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Miles Axe Copeland III (born May 2, 1944) is an American entertainment executive, best known for founding I.R.S. Records. His brother, Stewart Copeland, was part of the pop-rock trio The Police, which Miles managed. Another brother, Ian Copeland, was a successful booking agent who described much of the New Wave adventures of Miles, Stewart and himself in his book, Wild Thing.

Career[link]

Miles was born in London, England, to Miles Axe Copeland, Jr., a CIA officer from Birmingham, Alabama, United States, and Scottish Lorraine Adie, who was in British intelligence. Due to Miles Jr.'s profession, the family moved throughout the Middle East, in particular Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. As a result, Miles and his brothers became fluent in Arabic.

Miles began attending college at Birmingham-Southern College in 1962. He graduated with a B.A. degree in 1966 and attended the American University of Beirut, where he earned his M.A. in Economics by 1969. By then, he had already promoted his first concert. Moving back to England, Miles became involved in the music industry, focusing on promotion and management of several bands, his first major success was with Wishbone Ash.

In 1974, he founded the management agency and record label BTM (for British Talent Management), and signed a number of progressive rock acts such as Renaissance and his brother Stewart's band Curved Air. In the summer of 1975, he organised a multi-band tour of European music festivals, Star-Trucking, which featured several BTM bands as well as Soft Machine, the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Lou Reed. But Reed's failure to appear at any of the shows and a litany of logistical issues resulted in significant losses.^[1] In 1976, BTM closed down.

The failure of BTM coincided with the beginnings of the Punk/New Wave movement in the UK, and led him to help start Illegal Records, Deptford Fun City Records, New Bristol Records^[2] and sign The Cortinas to Step Forward Records^[3] in 1977.

In 1978 he would be instrumental in getting his brother Stewart's new band, The Police, signed to a major record deal,^[4] and in fact managed Sting, another member of The Police, for many years. Miles also managed Squeeze, Climax Blues Band and Wishbone Ash.

In 1979 Miles created I.R.S. Records through a deal with A&M Records. He signed Gary Numan and the groups The Alarm, The Go-Go's & R.E.M. He also managed Adam Ant during his "Vive Le Rock" era. In January 1988 he created an all-instrumental imprint under I.R.S. called No Speak Records. Reaching beyond the music branch of entertainment, Miles became involved in music videos, feature films, and other multimedia projects. He later became interested in world music genres and focused some of his products and attention on exposure of it.

Miles married Adriana Corajoria, an artist and model from Argentina, in 1989. Together, they had three children: Miles Axe IV, Aeson Armstrong and Axton Emerson.

Personal life[link]

Copeland is a libertarian,^[5] and has strong anti-corporate beliefs.^[5]

See also[link]

• Bellydance Superstars
• Ark 21

References[link]

External links[link]

• www.milescopeland.com
• [1] Transcript of Miles Copeland III on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher

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Miles Copeland may refer to:

• Miles Copeland III, an American entertainment executive
• Miles Copeland, Jr., an American musician, businessman, and CIA officer
• Miles Copeland (Home and Away), a fictional character from soap opera Home and Away

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Al Stewart
Stewart performing in Santa Monica, California on 13 February 2010
Background information
Birth name	Alastair Ian Stewart
Born	(1945-09-05) 5 September 1945 (age 66) Glasgow, Scotland
Origin	Wimborne, England
Genres	Rock Folk rock Pop rock Psychedelic rock Soft rock
Occupations	Musician Songwriter
Instruments	Vocals guitar keyboards
Years active	1966–present
Website	www.alstewart.com

Al Stewart (born Alastair Ian Stewart, 5 September 1945) is a Scottish^[1] singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician.

Stewart came to stardom as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s, and developed his own unique style of combining folk-rock songs with delicately woven tales of the great characters and events from history.^[2]

He is best known for his 1976 hit single "Year of the Cat", the title song from the platinum album of the same name.

