Linda Spa

Linda Spa (September 4 1968 in Vienna) is an Austrian composer.

Originally she learned fashion design in Vienna, but soon started with her musical training. She studied flute, clarinet, saxophone and composition. In addition, Linda Spa is a trained conductor and arranger.

In addition to many international artistic works, especially for theater and film music, she has played for many years with Edgar Froese's band Tangerine Dream as saxophonist. She also composed for this ensemble, and also tours occasionally with the band in Europe and overseas.

For some time, Spa has been working with various guest musicians on the completion of a new CD of love songs composed by her in her studio in Austria.

External links[link]

• Official website of the artist

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Edgar Froese
Background information
Birth name	Edgar Wilmar Froese
Born	(1944-06-06) June 6, 1944 (age 68)
Genres	Electronic music
Occupations	Musician, Songwriter
Instruments	Piano, synthesizer, guitar, bass guitar, harmonica, mellotron, organ, horn, mellophonium
Associated acts	Tangerine Dream

Edgar Wilmar Froese (born 6 June 1944) is a German artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group, Tangerine Dream. Although his solo and group recordings prior to 2003 name him as "Edgar Froese", his solo albums from 2003 onward bear the artist name "Edgar W. Froese".

Froese was born in Tilsit (Sovetsk), East Prussia, during World War II. He took piano lessons from the age of 12, and started playing guitar at 15.^[1] After showing an early aptitude for art, Froese enrolled at the Academy of the Arts in West Berlin to study painting and sculpture. In 1965, he formed a band called The Ones, which played rock and R&B standards. While playing in Spain, The Ones were invited to perform at Salvador Dalí's villa in Cadaqués. Froese's encounter with Dalí was highly influential, inspiring him to pursue more experimental directions with his music. The Ones disbanded in 1967, having released only one single ("Lady Greengrass" / "Love of Mine").

After returning to Berlin, Froese began recruiting musicians for the free-rock band that would become Tangerine Dream.

Froese's composition "Stuntman" has been used as the opening theme music for "Mabat Sheni" ("Second Look"), an investigative news program from Channel One television in Israel, since the 1980s.

Edgar Froese has declared himself to be a non-smoker, non drug user, and vegetarian.^[2]

Solo discography[link]

• Aqua (1974) issued in two versions with different edits and song order, both in 1974
• Epsilon in Malaysian Pale (1975) also issued as Ypsilon in Malaysian Pale
• Macula Transfer (1976)
• Ages (1978) note: CD edition omits one track to make this double album fit on one CD
• Stuntman (1979)
• Electronic Dreams (circa. 1980) compilation
• Solo 1974–1979 (1981) compilation including some remixes and one new track with the same title as an older piece, identified as a re-recording, but completely different
• Kamikaze 1989 (1982) soundtrack for the German film starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Pinnacles (1983)
• Beyond the Storm (1995) double CD semi-compilation with new and remixed tracks
• Introduction to the Ambient Highway (2003) sampler compilation issued prior to the series
• Ambient Highway, Vol. 1 (2003) semi-compilation with new and remixed tracks
• Ambient Highway, Vol. 2 (2003) semi-compilation with new and remixed tracks
• Ambient Highway, Vol. 3 (2003) semi-compilation with new and remixed tracks
• Ambient Highway, Vol. 4 (2003) semi-compilation with new and remixed tracks
• Dalinetopia (2004)
• Ages (2005) partially re-recorded, remixed version of the 1978 album, omits one track from the original, but not the same one omitted for CD previously
• Epsilon in Malaysian Pale (2005) partially re-recorded, remixed version of the 1975 album
• Stuntman (2005) partially re-recorded, remixed version of the 1979 album
• Aqua (2005) partially re-recorded, remixed version of the 1974 album
• Macula Transfer (2005) partially re-recorded, remixed version of the 1976 album
• Pinnacles (2005) partially re-recorded, remixed version of the 1983 album, omits the last 1/3 of the original
• Orange Light Years (2005) double CD semi-compilation with new and remixed tracks

Albums issued in 2005 are in order by catalogue number.

Lone tracks[link]

• '70 – '80 (1981) box set compilation album by Tangerine Dream includes a Froese solo track, "Baryll Blue". The track was an outtake from the Ages recording sessions.
• The Best of the O1/W (1992) promotional compilation album by various artists includes a Froese track, "Michiko". The album promoted and demonstrated the Korg O1/W synthesizer.
• Searching for Major Tom (2011) by William Shatner includes Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly" with Froese playing guitar and keyboards.^[3]

Edgar Froese solo material as Tangerine Dream[link]

Tangents was a Tangerine Dream compilation album box set of five CDs issued in 1994, compiling music from their years with Virgin Records, 1973 to 1983. Disc five consists entirely of "previously unreleased material": ten tracks, seven of which are credited only to Froese as the composer. No information is given as to where or when these tracks were recorded, or by which line-up of Tangerine Dream. Most Tangerine Dream tracks credit the line-up that recorded it as the composers, therefore these appear to be Froese solo tracks, released under the Tangerine Dream name, and may have been recorded for this album. Furthermore, five tracks on disc three are described as "re-recordings by Edgar Froese", while the remaining tracks on discs three and four are described as "re-mixed plus additional recordings by Edgar Froese". The tracks on discs one and two are also remixed and contain new overdubs, and Froese is credited as producer for the entire album.

Another compilation box set, the 6-CD I-Box (2001) contains further bonus tracks credited only to Froese: "Ivory Town", "Storm Seekers", "Cool Shibuya" and "Akash Deep". Several of Froese's tracks from Tangents are included as well.

Phaedra 2005 (2005 re-recording of Phaedra, 1974), Tangram 2008 (2008 re-recording of Tangram, 1980), and Hyperborea 2008 (2008 re-recording of Hyperborea, 1983) are Edgar Froese solo albums released under the Tangerine Dream name.

