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Different strokes for different folks, all people have their own singers, actors or whatever.
Well hopefully not all of it - Metal Machine Music must rank up there with one of the alltime worst albums.Quote:
Originally Posted by pompeysbroke
It was very strange I was just reading a blog about said album when I opened the thread
Try to listen to that in one go. I can't. Generally though I enjoyed his work
RIP
Let's all sing happy songs about rainbows and kittens then, Doris Day? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by xanax
He also wrote a lot of very good songs. Dunno what you're into, but a huge slice of many people's record collection might not exist if it weren't for Reed, and the Velvet Underground's influence.
Rock n Roll Animal. RIP.
Lou was one of the most influential artists of all time
No, no he wasn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rupert Wanger
In the grander scheme of things he was a minor figure in the world of music.
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William C. Lowe, the IBM executive who supervised the creation of the company's first personal computer, has died. He was 72.
Lowe died of a heart attack on October 19 in Lake Forest, Ill., his daughter, Michelle Marshall, told The New York Times.
Long a dominant force in mainframe computing for government and corporate customers, IBM became interested in the personal computer market in the late 1970s, well after brands such as Apple Computer, Commodore, and Atari had established a beachhead. Lowe, who joined IBM as a product test engineer in 1962, was director of IBM's Boca Raton Labs in 1980 when Atari approached IBM about marketing one of the game maker's computers under the IBM brand.
Knowing the company was seeking a quick entry into the market, Lowe took the Atari proposal -- along with an alternative suggestion to acquire Atari outright -- to an IBM management committee, which reportedly pronounced his suggestion "the dumbest thing we've ever heard of."
IBM CEO Frank Cary then tasked Lowe with creating a plan for bringing an IBM product to market within a year, along with assembling a team that could accomplish that goal. Under the codename "Project Chess," Lowe recruited "The Dirty Dozen" -- 12 engineers who would design and build a prototype personal computer dubbed Acorn within one month.
The fruit of their labor was released on August 12, 1981, when IBM launched its new computer, which had been renamed the IBM PC. Because "PC" stood for "personal computer," IBM was given credit for popularizing the term "PC."
The 5150 PC was powered by a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor and came with 16 kilobytes of RAM, expandable to 256k. Bundled with a handful of applications, the IBM PC had a retail price of $1,565.
A year later, in a move highlighting the growing personal computer revolution, Time magazine eschewed naming a traditional Man of the Year, opting instead to bestow the honor of "Machine of the Year" on the PC.
"The enduring American love affairs with the automobile and the television set are now being transformed into a giddy passion for the personal computer," the magazine wrote in its January 3, 1983, issue. "It is the end result of a technological revolution that has been in the making for four decades and is now, quite literally, hitting home."
Lowe later said his team at the time was more focused on the product than changing history.
"We didn't have any expectation that we were going to change the world," Lowe told CNET in 2001 for a report marking the PC's 20th anniversary. "We could see that the world was changing; Apple was attracting a lot of attention from IBM developers, and we wanted IBM developers to work on IBM products."
Lowe, whose role included forecasting demand for the new PC, reported to the company's senior management that he expected IBM would sell 220,000 units in a three-year period.
"People now come up and ask, 'Why such a small number?'" he said. "But you have to realize that this was larger than the installed base of all of IBM's computers at the time."
After serving as the PC division's president for three years, Lowe left IBM in 1988 during a management shakeup to become an executive vice president overseeing Xerox's office equipment product lines. Lowe went on become chief operating officer at Gulfstream Aerospace in 1991.
Lowe, who the Times reported was born in Easton, Penn., on January 15, 1941, held a bachelors degree in physics from Lafayette College, which is located in Easton.
Very minor indeed , his one good song and his stroke of luck was having Brit session musician Herby Flowers, who changed up the the bassline .Quote:
Originally Posted by KoojoNo, no he wasn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rupert Wanger
In the grander scheme of things he was a minor figure in the world of music.
He's still alive too.
75.
Walk On The Wild Side - The story behind the classic bass intro featuring Herbie Flowers. - YouTube
That's right, Elvis & Frank Zappa were more influential...Quote:
Originally Posted by KoojoNo, no he wasn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rupert Wanger
In the grander scheme of things he was a minor figure in the world of music.
Isn't it ALL subjective.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boon MeeThat's right, Elvis & Frank Zappa were more influential...Quote:
Originally Posted by KoojoNo, no he wasn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rupert Wanger
In the grander scheme of things he was a minor figure in the world of music.
