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,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,RIP whitey,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ><)))):<
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wow - he went the distance.....
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My Little League days glove was a Spaulding Whitey Ford...
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Gordon Haskell, British Musician and Onetime King Crimson Vocalist, Dead at 74
Bassist and singer scored a late-career U.K. hit with "How Wonderful You Are" in 2001
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Spencer Davis, one of the key figures of the 1960s beat scene, has died at the age of 81.
The Welsh guitarist was the driving force behind The Spencer Davis Group, who scored transatlantic hits with Keep On Running and Somebody Help Me.
The band, which also featured a teenage Stevie Winwood, toured with The Who and The Rolling Stones in the 60s.
Davis died in hospital on Monday, while being treated for pneumonia, his agent told the BBC.
He moved to London to work for the civil service at the age of 16, but later relocated to Birmingham, where he taught German by day, and played in local clubs at night.
Inspired by blues and skiffle, he formed a band called The Saints with Bill Wyman, later a member of the Rolling Stones; and performed folk music with Christine Perfect - who, as Christine McVie, became a core member of Fleetwood Mac's classic line-up.
But it was with his eponymous rock group that he struck gold. Formed in 1963, The Spencer Davis Group featured Davis on guitar, a teenage Stevie Winwood on organ and vocals, his brother Muff on bass and Peter York on drums.
Originally called The Rhythm & Blues Quartette, they changed their name in 1964 when Muff pointed out that Davis was the only one who enjoyed doing interviews - the logic being that the rest of the band could slope off to the pub while he handled the press.
Their breakout hit, Keep On Running, was a cover of a song by West Indian performer Jackie Edwards.
When it topped the UK charts in 1966, it knocked the double A-sided Beatles single We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper from the top slot - and Davis received a telegram from the band congratulating him on the achievement.
"It's in a pile of papers somewhere," he told the BBC in 2009. "It said, 'Congratulations on reaching number one - The Beatles.'"
The follow-up was delayed when Davis bashed his head on a car windscreen after braking to avoid a dog - but Somebody Help Me, another Jackie Davis cover, gave the quartet a second number one in March 1966.
The band went on to prove they had songwriting chops of their own, with hit singles like I'm A Man and Gimme Some Lovin', which was later covered by The Blues Brothers.
However, the Spencer Davis Group came to an untimely end in 1967 when, at the height of their fame, Winwood quit to form Traffic, leaving Davis without his dynamic frontman.
Spencer Davis, one of rock's elder statesmen, dies aged 81
The Welsh musician was behind transatlantic hits such as Keep On Running and Somebody Help Me.
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Spencer Davis, one of the key figures of the 1960s beat scene, has died at the age of 81.
The Welsh guitarist was the driving force behind The Spencer Davis Group, who scored transatlantic hits with Keep On Running and Somebody Help Me.
The band, which also featured a teenage Stevie Winwood, toured with The Who and The Rolling Stones in the 60s.
Davis died in hospital on Monday, while being treated for pneumonia, his agent told the BBC.
Telegram from the Beatles
The son of a paratrooper, Davis was born in Swansea in 1939 and first started learning harmonica and the accordion at the age of six.He moved to London to work for the civil service at the age of 16, but later relocated to Birmingham, where he taught German by day, and played in local clubs at night.
Inspired by blues and skiffle, he formed a band called The Saints with Bill Wyman, later a member of the Rolling Stones; and performed folk music with Christine Perfect - who, as Christine McVie, became a core member of Fleetwood Mac's classic line-up.
But it was with his eponymous rock group that he struck gold. Formed in 1963, The Spencer Davis Group featured Davis on guitar, a teenage Stevie Winwood on organ and vocals, his brother Muff on bass and Peter York on drums.
Originally called The Rhythm & Blues Quartette, they changed their name in 1964 when Muff pointed out that Davis was the only one who enjoyed doing interviews - the logic being that the rest of the band could slope off to the pub while he handled the press.
Their breakout hit, Keep On Running, was a cover of a song by West Indian performer Jackie Edwards.
