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Ray Reardon, snooker legend
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v8-powered wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2024 12:59 pm Ray Reardon, snooker legend
I thought he was immortal.
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Rest uneasy Count Dracula.
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Duke Fakir, (88), the last surviving original member of the Four Tops.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... ilure.html
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So all the 4 tops better not reach out...
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Didge wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 11:42 pm Duke Fakir, (88), the last surviving original member of the Four Tops.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... ilure.html
Weren't the Four tops supposed to be performing in five different cities at the same time?
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John Mayall https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80ej3j9j72o
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cheb wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 6:54 am John Mayall https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80ej3j9j72o
One of the first LPs I bought was Blues from Laurel Canyon* and saw him live when he had the Turning Point line up. Amazing number of people that went on to fame and fortune were in the Blues breakers at one time or another.

* It hasn't aged well. It's a bit self-indulgent doggerel-ish. :D
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Count Steer wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:56 am
cheb wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 6:54 am John Mayall https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80ej3j9j72o
One of the first LPs I bought was Blues from Laurel Canyon* and saw him live when he had the Turning Point line up. Amazing number of people that went on to fame and fortune were in the Blues breakers at one time or another.

* It hasn't aged well. It's a bit self-indulgent doggerel-ish. :D
Do you have a tweed jack with leather elbow patches and say “nice” a lot?
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Mr Moofo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 8:08 am
Count Steer wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:56 am
cheb wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 6:54 am John Mayall https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80ej3j9j72o
One of the first LPs I bought was Blues from Laurel Canyon* and saw him live when he had the Turning Point line up. Amazing number of people that went on to fame and fortune were in the Blues breakers at one time or another.

* It hasn't aged well. It's a bit self-indulgent doggerel-ish. :D
Do you have a tweed jack with leather elbow patches and say “nice” a lot?
Of course. :thumbup:

However, I do wonder 'Can blue men sing the whites or are they hypocrites for singing bloo-woo-woos'.
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cheb wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 6:54 am John Mayall https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80ej3j9j72o
Rest easy British blues man. A key figure for decades.
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John Anderson. Now did he go on the first whistle or the second???


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Pat Collier - bassist with the Vibrators and produced or engineered a veritable who's who of UK bands/artists.

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Graham Thorpe - Surrey and England cricketer at the very early age of 55.

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mangocrazy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2024 1:55 pm Graham Thorpe - Surrey and England cricketer at the very early age of 55.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/art ... xx3435g0vo
Often overlooked when people talk of the England 'greats' but he was right up there. 55? That's really :(
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Alain Delon.

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Alain Delon chatting up Mick Jagger's squeeze, Marianne Faithfull. MJ trying hard not to notice... :D


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Sven-Goran Eriksson

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Fatman Scoop.

Who fuckin' tonight? Well, not you any more Fatman.

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Brian Trueman, writer and actor, aged 92. Wrote Danger Mouse and Count Duckula (the vegetarian vampire duck).
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