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    January: I suppose Sidney Poitier, but for most of us it's going to be Meat Loaf or Barry Cryer. Hat tip to Ronnie Spector.

     

    February: Mark Lanegan, Monica Vitti, PJ O'Rourke.

     

    As I am 'of a certain age' and British I'd argue Anna Karen, Bamber Gascoigne and Jack Smethurst too.

     

    March: if we all get nuked then The Queen, Madonna, Putin, David Attenborough, all of Abba, Debbie Harry, Cher, Dolly Parton, Tom Cruise, the list is endless. We can argue the toss in Hell as, let's face it, are any of us who frequent such a form *really* going to heaven?

     

     

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    6 hours ago, Spade_Cooley said:

     

    Listening through now, also getting namechecked and still alive:

    Pele

    Sepp Maier

    Hayley Mills

    Daniel Boone (not sure if this is the long-dead frontiersman or the still-living one-hit wonder)

    Kelvin MacKenzie

    The aforementioned Nicholas Witchell

    Francis Lee (the ginger footballer not the gay film director)

    Julie Andrews

    Bradley Dredge

     

    Out of that lot I'd like The Curse to strike Kelvin MacKenzie the most.

     

    Being a Leeds fan I was pleased with the namecheck of Norman Hunter.

     

    Have we got a specific dedicated thread for The Curse of Half Man Half Biscuit? We probably should.

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    16 hours ago, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

     

    Come on Vinegar Tits, what was he really like?

     

    I never met or worked with him sadly but I do have an anecdote, and it's simply *thrilling*

     

    I saw him walking through Kings Cross Station on the day Kevin Keegan resigned as England boss. I was genuinely quite excited about seeing him. 

     

    Cryer was a good friend of a friend (he's popped up on the Beeb and will probably end up writing the definitive biography of him) so have heard many stories of boozy nights in his local. Utterly splendid chap, exactly as you'd want him to be, sharp as a tack, hilarious and wonderful company by all accounts.

     

    Barry Cryer was the last one standing of that generation of truly great comedy writers. We've lost a big man today. RIP.

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    Sad news. Breaking Glass is a huge favourite film of mine and Eighth Day in particular is amazing. I had the pleasure of meeting her in 2012 and she was lovely. *Really* tiny though; Jon Finch and Mark Wingett tower over her in BG, and even 5ft 3in me was taller. And if you've read 'Expensive Habits' by Simon Garfield and/or know anything about record contracts history you'll perhaps have a little sympathy re her money issues - her Albion contract is probably the worst example of getting f***ed there is. Hope she gets well soon.

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    I used to work with him occasionally and he was lovely - I was the first person outside of friends and family to congratulate him on his MBE in fact. It was a real bind for him to lose his sense of smell around 20 years ago. Sad news.

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    Pretty decent list. Varied and interesting rather than just relying on very old people and obvious picks. There are a lot of very old people on the list but so many of the people who've we've grown up with and have always been around *are* getting old now. A bit sad that Linda Ronstadt has made the list; Marianne Faithfull more expected, sadly, though I still think she's as tough as old boots and will probably see out all of the Stones just by sheer bloody mindedness (see also: Yoko).

     

    Frank Field is an oversight to put it mildly but otherwise not bad at all.

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    26 minutes ago, Dead Wait said:

    Queen sprains back and won’t attend today after all……

     

    Any excuse...

     

    I reckon she put her back out dancing to the new Abba album. And yes, I'll say "Dancing Queen" before anyone else does.

     

    Back pain at any age is often very painful. At 95 it's probably excruciatingly so.

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    Sad news. I'd always thought she was born around 1941 too, especially as in the pictures of her with The Beatles she doesn't look like she's over 30 - and 30 was old back then.

     

    I was going to put her in my 2022 team. Anyone know if Joan Taylor (Derek's wife) is still alive? Never heard anything to the contrary so I presume she is.

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    On 24/10/2021 at 18:31, Gooseberry Crumble said:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10125231/Queens-late-night-TV-habit-left-knackered-royal-aides-say.html

     

    Apparently the Queens habit  of late night TV viewing is thought to be one of the culprits  in her overdoing things.

     

    Hmm. "The monarch has also continued to enjoy her late-night television pastime, particularly at the weekends, and reportedly stayed up to watch 18-year-old tennis star Emma Raducanu win the US Open. "

     

    The Queen famously certainly used to find tennis boring, the 1977 Wimbledon Championships were a particular chore of the Silver Jubilee engagements, so I'd take that with a pinch of salt.

     

    I think she'll see 100, but I'm probably going to be adding her to my teams from 2022 onwards. I have a funny feeling both her and David Attenborough will go around the same time, which will be a huge blow to public morale and everything we hold sacred.

     

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