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Post by daz on May 21, 2022 15:06:00 GMT
A Pioneer of elctronic music who did some very fine film scores outwith the usual Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner scores he is most familiar with.
RIP
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Post by daz on May 14, 2022 16:08:37 GMT
What a life he lead though, didn't he? Real boys own stuff, had a career in TV since childhood that lasted for 60 years. A real mans man, loved his bevvy, ciggies, football, music, fishing and female company. Had a music career, toured had singles in the charts and appeared on TOTP all of this whilst appearing in some of the biggest UK TV series of all time. Who wouldn't have wanted not to have had a pint with the man, you could only imagine the stories he could tell. Crammed more into 74 years than most of us would do in 10 lifetimes.
Read a post on Twitter last Sunday from someone who said he went to see a QPR game with his Dad many years ago along with Dennis, who was a friend of his Dad and had Peter Osgood along with him, as you do and that day had remained with him the rest of his life.
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Post by daz on May 8, 2022 15:24:50 GMT
Was very shocked to read that when the BBC website popped up.
RIP Dennis
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Post by daz on May 1, 2022 14:37:22 GMT
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Post by daz on Apr 23, 2022 17:07:22 GMT
Thanks for sharing the link Billy, I wouldn't have seen it otherwise and enjoyed reading it.
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Post by daz on Apr 9, 2022 13:54:31 GMT
Not too long after the passing of the peerless Shirley Hughes too.
Such a shame, but what a legacy he has left behind for future generations to enjoy. My two boys were very fond of his Elmer the Patchwork Elephant books when they were little and we still have them on the shelves.
RIP
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Post by daz on Apr 9, 2022 13:50:25 GMT
One of those people who you thought would go on forever.
RIP
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Post by daz on Apr 9, 2022 13:48:45 GMT
Like above, she only came to me attention recently too. A lot of love shown to her on Twitter, by people who possibly remember her well from the original punk movement.
RIP
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Post by daz on Mar 20, 2022 14:46:47 GMT
Another superb actor has left the stage.
For his many appearences on our screens (140 credits according to IMDB) he will always be best known to me as Guthrie Featherstone from Rumpole of the Bailey,whose appearences with Leo McKern (as Rumpole) were always brilliant TV. I also liked him in Lyttons Diary and which I will have to dig out my DVDs and have a rewatch.
Sad news.
RIP
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Post by daz on Mar 12, 2022 12:14:17 GMT
More sad news. Another face from my early TV watching days gone, although she was still acting up until the end.
RIP
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Post by daz on Mar 12, 2022 12:12:07 GMT
As per Felix, I read his Grandsons post on Twitter on Thursday, very sad news as I would say he was a great character actor.
Just had a face that fitted into any programme or series and I saw him on an episode of The Gentle Touch on Wednesday
RIP
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Post by daz on Feb 5, 2022 18:56:16 GMT
Watched around 8 series of Grange Hill on Britbox last year and have to say Baxter was a very good character. The episode when he found out the other Gym teacher was bullying kids and seeing him deal him a cracking punch to the jaw was superb, proper swift justice. There is also another episode when Benny Green lets him down for the football team for the cup final and Baxter has the hump with him, as he chose to go to area trials on the same day, but when it all finished Baxter tells Green his is proud of him for sticking to his guns and not being swayed by pressure.
A good shout above for Mr Mitchell too.
Have to go for Bronson for my 3rd choice because the actor was was from Aberdeen and he put the fear into kids and exactly the type of teacher I remember well from my Schooldays.
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Post by daz on Jan 29, 2022 14:48:40 GMT
Very sad news and the tributes paid to the man say it all. A proper legend.
RIP
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Post by daz on Jan 22, 2022 17:59:12 GMT
I didn't mind the man, but really didn't like the music.
RIP
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Post by daz on Jan 22, 2022 14:36:26 GMT
What a voice.
RIP Ronnie
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Post by daz on Jan 15, 2022 15:56:51 GMT
I thought he died in real life when he left Brush Strokes. Wasn't until the end of last year that someone else died who appeared in the Vicar of Dibley and I saw that Gary Waldhore was in that and knew he hadn't died. I have never watched Dibley.
RIP
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Post by daz on Jan 8, 2022 15:37:38 GMT
Bar a mention in a billiant early Only Fools and Horses episode, I wasn't really aware of either him or his work until around 3 years ago, when I watched In the Heat of the Night and what a performance. I have seen a few more of his films and undoubtedly a top, top actor.
Actors always bang on about presence and that is something Sidney had in bucketfulls.
RIP Sir
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Post by daz on Dec 11, 2021 20:12:02 GMT
A very important band for the progression of gay rights and their album Age of Consent is a cracking album and which I got a deluxe reissued version of last Xmas and need to give it another play. We have to remember as well it wasn't easy to come out as gay back in the 80s and those three guys from Bronski Beat would have taken some amount of stick for their beliefs back then, especially in Scotland, where both Steve and Jimmy came from, as it was not legal up here until 1980, a full 13 years after England and Wales and I can assure you even then gay people up here were treated quite badly and would say only the past 20 years, possibly a bit longer, that it has become more acceptable.