I mean ALL subjective.
^Everything is everything...
Chariots of Fire actor Nigel Davenport dies aged 85
30 Oct 2013 01:41
He appeared in more than 40 films and TV shows and was a founding member of the English Stage Company
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Chariots of Fire actor Nigel Davenport died at the age of 85 yesterday.
Known for playing tough heroes and scowling villains, Davenport appeared in more than 40 films and shows such as The Saint and The Adventures of Robin Hood. ]
He was a founding member of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court.
Born in Shelford, Cambridge, he was educated at Cheltenham College before reading English at Trinity College, Oxford.
His first job was as an understudy in a Noel Coward play, Relative Values in 1952.
Davenport was married and divorced twice.
His first wife was Helena Margaret White.
They had daughter Laura and son Hugo.
He later married actress Maria Aitken and they had a son, Jack, who starred in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Not all. Taste is, reality (influence) isn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by peachesIsn't it ALL subjective.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boon MeeThat's right, Elvis & Frank Zappa were more influential...Quote:
Originally Posted by KoojoNo, no he wasn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rupert Wanger
In the grander scheme of things he was a minor figure in the world of music.
I mean ALL subjective.
Lou reed wasn't particularly influential in the world of music, like it or not.
Reed’s influence as a solo artist and as a member of The Velvet Underground touched countless artists and his prolific and eclectic career yielded some of the most seminal releases in popular music.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koojo
“Every song we’ve ever written was a rip-off of a Lou Reed song,” claimed Bono, while Brian Eno is often quoted as saying (without any actual evidence of the proclamation), “The first Velvet Underground record sold 30,000 copies in the first five years. I think everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band.”
Lou Reed’s Vast And Long-Lasting Influence - Music News, Reviews, Interviews and Culture - Music Feeds
Like it or not . :mid:
Meaningless.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mid
I see no signs of any lou reed in any of U2s music, they're worlds apart.
Why on earth Bono would say something like that I have no idea.
Just because you read it on the internet doesn't make it true.
lou Reed wasn't a great and influetial musician.
the early velvet underground may have influenced a few bands back when thanks to the whole creepy Andy Warhol scene, it would have been inevitable, but to suggest that Lou reed had any kind of far reaching influence is wrong.
It was junkie music, written for and by junkies.
I think influential is the wrong word to use as countless other artistes were more
influential than he was but I liked some of his stuff,.....
R.I.P. Lou.
He was still an unpleasant junkie who glamorised, or tried to, hard drug use. His status as some sort of underground cult icon far out weighed any musical ability and even fans admit he was not a good guitarist or a singer. Of course now he's gone people will be calling him a genius and all the rest of it, long lasting? nobody will remember who he was in 50 years.
Depends what you define as 'ALL'Quote:
Originally Posted by peaches
If you define 'ALL' as being your personal apprehension of your existence and your environment then, yes, it is all subjective.
If you think that your perception of the macrocosm is 'ALL' that there is and the universe will cease to exist the moment you fall off your perch then the probability that your are correct is, objectively speaking, very small and therefore, 'no', it is not 'ALL' subjective and Lou Reed was only a moderate talent in the grand scheme of things.
Let me just say, opinions on musical talent,Quote:
Originally Posted by Looper
are ALL, ALL ,ALL, ALL, ALL, subjective.
Opinions are like arseholes. Everybody's got one and most of them stink.Quote:
Originally Posted by peaches
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Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
Whoops there's another actor to come...
Graham Stark, Pink Panther series star dies aged 91
30 Oct 2013 14:04
The actor appeared in almost 100 movies, including Alfie, Casino Royale and Pink Panther series as Inspector Clouseau's assistant Hercule Lajoy
Clouseau explains the facts to Hercule - YouTube
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Wirral actor and director Graham Stark has passed away at the age of 91.
The Wallasey-born performer starred in almost 100 films including Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Alfie and Casino Royale, and was best man for his good friend Peter Sellers not once but four times.
Graham William Stark was born on January 20 1922 in Wallasey, the third son of Andrew Stark and his wife Ivy (nee De Valve). He studied at Wallasey Grammar School where he was spotted in a school play by the then Liverpool Playhouse director William Armstrong, later training with Sheilagh Elliott-Clarke of Elliott-Clarke theatre school fame.
While he made his professional debut aged 13 in pantomime at the Lyceum in London, a year later he was on stage at the Liverpool Playhouse himself, appearing as a son of Macduff in Macbeth.
