#Dickie Davies

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[snailsfall]

[dhvinyl]

A Personal History of the British Music Industry 108 - Larry Page

Larry Page, born Leonard Davies, who has recently died in Australia, is best remembered as the charismatic manager of the Troggs, but was part of the UK’s answer to rock’n’roll in the late 1950’s, and started life packing records, rather than making them. He emigrated to Australia, but this interview was conducted before then in West London over twenty years ago. I had already learned that his…

[lukolathoughts]

What did I say...

This will just be a short one guys and not as in-depth as usual. Last night in my blog 'A pound of flesh' I discussed the Blood moon that Jake Dunn stood in front of on Saturday 15th March 2025.

"What stood out to me initially was the bright full moon being revealed behind a rolling cloud. The moon is bright and clearly visible. The Moon card in tarot often comes up in relation to Nicola and Luke and the adjacents. “The Moon is fundamentally a card about misunderstanding. Something remains unclear, making it hard to discern fantasy from reality.” To me the card signifies illusion, and I find it fascinating that Jake is pictured standing in front of such a visible full moon. The full moon last weekend was also a blood moon. There are two other Blood Moons following on September 7th 2025 and March 3, 2026. A total lunar eclipse is often called a Blood Moon as the Full Moon turns a reddish colour during totality. “These three Blood Moon Eclipses will tell a story, a story that usually involves some sort of shedding and release. Blood Moons tend to strip away all that is unnecessary, forcing us to peel back the layers to a greater truth.” (Forever Conscious.com). How interesting that Jake is stood in front of a blood moon on Saturday 15th March. So, could it be Jake’s full eventual truth will be revealed by 3rd March 2026?

Imagine my shock this morning when I log on to X and see that Jake has been cast in a BBC3 Drama written by none other than my own cousin! I almost fell off my chair. What it feels like for a girl. This is obviously a queer based drama according to the description.

"The party can't last forever though, and when Byron (main character) is seduced by bad-boy Liam, a shocking encounter occurs that will change life forever. Calam Lynch is Max, Jake Dunn is Liam and Dickie Beau is Peter.

Jake is also going to be playing a homosexual role. He has played gay men in other roles such as Oscar in Big Boys, the music video he was featured in for You and me at Six where he played Ollie, as well as other projects.

I just cannot believe that I wrote a blog post about a Blood Moon and Jake's 'truth' being revealed and then his casting announcement drops the very next day where he plays you guessed it - a gay man - the same week of the Blood Moon. I think I may be onto something. The next Blood Moon is in September and I will be watching Jake Dunn very bloody closely.

Not only that but Dylan Brady and Douglas Greenwood rush to share their love for Jake almost instantly to Instagram. Doug includes pink hearts. Remember what I said about it being unclear who Jake's actual partner is? Nicola comes in later with her own generic post.

My mind is blown and what is still aggravating is the Jakeholes are still not listening. I am thinking this series might be a bit of a shock for some of them with it's content, so I would buckle up if I was you Jakola's. BBC3 has a lot more freedom usually in what they can show now, especially after the watershed at 9pm. It might be acting, but Jake seems to do well in these kind of roles where he can be himself and play to his strengths.

This new series is reminding me of Russell T Davies It's a Sin which was set in London in the 1980's and it deals with the Aids Pandemic. If you haven't seen it, it is absolutely wonderful and heart breaking, but extremely sexually graphic. There is even a Welsh character called Colin that you will break you heart into a million pieces over. Olly Alexander, an openly gay man in real life, plays Ritchie who eventually ends up with AIDS. This new drama What it feels like for a girl is set in the 1990's and also seems to tell the tale of wild nights out and experimentation of the era. My point here is that casting directors often cast queer representation for these types of series and roles to make the series as a authentic and representative as possible. For example, in 2024 Richard Gadd played himself in Baby Reindeer. Gadd is bisexual and he included in the series his real life storyline of a relationship with a trans woman. These are just a few examples and I am not going to harp on anymore because I have discussed Jake's sexuality now extensively. But how much more evidence do we need? Does Jake need a bloody bull horn?

