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Date: 2025-07-28 07:24 pm (UTC)Cleo Laine, too. An outstanding singer with the biggest stage presence I have ever seen.
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Date: 2025-07-30 07:24 am (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m6XgFm5xX5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpv85IXdjQk&list=RDJpv85IXdjQk&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTX4q6Lq5wI&list=RDJpv85IXdjQk&index=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSr9V6asnyk&list=RDJpv85IXdjQk&index=11
Johnny Dankworth was her husband.
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Date: 2025-07-28 07:29 pm (UTC)He lived a good, long life.
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Date: 2025-07-28 07:41 pm (UTC)Seriously, when I'm at my lowest I remind myself that I need to stay alive so I can dance on that man's grave. (there are actually several graves I want to dance on tbh)
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Date: 2025-07-28 10:05 pm (UTC)You could even, using a funnel and a bottle, piss in to a bottle in a toilet cubicle and then pour the piss out on the grave later!
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Date: 2025-07-30 01:21 am (UTC)(Sorry, it's hot and miserable, it's on my mind!)
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Date: 2025-07-29 07:10 pm (UTC)I've known two people who made it to over one hundred years old. One was my great-uncle, who was in full possession of his mental faculties as of the (hell of a) party we threw for him on his 100th birthday and only died, just shy of his 101st, because his body was falling apart. He was still lucid and recognizing people right up till the day he died.
The other centenarian I knew had an even better story. I met a guy in France in the late 1980s who was a veteran of the FIRST World War. He was 103 when I knew him, and did not unlike my great-uncle know what was going on around him, but damn. I mean, there were photographs of him in uniform. In the fucking trenches.
He had fought in the FIRST World War.
Damn.
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Date: 2025-07-29 01:11 pm (UTC)I had of course grown up on his two main albums, and knew most of the words by heart by the time I was eight, even the ones I didn't quite understand.
In the 1980's I went with my mother and stepfather to watch the stage show, "Tomfoolery", at the Arena Stage in Washington, DC. It was mostly old favorites, but Lehrer had written some new (and hilarious) verses for "When You are Old and Gray", to be sung by an aging queen to a younger man.
Kids these days haven't heard of him, of course; I usually oversimplify and say "he's the previous generation's Weird Al Yankovic".
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Date: 2025-07-30 01:22 am (UTC)Because he's fucking amazing!
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Date: 2025-08-01 06:52 pm (UTC)(Also, the link to the AP News story you provided got mangled somehow and doesn't go where it's supposed to.)