Death happens. Why not make it interesting?
The online competition to guess which famous people won't make it to the end of the current year. If they're elderly, ill, or just live a high-risk lifestyle, stick 'em in your team, and for each one whose death you correctly predict, you'll score points. DDP was dreamt up in Derby, England (hence the name...) by Big Iain back in 1996. Other hosts: Siegfried Baboon and Rude Kid (2003-7), Octopus of Odstock (2008-9), The Man in Black (2010-17), Spade Cooley (2018-19), msc (2020-21), Grim Up North (2020-22), and Reptile (2020-23). Now the Committee of DI (2022), time (2024), and Banana (2023) oversee the biggest deadpool going...
BIG SIX LEWIS DEEP-SIXED John Lewis was the last of the great civil rights leaders of the 1960s who worked with Martin Luther King to push non-violent disobedience. As a student, Lewis became one of the Big Six civil rights leaders who led the March on Washington in 1963. He lead the 1965 march for […]
EARL NOW NEVERWHERE Earl Cameron has lost his final battle with life, shortly before his 103rd birthday.Born in Bermuda, Cameron worked in the British Merchant Navy before winding up in London in 1939. Due to race relations at the time, he struggled to find work and had to take on any odd job that was […]
Bit of light listening for the mood… The Good: ECSTASY OF DEATH The Bad: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE MORGUE And the Ugly: THE GOOD, THE DEAD AND THE UGLY. Alongside John Williams, Ennio Morricone was the stand out name in film music of the 20th Century. He became known worldwide after his […]
SCOTCH AND DIE Glasgow comic Johnny Beattie has died after a short time in a local hospice. He worked on the Govan shipyards before moving into comedy after the Second World War. His 1960s sketch show, Johnny Beattie’s Saturday Night Show, was a trailblazer for Scottish comedy, and directly led to the creation of Rikki […]
BIG LAD REAPER UP FRONT SCORES WITH CHARLTON Jack Charlton, the man voted by the Irish as the greatest Englishman of all time, has died at the age of 85. Older brother to Bobby Charlton, and part of the Leeds United team that won multiple trophies in the Don Revie era, Jack Charlton was immortalised […]
CARNIVAL IS OVER Original Fairport Convention singer Judy Dyble has died after a short battle with cancer. Dyble’s run in Fairport Convention did not last long but her role in music lore lasted, including tales such as her quietly knitting in the front row while Richard Thompson and Jimi Hendrix jammed together on stage. In […]
ANOTHER DDP WHITEWASH The CV of Lord Hutton, who has died, can be summed up in two parts: his role in Northern Ireland, and his impact on the BBC. The Irish lawyer has appointed to the judicial bench in 1979, and became the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland in 1988. Despite being a rather […]
WHERE DID YOU GO TO, MY LOVELY? Zizi Jeanmaire has died aged 96. She was a dancer, whom people who talked like Marlene Dietrich danced like. Their clothes were all made by Balmain too. Sadly, the well respected social historian Peter Sarstedt left us with that information alone. Aside from a mention in the most […]
MOROUNIC PICK? NO, UNIQUE! Sir Creep’s Cancel My Appointments team has been rather underwhelming this year (they currently sit outside the top 100) so here is some rare 2020 cheer for him, a unique hit on his theme team, Made in Detroit. Manuel Moroun owned the Ambassador Bridge, the only private bridge between the US […]
MILOS JAKES IT IN Milos Jakes, a name most of you thought died 20 years ago, has died. Jakes was the last Communist leader of Czechoslovakia from 1987 until he was deposed in the 1989 Velvet Revolution. His rise up the Communist party was aided by his hearty support of enemy purges, especially after […]
