Happy New Year everyone!

My first act of 2017 was to scatter the accursed ashes of 2016 into the winds of time via the medium of a parody song.

Basically, my dad was amusing himself over Christmas by trying to rewrite Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire” to incorporate the ever-expanding list of celebrity deaths in 2016.

Now I am no singer/songwriter, but as the death toll rose, I couldn’t help getting drawn into the gravitational pull of this ludicrous creative endeavour, until I ended up rewriting most of the song myself.

I have put FAR too much hard work into this…

Fun fact: there is one person who appears in this list who also appears in the original song. Clue: it’s not Paul Daniels.