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He might just be famous enough for our purposes though, is he a starter for 2006?

I've posted on the DL Forum as well but worth noting. A couple of writers Edward Upward (101) and Studs Terkel (93). Studs may just qualify as famous enough for next year. His style and greatest days belong in the past, but that could be said of most of our DL.

Yeti, I take yer point but having checked out the link I'm bound to ask.....do you call THAT living?

Made a half decent album - and some duff bootlegs in prison. Ironically there's a track on his semi-official album called 'Don't Do Anything Illegal.'

'Do what he loves' you mean drinking, drugs and chasing women! Get the man down for 2006 NOW!!!!

It wasn't just that Tessa Wyatt dumped Tony for Richard, she also rubbed his nose in it by appearing in Robin's nest with her new bloke and Tony celebrated by having an on air nervous breakdown on Radio 1. Great days!

Nah, the present generation of F1 cars are for pussies. I refer you to the thread on F1 where we've even included guidance to clips of newsreel footage showing great motor racing accidents. Maybe if they sacked Massa next year and brought back De Cesaris as Schuey's team-mate.

Since there are clearly DL'ters who know where the great man is holed up how about one of them ringing the rest home and making a polite enquiry because they're researching his career. Might help us judge whether he's a lingerer or shuffler offer. Bet Tony Blackburn is spotted dancing on his grave if he goes soonish.

He's not eighty yet and the cigars are something of a social prop. Given the thousands of miles he's run and the lack of pork about his body I'll bet his heart and lungs are in fine shape for a bloke in his late seventies. Plus he's got the kind of money that buys private health care and nips pre-canerous cells before the get malignant. Long shot I'd say.

True: His burger bars turned a fine trade when The Rolling Stones played at Wembley.

If they were mega rich and prone to changing their will in my favour, if the lights were out and a massive supply of KY Jelly were on hand......nah, I still couldn't do it either.

So laid back I can't see a sudden death related to a damaged heart a la Robin Cook. Maybe he'll die after being savaged by a sheep!

Ronnie my man, I take your point but 'Ass backward' countries to the generation currently making up the worlds oldest living people also includes parts of the USA and Europe. Sonny Liston - an American probably born in the 1920s - has no birth certificate. He - apparantly - never knew his true age. His official ages listed as he registered as a boxer disagree with each other. Either way, were he still alive he'd be mid seventies at the oldest

Cautious as I am this one is in the bag for 2005. The only way the Home Secretary would release him is to let him die and it looks like the release is immenent. Letting him die in prison looks cruel, letting him out when he's not going to die right away looks soft. Even the restrained broadsheet press in the UK are saying he could die anytime. Not like Ernest Saunders the Guinness guy with his hand in the till. If memory serves me right he avoided jail becuase of medical evidence suggesting he had the preliminary signs of dementure only to make a miraculous recovery.

Doesn't mean the thread is a total wipe out though. C'mon people. How many mega famous climbers are alive and ancient? Isn't Edmund Hilary still alive? A bit like the surviving F1 drivers discussed hereabouts these people have a high mortality rate at work and a hell of a life span if they survive their careers. So there must be a few out there, old and about ready to fall off the mountain for good. At least it'll give us SUMMIT to talk about, arf!

Been watching for years Honez, never met a man like that!

A commercial for a sore throat cure.

If Shane MacGowan is a speed freak I'd hate to see him off the stuff. I mean, his work rate is hardly impressive as it is. I hope Lemmy survives to the British leg of the 30th anniversary tour, I've already bought my ticket. Saw the last tour and they were brilliant.

We've not exactly gone hog wild now and the man is - near-enough - fresh dead.

The mother of an ex-girlfriend of mine died of lung cancer having never smoked, never lived with a smoker and not been too fond of nights out in smoky places. Men get breast cancer as well. Bitch really. What's their son going to die of in 2007?

Lucky Thompson - saxophonist of some repute in jazz circles - has just run out of luck. Marking the death with a track on his show tonight Sir Humphrey Littleton remarked - and I'm paraphrasing - so many old jazzers are dying he's got to be selective about the ones he mentions on the show. Anyone looking to update this thread every week could do worse than tune into BBC Radio Two 8-9 on a Monday.

Re the guys who bombed Hiroshima above, Harold Agnew made a few waves in science throughout his career and might just qualify fame wise. In pretty good shape for 85 though so maybe for a future DL.

Are all the people listed at the top still alive? So far as I can make out they are although some aren't too famous. The top hit on AOL for Phyllis Whitley is this thread.

If as one of the linked articles says 'Emma B Stands by Her Man' it'll just wind him up about the fact that he's sitting down all the time.

Or maybe because he was reading an article about the DL!