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From which island nation does the lager Red Stripe originate? | The Beers of Jamaica - Bobby Likes Beer
The Beers of Jamaica
On Sep.25.10 , In Beer Reviews , Feature Articles , by Bobby
A beautiful sunset in Montego Bay, Jamaica
Jamaica may very well be one of the top vacation destinations in the world. Between the beautiful beaches, amazing sunsets, unparalleled local hospitality, and all-inclusive resorts, a trip to Jamaica is sure to be a great time you will remember for years to come. However, people rarely go to this beautiful island in search of beer. In fact, when people think of Jamaican and beer, normally only ‘Red Stripe’ comes to mind. The Kingston brewery has been around for almost 100 years and it’s inevitable a bottle or two will cross your path. It’s probably the only draft beer you will see. But, if you just begin to scratch the surface of Jamaica’s locally produced lagers and ales you’re sure to taste a bottle (or two) of something new and much more rewarding.
Leave it to me to find out how to turn a tropical vacation into a tasting of local and regional beers. The beautiful Iberostar Grand in Rose Hall (Montego Bay) was our destination for the week of our honeymoon, and these were all the available offerings (alongside Heineken) from the menus of their restaurants and bars. All beers were tasted at proper serving temperature out of a clean glass, and all were fresh as the resort has pretty high turnover. Here’s how they stacked up:
Dragon Stout
Dragon Stout at the lobby bar
Dragon Stout is just a cool name for a beer. But can the flavor measure up to the mystique of the magical name? It looks nice enough. This beer is black with some brown, mahogany, and brilliant red highlights. The tan head is attractive and sticks around for a while. It also leaves decent lace. The aroma is a tale of two levels of scent. You have a nice roasted malt characteristic, lending impressions of chocolate and coffee. There’s also a level of sweetness that comes across like sugarcane. Some caramel, molasses, and toffee are also apparent. This dragon looks cool and breathes smoke, but how is its bite?
Yell fire! The taste is wonderful for a foreign export stout, and picks up where the scents left off. A hefty dose of caramel and sugarcane is joined by roasty chocolate and coffee, with just a touch of molasses as well. It’s not the most flavorful stout I’ve ever had, but it does produce a nice overall impression on my palate (albeit a bit sweeter than many foreign export stouts). The cohesiveness is not even in the same camp as Guinness or the excellent American take on the style by Left Hand called ‘Fade to Black’. But for a stout that is primarily consumed on the island of Jamaica, you need to respect how clean and refreshing this is. The mouthfeel is a bit thin, but the carbonation is perfect to make the beer just a bit lively and still feel like a stout. And you’ll ‘lively up yourself’ when the kick from this 7.5% ABV monster takes hold. There’s a nice, sweet aftertaste with minimal hops and lingering roast. I can’t wait to get back to Montego Bay again to have some Dragon. This was a fantastic beer for the beer geek on vacation, and it represents the taste of paradise for me.
Does Bobby Like Dragon Stout?
B+
Very Good
By far the best beer available in Jamaica, you’ll be surprised at how good Dragon Stout tastes on a hot day at the beach!Appearance: 3.5/5Smell: 4/5Taste: 4/5Mouthfeel: 3.5/5Drinkability: 4.5/5Score: 3.9
Carib Lager
Carib Lager at the infinity edge of the pool
OK, so Carib is not technically a Jamaican beer, as it’s brewed in Trinidad and Tobago. But it is readily available in any Jamaican resort and it deserved a spot in the tasting. Out of a bright colored can, the beer pours a bright golden straw color with a frothy head. It is mostly clear with just a touch of cloudiness and leaves spotty lacing on the glass. The aroma is noble hops and damp, sweet malt. Some cereal grains and a bit of cooked vegetables, also just a touch of sulfur. Not an outstanding start, but the taste is what really matters.
The taste is as smooth as a young Bob Marley singing ska and it certainly ‘don’t rock the boat’ . The lager is just a touch grainy and has a slight biscuit and toast presence. Noble hops are in effect, adding a slight floral character. The finish is sweet with a touch of caramel, and some lingering mild bitterness. Some sugar cane sweetness lingers. Carib has a mouthfeel that is light-bodied with carbonation a’ plenty. This was perhaps my favorite beer of the bunch for afternoon drinking because it was lighter and very drinkable. The smell was the low point, however. But, when it’s in a can and you’re drinking on the beach in Jamaica or elsewhere in the Caribbean, the smell of the seawater or chlorine by the pool will mask the imperfect olfactory. Really, you can’t go wrong (or you could go more wrong, depending on how you look at it).
Does Bobby Like Carib Lager?
C+
Decent
Instead of that famous Jamaican Lager, opt for a can of Carib. It’s simple and refreshing and pool-friendly!Appearance: 3/5Smell: 2.5/5Taste: 3.5/5Mouthfeel: 3.5/5Drinkability: 4/5Score: 3.25
Red Stripe Premium Lager
Red Stripe on the beach
Now it was time to drink the beer Jamaica made famous. While a decent beer, it’s the equivalent of ‘No Woman No Cry’ – everyone knows it but there are far better selections that those in the know will go for every time. The brew is a clear golden color and has some small head and a touch of lace. Not the best look; Red Stripe is rather plain and it could at least have a touch of head. The smell was a combination of a touch of noble hops with a rotten vegetable smell. Some hay, a kiss of caramel and a touch of sulfur. Two dimensions in and we’re well under average, maybe the taste will make up for the average look and poor smell.
The taste is clean with some sweetness and a touch of corn – things are looking up. Mild spices from the noble hops are present along with a touch of bitterness. Red Stripe also has a hint of diacetyl (a typical off-flavor when a lager isn’t ‘rested’ properly), which adds a buttery flavor to the corn. Maybe Orville Redenbacher made this on a trip to paradise after smoking too much ganja? The mouthfeel is a touch over average, with light body and sparkling carbonation. It’s not the most drinkable, but it is better that some adjunct lagers and it is good with a typical Jamaican lunch of jerk chicken and Jamaican patties. It’s also OK on the beach when the afternoon sun is beating down, as the decent taste is relatively non-offensive, even with its slight flaws. Note – I didn’t include Red Stripe Light in the tasting because, honestly, I think it was the same exact beer mixed 11 to 1 with water!
Does Bobby Like Red Stripe?
C
Mediocre
Red Stripe is everywhere in Jamaica. Your bus driver may even offer you one. It has its place, but is just a mediocre beer.Appearance: 2.5/5Smell: 2.5/5Taste: 3/5Mouthfeel: 3/5Drinkability: 3.5/5Score: 2.85
Real Rock Premium Red Lager
Real Rock on the balcony
For the last beer of the tasting, I had a bottle of Real Rock Premium Lager. This beer has reported to be ‘retired’ by a top beer rating website, but that’s not entirely true. Instead, the distribution has decreased and it is only available in Jamaica, mostly at resorts. When I poured it in the glass and compared it to the other lagers, I noticed that, while it still looks relatively golden, it is indeed slightly darker than Red Stripe and Carib. The head actually sticks around for a bit and leaves some decent lace – all in all, this is not a bad start. Add to that the fact that the smell is much better than the two adjunct beers I compared it to. Nothing offensive was going on, just some sweet malt and noble hops. Could this be the best beer at my little ‘soul shakedown party’?
Nope. Real Rock tastes horrible in my humble opinion. It is sweet and malty with some corn flavors, but each element is way too distinct and disjointed. Simply put, this beer is a stew of different flavors without an underlying connection. The noble hops add a snap of bitterness, which breaks up the sweetness for a moment. Just when it looks like the hops could save the day, some metallic edges are noted. When it comes to taste, the most important part of any beer drinking experience, Real Rock is just a mess. I never thought I’d say this, but I wanted a Budweiser instead. The mouthfeel is light-bodied with decent carbonation, but that wasn’t enough to save this sinking ship. This was probably my least favorite beer because of the way the taste was enough to mash-up my day. Even if they scored relatively close, I prefer Carib by a landslide. Even Red Stripe is significantly better. This is a case where exploration and adventure did not pay off.
Does Bobby Like Real Rock Lager?
C-
Not Worthy
Real Rock may look and smell nice for a simple adjunct lager, but it tastes horrible. And beer is all about the taste!Appearance: 3.5/5Smell: 3.5/5Taste: 2/5Mouthfeel: 3/5Drinkability: 2.5/5Score: 2.75
Don’t Let them Fool You, There IS Good Beer in Jamaica
Hopefully a name or two on this lineup of real Rastaman beer was new to you. While you can find these beers in random places in America or Canada, they’re readily available at any resort on the Irie Island and can easily be found at peak freshness. I’d be remiss not to mention a few other notable beers like Kingston Lager (although discontinued due to recent financial hardships and “dirty bottles”) and promising Lion Heart Stout, but those weren’t available at our resort so they weren’t included in this tasting. Also, don’t be afraid to revisit Guinness, as the Jamaican version (brewed on the Island by Red Stripe Brewer D&G) is has more roasted flavor and just a bit sweeter than the version shipped to America. Pass on Heineken and Corona, they’re just the same sub-standard swill we get in the states.
Now you’re all set for your trip to Jamaica. If you’re there next year in early September, you might just see me lounging by the pool enjoying Dragon Stout. I’d be remiss to share anything about my experience without a shout out – ‘Much Respekt’ goes to the hardworking bartenders at Iberostar – Morris, Jerry, Garth, and Allando. Thanks for keeping my glass full. Richie Loop said it best – ‘What’s in my cup stays in my cup’. Cheers, mon! See you next year!!
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How many points does a Star of David have? | The Beerocrat: Red Stripe Light Lager
Red Stripe Light Lager
In my last (very long ago) post, I mentioned Jamaica's history from Arawaks to Ziggy Marley and everything in between. I also reviewed Red Stripe, the beer in Jamaica. For this one, I'm not only reviewing Red Stripe's lighter brother, but I will give you a paragraph or two of my observations of the island nation, which celebrated its 45th birthday on August 6th. Since I didn't get around to it in my last review, I'll also give you some background information on the brewery itself. If you wish to skip these thoughts, click here to skip right to the beer.
I had heard of Jamaica's poverty long before I came here. The web comic Least I Could Do had a story arc where the main character Rayne and his best friend Noel traveled to a Jamaican Sandals resort for couples (though they themselves are not one...hilarity ensues). After they arrive at the airport (presumably Montego Bay's), Rayne notes the rampant poverty that was evident immediately upon leaving baggage claim. It was this image that ran through my head as my wife and I traveled by a hot, humid Japanese bus along the A1 from Montego Bay to our resort.
Well, that and my memories of a church mission trip I made to Tijuana, Mexico almost a decade ago. There were marked differences between Jamaica's north coast and the slums of Tijuana: the water's better in Jamaica (and won't give you Montezuma's Revenge), the Jamaican shacks have electricity (well, most of them), better roads, better scenery, and the air was fresh and clean, unlike south Tijuana's air, which smelled like a garbage dump. But, in both cases, the people were very happy, or at least seemed that way. They were down-to-earth, hospitable people who made do with what they had.
Jamaica, like Mexico, can tend to get a little violent. When I watched the TV-J 10 o'clock news in my room, the lead story was that of a multi-victim drive-by shooting in Kingston (which, as I mentioned previously, is the most dangerous city in the West Indies). No motive was given for the shooting; it appeared to be a random act of violence. I was initially shocked that such a thing could happen, but then I remembered that many of these things happen everyday in any major U.S. city and that they too are splashed across the top of the local news. "If it bleeds, it leads" must be a universal saying in the news industry.
Other news was much more positive. Barrington Irving, a Jamaican-born pilot, became the first black man to fly solo around the world. The Jamaican cricket team was doing well, or so I was told. It is an election year, so politics were abundant, first with a story on one of the Prime Minister's bodyguards who was accused of stealing cars, and then with the race between candidates in the JLP (Jamaican Labour Party, conservative leaning, symbolized by the Liberty Bell) and the PNP (People's National Party, democratic socialist leaning, symbolized by the Head) that was hotly contested. Internationally, floods in India and Bangladesh and the recovery effort of the Minnesota I-35W bridge disaster were reported. What surprised me was the lack of weather coverage, especially since the island is in hurricane-infested waters, but then again, since the average temperature is between 86 and 90°F, it may not be needed.
(NOTE: This was written before Hurricane Dean came within 60 miles of Kingston, meaning it pretty much hit the island.)
Jamaica has an interesting dichotomy between the massive multinational beach front resorts (or the massive foreign-owned mansions) and the ordinary citizens struggling to make enough to live. The Jamaican government appears to be making progress in some respects. Unemployment has apparently been cut in half over the past 20 years, tourism is thriving (at least it was before Dean), and infrastructure, such as new high-speed tollways, are at least partially open. Each party appears to have a plan to improve schools and health care. However, as in the U.S., there is skepticism over whether any changes will take place for the better. As our bus driver said on the way back to Montego Bay, "They're all the same." Spoken like a true cynic.
In conclusion, Jamaica is a land not unlike my own, but with many differences. They have remarkable beaches that are almost too good that are almost too good to be true, but everything has a price. Sports are different, where cricket and fútbol are the dominant pasttimes, and the people are easy-going and understanding. Just don't forget to tip.
Now, on to the beer.If you wish to display these comments, click here to expand them out. Anyway, on to the beer.
The Red Stripe Brewery is based out of Kingston with plants on the north coast (we passed one between Montego Bay and our resort). They also have a brewpub in the Montego Bay airport (probably Kingston's too). It was founded in 1918 by Kingston natives Eugene Peter Desnoes and Thomas Hargreaves Geddes, and the first version of Red Stripe was brewed a decade later, an ale too strong for the locals. Paul H. Geddes created the smoother lager in 1934, which they've used ever since. The brand was shown prominently in the 1962 Bond movie Dr. No, which was based mostly in Jamaica. Its American slogan is "Hooray beer!" and the Jamaican one is "Don't just live, live red."
In the past year or so (few years?), the folks at Red Stripe released a light version of their beer, the unimaginatively-named Red Stripe Light. As of this writing, it's unavailable stateside. Aside from the Desnoes and Geddes logo and the familiar Red Stripe text on the bottle, not much is recognizable. The bottle shape is of the everyday tall variety, as opposed to the distinctive stubby bottle shape of its regular counterpart. The glass color is also different, being clear instead of brown. Not a wise choice, seeing as how brown bottles prevent spoilage by sunlight, which is something that clear and green bottles are notorious for. My guess is that these changes were made to differentiate the two in a market or pub that dominantly serves Red Stripe. The clear glass especially does the trick, especially considering those limited edition regular Red Stripe bottles that are in the tall variety but still retain their browned glass.
Here are the stats:
BREWERY: Desnoes and Geddes, Kingston, Jamaica (a member of the Guinness family)
FIRST BREWED: 2001 at the latest
CALORIES/SERVING:
FOODS TO PAIR WITH:
AWARDS:
When I poured this beer, its color was a clear light golden, but I was especially disappointed with the head. While it was a clean, white color, it wasn't as fluffy or as long-lasting as regular Red Stripe's. It looked more like a series of bubbles than a head, which quickly dissipated. The beer itself almost tasted like water with a little beer mixed in and reminded me of many a Latin American lager, but brewed with better water and without a metallic taste. The good thing about no taste, however, is no aftertaste. It finished clean with no bad memories lingering on my taste buds.
So, if you have an affinity for Central American beers, or don't like any beer that will potentially get you drunk, then this beer is for you. Otherwise, stick with plain ol' Red Stripe to get beer that tastes, well, like beer. I will.
Ya mon!
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Who became the first women to win an Oscar for Best Original Song when she did so in 1976 with the film A Star Is Born? | Rita Moreno - Biography - IMDb
Rita Moreno
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Rita Moreno has had a thriving acting career for the better part of six decades. One of the very few (and very first) performers to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy, she was born Rosita Dolores Alverío in Humacao, Puerto Rico, on December 11, 1931, to seamstress Rosa María (Marcano) and farmer Francisco José "Paco" Alverío. She and her mother moved to New York City in 1937, where she began a professional career before reaching adolescence. The 11-year-old Rosita got her first movie experience dubbing Spanish-language versions of US films. Less than a month before her 14th birthday on November 22, 1945, she made her Broadway debut in the play "Skydrift" at the Belasco Theatre, costarring with Arthur Keegan and s young Eli Wallach . Although she would not appear again on Broadway for almost two decades, Rita Moreno, as she was billed in the play, had arrived professionally.
The cover of the March 1, 1954, edition of "Life Magazine" featured a three-quarters, over-the-left-shoulder profile of the young Puerto Rican actress/entertainer with the provocative title "Rita Moreno: An Actresses' Catalog of Sex and Innocence". It was sexpot time, a stereotype that would plague her throughout the decade. If not cast as a Hispanic pepper pot, she could rely on being cast as another "exotic", such as her appearance on Father Knows Best (1954) as an exchange student from India. Because of a dearth of decent material, Moreno had to play roles in movies that she considered degrading. Among the better pictures she appeared in were the classic Singin' in the Rain (1952) and The King and I (1956).
Director Robert Wise , who was chosen to co-direct West Side Story (1961) (the film version of the smash Broadway musical, a retelling of William Shakespeare 's "Romeo & Juliet" with the warring Venetian clans the Montagues and Capulets re-envisioned as Irish/Polish and Puerto Rican adolescent street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks), cast Moreno as "Anita", the Puerto Rican girlfriend of Sharks' leader Bernardo, whose sister Maria is the piece's Juliet.
However, despite her talent, roles commensurate with that talent were not forthcoming in the 1960s. The following decade would prove kinder, possibly because the beautiful Moreno had aged gracefully and could now be seen by filmmakers, TV producers and casting directors as something other than the spitfire/sexpot that Hispanic women were supposed to conform to. Ironically, it was in two vastly diverging roles--that of a $100 hooker in director Mike Nichols ' brilliant realization of Jules Feiffer 's acerbic look at male sexuality, Carnal Knowledge (1971) (1971), and Milly the Helper in the children's TV show The Electric Company (1971) (1971)--that signaled a career renaissance.
Moreno won a 1972 Grammy Award for her contribution to "The Electric Company"'s soundtrack album, following it up three years later with a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for "The Ritz" (a role she would reprise in the film version, The Ritz (1976)). She then won Emmy Awards for The Muppet Show (1976) and The Rockford Files (1974).
She has continued to work steadily on screen (both large and small) and on stage, solidifying her reputation as a national treasure, a status that was officially ratified with the award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in June 2004.
( 18 June 1965 - 30 June 2010) (his death) (1 child)
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Cites Citizen Kane (1941) as her all-time favorite film.
Is one of the only 12 people who are an EGOT, which means that she won at least one of all of the four major entertainment awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. The other ones in chronological order are Richard Rodgers , Barbra Streisand , Helen Hayes , Liza Minnelli , John Gielgud , Audrey Hepburn , Marvin Hamlisch , Jonathan Tunick , Mel Brooks , Mike Nichols , Whoopi Goldberg and James Earl Jones . Liza Minnelli won a Special Grammy, and James Earl Jones won an Honorary Academy Award.
Has appeared in the pilot for the sitcom Empty Nest (1988), which was an episode of The Golden Girls (1985). The premise was changed in the final version of Empty Nest (1988), in which she did not appear.
When her star was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she fell on top of it, openly and uncontrollably weeping. She later commented, "I had been dreaming of this day since I was six!".
In June 2004 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George W. Bush .
During the first season (episode 19) of The Electric Company (1971), she was in a sketch in which she shouted "Hey, you guys!" repeatedly. It became so popular with the show's producers that they decided to use it as the catchphrase in their opening, starting with season two.
In 1977, she became the ninth performer to win the Triple Crown of Acting: (Oscar: Best Supporting Actress in West Side Story (1961), Tony, Best Featured Actress, The Ritz (1975) and Emmy 1977 ( The Muppet Show (1976)) and 1978 ( The Rockford Files (1974)).
Daughter, Fernanda Luisa Gordon ( Fernanda Gordon ), was born in 1967. A successful jewelry designer, she founded Nandiz Design. She is married to David Fisher and they have two children named Justin and Cameron.
When filming her final scene in West Side Story (1961) in which her character "Anita" is harassed and nearly raped by New York street gang members "the Jets", she was reduced to tears, as it brought flashbacks of similar real-life childhood experiences. When she broke down, the other actors nobly stopped and comforted her, helping her to get through the scene, pointing out that the audience was going to hate the gang members for what they were doing, as "Anita" was well meaning in what she was doing and the sequence set up a critical plot element.
Of the nine people who won all four major entertainment awards (Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy), Moreno won all four awards in the shortest amount of time, within a 16-year time frame--the Oscar in 1962, the Grammy in 1972, the Tony in 1975 and her first of two Emmys in 1977. Composer Richard Rodgers is second, winning his four awards within a 17-year time frame.
Husband Dr. Lenny Gordon was an internist and cardiologist.
Mother of Fernanda Gordon .
She was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts on February 25, 2010 at the White House in Washington D.C. for her services and contributions to the arts.
Is one of 15 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others--in chronological order--are Helen Hayes , Ingrid Bergman , Shirley Booth , Liza Minnelli , Maureen Stapleton , Jessica Tandy , Audrey Hepburn , Anne Bancroft , Vanessa Redgrave , Maggie Smith , Ellen Burstyn , Helen Mirren , Frances McDormand and Jessica Lange .
Was the first Hispanic woman to win an Oscar when she won for West Side Story (1961). However, she was not the first Hispanic entertainer to win an Oscar. That was fellow Puerto Rican José Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950).
Was dancing professionally in a Greenwich Village nightclub at age 9, as arranged by her dance teacher, Rita Hayworth 's uncle.
In her memoir she describes how stunned she was when a handsome stranger, with his wife on his arm, very brazenly flirted with her. It was the 1950s and the man was then-Sen. John F. Kennedy . Moreno also described her disappointment about one-time lover Elvis Presley being much more like "a baby brother" than a stud.
She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on July 20, 2005.
