18 March 2017 Chuck Berry, the singer, songwriter and guitar great who practically defined rock music with hits including Maybellene, Roll Over Beethoven, Rock &…
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Fisherman – Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) Commercial Photographer – Live A Little, Love A Little (1968) Water Skiing Instructor – Clambake (1967) Frogman – Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)…
The Ronnie Lane Memorial Concert. Royal Albert Hall, London. 8 April 2004 For anyone up to speed with the tragic trajectory of Ronnie Lane, the…
25 December 2016 Singer George Michael has died aged 53, his publicist has said. The star, who launched his career with Wham! in the 1980s…
24 December 2016 Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt has died in hospital in Spain aged 68, his manager has said. He died from a severe…
11 November 2016 Actor Robert Vaughn, best known as the secret agent Napoleon Solo in The Man from UNCLE, has died aged 83. Vaughn was…
24 October 2016 Bobby Vee, best known for hits including Rubber Ball, Take Good Care of My Baby and The Night Has a Thousand Eyes,…
School dinners, “kiss-catch”, free milk, bob-a-job week, Bonfire Night, snowball fights, power cuts . . . ee bah gum! Wath-upon-Dearne is in South Yorkshire (in…
15 October 2016 Jean Alexander, who played Coronation Street’s Hilda Ogden and Auntie Wainwright in Last of the Summer Wine, has died aged 90. Alexander…
The first woman to scream for Hammer was probably Shirley Grey in William Hinds’ second film, The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (1936). Among notable actresses…
29 August 2016 Gene Wilder died today at his home in Stamford, Connecticut due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease. The 83-year-old comedian and actor had…
13 August 2016 The British actor who played R2-D2 in the Star Wars films has died after a long illness, just 11 days before his…
He has always been keen to skim over what has been called his ‘lost year’. And one look at the photographs on this page perhaps…
31 May 2016 Television writer Carla Lane, who created shows including the 1980s Liverpool sitcom Bread, has died aged 87. Lane, who was born in…
19 May 2016 Actor and comedian Alan Young – who starred alongside a talking horse in the popular sitcom Mister Ed in the 1960s -…
The two pre-eminent British bands of the gaudy 1960s marked the grey dawn of the 1970s in very different ways. The Beatles marked it by…
Born in 1938 in the Scottish town of Pittenweem, in Fife, Ian Stewart was working as a shipping clerk at a London chemical company when…
11 April 2016 Emile Ford has died in London, aged 78. Ford was born Michael Emile Telford Miller on 16 October 1937, in St Lucia, Windward…
31 March 2016 Ronnie Corbett, one of Britain’s most popular entertainers, has died aged 85 surrounded by his family. Corbett first came to fame on…
30 March 2016 Musician Andy “Thunderclap” Newman has died aged 73. The pianist for British band Thunderclap Newman died at his home in London. Pete…