Otherwise, well done Jakey boy! Lets hope you landed this job on your own merits as an actor! I am not going to even bother talking about the pap video of Luke and Anchovy. It was highly disrespectful to him and my heart hurts for him and Nicola today. She did not look herself in red carpet photographs from last night. My speculation on all this nonsense is for a later blog post when I have more information.

[betterskatethannever]

2024 best of

best parts

Joseph Campos - Shocking Moments Caught on Video / QuickStrike / Shot on Location

Tiago Lemos - City Soldier / Sure Shot / Intervals

Rowan Davis - Bin Kicker / Reckon That's Fine

Nick Matthews - QuickStrike / Turbo Island / Cross Contamination / Antihero x Nike

Ben Lawrie - HODDLE NO PLACE LIKE HOME / Real Street 2024 / Internet Birthday ep 2

Jamie Foy - BHADW2 / Honeymoon / Intervals / Charred Remains

Martino Cattaneo - Where is Tom?

Brian O'Dwyer - BHADW2 / EVERGREEN

Ville Wester - Nike

Oski Rozenberg - Red Shark

Shin Sanbongi - EVERYTHING IS NORMAL

Daan Van Der Linden - Turbo Island / Cross Contamination / QuickStrike / Nike x Antihero

Didrik Galasso - QuickStrike / Uneven / Ace / DIDRIKO

Gabriel Summers - Zero No White Flag

Nikolai Piombo - adidas XP

Antonio Durao - QuickStrike / OD

Eddie Cernicky - EVERGREEN

Tanner Burzinski - THE PROFESSIONAL

Lazer Crawford - Joslin & Lazer

Julius Rohrberg - DANCER

Fran Molina JACKER - RUSH

best full-lengths

Nike SB - QuickStrike

New Balance Numeric - Intervals

Antihero - Turbo Island / Cross Contamination x Thrasher / x Nike

GLORY: The Legend of Dime

Toy Machine - REAL LIFE SUCKS

VANS EU - Where is Tom?

BAKER HAS A DEATHWISH 2

Polar - I Don't Even Know How to F***ing Airwalk

Converse CONS - EVERGREEN

Primitive DAYDREAM / WILDFIRE

Erased GLOW

JACKER - RUSH

Polar - EVERYTHING IS NORMAL

Traffic - It's Completely Fine

Dickies - HONEYMOON

best independents

Austin Bristow - Portiions

Paul Young - Down By Law

Ben Chadourne - I THINK ONE MORE MAYBE

Tor Strom - Hygge Abroad

Fritte Soderstrom - Jante 9:19 / Jante 8:33

Davonte Jolly NECESSARY EVIL 003

Pedro Orsi TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR FISHEYE

HITTOPP "I Survived 500 Days Filming The Worst Skate Video Ever"

Grey Area - Lack of Coolness

Tomas Morrison - JUICE

best transition

Archer Braun - Doom Sayers

Kieran Woolley - OJ best of

Jesse Lindloff - PROJs

Adam Hopkins - Bacon

Hugo Montezuma - Blood Wizard

best promo/squad/tour

Internet Birthday ep 2 Ishod, Rowan, Brass & Ben / ep 3 Dunedin NZ

GX1000 - Your Favorite Things / Yabai / Japan 2024

ASICS - Week in Wooville / NEXT VIBRANT SCREENTEST / ASICSeuroHD (quadrennium) / Jenkem Asics in NYC

Atlantic Drift - Vienna to Budapest

Helas - ONE MORE MIXTAPE

PLAYER - UNLOCK THE GAME

Tyshawn SOTY trip

Limo - 8 / MONTREAL / 50 Flower

HUF Japan Tour Meltdown

Pocket - HEIMSPIEL tour 2024 / Southbound / OKINAWA

Fodas - Santa Cruz EU in Lisbon

SK8 Skates - BRAZYLAND

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[icarus-suraki]

It was a rainy Monday night when she came up to my office. I saw her silhouette on my frosted pebbled glass door and I knew this was going to be trouble.

They don't make frosted pebbled glass doors like they used to. I had to source this one specially. I cut the door to fit it in myself. The landlord didn't like that but he doesn't understand aesthetics. Same reason I keep my blinds half-open all the time for those angular and linear shadows: aesthetics.