Has two grandsons: Justin Gordon Fisher (born 2002) and Cameron David Fisher (born 2004).
Was the 54th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for West Side Story (1961) at The 34th Annual Academy Awards (1962) on April 9, 1962.
As of April 2002 was living in Berkeley, CA.
Is one of 26 actresses to have received an Academy Award nomination for their performance in a musical; hers being West Side Story (1961). The others, in chronological order, are: Bessie Love ( The Broadway Melody (1929)), Grace Moore ( One Night of Love (1934)), Jean Hagen ( Singin' in the Rain (1952)), Marjorie Rambeau ( Torch Song (1953)), Dorothy Dandridge ( Carmen Jones (1954)), Deborah Kerr ( The King and I (1956)), Gladys Cooper ( My Fair Lady (1964)), Julie Andrews ( Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965) and Victor Victoria (1982)), Debbie Reynolds ( The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)), Peggy Wood ( The Sound of Music (1965)), Carol Channing ( Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)), Kay Medford ( Funny Girl (1968)), Barbra Streisand ( Funny Girl (1968)), Liza Minnelli ( Cabaret (1972)), Ronee Blakley ( Nashville (1975)), Lily Tomlin ( Nashville (1975)), Ann-Margret ( Tommy (1975)), Lesley Ann Warren ( Victor Victoria (1982)), Amy Irving ( Yentl (1983)), Nicole Kidman ( Moulin Rouge! (2001)), Queen Latifah ( Chicago (2002)), Catherine Zeta-Jones ( Chicago (2002)), Renée Zellweger ( Chicago (2002)), Jennifer Hudson ( Dreamgirls (2006)), Penelope Cruz ( Nine (2009)), Anne Hathaway ( Les Misérables (2012)), and Meryl Streep ( Into the Woods (2014)).
Gave birth to her only child at age 34, a daughter Fernanda Luisa Gordon (aka Fernanda Gordon ), on September 26, 1966. Child's father was her husband, Lenny Gordon .
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How many white stripes are there on the flag of the USA? | Biography - Barbra Streisand
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Biography
Actress/singer/director/writer/composer/producer/designer/author/photographer/activist Barbra Streisand is the only artist ever to receive Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts and Peabody Awards and France’s Légion d’Honneur as well as the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also the first female film director to receive the Kennedy Center Honors. In 2015, President Barack Obama presented her with the highest civilian honor the United States bestows, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
She won Oscars for both Best Actress (“Funny Girl”) and Best Original Song (for her composition of “Evergreen” which has since become a standard.) She also was nominated for Best Actress for “The Way We Were.” The three films she directed received 14 Oscar nominations. Her recordings have earned her ten Grammy Awards, including and Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement and Legend Awards.
She is now also the only recording artist or group to achieve number one albums in each of six consecutive decades. She has a total of eleven. Both of her last two studio albums, her 2016 Grammy-nominated album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway and her Grammy-nominated 2014 album Partners, entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1 She holds the record for longest span of No. 1 albums in history: of over 52 years.
Commenting on the wins, Billboard summed up Barbra Streisand’s recording achievements in the following manner:
“Barbra Streisand Makes History with “Partners,” (as) the only recording artist to have a number one release in six consecutive decades. Ms. Streisand is the best-selling female recording artist in history. She is the only woman to make the All-Time Top 10 Best Selling Artists list. She also now has the longest span of number one albums in history; just over 52 years. She first landed at the top of the chart in October 1964 with ‘People.’”
With the Grammy-nominated “Encore; Movie Partners Sing Broadway” having become Ms. Streisand’s 34th album to make it into the Top 10 on the US charts, the only female artist to have achieved that milestone, Streisand has moved from a tie with Frank Sinata into sole possession of the number two spot in that category with only the Rolling Stones ahead of her. With eleven #1 albums and 34 Top Ten placements, Streisand has now widened her lead over all female artists in those significant Billboard chart categories . Billboard also has noted her Eleven Number One Albums now tie her at tie her at 3rd with Bruce Springsteen on the list of most #1 albums. They are preceded only by The Beatles with 19 an Jay Z 13. Moreover, with “Partners” increasing her record of Top Ten albums, she is now tied for second with Frank Sinatra in that category, with only The Rolling Stones ahead of them.
Within the first few months of its release, “Partners” sold over one million CDs, becoming her 52nd Gold Record and 31st Platinum, widening her lead over all other female artists in those categories. Barbra Streisand has now recorded fifty-two gold, thirty-one platinum and thirteen multi-platinum albums in her career, each a record for female artists.
In the sixth decade of her career, Barbra maintains her unfailing popularity and relevance. Billboard confirms that the last eight albums released all achieved Top Ten status. Her successful 2016 concert tour, The Music… The Mem’ries… The Magic coincided with the release of her latest album. and also has denoted that 196,000 sales “Partners” achieved in its first week was the highest one week sales figure for any female artist in 2014 to that point. Billboard also has noted her Eleven Number One Albums now tie her at fourth with Elvis Presley on that prestigious list. They are preceded only by The Beatles, Jay Z and Bruce Springsteen. Moreover, with “Partners” increasing her record of Top Ten albums, she is now tied for second with Frank Sinatra in that category, with only The Rolling Stones ahead of them.
Within the first few months of its release, “Partners” sold over one million CDs, becoming her 52nd Gold Record and 31st Platinum, widening her lead over all other female artists in those categories. Barbra Streisand has now recorded fifty-two gold, thirty-one platinum and thirteen multi-platinum albums in her career, including ten number ones: With ten, Streisand has now also widened her lead as the female artist with the most number one albums in Billboard’s history.
“Partners,” Billboard confirms, is Ms. Streisand’s 33rd album to make it into the Top 10 on the US charts. She is the only female artist to have achieved that milestone, tying her with Frank Sinatra with only the Rolling Stones ahead of them.
In the sixth decade of her career, Barbra maintains her unfailing popularity and relevance. Billboard confirms that the last seven albums released all achieved Top Ten status and also has denoted that 196,000 sales “Partners” achieved in its first week was the highest one week sales figure for any female artist in 2014 to that point. Billboard also notes her 10 Number One Albums now tie her at fourth with Elvis Presley on that prestigious list. They are preceded only by The Beatles, Jay Z and Bruce Springsteen. Moreover, with “Partners” increasing her record of Top Ten albums, she is now tied for second with Frank Sinatra in that category, with only The Rolling Stones ahead of them.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America, this ten-time Grammy winner’s 52 gold albums, 31 platinum and 18 multi-platinum exceed all other female singers in each category. The RIAA also notes that her 72.5 million albums sales tops its list of album sales by a female singer.
Barbra Streisand’s civil rights activism and philanthropic pursuits are just as impressive. The Streisand Foundation has given millions of dollars in 2100 grants to non-profit organizations and she has raised many millions more through her performances.
The career of Barbra Streisand has been paved with bold, creative achievements and highlighted by a series of firsts.
For her first motion picture, “Funny Girl,” she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress, the first of two Oscars.
With “Yentl” (1983,”) her first film as a director, she became the first woman ever to produce, direct, write and star in a major motion picture. “Yentl,” earned five Oscar nominations and also brought her Golden Globes for both Best Director and Best Picture.
“The Prince of Tides,” her next directorial feature, was the first motion picture directed by its female star ever to receive a Best Director nomination from the Directors Guild of America as well as seven Academy Award nominations. Barbra Streisand produced the heralded drama in addition to directing and starring in it.
She won the DGA award (Best Director Music/Variety Television Program) in 1994 for her television special, “Barbra Streisand: The Concert,” which she co-directed with Dwight Hemion.
For her very first Broadway appearance in “I Can Get It For You Wholesale,” she won the New York Drama Critics Award and received a Tony nomination.
For her very first solo recording, “The Barbra Streisand Album,” she won two 1963 Grammy Awards. One of these was for Best Female Vocal Performance. The other, Album of the Year; made her the youngest artist to have received that award.
She is the first female composer ever to win an Academy Award, this for her song, “Evergreen,” the love theme from her 1976 hit film, “A Star Is Born.” She was nominated again in 1997 as co-composer of “I Finally Found Someone,” based on her love theme for her 1996 film as director/producer/star, “The Mirror Has Two Faces.” The film achieved two Oscar nominations and the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe for Lauren Bacall.
She is the recipient of five personal Emmy awards. Her first television special, “My Name Is Barbra” (1965,) received five Emmy Awards, including one for her for best performance,. as well as the distinguished Peabody Award, the first of two. This achievement was repeated 30 years later by “Barbra Streisand: The Concert” which won two additional Emmy awards for Ms. Streisand among the five for the production. That show also was accorded the Peabody Award, the Directors Guild of America award and three CableACE awards and it became the highest-rated musical event in HBO’s history. Her 2001 television concert special, “Barbra Streisand: Timeless. Live in Concert,” also co-directed by its star, won four more Emmys, including one for Ms. Streisand’s performance. She is also an Emmy recipient in 2001 for her Barwood Films’ documentary on pioneering women directors in the early decades of motion pictures, “Reel Models: The First Women of Film.”
DVD releases of her concerts have achieved notable recent firsts. In 2009 her three-disc offering, “Streisand The Concerts,” reigned in the #1 position on the Music DVD Billboard charts for three weeks. A year later, “One Night Only,” capturing her heralded performance at the Village Vanguard before an audience of one hundred lottery-picked fans and some of her notable friends, opened at #1 as well. Her 10 city, 12 performance North American concert tour rapidly was SRO and played to unmatched critical acclaim.
Her first book (as both author and photographer,) “My Passion For Design,” was critically acclaimed and debuted at Number Two on the New York Times bestseller lists. Recipient in 1995 of an Honorary Doctorate in Arts and Humanities from Brandeis University and an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2013, she has also received the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton, was accorded The Humanitarian Award from the Human Rights Campaign and was honored by France when French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented her with his country’s Légion d’Honneur.
The “actress who sings,” as Streisand once termed herself, has repeatedly been at the top of the record sales charts. A detailed review of her achievements as a recording artist is provided at the end of this biography.
Ms. Streisand’s Barwood Films, through its TV arm, Barwood Television (in which she was partnered with Cis Corman,), has had award-winning success as well. In 1995, the same year as her “Barbra Streisand: The Concert” Emmy successes, “Serving In Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story,” Barwood’s first television dramatic production, had six nominations and earned an additional three Emmy trophies, a total of eight Emmys for Ms. Streisand’s company that year, and another Peabody Award in the process. The drama investigated military harassment of and repression of the civil rights of gays. It was acknowledged that the critically praised “Serving In Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story,” would never have been realized on network television had not Barbra Streisand put her executive producing talents and considerable artistic and social-issue influence behind it.
Her Barwood Films has continued to place great emphasis on bringing to television dramatic explorations of pressing social, historic and political issues which would not otherwise be addressed in more widely viewed television movies. “Rescuers: Stories of Courage,” a series of six two-part dramas on Showtime in 1997 and 1998 with great acclaim and wide viewership, pays tribute to non-Jews who heroically saved Jews from the Holocaust. The company’s 2001 telefilm, “Varian’s War,” told the story of an American Christian who got Jewish intellectuals out of occupied France. Barwood’s “The Long Island Incident,” which aired on NBC in May 1998, inspired a national debate on gun control with its true story of Carolyn McCarthy, a wife and mother who surmounted tragedy to win a seat in Congress after initiating a crusade to achieve sensible controls on guns.
Since resuming paid concert performance on December 31, 1993, Barbra Streisand has set a long list of records in that area as well. Following her sold-out 20 concert tour in the U.S. and Canada in 2006 and the follow-up nine concert 2007 tour of Europe, Ms. Streisand holds the house records in all 27 venues in which she has appeared in that period.
Virtually every aspect of Barbra Streisand’s 1994 concert tour was record setting. Those twenty-six appearances were her first paid concerts in nearly three decades, all intervening concerts since 1966 having been fund-raisers for various social or political causes. The tour initiated with the celebrated 1994 New Year’s performances at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas and continued to set attendance and box-office records with immediate sellouts in London, Washington D.C., Southern California, Detroit, San Jose, and New York’s Madison Square Garden. Over 5 million phone requests were recorded in the first hour when tickets for the first American leg of the tour went on sale. The tour also generated over $10.25 million for charities the artist supports, channeling money to significant causes in each locale. Reflecting Streisand’s social concerns, over $3 million went to AIDS organizations, with other gifts addressing such urgencies as women and children in jeopardy, Jewish/Arab relations and agencies working to ameliorate relations between African-Americans and Jews.
Ms. Streisand’s Millennium New Year’s Eve concert, “Timeless,” at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, December 31, 1999, set an all-time Ticket Master record for one-day sales of a single event, virtually selling out in the first few hours of sale eight months before the performance. The New Year’s concert was widely covered as one of the key events of the worldwide millennium celebration.
Her two-night Madison Square Garden engagement in September 2000, and two preceding Los Angeles live appearances at Staples Center, also were record-setting successes. Similarly her second national concert tour in the Fall of 2006, received rave reviews and broke the house records in all 16 of the cities in which she had not already set the venue record. The tour, “Streisand – Live In Concert 2006”, was recorded in three sites, becoming the top-selling album of the same name. In the Spring and Summer of 2007, that show then became Barbra Streisand’s first ever concert tour of the Continent of Europe, with performances in Switzerland, France, Germany, Austria, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Ireland, a designated portion of the proceeds again being directed to charities through The Streisand Foundation.
Barbra Streisand’s home video releases have created records of their own, nine having been certified gold, six platinum and three multi-platinum. “Barbra Streisand: The Concert,” became a quadruple-platinum home video as well as a triple-platinum double album (exceptionally rare for a multi-disc set). Most recently, in 2009 her three-disc offering, “Streisand The Concerts,” reigned in the #1 position on the Music DVD Billboard charts for three weeks, with her 2010 DVD “One Night Only – Barbra Streisand And Quartet At The Village Vanguard – September 26, 2009” again brought her a #1 winner in its opening week. The home video/DVD of the “Timeless” concert was gold and platinum as well, with six other home videos also being certified gold. . In 2004, “Barbra Streisand – Live at the MGM Grand” was released on DVD, and was quickly certified Platinum. In November 2005, ‘Barbra Streisand- The Television Specials’ was released as a five-DVD box set which went quintuple (5x) platinum, within six weeks. The recent DVD release of her 1986 “One Voice” concert has joined the list of her successes in that market.
She most recently starred in Paramount’s “The Guilt Trip,” with Seth Rogen.
The filmmaker/entertainer was born April 24th in Brooklyn to Diana and Emanuel Streisand. Her father, who passed away when Barbra was 15 months old, was a highly respected teacher and scholar.
An honor student at Erasmus High School in Brooklyn, the teenage Streisand plunged, unassisted and without encouragement, into show business by winning a singing contest at a small Manhattan club. She developed a devout and growing following at the clubs which began hiring her, and soon she was attracting music industry attention at such spots as the Bon Soir and the Blue Angel.
Streisand signed a contract with Columbia Records in 1962, and her debut album quickly became the nation’s top-selling record by a female vocalist.
Following her award-winning stage debut performance in “I Can Get It For You Wholesale,” she was signed to play the great comedienne Fanny Brice in the Broadway production of “Funny Girl.” When the curtain came down at the Winter Garden Theatre on March 26, 1964, the star and the show were major hits. Her distinctly original musical-comedy performance won her a second Tony nomination.
Her star on the ascent, she signed a 10-year contract with CBS Television to produce and star in TV specials. The contract gave her complete artistic control, an unheard of concession to an artist so young and inexperienced. The first special, “My Name Is Barbra,” earned five Emmy Awards, and the following four shows, including the memorable “Color Me Barbra,” earned the highest critical praise and audience ratings.
In 1966, Streisand repeated her “Funny Girl” triumph in London at the Prince of Wales Theatre. London critics voted her the best female lead in a musical for that season.
Few movie debuts have been as auspicious as Streisand’s in Columbia Pictures’ “Funny Girl.” In addition to winning the 1968 Academy Award for this performance, she won the Golden Globe and was named Star of the Year by the National Association of Theatre Owners.
After appearing in the films “Hello, Dolly!” and “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” she starred in the non-musical comedy “The Owl and the Pussycat,” released in 1970. 1972 brought another resounding comedy hit, “What’s Up Doc?,” followed by “Up the Sandbox,” one of the first American films to deal with the growing women’s movement. It was the premiere picture for her own production company, Barwood Films.
The memorable motion picture “The Way We Were” brought her a 1973 Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. The very successful “A Star Is Born,” released in 1976, was the first movie to benefit from her energy and insight as a producer and won six Golden Globes. The soundtrack album topped the charts and has been certified quadruple-platinum.
Shortly after Streisand had completed her first movie, she read a short story titled “Yentl, The Yeshiva Boy” and hoped to make it her second film. However, it took 15 years of development and persistence before the dream came true.
“Yentl,” a romantic drama with music, is about a courageous woman who discovers that nothing is impossible in matters of the heart and mind. It is a movie that celebrates women trying to fulfill their capabilities, not allowing traditional restrictions to deter them. The film also was the first big budget project ($15 million) which was instrumental in opening doors to women in film on a higher professional level. Streisand’s directorial debut film received five 1983 Academy Award nominations, and she received Golden Globe Awards both as Best Director and as producer of the Best Picture (musical or comedy) of 1983. The 10 Golden Globes she has received throughout her career are the most achieved by any entertainment artist. In January 2000 she received that organization’s coveted Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement.
Her follow-up film to “Yentl” was “Nuts,” the unusual story of a smart woman shaped into an angry, anti-social character because of her childhood experiences. In addition to starring, Streisand produced and wrote the music for the powerful drama released in 1987.
Her second creation as a film director, “The Prince of Tides,” concerning the consequences of childhood traumas and exploring family relationships, achieved seven Academy Award nominations and a nomination for her direction from the Directors Guild of America, making her only the third woman ever so honored. She brought this book to the screens because, “It’s about how love and compassion can heal and liberate the soul. I’m interested in telling stories about positive transformations and the potential for human growth.”
After working with her for two weeks, the book’s author, Pat Conroy, gave Streisand a copy of his novel with the inscription: “To Barbra Streisand: The Queen of Tides…you are many things, Barbra, but you’re also a great teacher…one of the greatest to come into my life. I honor the great teachers and they live in my work and they dance invisibly in the margins of my prose. You’ve honored me by taking care of it with such great seriousness and love. Great thanks, and I’ll never forget that you gave ‘The Prince of Tides’ back to me as a gift. Pat Conroy.”
In 2004, Barbra Streisand returned to film acting (her first performance on film since “The Mirror Has Two Faces”) in “Meet The Fockers,” a comedy which teamed her with Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro. It quickly became the highest grossing live-action comedy film ever, the first to earn more that a half billion dollars. The DVD had similar success, selling three million copies in its first 24 hours.
Like the true Renaissance woman Barbra Streisand is, her life and her art are dedicated to the humanities as reflected by The Streisand Foundation, which is committed to gaining women’s equality, the protection of both human rights and civil rights, the needs of children at risk in society, women’s health and the preservation of the environment. Through The Streisand Foundation, she directly funded the United States Environmental Defense Fund’s research for and participation in the recent Global Warming world summit conference in Kyoto. Her environmental dedication is reflected, also in her donation to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy of the five-home, 24-acre Malibu estate on which her “One Voice” concert had been performed. The site has been dedicated as a center for ecological studies.
Her fall 2006 20 concert, 16 city tour was undertaken in large part to enable her to direct many millions of dollars to The Streisand Foundation to fund urgent efforts in three areas, environmental (with special emphasis on addressing global warming,) education and women’s health issues. Eleven million dollars from the US and Canada tour were directed to The Streisand Foundation for charitable distribution. The first million dollar donation from these funds was a contribution to the William Jefferson Clinton Climate Change initiative, the lead contribution to that cause. Bringing to nearly $16,000,000 her charitable contributions from the tours. She contributed $10,000,000 and raised an additional $12,000,000 for the Women’s Heart Center at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center. In recognition for her efforts the Center was renamed in her honor, The Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center.
Ms. Streisand is a leading spokesperson and fund-raiser for social causes close to her heart, including AIDS. During the twenty-seven years, which preceded her limited 1994 tour and the Las Vegas New Year’s appearances, she had devoted her live concert performances exclusively to the benefit of those causes she supports. Her concern with social issues is reflected not only in the dedications of her personal life, but in the subject matter of the films she has initiated, each of which has addressed some social consideration.
Recent honors reflecting the range of her involvement in charitable and social causes include the 1992 Commitment to Life Award from AIDS Project Los Angeles for her dedication to help people living with that disease, the ACLU Bill of Rights Award for her ongoing defense of constitutional rights and the Humanitarian Award from The Human Rights Campaign.
Ms. Streisand’s feelings about the rights and obligations of artists to participate in the political process were brought into sharp focus by her early 1995 speech at Harvard University under the sponsorship of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The address won unprecedented reportage and reproduction in such print media as the New York Times and the Washington Post. It was carried a record number of times on C-SPAN and is included in Senator Robert Torricelli’s book, “In Our Words: The American Century,” a collection of important speeches of the 20th century.
Prior to the 1986 elections, she performed her first full-length concert in 20 years, raising money for the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee to disburse to liberal candidates. Taped on Sept. 6, 1986, before 500 invited guests at her California home, the concert was called “Barbra Streisand: One Voice” and aired on HBO on Dec. 27, 1986 to enormous acclaim. The money raised that night helped elect five Democratic Senators, which restored a Democratic majority in the Senate. Additionally, she headlined concerts which raised millions of dollars for each of the successful presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton.
To date, over $20 million including $7 million in profits from “Barbra Streisand: One Voice,” have been channeled to charities through the Streisand Foundation, which continues to occupy much of the star’s energy and resources. A concert at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium, headlined by Ms. Streisand in support of the Gore/Lieberman presidential campaign, raised over $5 million, the Democratic Party’s largest “hard money” intake ever. Her celebrated speech in support of the Gore candidacy later was played in substantial excerpts on several national television broadcasts. $6 million was brought to the presidential campaign of John Kerry by her 2004 performance at Los Angeles’ Disney Hall. She repeated her fund-raising effort on behalf of Sen. Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential candidacy.
