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Post by rondetto on Jun 19, 2017 18:11:46 GMT
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Post by aubrey on Jun 20, 2017 8:10:54 GMT
Eric Allan Dolphy, Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist. On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet and piccolo. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the 1960s. He was one of the first important bass clarinet soloists in jazz, extended the vocabulary and boundaries of the alto saxophone, and was among the earliest significant jazz flute soloists. His improvisational style was characterized by the use of wide intervals, in addition to using an array of extended techniques to reproduce human- and animal-like effects which almost literally made his instruments speak. Although Dolphy's work is sometimes classified as free jazz, his compositions and solos were often rooted in conventional (if highly abstracted) tonal bebop harmony and melodic lines that suggest the influences of modern classical composers Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky.  |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 20, 2017 8:12:19 GMT
Who remembers... Mickie Most (20 June 1938 – 30 May 2003) was an English record producer, with a string of hit singles with acts such as The Animals, Arrows, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Suzi Quatro, Hot Chocolate and the Jeff Beck Group often issued on his own RAK Records label. Most was born as Michael Peter Hayes in Aldershot, Hampshire. The son of a regimental sergeant-major.  |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 21, 2017 7:26:23 GMT
A childhood memory for many.... Edward Stanley Gibbons (21 June 1840 - 17 February 1913) was an English philatelist and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd, publishers of the famous Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue and other stamp-related books and magazines. Edward Stanley Gibbons was born at his father William Gibbons' chemist shop at 15 Treville Street, Plymouth on 21 June 1840  |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 22, 2017 6:51:07 GMT
Colin Crompton (22 June 1931, Manchester – 24 August 1985) was an English stand-up comedian. He found fame on the Granada Television programme The Comedians in the early 1970s. From 1974 to 1977 he was also the "club chairman" in another Granada programme, The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club.  |
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Post by marispiper on Jun 22, 2017 11:25:02 GMT
^^^ Ding ding ding ding...No talkin' whilst turns is on!
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Post by marispiper on Jun 22, 2017 11:27:13 GMT
Mickie Most - a great musical talent. A real 70s look in that photo... 😊
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Post by ARENA on Jun 23, 2017 8:32:12 GMT
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( /ˈtjʊərɪŋ/ TEWR-ing; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine. Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science.  Bletchley Park won the war! |
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Post by rondetto on Jun 23, 2017 12:11:39 GMT
Was it him that Benedict whatshis name played in the film?
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Post by ARENA on Jun 23, 2017 12:39:08 GMT
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Post by ARENA on Jun 24, 2017 7:12:52 GMT
Dustin Gee Born Gerald Harrison in York, Gee left school at 15 and studied at Art College. He took a job as an artist, working mainly with stained glass and for a while worked on the stained glass windows at York Minster.[1] He played in a rock band in the evenings. The group were called 'Gerry B and the Hornets' before they altered the name to 'Gerry B and the Rockafellas'. When the group disbanded, Gee became a compere, then later a comedian. In 1975, Gee met his future comedy partner, Les Dennis.  |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 24, 2017 9:02:11 GMT
Arthur Wilton Brown (born 24 June 1942) is an English rock singer best known for his flamboyant theatrical performances, powerful wide-ranging operatic voice and his number-one hit in the UK Singles Chart and Canada, "Fire", in 1968. Brown has been lead singer of various groups, most notably The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Kingdom Come, followed by a varied solo career as well as associations with Hawkwind, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Klaus Schulze, and Frank Zappa.  The first record I asked for, and got: 10th birthday in 1968. Listening now I am slightly distressed by the added brass section, especially in the fade-out; but it still sounds well for all that. |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 25, 2017 7:23:58 GMT
Sir Peter Thomas Blake, CBE, RDI, RA (born 25 June 1932) is an English pop artist, best known for co-creating the sleeve design for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. His other best known works include the cover of the Band Aid single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and the Live Aid concert poster. Blake also designed the 2012 Brit Award statuette.  |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 25, 2017 9:02:52 GMT
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.  |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 26, 2017 7:08:41 GMT
Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein; 26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian-American actor. In Austria, he began his stage career in Vienna before moving to Germany where he had his breakthrough, first on the stage, then in film in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Lorre caused an international sensation in the German film M (1931), directed by Fritz Lang, in which he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls.   |
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