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Yeah I knew he would make it, classic cult music name like Downie, Clegg, and P-Orridge

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Terminally ill with cancer, very famous, best newcomer.

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29 minutes ago, wannamaker said:

Terminally ill with cancer, very famous, best newcomer.

Rollins might be better.

 

But I am splitting hairs Sakamoto is a fantastic edition.

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3 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

Yeah I knew he would make it, classic cult music name like Downie, Clegg, and P-Orridge

I would say he is more famous than all of them .

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Likely to be the first hit of the year 

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Excellent choice.

 

The news about his cancer broke out at the right time. 

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10 minutes ago, Sean said:

I would say he is more famous than all of them .

 

Agreed. He has an Oscar and a Grammy and he has considerable influence outside of his home country; don't think you can make much of an argument for the others.

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Poor choice; it’s the type of pick a novice makes all excitedly upon seeing a headline without anything further.  I see well-respected DLers calling this a good pick and I know not what to say other than we shall agree to disagree.  
I hereby promise to put Sakamoto as my #1 Inverse DP selection, and should he die I will send 5 pounds of coffee to all who leave him off their Inverse teams cuz they knew better than Sir Creep. 

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Great choice, I will enjoy Sir Creep's coffee a lot. 

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What makes me think he’s a dead cert is the fact that in his most recent “concert” he literally had to record them in multiple different sessions rather than just a single take. That shows he’s weakening

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30 minutes ago, Sir Cunto said:

Poor choice; it’s the type of pick a novice makes all excitedly upon seeing a headline without anything further.  I see well-respected DLers calling this a good pick and I know not what to say other than we shall agree to disagree.  
I hereby promise to put Sakamoto as my #1 Inverse DP selection, and should he die I will send 5 pounds of coffee to all who leave him off their Inverse teams cuz they knew better than Sir Creep. 

 

God you are so boring. You do this every year and are always wrong. 

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He has stage 4 rectal cancer since at least October 2021 when he had surgery for metastatic bilateral lung cancer.As Joey said above he is losing strength and has said his last "concert" which was a compilation may well be his last.

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Stage 4 colerectal cancer has a 14% survival rate of 5 years and Sakamoto has had that for at least 15 months and is clearly winding down based on recent statements.

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Aah fair enough actually, I didn't know that about the concert. Sounds like he hasn't got long at all. 

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Not the first YMO component to die apparently...

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On 01/01/2023 at 11:40, Sean said:
On 01/01/2023 at 11:10, wannamaker said:

Terminally ill with cancer, very famous, best newcomer.

Rollins might be better.

I’d say Harris is the best newcomer.

 

Sakamoto is actually the only candidate on this year’s DL, who I had never heard of before. Still a great pick I’m gathering, all he needs is a BBC obit or in some cases not even that!

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Yellow Magic Orchestra - the Reaper is closing in.

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This has appeared on Sakamoto's twitter:

 

So dead?

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Probably yes, but it's strange because his twitter has posted another message the 31st so 3 days After his death...

RIP the artist

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  While it would be very sad if it were true, it would still be a welcome hit.

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Didn’t know Who he was or if he was really famous but a sad news, RIP

Finally a hit 

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