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Post by aubrey on Dec 15, 2019 16:22:44 GMT
This should have been on Friday, but I was a bit distracted then, so: Bruce Wayne Campbell (December 14, 1946 – August 3, 1983), known by his stage name Jobriath, was an American rock musician and actor. He was the first openly gay rock musician to be signed to a major record label, and one of the first internationally famous musicians to die of AIDS. I bought this for 50p from the Gainsborough Music Centre in 1975, and have loved it ever since:
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Post by aubrey on Dec 20, 2019 9:24:19 GMT
Jennifer Ann Agutter OBE (born 20 December 1952) is a British actress. She began her career as a child actress in 1964, appearing in East of Sudan, Star!, and two adaptations of The Railway Children—the BBC's 1968 television serial and the 1970 film version. She also starred in the critically acclaimed film Walkabout and the TV film The Snow Goose (both 1971), for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama.
In I Start Counting, 1969
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Post by aubrey on Dec 24, 2019 11:00:38 GMT
Edwige Fenech born Edwige Sfenek on 24 December 1948) is an Italian actress and film producer. She is mostly known as the star of a series of commedia sexy all'italiana and giallo films released in the 1970s, which turned her into a sex symbol.
From the London-set Giallo, All the Colours of the Dark, which is possibly my favourite:
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Post by aubrey on Jan 4, 2020 18:39:54 GMT
Chris Cutler (born 4 January 1947) is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of other bands, including Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu and (briefly) Gong/Mothergong. He has collaborated with many musicians and groups, including Fred Frith, Lindsay Cooper, Zeena Parkins, Peter Blegvad, Telectu and The Residents, and has appeared on over 100 recordings. Cutler's career spans over four decades and he still performs actively throughout the world. Cutler created and runs the British independent record label Recommended Records and is the editor of its sound-magazine, RēR Quarterly. He has given a number of public lectures on music, published numerous articles and papers, and written a book on the political theory of contemporary music, File Under Popular (1984). Cutler also assembled and released The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set (2009), a collection of over 10 hours of previously unreleased recordings by the band.
From the only existing concert film featuring Henry Cow, for Swiss TV:
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Post by aubrey on Jan 14, 2020 22:34:10 GMT
Should have been yesterday, but I forgot:
Christopher David Allen (13 January 1938 – 13 March 2015), known as Daevid Allen, sometimes credited as Divided Alien, was an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist. He was co-founder of the psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine (in the UK, 1966) and Gong (in France, 1967).
He is the one with the stick on this, the back of their album Camembert Electrique (credited as Bert Camembert), which I got in 1974 and still play regularly today:
And this is the last track (it is really good - go on, have a listen):
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Post by aubrey on Jan 22, 2020 10:16:57 GMT
Someone else from Gong: Didier Malherbe aka Bloomdido Bad de Grass (born January 22, 1943 in Paris), is a French jazz, rock and world music musician, known as a member of the bands Gong and Hadouk, as well as a poet.
He met Daevid Allen and Robert Wyatt while playing the flute in a cave in Deya that was owned by Robert Graves (Graves was a friend of Wyatt's mother, and seems to have been a catalyst for much of the Canterbury scene of the late 60s). Later he joined Allen in Gong, and stayed on for the next 50 years, while playing in many other groups and solo projects.
More Gong:
"He has always been, and remains, the best musician Gong ever had. He is a true virtuoso - but to the point that he never shows it." (Daevid Allen)
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Post by aubrey on Jan 28, 2020 9:23:34 GMT
Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945) is an English musician. A founding member of the influential Canterbury scene bands Soft Machine and Matching Mole, he was initially a drummer and singer before becoming paraplegic following an accidental fall from a window in 1973, which led him to abandon band work, explore other instruments, and begin a forty-year solo career.
On Top of the Pops:
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Post by aubrey on Jan 29, 2020 12:27:01 GMT
Kyary's birthday!
Kiriko Takemura (竹村 桐子, Takemura Kiriko, born January 29, 1993), known professionally as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (Hiragana: きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ), is a Japanese singer, model, and blogger. Her public image is associated with Japan's kawaii and decora culture, centered in the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo, Pamyu Pamyu's music is produced by musician Yasutaka Nakata of electronic music duo Capsule.
This is the first song of hers that I loved; I remember being at my mothers and watching it on YT a lot; my mother said, "She's very pretty, isn't she?" and I agreed, only later realising it would have been much cooler to say that I hadn't noticed. Her mouth when she's singing is a bit like Ray Davis's.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 4, 2020 20:04:17 GMT
George Andrew Romero February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American filmmaker, writer, and editor. He is best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968). This film is often considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture. Other films in the series include Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985).[1] Aside from this series, his works include The Crazies (1973), Martin (1978), Creepshow (1982), Monkey Shines (1988), The Dark Half (1993) and Bruiser (2000). He also created and executive-produced the 1983–88 television series Tales from the Darkside. Romero is often noted as an influential pioneer of the horror film genre and has been called an "icon" and the "Father of the Zombie Film."
