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34 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Bad couple of days for British reggae-influenced mixed-race Radio 2-friendly pop groups who had their biggest success in the 1980s but had a #1 single in the 1990s: Simply Red founding member Fritz McIntyre is dead.

Christ in a bucket!

 

Highest entry in 1985 was Money's Too Tight (To Mention), reaching unlucky #13 that year.

 

Didn't see a damn thing about illness - didn't top himself did he? Anyway, another bloody miss.

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On 23/08/2021 at 10:45, YoungWillz said:

Darts always brought a bit of fun to Top Of The Pops - sad news.

 

Wish they had made a comeback....wait....

 

 

 

 

My favourite Darts song. Loved it in 1978, still love it now. That was such an amazing time in the charts - Take A Chance On Me  Figaro, Sorry I'm A Lady, Wuthering Heights, Denis, Baker Street, all within a few weeks.

 

Always interesting to see who gets the love on Twitter during the TOTP repeats - the main ones seemed to be Darts, Liquid Gold and Imagination. All three seemed to have the time of their lives and had a ball. 

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6 minutes ago, Vinegar Tits said:

 

My favourite Darts song. Loved it in 1978, still love it now. That was such an amazing time in the charts - Take A Chance On Me  Figaro, Sorry I'm A Lady, Wuthering Heights, Denis, Baker Street, all within a few weeks.

 

Always interesting to see who gets the love on Twitter during the TOTP repeats - the main ones seemed to be Darts, Liquid Gold and Imagination. All three seemed to have the time of their lives and had a ball. 

Agree wholeheartedly! For me the best years in pop still remain 1978 and 1984.

 

What about Captain Sensible? Always appeared to me he was having a great time whilst totally dumbfounded his records were selling! :lol:

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7 hours ago, Vinegar Tits said:

 

My favourite Darts song. Loved it in 1978, still love it now. That was such an amazing time in the charts - Take A Chance On Me  Figaro, Sorry I'm A Lady, Wuthering Heights, Denis, Baker Street, all within a few weeks.

 

Always interesting to see who gets the love on Twitter during the TOTP repeats - the main ones seemed to be Darts, Liquid Gold and Imagination. All three seemed to have the time of their lives and had a ball. 

Saw them twice in the 70's. First time when Den was the bass singer (that guy was a nutter in the best possible way) 

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9 hours ago, Vinegar Tits said:

My favourite Darts song. Loved it in 1978, still love it now. That was such an amazing time in the charts - Take A Chance On Me  Figaro, Sorry I'm A Lady, Wuthering Heights, Denis, Baker Street, all within a few weeks.

 

Always interesting to see who gets the love on Twitter during the TOTP repeats - the main ones seemed to be Darts, Liquid Gold and Imagination. All three seemed to have the time of their lives and had a ball. 

 

@Vinegar Tits, that brings me good memories.
We were young and innocent then.
You know, I miss my younger sister.
We'd go down to the old record store after school.
We used to sit in the store all the time listening to Darts songs.
The owner was our uncle.
I don't feel like listening to music right now.
Since she died, it hasn't been quite the same.
I'd like to turn back the time.

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19 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Finally some media coverage for Bob Fish.

Western Telegraph report. Died on Sunday 22nd in Pembrokeshire. Cause only given as a "battle with illness".

Daily Star gets a round of applause from me for a Bob Fish obit: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/breaking-bob-fish-dead-darts-24854460

 

Anyone going to cover Fritz McIntyre? Charlie Watts' death seems to have destroyed that.

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On 09/08/2021 at 04:26, Perhaps said:

Greg Gilbert is now in hospice care. 

 

 

Going home to die?

 

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On 27/08/2021 at 15:55, YoungWillz said:

Daily Star gets a round of applause from me for a Bob Fish obit: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/breaking-bob-fish-dead-darts-24854460

 

Anyone going to cover Fritz McIntyre? Charlie Watts' death seems to have destroyed that.


Bob Fish Telegraph obit.

 

Gives cancer as cause of death. 

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5 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Bob Fish Telegraph obit.

 

Gives cancer as cause of death. 

Poor old Fritz. Nary a murmur.

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34 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Poor old Fritz. Nary a murmur.

 

You can see the punchline coming here. Apparently some papers would like to run an obit for him but thanks to the pandemic, their budgets are severely reduced. That's right....wait for it... money's too tight to mention.

 

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5 hours ago, ObakeFilter said:

Alain Croubalian (nicknamed Dead Alain, really... look it up) from the great Dark Cabaret band The Dead Brothers has passed away yesterday, as revealed in the Swiss media.

 

https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/12464619-carnet-noir-le-journaliste-alain-croubalian-est-decede.html

As in... really?!

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On 18/02/2021 at 15:45, Book said:

Still not getting over the death of Françoise Cactus of Stereo Total :(

Listen to their music today a lot and stumbled over one of my favorites: Cinémania.

The text is similar to Vogue or We didn't start the fire, a list of actors and filmmakers in this case.

Please listen and enjoy!

 

 

 

 

A nice list to cross off btw:

 

Antonioni, Mastroianni

Fellini, Pasolini

Billy Wilder, Lana Turner

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Marlene Dietrich, Ernst Lubitsch

James Dean, Charles Chaplin

François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud 

Belmondo, Brigitte Bardot

La manie du cinéma: Cinémania...

 

Marilyn Monroe, Jeanne Moreau

Robert de Niro, Mia Farrow

Woody Allen, Sophia Loren

Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ulman

Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers

Gary Cooper, Dennis Hopper

Lollobrigida, John Travolta

Peter, Henry, Jane Fonda

La manie du cinéma: Cinémania...

 

Hanna Schygulla, Anna Karina

Isabelle Huppert, Jodie Foster

Claudia Cardinale, Sergio Leone

Jerry Lewis, Tony Curtis

Fernando Rey, Simone Signoret

Alain Resnais, Maurice Ronet

Judy Garland, Gary Grant

James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart

La manie du cinéma: Cinémania...

 

Isabelle Adjani, Anna Magnani

Roman Polanski, Klaus Kinski

Alain Delon, Michel Simon

Jack Lemmon, Jack Nicholson

Julie Christie, Jacques Tati

Warren Beatty, Visconti

Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Renoir

Stéphane Audran, Trintignant ...

 

Alfred Hitchcock

 

 

 

5 of them are in my French Theme Team :D

 

Belmondo-Update.

Now there are 4 left in my French Theme Team: Polanski, Delon, Godard and Trintignant.

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On 06/09/2021 at 13:14, YoungWillz said:

Jane Birkin suffers stroke, recovering: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58463528

 

 

What's news about her getting stroked? 

 

Oh, sorry, my bad I get it having read the link :rolleyes:

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45 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Amanda Holden dead.

:(

"Died suddenly in her sleep". How does that happen? She was only 73, so unlikely to be organ failure / "old age".

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2 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

"Died suddenly in her sleep". How does that happen? She was only 73, so unlikely to be organ failure / "old age".

Sudden deaths have always happened even at younger ages. My uncle was 57 and with apparently no health issues when he died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack.

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