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1 hour ago, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

I just sang Sunglasses by Tracey Ullman, saw the original was by Sandy Posey, looked her up and it says she died on July 20. If that’s true, it’s somewhat bizarre.

Ditto! I've been analysing her songs for my master's thesis just today!

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2 hours ago, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

I just sang Sunglasses by Tracey Ullman, saw the original was by Sandy Posey, looked her up and it says she died on July 20. If that’s true, it’s somewhat bizarre.

TMZ has it Here

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4 hours ago, tracy said:

 

Abdul Duke Fakir dead at 88.

Last original got four topped.

 

QO.

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4 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

I see Wiki has been updated to signify the death of Harold Chico Torres, the last surviving original member of doo-wop US band The Crests

 

Nothing in the UK Charts but they did max out in the US Billboard Hot 100 at #2 with 16 Candles in 1958. Again, I cannot find an obit.


Second to last according to this Facebook tribute.

"We mourn the passing of Harold Torres, original member of the Crests, on July 18, 2024. L to R: Patricia Van Dross, Johnny Maestro, Harold Torres, Talmadge Gough, J.t. Carter. With Harold's passing, J.T. Carter is the sole living member of the original Crests' line-up."

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8 hours ago, tracy said:

 

Abdul Duke Fakir dead at 88.


Of course my Made In Detroit DDP team wasn’t entered.  That’s two misses this year.

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Jack Russell of Great White diagnosed with Lewy body dementia.

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54 minutes ago, drol said:

Jack Russell of Great White diagnosed with Lewy body dementia.

 

That's a shame, Jack Russells only live about 16 years tops too.

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1 hour ago, drol said:

Jack Russell of Great White diagnosed with Lewy body dementia.

And multiple system atrophy. The illness that killed Jan AP Kaczmarek. 

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On 10/07/2024 at 11:36, ObakeFilter said:

They only cancelled half of the tour, I know that because I'm supposed to see them for the first time in Oslo one month from now. I really hope he recoveres by then.

The other half of the European leg of Queens of the Stone Age tour was cancelled today.

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Just looking at the wiki page for The Zimmers.

37 members now marked as deceased.
12 are not though.

Are any of them really still alive?

For example, Dexter Fletcher's grandmother Grace Cook was a member. She was still living at 90 in 2016 when someone did an interview of her with new pictures... but that was 8 years ago now. She'd be nearly 100. Is she actually still with us?

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51 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Was still alive on her 99th birthday last year, don't have the stamina to go through Fletcher's Instagram to see if he made a similar post this year (still got PTSD from his season of Gamesmaster).


Thanks Spade. Didn't post anything this year, and hasn't posted on there about her death, so I'm guessing still alive but has deteriorated.

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...must... resist... Taylor Swift thread....

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5 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

...must... resist... Taylor Swift thread....

If it existed I would probably end up posting at least once a week about her music, so probably (definitely, please) don't.

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On 16/02/2022 at 12:57, msc said:

"It would be a miracle for me to see 80" says Pete Townshend...

 

 

...in an overly dramatic interview about his past substance abuse which I am linking to now. This needed a Who thread bumped for the full effect, but I couldn't find one.

So, well on his way to being 80, Pete Townshend talks here about his "gay past" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13725485/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-loved-gay-past-Peter-Townshend.html

 

Bless him.

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Greg Kihn covered Springsteen to good effect: 

 

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On 31/07/2018 at 13:01, Bibliogryphon said:

Kate Bush turned 60 yesterday. She lost a lot of weight for her concert the other year and is a vegetarian. I don't think she will be troubling the list until at least 2040. Barring accidents. 

 

Kate Bush would have been an eligible pick in the latest round of Scavenger Hunt Bingo but was not picked which got me thinking if Kate (Heaven forbid) got really sick then, considering her reclusive nature, we deadpoolers might not find out about it until too late. She did a few radio interviews when Running Up That Hill went to No.1 a couple of years ago but sightings are rare. The media didn't know she was pregnant until Peter Gabriel blurted it out on a chat show. 

 

Deadpoolers are going to have to take a decision at some point as to when would be a good time to start just in casing her but would it be worth it opposite a bird in the hand

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On 15/10/2019 at 21:31, Joey Russ said:

George Chambers of the Chambers Brothers has died at 88

Joe Chambers of the Chambers Brothers has died.

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1 hour ago, drol said:

Joe Chambers of the Chambers Brothers has died.


His        TIME!!!!!!        has come today.

 

Ah balls, Toast made that joke the last TIME one of them died. Never mind, here’s the long version.

 

 

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