Barbra Streisand’s passionate political activism continues. Convinced that 1998 national general election was one of the most crucial in recent history, she applied herself to the election of candidates and issues she felt essential. She was one of the first and most outspoken critics of the Republican Congress’ use of the impeachment issue as a means of blocking or undoing the social achievements of the Clinton administration. Ms. Streisand contributed financially to support the campaigns of 35 candidates in the general election, 27 of whom won. Similarly, she also supported specified candidates by endorsing 194 of them on her web site and then recommending consideration of this list when she did her AOL get-out-the-vote chat on election eve. Of the candidates she endorsed, 155 were elected and 39 were not. In both instances, that is a won/lost ratio of nearly 80%.
On July 1, 1998, Ms. Streisand married director/actor James Brolin.
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REVIEW OF BARBRA STREISAND RECORDING ACHIEVEMENTS:
The statistics of Barbra Streisand’s achievements as a recording sales leader are clearly drawn in platinum and gold. She has achieved sales unequaled by any other female recording artist. With fifty-two gold albums, she is second in the all-time charts, ahead of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, exceeded only by Elvis Presley, whose career she points out was tragically shortened by his death at 42. Her 31 Platinum and 13 Multi-Platinum albums, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, also exceed all other female singers. Barbra Streisand is the only artist or act among the top four all-time gold record sellers who was not part of the rock & roll and country music movements which have dominated the record business for four decades.
Her precious metal statistics also extend to the field of DVD releases. Her “Back To Brooklyn’ DVD, also released with a CD, became her fifth to achieve Number One on the DVD charts. She has earned 9 gold DVDs, 6 platinum and 3 multi-platinum.
Her recordings have earned her ten Grammy Awards, including and Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement and Legend Awards. Her number one albums span a period of nearly 50 years (one month shy,) also the greatest longevity in that statistic for any recording entity in any category of music. A millennium poll by the Reuters news agency identified her as the favorite female singer of the 20th Century and Frank Sinatra as the favorite male singer.
With a total of 33 Top 10 albums to her credit since 1963, Barbra Streisand shares second place in that important category with Frank Sinatra, with only the Rolling Stones ahead of them. , Ms. Streisand has the widest span (nearly 51 years) between first and latest Top 10 albums of any female recording artists or act. The historic success of “Partners” increased her substantial lead in both Most Number One and Most Top Ten albums over other female performers. Her presence in the Top Ten dates from her first solo album, “The Barbra Streisand Album,” which reached #8 in 1963, while her follow-up, “The Second Barbra Streisand Album” achieved #2 the same year. Her ten number one albums were “People,” “The Way We Were,” “A Star Is Born,” “Guilty,” “The Broadway Album,’a “Greatest Hits, Volume 2,” “Higher Ground,” “Love Is The Answer” and “Partners.”
Her “A Love Like Ours” (1999), the double album, “Timeless – Live In Concert” (2000) and “The Movie Album” (2003) were all quickly certified as gold and then platinum. Her prior “Higher Ground” (1997) and earlier “Back To Broadway” (1993) albums are among only a handful of recordings ever to become Number One on the sales charts in their initial week of release (Ms. Streisand now has three) and to go platinum through their first shipping orders. The previous “The Broadway Album” (1985) similarly enjoyed great praise and sales, became #1 and brought her three Grammy nominations and her eighth Grammy for Best Pop Female Vocalist. The double-album “Barbra Streisand: The Concert” (1994) was another recent effort in her parade of hits. “Higher Ground” occasioned two additional Grammy nominations. “Timeless: Live In Concert” (2000), “Christmas Memories” (2001) and “The Movie Album” (2003), all earned a nomination too. At home in pop, show tunes, rock and ballads, she even made a classical album titled “Classical Barbra” (1976) which was nominated for a Grammy Award in the classical division. Of all her releases, 1980’s “Guilty,” Barbra’s collaboration with Barry Gibb of The Bee Gees, achieved the greatest success worldwide, selling over 20 million units and spawning several smash hit singles. The pair teamed up again, 25 years later, to create “Guilty Pleasures”. The album was certified Gold — a month later – becoming her 50th gold. Among other notable recent albums, “Christmas Memories,” released in October 2001, was her first full-length studio album since 1999’s “A Love Like Ours.” “Christmas Memories” was Streisand’s first seasonal collection since “A Christmas Album,” which has been certified quintuple- platinum by the RIAA and has re-entered the charts each year since its 1967 release. An album of inspirational music for all seasons, “Christmas Memories” was “lovingly dedicated” to Stephan Weiss, the husband of designer Donna Karan and a close friend of Streisand’s, who passed away in June 2001.
Her recent 3 disc video set, “Streisand The Concerts” became her eighth gold DVD or video and fifth platinum within two months after being number one in sales for three weeks. On September 26, 2009 she returned to the site of her start as a singer, Greenwich Village, for a performance at the Village Vanguard for an audience of lucky fans selected at random. The event preceded the release of her 63rd album, “Love Is The Answer ”which continued to five her string of decades decorated with a Number One Streisand album. In 2014, her album “Partners” extended that to six decades. “Streisand – Live In Concert 2006,” opened its sales as #7 on the Billboard Top 200 best-selling albums chart, a rare achievement for a double album.
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The White Stripes 2003 hit single I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself was originally a hit in 1964 for which female singer? | The 50 best covers
The 50 best covers
Chosen by Bernadette McNulty, Neil McCormick, Helen Brown and Thomas H Green
Don't Leave Me This Way - The Communards, 1986
orig. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, 1975
It was camp enough to begin with, but Jimi Somerville and Sarah Jane Morris's triumphant falsetto-basso profundo duet on this cover of the 1975 disco classic takes the phrase "row of tents" and flings it in the air like a glittery handbag on an underlit dancefloor. One suspects that the singers swapped voices for a laugh.
Key moment: The final, monumental "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah BABY!" just before the last chorus.
Going Back to My Roots - Richie Havens, 1980
orig. Lamont Dozier, 1977
Woodstock star Havens caused barely a ripple in 1980 with his impassioned rendition of a song first recorded by Lamont Dozier. But eight years on, it was rediscovered, becoming an arms-in-the air anthem to a million British ravers. As the battered Havens larynx pours out Dozier's vision of the things that really count in life, the goosebumps take over.
Key moment: a truly storming piano intro.
Step On - Happy Mondays, 1991
orig. John Kongos, 1971
The Manchester baggy anthem, driven by a trademark acid house piano riff, is a hugely inventive remake of He's Gonna Step on You Again by long-forgotten South African singer-songwriter Kongos. Shaun Ryder added his own inimitable lyrical touch, contributing a new saying to the British pop lexicon with his opening declaration: "You're twisting my melons, man!"
Key Moment: When it all breaks down to reverb-drenched female backing vocals singing the spookily threatening chorus line.
Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) - The Wedding Present, 1990
orig. Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, 1975
John Peel indie favourites the Weddoes gave Harley's classic the angry makeover its sardonic lyric was crying out for. Gone were the acoustic thrummings and sunny Ooooh-la-la-la backing vocals, replaced by thrashing electric guitars over blistering drums, seemingly at twice the original's speed.
Key moment: The 15-second mid-song pause, silent except for a wavering note of guitar feedback. Then Dave Gedge's Yorkshire growl returns: "There ain't no more, you've taken everything."
The Robots - Señor Coconut & His Orchestra, 2000
Orig. Kraftwerk, 1978
German musician Uwe Schmidt found a little cha-cha-cha in his waters when he moved to Chile, and felt moved to recreate the clinical oeuvre of Kraftwerk with the magical addition of Latin swing. This is the highlight of his wonderful experiment, a sashaying, hip-clicking antidote to the Düsseldorf automatons' metronomic precision.
Key Moment: The horn flourish and celebratory "Olé!" before the vocals kick in.
Rock el Casbah - Rachid Taha, 2004
orig. The Clash, 1982
Franco-Algerian bad boy Taha idolises Joe Strummer, but sensing something patronising in the original, he recorded this storming Arabic version of the Clash warhorse. Lutes and strings twang and swoop against a thundering rhythm track and exultant chorus. But it's the guttural attack of Taha's vocal that makes your hair prickle – a technique he learnt from records of old and obscure Algerian singers.
Key Moment: The plaintive desert flute that kicks it all off.
Oops I Did it Again - Richard Thompson, 2003
orig. Britney Spears, 2000
The sparky old folk-rocker toured with a self-explanatory show (and recorded a live album) called 1,000 Years of Popular Music. This was one of his examples of 20th-century songwriting, and in his hands – acoustic guitar, percussion, lots of echo on the voice – Britney's song actually becomes quite scary.
Key moment: He tries to get the audience to sing along. Mostly, they laugh.
Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles, 1987
orig. Simon & Garfunkel, 1966
Who knew that Paul Simon could write a great heavy metal riff? The circling, folky-psychedelic guitar part of the original, turbocharged by legendary producer Rick Rubin for the Less Than Zero soundtrack, rocks hard here. The all-girl Bangles' slick vocal harmonies turn it into a faultless piece of '80s power pop.
Key moment: That riff.
Jolene - One Dove, 1993
orig. Dolly Parton, 1974
To make this song – so completely associated with Dolly herself – their own was no mean feat for Glaswegian trio One Dove, but they pulled it off with style. Dub reggae bass and echo effects, a glistening electronic production and Dot Alison's vulnerable vocal made for another melancholy rave-era classic.
Key moment: When the squiggly noises of the intro give way to that bassline.
David Bowie - It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City, 1975
Orig. Bruce Springsteen, 1973
The Boss's gruff tale from urban bohemia is recast as an overblown disco classic by a deranged-sounding Thin White Duke in this priceless 1975 cover, in which Bowie succumbs to vocal hysteria over a backing of crunchy rock guitar and silly strings. Four minutes of inspired madness.
Key moment: The Dame finds notes he never knew existed to squeal "Don't that man look pretty!"
I Fought the Law - The Clash, 1979
Orig. The Crickets, 1959
In its original version by the Crickets (post-Buddy Holly), it could have been about returning library books late. Merging punk-rock passion with rock and roll swagger, the Clash make it sound like the wailing of ragged outlaws on the run from a chain gang.
Key moment: With its thundering tom tom-driven opening, combined with Mick Jones's ripping two-note guitar lead, the record kicks off like a jail break in progress.
Ms Jackson - The Vines, 2002
orig. Outkast, 2000
The Australian band took one vaguely insincere hip-hop apology (inspired by Andre 3000's break-up with Erykah Badu) and turned it into an epic lament for love turned sour. Sampled drum beats, a baleful piano motif and Craig Nicholl's icy vocals build into crashing walls of psychedelic sound.
Key moment: The layered, echoing cries de coeur of the bridge: "You can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather."
Wichita Lineman - Dennis Brown, 1970
orig. Glen Campbell, 1968
Boy of 15 from Kingston, Jamaica takes on Glen Campbell's lament of a world-weary telephone repairman in the American Midwest? It sounds hare-brained, but the result is haunting. Destined to be a reggae great, the adolescent Brown sings with a choirboy purity that should be incongruous but instead underlines the song's timeless, otherworldly quality.
Key moment: The crystal clarity of the opening – "I am a lineman for the county."
Queen of Denmark - Sinead O'Connor, 2012
orig. John Grant, 2010
The shaven headed Irish chanteuse achieved global stardom in 1990 with a tender Prince cover. Over 20 years later she offered another masterclass in how to own a song, delivering such a fraught, angry and triumphantly vindictive version of the title track from John Grant's 2010 debut solo album, it is hard to believe she didn't write it herself. Gay singer-songwriter Grant fashioned a pithy put down. O'Connor turns it into a titanic meltdown. Who could be more convincing delivering lines like "You tell me that my life is based upon a lie / I casually mention that I pissed in your coffee"? Written by a man, O'Connor turns it definitively into an anthem of wronged women. Hell hath no fury ...
Key moment: The masterful turn from the towering nastiness of verses to sudden self doubt and vulnerability of chorus phrase: "I don't know what I want from this world"
Dear Prudence - Siouxsie & the Banshees, 1983
orig. The Beatles, 1968
Much misunderstood at the time, the Banshees' take on punk was about individuality through experimentation – arty, but with a pop sensibility. Little wonder, then, that they should cover a Beatles song from the White Album, or that it should become their biggest hit. It seemed made for them. Key moment: The mesmerising "look around-around" coda; punk turns into psychedelia.
Gloria - Patti Smith, 1975
orig. Them, 1965
Patti Smith's first single was a piano-accompanied meditation on Hey Joe. For her debut album, Horses, she enlisted a full rock band, but, on Gloria, its opening track, the same spirit of poetic licence ran free, as Smith turned Van Morrison's libido-driven beat tune into a hymn of self-determining spirituality.
Key moment: The opening line, "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine" – So, not just about getting laid, then.
Fell In Love With A Boy - Joss Stone, 2003
orig. the White Stripes, 2001
The big surprise, and best track, on Stone's soul pastiche debut album was a remake of the White Stripes' Fell in Love With a Girl. As great covers can, her smokily jazzed-up vocal discovered unimagined melodic depth in Jack White's scuffed garage lurve song, and rendered it pretty well unrecognisable.
Key moment: The suavely saucy pay-off at the end of the first verse: "Sarah says it's cool, she don't consider it cheatin'."
Money (That's What I Want) - The Flying Lizards, 1980
orig. The Beatles, 1963 (after barrett strong, 1959)
David Cunningham and some pals from Brixton bashed on a drum, added some electronic peeps and cheesy backing vocals, and stormed the charts with this avant-garde, lo-fi take on the bluesy Beatles number. Deborah Evans speaks the lyrics deadpan, in the style of an upper-class English dominatrix.
Key moment: The way Evans sounds as if she's going to come to your house, whip in hand, and retrieve the cash personally.
Chimes of Freedom - Youssou N'dour, 1994
orig. Bob Dylan, 1964
The Senegalese singer encountered Dylan's apocalyptic vision of liberty when it became the anthem of 1988's Amnesty Tour with Springsteen, Sting and Peter Gabriel. Feeling that poor English had prevented him doing the song justice, he produced this epic Wolof language version six years later.
Key moment: Intoned over cataclysmic ritual percussion, the French chorus makes this a startling example of cultural appropriation in reverse.
Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word - Mary J Blige, 2004
orig. Elton John, 1976
If the new Bridget Jones film takes this poignant reading of Elton John's 1976 hit to a wider audience, it may not have been a waste of time. Stripped of accompaniment, Blige's raw vocal manages to sound at once vulnerable, resigned and iron-willed. Where Elton was merely a bit gloomy, Mary uncovers a world of sublime melancholia.
Key moment: Her gentle, barely audible "hmmms" and "aahs" between lines.
I'm A Believer - Robert Wyatt, 1974
orig. The Monkees, 1966 (written by Neil Diamond)
The Monkees might claim this as the perfect three-minute pop song, but it took Robert Wyatt's plaintive voice and radical transformations of the music to make you really believe in the lyric. Repeating piano chords, bass, drums and violin power it all along.
Key moment: The final choruses, where Wyatt's vocals, perhaps intensified by his recent accident and confinement to a wheelchair, are simply heart-rending.
Black Steel - Tricky, 1995
orig. Public Enemy, 1988
Tricky claimed that Public Enemy's Chuck D was "my Shakespeare". His tribute replaced the low-end, funky militancy of the hip-hop original with a hyper-agitated mesh of distorted electronica, asthmatic growls and, most daringly, the mellifluous Martina Topley-Bird on lead vocals.
Key moment: When Tricky incants "Now you switch on, you switch off" in his Bristol burr and mutates the grammar of rap into a new, entirely English register.
Jealous Guy - Roxy Music, 1981
Orig. John Lennon, 1971
Recorded as a tribute to John Lennon after his murder in December 1980, the former Beatle's paean to self-obsession gave Roxy Music their only UK number one single. In the process, they transformed an exquisite but lovelessly produced miniature into a full-blown, six-minute smoocher, while perfectly preserving its intimacy.
Key moment: When the mild-mannered solo guitar cedes to a gleaming, sensuous sax.
Summertime Blues - The Who, 1968
orig. Eddie Cochran, 1958
More than any of their '60s peers, the Who represented the same young, working-class male disaffection as their '50s American rock and roll forebears. This cover, then (on their hard-rocking Live at Leeds album) is mightily appropriate. Townshend's crashing power chords and Daltrey's libidinous howls add up to pure aggro: the giddy, bracing sound of trouble brewing.
Key moment: the first guitar "KLANGGGG" sets the pulse racing splendidly.
Wonderwall - Ryan Adams, 2004
orig. Oasis, 1995
With gently picked acoustic guitar and ambient atmospherics, Adams recreates the Britpop anthem as an intimate blues. Oasis delivered it as a declaration; for Adams, it's a heartbreaking plea. Noel Gallagher was so impressed, he now performs Adams's version of his own song in concert.
Key moment: The broken-down emotion Adams conjures singing: "Maybe, you're gonna be the one that saves me…"
Why Can't We Live Together - Sade, 1985
orig. Timmy Thomas, 1972
At the height of '80s greed and Cold War angst, the young Anglo-Nigerian Sade Adu insinuated into the wine bars of the world this lush, plaintive call for peace, love and understanding. The final track on her huge-selling Diamond Life album, it introduced Timmy Thomas's hit to a whole new generation. It may lack the Hammond organ funk of the original, but her voice never sounded stronger.
Key moment: The outro, "Gotta live, gotta live."
Caravan of Love - Housemartins, 1986
orig. Isley Jasper Isley, 1985
Hull's finest nabbed their only number one single, at Christmas, with this ingenious a cappella reworking of Ernie and Marvin Isley (and cousin Chris Jasper)'s Christian rallying call. With the bass vocal beating out the "bom bom boms" against a shimmering choral waterfall of "aaaaahs", a defiant Paul Heaton pleads for the world to join in love and peace. And at Christmas, what better message is there?
Key moment: "I'm your brother, don't you know?"
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Devo, 1978
orig. Rolling Stones, 1965
Who'd have thought that five boiler-suited geeks with flowerpots on their heads could tackle such a monolithic '60s hit and triumph? Somehow these Darwin-opposing robo-punkers twisted Mick Jagger's disaffection for modern consumerism into their own future-retro logic, and the whole Rolling Stones rebel ruckus into an irresistibly funky techno-pop masterpiece.
Key moment: Singer Mark Mothersbaugh's seemingly endless "baby-baby" repetition, like a malfunctioning robot.
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - The White Stripes, 2003
orig. Dusty Springfield, 1964
Garage rock's first couple are strong on covers, on a mission to keep songwriting traditions from throughout the last century alive. Indeed, the days when everyone had a crack at a Bacharach/David tune are long gone. Their treatment of this one, originally a number three hit for Dusty Springfield, is breathtaking in its emotional intensity.
Key moment: The crashing chords, into "Like a summer rose, needs the sun and rain."
Only Love Can Break Your Heart - St Etienne, 1990
orig. Neil Young, 1970
Acid house was not all about euphoria. The Balearic scene emerging from Ibiza had a penchant for melancholia amid the hedonism, and this record fitted right in the middle of that. Moira Lambert's plaintive indie-style vocal rides a loping hip-hop beat with shimmering synths, giving Neil Young's lost, wistful mood a modernist twist.
Key moment: Grown men crying on the dancefloor.
Police and Thieves - The Clash, 1977
orig. Junior Murvin, 1976
At a time when British reggae comprised polite but dull attempts at authenticity, the Clash's stripped-back, garage rock approach came as a glorious revelation. While the ethereal falsetto of the original sounded incongruous on lines about "guns and ammunition", Strummer's gleefully thuggish tones take us straight to an inner city that feels all too real.
Key moment: the DM-clad spring in the bass line's step.
Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies, 1988
orig. Velvet Underground, 1970
Spare, evocative remake of the Velvet Underground's 1970 original. Much moodier and less grungy, it is Margo Timmins' almost whispered vocals, recorded in a church, which reignite Lou Reed's seedy, downtown anthem. The pacing and phrasing are perfect.
Key moment: Timmins's longing, languorous bridge: "Heavenly wine and roses seem to whisper to me when you smile."
Just Can't Get Enough - Nouvelle Vague, 2004
orig: Depeche Mode, 1981
Terrific though it is, Depeche Mode's original Just Can't Get Enough can at times evoke stumbling around a suburban nightclub while cradling a warm shandy. Enter Gallic musos Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux, whose sublime bossa-nova reworking, with Rio-born singer Eloisia, whisks one instead straight to the sands of Ipanema, c1965. (Try their Nouvelle Vague album if this sounds your tasse de thé.)
Key moment: The glorious pronunciation of, "All the fing ya do ta me, an everyfing ya say…"
Mad World - Gary Jules, 2003
orig. Tears For Fears, 1982
Apparently possessing nothing more than a piano and a voice not unlike Michael Stipe's, unknown singer-songwriter Gary Jules ran away with last year's Christmas number one spot via his haunting and devastatingly simple rendition of Tears for Fears' plinky-plonky electro plodder from 1982. A great example of less equalling more.
Key moment: The little wobble in Jules's voice when he first sings "I find it kinda sad."
Billie Jean - Shinehead, 1984
orig. Michael Jackson, 1982
Two years after Michael Jackson's global hit came this eerie, dead-slow reworking from Shinehead, aka New York dancehall reggae MC Carl Aiken. Rough & Rugged was the name of the brilliant debut album it appeared on, and that sums it up perfectly, as Aiken's falsetto floats above a vast echo-chamber of dub and stabbed piano chords.
Key moment: The whistled "Oo-wee-oo-wee-oo" from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly that opens the song.
Wild Horses - The Flying Burrito Bros, 1971
orig. The Rolling Stones, 1970
Country-rock visionary Gram Parsons was on course to self-destruct long before he recorded this exquisitely world-weary version of the Stones ballad. The sincerity and aching fragility of his delivery show up the hamminess of the original to startling effect.
