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Apparently Lily Allen wore a single glove during her glastonbury set as a tribute to Jacko. Surprisingly, I never noticed !

Serves him right for calling his last album 'Invincible'

The BBC have published an obituary which would suggest that Uri Geller is out of luck. Funny, he doesn't belive Jacko is dead in spite of all the media coverage, yet he expects us to believe he can start clocks and bend spoons by mind control?

Whats the difference between jacko and Sir Alex ferguson? Sir Alex will still be playing gig(g)s next month

nah, Jade Goody wasn't it?

ITV are reporting that he is 'reported to have died', quoting the LA Times quoting 'law enforcement sources'. Also using TMZ as a source.

If memory serves, he was the intended recipient of Harvey Smith's famous V gesture. He was indeed, as I found when I googled him last night - this article has a full explanation.

Horsey types are mourning the loss of Douglas Bunn, owner and founder of Hickstead. Three faults for a refusal at the last fence!

Not many people can claim to have lived through 3 centuries! Good on yer Henry, happy birthday. No, 'cos that would make them over 300 years old! Still, Happy Birthday Henry. As an aside, Henry's local paper, 'The Argus' mentions his birthday on the front page, most of which is given over to a story about a man who's found an old cess-pit buried in his garden.

I was at a funeral of a former customer. The priest was in the pulpit spouting forth about this bloke we hardly recognised from his eulogy when the microphone stand began slowly subsiding. It was as if old Bill himself had heard enough crap! We all had a little titter. Another time was quite deliberate - the deceased's favourite part of his favourite TV program was played as the curtains closed on the coffin. Only Fools and Horses - 'Cwying'!

Killed Bill... Lets see - he was found hanging while shooting a movie called 'Stretch' - are we sure he wasn't just rehearsing?

Last year I saw the DVD of 'Gangsters' in HMV. This was must-see viewing back when I was a certain age in the seventies, so I shelled out a full £40 for it (2 series, 2 discs, no discount). The first series was about as good as I remember. The second series was a major disappointment. The writer was trying to be far too clever and even if it was good originally it certainkly hasn't stood the test of time. Hope Tutti-Frutti doesn't turn out the same! I'm currently watching 'Cracker' as I never saw much of it first time round.

Mort Abrahams 28-05-09 No proper UK obit online yet (that i've found).

....unless Carol was found in a bath full of ice with a large incision in her back(?) Cause of death reportedly lung cancer, but no reports I've found have mentioned the lack of a large incision...

I tried to help - it just got very messi!

One less medicine laureate. Furchgott is now Furchgone. No one seems to have picked him on the DDP either. The ukmedix news site begs to disagree: Man Who Helped SPAM Development Born "This news is unlikely to mean anything to members of the public..." Maybe they should spend less time being patronising and more on getting their headlines right. Tw@ts! They've corrected it now. Hope they could close the coffin lid OK!

Natalie Cole's sister (and Nat's 'other' daughter), Carol, an actress and singer died on Monday, the same day Natalie was having a kidney transplant. It is not thought the two events are connected.

On a Deathlist note, This lady who recently lost her way seems to have been the authority on place names.

Carl Spencer, according to this article. Whilst exploring the Brittanic.

I used to live a few miles from this place, which I thought was a pretty unfortunate name.

I apologise in advance if there's a rap music thread, but this fella Dolla's been shot dead in a mall in LA. Pity, he was twice as good as 50cent. Bigger pity, I saw 'Dollar' at first and thought it meant David Van Day!

Wikipedia has removed the death notice, and I couldn't find any other reports of her death. I did find that New Zealand's oldest woman, Ruby Billings, died recently though.

Blue Ball, Pa anyone? On the subject of childish humour, growing up in Birmingham, I always used to find Small Heath Amateur Gardeners Club incredibly funny.

I don't consider Irish Rugby League players famous so Wayne Kerr qualifies in my book!

Probably not too famous but i remember being told about this chap in a school assembly back in the 70's