I put the decals for my name up on the door too: Harry Cross, Researcher. The letters were backwards for me on account of being inside my office: ɿɘʜɔɿɒɘƨɘЯ ƨƨoɿƆ γɿɿɒH

Then the letters were ||||| ||||| ||||||| when she opened the door.

"Hello, Hodie," she said.

"Hodie" is what they call me if they know me: Harry "Hodie" Cross. It was a long-ago yesterday that I got that nickname. I'll tell you why tomorrow.

"Hey, kid," I said.

You could call her a leggy blonde. Blondes come in only a couple of flavors in these kinds of stories: icy and honey. But she wasn't a blonde. She was pretty leggy, though, considering she had two of them. She'd be leggier if she had more but you take what you can get. So you could call her a leggy blonde if you wanted but I'm not about to. She was maybe somewhere between 17 and 43 and she looked like she had a lot on her mind. I'm telling you all this for your benefit; she's my cousin so don't get any ideas.

She took my hat off the rack and put it on as she walked over on those two legs; the hat looked better on her than on me.

"How're your brothers?" I asked.

"Fighting," she said as she sat down on the other side of my desk.

"Too bad," I said.

She shrugged. "It happens every night."

This kid here, Issy, she's got two brothers, Shem and Shaun and they've each got a share of the city. Shem's got a lock on the stationery business in this town and Shaun's got a mail delivery racket going. It never ends with those two and sometimes I think Issy just plays referee when they're brawling.

I kicked my feet up on the desk. "So what brings a girl like you to a nice place like this? The rain? The park? Other things?"

"I need you to find someone for me, Hodie."

"Yeah?" I lit another datura cigarette. I couldn't find the one I'd just had in my hand. "Who?" I lost my cigarette again.

"Ellmann."

I gave her a look. Two-ells-two-enns Dicky Davy Ellmann was another big man in this town, but for the right reasons. He was smart; he knew his stuff, and if he didn't know, he knew how to find out. A regular tome, that guy.

I found another datura cigarette in my hand and lit it. "With that blue and black jacket of his, he should be easy to find." I paused for a second. "You don't think he's…I guess some people would call it 'recycled'?"

"I don't think he's in the box."

We all know the old cardboard box where you end up when it's time to leave the city of letters.

"Still in the old place, then, huh? Why're you looking for him?"

"Because of this."

She slid a Tumblr post across the desk towards me:

I read it and gave a low whistle.

"I need to know if it's true, Hodie. And if anyone's going to know, it's Ellmann and nobody knows where he is."

I leaned back in my chair, which I also had to source specially as a vintage piece since the aesthetics demand something other than a pink gamer chair in this establishment, and kept looking at the post.

"Why not just ask the usual crowd?"

"With Artie out there causing trouble?"

She was right: Artie Intel was a thorn in everyone's side these days. He liked to talk but only about three words of what he said were true. It was all good language but it was all wrong--not even fiction, just plain wrong. Real gift o' the gab with this one. And a town like this might run on fiction but sometimes you just need facts. The problem was that people were starting to listen to old Artie and starting think what he was saying was making sense.

"Hodie, please?" she said. "You've got a nose like a bloodhound."

"It's not that big."

"You got droopy eyes, though."

She had me there.

"And droopy ears."

That was maybe going too far.

"All right," I said. "I'll take the case."

"I knew you would, Hodie. And I know you'll find him."

I tossed the post back onto the desk. "When I set out to find somebody I find 'em. That's why they pay me."

[ostensiblynone]

Noel Gallagher, sitting bolt upright in blue canvas jacket and pudding bowl haircut with a Dickie Davis-style grey flourish now emerging, is affability itself. On his wedding finger a Claddagh ring set with a gobstopper-sized ruby hints at the rewards of 36 million albums sold. But there's something else too, a physical postscript to the old life perhaps. Yes, there it is again: the constant, involuntary quiver in his hands, as though a steady voltage were passing through them.

Noel & Liam Gallagher - Q - May 2002

[zackthebrown2]

because i have an incessant need to curate lists....

i feel like short films, in general, get sort of overlooked. so for halloween, here are some horror/horror-adjacent recommendations. i split the list between animation and live action, and i ordered them by length. also, a general tw: blood, gore, etc... not all of them have any of that, but just a heads up.

