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  2. Posted

    15 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

    As usual, interesting conversation occurs on my home Deadpool rather than anything here…


    —‘Wow, all five original members of the Moody Blues are gone. Pinder was the last of the group's original five members.’

    —‘That leaves how many people who have ever seen a mellotron?  Fripp is about it.’
    —-a song offered to the group by Paul McCartney, but in the end decided the tune wasn’t right for the Moodys. Instead, Mary Hopkin recorded the song, “Those Were the Days,” and scored a worldwide smash hit.’

    —“That’s amazing trivia.  Can you imagine the path they would have taken if they sang Those Were the Days?”

    —‘Check this out...  "On Christmas 1969, the President of Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macías Nguema, had 150 alleged coup plotters executed in the national stadium while the amplifier system played the Mary Hopkin recording of "Those Were the Days"."

    —‘Never mind the fact that the litany of hits written by Sir Paul now includes this song.  Who knew?’

    —‘Death was imperative when he sang his version of Go Now.’

    —‘Needless to say they’ll likely be on tour next summer.’

     

     

    Deathlist used to have actual conversations like this but those days are long gone. RIP to Deathlist.

    SC

     


    You care so little of this forum that you actually spent a good few minutes typing all that out (even though none of us will read beyond the first 2 lines cos it's boring AF).

    I've said it before and I'll say it again – if you don't like it here then bugger off somewhere else.

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  3. Posted

    My intel is rarely wrong.

    Not the biggest fan of Charles but certainly don't wish him ill or dead... though I can't wait for the epic apology I'm going to get from mango boy for him being a twat.

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  4. Posted

    2 minutes ago, prussianblue said:

    Lee Grant must be one of very few still living villains from the original run of Columbo. William Shatner is the only other one that immediately springs to mind.


    There are exactly 10 murderers from the original Columbo still alive:

    Lee Grant (born 1925)
    Dick Van Dyke (born 1925)
    Vera Miles (born 1929)
    Clive Revill (born 1930)
    William Shatner (born 1931)
    Joyce Van Patten (born 1934)
    Héctor Elizondo (born 1936)
    George Hamilton (born 1939)
    Trish Van Devere (born 1941)
    Susan Clark (born 1943)

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  5. Posted

    On 12/03/2021 at 17:26, arghton said:

    Alive centenarians from countries and dependencies with smaller populations.  (under 20 million, only ones born over 100 years before this post.)

     

    Estonia: (1,3 million)

    Heini Paas, art historian (estonian wiki) (born 6th of October 1918, alive as of 2019)

    Mai Raud-Pähn, art historian (estonian wiki) (born 2nd of November 1920, alive as of 2020)

    Eduard Kuuskor, WWII veteran (estonian wiki) (born 2nd of January 1918, alive as of 2021)

    Addold Mossin, neopagan priest (estonian wiki) (born 12th of December 1919, alive as of 2019)

     


    Mai Raud-Pähn (wiki) dead at 103.

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    2 hours ago, LWCZ said:

     

    Sadly I haven't. I'd be glad if you would check it, as I used to have access (at least) to MyHeritage records, but I haven't really got time for it lately so I cancelled the subscription last May.


    Can't find anything on Ancestry owing to the fact that we don't have a rough idea of birth and death years but here's some new info.

    He was confirmed alive as late as November 1984 and possibly 1988 when he was touring and performing as a member of The Ink Spots. An earlier article from 1981 noted that he had taken hiatus from the group due to ill health, but it seems he recovered. I reckon he died between the late 80s and mid 90s.

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    On 23/04/2024 at 10:37, 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/


    BBC and ITV obits for Miss Jason. Suspected this might be the case as he was widely loved. Still, wasn't really my cuppa. If I was in a pub and he was on a stage I'd politely watch and sing along but his act was showtunes, which is not really my thing. I much prefer the drag acts that do dark comedy or 70s/80s/90s jukebox.

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  11. Posted

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    I like this photo. Shirley Maclaine with younger brother Warren Beatty in 1942.

    Looking online, a lot of people seem to be unaware and shocked to find out that they're siblings. They had quite a rocky relationship, and didn't Maclaine infamously say something really stupid (and a bit creepy) saying that the worst thing about being Warren Beatty's sister was that she couldn't sleep with him? I don't know why I have that stuck in my head. Maybe someone else can clarify what it was she actually said.

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  12. Posted

    47 minutes ago, Toast said:

     

    She looks quite spry to me.  Has aged naturally without reaching for the Botox.


    I think you're being kind for the sake of being kind, which is quite humble but not entirely truthful. She looks pretty bad in those pics. Needs help walking, and the face is the work of decades of heavy drinking and smoking, not just "the lack of botox".

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    1 hour ago, Redrumours said:

    All sadly gone now. R.I.P.


    I would argue that in the case of the Moody Blues, the original lineup doesn't really matter as much as it's not its iconic lineup (unlike say The Allman Brothers Band).

    Denny Laine (guitar) and Clint Warwick (bass) were only there for little over 2 years (May 1964 – July 1966). Justin Hayward and John Lodge replaced them that year and remained with the group until it dissolved in 2018. They're both still alive.

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  15. Posted

    2 minutes ago, LWCZ said:

     

    Thanks! I completely overlooked that

     

     

    That's okay. I'm sure he was George McFadden, as he's also referred to as such when he performed with the Kuf-Linx and when he later toured with George Holmes' (or Gaines Steele's) Ink Spots in late 70s. I also have a strong feeling he may have originally been from Pennsylvania, as this site suggests he joined the Jubalaires when they moved from Florida in 1941.


    Have you had a look through Ancestry? If not I can check later.

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  17. 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.

  21. Posted

    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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  22. Posted

    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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  24. 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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