Though Year of the Cat and its 1978 platinum follow-up Time Passages brought Stewart his biggest worldwide commercial successes, earlier albums such as Past, Present and Future from 1973 are often seen as better examples of his intimate brand of historical folk-rock - a style to which he has returned in recent albums.^[3]

Stewart was a key figure in a fertile era in British music and he appears throughout the musical folklore of the age. He played at the first ever Glastonbury Festival in 1970, knew Yoko Ono before she met John Lennon, shared a London apartment with a young Paul Simon, and hosted at the legendary Les Cousins folk club in London in the 1960s.^[4]

Stewart has released sixteen studio and three live albums since his debut album Bedsitter Images in 1967, and continues to tour extensively around the US and Canada, Europe and the UK. His latest release, is Uncorked, which was released on his independent label, Wallaby Trails Recordings.^[5]

He has worked with Peter White, Alan Parsons, Jimmy Page, Richard Thompson, Rick Wakeman, Tori Amos and Tim Renwick and recently has played with Dave Nachmanoff and former Wings lead-guitarist Laurence Juber.

Early life[link]

Though born in Glasgow, Al Stewart grew up in the town of Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England after moving from Scotland with his mother. He attended Wycliffe College school in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, as a boarder. After that, as he sings in the song "Post World War II Blues" (from Past, Present and Future): "I came up to London when I was 19 with a corduroy jacket and a head full of dreams."

Having bought his first guitar from future Police guitarist Andy Summers, Stewart traded in his electric guitar for an acoustic guitar when he was offered a weekly slot at Bunjies Coffee House in London's Soho in 1965. From there, he went on to compete at the Les Cousins folk club on Greek Street, where he played alongside Cat Stevens, Bert Jansch, Van Morrison, Roy Harper and Ralph McTell.^[4]

It was at this time that Stewart also met Yoko Ono, who persuaded him to part with the only £100 he had in the world to put towards her film entitled No 4, a compilation of naked bottoms^{[citation needed]}.

Career[link]

Stewart's first record was the single "The Elf" (backed with a version of the Yardbirds' "Turn into Earth"), which was released in 1966 on Decca Records, and included guitar work from Jimmy Page (later of the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin), the first of many leading guitarists Stewart worked with, including Richard Thompson, Tim Renwick and Peter White. Stewart then signed to Columbia Records (CBS in the UK), for whom he released six albums. Though the first four of these attracted relatively little commercial interest, Stewart's popularity and cult-following grew steadily through albums that contain some of Stewart's most incisive and introspective songwriting.

Early albums[link]

Stewart's debut album Bed-Sitter Images was released on LP in 1967 (though technically his first recording was 'The Elf', an extract from Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' set to music and released by Decca in 1966, which sold an estimated 496 copies). A revised version appeared in 1970 as The First Album (Bed-Sitter Images) with a few tracks changed, and the album was reissued on CD in 2007 with all tracks from both versions. His first recording of any kind appears on Jackson C. Frank's first album, 1965's Jackson C. Frank, playing guitar on "Yellow Walls".

Love Chronicles (1969) was notable for the 18-minute title track, an anguished autobiographical tale of sexual encounters that was the first mainstream record release ever to include the word "fucking".^[6] It was voted "Folk Album of the Year" by the UK music magazine Melody Maker, and also features Jimmy Page and Richard Thompson on guitar.

His third album, Zero She Flies followed in 1970 and included a number of shorter songs which ranged from acoustic ballads and instrumentals to songs that featured electric lead guitar. These first three albums (including The Elf) were later released as the two CD set To Whom it May Concern: 1966–70.

In 1970, Stewart jumped into a car with fellow musician Ian Anderson and headed to the small town of Pilton, Somerset. There, at Michael Eavis's Worthy Farm, Stewart performed at the first ever Glastonbury festival to a field of 1,000 hippies who had paid just £1 each to be there.

On the back of his growing success, Stewart released Orange in 1972. It was written after a tumultuous break-up with his girlfriend and muse, Mandi, and was very much a transitional album, combining songs in Stewart's confessional style with more intimations of the historical themes that he would increasingly adopt (e.g. "The News from Spain", with its prog-rock overtones, including dramatic piano by Rick Wakeman).

The fifth release, Past, Present and Future (1973), was Stewart's first album to receive a proper release in the United States, via Janus Records. It echoed a traditional historical storytelling style and contained the song "Nostradamus," a long (9:43) track in which Stewart tied into the re-discovery of the claimed seer's writings by referring to selected possible predictions about twentieth century people and events. While too long for mainstream radio airplay at that time, the song became a hit on many U.S. college/university radio stations, which were flexible about running times.

