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6 when Dumbledead dored? Joey, Rad, Clorox, Dead Cow (mia?), Morbid Kid de Gaulle, all younger than you at least. Welcome to getting old.

imo he will retire (if he doesn't die first of course) in 2 or 3 years, after he's been able to replace some of the Cardinal gaps with folk from his side of the Catholic Church. A harder task than shifting Vince McMahon, an easier task than reversing the fortunes of Scottish Labour.

Between this and Odjick, is this going to be the year of the old DDP names being cleared out? Watch out for passing snowmobiles, Ryan Buell!

Reuters and lots of Italian media reporting it. I think that Wiki Editor just auto-corrected it without checking.

37 The Jam – Town called Malice 37 Madness – House of fun 36 Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love 32 Men at Work – Down Under 31 Musical Youth — Pass the Dutchie 29 Bonnie Tyler – Total eclipse of the heart 28 Culture Club – Do you really want to hurt me? 28 David Bowie - Let's Dance +4 28 Irene Cara – Fame 27 Police – Every Breath You Take 25 Eddy Grant – I don´t wanna dance 24 Flying Pickets – Only you 24 Kajagoogoo – Too shy 23 Survivor – Eye of the tiger 23 Spandau Ballet – True 22 Captain Sensible – Happy Talk 22 Duran Duran – Is There Something I Should Know 21 KC & the Sunshine Band – Give it up 20 Phil Collins – You can´t hurry love 19 Paul Young – Wherever I lay my hat (that's my home) 17 Bucks Fizz – The Land of Make Believe 15 Culture Club – Karma Chameleon 15 Billy Joel - Uptown Girl -6 14 Adam Ant – Goody two shoes 13 Nicole – A little peace 11 Rod Stewart – Baby Jane 07 The Jam – Beat Surrender Billy Joel was responsible for some good songs. This was not one of them.

A few times, but DL posters get younger! And I've never thought about that one but yes, I imagine a BBC kids presenter getting shot by the IRA would stick in the mind somewhat! I remember Roy Castle's tributes nearly two decades later. Peter Cushing, I'd seen the Dalek movies by then, and remember a big fuss (several pages in the Record, BBC tribute documentaries) as befitting someone that great/loved. But then my memory is intermittent (Gene Kelly, Dean Martin, Jon fn Pertwee) until 1997 which felt like a huge year of death to youngster msc.

Peter Cushing, I believe. Not much better for the older members I admit!

Keep in mind the DDP missed Roy Rogers death because Iain didn't see that nights BBC news. These things were more easily missed in the days before everyone had home internet.

From memory her illness and death got the coverage you'd expect of a legend but I can't mind if the shift from quite ill to dying happened in 98 or 99. I seem to recall it being quite quick. Like Brian Mosley from Corrie around the same time. John Thaw was missed in 2002 but him dying so quickly was a huge shock at the time. Was talking years left weeks before.

Mwepu's got a very long history section on his Wiki, beyond his short career would suggest, because of a Wiki editorial war a few years back about his country of birth. Apparently him being born in Lusaka, trained in Zambia, and playing for the Zambian national team wasn't enough proof for some Wiki editors that he wasn't Kenyan instead!

Was your dissertation peer review published by a worldwide journal? They don't take any old fucker - lord knows, I've tried!

As one example, here's a link to one of his Neuron (the foremost world scientific journal on brain science - bit beyond my intellect I have to admit) article from 2019. And here's another from Trends in Cognitive Science journal from 2016. None of us are going to read these, so I'll refrain from the entire back catalogue, but there's shitloads going back years. His research group at Oxford was part of the Human Brain Activity Centre and you can read more about what he was doing here. Some of his Guardian work from back in the day here and here. There used to be more but I can't work out how to Google search for Guardian references to Brain Box, the now defunct science blog he used to run and they'd quote from a lot about a decade ago. BBC more difficult because the sods have begun wiping their old internet news, and if he'd done anything recently I've missed it, but here are quotes from one of his semi-regular go to BBC Radio interviews at the time. In terms of the DDP, the Neuron articles and Guardian work would have got him in over the threshold that I wrote.

Brian Turner turns up on TV this weekend for the first time since suffering a serious stroke last year.

