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Is there a thread for everyone in that Beloved song?  Obvs some of them are dead.
 
Saint Peter - dead
Saint Paul - dead
Tommy Cannon
Bobby Ball - dead
Little Richard - dead
Little Nell 
Willy Wonka 
William Tell - dead
Salman Rushdie
Kym Mazelle
Mork
Mindy
Brian Hayes
Barry Humphries
Paris Grey
Little Neepsie
Chris and Do
Billy Corkhill
Vince Hilaire
Freddie Flintstone
Fred Astaire - dead 
Desmond Tutu
Steve and Claire
Charlie Parker - dead
Charlie Brown
Leslie Crowther - dead
Mary Wilson, Di and Flo (dead)
Sir Bufton Tufton
Jean Paul Sartre - dead
Zippy
Bungle
Jeffrey Archer
Andre Previn - dead
 
I’ll never get those 20 minutes back.
 
 
 
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Off the top of my head....

 

5 minutes ago, Lard Bazaar said:

Mork

 

Dead, after a fashion anyway.

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I've never heard of that song.

I thought you were on about this one....

 

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AH someones been watching the 1990 Top of the Pops repeats.

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17 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

I've never heard of that song.

 

Neither had I.

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28 minutes ago, En Passant said:

 

Off the top of my head....

 

 

Dead, after a fashion anyway.

Of course he is, I was thinking of actual Mork and forgot he was not real :lol:

 

20 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

I've never heard of that song.

I thought you were on about this one....

 

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2 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

Neither had I.

Seriously? I thought everyone would have heard of this one.

7 minutes ago, msc said:

AH someones been watching the 1990 Top of the Pops repeats.

Not me, it came into my mind the other day when Bobby Ball popped his clogs.  First thing I thought of come to think of it :huh:

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1 minute ago, Lard Bazaar said:

 

Not me, it came into my mind the other day when Bobby Ball popped his clogs.  First thing I thought of come to think of it :huh:

 

It was shown on BBC4 about a week ago and then Bobby Ball went and died.

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Arguably Willy Wonka, Freddie Flintstone, Bungle and Zippy are dead too, a bit in the same way Mork is. Sorry, I know saying bluntly Zippy is dead is a bit much to take in. 

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26 minutes ago, msc said:

 

It was shown on BBC4 about a week ago and then Bobby Ball went and died.

Hmmm, weird - perhaps we should monitor these TOTP repeats for any further strange coincidences.

 

14 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

Arguably Willy Wonka, Freddie Flintstone, Bungle and Zippy are dead too, a bit in the same way Mork is. Sorry, I know saying bluntly Zippy is dead is a bit much to take in. 

Yes, I was undecided as to whether to count the fictional ones as dead.  But agreed, it will be a sad day when Zippy breathes his last.

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I've never heard that song before either. What an odd collection of names. According to Wikipedia, Chris and Do are friends of the band and Steve and Claire are the band's guitarist Steve Waddington and his girlfriend, Claire. Not much to go on there in terms of whether they're still breathing. Steve Waddington's still going, mind.

 

Oh, and on the fictional characters front, (spoiler alert) in The Old Curiosity Shop,

Spoiler

Little Nell dies (and Charles Dickens is most definitely dead).

 

And in the sense @Octopus of Odstock is talking I'm assuming we can add Charlie Brown to the list?

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I liked them in their New Order wannabe days and also their post-E-revelationary reincarnation, though Hello is a bit of a duffer, a less unbelievable Unbelievable.

 

The elitist in me would do the same for LCD Soundsystem's Losing My Edge, but the lazy cunt in me has overruled him.

 

@Octopus of Odstock Is Bungle really dead, though? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Bates (I'm enjoying picturing the road rage incident with him going full Bungle on some poor motorist)

 

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2 hours ago, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

I liked them in their New Order wannabe days and also their post-E-revelationary reincarnation, though Hello is a bit of a duffer, a less unbelievable Unbelievable.

 

The elitist in me would do the same for LCD Soundsystem's Losing My Edge, but the lazy cunt in me has overruled him.

