and now, go bare your arrse on 't Town hall steps

My goldfish, Eric

You need to stop p!ssing in the wife's orchids and get someone into feed your fish when you clear off for your lengthy French sojourns.

Odd you should mention that, the fish bowl water was very yellow.

Bought a pair of these, the missus posed for a photo.

You and the missus still enjoying them swingers conventions?

Looks like it.

Trivia note: Eddie Cochran died after a car smash about a mile from where I now live. My missus knows a woman who lived over the road and came out and put a blanket over him. Just to keep him warm, not as a shroud.

Why would you add a douchebag like Cobain with these illustrious musicians

Ronnie Van Zant
Steve Gaines
Allen Collins
Jesse Ed Davis
Berry Oakley
Terry Kath
Judee Sill
Tim Buckley
Shannon Hoon
Jim Croce
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
Randy Rhoads
Hillel Slovak

I tend to be a bit contrary here, as I think some of those mentioned are only famous today BECAUSE they died young. You can't compare the output of Buddy Holly with Richie Valens for example. Not saying Valens wouldn't have done more if he'd lived, but had he not written another song and just got old and fat he'd be seen basically as a one-hit wonder except for afficianados of 50s music.

Anyway, why isn't the one out of Mel and Kim that died on anybody's list?

Have to agree with this, to use Buddy Holly as an example there is no reason to assume that he would still be producing cutting edge popular music through the 1960s or 70s if his plane hadn't crashed that night or that anyone would venerate his 1950s work in the way that they have since, who amongst the under 50s (for instance) know who Carl Perkins is, yet he lived to an old age and wrote at least one of the most influential songs of the 1950s - each generation has a similar example who's star rises and then fades, each contribute to the music but most are quickly discarded when the next fad comes along.

If you don't actually know, then there's little point in explaining

Please explain, if he hadn't took his own life he would be long forgotten by now just like April Wine, a mediocre Musician at best, very poor guitarist, the best thing about Nirvana was Dave Grohl

I often think that if Hendrix had not died he would be nowhere near as legendary as he is, but thats just me

Both Cobain and Hendrix did a similar thing. They smashed a great big fsckin hole in the existing walls of rock and dragged the astonished to places they hadn't been before. Cobain did that whilst he lived. It didn't happen after he died. Same with Hendrix. Both came up with something that blew your mind, and both were utterly compelling performers.

Here's a snippet about Hendrix