I didn't pick Stokes in the DDP. That said, as a former DDP host, he was a peer review published expert in his field (he's had over 50 articles published in the last decade alone in science/medical journals), was in charge of an important Oxford Uni research group, and was frequently cited/interviewed by BBC News/The Guardian/etc back in the days before Brexit took over all the news, so I would have allowed him easily. I let far less acclaimed folk through because they had a few TikTok fans or were a Digital Nun or what not. My view was that if you are a peer published academic who was approached for their views by the BBC, then you are def notable enough for the DDP.

36 Madness – House of fun 35 The Jam – Town called Malice 30 David Bowie – Let´s Dance 29 Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love 27 Men at Work – Down Under 27 Bonnie Tyler – Total eclipse of the heart 26 Police – Every Breath You Take 26 Captain Sensible – Happy Talk 26 Musical Youth – Pass the dutchie 25 Eddy Grant – I don´t wanna dance 25 Irene Cara – Fame 24 Flying Pickets – Only you 24 Culture Club – Do you really want to hurt me 23 Phil Collins – You can´t hurry love 23 Billy Joel — Uptown Girl 22 Spandau Ballet – True 22 Duran Duran – Is There Something I Should Know 22 Survivor – Eye of the tiger 21 Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen +4 21 Kajagoogoo – Too shy 20 Paul Young – Wherever I lay my hat (that's my home) 20 KC & the Sunshine Band – Give it up 17 Adam Ant – Goody two shoes 17 Bucks Fizz – The Land of Make Believe 16 Nicole – A little peace 14 The Jam – Beat Surrender 14 Rod Stewart – Baby Jane 14 Culture Club – Karma Chameleon 13 New Edition – Candy Girl 8 UB40 - Red Red Wine -6 5 Bucks Fizz – My camera never lies

Jive bunny sold fifteen million and I'm still waiting to go all Elmer Fudd on its three number ones.

Never heard of him but he's clearly lucked out in life!

I'm just glad Rolf Harris never had a riff as catchy as Billie Jean.

Hello. He's on Pan Breed's 2023 team, because I caught a throwaway reference in the Telegraph last summer to him being quite advanced with dementia and needing full time care.

Bucks Fizz are just harmless bubblegum pop music - no different from a hundred bands over the last 40 years. They wont last but they are largely inoffensive to me. UB40 are horrible, however. But I'll be focusing on Charlene and the godawful Goombay Band shite first.

30 David Bowie – Let´s Dance 24 Madness – House of fun 24 Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love 22 Bonnie Tyler – Total eclipse of the heart 22 Musical Youth – Pass the dutchie 22 Spandau Ballet – True 22 Police – Every breath you take 22 Captain Sensible – Happy Talk 22 Bucks Fizz - The Land of Make Believe +2 22 Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know +2 21 Survivor – Eye of the tiger 21 Men at Work – Down Under 20 The Jam – A town called Malice 20 Bucks Fizz – My camera never lies 20 Nicole – A little peace 20 Adam Ant – Goody two shoes 20 Irene Cara – Fame 20 Eddy Grant – I don´t wanna dance 20 The Jam – Beat Surrender 20 Phil Collins – You can´t hurry love 20 Kajagoogoo – Too shy 20 Rod Stewart – Baby Jane 20 Paul Young – Wherever I lay my hat (that's my home) 20 KC & the Sunshine Band – Give it up  20 UB40 – Red red wine 20 Billy Joel – Uptown Girl 20 Flying Pickets – Only you 18 Renee & Renato – Save your love - 16 Charlene – I´ve never been to me 14 Michael Jackson – Billie Jean 14 Culture Club – Karma Chameleon 14 Goombay Dance Band - 7 Tears -6 14 Shakin´ Stevens – Oh Julie 14 New Edition – Candy Girl 14 Tight Fit – The lion sleeps tonight 12 Dexy´s Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen 12 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder – Ebony and Ivory Have already deduced even trying to save Dexy is pointless here.

49 Soft Cell — Tainted Love 41 The Human League — Don`t You Want Me 32 Blondie — Atomic 31 David Bowie — Ashes to Ashes 18 The Specials — Ghost Town +4 1 Blondie — Call Me -6 I prefer Call me to Atomic but democracy has spoken...

Pretty good list so far, what could go wron... Oh dear god. Still, I can see The Beatles, ABBA, Slade, Frankie on this list. A lot of good bands. My confidence with the voting public is back agai... KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

Far be it for me to co-opt a forum meme, but: is he dead yet?

I don't either (believe the dementia thing, I think he's just old), though I do agree that he's knackered - and I really don't want him to run again.