Key moment: "Let's do some living, after we'll die" had the feeling of lived reality – within three years Parson was indeed dead.
Rocket Man - Kate Bush, 1991
orig. Elton John, 1970
Elton John's lament to the loneliness of space travel (or cocaine addiction, depending on your age group) was vacuous tinny pop until Kate Bush's keening cadences gave it the poignancy it deserved. Her little-girl-lost voice and the bittersweet sound of Uilleann pipes add startling beauty, and a thrilling chill to the Martian air.
Key moment: The breathy, pained gasp of "Oh" before the chorus line "No no no I'm a rocket man."
Independent Woman - Elbow, 2008
orig. Destiny's Child, 1999
Flippantly recorded as part of an acoustic set for Radio One, the Lancashire band poked gleeful fun at the American pop bombast and their own dour Northerness, accessorising the "empowered" theme to the Charlie's Angel's film with silly xylophone and accordian.
Key moment: Guy Garvey's dry-as-a-stone-wall delivery of his unanswered "Question."
One - Johnny Cash, 2002
orig. U2, 1991
Producer Rick Rubin had rescued Cash's career with the American Recordings series of albums, and on Vol 3 Cash had truly hit his stride, especially on this towering acoustic version of the U2 song. There's a lifetime of difference between the two renditions: Bono strains and screeches, Cash just reaches down into his soul.
Key moment: Cash sings: "You say love is a temple." There's an organ playing. Spines tingle.
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Roberta Flack, 1971
orig. Shirelles, 1960
This Carole King-penned narrative of a woman's questioning of a lover's blithe sweet nothings was sad and beautiful enough in the Shirelles' Spector-produced version. Slowed down to a drifting lament and sung in Roberta Flack's velvet voice, it becomes almost unbearably lovely. Love and loss, trust and betrayal, innocence and experience are blended into a heartbreaking small-hours classic.
Key moment: "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes": so slow, but so perfectly sung.
Mr Bojangles - Nina Simone, 1971
orig. Jerry Jeff Walker, 1967
Much recorded, often trampled underfoot (hang your head in shame, Bob Dylan, Lulu and Robbie Williams), this strange Jerry Jeff Walker ballad about an itinerant dancer was made famous by Sammy Davis Jnr as a theatrical showstopper. The inimitable Nina Simone gets to the lonely heart of the tale, in an ethereal, understated, drifting, low-key version.
Key moment: The whole song. Simone's almost casual delivery de-dramatises the narrative yet ensures the inherent emotion resonates all the louder.
Comfortably Numb - Scissor Sisters, 2004
orig. Pink Floyd, 1979
Only divine inspiration could explain how, or why, New York's bendiest band came to pop Pink Floyd's balloon of pretension by re-recording their most horribly self-regarding song in the style of the Saturday Night Fever-era Bee Gees. At once cold, sexy and relentlessly danceable, it far outshines the original in both concept and execution.
Key moment: The flurry of electronic handclaps after the line "You may feel a little sick."
Limit to Your Love - James Blake, 2010
orig. Feist, 2007
The single that brought Blake's architecturally beautiful sound into the mainstream, stripped away the soothing strings of Feist's original, and also her warmhearted/masochistic determination to return limited affection with unlimited devotion. Blake's version suspended his icy realisation about his lover in minimalist dubstep and glassy piano.
Key moment: The heartplungingly awkward pauses after the slapped-face percussive snaps.
Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds, 1965
orig. Bob Dylan, 1964
Folk and rock were inconceivable bedfellows, respectively too earnest and too thrill-driven to contemplate each other's existence, until these Californian Beatles obsessives fused the two musics in one exquisite, harmony-loaded Bob Dylan cover. The lyrics reflected how Dylan, tiring of polemic, was now consumed by the seduction of pure music. The Byrds completed that transition for him in none-more-beautiful sound, and went to number one.
Key moment: That guitar-chiming intro.
Tainted Love - Soft Cell, 1981
orig. Gloria Jones, 1964
With Marc Almond's heroically overwrought vocal adding a deliciously deviant twist to Dave Ball's slinky synth-pop backing track, this straight-ahead '60s soul stomper (originally performed by Gloria Jones – later mother of Marc Bolan's son, Rolan) was somehow transformed into the mystical bridge between Northern soul and acid house.
Key moment: The syncopated handclap/keyboard lurch combo which launched a million dancefloor forays.
Respect - Aretha Franklin, 1967
orig. Otis Redding, 1965
Soul queen Aretha took Redding's original and turned it into a kind of proto-girl power anthem. Redding sang: "All I'm asking is for a little respect when I come home." Franklin changed the "I" to "you", added the r-e-s-p-e-c-t bit, and made the song her own.
Key moment: "Sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me."
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley, 1993
orig. Leonard Cohen, 1984
If Leonard Cohen has a fault, it's a weakness for ponderous, synth-heavy arrangements, and nowhere was this more so than on his original version of this lyrically magnificent song. Then Jeff Buckley got hold of it, stripped it down, and sang it in his exquisitely pure chorister's voice. Definitive.
Key moment: The serene, sustained falsetto note towards the end.
My Way - Sid Vicious, 1979
orig. Frank Sinatra, 1969 (after Paul Anka, 1969)
He knifed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death and died soon afterwards from an overdose of heroin supplied by his own mother. But Sid Vicious should also be remembered for this riotous version of the song made famous by Sinatra, recorded with the rump of the Sex Pistols following Johnny Rotten's departure. The Pistols rock like demons, and Vicious snarls and sneers his way through the song's valedictory lyric with twisted glee. It's mad, hilarious, and thrilling.
Key moment: Vicious sings the first verse in tones of mock-seriousness (inserting obscenities along the way); then the guitars and drums kick in.
You Were Always on My Mind - Pet Shop Boys, 1987
orig. Elvis Presley, 1972 (after brenda lee, 1971)
The Boys, on career best form, elevated Elvis's tender elegy – written by Willie Nelson – into a monumental explosion of high pop camp. Chris Lowe conjures an electronic symphony of rumbling drums, swelling strings and glittering synths to underpin Neil Tennant's crystalline vocals. "I'm sorry I treated you wrong," mourned Elvis. "You'd be a fool to lose me, cad though I am," seems to be Tennant's message.
Key moment: the stabbing trumpet sample, introduced before the song kicks in: Da! Da-da-da-da-da. Da!
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1968
orig. Bob Dylan, 1967
Perhaps the greatest cover ever, Hendrix's version of a so-so track from Dylan's John Wesley Harding album completely outgunned the original. A light, scampering ballad re-emerged as a mini-epic of foreboding with Hendrix's heavy three-chord intro hanging like a thundercloud and Dylan's lyrics sounding an ominous epitaph for the 1960s.
Key moment: The last words – "And the wind began to howl" - before the closing guitar storm.
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ABC
1981
Whether in its original, spare funk version or the orchestrated Trevor Horn take that appeared on the classic The Lexicon of Love album, this debut single provided a fine showcase for the sophisticated romanticism of the Sheffield popsters. Despite the universal “blueprint that says boy meets girl”, former music journo Martin Fry is struggling in his quest to find love’s “real McCoy”, and contends, in his angsty croon, that tears are not enough to prove that a girl’s emotions are genuine. GM
The Winner Takes It All
Abba
1980
The enormous success of Mamma Mia! as a feelgood karaoke movie obscures the acute insights Abba brought to the art of the break-up song. This mesmerising loop of swelling melody and harmonies beats anything on Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks for harsh truths about broken marriage, especially when Agnetha Fältskog wails in punch-drunk resignation: “The judges will decide/ The likes of me abide.” Björn Ulvaeus resolutely denied that it was about Agnetha’s and his 1979 divorce. GM
Call Me on Your Way Back Home
Ryan Adams
2000
Adams’s insistence on singing about his seemingly endless playground crushes can get more than a little wearing, but this – like most of the Heartbreaker album – sounds suspiciously like the real deal. “I just want to die without you,” sobs the boy with “bubblegum on his shoes”, and he does indeed sound utterly bereft. The music is wonderfully simpatico, all hushed acoustic guitar, aching harmonica and lowering cellos. GT
Never Ever
All Saints
1997
Despite an intro – “A few questions that I need to know…” – that induces exasperation in lovers of the English language, Never Ever is one of the best girl-group songs of its time. Its one-eyebrow-raised sultriness may be less effective than it was in 1997, when All Saints were pitting their underdog coolness against the behemoth that was the Spice Girls, but it’s worn well. The four voices harmonise like a dream – must have been all that partying. CS
Joan Baez
1975
A fond but cautious tango with the ghost of her ex-lover Bob Dylan – “Yes, I loved you dearly” – prompted by an out-of-the-blue phone call. Full of private details, buried clues and bittersweet memories dragged to the surface – “Your eyes were bluer than robin’s eggs/ My poetry was lousy, you said,” – the sly, tugging folk melody underpins the dangers of remembering too well. GT
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
The Beatles
1965
Lennon’s lyric on this sensitive classic is effective if viewed as a male lover’s despair at his girlfriend’s departure. But when transposed to an empathic understanding of the clandestine sexuality of eatles manager Brian Epstein, it is bold, devastating and, while revealing the paranoia and shame surrounding homosexuality in Britain during the mid-60s, still triumphant. MR
The Boy Done Wrong Again
Belle and Sebastian
1996
The penultimate track on their second album, If You’re Feeling Sinister, this is a slice of impeccable bed-sitted forlornness, a tale of hanging your head in shame and crying your life away, told over the most melancholy strings. Not only does The Boy Done Wrong Again succeed in capturing the sheer loneliness of heartbreak, it also shows Belle and Sebastian at their creative peak, the combination of Isobel Campbell’s cello and the sly, sad wit of Stuart Murdoch’s lyrics producing a song that is quite deliciously wistful. LBar
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Matt Sweeney
2005
This is the most extraordinary, gut-wrenching twist of a song, its mood only enhanced by the discord of Will Oldham’s voice and Sweeney’s guitar. Beginning with a man offering himself up completely to the woman he loves, in the fifth verse the atmosphere suddenly grows chilly, the earlier happiness replaced by fallen tears and broken smiles, burning houses and faked kisses. The lack of explanation is what makes this song so unsettling, serving as a reminder that love can disappear as swiftly as it arrives: “Where are you going?” Oldham asks. “Why are you leaving?” LBar
Letter to Hermione
David Bowie
1969
It’s not often you hear Bowie lay his heart on the line, but here he unambiguously – and rather beautifully – strums his pain: “I care for no one else but you/ I tear my soul to cease the pain,” he cries to his late 60s girlfriend, Hermione Farthingale, who dumped him for an actor. Or as Bowie delicately put it decades later: “As young love often does, it sort of went wrong after about a year.” GT
David Bowie
1979
“Johnny is a man/ And he’s bigger than you.” As blunt and unremitting as the domestic violence it describes, a blanked-out Bowie recounts the tale of a pathetic, self-loathing husband, ladling out lame excuses as he takes out his failures on his wife. Musically, the warped, lop-sided funk – typical of the unfairly underrated Lodger album – looks forward to Blur’s Girls & Boys and, later, Franz Ferdinand. GT
He Wasn’t Man Enough
Toni Braxton
2000
Braxton’s dark brown voice, a Latin-inflected arrangement and a bassline you could measure on the Richter scale, were all compelling, but it was the trashy drama of the lyrics that made this song a must-hear. He Wasn’t Man Enough tells the story of yet another no-good man whose wife mistakenly believes Braxton is trying to hit on him. In fact, not only has she “already had your man”, she’s dumped him owing to the complaint described in the song’s title. Few recorded put downs have hit harder, or more deliciously. AN
Bright Eyes
2005
From the album I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning, Lua follows the path of a dysfunctional relationship fuelled by drugs and drink and medication that will last the night, but which “by the morning seems insane”. Set against a delicate acoustic refrain, Conor Oberst’s voice sounds even more fragile here than usual. Really, this is a song about loneliness and the desire to find fleeting comfort in a casual fling. “But me, I’m not a gamble, you can count on me to split,” Oberst sings with striking honesty. “The love I sell you in the evening by the morning won’t exist.” Of course the sorry truth is that their loveless encounter somehow only succeeds in reinforcing the sense of loneliness: “And I know you have a heavy heart,” he sings, sorrowfully. “I can feel it when we kiss.” LBar
Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)
Buzzcocks
1978
Ever Fallen in Love... was the biggest hit from Manchester‘s punk pioneers; a fizzing singalong anthem of frustration and defiance inspired by a line from the movie version of Broadway musical Guys and Dolls. Its dissection of a dysfunctional relationship can be taken straight, but when composer Pete Shelley’s unapologetically camp voice sneers, “We won‘t be together much longer/ Unless we realise that we are the same,” you realise that it’s all about men in denial of their sexuality. GM
Nick Cave
1997
Over the course of its five and a half minutes, Far from Me curdles from the romance of “for you dear I was born” to the bitter disdain of “your bleak and fishless sea”; rarely has the downward spiral of a relationship and the havoc wrought by physical and emotional distance been so perfectly and unflinchingly portrayed. The track appears on The Boatman’s Call, a record that introduced a new intimacy to Cave’s work and dwelt on relationships with Polly Harvey and Viviane Carneiro, the mother of his son, and never has he sounded so thoroughly heart-soured as he does singing the line: “It’s good to hear you’re doing so well/ But really can’t you find somebody else that you can ring and tell?” LBar
Vic Chesnutt
1991
Chesnutt boasts one of the most admired, most love-worn voices in music, and here, on this track from West of Rome, he puts it to magnificent use, detailing the hurt of the girl he loves never being there when he needs her most. “Where were you two weeks ago, a week again after your promise?/ I was in your place of employment crying in my humus,” he rasps. Chesnutt’s lyrics have an eye for the particular and the peculiar, his songs littered with references to bug lamps, Pepe Lopez and sacred monsters, and the effect is one of great intimacy, as if he is singing only for the ears of his beloved. LBar
Since U Been Gone
Kelly Clarkson
2004
Few would have imagined that one of the best pop songs of the new century would be attached to an American Idol warbler. But Max Martin and Dr Luke’s composition was good enough to shake off the stigma of reality TV to become a non-ironic dancefloor filler. Less a song of heartbreak than a pledge of post-break-up defiance; Clarkson’s personality and voice proved so dominant that what could have been a piece of throwaway emo-pop was transformed into an all-ages anthem. WD
Should I Stay Or Should I Go
The Clash
1982
Written and sung by Mick Jones, this Stonesy retro-rocker became the Clash’s only UK No 1 single when it was re-released in 1991 after featuring in a Levi’s TV ad. What seems like a straightforward break-up song is given a twist by the pidgin-Spanish backing vocals and the queasy feeling that Jones is singing to the rest of the Clash about his imminent sacking the following year. It is, in fact, about the guitarist’s split with Meat Loaf backing singer Ellen Foley. GM
Coldplay
2002
The loveliest of all Coldplay songs, with its great sad, rolling melody and bewildered sense of loss. The simple mantra to get “back to the start” acknowledges the intellect’s essential powerlessness in matters of the heart. “It’s weird,” said Chris Martin. “Whatever else is on your mind, whether it’s the downfall of global economics or terrible environmental troubles, the thing that always gets you most is when you fancy someone.” PMac
Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
Phil Collins
1984
In the wake of his 1980 divorce, Collins bought a drum machine and began working on material that would become his debut solo album, Face Value. Against All Odds, though not released until three years later, originates from those same sessions, and is strikingly similar in both mood and subject. Originally titled How Can You Just Sit There?, the song’s lyrics are strikingly plain: “Take a look at me now/ There’s just an empty space/ And there’s nothing here to remind me/ Just the memory of your face.” But it is their very absence of adornment that helps Collins to convey how emotionally naked he feels. LBar
Don’t Leave Me This Way
The Communards
1986
Possibly the most joyous and energised break-up song ever, the Communards’ inspired cover of the Blue Notes’ (and then Thelma Houston’s) Don’t Leave Me This Way tips duet orthodoxy upside down, with Jimmy Somerville’s wounded choirboy falsetto rubbing deliriously against jazz singer Sarah Jane Morris’s rich husk. The Communards’ hi-NRG version makes it clear that the song is as concerned with sexual satisfaction as it is with romance; perhaps more so. KE
Either Side of the Same Town
Elvis Costello
2004
A break-up ballad in the classic southern soul vernacular, the heartache seeping into the very bricks and mortar of a city. Now that it’s over, the territory that mapped the relationship is fraught with potential hazards: “There are still streets in this town marked with your shadow,” sings Costello. Some places are emotionally out of bounds, while if the ex-lovers accidentally meet they’re doomed to walk silently by. GT
I Hope You’re Happy Now
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
1986
Feelings don’t always die of natural causes; sometimes they have to be strangled. From Costello’s ferocious Blood and Chocolate album, this comically demonic song dismantles an ex and her new lover. Over a ringing Merseybeat melody, the intensity of the attack grows in proportion to the anguish, concluding: “I never loved you anyhow.” Oh, the delusion. GT
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
1986
A song huge enough to put a full stop on Costello’s early career, I Want You begins with a gently romantic acoustic folk prelude before becoming a nightmare. Costello plays the cuckolded lover and defines the sado-masochistic self-laceration of a man driven insane by sexual jealousy, cruelly prodding the object of his desire for sexual details, torturing himself and her, abruptly switching between bullying and whining. The music’s slow blues crawls sickeningly until he pleads for her to “kill it”. GM
He Hit Me (And it Felt Like a Kiss)
The Crystals
1962
“He hit me and I knew he loved me.” Written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King in protest after learning that singer Little “Loco-Motion” Eva was being beaten by her boyfriend, the satirical intent was lost in Phil Spector’s dark, ominous production. It makes highly unsettling, if grimly compelling listening. Widely boycotted on release, if Spector made a similar record today they’d lock him up and… Oh, hang on a minute. GT
Disintegration
The Cure
1989
By 1988, the Cure were well established in the mainstream. However, success didn’t sit well with frontman Robert Smith, who sank into a depression. His self-prescribed remedy was large doses of LSD and a return to the gothic sound of the band’s early career. The dark, narcotic Disintegration was intended to alienate; in fact, it was (and remains) their most successful album. The title track illustrates why. Stygian synths, murky production and howled vocals about a malignant break-up are oppressive but also intensely catchy. CC
Karen Dalton
1971
Karen Dalton never wrote her own material, but she did bring her own unique touch to every song she recorded. A regular on the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s, she was greatly admired by her contemporaries, including Fred Neil and Bob Dylan. Here she’s covering a classic folk song, and over plaintive banjo, her voice rises up warped, twisted and otherworldy to tell the tale of a woman once much feted, but whose reputation has now soured: “When I first came to town they called me a roving jewel/ Now they’ve changed their tune/ Call me Katie Cruel,” it runs. It is a strange, unsettling song of yearning and discomfort and, crucially, of a woman dismissed. LBar
Layla
Derek and the Dominos
1970
Ironically, the song for which Eric Clapton is most famed was the result of a side project that didn’t even feature his name. He was suffering through a one-sided love affair with George Harrison’s wife, Patti, and Layla was an open letter that broadcast his feelings for her and his pain at their being apart. He chokes out the words, nearly demented with frustration; almost 40 years later, the emotion still feels raw. CS
Duffy
2008
It’s often suggested that only Americans can write songs using evocative place names. But Duffy’s debut single, Rockferry, was an ode to self-imposed seclusion in grandma’s Wirral outpost and Warwick Avenue maintained this knack for giving her songs a sense of place. It’s a situation that’s easy to identify with – the writer running through her thoughts on a tube ride towards a meeting which will mean the end of a relationship – and Warwick Avenue has an equally familiar Bacharach-like swing. Thanks to a typically gutsy vocal, we’re left in no doubt that, for the song’s recipient, Warwick Avenue marks the end of the line. MH
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Bob Dylan
1963
A bruised heart can turn the best of us into bitterly deluded fools. Dylan “borrowed” the tune and a couple of lines from a song taught to him by his Greenwich Village buddy Paul Clayton, but the sense of cold consolation is all his own. Although he gets in a spiteful parting shot – “You just kinda wasted my precious time” – he’s left arguing with himself. The object of his scorn is long gone. GT
Bob Dylan
1975
Idiot Wind’s parent set, Blood on the Tracks, one of the greatest heartbreak albums of all time (hence the inclusion of three tracks on this list) is widely interpreted as a near-concept album about Dylan’s separation from his wife Sara Lownds. If so, Idiot Wind is its most brutal kiss-off, as the chorus repeatedly concludes: “You’re an idiot, babe/ It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe.” But the verses run the gamut of subjects and emotions, from anger at public scrutiny to lovelorn regret, before the final chorus holds both lovers culpable. GM
If You See Her, Say Hello
Bob Dylan
1975
The most tender moment of Blood on the Tracks sees a regretful Dylan ask an acquaintance to pass his best to a former lover, with the proviso “she might think that I’ve forgotten her, don’t tell her it isn’t so.” Elsewhere on the album he sounds revengeful, here he just sounds like a broken man who will never recover: “Either I’m too sensitive, or else I’m gettin’ soft.” LB
Bob Dylan
1966
The lyric to one of Dylan’s most open, universal melodies can be read as patronising and sexist, but there’s no doubting the tenderness and need pulsing through the song: it’s in his voice and harmonica, in the dreamy shush of the drums and the cascading organ notes. No doubting also who’s got the upper hand in this eternal tussle. “Please don’t let on,” pleads Dylan, “that you knew me when/ I was hungry and it was your world.” GT
She’s Your Lover Now
Bob Dylan
1966
Recorded in 1966 for Blonde on Blonde but not officially released until 1991, this is one of Dylan’s most touchingly human songs. Alternately addressing his ex-girlfriend and her new lover (“You just sit around and ask for ashtrays – can’t you reach?”), he tries humour, sarcasm, downright nastiness and disarming honesty in an attempt to suggest he couldn’t care less. In reality, his profound jealously is all too plain as we watch the drama unfold. GT
Bob Dylan
1975
The epic six-minute opening track from Blood on the Tracks, Dylan said it took him “10 years to live and two years to write” Tangled Up in Blue. Over seven verses, the progatanist drifits across America, from the Great North Woods to Delacroix to New York City, while the tense also flits between past, present and future. The only constant being the anonymous lost love he is still tangled up in, no matter how far he runs – “the only thing I knew how to do, was to keep on keepin’ on like a bird that flew”. LB
Steve Earle
1996
A man who’s been married seven times is sure to have experienced his fair share of farewells, but Earle has never captured the sorrow of parting as perfectly as this. Just out of rehab, over a simple finger-picked guitar pattern, he painfully recalls all the landmarks of a dead relationship: holding her tight; making her cry; running off to Mexico; getting high. He can’t remember if they ever said goodbye; he only knows she isn’t there. GT
The Killing Moon
Echo and the Bunnymen
1984
The hook of the Bunnymen’s finest moment – “Fate up against your will/ Through the thick and thin” – supposedly came to singer Ian McCulloch in a dream. Whatever, the song’s stately blend of intrigue and desire inspired myriad unlikely cover versions by everyone from Nouvelle Vague to psychobilly act the Quakes. None, though, have come close to equalling the single that the frontman called, characteristically, “the greatest song ever, sung by the greatest voice”. PM
Elbow
2006
One of the standout tracks from Elbow’s third album, Leaders of the Free World, in which Guy Garvey mulls over the disintegration of a long-distance relationship. Backed by sweeping strings, he graciously asks the listener to “give that girl my very best” but tell her “not to talk as if I died, though a tiny part just did”. Ultimately, he acknowledges that “of the love we should say this, there were switches never flicked”. LB
Missing (Todd Terry remix)
Everything But the Girl
1995
Washed-up in the career doldrums and dropped from their long-standing label, this hidden album track from Ben Watt and Tracy Thorn’s Amplified Heart album was resuscitated by way of a stripped-back club mix by New York house music don Todd Terry. The first of a litany of dance music producers to reinterpret Thorn’s uniquely affecting voice against a more contemporary backdrop, Terry would usher in a major musical rethink for both members, service them with their biggest international hit and soundtrack a million smitten dancefloors to swing a hip through their tears. PF
Why’d Ya Do It?
