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    ^I think my favorite scene was the haircutting opening, with great music. Brought back some memories......

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    I did laugh at this...

    LOS ANGELES (CBSNewYork/AP) — R. Lee Ermey, a former marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hard-nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” has died.

    Ermey’s longtime manager Bill Rogin says he died Sunday morning from pneumonia-related complications. He was 74.

    Rogin says Ermey’s death “is a terrible loss that nobody was prepared for.”

    His co-stars Matthew Modine and Vincent D’Onofrio tweeted their condolences Sunday evening.

    “#SemperFidelis Always faithful. Always loyal. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light,” Modine wrote, quoting the Dylan Thomas poem. “RIP amigo. PVT. Joker.”

    Vincent D’Onofrio added: “Ermey was the real deal. The knowledge of him passing brings back wonderful memories of our time together.”

    Born Ronald Lee Ermey in 1944, Ermey served 11 years in the Marine Corps and spent 14 months in Vietnam and then in Okinawa, Japan, where he became staff sergeant. His first film credit was as a helicopter pilot in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now,” which was quickly followed by a part in “The Boys in Company C” as a drill instructor.
    He raked in more than 60 credits in film and television across his long career in the industry, often playing authority figures in everything from “Se7en” to “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” remake.

    The part he would become most well-known for, in “Full Metal Jacket,” wasn’t even originally his. Ermey had been brought on as a technical consultant for the 1987 film, but he had his eyes on the role of the brutal gunnery sergeant and filmed his own audition tape of him yelling out insults while tennis balls flew at him. An impressed Kubrick gave him the role.

    Kubrick told Rolling Stone that 50 percent of Ermey’s dialogue in the film was his own.

    “In the course of hiring the marine recruits, we interviewed hundreds of guys. We lined them all up and did an
    improvisation of the first meeting with the drill instructor. They didn’t know what he was going to say, and we could see how they reacted.
    Lee came up with, I don’t know, 150 pages of insults,” Kubrick said.

    According to Kubrick, Ermey also had a terrible car accident one night in the middle of production and was out for four and half months with broken ribs.

    Ermey would also go on to voice the little green army man Sarge in the “Toy Story” films. He also played track and field coach and Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman in “Prefontaine,” General Kramer in “Toy Soldiers” and Mayor Tilman in “Mississippi Burning.”

    Ermey also hosted the History Channel series “Mail Call” and “Lock N’ Load with R. Lee Ermey” and was a board member for the National Rifle Association, as well as a spokesman for Glock.

    “He will be greatly missed by all of us,” Rogin said. “It is a terrible loss that nobody was prepared for.”

    Rogin says that while his characters were often hard and principled, the real Ermey was a family man and a kind and gentle soul who supported the men and women who serve.

    “He meant so much to so many people,” Rogin added. “It is extremely difficult to truly quantify all of the great things this man has selflessly done for, and on behalf of, our many men and women in uniform.”


    ?Full Metal Jacket? Sergeant R. Lee Ermey Dies At 74 « CBS New York

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    The best comment I remember when I enlisted is when a new recruit called the DI a MOTHER FUCKER. The DI didn't say anything to everyone else and walked up to the new recruit and said ONLY " Keep your mother off the street and I won't FUCK HER". The whole company laughed. Any branch of the service is intended to get you to OBEY ORDERS without question, nothing more, nothing less. YOU are not paid to think, you are there to OBEY orders.

    When ANYONE is in ANY branch of the SERVICE you have to learn to play the GAME. The TRICK is to learn HOW to PLAY
    the GAME with THEIR RULES. I guess my biggest mistake was to NOT to follow their rules. 555

    It was not fun and has COST me so much over my lifetime. I was their LAB RAT for 1/2 of my US Army time and have paid for it since I got out. Most employers would NOT hire me because of my military medical records. It became so difficult for me to get employed with any job because they could not insure me because of my lung condition.



    When anyone joins the SERVICE of any branch of the service, YOU are US Government PROPERTY and wave all rights. It's total BULLSHIT.

    They can use you in ANY MEDICAL tests that they please. I got a disease 65 year old people get, I was 19 .


