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Useful player for Marseille in the noughties. Was also on the pitch when the tragic Marc Vivien Foe died.

Living legend? Must remember that one. I'm in. Though not for long with my current search skills.

Aye, no wonder, you've got their management shit scared of those voodoo enemas!

Feels very Sam Simon 2015, complete with hospital transfusions end of the year and looking horrible early in the new year. Similar timeline imo.

Not a fan of ASDA tinned stuff, always tastes a bit funny to me. That could be Glasgow ASDA of course! Got to the point where if the beans are over a quid forty a tin, you might as well get more chips/etc for the freezer and some ketchup, as they'll last longer and be more filling!

£1.40 ($1.69) a tin nowadays - cost of living/inflation. I've taken them out of the budget!

I assumed you meant charting otherwise tonnes of Metallica and Kirsty Maccoll which didn't chart would be up there. It's stunning to look back on it, for one of the biggest bands in history, but they only had one number one between Bohemian Rhapsody and Innuendo - Under Pressure with Bowie!

This Corrosion is great, you can feel the Jim Steinman influence (he produced it) from every sound! Also, New England has Billy Bragg's finest verse: I saw two shooting stars last night I wished on them but they were only satellites It's wrong to wish on space hardware I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care. I'll give it a shot then 1980 - ELO: Last Train to London (I know it got released before Christmas 79 but it just counts as an 1980 chart song. Hah) 1981 - Visage: Fade to Grey 1982 - Stranglers: Golden Brown (though near impossible to choose between that and Party Fears Two) 1983 - Mike Oldfield: Moonlight Shadow 1984 - Prince: When Doves Cry (another tough year) 1985 - Tears for Fears: Everybody Wants to Rule the World 1986 - Queen: A Kind of Magic 1987 - Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield: What Have I Done To Deserve This? 1988 - Iron Maiden: Can I Play With Madness? 1989 - Beautiful South: Song for Whoever Well, that was tougher than it looked, Mr Biblio.

Congratulations Banana. Anyone remember when this used to stretch out for months?

This one I couldn't work out, and I ought to have. Oldies - Moggi Torres - Mel Dzelde, who then died, and afaik, didn't obit. Derek Malcolm, who has a semi-regular spot on sky Arts to compare and contrast appearances.

45 The Jam - Going Underground / Dreams of Children 45 The Police – Don't Stand So Close to Me 44. ABBA - The Winner Takes It All 43 Blondie - Atomic 43 The Specials - Ghost Town 41 The Pretenders – Brass in Pocket 42 Soft Cell – Tainted Love 34 David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes 32 Blondie – Call Me 32 Adam & the Ants – Stand and Deliver 29 The Specials – Too Much Too Young 25 Adam & the Ants – Prince Charming 24 The Jam – Start! 23 The Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 22 David Bowie & Queen - Under Pressure 16 Olivia Newton-John & ELO – Xanadu 14 Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno +4 12 The Human League – Don't You Want Me 7 Detroit Spinners - Working my Way Back to You -6

Well done Daredevil! And well done Book!

Yeah, my blushes have been spared once or twice by a bit of kindly substitution work by the hosts in January! (Although one time, I'm not saying it was an under the radar death, but when Spade let me know, I let some friends of the (dead DDP name) know and it was news to them!)

He died on January 1st, according to the press, his football club and his family. He was known by the entire forum to be ill since November so no unfair advantage gained by anyone. I fail to see any controversy.

There was a bit about her being in a nursing home and fading fast a few months ago. I had her on Books DL prediction thing and my long list (but there was too many old names for my team tbh).

Three ways to win (one more than last time for me) - 3 uniques exactly, but one of them is Adam Ant! There's at least one old or very ill person per group. But yes, Corrie is the group to watch - my group of 5 there include a Joanne Woodward case, a long term COPD sufferer, a very old dementia case and 2 old/frailish names, and I'm sure others more on the nose with research have even better teams tbh.

Knew I should have given Geno full points.

