johnny the fox Posted 20 October 2014 Posted 20 October 2014 Lynda Bellingham.. RIP. more guts than me.. never made it to Christmas.
Alf Bentley Posted 20 October 2014 Posted 20 October 2014 Reggae crossover legend John Holt, who wrote "The tide is high" and had a big 70s hit with "Help me make it through the night", gone at 67.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29686797 Sadly, the tide has gone out on him and nothing could help him make it through last night.... Perhaps he heard Mike Read's UKIP Calypso and felt that there was finally an artiste of sufficient stature for him to be able to pass on the reggae crossover baton?
Alf Bentley Posted 20 October 2014 Posted 20 October 2014 Joking apart, I loved that song "Help me make it through the night" at the time (I was an odd child, you'll be surprised to hear). Something about the combination of the vulnerable lyrics/vocals and the sad, wistful Hammond organ with the jaunty reggae bass beat and robust sax..... I was going to say that such a combination of polar opposites shouldn't have worked, but it probably should have - stoical jauntiness in the face of sadness or something like that. Too much thinking....time for sleep!
ozleicester Posted 21 October 2014 Posted 21 October 2014 Gough Whitlam - One of Australia's few truly "great" leaders. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/what-did-gough-whitlam-actually-do-rather-a-lot-20141021-11977w.html Vale "comrade" Oh and the conspiracy theorists among us... have a look at the whole Overthrow of Gough Whitlam.. etc... a story that one day will be told.
Alf Bentley Posted 21 October 2014 Posted 21 October 2014 Gough Whitlam - One of Australia's few truly "great" leaders. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/what-did-gough-whitlam-actually-do-rather-a-lot-20141021-11977w.html Vale "comrade" Oh and the conspiracy theorists among us... have a look at the whole Overthrow of Gough Whitlam.. etc... a story that one day will be told. That sounds like an impressive and transformative social legacy, Oz, a bit like the Aussie Attlee from the sound of it, although the economy obviously wasn't in great shape (true of most countries outside the Middle East in the mid-70s!). I can just about remember the constitutional crisis being covered in the UK news after the Queen's Governor General sacked Whitlam as Aussie PM (I'd have been 13), so it must have been absolutely massive in Australia. Extraordinary to think that something like that could have happened so recently, even though Australia will have changed almost beyond recognition since 1975. Here's his Wiki entry, including his dismissal - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Whitlam- for anyone who wants an alternative view to John Pilger (a worthwhile investigative journalist but very much one with an agenda - if his cornflakes had run out, he'd see it as part of a CIA conspiracy to promote US establishment interests, I think).
johnny the fox Posted 22 October 2014 Posted 22 October 2014 Legendary Washington post editor..( all the presidents men) Ben Bradlee dies 93..
ozleicester Posted 22 October 2014 Posted 22 October 2014 That sounds like an impressive and transformative social legacy, Oz, a bit like the Aussie Attlee from the sound of it, although the economy obviously wasn't in great shape (true of most countries outside the Middle East in the mid-70s!). I can just about remember the constitutional crisis being covered in the UK news after the Queen's Governor General sacked Whitlam as Aussie PM (I'd have been 13), so it must have been absolutely massive in Australia. Extraordinary to think that something like that could have happened so recently, even though Australia will have changed almost beyond recognition since 1975. Here's his Wiki entry, including his dismissal - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Whitlam- for anyone who wants an alternative view to John Pilger (a worthwhile investigative journalist but very much one with an agenda - if his cornflakes had run out, he'd see it as part of a CIA conspiracy to promote US establishment interests, I think). Pilger?... an agenda?... never An amazing crisis indeed... the queen (under instruction from our Govener general) Sacked.. yes...Sacked the prime Minister. I think, The single greatest constituational crisis Australia ever faced. An amazing time, i was also around 13 at the time and even to a young person with little/no interest in anything political, it was certainly a mind blowing time... HOWEVER... At the time we had a satirical TV host called "Norman Gunston" (25 years before Partridge) and he was able to infiltrate the press/media pack to be front and centre at this incredible moment... and is a perfect reflection of Australian politics the video starts with him listening in on a discussion with Bob Hawke (the next Labor PM some 8 years later) and finished with him inciting the crowd to hate the replacement PM (Malcom Fraser) infront of Whitlam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9hZ7kjgFh4
Alf Bentley Posted 23 October 2014 Posted 23 October 2014 Alvin Stardust! Gone at 72... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29741028 I bought both his big hit singles at the time (age 11 or 12). I'm not sure that I fully understood what he meant when he sang: "Sweetness, I like your dress, I love the way you know you're the best... Tom cat, you know where it's at. Let's go to my flat. Lay down and groove on the mat". ...but I instinctively liked the sound of "grooving on the mat" with the woman in that dress! In 1973, Alvin probably ranked 3rd in the list of "the sort of man I want to be", behind Brian Ferry and Alan Hudson. Fred Flintstone didn't feature at the time...
