It was on 28th November, 2003 that we had our first "Obituary" session. On that occasion, we played audio tracks (this was the pre-video headbang era) by 48 different deceased artistes:
- Adamson, Stuart
- Allman, Duane
- Ashton, Tony
- Bono, Sonny
- Bopper, Big
- Buckley, Jeff
- Cobain, Kurt
- Cochran, Eddie
- Connolly, Brian
- Cooke, Sam
- Darin, Bobby
- De Freitas, Pete
- Donegan, Lonnie
- Drake, Nick
- Elliott, Mama Cass
- Eva, Little
- Evans, Tom
- Gibb, Maurice
- Ham, Pete
- Hatfield, Bobby
- Hutchence, Michael
- Korner, Alexis
- Lynott, Phil
- MacKenzie, Billy
- Mayfield, Curtis
- McCartney, Linda
- Moore, Johnny
- Nelson, Rick(y)
- Nilsson, Harry
- Pappalardi, Felix
- Parsons, Gram
- Perkins, Carl
- Phillips, John
- Powell, Cozy
- Ramone, Dee Dee
- Randy California
- Ryan, Paul
- Simone, Nina
- Smith, Fred Sonic
- Spence, Skip
- Starr, Edwin
- Tyner, Rob
- Valens, Ritchie
- Vincent, Gene
- White, Barry
- Zevon, Warren
We've had several video "Obituary" sections since then, but only voted for the "most and least missed" on 7 occasions, the first of which was on 13th February, 2009. Taking account of the changing numbers of attendees and deceased, I worked out a pecking order from the votes cast.
Least popular was Mick Green of the Pirates who only polled 52.5% of the available votes on 5th March, 2010 - just enough, however, to win "most missed" on the evening.
At the other end of the scale, John Martyn's superb rendition of his classic "May you never" - ably aided by Kathy Mattea and the ever-reliable Danny Thompson - polled an incredible 97.9% of the available votes on the very first voting night - Gary was the only one who didn't give him top marks, rather bizarrely deeming Eartha Kitt, of all people, to be more missed!
Watch the John Martyn classic again here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBPTuAl2Qyk
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