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He was older than Geri at 54? That seems doubtful.

Winter, Spring, June or July All you've got to do is die And we'll be there, oh yes we will You've got a thread...

I wondered if commenting on the Queen's large breasts was lèse-majesté and one of the things you could still be hanged for. Turns out it isn't, but calling for the abolition of the monarchy is still against the 1848 Treason Felony Act, and theoretically punishable with life imprisonment.

Maybe Lady Colin Campbell is right and the Queen is at risk of a Gary Lineker at Italia 90 style disaster whenever she appears in public. I think a lot of women would prefer people to think they were terminally ill.

There's an album of him singing in Spanish too.

I've seen a rumour that he has lung cancer.

There are a group of actors and actresses who are style icons of Sixties art cinema, and Monica Vitti is one of them. I'd rank her with Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, Stephane Audran, Anna Karina, or on the male side Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Louis Trintignant... quite apart from the possible Alzheimer's record. Incidentally the only 60s director with that kind of iconic status still alive is Godard. He really should be on the list.

There's no way Charles will abdicate or refuse the crown when it comes. It'd mean accepting that his whole life had been a failure, a decades-long wait for a position he wasn't good enough to hold.

I can't help feeling that within a short time she'll be back to looking the same as before, or worse. It's like Eyes Without A Face (or Corruption, for fans of British horror pics).

Very carefully-chosen angle and probably a lot of retouching on somebody's computer.

Back in the 80s I knew an Australian girl who'd been a journalist for their version of Smash Hits. She'd interviewed Feargal Sharkey, and before being introduced to him was told not to ask any questions about the Undertones or his recent divorce.

Somkiat Pongpaiboon, Thai academic and democratic politician, dead at 71. I notice there isn't a thread for amusingly named deceased foreigners.

I don't think being PM was his "dream job." If he had a dream job, I suspect it'd be one where he did almost no work and made a lot of money.

I imagined his hairpiece coming off in zero gravity and floating about by itself.

Well I hope it wasn't her.

Have you ever listened to a Gary Glitter single?

A female friend of Alvin Stardust alleged that he'd once trussed her up, had his way, and then gone off to dinner without bothering to untie her.

And now Robert! When the dead, dead Robert comes bob, bob, bobbin' along...

If Mike Leander had been in Dusseldorf he might have joined Neu... But he couldn't have got just anybody for a frontman. It needed someone grotesque, vocally and visually.* Julie Burchill once wrote that in 1972 Gary Glitter was the nearest thing to Iggy Pop that a 12-year-old girl could encounter, and she had a point. (*And personally, I suppose. If he hadn't been a kiddie-fiddler he probably would have been raving queer, and in that case he'd very likely have a knighthood today.)

Perhaps he just needed some virgins' bodily fluids for his work.

The Glitter sound really needed the man himself to attain its full fascist glory, but the Band's hits were pretty good in themselves.

Gone, apparently.

He wasn't even born when Judas Priest first got big.

Finding out that she was the illegitimate daughter of a man she hated and who'd ruined the father she knew probably didn't help either.

Delta 5 were absolutely a cusp of the 80s, post-punk band. They formed as students in Leeds, and it's probably just good luck that none of their three female members got knocked on the head by the Yorkshire Ripper. After their early singles on Rough Trade they signed to a major label, but they weren't cut out for the big time and broke up. Incidentally their drummer Kelvin Knight is dead too.