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Australia
Australia (
/əˈstreɪljə/), officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent as well as the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.
For at least 40,000 years before European settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who belonged to one or more of roughly 250 language groups. After discovery by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five self-governing Crown Colonies were established.
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Brazil
i/brəˈzɪl/ (Portuguese: Brasil, IPA: [bɾaˈziw]), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil, listen (help·info)), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of 7,491 km (4,655 mi). It is bordered on the north by Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas region of French Guiana; on the northwest by Colombia; on the west by Bolivia and Peru; on the southwest by Argentina and Paraguay and on the south by Uruguay. Numerous archipelagos form part of Brazilian territory, such as Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Saint Peter and Paul Rocks, and Trindade and Martim Vaz. It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile.
Brazil was a colony of Portugal from the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 until 1815, when it was elevated to the rank of kingdom and the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves was formed. The colonial bond was in fact broken in 1808, when the capital of the Portuguese colonial empire was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, after Napoleon invaded Portugal.Independence was achieved in 1822 with the formation of the Empire of Brazil, a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system. The country became a presidential republic in 1889, when a military coup d'état proclaimed the Republic, although the bicameral legislature, now called Congress, dates back to the ratification of the first constitution in 1824. Its current Constitution, formulated in 1988, defines Brazil as a Federal Republic. The Federation is formed by the union of the Federal District, the 26 States, and the 5,564 Municipalities.
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City of London
The City of London is an area in central London, England. In the medieval period it constituted most of London, but the conurbation has grown far beyond it. As the City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, it is now only a tiny part of the metropolis, though it remains a notable part of central London, holds city status in its own right, and is a separate ceremonial county.
It is often referred to as the City (often written on maps as "City") or the Square Mile, as it is just over one square mile (1.12 sq mi/2.90 km2) in area. These terms are also often used as metonyms for the United Kingdom's financial services industry, which continues a notable history of being based in the City.
The term London now refers to a much larger conurbation roughly corresponding to Greater London, a local government area which includes 32 London boroughs including the City of Westminster as well as the City of London. The local authority for the City, the City of London Corporation, is unique in the United Kingdom, and has some unusual responsibilities for a local authority in Britain, such as being the police authority for the City. It also has responsibilities and ownerships beyond the City's boundaries. The Corporation is headed by the Lord Mayor of the City of London, an office separate from (and much older than) the Mayor of London.
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Italy
Italyi/ˈɪtəli/ (Italian: Italia [iˈtaːlja]), officially the Italian Republic or the Republic of Italy (Italian: Repubblica italiana), is a unitary parliamentary republic in south-central Europe. To the north, it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south, it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia–the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea–and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some 301,338 km2 (116,347 sq mi) and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.6 million inhabitants, it is the fifth most populous country in Europe, and the 23rd most populous in the world.
Rome, the capital of Italy, was for centuries a political and religious centre of Western civilisation as the capital of the Roman Empire and site of the Holy See. After the decline of the Roman Empire, Italy endured numerous invasions by foreign peoples, from Germanic tribes such as the Lombards and Ostrogoths, to the Byzantines and later, the Normans, among others. Centuries later, Italy became the birthplace of Maritime republics and the Renaissance, an immensely fruitful intellectual movement that would prove to be integral in shaping the subsequent course of European thought.
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Lancashire
Lancashire ( /ˈlæŋkəʃər/ or, less commonly, /ˈlæŋkəʃɪər/) is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston. Lancashire is sometimes referred to by the abbreviation Lancs, as originally used by the Royal Mail. The population of the county is 1,449,700. People from the county are known as Lancastrians.
The history of Lancashire is thought to have begun with its founding in the 12th century. In the Domesday Book (1086), some of its lands had been treated as part of Yorkshire. The land that lay Inter Ripam et Mersam, "between the Ribble and Mersey", formed part of the returns for Cheshire. Once its initial boundaries were established, it bordered Cumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire and Cheshire.
Lancashire emerged during the Industrial Revolution as a major commercial and industrial region. The county encompassed several hundred mill towns and collieries. By the 1830s, approximately 85% of all cotton manufactured worldwide was processed in Lancashire.Preston, Accrington, Blackburn, Bolton, Rochdale, Oldham, Chorley, Darwen, Nelson, Colne and Burnley were major cotton mill towns during this time. Blackpool was a major centre for tourism for the inhabitants of Lancashire's mill towns, particularly during wakes week.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth (i/ˈpɔːtsməθ/) is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island. It is situated 64 miles (103 km) south west from London and 19 miles (31 km) south east from Southampton.
As a significant naval port for centuries, Portsmouth is home to the world's oldest dry dock still in use and also home to some famous ships, including HMS Warrior, the Tudor carrack Mary Rose and Lord Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory. Although smaller than in its heyday, the naval base remains a major dockyard and base for the Royal Navy and Royal Marine Commandos whose Headquarters resides there. There is also a thriving commercial ferryport serving destinations on the continent for freight and passenger traffic. The City of Portsmouth and Portsmouth Football Club are both nicknamed Pompey.
The Spinnaker Tower is a striking recent addition to the city's skyline. It can be found in the redeveloped former HMS Vernon, formerly a shore establishment or 'stone frigate' of the Royal Navy, now an area of retail outlets, restaurants, clubs and bars now known as Gunwharf Quays.
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Verona
Verona (Italian pronunciation: [veˈroːna] (
listen); Venetian Verona (pron. Veròna); German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of northeast Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona covers an area of 1,426 km2 (550.58 sq mi) and has a population of 714,274 inhabitants. It is one of the main tourist destinations in northern Italy, owing to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows, and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheatre built by the Romans.
The city has been awarded World Heritage Site status by UNESCO because of its urban structure and architecture.
The precise details of Verona's early history remain a mystery. The origin of the name Verona is also unknown. One theory is it was a city of the Euganei, who were obliged to give it up to the Cenomani (550 BC). With the conquest of the Vaecame Roman (about 300 BC) Verona became a Roman colonia in 89 BC, and then a municipium in 49 BC; Verona had the franchise in 59.
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Wales
Walesi/ˈweɪlz/ (Welsh: Cymru;Welsh pronunciation: [ˈkəm.rɨ] ( listen)) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain,bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km2 (8,023 sq mi). Wales has over 1,200 km (750 mi) of coastline, including its offshore islands; the largest, Anglesey (Ynys Môn), is also the largest island in the Irish Sea. Wales is largely mountainous, with its highest peaks in the north and central areas, especially in Snowdonia (Eryri), which contains Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), its highest summit.
During the Iron Age and early medieval period, Wales was inhabited by the Celtic Britons. A distinct Welsh national identity emerged in the centuries after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, and Wales is regarded as one of the modern Celtic nations today. Gruffydd ap Llywelyn was recognised as King of Wales in 1057. Llywelyn ap Gruffydd's death in 1282 marked the completion of Edward I of England's conquest of Wales. The castles and town walls erected to ensure its permanence are now UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Owain Glyndŵr briefly restored independence to what was to become modern Wales, in the early 15th century. Wales was subsequently annexed by England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542 since when, excluding those matters now devolved to Wales, English law has been the legal system of Wales and England. Distinctive Welsh politics developed in the 19th century. Welsh Liberalism, exemplified in the early 20th century by Lloyd George, was displaced by the growth of socialism and the Labour Party. Welsh national feeling grew over the century; Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and The Welsh Language Society in 1962. The National Assembly for Wales, created in 1999 following a referendum, holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters.
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York
York (locali/ˈjɔːk/) is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence. The city offers a wealth of historic attractions, of which York Minster is the most prominent, and a variety of cultural and sporting activities.
The city was founded by the Romans in 71 AD, under the name of Eboracum. It became in turn the capital of the Roman province of Britannia Inferior, and of the kingdoms of Northumbria and Jorvik. In the Middle Ages, York grew as a major wool trading centre and became the capital of the northern ecclesiastical province of the Church of England, a role it has retained.
In the 19th century York became a hub of the railway network and a confectionery manufacturing centre. In recent decades, the economy of York has moved from being dominated by its confectionery and railway-related industries to one that provides services. The University of York and health services have become major employers, whilst tourism has become an important element of the local economy.
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Alan Freeman
Alan Leslie "Fluff" Freeman, MBE (6 July 1927 – 27 November 2006) was a British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years.
Born and educated in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Freeman worked as an assistant paymaster/accountant for one of Australia's largest timber companies after leaving school.
Freeman originally wanted to be an opera singer, but decided his voice was not strong enough. In 1952 he was invited to audition as a radio announcer and commenced working for 7LA in Tasmania, known as the teenager's station. Freeman's duties included that of continuity announcer; presenter of musical programmes incorporating opera, ballet and classical music; DJ for the top 100; news reader; quiz master and commercials reader.
After moving to radio station 3KZ in Melbourne, in 1957 he took an agreed nine-month trip around the world with the promise to return to Melbourne by January 1958. He arrived in London, England, and on deciding to stay wrote numerous letters of delay, and later apology, to his former employer.
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Andy Crane
Howard Andrew 'Andy' Crane (born 24 February 1964, Manchester) is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting Children's BBC between 1987 and 1990 and for his current work as presenter on BBC Radio Manchester.
Crane started his career in radio before applying for Children's BBC in 1987, taking over as sole presenter from Philip Schofield. This role saw him present the interstitial sections of the schedule through the use of in-vision continuity. Presenting from the continuity announcer's booth, nicknamed 'The Broom Cupboard', Crane presented links on until leaving in 1990, to be replaced by Andi Peters. In addition to Children's BBC, Crane also acted as a relief presenter on Top of the Pops in 1988 and 1989 and was famously thrown into the gunk tank on the first Comic Relief telethon. After leaving the BBC, Crane moved to present the hit technology magazine Bad Influence!, for CITV, between 1992 to 1996. He also presented Motormouth and What's Up Doc? on weekend mornings during the early 1990s. From 1997 to 1999, Andy was one of the in-vision continuity presenters on Challenge TV. He later appeared on the television show Banzai, where he put random items on a washing machine and viewers at home could bet on which would fall off first.
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Andy Peebles
Andy Peebles (born 13 December 1948 in Hampstead, London) is a radio DJ.
The son of a head postmaster, Peebles attended Bishop's Stortford College, Hertfordshire before training in hotel management at Bournemouth College Of Technology. After DJing at a college dance he was offered a job at Samantha's in Bournemouth. He worked at Chelsea Village,The Scotch of St James in London and at the Hardrock in Manchester.
He began his broadcasting career in 1973, presenting a Saturday morning show for BBC Radio Manchester. In 1974, Peebles helped launch Manchester's Piccadilly Radio where he first broadcast Andy Peebles' Soul Train, before joining BBC Radio 1 in 1978, where he presented the Monday-Thursday 8-10pm evening show.
In September 1979, Peebles briefly presented weekday afternoons, taking over from Tony Blackburn, before moving to a 10.30am-12.30pm weekday show.
Peebles' name was thrust into the media spotlight in December 1980 when John Lennon was murdered in New York. He had conducted the last British media interview with Lennon at the Hit Factory recording studio, two days before Lennon's death. The Lennon interview was later published in print as The Lennon Tapes, now in print as The Last Lennon Tapes.
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Anthea Turner
Anthea Millicent Turner (born 25 May 1960) is an English television presenter and media personality.
Turner was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire and educated there at the independent St. Dominic's High School (since demolished) in Hartshill.
Turner joined BBC Radio Stoke as a runner, eventually joining breakfast show presenter Bruno Brookes as part of his crew. The couple became romantically involved and employed Peter Powell as an agent through his management company.
Turner moved into television through Sky Channel presenting live music programmes from July 1986 to 1989. Her debut on national television was with the BBC on But First This, which led to her fronting two series for the BBC on the Saturday morning show Up2U.
The short-lived Saturday morning children's show UP2U was a flop, and is chiefly remembered for a motorcycle stunt that went wrong. Turner suffered burns and temporary hearing loss, which led to her successful lawsuit against the BBC.
She was the only non-Radio One DJ to regularly present Top of the Pops, remaining with the programme for three years.
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Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips OBE (born 22 May 1943) is an English choreographer, theatre director, talent scout, TV presenter, TV judge and former dancer, who has worked in many fields of entertainment. For many years she was most noted as the choreographer of numerous West End and Broadway musicals, films and television shows, but she has since achieved mainstream fame as a judge on television talent shows including Strictly Come Dancing and So You Think You Can Dance. On 15 April 2010, she made her first appearance as a panellist for the ITV1 television series Loose Women.
Phillips was born in 1943 and grew up in Prestwich, Lancashire, England. She is Jewish and has a brother, Ian and a sister, Karen. When Phillips was 15, her mother, who had been suffering from leukaemia, died aged 43. Her father died of Alzheimer's at age 89.
Phillips originally wanted to be a ballet dancer and began dance classes at the age of three, studying ballet and tap dance at the Muriel Tweedy School in Manchester. Her mother had always expressed a desire to dance, which inspired Phillips into pursuing dance professionally.
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Arthur Scargill
Arthur Scargill (born 11 January 1938) is a British politician and trade unionist who was president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002, leading the union through the 1984/85 miners' strike, a key event in British labour and political history. A former Labour Party member, he is now the leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), which he founded in 1996.
Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale, Barnsley, Yorkshire. His father, Harold, was a miner and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. His mother Alice (née Pickering) was a professional cook. Arthur was doted on by his parents as he was an only child, and his mother had previously been told that she was unable to have children[citation needed]. He did not take the Eleven Plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School (now called the Elmhirst School), leaving at 15 to become a coal miner at Woolley Colliery from 1953, where he became the pit delegate ten years later. Scargill was a member of the Young Communist League from 1955 to 1962, when he joined the Labour Party.
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Barry Cryer
Barry Charles Cryer OBE (born 23 March 1935) is a British writer and comedian. Cryer has written for many noted performers, including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise.
Cryer also wrote episodes for the Doctor in the House television comedy series in Britain.
Cryer was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Educated at Leeds Grammar School, he went on to study English Literature at the University of Leeds. He has lived in Hatch End, a suburb of Pinner, since 1967.
After appearing in University revue, Cryer was offered a week's work at the famous Leeds City Varieties theatre, home of The Good Old Days, the longest-running television entertainment show in the world. Cryer left university after learning his first year results and travelled to London. After impressing impresario Vivian Van Damm, Cryer began the bottom billing act at the Windmill Theatre in London, a theatre which showed comedy acts in between nude tableau shows.
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Billy Connolly
William "Billy" Connolly, Jr., CBE (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname 'The Big Yin' ('The Big One'). His first trade, in the early 1960s, was as a welder (specifically a boilermaker) in the Glasgow shipyards, but he gave it up towards the end of the decade to pursue a career as a folk singer in the Humblebums and subsequently as a soloist. In the early 1970s, he made the transition from folk-singer with a comedic persona to full-fledged comedian.
Connolly is also an actor, and has appeared in such films as Indecent Proposal (1993); Muppet Treasure Island (1996); Mrs. Brown (1997), for which he was nominated for a BAFTA; The Boondock Saints (1999); The Man Who Sued God (2001); Water (1985); The Last Samurai (2003); Timeline (2003); Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004); Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006); Open Season (2006); The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008); and Open Season 2 (2008). Connolly reprised his role as Noah "Il Duce" MacManus in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day. Connolly appears as the King of Lilliput in the 2010 remake of Gulliver′s Travels.
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Billy Fury
Billy Fury (17 April 1940 - 28 January 1983), born Ronald Wycherley, was an internationally successful English singer from the late-1950s to the mid-1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. Rheumatic fever, which he first contracted as a child, damaged his heart and ultimately contributed to his death. An early British rock and roll (and film) star, he equalled The Beatles' record of 24 hits in the 1960s, and spent 332 weeks on the UK charts, without a chart-topping single or album.Allmusic journalist, Bruce Eder, stated, "His mix of rough-hewn good looks and unassuming masculinity, coupled with an underlying vulnerability, all presented with a good voice and some serious musical talent, helped turn Fury into a major rock and roll star in short order". Others have suggested that Fury's rapid rise to prominence was due to his "Elvis Presley-influenced, hip-swivelling, and at times highly suggestive stage act."
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Bruno Brookes
Bruno Brookes (born Trevor Neil Brookes in Stoke-on-Trent, 24 April 1959) is a British radio presenter who became prominent in the 1980s.
Brookes attended Bradwell and Seabridge High Schools. He became a disc jockey through youth club discos in his home town before he sent a successful audition tape to his local station, BBC Radio Stoke. He used to wash cars in order to raise money for buying equipment. He spent three years there before being recruited by BBC Radio 1, the national pop network, where he worked as a stand-in presenter for Steve Wright before taking over the teatime show from Peter Powell.
In addition to this show, Brookes presented a rundown of the UK Top 40 singles chart on Sunday evenings between 1986 and 1990 and between 1992 and 1995.
In 1989, Brookes moved to the weekend breakfast show, co-hosting with Liz Kershaw, and also regularly deputised for Simon Mayo on the weekday breakfast show. Three years later he moved to the weekday early breakfast slot, where he remained until he was sacked in 1995 by Trevor Dann, who said "...why is Bruno on? you know, he seems to have a charmed life, because if the view was 'we must get rid of the dinosaurs', you know we've got this behemoth striding the airwaves of dawn" in the BBC TV Documentary Blood On The Carpet: Walking With Disc Jockeys in 2001.
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Burt Reynolds
Burton Milo "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. (born February 11, 1936) is an American actor, director and voice artist. Some of his memorable roles include Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Bobby "Gator" McCluskey in White Lightning and sequel Gator, Paul Crewe and Coach Nate Scarborough in The Longest Yard and its 2005 remake respectively, Billy Clyde Puckett in Semi-Tough, J.J. McClure in The Cannonball Run, the voice of Charlie B. Barkin in All Dogs Go to Heaven, and Jack Horner in Boogie Nights.
Reynolds' parents were Burton Milo Reynolds, Sr. (1906–2002), who had Cherokee and Irish ancestry, and his wife, Fern H. (née Miller). Reynolds was born in Lansing, Michigan. He states in his autobiography that his family was living in Lansing, Michigan, when his father was drafted into the United States Army. Reynolds, his mother and his sister joined his father at Fort Leonard Wood, where they lived for two years. When Reynolds's father was sent to Europe, the family returned to Lansing. In 1946, Reynolds moved to Riviera Beach, Florida, with his parents. His father, Burt Sr., later became Chief of Police of Riviera Beach. Riviera Beach is the next town north of West Palm Beach.
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Chris Moyles
Christopher David Moyles (born 22 February 1974) is an English radio and television presenter and author, who currently presents The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 and Chris Moyles' Quiz Night on Channel 4.
Born in Leeds, he attended Mount St Mary's Catholic High School in Leeds and volunteered to work at WBHS (Wakefield's Broadcast to Hospitals Service). He has worked at various radio stations including Radio Luxembourg (under the pseudonym Chris Holmes) and Capital FM. Moyles moved to BBC Radio 1 in 1997 and has remained there ever since, presenting the early breakfast show, a Saturday morning show, the drive time show and currently, the breakfast show. On 7 September 2009 he became Radio 1's longest serving breakfast presenter. Moyles has become famous for his irreverent broadcasting style on Radio 1 and has been embroiled in numerous controversies, including homophobic and sexist accusations, due to statements he has made on the air and in the press. Despite that, Moyles' regular audience figures averages 8 million listeners per annum, and remains one of the more popular presenters on BBC Radio 1.
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Chris Rainbow
Chris Rainbow (born Christopher James Harley, 18 November 1946, Glasgow) is a Scottish[citation needed] rock singer and musician who had two minor hit songs, "Give Me What I Cry For" and "Solid State Brain" in the 1970s.
Apart from his solo career, he also made frequent vocal contributions to The Alan Parsons Project, starting on their 1979 Eve album through to their 1987 album Gaudi, and Eric Woolfson's Freudiana (1990) (an APP album in all but name).
He was born the son of James Harley and Pamela Clapham. He adopted the stage name "Rainbow" to avoid confusion with Steve Harley, saying:
"Steve Harley was at his peak and I didn't want any confusion. The name Rainbow was found one evening as me and some friends were watching TV and the reporter’s name flashed on the screen as ‘Christopher Rainbow’, so that was that."
Before joining the Project, Rainbow was involved in a band called Hope Street for a year. Following this, he released three solo albums Home of the Brave in 1975, Looking Over My Shoulder in 1977, and White Trails in 1979. Tracks from the latter two albums are collected on The Best of Chris Rainbow, 1972-1980, which has appeared in single and double CD sets and included radio spots, and rare and unreleased material. At this time Rainbow received much wider recognition for his music through the support of Kenny Everett, then on Capital Radio in London, who featured his music extensively. Some of the jingles that Rainbow made for Capital at this time were later released on an album of out-takes, demos and unreleased material.
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Chris Tarrant
Christopher John "Chris" Tarrant, OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English radio and television broadcaster, now best known for hosting the first version of the television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in the United Kingdom and later Ireland, as the two national versions of the show merged in 2002.
Chris Tarrant was educated as a boarder in Choir House at The King's School, Worcester from 1960-1964. He represented the school at hockey and cricket and gained A, B and D grades at A-level in English, History and Ancient History. He then studied English at the University of Birmingham. Tarrant worked as a schoolteacher and also briefly as a researcher for the Central Office of Information before joining ATV as a newsreader on ATV Today.
Tarrant rose to prominence after becoming a co-host on Tiswas, a children's television show broadcast on a Saturday morning in 1974. In 1982, he hosted a short-lived Saturday evening show O.T.T., which was billed as an adult version of Tiswas, but this was not a success. After this, he did a stint on the breakfast television station TV-am.
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Cleo Rocos
Cleo Rocos (born 24 July 1962 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)[citation needed] is a UK-based comedy actress and television/theatre producer and presenter, best known for appearing on The Kenny Everett Television Show. She is of Greek and English descent. Her father was Greek, and her mother was English.[citation needed]
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Rocos appeared regularly on television, from a minor role in the TV adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to being a roving reporter for the consumer affairs show That's Life!. She was most frequently seen in Everett's BBC series The Kenny Everett Television Show, in which her glamorous and curvaceous figure was often used to comic effect as a focus for drooling, lascivious men - a role echoed by her similar appearances in the 1985 TV sketch series Assaulted Nuts. She also appeared alongside Everett in BBC1 science quiz series Brainstorm, playing a white-coated lab assistant.
Rocos' autobiographical book Bananas Forever: Kenny Everett and Me (co-authored by Richard Topping) detailing her relationship with Everett, was published in 1998 but later reissued under the title Kenny and Me.
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Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard, OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist. With his backing group The Shadows, Richard, originally positioned as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Little Richard and Elvis Presley, dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s and early 1960s. His 1958 hit single "Move It" is often described as Britain's first authentic rock and roll song, and John Lennon once claimed that "before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music." A conversion to Christianity and subsequent softening of his music later led to a more middle of the road pop image, sometimes venturing into gospel music.
Over a 53-year career, Richard has become a fixture of the British entertainment world, amassing many gold and platinum discs and awards, including three Brit awards and two Ivor Novello awards. He has had more than 130 singles, albums and EPs make the UK Top 20, more than any other artist and holds the record (with Elvis Presley) as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its first six decades (1950s–2000s). He has achieved 14 UK No. 1 singles (or 18, depending on the counting methodology) and is the only singer to have had a No. 1 single in the UK in six consecutive decades: the 1950s through to the 2000s (discounting digital downloads and counting only CDs, he had a UK No. 1 single in the 2000s). Richard is the biggest selling singles artist of all time in the UK, with total sales of over 21 million and has reportedly sold an estimated 250 million records worldwide.
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Dave Lee Travis
Dave Lee Travis (born 25 May 1945), also known professionally as DLT and the Hairy Monster (from 1978 the Hairy Cornflake), is a British radio presenter, best known for his career on BBC Radio 1.
Born David Patrick Griffin in Buxton, Derbyshire, he attended grammar school in Manchester, and his first job was as a graphic designer.
Travis began his radio career at the offshore pirate station Radio Caroline South from the MV Mi Amigo off the Essex coast in September 1965, later moving onto Radio Caroline North from the MV Fredericia off the Isle of Man until mid-August 1967. In 1967, offshore pirate radio was outlawed by the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act. Travis moved to Manchester and began working for BBC Radio 1.
Travis's Radio 1 career began in 1968, presenting the Pop North show from Manchester. In 1969, he took over a Sunday morning show from 10am-midday. In 1971, he was promoted to the weekday lunchtime show from 11am-1pm, moving back to Sunday mornings in 1973 and also presenting the Radio 1 Club on Thursdays from 5–7pm.
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David Bowie
David Bowie ( /ˈboʊ.i/ BOH-ee; born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. He is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth and eclecticism of his work.
Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in July 1969, when his song "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single "Starman" and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Bowie's impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, "challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day" and "created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture." The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona proved merely one facet of a career marked by continual reinvention, musical innovation and striking visual presentation.
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David Jensen
David "Kid" Jensen (born July 4, 1950[citation needed]) is a Danish Canadian-born British radio DJ.
Born into a Danish family residing in Victoria, British Columbia, Jensen began his career in his home country at the age of sixteen playing jazz and classical music. He then joined Radio Luxembourg at the age of eighteen in 1968. His late-night show, "Kid Jensen's Dimensions," concentrated on "progressive" music and attracted many fans, including former British prime minister Tony Blair. By 1974, Jensen was becoming a TV personality in Britain, hosting pop shows on ITV, and in the mid-1970s he worked for the then-new Radio Trent (now 96 Capital Radio East Midlands) in Nottingham, one of the first legal, land-based commercial radio stations in the UK. During the early part of his career he was billed as "Kid Jensen" and did not use his given name professionally until 1980.
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David Renwick
David Peter Renwick (born 4 September 1951) is an English television writer, best known for creation of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave and the mystery series Jonathan Creek.
Before beginning his full-time comedy writing career, he worked as a journalist on his home town newspaper, the Luton News.
On beginning his comedy career, he initially worked in a team with writing partner Andrew Marshall, the pair of them providing material to popular sketch shows such as The Two Ronnies and Not the Nine O'Clock News during the late 1970s and early 80s. One of the most celebrated sketches he wrote for the former was a parody of the BBC quiz programme Mastermind, where a "Charlie Smithers" chose to answer questions on the specialist subject "Answering the question before last", adapted from his "Answering one question behind all the time" sketch from their The Burkiss Way for BBC Radio 4. Their short-lived LWT series for ITV, End of Part One, was an attempt to transfer Burkiss-style humour to television. Later in the 1980s they also wrote for the sketch show Alexei Sayle's Stuff and Spike Milligan's There's a Lot of It About.
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Delia Derbyshire
Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music and musique concrète. She is best known for her electronic realisation of Ron Grainer's theme music to the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and for her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Derbyshire was born in Coventry, daughter of Emma (née Dawson) and Edward Derbyshire. of Cedars Avenue, Coundon, Coventry, a sheet-metal worker. She had one sibling, a sister, who died young. Her father died in 1965 and her mother in 1994.
During the Second World War, immediately after the Coventry Blitz in 1940, she was moved to Preston, Lancashire for safety, where her parents had moved from and where most of her surviving relatives still live. She was very bright and, by the age of four, was teaching others in her class to read and write in primary school, but said "The radio was my education". Her parents bought her a piano when she was eight years old. Educated at Barr's Hill Grammar School from 1948 to 1956, she was accepted at both Oxford and Cambridge, "quite something for a working class girl in the 'fifties, where only one in 10 (students) were female", won a scholarship to study mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge but, apart from some success in the mathematical theory of electricity, she claims she did badly and after one year switched to music, graduating in 1959 with an MA in Mathematics and Music and specialising in medieval and modern music history. Her other principal qualification was LRAM in pianoforte.
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Dick Vosburgh
Richard Kennedy "Dick" Vosburgh (27 August 1929, Elizabeth, New Jersey – 18 April 2007, London) was an American-born comedy writer and lyricist working chiefly in Britain.
He persuaded his father to let him study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London (where he met his future wife, Beryl Roques) and won the Comedy Acting prize. He was soon writing for BBC Radio, starting with scripts for Bernard Braden in 1953.
Often partnering with other writers including Garry Chambers and Barry Cryer he wrote television shows for Ronnie Corbett, David Frost, Roy Hudd, Bobby Davro, Frankie Howerd, Bob Monkhouse, Lenny Henry, Tommy Cooper, Freddie Starr and Bob Hope and material for the radio revival of the Marx Brothers show Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel.
He also helped write the scripts for the films Up Pompeii, Up the Chastity Belt, Carry On Nurse and Call Me Bwana
According to legend, he did much of his writing while continuously riding the Circle Line of the London Underground to avoid interruptions. In the late 1960s, he appeared in How To Irritate People and various early episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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Don Warrington
Don Warrington, MBE (born 23 May 1951) is a Trinidadian British actor.
Warrington was born in Trinidad and Tobago on 23 May 1951 and brought up in Newcastle upon Tyne, England from age five. His father was the Trinidadian politician, Basil Kydd, who died in 1958. He has two sons. Warrington currently resides in Belsize Park.
His acting career started when he joined his local repertory theatre at age 17. He graduated from the Drama Centre London.
He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.
He is chiefly known for playing Philip Smith in Rising Damp, alongside Leonard Rossiter and Richard Beckinsale. He appeared in the crime drama C.A.T.S. Eyes, as government contact Nigel Beaumont; in Impact Earth (2007) playing General Harris; and in New Street Law as Judge Ken Winyard.
He has also had smaller roles in many programmes including: Red Dwarf, Lovejoy, Doctor Who, Manchild, and Diamond Geezer. He portrayed Rassilon in several Doctor Who audio plays, and also appeared as "The President (of Great Britain)" in the Doctor Who (2006) episode "Rise of the Cybermen". Soon after, he recorded an abridged audio book of the Doctor Who novel The Art of Destruction by Stephen Cole.
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Eamonn Andrews
Eamonn Andrews, CBE (19 December 1922 – 5 November 1987), was an Irish television presenter based in the United Kingdom.
Andrews was born in Synge Street, Dublin, Ireland, the same street as playwright George Bernard Shaw. He was educated at the local school, Synge Street CBS. (His first name could also be spelled as Éamonn, with a fada on the E, as in 'É'). He began his career as an amateur boxer and went on to be a sports commentator on Radio Éireann, Ireland's national broadcaster. In 1950, he began presenting programmes for the BBC, being particularly well known for boxing commentaries, and soon became one of television's most popular presenters.
In 1955 Andrews made a brief appearance on celluloid, appearing on camera as the narrator who introduces the unrelated segments that comprise the 'portmanteau' film, Three Cases of Murder. Throughout the 1950s he commentated on the major British heavyweight fights on the BBC Light Programme with inter-round summaries by J. Barrington Dalby.
On 20 January 1956, he reached #18 in the UK Singles Chart with a "spoken narrative" recording named "The Shifting Whispering Sands (Parts 1 & 2)", which had musical backing by the Ron Goodwin Orchestra and Chorus.
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Ed Stewart
Ed Stewart (born 23 April 1941 in Exmouth, Devon) is a radio broadcaster from England. His real name is Edward Mainwaring but he is known by the nickname Ed Stewpot Stewart.
Stewart attended St Edward's School, Oxford and his broadcasting career began in Hong Kong. While touring there as bass player with a jazz group, he got a job on a local radio station as a sports commentator, then as an announcer and, finally, as a disc jockey. He remained at this station for 4 years. In July 1965 Stewart became a DJ on the offshore station Radio London and was its chief DJ by the time it closed on 14 August 1967.
In 1967, Stewart became one of the first DJs to join BBC Radio 1, presenting Happening Sunday and What's New. In 1968, Stewart took over the weekend morning Junior Choice show, where he remained for 12 years. The show reached 17 million listeners. In 1972 he also presented Radio 1's Sunday Sport show. One week in early 1972, he stood in for Alan Freeman on Pick of the Pops, as well as sitting in for the likes of "Diddy" David Hamilton and Terry Wogan through the 1970s.
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Edith Bowman
Edith Eleanor Bowman (born 15 January 1974) is a Scottish music critic, radio DJ and television presenter. She is mostly known for hosting the weekday afternoon show and from September 2009 weekend morning on BBC Radio 1 and for presenting a variety of music related television shows and music festivals.
Bowman's first on-screen job on TV was as a news reader on MTV UK. She went on to host many shows for the station, including co-presenting chart show Hitlist UK with Cat Deeley, with whom she also presented travel show Roadtripping for BBC Choice in 2002.
She became a presenter on Channel 4's breakfast show RI:SE when it launched on 29 April 2002.
In 2004, she co-presented the BBC Scotland series Teen Commandments with Cameron Stout. After occasional appearances in 2003, Bowman co-presented Top of the Pops up until the end of the series, replacing Fearne Cotton while she was away. In total she appeared on the show ten times including the final weekly episode. She returned to Top of the Pops for the 2006 Christmas Special.
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Emperor Rosko
Mike Pasternak, better known by his stage name of Emperor Rosko (born December 26, 1942) is a well known pop radio presenter.
Born Michael Joseph Pasternak, he is the son of Hollywood film producer Joe Pasternak. He was influenced in his career choice by KYA Radio Los Angeles DJs Lord Tim Hudson and Wolfman Jack. Rosko's opportunity to broadcast came whilst in the US Navy where he presented a show on an aircraft carrier. He then went to Europe and hosted sponsored programmes in France and Belgium.
He joined Radio Caroline, a pirate radio station broadcasting from a ship off the coast of England, in 1964. There, his pacey American style soon made Rosko one of the station's best-loved DJs. He then was heard on French-language stations Radio Monte Carlo and Radio Luxembourg.
Rosko compered the Stax/Volt Tour of Europe in 1967 and can be heard introducing Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Mar-Keys, Carla Thomas, Eddie Floyd, Sam & Dave, and Otis Redding on the two-album set The Stax/Volt Tour in London, recorded at the Finsbury Park Astoria (later the Rainbow Theatre on 17 March 1967. It is Rosko who is heard introducing soul singer Otis Redding, as well as encouraging the crowd to chant and spell his name on Redding's album Live in Europe, recorded on March 17 and March 21, 1967.
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Fearne Cotton
Fearne Cotton (born 3 September 1981) is an English television and radio presenter who is known for presenting a number of popular TV programmes such as Top of the Pops and the Red Nose Day telethon. In 2007, she became the first regular female presenter of BBC Radio 1's Chart Show. She currently presents Radio 1's weekday mid-morning programme, having replaced long-time host Jo Whiley, and is a team captain on the comedy panel show Celebrity Juice.
Cotton was born in Northwood, London to Lyn and Mick Cotton; she has a younger brother, Jamie. Her father was a signwriter for events such as Live Aid and her mother worked in alternative therapy. She grew up in Eastcote, Hillingdon and was educated at Haydon School. She is a pescatarian and an animal lover. She runs 5 km at least three times a week, and has participated in several half marathons for charity. Former BBC executive Bill Cotton (1928–2008) was her paternal grandfather's cousin. He was the son of the well-known entertainer and band leader Billy Cotton.
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Femi Oke
Femi Oke (born 30 June 1966) is a British television presenter and journalist. Femi was born in Britain to Nigerian parents. She is a graduate of Birmingham University where she received a bachelors degree in English literature and language. She currently lives in New York and appears as a daily newscaster, contributor and interviewer on Public Radio International/WNYC's morning public radio news program, The Takeaway.
Oke is a former anchor for CNN International's World Weather service at the network's global headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. She presented weather segments for the programs Your World Today and World News. She also regularly hosted Inside Africa, now fronted by Isha Sesay, a programme that looks into the economic, social and cultural affairs and trends in Africa.
Femi began her career at age 14 working as a junior reporter for the United Kingdom's first talk radio station LBC. During 1993 Femi worked for a cable station called Wire TV, this was pre-Janet Street Porter's L!VE TV. Femi presented several shows for the station, including the popular Soap on the Wire on a Saturday afternoon, with soap opera expert Chris Stacey. In the early 1990s, Femi presented the BBC's flagship educational science programme Science In Action, and was also a presenter of Top of the Pops. She has also worked for GMTV, London Weekend Television, Men & Motors and Carlton Television. She joined CNN in 1999, and worked there until 2008.
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Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, recording engineer, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for percussion-based avant-garde composers such as Edgard Varèse and 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands; he later switched to electric guitar.
He was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often impossible to categorize. His 1966 debut album with The Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. His later albums shared this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was one of rock, jazz or classical. His lyrics—often humorously—reflected his iconoclastic view of established social and political processes, structures and movements. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech, self-education, political participation and the abolition of censorship.
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Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara (Gujarati: ફારોખ બલ્સારા), 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Queen. As a performer, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and powerful vocals over a four-octave range. As a songwriter, Mercury composed many hits for Queen, including "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Killer Queen", "Somebody to Love", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "We Are the Champions". In addition to his work with Queen, he led a solo career, and also occasionally served as a producer and guest musician (piano or vocals) for other artists. He died of bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS on 24 November 1991, only one day after publicly acknowledging he had the disease.
Mercury was a Parsi born in Zanzibar and grew up there and in India until his mid-teens. He has been referred to as "Britain's first Asian rock star". In 2002, Mercury was placed at number 58 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, in 2006, Time Asia named him one of the most influential Asian heroes of the past 60 years, and he continues to be voted one of the greatest singers in the history of popular music. In 2005, a poll organised by Blender and MTV2 saw Mercury voted the greatest male singer of all time. In 2008, Rolling Stone editors ranked him number 18 on their list of the 100 greatest singers of all time. In 2009, a Classic Rock poll saw him voted the greatest rock singer of all time.Allmusic has characterised Mercury as "one of rock's greatest all-time entertainers", who possessed "one of the greatest voices in all of music".
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Gail Porter
Gail Porter (born 23 March 1971 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish television presenter.
Porter attended Portobello High School. She studied a BTEC HND in Media Production at West Herts College. After making an unsuccessful bid to join the presentation team of the BBC children's show Blue Peter, Porter has tended to present family-friendly television programmes, or ones aimed directly at children. This includes The Movie Chart Show, Top of the Pops, and Live & Kicking, work for CITV, and other programmes such as The Big Breakfast and Gail Porter's Big 90s for VH1.
In the late 1990s she began to pose for photos in men's magazines such as FHM. Probably the best-known product of her many photo sessions is one particular still in which she is seen completely nude from behind. The image became well known due to the events of one night in 1999, when FHM, along with guerrilla marketing company Cunning Communications and projectionist/artist Malcolm Litson and Jason Bridges, beamed an enormous projection of her onto the exterior of the Houses of Parliament, with an accompanying message urging people to vote for Porter in the FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women Poll. In her autobiography, Porter claims that she did not know about the stunt until it was reported in the news the following day.
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Gareth Hunt
Alan Leonard Hunt (7 February 1942 – 14 March 2007) was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.
Alan Leonard Hunt was born in Battersea, London in 1942; he was the nephew of actress Martita Hunt. His father was killed in the Second World War when Hunt was two years old, and he was brought up by his mother Doris and stepfather. At the age of 15, he joined the Merchant Navy. After six years, he jumped ship in New Zealand and worked in a car plant for a year before he was caught and served three months in a military prison. Hunt was then deported back to Britain and while taking a BBC design course he held a variety of jobs, including stagehand, road digger, butcher's assistant and door-to-door salesman. Having had an interest in acting since his early years, he subsequently trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Following that, Hunt did rep across the United Kingdom and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre in the early 1970s. Among the many stage productions he appeared in were Twelfth Night, Oh! What a Lovely War and West Side Story.
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Gary Davies
Gary Davies (born in Manchester on 13 December 1957) is a British broadcaster. During the 1980s and 1990s he was a BBC Radio 1 disc jockey and also a regular presenter of Top of the Pops.
After working in marketing for a mail order company and managing a Manchester disco, Davies began his broadcasting career at Manchester's Piccadilly Radio in 1979 before joining BBC Radio 1 in 1982 to present a Saturday late night show. Within weeks he was on the roster to present Top Of The Pops on BBC television alongside his Radio 1 colleagues. He initially spoke with strong hints of a Mancunian accent, but by the mid-1980s he had adopted an exaggerated mid-Atlantic twang, which would become the object of much parody by the early 1990s .
In 1984 Davies was given the slot for which he became one of radio's biggest stars when he took over the Radio 1 lunchtime show. He called it The Bit In The Middle and it consisted of humorous features, such as The Day-To-Day Challenge, in which the same person would go on air each weekday to answer quiz questions and try to upgrade their prize, and Willy On The Plonker, which involved a crazed piano-playing of a well-known hit for listeners to identify.
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Gay Byrne
Gabriel Mary "Gay" Byrne (born 5 August 1934; affectionately known as Uncle Gay,Gaybo or Uncle Gaybo) is a veteran Irish presenter of radio and television. His most notable role was first host of The Late Late Show over a 37-year period spanning 1962 until 1999. The Late Late Show is the world's longest-running chat show. His time working in Britain with Granada Television saw him become the first person to introduce The Beatles on screen.
From 1973 until 1998, Byrne presented The Gay Byrne Hour—later The Gay Byrne Show when it expanded to two hours—on RTÉ Radio 1 each weekday morning. Since "retiring" from his long-running radio and television shows Byrne has presented several other shows, including Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, The Meaning of Life and For One Night Only on RTÉ One and Sunday Serenade/Sunday with Gay Byrne on RTÉ lyric fm. In 2006 he was elected Chairman of Ireland's Road Safety Authority. Since retiring he has become the "Elder Lemon of Irish broadcasting".
In 2010, The Irish Times said Byrne was "unquestionably the most influential radio and television man in the history of the Irish State". In 2011, he was approached to become President of Ireland but declined to run, despite topping opinion polls.
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Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, and a significant feminist voice of the later 20th century.
Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her book The Female Eunuch became an international best-seller in 1970, turning her into a household name and bringing her both adulation and opposition. She is also the author of many other books including Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (1984); The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause (1991); Shakespeare's Wife (2007); and The Whole Woman (1999). She is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick.
Greer has defined her goal as "women's liberation" as distinct from "equality with men". She asserts that women's liberation meant embracing gender differences in a positive fashion—a struggle for the freedom of women to define their own values, order their own priorities and determine their own fates. In contrast, Greer sees equality as mere assimilation and "settling" to live the lives of "unfree men".
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Graeme Garden
David Graeme Garden OBE (born 18 February 1943) is a Scottish author, actor, comedian, artist and television presenter, who first became known as a member of The Goodies.
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he grew up in Preston. Garden was educated at Repton School, and studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he joined the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club (of which he became President in 1964), and performed with the 1964 Footlights revue, Stuff What Dreams Are Made Of at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Garden qualified in medicine at King's College London, but has never practised. Asked how he justified making jokes rather than saving lives, he answered:
Garden and Bill Oddie co-wrote many episodes of the television comedy series Doctor in the House, including most of the first season episodes of the series and all of the second season episodes, as well as co-writing episodes of the subsequent Doctor at Large and Doctor in Charge series. Later, Garden also wrote for Surgical Spirit (1994). Graeme Garden has also presented three series of the BBC's health magazine Bodymatters.
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Jackie Brambles
Jackie Brambles (born 1 March 1967), formerly known as Jakki Brambles, is an English journalist, radio DJ and television presenter.
Brambles was born in Essex, England and grew up in Ayr on the West coast of Scotland, where she began her radio career on local radio station West Sound in Ayr when she was 19.
She then joined Capital Radio as its youngest DJ, and after a year on the evening show joined the BBC in 1988 as the first female presenter to get her own prime time show on the national pop network BBC Radio 1. She took on the Radio 1 early show, initially at weekends, before graduating to the weekday equivalent. She also joined her colleagues on the Top Of The Pops presentation roster. When Sybil Ruscoe left her role as Simon Mayo's weather and travel reporter, Brambles took over that slot, thereby keeping her on air every day over two separate programmes. On her own shows she sometimes worked standing up in order to maintain a more "live" feel, claiming she found it difficult to keep her demeanour lively enough if she was seated. The combination with Mayo worked well but a minor revamp in 1990 saw Brambles progress to a 90-minute drivetime show and then, when Gary Davies went to weekends, promotion to the important lunchtime slot.
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Jamie Theakston
Jamie Theakston (born 21 December 1970 in Ditchling, East Sussex) is an English television and radio presenter, producer and actor.
Theakston was educated at two independent schools: the preparatory school of Hurstpierpoint College near the village of Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex, followed by Lancing College in the village of Lancing,[citation needed] also in West Sussex. He then attended BHASVIC in Hove, followed by the University of North London, where he studied for a degree in business studies.[citation needed] Whilst at university, he read traffic bulletins on BBC GLR as he wanted to get into sports reporting.
Before embarking on a broadcasting career, he worked for auctioneers Christies, and was going to study art history at the Courtauld Institute. After undertaking football and cricket reports for both GLR and Radio 5 Live, he was spotted by the BBC's head of sport and presented GLR's Saturday Sport Show at the age of 23. He then presented numerous shows for Radio 5 Live including Sportscall, The Jamie Theakston Cricket Show and Sport on Wednesday. Theakston joined Radio 1 in April 1999 to present the Sunday Lunch show. He fronted the 'One Big Sunday' events during 2000. He moved to a Saturday morning slot in 2002.
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Janice Long
Janice Long (born 5 April 1955) is an English radio broadcaster currently working on BBC Radio 2. Her show is on Sunday to Thursday nights from midnight to 02:00. She is the older sister of TV and radio personality Keith Chegwin.
Following a career in the airline business, Long became a station assistant at BBC Radio Merseyside in Liverpool. She started presenting shows for the station shortly thereafter. After interviewing Paul Gambaccini, the latter recommended her to Radio 1.
Janice joined Radio 1 in December 1982 with her own Saturday evening show from 7:30 to 10 pm. From 1984 to 1987 she presented the Monday – Thursday Janice Long Show from 7.30-10pm, a mix of new music and current affairs, and record review programme Singled Out on Friday evenings from 5.45-7pm. On television, Long was a regular presenter of the BBC One chart show Top of the Pops between December 1982 and August 1988, and she returned to co-present its final show in July 2006.
In 1989, she joined London station BBC GLR, taking over from Nick Abbot on the breakfast show. At the time, GLR was being run by future Radio 1 controller Matthew Bannister and future Radio 1 executive Trevor Dann. In 1991, Long left the breakfast show of her own volition but continued to work for the station, where she took over a weekend show. In addition to this, she was heard presenting and producing occasional shows on the old BBC Radio 5. Long became involved with XFM in London, when it had a restricted service licence, and played a crucial part in its bid for a permanent licence.
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Jayne Middlemiss
Jayne Middlemiss (born 3 February 1971) is a London-based British television and radio presenter, originally from Northumberland. She began presenting music television shows such as The O-Zone and Top of the Pops in the mid '90s, before presenting a variety of other television and radio shows, including on BBC 6 Music. She has won both Celebrity MasterChef and Celebrity Love Island.
Jayne Middlemiss was born and grew up in the town of Bedlington in Northumberland. Her father Tom was a miner and her mother Janet was a factory worker. She has a younger sister, Allyson, who is a nurse. She attended Meadowdale Middle School and later Bedlingtonshire Community High School.
Middlemiss first worked in an electrical store, but left to move to Streatham in London. In 1991, Middlemiss started out as a glamour model; within a year, she left that behind to pursue a career in the media.
She has since appeared in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World poll, at 77 (1998), 75 (1999) and 74 (2000).
Middlemiss worked for Noel Edmonds and Chris Evans before briefly working as a nanny, a shop assistant and a waitress. She worked for only two weeks as a trainee researcher on GMTV with Peter McHugh, before gaining her first presenting job on music show The O-Zone with Jamie Theakston from 1995. She got the audition for The O-Zone after she met presenter Toby Anstis at a party and he gave her tape to the producer. She then presented the Smash Hits Awards, The Phone Zone and Top of the Pops and its spin-off radio show on BBC Radio One. She also regularly covered Jo Whiley's show and various other programmes on the same station.
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Jenny Powell
Jenny Powell (born 8 April 1968 in Ilford, England), is a British television presenter.
Powell's parents are from South Africa, she attended Woodford County High School for Girls in Woodford Green and the Italia Conti school in London.
Powell began her career in 1986 presenting the BBC2 music programme No Limits and then moved to Saturday morning television for children, first co-presenting UP2U for BBC One during the summers of 1988 and 1989, CITV's Ghost Train and then Gimme 5, again on CITV. She was also a presenter of Top of the Pops in 1989. In the mid-1990s, she became the hostess on ITV's version of Wheel of Fortune.
More recently, she has presented Soap Fever, Live Talk, Getaway, and Our House for UKTV Style. She tried to make it as a stand-up comedian in Granada Television's Stand Up Jenny, and was a regular on ITV's Loose Women. In 2005, she was one of the competitors in the ITV reality TV show Celebrity Wrestling, competing under the name The Avenger.
In 1997 she appeared on Channel 4's Brass Eye, a satirical spoof documentary show produced by Chris Morris. She talked earnestly about the perils of 'heavy electricity' and warned that the south of England could be catapulted towards Finland if people did not bang on wires with hammers.