 

@Octopus of Odstock Is Bungle really dead, though? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Bates (I'm enjoying picturing the road rage incident with him going full Bungle on some poor motorist)

 

Indeed, you're right. All 4 Bungles are alive. And both Zippys are dead. Apologies for my bungle about Bungle. 

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6 hours ago, RoverAndOut said:

I've never heard that song before either. What an odd collection of names. According to Wikipedia, Chris and Do are friends of the band and Steve and Claire are the band's guitarist Steve Waddington and his girlfriend, Claire. Not much to go on there in terms of whether they're still breathing. Steve Waddington's still going, mind.

 

Oh, and on the fictional characters front, (spoiler alert) in The Old Curiosity Shop,

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Little Nell dies (and Charles Dickens is most definitely dead).

 

And in the sense @Octopus of Odstock is talking I'm assuming we can add Charlie Brown to the list?

Ah, thanks for that, I’ve never read a Charles Dickens book.

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Is this a general dumping ground for "who is alive/dead in songs" then? I did this for the Bonzo Dog Band's "The Intro and the Outro" when Neil Innes carked it:

 

 

On 30/12/2019 at 13:41, Spade_Cooley said:

Here's a listmania for everyone mentioned on "The Intro and the Outro"

 

"Legs" Larry Smith - alive
Martin "Sam Spoons" Ash - died 2018
Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell- alive
Neil Innes - died 2019
Rodney Slater- alive
Roger Ruskin Spear- alive
Vivian Stanshall - died 1995

Eric Clapton - alive

John Wayne - died 1979
Robert Morley - died 1992
Billy Butlin - died 1980
Adolf Hitler - was dead at song's release
Princess Anne - alive
Liberace - died 1987
Garner Ted Armstrong - died 2003
Lord Snooty and his Pals - not real. Although their original Beano run ended in 1991
Harold Wilson - died 1995

Franklyn MacCormack - died 1971
Sir Kenneth Clark - died 1983
A session gorilla - average life expectancy of a gorilla in captivity is 40 years, so would have died around 2007

(Quintin Hogg's name was originally used in place of a session gorilla but he filed a legal complaint to stop it. He died 2001)
Incredible Shrinking Man - Grant Williams, who played the Incredible Shrinking Man, died 1985
Peter Scott - died 1989
Casanova - was dead at song's release
General Charles de Gaulle - died 1970
Roy Rogers - died 1998
Trigger - was dead at song's release

Wild Man of Borneo - date of death unknown but would have been 105 if alive when the song was released

Count Basie Orchestra - still in existence and touring despite Basie dying in 1984
The Rawlinsons - Trevor Howard died 1988, Vivian Stanshall in 1995
Dan Druff - a scalp condition
Quasimodo - not a real person
Brainiac - not a real person. His creator Otto Binder died 1974
Val Doonican - died 2015
Max Jaffa - died 1991
Zebra Kid - died 1977

Horace Batchelor - died 1977
J Arthur Rank - died 1972

 

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9 hours ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

Arguably Willy Wonka, Freddie Flintstone, Bungle and Zippy are dead too, a bit in the same way Mork is. Sorry, I know saying bluntly Zippy is dead is a bit much to take in. 

 

 

Not that I watched much of The Weakest Link but...

 

I did once see a great moment in which Roland Rat had it out with Anne Robinson, his point being that as a licensed character he got regular remakes and - by contrast - her regular trips for plastic surgery were unimpressive and simply holding back an unstoppable tide. He might have been the weakest link at that moment but he was pointing out he was way closer to immortality than her.

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1 hour ago, Lard Bazaar said:

Ah, thanks for that, I’ve never read a Charles Dickens book.

 

Btw apologies up front but I'm not putting spoiler tags on a book thats 180 years old now. (Next up, better not tell folk what happens to that Jesus guy in the Bible! :lol:)

 

But, while Dickens is a pretty damn goood writer - especially when he wasn't being paid by the syllable - the death of Little Nell is some of the most preposterous melodrama ever written. And yet there's contemporary newspaper reports of folk waiting for the latest installment published, like the 1840s equivalent of their Eastenders fix, and bawling their eyes out over her. I'm with Oscar Wilde - "It'd take a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Little Nell"!