Such airplay helped the album to reach #133 on the Billboard album chart in the US. Other songs on Past, Present and Future characterized by Stewart's 'history genre' mentioned American President Warren Harding, World War II, Ernst Röhm, Christine Keeler, Louis Mountbatten, and Joseph Stalin's purges.

Alan Parsons years[link]

Stewart followed Past, Present and Future with Modern Times (1975), in which the songs were lighter on historical references and more of a return to the theme of short stories set to music. Significantly, though, it was the first of his albums to be produced by Alan Parsons, and Allmusic regards it as his best. It produced his first hit single, "Carol", and received substantial airplay on album oriented stations and reached #30 in the US, some 30 years before Bob Dylan would release an album of the same name.

Stewart's contract with CBS Records expired at this point and he signed to RCA Records for the world outside North America. His first two albums for RCA, Year of the Cat (released on Janus in the U.S., then reissued by Arista Records after Janus folded) and Time Passages (released in the U.S. on Arista), set the style for his later work, and have certainly been his biggest-selling recordings.^[7]

As Stewart told Kaya Burgess of The Times: "When I finished Year of the Cat, I thought: ‘If this isn’t a hit, then I can’t make a hit.’ We finally got the formula exactly right."^[4]

The most amazing fact about this album is that Stewart had all of the music and orchestration written and completely recorded before he even had a title for any of the songs. He mentioned, in a Canadian radio interview, that he has done this for 6 of his albums, and he often writes 4 different sets of lyrics for each song.^[8]

Both albums reached the top ten in the US, with "Year of the Cat" peaking at #5 and "Time Passages" at #10, and both albums produced hit singles in the US ("Year of the Cat" #8, and "On the Border", #42; "Time Passages" #7 and "Song On the Radio", #29). Meanwhile "Year of the Cat" became Stewart's first chart single in Britain, where it peaked at #31. The overwhelming success of these songs, both of which still receive substantial radio airplay on classic-rock/pop format radio stations, has perhaps later overshadowed the depth and range of Stewart's body of songwriting.^[9] On tour in 2008, Stewart commented that he wished his fans would "never again listen to anything I recorded prior to 1988."

1980s[link]

Stewart then released 24 Carrots (#37 US 1980) and his first live album Live/Indian Summer (#110 US 1981), which both featuring backing by Peter White's band Shot in the Dark (who released their own unsuccessful album in 1981). While "24 Carrots" did produce a #24 single with "Midnight Rocks," the album sold less well than its two immediate predecessors.

After those releases, Stewart was dropped by Arista and his popularity declined. Despite his lower profile and waning commercial success, he continued to tour the world, record albums, and maintain a loyal fanbase. There was a four-year gap between his next two albums, the highly political Russians and Americans (1984) and the upbeat pop-oriented Last Days of the Century (1988), which appeared on smaller labels and had lower sales than his previous works.

1990s[link]

Stewart followed up with his second live album, the acoustic Rhymes in Rooms (1992), which featured only himself and Peter White, and Famous Last Words (1993), which was dedicated to the memory of the late Peter Wood (who co-wrote "Year of the Cat"), who died the year of its release.

Stewart followed these up with a concept album, Between the Wars (1995), covering major historical and cultural events from 1918 to 1939, such as the Versailles Treaty, Prohibition, the Spanish Civil War, and the Great Depression.

In 1995, Stewart was invited to play at the 25th anniversary Glastonbury festival, taking to the same stage he had graced in 1970 at the first ever festival.

21st century[link]

In 2000, Stewart released Down in the Cellar, a concept album themed on wine. Stewart had begun a love-affair with wine in the 1970s when, he admitted, he had more money than he knew how to spend,^[10] and so turned to fine wines.

In 2005 he released A Beach Full of Shells, which was set in exotic places from First World War England to the 1950s rock'n'roll scene that influenced him.

In 2008, he released Sparks of Ancient Light produced, like his most recent albums, by Laurence Juber. Here he weaves tales of William McKinley, Lord Salisbury and Hanno the Navigator.