He later studied at RADA and first came to prominence on radio, making his debut in Happy Go Lucky and appearing as a substitute on The Goon Show.
Described as the “man of a thousand comic voices”, he soon moved on to television and in 1964 he was given his own sketch series on the BBC, The Graham Stark Show, written by Johnny Speight.
Liverpool actors Deryck Guyler and Derek Nimmo were among supporting actors on the show.
Stark met Peter Sellers in the RAF in 1945 and they remained friends until the latter’s death in 1980.
He went on star with him in 13 films including all the Pink Panther series where he played a variety of characters.
Speaking to the ECHO in 1999 on the publication of his book Remembering Peter Sellers, the actor recalls: “Sometimes Peter was unhappy in that he wanted to live in the past. He remembered me mainly as Sgt Stark and I remembered him as Leading Aircraftsman Sellers.
“The important thing is, we did have a lot of fun.”
Stark also directed two films, Simon Simon and The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, and was a keen photographer whose work included portraits of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Joanna Lumley and Ursula Andress.
Joanna Lumley described how he was “full of madness, energy, optimism, kindness and wild humour”.
Graham Stark died at his London home on Tuesday night. He had suffered a stroke in recent weeks.
He is survived by his wife, actress Audrey Nicholson, three children and five grandchildren.
Elvis Presley, the King of Rock & Roll?Quote:
Originally Posted by peachesIsn't it ALL subjective.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boon MeeThat's right, Elvis & Frank Zappa were more influential...Quote:
Originally Posted by KoojoNo, no he wasn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rupert Wanger
In the grander scheme of things he was a minor figure in the world of music.
I mean ALL subjective.
Hardly a subjective description. :)
Well, anyway, there has never been this much written about anybody else, so Lou Reed has certainly touched a few people here...
Michael Jackson " King of Pop " ???Quote:
Originally Posted by Boon Mee
Beatles " best group ever " ???
Frank Sinatra " best crooner " ???
Elvis Presley " King of rock & roll " ???
ALL subjective :)
Yup. Everyone's heard of him (during a six-decade career that spanned the sublime to the frankly awful). Everyone has an opinion of him, positive or otherwise. Mission accomplished.Quote:
Originally Posted by BaitongBoy
At least he was famous which is more than can be said for many of the people mentioned in this thread. Even if they do have interesting stories.Quote:
Originally Posted by kmartYup. Everyone's heard of him (during a six-decade career that spanned the sublime to the frankly awful). Everyone has an opinion of him, positive or otherwise. Mission accomplished.Quote:
Originally Posted by BaitongBoy
^Ah, to be famous, eh Dawg?...
Actor GrahAm Stark dead at 91.
^
Graham 'That is not my dog' Stark.
:)
Any relation to Koo Stark(ers)?
He had a very mischievious way about him did our Graham. Very talented man looking at his Obit
R.I.P. and that's a damn fine innings of 91 before needing to retire to that big pavilion if i may say so. God bless you sir
Post #1621 try and keep up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smug Farang Bore
With Nigel Davenport gone, there's another actor out there quaking in his boots...
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The bestselling thriller writer Michael Palmer died on Wednesday, according to a statement released by his publisher, St. Martin's Press. He was 71. Perhaps best known for Extreme Measures, which was made into a movie with Hugh Grant, Palmer wrote 20 novels – including his latest, Resistance, set to come out this spring. A doctor, Palmer was known for incorporating his medical training in his novels, writing in a genre some have called "the medical thriller." Though he became a bestselling author, Palmer wrote on his website that his writing career didn't get off to a promising start: "On my first English paper as a freshman I got a "G" as in A ... B ... C ... etc. My professor, as I recall, drew a line halfway through the paper and wrote, STOPPED READING HERE in the margin." Palmer's son Daniel wrote in a tribute that "the only thing my dad loved more than his family was writing books that thrilled, chilled, and made you turn the pages fast enough to get a blister."
Stark had a bloody good innings at 91.
So many now just leaving the room when they reach about 70.
^
That's seems just about right. Man's allotted time is supposed to be 'three score years and ten' (70 years) or so I recall reading from somewhere. Anything over that then is probably just a bonus.
:rolleyes:
If I'd known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself.
^Rat-at-at-ching!...
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Unfortunate choice of book to be holding, tbh.
French spy writer Gerard de Villiers dies aged 83
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Gerard de Villiers churned books out at a rate of about four a year
French writer Gerard de Villiers, whose thrillers sold more than 100m copies around the world, has died aged 83.
De Villiers died after a long illness, his lawyer said. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in May.
He was the creator of the popular SAS series, with an Austrian hero often seen as France's literary James Bond.
Drawing on his network of intelligence sources around the world, De Villiers was famous for his uncanny knack of anticipating actual events.
'Action and sex'
Analysis
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The literary world despised de Villiers' novels, with their formulaic melange of action and sex.
But the extraordinary thing was how closely they mirrored - indeed sometimes prophesied - geopolitical reality.
One recent book - The Madmen of Benghazi - dealt with the rise of Islamist extremism in post-Gaddafi's Libya and came out a few months before the killing of the US ambassador there.
Back in 1980, he devised a plot around the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who was killed the following year.
The truth is that de Villiers had extremely good connections with French intelligence.
One French foreign minister has even said he read de Villiers' novels before going to a trouble spot in order to find out what French spies thought was happening there.
"The last weeks he was conscious but very weak," de Villiers' wife, Christine, told the AFP news agency.
"It is exactly the death that he did not want," she added.
De Villiers's SAS series became a publishing phenomenon in France, Germany, Russia, Turkey and Japan, the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris reports.
The series starred a fiercely anti-Communist Austrian aristocrat called Malko Linge, who worked as a freelance CIA agent.
The SAS initials came from Linge's honorific Son Altesse Serenissime (His Most Serene Highness).
Lurid covers
De Villiers was inspired by Ian Fleming's James Bond but felt that no-one would believe in a French spy hero - so instead created Malko Linge, our correspondent says.
With covers invariably featuring a semi-naked woman with a gun they have been a staple of railway station book shops, selling by the million.
Starting in 1965, de Villiers churned books out at a rate of four a year.
His last and 200th book - SAS: The Kremlin's Revenge - was released last month.
"I never had any pretensions of being a literary writer," the writer admitted in an interview with the AFP last year.
"I consider myself a storyteller who writes to amuse people."
He got that one right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Lick
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Blues rock pioneer Bobby Parker dies at 76
November 2 2013
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Bobby Parker 1937~2013
Blues rock guitarist Bobby Parker, best known for his 1961 track Watch Your Step and credited as “the only musician the Beatles admitted to stealing from” has died at the age of 76, it’s been reported.
Bassist Anthony B Rucker, who often collaborated often with the pioneering artist, confirmed the news, saying: “It is with a heavy heart I thank you, Bobby, for all that you have done for me. I’m so glad I had one last chance to play with you a couple of weeks ago. See ya on the other side.”
Born in Louisiana and raised in Los Angeles, Robert Lee Parker’s first professional gig was with Otis Williams and the Charms in the 1950s, followed by stints with Bo Diddley, Sam Cooke, Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
Watch Your Step inspired the Beatles’ song I Feel Fine, with John Lennon once saying they’d used the riff “in various forms” throughout their career. Led Zeppelin made use of it in Moby Dick. The track was also covered by the Spencer Davis Group, Dr Feelgood and Carlos Santana, who once said: “Bobby inspired me to play guitar – he’s one of the few remaining guitarists who can pierce your heart and soothe your soul.”
In 2008 Parker reflected: “Watch Your Step was a culmination of blues rock guitar that nobody else had ever thought of. Mine was First. The United States was engulfed by Motown, but the whole world knew when I recorded Watch Your Step that I broke the brick wall of the sameness of Motown.
“I sent music in another direction worldwide, especially for guitarists like Jimmy Page, Santana, Eric Clapton and millions of others. Everybody who was anybody knew Bobby Parker alone penned the lick that created what’s known as the British revolution.
“I heard 600 or more blatant copycat recordings – everybody was playing my lick and trying to claim it, the Beatles included. Even now I hear copycat riffs in TV commercials.” He laughed: “I wish they’d come up with a different riff and leave mine alone…”
The track’s success led to international touring and an offer of a record deal from Jimmy Page, which didn’t work out. Parker spent the 1970s and 1980s based in Washington DC and out of international acclaim, but returned to the spotlight with his first solo album Bent Out Of Shape in 1993, followed by Shine Me Up in 1995. He remained active until his death, having played a series of blues festivals during the summer. Recently he said: “I keep doing it for the music and the people – I love the people.”
Parker has songwriting credits for a total of 55 tracks including his two other singles, Blues Get Off My Shoulder from 1958 and It’s Hard To be Fair from 1968.
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