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    All Rise, The Honorable Judge Harold T. Stone is no longer presiding


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    Former US First Lady Barbara Bush dies

    Houston: Former U.S. first lady Barbara Bush, the only woman to see her husband and son sworn in as U.S. president, died on Tuesday, the Bush family said. She was 92.
    Earlier this week, a Bush family spokesman said the Bush was in "failing health" and wouldn't seek additional medical treatment. No details on her illness were given."Following a recent series of hospitalisations, and after consulting her family and doctors, Bush, now age 92, has decided not to seek additional medical treatment and will instead focus on comfort care," spokesman Jim McGrath said in a statement.
    Bush was one of only two first ladies who was also the mother of a president. The other was Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, the nation's second president, and mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president.
    Bush married George HW Bush on January 6, 1945 aged only 19 and while George W Bush was a young naval aviator. After World War II, the Bushes moved to Texas where he went into the oil business. They had six children and have been married longer than any presidential couple in American history.



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    Bush was one of only two first ladies who was also the mother of a president.
    ...indeed: the first was a feckless nebbish and the second a floundering moron...no mother should face such humiliation in public...RIP, Babs...

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    Avicii.

    I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:

    DJ Avicii, top electronic dance music artist, dies at 28 - DJ Avicii, top electronic dance music artist, dies at 28 - BBC News

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    I shall call him Mini-Me....

    Verne Troyer, Actor Who Portrayed Mini-Me In 'Austin Powers,' Dies At 49


    April 21, 201811:29 PM ET


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    Verne Troyer, best known for his comedic role as Mini-Me in two of the three Austin Powers movies, has died. He was 49.


    Troyer starred alongside Mike Myers as the one-eighth-size clone and silent sidekick of villain Dr. Evil in 1999's Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and played Myers' tiny archenemy in the franchise's third installment, 2002's Austin Powers in Goldmember.

    The Los Angeles-based actor died on Saturday, according to a statement posted to his social media accounts. The circumstances of his death was not given. The statement describes Troyer as "extremely caring" and "a fighter," and mentioned depression and suicide:


    "Over the years he's struggled and won, struggled and won, struggled and fought some more, but unfortunately this time was too much," the statement said. "Depression and suicide are very serious issues. You never know what kind of battle someone is going through inside. Be kind to one another. And always know, it's never too late to reach out to someone for help."


    He also portrayed the banker goblin Griphook in 2001′s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and appeared in another Mike Myers film, 2008's The Love Guru.



    "Troyer was born in 1969 in Sturgis, Michigan with achondroplasia, a genetic condition that kept him less than 3 feet tall," reports the Associated Press. He'd openly battled depression and alcoholism, adds the AP.

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    Michael Anderson, Director of 'Logan's Run' and 'Around the World in 80 Days,' Dies at 98

    7:30 AM PDT 4/28/2018 by Michael Sugerman , Mike Barnes



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    The British helmer, proficient in sci-fi, fantasy and war films, also helmed 'The Dam Busters' and 'Shake Hands With the Devil.'


    Michael Anderson, the British director who received an Oscar nomination for overseeing the sprawling spectacle Around the World in 80 Days and later helmed the cult sci-fi classic Logan’s Run, has died. He was 98.

    Anderson, who also demonstrated a command of war films by directing The Dam Busters (1955) — often cited as an inspiration for the climax of the first Star Wars film — The Yangtse Incident (1957) and Operation Crossbow (1965), died Wednesday in Vancouver, Matthew Moore of The Times of London
    reported.


    With his death, Romeo and Juliet's Franco Zeffirelli, 95, is now the oldest living person to receive a best director nom, according to film researcher and THR contributor
    Rhett Bartlett.


    His stepdaughter, Laurie Holden, has appeared as recurring characters on such TV series as The X-Files, The Shield, The Walking Dead and The Americans.


    Anderson also is survived by his third wife, actress Adrienne Ellis.


    A native of London, Anderson called the shots for such British leading men as Michael Redgrave (Dam Busters, 1984, The Wreck of the Mary Deare), Alec Guinness (Operation Crossbow, The Quiller Memorandum), Peter Ustinov (Logan’s Run), Richard Todd (Chase a Crooked Shadow), Laurence Olivier (The Shoes of the Fisherman) and, of course, David Niven, the urbane star of Around the World in 80 Days (1956).


    A review in The Hollywood Reporter called the three-hour United Artists film, based on Jules Verne’s 1873 adventure novel, “the greatest show ever seen on stage or screen,” and it captured the best picture Oscar as one of its five Academy Awards. Anderson, who made the film when he was just 35 — stepping in for John Farrow just days into production — was nominated but lost out to George Stevens of Giant (the only Academy Award that film received from its 10 noms). Farrow shared the Oscar for adapted screenplay.


