Gone but not forgotten

Dennis Hoey would have turned 122 years old yesterday.....he's best remembered (by me) as the bumbling Inspector Lestrade in the Basil Rathbones' & Nigel Bruces' Sherlock Holmes' series, but he had an amazing arrange of films from ''Tarzan & the Leopard woman'', ''Frankenstein meets the Wolfman'' to a more mainstream "national Velvet'' & ''The Secret Garden''

8/4/1992
Kurt Cobain was found dead after committing suicide

5/4/1992
This is the official date of Cobains death aged a mere 27 years old

Its somewhat intriguing how a superstar identity like Cobain could be dead for for 3 calender days before someone found him.

Spookily, Banjo, John Letts' pony during the Melb Cup carnival for so many years also passed away aged 27, due to Colic.
He joins the 27 club with Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix etc. RIP Banjo.

David "Daisy" Day RIP SA Radio Icon

Glenn Ford
Born on this day
1/5/1916
Would have been Barbara Feldon years old today

Thiele wrote:David "Daisy" Day RIP SA Radio Icon

www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/confidential/adelaide-radio-legend-david-daisy-day-dies-63.story-fnnspw2t-1227329759657

Excellent articles on an excellent radio personality

Scrappy wrote:

Thiele wrote:David "Daisy" Day RIP SA Radio Icon

www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/confidential/adelaide-radio-legend-david-daisy-day-dies-63.story-fnnspw2t-1227329759657

Excellent articles on an excellent radio personality

Voice of my youth growing up and met him a few times.

A passionate and very knowledgeable man on music and getting acts to Adelaide.

Will be missed.

wow wee, sad news, got to know him as he lived at Glenelg North on Leicester Street, not sure if he was still there in recent years & off course in the nights at Lennies'

was on the council for a term or two

great man, my condolences to his family

RIP David Day

Wasn't Daisy the man that effectively was the voice of and started SAFM back in 1980 or thereabouts?

He must have been a bit sad to see what SAFM became.
However, at least 104.7 regenerated the classic rock format.
He'd have been happy with that.

RIP Daisy

BEN E KING
Passed away 30/4/2015

He sang Stand By Me a song that was covered by John Lennon
He later was in the Drifters a terrific band in the 60s

Errol Brown

Hot Chocolate front man Errol Brown has passed away aged 71
Hot Chocolate had that very catchy tune Everyones A Winner

Just after 7:00am this morning
I reach out and put on the clock radio
The song that was being played on 1323 Cruise was Everyones a Winner

Blues legend BB King 1925 -2015



http://www.news.com.au/national/blues-legend-bb-king-dies-aged-89/story-e6frfkp9-1227356561421

" He told me things then I can still hear him telling me today
Dont smoke
Dont drink
You got one house, your body , your body is one house
You got to take care of that one , because your not going to get another."

By BB King
About Luther Henson
Luther Henson was a school teacher
BB King was one of his pupils

That sagely advice quite probably in the 1930s lived to be a fruition
BB King
16/9/1925
14/5/2015
Lived to the ripe old age of 89

Luther Henson
26/9/1899
9/3/2001
Died aged 101
Lived to a century  and lived in three centuries

" I felt we were pretty POPular at the time , number one records , on the cover of time magazine , I gave it my absolute , you know everything I had , that howl, at the start of the song and then BB King open to his mouth and I felt like a girl
We have learnt , weve absorbed , but the more we try to be like BB the less convincing we were.

By
Paul Hewson , better known is Bono , U2 front man
On a song written for BB King
That great song , Love comes to Town
BB King and U2 have done this song live together

R.I.P BB

after watching those hammer films like ''Scars of Dracular'' & the other Dracular movies starring Christopher Lee, i didn't think he'd ever die, anyway Christopher Lee passed away recently (7th June), he was 93 years old, off course he also was a villian with 3 nipples on one of the James Bond films ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' playing Scaramanga..................

RIP Christopher ''Dracular'' Lee


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee

Christopher Lee and Ian Fleming share a bond
They are step cousins

Scrappy wrote:Christopher Lee and Ian Fleming share a bond
They are step cousins

That is supposed to be a pun isn't it?
You are usually more in your face with these, Scrappy.
This one is a bit more subtle.

CHRISTOPHER LEE- IAN FLEMING

Christopher Lees mother married a second time
Her second husband is Lees Stepfather
Lees Stepfather is the Uncle of Ian Fleming
That makes Ian and Christopher Step cousins
Thats a man from uncle connection

Yes Chambo
The bond reference was a pun

Moe Howard would have turned 118 yesterday had he still been alive, he was always good for a laugh, along with the other 5 of the 3 stooges combinations


happy birthday Moe

the American dream passes away

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Rhodes_(wrestler)


RIP Dusty Rhodes

Patrick Macnee passes away aged 93

i wonder if he barracked for Woodville in their formative years

i love the reasons given as to why he was expelled at school

here is ''Steeds'' wiki page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Macnee


RIP Patrick Macnee

he was also great in ''Thunder in Paradise''

Omar Shariff
10/4/1932
10/7/2015
R.I.P aged 83

One of the luckiest men in the world
In 1965 he got to embrace , hold and kiss with Julie Christie, in the movie Dr Zhivago

A legacy in Singapore
www.omar-shariff.com/?page_id=92

And in 1962 he got to be in the best movie of all time (IMHO), "Lawrence of Arabia".
He may even have gotten to embrace, hold and kiss his camel in that too!

Like Anthony Quinn (who was also in LOA) Sharif was really one of those type-cast actors playing most particularly ethnic roles.

He got the Zhivago role as David Lean (who directed both) liked him in LOA.

Yep Omar gets those ethic gigs, ala Anthony Quinn , and Con the Fruiterer

I mentioned Omar was lucky he co starred with the beautiful Julie Christie
It is reported that another actress was deeply considered before Christie got the part
It was Jane Fonda!