Be Excellent To Each Other

Jim Bowen, gone at 80.

Like the BBC does for the Queen, my tribute video was already prepared.

WARNING - Contains strong affected Northern accents.

Keep out of the Blackhole and into the red,
You get nothing in this game for 2 that are dead.

FFS

FTFY.

I nearly went Double Top, Double Top, then I realised "you don't get anything for two in a bed".

I like the idea of him telling Stephen Hawking he could have won a motorboat.

Also, there's a something-something-dead-at-eighty pun in there somewhere, but it's late.

If only he were German.

*Checks wikipedia* Damn.

Then you could make a pun, dead at eighty.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43596854

RIP Greengrass

No, it’s Selwyn Froggitt.

Ray 'Butch' Wilkins

Again, pretty young at 61

Eric Bristow.

Huh, he didn't finish on a double.

He did, however, die at the highest score possible with one dart.

Worth the wait for that.....

R. Lee Ermey, 74.

It appears he finally had a major malfunction of his own.

Dale Winton has checked out.

Bleeding Nora, didn't believe it when it wasn't on the Beeb front page (I am in Australia, which might affect what I see there), so was just ready to congratulate you on the line.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43818226

He looked very ill when I last saw him on In it to Win it. To be fair, he looked pissed.

Nice one.

I remember falling for the wedding thing back in the day.

RRP Dale Winton.

Oh,super.

Sky news reporting that Avicii is dead no other details yet.

BBC, also

The BBC is dead? Oh man.. It was just getting good as well.

Am I just getting old or am I supposed to know about 28 year old Swiss DJs?

Why not both?

Avicii is pretty famous. A lot of chart hits.

Is Top Of The Pops still a thing? Charts?

I imagine Hearthly is a keen follower of the charts.. Sitting there every Sunday waiting for them to come in, ready with a P90 to tape them to play in the car.

Spotify have that covered already on their opening page.

It’s ok Hearthly, I hadn’t heard of him either. Though, I bought perhaps my third or fourth lottery ticket ever on Wednesday based on my reckoning it was my lucky day because they were playing Cat Stevens in Morrisons whilst I was shopping.

God damnit, Avicii.

You've probably heard some of his songs on the radio at some point.

Bruno Sammartino died the other day

Unless Radcliffe & Maconie play him on Radio 6 (hint, they don't), I won't have done

I hardly ever listen to radio, just Radio 6 on catch-up at the weekend sometimes.

When I'm in the car I simply have trance on.

I have had the 'This Is Avicii' playlist on Spotify this afternoon whilst playing Burnout Paradise Remastered. He made good melodic pop music with a trancey vibe, and now he is dead.

I don't recognise any of the tracks.

His music is a great accompaniment to Burnout Paradise Remastered, and I think would be great driving music in a real car when the weather is as nice as boobs and you're like dead happy about things and that.

Until you remember he died at 28, which might take the happy edge off things a bit.

Overall I think his music is nice and I like it.

I think the kids count the number of "downloads" that "MP3s" have these days, rather than there being a proper chart as such.

Verne Troyer dead at 48

They still have a proper chart. Downloads have been part of it for about a decade, but streaming counts too now.

It's on a Friday.

Rick Dickinson

Gareth Halfacree has posted an article originally written for CPC in memoriam.

https://medium.com/@ghalfacree/an-inter ... ea60537338

My wife told me that 'One of Avicii is dead, shame as I like their music'

Bless her, thinking it was a group.

Alex Ferguson has apparently been rushed to hospital.

Brain haemorrhage.

Celebrity Still Alive List 2018.

For my entry I would like to choose Phillip Schofield.

Margot Kidder (Lois Lane from the 70s/80s Superman films)

Aged 69, no released cause of death atm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44115166

Link for Margot Kidder's death