Marianne Faithfull
1979
“Why’d ya do what you did, why’d ya let that trash/ Get a hold of your cock and get stoned on my hash?” Faithfull demands, her voice coarsened by heroin, nicotine and anguish. She’d been missing in action for years, and this comeback – which incorporates jagged punk guitars reminiscent of Wire – stopped people in their tracks. Unlike almost any other pop song except, perhaps, Nina Simone’s cover of I Put a Spell On You, it shows exactly how jealousy feels. CS
Stephen Fretwell
2004
The piano-led version of this beautiful paean to an unrequited love is slightly upbeat, so for real heartbreak search out the simple acoustic album version. It’s Fretwell’s lost love letter to the one that still lives inside of him, lamenting mistakes he may have made, but also pointing out “just look at you - you’re a tragedy”, before going on to admit to himself what he and us knew all along: “You never were going to change your mind were you, anyway?” LB
I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye
1967
Several Motown artists recorded, but failed to entirely crack, I Heard it Through the Grapevine; the Miracles, the Isley Brothers and Gladys Knight & the Pips all made respectable stabs at its saga of intrigue and infidelity. However, the notoriously conflicted, self-destructive Marvin Gaye seemed destined to sing it, which he did with wounded pride, palpably crestfallen but keeping his chin up while James Jamerson’s sinister bass prowled around him. GG
Lesley Gore
1963
Composed by Walter Gold, John Gluck Jr and Herb Wiener, this teen girl angst classic was Gore’s only US No 1 and the first hit pop single for producer Quincy Jones. You would cry too if your boyfriend had got off with some bird called Judy at your own party, but Ms Gore got her revenge in the follow-up cash-in single Judy’s Turn to Cry. Public humiliation has never seemed so much fun again. GM
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Al Green
1972
Less than a year after the original version of this sublime Bee Gees ballad had hit No 1 in the US, soul’s greatest vocal stylist went right ahead and topped it. Produced and orchestrated by Green’s Memphis collaborator Willie Mitchell for the Let’s Stay Together album, this symphonic version is all about the astonishing virtuosity of Green’s vocals, as he dives inside the lovelorn lyric and heads off into the most delirious and possessed performance of his career. GM
She’s Gone
Halls and Oates
1973
Exemplary blue-eyed Philly soul, from back in the days when Daryl Hall and John Oates were learning their stripes at Atlantic under the tutelage of Arif Mardin and Todd Rundgren. And they learned well. Written following Hall’s divorce from his first wife, the brooding verse bubbles up into a truly ecstatic chorus. In the end, a Faustian pact – “I’d pay the devil to replace her” – seems the only solution. GT
Weightless Again
The Handsome Family
1998
Here the alt-country husband-and-wife duo document the tragedy of a relationship that has cooled into mundanity, who travel from coffee shop to motel room with no idea how to re-ignite the passion they once felt for one another. Yet both feel the heavy responsibility of their partnership: recalling that the first time they slept together “it felt like when you learned to float”, now, our narrator observes, “This is why people OD on pills/ And jump from the Golden Gate bridge/ Anything to feel weightless again.” In mood, the song carries the same ominous gravity as a murder ballad, a dark country tale sung in the deepest, swampiest of voices, it conveys the desolation of a love gone wrong. LBar
Christine
The House of Love
1988
Had it not been for the friction between frontman Guy Chadwick and ingenious guitarist Terry Bickers, the House of Love, press darlings of the late 1980s, could have been the biggest indie-rock band of their age. Certainly their apex, Christine, was immense – the singer’s deadpan ode to a former lover framed by a sizzling riff that prefaced shoegazing and its union of melody and noise. Never again, sadly, would they sound so confident. PM
Don’t You Want Me?
The Human League
1981
A dramatic two-hander between Phil Oakey and 17-year-old Susan Ann Sulley, inspired by a long-forgotten tabloid tale. Unravelling the doomed love between a domineering man and the cocktail bar Eliza Doolittle who inevitably outgrows him, Oakey described it as “a nasty song about sexual power politics”. He also dismissed it as “poor quality filler”, but pah to that! This UK and US No 1 remains a chilly synth-pop classic. GT
The Jackson 5
1970
Penned by the Corporation (Freddie Perren, Alphonso Mizell, Deke Richards and Motown head Berry Gordy), the first Jackson 5 single released on Motown is a perfect combination of post-Sly Stone pop-funk sophistication and spine-tingling adolescent joy. The key, of course, is the thrilling lead vocal of 11-year-old Michael, who takes a slight lyric about not knowing what you’ve got until it’s gone and gives it an androgynous optimism that borders on pre-sexual hysteria. GM Listen on Spotify
Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Joe Jackson
1978
This Staffordshire renaissance man’s debut single is a tale of two great opening lines. Its title and hook is borrowed from the first spoken words in Leader of the Pack by the Shangri-Las. And Jackson matches that with the first line of this angry and funny new wave ballad: “Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street.” Jackson brilliantly hits upon a perennial truth here: that hot women sleep with hideous guys for reasons men never fully comprehend. GM
I’d Rather Go Blind
Etta James
1969
Not strictly a revenge song, as the damage being threatened is the singer’s self-harm, but Etta James packs it with such feeling you sense she’d have the eye out of anyone who got in her way. The LA-born singer, who worked for Chicago’s Chess label, travelled south to Alabama for this sublime slice of southern soul, a slow-burning ballad from the edge of despair. To get a measure of her majesty, just compare James’s version here with that of current R&B queen, Beyoncé, who covers it while playing James in the film Cadillac Records. SY
Skip James
1931
Nearly 30 years of absolute obscurity followed Skip James’s recordings for Paramount before his rediscovery by John Fahey, Bill Barth and Canned Heat’s Henry Vestine in 1960, an event crucial to the blues revival of the 1960s. This seminal Delta blues shows you why as James laments his fate in a high, drawling voice. The familiar themes are there – possession by the devil, drunkenness, infidelity – but there’s poetry too: “I laid down last night/ And I thought to take me some rest/ But my mind got to rambling/ Like wild geese from the west…” MW
Some Things Last a Long Time
Daniel Johnston
1990
Both Johnston and this song gained greater recognition with the 2006 release of The Devil and Daniel Johnston, a documentary following the life of the artist and musician. This is one of his most melancholy compositions and deals with a lifetime devotion to an unrequited love named Laurie. “Your picture is still on my wall, on my wall,” he sings, waveringly, over a sparse piano line, “the colours are bright, bright as ever.” The song’s strength lies largely in its simplicity and its lyrical and musical repetition, which reinforce the idea of Johnston’s unending and entirely futile infatuation. LBar
I Guess That’s Why They Call it the Blues
Elton John
1983
Reunited with Bernie Taupin (and giving a further co-writing credit to guitarist Davey Johnstone), Sir Elton arguably reached his peak as a composer of sophisticated blue-eyed soul melodies on this memorable mid-tempo ballad. While the rolling melody finds hook after hook, Taupin provides a lyric of graceful reflection on the subject of separation from a relationship where “things can only get better”. “Dust out your demons”, the song counsels, and maybe love can make reconciliation possible. GM
Gloria Jones
1964
While Soft Cell’s 1981 cover was by far the bigger hit, Jones’s 1965 original remains definitive; the future Mrs Marc Bolan singing with a raw-throated fury that knocks Marc Almond’s disdainful catiness for six. Inexplicably flopping on its release, the track’s relentless four-to-the-floor stomp later led it to be embraced by legions of northern soul devotees. Sweat and talcum powder appeal in tact, it remains one of the all-time great dance songs. CCat.
Delilah
Tom Jones
1968
If it’s histrionic passion you’re after, you’ll find no better expression of it than Jones’s classic revenge number. This is the kind of inflamed performance his voice was made for. His darkest and most Latinate song, it conveys with searing vividness the narrator’s pain at being betrayed. Just two-and-a-bit minutes long, it packs a disproportionately heavy punch – it probably didn’t hurt that Jones was just 28 and at the peak of his powers. CS
Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company
1968
Originally written for Erma Franklin (Aretha’s sister), Piece of My Heart became a ragged anthem for Joplin, the wildest woman to come out of the hippie revolution. The song’s lyrics lay the groundwork, with their potent mix of defiance and masochism, but it took the unfettered blues of this hard-drinking bisexual free spirit to turn this good break-up song into glorious pain. KE
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division
1980
Joy Division’s most accessible and popular song was released just before lead singer Ian Curtis’s suicide in May 1980. What fans didn’t realise at the time is that the pungent break-up imagery of Curtis’s lyric directly addressed the problems in his marriage in the wake of his affair with journalist Annik Honoré, and that his guilt over his treatment of wife Deborah was one of the suicide’s contributing factors. A classic dance record hewn from genuine agony. GM
Kelis
1999
Not since Jilted John had anyone scored a UK hit by having a tantrum on record. But the flame-haired tomboy’s debut single was infinitely more intimidating, erupting into a scream for the chorus and punctuating the comparatively calm verses with cries of “bitch”, “lying” and “hell no!”. The video kicks off with her cheating boyfriend being resuscitated by surgeons. If revenge is a dish best served cold, no one troubled to tell Kelis. SY
You Don’t Know My Name
Alicia Keys
2003
Co-written with Kanye West, this languorous, amorous daydream of a song eventually finds its happy ending. Keys sings as a frustrated cafe waitress, yearning for a regular customer who is blithely oblivious to her very existence. After wishing her days away with dreams of first dates and sweet kisses, she finally plucks up the courage to call him and unrequited love blossoms into a beguiling fairy story. GT
John Lennon
1971
It first surfaced as Child of Nature, a Maharishi Mahesh Yogi-inspired Lennon song intended for the Beatles’ White Album and rejected. Lennon revived the tune and changed the lyrics after his notorious early-70s alcohol spree as a public apology to Yoko Ono. The ballad works because its elegant, dreamy melody houses a lyric of self-explanatory confessional, pitched halfway between shame and “take me as I am” defiance. Roxy Music’s post-murder cash-in version is just a shame. GM
Bleeding Love
Leona Lewis
2007
Prompted by the personal intervention of monster US label head Clive Davis, Simon Cowell broke reality-show convention with Leona Lewis, eschewing his familiar convention of farming out winners to Scandinavian hit factories for an instant return on their recognition. Instead, he dedicated a year to turning her into an international star. The singer herself first heard Bleeding Love at writing sessions, under Davis’s direct auspices, with heavyweights in LA and couldn’t rid herself of its curious, thunderous hook. Was it about self-harm? Menstruation? Or the simple old wound of heartbreak? At her insistence, it became her first single, lending Cowell the one thing he had failed to secure driving a commercial juggernaut across culture: credibility. PF
McAlmont and Butler
1995
One of pop’s most unlikely duos, the flamboyant McAlmont and the taciturn former Suede guitarist didn’t last long in each other’s company but left a sterling memento of their time together. Yes is a gloriously baroque pop song full of boisterous, I-will-survive-sentiment for jilted lovers. McAlmont’s towering falsetto packs a particularly uplifting whollop and, set against a Phil Spector-esque sweep of strings, it has the feel of a well-loved classic Motown cut. SB
It’s All in the Game
Van Morrison
1979
Morrison adopts the position of romantic sage for this cover of the pop standard. Previously recorded by Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole, its greatest success came in the hands of Tommy Edwards in 1958. Van’s version appears on Into the Music and as a B-side to the single Cleaning Windows. The lyrics have a doo-wopped simplicity: “Many a tear has to fall,” it begins, “but it’s all in the game/ All in the wonderful game.” Essentially it suggests that heartbreak is a necessary part of love, that sometimes a gentleman will not call, but that you will doubtless kiss and make up. It’s Van’s delivery that makes this special; the verse about kissing lips and caressing fingertips seeming at once both lovelorn and erotic. Lbar
The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
Morrissey
1994
The song that broke Morrissey in the States, making the Billboard charts and pushing parent album Vauxhall and I into the top 20. Boasting widescreen production from sometime U2 producer Steve Lillywhite, this co-write with guitarist Boz Boorer is Morrissey at his best, managing to make a stalking anthem both funny and deliriously sexy. He even finds time to squeeze in a Smiths court case reference, with the insistence that he “bears more grudges/ Than lonely high court judges”. GM
The Mountain Goats
2003
Over the course of numerous songs and several albums, songwriter John Darnielle has documented the relationship of the Alpha couple, a fictional pair who stand perpetually on the brink of divorce, a situation exacerbated by drug and alcohol dependency. Their 2003 album, Tallahassee, is entirely devoted to the Alpha couple, and boasts this tune, a song that conjures the gleeful hatred of a couple at war. A live favourite, it’s hard not to relish the undiluted vitriol of lines such as: “In my life I hope I lie/ And tell everyone you were a good wife/ And I hope you die/ I hope we both die.” LBar
Sinead O’Connor
1990
Originally written by Prince for the Family in 1981, this is rightly recognised as the definitive version. It’s got a beautiful, awful, too-familiar sentiment: the countdown through the violently miserable early stages of heartbreak, during which you cast about wildly for help and/or oblivion and/or substandard replacements that might offer a brief diversion. It’s got O’Connor’s no-hostage vocal, which veers from sweetness to screams of pain and back again in the course of a single verse. It’s got the real tear in the vid, and the full force of Prince’s unmitigated genius behind it. PV
Mary Margaret O’Hara
1988
This hushed, tremulous folk-jazz hybrid is unlike any other track made in the 80s or, indeed, the subsequent decades. Taken from the cult Canadian’s solitary studio album, the tormented Miss America, To Cry About was written in the bath in 1980, whereupon O’Hara played the song to her boyfriend who thought its troubling references to “a timed disaster” were addressed to him. O’Hara, mystified, insisted otherwise. Twelve months later, eerily, her luckless lover drowned. PM
Crying
Roy Orbison
1961
Roy Orbison wrote Crying after he saw an ex-girlfriend at a burger stand. The result is one of the greatest break-up songs ever. Orbison’s voice swoops and soars over violins and choirs before it cracks during the final climactic note, starting flat and never quite making the right pitch; it vividly evokes the image of a broken man. By contrast, the 1987 version, a duet with KD Lang recorded for the film Hiding Out, doesn’t have nearly the same emotional impact and is best avoided. CC
Gram Parsons
1974
We shouldn’t be surprised that $1,000 Wedding looks at events surrounding a groom left bereft at the altar from a variety of angles; Parsons’s biographer, Ben Fong-Torres, reckons it was edited down from nine minutes in length. What remains is devastating: from the groom kidding himself that there’s nothing unusual about the congregation swapping notes, to a tumultuous section sung in harmony with Emmylou Harris when realisation dawns that some unspecified tragedy means he’ll be attending a funeral rather than a wedding (“I hate to tell you how he acted when the news arrive/ He took some friends out drinking and it’s lucky they survived”). It’s high southern gothic, sung sweetly. MH
Ann Peebles
1976
What Peebles lacked in the quality of her voice compared with label mate Jean Plum she surely made up for in terms of quantity of material released, being the only serious foil to Al Green and the sole female to record albums for Hi Records. This sublime, downtempo track from the album Tellin’ It is one of her finest and sees Peebles at her emotional and honest best. KE
Ur So Gay
Katy Perry
2007
Perry’s debut single carefully courted controversy: was it a shameless slice of tired homophobia or, as Perry would have it, a swipe at lame straight boys “wearing guyliner and taking emo pictures of [themselves] in the bathroom mirror”. While there’s a sense that – as with I Kissed a Girl – the shock-horror attitude is grafted on for effect, it did what all good pop music is supposed to so: get under people’s skin. Nice whistling, too. GT
Liz Phair
1993
One of the highlights of her sexually explosive lo-fi classic Exile in Guyville, this deeply sad song tallies up all the small hurts and humiliations that can’t simply be “boxed… up and buried in the ground”. Pre-dating her own marriage break-up by almost a decade, Phair’s Divorce Song goes beyond straight autobiography. “It’s all about being and not being together,” she said. “I have no idea who the guy was.” GT
Can’t Stand Losing You
The Police
1978
Sting and co’s terrific third single is a witty, morbid caricature of emotional blackmail directed at an estranged lover who apparently did most damage not to the protagonist’s heart, but to his ego: he “can’t stand losing”, more than anything. “I see you sent my letters back/ And my LP records and they’re all scratched,” so he’s going to kill himself, then she’ll be sorry. All dogged, temper-tantrum rhythms and stroppy chants, it’s a pitch-perfect portrait of lovelorn self-absorption. TH
Elvis Presley
1969
Energised by In the Ghetto’s success, Elvis resolved to only sing material he truly believed relevant, choosing songs by more contemporary artists. Hence his decision, at Chips Moman’s studio in Memphis, to tackle staff songwriter Mark James’s ode to a failed marriage. The backing was rehashed from a failed version by James, but a raw vocal and an inspired false ending helped create a defining Elvis statement. Against a backdrop of assassinations and race riots, trust and reconciliation were in short supply; James might have been writing about a relationship but Presley made this a soundtrack to the times. MH
Lou Reed
1973
Reed’s third solo outing, Berlin, is notable for its musical shift. Buoyed by a horn section and orchestral arrangements, there is a kind of swollen grandeur to many of the songs, not least the album’s closer, Sad Song, which recounts the disappointment of a failed relationship, and the cold realisation that the object of his affection was not as perfect as she seemed: “She looked just like Mary Queen of Scots… just goes to show how wrong you can be.” The flatness of Reed’s voice makes the bitter violence of the lyrics all the more startling. LBar
Everybody Hurts
REM
1992
Though a song written with teenagers in mind, this stand-out ballad from the Automatic For the People album was an object lesson in how to attain universality without becoming vague or trite. Whether heard as a break-up song or an attempt to counsel against suicide (“When you’re sure you’ve had enough of this life – hang on”), Michael Stipe’s impassioned vocal offers a comforting shoulder to anyone lost and alone. The orchestra was arranged by Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones. GM
REM
1987
This extraordinary country-rock semi-ballad hit the US top 10 and marked the beginning of the Athens, Georgia group’s transition from press darlings to world’s biggest band. The one repeated verse sees Michael Stipe framing the song as a vicious shout-out to a former lover, dismissing the unfortunate dumpee as “A simple prop/ To occupy my time” before releasing the tension in a soaring chorus in which he and Mike Mills simply wail, “Fire!” Intense, sinister and bracingly real. GM
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
The Righteous Brothers
1964
This aching, Phil Spector-produced ballad was officially named as the most played record of the 20th century by the BMI performing rights organisation. From the moment Bill Medley’s baritone crooned the line “You never close your eyes any more when I kiss your lips”, the Spector/Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil masterpiece cast a mesmerising spell of romantic wall-of-sound gloom over the swinging 60s, hitting No 1 in both the US and the UK. Among the backing vocalists is a youthful Cher. GM
The Rolling Stones
1966
No strangers to casual misogyny, the Stones surpassed themselves with this mocking tale of a girl who “talks when she’s spoken to” and “does just what she’s told”. It is, however, a thrillingly great rock song, with its wicked fuzz bass and a hook you could hang your hat on. Jagger defends it as a “jokey number… a caricature”, and he’s right, though even he wouldn’t call a woman a “squirmin’ dog” these days. GT
(The Best Part of) Breakin’ Up
The Ronettes
1964
As heartache goes, this is of the kind that is unlikely to be terminal – the Ronettes charting the dramas of a tempestuous relationship, full of quarrels, teardrops and apologies, followed by some restorative canoodling. As with many Ronettes singles, the number is characterised by Phil Spector’s extraordinary arrangement, the sweetness of Ronnie’s vocals, the boom-boom of the drums and the pure sugar of the harmonies. The Ronettes were one of the first girl groups to address the object of their affection directly in song, and the seductive, physical implication of “the making up” was decidedly risque. LBar
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
Jimmy Ruffin
1966
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted was originally written with Motown act the Spinners in mind, but when Jimmy Ruffin, the older brother of Temptations lead singer David Ruffin heard it, he persuaded Motown to let him sing it. Ruffin originally recorded a spoken introduction to the song, but this was removed in the mixing of the song, leaving the extended instrumental intro, which although unusual for Motown at the time, lent the song an extra gravitas. LB
Arthur Russell
1994
The implicit sadness of Russell’s unrequited ode to a former partner is there from the first bar: the scratchy cello introduction that framed the musical picture of a lost boy, staring at the ocean, dreaming about “kissing you”. By the time his vocal has dented the song with its wanting, the pain is almost suicidal. A cult figure known largely for his work in disco, the acoustic side of Russell, released posthumously (he died of Aids in 1992), has become a treasure trove of riches, proving an irresistible and discernible influence, most notably for Antony (and the Johnsons) Hegarty. PF
Nobody Does it Better
Carly Simon
1977
Three and a half minutes of consistent crescendo that’s the counterpoint to Simon’s other great hit of the mid-70s, You’re So Vain. That it was also a Bond theme explains the way the song builds from a simple piano accompaniment to a lush, string-strewn arrangement that finally explodes into the simple, euphoric refrain of “Baby, you’re the best”. The refrain can be enjoyed much more if mental images of Roger Moore and Warren Beatty are avoided. Pmac
Carly Simon
1972
“You walked in to the party like you were walking on to a yacht/ Your hat strategically dipped below one eye, your scarf, it was apricot,” sneered Carly Simon, setting off a flurry of guesswork about the possible identity of the subject. The song is relentless, metaphorically pinning the subject to the wall and detailing his flaws to a robust, piano-based melody. Who knew that the previously introverted Simon could sing like this? CS
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
Paul Simon
1975
Not many songs put a humorous spin on divorce, and few writers could achieve the feat with the elan of Paul Simon. Just separated from his first wife, Peggy Harper, Simon crafted a song that was both a hymn to male emancipation (“Just drop off the key Lee/ And set yourself free”) and something for kids to sing along to. The marching beat, created by drummer Steve Gadd, is the icing on the idiosyncratic cake. PMac
The Small Faces
1966
Arguably the coolest British band of the 60s, the Small Faces were also the most soulful. All Or Nothing was written by Steve Marriott in the wake of a traumatic break-up with a long-term girlfriend. By turns, plaintive and petulant, the song’s soulful swagger suddenly shifts into desperation as Marriott howls out his heartbreak on the final chorus. British blue-eyed soul at its most raucously persuasive. SOH
I Know It’s Over
The Smiths
1986
Not even Woody Allen twins love and death with such regularity as Morrissey. This grandiose Morrissey-Marr orchestral waltz from The Queen is Dead hinges on two sublime lines: the opening and repeated, “Oh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head,” and the observation that, while ridicule and hatred are easy, “It takes guts to be gentle and kind.” None of this helps our hero as he insists that “natural and real” love is way beyond him. GM
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
The Smiths
1984
Of all the heartbreaking songs in the Smiths’ oeuvre this one is, perhaps, the most heartbreaking of them all. The B-side to William, It Was Really Nothing, Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want sees Morrissey, 25 going on 15, assert his credentials as the ultimate bedsit bard. “See the luck I’ve had/ Can make a good man turn bad,” he moans, endearing him to millions of lovelorn adolescents who seek solace in the soothing power of words. PM
Left Only With Love
Smog
1998
In 1998 Bill Callahan produced one of his finest albums, Knock Knock, a collection of 10 songs of great subtlety and intimacy that dealt with the subjects of youth, escape, and emotional distance. This, its closing track, finds its protagonist establishing a kind of peace with an ex-lover: “You did what was right to do,” he tells her. “And I hope you find your husband/ And a father to your children.” Yet the sense of loss is tangible; musically bare and lyrically numb, this is a song that sits in the cold aftermath of heartbreak. LBar
Broken Heart
Spiritualized
1997
Jason Pierce turned a simple woman-done-left-me blues into something celestial on his landmark album, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. The subject of his anguish, long-suffering Spiritualized keyboardist Kate Radley (who left him for Richard Ashcroft of the Verve), herself plays on the album, but it’s the addition of the London Community Gospel Choir that elevates the lonely spaceman’s medicated misery into something transcendent. KE
I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself
Dusty Springfield
1964
This showstopping Burt Bacharach-Hal David heartbreak ballad was first recorded by Tommy Hunt, and later inspired great covers by Dionne Warwick, Isaac Hayes, Elvis Costello and the White Stripes. But the version by blue-eyed soul queen Dusty Springfield remains untouchable, boasting a huge orchestral arrangement by Johnny Franz and an effortlessly bereft vocal. “If your new love ever lets you down,” she cries, agonised by hope, and you know it’s never going to happen. GM
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
Dusty Springfield
1966
Having been blown away by Pino Donaggio’s Italian hit Lo Che Non Vivo, Dusty asked Vicki Wickham and Simon Napier-Bell to write English lyrics for it. They thought they had written a song about avoiding commitment. Dusty, as Napier-Bell wrote for the Observer, “turned it on its head and made it into a passionate lament of loneliness and love.” The vocal, recorded in the stairwell at Philips studio, after the engineer noticed how great the natural echo sounded, is her greatest performance. Heartbreak never sounded quite so life affirming. LB
The Strokes
2001
The Strokes’ deliberately restricted musical palette cut through the wimpy rock, oafish new metal and played-out dance music prevalent at the time like a hot poker through blancmange. Driven by a riff pinched from Tom Petty’s American Girl, Julian Casablancas’s insouciant mumble details the end of a relationship, tapping into a myth of male freedom as beloved to rock as his Converse All Stars. AN
Where Did Our Love Go?
