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  2. Posted

    2 hours ago, LWCZ said:

    I got bit of a tricky one. I think many people on this site came across this song (which went viral about a year or two ago as "the first rap song").

     

     I'm 101% sure that George McFadden, the bass vocalist of The Jubalaires is long dead (he'd probably be supercentenarian by now if he wasn't). However, unlike the rest of the group, there seems to be no information about him, anywhere (both when he was born and when he passed). I've been trying to find anything on him for the past few weeks, but to no avail.

     

    The only relevant info I have is that after the Jubalaires dissolved, he started performing as "Biggie McFadden" (with The Jubilee Four, with whom he also performed in 1964 Viva Las Vegas; their song "The Climb" has been reportedly produced by Elvis Presley himself), and that he performed at least until 1979 (as a backing vocalist on Ry Cooder's album Bop Till You Drop).


    You sure? This newspaper clipping from 1979 refers to that performer as John "Biggie" McFadden, not George.

    Edit: And this 1949 clipping refers to him as George "Biggie" McFadden. All rather confusing. Can't find any trace of him after 1979 though, sorry.

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    14 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

    Jason Sutton aka Miss Jason, Brighton based drag queen, reportedly dead: 

     

    Sutton's website details appearances on such shows as The Weakest Link and Blankety Blank, though the IMDB link doesn't cover them seemingly: https://www.missjason.co.uk/about/


    For completeness I'm going to note that the IMDb page for Miss Jason has 2 different people confused. The drag queen Miss Jason (aka Jason Sutton) did appear in Maisie.

    The other Miss Jason is this British YouTube star, who appears in the Celeste music video. I watched that music video twice earlier and thought I was going mad when I couldn't find him and that's why. Mel C makes an appearance in that music vid strangely enough.

    So I'm guessing the YouTube star just pops up in random stuff but isn't a "performer" as such given the sensible Equity rule of not allowing the same name to be used by two individuals.

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    2 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

    Also had a look at the comments section under Shakin' All Over for Johnny Kidd & The Pirates.

     

    Johnny Gordon seems to have at some point resided at Denmead in Hampshire and died around 2000/2001 from cancer. It's the first comment and the replies from an Ian Hurley. That might be of some help, @Ulitzer95?

     

    Edit: Further research indicates a home studio run by said Johnny Gordon at The Bungalow, Denmead - definitely dead according to the comments here: https://pompeypop.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/in-the-studio/


    Thanks for both of these YW! I think he's the John Gordon who was born in 1936 and died in 2001 in Portsmouth in the GRO Index but there are a few other possibilities and I can't be sure so I've just marked him as deceased and put "c. 2001". Not finding much else on Google or Ancestry.

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  9. Posted

    1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

    Claimed 54 as age in this clip from Sky News.

     

    Clip says it is from last year, though Maisie was around 2021/2022, so I'm guessing  didn't even make 60.

     

     


    Had to dig through Facebook and look through hundreds of tributes to work this out but this is him:
     

    Births Mar 1968   (>99%)
    SUTTON  JASON FREDERICK  GREENFIELD  PORTSMOUTH  6B 831
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  13. Posted

    Just now, YoungWillz said:

    Sounds like he's not been well for some time, fundraisers, yada yada yada.


    He seemed absolutely fine on stage a few weeks ago. I wasn't aware he was ill. Nonetheless, he was in his 60s and drank most nights like there's no tomorrow. All catches up with you I guess.

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    On 17/09/2023 at 20:10, Ulitzer95 said:

    Someone keeps editing the Wiki page of French author Christian Coffinet (wiki) to say he died, only giving "2023" but no specific date, so he would have been 99 or 100.

    Coffinet is one of these people I assumed died off radar years ago. Rather oddly, he seems to have had a guest voice role in "The Simpsons".


    Mystery solved. Christian Coffinet in fact died in 2011 aged 87, as confirmed by BnF here.

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    Baroness Doreen Massey (wiki), Labour Member of the House of Lords (since 1999), dead at 85.

    Not a good time to be a member of the Lords, particularly a Labour one (8 of their peers dead in 6 months). Luckily for Starmer, he's about to win an election so he'll be able to stuff the House full of more bootlickers seeing as Tony's cronies are really starting to drop like flies.

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  18. Posted

    A point of interest... Trixie Gardner was the most senior life peer in the House of Lords, having been elevated on 19 June 1981.

    That distinction now belongs to Caroline Cox (wiki), elevated on 2 March 1983. She'll be 87 in July and sits as a Crossbencher. She founded Christian Solidarity Worldwide, was the chancellor of two universities, and was a big backer of Section 28 back in the day. Also a supporter of Bashar al-Assad. In fact her wiki page is worth a read. It's all rather puzzling. Last spoke in the chamber on 25 March 2024 on the subject of the persecution of Christians. I don't think she'll be troubling the obit writers for a while.

  19. Posted

    2 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

    Trixie Garner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes, Australian who was a local politician so squeezes in here, Telegraph Obit: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/04/22/lady-gardner-of-parkes-tory-peer-womens-rights-obituary/

     

    I think @arghton picked her for next year's Windy City, alas dead before the start.

     

    Got to be a DDP pick, surely? Edit: Aye, she was!


    We’ve lost Baroness Gardner but we still have Baroness Garden:

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Garden,_Baroness_Garden_of_Frognal

     

    On a serious note, Trixie was fantastic. Loved on all sides of the House and still working right to the end. She was a formidable battle axe but very lovely all the same, a bit like Baroness Trumpington and Baroness Sharples. 

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  22. Posted

    15 minutes ago, dimreaper said:

    Was just thinking how awkward it would be if he dies close to the November election. Trump and Biden will have to sit in the same pew, and I can see Trump objecting to Biden giving a eulogy. I anticipate there could be some drama around this.


    You're becoming as bad as mango shagger with these pointless thread bumps.

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