Sly Ronnie

Also author of what is by reputation the worst/strangest autiobiography of all time.

That Song to the Siren team looks a bit theme-y with all those "disgraced" celebrities on it.

I know you're dead but what am I?

Always liked the O Lucky Man! Soundtrack and the film from it.

Notably provded the result of the first exit poll in the 1970 General Election, carried out in just one constiuency - Guildford, chosen because it was the most typical seat. The result was a Conservative win, the first indication that it was going to be Edward Heath's election win after all.

Stuart Broad to retire from cricket at the conclusion of the Ashes series.

This has been kept relatively quiet but The Telegraph newspaper is up for auction after been taken into receivership last month with debts if £1bn. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/07/28/goldman-sachs-to-run-auction-of-the-telegraph/

Nothing Compares 2 mb.

Blimey, what did he do to upset the Clintons?

Peter Sellers died today in 1980 aged 54.

We've had a few 1960s icons pass away this year. I think that David Bailey might be worth a shout, one of those ones you would be kicking yourself if he died and wasn't on the list. 86 in January.

Random choice - Alan Alda

Seemed to have a blind spot when it came to Iraqi children, however.

Pissed it I literally have older socks than the winner - another Oxbridge automaton.

Certainly puts a new spin on "tummy tuck", I must say.

Yes. One for '24 or '25 but no more than that. Also, didn't he play an alternate version of Dave Lister in an episode of Red Dwarf? Either way an QO is guaranteed.

For me, the ultimate "thought he died years ago" person. Almost Mandela Effect-esque in my continual refusal to accept that he was alive, even when he popped up on countless docs about film!

A bit of lazy stereotyping there. There's a skill to television presenting and a bit of responsibility too. How would you have announced the Queen's death?

So long, we hardly knew ye.

https://youtu.be/ytt6hUxzpd8?t=1910 I was only thinking of this the other day...

A good, worthy pick in all senses of the word. Well done DeathList.

I didn't know "depression" meant an alleged interest in young men. I thought it was feeling low and shit?