Animation: Perihelion (2013) - dir. Nick Cross (2:51) [Nick Cross was the art director on Over the Garden Wall] There's a Man in the Woods (2014) - dir. Jacob Streilein (3:35) Teeth (2015) - dir. Tom Brown & Daniel Gray (6:02) Winston (2017) - dir. Aram Sarkisian (6:24) 100.000 Acres of Pine (2020) - dir. Jennifer Alice Wright (7:13) The Backwater Gospel (2011) - dir. Bo Mathorne (9:32) Coyote (2021) - dir. Lorenz Wunderle (9:55) Ghost Dogs (2022) - dir. Joe Cappa (10:45) Jack Stauber's OPAL (2020) - dir. Jack Stauber (12:30) [this one's a mix of live action and claymation]

Live Action: The Cat with Hands (2001) - dir. Robert Morgan (3:31) Portrait of God (2022) - dir. Dylan Clark (7:30) Creep Box (2022) - dir. Patrick Biesemans (9:16) Curve (2016) - dir. Tim Egan (9:51) Unedited Footage of a Bear (2014) - dir. Alan Resnick & Ben O'Brian (10:28) Eyes of Eidolon (2020) - dir. Davi Pena (11:02) This House Has People in It (2016) - dir. Alan Resnick (11:55) Angel (2022) - dir. Dicky Chalmers (16:10) Moshari (2022) - dir. Nuhash Humayun (22:05) Zygote (2017) - dir. Neill Blomkamp (22:23) The Chair (2023) - dir. Curry Barker (24:22)

[alumi-san]

Nickelodeon life action series characters genderbend

ICarl

Carl Shay

Samuel "Sam" Puckett

Frederica "Freya" Benson

Spensis Shay

Orenthia Cornelia Hayes "Gabby" Gibson

Victorius

Victor "Tor" Vega

Andrea Harris

Catalin "Cat" Valentine

Jaden West

Becky Oliver

Rubina "Ruby" Shapiro

Trent Vega

Roxy Powers

Sindee Van Cleef

Sam & Cat

Daisy Corleone

Guida Merr "Gumerr"

Nonno

Big Time Rush

Kenzie Donna Knight

Jamie Isa Diamond

Carla Geraldine Garcia

Hortense "Logan" Mitchell

Kaiden Mason "Kai" Knight

Kel Michael Wainwright

Gustava Rocqué

Jeffrey Knight

Arthura Harriet Griffin

Joseph Marius "Jo" Taylor

Camil Roberts

Lucian "Luca" Stone

The Jeffreys

Buddha Bobbie

Regina Carina Bitters

Jeannette Stetson

Guitar Babe

Taylor Duncan

The Haunted Hathaways

Michael Hathaway

Tyler Hathaway

Frankie Hathaway

Rayna Preston

Millie Preston

Luise Preston

The Thundermans

Phineas Monty Rafael Thunderman

Maxima Octavia "Max" Thunderman

Norman Thunderman

Willamina "Willie" Thunderman

Henrietta Tiberia "Henny" Thunderman

Barbaros Matin "Barb" Thunderman

Cole Thunderman

Dr. Arthura Colosso

Henri Danger

Henri Prosper Hart

Ramona "Rae" Womanchester

Charles Page

Jaspina Dunlop

Piper Hart

Danger Force

Scharlane Schwartz

Manny Martin

Frankini the Grand

Bosa O'Brian

Miko Macklin

Chapo De Silva

Mila Macklin

Every Wizard Way

Emmett Alonso

Daniella Miller

Maddox "Maddie" Van Pelt

Andrés Futuro Doctor "Andy" Cruz

Diega Rueda

Kai Rice

Sonny Johnson

Jaxie Novoa

Milo Black

Antonia "Toni" Myers

Macey "Macy" Davis

Liam Archer

Jesse Novoa

Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Don

Nicole Daniella "Nicky" Harper

Richelle Jara "Ricky" Harper

Dominica Stefanie Romina "Dicky" Harper

Don Abel Harper

Tomi Harper

Andrew Harper

Mace Valentine

Game Shakers

Dudley "Dude" Carano

Kendall Bell

Grovea Georgia Griffin (Triple G)

Hudsie Gimble

Gail J. Griffin (Double G)

Hunter Street

Aniko Hunter

Samantha "Sal" Hunter

Daniella Hunter

Teresio "Ter" Hunter

Maxine "Max" Hunter

Jacoba "Jackie" Hunter

Evander "Evan" Hunter

Olivia

Kade Hunter

Erika Hunter

Dory Peters

[wavypack]

Cholo - The Sartorial Identity of Los Angeles.