    First-time movie producer Michael Todd, who came from Broadway, purportedly told exhibitors that Around the World in 80 Days was much more than a film: “Movies are something you can see in your neighborhood theater and eat popcorn while you’re watching them … Show Around the World in 80 Days almost exactly as you would present a Broadway show.”


    The film centers on Phileas Fogg (Niven) and his valet, Passepartout (Mexican comic actor Cantinflas), as they try to win a £20,000 bet by circling the globe in record time. Among the more than 40 “world famous stars” in the movie were Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra, John Gielgud, Edward R. Murrow, Noel Coward, Charles Boyer, Ronald Colman, Robert Newton, Marlene Dietrich, Buster Keaton, Victor McLaglen and Red Skelton.


    Around the World in 80 Days set records for the most camera set-ups (more than 2,000), sets and costumes; the most people (68,894) photographed in separate worldwide locations (140 in 13 countries were used); and the greatest distance traveled to make a film (4 million air-passenger miles).


    Its budget — an estimated $6 million (the equivalent of roughly $55 million today) — was huge as well. The film grossed $42 million domestically, or about $385 million now, second to only The Ten Commandments that year. (On the other hand, a 2004 Disney remake of Around the World in 80 Days, starring Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan, was a critical and commercial flop.)


    Eighteen months after the original film was released, Todd died in a plane crash, making a widow of Elizabeth Taylor.


    MGM’s Logan’s Run (1976) followed society in the year 2274, where population control is practiced by killing off citizens once they reach age 30. The opening titles read: “Sometime in the 23rd century … the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside.”


    British star Michael York, who had worked with Anderson a year earlier in Conduct Unbecoming(1975), starred as Logan-5 opposite Jenny Agutter and Farrah Fawcett-Majors. The film earned $50 million worldwide and would mark Anderson’s high-water mark as a feature director.


    Anderson was born Jan. 30, 1920. His father was a stage actor, and his grand-aunt was American actress
    Mary Anderson (Lifeboat, Gone With the Wind). He served in the British Army’s Royal Signal Corps, where he met Ustinov; the two soon co-wrote and co-directed Private Angelo (1949), a war comedy about an Italian soldier (Ustinov) in World War II who tries, rather unsuccessfully, to avoid violence.


    Anderson returned to the theater of war with the highly regarded Dam Busters, about a British demolition team led by Redgrave and Todd that tries to blow up a Ruhr dam in Germany. The film garnered an Oscar nomination for best effects.


    Anderson recruited Redgrave again for the 1956 release of 1984, the first movie adaptation of George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian novel.


    Anderson’s other forays into sci-fi included Doc Savage: Man of Bronze (1975), produced by George Pal (director of the 1960 film The Time Machine), and an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, a 1980 NBC miniseries starring Rock Hudson.


    His directorial résumé also includes the Ireland-set Shake Hands With the Devil (1959), starring James Cagney; The Naked Edge (1961), with Gary Cooper (in his final film) and Deborah Kerr; the melodrama All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960), starring real-life husband and wife Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood; the Tony Curtis poodle comedy Wild and Wonderful (1964); Pope Joan (1972), starring Liv Ullmann; Dino De Laurentiis’ Jaws ripoff Orca (1977); and his final credit, The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1999).


    Two of his sons followed him into show business: character actor Michael Anderson Jr. played the brother of John Wayne and Dean Martin in The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) and Doc in Logan’s Run, and
    David Anderson, served as an assistant director on three James Bond films.

    Anderson's autobiography, titled Directed by …, is soon to be published.

    In March 1941, Anderson, future Lawrence of Arabia director David Lean and their wives were hiding under the stairs in a house as the Germans bombed London during World War II. After an “all-clear” signal sounded, they decided to risk a trip to the famed Cafe de Paris nightclub in the West End to have dinner, he recalled in an interview that aired a few years ago on Saturday Night at the Movies in Canada.


    “But my wife [Betty] wasn’t feeling really well and then Lean’s wife said let’s not go,” he said. “That was the night the Cafe de Paris was bombed. [Most] everyone inside was killed.”

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    Sawalee Pakaphan, pioneering luk krung singer, dies at 86

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    Born Cheery Hoffmann in Bangkok, Sawalee was one of Thailand’s first "look Krung” <sic> singers, having a non-Thai parent.


    In a career that spanned six decades, she recorded more than 1,500 songs and earned four Golden Record awards Her most popular hits include “Jamluey Rak”, “Sanam Arom” and “Poi Chan Pai”.