Smalltown Boy is right up near the top of best songs from the 80s and possibly the top for getting people to accept the right for people to chose how they live their lives without the threat of violence hanging over them.
RIP Steve
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Post by daz on Dec 4, 2021 14:39:51 GMT
One of those players I remember from the Panini sticker albums from back in the day and another of the Liverpool greats gone.
I read an article from Souness who said he wasn't the greatest at anything, but was good at everything and that was why he was a first pick for Bob Paisley.
RIP
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Post by daz on Nov 13, 2021 20:00:19 GMT
A good actor and also founding member of the RSC, whose protrayal of Kessler was simply superb acting and one of my all time favourite series.
RIP
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Post by daz on Oct 2, 2021 19:09:08 GMT
When you have to watch a rubbish team week after week and see strikers on the pitch who couldn't hit a coo's back side with a banjo, you really appreciate the guys like Roger Hunt, Jimmy Greaves, etc, etc who made it all look so effortless.
Never seen the man play, but his record speaks volumes and like most other top strikers from that era, would have scored even more for their clubs in the modern game.
Guys like Hunt, Greaves and Muller, who have all passed away this year might not have become millionaires off the back of the exploits in football, but the respect they have throughout football is something no modern player will ever have.
RIP
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Post by daz on Sept 25, 2021 14:33:04 GMT
His career stats were frightening. Overlooked is the fact he went to Italy and played for AC Milan in the early 60s, when defence was the order of the day and scored a very impressive 9 goals in 15 games and he wasn't even playing as the main striker. Watching clips of him scoring he was more than just a poacher too.
He finished playing at 31, which even for back then was very young.
His much documented battle with alcohol is a very sad story, but the good part was he turned things around and made a second career for himself in the media.
RIP Jimmy
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Post by daz on Sept 25, 2021 14:20:01 GMT
He was very active and well liked on Twitter, where I discovered how huge he was in Serbia. He was also a Twitter friend of the rapper Ice-T.
Boycie has to be one of the best characters from any sitcom.
RIP John.
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Post by daz on Sept 25, 2021 14:14:44 GMT
I thought he passed away a few years ago, but a good innings.
Remember him well from the above mentioned roles, but his appearance in Survivors is a particular favourite of mine.
RIP
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Post by daz on Sept 19, 2021 3:19:32 GMT
A shame. Us 80s kids had a lot to be thankful to Clive for with pioneering computers where for a couple of quid, on top of actually having a computer of course, you could spend hours engrossed in games like Jet Pack, Jet Set Willy and many, many more. Very primative looking back on it now, but it had to start somewhere and we weren't complaining, it kick started the home computer revolution. Just a shame that the huge leap we made in this country in home computing in the 80s fizzled out and the American giants filled the void instead, could and should have been different.
Easy to mock his C5, but you think how important electric cars are going to be in the future it showed once again how ahead of the curve he was, albeit the actual car wasn't a success, but the idea behind it was sound.
I am hoping the Beeb show the brilliant Micro Man as a tribute to him at some point.
RIP Clive and thanks for givings us kids something to do on cold winter evenings back in the 80s.
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Post by daz on Sept 11, 2021 14:24:13 GMT
A shame to read this. A very dependable character actor who appeared in just about everything.
RIP Tony
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Post by daz on Aug 28, 2021 13:06:12 GMT
Not a big fan of the Stones, but everyone knows Charlie, possibly the least rock n roll musician of all time, but rightly classed as one of the best drummers of all time.
Also have respect for they guy for stating he doesn't like drum solo's.
He was the one who kept the peace between Mick n Keith, so be interesting to see if they do carry on.
RIP
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Post by daz on Aug 28, 2021 12:58:27 GMT
I never knew this and shocked to learn he was still only 72. Should have been a far bigger actor than he was.
Was watching him in the excellent Play for Today 'Just a Boy's Game' last month on BBC Scotland and in which he was excellent and proved he could easily do non hard man roles.
Last IMDB entry was from 1999.
RIP
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Post by daz on Aug 21, 2021 13:49:17 GMT
Before my time, but his stats say it all. His record for Germany 63 in 60 games, or something like that, and in a time when you didn't play diddy countries like they do now to rack up goals against, was some going.
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Post by daz on Aug 21, 2021 13:46:11 GMT
A very funny man who I rated very highly and am so fortunate that I saw him live.
I remember him bringing up his cancer as part of his routine and it was good to here him talk about it like that and was shocked to read that it brought his life to an end when I saw it on the BBC on Wednesday. Like most others I never knew he was ill.
He appeared in a lot of things, but you never got sick of him, like you can with other comedians whose mugs you can see too much of on the TV and you knew if you saw him on something you would get a chuckle or three and it always sounded original. A lot of nice tributes paid to the man and not in the usual way we read when someone known dies our of respect, but I think it was a shock to so many.
Have to give 15 Storeys High another watch in tribute to him as was a gem of a comedy.
RIP Sean
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