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Keith Floyd (28 December 1943 – 14 September 2009) was a British celebrity cook, restaurateur, television personality and "gastronaut" who hosted cooking shows for the BBC and published many books combining cookery and travel. On television, his eccentric style of presentation – usually drinking wine as he cooked and talking to his crew ...
Keith Floyd (1943–2009) was an English broadcaster, restaurateur and food writer. He was brought up in Somerset, England, where his mother taught him to cook. [ 1] He was educated at Wellington, a local public school, although he left at the age of sixteen. [ 2] He joined the Bristol Evening Post as a cub reporter—where he worked alongside ...
Pink Floyd were an English rock band founded in late 1965 by Syd Barrett on guitar and lead vocals, Nick Mason on drums, Roger Waters on bass and vocals, and Richard Wright on keyboards and vocals. [1] Guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour would later join the band in December 1967, [2][3] while Barrett was ousted from the band in April 1968 due ...
Roger Keith " Syd " Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. Until his departure in 1968, he was Pink Floyd's frontman and primary songwriter, known for his whimsical style of psychedelia, [ 1 ] English-accented singing, and stream-of-consciousness ...
—Alan di Perna, in Guitar World, May 2006 Rolling Stone critic Alan di Perna praised Gilmour's guitar work as integral to Pink Floyd's sound, and described him as the most important guitarist of the 1970s, "the missing link between Hendrix and Van Halen ". Rolling Stone named him the 14th greatest guitarist of all time. In 2006, Gilmour said of his technique: "[My] fingers make a distinctive ...
Keith Floyd caused something of a revolution in British cookery broadcasting. From the mid-1980s he entertained and excited his viewers (his "gastronauts", as he used to call us) on food we'd ignored or forgotten.
Floyd Keith. Floyd A. Keith (born August 22, 1948) is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Howard University from 1979 to 1982 and at the University of Rhode Island from 1993 to 1999, compiling a career college football record of 46–70–2. [1][2] He was a college football coach for 30 years, from 1970 to ...
An edited version of "Peaches", minus the lyrics, was used as the closing theme tune to many of the TV chef Keith Floyd's Floyd on... television shows and during a party scene in the 1997 film Metroland. The song is also on the soundtrack of the video game Driver: Parallel Lines (2006). It was used by Adidas in advertising in the Netherlands in ...