The Supremes
1964
The Supremes’ first No 1 was originally written by Holland-Dozier-Holland for the Marvelettes, who rejected the song as “childish”. But the tune’s secret hero is an Italian teenager called Mike Valvano, who created the unique footstomp rhythm by marching upon two planks of wood. The timeless original is almost matched by Soft Cell’s 1981 electro segue with the extended version of Tainted Love, and a wonderfully camp 1971 falsetto soul take by Donnie Elbert. GM
You Keep Me Hangin’ On
The Supremes
1966
Trying to choose the greatest of all Motown singles is folly, but this searing thriller has more claims than most. A masochist’s anthem that sees songwriters/producers Holland-Dozier-Holland, Motown’s in-house band the Funk Brothers and lead vocalist Diana Ross at a peak of thematic symbiosis, as the morse code proto-funk guitar meets the emotional peril of the lyrics head-on. But when Ross sings, “Why don’t you be a man about it?” she transforms plea into rebellion in an ecstatic instant. GM
(My Heart Is) Closed for the Season
Bettye Swann
1968
Despite the unquestionable gorgeousness of her voice – marrying a warm, gospel-tinged southernness to the sophistication of northern soul – Swann enjoyed little commercial success in her relatively short recording career. This slinky little number from 1968 is a little-celebrated track from her back catalogue, and sees a woman addressing her cheating lover: “I know what’s on your mind,” she says ruefully. “Forget it baby, not this time.” Swann’s voice is particularly impressive here, running from threadbare to defiant, and coupled with some swishy-sounding horns, a little marching drum and an icy, clanging rhythm that runs throughout, one gets the distinct impression that this is a woman who is down, but not out. Lbar
Tom Waits
1980
Heaving with strings and mournful horns, this deeply moving ballad is a final, painful farewell to Waits’s ex-lover Rickie Lee Jones. He creeps out of bed at dawn, leaving behind everything but his boots and jacket, including the girl whose heart he is breaking. “I swear to God by Christmas time,” he sings, as though trying to salve a guilty conscience. “There’ll be someone else to hold you.” And then he’s gone. GT
Make it Easy on Yourself
The Walker Brothers
1965
This melodramatic Bacharach-David ballad was originally penned for Dionne Warwick and then given to soulman Jerry Butler for a 1962 US hit. But this version from intellectual boy band the Walker Brothers, sung magnificently by Scott Walker and given wings by a towering orchestral arrangement from British Phil Spector Johnny Franz, is the one that has entered the pantheon. Scott defines the role of tortured stoic as he tearfully concedes his true love to a dastardly rival. GM
Amy Winehouse
2003
Winehouse was a healthy-looking 19-year-old when she released this sassy, politically incorrect jibe at older new man types. Sensitivity isn’t high on her list of priorities; she wants a firm hand: “Why you always put me in control?” she goads. “Feel like a lady and you my ladyboy… Are you gay?” The music is searching for the spark of Back to Black, but the voice and attitude announced a major talent. GT
You Know I’m No Good
Amy Winehouse
2006
The second single from the Back in Black album is an unusual heartbreak song in that the disdain and bitterness is reserved for its author. “I told you I was trouble” she warns, before “little carpet burns” give away her infidelity when she is in the bath. The version of the song with Ghostface Killah, on his More Fish album, is equally good. LB
Tammy Wynette
1968
When Tammy Wynette released her fifth single, she’d already notched up two failed marriages. Despite being 26, she was well qualified to sing Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman’s tearjerker about a relationship in litigation. “Divorce”, “custody” and “hell” are spelt out so four-year-old Joe doesn’t twig that soon Daddy won’t be living here anymore. Wynette’s tremulous voice transcends the gimmick giving the song plenty of pathos. She eventually found happiness: her fifth marriage lasted 20 years until her death in 1998. CC
A Man Needs a Maid
Neil Young
1972
“Just someone to keep my house clean,” he sings. “Fix my meals and go away.” Charming. Young copped flak from feminists at the time, but even a cursory listen to this complex and beautiful song from Harvest – with its crystalline vocal and terrific Jack Nitzsche orchestral arrangement – gives the overwhelming impression of a man reaching out for a lifeline, emotionally helpless without a woman – any woman – by his side. GT
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Historical Football Kits
A Brief History of Football Kit Design in England and Scotland
© Dave Moor (May 2009)
The Victorian Period (1857-1899)
The game of football is generally considered to date back to the mob football games played in the Middle Ages between rival villages without rules and with unlimited players on each side. The Royal Shrovetide football match is a supposed survival of this early form of the game. Modern scholarship has, however, revealed that small-side games, played by young men according to locally agreed rules, were commonplace and as such, went largely unrecorded.
The first recognised rules of football were laid down by English public schools to govern inter-house competition and fell broadly into two groups; the handling game developed at Rugby School and the dribbling game that emerged from Eton, although other schools such as Harrow, Winchester, Uppingham, Shrewsbury, Marlborough and Charterhouse all had their own versions. In keeping with the philosophies of the public schools of the time, these games were extraordinarily violent.
When the young men from these schools went up to university they formed football clubs but games descended into chaos as there was no consensus on the rules. The first attempt to draw up a uniform set of rules took place at Cambridge University in 1848. Although the originals are lost, a set of Cambridge Rules from 1856 survives in the library of Shrewsbury School.
The first football clubs also emerged around this time, most notably Sheffield FC (1857 - the world's oldest club), Hallam (1860) and Notts County (1862). This led to the development of local rules (specifically "Sheffield Rules" and "Nottingham Rules"), which were widely adopted by the newly emerging clubs in the north and midlands. Scotland's oldest club, Queen's Park also developed their own unique code. The majority of games took place within a club, school or university and it took some time for the notion of inter-club matches to catch on. When they did teams might consist of 9 to 18 players and it was common for different codes to be used in the first and second halves.
There were no uniform kits: players would turn out in whatever they had to hand and teams would be distinguished by wearing distinctively coloured caps, scarves or sashes over cricket whites (many clubs were formed by cricketers seeking a team game for the winter) or whatever else players had to hand. The first reference to "colours" comes from the rules of Sheffield FC in 1857, which stated:
"Each player must provide himself with a red and dark blue flannel cap, one colour to be worn by each side."
In 1863 leading players formed the Football Association and drew up the first set of national laws of the game, drawing upon the Cambridge Rules and those of the Sheffield Club . Spectators were generally regarded as a nuisance and the game was a robust pursuit for gentlemen from public schools. The leading clubs of the day were formed by old boys of the major public schools ( Old Etonians, Old Carthusians etc), by officers serving in the Army ( Royal Engineers ) and at Oxford and Cambridge Universities .
The introduction of the English FA Cup in 1871-72 marked a turning point as it required all participating teams to play by the FA Rules. Furthermore, the difficulty of telling two teams apart prompted one newspaper correspondent reporting on Birmingham Association's appearance in the FA Cup to write in 1879:
"In football it is a most essential point that the members of one team should be clearly distinguished from those of the other. The only way this can be effected is for each club to have a distinct uniform as the diversity of dress displayed yesterday not only confused the members of the team but the spectators were quite unable to say whether a man belonged to one team or the other."
The first uniform kits began to appear around 1870. In England colours were often those of the public schools and sports clubs with which the game was associated: Blackburn Rovers first wore white jerseys adorned with the blue Maltese Cross of Shrewsbury School, where several of their founders were educated. Reading first played in the salmon pink, pale blue and claret colours of the rowing club that spawned them. Caps, cowls and other headgear were de rigeur throughout the decade.
In first FA Cup final in 1872 , Wanderers wore pink, black and cerise while their opponents, The Royal Engineers played in dark red and navy shirts. The game was played almost exclusively by men from the upper middle class and minor aristocracy, men who could afford to buy a shirt in their club's colours from their tailor. That said, plain white shirts were very popular, being both relatively cheap and easily obtainable. As one might expect, given that players bought their own jerseys, there was considerable variation within a team. Early photographs of The Wednesday , for example, show players wearing hoops of varying widths.
In Scotland the game was pioneered by Queen's Park FC (formed 1867) who affiliated to the (English) Football Association and helped form the Scottish FA in 1873. The Scottish team that played England in the first ever international wore the navy blue shirts of Queen's Park - the club did not adopt their famous narrow hoops until October 1873.
The English game continued to be dominated by former public school clubs until the early 1880s but in Scotland, association football was taken up enthusiastically by the working class in the central belt of Scotland during the 1870s. The formation of Hibernian FC in 1875 by impoverished Irish emigres living in Edinburgh marked another departure from the game's
English upper middle class origins. With the active support of the Catholic church, similar clubs sprang up all over Scotland, wearing green and white to celebrate their Irish roots. The sectarianism that was a feature of Scottish life quickly became apparent: blue (usually navy), white and red are the colours of Unionism (and were the original colours of Hearts , for example) and became associated with the Presbyterian establishment while green and white were universally adopted by the clubs with roots in the poor Catholic minority. These sectarian affiliations faded away over time with the notable exception of the intense rivalry between Rangers and Celtic .
The first manufacturer of sports wear in the UK was Bukta who were established in 1879.
When Darwen , a team of cotton mill workers met the Old Etonians in the FA Cup semi-final of 1879, two worlds collided. Darwen were derided for wearing trousers cut off at the knee (held up by braces) instead of knickerbockers and a motley collection of shirts. The Darreners took the gentlemen-players from Eton to two replays before they were beaten, exhausted by working full shifts at the cotton-mills and repeated train journeys to London. Nevertheless this match is regarded as the turning point between the old establishment of gentleman-players and the new breed of working-class clubs emerging in Lancashire and the Midlands.
Players' tops were often described as "jerseys" (a close fitting knitted garment without a collar) and occasionally as "guernseys" (a heavier garment similar to a jersey and associated with fishermen). Burnley's tops in 1884 were described as blue and white "sarks," which means a loose fitting chemise or shirt (with collar). HFK associate Alick Milne, has suggested that if players placed their nuts in an "Aldernay" the association with the Channel Islands would be complete.
Popular designs were self-coloured or hooped, (described as "striped").
Vertical stripes did not appear until circa 1883, when the term "shirts" appeared for the first time. While it was technically possibly to produce vertical striped tops before this, it may have been cheaper to produce knitted garments in horizontal stripes. I speculate that the introduction of vertically striped shirts in the early 1880s was a result of mass participation in the game that stimulated a dramatic growth in demand for tops in distinctive colours that could be produced at economic prices. Economies of scale may have helped Bukta, for example, offer a range of shirts, knickers and stockings in a limited number of patterns at a price that local gentlemen's outfitters were unable to compete with.
The term "quartered" was used to describe shirts or jerseys where the main body was made from four
separate panels, such as worn by Newton Heath (shown here) and Blackburn Rovers , a design which became known as "halved" in the 1890s. The term "harlequin" was used to describe the pattern we now call "quartered" (as worn most famously and much later by Bristol Rovers ). This confusion of terms is not just a challenge to modern chroniclers: various contemporary sketches published in newspapers of the time portray teams wearing "quarters" when photographic evidence indicates they were "halved." Blackburn Rovers persisted in describing their halved shirts as "quartered" until the outbreak of World War Two.
Players who were picked for their county or international team often had the appropriate badge sewn onto their jerseys. Recent research by HFK contributor Jim Jenkinson suggests that the Dumbarton players in this picture represented a Scottish Counties XI in
matches with the Glasgow, Birmingham, and Lancashire FAs (whose crests we believe they are sporting) while those in caps had recently played for the national team. If you refer back to the 1873-74 picture of Queen's Park above, you will notice that several capped players have the Scottish lion rampant crudely sewn onto their jerseys with swatches of the original navy jerseys.
Over time the exotic colour combinations of the earliest era of organised English football began to disappear. I believe two factors were at work here, one practical and the other economic. The early rules made players in front of the ball "offside" (as in rugby football) and the game featured forwards who would dribble the ball towards their opponent's goal supported by a mob of players. Changes in the rules allowed players to pass the ball forward (a tactic pioneered by Queen's Park FC ) making it essential that the player in possession could distinguish his colleagues from opponents. While multi-coloured shirts might look attractive as the players trot onto the pitch, they can be difficult to pick out on a gloomy winter afternoon, especially when covered with mud. It is interesting to note that rugby union clubs generally retained their multi-coloured shirts, perhaps because the offside rule means that only players behind the ball are in play (so there is less need to pick out a team mate at a distance or in front of play).
Economic factors were probably more significant. A survey of Scottish clubs in the 1870s and early 1880s reveals that most clubs played in plain jerseys (navy, red, maroon, green or rarely white) or narrow hoops in a combination of two colours. Remember that players had to buy their own kit in those days: the working class lads that took up the sport in Scotland would not be inclined to join clubs that required expensive colour combinations associated with public schools or universities that they had no connection with.
During the 1880s the balance of power in England shifted decisively from the upper middle class clubs of the south towards the industrial heartlands of the midlands and northwest. It is now thought that Darwen FC were the first to offer illicit inducements to Scottish players when they poached Fergie Suter , a stonemason who played for Partick Thistle after a friendly between the clubs in 1878. Suter was unable to continue his trade (the local stone in Lancashire being unworkable) but appeared to continue to live comfortably. The club denied paying him but Suter, disarmingly later said "I would interview the treasurer as occasion arose."
Rows over broken time payments, poaching, financial inducements or the offer of a job (with paid time off for training) became a serious issue and led in 1885 to a decision by the FA to recognise professionalism in England. At the same time a lack of any formal structure to fixtures (which led to teams failing to show up if they could arrange a more lucrative fixture) was bringing the game into disrepute and undermining the need for the new professional teams to generate revenue.
The Football League was formed in 1888 to address this issue and provide the leading clubs with regular fixtures against each other. These clubs were controlled by self-made men with successful careers in the new industries of the late Victorian period and whose interest was in the potential of association football as a commercial venture. Grounds were enclosed so that turnstiles could be installed and spectators charged admission. As association football developed as a spectator sport, the importance of supporters being able to pick out their own team from a distance became evident, giving added impetus to the development of simple kits in contrasting, primary colours. One of the consequences of the introduction of professionalism in England was that the best players in Scotland were induced to move south to play for wages. The Scottish Football League was formed in 1890 but payments to players were not permitted in Scotland until 1893: even then most clubs could not afford to match the wages on offer in England and the drain of talent to the south remained a bone of contention well into the 1980s.
Once clubs became professional the expense of buying playing kits fell on the club rather than the players. Secretary-managers with an eye for the accounts naturally preferred to spend as little as possible reinforcing the trend towards simpler kits in basic colours.
When Wolves travelled to Sunderland in September 1890, both the hosts and visitors turned out in red and white stripes. To avoid a repetition, clubs
were instructed at the AGM of 1891 to register their colours for the following season, with a stipulation that no two clubs could register the same colours. This cutting from the 11 July 1891 edition of the Burnley Express (click for a larger image) indicates that Stoke and Darwen were waiting to see what colours Burnley would register while Wolves adopted orange and blue to avoid clashing with Sunderland .
This rule was relaxed when the Second Division was added in 1892 and it became a requirement that each club should have a set of white tops to be worn when colours clashed (presumably teams that normally wore white had coloured alternatives.) The team that had been members of the Football League the longest was entitled to play in their regular strip. As a rule the home team changed when colours clashed.
In 1891 Aston Villa wore claret jerseys with contrasting light blue sleeves and a distinctive neck band for the first time. Different shirts were adopted over the following two seasons before this style reappeared in 1894, remaining substantially unchanged for over 60 years. This combination was the first truly iconic football shirt and was widely copied.
Heavy shin guards were worn outside the socks. In England the colour of
stockings were not registered until the turn of the century. Scottish FA records do, however, record include "hose," which were usually self-coloured and sometimes horizontally striped.
Knickerbockers, which had to cover the knees were only available in white, black or navy blue (occasionally grey). It was not unusual for clubs to switch from one colour to another or indeed for players in the same team to wear differently coloured knickers. Some clubs registered their knickers simply as being "dark." Players called up for international duty were provided with a shirt by their FA but had to bring their own knickers and socks: HFK has evidence that the England team turned out in a mixture of white, navy and black knickers at least until 1897.
One of the difficulties of recording kits from this period is that until 1890, there was no requirement on clubs to register their colours with the Football League so we must rely on press coverage and other sources.
