Personally I preferred Steptoe to Hancock, but both were breakthroughs. I understand Hancock turned his back on the writing pair, opting to strike out for pastures new that never came about. They wrote a pilot for a rag and bone sitcom instead...
Swedish scientist Hans Rosling (1948 – 2017) died on Tuesday. He is known for his work on population growth, health and development. He was a wonderful public speaker and his TED Talk is well worth watching:
RIP Alec McCowen, mostly remembered by us as Q (Algernon) in Never Say Never Again -{
RIP Mr McCowen - I thought his best role as the detective in Hitchcock's Frenzy, having to endure his amateur sleuth of a wife's attempt at gourmet gastronomy!
Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
This is a real shock. . .Bill Paxton, a very familiar face in movies, has died from complications of surgery at the young age of 61. I hope we're not in for a repeat of 2016. . .
Slightly amazed he was still alive, and even more amazed that he was two years older than my Dad, who at 88 is very much a Glen Miller, Frank Sinatra guy and never really got rock n roll unless it had a melody first and foremost.
Not a rock star you would warm to really, but maybe put in the same category as the also still alive Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard, in that it was the stage persona back then rather than inner revelations that made you a star; only when white middle class boys came along and did rock in the 60s did all that personal journey stuff become a big deal.
Amazing to list all the songs Chuck Berry did, and which he actually wrote unlike Elvis. Odd that to my knowledge that there's not been a definitive greatest hits album we can all point to.
Johhny B Goode of course, then Memphis Tennessee, Too Much Monkey Business was done by the Beatles on the BBC sessions plus Roll Over Beethoven on the second album, Oh Carol, No Particular Place to Go, Rock N Roll Music (perhaps the best Beatles Chuck Berry cover, on .... For Sale), You Can't Catch Me ('inspired' Beatles Come Together and had to be covered by Lennon later to compensate)... there are just so many of them. Also, You Never Can Tell, immortalised in Pulp Fiction, and Around and Around, brilliantly covered by the Stones.
Actually, I forgot about Buddy Holly. There's one guy who really did write a lot of songs, but you can't place him in the same category as Chuck, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis or Elvis, as he just didn't have that growling sexual energy or any at all.
Brown Eyed Handsome Man - covered by Buddy, written by Chuck. Never knew that.
That said, Chuck did cover Babs' The Way We Were, but I didn't think he did it justice, and should have left off the introductory lick...
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Queen in sapphire for 65 years on throne -{
You will be missed.
Personally I preferred Steptoe to Hancock, but both were breakthroughs. I understand Hancock turned his back on the writing pair, opting to strike out for pastures new that never came about. They wrote a pilot for a rag and bone sitcom instead...
Roger Moore 1927-2017
https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen
RIP Mr McCowen - I thought his best role as the detective in Hitchcock's Frenzy, having to endure his amateur sleuth of a wife's attempt at gourmet gastronomy!
Ivan Koloff
Congratulations to Daniel Craig on becoming the screens second longest serving 007 -{
I also highly recommend his directorial debut Frailty starring Matthew McConnaughey!
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
Fred : "I guess Raymond doesn't want you to be a star in US ?"
Bruce Lee , tad angry : "Sign the contract , Raymond"
Also Antonio Casale aka Bil Carson from legendary western Good Bad Ugly has passed......
RIP Chuck Berry
Not a rock star you would warm to really, but maybe put in the same category as the also still alive Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard, in that it was the stage persona back then rather than inner revelations that made you a star; only when white middle class boys came along and did rock in the 60s did all that personal journey stuff become a big deal.
Amazing to list all the songs Chuck Berry did, and which he actually wrote unlike Elvis. Odd that to my knowledge that there's not been a definitive greatest hits album we can all point to.
Johhny B Goode of course, then Memphis Tennessee, Too Much Monkey Business was done by the Beatles on the BBC sessions plus Roll Over Beethoven on the second album, Oh Carol, No Particular Place to Go, Rock N Roll Music (perhaps the best Beatles Chuck Berry cover, on .... For Sale), You Can't Catch Me ('inspired' Beatles Come Together and had to be covered by Lennon later to compensate)... there are just so many of them. Also, You Never Can Tell, immortalised in Pulp Fiction, and Around and Around, brilliantly covered by the Stones.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Most of the songs Barbra sings wasn't written by her either.
Actually, I forgot about Buddy Holly. There's one guy who really did write a lot of songs, but you can't place him in the same category as Chuck, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis or Elvis, as he just didn't have that growling sexual energy or any at all.
Brown Eyed Handsome Man - covered by Buddy, written by Chuck. Never knew that.
That said, Chuck did cover Babs' The Way We Were, but I didn't think he did it justice, and should have left off the introductory lick...
Roger Moore 1927-2017
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/21/colin-dexter-obituary
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
I always thought the John Thaw television series was better, but I still liked the novels a lot.
One of the last gentleman detective writers
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming