Derby Dead Pool 2017

[YoungWillz 21,049]

2 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Can't seem to find it now but British singer Johnny Brandon apparently passed away earlier this year in New York (his adopted home). Saw it mentioned on Facebook or Twitter somewhere. Anyway, the deets were so precise that I have no reason to doubt it, plus he was very old. He had a top 10 hit in the UK Charts. Just seems to have faded into absolute obscurity. Not sure if he was ever a DDP pick but another good example of the Obituary press not picking up on someone who is relevant and should be covered.

I'd be utterly astonished if this was missed by usual sources.

 

Anything more concrete?

[Spade_Cooley 9,528]

This is apparently the service programme from his funeral at St George's Episcopal Church, Manhattan, on July 30th:

 

 

Unfortunately it was deleted from Wikipedia on copyright grounds so we only have this thumbnail.

[Toast 16,140]

4 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Unfortunately it was deleted from Wikipedia on copyright grounds so we only have this thumbnail.

 

I wonder if anyone bothered to ask for permission to reproduce it.   People tend to be over-anxious about copyright.  Often asking politely and including the appropriate credit is all that's required.

[Ulitzer95 12,623]

So I guess his real name was Johnny Brandon?

 

Also, didn't know he was gay. 

 

Telegraph, Times, Guardian etc have certainly got a big miss with this one.

 

Was he ever picked on the DDP? Not to my memory.

[YoungWillz 21,049]

Someone on Wiki is persistent about Johnny Brandon - they've put in his death unsourced again.

[Deathray 2,940]

On 04/09/2017 at 20:46, DevonDeathTrip said:

 

The one and only time I've emailed to request an obit was to the Guardian in 2010 when I told them it was unfair Stella Nova nee Steve New - a unique pick for me on the DDP - hadn't had a write-up.  I obviously wasn't very subtle as  I got an email back minutes later basically asking me if I had a deadpool team called The Living End and I was so disturbed at being outed that I've never done it again. That said,  New/Nova did get his/her obituary in the end, but I couldn't honestly claim it had anything to do with me.  

 

As for Cameron-Blackie, I can't see her getting an obit now, which means my run of unique picks could be coming to an end 

 

Does mean someone at the Guardian is probably reading this forum! If you're hear you still owe Lukas Amman and Skip Homeier an obit.

[Joey Russ 7,228]

Just now, Deathray said:

 

Does mean someone at the Guardian is probably reading this forum! If you're hear you still owe Lukas Amman and Skip Homeier an obit.

They don't owe him one...

[themaninblack 2,112]

August roundup...

[YoungWillz 21,049]

Round Up #22 (Hurricane Irma - It's An Ill Wind Special)

 

Shelley Berman: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/7820-comics-comedy-writers/?do=findComment&comment=322229

Daily Mail Obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4844446/Shelley-Berman-comedian-bard-everyday-life-dies-92.html (Carried Over)

 

John Ashbery: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/3723-dead-poets-society/?do=findComment&comment=322458

Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/03/poet-john-ashbery-dies-age-90 (Carried Over)

 

Holger Czukay: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8270-stairway-to-heaven-highway-to-hell/?do=findComment&comment=322631

Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/06/holger-czukay-bassist-with-can-dies-aged-79 (Carried Over)

 

Nicolaas Bloembergen: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/6349-nobel-prize-in-death/?do=findComment&comment=322684

Awaiting Obit. (Carried Over)

 

Connie Johnson: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8709-only-famous-for-being-ill-and-dying/?do=findComment&comment=322822 (BBC Obit In Link)

 

Abdul Halim of Kedah: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8312-pensionable-presidents-and-other-leaders/?do=findComment&comment=323169

Awaiting Obit.

 

Rene Laurentin: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8282-dying-bigots/?do=findComment&comment=323197

Awaiting Obit.

 

Peter Hall: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/9034-the-dead-of-2017/?do=findComment&comment=323243 (BBC Obit In Link)

 

Jessi Zazu Wariner: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/9034-the-dead-of-2017/?do=findComment&comment=323326

Telegraph Obit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/jessi-zazuthose-darlins-frontwoman-dies-cancer-28/

 

JP Donleavy: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/857-authors-last-a-long-time-but/?do=findComment&comment=323415

Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/14/jp-donleavy-obituary

 

Ata Kando: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8049-photographers/?do=findComment&comment=323514

Awaiting Obit.

