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Re the Great North Run, no mystery. A few Geordies livin' on pies and lager did it for a laugh and paid the price for their lifestyles. Marathon training - being harder and that - often puts the fainter types off a race. Quite a few unfit and unaware types underestimate the grief awaiting them in half marathons.

I would have thought every registered poster on here is connected with Pure Reason Revolution. I have no business links with them, simply making the point that Syd's influence lives on strong. Be there or be square, or summat.

Think we've rather lost the thread here. The original question being who would have improved their reputation with an early death? Not sure Leo Sayer, Duran Duran or even Status Quo were ever up there far enough with the greats to have that much of a reputation to lose. As for Cliff, maybe if he'd died in 1958 he'd be in there with Vince Taylor as Britain's lost rock n roll great. After that surely it's been an endless parade of pap.

Aye, but I'd contend BRITAIN'S Charles Bronson is just about famous enough. Notorious criminals are world wide cult heroes - witness the attention still lavished on Ed Gein who may have killed as few as two (there's doubt about whether he offed his own brother). Charles Bronson (UK) is also a best selling autobiographical author.

Gypsey, Sweet Lorraine there's loads and what about those great albums: Look at Yourself, Demons and Wizards, Salisbury, Abominog Famously slammed by one critic with words to the effect that if they made it he'd have to commit suicide. I'm assuming he bottled it and remained alive. Anyone know for sure?

Not so sure about that, Syd. Incidentally, Floyd are - apparantly - reforming for a world tour where they'll play the entire DSOTM. Bet the rest of the set includes some Syd songs. Also worth checking out the forthcoming album from Pure Reason Revolution, the latest outfit to take late sixties Syd Floyd as their blueprint.

No mention of her carrying Steve Coogan's baby. If she is, she's already fried the foetus's brain.

My thread on the whether any nation might use nuclear weapons in future was pulled on the grounds of irrelevance and because it turned into a slanging match. Worth a thought though, in these turbulent times. If anyone does nuke anyone else, who will do the nuking and who'll be on the end of it? Might not even be a country launching the next strike.

Re death providing a career boost: It's not always that way. The sad truth is that so many people involved in rock music are ageing and dropping dead that lots of them now get a write up in the dad rock magazines and little else. Sure the big names still get some attention but if - for example - Sting did shuffle off now I wonder how big a surge in sales he'd generate.

Aw for FOXAKE!!! That wuz desperate.

Big bold print and accusing me of being a wolf. Call me old fashioned but I like to shag someone with decent eyesight. Helps in the mutual enjoyment of the post-coital video.

Uranus and my strimmer!

Guest, you clearly enjoy anonymity on this board, big letters and rude words. Good luck in the quest to lose your virginity!

I heard a story - probably an urban legend - about a guy who killed a pedestrian because he was too busy looking at a roadside shrine to see her walking in front of his car.

Okay Billyc1963, without the aid of the IMDB......Name them!

Aye well, all life is dead end eh?

DDT: If the neighbour rescued him and the guy got away with his autoerotic adventures for a quarter of a century there are some who'd count that a real result. I remember reading a story in the Fortean Times Strange Deaths column aways back about a bloke who'd been found dead wired up to the mains. He had loads of little burn scars on his body and had obviously been getting some kind of sexual kick this way for a while. I guess in both of the above cases the deceased might count it the way they'd want to go.

Either way, I think her mother has just identified herself as the famous but seldom seen Disgusted of Tonbridge Wells.

Wastrel We've had a thread and posts on here before detailing the amazing longevity of some writers. Clearly they stand little chance of death in a traffic accident on the way to work since most of them commute a few rooms in their homes and it's a job that keeps your mind active. Perry and Croft of Dad's Army fame might almost be famous enough to count here. David Croft is a bit of a luvvie who does radio appearances and such like and even wrote his autobiography. He's also pretty damn healthy for an old man.

I'm inclined to believe 1916, it's seldom these information sources err on the old side.

Didn't he jump John Curry for charity once?

The NME - cursed with reviewing a Greatest Hits collection by boy-buggering Jonathan described it as: 'The sound of a butterfly farting on a human face, forever.'

I think anyone getting cremated could go off too "It's gettin' hot in here, so take off all your clothes.'

Tempus Re your earlier post expressing admiration for George Formby, totally agree. He urinates on Norman in my book too. Something I really love about Formby is that widowed, re-married to a spring chick and - probably - unable to do much about it because he knew a life threatening heart condition could see him off at any time, and terminally out of fashion he shuffled into a studio to record his final single.......Happy Go Lucky Me.

Don't forget 'Singer.' A one hit wonder in tandem with the Sex Pistols.