Stewart and guitarist Dave Nachmanoff released a live album, Uncorked (Live with Dave Nachmanoff) on Stewart's label, Wallaby Trails Recordings, in 2009.^[11]

Stewart and Nachmanoff played the Glastonbury Festival 40th anniversary in June 2010 on the Acoustic stage.

Stewart sang a duet with Albert Hammond of Hammond's "It Never Rains in Southern California" on Hammond's 2010 album "Legend."

In 2011, Stewart sang a duet with his guitarist and opening act Dave Nachmanoff on Nachmanoff's album "Step Up". The song, "Sheila Won't Be Coming Home", was co-written by Stewart and Nachmanoff.

Residence[link]

Born in Scotland, raised in Dorset and gaining fame in London, Stewart moved to Los Angeles in the late 1970s. He married in the mid-1990s, and he, his wife and their two daughters moved to Marin County, California.

Use of historical and literary sources[link]

Historical references[link]

Stewart's historical work includes such subjects as:

• World War I pilots - "Fields of France", from the album Last Days of the Century
• The career of Admiral Sir John Fisher of the World War I Royal Navy inspired "Old Admirals", from Past, Present, and Future
• The Wehrmacht's invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II is the focus of "Roads to Moscow", from Past, Present, and Future.^[12] There are references to both Wehrmacht General Heinz Guderian and also to the German Tiger tank^[12] and to the brutal treatment of returning Russian soldiers, which is drawn from the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book The Gulag Archipelago.
• Both the Basque separatists in Spain and the crisis in the former republic of Rhodesia are referenced in "On the Border", from Year of the Cat
• The Soviet Union is the focus of "In Red Square", from Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time.
• The English sailor Sir Richard Grenville is profiled in "Lord Grenville", from Year of the Cat.
• The French Revolution is addressed in the song "The Palace of Versailles", from Time Passages.
• Henry VIII of England (misidentified by Stewart as Henry Plantagenet (Henry II))^[13] and Thomas More (Henry VIII's chancellor) are referenced in "A Man for All Seasons" from Time Passages.
• The assassin of Jean-Paul Marat is the subject of "Charlotte Corday", from Famous Last Words.
• The subject of Nazi war criminals hiding in South America is featured in "Running Man" from 24 Carrots.
• The scandals of the foreshortened Warren Harding administration are the subject of "Warren Harding" from Past, Present and Future.
• Ernst Röhm, leader of the Nazi SA, is the subject of "The Last Day of June, 1934" from "Past, Present and Future."

Literary sources[link]

"Sirens of Titan", from Modern Times is a musical precis of Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same title.

On occasion, Stewart has set poems to music, such as "My Enemies Have Sweet Voices" (lyrics by the poet Pete Morgan) on the 1970 album Zero She Flies. During his 1999 UK tour, Stewart invited Morgan to read the lyrics as he performed this song in the Leeds City Varieties Theatre show of 7 November 1999.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• Bed-Sitter Images (1967)
• Love Chronicles (1969)
• Zero She Flies (1970) #40 UK
• Orange (1972)
• Past, Present and Future (1973) #133 US
• Modern Times (1975) #30 US
• Year of the Cat (1976) #5 US (RIAA: Platinum) (BPI: Gold) #38 UK
• Time Passages (1978) #10 US (RIAA: Platinum) (BPI: Silver) #39 UK
• 24 Carrots (1980) (with Shot In The Dark) #37 US #55 UK
• Russians and Americans (1984) #83 UK
• Last Days of the Century (1988)
• Famous Last Words (1993)
• Between the Wars (1995) (with Laurence Juber)
• Down in the Cellar (2000)
• A Beach Full of Shells (2005)
• Sparks of Ancient Light (2008)

Live albums[link]

• Live/Indian Summer (1981) #110 US
• Rhymes in Rooms (1992) (with Peter White)
• Uncorked (2009) (with Dave Nachmanoff)

Compilations[link]

• The Early Years (1977)
• The Best of Al Stewart - Songs From the Radio (1985)
• Chronicles... The Best of Al Stewart (1991)
• To Whom it May Concern 1966-1970 (1993)
• Premium Gold Collection (1996)
• Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1996) (limited distribution of B-sides and rarities)^[14]
• On the Border (1998)
• Singer Songwriter (2001)
• The Very Best Al Stewart Album Ever (2002)
• The Essential Al Stewart (2003)
• Introducing... Al Stewart - Running Man (2003)
• Greatest Hits (2004)
• Just Yesterday (2005)
• A Piece of Yesterday - The Anthology (2006)
• The Definitive Pop Collection (2006)

