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Pam Ayres was born in Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire (now administered as part of Oxfordshire), the youngest of six children (having four elder brothers and a sister) of Stanley and Phyllis Ayres. Her father worked for 44 years as a linesman for the Southern Electricity Board, having been a sergeant in the Grenadier Guards during the Second ...
This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to ...
The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories is the fifth studio album by Kevin Ayers.Ayers moved to Island Records for this release which employed a vast array of session musicians. [5]
A Toot and a Snore in '74 is a bootleg album consisting of the only known recording session in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney played together after the break-up of the Beatles in 1970. First mentioned by Lennon in a 1975 interview, [ 1 ] more details were brought to light in May Pang 's 1983 book, Loving John , and it gained wider ...
She was born Gayle Annette to Richard and Ethel McCormick, who had an older son, Michael (b. 1945). [1] Gayle attended Pattonville High School in Maryland Heights, Missouri and sang high soprano with the Suburb Choir, a 150-voice unit that performed annually with the St. Louis Symphony. [2]
The First Book of Songs (title in Early Modern English: First Booke of Songes or Ayres) is a collection of songs by John Dowland which includes one instrumental piece. The book was published in London in 1597 and was reprinted four times during the composer's lifetime. The first edition was printed by Peter Short.
Pam Rhodes (born 1950) is an English television, radio presenter and author, known for presenting BBC Television's long-running religious series Songs of Praise since the early 1980s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Early life
In the late 70s Clarke styled himself as a "punk poet" [8] and in 1979 had his only UK top 40 hit with "Gimmix!(Play Loud)". [1] [9] He toured with Linton Kwesi Johnson, and performed on the same bill as bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Fall, Joy Division, Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Elvis Costello, Rockpile and New Order (including at their May 1984 Music for Miners benefit ...