By the close of the century most of the leading clubs were wearing strips that would be recognisable today.
The Twentieth Century (1900-1939)
By 1904 the regulations that required footballers to cover their knees were relaxed and shorts (still known as “knickerbockers” or "knickers") became shorter. Shirts and shorts were close fitting and made from tough, heavyweight natural fibres, usually cotton but sometimes wool. Socks were initially self-coloured but quickly design features such as contrasting rings ("cadet stripes") on the turnover began to appear. The main stocking colour was always dark (black or navy blue or, less frequently red or royal blue): pale colours did not generally appear for another 50 years.
At the League AGM in 1904 (and again in 1906) the secretary of Liverpool FC put forward a proposal that would require every team in the competition to play in red shirts or jerseys and white knickers at home while visiting sides would wear white tops and dark knickers. The motion was defeated on both occasions.
Knickers were still only available in white, black or navy blue (occasionally grey). It was exceedingly rare for clubs to wear matching shirts and shorts although Swansea Town (now Swansea City) have always worn all-white. Arsenal wore a change kit that featured matching shirts and shorts in dark blue.
Shirts with laced crew necks appeared and became very popular in England (in Scotland buttoned crew necks were more common) but a variety of collar designs were evident. Striped shirts were popular and the trend was for stripes to become much wider, (typically 2"-3") than they had been during the previous century,
when 1" stripes were common. Not only were these broad stripes easier to see, they tend to make the wearer appear taller while hoops emphasize the wearer's bulk. This seems to be the reason why rugby teams favour hoops while soccer clubs prefer vertical stripes. Although the 3" stripes worn by Aberdare (above) were the most common, other variants appeared such as those worn by Brentford (above) and Leeds City and the broad, 6" stripes adopted by Stockport County (left) just before the outbreak of World War One.
Stripes may have become closely identified with association football but hooped tops were not uncommon, particularly in Scotland, where hoops of various widths became increasingly popular and remain so to this day. The 1" hoops that had
been popular before the introduction of vertical stripes continued to be worn by Queen's Park and East Stirlingshire but otherwise they began to disappear, replaced by 2" and 3" versions, such as those famously adopted by Celtic in 1903.
Novel designs that appeared in this period included the bold V or chevron design, first worn by Manchester United in the 1909 FA Cup Final. This was one of the first truly original designs of the twentieth century later taken up Clapton Orient , Birmingham , Glossop and famously, Airdrieonians ).
Although these gradually faded from fashion, the chevron design continued to be favoured by Rugby League clubs in the north of England and has been revived on several occasions by, for example, Burnley and Scunthorpe United .
Yoked shirts were first worn by Liverpool as a change kit and were notably worn by Bradford City when they won the FA Cup in 1911. This design proved rather less popular than the chevron, although they were adopted briefly by Motherwell and a few other clubs.
Pink and Salmon Pink gradually fell out of favour and disappeared by 1915. Shades of light blue continued to be popular. The reasons for this are obscure but we can speculate that pink was not considered sufficiently manly for the working men who both played and watched the game in ever growing numbers. Perhaps the English adage "pink for a girl and blue for a boy" has a wider application than what baby wears.
There are many challenges to the interpretation of photographs from the late Victorian and Edwardian era. Dyes were not colour fast, for example and kits would become very faded after a season of laundering. The photographic technology of the period was more sensitive to the blue end of the spectrum than other colours with the result that tones of blue tend to appear rather pale while reds and yellows appear relatively dark.
In 1909 goalkeepers in the Football League were required to wear distinctive tops so that match official could distinguish them in a scrum of players - previously they wore the same shirts as the outfield players. At first the rules stipulated that these be red or blue but within a few years, green was allowed and became the standard in England. In Scotland, goalkeepers generally wore deep yellow. There were no specially produced tops for 'keepers who normally wore heavy woollen sweaters, often teamed with flat caps to keep the sun out of their eyes.
The Football League was suspended at the end of the 1914-15 season for the duration of the Great War. Some clubs continued to play with official sanction in order to boost civilian morale but were forbidden to pay players. The majority closed down for the duration and more than a few went out of business. In Scotland the First Division continued but the Scottish Second Division was suspended and it appears from Brian McColl's research that the members were disenfranchised around 1917.
HFK's contacts at the Victoria & Albert Museum have indicated that dyes from the Victorian and Edwardian periods generally came from Germany and the supply would have ceased with the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. It follows that during and after the war, dyes were sourced from UK and other manufacturers and that the shades of some kits may have differed from the pre-war versions. Considerable caution has to be exercised in interpreting old black and white photographs, however, due partly to the technical problems of reproduction and because dyes were not colour fast in those days. After a long season of weekly boil washes, kits looked extremely washed out.
When the Football League resumed in 1919 the First and Second Divisions were both extended from 20 to 22 clubs each. The following season the First Division of the Southern League was incorporated as associate members of the Football League to form Division Three. A year later the leading northern non-league sides were incorporated and the regional Third Divisions South and North were formed. The Scottish Football League also resumed in 1919 but without a Second Division. The surviving members formed a rebel Central League that proved such a threat that it was incorporated into the Scottish League structure in 1921 .
Bukta's domination as suppliers of football kits was challenged by the formation of a new company in 1920, Humphrey Brothers Clothing, which became in 1924 Umbro . There was little innovation in kit design during the 1920s although, with both the English and Scottish leagues having expanded, there was considerably more diversity. In Scotland, hooped tops in a variety of styles became more popular than ever.
In 1921 the Football League ruled that the visiting club should change shirts in the event of a clash (previously the senior team changed): normally (and to save on the expense of having additional equipment), change shirts were worn with the usual shorts and stockings. Bradford (Park Avenue) , who wore broad hoops in red, amber and black, adopted white change shirts with a broad band in the club colours, a kit that was identical to that worn by the Bradford Northern rugby league team.
In 1927 the Scottish Football League's management committee decided that clubs should wear white shorts when at home, black when playing away. The reasons behind this bizarre rule are lost and it proved very unpopular with clubs and fans alike: there is some evidence that the more influential sides openly flouted the rule, which was rescinded at the SFL's Annual General Meeting in June 1929.
During the 1930s several innovations to kit design appeared. The laced crew neck began to disappear in favour of collared shirts with a short fly (a style that remained traditional in rugby union until quite recently). Everton added a stripe to the sides of their shorts in 1930, the first time that this style of trim had been seen in the twentieth century (it was not uncommon during Victorian times for teams to have a contrasting stripe sewn into the side of their knickerbockers).
In 1933 Herbert Chapman introduced a radical new look to the Arsenal kit incorporating contrasting sleeves, navy stockings with narrow white hoops and a very large collar. Depending on which source you believe, Chapman either noticed someone at the ground wearing a red sleeveless sweater over a white shirt or played golf with famous cartoonist of the day Tom Webster who wore something similar. Although shirts with contrasting sleeves and even hooped stockings had all been seen before, the combination proved to be one of the most iconic kits of all time, making the Arsenal team instantly recognisable.
In the 1933 FA Cup final between Manchester City and Everton , numbers were worn on players' shirts for the first time: Everton's players were numbered 1-11 while City's shirts (pictured) went from 12-22. In 1939 numbers on the back of players' shirts became mandatory in the Football League although Chapman's Arsenal had experimented with numbered shirts earlier. Kit became more generously cut, giving rise to the baggy shorts reaching to the knee so fondly remembered on shorter players.
In 1939 the Football League and Scottish Football League were suspended following the outbreak of war with Nazi Germany.
The Post War Period (1946-1962)
Numbered shirts were first introduced in Scotland in 1946 but were not compulsory until 1960. Celtic , rather quirkily, did not comply until 1960 and then insisted on wearing their numbers on the players' shorts (and not on their shirts) until 1995.
Clothing rationing immediately after the war limited the ability of clubs to replace their kits and several were forced to change from their traditional colours to those that they could purchase with ration coupons, which were often provided by supporters from their own personal rations. Southport FC turned out for several seasons in green and white hoops, a gift from one of the club’s directors made during the war; Oldham (pictured left) had to borrow a set of red and white hooped jerseys from the local rugby league club and West Brom wore plain blue. It appears that Clyde FC may have turned out in khaki shirts during 1946-47, although the reason for this is obscure and we have been unable to corroborate. Laced crew necks all but disappeared aside from a few die-hard traditionalist clubs in favour of collared shirts. Hooped stockings became extremely popular. During the early Fifties most clubs stuck to their traditional designs with only minor alterations to shirt and stocking trims.
In 1953 Bolton Wanderers played in the FA Cup Final in a novel kit made from shiny material, the first time that artificial fabric had been used in the manufacture of shirts and shorts. Torquay United and Queen's Park Rangers were among the clubs to adopt this new style over the following seasons.
The first predominantly pale stockings appeared in the early 1950s and by the end of the decade white socks became widely available. Short sleeved shirts, which had first appeared in pre-war cup finals , turned up rather more regularly.
Exposure to European football led to a dawning realisation that British football was perhaps not as superior as it had always been supposed. England’s 3-6 humiliation at Wembley by Hungary marked the beginning of a new era and over the rest of the decade, with Hibernian and Manchester United leading the way, clubs began to participate in European competition despite the initial hostility of the FA and SFA.
The debacle against Hungary may not have persuaded the English FA to review their antiquated approach to team selection and tactics but it did inspire Umbro to produce a new, streamlined kit which was first worn by the England team in November 1954 . The "Continental" style, as it was called, featured sleek V necks instead of cumbersome collars, short sleeves and lightweight,
cotton shorts cut much shorter than the traditional style worn in the UK (many European sides had been wearing light weight shorts since before the war). These modern-looking strips caught on quickly with clubs and by 1957 almost every team in England and Scotland was wearing the new-look outfits.
Rather sensibly, most Scottish clubs retained long sleeved versions of their shirts including old-fashioned collars to protect their players during the harsh winter months, wearing the Continental style during the warmer spells at the beginning and end of each season.
The new style of kit was generally matched with traditional designs, such as Oldham's much loved blue and white shirts but some innovative designs also appeared. Most notable of these was the candy striped shirt first worn by
Manchester City when they won the FA Cup in 1956 . Aston Villa wore a similar top in light blue and claret when they won the Cup the following year . On both occasions, the teams had to wear change kits because of a clash of colours and took advantage of the situation to wear these novel shirts. (Although a glance back through this history will reveal that Brentford were wearing much the same sort of shirt at the turn of the century, proving that there is nothing new in shirt design.)
Lightweight nylon stockings rapidly replaced the old heavy woolen versions and bulky shin pads became considerably lighter, reducing the familiar bulky outline. Boots also became considerably lighter and were now cut away from from the ankle, reducing support and protection while allowing greater agility and ball control.
The Sixties and Seventies (1962-1979)
Beginning around 1962, crew necks started to replace V-necks. Shirts became ever tighter, shorts became very short indeed and stockings were lightweight. Long sleeves returned to fashion and were generally worn as they were designed rather than being rolled up to the elbow, as had been the fashion until the introduction of the Continental kits in 1955.
It might be supposed that technical advances in textile manufacture and dye technology would have resulted in greater innovation in kit design. The reverse was true. The Sixties was a period when tradition was unpopular and sleek, simplified design in everything from furniture to fashion was the norm. Plain kits looked better under floodlights, which now became universal and allowed mid week games to be played at night. Floodlighting made white kits stand out
particularly well and there was a vogue for playing in all-white. Coventry started the trend in 1959 and during the following decade Tranmere , Bradford PA , Exeter , Brighton , Crystal Palace , Scunthorpe , Walsall , York , Doncaster , Port Vale and, most famously of all, Leeds United all dropped their traditional kits for white shirts and shorts. (The trend in Scotland was similar, with Dundee United , ES Clydebank , Morton and Stirling Albion all adopting white strips in this period.)
In 1962 Jimmy Hill, seeking to reinvigorate the under-achieving Coventry team launched his "Sky Blue Revolution" which included a smart all sky-blue kit for the players. The idea was taken up by Chelsea (1963), Liverpool (1964) and Aberdeen (1966) setting a trend that led to many well-loved traditional designs disappearing in favour of matching shirts and shorts, sometimes with contrasting stockings. Traditional colours
were usually retained in the trimmings so Bradford (Park Avenue) , for example retained green rings at the collar and cuffs while their neighbours, Bradford City , dropped their unique claret and amber stripes in favour of plain claret (1972-73) followed by all-amber (1973-74). A survey of kits worn around 1970 reveals a picture of drab uniformity.
In the 1960s clubs started to wear numbers on their shorts for the first time, an innovation started by Chelsea that became practically universal in the 1980s and 1990s.
In 1969 the Football League introduced a regulation banning navy blue shirts because, they alleged, these were too easily confused with match officials' black kit. (Teams were already not permitted to wear black shirts.) As a result Southend were forced to switch to navy and white stripes while Arsenal and Spurs both dropped their usual navy change tops in favour of yellow ones. No such concerns affected the Scottish Football League, where navy tops had been popular since the Victorian age and were, of course, the traditional colours of the national team.
That same season visiting English teams were required to change shorts and/or socks if they were deemed too similar to their opponents even if their shirts did not clash. This led, for example, to Arsenal sometimes playing in red shorts with their usual red and white "home" shirts, Everton wearing black or (later on) blue shorts and Liverpool wearing all white at Southampton and Sunderland. This unnecessary practice does not appear to have been enshrined in the rules but continues to be enforced in the Football League and (to a lesser extent) the English Premier League to this day. As a result teams now frequently commission home, away and third kits that can be mixed and matched while the big clubs will have alternative shorts and socks for each of their kit sets.
During the Seventies a reaction gradually set in as clubs began to assert their individuality once more. In 1969, the manager of Aston Villa , Tommy Docherty, introduced a radical redesign of the club’s traditional strip featuring a collar with V inset. Within a few years almost every League club was wearing similar collars.
(These had in fact first appeared in the mid 1950s and were worn by Hearts during the early 1960s but had not caught on.) Many clubs returned to traditional themes. Bristol Rovers , for example dropped their plain blue shirts and once again played in the traditional quartered shirts that made them immediately identifiable. Huddersfield Town and Sheffield Wednesday who had also "modernised" their appearance with plain blue shirts (in Wednesday's case with smart white sleeves) returned to the blue and white stripes that they had worn since time immemorial.
Several clubs went a step further and introduced novel variations on their traditional colours that again made them instantly recognisable. Crystal Palace , a club never shy of experimenting, introduced a wonderful white strip with broad claret and light blue panels in 1971. Birmingham City introduced
their much-loved "penguin strip" that same year while Carlisle made their debut in the First Division in 1974 wearing a similar outfit but with red trim on each side of the white panel. Also in 1974 Burnley added a dramatic V to their plain claret shirts.
In 1973 Leeds’ manager Don Revie, a man with an eye for a gimmick with a commercial application, entered into a deal with a brand new kit manufacturer, Admiral, that would lead to a revolution in kit design with far-reaching effects. Admiral's proposal was to redesign the club's kit in such a way that the result could be copyrighted and replicas sold to the general public, with the club receiving a royalty for each replica sold. The new Leeds kit was practically identical to the Umbro version that preceded it with only the Admiral logos to
distinguish it. Admiral's stroke of genius was to create a radically different change kit in all-yellow with blue and white trim, which Leeds wore in all their away games, regardless of whether the home team's kit clashed with Leeds' white. The term "change kit" was rapidly replaced with the misnomer "away kit," which has now become universal as a result.
Admiral pursued a vigorous and innovative marketing campaign, targeting the top clubs, radically redesigning their kits for showcase events to ensure maximum exposure. Manchester United switched to Admiral in 1975, followed by West Ham and Southampton in 1976, both of whom unveiled their new Admiral strips in important cup finals . The new concept quickly caught on and while kits supplied to the clubs were well made, using natural fibres and
embroidered detailing, those sold to the public were manufactured as cheaply as possible in nylon with heat-applied plastic logos that broke up after a few washes. These cheaply made replicas were sold at two or three times the price of the generic copies that preceded them and became must-have items for the nation's young fans, proudly worn on the school playing field and at the weekend kick about in the park.
Around this time the Football League introduced a rule that away teams should change their shorts and/or stockings if these clashed with those of the home team. Everton, for example, often played in blue shorts while Manchester United wore black shorts with their red shirts when the occasion demanded.
The established manufacturers, Umbro and Bukta, responded to Admiral's challenge in 1976 with the introduction of a new range of kits featuring their own logos incorporated into the trim on the sleeves, shorts and stockings (Admiral also launched a similar range) as well as ensuring their trademarks appeared prominently on the chest.
While Admiral challenged Umbro and Bukta for contracts with the leading teams, a new wave of sportswear manufacturers seized the opportunity to court clubs lower down the leagues. One of the first was Hobott who redesigned Sheffield United's kit after the Blades dropped into the Third Division in 1979 (presumably Admiral, who had provided their previous kits lost interest) and went on to pick up contracts with many lower league clubs in England. The giant German sportswear manufacturer, Adidas, who enjoyed a near monopoly in Europe, appeared on the English scene in 1977 when they supplied Ipswich Town and Middlesbrough with their iconic three-stripe trim kit.
Towards the end of the 1970s there was increasing pressure on clubs to feature sponsor’s logos on player’s shirts, pressure that was resolutely resisted by the football and broadcasting authorities. The first ever sponsorship deal involved West German team, Eintracht Braunschweig who wore the Jägermeister logo type on their shirts in 1973. The first shirt sponsorship deal among the UK's senior clubs was brokered by former Wolves striker Derek Dougan, who joined joined Kettering Town, then in the Southern League, as chief executive after he retired. Within a month he brokered a deal with a local company, Kettering Tyres, whose name appeared on the players' shirts in a match against Bath City on January 24 1976. Four days later the Football Association ordered the sponsorship be removed. Dougan removed only the final letters, changing the wording on the shirts to "Kettering T" and claimed this was nothing to do with their sponsors but simply the name of the club. In April 1976 the FA ordered the wording removed under the threat of a £1,000 fine.
Kettering, along with Derby County and Bolton Wanderers then submitted a proposal to the FA to allow shirt sponsorship, which was accepted on June 3 1977. Kettering were, however, unable to find a sponsor for the following season.
In 1977 Hibernian became the first top-level UK club to wear shirts carrying sponsorship (by Bukta, the kit manufacturer). Derby County landed the first English deal with Saab in 1978 but the sponsored shirts were never worn after the pre-season photo shoot. It fell to Liverpool a year later to wear the first shirts to carry a sponsor’s name in the Football League in 1979.
The Eighties – The Market Rules (1980-1989)
Once Hibs and Liverpool broke the mould clubs began to exploit the potential revenue from selling shirt sponsorship. The BBC and ITV companies refused to broadcast matches featuring sponsored shirts, forcing clubs to remove sponsors’ logos when the cameras were present. Coventry City thought they were on a winner when they introduced a kit that incorporated the logo of the Talbot car manufacturing company into their design but the TV companies boycotted them until they introduced an alternate strip for televised games.
In 1983 the broadcasters finally gave way and allowed sponsored shirts to be shown: immediately the value of a sponsorship deal with a club that would feature regularly on Match of the Day or the equivalent ITV programmes went through the roof. At the time, Football League regulations restricted the size of logos to a maximum of 81 square centimeters (32 square inches) but for televised games they had to be half this size.
Adidas made considerable inroads into the increasingly competitive kit provider market, capturing important contracts with Manchester United (1980) and Liverpool (1985) as well as many smaller clubs.
Traditional cotton shirts were replaced by artificial polyester fabrics: from the manufacturers' point of view these were not only cheaper, lighter and less moisture absorbent but also could be processed through a novel process of dye sublimation. This allowed colours and complex patterns to be applied with heat to the basic fabric in a manner not possible with natural fabrics and led to a design revolution.
The new polyester kits became increasingly intricate as more manufacturers became involved with an eye for the developing replica kit market. French manufacturer Le Coq Sportif introduced pinstripes on Chelsea's 1981-82 shirts while Spall created a similar design for Blackburn Rovers' yellow change kit. The French company went on to introduce some truly elegant designs for Everton , Aston Villa and Portsmouth and can be credited with creating
the definitive 1980s design feature, the shadow stripe which was first worn by Tottenham Hotspur in 1982-83.
A third colour was introduced to the strips of most clubs: Liverpool , for example, who had introduced yellow to their kit in 1976, featured pale gray trim in the mid-1980s and later dark green.
A number of clubs celebrated their centenaries during the decade and one of these, Derby County , introduced special kit to celebrate the occasion in 1984, establishing a precedent that would become the norm some 20 years later.
The monopoly enjoyed by Umbro and Bukta enjoyed since time immemorial was now broken as a new breed of kit manufacturers stepped in with sophisticated new brands. Le Coq Sportif (France), Adidas (Germany), Patrick, Matchwinner and Hobott (UK) captured significant sections of the market that now included selling replica kits to fans. Following the success of the Danish team in the 1986 World Cup, their kit supplier Hummel, made significant inroads in England supplying versions of their distinctive and complicated halved designs to Southampton , Coventry and Aston Villa . This design soon fell out of favour but Hummel's distinctive chevron sleeve trim remained prominent.
Admiral, who had done so much to transform kits in the previous decade over-extended themselves and entered financial administration, although the brand re-emerged later in the decade under new ownership.
Towards the end of the decade shirts became more generously cut as the new lightweight fabrics became widely available. Shirts were produced with both short and long sleeves and players could choose which to wear (unless they played for Arsenal , where the captain decided if the team would play in long or short sleeves). Improvements in the dye sublimation process allowed for intricate designs to be printed into the fabric itself, permitting manufacturers to counteract the burgeoning market in cheap counterfeit kits that had begun to appear.
