Death List 2018

[Ferris]

Bob Dylan
Brigitte Bardot
The Queen
John Cooper Clark
Jimmy Carter
Danny Glover
Gary Glitter
Keith Richards
Ray Davies
Richard O'Brien

[JoeyBananaduck]

I genuinely thought John Cooper Clarke had died early last year. No idea why I thought so. Found out otherwise when my wife was looking at gig listings. 'Oh, John Cooper Clarke's on tour'. More fool me. Unless he actually is dead, in which case parading his lifeless shell around in such a grotesque fashion seems a very tasteless carry on.

[BlodwynPig]

In the absence of a handy spreadsheet, and despite my insistence that no-one should die this year, here are my ten.

Ruth Madoc

I wasn't going to do this so was just going to post one name...and the name that flashed in my head was this...but she looks in fine fettle.

[Ferris]

I genuinely thought John Cooper Clarke had died early last year. No idea why I thought so. Found out otherwise when my wife was looking at gig listings. 'Oh, John Cooper Clarke's on tour'. More fool me. Unless he actually is dead, in which case parading his lifeless shell around in such a grotesque fashion seems a very tasteless carry on.

I did no research, some may well be brown bread already.

[Sherringford Hovis]

And now Ursula le Guin has gone.  It's as if 2018 wants to beat 2016 but doesn't know quite how.

Fuck. George Orr is about the only fictional human I've ever closely identified with.

My 2018 list:
The fat bloke that wheezes at passers-by from the bench outside the ironmongers
Roy
Ivor
Maureen

I haven't heard of many of the people other CaBbers have listed, so I've gone with neighbours instead.

[Cerys]

Not Roy!  Roy can't die yet!

[SteveDave]

David Crosby
Marianne Faithfull
The Queen
Prince Phillip
Brian Wilson
Daniel Johnston
Little Richard
Stan Lee
Kirk Douglas
Mark E Smith

DS...hopefully

Get in-ah!

[JoeyBananaduck]

Show some respect. R-I-I-R-I-I-R-I-I-P-ah!

[gmoney]

Nicholas Soames
Ric Flair
Superstar Billy Graham
Lady Gaga
Ian Rankin
Doug Stanhope
Simon Donald
Katie Hopkins
Prunella Scales
Timothy West

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Who else thinks Ken Dodd's on the way out and that reassuring message to the press was PR bollocks by his agent?

[SteveDave]

Show some respect. R-I-I-R-I-I-R-I-I-P-ah!

I've got more Simply Red than Fall songs on my iPod. When Mick goes I'll be in bits.

[JoeyBananaduck]

Who else thinks Ken Dodd's on the way out and that reassuring message to the press was PR bollocks by his agent?

I saw him about a year ago in York. He did about 3.5 hours but had a terrible cough. Didn't look long for this world, so yeah. I'll be a bit sad when he goes - Tears For Souvenirs was my grandma's favourite song. She died when I was 16 so it's pretty weird that I got to see him so many years later singing it. Bit of a last link.

I've got more Simply Red than Fall songs on my iPod. When Mick goes I'll be in bits.

Simply Dead. Something Got Me Finished. The Air That I Don't Breathe. Holding Back The Hearse. Not very good.

[thecuriousorange]

I think everybody had Mark E Smith and the points till is ring dinging like a fire alarm.

[Cerys]

I didn't.

[pigamus]

Clive James is a bit better and writing again for the Guardian, thank God. Though now I've jinxed him he'll be dead by Tuesday.

[thecuriousorange]

Ken Dodd might not be long for this world.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/sir-ken-dodd-invites-echo-14202608

[Kane Jones]

Ken was visibly upset and angry about the fake report, and said of those responsible: "They are horrible monsters. I don't think they are human beings. I think they are evil. But I think they will get theirs. I can tell you now, there is a God and he will punish them."

Aww, the hopeless naïvety of someone at death's door.

[Jockice]

Ken Dodd might not be long for this world.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/sir-ken-dodd-invites-echo-14202608

The bloke who wrote that is a mate of mine. Just thought you'd like to know.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

On the Daily Mail article in which Dodd lambasts the rumourmongers, the comment below was left.

scockney rebel, London, United Kingdom, 10 hours ago

Ken Dodd - lovely fella. However, my Dad worked for the council in Liverpool. Ken Dodd's brother worked on the bin lorries, and apparently was a right miserable g1t. Happiness obviously not an encompassing emotion in the Dodd family...



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Quite a few readers have clicked on the red arrow in the bottom corner of the comment to indicate disagreement or disapproval.  Don't know why.  I'd be miserable if I had to spend my life emptying bins, especially if I had a successful, famous, lauded and wealthy brother to envy into the bargain.

[JoeyBananaduck]

You forgot handsome!

[Nowhere Man]

Don't know if entry's are still being considered but here's my list anyway:

Kirk Douglas
Prince Phillip
Ken Dodd
Robert Wagner
Betty White
Yoko Ono
Jimmy Carter
Vera Lynn
Stan Lee
June Brown

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Don't know if entry's are still being considered but here's my list anyway:

Kirk Douglas
Prince Phillip
Ken Dodd
......

I hope Doddy recovers from his current illness long enough to do his April 22 show in Nottingham, as I've booked for that and never seen him live before.  Be cool to say you'd seen one of the last-ever shows of a giant of showbiz.

[hamfist]

Bella Emberg and Hannah Hauxwell this year - my wank bank is depleting fast :-(

[Cerys]

Is it too late to add Katie Hopkins?  Because Katie Hopkins.

[koeman]

I hope Doddy recovers from his current illness long enough to do his April 22 show in Nottingham, as I've booked for that and never seen him live before.  Be cool to say you'd seen one of the last-ever shows of a giant of showbiz.

So ideally you'd like him to recover, perform, and then die soon after?

[BlodwynPig]

You want him to die on stage?

[zomgmouse]

Tommy Cooper 2.0

[shiftwork2]

So ideally you'd like him to recover, perform, and then die soon after?

I laughed.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

You want him to die on stage?

I'd be quite exciting, though not till I'd got my money's worth of the show.  Missed Tommy Cooper's live demise, though seen it on YouTube.  It's how Ken would want to go.

[JoeyBananaduck]

I'd be quite exciting, though not till I'd got my money's worth of the show.  Missed Tommy Cooper's live demise, though seen it on YouTube.  It's how Ken would want to go.

Flailing around clutching his chest with one arm up Dicky Mint and a Tickling Stick in the other?