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I'd give the highest chance of a freak death (in more than one way) to Prince. It's about time for him to go so that even his later work receives some kind of critical (over-)appraisal, as it happened with Jackson and maaaybe Bowie (though some of the newer stuff is fantastic as well and the last album was a cultural milestone). The easy guess not on the list is Chuck Berry, of course, so old, he already inspiured the Beatles, but it also wouldn't surpise anyone. It's more remarkable that he's still alive.

Yes, indeed, Toast.

^^ Evil... But now I'm reminded of another one, and I'm in the right mood for it:

Dead, with obligatory telegraph obit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12140770/Sir-Jeremy-Morse-banker-obituary.html He was also a proficient crossword creator, I believe there's a special term for it. He could have been a very creative pick for the Death List.

I prefer this one:

There must be more to life than this? Surely? Haha, thankfully, there is, Mr. I-picked-Aden-Hailu. But I admit, the boredom of my old work, and the possibility to use the internet liberally during that time, was one of about three main incentives to create that theme team. I'm glad that time is over, because I wanted to feel more useful again.

Horan has died, and got the requisite obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3427312/Ailing-woman-sued-state-marijuana-dies.html Fuck yeah! One of the gambles, but then the Daily Mail prints every AP thing now. Now I need Andrew Yeaman to die and obit, and I might think about something big.Also, the second unique hit for my main team. I See you've Delpech crossed off but Brinson not. To date (and my impeccable knowledge) no one has posted an obit for Delpech that would pass the Sir Creep Test. SC Yeah, it's corrected now (I cross off the names regardless of obits.). I'm in the first week of my new job (it's great, indeed, but on the other hand, it was also really necessary.) and I'm not quite up-to-date with everything. I think my excel list is already missing five new cancer mums.

Dear Lord, that was bad music...and that simple Eurobeat techno rhythm came about 4 years too late...

Ah, the candidate with the potential to hurt me the most, has died... A huge error of mine, I think I replaced him on Dec. 30th with Jackie Storrar. A shame for Mr. Farren, I really thought he looked good to last for a while, a bit like Christie Dignam who apparently returns onto the agenda in 2017.

Doing even worse now. Ugh, he was on Shameless for a while... until that one tweet.

I was gone for a couple of days...and the first thing i thought was, she's still alive???

Horan has died, and got the requisite obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3427312/Ailing-woman-sued-state-marijuana-dies.html Fuck yeah! One of the gambles, but then the Daily Mail prints every AP thing now. Now I need Andrew Yeaman to die and obit, and I might think about something big. Also, the second unique hit for my main team.

Some news on the terminally ill non-celebrities on my team: Tom Bradshaw actually died in December, but it was only made public in January: http://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/news/local/worksop-tributes-paid-to-incredible-husband-dad-and-raf-airman-who-lost-battle-with-cancer-aged-23-1-7658390 Bad luck, but such cases had to be expected.... Jake Bailey's (the student with the inspirational speech) cancer is in remission: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3422578/Jake-Bailey-New-Zealand-amazing-speech-battling-cancer-announces-disease-remission.html On the other hand, relatively obitable Charlotte Eades rather has weeks instead of months left to live, if you watch her youtube videos. Should she die before Joey Feek, she might put Shameless into the virtual lead once more.

Nancy, because Bibliogryphon just posted something in her thread.

French soprano Denise Duval, the 'muse' of Poulenc (who?), dead at 94: http://slippedisc.com/2016/01/poulencs-muse-has-died-aged-94/ Re-discovered norwegian composer Leif Solberg also dead, at 101. http://slippedisc.com/2016/01/a-rediscovered-composer-has-died/

Dead man's body propped up by his friends for a poker game: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3418229/Now-S-poker-face-Dead-gambler-embalmed-propped-table-final-game-cards-family-friends.html

German article on "the last offenders of Auschwitz"; http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/ns-verbrechen-wer-sind-die-letzten-taeter-von-auschwitz/12872360.html Mostly just biographical details about Reinhold Hanning and Hubert Zafke. Zafke gets some more obitability because the newspaper is asking "Did he meet Anne Frank?" There are two more possible names: SS-guardsman Ernst T. (93 years old) and SS radio operator Helma M. (91 years old).

Well you may be best to lay low with that Shameless 'theme team'. Just sayin. I'm actually glad you are proving a point and hopefully the Hassan Asif's of the world will no longer be allowed. I hope you win the whole enchilada with that team. It's the only way change will happen. BUT......if you want to anger a lot of people around here keep promoting the success of that team. SC Hey, with Monty Brinson dead, I have two teams in the top 10 now, not even counting the possible (?) obit for Michel Delpech. That's got to count for something... But as written above, yes, Shameless will drop a little. A couple of very iffy cases of obitability. Should be good for 70-80 pts though.

Time has run out. Dead at 58. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3415139/Kim-Richards-ex-husband-Monty-Brinson-dies-age-58-battle-lung-cancer.html 8 DDP teams had him and the Mail obit qualifies. msc will be pissed off, as stated earlier in the thread. Sad, he seemed like a nice guy.

It looks as if she had a really tough time, a phase of really strong treatment, but she's come out of it alive and it worked, so for the next couple of months, she's going to survive. I'm feeling pretty good about not picking her at the moment (But I hedged my bets and picked her in another pool).

Edit: Nah, I removed it.

A question: The player of the month, does it only include a single team, or actual player? One of my aims this year was to become "player of the month" once. And my combined teams have scored more than anyone else.

He'd rival Frank Zappa and Tupac with posthumous releases. Neil Young has - sort of - been pulling the same stunt whilst still breathing, selected archive releases of key gigs and other items previously market-tested by bootleggers; he even has a professional archivist on his staff basically creating Neil Young's history with Neil Young's overseeing of the whole thing. Neil Young has been a lot more productive than David Bowie was in the latter years. Following his heart attack about 10 years ago, Bowie took a backseat as it were, producing some stuff but then again we don't know what else he was up to other than that couple of albums he released during that time. Neil Young on the other hand has released 11 albums in as many years. Fan theory alert: My own theory was that Bowie deliberately chose to wait 10 years between albums Reality and The Next Day because he wanted to do a "disappearing act", like his great idol Scott Walker of The Walker Brothers. Walker literally vanished from public view between 1985 and 1995, so I believed that Bowie timed his break precisely in that fashion (Reality released in 2003, The Next Day released in 2013). And I also believe that in these 10 years of semi-retirement he probably continued to record a lot. So there may be 4-5 albums plus the earlier stuff. The Next Day still sounded very much like Heathen or Reality. However, now I also believe that the cancer rumours in 2010 were true. And "The Next Day" might have been recorded as a sign of relief after Bowie beat it. "Here I am, not quite dying..."

Bowie planned his posthumous album releases years in advance: http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/david-bowie-album-expected-2017-7227996 This man, unbelievable...

Heather Shannon of Australian indie band the Jezabels needs emergency treatment for ovarian cancer that was diagnosed three years ago: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3411715/The-Jezabels-cancel-world-tour-keyboardist-Heather-Shannon-undergoes-emergency-treatment-ovarian-cancer.html The Carey Lander of 2016?