When it’s your time, you get your rhyme.
26 July 2025
(97 years)
Tom Lehrer
Mathematician, musician
Time for the pallbearers
To carry dear Tom Lehrer.
We leave him with our sentiments
As he goes to join the Elements.
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24 July 2025
(71 years)
Hulk Hogan
Professional wrestler
It’s time to write a slogan
For Hulk Hogan.
We’d like to see him wrestle
Out of his wooden vessel.
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24 July 2025
(97 years)
Cleo Laine
Jazz singer
Cleo Laine
Won’t sing again,
The queen of scat
Now lies flat.
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22 July 2025
(76 years)
Ozzy Osbourne
Singer
Ozzy Osbourne
Was born,
But now John
Is gone.
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11 June 2025
(82 years)
Brian Wilson
Beach Boy
Brian Wilson
Wrote Pet Sounds
But he’ll no longer
Get Around.
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21 April 2025
(88 years)
Pope Francis
Pontiff
Further sombre
Circumstances
Summon mourners
For Pope Francis.
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01 April 2025
(65 years)
Val Kilmer
Actor
If your ambition
Is to become a filmer
You’ve missed your chance
With Val Kilmer.
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21 March 2025
(76 years)
George Foreman
Boxer
Saint Peter,
Heaven’s doorman,
Now greets
George Foreman.
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24 February 2025
(88 years)
Roberta Flack
Singer
She wasn’t killed Softly
Was Roberta Flack
But still she ends up
On her back.
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30 January 2025
(78 years)
Marianne Faithfull
Singer and actress
Marianne Faithfull
Wasn’t stabbed by a dagger
But often she had been
Poked by Mick Jagger.
[M]
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16 January 2025
(78 years)
David Lynch
Filmmaker, musical and visual artist
The film business
Will feel the pinch
At the loss
Of David Lynch.
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