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Jimmy Savile
Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile OBE KCSG (31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English disc jockey, television presenter and media personality, best known for his BBC television show Jim'll Fix It, and for being the first and last presenter of the long-running BBC music chart show Top of the Pops. He was also known for his fundraising and support of various charities, particularly Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He was widely described as a philanthropist and was honoured for his efforts.
Savile was born in Leeds, the youngest of seven children (Mary, Marjory, Vincent, John, Joan, Christina and James) born to Agnes Monica (née Kelly) and Vincent Joseph Marie Savile, a bookmaker's clerk and insurance agent. Savile almost died of pneumonia at the age of five months.
He was a Bevin Boy, conscripted during World War II to work as a coal miner at South Kirkby Colliery, West Yorkshire, England. He suffered serious spinal injuries in a mine explosion and spent a long period in recuperation. Having started playing records in dance halls in the early 1940s, Savile claimed to be the first ever disc jockey. According to his autobiography, he was the first person to use two turntables and a microphone, at the Grand Records Ball at the Guardbridge Hotel in 1947. Savile is acknowledged as one of the pioneers of twin turntables for continuous play of music, though his claim has been disputed. (Twin turntables had been illustrated in the BBC Handbook in 1929 and were advertised for sale in Gramophone magazine in 1931.)
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Jo Whiley
Johanne "Jo" Whiley (born 4 July 1965, Northampton) is a British radio disc jockey and television presenter. She was the host of the long running weekday Jo Whiley Show on Radio 1.
Whiley was born to Martin, an electrician, and Christine a postmistress. She attended Campion School at Bugbrooke, near Northampton and then studied applied languages at Brighton Polytechnic. She swam competitively for Northamptonshire.
Whiley had an unusual upbringing due to her sister, Frances, suffering from cri du chat, the symptoms of which meant that her sister had no sense of danger, suffered from outbursts and temper tantrums, obsessive behaviour and a short attention span. The illness is congenital and Jo is a carrier. In 2006 she said that she had been tested at each of her pregnancies, and that she would have terminated any of the pregnancies if the tests had proved positive.
In her final year of her degree and still unsure of what she wanted to do, a conversation with a lecturer led to a job with BBC Radio Sussex on a show called Turn It Up. It allowed anyone to get on the radio, and also required Whiley to attend gigs and interview the musicians.
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Joe Meek
Robert George "Joe" Meek (5 April 1929 Newent, Gloucestershire – 3 February 1967 in London) was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter.
His most famous work was The Tornados' hit "Telstar" in 1962, which became the first record by a British group to hit #1 in the US Hot 100. It also spent five weeks atop the UK singles chart, with Meek receiving an Ivor Novello Award for this production as the "Best-Selling A-Side" of 1962.
Meek's other notable hit productions include "Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O" and "Cumberland Gap" by Lonnie Donegan (as engineer), "Johnny Remember Me" by John Leyton, "Just Like Eddie" by Heinz, "Angela Jones" by Michael Cox, "Have I the Right?" by The Honeycombs, and "Tribute to Buddy Holly" by Mike Berry. Meek's concept album I Hear a New World is regarded as a watershed in modern music for its innovative use of electronic sounds.
Joe Meek was also producing music for films, most notably Live It Up! (US title Sing and Swing), a 1963 pop music film starring Heinz Burt, David Hemmings and Steve Marriott, also featuring Gene Vincent, Jenny Moss, The Outlaws, Kim Roberts, Kenny Ball, Patsy Ann Noble and others. Meek wrote most of the songs and incidental music, much of which was recorded by The Saints and produced by Meek.
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John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. He was known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style.
He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, and dance music.
Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular 'Peel sessions', which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that later would achieve great fame. (These 'sessions' are similar to 'Live Lounge' sessions recorded today for the station.) Another popular feature of his shows was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year.
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Johnnie Stewart
Lorn Alastair ("Johnnie") Stewart (7 November 1917 - 29 April 2005) was a television producer who worked for the BBC, noted mostly for his role in creating the long-running music programme Top of the Pops.
Born in Tonbridge, Kent, Stewart was the son of Dr Haldane Campbell Stewart, who was also musical but in a different sphere - he was organist and choirmaster at Magdalen College, Oxford, the director of music at the Tonbridge School, Kent, and also notable as a cricketer on the Kent County Cricket Team. As a child, Stewart's family played as a string quartet, with Stewart and his sister Jean playing violin, his father playing viola, and his mother playing cello. His sister Jean went on to become a noted performer on viola, performing as a soloist, and in chamber music and orchestras. She performed with the Menges Quartet, the London Bach Orchestra and the English Baroque Soloists. Stewart's grandfather, John Stewart, was the sixth Baron Appin, and a barrister of Lincoln's Inn.
Stewart started off his entertainment career in the BBC radio sound effects department in the late 1930s. During the Second World War he worked in the Middle East as a wireless operator and later worked in intelligence. After the war, in 1946, he got married to Sheila Williamson. He returned to the BBC and produced a number of radio music programmes, which included Sing It Again and BBC Jazz Club. He was able to sign up Frank Sinatra for a fee of only fifty pounds as a guest for Cyril Stapleton's Show Band Show. In 1958 he produced Juke Box Jury for BBC Television.
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Johnny Beerling
John William Beerling (born 12 April 1937) is a veteran radio producer and station controller.
He attended the Sir Roger Manwood's School in Sandwich, Kent.
He began his radio career during his national service from 1955-7 when he ran a radio station for the Royal Air Force station British Forces Aden in the Aden Protectorate, acting as its station manager, studio engineer and morning DJ.
In 1957 he joined the BBC and was one of the few employees of the BBC Light Programme in the mid-1960s to regard the model of offshore pirate radio as one for the BBC to follow.
As a result, when the offshore stations were outlawed in 1967, Beerling was appointed to the newly-formed station BBC Radio 1 which was created as a legal alternative. This began a long association which culminated in his eight years as controller of the station from 1985 to 1993. He produced the first ever show on Radio 1 - Tony Blackburn's breakfast show on 30 September 1967 - worked his way up through the ranks, creating jingles, recruiting most of the station's DJs (one of whom was Tom Browne who presented the BBC chart from 1972 to 1978) and along the way launched the long-running and successful annual Radio 1 Roadshow events in 1973.
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Jonathan King
Jonathan King (born Kenneth George King, 6 December 1944) is an English singer, songwriter, impresario and record producer. He is also the author of three novels, Bible Two (1982), The Booker Prize Winner (1997), and Beware the Monkey Man (2010, using the pen name Rex Kenny), and an autobiography, 65 My Life So Far (2009).
King first came to prominence as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge in 1965 when he wrote and sang "Everyone's Gone to the Moon," an international best seller. He went on to become a media entrepreneur, discovering and producing material for a number of artists, including Genesis, whom he signed up in 1967, giving them their name and producing their first album, From Genesis to Revelation. He ran Decca Records twice and created his own record label, UK Records, reported as the most successful independent label in the business, and worked with 10cc and the Bay City Rollers.
He also became known for a string of 1970s hits, such as "Una Paloma Blanca," "Sugar Sugar", "It Only Takes A Minute", "Johnny Reggae", "Lick A Smurp For Christmas" and "Loop di Love." Billboard reported in September 1972 that he had produced 10 of the Top 30 singles in the UK in the previous 12 months.Rod Liddle described him in 2010 as truly talented and fabulously cynical, someone who could "storm the pop charts at will, under a hundred different disguises ..."
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Jonathan Routh
Jonathan Reginald Surdeval Routh (November 24, 1927 - June 4, 2008) co-starred in the British version of the television show Candid Camera (1960-67) and co-starred with Germaine Greer and Kenny Everett in a later attempt at a revival, Nice Time (1968). He published a number of humorous books, and also painted for many years.
Routh was born in Gosport, Hampshire, the son of a British Army colonel and spent much of his early childhood in Palestine. He was educated at Uppingham School, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he read history.
Routh had two sons from his first marriage and had been married to his wife Shelagh since 1973. He died in Jamaica on 4 June 2008.
Following a success with Candid Mike, Routh started Candid Camera around 1961 for ABC TV. Following a long dispute with the American lawyers of Allen Funt as to who held the rights to Candid Camera, Routh moved on to new fields, working with John Birt, later director general of the BBC, for Granada TV, along with Germaine Greer and Kenny Everett in Nice Time. He also worked in television advertising on spots such as J. Walter Thompson's for Smarties and Kellogg's Corn Flakes, appearing also in some spots himself, for example Newcastle Brown Ale. The British version of Candid Camera returned along in 1974, starring Peter Dulay, Arthur Atkins and Sheila Bernette. In 1976. Jonathan Routh returned to the pranks & the show was retitled Jonathan Routh & Candid Camera.
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Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber (born 14 April 1951) is a British solo cellist who has been described as the "doyen of British cellists".
Julian Lloyd Webber is the second son of the composer William Lloyd Webber and his wife Jean Johnstone (a piano teacher). He is the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lloyd Webber was a scholar at the Royal College of Music in London and completed his studies with Pierre Fournier in Geneva in 1973. He made his professional debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London in September 1972 when he gave the first London performance of the cello concerto by Sir Arthur Bliss.
Lloyd Webber has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians, including Yehudi Menuhin, Lorin Maazel, Neville Marriner, Georg Solti and Esa-Pekka Salonen as well as Stéphane Grappelli, Elton John, Cleo Laine and Eric Whitacre.
Lloyd Webber has made many recordings, including his BRIT Award winning Elgar Cello Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin (chosen as the finest ever version by BBC Music Magazine), the Dvořák Cello Concerto with Václav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich and a coupling of Britten's Cello Symphony and Walton's Cello Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which was described by Gramophone magazine as "beyond any rival". He has also recorded several CDs of short pieces for Universal Classics including Made in England, Cello Moods, Cradle Song and English Idyll: "It would be difficult to find better performances of this kind of repertoire anywhere on records of today or yesterday or tomorrow" - Gramophone.
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Justin Hayward
Justin Hayward (born 14 October 1946, Swindon, Wiltshire, England) is an English musician, best known as singer, songwriter and guitarist in the rock band The Moody Blues.
Hayward was born in Dean Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, England and he was educated at Shrivenham School, Berkshire and The Commonweal School, in Swindon, Wiltshire.
When Hayward was 15 he was able to afford a Gibson guitar and a Vox amplifier through performing with local Swindon groups in clubs and dance halls playing mostly Buddy Holly songs. One of Hayward's early groups was All Things Bright, which opened for The Hollies and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes. At age 17, he signed a publishing contract as a songwriter with the skiffle artist and record producer Lonnie Donegan, a move Hayward later regretted as it meant the rights to all his songs written before 1974 would always be owned by Donegan's Tyler Music. In 1965 he answered an advertisement in Melody Maker and auditioned as guitarist for Marty Wilde and he went on to work with Wilde and his wife in The Wilde Three.
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Kate Bush
Catherine "Kate" Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years.
In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single "Wuthering Heights", becoming the first woman to have a UK number one with a self-written song. She has since released ten albums, three of which topped the UK Albums Chart, and has had 25 UK Top 40 hit singles including the Top 10 hits "Wuthering Heights", "Running Up that Hill", "King of the Mountain", "Babooshka", "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", and "Don't Give Up".
In 1987, she won a Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist, and in 2002, her songwriting ability was recognised with an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. During the course of her career, she has also been nominated for three Grammy Awards. After her 1979 tour – the only concert tour of her career – Bush released the 1980 album Never for Ever, which made her the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts and the first female artist ever to enter the album chart at Number 1. She is also the first (and to date only) female artist to have Top 5 albums in the UK charts in 5 successive decades.
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Kate Thornton
Kate Thornton (born 7 February 1973) is an English journalist and television presenter. Early in her career, she was notable for her articles at the Daily Mirror and for her role as editor of Smash Hits magazine. She is most famous for her role as a TV presenter, being the first host of The X Factor and the anchor of Loose Women from 2009-2011.
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Kenny Everett
Kenny Everett (25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995) was an English comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer. Born Maurice James Christopher Cole[citation needed], Everett is best known for his career as a radio DJ and for the Kenny Everett television shows.
Everett attended the local secondary modern school, St Bede's Secondary Modern, which is now part of Sacred Heart Catholic College.
He attended a junior seminary at Stillington near York with an Italian missionary order, the Verona Fathers, where he was a choirboy.
After schooling he worked in a bakery and in the advertising department of The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph.
Having revealed a natural comic and broadcasting talent, he began a career in entertainment. He adopted his stage name from film-star Edward Everett Horton, a childhood hero.
Everett's first break (as Maurice Cole) came when he sent a tape to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1962. He was interviewed at the BBC by Charles Fletcher and offered a job as a presenter on the Light Programme, the forerunner to BBC Radio 2. He declined, however, in favour of the less constrained world of pirate radio, where he began his career as a DJ for Radio London.
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Lennie Bennett
Lennie Bennett (26 September 1938 – 8 April 2009) was an English comedian and game show host.
After attending the Palatine Secondary School in Blackpool, Bennett became a journalist for the West Lancashire Evening Gazette before becoming a professional entertainer and appearing on The Good Old Days in 1979. Bennett starred in the Lennie and Jerry Show with Jerry Stevens. It ran from 1978 to 1980. He was also the host of Punchlines and Lucky Ladders in the 1980s.
He also performed in twelve Royal Variety Shows, and had a brief stint as a chat show host on London Weekend Television in 1982.
He then worked as a speaker on the after-dinner circuit. In 1994, Bennett suffered a serious heart attack, which necessitated a bypass operation.
He died in the Royal Lancaster Infirmary on 8 April 2009 following a fall at his home from which he failed to regain consciousness. His funeral took place at Carleton Crematorium.
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Lionel Blair
Lionel Blair (born Henry Lionel Blair Ogus 12 December 1931, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a British actor, choreographer, tap dancer and television presenter. He is the son of Myer Ogus and Deborah (Della) Greenbaum (Mother's name given as Brenner on FreeBMD). His father was a Russian barber; he changed the family name to Blair in his youth.
Blair came to Britain when he was one year old. His first public performances were with his sister Joyce (born 1932) in London Underground Station air raid shelters during World War II. He attended the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford in 1944, followed by London's University of East London, where he majored in Ethnography. Blair eventually rekindled his passion for musical theatre and joined the West End. He gave up acting for dancing in 1947 although he subsequently appeared in the fringe production, "Out of the Blue" (Chichester) and "Who Killed Agatha' Christie" (national tour) amongst other acting credits.
Blair came to the fore in the 1960s, when, with his dance troupe, he appeared on television variety programmes. He also appeared in films A Hard Day's Night and Absolute Beginners, cameoed in an episode of The Persuaders! and in television comedy, including the short film, The Plank. In addition, he choreographed films such as Jazz Boat (1960) and The Magic Christian (1969).
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Lisa Snowdon
Lisa Snowdon (born 23 January 1972) is an English fashion model, television personality and presenter. She was the host of the reality television show Britain's Next Top Model from 2006 until 2009. She currently co-presents Capital Breakfast on Capital London.
Born Lisa Snawdon, in Welwyn Garden City, England to insurance salesman Nigel and hairdresser Lydia Snowdon, she has two younger sisters, Joanna and Lesley Anne. She moved to London to attend the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, where her classmates included Naomi Campbell, and she auditioned for the Minipops. After her parents split up when she was 17, she stayed in London and worked briefly as a dance and yoga teacher.[citation needed]
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Liz Bonnin
Liz Bonnin (born 16 September 1975) is a French-born television presenter who has worked on television in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. She currently works for the BBC.
Bonnin was born in France to a French father who is a dentist and Trinidadian mother.[citation needed] One of her grandfathers is from India.[citation needed] The family moved to Ireland when she was 10 years old.[citation needed] She has a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Trinity College, Dublin and also holds a master's in Wild Animal Biology from the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Veterinary College (2008), for which she tracked tigers in Nepal. She continues to work on big cat conservation programmes at the Zoological Society.
Bonnin started her career presenting on RTÉ Television in Ireland, on The Den, Telly Bingo, Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000 and for two years, Off the Rails. In 2002 she moved to London to present on a number of TV channels. She was also part of an Irish girl pop group named Chill, signed to Polydor but they broke up before recording
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, née Roberts (born 13 October 1925) is a British politician and the longest-serving (1979–1990) British prime minister of the 20th century, and the only woman ever to have held the post. A Soviet journalist nicknamed her the "Iron Lady", which later became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As prime minister, she implemented conservative policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.
Originally a research chemist before becoming a barrister, Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Science in his 1970 government. In 1975 Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election and became Leader of the Opposition, as well as the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom. She became prime minister after winning the 1979 general election.
After entering 10 Downing Street, Thatcher introduced a series of political and economic initiatives to reverse what she perceived as Britain's precipitous national decline. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised deregulation (particularly of the financial sector), flexible labour markets, the privatisation of state-owned companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions. Thatcher's popularity during her first years in office waned amid recession and high unemployment, until economic recovery and the 1982 Falklands War brought a resurgence of support, resulting in her re-election in 1983. Thatcher was re-elected for a third term in 1987, but her Community Charge (popularly referred to as "poll tax") was widely unpopular and her views on the European Community were not shared by others in her Cabinet. She resigned as Prime Minister and party leader in November 1990, after Michael Heseltine launched a challenge to her leadership.
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Mark Goodier
Mark Goodier (born 28 June 1961) is a British radio disc jockey.
Mark Goodier was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). His family moved to the UK when he was a child, eventually settling in Scotland. He was educated at George Heriot's School, in Edinburgh. He became a mobile DJ in Edinburgh and then joined local station Radio Forth at the age of 19. After progressing through several jobs at stations in Scotland including Radio Clyde in Glasgow and at Metro Radio in the North East of England, he joined BBC Radio 1 in 1987, beginning a 15 year stint with the station, beginning with a 2 hour Saturday night show.
Goodier co-presented the Liz & Mark weekend breakfast show (with Liz Kershaw), and he quickly progressed to a drivetime slot. He created The Evening Session and hosted between 1990 and 1993. During this period, he also presented the UK Top 40 chart countdown on Sunday evenings and was also an established host on Top Of The Pops along several of his Radio 1 colleagues.
Many acclaimed bands and artists recorded sessions for Goodier at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, some of which were commercially released. In 1992, Nirvana's "odds-and-sods" release, Incesticide, featured several songs recorded for Goodier's BBC show. The album reached the top 40 on both sides of the Atlantic and achieved Platinum status in America. A further session recording was "Something in the Way", released on the 2011 edition of Nevermind.
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Michael Foot
Michael Mackintosh Foot, FRSL, PC (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British Labour Party politician, journalist and author, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1955 and from 1960 until 1992. He was deputy leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980, and later became the Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to 1983.
Associated with the Labour left for most of his career, he was a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and British withdrawal from the European Economic Community. He was first promoted to Cabinet as Employment secretary under Harold Wilson in 1974, and later served as Leader of the House of Commons under James Callaghan. A passionate orator, he was Labour leader at the 1983 general election when the party received its lowest share of the vote since 1918.
His parallel career as a journalist included appointments as editor of Tribune, on several occasions, and the Evening Standard newspaper. Among the books he authored are Guilty Men (an attack on Neville Chamberlain and others for the policy of appeasement), a biography of Jonathan Swift (The Pen and the Sword, 1957) and a biography of Aneurin Bevan.
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Michael Parkinson
Sir Michael Parkinson, CBE (born 28 March 1935) is an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He presented his interview programme, Parkinson, from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007. He has been described in The Guardian as "the great British talkshow host".
Parkinson, or "Parky" as he is known, was born in the village of Cudworth, England. The son of a miner, he was educated at Barnsley Grammar School and passed two O-Levels: in Art and English Language.[citation needed] He was a club cricketer, and both he and his opening partner at Barnsley Cricket Club, Dickie Bird, had trials for Yorkshire together with Geoffrey Boycott. He once kept Boycott out of the Barnsley Cricket team by scoring a century and 50 in two successive matches. Parkinson began as a journalist on local newspapers, and his Yorkshire background and accent remain part of his appeal. He worked as a features writer for the Manchester Guardian, working alongside Michael Frayn, and later on the Daily Express in London. He was also conscripted into National Service as Britain's youngest army captain and was involved in the Suez Operation in the summer of 1956.
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Michael Winner
Michael Robert Winner (born 30 October 1935) is an English former film director and producer, who worked in Great Britain, Europe and the United States, now known as a food critic for the Sunday Times.
Winner was born in London, England, the son of Helen (née Zloty) and George Joseph Winner, a company director. His family was Jewish; his mother was a native of Poland and his father was of Russian extraction. Winner's father was a Freemason. He was educated at St Christopher School, Letchworth and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied law and economics. He also edited the university's student newspaper, Varsity. Winner had earlier written a newspaper column, 'Michael Winner's Showbiz Gossip,' in the Kensington Post from the age of 14. The first issue of Showgirl Glamour Revue in 1955 has him writing another film and showbusiness gossip column, "Winner's World". Such jobs allowed him to meet and interview several leading film personalities, including James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. He also wrote for the New Musical Express.
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Mike Read
Michael David Kenneth Read (born 1 March 1947, Manchester) is an English radio disc jockey, writer, journalist and television presenter.
Read is the only child of a publican, but the family moved from Manchester to Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, when he was still an infant. He attended Woking Grammar School followed by a sixth-form college. He was an estate agent for a while and recorded under various names including Mickey Manchester.
Read's professional broadcasting career began in March 1976 at Reading's Radio 210, where he co-hosted a show with Steve Wright, before joining Radio Luxembourg late in 1977.
He joined BBC Radio One at the end of 1978 and was soon presenting the night time programme before John Peel's show, where he championed new groups and featured live sessions. He was one of the most popular Roadshow presenters during his time at the station and took over the Breakfast Show on Monday 5 January 1981, a spot notable for his on-air decision in 1984 not to play the Frankie Goes to Hollywood single "Relax" due to supposedly obscene lyrics.[citation needed]
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Nicholas Parsons
Christopher Nicholas Parsons OBE (born 10 October 1923) is a British radio and television presenter and actor.
Parsons was born at 1 Castlegate, Grantham, Lincolnshire, the middle child, with an older brother and a younger sister. His father was a general practitioner in Vine Street, whose patients included the parents of Margaret Thatcher. It is possible he delivered the future Prime Minister in 1925. His mother, born in Bristol to a founder of local company WB Maggs & Co., was training as a nurse when she met Parsons' father in a hospital.
Parsons was born left-handed but was made to write with his right hand. As a child, Parsons had a stutter, which he overcame by the age of 15, and was slow to learn owing to dyslexia. He also suffered migraines. Educated at St Paul's School in London, he wanted to be an actor. However, his parents considered that a career in engineering would be better, as he had repaired clocks and was good with his hands.
After he had left school, his family contacted relatives in Scotland who arranged a job for him in Clydebank near Glasgow, where he spent five years employed in the shipyards of Clydeside by Drysdales, in the manufacture of pumps. Whilst there he also had two six-month periods studying engineering at the University of Glasgow. Although he never graduated, he gained enough qualifications to become a marine engineer and was given a position in the Merchant Navy during World War II, which he never took up owing to illness.
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Nicky Campbell
Nicholas Andrew Argyll "Nicky" Campbell (born 10 April 1961) is a Scottish radio and television presenter and journalist. He is known for his time presenting on programmes such as the consumer affairs programme Watchdog. He also presented the gameshow Wheel of Fortune from 1988 to 1996 and currently presents both the BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast programme and BBC One's flagship faith and ethics show The Big Questions.
Campbell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was adopted as a four-day old baby, and was educated at the independent school Edinburgh Academy. Its former pupils include Robert Louis Stevenson and Magnús Magnússon. His adoptive mother was a psychiatric social worker and his adoptive father a publisher of maps.
After graduating from the University of Aberdeen with a 2:1 in history, he toyed with ideas of becoming an actor and got involved in commercial production for radio in order to gain his Equity card. At university, his best friend had been the actor Iain Glen. He worked at Northsound Radio in Aberdeen from 1981 to 1985, first as a jingle writer, before going on to host the breakfast show.
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Noel Edmonds
Noel Ernest Edmonds, (born 22 December 1948) is an English broadcaster and executive, who made his name as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He has presented many light entertainment television programmes, including Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, Top of the Pops, The Late, Late Breakfast Show, Telly Addicts, Noel's Saturday Roadshow and Noel's House Party. He currently presents the Channel 4 game show Deal or No Deal and the Sunday edition of Sky1's Are You Smarter Than A Ten Year Old? and previously the topical Sky1 show, Noel's HQ.