When it topped the UK charts in 1966, it knocked the double A-sided Beatles single We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper from the top slot - and Davis received a telegram from the band congratulating him on the achievement.
"It's in a pile of papers somewhere," he told the BBC in 2009. "It said, 'Congratulations on reaching number one - The Beatles.'"
The follow-up was delayed when Davis bashed his head on a car windscreen after braking to avoid a dog - but Somebody Help Me, another Jackie Davis cover, gave the quartet a second number one in March 1966.
The band went on to prove they had songwriting chops of their own, with hit singles like I'm A Man and Gimme Some Lovin', which was later covered by The Blues Brothers.
However, the Spencer Davis Group came to an untimely end in 1967 when, at the height of their fame, Winwood quit to form Traffic, leaving Davis without his dynamic frontman.
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Jerry Jeff Walker, Country Singer Who Wrote ‘Mr. Bojangles,’ Dies at 78
Jerry Jeff Walker, the folk-country singer-songwriter best known for the late-’60s hit “Mr. Bojangles,” died Friday at age 78, CNY News reported.Walker, who was born Ronald Clyde Crosby, had battled with throat cancer three years ago and subsequently released a 2018 album, “It’s About Time.” A...
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I knew this man, he was a good friend to my Brother and paid respects at my Fathers wake 15yrs ago. I knew him when I did live in the village.
RIP James Bond, Henry Jones Sr., PhD, Raisuli, and Captain Ramius.
What to watch tonight in his honor, Dr. No, The Last Crusade, The Wind and the Lion or The Hunt for Red October???
Sean Connery, Oscar Winner and James Bond Star, Dies at 90
What to watch tonight in his honor, Dr. No, The Last Crusade, The Wind and the Lion or The Hunt for Red October???
Sean Connery, Oscar Winner and James Bond Star, Dies at 90
RIP
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one of a kind
Before he was “Bond, James Bond,” Connery was just another kid in a working-class neighborhood in Fountainbridge, Scotland. Born on Aug. 25, 1930, to Joe and Euphamia Connery, “Tommy” ― as he was nicknamed ― spent his first years sleeping in a drawer, as his parents were unable to afford a crib.
“My background was harsh,” Connery has acknowledged. “We were poor, but I never knew how poor till years after.”
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RIP Alex Trebek
Wow - talented but troubled, 60 years old
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World Cup legend Diego Maradona dies at 60
Diego Maradona, one of the greatest players in soccer history, has died at 60, the Argentina Football Association confirmed Wednesday.
So long Darth Vader. Just learned he was in one of my favorite flicks, A Clockwork Orange...
Dave Prowse, left, alongside probably his most famous character, Darth Vader, at a fan convention in Cusset, France, in 2013.Credit...Thierry Zoccolan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Dave Prowse, the British actor who gave the imposing physical presence — but not the voice — to Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, died on Saturday in a hospital in London. He was 85.
Mr. Prowse’s death was confirmed by Thomas Bowington, his agent, in a telephone interview. Mr. Prowse’s family did not release a cause of death, but he retired in 2016 because of ill health, Mr. Bowington said.
Standing 6-foot-6 and with a figure honed from years of weight lifting (he was once the British heavyweight champion), Mr. Prowse had the perfect presence for the role of Darth Vader, whom he played in 1977’s “Star Wars,” in “The Empire Strikes Back” in 1980 and in “Return of the Jedi” in 1983.
Mr. Prouse, left, in 1978. He was the British heavyweight champion in weight lifting in the 1960s.Credit...Colin Davey/Evening Standard, via Getty Images
He was scouted for the role by George Lucas, the franchise’s creator, who had seen Mr. Prowse play a bodyguard in Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.”
Mr. Lucas actually offered Mr. Prowse a choice of roles for the original “Star Wars”: Chewbacca, the hairy, gentle giant and a hero in the franchise; or Darth Vader, the arch-villain. Mr. Prowse told the BBC in a 2013 interview that the choice had been simple. “I said, ‘Well, don’t say any more, George, I’ll have the villain’s part,’” Mr. Prowse recalled. “You always remember the bad guy.”
