11 August 2020 Mexican-American singer Trini Lopez, who had a hit in 1963 with his version of If I Had A Hammer and played one…
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Dorrie Evans, the scatty and interfering self-appointed concierge at 96 Lindsay Street, Paddington, was the absolute queen of malapropism on the series Number 96. Proving…
The BBC Television Centre, the world’s first purpose-built television production complex – described as the Hollywood of the Television Industry – was officially opened on…
12 June 2020 Welsh singer Ricky Valance – who had a UK #1 chart-topper in September 1960 with Tell Laura I Love Her – has…
Introduced in September 1964, the gonk-based character known as ‘Tivvy’ first appeared to launch the “Junior TV Times Club”. He subsequently became the TV Times…
4 June 2020 Steve Priest, bassist and co-founder of 1970s glam rock band Sweet, has died at the age of 72. Priest was born in…
9 May 2020 Little Richard, one of the pioneers of the first wave of rock’n’roll, has died. He was 87. Richard – whose real name…
6 May 2020 Florian Schneider, the co-founder of highly influential electronic pop group Kraftwerk, has died at the age of 73. The German quartet set…
6 May 2020 Jamaican singer Millie Small has died at the age of 72 after suffering a stroke. The star was most famous for her…
22 August 1925 – 6 April 2020 Honor Blackman was born in Plaistow on 22 August 1925, one of four children. Her father, Frederick Blackman,…
Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) As the episode begins, Mary is talking excitedly on the phone at her office desk, planning her Christmas visit with…
18 December 2019 Born in 1938 and raised in Stepney, East London, Kenny Lynch was one of thirteen children. He began singing with his sister,…
4 October 2019 The Beatles’ Abbey Road has returned to #1 on the charts in the UK, 50 years after it first topped the album…
3 October 2019 Kim Shattuck, who was once the bassist with The Pixies, has died aged 56. She died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also…
2 October 2019 Barrie Masters, frontman of British pub rock band Eddie and the Hot Rods, has died aged 63. A statement posted to the…
Throughout its history, rock & roll has been inextricably linked with the English language – the first tongue, after all, of the nation of its…
Oliver Postgate – the creator and writer of some of Britain’s most popular children’s television programmes, including Bagpuss, The Pingwings, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the…
30 August 2019 “My name is Rhoda Morgenstern. I was born in the Bronx, New York, in December 1941. I’ve always felt responsible for World…
14 July 2019 Artwork by illustrators from the classic Ladybird Books is to be explored in an exhibition. The books, which started life in Loughborough…
6 June 2019 Mac Rebennack, the pianist, singer, songwriter and producer better known as Dr John, who embodied the New Orleans sound for generations of…