themaninblack

Carr, Freeman, Puskas all gone within a month.....

What a load of Lou Rawls.......

That'll be a turn up if he goes! (see signature)

The Wurzels and the Wiggles - bad week for badly named bands!

I appreciate your input, guest, as Mr. Levi-Strauss is on my team. I would point out, however, that being "the greatest alive thinker of his generation" is not really high praise since there's only about half a dozen of them left. And who are the great thinkers left alive? Chomsky? Baudrillard?

Has everyone forgotten who was on that first list? Did lists exist before the forum or were there many years after the initial idea when lists were not prepared? The '87 list (set in December '86) is the first list, and it should be included on the scroll down on the top of the page, along with every year through the present, excluding '88. Thanks CR. It's along time since I've looked there. I note there are a few survivors from nearly 20 years ago. We could just for fun, put the only survivors from the 1987 list on the 2007 list and see what happens. I think in total there are about 3 left remaining from the original list. Good call Phantom...

Here's another Russian feelin' crook... ex-PM in hospital

Its not too bad, I think we can get over the horror of not picking 80-somethings at least, seeing as statistically, they are more likely to cark it than the under fifties... Carry on as normal then...

In terms of 'shock' news, the biggest for me was John Smith in 1994... It was during morning register and my form tutor finished off by saying 'And bye the way, the Labour Party leader John Smith has died of a heart attack'. You could have knocked me down with a feather. A moment which changed British politics forever....

Happy Birthday WM90 - wherever you are...

He appeared on Emmerdale last night and looked better than he's done for a while...

I don't remember Cagney or Grant's deaths, but I do remember distinctly Danny Kaye's & Fred Astaire's a year later in 1987. Danny Kaye's was the first celebrity death that saddened me, I used to love him in Hans Christian Andersen when I was a little boy. The first celebrity death I can remember clearly (Lennon's shooting is hazy- I was under the impression for some years afterwards that he survived!) was Arthur Lowe in 1982....

Funnily enough, I can remember it well about Cary Grant's death - didn't Jimmy Cagney die in the same year? Yes he did. I remember Cary Grant's death really well too. They should a lot of his films as tribute and I remember sulking behind the sofa when "Father Goose" came because I din't want to watch another of his films. 1986 must have been the year I starting taken notice of "celebrity" deaths as I remember exactly where I was when I heard that Ted Moult had blown his brains out. Yeah, me too. And when Rock Hudson died (or was that 1985?).

Did he make the coonskin cap for bloke in the big pen who wanted eleven dollar bills?

Funnily enough, I can remember it well about Cary Grant's death - didn't Jimmy Cagney die in the same year?

This is getting on my pissing nerves!! Can't some of thses guys hold out till next year? It'll be Lee Hazelwood next......

I'm slowly inching out of the top ten....

His last record 'Another One Bites the Dust' by Queen....

With 70% burns I'd put his chances at no better than 50/50. Is Uncle Vladimir at it again?

What kind of icon?

I had some reservations, but if you take out under 18s, then it's OK with me. It's gonna be a bloody challenge though!

Remember boys and girls, it's still a list of 20, so there's room for the odd old fogey here and there as long as you choose them carefully. Easier said than done of course... I think this might affect the scope of the list of candidates: we'll all be bunging in remotely ill under 80s, whereas part of the charm of the DDP was the often obscure names that crop up, ususally quite old. I'm now going to delve into OOO's list of possibilities for 07 and come up with a modified DDP list... 600!

Former Conservative MP John Peyton has died aged 87...

Here's what I sent the DDP boys...

Perhaps he didn't 'ingest' it. Maybe he could have ben subject to some device, like a microwave, so it passes into his body, without him noticing at the time? Update: Polonium could only have been ingested as the alpha-waves cannot penetrate the skin, so that's my little theory put to bed....