Charted Singles[link]

• Year of the Cat (1976 #8 US, #31 UK)
• On the Border (1977 #42 US)
• Time Passages (1978 #7 US, #1 US Adult Contemporary)
• Song on the Radio (1979 #29 US)
• Midnight Rocks (1980 #24 US)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Page
• Al Stewart at Allmusic
• Dutch Fan Page
• German Fan Page
• German Fan Page (alternative link)
• Comprehensive discography
• Al Stewart Friends
• The Al Stewart Mailing List
• Blogcritics.org Al Stewart Collection: Interviews, Discography, more
• Al Stewart and Awaken evenings

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Sally Louise Fletcher (née Copeland, previously Keating) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away, played by Kate Ritchie. She was the longest running original female cast member appearing from the Pilot episode on 17 January 1988 until 3 April 2008. Ritchie earned various awards and nominations for her portrayal of Sally.

Casting[link]

Ritchie auditioned for the role of Sally in front of executive producer John Holmes in 1987.^[1] Her audition scene was all about strawberry jam and Sally's imaginary friend Milco.^[1][2] Ritchie told Jason Herbison of All About Soap that she could remember reading Sally's scenes for Holmes, before auditioning for the director who recorded it on video.^[2] She added "I remember when my mum told me I got the part of Sally. I didn't want her to tell anyone because I was really embarrassed."^[2] Holmes revealed Ritchie had stood out among the other actresses auditioning for the role. He said "Actors always choose themselves for a role and in this case Kate Ritchie shone head and shoulders above all the rest."^[1] During flashbacks to the character's childhood, Sally was played by Chloe Shelsher.^[3]

Kate Ritchie said of her role, "I well and truly know the girl that is Sally Fletcher. If only I had realised earlier she wasn't my enemy, she wasn't the embarrassing little sister always trying to spoil my fun but, in fact, the best friend I ever had....In my Logie acceptance speech last year I said Home and Away had always been my constant and the same goes for Sally. We have spent the past 20 years side by side....Sally is a good person. She is the true meaning of the word good, often a quality that goes unnoticed and is most definitely underrated. Sounds crazy, but it is true."^[4]

After twenty years, Ritchie departed Home and Away. Her last episode as Sally was shown on 3 April 2008. As Farah Farouque wrote, "the last episode featuring Sally is a TV moment of note."^[5]

Storylines[link]

Backstory[link]

Twins Sally and Miles lived together with their alcoholic father Aaron Copeland (Timothy Walter) and mother Diana Copeland. Aaron used to beat Diana, so she left him and took Sally with her. Diana and new husband Derek Wilson had been killed in a boating accident. She went to live with her grandmother Mrs Keating, but she developed Alzheimer's Disease and could not look after her. Sally was soon fostered by Tom and Pippa Fletcher. In the confusion that was her early childhood, Sally forgot about her brother and father. However she had an imaginary friend named Milco that she had invented to help herself cope with her losses. What nobody at the time knew though was that Milco was in fact the nickname of Sally's twin. Aaron and Miles went to find Sally, but after seeing Sally was better of with the Fletcher family, they left.

1988-2000[link]

Sally was one of Tom and Pippa's original foster children when they moved to Summer Bay, along with Carly Lucini, Steven Matheson, Frank Morgan, and Lynn Davenport. She would remain a mainstay in the family as others came and went around her. Of the others, she was closest to Sophie Simpson, Sam Marshall, and Shannon Reed. Her other close childhood friend was Lance Smart, who lived with his mother in a mobile home at the caravan park.

Unlike the other children, they adopt Sally. Not long after however Tom died. A year later, Pippa remarried to Michael Ross. After an uncomfortable start, Sally accepted him but it was not unknown for her to remind him she had been part of the family longer than he had. More tragedy was to follow for the family with the deaths of Sally's adoptive brother Dale, a victim of sudden infant death syndrome, and her foster sister Bobby Marshall in a boating accident.

Sally's first crush was on Damian Roberts, her foster brother, and she even went as far as to kiss him while he lay sleeping. She seemed more likely to succeed with Joe Lynch, a boy in the year above her. Although he initially seemed interested, when he found out Sally, who was taking maths classes with the year ahead, was a favourite of his mother Teresa, the school's deputy head, he took against her on principle, bullying and humiliating her at every opportunity. It took a long time for Sally to make anyone realise what was going on but finally succeeded when Donald Fisher caught Joe in the act of throwing ink into her locker (Sally eventually forgave Joe, although only after some much deserved payback).

Sally's first boyfriend was Gus Bishop, the younger brother of her teacher Donna, but his wild boy antics, including setting fire to Jack Wilson's, guitar soon proved too much for her. She later dated Nelson MacFarlane, Irene Roberts' nephew, but although they seemed happy together he was quick to cut her out when he was badly burned in a fire and had to leave town for treatment. Ironically Sally then started seeing Jack, who was partly to blame for the fire. However, when Sally wanted to let Brendan, a troubled young man who had abandoned his baby, use the caravan that Michael and Pippa had given them for privacy Jack refused. Sally was annoyed by his selfishness and broke up with him.

She encounters Moss, a man staying at the caravan park who believed she was the reincarnation of his daughter who had died seventeen years earlier, in a car accident when he had been driving. Certain evidence seemed to back up his claim: Sally remembered the song he used to sing her to her, even though she had never heard it before, and said goodbye to him in exactly the same way. When Sally and Shannon went for a drive with Moss, they found themselves reliving the accident, when another car forced them off the road. (The driver was never revealed although there is some speculation, unsupported by on screen evidence, that it was her former foster brother Dodge, who had apparently died the previous year but whose body had never been found.) This time, however, Moss made sure he was the one who died. Sally saw this as him being given a second chance to save her life.

Soon after, Michael drowned while saving Sam's life and Sally (who had once run away from home when Michael and Pippa seemed to be splitting up) lost a 'father' for the fourth time. Sal had always suffered from low self-esteem and began to feel unattractive and unliked with no close friends. Despite campaigning hard for a representative school council, she was passed over by her peers for a place on it. She made a play for Curtis Reed, who didn't even seem to notice, then let another boy, Charlie, kiss her even though she didn't like him. Finally in an attempt to cheer her up Shannon and Selina took her for a trip on a raft that Liam Tanner and Joey Rainbow had made from polystyrene. It sank and Sally was separated from the others. She was found by Jamie Grace, a backwards man who had been living as a virtual hermit since he was forced out of town for inadvertently causing a boy's death. Sally spent days effectively trapped in the woods, suffering from a fever and unable to convince Jamie of the seriousness of her condition, until she was finally rescued by Steven.

Sally began seeing Tim O'Connor and became closer to him than any other boyfriend previous, losing her virginity to him. However, he was then arrested when it was found he had been helping smuggle in illegal immigrants (his Vietnamese stepmother's family rather than for profit). Having lost the person she was closest to, Sally self-destructed, hanging out with bad boy Scott Irwin (played by Heath Ledger), sleeping with him and using Pippa's position as school secretary to steal exam papers for him. Her already strong sense of guilt was compounded when Tim returned to town, the charges having been dropped. Angry at Sally for getting them caught, Scott stole from Donald Fisher's office and planted the items in Sally's locker to frame her. However, Aaron Welles saw what he was doing and moved them to Scott's locker so he was caught and expelled. When Scott attacked Sally in the surf club for revenge, Tim came to her rescue and the pair were reconciled.

When Pippa decided to leave town to live with her new boyfriend Ian Routledge, Sally assumed she would let her and Tim move into the house. She was angry when instead she asked Travis and Rebecca Nash to move in so they could look after the other foster children, seeing it as Pippa putting the needs of those who hadn't been there as long before hers. However, she and Tim weren't to last much longer; he became insanely jealous, quizzing both her and Sam about her past boyfriends. When he saw her hugging Travis, he began spreading stories that Travis liked young girls. It was enough to break up him and Sally and see him run out of town.

