h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Any non-Brits who aren't familiar with Chas and Dave, the cockney pub singers, here's a link to what I think was their best song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDoQTyYWzM

And if anyone can understand any of this, I'll be amazed

Oh, and if you ever plan to visit London, this is the way you're expected to communicate.

Rainbow presenter Geoffrey Hayes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45706667

Never picked in this game, surprisingly.

I heard this on the news yesterday but can't find it anywhere on the bbc. Here is a report from the Italian Gazetto dello sport (in English)

http://www.gazzetta.it/Sport-Vari/Boxe/02-10-2018/boxe-morto-rocky-rocchigiani-investito-un-auto-300345657748.shtml


(Hmmm the link seems to have reverted to Italian but you can get the English version by changing the language in a bar at the bottom of the screen.)

Sorry - didn't say who it was. Rocchigiani Graciano. Big name in boxing.

Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe, who dueted with Freddie Mercury on the song Barcelona, has died. She was 85.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-06/montserrat-caballe-spanish-opera-singer-dies/10346864

A glorious voice .....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxZSP1Dc78Q&start_radio=1&list=RDEMmtBl_SVD1p4H1o6oL32ClQ

A few we missed in October:

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Ray Galton, creator (with Alan Simpson) of sitcoms like Steptoe & Son and Hancock's Half Hour:

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/oct/07/ray-galton-obituary

He was picked once in this game - by me in 2009.

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Pik Botha, Apartheid-era South African foreign minister:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/12/pik-botha-obituary-south-africa

Never picked in this game.

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Tony Joe White, rhythm & blues guitarist and songwriter:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/28/tony-joe-white-obituary

Never picked in this game.

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Another one that made a big impact in some circles, but went almost unnoticed in others: comics artist Carlos Ezquerra

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/carlos-ezquerra-dead-creator-judge-dredd-dies-aged-70-1148295

Ezquerra was the co-creator of many characters and stories for 2000 AD, but the mostt prominent is Judge Dredd. He based the uniforms of the judges partly on the fascist police of his native Spain during the Franco era.

Olympic showjumper Tim Stockdale, who survived a broken neck in 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/equestrian/15544194 has been taken by that b*****d cancer, age 54.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/equestrian/46214585

Steven Hillenburg http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/nov/27/stephen-hillenburg-spongebob-creator-cultural-titan

Cycling commentator Paul Sherwen: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cycling/2018/12/03/paul-sherwen-former-british-champion-voice-cycling-dies-aged/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cycling/2018/12/03/paul-sherwen-former-british-champion-voice-cycling-dies-aged/

Pete Shelley, Buzzcocks

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/06/pete-shelley-lead-singer-of-buzzcocks-dies-at-63

Joseph Joffo, one of my favourite writers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Joffo

Actress Sondra Locke

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46564964

Songwriter Norman Gimbel died on 19th December:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/30/norman-gimbel-obituary

He was picked once in this game, by The Groob in 2017.

The 2018 Deathlist contest is now closed - please post any 2019 not-on-the-list deaths in the new 'unlisted' thread: F22156867?thread=8321276

Other links:

Deathlist 2019 Home Page: A87926953
Deathlist 2019 Scoreboard: A87926962

Deathlist 2019 Official thread and intro: F22156867?thread=8321275

Deathlist Archive: A87874582

Icy

Just to be neat and tidy: we missed reporting the death of Jerry Maren, the last surviving Wizard of Oz Munchkin in 2018.

http://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/arts/jerry-maren-dead-wizard-of-oz-munchkin.html

He had previously been picked in 2014 by The Groob and in 2016 by paulh.

Some one has too much time on his hands or is really bored or is the obsessive type, hmm n let the reader decide

During some more tidying-up, I found that drug lord Héctor Beltrán Leyva died in 2018. He was last picked in 2013 by Spiller.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46261159