interest was rather cute - if not quite up there with Jenna Coleman (or Madame Cholet, obviously).

Saw Red Joan today (about spy Melita Norwood). Quite enjoyed it, although it wasn't not entirely sure whether it was a cold war drama or a comedy at times. Tom Hughes had exactly the same haircut, accent and vocal mannerisms as he does as Prince Albert in Victoria. Shame the scrumptious Jenna Coleman (only reason I watch Victoria) wasn't in it, got pictures of her all over the burrow.

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rideric Handel Georg Frederic could no longer handel life, so went to meet his Messiah this day in 1759, aged 74.

1. J-l Trintignant 2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 3. Kathleen Blanco 4. Herman Wouk 5.Nobby Stiles 6. Leslie phillips 7. Stirling Moss 8.Bernard Cribbins 9. Jackie stallone 12.Michael Schumacher 13. Jimmy Greaves 14.Frank Williams (Vicar) 15. Kirk Douglas 16. Rosalind Carter 17. Jimmy Tarbuck 18Tommy Banner 19.Mike Batt 20. Roberta McCain 21. Des O'Connor Subs Richard Bonynge Vera Lynn Martin Peters Thanks for running, GUB

Saw Garfunkel live last night. Was on stage for about hour and a quarter, with a 15 minute break in the middle. His son (!) had a solo in each half and there were anecdotes or poetry (!!) between most songs. Lost his thread with the talking a couple of times and looked a bit frail. However when he started singing most of the voice was still there and there were enough magical moments to make it a worthwhile and moving evening. We only got 2 verses of bridge over troubled waters but sounds of silence and bright eyes were both great. Anyone who can still sing like that isn't about to keel over but would guess he won't be touring much longer. Not one for 2020 but I saw contemporaries the Stones last year and he was much frailer than any of them. 2022-3 would be my guess.

Saw Garfunkel live last night. Was on stage for about hour and a quarter, with a 15 minute break in the middle. His son (!) had a solo in each half and there were anecdotes or poetry (!!) between most songs. Lost his thread with the talking a couple of times and looked a bit frail. However when he started singing most of the voice was still there and there were enough magical moments to make it a worthwhile and moving evening. We only got 2 verses of bridge over troubled waters but sounds of silence and bright eyes were both great. Anyone who can still sing like that isn't about to keel over but would guess he won't be touring much longer. Not one for 2020 but I saw contemporaries the Stones last year and he was much frailer than any of them. 2022-3 would be my guess.

Ha, I like this thread! Cheryl Cole/Tweedy/Fernandez-Versini etc - talentless waste of space who has made a career out of being very pretty (albeit on a make up budget of £250K p.a.) Ricky Gervais, Keith Lemon (not funny) Michael MacIntyre (shouting unfunny material does not make it funny) John Torode (talking to people 3 feet away as if you are declaiming Shakespeare to the back row of the stalls just looks/sounds stupid) Everyone on gogglebox apart from the Saddiquis and Giles & Mary (and even then you are laughing at them, not with them) Female commentators and pundits on match of the day (apart from the rather hot Alex Scott) Girl popstars whose success is based solely on their looks and willingness to pout in their undies in their videos (exemplified but not limited to Ariana Grande (who looks about 14), Dua Lipa, Zara Larsson, Little Mix). Not that I object to pretty girls in their undies at all but I have to share a house with someone who inflicts the musical byproduct upon me Sharon Osborne - talentless harridan famous because she is married to someone who ceased being a credible rock star decades ago. Holly Willoughby - wooden, incapable of facial or verbal expression, just simpers to camera. I know she has blonde hair and a larger than average chest but there must be more talented people around with similar attributes... I wish it could be a wombling merry Christmas every day - Mash up of two Christmas classics into one awful record Bob Dylan - can't sing. Nearly everyone in the 60s and early 70s used to put a song or two of his on their albums and most of them are crap, albeit the covers are usually better sung than Dylan's version. The Hunted - clearly all staged/fixed by the production team, who have one of their number pointing a camera at the so called fugitives all the time Jeremy Vine - tries to sound genuinely caring on the radio and just sounds annoying All reality TV stars (especially anyone who has ever been on Love Island), including the staged ones like Geordie Shore, Made in Chelsea etc. (dishonourable mention for Charlotte Crosby, who has to be possibly the most vacuous yet gobbily irritating person on the telly) Boy bands where not one of them can play an instrument, particularly any of them that have been anywhere near Louis Walsh. Simon Cowell and just about anyone who has ever sang, claimed to have talent or judged on any of his shows. There, I feel much better for that...

Sarah Vaughan stopped feeling so smoochie and went east of the sun this day in 1990.

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I'd say he was quite well known in the UK and has featured in countless news bulletins down the years, though admittedly not many in the last decade or so. Most of the American media stars/actors & actresses on the list, by contrast, I had never - or only vaguely - heard of until I came on here (excluding Tina Turner, whose Burrow Deep Mountain High is still fondly remembered in these parts).

Posted 32 minutes ago She looks about 12. I must be getting old. 32 apparently, but agree doesn't look old to enough to do many things legally, certainly not be an MP.

Don't know how the Aussie IHT equivalent works, but there may be sound financial reasons for flogging the house and gifting the cash before he dies to reduce the tax bill for his heirs.

Is the songwriter and the person who had the hit the same person? (the guy who co-wrote little less conversation which topped charts in early noughties had a hit in his own right in the 70s, hence my apparently stupid answer above on the assumption that songwriter and artist were different)