Death Impends

Stuart Beck.

40 Alice Cooper – School's Out +4 26 10CC – Rubber Bullets 24 The Sweet – Blockbuster 24 Lieutenant Pigeon – Mouldy old dough 24 David Cassidy – How can I be sure 22 Don McLean – Vincent 22 Nilsson – Without you 22 Chuck Berry – My ding-a-ling 20 The New Seekers – I'd like to teach the world to sing 20 T.Rex – Telegram Sam 20 Chicory Tip – Son of my father 20 T.Rex – Metal Guru 20 Slade – Take me back 'ome 20 Rod Stewart – You wear it well 20 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Clair 20 Chuck Berry – My ding-a-ling 20 Slade – Cum on feel the noize 20 Donny Osmond – The twelfth of never 20 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Get down 20 Wizzard – See my baby jive 20 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 20 Slade – Skweeze me, pleeze me 20 Peters & Lee – Welcome home 20 Donny Osmond – Young love 20 Wizzard – Angel Fingers 20 Simon Park Orchestra – Eye Level 20 David Cassidy – Daydreamer/ The Puppy Song 20 Gary Glitter – I love you love me love 20 Slade – Merry X-mas everybody 14 Donny Osmond – Puppy love -6 14 Little Jimmy Osmond – Long haired lover from Liverpool 14 Royal Scots Dragoon Squad – Amazing Grace 12 Slade – Mama, weer all crazee now The only one of the above Osmonds songs I've had to suffer on US airwaves. Plus the original Puppy Love was not worth dusting the cobwebs off to begin with.

Alas, not on YouTube, but there is a Muppet Show episode where they hold auditions for new acts. A running gag is a girl and her frog perform songs badly and are taken off the stage in seconds. One of these songs is Yellow Ribbon. None too different from this game here!

Option 1

Feels a little redundant when the four left are going to make the grand finale no matter what happens. But understood.

47 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown +4 40 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 31 T. Rex - Get it on -1 20 Slade - Coz I luv you 0 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Chile -5 Does the 72-73 round begin right away?

Change duly made

Gone the way of Smiley Lewis, Chuck Berry, and Fats Domino. Though not yet Huey Smith.

Deathrace Form Guide #14 Ray Anthony Dual "WTF still alive" as both a survivor of the Glenn Miller Orchestra and a living Big Band leader in his own right, who continues to stand as much younger music names perish. The veteran trumpeter was in decent shape at his centennial earlier this year, but at that age anything can happen. He had a hit with the Dragnet theme, will he be done duh done done early next year?

39 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 33 T. Rex – Get It On 32 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 27 Slade - Coz I Luv You 15 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile -6 13 Freda Payne – Band of Gold +4 7 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking If not voting Freda yesterday ends up a critical mistake, I'm going to feel rather like the various Democrats in 1992 who felt "oh Bush Sr is too popular to lose reelection, I'm not running..." Phone not letting me unbold Simon and Garfunkel or Slade, will fix within an hour

Deathrace Form Guide #12 Harrison Ruffin Tyler A long time ago, a forgotten 19th-century US president had a shag in his final years. A son came out of it, and said son too had a shag in his final years. The end result is Harrison Ruffin Tyler, doddering on as a living relic of history. Now has no memories of his grandpa due to suffering from dementia. And the whole "died 66 years before he was born" thing.

43 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Tears of a Clown +2 42 Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water +2 37 T Rex - Get It On 29 Slade - Coz I Luv You 23 Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile -6 11 Dave Edmunds - I Hear you Knocking 7 Freda Payne - Band of Gold I like BoG the best, but at this late stage staying in its corner is a futile effort.

Francis outlives Benedict. Won't have Benny's longevity, mind.

40 T. Rex – Get It On 40 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 40 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 31 Freda Payne - Band of Gold +4 30. Slade - Coz I Luv You 23 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile -6 16 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking

He died 2009, and was a hit then.

41 T. Rex – Get It On 41 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 38 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Tears of a Clown 38 Freda Payne - Band of Gold +4 33 Jimi Hendrix Experience - VooDoo Chile 28. Slade - Coz I Luv You 21 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking 10 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel 4 T. Rex - Hot Love -6

41. T. Rex – Get It On 40 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Water 39 Smokey Robinson and The Miracles - Tears of a Clown 34 Freda Payne - Band of Gold +4 31 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Chile 28 Slade - Coz I Luv You 26 Dave and Ansel Collins - Double Barrel 21 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking 20 T. Red - Hot Love 4 Rod Stewart - Maggie May -6

Gall

15 JLL guesses - 6 before the TMZ gun jumping. Thread closed.

40 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 39 Freda Payne – Band of Gold +3 35 Slade - Coz I Luv You 34 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown +1 32 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 30 T. Rex – Get It On 27 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel 23 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking 19 Rod Stewart - Maggie May -3 18 T. Rex – Hot Love 7 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) 4 Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime -3

Great Uncle Bulgaria added 6 points in his post, the save limit is +4

I'd heard of Petras entirely because of a trans friend who is far more "here and now" savvy than I. Life is weird, the friend is a good deal older than me but she introduces me to modern music and I introduce her to 60s stuff!

36 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel 35 Freda Payne – Band of Gold 34 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water +2 33 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 33 Slade - Coz I Luv You 30 T. Rex – Get It On 30 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile +1 23 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking +1 20 Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) -2 19 T. Rex – Hot Love 16 Rod Stewart - Maggie May -2 14 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) 9 Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime -2

I could see it being like George Boscawen, who coincidentally died days after a Wiki death hoax. JLL's tank seems low even by his standards.

Usual withholding judgment for songs I've not heard yet caveat, but Cooper about the only one I'm already familiar with and really like. Whereas an uncomfortably high amount I already know as shite.