Sergeant Wilson Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 11 hours ago, peasy23 said: Scottish guitarist Ian Bairnson, member of bands such as Pilot and the Alan Parsons Project, dies aged 69. https://metro.co.uk/2023/04/08/kate-bushs-guitarist-ian-bairnson-dies-aged-69-18579335/ Pilot error? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted April 9, 2023 Author Share Posted April 9, 2023 Week 14 update Two deaths this week. Up first, Japanese musician Ryuchi Sakamoto: Ryuichi Sakamoto obituary | Music | The Guardian Quote The musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who has died aged 71 of cancer, spent his life as a restless traveller, both personally and musically. “I was born in Japan but I don’t think I’m Japanese,” he said in 1988, two years before he moved to New York. “To be a stranger – I like that attitude. I don’t like nationalities and borders.” A founder member of Tokyo’s pioneering computer-pop trio Yellow Magic Orchestra, whose work between 1978 and 1984 has proved a lasting influence on hip-hop and electronica, Sakamoto was able to combine his skills as an academically trained musician with an aptitude for electronic music and an ear for countless musical styles. He sustained a lengthy partnership with the British musician David Sylvian after first working with his band Japan on the track Taking Islands in Africa from the album Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980), following which the duo collaborated on the double A-side Bamboo Houses/Bamboo Music (1982). In 1983, Sakamoto achieved a peak of commercial visibility by not only writing the soundtrack for Nagisa Oshima’s film Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, but also co-starring in it (as Captain Yonoi) with David Bowie. The soundtrack, which won him a Bafta for best film music, contained the Sakamoto/Sylvian composition Forbidden Colours, a vocal version of the film’s main theme, which was a Top 20 hit in Britain. I was reading about Sakamoto after he died and I haven't knowingly heard of any of these films or music. After looking up Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence I'm still getting nothing. Here's what his name means to me. Sakamoto died at 71, so he's worth 54 Base Points for @Aim Here, @Donathan, @JustOneCornetto and @Savage Henry. =============== Second death this week was former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson: Nigel Lawson obituary | Politics past | The Guardian Quote He had joined the government as financial secretary to the Treasury when Thatcher formed her first government in 1979 and had already made his mark in that post by abolishing exchange control, doubling VAT and introducing the Medium Term Financial Strategy. As a radical tax-reforming chancellor in pursuit of monetarist policies alongside a massive programme of privatisation and deregulation that helped emasculate the trade union movement, he won praise but not popularity, respect but not regard, from his Conservative colleagues. It mattered little to him. His fierce intellectual approach to all aspects of policy meant that he always gave a higher priority to achieving his aims than to what others thought. His indifference to opposing points of view was often interpreted as arrogance, but in reality his personal convictions were such that he was simply not prepared to submit himself to what he saw as the indignities his fellow politicians endured in pursuit of public approbation. “A popular chancellor is not doing his job,” he said once. He believed that a politician who was confident enough to be able to face a barrage of hostility was someone who could make things happen. Let's see: Thatcher's chancellor Leave voter "His main interest, however, was a campaign to counter the case for global heating. He set up a thinktank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, designed to challenge international attempts to mitigate the impacts of global heating. Lawson claimed that economic growth should not be slowed down to prevent a possible eventuality, but that policy should be made pragmatically in response to what had already happened." Called his daughter "Nigella" Hmm. Lawson died at 91 so he's worth 34 Base Points for @HTG, @Oystercatcher and @tamthebam. As a result of these, the standings look like this: 1. JustOneCornetto 309 2. The Naitch 208 3. Arbroathlegend36-0 198 4. buddiepaul 194 5. LoonsYouthTeam 187 6. psv_killie 185 7. peasy23 165 8. The DA 153 9. Desp, Ned Nederlander 151 11. Karpaty Lviv 145 12. Sweaty Morph 140 13. get_the_subbies_on 138 14. Arabdownunder, Bully Wee Villa, cdhafc1874, D.V.T., Frosty, HK Hibee, Mark Connolly, microdave, qos_75, throbber, weirdcal 134 25. Donathan 121 26. tamthebam 111 27. Arch Stanton, Ludo*1, mozam76 101 30. Aim Here 97 31. Miguel Sanchez 87 32. George Cowley, Billy Jean King, Indale Winton, sparky88 84 36. ICTJohnboy 69 37. paulathame 68 38. atfccfc, chomp my root, DG.Roma, Fuctifano, gkneil, HI HAT, lichtgilphead, Lofarl, lolls, Michael W, pub car king, The_Craig, thistledo 67 51. Oystercatcher 65 52. sleazy 55 53. Savage Henry 54 54. HTG 34 55. Bodie, Melanius Mullarkay, Suspect Device 32 58. amnarab, choirbairn, Derry Alli, expatowner, stanton 31 63. Everyone else 0 The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RxCIfczRUmrRrW79tUQ0vJ5KaHZpYENsTKmDqW4X3W4/edit?usp=sharing 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Champion form from the boy Cornetto. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 No point sending an SOS as ABBA guitarist Lasse Wellander meets his Waterloo. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11955373/ABBAs-long-term-guitarist-Lasse-Wellander-dead-age-70.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 I died, I died, I died, I died, I died, I died. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Edinburgh-based musician Bob Heatlie senior has passed away - wrote number one hits for Shakin' Stevens and Aneka. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 On 09/04/2023 at 12:29, Bold Rover said: Champion form from the boy Cornetto. He's the Man. City of Deadpool. The cvnt. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim Here Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Freddie Scappaticci, onetime hunter and killer of British agents inside the IRA, as well as allegedly being a British agent himself, has died and been secretly buried at an unknown location. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 Mary Quant. Presumably had a mini stroke. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 41 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Mary Quant. Presumably had a mini stroke. Her pants will certainly be getting much hotter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 49 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Mary Quant. Presumably had a mini stroke. Haven't we all ? https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023/apr/13/fashion-designer-dame-mary-quant-dies 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 Jamie Foxx hospitalised. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 Irish rally driver Craig Breen killed in a crash during testing. https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/hyundai-wrc-driver-craig-breen-dies-in-testing-crash/10455822/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 7 minutes ago, peasy23 said: Irish rally driver Craig Breen killed in a crash during testing. https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/hyundai-wrc-driver-craig-breen-dies-in-testing-crash/10455822/ I'm sure family and friends will rally round the widow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyAnchor Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 50 minutes ago, peasy23 said: Irish rally driver Craig Breen killed in a crash during testing. https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/hyundai-wrc-driver-craig-breen-dies-in-testing-crash/10455822/ It's lights out and away he goes. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 Judith Miller from the Antiques Roadshow becomes a historical artefact at 71 https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/13/antiques-roadshow-expert-judith-miller-dies-aged-71 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 35 minutes ago, carpetmonster said: Judith Miller from the Antiques Roadshow becomes a historical artefact at 71 https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/13/antiques-roadshow-expert-judith-miller-dies-aged-71 Failed to meet her reserve. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 Basic, better, dead. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 3 hours ago, peasy23 said: Irish rally driver Craig Breen killed in a crash during testing. https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/hyundai-wrc-driver-craig-breen-dies-in-testing-crash/10455822/ Woo ! Spoiler alert. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 Willie Callaghan who played for several clubs including Partick Thistle, Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath and Livingston has died aged 56. His father, also Willie, a Pars legend, is still alive, condolences to the family 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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