The son of a headmaster who worked in Hainault, Edmonds attended Glade Primary School and Brentwood School. He was offered a place at the University of Surrey but turned it down in favour of a job as a newsreader on Radio Luxembourg, which was offered to him in 1968 after he sent tapes to pirate radio stations. In 1969, he moved to BBC Radio 1 where he began by recording trailers for broadcasts and filling in for absent DJs, such as Kenny Everett. In April 1970, Edmonds began his own two-hour Saturday afternoon programme, broadcasting from 1pm-3pm, before replacing Kenny Everett on Saturday mornings from 10am-12pm in July of that year. In October 1971 he was moved to a Sunday morning slot from 10am-12pm before being promoted to Radio 1's prestigious breakfast programme from June 1973 to April 1978, taking over from Tony Blackburn. Edmonds moved back to Sunday mornings from 10am-1pm in 1978 and also presented Talkabout, an hour long talk show broadcast on Thursday evenings.
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Pamela Stephenson
Pamela Helen Stephenson Connolly (born 4 December 1949) is a New Zealand-born Australian clinical psychologist and writer now resident in the United Kingdom. She is best known for her work as an actress and comedian during the 1980s. She has written several books, which include a biography of her husband Billy Connolly, and presents a psychology-based interview show called Shrink Rap on British television.
Stephenson was born in Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand. She moved to Australia in 1964 and attended the University of New South Wales and then Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art, from which she graduated in 1971. Stephenson was a regular cast member on television series Ryan. She moved to London in 1976, where she continued to perform.
Stephenson began acting on television by 1972. In 1973–74, she starred as Julie King on the Australian TV series Ryan. After numerous television and film appearances, she had another recurring role as Iris Reade in the UK series Funny Man (1981). Probably her most widely recognized television role was in the classic 1980s UK comedy television sketch show Not The Nine O'Clock News, alongside Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones (1979–82). Her parodies included Kate Bush in a song called "Oh England, My Leotard", and Olivia Newton-John in a song called "Typical bloody typical". She also had a small part in three episodes of the British TV police drama series The Professionals. Her personal contribution as a comedian added to the success of Not the Nine O'Clock News and led to a collaboration with comedy and satire writers Mike Lepine and Mark Leigh. This spawned a book, How To Be A Complete Bitch, and a board game. In 1982–83, she starred in the West End production of Joseph Papp's version of The Pirates of Penzance.
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Pat Sharp
Pat Sharp (born 25 October 1961) is a British radio and television presenter and DJ. In the UK, he is known mainly for his work on the children's television programme Fun House, his former mullet and his radio shows as well as his support of Arsenal. In Europe, he was known in the 1980s as one of the Sky Channel's VJs and for presenting Coca-Cola Eurochart Top 50 and Nescafe UK Top 50.
Sharp worked as a presenter at BBC Radio 1, mixing holiday cover for other TV presenters with a regular early Sunday morning slot and a number of television appearances hosting BBC1's Top of the Pops. He deputised for David Jensen on The Network Chart Show. In the mid-1980s he became a DJ for Radio Mercury and has also worked for the British Forces Broadcasting Service. For 10 years, starting in 1987, Sharp was a DJ on Capital FM in London. followed by another 11 years at Heart, both in London and Cambridge.
In the late-1980s, Sharp teamed up with Mick Brown as the duo Pat and Mick, to release the charity singles Let's All Chant and I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet. Both songs made the Top 20 of the UK singles chart. The duo released five hit singles making the Top 75, raising more than a million pounds for charity.
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Paul Burnett
Paul Burnett (born 26 November 1943, Hulme, Manchester) is an English radio disc jockey, who began his radio career while in the Royal Air Force in the Persian Gulf in 1964. In 1966 he joined offshore radio station, Radio 270, broadcasting off Scarborough, North Yorkshire. After the banning of the offshore stations he moved in 1967 to Manx Radio on the Isle of Man, but he soon joined Radio Luxembourg; where he hosted the chart show and discovered many recordings, which had been thought lost, of William Joyce's propaganda broadcasts to Britain, made from the Luxembourg stations during the Nazi occupation of the Grand Duchy. On Luxembourg, he presented the Saturday Top 20 show from 1967-74.
In 1974 Burnett joined BBC Radio 1 hosting a Sunday morning show "All There Is To Hear" (a radio one airplay chart show) and sitting in on the station's National Top 20 show. From 5 July 1976 he hosted the weekday lunchtime show after Johnnie Walker left the station and moved to California. Here he had the responsibility of revealing the new singles chart every Tuesday lunchtime. His popular show included several features such as Pub of the Day, Fun at One and Is, Was, Should Have. Burnett became a regular presenter of Top of the Pops, and presented the Radio 1 Roadshow during the summer. In 1981 he moved from lunchtimes to later in the afternoons, but his daily show ended in 1982 to allow Steve Wright's show to be extended. He briefly presented a Saturday morning show before leaving Radio 1 altogether.
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Paul Gambaccini
Paul Matthew Gambaccini (born April 2, 1949, New York; nicknamed 'The Professor of Pop') is a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom. He has dual United States and British nationality, having become a British citizen in 2005.
Gambaccini studied at Dartmouth College, where he obtained a degree in history and at University College, Oxford, where he obtained a degree in politics, philosophy and economics. Having left Oxford, Gambaccini was considering further study in law at Harvard or Yale but had the opportunity of writing for Rolling Stone magazine as British correspondent. He attributes his broadcasting career to this post and especially an interview in 1973 with Elton John which brought him to the attention of BBC Radio producer John Walters who arranged for him to present on BBC Radio 1. He has since returned to Oxford as the News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media, where he delivered a series of lectures in January and February 2009. In February 2010 he was invited by the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University Andrew Hamilton to deliver the inaugural LGBT lecture Out on Monday to the university's LGBT staff, students and faculty
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Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His career with The Who spans more than 40 years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 1960s and 1970s, and, according to Eddie Vedder, "possibly the greatest live band ever."
Townshend is the primary songwriter for The Who, having written well over 100 songs for the band's 11 studio albums, including concept albums and the rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia, plus popular rock and roll radio staples like Who's Next, and dozens more that appeared as non-album singles, bonus tracks on reissues, and tracks on rarities compilations like Odds & Sods. He has also written over 100 songs that have appeared on his solo albums, as well as radio jingles and television theme songs. Although known primarily as a guitarist, he also plays other instruments such as keyboards, banjo, accordion, synthesiser, bass guitar and drums, on his own solo albums, several Who albums, and as a guest contributor to a wide array of other artists' recordings. Townshend has never had formal lessons in any of the instruments he plays.
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Peter Cook
Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, he is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. Cook has been described by Stephen Fry as "the funniest man who ever drew breath", although his work was also controversial. Cook was closely associated with anti-establishment comedy which emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s.
Cook was born at his parents' house "Shearbridge", in Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon. He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward (Alec) Cook (1906–1984), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, née Mayo (1908–1994). He was educated at Radley College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied French and German. As a student, Cook initially intended to become a career diplomat like his father, but Britain "had run out of colonies", as he put it. Although politically largely apathetic, particularly in later life when he displayed a deep distrust of politicians of all hues, he did join the Cambridge University Liberal Club.
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Ray Cameron
Raymond Cameron is a professional basketball player from New Zealand and last played for the Waikato Pistons in the New Zealand NBL.
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Reggie Yates
Reggie Yates (born 31 May 1983 in Archway, London) is a British actor, television presenter and radio DJ of Ghanaian descent. He went to Central Foundation Boys' School.
Yates made his first TV appearance in Desmond's at the age of 8. He also appeared in Disney Club as Robbie. In 1998, Reggie appeared as a guest presenter on Diggit on CITV also under the name Robbie. In 2002, he played Carl Fenton in the popular children's series Grange Hill. From 2002 to 2004, he presented the Sunday morning programme Smile, and then went on to present Top of the Pops with former Smile co-host Fearne Cotton before the final episode broadcast on BBC Two on 30 July 2006. He also created and starred in the series The Crust and presented Dance Factory and his own radio show on BBC Radio 1,
He appeared on Stars in Fast Cars on 10 March 2006 and won his group to get into the final, beating Elton Welsby and Ben Fogle in the last round.
He presented Mighty Truck of Stuff and "Only in America" with Fearne Cotton on CBBC as well as his own show on BBC Radio 1 with Fearne Cotton. They presented a breakfast show on Saturday and Sunday mornings. They played from 7:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. They then went on to present the Radio 1 Chart Show starting on 14 October 2007 until Sunday 20 September 2009. Fearne left following her promotion to weekday mornings on Radio 1 from 10:00 a.m.–12:45 p.m. leaving Reggie to present on his own. They took over from JK & Joel, who have now left the station. In addition to the chart show, Yates also presents a request show on Saturday afternoons, known as The Radio 1 Request Show where listeners can send in a text or phone in to request a song.
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Richard Blackwood
Richard Blackwood (born Richard Clifford Blackwood, 15 May 1972, Clapham, London, England), is an English comedian, media personality, occasional actor and MC. He co-presents a show on the London radio station Choice FM and guests as a disc jockey at various nightclubs.
Blackwood presented the UK version of Singled Out on Channel 5 and, in 1999, presented his own show called The Richard Blackwood Show, which was commercially and critically unsuccessful.
Blackwood scored a UK #3 hit single in 2000, with the song 'Mama Who Da Man', based on Mama Used to Say by his uncle Junior. The 200,000+ selling hit single was written and produced by Lucas Secon (Pussycat Dolls, Jordin Sparks, Sugababes) and Mickey P.
Blackwood appeared on Brass Eye in 2001, during which he was tricked into saying that Internet paedophiles can make computer keyboards emit noxious fumes in order to subdue children. Blackwood even sniffed a keyboard and claimed it made him feel "suggestible". Blackwood also warned watching parents that exposure to the fumes would make their children "smell like hammers". He had acting appearances in Holby City in 2003 and played the title character in the 2002 television series Ed Stone Is Dead. During May 2003, Blackwood appeared in Channel 5's Celebrity Detox Camp, a highlight of which was his self-administered coffee enema, which involved him being filmed "pumping 18 litres of coffee solution through his anus into [his] stomach" In March 2007, he acted in the critically unsuccessful Bollywood film Don't Stop Dreaming. In 2005, Blackwood appeared in the critically maligned Princes of Comedii DVD release, his involvement being described as "desperate" by DVD Times reviewer Eamonn McCusker.
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Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter, born and raised in North London, England, and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry.
With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group and then Faces. He launched his solo career in 1969 with his debut album An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (US: The Rod Stewart Album). His work with The Jeff Beck Group and Faces influenced heavy metal genres.
With his career in its fifth decade, Stewart has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best selling artists of all time. In the UK, he has had six consecutive number one albums, and his tally of 62 hit singles include 31 that reached the top 10, six of which gained the number one position. He has had 16 top ten singles in the U.S, with four of these reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the "The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists". He was voted at #33 in Q Magazine's list of the top 100 Greatest Singers of all time, and #59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time. As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and was inducted a second time, as a member of Faces, in April 2012.
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Rufus Hound
Rufus Hound (born Robert James Blair Simpson on 6 March 1979)[citation needed] is a British comedian and presenter.
Hound hosted Destination Three, the coverage of the Glastonbury festival and Top of the Pops in 2005 and 2006 alongside Fearne Cotton. He presented the idiosyncratic reality show Grime Scene Investigation on BBC Three with staff and students from Aston University, and narrated BBC Two's broadcasts of Mythbusters. He has also appeared in many comedy shows and quizzes such as Street Cred Sudoku and Celebrity Juice, where he is a regular panellist. He narrated the 2009 series Rocket Science and has appeared on The Apprentice: You're Fired! and Richard & Judy. He also presented Outtake TV on BBC1, replacing Anne Robinson.
In early 2008, Hound appeared twice on ITV's Thank God You're Here in the UK, after initially working as the warm-up act. In late summer 2008, Hound joined the panel show Argumental as the Blue Team Captain. Hound was the narrator for the gaming series Playr and presents What Do Kids Know? on UKTV-owned channel Watch. In 2010, he appeared in his own sitcom on CBBC called Hounded, where he plays a TV presenter who must save the universe from an evil doctor. Hound took part in Let's Dance for Sport Relief, dancing to Cheryl Cole's "Fight for This Love" and won the final of the series on 13 March 2010. Rufus also hosted the year 2000 edition of new show "My Funniest Year", a look at a past year of British television, which was broadcast on Channel 4 in September 2010.
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Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She is famous for possessing a vocal range of over 3 octaves. She sings in many languages including English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, Italian, Russian, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.
Brightman began her career as a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip and released several disco singles as a solo performer. In 1981, she made her West End musical theatre debut in Cats and met composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whom she married. She went on to star in several Broadway musicals, including The Phantom of the Opera, where she originated the role of Christine Daaé. The Original London Cast Album of the musical was released in CD format in 1987 and sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest-selling cast album of all time.
After retiring from the stage and divorcing Lloyd Webber, Brightman resumed her music career with former Enigma producer Frank Peterson, this time as a classical crossover artist. She is often credited as the creator of this genre and remains among the most prominent performers, with worldwide sales of more than 30 million records and 2 million DVDs, establishing herself as the world's best-selling soprano of all time. Her duet with the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, "Time To Say Goodbye", topped charts all over Europe and became the highest and fastest selling single of all time in Germany, where it stayed at the top of the charts for fourteen consecutive weeks and sold over 3 million copies. It subsequently became an international success selling 12 million copies worldwide. She has now collected over 180 gold and platinum sales awards in 38 different countries. In 2010 she was named by Billboard the 5th most influential and top-selling classical artist of the 2000s decade in the US.
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Sarah Cawood
Sarah Cawood (born August 7, 1972 in London) is an English television presenter.
Cawood grew up in the Cambridgeshire village of Maxey and was educated at Stamford High School, Lincolnshire near Peterborough, United Kingdom. She also attended the Royal Ballet School and Arts Educational Schools London.
Between 1995 and 1996, she worked as a presenter for Nickelodeon. In 1997, she moved on to present The Girlie Show. From 1998 to 2000, she featured on Channel 5's Karaoke quiz show, Night Fever. She has also presented on MTV, Live & Kicking and Top of the Pops. She was also a panellist on Loose Women in 2003. She has also co-presented the midweek and Saturday National Lottery programmes and was also a reporter on the Channel 4 show Richard & Judy. In addition to this, she presented an information video for Argos for staff training purposes.
In May 2006, it was while she was presenting The National Lottery Jet Set, alongside Eamonn Holmes that Fathers 4 Justice invaded the studio, she however carried on and later claimed it was her training on MTV which allowed her to 'ad-lib'. She won a Celebrity episode of the Weakest Link, beating cricketer Phil Tufnell in the final. In November 2006, she took part in the BBC's Celebrity Scissorhands for Children in Need.
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Scott Mills
Scott Robert Mills (born 28 March 1973) is a British radio DJ, television presenter and occasional actor, best known for presenting The Scott Mills Show on BBC Radio 1. As of the 2011 Contest, Mills commentates for the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest on BBC Three with fellow BBC Radio DJ Sara Cox.
Mills began his career at the age of 16 as a DJ on his local Hampshire commercial radio station, Power FM, after barraging the station with demo tapes. Mills was given an opportunity to present a week worth of shows, and based on the success of this, he was immediately offered the 'graveyard slot' of 1:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m. (six nights a week), making him the youngest permanent presenter on the mainstream commercial radio. Mills' popularity led to a quick move to the coveted late afternoon 'drive time'.
Mills moved from Power FM to GWR FM, staying with the station for two years, before joining Piccadilly Key 103 in Manchester where he again moved quickly from the late night slot to the mid-morning show. In 1995, Mills began to work for the new London station Heart 106.2.
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Simon Bates
Simon Bates (born 17 December 1947, Birmingham) is a UK disc jockey and radio presenter. Between 1976 and 1993 he worked at BBC Radio 1, presenting the station's weekday mid-morning show for most of this period. He later became a regular presenter on Classic FM. In January 2011, he took over as host of "The Breakfast Show" on Smooth Radio.
Bates was raised in Suffolk and Shropshire and was educated at Adams' Grammar School before working for radio stations in New Zealand and Australia while still a teenager. Bates returned to the UK in 1971 to join the BBC, initially working for BBC Radio 4 and then joining BBC Radio 2 in 1973 presenting the Late Night show, before presenting the Early Morning show in 1975. Bates left BBC Radio 2 in January 1976 and joined BBC Radio 1 in May the same year standing in for Tom Browne to host the Sunday Top 20 show before presenting the Sunday morning show two months later.
Initially a weekend presenter playing new pop records, Bates took over the weekday mid-morning programme in November 1977 and remained the presenter for 16 years. The least flashy and garrulous of Radio 1's principal broadcasters, with an avuncular appearance (sober clothes, large glasses), Bates nevertheless became popular, attracting up to 11 million listeners. His voice — essentially a sped-up, slightly Americanised version of the standard Received Pronunciation associated with BBC Radio 4 — was unusual in that most Radio 1 DJs of the time had a more informal 'DJ' voice.
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Simon Dee
Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd (28 July 1935 – 29 August 2009), better known by his stage name Simon Dee, was a British television interviewer and radio disc jockey who hosted a twice-weekly BBC TV chat show, Dee Time in the late 1960s. After moving from the BBC to London Weekend Television (LWT) in 1970 he was dropped and his career never recovered.
He died of bone cancer in 2009.
Simon Dee was born on 28 July 1935, in Manchester, the only child of Cyril Edward Dodd (1906–1980) and Doris Gwendoline Pilling (née Simon) (1907–1952) who married in 1934 in Salford, though a Radio Caroline biography gave his birth place as Ottawa, Canada. He was educated at Brighton College and Shrewsbury School.
He served his compulsory military service in the Royal Air Force photo-reconnaissance unit, taking aerial photographs of the combat zone during the 1956 Suez Crisis, and being wounded in the face by a sniper in Cyprus. While stationed in Baghdad with RAF Intelligence, he auditioned for British Forces Radio.
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Simon Mayo
Simon Mayo (born 21 September 1958 in Southgate, London) is an English radio presenter who has worked for BBC Radio since 1981. As of January 2010, Mayo is presenter of Simon Mayo Drivetime on BBC Radio 2 and, with Mark Kermode, presenter of Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews on BBC Radio 5 Live.
In 2008, Mayo was recognised as the "radio broadcaster of the year" at the 34th annual Broadcasting Press Guild Awards and the "Speech Broadcaster of the Year" at the Sony Radio Academy Awards, receiving the latter for his "ability to paint colourful pictures of location and event and his ability to bring the very best out of his guests, encouraging conversation and interaction between them while skilfully nudging and controlling them" and for being "a master of light and shade, handling serious and lighter issues with aplomb." Known as a committed Christian, Mayo has criticised the BBC for marginalising religion and being anti-Christian.
Mayo attended Solihull School, an historic independent school in the West Midlands, and after graduating from the University of Warwick in 1980 with a degree in History and Politics, Mayo spent some time honing his skills at Southlands Hospital Radio, worked for five years as a presenter with BBC Radio Nottingham, before joining the national pop network BBC Radio 1 in 1986, presenting a two hour Saturday evening show from 7.30-9.30pm.
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Spike Milligan
Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a British comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor. His early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the British government declared him stateless. He was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the popular Eccles.
Milligan wrote and edited many books, including Puckoon and his seven-volume autobiographical account of his time serving during the Second World War, beginning with Adolf Hitler: My part in his downfall. He is also noted as a popular writer of comical verse; much of his poetry was written for children, including Silly Verse for Kids (1959). After success with the ground-breaking British radio programme, The Goon Show, Milligan translated this success to television with Q5, a surreal sketch show which is credited as a major influence on the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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Suzi Quatro
Susan Kay "Suzi" Quatro (born 3 June 1950) is a British-based American singer-songwriter, bass guitar player, and actor. She is the first female bass player to become a major rock star — this success in the 1970s empowered women (at a time when rock was dominated by men).
In the 1970s Quatro scored a string of hit singles that initially found greater success in Europe and Australia than in her homeland. But, following a recurring role as a female bass player on the popular American sitcom Happy Days, her duet "Stumblin' In" with Chris Norman reached number 4 in the USA.
Between 1973 and 1980 Quatro was awarded six Bravo Ottos. In 2010 she was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame.
She continues to create new albums, to perform, and to research/present new radio programmes.
Quatro played the bass guitar in the all-female bands The Pleasure Seekers and Cradle with her sisters Patti, Nancy, and Arlene. Also, according to her autobiography, her first bass guitar was a 1957 Fender Precision, given to her by her father.
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Sybil Ruscoe
Sybil Ruscoe (born 8 August 1960 in Wem, Shropshire, England), is a radio and television presenter
Ruscoe began on the Express and Star newspaper in Wolverhampton. Then moved to Radio Wyvern in Worcester, Beacon Radio and BBC Radio Shropshire. She then teamed up with Simon Mayo on the Radio 1 Breakfast show in 1989. She also started presenting television during this period, including Top of the Pops which she presented once in 1988 and six times in 1989. [1]
In 1990 she took over the evening news show News 90, which then became News 91, News 92 & News 93 over the three years that it was broadcast.
In 1994 she was the first presenter hired by Radio 5 Live and presented the afternoon show for 5 years.
In 1999 she joined Channel 4 Cricket - the first woman to present cricket on TV and was named Cosmopolitan Inspirational Woman of the Year.
Since 1999 Ruscoe has written for the Daily Telegraph.
In July 2003, she joined BBC Radio 2, taking over from Lynn Parsons on the weekend overnight slot. She remained here until July 2004.
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Terry Wogan
Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE, DL (born 3 August 1938), also known as Terry Wogan, is a veteran Irish radio and television broadcaster who holds dual Irish and British citizenship. Wogan has worked for the BBC in the United Kingdom for most of his career. Before he retired from the weekday breakfast programme Wake Up to Wogan on BBC Radio 2 on 18 December 2009, it had a regular 8 million listeners, making Wogan the most listened-to radio broadcaster of any European nation. He began his career at Raidió Teilifís Éireann where he presented shows such as Jackpot in the 1960s.
Wogan has been a leading media personality in the UK since the late 1960s and is often referred to as a national treasure. He is perhaps best known in the United Kingdom for his BBC1 chat show Wogan, for his work presenting Children in Need, as the host of Wake Up to Wogan, the original host of the BBC game show Blankety Blank (before being replaced by Les Dawson), a presenter of Come Dancing in the 1970s, and as the BBC's commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest on radio and television from 1971 to 2008. Wogan currently hosts a two hour Sunday morning show, Weekend Wogan on Radio 2.
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Tim Kash
Tim Kash (born February 13, 1982) is a television presenter best known for formerly presenting Top of the Pops in the United Kingdom, and MTV News on MTV UK and Ireland. He appeared on the U.S. edition of MTV News, and as a guest presenter on E! Network's Daily 10. He currently resides in New York City, United States.
Kash was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom in 1982 to a Sri Lankan Tamil family. He attended both St George's School, set in the grounds of Windsor Castle, and St Paul's School in Barnes, South London.
After spending some time working in A&R, Kash was hired by MTV UK and Ireland to work as a VJ, and began presenting MTV News in the U.K., and Europe in 2003.
After joining MTV, Kash was offered the presenting role on the BBC's Top of the Pops. On 28 November 2003, Kash hosted his first episode of the show which coincided with one of its most radical overhauls in what was reported as a make-or-break attempt to revitalize the long-running series. The BBC chose Kash for the position because of his youth, his prior success on MTV, and because the considered him a "edgy, quick-witted and talented presenter"; they hoped that all of these qualities would bring back the younger audience Top of the Pops used to have. Though show garnered poor ratings, and was moved from BBC1 to BBC2 in spring 2005, and eventually cancelled in July 2006.
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Tim Whitnall
Tim Whitnall (born 27 June 1961 on Canvey Island, Essex), is a British actor, musician, playwright and screenwriter probably best known for his portrayal of the alien Angelo on the British CITV sitcom Mike and Angelo.
Whitnall's critically acclaimed 2005 theatre play 'The Sociable Plover' was made into a feature film by Poisson Rouge Pictures and Solution Films (re-titled as 'The Hide') which received its UK premiere on Film4 in February 2009. Following its screen release at the ICA Cinema, London, 'The Hide' received its DVD release in January 2010. Whitnall was nominated for this work in the Writer's Guild Of Great Britain Awards 2010 'Best First Feature Length Screenplay' category.
Whitnall's stage-play 'Morecambe' - an original and affectionate tribute to the late, great Eric Morecambe - opened to dazzling reviews and won a Fringe First Award at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival. The show opened at London's Duchess Theatre the following December to equal acclaim and went on to tour the UK through 2010. The piece was nominated in two separate categories in the prestigious 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards, actually going on to win top honours for 'Best Entertainment'.
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Tommy Vance
Tommy Vance (born Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, 11 July 1940 – 6 March 2005) was a British pop radio broadcaster, born in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. He was one of the few music broadcasters in the United Kingdom to champion hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans. The Friday Rock Show that he hosted gave new bands airtime for their music and fans an opportunity to hear it. His radio show was a factor in the rise of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. He used a personal tag-line of "TV on the radio".
