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Writer/broadcaster/ex-MP/chef/Minced Morsels advertiser Clement Freud has died. One down for Band on the Run.

Not sure why it took six months to hold that auction (or maybe there was more than one), but it's taking place on Saturday. Don't we have a DL regular in Wiltshire?

"You can put spectacles on a giant bunny rabbit, but it's still a giant bunny rabbit".

He's gone dotty and taken all his posts with him. Too much deathlist can do that to you.

I Got To Say That's (A Doggone Shame). They Did Some Real (Sweet Songs).

The Wall of Sound just got 18" 18' higher.

Can someone please change this thread title to Sydney Colin?

Roger Hodgson's dead?!

Does anyone else remember Inspector Bumhat? The best 'tec series on TV, starring the debonair Barclay Cornelius Alum.

Scott Joplin died of syphilis-in-da-brain in 1917 and Eleanor of Aquitaine died of something equally fatal in 1204, so wikipedia tells me. I must be missing the point of this thread.

Here goes bad TAF again, putting non-death-related news into Death by Jazz. Anyway, one of the few old jazzers left, Ornette Coleman, is to curate this year's Meltdown festival. Line-up to be improvised and excessively modulated once festival starts. Ba-dum (... seven and a half beats ...) splawkk!

I went to see Il Divo, a biopic about 90-year-old thrice-Italian PM Giulio Andreotti, and surprisingly can find no mention of him on the DL. From his wiki page: Ah, that Condor moment...

Top ski-BASE jumper Shane McConkey, the 'Jim Carrey of the ski world', has choked to death on a ham sandwich. Not really, he fell off a mountain. (article written by Edward Stoner )

Dan Seals will bark no more.

83-year-old Alan Whicker seemed in fine fettle in his new TV series. As a journalist pointed out, he looked about 50 in the late 1950s and looks about 70 now. Must have a shocking picture in his attic. A great career and immortalised in rhyming slang to boot, what a chap.

Here's Uriel in fairly recent action and chatting with Tim Office. A drummer from the less-is-more school, thankfully. (clip may be a little TL;DW for some)

TL;DW. Lucky I summarised it for all the gnats and goldfish out there, then.

Inquisitive Bibles, toy parrots, spy pens and chess games with American presidents - the wonderful and frightening world of PJ Gascoigne.

Funnily enough, I was just thinking exactly the same thing.

Here is the current Most Wanted list, with at least two of them likely to be already dead.

Too bad Vincent Price is dead, he'd have been a shoe-in shoo-in for the movie role.

Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif fears assassination by the government.

Thirteen dance bods have picked their own funeral music choices, from Golden Brown to Is That All There Is? I think I'd go for Living in a Box. By Living in a Box.