 

That said, I'm of the view the best Dickens adaptation ever had Michael Caine and muppets in it, so what do I know? :D

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Sweet Harmony was half decent but everything else they did was utter dogshit.

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10 hours ago, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

Reasons to Be Cheerful is another alive/dead song. And that fucking Billy Joel one.

 

Not many of We Didn't Start the Fire are left now, as he went in chronological order from 1949.

 

Harry Truman - dead

Doris Day - dead

Johnnie Ray - dead

Walter Winchell - dead

Joe DiMaggio - dead

Joe McCarthy - dead

Richard Nixon - dead

Marilyn Monroe - dead

Rosenbergs - dead

Sugar Ray Robinson - dead

Marlon Brando - dead

Dwight D. Eisenhower - dead

Elizabeth II - ALIVE

Rocky Marciano - dead

Liberace - dead

George Santayana - dead

Joseph Stalin - dead

Georgy Malenkov - dead

General Nasser - dead

Sergei Prokofiev - dead

Winthrop Rockefeller - dead

Roy Campanella - dead

Roy Cohn - dead

Juan Peron - dead

Arturo Toscanini - dead

Albert Einstein - dead

James Dean - dead

Brooklyn Dodgers (some: Roger Craig, Sandy Koufax, Tommy Lasorda and Carl Erskine) - ALIVE

Elvis Presley - dead

Brigitte Bardot - ALIVE

Nikita Khrushchev - dead

Princess Grace (Kelly) - dead

Boris Pasternak - dead

Mickey Mantle - dead

Jack Kerouac - dead

Chou En-Lai - dead

Charles de Gaulle - dead

Charles Starkweather - dead

Buddy Holly - dead

Fidel Castro - dead

Syngman Ree - dead

JFK - dead

Chubby Checker - ALIVE

Ernest Hemingway - dead

Adolf Eichmann - dead

Bob Dylan - ALIVE

Beatlemania - 2/4 ALIVE

John Glenn - dead

(Sonny) Liston beats (Floyd) Paterson - both dead

Pope Paul IV - dead

Malcolm X - dead

John Profumo - dead

Ho Chi Minh - dead

Menachem Begin - dead

Ronald Reagan - dead

Ayatollah Khomeini - dead

Sally Ride - dead

Bernie Goetz - ALIVE

 

That's probably been posted elsewhere here but since it came up and it's the topic of the week, here it is. Also, everyone mentioned in Madonna's 'Vogue' is dead - Lauren Bacall was the last one standing and she died in 2014.

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2 hours ago, RoverAndOut said:

 

Not many of We Didn't Start the Fire are left now, as he went in chronological order from 1949.

 

Plus three members of the 1955 Dodgers ("Brooklyn's got a winning team") are still alive, based on a quick Google: Roger Craig, Sandy Koufax and Tommy Lasorda.

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16 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Plus three members of the 1955 Dodgers ("Brooklyn's got a winning team") are still alive, based on a quick Google: Roger Craig, Sandy Koufax and Tommy Lasorda.

 

When I was glancing through the lyrics before delving deeper, I did consider looking up the Dodgers team, but then, when I came to actually look them up, I ignored them. :lol::facepalm: So thanks for that. 

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54 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

 

Plus three members of the 1955 Dodgers ("Brooklyn's got a winning team") are still alive, based on a quick Google: Roger Craig, Sandy Koufax and Tommy Lasorda.


Also Carl Erskine

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3 hours ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Plus three members of the 1955 Dodgers ("Brooklyn's got a winning team") are still alive, based on a quick Google: Roger Craig, Sandy Koufax and Tommy Lasorda.

 

2 hours ago, arrowsmith said:

Also Carl Erskine

 

Edited to include your contributions, thanks. In the next line, Davy Crockett gets a mention (spoiler: he's dead) but it's talking about the tv series anyway, not the man.

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