Born as Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, Vance left home at 16 to join the Merchant Navy (discharged 1 October 1956), and began his radio career in the USA under the name 'Rick West'. He took the name 'Tommy Vance' at the radio station KOL in Seattle from a DJ who had failed to turn up after the station had heavily promoted and paid for expensive jingles which were already recorded.
While at KOL, Vance was recruited by the Top 40 programming consultant Bill Drake, to join his team of Boss Jocks at the emerging West Coast KHJ radio in Los Angeles (aka Boss Radio). Vance held the evening airshift at KHJ for several months in late 1965. During this period, it was alleged that Tommy decided to return abruptly to the UK, after running into an unresolvable problem with the U.S. immigration authorities, regarding being drafted for the Vietnam War.[citation needed]
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Tony Blackburn
Tony Blackburn (born 29 January 1943) is an English disc jockey, who broadcast on the "pirate" stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first disc jockey to broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1967. In 2002 he was the winner of the ITV reality TV programme I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.
He was born Antony Kenneth Blackburn, in Guildford, Surrey, but in 1946 his family moved to Bournemouth, Hampshire, where his sister, Jacqueline, was born. His mother, Pauline Cubitt (née Stone), was a housewife and his father, Kenneth Fleming Blackburn, was a GP, and he was educated at Castle Court School in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset and Millfield School in Somerset, which he entered on a sports scholarship. He went on to become captain of the school cricket team, but left before taking any examinations. He then achieved a clutch of O-levels, following private tuition, and enrolled for a HND course in Business Studies at Bournemouth Technical College. He began his career as a singer, then worked as a DJ for the offshore pirate radio stations Radio Caroline and Radio London, before joining the BBC in 1967, initially broadcasting on the Light Programme.
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Tony Dortie
Tony Dortie (born July 1973) is a British TV personality. He recently[when?] set up his own production company called Triple T Entertainment [2]. He has appeared on various popular entertainment networks such as BBC, ITV Schofields Quest British Film Institute, MTV, BBC World Service, 3e Glam Slam source [3] and various others as a host. He is currently a host / creator for the TV Game Show (7$TEPS).
Dortie was born in London. Tony grew up in Lewes, in Sussex. He later attributes his out-going personality to his mixed childhood of Sussex Countryside and Inner City London combining a Broadcasting career with constant regular charity work.
Whilst at school Tony was a contributor to Music Box where he started his on screen broadcast career. Moving on to work for Children's BBC UP2U and then joining the likes of Ant and Dec, Zoe Ball, Peter Andre as one of the 90's hosts of TOTP working with stars like Take That, Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson. His Marmite style of presenting by talking with many inner city urban phrases 'Peace out' 'Laterz' 'Respect' was not to everyone's taste and earned mixed and often critical reviews
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Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic performances in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
Price was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Marguerite Cobb (née Wilcox) and Vincent Leonard Price, Sr., who was the president of the National Candy Company. His grandfather, Vincent Clarence Price, invented "Dr. Price's Baking Powder," the first cream of tartar baking powder, and secured the family's fortune.
Price attended St. Louis Country Day School. He was further educated at Yale in art history and fine art. He was a member of the Courtauld Institute, London. He became interested in the theatre during the 1930s, appearing professionally on stage for the first time in 1935.
He made his film debut in 1938 with Service de Luxe and established himself in the film Laura (1944), opposite Gene Tierney, directed by Otto Preminger. He also played Joseph Smith, Jr. in the movie Brigham Young (1940) and William Gibbs McAdoo in Wilson (1944) as well as a pretentious priest in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944).
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Vivian Stanshall
Vivian Stanshall (born Victor Anthony Stanshall; 21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995) was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.
Stanshall was often called a "great British eccentric", but this was a label he hated: it suggested that he was putting on an act. Instead, as he himself always insisted, "...he was merely being himself." However, it is not difficult to understand why he received the label. Neil Innes said of their first meeting: "He was quite plump in those days. He had on Billy Bunter check trousers, a Victorian frock coat, violet pince-nez glasses, and carried a euphonium. He also wore large pink rubber ears."
Stanshall was born on 21 March 1943 at the Radcliffe Maternity Home in Shillingford, and christened Victor Anthony Stanshall. His mother Eileen lived with her young son while her husband, Victor (1909–1990) (a name he had adopted in preference to his own christened name of Vivian), served in the RAF.
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William Shatner
William Alan Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, author and film director. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise, in the science fiction television series Star Trek from 1966 to 1969, Star Trek: The Animated Series from 1973 to 1974, and in seven of the subsequent Star Trek feature films from 1979 to 1994. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek, and has co-written several novels set in the Star Trek universe. He has also authored a series of science fiction novels called TekWar that were adapted for television.
Shatner also played the eponymous veteran police sergeant in T. J. Hooker from 1982 to 1986. Afterwards, he hosted the reality-based television series, Rescue 911 from 1989 to 1996, which won a People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Dramatic Series. He has since worked as a musician, author, producer, director and celebrity pitchman. From 2004 to 2008 he starred as attorney Denny Crane in the television dramas The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal for which he won two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
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Willie Rushton
William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton (18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye satirical magazine.
William George Rushton was born 18 August 1937 in the family home at Scarsdale Villas, Kensington, London (which 24 years later was to also be the editorial birthplace of Private Eye). He began attending Shrewsbury School in 1950, where he met his future Private Eye colleagues Richard Ingrams, Paul Foot and Christopher Booker. His distinctive character and tastes were already forming, as he introduced his friends to P. G. Wodehouse, the humorous columnist Beachcomber, and the records of ex-Footlights’ revue star Jack Hulbert. He gave a memorable performance as Lord Loam in The Admirable Crichton. He was becoming an accomplished illustrator, and his cartoons appeared in the school’s official magazine, The Salopian. He also contributed to the satirical rag, The Wallopian with Ingrams, Foot, Booker mocking school spirit, traditions and the masters. It was during this period that the term "pseud" was coined. The expression was given wider currency by Private Eye and is still in use as an insult against pseudo-intellectuals.
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Zoë Ball
Zoë Louise Ball (born 23 November 1970 in Blackpool, Lancashire) is an English television and radio personality, most famous for becoming the first female host of the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show and for her earlier work presenting the 1990s children's show, Live & Kicking.
The daughter of the children's TV presenter Johnny Ball and his wife Julia (née Anderson, divorced when Zoë was two), Ball was educated at Heston Junior School in West London between 1975 and 1978. Her family then moved to Farnham Common in Buckinghamshire. She attended Farnham Common First School and Farnham Common Middle School before moving to Holy Cross Convent School in Chalfont St Peter and Amersham College of Art and Technology. She joined the Young Theatre at Beaconsfield where she trained as an actress. Her first TV appearance was as a child in the studio audience of the 1980s Saturday morning children's show, Saturday Superstore, on which her father was appearing as a guest.
She began her television career as a runner at Granada Television and researcher on BSkyB. She worked as a researcher for quiz shows for two years. Her presenting jobs have included hosting The Big Breakfast and The Priory on Channel 4, BBC One's Saturday morning children's programme Live & Kicking and the pre-school programme Playdays. Between 1996 and 1998, she was a regular presenter on Top of the Pops, usually alternating with fellow presenters and DJs Jayne Middlemiss and Jo Whiley. The three only ever presented together once, on Christmas Day 1997.
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Kenny Everett
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- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
I never seen this guy until I saw this clip and he is so funny, I will have to start watching more of him from now on lol. In this video he simulates an interview with the Bee Gees and they answer through the medium of song, great comedy
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I never seen this guy until I saw this clip and he is so funny, I will have to start watching more of him from now on lol. In this video he simulates an interview with the Bee Gees and they answer through the medium of song, great comedy
Kenny Everett as "Cupid Stunt" on "Parkinson" - '82 - (pt.1 of 7) - HQ
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- Duration: 7:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
This is part ONE of what was a magical night for me (part TWO is on the left of the "video responses" below). It was the 6th of March, 1982 and unannounced, TWO of my FIVE ALL-TIME HEROES appeared on Parky - Buddy Rich and Kenny Everett (they'd never have met any OTHER way!) Also there, were Roy Castle and a surprise guest. This was a SHOW. Almost a full hour. No sidekick. No desk. And all of the guests STAYED after their initial interviews. Buddy did THREE numbers and then... well, you'll have to watch it to see! You need to see ALL SEVEN pieces, IN ORDER. Now, put your computer onto FULLSCREEN and enjoy!
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This is part ONE of what was a magical night for me (part TWO is on the left of the "video responses" below). It was the 6th of March, 1982 and unannounced, TWO of my FIVE ALL-TIME HEROES appeared on Parky - Buddy Rich and Kenny Everett (they'd never have met any OTHER way!) Also there, were Roy Castle and a surprise guest. This was a SHOW. Almost a full hour. No sidekick. No desk. And all of the guests STAYED after their initial interviews. Buddy did THREE numbers and then... well, you'll have to watch it to see! You need to see ALL SEVEN pieces, IN ORDER. Now, put your computer onto FULLSCREEN and enjoy!
- published: 18 Oct 2009
- views: 112671
- author: davidwrightatloppers
A Big Chunk Of The Kenny Everett Video Show #1
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- Duration: 8:42
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
More best bits from te Kenney Everett Video Show produced by Thames Television
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More best bits from te Kenney Everett Video Show produced by Thames Television
- published: 26 Jun 2007
- views: 238950
- author: annedoverfist
THE VERY BEST OF KENNY EVERETT
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- Duration: 6:18
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
The one and only KENNY EVERETT. The naughty and genius comedian of BBC. His TV show was fabulous in the 70's and 80's. This is a fine selection of his marvelous acting. Hope you'll enjoy it.
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The one and only KENNY EVERETT. The naughty and genius comedian of BBC. His TV show was fabulous in the 70's and 80's. This is a fine selection of his marvelous acting. Hope you'll enjoy it.
- published: 27 Feb 2008
- views: 154034
- author: TURKUAZZY
When Freddie Mercury Met Kenny Everett - Part 1 (1/6)
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- Duration: 8:37
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Channel 4 TV Documentary about the friendship between Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett from their meeting in 1974. "The gist of the programme - and it made a truly fascinating story - was that Kenny Everett (a disc jockey who may not be remembered by younger readers) met Freddie Mercury of Queen and became close friends. Both were gay men living with women; Everett was even married. However, their friendship led to drugs and alcohol-fuelled indiscriminate sex with strangers, which may sound like a quiet night in for Angus Deayton, but led to them both dying of Aids and the loss of their considerable talents." (Quot.'The Spectator')
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Channel 4 TV Documentary about the friendship between Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett from their meeting in 1974. "The gist of the programme - and it made a truly fascinating story - was that Kenny Everett (a disc jockey who may not be remembered by younger readers) met Freddie Mercury of Queen and became close friends. Both were gay men living with women; Everett was even married. However, their friendship led to drugs and alcohol-fuelled indiscriminate sex with strangers, which may sound like a quiet night in for Angus Deayton, but led to them both dying of Aids and the loss of their considerable talents." (Quot.'The Spectator')
- published: 20 Oct 2006
- views: 115540
- author: Oberon1966
Kenny Everett on "Blankety Blank" - '79
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- Duration: 9:36
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Americans won't get this at ALL...
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Kenny Everett - Greatest Hits
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- Duration: 9:55
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
Some of the finest moments of Kenny Everett on the radio crammed into ten minutes
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Some of the finest moments of Kenny Everett on the radio crammed into ten minutes
- published: 31 Jan 2009
- views: 16867
- author: 625vision
A Big Chunk Of The Kenny Everett Video Show #2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:45
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
More best bits from the Kenny Everett Video Show produced by Thames Television
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More best bits from the Kenny Everett Video Show produced by Thames Television
- published: 26 Jun 2007
- views: 33771
- author: annedoverfist
Kenny Everett Causes Controversy At The Conservative Party Conference
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- Duration: 1:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
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General kenny Everett
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- Duration: 1:22
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
I thought this was a piss take until I saw General Petraeus.
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I thought this was a piss take until I saw General Petraeus.
- published: 19 Sep 2007
- views: 119998
- author: spiracy
Freddie Mercury guests in Kenny Everett's show
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- Duration: 0:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
Funny clip...
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The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box part 1 - Restored
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 35:09
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
What's all this then? Well its various stand up acts interspersed with Kenny Everett. Programme featuring Kenny Everett who introduces comedians Lennie Bennett, Fogwell Flax, John Junkin, Pat Mooney, William Rushton, Barry Cryer and Leslie Crowther (who was cut from the LP) The BFI page states it's from 1981, yet that cant be, Kenny mentions his BBC work and a snatch of the theme is played at the end of the LP's. Even all the copyright states 1984, so yeah even the BFI makes mistakes! The video has been restored and 2 different Tapes have been used in sections to create the entire presentation. In this Special Edition Ive combined the STEREO LP with the mono LO-Fi and created the first stereo mix this video has had. The stereo album is pretty poorly cut and mastered, the stereo is pretty much faked, but its a mile better than the hissy lo-fi ST of the VHS tape, The LP goes for 44 mins and the Video some 1:19:00 so some of the Video is still in Lo-fi (but restored) Ive spent a while cutting in all the bits i could from the album. Any thoughts, I DO spend quite a while restoring this stuff and when I see bugger all comments It makes me want to stop. Think of me as a comment driven restoration machine.
http://wn.com/The_Kenny_Everett_Naughty_Joke_Box_part_1_Restored
What's all this then? Well its various stand up acts interspersed with Kenny Everett. Programme featuring Kenny Everett who introduces comedians Lennie Bennett, Fogwell Flax, John Junkin, Pat Mooney, William Rushton, Barry Cryer and Leslie Crowther (who was cut from the LP) The BFI page states it's from 1981, yet that cant be, Kenny mentions his BBC work and a snatch of the theme is played at the end of the LP's. Even all the copyright states 1984, so yeah even the BFI makes mistakes! The video has been restored and 2 different Tapes have been used in sections to create the entire presentation. In this Special Edition Ive combined the STEREO LP with the mono LO-Fi and created the first stereo mix this video has had. The stereo album is pretty poorly cut and mastered, the stereo is pretty much faked, but its a mile better than the hissy lo-fi ST of the VHS tape, The LP goes for 44 mins and the Video some 1:19:00 so some of the Video is still in Lo-fi (but restored) Ive spent a while cutting in all the bits i could from the album. Any thoughts, I DO spend quite a while restoring this stuff and when I see bugger all comments It makes me want to stop. Think of me as a comment driven restoration machine.
- published: 21 Feb 2011
- views: 8089
- author: ade425mxy
A Big Chunk Of The Kenny Everett Video Show #4
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- Duration: 10:29
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
More best bits from the Kenny Everett Video Show produced by Thames Television
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More best bits from the Kenny Everett Video Show produced by Thames Television
- published: 26 Jun 2007
- views: 14368
- author: annedoverfist
Kenny Everett Sinead O'Connor on the Late Late Show
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- Duration: 8:18
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
Kenny Everett on the Late Late Show being challenged by Sinead O'Connor! 1989.
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Kenny Everett on the Late Late Show being challenged by Sinead O'Connor! 1989.
- published: 19 Jun 2009
- views: 48458
- author: shippy555
Kenny Everett And Billy Conolly Loo Sketch Full Version
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- Duration: 2:49
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
Kenny Everett And Billy Conolly Loo Sketch Full Version. This is the full version. A great pice of british comedy. !!!!!! Enjoy !!!!!!
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Kenny Everett And Billy Conolly Loo Sketch Full Version. This is the full version. A great pice of british comedy. !!!!!! Enjoy !!!!!!
- published: 13 Sep 2008
- views: 59904
- author: Elvisdukebox
Kenny Everett as Rod Stewart.mpg
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- Duration: 1:50
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
Kenny Everett as Rod Stewart
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Cleo Rocos & Kenny Everett
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- Duration: 1:20
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
More clips from Cleo & Kenny. For more pics, Cleo's yahoo group is at; groups.yahoo.com
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More clips from Cleo & Kenny. For more pics, Cleo's yahoo group is at; groups.yahoo.com
- published: 15 Sep 2006
- views: 90296
- author: robert280
Kenny Everett - Barbra Streisand... first time on YouTube!
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- Duration: 2:24
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
Kenny Everett's indescribably funny shot at Babs - from "The Kenny Everett Video Show" (Thames Television 1980). See also the Elton John and Mick Jagger sendups!
http://wn.com/Kenny_Everett_Barbra_Streisand_first_time_on_YouTube!
Kenny Everett's indescribably funny shot at Babs - from "The Kenny Everett Video Show" (Thames Television 1980). See also the Elton John and Mick Jagger sendups!
- published: 22 Oct 2007
- views: 75970
- author: auspete
Kenny Everett Cupid Stunt - with Michael PARKINSON
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- Duration: 1:47
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
Kenny Everett Cupid Stunt - with Michael PARKINSON
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Kenny Everett Cupid Stunt - with Michael PARKINSON
- published: 09 Jul 2008
- views: 38412
- author: BILLYKARLOFF
KENNY EVERETT - ANGRY OF MAYFAIR/SID SNOT
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- Duration: 0:26
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
clip from kenny everett show www.digitronrecords.com
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clip from kenny everett show www.digitronrecords.com
- published: 21 Aug 2006
- views: 150629
- author: kitch77
Hot Gossip - Supernature (Kenny Everett Video Show)
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- Duration: 5:24
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
Hot Gossip performs "Supernature" on The Kenny Everett Video Show. Also features Marcel Wave and end credits.
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Hot Gossip performs "Supernature" on The Kenny Everett Video Show. Also features Marcel Wave and end credits.
- published: 02 Nov 2008
- views: 104145
- author: ThamesTart
Kenny Everett as Cupid Stunt
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- Duration: 2:08
- Updated: 10 Nov 2012
He's rappin' again
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The New Kenny Everett Naughty Video - ALG Restored - Part 1
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- Duration: 22:35
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
Here's a rariety Never before ripped. Ive restored both audio and video, although It looks shity here the Blu-ray and Mpg2 encodes are very very good! Has anyone got the first volume called The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box? Or ANY Kenny Everett Video Show Epps? Oh and its a bit ruder than his Telly work.. you have been warned! The whole thing goes for 1 hour 20.. This is only an excerpt. I AM trading it for other Ev stuff though... Always on the lookout to be capping and Restoring rare UK material, Plus can transfer and restore you own home movies as well as , Tape Cassette and Quarter inch, Any form of recorded disc from 1900 lateral Edison discs to today's vinyl. and many forms of video too! each lovingly restored both vision and audio and presented back with full restorations and importantly a RAW copy for any future work. Would LOVE to get some WORK my way, (you would not believe how much..) and you'd get the best transfer that's possible.
http://wn.com/The_New_Kenny_Everett_Naughty_Video_ALG_Restored_Part_1
Here's a rariety Never before ripped. Ive restored both audio and video, although It looks shity here the Blu-ray and Mpg2 encodes are very very good! Has anyone got the first volume called The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box? Or ANY Kenny Everett Video Show Epps? Oh and its a bit ruder than his Telly work.. you have been warned! The whole thing goes for 1 hour 20.. This is only an excerpt. I AM trading it for other Ev stuff though... Always on the lookout to be capping and Restoring rare UK material, Plus can transfer and restore you own home movies as well as , Tape Cassette and Quarter inch, Any form of recorded disc from 1900 lateral Edison discs to today's vinyl. and many forms of video too! each lovingly restored both vision and audio and presented back with full restorations and importantly a RAW copy for any future work. Would LOVE to get some WORK my way, (you would not believe how much..) and you'd get the best transfer that's possible.
- published: 21 Jan 2011
- views: 22523
- author: ade425mxy
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The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box part 1 - Restored
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 35:09
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
What's all this then? Well its various stand up acts interspersed with Kenny Everett. Programme featuring Kenny Everett who introduces comedians Lennie Bennett, Fogwell Flax, John Junkin, Pat Mooney, William Rushton, Barry Cryer and Leslie Crowther (who was cut from the LP) The BFI page states it's from 1981, yet that cant be, Kenny mentions his BBC work and a snatch of the theme is played at the end of the LP's. Even all the copyright states 1984, so yeah even the BFI makes mistakes! The video has been restored and 2 different Tapes have been used in sections to create the entire presentation. In this Special Edition Ive combined the STEREO LP with the mono LO-Fi and created the first stereo mix this video has had. The stereo album is pretty poorly cut and mastered, the stereo is pretty much faked, but its a mile better than the hissy lo-fi ST of the VHS tape, The LP goes for 44 mins and the Video some 1:19:00 so some of the Video is still in Lo-fi (but restored) Ive spent a while cutting in all the bits i could from the album. Any thoughts, I DO spend quite a while restoring this stuff and when I see bugger all comments It makes me want to stop. Think of me as a comment driven restoration machine.
http://wn.com/The_Kenny_Everett_Naughty_Joke_Box_part_1_Restored
What's all this then? Well its various stand up acts interspersed with Kenny Everett. Programme featuring Kenny Everett who introduces comedians Lennie Bennett, Fogwell Flax, John Junkin, Pat Mooney, William Rushton, Barry Cryer and Leslie Crowther (who was cut from the LP) The BFI page states it's from 1981, yet that cant be, Kenny mentions his BBC work and a snatch of the theme is played at the end of the LP's. Even all the copyright states 1984, so yeah even the BFI makes mistakes! The video has been restored and 2 different Tapes have been used in sections to create the entire presentation. In this Special Edition Ive combined the STEREO LP with the mono LO-Fi and created the first stereo mix this video has had. The stereo album is pretty poorly cut and mastered, the stereo is pretty much faked, but its a mile better than the hissy lo-fi ST of the VHS tape, The LP goes for 44 mins and the Video some 1:19:00 so some of the Video is still in Lo-fi (but restored) Ive spent a while cutting in all the bits i could from the album. Any thoughts, I DO spend quite a while restoring this stuff and when I see bugger all comments It makes me want to stop. Think of me as a comment driven restoration machine.
- published: 21 Feb 2011
- views: 7920
- author: ade425mxy
The New Kenny Everett Naughty Video - ALG Restored - Part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 22:35
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Here's a rariety Never before ripped. Ive restored both audio and video, although It looks shity here the Blu-ray and Mpg2 encodes are very very good! Has anyone got the first volume called The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box? Or ANY Kenny Everett Video Show Epps? Oh and its a bit ruder than his Telly work.. you have been warned! The whole thing goes for 1 hour 20.. This is only an excerpt. I AM trading it for other Ev stuff though... Always on the lookout to be capping and Restoring rare UK material, Plus can transfer and restore you own home movies as well as , Tape Cassette and Quarter inch, Any form of recorded disc from 1900 lateral Edison discs to today's vinyl. and many forms of video too! each lovingly restored both vision and audio and presented back with full restorations and importantly a RAW copy for any future work. Would LOVE to get some WORK my way, (you would not believe how much..) and you'd get the best transfer that's possible.
http://wn.com/The_New_Kenny_Everett_Naughty_Video_ALG_Restored_Part_1
Here's a rariety Never before ripped. Ive restored both audio and video, although It looks shity here the Blu-ray and Mpg2 encodes are very very good! Has anyone got the first volume called The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box? Or ANY Kenny Everett Video Show Epps? Oh and its a bit ruder than his Telly work.. you have been warned! The whole thing goes for 1 hour 20.. This is only an excerpt. I AM trading it for other Ev stuff though... Always on the lookout to be capping and Restoring rare UK material, Plus can transfer and restore you own home movies as well as , Tape Cassette and Quarter inch, Any form of recorded disc from 1900 lateral Edison discs to today's vinyl. and many forms of video too! each lovingly restored both vision and audio and presented back with full restorations and importantly a RAW copy for any future work. Would LOVE to get some WORK my way, (you would not believe how much..) and you'd get the best transfer that's possible.
- published: 21 Jan 2011
- views: 22239
- author: ade425mxy
Kenny Everett on "Desert Island Discs" - '93 - stereo
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- Duration: 39:13
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
...two years later, he left us.
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The Best Possible Taste - The Kenny Everett Story (2012)
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- Duration: 86:45
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Told with the help of some of his most famous comic characters including Cupid Stunt and Quentin Pose, the story of pioneering radio DJ and television star Kenny Everett's against-the-odds struggle to achieve both personal and professional fulfilment, as seen through the decade-and-a-half prism of his marriage to Lee Middleton.
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Told with the help of some of his most famous comic characters including Cupid Stunt and Quentin Pose, the story of pioneering radio DJ and television star Kenny Everett's against-the-odds struggle to achieve both personal and professional fulfilment, as seen through the decade-and-a-half prism of his marriage to Lee Middleton.
