Totty of the Season - with undergrowth!

Tyrone Power (5th May 1914 – 15th November 1958)

Channing Tatum (born 26th April 1980)

Ricky Nelson (8th May 1040 - 31st December 1985)

George Clooney (who was 60 on 6th May)

Gary Cooper (7th May 1901 – 13th May 1961)

David Beckham (born 2nd May 1975)

Bobby Vee (30th April 1943 – 24th October 2016)

...and, finally...

David Frederick Attenborough (born 8th May 1926)

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Yes, indeed, Sir David Attenborough, veteran of myriad brilliant nature programes, erstwhile Director of BBC 2 and national treasure (and cute as fuck when he was young) celebrates his 95th birthday today!

All Hail.

Here are a few of my favourite clips from a variety of his programmes over the decades. Fuck knows what we'll do when he's gone...

David Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth - Silk Thread Trap

Jungle plants compete (David Attenborough's Private Life of Plants)

David Attenborough's Life of Birds - The Lyre Bird

The day I met David Attenborough - Gorillas

Fab.

One of these days you're gonna be cryin'

Tacky Music Monday part 2...

The sad announcement today of the death of the pop-tastic Mr Bobby Vee [who even knew he was still alive?] - the 60s answer to Rick Astley - has provided another excuse to visit the wonderful world of Scopitones to recapture a little of the "Vee magic" that made him so popular.

Sporting the teeny-tiniest pair of shorts and surrounded by (typically for Scopitone) a bevy of over-enthusiastic "dancers", here he is with his all-time classic The Night Has A Thousand Eyes...

Bobby Vee - The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

RIP Bobby Vee (born Robert Thomas Velline, 30th April 1943 – 24th October 2016)