As I said a few pages ago about false memories, everyone has a slightly different memory about events that evening. We'll probably never know for sure what news did what and when, the only thing that would be definitive is a copy of the bulletin.
All that is definite is that the news did follow the show:
https://tvrdb.com/listings/1984-04-15 and one not long after on BBC1:
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1984-04-15
Odd to see that that was the only ITN bulletin that day (or was there one in Weekend World)
Incidentally, when the news broke six weeks later of Eric Morecambe's death in almost identical circumstances (though, thankfully, not on live television, I remember thinking "not another one - we've not long lost Tommy Cooper."
Similar. He had a heart attack after coming off stage and died hours later in hospital. His third heart attack.
It happened twice to Dustin Gee, who was also on that episode of Live from Her Majesties. He fell ill on stage a year later with a minor heart attack. He then had another one while performing panto at the beginning of 1996 and passed away in hospital a few days later
Tommy's death always reminds me of a line from an early episode of Knowing Me Knowing You when Alan Partridge is trying to explain Tommy Cooper to a guest who's an American comedian:
'you know. Tommy Cooper, he died at e Palladium'
'Alan, we've
all
died at The Palladium!'
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