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New Tubular Bells 50th anniversary edition features a five-year-old demo, “Tubular Bells 4 Intro”, that is being publicised as “the last-ever recording from Mike”, now retired. https://fb.watch/jCC53i5LyC/

Totally agree with this.

come on, fuckers still warm.

There's a Jimmy King photoshoot of David Bowie that circulates widely as the last photographs of him. They get posted with the claim that they were taken on his birthday in 2016, two days prior to his death, but there is no evidence to suggest this - they were simply published that day on Bowie's social media channels and were likely taken in 2015. Anyway - here's the last photo of Bowie we can be sure of. He's leaving the Lazarus premiere on 7 December 2015, his first public appearance in a long time and of course his last too. Great smile despite how ill he was.

He sounds fine to me, and looks great.

As mentioned in the Genesis thread, what Rutherford actually said was “he’s much more immobile than he used to be”. Watching it, I really take “used to be” to be referring to before the recent Genesis reunion and not a new development.

He looks pretty decent to me. Shaved head aside, he more or less looks like he always has, no?

He is indeed! Picked him just on the “surprised he’s still alive” charge. RIP.

That’s quite shocking, I’m surprised it hasn’t featured in other media covering Frontier in Space.

Hmm - he says “he’s much more immobile than he used to be” but I get the impression he’s just talking about how Phil has been for a while rather than a new development.

Franklin pictured today with Katy Manning.

They’ve mixed her up with Harriet Walter next to her.

Is this that big of a problem? It’s only bumping a thread. If you don’t find those deaths interesting, that’s fine - no user on here is gonna be enthralled by every new post.

It looks like it was created by an editor who is looking to level the gender bias on Wikipedia. An honourable cause but I mean it’s two lines long.

Bloody hell - great spot! Those Stargazers hits are among the more puzzling of the 1950s but I’m glad she’s still with us.

She really didn’t split them up. If anything did, it was their disagreements over Allen Klein and money. Yoko simply had the golden ticket of being a woman, being Asian and being there and thus she’s faced decades of misogyny.

I think both men are dead certs to get well into their 90s, but that may be my Beatles fandom speaking - I am really dreading them going.

Ringo had a huge alcohol problem in the 70s and 80s, mind.

Just seen McGear (79), McGough (85) and Gorman (87) do a live interview/Q&A. All of them seem to be doing okay, walking up and down steps fine. McGear is nutty but he always has been. McGough seems the most frail - he’s tiny - but I did notice John Gorman seems to have a false nose now. Feel icky saying it but it’s true. Judging on photos I’ve found, it seems to be a recent thing so perhaps he’s had cancer? Not sure. All very funny blokes still.

True! I guess the last time I saw him standing up and dancing was Mary Poppins Returns, so a few years ago now. That he's still up for it, especially in a live environment, is incredible.

I'm trying to get my head around the kind of insurance costs they must've had for Dick Van Dyke, and the planning that must've gone into it to make it as comfortable and safe as possible for him. Really nuts.

Brenda has a good chance of being the last major 1950s rock and roll star left due to her relative youth.

Thank you so much and apologies I didn't catch it earlier.

Yeah, I'd agree about the concept shifting decades. I guess this is probably well-known in these parts but Sophia Loren is the only one still living from the American Film Institute's 1999 list of 100 Years... 100 Stars. The honorees on that were defined as "an actor with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work", so Loren was an outlier on it anyway - her screen debut was in 1950. It would certainly appear that the definition has shifted.

It depends on what one considered the Golden Age of Hollywood, I suppose. I see it as something that was done by 1960 and when I think of female stars, I think of the likes of Lauren Bacall, Grace Kelly, Vivien Leigh, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner etc - all long gone and all at their peak before the mid-1950s. Glynis Johns didn't star in American films until the mid-late 1950s and the likes of Moreno and Loren were at their most famous in the 60s.