Survivors
I've just been perusing the inaugural deathlist from 1987.
Some interesting selections were made there. Obiously, you knew that Les Dawson (56) was not very well. But what was 28-year old racing driver Andrea de Cesaris doing there? He's still with us as far as I can tell. Did he have a reputation for dangerous driving or something?
Anyway, there are four other survivors that I know of:
Ozzy Osbourne
Sir Jimmy Saville
Anna Wing
Cive Dunn
18 years on, some of them still seem to have some gas in the tank.
Some interesting selections were made there. Obiously, you knew that Les Dawson (56) was not very well. But what was 28-year old racing driver Andrea de Cesaris doing there? He's still with us as far as I can tell. Did he have a reputation for dangerous driving or something?
Anyway, there are four other survivors that I know of:
Ozzy Osbourne
Sir Jimmy Saville
Anna Wing
Cive Dunn
18 years on, some of them still seem to have some gas in the tank.
The DL Committee released the following statement in 1994 after it was reported that the current year's list included someone already dead.
(With apologies to Kim Carnes)
"Her head's a hollow globe
Her lips have long since dried
Her hands are frozen cold
Who knew Bette Davis died?
The funeral music's stopped now
We didn't check our facts twice
Dead as a New York Doll
Who knew Bette Davis died?
So you tease us
It don't please us
The Committee's gone to pieces
Twas reported, rigor mortis
But our experts didn't notice
So now we give a shrug and sigh
Who knew Bette Davis died?"