Often affiliated with the Hispanic gangs of Los Angeles, the Cholo style is now represented all over the world. Dickies, Cortez and Pendleton shirts ... this is how we could summarize this aesthetic. However, the Cholo style is governed by codes that have evolved alongside the Mexican community in the USA.The contemporary Cholo style has its roots in the "Pachuco" style. The "Pachuco" was embodied by an active Latino community in Los Angeles in the 1930s. They met to dance swing and wore suits with very large pants: the "Zoot Suit". Reinterpreted in our time via workwear, the cholos use "Khakis" Dickies or Ben Davies 1 or 2 sizes too big to wear them high on the waist with a belt. The folds on the middle of the leg reproduce the aesthetics of the Zoot Suit pants. For some gangs, the standard is 1 pleat in the front and 3 pleats in the back, to form the number 13 in reference to MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha). The jeans are starched so that they sit on the leg and do not wrinkle at the knees. Pleats similar to khakis are also ironed in.The Cholos place great importance on cleanliness in their clothing. An immaculate white shirt and an ironed chino are among the outward markers needed to be respected on the street. As in the 1930s, this respect is achieved through clean, well-cut clothes. This Cholo aesthetic has inspired other movements even beyond California's borders.In the 1970s, skateboarders like Tony Alva wore Dickies with Pendleton shirts and bandanas inspired by the West Coast Hispanic community. However, the Cholo style really took off in the world thanks to the explosion of California Rap in the late 80s. The members of N.W.A and in particular Eazy E took these codes and applied them to Gangsta Rap. Their imagery has largely contributed to the diffusion of this style in the world and in Japan where a Cholo community is concentrated today.Nowadays, independent brands continue to keep this Cholo clothing heritage alive. Born x Raised and Willy Chavaria each in their own way evolve the classic Los Angeles style by incorporating elements of sportswear.

[jeremydaviesarchive]

Justified 03x02: Cut Ties.

[snailsfall]

Losing my mind over this

[frothlad]

I have now read slightly more than half of Miracleman: The Silver Age.

I don't believe what I'm reading.

Now, let me be clear: I am, at heart, a seeker of simple entertainment. I am not incapable of depth, but it must be depth with signposts; I do not like the trackless. So it is possible that I am missing too much.

But Avril is still an overconfident manipulator (not Hera or Aphrodite, but Loki), and Miracleman is still just incredibly dumb. Dicky's reaction at the end of chapter two is as obvious and predictable as it was in 1993. The visit to the Black Warpsmiths held no awe, mystery, or even alienness. Dickie's dreams are just Johnny's in MM book 3 all over again, almost to the letter. There's a tremendous volume of churn over the questions that have been obvious since MM 16. Moore gave us Winter, who is like nothing before; Gaiman gives us "The Zapster" and "Meta-Maid", who are exactly the sorts of parodic superhero manques that MM book 1 was about refuting.

And Dickie has just been given the instruction to give us "Who Is Donna Troy" redux. From 1984. What can Gaiman possibly expect to do?

Moore's dialog and narration in this series was crackling fire along the nerves. Gaiman's is flat. Just flat. There's not a phrase or a turn or a line that makes you go "that's a great sentence".

Now, some of this has to be credited to me no longer being sixteen reading Moore's evolutionary leap in superheroes for the first time, to that evolutionary leap having forty years to be normalized (a passerine is a boring little brown bird, not a biomechanical miracle even though it IS).

But I read Gaiman's Golden Age back then, and I read the first two issues of Silver Age back then and they were still flat. In particular, as I said elsewhere, what Gaiman was doing in Golden Age, he was doing at the same time in Sandman, and better there in every respect.

