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A Joey Feek demise in the next week and I'm right back in the race.

Daily Mail has it.

If people on this forum were friends of Zsa Zsa, I'd be looking out for a smell of bitter almonds in her or the prince's bedrooms.

Shirley Williams showed up in the Lords debates yesterday. She is starting to look her age, somewhat.

Can't say much if she's been having serious talks with Jesus all week and he still doesn't want her...

Guardian obit

Watching it at the moment.He still looks ok .He doesn`t look 83.His mind seems to be working fine too.No idea why he was on the list in 2012. Insider info? I'd heard similiar stories (cancer) but either he got better, or the whole thing wasn't as serious as originally expected.

If she'd like to go in the next 5 and a half hours it would be worth an extra 6 points in the DDP. Warped priorities, I know.

Thanks. I was convinced he was going to get a Mail obit - he has - but I didn't have enough faith in my own conviction to make him my joker!

Either she's having us all on, or she wont see Christmas. And I stand corrected on her being Lessing's daughter. I knew they had a close relationship, just not that close!

Monty Brinson was the very last person cut from my DDP shortlist - because it did seem to be a case of "am total dying, you guys" - so if he dies now, I am going to be so pissed off.

He seemed in fine fettle in that kids novels documentary shown at Christmas. Walks with a stick now, but still working and chatting away. Genuinely nice guy too.

That'll be a hit for The Honourable Member for DDP North when the obligatory Times or Telegraph obit comes in. It was thought to be a Tory safe seat, Banff, you know, and his young Nationalist challenger wasn't expected to do too well. A young guy by the name of Alex Salmond. He won the seat, but I don't think he ever did anything after that...

Is this the most exciting man on the Deathlist? Apart from the mythical legend that is Javier Perez de Cuellar of course. Well, here is an interview published yesterday with the man himself. Seems OK the now, but then, twelve months is a long time in the life of a centenarian.

Fast and furious, MPFC! Do you know where we were by the 9th hit in 2015? 19th February, with Katayama, and the first hints I might entirely steal Death Impends victory away from him. Now, we have 9 hits, and 2016 isn't even a fortnight old.

It's in the UK edition.

I'd put Lemmy as a major death And I'd add Geoffrey Howe - the man who melted down the Iron Lady and sent her to the political scrapheap. Plus you have Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, which might yet bring about a war or such like. Oh, and some guy called Christopher Lee. I hear he made a few world famous films.

At the rate they're giving out obits, I'll be pissed off if they snub Smith, Farnham and LaTourette now!

Forum poster Bert Trautmann's first post was suggesting football manager Malcolm Allison for the Deathlist. Allison died three days after the post was made. There was also the time I posted about James Moody as a good pick "if he survived December" - survive December? He didn't even survive 14 hours!

With Lemmy and Bowie departing the scene, here are the year of births of a few aging rock types that in my database. It's never intended to be a complete list, more a ball park. 1926 - Chuck Berry, George Martin (Beatles producer) 1928 - Fats Domino, Ennio Morricone (I'm counting him) 1932 – Little Richard 1933 - Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, John Mayall, Quincy Jones 1934 - Leonard Cohen, Frankie Valli 1935 – Sam Moore, Jerry Lee Lewis 1936 - Kris Kristofferson, Bill Wyman 1937 - Dick Dale, Roberta Flack, Don Everly 1938 - Bill Withers, Jet Black 1939 - Neil Sedaka, Tina Turner, Ginger Baker 1940 - Ringo Starr, Dionne Warwick, Cliff Richard, Smokey Robinson, Phil Lesh 1941 - George Clinton, Joan Baez, Neil Diamond, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Mike Love, John Williams, Bob Dylan, David Crosby, Paul Simon, Hank Marvin, Art Garfunkel, Pete Best, Bruce Welch, Charlie Watts, Eric Burdon 1942 – Aretha Franklin, Leon Russell, Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Sarstedt, Andy Summers, Albert Hammond 1943 – Sly Stone, Vangelis, Jeff Wayne, Christine McVie, Mick Jagger, Roger Walters, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Keith Richards, Henry McCullough, Tony Christie ,Ronnie Spector 1944 - Booker T Jones, Jimmy Page, Dave Davies, Roger Daltrey, Diana Ross, Gary Glitter, Gladys Knight, Michelle Philips, Jeff Beck, Patti LaBelle 1945 – Stephen Stills, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Ritchie Blackmore, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Pete Townshend, Carly Simon, Debbie Harry, Van Morrison, Bryan Ferry, Don McLean, Neil Young, John McVie, Bette Midler, Ian Gillan, John Fogerty, Nick Simper, Roger Glover 1946 – John Paul Jones, Dolly Parton, David Gilmour, Dave Hill (Slade), Cher, Barry Gibb, Richard Carpenter, Marianne Faithful, Patti Smith, Donovan, Noddy Holder, Al Green 1947 – Elton John, James Woods, Iggy Pop, Ronnie Wood, Brian May, Meatloaf, Jeff Lynne, Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Don Henley, Gregg Allman, Rod Evans, Wilko Johnson 1948 – Alice Cooper, Tony Iommi, Shakin Stevens, Steve Winwood, Brian Eno, Grace Jones, Leo Sayer, Stevie Nicks, Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne, Ted Nugent, Greg Lake, James Taylor, Don Airey, Ian Paice 1949 – Billy Joel, Rick Wakeman, Lionel Richie, Mark Knopfler, Gene Simmons, Gloria Gaynor, Bruce springsteen, Tom Waits, Roger Taylor, Francis Rossi, Steven Tyler, Steve Perry, Geezer Butler, Larry Wallis 1950 – Peter Frampton, Stevie Wonder, Huey Lewis, Tom Petty, Bernie Taupin, Joan Armatrading, Eddie Clarke

Lou Reed and Jack Bruce were 71 too.

Phantom, just for my theme team, could you go out and buy this album please? Are you thinking I'll do a clean sweep of them? Having checked the listing, I'd get only five hits I think, surprisingly - Jon Anderson, Bryan Ferry, Bruce Foxton, Peter Gabriel and Chris "Merrick" Hughes. But that's 5 more than I got last year or even expect this year! But I don't want any of them to die. Fuck! it's bad enough that I got Motorhead's last album for Christmas and then Lemmy drops dead a few days later. I still haven't played it yet. Please do not buy any Ozzy Osbourne albums any time soon then.

When I heard about Bernie Clifton appearing on TV, my mind immediately went to Tony Clifton, which would have been far more interesting to me.

Sad news. The word legend seems so overused these days, especially since we'd have folk going "Russell Howard, what a legend" or whatever rubbish modern celebrity no one will remember in a decade you can name, but Bowie was, is, and transcends legendary status. RIP

One bright spark from the Howard Davis Jr debacle is that he got a Mail obit. He may have jumped the gun by 30 hours, but that obit's promising for other athletes, still in play, whose ill health has been ignored by the British press so far. For example, a Czech, and an American basketball player, who come to mind.