    The Culture Ministry named her a National Artist in music in 1989Sawalee also acted onstage, on television and in films including “Datchanee Nang”. Her most memorable theatre role was in “Baan Sai Thong” in 1951, in which she also sang the title song.


    Funeral rites will take place at Wat Thatthong from April 3-8 at 7pm. After 100 days, the family, supported by the Culture Ministry will host the cremation.


    Sawalee Pakaphan, pioneering luk krung singer, dies at 86



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    Abi Ofarim dead: Cinderella Rockefella singer dies at home after ‘long illness’ age 80

    By JESSICA EARNSHAW
    PUBLISHED: 12:09, Fri, May 4, 2018 | UPDATED: 12:13, Fri, May 4, 2018






    German magazine Bunte has said Abi Ofarim, who had a number of hit singles back in the 1960s, has died after a “long illness”
    The publication posted a quote from a source, which translated: “After a long illness, Abi Ofarim fell asleep in his apartment in Schwabing this morning forever.

    “His fight has come to an end.”


    Israeli Abi achieved international fame as part of a duo with his then-wife Esther Zaied, with their single Cinderella Rockefella reaching the top of the charts in the UK five decades ago.


    The pair, who wed in 1961, then went on to tour the world and played live concerts in New York and London.

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    Margot Kidder, best known for her role as Lois Lane, dies at 69. Perhaps someone can post a Bio as I'm in a pub at LHR with no lappy

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    Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in Superman, dies aged 69

    Margot Kidder, the Canadian actress who starred as a salty and cynical Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve in the Superman film franchise of the 1970s and 1980s, has died.
    Kidder died on Sunday (local time) at her home in Livingston, Montana, according to a notice on the website of Franzen-Davis Funeral Home. She was 69.
    The cause of death was not given, but Kidder's manager Camilla Fluxman Pines said she died peacefully in her sleep.
    Kidder appeared in more than 70 movies and TV shows, including The Great Waldo Pepper, The Amityville Horror and the 2014 children's TV series RL Stine's The Haunting Hour, for which she won an Emmy award.
    Kidder began her acting career in her 20s and shot to international fame playing intrepid reporter Lois Lane in 1978's Superman, opposite Christopher Reeve.
    She reprised the role again in Superman II (1980), Superman III (1983) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987).
    Kidder, as ace reporter Lane, played off of the boyish, farm-raised charm of Reeve's Clark Kent and Superman, though her dogged journalism constantly got her into dangerous scrapes that required old-fashioned rescues.
    Kidder had many of the movies' most memorable lines, including, "You've got me?! Who's got you?!" when she first encountered the costumed hero as she and a helicopter plunged from the top of a Metropolis building.
    Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige called the moment "the best cinematic superhero save in the history of film" at an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences event.



    Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in Superman, dies aged 69 - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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    Best-selling writer Tom Wolfe died on Monday. Newsy confirmed through his agent Lynn Nesbit that he was 88.


    Wolfe was known for his fiction and nonfiction works, like "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "The Right Stuff." Both books were later turned into movies.


    Multiple outlets credit Wolfe as a creator of "New Journalism," a style that combined traditional reporting and immersive writing.


    His agent told
    The Wall Street Journal: "He is not just an American icon, but he had a huge international literary reputation. All the same, he was one of the most modest and kindest people I have ever met."


    Wolfe is survived by his wife and two children.

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    Joseph Campanella dies at 93 after six-decade Hollywood career as prolific character actor


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    He had more than 200 titles to his name after an acting career in Hollywood spanning six decades.
    Joseph Campanella, 93, passed away on Wednesday at his home in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of LA on Wednesday, Variety reported.
    His most famous roles included long-running stints on crime drama Mannix, primetime soaps The Colbys and Dallas and daytime soap The Bold And The Beautiful.
    He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for his role as Harper Deveraux in The Days Of Our lives in 1989.


    The actor also had recurring roles in a host of successful television shows starting in the 1950s and culminating with his final performance int he independent movie Lost Dream released in 2009.
    His credits include six seasons of ’70s sitcom One Day at a Time, the ’70s medical series Marcus Welby, M.D. and legal drama The Practice.


    In his early years, he guest starred on classic TV shows such as The Big Valley, The Wild Wild West, The Fugitive and Mission: Impossible.
    He was also a guest actor on Gunsmoke, The Rockford Files, Ironside and Fantasy Island.