 

Harry Dean Stanton: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8369-harry-dean-stanton/?do=findComment&comment=323540

BBC Obit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41288546

 

Violet Brown: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/145-worlds-oldest/?do=findComment&comment=323557 (Mirror Obit In Link)

 

Nabeel Qureshi: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/857-authors-last-a-long-time-but/?do=findComment&comment=323637

Awaiting Obit.

 

Penny Chenery: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/560-horse-racing/?do=findComment&comment=323701

Daly Mail Obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4893264/Penny-Chenery-owner-Triple-Crown-champ-Secretariat-dies.html

 

Bobby Heenan: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/677-wrestlersactors/?do=findComment&comment=323731 (Daily Star Obit In Link)

 

[drol 11,947]

Wrong thread.

[YoungWillz 21,049]

27 minutes ago, drol said:

French theologian and DDP pick René Laurentin has died aged 99.

You want to do the Round Ups now? BMG.

[drol 11,947]

Just now, YoungWillz said:

You want to do the Round Ups now? BMG.

No. Just did not find a suitable thread and reported it here. I also reported in Dying bigots later, but I think the interest about him is about being picked for the DDP,  otherwise his death would have gone unreported on this site, so I posted it here. Don't want to steal your job.

[YoungWillz 21,049]

15 minutes ago, drol said:

No. Just did not find a suitable thread and reported it here. I also reported in Dying bigots later, but I think the interest about him is about being picked for the DDP,  otherwise his death would have gone unreported on this site, so I posted it here. Don't want to steal your job.

Ain't my job. Voluntary.

 

Reason I started doing it was because some deaths were being missed and having to be caught up on, even though they had been reported.

 

Death reports imo go in the main forum, not here (unless the person has been quoted elsewhere, like extra-curricular, had to do that a couple of times myself). There is always a suitable thread - Dead of 2017 for this year. List of the Missed can go here after being reported in main forum, preferable since I don't cover those.

 

If someone does want to take this task on, I'm more than content to give it up. I do ask myself what the point is sometimes, every time a death gets reported here...

 

Anyway, tis just a peeve, no problems, blah blah blah..

[Joey Russ 7,228]

I don't understand how a little known musician worldwide is able to get a telegraph obit but the second longest living ruler doesn't. That stuns me.

[Toast 16,140]

3 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

I don't understand how a little known musician worldwide is able to get a telegraph obit but the second longest living ruler doesn't. That stuns me.

 

Seven teams picked her for the DDP.  Do we know who they all are? 

[CastAway 488]

6 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

I don't understand how a little known musician worldwide is able to get a telegraph obit but the second longest living ruler doesn't. That stuns me.

There's also a Nobel prize winner waiting for an obit, and I'm pretty sure there was one previously in the year who never got one. (NYT and WashPo have carried obits for both of them, but it obviously doesn't count)

[msc 18,476]

10 hours ago, Toast said:

 

Seven teams picked her for the DDP.  Do we know who they all are? 

 

A helpful soul mentioned her plight right before Christmas on this forum. Might have put her on some shortlists, like the Telegraph obit team. It's happened before, pretty sure.

[drol 11,947]

I'm eating my liver right now.

[gcreptile 10,972]

17 hours ago, Toast said:

 

Seven teams picked her for the DDP.  Do we know who they all are? 

Of those seven, there's only one team whose hits all have Telegraph obits, The Deadest of the Dead. However, Jessi Zazu is only their third hit.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Waiting for Qureshi....  ** taps fingers on desk **

[msc 18,476]

Saw Patrick Cryne in the crowd during Channel 5's not very good Goal Rush show. Looked like another 3 and a bit months is completely beyond him, tbh. Could wind up the pivotal hit this year.

[the_engineer 1,415]

I'm up so high to the heady heights of joint 41st that I'm starting to get a nose bleed though that could also mean I have some horrific disease or injury.

[themaninblack 2,112]

Latest update.

 

I've been preparing stuff for my successor, using my update for my guide hence the delay...

[Joey Russ 7,228]

We all missed Cecelia Gaudette getting an obit mention. Goes to show that it's not always the people on the deathlist forums who find a mention for a pick. 

[YoungWillz 21,049]

2 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

We all missed Cecelia Gaudette getting an obit mention. Goes to show that it's not always the people on the deathlist forums who find a mention for a pick. 

I tend to go through the Lost List every three months, for fun...just in case...