themaninblack

Note the word indirectly. Vilebody is no lefty and with such vehemence must be batting for the other side. They've not been responsible for any deaths have they? I'll give Vilebody the time to estimate the deaths caused directly or indeed indirectly by successive US Presidents since WWII In your own time....

It is interesting how all of the Queen's sons at one point or another have been accused of being a 'friend of dorothy'. I mean one, fair enough but ALL THREE! Lord preserve us. I'm amazed we have heirs to the throne at all!

It would be with a heavy heart to include him on my list of fatalities for 2006 but...

By labelling him 'genius', you seem to have come to a rather rash judgement yourself! I have never known a music artist of such low commercial standing, surrounded by such sychophants! For every tabloid hack calling him a worthless junkie, there are naive people saying how brilliant he is! Somewhere in the middle is probably more accurate.

Neil Young doesn't want to be nostalgic, but record companies know that fans do. I mentioned Donovan because he was a contemporary of Bob Dylan, like Fred Neil or Phil Ochs. Its interesting that we are having this debate, because on the Late Review on BBC2, exactly this sort of thing was going on, with pretentious critic Paul Morley confidentally predicting Dylan's immortality. It is another example of our cultural narcissicism.

Lets put it this way, LBJ, vice-President-turned-President had heart problems and died aged 64... And I doubt that Clinton will live as long as Ford or Reagan...

I've never rated Crosby. There's that famous picture of CSN&Y at Woodstock with Joni Mitchell and there was Crosby looking so pleased with himself! He was always the least talented of the Byrds: McGuinn was the best...

You never know what the future has in store, perhaps they'll all be ignored in favour of the New York Dolls or PIL or Miles Davis or anybody, we don't know. We have a habit in this culture of confidently predicting the future and saying what will an 'all time great'... Look at Alex Chilton and Scott Walker: they have trouble holding on to record contracts, yet they are highly regarded. For God's sake don't go with what the music business deam to be the best, Neil Young and Bob Dylan are still commercially viable, if only for nostalgic reasons...

It has been suggested that Dylan's legacy would live on way past his death and that he would be regarded in the same terms as Shakespeare in 300 or so years time. I not quite sure of that. In 300 years time, music historians would probably regard the music of that period as much the same, with Dylan subtly distinguishable from Donovan or Neil Young...

With 3 months or so to go before the list for 2006 is published, I want to know what the procedure is for compiling the list. Is it an internal discussion between the keepers of the Deathlist flame or is the voting open to all comers. like John Peel's old Festive Fifty, leaving some poor sod with the responsibility of counting the votes? Incidentally, I think there's some TV potential with the Deathlist, it would blow 20 stone of S**t (whatever it's called) and the like out of the water!

That Avitar picture of John Harvey-Jones reminds me, is he still alive, should he be on the list?

Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart) Genius musician and artist. Suffered from MS for years. Could bow out at a round 65....

Thats very true. We live in the information age and I can see how the results have improved. At the years end I'll put up my own list on who's going to snuff it in '06 for your consideration....

And I'll miss Christmas too! (actually, that's probably not a bad thing.....)

I've looked through some of the old lists. 1989. Wilfred Bramble: didn't you folks know he had died? Now that would have been remarkable

My mug of tea of course!

Who has been the youngest on the list, and who's the youngest death?

If ever there was anyone that embodied the phrase 'eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth', it was Simon Wiesenthal. Mind you, I bet he had less than satisfactory co-operation from the Yanks, they were quite keen to hang on to a few Nazis....

That's interesting because when I watch TV, I have something in my hand as well.......

Surely one of the Deathlisters have are or going to work in Television. Lets pitch it guys & gals...

Funnily enough, I made a quick guess before I took part in the Deathclock. 2015 I thought. The result: 20/12/2016! I've got eleven years left to live... ...I'm not even 30 yet!

Or at least their shadows anyway..........

That is true, rational deduction is the key and I'm the king of rational deduction. Lets see......er...Blair! He's bound to go, someone will have the balls to kill him off sooner or later.... Is that objective enough?

Yeah, and a damp nighty probably!

Oh by the way Lord Janner was paying tribute and didn't look quite the ticket.....