- published: 15 Oct 2012
- views: 2044
- author: BritNostalgia
THE UNFORGETABLE KENNY EVERETT
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- Duration: 24:45
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Aspect ratio corrected from original broadcast.
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Aspect ratio corrected from original broadcast.
- published: 23 Oct 2011
- views: 10628
- author: Craig Staszkiewicz
TOP OF THE POPS (OCT 11, 1973; PRESENTED BY KENNY EVERETT)
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- Duration: 31:13
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
The only known broadcast-quality episode in existence of 'Cuddly Ken' introducing the BBC's weekly chart rundown. Music from Slade, Elton John, The Electric Light Orchestra and more! The Number One slot was occupied that week by the Simon Park Orchestra.
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The only known broadcast-quality episode in existence of 'Cuddly Ken' introducing the BBC's weekly chart rundown. Music from Slade, Elton John, The Electric Light Orchestra and more! The Number One slot was occupied that week by the Simon Park Orchestra.
- published: 18 Nov 2012
- views: 487
- author: tellymemories
The KENNY EVERETT NAUGHTY JOKE BOX - 1984 (Adults Only!)
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- Duration: 45:21
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
Full Album. WARNING: Contains rude words and adult humour!. 'Naughty' and 'Bad' jokes from Kenny's 1984 LP. With his chums Willie Rushton, John Junkin, Barry Cryer, Lennie Bennett, Fogwell Flax, Pat Mooney and Debbie Linden
http://wn.com/The_KENNY_EVERETT_NAUGHTY_JOKE_BOX_1984_Adults_Only!
Full Album. WARNING: Contains rude words and adult humour!. 'Naughty' and 'Bad' jokes from Kenny's 1984 LP. With his chums Willie Rushton, John Junkin, Barry Cryer, Lennie Bennett, Fogwell Flax, Pat Mooney and Debbie Linden
- published: 05 Jun 2012
- views: 1351
- author: VinylFun
The Unforgettable Kenny Everett
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 22:59
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
A rather special tribute to one of the best broadcasters ever.
http://wn.com/The_Unforgettable_Kenny_Everett
A rather special tribute to one of the best broadcasters ever.
- published: 24 Sep 2012
- views: 396
- author: funksocks
Kenny Everett - Radio Radio (BBC Radio 1 documentary, 1986)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 59:33
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
Kenny Everett talks about his life, his influences and his career. There's no photo slideshow or video footage, just the radio... as it should be. (BTW - Radio 1 used Radio 2's VHF frequency at various times of the week back then, so if you were about to comment that the tuning scale's wrong...)
http://wn.com/Kenny_Everett_Radio_Radio_BBC_Radio_1_documentary,_1986
Kenny Everett talks about his life, his influences and his career. There's no photo slideshow or video footage, just the radio... as it should be. (BTW - Radio 1 used Radio 2's VHF frequency at various times of the week back then, so if you were about to comment that the tuning scale's wrong...)
- published: 03 Oct 2012
- views: 246
- author: soundhog09
Kremmen The Movie - STEREO - ALG Restorations
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 24:26
- Updated: 18 Dec 2012
While I'm waiting to receive some 45rpm discs to finish of more episodes of the Video Show, Here's his 1980 Kremmen movie. It was so poorly received that it went straight to Video,, and for good cause. Its rubbish!! Cosgrove-Hall did NOT animate this so all those nice touches like the colored Victorian lithographs (al-la Terry Gilliam) are gone. Plus the drawings themselves do not resemble the cosgrove hall stuff either. Combine that with a very weak script, Terrible soundtrack with none of the brilliance of the Radio or Telly Kremmen and you have one big stinker.. Still It's nice to see for those who haven't. In this Special Edition Ive combined the STEREO LP with the mono movie and created the first stereo mix this film has had. Also Included is the Restored LP, with 48khz 24bit FLAC Versions for those who like quality and 44khz 16bit MP3's for those who don't really care.. The LP had many faults. Its perhaps one of the Poorest cut discs Ive heard of of EMI from 1980!, Whoever was on Lathe duty that day must have out having a smoke while the master was being cut! And the tape mixdown is extremely poor. Ive corrected a lot of it's faults but still some may have crept back. ANYONE with ANY video's of Kenny Everett PLEASE let me know, Trying to restore the Entire series, you may also get a very nice surprise!
http://wn.com/Kremmen_The_Movie_STEREO_ALG_Restorations
While I'm waiting to receive some 45rpm discs to finish of more episodes of the Video Show, Here's his 1980 Kremmen movie. It was so poorly received that it went straight to Video,, and for good cause. Its rubbish!! Cosgrove-Hall did NOT animate this so all those nice touches like the colored Victorian lithographs (al-la Terry Gilliam) are gone. Plus the drawings themselves do not resemble the cosgrove hall stuff either. Combine that with a very weak script, Terrible soundtrack with none of the brilliance of the Radio or Telly Kremmen and you have one big stinker.. Still It's nice to see for those who haven't. In this Special Edition Ive combined the STEREO LP with the mono movie and created the first stereo mix this film has had. Also Included is the Restored LP, with 48khz 24bit FLAC Versions for those who like quality and 44khz 16bit MP3's for those who don't really care.. The LP had many faults. Its perhaps one of the Poorest cut discs Ive heard of of EMI from 1980!, Whoever was on Lathe duty that day must have out having a smoke while the master was being cut! And the tape mixdown is extremely poor. Ive corrected a lot of it's faults but still some may have crept back. ANYONE with ANY video's of Kenny Everett PLEASE let me know, Trying to restore the Entire series, you may also get a very nice surprise!
- published: 17 Feb 2011
- views: 1931
- author: ade425mxy
The 'Queens' of Camp Comedy 'What A Performance' - Williams, Grayson, Everett - DISGUSTING!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 53:44
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
'What A Performance!' ITV UK 1997 - Introduced by Bob Monkhouse with Sid Field, Hugh Paddick, Gerry Desmond, Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howard, Larry Grayson, John Inman, Julian Clary, Lilly Savage & Kenny Everett. With contributions from Matthew Kelly, Lesley Joseph, Clive James, Harry Enfield, Chris Tarrant, Jonathon Ross, Barry Took, Wendy Richard & Cleo Rocos. Uncle Bob, comes off a little disapproving sometimes, but I think this is entirely unintentional. The interview elements are in soft focus, but I've cleaned up the rest as best I can, transferring it from my S-VHS system over S-VHS cables. Sound is from one speaker for 8 minutes then stereo! Enjoy Daahhlings!
http://wn.com/The_'Queens'_of_Camp_Comedy_'What_A_Performance'_Williams,_Grayson,_Everett_DISGUSTING!
'What A Performance!' ITV UK 1997 - Introduced by Bob Monkhouse with Sid Field, Hugh Paddick, Gerry Desmond, Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howard, Larry Grayson, John Inman, Julian Clary, Lilly Savage & Kenny Everett. With contributions from Matthew Kelly, Lesley Joseph, Clive James, Harry Enfield, Chris Tarrant, Jonathon Ross, Barry Took, Wendy Richard & Cleo Rocos. Uncle Bob, comes off a little disapproving sometimes, but I think this is entirely unintentional. The interview elements are in soft focus, but I've cleaned up the rest as best I can, transferring it from my S-VHS system over S-VHS cables. Sound is from one speaker for 8 minutes then stereo! Enjoy Daahhlings!
- published: 17 May 2012
- views: 21499
- author: chillmax
BCB 106.6 FM - Joe Ogden and Keith Wilcock Clip 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 28:14
- Updated: 17 Aug 2012
Not since "Round the Horne" The Kenny Everett Radio Show" and the Goons on British airwaves have I come across two more anarchic individuals than Joe Ogden (in his area, a well known local Bradford playwrite) and his good friend (I'm sure the video shows you that), that most knowledgeable of film music Buffs Keith Wilcock. Well here they are for the first time together (YouTube wise) presenting their Sunday (or is its John's show) "Sunday AM and Movie Music", who cares!, because neither of them do, they just play their favourite music between 8am and 9am every Sunday on local Bradford area 106.6 FM or via the internet bcbradio.co.uk with all the w's in front as usual. This is just a sample of their offerings around Bradford and the world, I listen sometime in shock and awe to these two fine gentleman's antic's most Sunday's just before Nigel Lambert hits the airwaves at 9am. Give them a listen, sometimes you may have to go and wash your face in cold water after their programme (shock!) but at least you'll know you're alive, because they are, and live it to the full. I had a great time videoing this programme and feel that I now need to go in to rehab. Thanks guy's! BradfordEye PS . Why not give the website showing pictures of Bradford going back 40 years a visit, www.bradfordeye.co.uk . A surprising place Bradford!
http://wn.com/BCB_1066_FM_Joe_Ogden_and_Keith_Wilcock_Clip_1
Not since "Round the Horne" The Kenny Everett Radio Show" and the Goons on British airwaves have I come across two more anarchic individuals than Joe Ogden (in his area, a well known local Bradford playwrite) and his good friend (I'm sure the video shows you that), that most knowledgeable of film music Buffs Keith Wilcock. Well here they are for the first time together (YouTube wise) presenting their Sunday (or is its John's show) "Sunday AM and Movie Music", who cares!, because neither of them do, they just play their favourite music between 8am and 9am every Sunday on local Bradford area 106.6 FM or via the internet bcbradio.co.uk with all the w's in front as usual. This is just a sample of their offerings around Bradford and the world, I listen sometime in shock and awe to these two fine gentleman's antic's most Sunday's just before Nigel Lambert hits the airwaves at 9am. Give them a listen, sometimes you may have to go and wash your face in cold water after their programme (shock!) but at least you'll know you're alive, because they are, and live it to the full. I had a great time videoing this programme and feel that I now need to go in to rehab. Thanks guy's! BradfordEye PS . Why not give the website showing pictures of Bradford going back 40 years a visit, www.bradfordeye.co.uk . A surprising place Bradford!
- published: 05 Mar 2011
- views: 598
- author: bradfordeye
Top of the Pops 1977 (771110)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:18
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Top of the Pops 10th Nov 1977 (30) THE JACKSONS -- Goin' Places (and charts) (5) TOM ROBINSON BAND -- 2-4-6-8 Motorway (29) RUBY WINTERS -- I Will (video) (11) ROXY MUSIC -- Virginia Plain (clip of TOTP 24-8-72) (22) BONEY M -- Belfast ® (33) ELVIS COSTELLO -- Watching The Detectives (12) THE BEE GEES -- How Deep Is Your Love (danced to by Legs & Co) (39) KENNY EVERETT & MIKE VICKERS -- Captain Kremmen (Retribution) (video) (18) SANTANA -- She's Not There (video) (26) TINA CHARLES -- Love Bug -- Sweets For My Sweet (Medley) (21) DARTS -- Daddy Cool/The Girl Can't Help It (1) ABBA -- The Name Of The Game (video) (3) ROD STEWART -- You're In My Heart (and credits)
http://wn.com/Top_of_the_Pops_1977_771110
Top of the Pops 10th Nov 1977 (30) THE JACKSONS -- Goin' Places (and charts) (5) TOM ROBINSON BAND -- 2-4-6-8 Motorway (29) RUBY WINTERS -- I Will (video) (11) ROXY MUSIC -- Virginia Plain (clip of TOTP 24-8-72) (22) BONEY M -- Belfast ® (33) ELVIS COSTELLO -- Watching The Detectives (12) THE BEE GEES -- How Deep Is Your Love (danced to by Legs & Co) (39) KENNY EVERETT & MIKE VICKERS -- Captain Kremmen (Retribution) (video) (18) SANTANA -- She's Not There (video) (26) TINA CHARLES -- Love Bug -- Sweets For My Sweet (Medley) (21) DARTS -- Daddy Cool/The Girl Can't Help It (1) ABBA -- The Name Of The Game (video) (3) ROD STEWART -- You're In My Heart (and credits)
- published: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 120
- author: seekenee
Vincent Price Bloodbath At The House Of Death 1983
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 90:30
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Vincent Price did not like this movie. Today you have the chance to find out why. Watch this movie today, tomorrow maybe to late! The film opens in 1975 at a place called Headstone Manor, which is being used as a "businessman's weekend retreat and girls' summer camp". A few minutes into the film, a group of satanic monks enter the house and kill 18 of its occupants.
http://wn.com/Vincent_Price_Bloodbath_At_The_House_Of_Death_1983
Vincent Price did not like this movie. Today you have the chance to find out why. Watch this movie today, tomorrow maybe to late! The film opens in 1975 at a place called Headstone Manor, which is being used as a "businessman's weekend retreat and girls' summer camp". A few minutes into the film, a group of satanic monks enter the house and kill 18 of its occupants.
- published: 13 May 2012
- views: 12441
- author: vincentpricenut2
Metro Radio - Opening and First Breakfast Show, July 15, 1974
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 98:56
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
The Metropolitan Broadcasting Company (MBC), soon which soon became just "Metro Radio" was launched on July 15, 1974 and was (and still is) the Independent Local Radio (ILR) "heritage" commercial radio station for the Tyne/Wear area. It was the first such station to launch in north east England. Broadcasting on 261 metres (1151 kHz) AM medium wave and 97MHz FM VHF stereo, its powerful signals could be received from the Scottish borders in the north of the region to Northallerton, Middlesbrough and Whitby in the south. Featured in this video is the initial (nearly) two hours of the first programme to be broadcast on the station, the Breakfast Show. The programme was presented by Don Dwyer desk an Australian presenter who had previously worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Dwyer controlled the mixer desk, while his co-presenter was the late Harry Rowell who had previously worked in the News Department of Tyne Tees Television. Also included in this nostalgic programme are photographs of Radio House, Longrigg, Swalwell, Gateshead (with the memorable post code of NE99 1BB!) and on-air interviews and well wishes from Clive Roslyn live at Independent Radio News (IRN) also being relayed on LBC 261 News Radio in London. There is also a rare on-air interview with the late Kenny Everett as he broadcast live on Capital Radio 194, London's new general entertainment commercial station. Both Capital 194 and LBC 261 launched in October 1973 and were the UK's first ILR ...
http://wn.com/Metro_Radio_Opening_and_First_Breakfast_Show,_July_15,_1974
The Metropolitan Broadcasting Company (MBC), soon which soon became just "Metro Radio" was launched on July 15, 1974 and was (and still is) the Independent Local Radio (ILR) "heritage" commercial radio station for the Tyne/Wear area. It was the first such station to launch in north east England. Broadcasting on 261 metres (1151 kHz) AM medium wave and 97MHz FM VHF stereo, its powerful signals could be received from the Scottish borders in the north of the region to Northallerton, Middlesbrough and Whitby in the south. Featured in this video is the initial (nearly) two hours of the first programme to be broadcast on the station, the Breakfast Show. The programme was presented by Don Dwyer desk an Australian presenter who had previously worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Dwyer controlled the mixer desk, while his co-presenter was the late Harry Rowell who had previously worked in the News Department of Tyne Tees Television. Also included in this nostalgic programme are photographs of Radio House, Longrigg, Swalwell, Gateshead (with the memorable post code of NE99 1BB!) and on-air interviews and well wishes from Clive Roslyn live at Independent Radio News (IRN) also being relayed on LBC 261 News Radio in London. There is also a rare on-air interview with the late Kenny Everett as he broadcast live on Capital Radio 194, London's new general entertainment commercial station. Both Capital 194 and LBC 261 launched in October 1973 and were the UK's first ILR ...
- published: 20 May 2011
- views: 1401
- author: Demosthenes140
The Story of Light Entertainment_Radio Stars_Part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:49
- Updated: 02 Jun 2012
Part 2 of 3 looks at pirate radio, Radio 1, Simon Dee and Kenny Everett Contributions from Jimmy Savile, David Jacobs, DLT, Tony Blackburn, Johnnie Walker, Tony Prince, Ed Stewart, Chris Cowey, David Jensen, Rosko, Christian O'Connell, Annie Nightingale, Bill Cotton Jnr, Clive James, Pete Murray, Paul Gambaccini and Mark Radcliffe. First broadcast Saturday 5 August 2006
http://wn.com/The_Story_of_Light_Entertainment_Radio_Stars_Part_2
Part 2 of 3 looks at pirate radio, Radio 1, Simon Dee and Kenny Everett Contributions from Jimmy Savile, David Jacobs, DLT, Tony Blackburn, Johnnie Walker, Tony Prince, Ed Stewart, Chris Cowey, David Jensen, Rosko, Christian O'Connell, Annie Nightingale, Bill Cotton Jnr, Clive James, Pete Murray, Paul Gambaccini and Mark Radcliffe. First broadcast Saturday 5 August 2006
- published: 18 Mar 2012
- views: 429
- author: RandomRadioJottings
The Walking Dead: Episode 2 - Starved For Help Walkthrough Part 1 (Cut the leg or what?)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 23:26
- Updated: 03 Dec 2012
★ The Walking Dead Episode 2 (STARVED FOR HELP) PLAYLIST: www.youtube.com ★ About the Game: The game features cross-genre of both adventure and action with some role-playing elements, in which, like in the previous Telltale titles, the player must make use of inventory items and environment, however, unlike in them, the played characters will have limited time to do so and could die in the process. The game is told from the point of view of a new character named Lee Everett, who will be the only controllable character in the game. Lee will however be able to interact with the other survivors and his actions will influence the plot in particular ways (like, for example, at some point Lee will have to choose whom to save from the dead, and therefore by letting the other individual perish, some of the game plot will change, while other parts will remain unchanged). In addition, some characters from the original comic book series have been confirmed to make appearances in-game, including Hershel Greene and Glenn. Players will be able to meet them before the plot in the comic book begins to take place. ★ DECISIONS: Cut the leg or leave him. Side with Kenny or Lily. To whom you will give the food ration? (only 4 food left.) Convince Kenny not to leave the motel or let him leave.(together with his family) ★ Get the Game Here: bit.ly ★ SUBSCRIBE for more videos: www.youtube.com ★ TWITTER: www.twitter.com ★ WEBSITE: www.gamercampaign.webs.com TAGS El caminar absolutamente ...
http://wn.com/The_Walking_Dead_Episode_2_Starved_For_Help_Walkthrough_Part_1_Cut_the_leg_or_what?
★ The Walking Dead Episode 2 (STARVED FOR HELP) PLAYLIST: www.youtube.com ★ About the Game: The game features cross-genre of both adventure and action with some role-playing elements, in which, like in the previous Telltale titles, the player must make use of inventory items and environment, however, unlike in them, the played characters will have limited time to do so and could die in the process. The game is told from the point of view of a new character named Lee Everett, who will be the only controllable character in the game. Lee will however be able to interact with the other survivors and his actions will influence the plot in particular ways (like, for example, at some point Lee will have to choose whom to save from the dead, and therefore by letting the other individual perish, some of the game plot will change, while other parts will remain unchanged). In addition, some characters from the original comic book series have been confirmed to make appearances in-game, including Hershel Greene and Glenn. Players will be able to meet them before the plot in the comic book begins to take place. ★ DECISIONS: Cut the leg or leave him. Side with Kenny or Lily. To whom you will give the food ration? (only 4 food left.) Convince Kenny not to leave the motel or let him leave.(together with his family) ★ Get the Game Here: bit.ly ★ SUBSCRIBE for more videos: www.youtube.com ★ TWITTER: www.twitter.com ★ WEBSITE: www.gamercampaign.webs.com TAGS El caminar absolutamente ...
- published: 05 Jul 2012
- views: 4158
- author: GamerCampaign
Vincent Price Bloodbath At The House Of Death 1983 (Brighter)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 90:30
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Vincent Price did not like this movie. Today you have the chance to find out why. Watch this movie today, tomorrow maybe to late! The film opens in 1975 at a place called Headstone Manor, which is being used as a "businessman's weekend retreat and girls' summer camp". A few minutes into the film, a group of satanic monks enter the house and kill 18 of its occupants.
http://wn.com/Vincent_Price_Bloodbath_At_The_House_Of_Death_1983_Brighter
Vincent Price did not like this movie. Today you have the chance to find out why. Watch this movie today, tomorrow maybe to late! The film opens in 1975 at a place called Headstone Manor, which is being used as a "businessman's weekend retreat and girls' summer camp". A few minutes into the film, a group of satanic monks enter the house and kill 18 of its occupants.
- published: 23 Dec 2012
- views: 50
- author: vincentpricenut2
The Walking Dead: Episode 3 - Long Road Ahead Walkthrough Part 1(Shoot the Girl or Not?)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:40
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
★ About the Game: The game features cross-genre of both adventure and action with some role-playing elements, in which, like in the previous Telltale titles, the player must make use of inventory items and environment, however, unlike in them, the played characters will have limited time to do so and could die in the process. The game is told from the point of view of a new character named Lee Everett, who will be the only controllable character in the game. Lee will however be able to interact with the other survivors and his actions will influence the plot in particular ways (like, for example, at some point Lee will have to choose whom to save from the dead, and therefore by letting the other individual perish, some of the game plot will change, while other parts will remain unchanged). In addition, some characters from the original comic book series have been confirmed to make appearances in-game, including Hershel Greene and Glenn. Players will be able to meet them before the plot in the comic book begins to take place. ★ Get the Game Here: Xbox - www.bit.ly PC - www.bit.ly ★ SUBSCRIBE for more videos: www.youtube.com ★ TWITTER: www.twitter.com ★ WEBSITE: www.gamercampaign.webs.com TAGS El caminar absolutamente: Episodio 3 La marche complètement : Épisode 3 Absolut gehen: Episode 3 Il morto che cammina: Episodio 3 황폐하게 걷기: 에피소드 3 走死：情节3 完全に歩くこと: エピソード3 "left 4 dead" "left 4 dead 2" "the walking dead" "the walking dead episode 1 ...
http://wn.com/The_Walking_Dead_Episode_3_Long_Road_Ahead_Walkthrough_Part_1Shoot_the_Girl_or_Not?
★ About the Game: The game features cross-genre of both adventure and action with some role-playing elements, in which, like in the previous Telltale titles, the player must make use of inventory items and environment, however, unlike in them, the played characters will have limited time to do so and could die in the process. The game is told from the point of view of a new character named Lee Everett, who will be the only controllable character in the game. Lee will however be able to interact with the other survivors and his actions will influence the plot in particular ways (like, for example, at some point Lee will have to choose whom to save from the dead, and therefore by letting the other individual perish, some of the game plot will change, while other parts will remain unchanged). In addition, some characters from the original comic book series have been confirmed to make appearances in-game, including Hershel Greene and Glenn. Players will be able to meet them before the plot in the comic book begins to take place. ★ Get the Game Here: Xbox - www.bit.ly PC - www.bit.ly ★ SUBSCRIBE for more videos: www.youtube.com ★ TWITTER: www.twitter.com ★ WEBSITE: www.gamercampaign.webs.com TAGS El caminar absolutamente: Episodio 3 La marche complètement : Épisode 3 Absolut gehen: Episode 3 Il morto che cammina: Episodio 3 황폐하게 걷기: 에피소드 3 走死：情节3 完全に歩くこと: エピソード3 "left 4 dead" "left 4 dead 2" "the walking dead" "the walking dead episode 1 ...
- published: 03 Sep 2012
- views: 3063
- author: GamerCampaign
The Walking Dead: Episode 1 - Part 1: Lee Everett On Ice
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 22:40
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
All video's in The Walking Dead Playlist - www.youtube.com Twitter: twitter.com
http://wn.com/The_Walking_Dead_Episode_1_Part_1_Lee_Everett_On_Ice
All video's in The Walking Dead Playlist - www.youtube.com Twitter: twitter.com
- published: 04 Dec 2012
- views: 360
- author: TheCaptainofDave
![Walking Dead Game ♦ Episode 5: No Time Left [03] w/YourGibs - KENNY DON'T GO!](http://web.archive.org./web/20130103001056im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/usoNSDSgf6U/default.jpg "Walking Dead Game ♦ Episode 5: No Time Left [03] w/YourGibs - KENNY DON'T GO!")
Walking Dead Game ♦ Episode 5: No Time Left [03] w/YourGibs - KENNY DON'T GO!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 24:59
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
Let's Play ♦ The Walking Dead Game ♦ Episode 5: Not Time Left Complete Series Playlist: bit.ly Episode 1: A New Day -- bit.ly Episode 2: Starved for Help -- bit.ly Episode 3: Long Road Ahead -- bit.ly Episode 4: Around Every Corner -- bit.ly Episode 5: No Time Left -- bit.ly The Walking Dead is a episodic video game based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic book series. The game is told from the point of view of a new character named Lee Everett, who will be the only controllable character in the game. Lee will however be able to interact with the other survivors and his actions will influence the plot in particular ways. Developer: Telltale Games - www.telltalegames.com Subscribe to see more videos bit.ly Follow on Twitter: twitter.com Like on Facebook: facebook.com
http://wn.com/Walking_Dead_Game_♦_Episode_5_No_Time_Left_03_w_YourGibs_KENNY_DON'T_GO!
