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| Our regular column covering the passing of significant - but lesser-reported - people of the past month. | Our regular column covering the passing of significant - but lesser-reported - people of the past month. |
| Greenwich wrote many very famous songs | Greenwich wrote many very famous songs |
| Some of the most iconic pop songs of the 1960s came from the pen of Ellie Greenwich. Originally a session singer she met and married the composer Jeff Barry, thereby establishing a formidable writing team. The duo turned out a string of hits including Be My Baby, by the Ronettes, and Then He Kissed Me and Da Doo Ron Ron for The Crystals. They also released their own album under the title of The Raindrops. The pair later worked with Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller to compose Chapel of Love for the Dixie Cups and Leader of the Pack, recorded by the Shangri-Las. Despite divorcing in 1966 Barry and Greenwich continued to write together, producing probably their most famous hit, River Deep, Mountain High, recorded by Ike & Tina Turner. She continued to write for and produce a number of famous singers including Neil Diamond and Dusty Springfield. In 1984 a Broadway musical, showcasing her work, was nominated for a Tony award. | Some of the most iconic pop songs of the 1960s came from the pen of Ellie Greenwich. Originally a session singer she met and married the composer Jeff Barry, thereby establishing a formidable writing team. The duo turned out a string of hits including Be My Baby, by the Ronettes, and Then He Kissed Me and Da Doo Ron Ron for The Crystals. They also released their own album under the title of The Raindrops. The pair later worked with Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller to compose Chapel of Love for the Dixie Cups and Leader of the Pack, recorded by the Shangri-Las. Despite divorcing in 1966 Barry and Greenwich continued to write together, producing probably their most famous hit, River Deep, Mountain High, recorded by Ike & Tina Turner. She continued to write for and produce a number of famous singers including Neil Diamond and Dusty Springfield. In 1984 a Broadway musical, showcasing her work, was nominated for a Tony award. |
| Music also lost Larry Knechtel, whose haunting piano piece featured on Simon and Garfunkel's hit, Bridge Over Troubled Water. It took four days of recording to satisfy Paul Simon's demand for perfection and the effort was rewarded with a Grammy. Knechtel was already one of the most accomplished session musicians in the business, having recorded with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, The Doors, The Byrds and The Mamas and the Papas. His career took off in 1959 when he joined the legendary guitarist Duane Eddy before moving to work with Phil Spector on the famous Wall of Sound technique which backed a host of sixties hits. He appeared on the ground-breaking Beach Boys album, Pet Sounds, and in 1971, joined the band Bread, where, switching instruments, he contributed the guitar solo on their single, The Guitar Man. | Music also lost Larry Knechtel, whose haunting piano piece featured on Simon and Garfunkel's hit, Bridge Over Troubled Water. It took four days of recording to satisfy Paul Simon's demand for perfection and the effort was rewarded with a Grammy. Knechtel was already one of the most accomplished session musicians in the business, having recorded with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, The Doors, The Byrds and The Mamas and the Papas. His career took off in 1959 when he joined the legendary guitarist Duane Eddy before moving to work with Phil Spector on the famous Wall of Sound technique which backed a host of sixties hits. He appeared on the ground-breaking Beach Boys album, Pet Sounds, and in 1971, joined the band Bread, where, switching instruments, he contributed the guitar solo on their single, The Guitar Man. |
| The so called British folk revival of the mid-20th Century relied on an oral tradition of which Stanley Robertson was a key exponent. Born into a family of Scottish travellers he left school at 14 and began work filleting fish in Aberdeen. He collected a wealth of humorous stories which were later published in his book Fish Hooses: Tales from an Aberdeen Filleter. He became known to a wider audience in the 1970s making a name for himself at events such as Whitby Folk Week. As well as his ballads he had an encyclopaedic knowledge of folk tales dating back many hundreds of years. His contribution to Scottish folk lore was recognised when he became a research fellow in the Oral and Cultural Traditions of Scottish Travellers project at Aberdeen University's Elphinstone Institute. Robertson made a number of recordings including a CD of children's playground songs, some rendered in travellers' "cant". | |
| Actor John Quade had a face which was instantly recognisable even if movie fans never quite remembered his name. He became well known for his appearances in a string of Clint Eastwood films, notably as Cholla, the bumbling motor cycle gang leader in Every Which Way But Loose, and the follow up Any Which Way You Can. But he also played more menacing roles, as a gunslinger in High Plains Drifter and the ruthless Comanchero leader in The Outlaw Josey Wales. Originally an aerospace engineer, he went into acting after someone suggested his face was ideal for playing heavies. His first TV role, in the western series Bonanza, launched a 40-year career with appearances in numerous films including Papillon and The Sting. He was also a regular guest star on a host of TV dramas including Hill Street Blues, The A Team and Charlie's Angels. | Actor John Quade had a face which was instantly recognisable even if movie fans never quite remembered his name. He became well known for his appearances in a string of Clint Eastwood films, notably as Cholla, the bumbling motor cycle gang leader in Every Which Way But Loose, and the follow up Any Which Way You Can. But he also played more menacing roles, as a gunslinger in High Plains Drifter and the ruthless Comanchero leader in The Outlaw Josey Wales. Originally an aerospace engineer, he went into acting after someone suggested his face was ideal for playing heavies. His first TV role, in the western series Bonanza, launched a 40-year career with appearances in numerous films including Papillon and The Sting. He was also a regular guest star on a host of TV dramas including Hill Street Blues, The A Team and Charlie's Angels. |
| Helen Brotherton was a conservationist long before the term came into popular use. She began taking an interest in nature as a child pursuing her interest when she moved to Dorset just after World War II, exploring the rich habitat of the local countryside and coastline. In 1961 she was one of a small group which fought a proposal to build 400 houses on Brownsea Island, the home of many rare wading birds. The campaign was eventually successful and the ownership of the island passed to the National Trust. In the early 1970s she was one of the driving forces behind the trust's Operation Neptune initiative, designed to preserve large swathes of Britain's coastline. A keen rally driver in her youth she was happily speeding around Dorset in her sports car just months before her death. | Helen Brotherton was a conservationist long before the term came into popular use. She began taking an interest in nature as a child pursuing her interest when she moved to Dorset just after World War II, exploring the rich habitat of the local countryside and coastline. In 1961 she was one of a small group which fought a proposal to build 400 houses on Brownsea Island, the home of many rare wading birds. The campaign was eventually successful and the ownership of the island passed to the National Trust. In the early 1970s she was one of the driving forces behind the trust's Operation Neptune initiative, designed to preserve large swathes of Britain's coastline. A keen rally driver in her youth she was happily speeding around Dorset in her sports car just months before her death. |
| Angler Andy Sargent with Benson the carp | Angler Andy Sargent with Benson the carp |
| She became known as "the peoples' fish" an accolade that proved something of a two edged sword for a carp named Benson. Weighing in at just over 64lb she found herself hooked by enthusiastic anglers more than 60 times in a period of 13 years. She lived in a complex of lakes in Cambridgeshire along with 150 other carp, one of whom had been her companion, Hedges. Unfortunately he disappeared in 1998 following the flooding of a nearby river. Her sudden death, at the age of 25, provoked controversy after a quantity of nuts, toxic to fish, were discovered on the bank close to where she was found, floating dead in the water. Quite what Benson made of continually being hauled out of her pond by enthusiastic people in cagoules and funny hats we will never know. There was no inquest. | She became known as "the peoples' fish" an accolade that proved something of a two edged sword for a carp named Benson. Weighing in at just over 64lb she found herself hooked by enthusiastic anglers more than 60 times in a period of 13 years. She lived in a complex of lakes in Cambridgeshire along with 150 other carp, one of whom had been her companion, Hedges. Unfortunately he disappeared in 1998 following the flooding of a nearby river. Her sudden death, at the age of 25, provoked controversy after a quantity of nuts, toxic to fish, were discovered on the bank close to where she was found, floating dead in the water. Quite what Benson made of continually being hauled out of her pond by enthusiastic people in cagoules and funny hats we will never know. There was no inquest. |
| Among others who died in August were veteran US Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy; the man whose guitars became the defining sound of rock music, Les Paul; former South Korean President and Nobel laureate, Kim Dae-jung; former Philippine president Corazon Aquino; and the environmentalist and founder of the Ecologist magazine, Teddy Goldsmith. | Among others who died in August were veteran US Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy; the man whose guitars became the defining sound of rock music, Les Paul; former South Korean President and Nobel laureate, Kim Dae-jung; former Philippine president Corazon Aquino; and the environmentalist and founder of the Ecologist magazine, Teddy Goldsmith. |