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Post by dino on Feb 13, 2008 4:42:35 GMT -5
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Post by manho on Feb 16, 2008 19:56:53 GMT -5
'Daniel Day- Lewis broke down in tears on America’s Oprah Winfrey show. Day-Lewis, 52, who was meant to talk about his Oscar nomination for There Will Be Blood, sobbed: "I would have liked him [Heath Ledger] very much as a man if I had met him. I feel very unsettled."'
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Post by Cat Stevens on Feb 16, 2008 21:02:07 GMT -5
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Post by owen on Feb 17, 2008 7:45:08 GMT -5
well he's hardly gonna say he was a cnut.
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Post by owen on Feb 26, 2008 7:03:47 GMT -5
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Post by Some king on Feb 26, 2008 10:16:20 GMT -5
He's not dead yet, is he?
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Post by manho on Feb 26, 2008 16:07:41 GMT -5
they don't have to be dead. the cool thing is to post on this thread just before they actually die. like i did with amy alehouse.
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Post by owen on Feb 26, 2008 16:30:26 GMT -5
He's not dead yet, is he? nah, hes got cancer. the beards gone. over here, everyone likes him. complete legend. hopefully, he'll pull through. |
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Post by dino on Mar 7, 2008 4:31:43 GMT -5
Norman Smith, who was an engineer for every Beatles recording session from 1962 to 1965 and went on to produce Pink Floyd's first three albums, has died at the age of 85.
Under the name Hurricane Smith, he also enjoyed hit singles in his own right in the early 1970s.
Smith began working for EMI in 1959, and in the absence of producer George Martin was in charge of The Beatles' first session at Abbey Road on June 6, 1962.
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Post by manho on Mar 7, 2008 4:55:58 GMT -5
1973. "Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?" was a Top 10 hit in both the UK and the US for Hurricane Smith. In an episode of "Frasier," he serenades his girlfriend who is about to dump him with this song. www.sendspace.com/file/h3cv0j |
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Post by owen on Mar 7, 2008 8:57:44 GMT -5
he wrote a song for lennon to sing during the beatle years too. the guys liked it but he didnt accept dickie's offer for the rights if i remember correctly.
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Post by toom on Mar 8, 2008 2:25:51 GMT -5
Don't even know this Ronnie fella, what am I missing?
That Hurricane Smith track is a killer. It was a minor hit here when I was 9, I heard it again 30 years later and it blew me away. It was weird in that, the nostalgia in the 70's was for the 50's, and this strange hit harkened back to the 30s?40s? Very unusual for it's day.
RIP Hurricane
What people really don't know is that the Dylan song "Hurricane" is really about this guy, they just assume it's about that boxer, they can't read deep enough into it, fuckers.
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Post by owen on Mar 18, 2008 17:25:48 GMT -5
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Post by manho on Mar 18, 2008 17:43:26 GMT -5
if only he'd made the monolith a stereolith his career would have lasted into the 70s.
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Post by manho on Apr 6, 2008 7:54:10 GMT -5
 "Just received this text message from the big guy. It says: STP FCKG ARND ON ERTH & GT YR ASS UP HRE, CNT." |
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Post by Cat Stevens on Apr 6, 2008 9:11:37 GMT -5
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Post by david on Apr 6, 2008 13:11:32 GMT -5
You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you all to Hell!  RIP |
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Post by manho on Apr 26, 2008 7:22:41 GMT -5
"Musically, the source was Johnny Parker's boogiewoogie piano line on Humphrey Lyttelton's 'Bad Penny Blues', produced by George Martin in 1956." - ian macdonald on lady madonna humphrey lyttelton, bad penny blues: www.sendspace.com/file/8b4x1nJazzman and radio host Lyttelton dies at 86Host of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue dies of aneurysm Tributes paid to trumpeter and jazz bandleader Thair Shaikh The Guardian, Saturday April 26 2008 Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz trumpeter and presenter of the long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, died in hospital last night. He was 86. Lyttelton, who celebrated 60 years as a bandleader in January, was admitted to hospital on April 16 and had undergone surgery on Monday morning to repair an aortic aneurysm, but died following complications. After his admission to Barnet general hospital in north London, the spring series of his show, of which he was chairman since its inception in 1972, was cancelled, prompting a wave of goodwill messages from Radio 4 listeners. Last night his family paid tribute in a statement released on his website: "Humph died peacefully with his family and friends around him on April 25 at 7.00pm after surgery. We would like to thank everyone for their support and express our deep gratitude to the staff of Barnet general for the care they gave Humph." Yesterday Brian Peerless, 69, a university lecturer and jazz promoter who has been a Lyttelton fan for over 50 years, paid tribute, saying the trumpeter had helped him break into the business. "He was diagnosed with the condition [aortic aneurysm] about a month ago. I went to see him in hospital and he was the same as ever. We had a chat and he was talking about doing some more writing, he was very tough." The late George Melly wrote shortly before his death last year: "Humph's intransigence, his determination to 'play as I please' was admirable; he was, like Ronnie Scott, the perfect ambassador for jazz." Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer, said: "Of course he was fabulously funny and sharp. But more than that he was the definition of a certain sort of wit - self-deprecating, mordant and linguistically brilliant." Away from jazz, Lyttelton was also at different times a cartoonist, a restaurant critic for Vogue, and a regular columnist on Punch. But he became a household name for his broadcasting, most notably his deadpan performances as the innuendo-prone chairman of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, where he genially presided over games such as Mornington Crescent. Jazz was Lyttelton's first love. Once a month his band played at the Bull's Head, a small pub in Barnes, south-west London. Lyttleton was born on 23 May 1921 in Eton college, where he was subsequently educated. He fell in love with jazz at an early age and in 1936, having taught himself the trumpet, he formed a jazz quartet at school. During the war, he served as an officer in the Grenadiar Guards. Lyttelton turned down a knighthood in 1995. guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2008 |
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Post by cripes on Apr 26, 2008 14:22:00 GMT -5
Bad Penny Blues was engineered by Joe Meek. He also pretty much produced it. It was his first biggie. He gave it that forward drum sound and his trademark compression. Lyttleton hated it because he couldn't reproduce that sound live, but people believe it was that 'sound' that made the record a hit.
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Post by manho on Apr 30, 2008 7:35:27 GMT -5
 TUNE IN, TURN ON, DROP DEAD |
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