Golden Slumbers ended David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals’s 4-year reign as champion with a new points record, helped in part by the new Drop 40 bonus. The pivotal hits to Golden Slumbers’s eventual victory happened in August, and were diametrically opposite in their fame levels – ALS-stricken tennis player Jerome Golmard and Bruce Forsyth!
DDP 2017 – Teams: 543 Hits: 254
2017 Archive Links
Those picked who didn’t get obituaries
Those picked in years gone past that weren’t picked in 2017…
The Man In Black’s final year as host was another vintage one for the obit writers. Deaths included Lord Snowden, Mary Tyler Moore, John Hurt, Alan Simpson, Gerald Kaufman, Chuck Berry, Colin Dexter, Martin McGuinness, Ian Brady, Roger Moore, Gregg Allman, John Noakes, Manuel Noriega, Peter Sallis, Adam West, Helmut Kohl, Brian Cant, Michael Bond, Martin Landau, Hywell Bennett, Robert Hardy, Glen Campbell, Bruce Forsyth, Jerry Lewis, Holger Czukay, Peter Hall, Harry Dean Stanton, Jake Lamotta, Tony Booth, Liz Dawn, Hugh Hefner, Fats Domino, Charles Manson, Rodney Bewes, David Cassidy, Christine Keeler, Johnny Hallyday and Keith Chegwin.