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Roy Wood has cancelled a concert in November because of "medical issues". Considering it's so many months away, doesn't sound great sadly.

Cannon is definitely one to watch. 84 in June and has long come across a bit doddery.

Rosemary Squires is mine - thank you! Brilliant work from the team. I am really marvelling at the breadth of names this year. Glad to see Roasting Bodies In Redcar got a unique pick with Sonny Caldinez - he was very nearly on my list. One thing with my entry "Tragic, our Maurice" - it says it's my first year but it is actually my second year in DDP. That said, I got just two hits last year and came 354th, so I'm not too desperate to see that reproduced!

I don’t look for offence. I just thought it was a very sour comment esp about mental health. As for almost black teeth, you must be joking.

Do you have any empathy at all?

Very sad news. A beautiful person who deserved better.

Seems to be going strong, I feel fairly confident he’ll be still around for his 90th in just over two years time.

Tebbit, I think.

*thought better of it, not worth it*

People generally know who David Bowie is outside of his home country.

Appreciate the melodrama but that’s not what I was saying, was it? I’m saying what a shame it hasn’t yet been reported on in the media. I don’t doubt this post but a FB post alone is not going to satisfy any news outlets standards.

Quite dispiriting that this hasn't yet been authenticated and reported on. His three UK top 20 hits are all excellent records and it'll be such a shame if he doesn't get obits.

Another thing - forgive me if that has been mentioned already but Poitier died the same day as Peter Bogdanovich, who directed him in (eek!) To Sir, With Love II (1996).

Just a thought - all of the actors who played teachers in "To Sir with Love" lasted long. Poitier has died at 94. Geoffrey Bayldon made 93. Edward Burnham reached 98 and Faith Brook 90. Patricia Routledge is currently 92 and Ann Bell (83) and Suzy Kendall (85) are also still with us.

Went for Stanley Baxter. Feels like it’s his year.

It would need a lot of outside sources to prove DL is notable enough for a page. I imagine this site has been covered by tabloids over the years, but some of those aren’t generally accepted on Wikipedia. It could be a difficult one.

Yeah, it’s nice that Noddy’s said that, but absolutely no chance of it happening I don’t think.

I think I initiated an identical exchange to this in Ideas and Possibilities about a month ago.

He doesn’t look or sound too bad to me. He’ll make 96.

A rather good wartime Ealing film is “The Halfway House” (1944) - Glynis plays a spooky Welsh girl and her real life father Mervyn, who was in near enough every British film of the era, plays her father. I think Glynis is the earliest credited survivor in Ealing’s films - her and Leslie Philips are probably the only major actors from their 1940s films since the death of Sally Ann Howes (“Dead of Night”, 1945) - and that feels very striking.

Tragic, Our Maurice! 1. Frankie Valli 2. Leslie Phillips 3. Jean Marsh 4. Jerry Lee Lewis 5. Steve Lawrence 6. James Anderton 7. Phyllis Kinney 8. Carleton Carpenter 9. Joe Brown 10. James Bolam 11. Raymond Llewellyn 12. Wee Willie Harris 13. Bill Tidy 14. Art Rupe 15. Joseph McGrath 16. Jet Black 17. Dizzy Reece 18. Bill Treacher 19. Rosemary Squires 20. Craig Douglas I am hoping 5 (50s/60s US singer), 7 (US-born authority of Welsh folk music), 11 (Actor from Doctor Who and The Owl Service) and 17 (Jazz trumpeter) could be unique picks - but I'm ready to be proven wrong!

I think the former is more likely. The thread really reads like a tribute.

If I'm reading this right, looks like Steve Martin almost let the cat out of the bag hours ago with what would've been a seemingly unprompted Betty White tweet.

Sorry to see her go. Has something like this ever happened before? #2 on the list goes out a matter of hours before the next one!

I feel guilty!