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[Boo Radley]

Ray Manzarek, keyboard player with 60s band The Doors, dies, aged 74.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/keyboard-player-of-the-doors-raymanzarek-dies-aged-74-8624605.html

[huumlaar]

OH he was great, saw him on a TV show in Australia, the presenter gave him a tiny toy keyboard to play and he was amazing

[BelgianBoy]

Ray Manzarek, keyboard player with 60s band The Doors, dies, aged 74.

http://www.independe...74-8624605.html

thanks for all the fine music ! RIP

[sayjann]

thanks for all the fine music ! RIP

and also a mention for Trevor Bolder,bassist of 'The Spiders From Mars' fame and who played with Uriah Heep on and off since 1976.

unsung musician and always fun to listen to when interviewed because of his Yorkshire roots was blunt,to the point and just said it as it was.

and not forgetting his fantastic sideburns which caused some trouble at times as he liked to use silver spray-paint on them whilst on-stage.

had roadies scouring the surrounding areas in search of lots of cans.

[Boo Radley]

Mick Mcmanus, English professional wrestler, died 22/05/13 aged 93.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_PFJMRn72I

[sayjann]

Mick Mcmanus, English professional wrestler, died 22/05/13 aged 93.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_PFJMRn72I

a fun part of my saturdays growing up in the UK during the 70's.

wrestling on the goggle-box before the footie results,loved watching Mick,Jackie Pallo,Kendo Nagasaki,Giant Haystacks to name a few.

and don't any fucker in cyberspace try and tell me it was faked........

[Flashermac]

Dad's Army star Bill Pertwee dies aged 86

 

 

 

 

Bill Pertwee, who played Warden Hodges in Dad's Army, has died, his agent has confirmed.

 

The 86-year-old also starred as PC Wilson in You Rang M'Lord? He also appeared in three Carry On films.

 

Agent Meg Poole said he died peacefully on Monday with his family around him. He is survived by his son Jonathan.

 

His Dad's Army character was a greengrocer who became chief air raid warden when World War II broke out. His catchphrase was: "Put that light out!"

 

He was a thorn in the side of Captain Mainwaring and Sgt Wilson (played by Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier respectively), who called him "a common little man".

 

The actor first played the grumpy Dad's Army warden in 1968.

 

The show went on to earn a Bafta for best comedy in 1971 and inspired a film - also starring Pertwee - in the same year.

 

Pertwee was a founder member and the president of the Dad's Army Appreciation Society.

 

His son Jonathan said: "He would give everything a go. He was very dedicated to the people around him and he was very dedicated to his charity work.

 

"But also he was very humble about the whole thing, he was the subject of This is Your Life in 1999, and he'd always think how lucky he was," he added.

 

"He'd say 'marvellous, isn't it, to be in this business', because he said ' I'm not really a proper actor', but he was extraordinarily versatile."

 

Mr Pertwee said his father had a continued affection for Dad's Army.

 

"He loved it. He loved the people in it, it was a big part of his life and he used to have a lot of fun with Clive (Dunn) and John Le Mesurier and Frank Williams and all of them. They just had a a great bond."

 

His agent Ms Poole also paid tribute: "He was a really, really nice man. Very bright, very intelligent.

 

"He came from a big theatrical family, a big showbusiness family, and like all of them it was his life and it was very important to him and he was a hugely professional, very clever man."

 

His wife, actress Marion McLeod, died in 2005.

 

Pertwee was made an MBE in 2006 for his services to charity - he supported children's hospices.

 

In 1957, Pertwee wrote to BBC director and producer Richard Afton in search of his big TV break. In the letter, he mentions his cousin, the actor Jon Pertwee, who became one of the stars of the hit radio comedy The Navy Lark before taking on the title role in Doctor Who in 1970.

 

Bill Pertwee had only been an entertainer for a couple of years when he wrote the letter, having served his apprenticeship in variety halls across the country.

 

His break eventually came with the offer to join the hugely popular radio show Beyond Our Ken with Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams.

 

This lead to appearing in the radio series Round The Horne, again starring Williams and created by Barry Took and Marty Feldman.

 

He also appeared opposite Morecambe and Wise writer Eddie Braben - who died last week - in The Show with Ten Legs.

 

Pertwee's other credits included Carry on Loving, Carry on Girls and Carry On at Your Convenience.

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-22680499

[Boo Radley]

a fun part of my saturdays growing up in the UK during the 70's.

wrestling on the goggle-box before the footie results,loved watching Mick,Jackie Pallo,Kendo Nagasaki,Giant Haystacks to name a few.

and don't any fucker in cyberspace try and tell me it was faked........

