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A Wonderful Life
As you all know, my role on the page is purely administrative, but the team very graciously allowed me to add a short post of my own on this occasion. I’m very much a child of music, born to two young people of the sixties, at the start of the seventies, and reached maturity in the eighties. That’s pretty much where my music tastes rest. I like rock and melodies, words and the beat of the drums or the strum of guitar. So it had been a bit of a shock as the favourites of my youth, Lemmy and Phil Taylor, David Bowie, Glenn Frey, John Bradbury, Jimmy Bain and…
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Brian Bedford
He was born in Morley, West Riding of Yorkshire, to Ellen (née O’Donnell) and Arthur Bedford. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1952 to 1954. As a stage actor, he was well known for his English-speaking interpretations of the French playwright Molière, including Tony Award nominated performances in Tartuffe, The Molière Comedies and The School for Wives, for which he received the Tony Award. He was a great Shakespearean actor, most notable for his role as Ariel in The Tempest. Angelo in Measure for Measure at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 1975 and 1976, andThe Public Theater’s New York Shakespeare Festival Shakespeare in the Park productions of…
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Alan Rickman
“Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater…can change the world.” Alan Rickman Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born February 21, 1946 in Acton, London. His childhood was that of a normal working class family. Acting was not his first career. A talented artist, he and his friends opened a successful graphic design firm. He toyed with being an actor, but stayed with his business. After three years, he decided that it was now or never and plunged in wholeheartedly into acting. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from 1972 – 1974 and supported himself by working as a dresser. His big break was…
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David Bowie
Born David Robert Jones on the 8th of January, 1947 in Brixton, south London. David Jones took to music early in his life, and though his singing voice was deemed only adequate, he excelled in his (newly introduced) music and movement classes as a very imaginative dancer. As he grew and developed, he struggled to establish himself as his own man in a time when so much amazing music was being written. He toyed with new and different stage names (not liking the fact that as Davy or Davie Jones he was often confused for the lead singer of the Monkees). He had a very (VERY) brief stint as one…
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A True Songbird – Eva Cassidy
“You left in autumn, the leaves were turning I walk down roads [of] orange and gold I see your sweet smile, I hear your laughter You’re still here beside me every day . . . ‘Cause I know you by heart . . . “ In November of 1996 the world said goodbye to the great talent that was Eva Cassidy. At the age of just 33, after a short battle with cancer, she passed away in her family home in Maryland US. Eva’s fame would only continue to grow after her death, as new generations discovered her beautiful, soulful voice, and effortless harmonies. Born in Washington, on February 2nd…