The Tangerine Dream album Views from a Red Train (2008) was originally announced as an Edgar Froese solo album. It was eventually expanded with other band members performing, but the album remains composed entirely by Froese.

Other later Tangerine Dream albums have been composed and performed entirely by Froese, including Summer in Nagasaki (2007), Winter in Hiroshima (2009) and Chandra (2009).

References[link]

External links[link]

• Edgar Froese's Home Page
• Tangerine Dream Home Page

Linda Gray
Gray at The Heart Truth show in 2011.
Born	Linda Ann Gray (1940-09-12) September 12, 1940 (age 71) Santa Monica, California, United States
Years active	1963-present
Spouse	Ed Thrasher (1962-1983) (divorced) 2 children
Website
www.lindagray.com

Linda Ann Gray (born September 12, 1940^[1]) is an American film, stage and actress, director, producer and former model, best known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing on the television prime-time soap opera Dallas.^[2]

Career[link]

Early life and career[link]

Linda Ann Gray was born in Santa Monica, California.^[1] Prior to acting, Gray working as a model in the 1960s and began her acting career in television commercials-nearly 400 of them,^[3] and also made brief appearances in the feature films, such as Under the Yum Yum Tree and Palm Springs Weekend in 1963.^[4]

Gray began her professional acting career in the 1970s, with guest roles on many television series such as Marcus Welby, M.D., McCloud and Switch. She also made appeared on films The Big Rip-Off (1975) and Dogs (1976).^[5]

In 1977 she was cast as fashion model Linda Murkland, the first transgender series regular on American television^[6] on the TV series All That Glitters.^[7] The show, a spoof of the soap opera format, was cancelled after just 13 weeks. Gray was then cast as suspicious wife Carla Cord in the 1977 television movie Murder in Peyton Place.

[edit] Dallas

Gray achieving stardom for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing, J.R.'s long-suffering alcoholic wife, in the CBS drama series Dallas (1978-89, 1991).^[4] Initially a recurring guest role for the five-episode first series, Gray became a series regular later in 1978 and remained with the show until 1989. Her character was well received by television critics. The Biography Channel said, "Who could ever forget Dallas with the gin-swilling Sue Ellen Ewing, replete with shoulder pads long before Dynasty, staggering around Southfork Ranch with a permanently tearful expression as she suffered the brunt of J.R. Ewing’s evil ways?"^[8] The Boulevard Magazine said, "It may be 2009 and seventeen years since the primetime drama Dallas went off the air, but memories of the Ewing family still linger. Corruption and betrayal, lies, greed, affairs and scandal - all were just part of another day at the Southfork Ranch. At the center of it all was one of our favorite Ewings, the person we couldn't help but root for each week as she drank and slept her way through one ordeal after another. This, of course, was the tortured and (sometimes) villainous Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing, former Texas beauty queen and trophy wife of the womanizing rouge J.R. Ewing, played to perfection by actress Linda Gray."^[9] Gray was nominated for two Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance on Dallas.^[10] She also received numerous international awards including Germany’s Bambi Award, Italy’s Il Gato and she was named Woman of the Year by the Hollywood Radio & Television Society in 1982.^[11][10]

[edit] After Dallas

After Dallas, Gray starred on 1991 comedy film Oscar with Silvester Stallone and then made guest appearances in British drama Lovejoy (starring her co-star and love interest from her final series on Dallas, Ian McShane). She also starred in several made-for-TV movies, including 1991's The Entertainers (with Bob Newhart), Bonanza: The Return (1993), Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter (1993), and Accidental Meeting (1994).

Linda Gray at The Heart Truth fashion show in February, 2011.

In 1994, she made several guest appearances on the Fox network primetime soap opera Melrose Place. She appeared in four episodes as businesswoman Hillary Michaels, the mother of Amanda Woodward (played by Heather Locklear). She played a leading role on the Melrose Place spin-off - Models Inc.,^[12] but the show only lasted a single season.

Gray appeared in the Dallas reunion TV movies Dallas: J.R. Returns (1996) and Dallas: War of the Ewings (1998). and in the following years did not appear in movies or on television.

In 2001, Gray portrayed Mrs. Robinson in the West End theatre production of Charles Webb's The Graduate.^[13] Gray made her theater directing debut with play Murder in the First, and other acting stage work includes Terms of Endearment, The Vagina Monologues, Agnes of God and Love Letters.^[11]

Recent years[link]

Gray returned to television in 2004 as a guest star in five episodes daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, playing Priscilla Kelly.

Gray starred in several independent films, including award-winning drama Reflections of a Life (2006), where she played best friend of a woman undergoing treatment for breast cancer, Expecting Mary (2010), The Flight of the Swan (2011) and Hidden Moon (2012).^[5]

In 2008, Gray appeared in The CW series 90210, which, like Melrose Place and Models Inc. before it, is a spin-off from the original Beverly Hills, 90210. Gray has now appeared in three of the five series in the franchise, though her role in 90210 was not Hillary Michaels, the character she played on Melrose Place (1992) and Models Inc.

In 2012, Gray stars as Sue Ellen Ewing on the TNT drama series Dallas, a continuation of the original series.^[14][15]

Personal life[link]

Gray was married to Ed Thrasher for 21 years. The marriage resulted in two children: Jeff Thrasher and Kehly Sloane.^[1] Gray also has two grandsons, Ryder and Jack Sloane. Her younger sister, Betty, died in 1989 from breast cancer. Gray is also the aunt (by marriage) of actress Lindsey Wagner, best known as The Bionic Woman. She resides in Los Angeles, California.^[16]

Filmography[link]

References[link]