surrifox Posted 23 October 2014 Posted 23 October 2014 Alvin Stardust! Gone at 72... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29741028 I bought both his big hit singles at the time (age 11 or 12). I'm not sure that I fully understood what he meant when he sang: "Sweetness, I like your dress, I love the way you know you're the best... Tom cat, you know where it's at. Let's go to my flat. Lay down and groove on the mat". ...but I instinctively liked the sound of "grooving on the mat" with the woman in that dress! In 1973, Alvin probably ranked 3rd in the list of "the sort of man I want to be", behind Brian Ferry and Alan Hudson. Fred Flintstone didn't feature at the time... the tom cat (male) reference is a troubling one though I always thought
Alf Bentley Posted 23 October 2014 Posted 23 October 2014 the tom cat (male) reference is a troubling one though I always thought I always assumed that he was referring to himself as the tom cat inviting the lady in the nice dress to his flat, but now you mention it, what with the leather gear and all... after all, nobody realised what Freddie Mercury of Queen was up to for years (you'd think we might have picked up a clue from the band name!). Even at 11, I always imagined that the lady in the nice dress was one of the participants in the grooving on the mat, even though some of my best friends are gay etc. etc.
Rocket-Ron Posted 23 October 2014 Posted 23 October 2014 Alvin used to scare me to death when I was a kid, what with all that leather and that. But still Judas priest used to scare me also.
Alf Bentley Posted 23 October 2014 Posted 23 October 2014 Alvin used to scare me to death when I was a kid, what with all that leather and that. But still Judas priest used to scare me also. The Judas Priest drummer was jailed for sexual offences against a teenage boy, so your instincts might have been quite good there!
Rincewind Posted 2 November 2014 Posted 2 November 2014 Acker Bilk gone aged 85 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/acker-bilk-dead-iconic-jazz-musician-behind-stranger-on-the-shore-dies-aged-85-9834420.html?dkdk No more Stranger on the Shore now Stranger in paradise.
johnny the fox Posted 2 November 2014 Posted 2 November 2014 Acker Bilk gone aged 85 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/acker-bilk-dead-iconic-jazz-musician-behind-stranger-on-the-shore-dies-aged-85-9834420.html?dkdk No more Stranger on the Shore now Stranger in paradise. Not Acker.. shame..
Rocket-Ron Posted 11 November 2014 Posted 11 November 2014 Big Bank Hank from sugar hill gang. R.I.P.
Rincewind Posted 12 November 2014 Posted 12 November 2014 Carol Annis Susi fromthe Big Bang Theory gone at 62 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/carol-ann-susi-dead-the-big-bang-theory-actress-dies-suddenly-after-battling-aggressive-form-of-cancer-9855175.html
David Guiza Posted 12 November 2014 Posted 12 November 2014 Warren Clarke of Dalziel and Pascoe has passed away. Never clicked that it he played the reformed Policeman in Clockwork Orange before. http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/nov/12/warren-clarke-dies-dalziel-pascoe-clockwork-orange
rico Posted 16 November 2014 Posted 16 November 2014 Glen Larrsson creator of Knight Rider,Buck Rogers and Manimal! Aged 77 ,cancer
johnny the fox Posted 16 November 2014 Posted 16 November 2014 Glen Larrsson creator of Knight Rider,Buck Rogers and Manimal! Aged 77 ,cancer Quincy and magnum PI.. certainly wrote some shight.
separator Posted 16 November 2014 Posted 16 November 2014 Quincy and magnum PI.. certainly wrote some shight.Are you mad? Knight Rider, Quincy & Magnum are some of the greatest TV shows ever created. Off to watch some Manimal on YouTube now. RIP Glenn
johnny the fox Posted 16 November 2014 Posted 16 November 2014 Are you mad? Knight Rider, Quincy & Magnum are some of the greatest TV shows ever created. Off to watch some Manimal on YouTube now. RIP Glenn hope your tongue was in your cheek...any series that was shown on a Saturday afternoon by definition was shight..
separator Posted 16 November 2014 Posted 16 November 2014 hope your tongue was in your cheek...any series that was shown on a Saturday afternoon by definition was shight..No, being serious. Love 80's TV. How can you not like a talking car with ejector seats, a moustached PI tearing up Hawaii in a Ferrari, or a bloke that can turn into into an eagle.
johnny the fox Posted 16 November 2014 Posted 16 November 2014 No, being serious. Love 80's TV. How can you not like a talking car with ejector seats, a moustached PI tearing up Hawaii in a Ferrari, or a bloke that can turn into into an eagle. it just shows the frightening level's of intelligence or lack of... in america, all these series were major hits year after year..as they say.... nobody ever went bust underestimating the the taste and intelligence of the American and British public..
separator Posted 16 November 2014 Posted 16 November 2014 it just shows the frightening level's of intelligence or lack of... in america, all these series were major hits year after year..as they say.... nobody ever went bust underestimating the the taste and intelligence of the American and British public..Quincy was an intelligent show, led the way for all the CSI type shows. Knight Rider was pure entertainment though.
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