Let's Play ♦ The Walking Dead Game ♦ Episode 5: Not Time Left Complete Series Playlist: bit.ly Episode 1: A New Day -- bit.ly Episode 2: Starved for Help -- bit.ly Episode 3: Long Road Ahead -- bit.ly Episode 4: Around Every Corner -- bit.ly Episode 5: No Time Left -- bit.ly The Walking Dead is a episodic video game based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic book series. The game is told from the point of view of a new character named Lee Everett, who will be the only controllable character in the game. Lee will however be able to interact with the other survivors and his actions will influence the plot in particular ways. Developer: Telltale Games - www.telltalegames.com Subscribe to see more videos bit.ly Follow on Twitter: twitter.com Like on Facebook: facebook.com
- published: 25 Nov 2012
- views: 101
- author: YourGibs
Cliff Richard ..... Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 44:22
- Updated: 03 Dec 2012
16 June 1983, on Dutch NCRV television; screened by the BBC on 30 November 1981; with Cliff, Mike Read, Olivia Newton-John, Adam Faith, Kenny Everett, Dave Lee Travis, Bill Latham, David Winter, Larry Norman, thru out Cliff performing with his band "Thunder" and "Network 3", gospel group at Gospel concert, Apollo, Manchester on 2 June 1981
http://wn.com/Cliff_Richard_Why_Should_The_Devil_Have_All_The_Good_Music
16 June 1983, on Dutch NCRV television; screened by the BBC on 30 November 1981; with Cliff, Mike Read, Olivia Newton-John, Adam Faith, Kenny Everett, Dave Lee Travis, Bill Latham, David Winter, Larry Norman, thru out Cliff performing with his band "Thunder" and "Network 3", gospel group at Gospel concert, Apollo, Manchester on 2 June 1981
- published: 09 Aug 2012
- views: 242
- author: MrsP4Cliff
Cliff Richard ..... My Kinda Life
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 44:16
- Updated: 25 Nov 2012
30 June 1983, on Dutch NCRV television; screened by the BBC on 14 December 1981; final programme in the series looks at the fans, the fame & fortune that go to make up a superstar. Cliff talks freely about his life, his loves, temptations & beliefs. With Richard Lyttleton, Ken East, John Kaye, Kenny Everett, Tony Rivers, Carol & John Friesen ............................... "Cliff Richard-Daddy's Home", sound recording administered by:EMI; this video is blocked in these locations:American Samoa, Germany, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, United States Virgin Islands
http://wn.com/Cliff_Richard_My_Kinda_Life
30 June 1983, on Dutch NCRV television; screened by the BBC on 14 December 1981; final programme in the series looks at the fans, the fame & fortune that go to make up a superstar. Cliff talks freely about his life, his loves, temptations & beliefs. With Richard Lyttleton, Ken East, John Kaye, Kenny Everett, Tony Rivers, Carol & John Friesen ............................... "Cliff Richard-Daddy's Home", sound recording administered by:EMI; this video is blocked in these locations:American Samoa, Germany, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, United States Virgin Islands
- published: 11 Aug 2012
- views: 100
- author: MrsP4Cliff
35:09
The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box part 1 - Restored
What's all this then? Well its various stand up acts interspersed with Kenny Everett. Prog...
published: 21 Feb 2011
author: ade425mxy
The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box part 1 - Restored
What's all this then? Well its various stand up acts interspersed with Kenny Everett. Programme featuring Kenny Everett who introduces comedians Lennie Bennett, Fogwell Flax, John Junkin, Pat Mooney, William Rushton, Barry Cryer and Leslie Crowther (who was cut from the LP) The BFI page states it's from 1981, yet that cant be, Kenny mentions his BBC work and a snatch of the theme is played at the end of the LP's. Even all the copyright states 1984, so yeah even the BFI makes mistakes! The video has been restored and 2 different Tapes have been used in sections to create the entire presentation. In this Special Edition Ive combined the STEREO LP with the mono LO-Fi and created the first stereo mix this video has had. The stereo album is pretty poorly cut and mastered, the stereo is pretty much faked, but its a mile better than the hissy lo-fi ST of the VHS tape, The LP goes for 44 mins and the Video some 1:19:00 so some of the Video is still in Lo-fi (but restored) Ive spent a while cutting in all the bits i could from the album. Any thoughts, I DO spend quite a while restoring this stuff and when I see bugger all comments It makes me want to stop. Think of me as a comment driven restoration machine.
- published: 21 Feb 2011
- views: 7920
- author: ade425mxy
22:35
The New Kenny Everett Naughty Video - ALG Restored - Part 1
Here's a rariety Never before ripped. Ive restored both audio and video, although It looks...
published: 21 Jan 2011
author: ade425mxy
The New Kenny Everett Naughty Video - ALG Restored - Part 1
Here's a rariety Never before ripped. Ive restored both audio and video, although It looks shity here the Blu-ray and Mpg2 encodes are very very good! Has anyone got the first volume called The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box? Or ANY Kenny Everett Video Show Epps? Oh and its a bit ruder than his Telly work.. you have been warned! The whole thing goes for 1 hour 20.. This is only an excerpt. I AM trading it for other Ev stuff though... Always on the lookout to be capping and Restoring rare UK material, Plus can transfer and restore you own home movies as well as , Tape Cassette and Quarter inch, Any form of recorded disc from 1900 lateral Edison discs to today's vinyl. and many forms of video too! each lovingly restored both vision and audio and presented back with full restorations and importantly a RAW copy for any future work. Would LOVE to get some WORK my way, (you would not believe how much..) and you'd get the best transfer that's possible.
- published: 21 Jan 2011
- views: 22239
- author: ade425mxy
39:13
Kenny Everett on "Desert Island Discs" - '93 - stereo
...two years later, he left us....
published: 30 Apr 2011
author: carllafong69
Kenny Everett on "Desert Island Discs" - '93 - stereo
...two years later, he left us.
- published: 30 Apr 2011
- views: 1390
- author: carllafong69
86:45
The Best Possible Taste - The Kenny Everett Story (2012)
Told with the help of some of his most famous comic characters including Cupid Stunt and Q...
published: 15 Oct 2012
author: BritNostalgia
The Best Possible Taste - The Kenny Everett Story (2012)
Told with the help of some of his most famous comic characters including Cupid Stunt and Quentin Pose, the story of pioneering radio DJ and television star Kenny Everett's against-the-odds struggle to achieve both personal and professional fulfilment, as seen through the decade-and-a-half prism of his marriage to Lee Middleton.
- published: 15 Oct 2012
- views: 2044
- author: BritNostalgia
24:45
THE UNFORGETABLE KENNY EVERETT
Aspect ratio corrected from original broadcast....
published: 23 Oct 2011
author: Craig Staszkiewicz
THE UNFORGETABLE KENNY EVERETT
Aspect ratio corrected from original broadcast.
- published: 23 Oct 2011
- views: 10628
- author: Craig Staszkiewicz
31:13
TOP OF THE POPS (OCT 11, 1973; PRESENTED BY KENNY EVERETT)
The only known broadcast-quality episode in existence of 'Cuddly Ken' introducing the BBC'...
published: 18 Nov 2012
author: tellymemories
TOP OF THE POPS (OCT 11, 1973; PRESENTED BY KENNY EVERETT)
The only known broadcast-quality episode in existence of 'Cuddly Ken' introducing the BBC's weekly chart rundown. Music from Slade, Elton John, The Electric Light Orchestra and more! The Number One slot was occupied that week by the Simon Park Orchestra.
- published: 18 Nov 2012
- views: 487
- author: tellymemories
45:21
The KENNY EVERETT NAUGHTY JOKE BOX - 1984 (Adults Only!)
Full Album. WARNING: Contains rude words and adult humour!. 'Naughty' and 'Bad' jokes from...
published: 05 Jun 2012
author: VinylFun
The KENNY EVERETT NAUGHTY JOKE BOX - 1984 (Adults Only!)
Full Album. WARNING: Contains rude words and adult humour!. 'Naughty' and 'Bad' jokes from Kenny's 1984 LP. With his chums Willie Rushton, John Junkin, Barry Cryer, Lennie Bennett, Fogwell Flax, Pat Mooney and Debbie Linden
- published: 05 Jun 2012
- views: 1351
- author: VinylFun
59:33
Kenny Everett - Radio Radio (BBC Radio 1 documentary, 1986)
Kenny Everett talks about his life, his influences and his career. There's no photo slides...
published: 03 Oct 2012
author: soundhog09
Kenny Everett - Radio Radio (BBC Radio 1 documentary, 1986)
Kenny Everett talks about his life, his influences and his career. There's no photo slideshow or video footage, just the radio... as it should be. (BTW - Radio 1 used Radio 2's VHF frequency at various times of the week back then, so if you were about to comment that the tuning scale's wrong...)
- published: 03 Oct 2012
- views: 246
- author: soundhog09
24:26
Kremmen The Movie - STEREO - ALG Restorations
While I'm waiting to receive some 45rpm discs to finish of more episodes of the Video Show...
published: 17 Feb 2011
author: ade425mxy
Kremmen The Movie - STEREO - ALG Restorations
While I'm waiting to receive some 45rpm discs to finish of more episodes of the Video Show, Here's his 1980 Kremmen movie. It was so poorly received that it went straight to Video,, and for good cause. Its rubbish!! Cosgrove-Hall did NOT animate this so all those nice touches like the colored Victorian lithographs (al-la Terry Gilliam) are gone. Plus the drawings themselves do not resemble the cosgrove hall stuff either. Combine that with a very weak script, Terrible soundtrack with none of the brilliance of the Radio or Telly Kremmen and you have one big stinker.. Still It's nice to see for those who haven't. In this Special Edition Ive combined the STEREO LP with the mono movie and created the first stereo mix this film has had. Also Included is the Restored LP, with 48khz 24bit FLAC Versions for those who like quality and 44khz 16bit MP3's for those who don't really care.. The LP had many faults. Its perhaps one of the Poorest cut discs Ive heard of of EMI from 1980!, Whoever was on Lathe duty that day must have out having a smoke while the master was being cut! And the tape mixdown is extremely poor. Ive corrected a lot of it's faults but still some may have crept back. ANYONE with ANY video's of Kenny Everett PLEASE let me know, Trying to restore the Entire series, you may also get a very nice surprise!
- published: 17 Feb 2011
- views: 1931
- author: ade425mxy
53:44
The 'Queens' of Camp Comedy 'What A Performance' - Williams, Grayson, Everett - DISGUSTING!
'What A Performance!' ITV UK 1997 - Introduced by Bob Monkhouse with Sid Field, Hugh Paddi...
published: 17 May 2012
author: chillmax
The 'Queens' of Camp Comedy 'What A Performance' - Williams, Grayson, Everett - DISGUSTING!
'What A Performance!' ITV UK 1997 - Introduced by Bob Monkhouse with Sid Field, Hugh Paddick, Gerry Desmond, Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howard, Larry Grayson, John Inman, Julian Clary, Lilly Savage & Kenny Everett. With contributions from Matthew Kelly, Lesley Joseph, Clive James, Harry Enfield, Chris Tarrant, Jonathon Ross, Barry Took, Wendy Richard & Cleo Rocos. Uncle Bob, comes off a little disapproving sometimes, but I think this is entirely unintentional. The interview elements are in soft focus, but I've cleaned up the rest as best I can, transferring it from my S-VHS system over S-VHS cables. Sound is from one speaker for 8 minutes then stereo! Enjoy Daahhlings!
- published: 17 May 2012
- views: 21499
- author: chillmax
28:14
BCB 106.6 FM - Joe Ogden and Keith Wilcock Clip 1
Not since "Round the Horne" The Kenny Everett Radio Show" and the Goons on British airwave...
published: 05 Mar 2011
author: bradfordeye
BCB 106.6 FM - Joe Ogden and Keith Wilcock Clip 1
Not since "Round the Horne" The Kenny Everett Radio Show" and the Goons on British airwaves have I come across two more anarchic individuals than Joe Ogden (in his area, a well known local Bradford playwrite) and his good friend (I'm sure the video shows you that), that most knowledgeable of film music Buffs Keith Wilcock. Well here they are for the first time together (YouTube wise) presenting their Sunday (or is its John's show) "Sunday AM and Movie Music", who cares!, because neither of them do, they just play their favourite music between 8am and 9am every Sunday on local Bradford area 106.6 FM or via the internet bcbradio.co.uk with all the w's in front as usual. This is just a sample of their offerings around Bradford and the world, I listen sometime in shock and awe to these two fine gentleman's antic's most Sunday's just before Nigel Lambert hits the airwaves at 9am. Give them a listen, sometimes you may have to go and wash your face in cold water after their programme (shock!) but at least you'll know you're alive, because they are, and live it to the full. I had a great time videoing this programme and feel that I now need to go in to rehab. Thanks guy's! BradfordEye PS . Why not give the website showing pictures of Bradford going back 40 years a visit, www.bradfordeye.co.uk . A surprising place Bradford!
- published: 05 Mar 2011
- views: 598
- author: bradfordeye
29:18
Top of the Pops 1977 (771110)
Top of the Pops 10th Nov 1977 (30) THE JACKSONS -- Goin' Places (and charts) (5) TOM ROBIN...
published: 30 Nov 2012
author: seekenee
Top of the Pops 1977 (771110)
Top of the Pops 10th Nov 1977 (30) THE JACKSONS -- Goin' Places (and charts) (5) TOM ROBINSON BAND -- 2-4-6-8 Motorway (29) RUBY WINTERS -- I Will (video) (11) ROXY MUSIC -- Virginia Plain (clip of TOTP 24-8-72) (22) BONEY M -- Belfast ® (33) ELVIS COSTELLO -- Watching The Detectives (12) THE BEE GEES -- How Deep Is Your Love (danced to by Legs & Co) (39) KENNY EVERETT & MIKE VICKERS -- Captain Kremmen (Retribution) (video) (18) SANTANA -- She's Not There (video) (26) TINA CHARLES -- Love Bug -- Sweets For My Sweet (Medley) (21) DARTS -- Daddy Cool/The Girl Can't Help It (1) ABBA -- The Name Of The Game (video) (3) ROD STEWART -- You're In My Heart (and credits)
- published: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 120
- author: seekenee
90:30
Vincent Price Bloodbath At The House Of Death 1983
Vincent Price did not like this movie. Today you have the chance to find out why. Watch th...
published: 13 May 2012
author: vincentpricenut2
Vincent Price Bloodbath At The House Of Death 1983
Vincent Price did not like this movie. Today you have the chance to find out why. Watch this movie today, tomorrow maybe to late! The film opens in 1975 at a place called Headstone Manor, which is being used as a "businessman's weekend retreat and girls' summer camp". A few minutes into the film, a group of satanic monks enter the house and kill 18 of its occupants.
- published: 13 May 2012
- views: 12441
- author: vincentpricenut2
Vimeo results:
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kenny everett
kenny sings my radio jingle for hospital radio during the 1970s...
published: 30 Jun 2011
author: mike spice
kenny everett
kenny sings my radio jingle for hospital radio during the 1970s
1:22
Kenny Everett's General
The Kenny Everett classic...
published: 17 Dec 2011
author: Polari Magazine
Kenny Everett's General
The Kenny Everett classic
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more kenny
the other jingles Kenny did for me when i was at CHR in the 70s...
published: 30 Jun 2011
author: mike spice
more kenny
the other jingles Kenny did for me when i was at CHR in the 70s
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When Freddie Met Kenny
Nicola Black's highly acclaimed dramatised documentary examines the relationship between t...
published: 11 Feb 2009
author: Blackwatch Media
When Freddie Met Kenny
Nicola Black's highly acclaimed dramatised documentary examines the relationship between these two celebrities against a backdrop of drugs, sex, and the Aids epidemic in 1980’s Britain.
Contributors include Freddie Mercury’s close friends and his ex-girlfriend Mary Austen, as well as Kenny Everett’s wife Lee Everett- Alkin, Paul Gambaccini and Bob Harris. It also includes previously unseen footage of Freddy donated by long-term partner Jim Hutton.
Youtube results:
98:56
Metro Radio - Opening and First Breakfast Show, July 15, 1974
The Metropolitan Broadcasting Company (MBC), soon which soon became just "Metro Radio" was...
published: 20 May 2011
author: Demosthenes140
Metro Radio - Opening and First Breakfast Show, July 15, 1974
The Metropolitan Broadcasting Company (MBC), soon which soon became just "Metro Radio" was launched on July 15, 1974 and was (and still is) the Independent Local Radio (ILR) "heritage" commercial radio station for the Tyne/Wear area. It was the first such station to launch in north east England. Broadcasting on 261 metres (1151 kHz) AM medium wave and 97MHz FM VHF stereo, its powerful signals could be received from the Scottish borders in the north of the region to Northallerton, Middlesbrough and Whitby in the south. Featured in this video is the initial (nearly) two hours of the first programme to be broadcast on the station, the Breakfast Show. The programme was presented by Don Dwyer desk an Australian presenter who had previously worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Dwyer controlled the mixer desk, while his co-presenter was the late Harry Rowell who had previously worked in the News Department of Tyne Tees Television. Also included in this nostalgic programme are photographs of Radio House, Longrigg, Swalwell, Gateshead (with the memorable post code of NE99 1BB!) and on-air interviews and well wishes from Clive Roslyn live at Independent Radio News (IRN) also being relayed on LBC 261 News Radio in London. There is also a rare on-air interview with the late Kenny Everett as he broadcast live on Capital Radio 194, London's new general entertainment commercial station. Both Capital 194 and LBC 261 launched in October 1973 and were the UK's first ILR ...
- published: 20 May 2011
- views: 1401
- author: Demosthenes140
29:49
The Story of Light Entertainment_Radio Stars_Part 2
Part 2 of 3 looks at pirate radio, Radio 1, Simon Dee and Kenny Everett Contributions from...
published: 18 Mar 2012
author: RandomRadioJottings
The Story of Light Entertainment_Radio Stars_Part 2
Part 2 of 3 looks at pirate radio, Radio 1, Simon Dee and Kenny Everett Contributions from Jimmy Savile, David Jacobs, DLT, Tony Blackburn, Johnnie Walker, Tony Prince, Ed Stewart, Chris Cowey, David Jensen, Rosko, Christian O'Connell, Annie Nightingale, Bill Cotton Jnr, Clive James, Pete Murray, Paul Gambaccini and Mark Radcliffe. First broadcast Saturday 5 August 2006
- published: 18 Mar 2012
- views: 429
- author: RandomRadioJottings
23:26
The Walking Dead: Episode 2 - Starved For Help Walkthrough Part 1 (Cut the leg or what?)
★ The Walking Dead Episode 2 (STARVED FOR HELP) PLAYLIST: www.youtube.com ★ About the Game...
published: 05 Jul 2012
author: GamerCampaign
The Walking Dead: Episode 2 - Starved For Help Walkthrough Part 1 (Cut the leg or what?)
★ The Walking Dead Episode 2 (STARVED FOR HELP) PLAYLIST: www.youtube.com ★ About the Game: The game features cross-genre of both adventure and action with some role-playing elements, in which, like in the previous Telltale titles, the player must make use of inventory items and environment, however, unlike in them, the played characters will have limited time to do so and could die in the process. The game is told from the point of view of a new character named Lee Everett, who will be the only controllable character in the game. Lee will however be able to interact with the other survivors and his actions will influence the plot in particular ways (like, for example, at some point Lee will have to choose whom to save from the dead, and therefore by letting the other individual perish, some of the game plot will change, while other parts will remain unchanged). In addition, some characters from the original comic book series have been confirmed to make appearances in-game, including Hershel Greene and Glenn. Players will be able to meet them before the plot in the comic book begins to take place. ★ DECISIONS: Cut the leg or leave him. Side with Kenny or Lily. To whom you will give the food ration? (only 4 food left.) Convince Kenny not to leave the motel or let him leave.(together with his family) ★ Get the Game Here: bit.ly ★ SUBSCRIBE for more videos: www.youtube.com ★ TWITTER: www.twitter.com ★ WEBSITE: www.gamercampaign.webs.com TAGS El caminar absolutamente ...
- published: 05 Jul 2012
- views: 4158
- author: GamerCampaign
90:30
Vincent Price Bloodbath At The House Of Death 1983 (Brighter)
Vincent Price did not like this movie. Today you have the chance to find out why. Watch th...
published: 23 Dec 2012
author: vincentpricenut2
Vincent Price Bloodbath At The House Of Death 1983 (Brighter)
Vincent Price did not like this movie. Today you have the chance to find out why. Watch this movie today, tomorrow maybe to late! The film opens in 1975 at a place called Headstone Manor, which is being used as a "businessman's weekend retreat and girls' summer camp". A few minutes into the film, a group of satanic monks enter the house and kill 18 of its occupants.
- published: 23 Dec 2012
- views: 50
- author: vincentpricenut2
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan
02 Jan 2013
SEOUL -- In a domestically televised New Year's Day speech, North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un said he wanted to "remove confrontation" on this divided peninsula and called on "anti-reunification forces" in South Korea to cease their hostility toward the North. The lengthy address, which laid out the national goals for 2013, marked Mr ... Mr. Kim on Tuesday asked for a detente -- but with prerequisites that the conservative Ms ... ....(size: 3.2Kb)
photo: AP / Felicia Fonseca
01 Jan 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. For good reason Mark Charles, a member of the Navajo Nation, is deeply offended that buried on page 45 of the 2010 Defense Appropriation Act (after pages on the maintenance and operation of the United States Military) is an "official" apology to Native American People ... political leaders and officials find it extremely difficult in expressing remorse for past mistakes ... Escorted by the U.S....(size: 5.6Kb)
photo: AP / John MacDougall
31 Dec 2012
Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the German economic climate in 2013 will be "even more difficult". In her new year message, she also cautioned that the eurozone debt crisis was far from over. However, she did say that reforms designed to address the roots of the problem were beginning to bear fruit ... In a taped interview to be broadcast later on Monday, Mrs Merkel urged Germans to be more patient ... Voters 'wary' ... ....(size: 2.3Kb)
photo: AP / Emanuel Ekra
01 Jan 2013
INZA BAKAYOKO. Associated Press= ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A crowd stampeded after leaving a New Year's fireworks show early Tuesday in Ivory Coast's commercial center, killing 61 people — many of them youths — and injuring more than 200, rescue workers said. The death toll was expected to rise, the officials said ... Issa Sako of the fire department rescue team.....(size: 8.1Kb)
photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad
02 Jan 2013
ISLAMABAD -- Continuing a militant campaign of violence against aid workers in Pakistan, gunmen Tuesday shot dead seven Pakistani teachers and health workers, six of them women, police officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility ... The victims worked for the private Pakistani aid group Support With Working Solution, which works in the health and education sectors ... "One child, aged 7 to 8 years, miraculously survived." ... ....(size: 3.4Kb)
B&S; Online
13 Dec 2012
The biggest star of the small but perfectly formed Strawberry Fields Festival was……………The Sunshine. That’s not some trendy new band. I’m talking about the real thing ... But there was no sign of anything less than 100% effort on that main stage ... As the late Kenny Everett’s OTT character would say, “…but it was all done in the best possssibbble taste.” “Return Of The Pane,” is Mikill’s “anthem” and closed his 45 minute set in rousing style....(size: 17.3Kb)
The Daily Telegraph
20 Nov 2012
Gillian Reynolds reviews the week's radio, including The Golden Age (Radio 4), Damon Albarn's performance on Radio Reunited and the eye-opening documentary Malala's Diary (Radio 4) ... PA. By Gillian Reynolds ... There was John Dunn’s Breakfast Special from 1970, Jack Jackson from 1968, Kenny Everett from 1982, Tony Blackburn’s first BBC show, on the Light Programme’s Midday Spin in 1967, just before Radio 1 hit the air ... ....(size: 14.9Kb)
The Examiner
17 Nov 2012
The real treasure, though is a segment of “Where It's At,” a 1967 show with a then-exclusive preview of the unreleased “Magical Mystery Tour” featuring Lennon talking to BBC DJ Kenny Everett before the film was seen on British TV. Among what's heard in the segment, Lennon tells Everett the film is about “strange people on a coach tour” and that he doesn't yet know whether it'll will air on the BBC or ITV....(size: 8.4Kb)
York Press
15 Nov 2012
Belt Up Theatre's production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame ... The story unfolds in flashback as he recounts his tale to the Court of Miracles, a hive of scum and villainy led by Clopin, played with Kenny Everett-esque relish by Dominic Allen ... ....(size: 1.6Kb)
York Press
14 Nov 2012
The Daily Telegraph
11 Nov 2012
Former BBC producer Wilfred De’ath who was arrested today on suspicion of sexually assaulting an actress has insisted that he is a victim of ‘mistaken identity’. Wilfred De'ath photographed at his home in Cambridgeshire Photo. ALBANPIX. 4.23PM GMT 11 Nov 2012 ... Related Articles. Jimmy Savile ... He claimed he was recruited by MI5 to befriend a Russian spy at an orgy and maintained that he discovered Kenny Everett ... ....(size: 14.7Kb)
BBC News
05 Nov 2012
Celebrities have tried to help political campaigns with Stevie Wonder and Clint Eastwood in the US elections, with Tracey Ullman, Kenny Everett, Eddie Izzard, Michael Caine, and ......(size: 0.9Kb)
The Observer
04 Nov 2012
He mentioned three of them in his tirade against BBC middle managers, aligning himself with the iconoclastic Kenny Everett and John Peel – treated shoddily by the BBC, he claimed, despite their talent – rather than Dave Lee Travis ... in music radio, Everett did it with surreal voices, characters and jingles; Peel through a musical eclecticism that ......(size: 5.9Kb)
The Guardian
14 Oct 2012
Photograph. Rex Features ... Jimmy Savile ... Campbell seems to have drifted easily upwards, or rather southwards, signing to Capital Radio in its 80s heyday, where on his first day he was following Kenny Everett. Campbell was advised not to do a link on air with Everett on his first outing, because the Capital veteran might trip him up – but the producer on the day thought otherwise. "Don't be too good," Everett said, "and I'll do you good" ... ....(size: 10.0Kb)
The Independent
11 Oct 2012
More cheeringly, we have also seen the reappearance, from beyond the grave, of Kenny Everett, a groundbreaking DJ and comic who was denounced from some quarters as a pervert on the basis of his homosexuality ... While a recent biopic on BBC4 looked at Everett's private life, interspersing the inevitable sad clown narrative with re-creations of his sketches, Radio 4 Extra was dusting down a long-forgotten doc Kenny Everett....(size: 3.7Kb)
The Guardian
10 Oct 2012
A lively conversation followed John Crace's review of Best Possible Taste, the Kenny Everett biopic ... Everett came across as shallow, manic, desperate for love and attention ... Everett was the antithesis of bland presenters like Blackburn and DLT; and the appearance of Hot Gossip on telly always made my Grandad come over all unnecessary ... Whitehorsehill was one among many disappointed in the programme's focus on Everett's sexuality.....(size: 9.8Kb)
IMDb
07 Oct 2012
The Guardian
07 Oct 2012
the Kenny Everett Story (BBC4) ... Briefly heard interviewing John Lennon in the Arena film, Kenny Everett was the subject of Best Possible Taste. The Kenny Everett Story, the latest in a long line of BBC4 biopics about oddball characters from British showbusiness ... But despite Oliver Lansley's staunch efforts, whatever it was that made Everett a huge star in the 70s and 80s never made it into the film....(size: 7.2Kb)
"Maurice Cole" redirects here. For the pianist, see Maurice Cole (pianist).