And there are books and stories and comics that make me thrill even at the jaded far end of a half-century.

I think it's just bad. I think it's a bad fit for Gaiman, I think he's not giving it his best, I think it's had what it's worth already wrung out of it.

Maybe I'm wrong. But I'm more than halfway, and if I haven't hit the unexpected yet, I don't have a lot of confidence that it's coming. And, literally, Gaiman taught me, in Sandman, that stories were shaped to fit their purpose. And the shape of this story is not special.

(Buckingham's art is very nice. If you lined me up against a wall, I'd pick Leach and Davis a thousand times over Buckingham, but that is personal; it's objectively perfectly fine here, in service of whatever it is in service of, which I can't figure out.)

[sowhatifiliveinasmalltowninjapan]

Half Man Half Biscuit

Dickie Davies Eyes (1986)

[lindsaywesker]

Deaths In 2023

January

1: Fred White (67, American drummer, Earth Wind & Fire)

3: Alan Rankine (64, Scottish musician/producer, The Associates)

6: Gianluca Vialli (58, Italian football player/manager)

10: Jeff Beck (78, English guitarist, The Yardbirds/The Jeff Beck Group/Beck Bogart & Appice)

11: Yukihiro Takahashi (70, Japanese singer/drummer, Yellow Magic Orchestra)

12: Robbie Bachman (69, Canadian drummer, Bachman Turner Overdrive)

Lisa-Marie Presley (54, American singer/songwriter, daughter of Elvis, mother of Riley Keough)

16: Gina Lollobrigida (95, Italian actress)

18: David Crosby (81, American singer/songwriter, The Byrds, Crosby Stills Nash & Young)

27: Sylvia Sims (89, English actress, ‘Ice Cold In Alex’)

28: Barrett Strong (81, American singer/songwriter, co-wrote ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’/‘Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone’

Tom Verlaine (73, American musician/songwriter/producer, Television)

Lisa Loring (64, American actress, ‘The Addams Family’)

February

2: Calton Coffie (68, Jamaican singer, Inner Circle)

3: Paco Rabanne (88, Spanish fashion designer)

8: Burt Bacharach (94, American songwriter, co-wrote ‘Walk On By’/‘Anyone Who Had A Heart’/‘A House Is Not A Home’/‘Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head’)

10: Hugh Hudson (86, film director, ‘Chariots Of Fire’)

12: David Jolicoeur a.k.a. Trugoy The Dove (54, American rapper, De La Soul)

15: Raquel Welch (82, American actress)

16: Chuck Jackson (85, American soul singer, ‘Any Day Now’/‘I Keep Forgettin’’)

18: Barbara Bosson (83, American actress, ‘Hill Street Blues’)

19: Richard Belzer (78, American actor, ‘Homicide: Life On The Street’/’Law And Order: Special Victims Unit’)

Dickie Davies (94, British television personality, ‘World Of Sport’)

23: John Motson (77, English football commentator, ‘Match Of The Day’)

March

2: Steve Mackey (56, English bassist/producer, Pulp)

Wayne Shorter (89, American jazz saxophonist, Weather Report)

3: Carlos Garnett (84, Panamanian jazz saxophonist)

Tom Sizemore (61, American actor, ‘Saving Private Ryan’)

5: Gary Rossington (71, American guitarist, Lynyrd Skynyrd)

8: Topol (87, Israeli actor, ‘Fiddler On The Roof’/’Flash Gordon’)

10: Junior English (71, Jamaican reggae singer)

12: Dick Fosbury (76, American high jumper)

13: Jim Gordon (77, American drummer, Traffic/Derek & The Dominoes)

14: Bobby Caldwell (71, American singer/songwriter)

15: Greg Perry (singer/songwriter/producer)

16: Fuzzy Haskins (81, American singer, Parliament/Funkadelic)

17: Lance Reddick (60, American actor, ‘The Wire’/’Oz’/’John Wick’ films)

23: Keith Reid (76, English songwriter, Procol Harum)

Peter Shelley (80, English singer/songwriter/producer, ‘Gee Baby’/’Love Me Love My Dog’)