There was another reason he turned down Chewbecca, he added: “I thought, ‘Oh, God no, three months in a gorilla skin, no thank you very much.’”
Mr. Prowse’s voice had the distinctive agricultural tones of someone born in Bristol, in southwest England, and many believe that is why he did not get to voice Darth Vader. His lines were instead overdubbed by James Earl Jones after filming had finished.
From left, Peter Cushing, George Lucas, Carrie Fisher and Mr. Prowse on the set of the first “Star Wars” movie, which was released in 1977.Credit...Sunset Boulevard/Corbis, via Getty Images
In the BBC interview, Mr. Prowse claimed that it was not actually his accent that had led to the change. Wearing Darth Vader’s mask had caused his lines to come out muffled during filming, he said, and Mr. Lucas did not have time to fly him out to America to overdub the lines afterward.
Mr. Prowse only learned that his voice was missing from the film at its premiere. “I’m watching the film and all of a sudden this strange voice comes over,” he told the BBC in the 2013 interview. “I thought, ‘Oh, goodness me, that’s not me.’” But he said that Mr. Jones had been “a great choice” for the part and the pair became friends.
But some said the change was inevitable because of his accent. “They always knew they were not going to use that voice,” Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the films, said in a 2016 BBC interview. “We called him Darth Farmer.”
Mr. Prowse’s face and voice could have finally made an appearance in the franchise in “The Return of the Jedi” when Luke Skywalker (played by Mark Hamill) removes Darth Vader’s mask so that the pair can look at each other. But Mr. Lucas instead decided to use the actor Sebastian Shaw to play the character in that moment.
In some fight scenes, Darth Vader was also played by Bob Anderson, a fencer and stunt double.
Regardless of the changes, Mr. Prowse was always a favorite of “Star Wars” fans and spent much of his life afterward attending conventions and dealing with fan mail — some of it of a salacious nature from women who found his suit sexy, he told Jackie Collins in a 1980 interview.
Mr. Prowse posing with fans dressed up as Star Wars characters in Cusset in 2013.Credit...Thierry Zoccolan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
David Charles Prowse was born in Bristol in July 1935. His first passion was not acting but bodybuilding and he won the British heavyweight championship in weight lifting in the 1960s. Once he moved into acting, his first roles were mainly as monsters in horror movies.
In Britain, he became more widely known when he got the part of the Green Cross Code Man, a superhero who promoted road safety. He appeared as the character in a government television campaign and also toured schools to encourage children to stop, look and listen before crossing the street.
The British government almost fired him from that role after “Star Wars” came out, Mr. Prowse told Ms. Collins in the 1980 interview, because they felt Darth Vader’s image could clash with a road safety campaign.
That campaign ran until 1990, and Mr. Prowse wrote in a 2014 piece for The Guardian that it was “the best job I’ve ever had, including my Star Wars role, and by far my proudest achievement.” But even in Britain, Mr. Prowse will most likely be remembered more for being the man behind the suit in “Star Wars” than anything else.
He is survived by Norma Scammell, his wife; and three children, Mr. Bowington said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/...tion=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article
Dave Prowse, Man Behind Darth Vader’s Mask, Is Dead at 85
Mr. Prowse went from being a weight lifting champion in Britain to helping portray one of the most iconic villains in movie history. But his voice did not make the edit.
Dave Prowse, left, alongside probably his most famous character, Darth Vader, at a fan convention in Cusset, France, in 2013.Credit...Thierry Zoccolan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Dave Prowse, the British actor who gave the imposing physical presence — but not the voice — to Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, died on Saturday in a hospital in London. He was 85.
Mr. Prowse’s death was confirmed by Thomas Bowington, his agent, in a telephone interview. Mr. Prowse’s family did not release a cause of death, but he retired in 2016 because of ill health, Mr. Bowington said.
