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Post by ARENA on Nov 3, 2018 7:25:07 GMT
Vyvyan Holland, OBE (3 November 1886 – 10 October 1967), born Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde in London, was a British author and translator. He was the second son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd, after his brother Cyril. After Wilde was convicted of the charge of "gross indecency" and imprisoned, Constance changed her surname, and those of their sons, to Holland.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 4, 2018 8:01:11 GMT
Dickie Valentine (4 November 1929 – 6 May 1971) was an English pop singer in the 1950s. In addition to several other Top Ten hit singles, Valentine had two chart toppers on the UK Singles Chart with "Finger of Suspicion" (1954) and "Christmas Alphabet" (1955). Valentine was born Richard Maxwell (his birth father was Dickie Maxwell) in Marylebone, London. He was known as Richard Bryce.
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Post by aubrey on Nov 4, 2018 23:07:53 GMT
About now a year ago (11pm 4/11/17) The Fall would have been finishing their last ever concert, in Glasgow. (They tried to do another one a few days later, but Mark wasn't well enough to leave his hotel room; he died couple of months later.) For this tour they had resurrected a relatively old song called Over, Over, that started I think it's over now, I think it's ending. This is his final stage entrance:
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Post by aubrey on Nov 5, 2018 6:45:18 GMT
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English singer-songwriter. He is a founder member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Best known as a singer, he also plays guitar and piano. He also acts as a record producer for his own recordings and occasionally for other artists.
Musically, Hammill's work ranges from short simple riff-based songs to highly complex lengthy pieces.
Hammill's output is prolific. Many different styles of music appear in his work, among them artful complexity (for instance Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night), avant garde electronic experiments (Loops and Reels, Unsung), opera (The Fall of the House of Usher), solo keyboard accompaniment (And Close As This), solo guitar accompaniment (Clutch), improvisation (Spur of the Moment), film music (Sonix), band recordings (Enter K), and slow, melancholic balladry (None of the Above).
With VDGG in 2009, performing Still Life:
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Post by ARENA on Nov 5, 2018 7:43:44 GMT
Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh (5 November 1865–10 January 1933) was a Scottish artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the "Glasgow Style" during the 1890s. Born Margaret MacDonald, at Tipton, near Wolverhampton, her father was a colliery manager and engineer.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 6, 2018 7:19:29 GMT
Donald Daniel Houston (6 November 1923 – 13 October 1991) was a Welsh actor whose first two films – The Blue Lagoon (1949) with Jean Simmons, and A Run for Your Money (1949) with Sir Alec Guinness – were highly successful. Later in his career he was cast in military roles and in comedies such as the Doctor and Carry On series. Houston was born in Tonypandy.
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Post by honeybear on Nov 6, 2018 8:20:30 GMT
He hyad such a lovely voice.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 7, 2018 7:31:09 GMT
Judy Parfitt (born 7 November 1935) is a BAFTA-nominated English theatre, film and television actress who began her career on stage in 1954. Judy Parfitt was born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the daughter of Catherine Josephine (née Caulton) and Lawrence Hamilton Parfitt. As a teenager, she attended Notre Dame High School for Girls in Sheffield.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 8, 2018 6:57:01 GMT
Roy Adrian Wood (born 8 November 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co-founder of the bands The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, and Wizzard. As a songwriter, he contributed a number of hits to the repertoire of these bands. Wood was born in Kitts Green, Birmingham.
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Post by rondetto on Nov 8, 2018 13:45:25 GMT
Roy has a home not too far from us, I saw one of his band recently in town. I think maybe he has a recording studio close by.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 9, 2018 7:09:20 GMT
Jill Wendy Dando (9 November 1961 – 26 April 1999) was an English journalist, television presenter and newsreader who worked for the BBC for 14 years. She was murdered by gunshot outside her home in Fulham, West London; her killer has never been identified. Jill Dando was born in Ashcombe House Maternity Home, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and was raised a Baptist.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 10, 2018 7:24:19 GMT
William Claude Rains (10 November 1889 – 30 May 1967) was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 46 years. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man (1933), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and, perhaps his most notable performance, as Captain Renault in Casablanca. *Does anyone read these anymore?
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Post by aubrey on Nov 10, 2018 9:41:27 GMT
I do.
Claude was also very good in Notorious - that bit where they won't let him in the car and he's left behind with the other Nazis.
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Post by clioseward on Nov 10, 2018 12:56:10 GMT
*Does anyone read these anymore? My first stop on the board:)
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Post by ARENA on Nov 11, 2018 8:57:32 GMT
June Rosemary Whitfield, CBE (born 11 November 1925) is an English actress, well known in the United Kingdom since the 1950s for roles in radio and television comedy series. Her first big break was a lead role in the radio comedy Take It From Here, and television followed, including appearances with Tony Hancock throughout his television career. In 1966.Married to Tim Aitchison (24 October 1955 - 14 February 2001) ( his death) ( 1 child)
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