28: Paul O’Grady a.k.a. Lily Savage (67, English comedian)

Ryuichi Sakamoto (71, Japanese musician/composer, Yellow Magic Orchestra, composed theme to ‘Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence’)

29: Charles Sherrell a.k.a. Sweet Charles (80, American bass player/singer, The JBs, ‘Yes, It’s You’)

April

5: Booker T. Newberry III (67, American singer, Sweet Thunder, ‘Love Town’)

6: Paul Cattermole (46, English singer, S Club 7)

8: Michael Lerner (81, American actor, ‘Barton Fink’)

12: Jah Shaka (75, Jamaican sound system operator)

13: Dame Mary Quant (93, English fashion designer)

14: Mark Sheehan (46, Irish guitarist, The Script)

16: Ahmad Jamal (92, jazz pianist)

17: Ivan Conti (76, jazz drummer, Azymuth)

22: Barry Humphries a.k.a. Dame Edna Everage (89, Australian comedian/actor)

Len Goodman (78, English TV personality)

25: Harry Belafonte (95, American musician/actor/civil rights leader)

27: Wee Willie Harris (90, English rock & roll singer)

Jerry Springer (79, English-born, American TV host)

28: Tim Bachman (71, Canadian guitarist, Bachman-Turner Overdrive)

May

1: Gordon Lightfoot (84, Canadian singer/songwriter, ‘If You Could Read My Mind’)

3: Linda Lewis (72, English singer/songwriter, ‘Rock-A-Doodle-Doo’)

18: Jim Brown (87, American football player/actor, ‘The Dirty Dozen’)

19: Pete Brown (82, poet/singer/lyricist, ‘Sunshine Of Your Love’/’White Room’/’I Feel Free’)

Andy Rourke (59, English bass player, The Smiths)

24: Bill Lee (94, American jazz musician/composer, Spike’s dad, scored ‘She’s Gotta Have It’/‘School Daze’/’Do The Right Thing’

Tina Turner (84, American-born, Swiss singer/actress, ‘River Deep Mountain High’/’Nutbush City Limits’/’What’s Love Got To Do With It?’)

26: Reuben Wilson (88, American jazz organist, ‘Got To Get Your Own’)

June

1: Cynthia Weil (82, songwriter, ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’’/’Here You Come Again’)

6: Tony McPhee (79, English guitarist, The Groundhogs)

12: Treat Williams (71, American actor, ‘Hair’/’Prince Of The City’)

14: John Hollins (76, English football player, Chelsea/Arsenal/England)

15: Glenda Jackson (87, English MP/actress, ‘Women In Love’/’Sunday Bloody Sunday’)

27: Julian Sands (65, English actor, ‘A Room With A View’)

29: Alan Arkin (89, American actor, ‘Catch 22’/’Little Miss Sunshine’)

30: Lord Creator (87, Trinidad-born, Jamaican singer/songwriter, ‘Kingston Town’)

July

3: Vicki Anderson a.k.a. Myra Barnes  (83, American soul singer, Carleen’s mum)

Mo Foster (78, English songwriter/musician/producer)

5: George Tickner (76, American guitarist, Journey)

16: Jane Birkin (76, French/English actress/singer, ‘Je t’aime … moi non plus’, banned by the BBC in 1969)

21: Tony Bennett (96, American singer, ‘I Left My Heart In San Francisco’)

22: Vince Hill (89, English singer, ‘Edelweiss’)

24: Trevor Francis (69, English football player, Birmingham City/England)

26: Randy Meisner (77, musician/songwriter, Poco/The Eagles, ‘Take It To The Limit’)

Sinead O’Connor (56, Irish singer, ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’/songwriter, ‘Mandinka’)

30: Paul Reubens a.k.a. Pee-Wee Herman (70, American actor/comedian)

31: Angus Cloud (25, American actor, ‘Euphoria’)

 August

4: John Gosling (75, English keyboard player, The Kinks)

7: DJ Casper (58, DJ/artist/songwriter, ‘Cha Cha Slide’)

William Friedkin (87, American film director, ‘The French Connection’/’The Exorcist’)

9: Robbie Robertson (80, Canadian musician/songwriter/singer, The Band)

