Re: Celebrity Death List MMXXII/The Death Thread 2022

[skully]

Mick Fleetwood summed up her greatness by revealing he has requested Christine McVie's "Songbird" be played at his funeral. He said it was the only choice.

[lardbucket]

A great. Only 1-2 degrees of separation from the Beach Boys (via Dennis), Clapton (via husband John and his stint with the Bluesbreakers), the Beatles (via Mick, who was married to sometime Harrison and Clapton wife Patti Boyd’s older sister Jenny), and a host of other British Blues luminaries via that enduring vehicle Chicken Shack. What a legend.

[JGK]

Mick Fleetwood summed up her greatness by revealing he has requested Christine McVie's "Songbird" be played at his funeral. He said it was the only choice.

I remember playing that for Lardy when we drove from Launceston to Hobart back in 2016. It wasn't his funeral though.

[skully]

Zimmy would say "that's hella gay".

[lardbucket]

I only remember the food.

[horace]

Kirstie Alley from cancer aged 71. RIP

[Fred Nerk]

RIP Kirstie
Also RIP Nick, last name starts with B, Italian, tennis coach of many including Boris Becker, legend, aged 91

[skully]

RIP Kirstie.

[lardbucket]

Bob McGrath (Sesame Street) has gone, too, almost unnoticed a few days ago.

I nominated him some years ago, not this year, so his demise this year is not my fault. He made 90.

[skully]

Cheers Mr bucket. Updated.

All time Noms list in spoiler tags for space reasons...

Spoiler:

[skully]

3½ weeks to go. Need some oxygen thieves to kick off.

Luis Echerverria politics DEADED
Molly Meldrum
Neale Daniher
Ron Barassi sport
Barbara Eden
Denzil Curry Under 30

Francisco Morales-Bermúdez – ex-Peru President DEADED
Shannen Doherty – actress
Tom Smith – ex-Scottish Rugby loosehead prop DEADED
Simon Barney - reality TV star
Eva Marie Saint – very old ex-actress
Machine Gun Kelly – rapper (U30)

Ian Sinclair (pols)
Max Verstappen (U30)
Bruce Devlin (sport)
Ray Lawler
Red Symons
Joan Baez

Colin Minson DEADED
Jim Maxwell
Elijah Taylor
Christian Porter
Clint Eastwood
Christina Matthews

Boris Johnson
Del Bigtree (US anti vaccine nutter)
Alicia Silverstone
Jessica Biel
The Kid Laroi (U/30's)
Novak Djokovic

Gary Player (sport)
John Stone (former Nationals Senate leader)
Buzz Aldrin
Mel Brooks
Tom Baker
Pooh Shiesty (u30 rapper)

Mikhail Gorbachev (politics) DEADED
John Augustine Snow (sport)
Lil Nas X (under 30)
Martin Scorsese
Ita Buttrose
Clive Palmer

Phil Collins
Bob Barber
Silvio Berlusconi
Baker Boi
Alan Turner
Rohan Kanhai

[lardbucket]

Once again I have failed to knock anyone off. My noms have an excellent survival record, at least for the year they are nominated!

[lardbucket]

A few days ago now, and not announced prominently that I have noted:

George ‘Johnnie’ Johnson, the last Dambuster, ages 101. The last of the Operation Chastise legends. Les Munro, the last surviving pilot, died in NZ a couple of years ago ... Johnson was the last surviving crew member.

19 aircraft in the mission,, each with 7 crew. Eight aircraft did not return - 53 crewmen gone and three became POW in one night. Of the 77 crew that returned from that operation another twenty were gone within weeks and only a very few survived the war.

RIIP Johnny.

Growler, I hope you see this.

[lardbucket]

Here!s an article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-63899393.amp

[Blackadder]

Once again I have failed to knock anyone off. My noms have an excellent survival record, at least for the year they are nominated!

Ditto , it's like it gives them immortality.

[lardbucket]

D’arry

https://www.victorharbortimes.com.au/story/8023407/vale-francis-darenberg-osborn/

[Fred Nerk]

RIP Terry Hall (The Specials)
Hopefully Rudy got the message....

[lardbucket]

Stanley Drucker, principal clarinet for the New York Philharmonic Orchestrs 1948-2009 (61 years; you read that right) and father of Leon, better known as Lee Rocker, bassist for The Stray Cats.

[WideWally]

RIP Franco Harris

https://apnews.com/article/pittsburgh-steelers-nfl-college-football-sports-efc7c3e417ad04594ae32a3fbc0a693a

Career history

   Pittsburgh Steelers (1972–1983)
   Seattle Seahawks (1984)

Career highlights and awards

   4× Super Bowl champion (IX, X, XIII, XIV)
   Super Bowl MVP (IX)
   NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year (1972)
   NFL Man of the Year (1976)
   First-team All-Pro (1977)
   2× Second-team All-Pro (1972, 1975)
   9× Pro Bowl (1972–1980)
   NFL rushing touchdowns leader (1976)
   NFL 1970s All-Decade Team
   Pittsburgh Steelers All-Time Team
   Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Honor
   Pittsburgh Steelers No.32 retired
   Pittsburgh Pro Football Hall of Fame

Career NFL statistics
Rushing yards:
12,120
Yards per carry:
4.1
Rushing touchdowns:
91
Receptions:
307
Receiving yards:
2,287
Receiving touchdowns:
9



The Steelers won the first Superbowl that I watched, although I'm not sure which one it was, probably their second one.

[JGK]

Harris was also in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

[horace]

Reports overnight that Barry Round has passed away at 72. An absolute champion footy player and an even better person.

Barry was the role model of a clubman can be.

His passing will cut deep for many folk.

RIP.

[horace]

Reports overnight that Barry Round has passed away at 72. An absolute champion footy player and an even better person.

Barry was the role model of a clubman can be.

His passing will cut deep for many folk.

RIP.

Barry is still with us, tho in Pall Care.

Forgive me for being misled by some buffoon on social media

[Red]

According to The Age Barry Round has passed away.

RIP.


Brownlow winner and former Swan Barry Round dies
Jake Niall
ByJake Niall
December 24, 2022 — 12.03pm
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Barry Round, the 1981 Brownlow medallist and one of the foremost figures in the reinvention of South Melbourne as the Sydney Swans, has died.

Round died on the Gold Coast, where he had been living, having entered palliative care recently. He was 72.

Round, who began his league football career at Footscray (now the Western Bulldogs) and was traded to South Melbourne, was captain of the Swans when they moved to the harbour city in 1982. As skipper in that tumultuous period, it is arguable that the move to Sydney - transformational for the code of Australian rules football and in the creation of a national competition - might not have eventuated if not for Round’s leadership.

Popular Sydney Swans figure Barry Round.
Popular Sydney Swans figure Barry Round.CREDIT:ARCHIVES

Round was the Swans’ first captain in the Sydney era, leading the team from 1980 until 1984. A broad-shouldered and gallant ruckman, he won the Brownlow Medal in 1981 - shared with former Footscray teammate Bernie Quinlan - and played 328 games, 193 of them in red and white, in a career spanning 17 years in what was then the VFL.

Recruited from Warragul in Gippsland, Round played his first 135 games for Footscray, crossing to South Melbourne before the 1976 season, one of three Bulldogs who would win Brownlow medals at their second club from that period of the ’70s to early ’80s (Quinlan and Melbourne’s Brian Wilson were the others); in that period, the impecunious Bulldogs often offloaded valuable players - selling Brownlow medallists Quinlan, Round, Dempsey and Kelvin Templeton - to improve their fragile finances.

Round had been behind champion Dempsey (the 1975 Brownlow medallist) at the Bulldogs in the ruck pecking order at Whitten Oval, thus the move to the Swans enabled him to flourish in his natural role.

Round was a powerful, physically imposing durable ruckman, who was a superb mark and possessed a huge aerobic engine.

Despite an ungainly, if distinctive kicking action, he still booted 293 goals over his league football career. He went on to captain and coach Williamstown in the VFA for several years, winning premierships with the Seagulls in 1986 and 1990 and was named in Williamstown’s team of the century.

As an original Sydney Swan, Round was a highly recognised and popular player, his profile bolstered enormously by the fact that those SCG Sunday games were televised live back into Victoria in those formative years, when the footy public came to know the Swans as a cast of colourful characters via television.

As skipper, Round had backed South’s highly contentious and fiercely contested shift from the Lakeside Oval to the hitherto heathen territory of Sydney. Key Swans insiders reckon that the players might not have followed en masse if not for their skipper and his vice-captain Mark Browning’s endorsement of the move, bearing in mind that Round had the stature of reigning Brownlow winner when the club relocated.

Round and the club’s foremost old South champion, Bobby Skilton, famously ran on to the MCG when the Swans prevailed over West Coast in the 2005 grand final, breaking a 72-year drought for a club that had reclaimed its Lakeside past as “the Bloods.” He remained a devoted supporter of the Swans, attending this year’s grand final.

[lardbucket]

RIP legend.

[Fred Nerk]

RIP a genuine 'good bloke' and a dedicated, hard-working footballer with outstanding nouse and rat-cunning, almost the cartoon of the footballer who today's recruiting gurus wouldn't even look at the barge-pole for (and he was nowhere near as slow or unco-ordinated as he looked either).
His QB round game v Fitzpatrick and Percy Jones in 1979 stands out - thrashing the Carlton pair single handed while barely leaving the ground, putting his not inconsiderable backside to good use (the man was not called Round for nothing) and drawing Lou' Rs only Sunscore perfect 10 in the time-span of the competition.

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