With Pippa gone and Sally now at uni and not much younger than Travis and Rebecca, she found herself considered one of the adults of the house. Uncomfortable with the responsibility, she moved in with Vinnie Patterson and Jesse McGregor. She then started dating Sean Ellis, a much older man who had a daughter, Daria, who was not much younger than Sally (and dating Sam, her foster brother). Sally managed to win over Daria by sticking up for her when her mother Tanya neglected her but by then she and Sean were virtually over, since he had slept with Tanya during her brief visit. Around the same time, Sally was accidentally shot by a drifter named Murray during an armed robbery at the Diner but suffered only minor injuries.

Sally and Vinnie were astonished when they found themselves developing feelings for each other and started dating. However, although they softened each other's hard edges a bit, they were ultimately too different and split.

2000-08[link]

Sally goes to Ireland and returns with fiancé, Kieran Fletcher. She moves in with Shauna Bradley (Kylie Watson) and Leah Poulos (Ada Nicodemou). At her wedding Gypsy Nash (Kimberley Cooper) announces Kieran has been making advances towards her. Sally blames Gypsy but sees sense. Upset Sally starts suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder. Kieran's best man, Luke Harvey, arrives to help Sally through her troubles. The pair soon develop feelings for each other and become engaged. Sally abandons her plans to become an archaeologist and decides to become a teacher. Principal Judith Ackroyd (Anna Hruby) appoints Sally as Summer Bay High's new history teacher. Sally and Luke become distant due to work. Harry Reynolds (Justin Melvey) kisses her and she realises she has to call the wedding off. She starts dating colleague Brett Egan (Emmanuel Marshall), however she reports him for assaulting Noah Lawson (Beau Brady) and he leaves her. She and Gypsy become good friends.

Flynn Saunders (Martin Dingle-Wall) starts working at the Drop-In Centre, he and Sally start a romance. Sally is angry when she finds out Shauna has tried to seduce Flynn and ends her friendship with her. Whilst being hospital she discovers that she has ovarian cancer and has to have a hysterectomy. Before the operation she has some of her eggs frozen. Sally realises she cannot have children and thinks Flynn will leave her. Sally, Sophie and Blake Dean become lost in the bush after a boating accident, they are found safe. Sally moves in with Charlotte Adams, but when she dies, Sally agrees to let Flynn move in. Sally decides she wants to find a surrogate mother old school friend Tara and Angie Russell (Laurie Foell) agree to help but they both pull out. Sophie then agrees to do it. At the first ultrasound they find out she is carrying two babies with different parents: one is Sally and Flynn's, the other Blake and Sophie's. Soon after Sophie miscarries Sally's baby.

Sally becomes acting principal and Angie becomes annoyed. She plots to rid of her by triggering her OCD once more. She steps down handing the role to Paris Burnett. Sally proves that Angie tried to seduce student, Nick Smith. With Angie gone she becomes the new deputy principal. She clashes with Barry Hyde (Ivar Kants). Sally and Flynn later marry. Leah offers to be a surrogate mother for them. Sally 'turns a blind eye' to the various various problems during Leah's pregnancy, such as Flynn and Leah kissing. When she gives birth she gives her to Sally and they call her Pippa Saunders. Sally moves back into the house at the caravan park where she had grown up. Sally soon began fostering Ric Dalby (Mark Furze) and Cassie Turner (Sharni Vinson). Sally is pushed from a ladder by the "Summer Bay Stalker" and sufferes a brain haemorrhage. Whilst on a life support machine someone tamperes in an effort to kill her. Upon her release she is abducted by the culprit, Zoe McAllister (Emily Perry), she ties her up in an abandoned building leaking with gas, Sally manages to escape resulting explosion. Diesel Williams one of Sally's students, claims they are having an affair. Sally is investigated by both the police and the Department of Education. Diesel holds Sally hostage, Flynn saves her and he tells the truth. Flynn is diagnosed with skin cancer and his condition is too advanced to operate. His health slowly deteriorates and he dies. Alf Stewart moves in with her for support. Sally finds herself attracted to Brad Armstrong, she disappointed to see marrying Emily. However Emily dies from Leukemia. Emily gave her blessing to the pair to start a relationship before she died.