    Along with his on-screen roles, Campanella also built a career as a voice actor, Variety reported.
    He voiced characters in ’90s animated shows Spider-Man and Rovers.
    He also appeared in three Broadway plays and was nominated for a Tony for his performance in A Gift of Time in 1962.
    Campanella was born in New York City and attended Columbia University before moving to Hollywood. He is survived by Jill, his wife of 53 years, as well as his seven sons and eight grandchildren.

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    Clint Walker, Star of TV Western ‘Cheyenne,’ Dies at 90

    Clint Walker, who starred in the television Western “Cheyenne” and had a key supporting role in the WWII film “The Dirty Dozen,” died on Monday in Northern California, according to the New York Times. He was 90.
    For seven seasons from 1955-61, he played Cheyenne Bodie, a rambunctious wanderer in the post-Civil War West, on the ABC series “Cheyenne.” (He also guested as the character on “Maverick.”)
    The actor’s seriocomic confrontation with star Lee Marvin was one of the highlights of the classic 1967 war picture “The Dirty Dozen.”
    After “Cheyenne” ended, Walker made some guest appearances on TV — “77 Sunset Strip,” “Kraft Suspense Theatre” and “The Lucy Show,” in an episode called “Lucy and Clint Walker.”
    But the actor became more interested in movies both theatrical and for TV. In 1964, he had a supporting role in the Doris Day-Rock Hudson comedy “Send Me No Flowers.” His acting was not distinguished, but he did participate in a memorable sight gag in which the enormous man popped out of an exceptionally small car.
    Impressively, Frank Sinatra, directing the thought-provoking WWII film “None but the Brave” (1965), cast Walker in the lead as a Marine captain who, along with his men (including one played by Sinatra), reaches a detente of mutual benefit with the Japanese troops, led by a lieutenant played by Tatsuya Mihasi, who have come to inhabit the same Pacific island.

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    Clint Walker, Star of TV Western ‘Cheyenne,’ Dies at 90


    Clint Walker, who starred in the television Western “Cheyenne” and had a key supporting role in the WWII film “The Dirty Dozen,” died on Monday in Northern California, according to the New York Times. He was 90.
    For seven seasons from 1955-61, he played Cheyenne Bodie, a rambunctious wanderer in the post-Civil War West, on the ABC series “Cheyenne.” (He also guested as the character on “Maverick.”)
    The actor’s seriocomic confrontation with star Lee Marvin was one of the highlights of the classic 1967 war picture “The Dirty Dozen.”
    After “Cheyenne” ended, Walker made some guest appearances on TV — “77 Sunset Strip,” “Kraft Suspense Theatre” and “The Lucy Show,” in an episode called “Lucy and Clint Walker.”
    But the actor became more interested in movies both theatrical and for TV. In 1964, he had a supporting role in the Doris Day-Rock Hudson comedy “Send Me No Flowers.” His acting was not distinguished, but he did participate in a memorable sight gag in which the enormous man popped out of an exceptionally small car.
    Impressively, Frank Sinatra, directing the thought-provoking WWII film “None but the Brave” (1965), cast Walker in the lead as a Marine captain who, along with his men (including one played by Sinatra), reaches a detente of mutual benefit with the Japanese troops, led by a lieutenant played by Tatsuya Mihasi, who have come to inhabit the same Pacific island.

    http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/clint-walker-dead-dies-cheyenne-dirty-dozen-1202819083/


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    One of Australia's greatest guitarists Phil Emmanuel, who rose to fame playing with The Trailblazers, has died aged 65.

    Phil passed away in Parkes late on Thursday night after a sudden asthma attack.
    He was staying with his brother Darcy at the time.


    “On behalf of the family, it is with great sadness that I announce the passing of our much loved brother, Philip Ernest Emmanuel,” Darcy said.
    During his visit, Phil had shows planned for the Cootamundra Hotel on Friday night, a private function for friend Maureen Farr’s 60th birthday at the Railway Bowling Club, and a two hour concert at the Star Hotel on Sunday afternoon.



    “Phil wanted to do a show at my favourite watering hole,” Darcy said.


    “He wanted do it for those who were unable to make it to the Guitars of the Era concert he did at the Little Theatre during the afternoon on the Friday of this year’s Elvis Festival.


    “He had heard that a few people couldn’t make it because they were working.”

    Darcy said he has been in contact with his brothers Chris and Tommy, who are in London touring at the moment, and sister Veronica better known as Skeeta.



    “We are all devastated,” Darcy said.

