When it’s your time, you get your rhyme.
26 August 2024
(76 years)
Sven-Göran Eriksson
Football manager
Begorra
Sven-Goran
Is a goner.
[M]
wiki 22 July 2024
(90 years)
John Mayall
Blues musician
John Mayall found fame
With his Bluesbreakers.
He now has a gig
With the undertaker.
[M]
wiki 11 July 2024
(75 years)
Shelley Duvall
Actress
Another star’s death
Sends us whining.
Farewell Shelley Duvall
Out of The Shining.
[M]
wiki 17 March 2024
(73 years)
Steve Harley
Singer and songwriter
The news today
Is ter-rible
For Steve Harley
Of Cockney Rebel,
And though that rhyme
Lacks some style
I hope at least
It made you smile.
[M]
wiki 28 February 2024
(66 years)
Dave Myers
Hairy Biker
Hairy Biker
Dave Myers
Is the latest
Of the diers.
[M]
wiki 16 February 2024
(47 years)
Alexei Navalny
Russian opposition leader
Alexei Navalny
Was murdered by Putin
Whose intolerance
Is worse than gluten.
[M]
wiki 13 February 2024
(69 years)
Steve Wright
DJ
Why did Steve
Have to leave
So soon
In The Afternoon?
[M]
wiki 02 February 2024
(77 years)
Ian Lavender
Actor
Farewell Ian Lavender
Who in Dad’s Army we did like.
But what was his character’s name?
Don’t tell him, Pike!
[M]
wiki 11 January 2024
(83 years)
Annie Nightingale
DJ and television broadcaster
I’ve just heard a frightening tale
About Annie Nightingale.
It’s the final disaster
For this music broadcaster.
[M]
wiki 05 January 2024
(80 years)
David Soul
Actor, Singer
It’s time to give up on him
Though we liked him very much.
Farewell David Soul
Of Starsky and Hutch.
[M]
wiki “I love finding out about celebrity deaths through the medium of sub-standard verse.”
“It’s a shame they never get to read them themselves.”
“When’s Piers Morgan going to die?”
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