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Saddest hit ever: Olivia Newton-John https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62472100

Dear Olivia, I have always defended Xanadu for you! Much love!

Is this a hoax??? OMG, it's on her homepage!

Congratulations to gcreptile! Another victory!

Ooooh, I think their careers are worlds apart...

Yes, she is on my theme team but I doubt that she will get a qo, like always.

So now we really do have our fourth hit, and it's a sad one: Schlager singer Margot Eskens has died two weeks shy of her 86th birthday. Cause of death: severe dementia. https://esc-kompakt.de/schlager-und-esc-ikone-margot-eskens-ist-tot/ In 1956 and 1957 respectively she had two big No.1 hits in the German charts with "Tiritomba" and "Cindy oh Cindy". She also represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1966 and finished 10th place.

Wishful thinking

Now it is reported, that Trude Unruh already died in November 2021! WTF! Why wasn't this reported? https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/trude-unruh-gestorben-100.html So one more hit for the D-A-CH-List 2021, one less for this year's list

Hopefully the list will keep up its hit frequency now...

Congratulations to Joey; winning the Cup is really an achievement! And congrats to gcreptile, too. 2nd place in the Cup is also very very good!

July-Update Wow, 5 hits in July: Peter, Larry, James, Bernard & Nichelle– and ThereWillBeDeaths7 has got three of them! As far as I can see, we do have the following hits: Hits so far: 01. Gary Burgess (13.11.1975 – 01.01.2022): Doulton, Joes Russ 02. Sidney Poitier (20.02.1927 – 06.01.2022): 14:22, Annami, Bibliogryphon, Book, Buffalo Phil, chilean way, DL 2022, Doulton, Etushispushingupdaisies, gcreptile, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Joey Russ, Lafaucheuse, msc, RoverAndOut, The Daredevil, The Old Crem, theoldlady, ThereWillBeDeaths7, TomTomTelekom, TQR, YoungWillz 03. Robert Durst (12.04.1943 – 10.01.2022): DL 2022, Doulton 04. Hardy Krüger (12.04.1928 – 19.01.2022): The Daredevil 05. Russell Bishop (09.02.1966 – 20.01.2022): Book 06. Barry Cryer (23.03.1935 – 25.01.2022): Bibliogryphon 07. Leonard Fenton (29.04.1926 – 29.01.2022): The Daredevil, TQR 08. Monica Vitti (03.11.1930 – 02.02.2022): 14:22, Buffalo Phil, The Daredevil 09. Shirley Hughes (16.07.1927 – 25.02.2022): Bibliogryphon 10. Vic Elford (10.06.1935 – 13.03.2022): Joey Russ, theoldlady, TQR 11. Tom Parker (04.08.1988 – 30.03.2022): Bibliogryphon, The Old Crem, TQR 12. June Brown (16.02.1927 – 03.04.2022): 14:22, Annami, Bibliogryphon, Book, Buffalo Phil, chilean way, DL 2022, Etushispushingupdaisies, gcreptile, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Lafaucheuse, msc, RoverAndOut, theoldlady, ThereWillBeDeaths7, TomTomTelekom, YoungWillz 13. Tom Smith (31.10.1971 – 06.04.2022): chilean way, Great Uncle Bulgaria, RoverAndOut, The Old Crem, theoldlady, ThereWillBeDeaths7, TomTomTelekom, TQR, WEP, YoungWillz 14. Rae Allen (03.07.1926 – 06.04.2022 ): Doulton 15. Jack Higgins (27.07.1929 – 09.04.2022): The Daredevil 16. Michel Bouquet (06.11.1925 – 13.04.2022): The Daredevil 17. Kane Tanaka (02.01.1903 – 19.04.2022): theoldlady 18. George Pérez (09.06.1954 – 06.05.2022): The Daredevil 19. Lester Piggott (05.11.1935 – 29.05.2022): Annami, Buffalo Phil, chilean way, theoldlady, TomTomTelekom, WEP 20. Billy Bingham (05.08.1931 – 10.06.2022): TQR 21. Jean-Louis Trintignant (11.12.1930 – 17.06.2022): 14:22, Buffalo Phil, chilean way, Doulton, Joey Russ, Lafaucheuse, The Daredevil, ThereWillBeDeaths7, TomTomTelekom, TQR 22. Frank Williams (02.07.1931 – 26.06.2022): ThereWillBeDeaths7 23. Peter Brook (21.03.1925 – 02.07.2022): Etushispushingupdaisies 24. Larry Storch (08.01.1923 – 08.07.2022): ThereWillBeDeaths7, TomTomTelekom, 25. James Lovelock (26.07.1919 – 26.07.2022): 14:20, Bibliogryphon, Joey Russ, msc, RoverAndOut, TQR 26. Bernard Cribbins (29.12.1928 – 28.07.2022): Doulton, Great Uncle Bulgaria, theoldlady, ThereWillBeDeaths7, WEP, YoungWillz 27. Nichelle Nichols (28.12.1932 – 30.07.2022): 14:22, Bibliogryphon, Book, Buffalo Phil, Lafaucheuse, RoverAndOut, The Daredevil, ThereWillBeDeaths7, TomTomTelekom, TQR, Standings: 9: The Daredevil: Sidney Poitier, Hardy Krüger, Leonard Fenton, Monica Vitti, Jack Higgins, Michel Bouquet, George Pérez, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Nichelle Nichols, 9: TQR: Sidney Poitier, Leonard Fenton, Vic Elford, Tom Parker, Tom Smith, Billy Bingham, Jean-Louis Trintignant, James Lovelock, Nichelle Nichols, 8: ThereWillBeDeaths7: Sidney Poitier, June Brown, Tom Smith, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frank Williams, Larry Storch, Bernard Cribbins, Nichelle Nichols, 7: Bibliogryphon: Sidney Poitier, Barry Cryer, Shirley Hughes, Tom Parker, June Brown, James Lovelock, Nichelle Nichols, 7: theoldlady: Sidney Poitier, Vic Elford, June Brown, Tom Smith, Kane Tanaka, Lester Piggott, Bernard Cribbins, 7: TomTomTelekom: Sidney Poitier, June Brown, Tom Smith, Lester Piggott, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Larry Storch, Nichelle Nichols, 6: 14:22: Sidney Poitier, Monica Vitti, June Brown, Jean-Louis Trintignant, James Lovelock, Nichelle Nichols, 6: Buffalo Phil: Sidney Poitier, Monica Vitti, June Brown, Lester Piggott, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Nichelle Nichols, 6: Doulton: Gary Burgess, Sidney Poitier, Robert Durst, Rae Allen, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bernard Cribbins, 5: chilean way: Sidney Poitier, June Brown, Tom Smith, Lester Piggott, Jean-Louis Trintignant, 5: Joey Russ: Gary Burgess, Sidney Poitier, Vic Elford, Jean-Louis Trintignant, James Lovelock, 5: RoverAndOut: Sidney Poitier, June Brown, Tom Smith, James Lovelock, Nichelle Nichols, 4: Book: Sidney Poitier, Russell Bishop, June Brown, Nichelle Nichols, 4: DL 2022: Sidney Poitier, Robert Durst, Estelle Harris, June Brown, 4: Great Uncle Bulgaria: Sidney Poitier, June Brown, Tom Smith, Bernard Cribbins, 4: Lafaucheuse: Sidney Poitier, June Brown, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Nichelle Nichols, 4: YoungWillz: Sidney Poitier, June Brown, Tom Smith, Bernard Cribbins, 3: Annami: Sidney Poitier, June Brown, Lester Piggott, 3: Etushispushingupdaisies: Sidney Poitier, June Brown, Peter Brook, 3: msc: Sidney Poitier, June Brown, James Lovelock, 3: Predictor: Sidney Poitier, Vic Elford, June Brown, 3: The Old Crem: Sidney Poitier, Tom Parker, Tom Smith, 3: WEP: Tom Smith, Lester Piggott, Bernard Cribbins, 2: gcreptile: Sidney Poitier, June Brown, Please tell me if I missed a hit, especially one of the lesser known or more obscure picks...

A – George Alagiah B – Bob Barker C – Carole Cook 11.01.2023 D – Derek Draper E – Eugenia Cooney F – Frank Field G – Mikhail Gorbachev 30.08.2022 H – Françoise Hardy I – Ion Iliescu J – John Cannan K – Joe Kinnear L – Angela Lansbury 11.10.2022 M – Steve McMichael N – Nichelle Nichols Nigel Starmer-Smith O – Ozzy Osbourne P – Vicky Phelan 14.11.2022 Q – Al Quie R – Rob Burrow S – Sinisa Mihajlovic 16.12.2022 T – Michael Tilson Thomas U – Gudrun Ure V – Gianni Vialli 06.01.2023 W – Don West 30.12.2022 X – Xi Xi 18.12.2022 Y – Arnold Yarrow Z – Zvi Zamir

Toast said: "Although this game seems to have ground to a halt " and it seemed so to me. No update, no reactions from the host...

Joan Plowright

Perhaps this lull will lead to the committee rethinking that more obvious candidates will be chosen in the future, that the list will be open to people like Deborah James, George Pérez or Gary Burgess, for example. They would have scored well this year, the chart would have had 7 hits in 7 months and no one would complain now

The oldest woman in Germany died on July 16 at the age of 113: Josefine Ollmann from Itzehoe near Hamburg, born on November 11, 1908. https://www.bild.de/regional/hamburg/hamburg-aktuell/aelteste-frau-deutschlands-gestorben-geheimnis-von-113-jahren-80798878.bild.html She is now replaced by Anna Cernohorsky, born on September 13, 1909 (born in Austria but living in Germany).

I never thought it would happen!

But we really meant it well

I already gave up our list for this year anyway

Nichelle Nichols

He did what he did So I will take Jeff Burton (radio host).

Yes, I'm also interested in playing again!

The Berlin architect Ursulina Schüler-Witte, who, together with her husband Ralf Schüler, decisively shaped the face of West Berlin with their buildings after the Second World War, is dead. The architect died in May at the age of 89. Together they designed brightly colored buildings in the 1960s and 1970s in the typical Pop Art style, such as the Schloßstraße underground station in Steglitz with its blue, yellow and orange-colored wall elements or the iconic orange and red tower restaurant in Steglitz, better known as "Bierpinsel" and the International Congress Centrum (ICC). https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article235857537/Trauer-um-Berliner-ICC-Architektin-Ursulina-Schueler-Witte.html

I agree with you. I had to smile at Sophie Freud's obituary because I quit smoking almost exactly 10 years ago. So cigars no, shlongs probably yes...