    “This comes on top of the loss of our sister Virginia Grace on April 14, aged 69.
    “Philip and Virginia were virtually joined at the hip and I don't think either one would have been able to live without the other.”


    With Phil and his brother Tommy playing together, the Emmanuel Brothers graced stages all over the world with names such as Chet Atkins, Duanne Eddy, America, Hank B Marvin, John Farnham, Jimmy Barnes, INXS, Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson.


    Darcy said Phil wasn’t one for a lot of attention.

    “He didn't chase the limelight, it chased him - but he got away,” Darcy said.
    “I had a plaque made for him once, it read ‘the greatest lead guitarist the world has never seen’.

    “I think he is probably most famous for playing the last post on guitar.

    “People would just shake their heads when they heard it, I've seen veterans cry their eyes out.

    “Phil would only play it at RSLs, not for anyone else, he did do it once for me though because I loved it so much.”

    Darcy said he wanted to thank his good friends John Mason and Maureen Farr who were with him when Phil collapsed.

    “I am so glad that I was not alone at the time,” Darcy said.

    “John helped perform CPR while Maureen waited at the gate for the ambulance.”

    “Thank you from the bottom of my heart to the paramedics who went over and above and did such an amazing job.”

    Phil is survived by his wife Amanda and his children Jessie Maree, Jamie Lee, Georgia Dee and Marshall Travis.
    The Emmanuel family ask for privacy at this difficult time.

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    13 August 1930 – 18 June 2007

    Bernard Manning deserves a mention. Wasn't that long ago.

    Evil Kenivel's wife left him when he become confined to a wheelchair


    Who wouldn't?

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    Anyone's guess if Clint Walker ever washed his greasy hair.

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    Alan Bean: Fourth man to walk on Moon dies aged 86, Nasa announces

    The former US Navy test pilot flew twice into space, first as the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12




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    The fourth man to walk on the moon has died at the age of 86.


    Alan Bean passed away at Houston Methodist Hospital on Saturday after a short illness.

    His wife Leslie Bean said: “Alan was the strongest and kindest man I ever knew. He was the love of my life and I miss him dearly. A native Texan, Alan died peacefully in Houston surrounded by those who loved him.”


    Alan Bean flew twice into
    space, first as the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, the second moon landing mission, in November 1969.

    In July 1973 he was commander of the second crewed flight to the United States’ first space station, Skylab.

    Bean retired from the Navy in 1975 and NASA in 1981 before devoting his time to his Apollo-themed artworks using small pieces of his moon dust-stained mission patches.


    “Alan Bean was the most extraordinary person I ever met,” said astronaut Mike Massimino, who flew on two space shuttle missions to service the Hubble Space Telescope. “He was a one of a kind combination of technical achievement as an astronaut and artistic achievement as a painter.”

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    Sorry Harry already has covered it.

    Guitar legend Phil Emmanuel dies suddenly aged 65

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    “I think he is probably most famous for playing the last post on guitar."

    “People would just shake their heads when they heard it, I've seen veterans cry their eyes out."

    “Phil would only play it at RSLs, not for anyone else, he did do it once for me though because I loved it so much.”

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    Glenn Snoddy, Nashville Engineer & Inventor of the Fuzz Pedal, Dies at 96


    When he was recording Marty Robbins' "Don't Worry" and the transformer in the amplifier blew up, Snoddy helped create what would become known as "The Nashville Sound."

    The name Glenn Snoddy might not be well known by the general music fan, but he helped to usher in one of the most exciting -- and financially viable -- eras of Country Music history. Snoddy, who passed away Monday at the age of 96, was one of Nashville's top engineers beginning in the 1940s.
    Snoddy -- who began his career as a radio engineer and eventually worked his way up to "The Air Castle of the South," WSM AM 650 -- helped to establish Castle Studios as one of the first major recording spots in Music City and also spent time working at The Quonset Hut. It was there that he helped to oversee sessions from many of the legends of the format -- including Hank Williams (Snoddy engineered Williams' last recording session in 1952), Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins. It was with the latter that he would make a little nugget of recording history.
    In 1960, Snoddy was at the Bradley Brothers-owned Quonset Hut working on a session with Robbins for Columbia Records. All of a sudden, he heard something a little different. About a minute and a half into the song, "Don't Worry," Grady Martin's guitar made somewhat of a distorted sound instead of the usual smooth style he was known for.
    Just a few years later, that sound Snoddy helped to usher in for the first time became known all over the world when The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards used the invention on the iconic "I Can't Get No Satisfaction."






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