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"The Movement" was one of the first albums Kanye did production on, fwiw. #rapnerdtrivia

I'm not being funny, but John W Henry does have cancer, right? Nobody looks like that naturally, surely?

Go go go go go shorty, it's ya birthday. Doubt I'm the first person to point out the irony that on Thatcher's 85th birthday the whole world is captivated by 33 miners.

Obituary here.

Wait, she was Jay Rayner's mother? You learn something new every day.

Shame we never got to experience "David Van Day's Deep Purple" then, really.

Kerry Packer managed eight before dying of kidney failure.

Ha ha, done it again y'all.

Mika's sister: tried to be like Peg Entwhistle, all her looks were too sad.

Solomon Burke's heart did give up on him, as the roly-poly soul legend dies aged 70, possibly matching years on earth to his body-fat ratio.

If... you're.... anything... like... me... you're.... probably... voting... for... Denis... Norden.

Gone Gently

Surprisingly hard to find a photo of the Albanian flag at half-mast online.

Did Maryport just kill Norman Wisdom?

Croydon Athletic chairman David De Cluse has done what any sensible person would do after realising they're spending their working day in Croydon, and shot himself in the skull aged 44. Croydon Athletic were allegedly being used to launder Asian gambling operation profits, if you believe the paperz.

Walter Nones, the first man to climb K2 without oxygen equipment, has come a cropper in the Himalayas.

Detroit house mainstay Aaron-Carl has died of cancer, a few days after Tweeting about how well his biopsy was going.

Pretty sure this is already in the dictionary books as "Biggs' Syndrome".

It's not just me that assumes any time the name of an elderly celebrity is in the Twitter trending topics they've died, is it? "Bygraves" was just floating up there now and I thought "Man, Max's passing's totally gonna be overshadowed by Tony Curtis", but it just turned out to be something else.

Dunno if any of you, like me, thought you were being clever by keeping the fact that Carlo Ancelotti's father, Giuseppe, was terminally ill quiet so you could play him next year, but it doesnt matter because the dude has died anyway.

Nobody's perfect.

The only roasting Greg Giraldo will do from now on is in a crematorium, as he's dead of an overdose at 44.

Two-time Oscar nominee and script editor for all Tarantino movies, Sally Menke, dies of exhaustion while hiking in a heatwave.