A family member put on a game show that included Brian Blessed and I commented it ‘must be old as he’s been dead for a while’?

Nope. 88 and going strong.

Who else has surprised you?

  • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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    22 days ago

    The biggest shock for me was Vera Lynn. She recorded her biggest hit song in 1939, and I was most familiar with it from the ending of Dr. Strangelove from 1964, and the Pink Floyd song, “Vera”, from 1982. I guess people in the UK would’ve known better, but the song implied a long-bygone time, so of course she had to be dead by the '90s, right?

    Imagine my shock when she released a new compilation album in 2014, while still very much kicking.