| Kenny Everett | |
|---|---|
| File:Kenny Everett.jpg Everett in the 1990s. |
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| Birth name | Maurice James Christopher Cole |
| Born | (1944-12-25)25 December 1944 Seaforth, Lancashire, England[1] |
| Died | 4 April 1995(1995-04-04) (aged 50) London, England |
| Medium | Radio, television |
| Nationality | British |
| Years active | 1962–95 |
| Genres | Character comedy, surreal comedy, sketch |
| Influences | Spike Milligan, Joe Meek, Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Peter Cook, Vivian Stanshall, Frank Zappa |
| Influenced | Chris Moyles, Chris Tarrant, |
| Spouse | Lee "Lady Lee" Middleton (m. 1966–1984) «start: (1966)–end+1: (1985)»"Marriage: Lee "Lady Lee" Middleton to Kenny Everett" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Kenny_Everett) (divorced)[1] |
| Notable works and roles | See below |
| Website | http://www.kennyeverett.co.uk/ |
Kenny Everett (25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995) was an English comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer. Born Maurice James Christopher Cole[citation needed], Everett is best known for his career as a radio DJ and for the Kenny Everett television shows.
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Early life[link]
Everett attended the local secondary modern school, St Bede's Secondary Modern, which is now part of Sacred Heart Catholic College.
He attended a junior seminary at Stillington near York with an Italian missionary order, the Verona Fathers, where he was a choirboy.[2]
After schooling he worked in a bakery and in the advertising department of The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph.
Having revealed a natural comic and broadcasting talent, he began a career in entertainment. He adopted his stage name from film-star Edward Everett Horton, a childhood hero.
Broadcasting career[link]
Radio career[link]
Radio London, Radio Luxembourg and Radio One[link]
Everett's first break (as Maurice Cole) came when he sent a tape to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1962. He was interviewed at the BBC by Charles Fletcher and offered a job as a presenter on the Light Programme, the forerunner to BBC Radio 2.[2] He declined, however, in favour of the less constrained world of pirate radio, where he began his career as a DJ for Radio London.
He teamed up with Dave Cash for the Kenny & Cash Show, one of the most popular pirate radio programmes. His offbeat style and likable personality quickly gained him attention, but in 1965 he was sacked after some outspoken remarks about religion on air. Like most of the pirate stations, Radio London carried sponsored American evangelical shows and Everett's disparaging remarks about The World Tomorrow caused its producers to threaten to withdraw their lucrative contract with the station.
Everett returned six months later, however, before being given his own show by Radio Luxembourg in 1966. Within a year, he had joined the BBC's new pop music station BBC Radio 1 after previewing the Beatles' new album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and interviewing the group. Everett had struck up a friendship with the Beatles and accompanied them on their 1966 tour of the United States, sending back daily reports for Radio London. He also produced their 1968 and 1969 Christmas records.
At Radio 1 Everett continued to develop his own unique presentation style, encouraged by producer Johnny Beerling, featuring zany voices, surreal characters, multi-tracked jingles and trailers, all of his own creation and compilation. It was ground-breaking radio material that has since been much copied.
Everett had a great love of sound recording equipment, in particular using reel-to-reel tape recorders, often adding sound-on-sound to his recordings and stereo/multi-track recordings of his pseudo-singing voice. These were broadcast on air regularly and he often created his own radio jingles. This skill was also transferred in some part to TV in his later career.
Everett's shows on BBC Radio 1 included Midday Spin, and in 1968 he took over a Saturday show from 10.00am to 12.00 noon.
In 1970, Everett again found himself sacked, this time after suggesting on air that Mary Peyton, the British Transport Minister's wife, had bribed her driving test examiner. The remark was a spontaneous quip, following a news item describing how Peyton had finally passed after many attempts, although shortly before the incident Everett had given a controversial interview with Melody Maker contrary to a BBC embargo.[2]
Following an interview on the BBC Radio Solent children's show Albert's Gang, Everett submitted weekly shows to the station that he had pre-recorded at home. This afforded the BBC the opportunity to vet the shows before broadcast. Everett was then heard on various BBC local radio stations before being reinstated at Radio 1 in 1972. Here he recorded a weekly show from his home in Wales and it went out on a Sunday afternoon.
During this time, legislation had been passed allowing the licensing of commercial radio stations in the UK. One of the first, Capital Radio, began broadcasting to London and the Home Counties in 1973. Everett joined the station and was given his own show, where he further developed his distinctive ideas. From 1973 to 1974 he presented the station's breakfast show, initially alongside Dave Cash, a friend and colleague from Radio London days, and later as the sole presenter.
Using reel-to-reel tape recorders and mixing equipment, Everett created many comedy characters on The Breakfast Show with Dave Cash on Capital, one of which was called 'Yasher the Smasher' referring to a character who smashed pianos. This was indicative of how many people went through a destructive period smashing traditional wooden pianos. The idea was first started with Pete Townshend from the Who encouraging the group to destroy their equipment on stage.
In 1974 he moved to a less high-pressure timeslot at Capital. Here he further developed his style and his cult following, and featured both what he thought the best in music (Queen, Chris Rainbow) and the worst, which led to the popular Kenny Everett's World's Worst Record Show programmes, later released as an album, with slightly different tracks. Several shows featured the "Bottom 30": compilations (from listeners' votes) of the world's worst records during this period, including some tracks by well-known personalities not known for their singing, notably William Shatner (Captain Kirk of Star Trek) with his version of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "The Shifting Whispering Sands" by Eamonn Andrews.
In 1975 Everett played a pivotal role in getting Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" released as a single. He also presented a pre-recorded programme on Saturday lunch-time for Radio Victory in Portsmouth, later providing Captain Kremmen to the station for transmission in the Dave Christian's late show.
BBC Radio and back to Capital[link]
On 5 February 1980 Everett made his only appearance on the BBC Radio 4 show Just A Minute where he spoke on the subject of marbles for a whole 90 seconds (host Nicholas Parsons' idea of a practical joke).[3]
In October 1981, Everett returned to BBC Radio, this time on Radio 2, on Saturday from 11.00am–1.00pm. During this time, the BBC received a large number of complaints after Everett told the following joke while live on air. 'When Britain was an Empire we were ruled by an emperor. When we became a kingdom we were ruled by a king. And now we're a country we're ruled by Margaret Thatcher.' [4] The show lasted until 1983.
In May 1985, he was called in to replace Graeme Garden (who was ill) for one episode of the Radio 4 game show, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
He returned to Capital Radio, presenting the same slot as he had on Radio 2. After Capital split its frequencies in 1988 he was heard on Capital Gold, with a line-up that included people like Tony Blackburn and David Hamilton. Everett presented the afternoon show and then moved to the mid-morning show. He left in 1994 when his health deteriorated to the point that he was unable to continue.
TV career[link]
Early television work[link]
Besides the radio programmes, his first screen appearance was in the 1965 film Dateline Diamonds which had a plot based around the pirate ship MV Galaxy. He also appeared in several television series, beginning in 1968 with a production for Granada Television called Nice Time which was co-presented by Germaine Greer and Jonathan Routh. In 1970 he made three series for London Weekend Television (LWT): The Kenny Everett Explosion, Making Whoopee and Ev; and he also took part (along with such talents as Willie Rushton and John Wells) in the 1972 BBC TV series Up Sunday.
In 1973, Everett provided the voice of the cat 'Charley' in the Charley Says animated series of public information films.
(It is not currently clear to which of these efforts Everett was referring when, years later, he spoke dismissively of some early TV work: "We just used to turn up at the studio and try to be wacky". In interviews, co-presenter Greer spoke of him as "a televisual genius".)[citation needed]
Everett was the announcer on the original version of ATV's "big box game" Celebrity Squares which ran on ITV from 1975 to 1979. Also in 1975, Everett featured in an uncredited cameo in an episode of The Goodies, entitled The Goodies Rule – O.K.?, in which he appeared as a political candidate in a (fictional) General Election.
[edit] The Kenny Everett Video Show and The Kenny Everett Video Cassette
Main article: The Kenny Everett Video Show
In 1978, London's Thames Television offered him a new venture, which became the very successful and ground-breaking Kenny Everett Video Show. This was a vehicle for Everett's characters and sketches (his fellow writers were Ray Cameron, Barry Cryer and Dick Vosburgh), interspersed with the latest pop hits, either performed by the artists themselves, or as backing tracks to dance routines by Arlene Phillips' contemporaneously risqué dance troupe Hot Gossip (which featured Sarah Brightman).
Various pop and TV stars made cameo appearances on the show, including Rod Stewart, Billy Connolly, Kate Bush, Cliff Richard, Freddie Mercury, Terry Wogan and Suzi Quatro (see also "Friends" section below) and classical musicians such as Julian Lloyd Webber.
Everett would often ad lib and deviate from the script; his bloopers were sometimes left in the final cut and on several occasions he pulled the camera around the studio revealing the crew not quite sure what was going to happen next. Quite often the crew were victims of his humour – on one occasion Everett encouraged the crew to sing "Happy Birthday" to a cameraman, presenting to him a cake which he duly pushed in the cameraman's face.[citation needed]
There were also the stories of Captain Kremmen, a science fiction hero voiced by Everett and originally developed for his Capital Radio shows, who travelled the galaxy battling fictional alien menaces, along with his assistant Dr Gitfinger and his voluptuous sidekick Carla. In the first three series these segments were animations created by the Cosgrove-Hall partnership (responsible for the successful children's cartoon series Dangermouse, among many others). In the fourth series (Video Cassette) Kremmen was featured as live action, with Anna Dawson playing Carla; the segments were comedy shorts, rather than the earlier stories.
Other characters included: aging rock-and-roller Sid Snot, unsuccessfully flipping cigarettes into his mouth – at one point Everett managed to catch one in his mouth, to the amusement of the studio crew; Marcel Wave, a lecherous Frenchman played by Everett wearing an absurdly false latex chin; and "Angry of Mayfair", an upper middle class City gent complaining of the risqué content of the show, banging the camera's lens hood with his umbrella, and then storming off, turning his back to us, only then to be revealed as wearing women's underwear in lieu of the entire back half of his suit.
He also created the never-seen character of 'Lord Thames', supposedly the owner of Thames Television (the company was actually owned by two conglomerates). The character was often the butt of Everett's rants and was said to symbolise his contempt for senior management at the company, claiming they lived behind an ancient, cobweb-covered door marked as the "Office Of Saying 'No'". Thames never disciplined him for these comments, unlike prior employers such as the BBC.
Everett's interest in (then primitive) video processing technology and electronic effects showed itself in such features as the appearances of a bobbing 'alien' entirely composed of a distorted video image of his own head ("Hello. I'm Spod, from Planet Thfnnnn. And this is all I do... Pathetic, isn't it?").[citation needed]
The series ran for four seasons on ITV, and was a big ratings hit. The last episode of Series 3 ended with Everett giving a farewell speech as the set and scenery was being stripped down by the crew. The final shot before the closing credits was Everett himself being picked up and placed inside an oversized dustbin.
The fourth Series was retitled "The Kenny Everett Video Cassette" and was more of a comedy program, than the previous 3 series, which relied more on music acts. This series sparked a few changes. Hot Gossip members changed, and there were only 3 columns of TV sets (instead of 4 in Series 1 & 2, and 5 in Series 3) which were cream colored, set in between see-through silvery walls. A faux VHS machine in an egg shape was on the left of the set.
In Australia, complaints resulted in ongoing censorship of the programme, especially the Hot Gossip segments due to the provocative, skimpy and highly revealing costumes and leotards worn by the dancers. These edited down copies are the ones in circulation, and finding an uncut episode is very rare.
[edit] The Kenny Everett Television Show (BBC 1981–1988)
Everett fell out with Thames regarding the management of his show, including the scheduling against the BBC's top-rated Top of the Pops on Thursday evenings. The BBC offered him a live-audience sketch-format comedy programme, starting with a Christmas special on BBC One in 1981, followed by five primetime series. The writing team was bolstered by the addition of Andrew Marshall, David Renwick and Neil Shand, and the production standards were raised by the heavier investment from the Corporation.
Thames Television claimed copyright on Everett's characters, and tried to prevent their use by the BBC. Whilst this action failed, it led to the creation of new characters such as Gizzard Puke (intended to replace Sid Snot), and the spooneristically named Cupid Stunt, an American B-movie actress with pneumatic breasts, and played with no attempt to disguise Everett's beard, who told a cardboard cutout of Michael Parkinson lurid tales of life on set with Burt Reynolds and other male stars of the era. Her original name, Mary Hinge, was vetoed by the Corporation as too obvious, and announcers were encouraged to refer to her as Cupid to prevent mispronunciation. Inept TV handyman Reg Prescott became another firm viewers' favourite, as each week he managed graphically and bloodily to injure himself with tools whilst attempting to demonstrate DIY tips.
Brazilian-born Cleo Rocos co-starred in the BBC series. She often appeared in nothing more than frilly underwear and high heels, and her figure was used to great comic effect as a focus for drooling, lascivious men.
Quiz shows[link]
Everett hosted two short-lived quiz shows late in his career, Brainstorm,[5] and Gibberish.[6][7] He was also a team captain on That's Showbusiness.
Friends and guests[link]
Everett was very popular with his peers, and many major stars of television, radio, and pop music counted him as a friend. This led to many celebrity guest appearances across all his television work. Cliff Richard was happy to have his clean image lampooned many times, as were Lionel Blair and Justin Hayward. Terry Wogan – a long-time colleague from the early days at Radio 1 – made numerous appearances on both Thames and the BBC shows, as did Billy Connolly and Lennie Bennett. Other stars who parodied themselves included Rod Stewart, Kate Bush, ABBA, The Police, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury.
[edit] Bloodbath at the House of Death
Main article: Bloodbath at the House of Death
Everett made one foray into film with 1984's Bloodbath at the House of Death, a spoof of Hammer horror films, which was penned by Everett's usual writing partners Barry Cryer and Ray Cameron (who also directed the film). Vincent Price was featured as the villain, credited only as the "Sinister Man", and a number of other popular comedians and actors also appeared, most notably Pamela Stephenson, Gareth Hunt and Don Warrington. Several regulars from Everett's television series also appeared. The film was not a great success, despite winning "Best Science-Fiction Film" at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (tied with Videodrome).[citation needed]
Political involvement[link]
During the 1983 general election campaign, the Young Conservatives invited Everett to their conference in an attempt to attract the youth vote. Egged on by film director Michael Winner, Everett bounded onto the stage, wearing the enormously oversized foam rubber hands familiar from his mock-evangelical character Brother Lee Love. He shouted slogans like "Let's bomb Russia!" and "Let's kick Michael Foot's stick away!" to loud applause (Michael Foot was the elderly leader of the Labour Party at the time).[8][9] Everett later said he regretted the incident and that he had taken the foam hands to the rally because the Tories "asked me first".[10] In an interview on The Late Late Show with Gay Byrne and Sinéad O'Connor in 1989, Everett was challenged by O'Connor about his support for the Tory Party in the light of his homosexuality and the Conservatives Section 28 addition to the Local Government Act. Everett clarified that he was not a "full Tory", but that he had been appalled by the actions of Arthur Scargill, who he saw as "inciting violence" and "rebel rousing" and whom he thought looked like "Hitler reborn". He had consequently supported the actions of Margaret Thatcher in opposing Scargill. He said he would stand up for gay rights if he were asked providing "it was a jolly occasion", but he also felt that being in a minority and in the public eye, he could do more for gay rights by showing that he was funny and human rather than by marching in the streets.[11]
Personal life[link]
Everett married the singer Lee 'Lady Lee' Middleton (Billy Fury's former girlfriend) in 1966. By 1979 they had separated, and in the mid-1980s, he publicly acknowledged his homosexuality.
Everett was told in 1989 that he had HIV, and he went public with his illness in 1993.[12] He died from an AIDS-related illness, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, on 4 April 1995, aged 50.[13]
Shows presented[link]
The following is a list of the main shows Everett presented.
Radio[link]
- Kenny & Cash Show Radio London – 1964–1965
- Kenny Everett Show Radio Luxembourg – 1966
- Midday Spin BBC Radio 1 – 1967
- Everett is Here BBC Radio 1 Saturdays 10am–12midday – 1968–1970
- Kenny Everett Show BBC Local Radio – 1971
- Kenny Everett Show BBC Radio 1 Sundays 1–3pm – 1972
- Breakfast Show Capital Radio – 1973–1974
- Kenny Everett Show Capital Radio – 1974–1980
- Kenny Everett Show Radio Victory – 1975–1976
- Captain Kremmen Radio Victory – 1976
- Kenny Everett Show BBC Radio 2 Saturdays 11am–1pm – 1981–1983
- Kenny Everett Show Capital Radio Saturdays 11am–1pm – 1984–1988
- Weekday afternoons Capital Gold 1–4pm – 1988–1991
- Weekday mid-mornings Capital Gold 9am–12midday – 1991–1994
Television[link]
- Nice Time Granada Television – 1968
- The Kenny Everett Explosion LWT – 1970
- The Kenny Everett Video Show Thames Television – 1978–1980
- The Kenny Everett Video Cassette Thames Television – 1981
- The Kenny Everett Television Show BBC One – 1981–1988
- Brainstorm BBC – 1988
- Gibberish BBC – 1992
Tributes & portrayals[link]
On 18 November 2007, ITV1 broadcast a tribute show to Everett entitled Licence To Laugh. This celebrated the 30 years since he first appeared on ITV with the ground-breaking Kenny Everett Video Show (Thames Television, 1978 to 1980). Friends and colleagues revealed what it was like to know and work with the man they affectionately dubbed "Cuddly Ken". Additionally, contemporary celebrities such as Chris Moyles and Chris Tarrant talked about their love for the outrageous entertainer, and discussed the ways in which Everett had influenced them and their work. It also featured archive footage.
In March 2010 the BBC confirmed it was producing a 90-minute TV biopic called Number One in Heaven, to be written by Tim Whitnall and focusing on Everett's unhappiness at secondary school.[14]
In April 2012 the BBC announced it was working on a 90-minute TV biopic called The Best Possible Taste which would focus on the performer's relationship with his wife, singer Lee Middleton.[15]
References[link]
- ^ a b "Obituary:Kenny Everett", The Independent, 5 April 1995. Retrieved 27 July 2010
- ^ a b c "Wireless Kenny Everett", BBC Radio 2, first broadcast December 2010
- ^ "WELCOME TO JUST A MINUTE!: 5 February 1980 at just-a-minute.info
- ^ Purnell, Tony (5 April 1995). "The worst possible waste - KENNY EVERETT 1944-1995 He was a brilliant man and a comic genius". The Daily Mirror (London).
- ^ "Brainstorm at". Ukgameshows.com. http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Brainstorm. Retrieved 24 June 2009.
- ^ Gibberish at Celador.co.uk[dead link]
- ^ "Gibberish at". Imdb.com. 16 March 1992. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0960374/. Retrieved 24 June 2009.
- ^ "Archive". Johann Hari. http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=26. Retrieved 24 June 2009.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "Ugly business for show people?". BBC News. 26 May 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3746865.stm.
- ^ "The Late Late Show". 3 February 1989. Raidió Teilifís Éireann.
- ^ Charmaz, Kathy; Howarth, Glennys; Kellehear, Allan (1997). The unknown country: death in Australia, Britain, and the USA. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 162. ISBN 0-312-16545-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=44HpMBgEZhgC&pg=PA162.
- ^ "Transitions". The Advocate (Here Publishing) (681): 19. 16 May 1995. ISSN 0001-8996. http://books.google.com/books?id=y2MEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA19.
- ^ Kenny Everett to return to TV as BBC announces plans for biopic 15 March 2010 Retrieved 15 March 2010
- ^ Kenny Everett biopic for BBC Four 03 April 2012 Retrieved 03 April 2012
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Further reading[link]
- "Everett, Kenny". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Anthony Hayward (registration required). http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/59136.
External links[link]
- General links
- Kenny Everett Show episode list break down to the sketches
- Kenny Everett at the Internet Movie Database
- TV.com
- Screenonline – Kenny Everett
- Extract from 'The Custard Stops at Hatfield'
- Kenny Everett's World's Worst Wireless Show
- Radio
- Radio Rewind – Kenny Everett
- The Radio Academy Hall of Fame – Kenny Everett
- Pirate Radio Hall of Fame E to G
- Aircheck Legends – Kenny Everett
- kennyeverett.co.uk tribute site
- Radio London Kenny Everett Tribute Pages
- Kenny Everett's World's Worst Wireless Show, complete details of these shows
- Kenny Everett's Radio Days on BBC 7 Listen Again
- Television
- Other languages
- Español in Minipedia
| Persondata | |
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| Name | Everett, Kenny |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | |
| Date of birth | 25 December 1944 |
| Place of birth | Seaforth, Merseyside England |
| Date of death | 4 April 1995 |
| Place of death | London, England |
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Kenny Everett (25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995) was an English comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer. Born Maurice James Christopher Cole[citation needed], Everett is best known for his career as a radio DJ and for the Kenny Everett television shows.
Everett attended the local secondary modern school, St Bede's Secondary Modern, which is now part of Sacred Heart Catholic College.
He attended a junior seminary at Stillington near York with an Italian missionary order, the Verona Fathers, where he was a choirboy.
After schooling he worked in a bakery and in the advertising department of The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph.
Having revealed a natural comic and broadcasting talent, he began a career in entertainment. He adopted his stage name from film-star Edward Everett Horton, a childhood hero.
Everett's first break (as Maurice Cole) came when he sent a tape to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1962. He was interviewed at the BBC by Charles Fletcher and offered a job as a presenter on the Light Programme, the forerunner to BBC Radio 2. He declined, however, in favour of the less constrained world of pirate radio, where he began his career as a DJ for Radio London.