Standing 6-foot-6 and with a figure honed from years of weight lifting (he was once the British heavyweight champion), Mr. Prowse had the perfect presence for the role of Darth Vader, whom he played in 1977’s “Star Wars,” in “The Empire Strikes Back” in 1980 and in “Return of the Jedi” in 1983.
Mr. Prouse, left, in 1978. He was the British heavyweight champion in weight lifting in the 1960s.Credit...Colin Davey/Evening Standard, via Getty Images
He was scouted for the role by George Lucas, the franchise’s creator, who had seen Mr. Prowse play a bodyguard in Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.”
Mr. Lucas actually offered Mr. Prowse a choice of roles for the original “Star Wars”: Chewbacca, the hairy, gentle giant and a hero in the franchise; or Darth Vader, the arch-villain. Mr. Prowse told the BBC in a 2013 interview that the choice had been simple. “I said, ‘Well, don’t say any more, George, I’ll have the villain’s part,’” Mr. Prowse recalled. “You always remember the bad guy.”
There was another reason he turned down Chewbecca, he added: “I thought, ‘Oh, God no, three months in a gorilla skin, no thank you very much.’”
Mr. Prowse’s voice had the distinctive agricultural tones of someone born in Bristol, in southwest England, and many believe that is why he did not get to voice Darth Vader. His lines were instead overdubbed by James Earl Jones after filming had finished.
From left, Peter Cushing, George Lucas, Carrie Fisher and Mr. Prowse on the set of the first “Star Wars” movie, which was released in 1977.Credit...Sunset Boulevard/Corbis, via Getty Images
In the BBC interview, Mr. Prowse claimed that it was not actually his accent that had led to the change. Wearing Darth Vader’s mask had caused his lines to come out muffled during filming, he said, and Mr. Lucas did not have time to fly him out to America to overdub the lines afterward.
Mr. Prowse only learned that his voice was missing from the film at its premiere. “I’m watching the film and all of a sudden this strange voice comes over,” he told the BBC in the 2013 interview. “I thought, ‘Oh, goodness me, that’s not me.’” But he said that Mr. Jones had been “a great choice” for the part and the pair became friends.
But some said the change was inevitable because of his accent. “They always knew they were not going to use that voice,” Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the films, said in a 2016 BBC interview. “We called him Darth Farmer.”
Mr. Prowse’s face and voice could have finally made an appearance in the franchise in “The Return of the Jedi” when Luke Skywalker (played by Mark Hamill) removes Darth Vader’s mask so that the pair can look at each other. But Mr. Lucas instead decided to use the actor Sebastian Shaw to play the character in that moment.
In some fight scenes, Darth Vader was also played by Bob Anderson, a fencer and stunt double.
Regardless of the changes, Mr. Prowse was always a favorite of “Star Wars” fans and spent much of his life afterward attending conventions and dealing with fan mail — some of it of a salacious nature from women who found his suit sexy, he told Jackie Collins in a 1980 interview.
Mr. Prowse posing with fans dressed up as Star Wars characters in Cusset in 2013.Credit...Thierry Zoccolan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
David Charles Prowse was born in Bristol in July 1935. His first passion was not acting but bodybuilding and he won the British heavyweight championship in weight lifting in the 1960s. Once he moved into acting, his first roles were mainly as monsters in horror movies.
In Britain, he became more widely known when he got the part of the Green Cross Code Man, a superhero who promoted road safety. He appeared as the character in a government television campaign and also toured schools to encourage children to stop, look and listen before crossing the street.
The British government almost fired him from that role after “Star Wars” came out, Mr. Prowse told Ms. Collins in the 1980 interview, because they felt Darth Vader’s image could clash with a road safety campaign.
That campaign ran until 1990, and Mr. Prowse wrote in a 2014 piece for The Guardian that it was “the best job I’ve ever had, including my Star Wars role, and by far my proudest achievement.” But even in Britain, Mr. Prowse will most likely be remembered more for being the man behind the suit in “Star Wars” than anything else.
He is survived by Norma Scammell, his wife; and three children, Mr. Bowington said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/...tion=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article
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