Sally tries to turn Rocco Cooper's life around. However, she is unsuccessful and Rocco is drawn back into his brother Johnny's gangsta world. Rocco has Johnny and his gang arrested, Johnny threatens to kill him if he does not get rid of Sally. Rocco stabs Sally and left her to die, but she survived. Johnny then has Rocco killed anyway. Sally's misery is compounded when Ric is imprisoned for Rocco's murder, although he is soon cleared. The incident brings Sally and Brad closer and he moved in. After being deputy under three principals, Sally finally becomes head again when Brad is forced to step down. Brad proposes to Sally only for her to turn him down. However, when he becomes lost at sea she changes her mind. She then regretted her choice and on their wedding day she jilts him over guilt for Flynn. Brad moves out in anger and Sally is left upset. Pippa is knocked over whilst Alf is driving. Sally cannot forgive Alf and throws him out. She later forgives him. When Sally and Brad share a kiss, Sally hopes they can reconcile and arranges some counselling. She then realises Brad wants something different and she decides to accept they are over.

Sally looks after a homeless man named Miles Copeland (Josh Quong Tart). He later reveals to her he is her long lost brother. She does not believe him at first, she thought her parents had died when she was three. He explains he is the "Milco" she used to imagine. He helps her relive some old memories and she realises he is telling the truth. They get to know each other and catch up on lost time. Johnny Cooper escapes from prison and stabs Sally, who nearly dies. She has a near death vision of her foster father Tom showed her what life will be like in Summer Bay without her, the effect of living and that of dying. Sally confided in Alf, who had undergone a similar experience. Sally resigned from the school after Martin Bartlett took her job. Sally realises that she no longer has any responsibilities in Summer Bay. She and Cassie make plans to leave the area and go travelling. Ric and Miles organise a leaving concert held at the school. Pippa, Carly and Steven return for her send off. Sally signs the house and caravan park over to Miles. She says goodbye to Alf and Miles and leaves. She leaves to join Cassie and starts a new life in Phuket.

Reception[link]

For her portrayal of Sally, Ritchie garnered various awards and nominations. At the 2006 Logie Awards, Ritchie won the Most Popular Actress award and earned a nomination for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television.^[6][7] The following year, Ritchie was nominated in both categories again and she went on to win the awards.^[8] In 2008, the actress won both the Most Popular Actress and Most Popular Personality awards once again.^[9] 2009 saw Ritchie gather nominations in the same categories.^[10] At the first Digital Spy Soap Awards, Ritchie received a nomination for Most Popular Actress.^[11]

Of the character, executive producer John Holmes said "Sally is the most loved character on the show and the viewers feel passionately about her survival...No character over the last 19 years compares in popularity to Sally though, except maybe Ray Meagher (who plays Alf). Viewers have seen Sally grow up from an eight-year-old little girl and don't want to see her go."^[12]

The episode featuring Sally standing Brad Armstrong up on their wedding day earned the episode's writer Margaret Wilson an Australian Writer's Guild award in 2008.^[13]

References[link]

External links[link]

Character profile at the official AU Home and Away website

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Josh Quong Tart (born 18 September 1975; Sydney) is an Australian actor who has performed in several television, commercial and film roles.

Josh Quong Tart
Born	(1975-09-18) 18 September 1975 (age 36)[1] Sydney, Australia
Occupation	Actor
Years active	Since 1992

Biography[link]

Tart attended the McDonald College^[2] before he was accepted into National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1994, graduating in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in Performing Arts. He is a descendant of prominent Chinese Australian Mei Quong Tart, who ran a popular tea house in the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, and was also an early Chinese ambassador to Australia. He is the youngest of four boys in his family.

Tart's list of television credits includes the role of Will Monk on headLand, a drama series airing on the Seven Network and Matt Horner on the Australian award winning series All Saints. Josh was also an original co-host on the kids TV show Sarvo with Jamie Croft on Foxtel's Nickelodeon.

In 2006 he left headLand due to the show being axed by the Seven Network. Quong Tart featured alongside actress Genevieve Lemon and brother Byron Tart in the stage show, Lemon Tart in 2006 and 2007. Tart joined the cast of Home and Away in 2007 as Miles Copeland.^[3] In October 2011, Tart announced his departure from Home and Away.^[4]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Josh Quong Tart at the Internet Movie Database
• Josh Quong Tart's profile at homeandaway.com.au

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