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Werner Herzog: seems well, pro-covid-precautions, working on a new documentary from his own house. Typical for them to cut out what was probably an interesting 5 minute Herzog digression about Antarctica there.

Harsh, but fair.

Just to say, I'm a big football fan and I find it very easy to ignore football's existence if I'm not in the bloody mood*, as can happen, so if you were a non-fan, I'd presume its even easier. Unless you're one of those people who keeps tabs on something you dislike just so you can mention how much you hate it, but meh to them. *I'm a Scottish Thistle fan, this occurs with unsurprising regularity...

Watching a good old Bond film, and Wiki claims Nino D'Abo (nee Kvinitadze), mother of Maryam D'Abo, is still alive aged 100. Some of the Geni type websites have her death date as "date unknown" which seems more realistic. As the mother of a Bond girl and the daughter of a famous Russian general, this intrigues me, and it's midnight so my research skills aren't what they normally are... I think she might live in England hence a death record should be easy to track down?

Gerd Muller is 75 but has had dementia for yonks. Beckenbauer feels famous enough to be DLy one day but then so did Cryuff...

Scenes if Sir Creep turns out most accurate...

Very much looking like hell by now then!

Just as well as there's 4000 possible Charlie Smiths if he was even Scottish!

Military historian Donald M Goldstein sounds and looks like shite in this Pearl Harbour doc I was watching. Like someone who had a serious stroke. However it turns out his bit was filmed TWENTY YEARS AGO and he's 89 soon, so presumably he's even further along in looking like hell now and may pick up an obit for a deadpool.

To double check for you, no Doug(las) Henderson were born at Rottenrow (they'd be under Martha St registrations) from 1945-60. Of the 9 possibles, 8 are born 1950-1, and the 9th one is your 1955 guy above who'd be 13 in that photo. And given he went to school in Crookston (in Pollok) I'm fairly confident in ruling out about 5 or 6 of the others born in Provan or Springburn, so yeah, I think its your 1950 man fwitw...

Henderson - 74, 000 possibilities Male - cuts it down to 37, 000 Glasgow - 6, 800 time period of 1948-55 - 311 Doug(las) - 9 The other option is Neil Douglas Henderson born 1955, but in Partick - but the maternity unit wasn't open yet there so unlikely to have a kid from Pollok. That'd' be Rottenrow, but that was more middle class folk in the 50s (and I didn't assume home birth, it was the lack of Hendersons for the time period which brought up Pollok) Given this is him in The Poets, I don't think hes 14 or under: Also this is him *allegedly* during the 1978 World Cup - looks pushing 30 at least, unless he aged *very badly* which makes me suspect the "17 on TOTP" is a bit of a myth.

Is Dougie (Douglas) his real name or stage name? Because only one of them was born in Pollok in that time period and it's Douglas Henderson born 1950.

January 21st.

Joanne Woodward feels like a Gooseberry Reaper 2020 pick...

Worst Pick Eve...oh, wait, nevermind.

Skyhooks original guitarist Peter Starkie dead at 72. He was gone before the above took place, however.

The top 3 had him. I think it opens up a bit of a gap between them and everyone else?

I like Peter Jackson's bit quoted on Wiki tbh. "The friendship was for the most part a rich and rewarding one, and we tried to honour that in the film." It was a sweet and nice friendship apart from the whole murdering someone bit...

Come down with a lung infection after going to a funeral, apparently. Bit of a tough one for a 94 year old.

If I'm curious about any killer (what an odd topic), it's Anne Perry, who spent 5 years in jail for murdering the mother of her gal pal as a teenager, and then became a millionaire crime fiction author. Her books were quite good too, it's as if she knew how to murder someone in real life or something...

Oh, certainly, that was clear even in the kids TV I was introduced to him on in the 90s like The Demon Headmaster, let alone Porridge and his more dramatic stuff. I remember getting quite interested when they announced he was going to be in Doctor Who a few years ago. Come the episode, he was in one scene, then died!

He's only 73 and all, although I suppose 73 is 700 years old in Maryhill male years...

Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth once tried to pick a fight with another band's drummer in a nightclub. Now, Filth is a legit 5 foot 2 without boots on, so the scene was genuinely akin to a cartoon: him being Scrappy Doo and the drummer just putting a hand out on his head and stopping him. True story.

Oh yeah, hence it coming up in those long standing "if the 3 1970-1 solo Beatles albums were one big Beatles album what songs would it have" chats the last 50 odd years, I should have spotted that!

Odd for me that Macca's best song of the 70s didn't even make the top 20. Dan McCafferty's been on my shortlist for years, suffering from COPD. Another mentioned in this post I wont name has helped us with work in the past - you have their DOB already.