Hi sayjann,

You might like this documentary of the old UK wrestling days in the 1970s I saw recently.

Timeshift - When Wrestling was Golden

http://www.bbc.co.uk...s_and_Grannies/

 

Also, don't forget Adrian Street. A bit like a cross between Emma Bunton and a Welsh Coal miner

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKmbPYlRx2g

[sayjann]

Hi sayjann,

You might like this documentary of the old UK wrestling days in the 1970s I saw recently.

Timeshift - When Wrestling was Golden

http://www.bbc.co.uk...s_and_Grannies/

 

Also, don't forget Adrian Street. A bit like a cross between Emma Bunton and a Welsh Coal miner

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKmbPYlRx2g

well done,i knew there was a pretty-boy wrestler but just could'nt remember his name.

[Flashermac]

Jean Stapleton, Who Played Archie Bunker’s Better Angel, Dies at 90

 

 

Jean Stapleton, the character actress whose portrayal of a slow-witted, big-hearted and submissive — up to a point — housewife on the groundbreaking series “All in the Family†made her, along with Mary Tyler Moore and Bea Arthur, not only one of the foremost women in television comedy in the 1970s but a symbol of emergent feminism in American popular culture, died on Friday at her home in New York City. She was 90.

 

Her agent, David Shaul, confirmed her death.

 

Ms. Stapleton, though never an ingénue or a leading lady, was an accomplished theater actress with a few television credits when the producer Norman Lear, who had seen her in the musical “Damn Yankees†on Broadway, asked her to audition for a new series. The audition, for a character named Edith Bunker, changed her life.

 

The show, initially called “Those Were the Days,†was Mr. Lear’s adaptation, for an American audience, of an English series called “Till Death Us Do Part,†about a working-class couple in east London who held reactionary and racist views.

 

It took shape slowly. The producers filmed three different pilots, the show changed networks to CBS from ABC, and Ms. Stapleton acted in a film directed by Mr. Lear, “Cold Turkey,†before “All in the Family,†as it was finally called, was first broadcast in January 1971.

 

For three or four months, hampered by mixed reviews, it struggled to find an audience, but when it did, it became one of the most popular shows in television, finishing first in the Nielsen ratings for five consecutive seasons and winning four consecutive Emmy Awards for outstanding comedy series. Ms. Stapleton won three Emmys of her own, in 1971, ’72 and ’78.

 

“All in the Family†was set in Queens. Most of the action took place in the well-worn but comfortable living room of the Bunker family, led by an irascible loading-dock worker named Archie whose attitudes toward anyone not exactly like him — that is, white, male, conservative and rabidly patriotic — were condescending, smug and demonstrably foolish. Memorably played by Carroll O’Connor, Archie bullied his wife, patronized his daughter, Gloria (Sally Struthers), and infuriated and was infuriated by his live-in son-in-law, a liberal student, Michael Stivic (Rob Reiner), whom he not-so-affectionately called Meathead.

 

Archie employed the vocabulary of a bigot and wielded the unenlightened opinions of a man from a bygone era who refused to admit the world was changing so much that it was no longer his naturally inherited domain.

 

But he was essentially harmless — small-minded but not meanspirited, ignorant but not unfeeling. Critics routinely referred to him as “a lovable bigot,†as if such a thing were possible. Edith loved him, certainly, though he referred to her, in her presence, as a dingbat and was perpetually telling her to shut up. “Stifle yourself,†was how he put it.

 

Edith was none too bright, not intellectually, anyway, which, in the dynamic of the show was the one thing about her that invited Archie’s outward scorn. Ms. Stapleton gave Edith a high-pitched nasal delivery, a frequently baffled expression and a hustling, servile gait that was almost a canter, especially when she was in a panic to get dinner on the table or to bring Archie a beer.

 

But in Edith, Ms. Stapleton also found vast wells of compassion and kindness, a natural delight in the company of other people, and a sense of fairness and justice that irritated her husband to no end and also put him to shame. She was an enormously appealing character, a favorite of audiences, who no doubt saw in the ordinariness of her life a bit of their own, and in her noble spirit a kind of inspiration.

 

Edith was not, like Ms. Moore’s Mary Richards, a spirited young professional seeking traction in a mostly male workplace, nor was she like Ms. Arthur’s Maude, a brassy, clamorously insistent personality.

 

more ...

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/arts/television/jean-stapleton-who-played-archies-better-angel-dies-at-90.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY