Vinegar Tits

Dead according to Radio 5 just now. Think the Beeb source is Reuters

If you can, dig out 'Mother Love'. One of the most genuinely bloody terrifying performances I've ever seen, and, imho, one of *the* great BBC dramas (not quite Tenko but in my top five). Wish the BBC would repeat it again or release it. Anyway, awful news. The word iconic is much overused these days but Diana Rigg most certainly was. RIP.

Can't find any links that aren't in Chinese, but HK director Benny Chan has died of cancer. Really sad news - he was one of the major HK film names of the 90s and 00s - directing such films as Gen-X Cops, Rob-B-Hood, Who Am I, New Police Story, Invisible Target, and my personal fave Shaolin.

LAMFband and Legs McNeil saying on Instagram that former Heartbreaker (as in Johnny Thunders, not Tom Petty's lot) Walter Lure has died. Louder Than War now reporting it - https://louderthanwar.com/walter-lure-rip/

I don't want to be rude but, even in these days of autotune, judging by his performance on that awful recent record, Capt Tom can't hold a note. His timing's off too.

True, but very few have widespread name recognition, Angela Lansbury easily being the most well known. With one or two exceptions, we're basically in the Eastwood/Hackman era of stars now.

Ooh, he looks rough compared to how he looked only a few years ago. Lost a shocking amount of weight. There's a Eurovision connection too - he should have represented Germany in 1976 but the song had previously been released, so we got the Siegel-fest 'Sing Sang Song' by the Les Humphries Singers instead.

He gave me his tour pass after I met him at the end of the All About Eve 'Ultraviolet' tour (the Sea Nymphs had been the support). Nice chap. Sad news.

Oh, that's sad news. Never met her myself but know a few people who did/worked with her on Emmerdale (one of whom used to do a dance class with her) and she was apparently lovely.

Sad news if true. I remember her from Channel 4's 'Manhattan Cable' (a few years before Clive James) and she was always hilarious. I also saw her live in Sunderland in 1995(?) - fab, of course, and my friend Mark got a kiss from her which he's never quite lived down.

Bowel cancer has spread.

I liked her dress! Quite a natty off-the-shoulder look. Mind you, as this is what we dressed like, I can't really comment too much...

He had a fling with Stevie Nicks while producing her 'The Other Side Of The Mirror' album, the lucky sod. They broke up due to him taking coke around her, which she hadn't long been off.

Did the dirty on Mary Roos too, which is why her performance of 'Aufrecht Geh'n' at the 1984 Eurovision Song Contest is interesting to watch when you know the background to why she seemed so distracted*. *She found out that Böhm's mistress was expecting his child shortly before.

That picture of Steve Priest above isn't very recent - it's around 10 years old. He lost a shedload of weight about two years ago. Such sad news, especially as there'd been recent news that he was recovering from (certainly at the time non--Covid-related) pneumonia and was doing better. Though I'm just slightly too young to remember The Sweet in their glam heyday, though do remember and liked at the time 'Love Is Like Oxygen', they were always my favourites of that era. In fact, I think I'd go as far as to say they were the best band not only of glam but of the early/mid 70s. Superb, and their records still sound fantastic to this day (apart from Call Me, which was always shit). RIP Steve