Sixto Rodriguez (81, American singer/songwriter, subject of 2012 documentary ‘Searching For Sugar Man’

13: Clarence Avant (92, owner of Sussex Records/Tabu Records, film producer, ‘Jason’s Lyric’)

Magoo (50, American rapper, Timbaland & Magoo)

16: Jerry Moss (88, music executive, the ‘M’ in A&M Records)

17: Bobby Eli (77, guitarist, MFSB/songwriter, ‘Love Won’t Let Me Wait’)

Gary Young (70, American drummer, Pavement)

19: Ron Cephas Jones (66, American actor, ‘This Is Us’)

24: Bernie Marsden (72, English guitarist, Whitesnake/songwriter, ‘Here I Go Again’/’Fool For Your Loving’)

29: Jamie Crick (57, English radio broadcaster, Jazz FM)

31: Gayle Hunnicutt (80, American actress, ‘Dallas’)

September

1: Jimmy Buffett (76, American singer/songwriter, ‘Margaritaville’)

4: Gary Wright (80, American singer/songwriter, ‘Dream Weaver’/’Love Is Alive’)

Steve Harwell (56, American singer/rapper, Smash Mouth)

8: Mike Yarwood (82, English comedian/impressionist)

13: Roger Whittaker (87, Kenyan-born English singer/songwriter, ‘Durham Town’)

16: Sir Horace Ove (86, Trinidadian-born, English film director, ‘Pressure’)

Irish Grinstead (43, American R&B singer, 702)

25: David McCallum (90, Scottish actor, ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’/’N.C.I.S.’/musician)

28: Michael Gambon (82, English actor, ‘Harry Potter’ movies)

30: Russell Batiste Jr. (57, American drummer, The Meters)

October

2: Francis Lee (79, English football player, Manchester City/England)

8: Burt Young (83, American actor, ‘Rocky’)

11: Rudolph Isley (84, American singer, The Isley Brothers/songwriter, ‘That Lady’)

12: Michael Cooper (71, Jamaican musician, Inner Circle/Third World)

14: Piper Laurie (91, American actress, ‘Carrie’/’The Hustler’)

19: DJ Mark The 45 King (62, DJ/musician/producer, ‘The 900 Number’)

20: Haydn Gwynne (66, English actress, ‘Drop The Dead Donkey’)

21: Sir Bobby Charlton (86, English footballer, Manchester United/England)

24: Richard Roundtree (81, American actor, ‘Shaft’)

28: Matthew Perry (54, American-Canadian actor, ‘Friends’)

November

12: Anna Scher (78, founder of the Anna Scher Children’s Theatre)

19: Joss Ackland CBE (95, English actor, ‘White Mischief’)

22: Jean Knight (80, American soul singer, ‘Mr. Big Stuff’)

25: Terry Venables (80, English footballer, Chelsea/Tottenham Hotspur/England manager)

26: Geordie Walker (64, English guitarist, Killing Joke)

29: Sticky Vicky (80, Spanish dancer and illusionist)

30: Shane MacGowan (65, English-born Irish singer, The Pogues/songwriter, ‘Fairytale Of New York’)

December

1: Brigit Forsyth (83, Scottish actress, ‘Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?’)

5: Denny Laine (79, English musician, The Moody Blues/Wings, songwriter, ‘Mull Of Kintyre’)

7: Benjamin Zephaniah (65, English poet/writer/actor, ‘Peaky Blinders’)

8: Ryan O’Neal (82, American actor, ‘Love Story’/’Barry Lyndon’/’Paper Moon’)

Nidra Beard (71, American singer, Dynasty)

11: Andre Braugher (61, American actor, ‘Homicide: Life On The Street’/’Brooklyn Nine-Nine’/’Glory’)

Richard Kerr (78, English singer/songwriter, ‘Mandy’)

15: Bob Johnson (79, singer/songwriter/musician, Steeleye Span)

16: Colin Burgess (77, Australian drummer, AC/DC)

17: Amp Fiddler (65, singer/songwriter/producer)

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Ben Davis (Barzini) Dickies (Granados)

Chuck Taylor’s & Reebok (Cuneos) Dodger cap (Corleone) Aviator cap (Stracci)