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He was on Last Word the other week but the BBC didn't mention him on the Last Word website. Which was a bit of a troll move.

47 Don McLean - Vincent 46 Nilsson – Without you 44 Alice Cooper – School's Out 41 The Sweet – Blockbuster 41 Slade – Cum On Feel The Noize +3 35 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 35 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough 32 Slade – Merry X-mas everybody 32 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive 29 10CC – Rubber Bullets 29 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well 29 T.Rex – Metal Guru +1 23 Chicory Tip – Son of my father 20 T.Rex – Telegram Sam 18 Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level 18 The New Seekers – I'd like to teach the world to sing 16 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down -6 15 Wizzard – Angel Fingers 4 Slade – Skweeze me, pleeze me

Shortlist in October - "This is going to be a great team." Shortlist in late December - "Oh FFS, better check how Jiang Zemin is doing..."

I was a big fan of Linda Smith. It's still sad to be reminded she died so ridiculously young.

Feels like this has split into 3 groups already - the good/great songs, the songs which have their fans, and the red shirts circling the drain.

I changed the sodding dates 7 times, there's always one! Yes. Open for business. On the basis I forget to officially announce it's open and people tend to just send in lists from the second the thread opens!

46 Alice Cooper – School's Out 43 Don McLean - Vincent 38 Nilsson – Without you 35 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough 35 The Sweet – Blockbuste +1r 34 Slade – Cum On Feel The Noize +1 32 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 29 10CC – Rubber Bullets 28 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well 27 T.Rex – Metal Guru +1 25 Chicory Tip – Son of my father 25 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive 24 Slade – Merry X-mas everybody 24 Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level +1 22 Slade – Skweeze me, pleeze me 21 Wizzard – Angel Fingers 21 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Get down 20 T.Rex – Telegram Sam 20 The New Seekers – I'd like to teach the world to sing 12 David Cassidy – How can I be sure -3 11 David Cassidy - Daydreamer/The Puppy Song -3 8 Donny Osmond – The twelfth of never 2 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Clair

Watch that video above and the one here which is from the same day, imo, yes, she is ill, but she looks great for someone 9 years into PSP. Can still hold her own spoon to eat and speak. Famous last words here but might be a safe 2023 drop and come back in December 2023 and see how she is then.

Frank Field not dead, writes briefly for the Times about Rishi Sunak. He says absolutely nothing about his health before anyone asks.

4 teams in already in the very early going - and around 150 celebs in those teams. Well, I think some of them are celebs!

Bit harsh on Noddy

44 Alice Cooper – School's Out 36 Don McLean - Vincent 32 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough 32 The Sweet – Blockbuster 30 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 30 Slade – Cum On Feel The Noize 29 10CC – Rubber Bullets 26 Nilsson – Without you 26 T.Rex – Metal Guru 26 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well 25 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive +1 24 Slade – Merry X-mas everybody +1 23 Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level +2 23 Chuck Berry – My ding-a-ling 21 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Get down 21 Chicory Tip – Son of my father 20 The New Seekers – I'd like to teach the world to sing 20 T.Rex – Telegram Sam 20 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Clair 20 Slade – Skweeze me, pleeze me 20 Wizzard – Angel Fingers 18 David Cassidy – How can I be sure 14 Slade – Take me back 'ome 14 David Cassidy - Daydreamer/The Puppy Song -6 8 Donny Osmond – The twelfth of never 8 Gary Glitter – I love you love me love

All of these magicians seem to take ill in their 70s (even Teller above has heart issues), meanwhile David Berglas, who was doing magic before most of them were born, is quietly approaching his 97th year on the planet!

I see your Lennon/Jones thing and just want to point out that Cliff Richard had had about 6 or 7 UK number ones before the Beatles or Tom Jones had any!

Even the most solid of sources can make mistakes now and again.

40 Alice Cooper – School's Out 28 Don McLean - Vincent 25 Lieutenant Pigeon – Mouldy old dough 25 The Sweet – Blockbuster 25 10CC – Rubber Bullets 25 T Rex - Metal Guru +4 25 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 24 Nilsson – Without you 24 Slade – Cum on feel the noize 22 Chuck Berry – My ding-a-ling 21 Simon Park Orchestra – Eye Level 21 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Get down 21 Wizzard – See my baby jive 20 The New Seekers – I'd like to teach the world to sing 20 Slade – Merry X-mas everybody 20 T.Rex – Telegram Sam 20 Chicory Tip – Son of my father 20 Slade – Take me back 'ome 20 Rod Stewart – You wear it well 20 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Clair 20 Donny Osmond – The twelfth of never 20 Slade – Skweeze me, pleeze me 20 Peters & Lee – Welcome home 20 Wizzard – Angel Fingers 20 David Cassidy – Daydreamer/ The Puppy Song 20 Gary Glitter – I love you love me love 19 David Cassidy – How can I be sure 12 Royal Scots Dragoon Squad – Amazing Grace 9 Donny Osmond – Puppy love 9 Donny Osmond - Young Love -6 9 Little Jimmy Osmond – Long haired lover from Liverpool

Had heart issues for ages. Got asked to perform at a George Harrison memorial concert and started prepping hard for it, and the excitement killed him.

Excellent song. The lead singer, Brian Connolly, was adopted half-brother of Glasgow legend Mark McManus (ie Jim Taggart). Both men died of alcoholism in the 90s. Never met Connolly but McManus was a lovely man.

Unsure if the "vote once a day" counts when your last vote got retconned! But anyhow, as with last time, the songs which made the top 10 but didn't get to number one in 1972 and 1973 include: I'd bat for all of them over nearly 70% at least of the ones that actually made it to number one!

I agree with Toast and En Passant. Let the 1972 killing fields commence!

55 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown +4 34 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water -6 31 T. Rex - Get it on 14 Slade - Coz I luv you Nowt against Art and Paul, this vote is just designed to get to Round 2 faster.

Presumably Payne and (sadly) Hendrix don't have long left, as the forum have multiple Osmonds to murder later this week, Err, I mean, Round 2, and who knows what the options are there.

No qualifying obit in over 2 weeks, mind you.

Lawson has looked like an unexpected boo would finish him off for years now. Though given he was meant to be quite badly ill with cancer about a decade ago (never did find out what type of cancer) he's done well to make it this far. As has Dennis Skinner tbh - the hushed tones from Labour folk who knew during the 2019 election made it sound like 3 months was a tall order, let alone 3 years.

Looks and sounds better there than he did during the last election, where he struggled to speak. (That is 2022 footage, right?)