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And here's a UK obit for him.

Turn-of-the-90s New Jersey MC Apache has smoked his last peace pipe age 44 after battling a "long illness". If anyone else that dies this month does anything as great as " " at any point in this career, I'll be stunned.

From this week's Wrestling Observer: Should obit in The Sun when he goes for DDP purposes.

There may be a suck-out at some point later in the year when one of the broadsheets runs their yearly "EVERY NOW AND THEN A REALITY TV CONTESTANT KILLS THEMSELVES HERE IS A LIST OF THEM WHAT A PSYCHOLOGICAL DISASTER" article, but even then, it'd be hard to shoehorn her into that.

Welsh radio mainstay Gary Price has been taken off the airwaves aged 64.

Rapper Waka Flocka Flame has been shot twice in the chest at a car wash and is currently in critical condition...

Let's keep it romantic: February 14.

Kate McGarrigle is done aged 64. Neil McCormick demonstrating he has no idea who she is by just typing her name into Spotify and then talking about her talentless children for a bit instead.

All I'm picturing is:

On a similar note, Bis frontwoman Manda Rin has been battling multiple sclerosis for over a decade now, which while not being a short-term health concern, probably marks her down as a potential suicide risk. Rin was memorably described in an NME review once as singing "like a stuck pig on a sugar rush".

Chess Records artiste and songwriter Bobby Charles is out aged 71. Tracks penned by him include "See You Later, Alligator", so you can do your own pun.

Well, if you didn't know him by now...

DJ Too Tuff. I went back and forth on whether to have him in my team as captain or not at all, but erred on the side of caution. If Roc Raida's death didn't even make the Guardian music section, then it's probably safe to say that the bar for UK obituaries for mid-range hip-hop DJs is pretty high.

Garage punk revivalist Jay Reatard kicks off what will hopefully be a year full of current NME favourites kicking the bucket, aged 29.

Marxist philosopher and leader of the 1968 Paris student revolt Daniel Bensaid has trotted off aged 63.

Miep Gies moves from out of the attic to under the stairs aged 100. 12 DDPers had her.

WWF wrestler, boxer, MMA fighter, politician, and full-time standby for Eurotrash and any other late 90s "look at these crazy foreigners" show Tony "Ludvig Borga" Halme has tapped out from liver failure aged 47.

Y'ello there. After winning pretty much any dead pool amongst friends or message boards I've played over the past four years, I decided to man up and join Derby Dead Pool this year, so I can get absolutely mullered and become disillusioned with the whole deadpool thing. My team are "Fuck A 40oz, You'll Be Dumping Out Whole Kegs Of Brew", which is probably the only team there named after a lyric by obscure rap act Boss Hog Barbarians. This is how they line up: 1) Abdelbaset Al Megrahi 2) Giulio Andreotti 3) Sanjaagiin Bayar 4) Stefano Borgonovo 5) Doyle F. Brunson 6) John Demjanjuk 7) Ronnie James Dio 8) Bobby Heenan 9) Dennis Hopper 10) Dawood Ibrahim 11) Peter Macbeth 12) Kaoru Matsumoto 13) Seaneen Molloy (JOKER) 14) Eleanor Mondale 15) Steve Prescott 16) Debbie Purdy 17) Mark Brandon Read 18) Salvatore Riina 19) Adolfo Suarez 20) Gore Vidal