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Post by ARENA on Mar 5, 2017 9:55:17 GMT
Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990) was an English actor of stage and screen. One of Harrison's best remembered film roles was that of Professor Henry Higgins in the stage and film versions of My Fair Lady. The role earned him a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award and Best Actor Oscar. Harrison was born in Huyton, Lancashire, and educated at Liverpool College. BTW:He was almost completely blind in his left eye.  |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 5, 2017 12:42:36 GMT
Mark Edward Smith (born 5 March 1957) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is the lead singer, lyricist, frontman and only constant member of the post-punk group the Fall.  Three of his greatest: And this, from the last concert to be played at the Hammersmith Palais: ten minutes of relentless beauty, with two Fall line-ups - one English, one American - playing at the same time: I would have gone to this last one but I was ill. I saw them a few months before and that was my last time. |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 6, 2017 9:20:35 GMT
^^^^ The BBC Twitter feed reported that he'd died yesterday:  Then corrected themselves: The BBC has apologised after accidentally announcing that Mark E Smith from The Fall had died instead of wishing him a happy 60th birthday.
A tweet from BBC Music’s official account announced “RIP Mark E Smith” next to a sad face emoji.
The post, which the BBC say was made in “genuine human error,” was swiftly deleted and replaced with the correct tweet saying “Happy 60th Mark E Smith” next to a party popper emoji.
But eagle-eyed fans were quick to notice the first tweet and pointed out the gaffe.
One follower of BBC Music, an umbrella title used by the BBC for its music output, pointed out: “Changed from RIP to happy!!”
The Fall, formed in Prestwich in 1976, are considered one Manchester’s most important post-punk bands, fronted by singer-songwriter Smith from Broughton.
A spokesperson for the BBC said: “This was a genuine human error and the message was posted by mistake and swiftly deleted.
“We apologise for the error.” |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 6, 2017 9:21:50 GMT
George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a French-born British cartoonist and author, known for his cartoons in Punch and also for his novel Trilby. He was the father of actor Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier.  |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 7, 2017 9:26:23 GMT
Bet you've all forgotten Nathaniel Charles (Nat) Gonella (7 March 1908–6 August 1998) was an English jazz trumpeter, bandleader, vocalist and mellophonist born in London, perhaps most notable for his work with the big band he founded, The Georgians, during the British dance band era. His vocal style was reminiscent of Louis Armstrong, though the voice was often eclipsed by his achievements as a band leader and trumpeter.  |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 8, 2017 7:59:42 GMT
Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon; both books were later adapted into Disney films.  |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 9, 2017 9:01:26 GMT
Robert Newton Calvert (9 March 1945 – 14 August 1988)was a South African writer, poet, and musician. He is principally known for his role as lyricist and member of the rock band Hawkwind. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/A-214188-1251119971.jpeg.jpg) His narration and poetry recital was what first drew me to this:  which remains one of my favourite albums, after 45 years. |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 9, 2017 9:12:00 GMT
John Howard Davies (9 March 1939 – 22 August 2011) was an English television director and producer and former child actor. Davies was born in Paddington, London, the son of the scriptwriter Jack Davies. His credits as a child actor include the title role at the age of nine in David Lean's production Oliver Twist (1948), followed by The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)& Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951)  |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 10, 2017 8:46:50 GMT
Lesley Dunlop is 61 today, Happy Birthday Lesley!  |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 10, 2017 9:41:57 GMT
^^^ Golly, I did not know she was married to Eric bloody Pollard, though.  |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 11, 2017 9:06:37 GMT
Jessie Matthews, OBE (11 March 1907 – 19 August 1981) was an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period. Jessie Margaret Matthews was born in Soho, London, in relative poverty, the seventh of sixteen children (of whom eleven survived) of a fruit-and-vegetable seller. She debuted on stage on 29 December 1919, aged 12, in Bluebell in Fairyland. Finally she played Mrs Dale on radio. When did it end and was she the last?  |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 11, 2017 10:19:33 GMT
That really reads like a rhetorical, State of the Nation type question  |
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Post by goldelox on Mar 11, 2017 10:38:57 GMT
She was the last, I used to listen to it as a young gal. It finished in the 60s.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 12, 2017 9:20:27 GMT
Charles Cunningham Boycott (12 March 1832 – 19 June 1897) was a British land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland as part of a campaign for agrarian tenants' rights in 1880 gave the English language the verb to boycott, meaning "to ostracise". Boycott had served in the British Army 39th Foot, which brought him to Ireland.  |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 12, 2017 13:30:47 GMT
Released 50 years ago today:  The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut album by American rock band the Velvet Underground, released in March 1967 by Verve Records. Accompanied by vocalist Nico, the album was recorded in 1966 while the group were featured on Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia event tour, which gained attention for its experimental performance sensibilities and controversial lyrical topics, including drug abuse, prostitution, sadism and masochism and sexual deviancy. Though the record was a commercial failure upon release and was almost entirely ignored by contemporary critics, The Velvet Underground & Nico is now widely recognized as one of the greatest and most influential albums in the history of popular music. It ranked 13th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and was added to the 2006 National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. In 1982, musician Brian Eno famously stated that while the album initially only sold 30,000 copies, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band." Genres that were significantly informed by the album include art rock, punk, garage, grunge, shoegaze, gothic, indie, and most other forms of alternative music.  Singer/guitarist Lou Reed, multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Moe Tucker (Lou at the front, Moe at his shoulder, John Cale at the right (I think) and Sterling at the right). |
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