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Anubis: Good call on 'Taurus' shamelessly pillaged for 'Stairway to Heaven.' Ed Cassidy was interviewed - albeit briefly - for Mojo last year when a raft of reissued Spirit was unleashed. Can't see the man as a candidate for action hereabouts for a year or two yet, he's still drumming.

Just heard and old Les Paul and Mary Ford record on the radio, sounds positively bizarre by today's standards but his flashy fretwork still shines. She'd be a mere 87........if she hadn't died in 1977. Maybe guitar playing is the secret. Segovia - Spanish master of the instrument - was still gigging in his nineties.

Another Trek related individual worth considering is Ed Cassidy (b 4th May 1923) massive baldie about six and a half feet tall who made a notable guest appearance in the show and also has a toe hold on rock fame as the drummer with vastly under-rated Californian psychsters Spirit. Still alive, which is more than can be said for Spirit's singer/guitarist Randy California. Cassidy's health seems sound.........for an 83 year old with a few late nights and parties to his credit.

Be a laugh to pull up outside his house with a mobile magnet crane - you know the ones they use to lift cars in a scrapyard!

Is 'sick girl' Jane Tomlinson already lurking somewhere on the thirty pages of this thread. If not, she should be.

If I was the union boss down at Radio Two I'd be demanding health and safety checks on the chair used for that drivetime show.

I think he's making a slow recovery although - for those around him - he's in the tough stage. The bit where he's out of danger but in a depressingly lowly state of awareness. Then again, if a mighty chunk of his brain is gone for good he could always make a comback writing songs for McFly!

Statistically we'd have to guess about 38 of them will survive but the compilers are gradually sharpening their act. No one as young and healthy as Peter Shilton this year! If I were betting on one cert I'd have money on Les Paul. He's still gigging and recording.

What's got 100 legs and three public hairs? The front row at a McFly gig. Sorry, wrong thread.

What do you call a dead BNP leader? A start!

Still struggling with the novel but today I've sold two t-shirt ideas and got someone famous - about whom I'm sworn to secrecy - to write a forward for another book. This famous person, incidentally, isn't too old and is in very good health so no DL tips to pass on.

Re the 'rumoured to be gay' bit. You just wait till he stops breathing and watch those floodgates open! I refer the assemby of the DL to my earlier 'Ted Heath spent last night in Amman" story.

Nobody seems to have considered the possibility that some posters here might become famous or have posted years ago and gone on to become notable. I personally am sending out book submissions on a regular basis and surely it is only a matter of time before my self help stunner: Wank Your Way To Wisdom or the gritty novel of a grim Northern life spent in the mines: How Green Was My Sputum become best sellers.

Edward Heath + Death searched online a couple of minutes ago brought me right back here. So I guess he's still living, if you call 89 years old, bitter, twisted, grossly overweight and terminally in the closet 'living.' It's only a matter of time though.....

But if you were a true MPD case, how would you know it/they wasn't/weren't you?

Just a suggestion: The two posts above are wildly at odds with each other and both from unregistered posters. Since the last one confesses 'my name is legion' is it possible they're from the same individual who suffers from multiple personality disorder?

I wasn't held enough as a baby maybe? No particular reason. I could give you the 'I'm a f***in' artist' line that it's all justified and in context. I mean, I did agree with Cowboy Ronnie. What does that say about me? Other than that the only thing really winding me up at the moment is the thought of the impending football season and a scarcity of talent in Carlisle United's squad to meet the challenge. I'll take a few deep breaths before the next post.

F*** sake! I've just found myself in agreement with Ronnie Reagan! It is indeed a sad reflection on the limited skills of the fan bases of these ageing stars and the - at best - tatty glamour left to them that DL is the top surf for their names.

Heart attack kept her out of her role in A Picture of Dorian Gray. At 58 she's just quit smoking. Not a candidate for 2006 but there's a body that's seen some abuse. Bet it'll be a juggling act from now on as one vital organ after another starts crumbling under the pressure.

Can't say I've religiously read all 29 previous pages of this thread but if he's not here already let's get Jack Wild down pronto. Apart from anything else if they keep taking such huge slices of his body to combat cancer he'll end 2006 as a human jigsaw>

Look, I'm warning you. I'll keep dragging this f***er to the top until someone with more than a decade of experience on this list coughs up. What was Shilton doing on the DL in the mid-nineties? I can't find anything online about a health scare. He's a god amongst goalies and a gnat amongst the morally upstanding. Was his wife or the boyfriend of some woman he got acquainted with about to kill him?

A cert for the 2006 DL surely. They'd only operate to such an extent because certain death was stalking him. His immune system has taken enough punishment for half a dozen lifetimes.

Is there anywhere on line I can find a picture of the broken down wreck that is Jack Wild 2005? Not being a great telly watcher I missed his starring appearance.

Look closer and you'll see the permanently smouldering fag. Small insects hate that.

Suppose we set up an alternative DL next year and pitted 50 of this lot against the traditional celebs. It'd be a long, tense drawn out affair with the hanging possibility of a dead heat after an interminable struggle - just like cricket really.