Raised in the Bronx, he would frequently ride the subway into Manhattan to rent film reels to view at his house. He was one of only two people who repeatedly rented the opera-based film The Tales of Hoffmann; the other was future director Martin Scorsese.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 5, 2020 11:16:12 GMT
Marie-Pierre Castel and Catherine Castel (both born 5 February 1948), French actresses best known for their appearances in the films of Jean Rollin, often playing vampires.
"They are the only twins to be found in French cinema, and they've done vampire films and porn together [LAUGHS]! They were originally hairdressers. One of my assistants came to me one day and told me that he'd found a pair of twins who might interest me, so I met with them. They wanted to be actresses, a dream they had for quite some time. They had a certain naïve quality that I felt would be ideal for my type of cinema. It was very difficult to get the two of them at the same time. Originally, I wanted to have them both in Le Frisson..., but one of them [Catherine] was pregnant, so we could use only one and had to find that beautiful Asian substitute for the other. After Requiem pour un Vampire the other one [Marie-Pierre] got pregnant, so once again there was a problem! I don't know whatever became of them. One of them was living not far from here, but I haven't seen her for quite some time now." - Jean Rollin
Both in Lips of Blood:
And Marie-Pierre in Requiem for a Vampire:
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Post by aubrey on Feb 18, 2020 17:39:37 GMT
Leonora Fani (born 18 February 1954) is an Italian former film actress. Born in Crocetta del Montello, Treviso, Italy as Eleonora Cristofani, Leonora Fani was launched in 1971 by winning the "Miss Teenager" pageant. Then she had a successful career in Italian B-movies, especially in the "violent-erotic" subgenre. She played, as typical roles, young girls with traumas or perversions of various kinds, or teenagers involved in stories where eroticism is tinged with blood.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 18, 2020 18:05:48 GMT
Hans and Sophie Scholl were arrested by the Gestapo on this day in 1943, having been observed distributing leaflets at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. They were executed by guillotine under a week later on the 22nd of February.
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Post by aubrey on Mar 5, 2020 17:42:34 GMT
“If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.”
Mark Edward Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018) was an English singer and songwriter, who was the lead singer, lyricist and only constant member of the post-punk group the Fall. Smith led the band from 1976 until his death, having formed the band after attending the June 1976 Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester. During their 42-year existence, the Fall's line-up included some 60 musicians with whom Smith released 32 studio albums and numerous singles and EPs Smith had a difficult and complex personality and was a long-term alcoholic. He was known for his biting and targeted wit, evident in interviews, for which he was much in demand by music journalists throughout his career. He was suspicious of the trappings of fame and largely avoided socialising with people associated with the music scene, including other Fall members. The dark and sardonic aspect of his personality often appears in his lyrics; he especially derided music industry people. Smith's approach to music was unconventional and he did not have a high regard for musicianship, stating that "rock & roll isn’t even music really. It's a mistreating of instruments to get feelings over". His best-known recordings include "Totally Wired" and "Hit the North", and the Fall are regarded as one of the most important and influential post-punk bands. Although Smith was difficult to work with, he was revered by fans and critics, and on his death was described as a "strange kind of antimatter national treasure". "... every artist wants credibility. A couple of years ago, I read a poll on the hundred best artists of all time. The Fall was in there between Mozart and Puccini. I was very proud of that. Of course, the next day I can pick up a paper and be the guy with no teeth who beats everybody up."
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Post by aubrey on Mar 11, 2020 11:22:56 GMT
Paul Konrad Müller; born 11 March 1923 in Neuchâtel is a Swiss actor who has appeared mostly in Italian films. His motion picture acting career in Europe spanned a period of 51 years.
Paul Muller appeared in over 230 films since his first role in 1948. He spent most of his life by working in Italy, his main country of residence. He worked over more than 60 years with most of the well-known European actresses and actors of classic cinema and with some famous names of the Cinema of Italy like Roberto Rossellini, Carlo Ponti, Federico Fellini, Mario Bava, Sergio Corbucci, Michelangelo Antonioni. He also made his appearance in films under the direction of Veit Harlan, Artur Brauner, Jesús "Jess" Franco, René Clement, Michael Curtiz, Richard Fleischer, Jean-Pierre Mocky and many others. (Jesús Franco alone co-starred him in no less than 18 films).
In Franco's Count Dracula (not his best, but a good gif):
And playing the heroine's dead father in Franco's "A Virgin among the Living Dead":
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Post by aubrey on May 12, 2020 18:42:39 GMT
12 May 1930 Jess Franco, exploitation film maker, along with Bunuel the most dangerous director in the world, according to the Vatican. He made nearly 200 films, or which the most famous is possibly Vampyros Lesbos.
Acting in his own Eugénie de Sade aka Eugenie Sex Happening (1970)
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