I would like a list of the DEAD PEOPLE to have hit #1 single in the UK

[PJL]

John Bradbury (drummer for the Specials).

 

[Madison]

Was the Stonk really a double-A side?

 

[AGinAg (37)]

 

[Madison]

I'm not convinced. What did the charts say at the time? Is there a good definition?

 

[lolly]

It was an AA. I remember it usually being listed, but almost always ignored.

 

[lolly]

 

[VoR]

Please tell me that's not your copy.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I have a copy. But I was 10.

 

[VoR]

Also: Produced by Brian May?

I am learning a lot more than I expected to about 'The Stonk' tonight.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I always wanted that Smile video to exist but I never saw it. Now I have and it's a shame.

 

[Sharla]

I've just watched The Stonk and it was worse than I remember, despite the all star cast of Baroness Benjamin, Lesley Joseph, Annabel Giles and Paul Daniels.

But it did raise a lot of money for hungry people.

 

[lolly]

Please tell me that's not your copy.

I've bought four Comic Relief singles in my time. But that isn't one of them.

 

[Eileen]

The Stonk is amazingly SHIT

Stick a red nose on your CONK

 

[Eileen]

The Kutner et al rival chart book to Guinness lists The Stink as a double A but the Guinness book doesn't.

 

[Eileen]

You are of course, as ever utterly wrong.

 

[RS]

Him from Boyzone. I don't see him mentioned

 

[PJL]

Billy Preston

 

[Breathe]

Are all of St. Winifred's School Choir still alive?

 

[Indie]

The Stonk is the best song of the 90's.

 

[Eileen]

The Stonk is the best song of the 90's.

 

[Indie]

Of course it isn't

BUT I STILL LIKE IT

 

[Breathe]

A few dead celebs (Anne Kirkbride, Jimmy Saville, Ronnie Corbett) featured on the Peter Kay/Tony Christie 'Amarillo' video.

 

[Eileen]

Of course it isn't

BUT I STILL LIKE IT

I do too. It's fabulously dreadful

 

[PJL]

I don't think we should count video appearances. Just credited artists on the single only.

Of course we'll soon be at the point where number ones from duos, trios and entire bands being all dead.

 

[Marilyn]

Of course we'll soon be at the point where number ones from duos, trios and entire bands being all dead.

I wonder how long it will be until that happens. The only major act I can think of immediately that are all dead are the Ramones, but they obviously never had a #1.

 

[Marilyn]

Actually it already has - all the members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience are dead

 

[Eileen]

Actually it already has - all the members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience are dead

Quite. There are LOADS of acts where ALL the members are dead.

 

[Marilyn]

Quite. There are LOADS of acts where ALL the members are dead.

That have had UK #1s? Are they all from the 50s/60s or are there any more recent?

 

[Eileen]

That have had UK #1s? Are they all from the 50s/60s or are there any more recent?

Yes, dear. That have had UK #1s. I get the remit of the thread. I'll have a look at the spreadsheet on the weekend.

 

[Marilyn]

Yes, dear. That have had UK #1s. I get the remit of the thread. I'll have a look at the spreadsheet on the weekend.

I expect LOADS when you do.

 

[Breathe]

I can't believe Alison Moyet has never had a #1 single.

 

[lolly]

I can't believe Alison Moyet has never had a #1 single.

Or that she isn't dead?

 

[Sharla]

Wasn't she one of the Flying Pickets?

 

[Marilyn]

I was gutted when this only made #2

 

[Eileen]

Going through my list now. Kitty Kallen, who had a number 1 in 1954, is FINALLY DEAD at the age of 93, although I'm still shocked that KAY STARR, who had a #1 in 1952 is still going.

 

[Eileen]

Of course we'll soon be at the point where number ones from duos, trios and entire bands being all dead.

There's a lot of acts for whom I have no information but I the first one I've found so far is the duo THE KALIN TWINS, who had a #1 in 1958 with When. They are both DEAD.

 

[Eileen]

Jet Harris and Tony Meehan, who had a number 1 away from the Shadows, are both DEAD

 

[Eileen]

DOZY from Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich is ANOTHER death that occurred since 2013

 

[Eileen]

ALVIN STARDUST

 

[Eileen]

PHIL EVERLY