50 ABBA – The Winner Takes It All 47 Blondie – Atomic 43 Soft Cell – Tainted Love 42 The Jam – Going Underground / Dreams of Children 41 The Specials – Ghost Town +1 41 David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes +1 38 The Police – Don't Stand So Close to Me 35 The Pretenders - Brass in Pocket 32 Blondie – Call Me 30 Adam & the Ants – Stand and Deliver 29 The Specials – Too Much Too Young 28 Adam & the Ants – Prince Charming 24 The Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 22 The Jam – Start! 22 David Bowie & Queen – Under Pressure 14 Olivia Newton-John & ELO - Xanadu 13 The Human League – Don't You Want Me 13 Odyssey – Use It Up and Wear It Out 13 Detroit Spinners - Working my Way Back to You 11 Roxy Music - Jealous Guy -6 10 Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno +2 10 John Lennon - Woman 10 M.A.S.H. – Theme from M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless)

It's not her actually tweeting, mind you. Hasn't been for years now. It's her team/family with her consent.

Yeah I'll update them all in one go in a week or two when the game runners officially shut them

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001gn4z/michael-jayston-remembers-tinker-tailor-so There you go.

It's also trying to put a finite date on something which, well, isn't. Sometimes things work, and sometimes they don't till the nth attempt. Putting a set date just stresses folk out and causes more issue, because its never set in stone it can be reached.

From behind the magician's door, from an ex-host: Each year there's circa 8000 picks (this is every team, so uniques to Drop 40 names), of which about 3000 are different people, and of those around 1 in 3 at least tend to be unique picks. Of that number, around 800-1200 tend to be new to the database. Every single one of those names need updated manually with DOB, where they fit in the database (actor/politician/etc) and other little bits that help the game engine run. And it's not all porn stars needing looked into, there's WEP teams too. Before that, every team needs double checked for picks who are dead, picks misspelt, picks which don't seem to actually exist, picks which are actually pet dogs, picks which fail FFBI tests, picks people really ought to have read the previous years List of the Lost for, etc etc etc. Which is again, manual. Once all those names are checked and their details added, then the pre-work by the Grim Character (now played by Banana) means each one should link from death noted to person to team, like magic. Removing several other time consuming steps for brevity, the bit where it all uploads to the website can cause issues too. In 2020, the entire website just crashed. Obviously I was in no position to work out what went wrong. Grim was perplexed. Outside help needed was the consensus of all (and apparently had been used by multiple hosts in the past)... Except for Reptile. Who deduced the issue was in a long list of html code. 4000 lines of it in fact. The way to solve this, he said, was to sit down with a beer and go through every single line of code to find the faulty one. Almost all of us would have gone fuck that and cancelled the entire DDP. Reptile had that beer and went through those 4000 lines of code, found the fault, fixed it manually and saved the entire Derby Dead Pool for everyone. And still doesn't get near enough praise for that imo. My point isn't needed for most of you, who were always very understanding of the behind the scenes stuff - and hell, TMIB's meltdown over it showed it was far too much for one person nowadays. But just in case people think "where's the update?" there's shitloads to do, among three people, and one tiny little bit going wrong and it's hours of work to fix it, on top of the actual real life jobs that no one could fuck off to focus on the DDP for a bit! It's exceptionally time consuming, frustrating, and prone to errors, and if it does go up before the 20th, in line with the last few years, then it's due to insane levels of hard work by DI, Banana and Reptile. (And if it doesn't, you know, bare with them?) As someone who has been there and done that, I salute them!

Ghost Town's been considered one of the all time great songs for as long as I've been around. And for good reason. It's incredible.

47 Blondie – Atomic 47 The Specials – Ghost Town 42 ABBA - The Winner Takes It All 39 David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes +4 39 Soft Cell – Tainted Love 35 The Jam – Going Underground / Dreams of Children 31 The Police – Don't Stand So Close to Me 29 The Specials – Too Much Too Young 28 David Bowie & Queen – Under Pressure 28 Adam & the Ants – Stand and Deliver 27 The Pretenders – Brass in Pocket 26 Adam & the Ants – Prince Charming 24 Blondie – Call Me 23 Roxy Music – Jealous Guy 23 The Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 22 The Jam – Start! 20 Dexy's Midnight Runners – Geno 19 Bucks Fizz – Making Your Mind Up 19 Odyssey – Use It Up and Wear It Out 15 M.A.S.H. – Theme from M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless) 15 Detroit Spinners – Working My Way Back to You 14 Olivia Newton-John & ELO – Xanadu 14 Barbra Streisand – Woman in Love 14 John Lennon - Woman -6 11 ABBA – Super Trouper 11 The Human League – Don't You Want Me 6 John Lennon – (Just Like) Starting Over