The Nineties (1990-2000)
During the '90s football was transformed as the old terraces were swept away and huge amounts of cash were injected into top-flight football through lucrative deals with satellite TV companies. The introduction of all-seat stadia and increased admission charges finally reduced the problem of hooliganism that had plagued the game over the previous decade and the fall in attendances that had begun in the 1960s was reversed. The marketing of replica kits, which reflected a new era of brash confidence, now exploded and everyone who considered him or her self to be a supporter expected to turn out on match day wearing the current replica kit. Shirts had to look good not only on the pitch but also when worn with jeans. Artificial fabrics were now universally used, with manufacturers vying with each other every season to extol the remarkable properties of their latest miracle fabric.
The leading clubs faced increasing criticism for exploiting their fans by changing strips too frequently. As a result of this pressure, several top clubs entered into a voluntary agreement to retain their kits for two seasons. By the end of the decade clubs were required to include a “sell by” date but managed to subvert the spirit of the agreement by introducing "third kits" and rotating the introduction of new strips every season.
In the FA Cup final of 1991 Tottenham Hotspur once again set a trend by turning out in long, baggy shorts. Many sniggered at the time but within no time at all, every team in the England and Scotland was turning out in similar kit.
In 1991 Adidas launched a re branding exercise and introduced their new range of sportswear under the Adidas Equipment brand. The iconic three stripe trim disappeared and was replaced by three very large contrasting stripes that were
incorporated in various ways in (for example) Liverpool's kits between (1991-1995) and Arsenal's 1993 away kit. These attracted considerable criticism from fans who thought this corporate branding overwhelming and it was quietly dropped after 1995.
The launch of the (English) Premier League in 1992 and the decision by the FA to drop their ban on clubs wearing black (referees now wore tops in a variety of colours chosen to avoid clashing with either team's colours) led to a vogue for all-black change strips, with Manchester United leading the way in 1993. Clubs were loath to alienate their supporters by making radical changes to their traditional colours but there was no such inhibition over the choice of change kits. A bewildering range of novel colours schemes came into vogue that included such esoteric shades as "ecru" (pale beige), powder blue, silver gray, purple, lilac, jade, bottle green and even "denim."
The Premier League pioneered the addition of sleeve patches: these are now routinely added to shirts for domestic and international competitions. Player's names were first printed on the back of players' shirts after the Premier League was launched in 1992, a smart marketing move, as fans could now pay for the privilege of having their idol's name - or indeed their own - printed on their expensive new replica shirts. These details not only add value to replica kit sales but also make the acquisition of match worn shirts more desirable, feeding the black market in counterfeit sales. (HFK counsels all would be collectors to check with a reliable authority before bidding for items on e-bay.)
Manufacturers also pushed the boundaries in their designs for "home" kits, while generally keeping to traditional colour schemes. Abstract patterns, splotches, scratch marks, barcode stripes and (in the case of West Brom ), wavy stripes all appeared. Influence, a company owned by Birmingham City's owners launched a number of outrageous designs including the infamous "paint box strip" worn by Birmingham in
1992, which featured yellow, navy and green splashes all over plain blue shirts and shorts.
Alongside the new wave of increasingly intricate designs came a vogue for generously cut retro strips. Manchester United introduced a change kit in 1992 based on the colours of their former incarnation, Newton Heath while Aston Villa revived the hooped neck style worn first a century before.
Stockings, long considered a minor adjunct, now became integral to the overall design concept, with club monogrammes, badges and manufacturers' logos added along with various trims.
The American sportswear giant Nike entered the market in 1993 when they replaced Adidas as Arsenal's kit supplier, offering designs that were carefully contrived and individual, at least for the leading clubs. Umbro fought hard to maintain their market share introducing all sorts of novel motifs and designs. Lower down the
leagues, clubs had either to settle for a standard template from one of the big manufacturers or sign deals with one of the smaller, emerging companies. A few clubs designed and marketed replica kits under their own brand names (including Oxford United , shown here) but the economics rarely worked
for long, the big players being able to offer deals that undercut those of small manufacturers because of the economies of scale they enjoyed, not least because they had shifted their manufacturing plants to the Far East where labour costs were a fraction of those in the European Union.
Overall, the 1990s will be remembered as a pivotal period in the design of kits. While the extravagant designs, excessive detailing and general clutter of the period now look out of date, shirts from this period have become extremely collectible.
We cannot leave the decade without mentioning the extraordinary tiger-print shirts worn by Hull City during this period, without question the most outrageous design worn by any club anywhere at anytime.
Towards the end of the decade styles became more minimal and the emphasis was on the technology of the material as much as the design. Reversed seams appeared for a more comfortable fit without rubbing the skin while lightweight, hi-tech fabrics promised to keep the wearer cool (or warm) and draw moisture away from the body. Each company introduced its own new fabric, enhanced with mesh panels, integral undershirts and other features that would enable peak performance, or so it was claimed. Quite what the advantage of these "revolutionary" concepts remains unproven. Most top level players wore "foundation garments," negating any claims for the capacity of shirts to improve athletic performance. One manufacturer has told HFK, when asked about these miracle fabrics, "it's all polyester and comes from the same source - it's all crap."
The New Millennium - Sanity Restored but Prices Fixed
The trend for simpler designs continued with subtle piping and plain trim at collar and cuff. Kappa’s body hugging Kombat range made its appearance in 2002 when it was worn by Tottenham Hotspur (inevitably). The skin tight Lycra outfit was intended to emphasise the physique of the players but proved less popular with fans whose body shape was more influenced by consumption of pies and beer.
The marketing of replica kits attracted the attention of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in 2003 whose investigation upheld allegations of price fixing between top clubs, manufacturers and sportswear retailers who had entered into agreements that prevented the big supermarket chains from selling replica kits at discount prices. The manufacturers, clubs and sportswear retailers contrived to protect their position and maintain high prices while excluding discount sellers in direct defiance of the OFT's decision and continue to do so.
In 2003 Puma, now a major player in the global football kit market, designed a dramatic asymmetrical design for Fulham , a trend that was taken up by other clubs the following season. Another design innovation was the introduction of the 360 degree concept, with features that can only be appreciated from the back of the strip. This trend was reinforced by regulations that required the numbers and names on the back of shirts to be printed on a solid background. As a result striped and hooped shirts were usually designed with a single solid coloured panel on the back.
Novel trimmings appeared on stockings in a variety of patterns, which included vertical stripes down the side, bands that curved round the back and contrasting reverses.
In 2006-07 the Football League permitted secondary sponsors' logos to appear on the back of player's shirts and shorts (the Premier League did not follow suit) while in Scotland secondary sponsorship was permitted on shorts as well.
For the majority of clubs existing on modest means, the annual or bi-annual introduction of new kits was a balancing act between generating revenue and alienating their loyal fan base. More than one deal was scuppered because the new design was disliked by fans or because demand outstripped supply. A welcome trend was for fans to be involved in the design process. Manufacturers recognise that involving their potential customers has commercial advantages while clubs now frequently consulted their fans when choosing next season’s design. The dynamics of the market mean, however, that even the best designs, such as Le Coq Sportif's stunning Carlisle United offering have a maximum life of two seasons.
Every season, manufacturers vied with each other to introduce the latest design innovation and new strips were often showcased in the last match of the previous season. For the top clubs like Manchester United , Chelsea ,
Liverpool and Arsenal , sales of replica kits world-wide now created annual revenue streams of tens of millions of pounds sterling. At the other end of the scale, East Stirlingshire's hopes of reviving their traditional one inch hooped shirts in 2008 ran into the sand because the only companies prepared to manufacture them insisted on pre-sale guarantees that far exceeded what this impoverished Scottish Third Division club could offer. The big manufacturers courted the leading clubs with lucrative deals and exclusive designs while clubs in the lower leagues had to scratch around for contracts with lesser players such as Vandanel and Carlotti. That being said, these smaller manufacturers made every effort to introduce new templates each season. Notable among these was the Italian company, Errea, who emerged in 1994 with a long standing deal with Middlesbrough and who specialised in producing bespoke kits for smaller clubs with very Italian flair for design.
Most clubs and certainly all of the members of the English Premier League, now had three kits each season, their "Home," "Away" (ie change) and "Third" kits with additional sets of shorts and stockings for each kit so that they had a bewildering assortment available. Match officials had the last word on what teams could wear and, encouraged by increasing interference from the national authorities, they insisted that away teams
change shorts and/or socks when there was even a minimal clash with their home opponents. This unwelcome trend resulted in all sorts of nonsensical changes being forced on teams, such as Aston Villa having to dig out a set of white shirts when they entertained West Ham in April 2009 because the referee did not like the fact the both teams would wear sky blue sleeves.
Some clubs retained each kit for two seasons and replaced one of them every year, so that last season's "Away" kit became this season's "Third" kit. However, when a contract with a manufacturer ended, the new contractor would introduce a brand new suite of kits, thus ensuring that there was always something for the fan to
spend money on. New designs were frequently showcased in the final matches of each season and appeared in club shops over the summer.
Special anniversary kits were introduced such as Charlton Athletic's 2004 centenary kit and, with permission from the relevant league authorities, were worn on one or two occasions: replicas were then sold as limited editions to fans at premium prices. Some clubs took a different approach and revived early kits; Rochdale wore a recreation of their original black and white striped kit during 2007-08 for example while Norwich City wore a recreation of the strip worn in their famous 1959 FA Cup run in their third round tie in 2009 while the two Manchester clubs wore special commemorative strips when they met in February 2008 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Munich disaster. From 2007-08 clubs in England and Scotland have worn poppies printed on their shirts in matches played over the weekend of Remembrance Sunday.
In 2007 Everton launched a special edition pink shirt in support of Breast Cancer
Research. This shirt was never worn on the pitch but the idea proved so popular a second edition was launched the following year and several clubs followed suit by producing special edition shirts with proceeds going to charity. Aston Villa went one step further by donating their shirt sponsorship to Acorns Children's Hospice, sparking a trend for similar arrangements in England and Scotland.
Several clubs commissioned special kits the following season that were worn by the first team for one game, autographed and then auctioned off with the proceeds going to charity. Doncaster Rovers , for example wore green and white hoops in their final game with Crystal Palace .
Shorts gradually became longer during the decade and by 2008 they were down to the knees, a length not seen since the early 20th century. Shirts were still made in long and short sleeved versions although short sleeves were generally favoured by players. Manufacturers' claim for their fabrics' extraordinary properties were undermined by professional players who wore fitted undershirts underneath their miracle, performance enhancing, climate controlling shirts.
In 2008 Nike acquired Umbro for a rumoured £385m ($600m) although the two brands continued to exist and offer distinctive designs. Nike kits, for example, became more and more minimal, culminating in a range of severely minimal strips devoid of any trim apart from the company's branding and club crest, which proved popular in the lower leagues. Umbro abandoned the fussy templates introduced in 2007-08 in favour of more fashionable, sleek designs.
Manufacturers naturally remain keen to maximise their branding and in 2008 the Italian sportswear company Lotto pushed the boundaries by adding their logos to both sleeves and shorts as well as stockings. The following season a number of manufacturers responded by increasing the size of their logos on the kits they produced.
In 2009-10 several clubs demonstrated their support for charitable causes by turning out in special edition kits which were then auctioned off in aid of charity.
Predicting future trends in football kit design is a difficult business: manufacturers now employ teams of skilled designers and new designs are closely guarded until they are unveiled by clubs either in the final matches of each season or at press launches held over the summer. The major global manufacturers (Nike, Adidas, Puma) now focus on the major international tournaments (FIFA World Cup, European Championship and African Cup of Nations) as launch pads for their new designs. These global companies generally manufacture kits in Pakistan, China and the Far East where labour costs are minimal, undercutting smaller companies but at the price of reducing choice. Some manufacturing is still licensed to UK and EU companies but these are exposed to competition from the Far East. HFK understands that one UK company walked away from a contract with a major Scottish club after they were congratulated on generating a multi-million pound profit for the club and then invited to reduce their unit costs to compete with a far-east manufacturer. The collapse of Canterbury's European operation in 2009 exposed this same company to a £500,000 loss.
Canterbury's problems may have been due to over ambitious expansion but the disappearance of Bukta, the world's oldest sportswear brand, was the result of the company compromising on quality in an effort to retain market position. Having been in decline for decades, in the 2009-10 season Bukta had just five contracts in Scotland and two in England. The shoddy kits supplied led to three Scottish clubs cancelling their contracts after seeking permission to change their registered strips in mid-season, while others withdrew the offending replicas from sale. Needless to say, this once ubiquitous and respected brand disappeared from the top levels of English and Scottish football the following season.
In 2009 Umbro launched their new all-white England strip under the strap-line "tailored in England." Stripped of market-speak this new, simplistic style proved an immediate hit and led to Umbro introducing some excellent retro-influenced designs at club level over the following seasons.
The big four global sportswear manufacturers, Adidas, Puma and Nike/Umbro steadily increased their share of contracts in the English Premier and Football Leagues from 35.8% in 2007-08 to 45.6% in 2010-11 by offering deals that smaller manufacturers struggled to compete with. It is interesting to note that in 2007-08, the big global players had 16 out of 20 English Premier League contracts (80%) compared to 12 out of 20 in 2010-11 (60%). What these figures fail to indicate is that the replica kit sales from the clubs under contract included Manchester United , Chelsea , Arsenal and Liverpool were guaranteed to to outstrip those of the rest of the league combined.
The global recession that began with the banking crisis in 2008 had its effect on advertising in general and shirt sponsorship in particular. A number of contracts collapsed forcing clubs to seek alternate sponsors or donate shirt sponsorship to charities. West Bromwich Albion were unable to secure a sponsor in 2008-09 and in the following season resorted to selling short-term deals to a variety of commercial and charitable sponsors . This idea was taken up by Middlesbrough the following season.
Interest in football shirts has never been higher, largely fueled by the internet, prompting a plethora of sites dedicated to the subject. Collecting replica and match-worn shirts has become a serious business with rare match-worn shirts changing hands for hundreds and even thousands of pounds. Some collectors have published photographs of their treasured collections on the internet (links can be found throughout Historical Football Kits) enabling the general public to access them and providing a valuable historical resource. The Gateshead-based Toffs has capitalised on this interest with a range of high-quality replicas of classic shirts, which have proved highly popular, while a number of other companies, both small and large, specialise in trading replicas from the last 20 years.
(c) Dave Moor, Historical Football Kits August 2010. You may reproduce sections from this article provide you acknowledge our copyight and provide a link to Historical Football Kits .
Further Reading
The Football Shirt Culture website has a collection of interesting articles and information for collectors.
The True Colours Website includes an interesting illustrated article on the history of Football League kits
An entertaining and detailed history of the game in the nineteenth century is available on the Association of Football Statisticians site.
Even more entertaining is the catalogue of the ten worst ever kits from all over the world to be found at ESPNsoccernet and at AveIt.Net .
You can read an interview with Darren Medley, who designs kits for Umbro at the British Council's Japanese site.
A Press Release from the Office of Fair Trading report that ended price fixing of replica kits is available on the OFT Website .
Visit Colours of Football to view recent kits from around the world. The site includes excellent graphics (including change kits) and provides vivid examples of how advertising has got out of hand in some countries.
The individual shirts shown in the later sections of this article are from the excellent OldFootballShirts.com
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The 350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis. The mission of the group is to inspire the world to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis, the focus being the number 350 which is the number of parts per million, the level scientists have identified as the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere. It is believed that we have passed that limit with the current levels reportedly at 390 ppm with estimated 2ppm increase every year from now on.
In December, world leaders will meet in Copenhagen, to craft a new global treaty on cutting emissions. In order to unite the public, media, and political leaders behind the 350 goal, the group organised, via the internet, a planetary day of action where over 5,000 rallies took place including events at hundreds of iconic places around the world – from the Taj Mahal to the Great Barrier Reef and the Main Beach at Byron Bay. Locally, Emma Briggs got the idea to build sand castles on Byron’s Main Beach to attract attention to the issue. ‘The idea is that people all over the world will take photos of their local
action,’ said Ms Briggs ‘The photos will be included in a book which will be presented to the world leaders at the event in Copenhagen.’ A small band of concerned people gathered at Main Beach to build the sand castles and the spectacle created a lot of interest, especially from visitors to the area. The little sand village then fell victim to a ‘tsunami’, the expected outcome of continued global warming. ‘We hope that meeting in Copenhagen will listen to our global voice. This event is part of the most widespread political action ever.’ See more at www.350.org.
Council knocks back Optus tower for Mullum Byron Shire councillors voted unanimously last week to refuse Optus’s 20m high telco tower planned for Mullumbimby. They based their refusal on five reasons prepared by staff, which included the tower’s proposed location on a ridgeline, its height, and public resistance to the proposal. During public access Optus project
manager Peter Collie and town planner Petra Kovac addressed Council for the proposal. Ms Kovac said the tower would be part of a major rollout of the 3G network and would upgrade facilities and improve coverage. ‘We try to avoid sensitive locations,’ she said. ‘We have met all the regulatory requirements and we try to miti-
gate environmental impacts.’ Adam Boyd spoke on behalf of residents ‘who live near the proposed Optus Tower on Coolamon Scenic Drive. We maintain that the development application submitted by Optus is poorly planned, unsound and misleading… continued on page 5
NSW planning minister Kristina Keneally has called in as a ‘potential state significant site’ urban release lands at West Byron which have been sitting on Council’s backburner. The landowners went to the Minister after failing to convince Council to include them for rezoning in the current draft Local Environmental Plan (LEP). In March this year Keneally urged Council to move lands under investigation for development at West Byron into the upcoming Local environmental Plan (LEP). The land in question runs along the south side of Ewingsdale Road from Belongil Creek out to the Sunnybrand chicken plant, some 106 hectares in all. The landowners, under the umbrella of the West Byron Landowners Group, include the Belongil Fields owners and Crighton Properties, a Central Coast development company. In late April Byron Shire councillors rejected a staff recommendation to include the Belongil Fields parcel in the LEP. Instead, they voted
for Council officers to meet with the landowners and proponents of the proposed LEP amendment for the Belongil Fields ‘to inform them of recent studies and reports that present constraints and restrictions to the future development of those lands’, such as the related traffic study, Belongil flood study and climate change impacts, and environmental zoning/studies. At the time Mayor Jan Barham said, ‘Council has had clear advice regarding the constraints to development on the West Byron lands including traffic, flooding, biodiversity and the buffer to Sunnybrand. The recently completed MR545 Strategic Traffic Study has revealed that the road is already at capacity. ‘The consideration of climate change impacts and particularly flood has also identified that the land is at risk and therefore unsuitable for major development.’ Conservationist Dailan Pugh also expressed his opposition to the West Byron lands development, saying it continued on page 5
Beaches will be protected, says environment minister Following questions from Greens MP Ian Cohen, NSW environment minister John Robertson said in Parliament last week that beach access would be protected under the state government’s proposed ‘hot spots’ coastal legislation. We will not compromise the beaches of NSW with any of these particular reforms,’ Mr Robertson said. ‘We want, firstly, to clarify the rights of landowners and councils because for some time there has been great confusion about them. ‘These reforms are about providing councils with powers that they do not currently possess, such as having the capacity to issue stop work orders if a landowner is carrying out unlawful
work or work that is likely to increase coastal erosion. The key point, and it needs to be made time and again, is that this government will not compromise the iconic beaches of NSW as a result of this policy.’ Mr Cohen also asked Mr Robertson if he would ‘direct the removal of houses in certain areas in certain circumstances or is private coastal property guaranteed by him come hell or high water?’ ‘I know where Mr Ian Cohen is coming from in relation to this matter,’ Mr Robertson said, ‘he has an ongoing interest in it and he has some issues about landowners at Belongil. ‘Frankly, it would be inappropriate continued on page 5
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The Suffolk Park Caravan Park was the venue for a wonderful birthday party on Sunday when family, friends, neighbours and the community gathered to enjoy a celebration for the Suffolk Park Progress Association’s big five-oh. The park was alive with music, historical displays, a graffiti art demonstration, fire trucks and of course the all important 50th birthday cake. Four members of the association, Peter Wegner, Pam Rose, Margaret Wyles and Helen Brown, were given life memberships in gratitude for thier immense contribution to the association and the Suffolk Park area itself. Life member and the longest serving president of the association Dudley Leggett, spoke on behalf of the committee about the work of the association. ‘Today is a rare event because too seldom do we take the opportunity to celebrate the dedicated few who have done so much volunteering of their time and effort for their community and to celebrate the successes that come from communities empowering themselves to develop their place in the best interests of the residents and of those who will come along in the future. We can all see today that governments all too often do not take action to secure the long-term best interests of the general population, all too often acting
Verlie Troughton and Cecil Suffolk with the plaque commemorating their grandfather George Suffolk’s dedication of family land to Council for community use.
in accordance with the vested interests of a powerful few. ‘Even local governments, as our records show, often ignore or even frustrate the legitimate aspirations and requests of local communities. The long retained record of the SPPA shows how this community through this association has had to struggle to gain the most basic necessities regardless of being equal ratepayers and continues to be reliant on this association to this day.’ The event also provided the opportunity to raise funds for the much needed communication equipment for the Suffolk Park Rural Fire Service, who
during the event had fire trucks and staff on hand for the public’s interest and who also presented the progress association with a commemorative plaque in recognition of 40 years of support to the service. Guests on the day included members of the Arakwal community who welcomed everyone, Deputy Mayor Basil Cameron, and the Ukulele Collective who entertained the crowd. Extra special guests were Suffolk clan descendents, brother and sister Verlie Troughton and Cecil Suffolk, whose father Walter Suffolk carried out, at the bequest of their grandfather George Suf-
folk, the donation of this precious parcel of land to the community. Verlie now lives in Lismore and Cecil in Bushland, Western Australia. Both were very pleased to be at the party to have a chance to catch up with the locals. ‘I remember this being just bush when I was little,’ said Verlie. ‘This was a place where our family gathered’. Cecil has fond memories of camping at the site. ‘There was nothing here but a ti-tree pole hut that had cement bags for walls and a tin roof,’ said Cecil. ‘We have enjoyed being here today, it has been very nice.’
Council seeks tourism advisory committee members Nominations for Byron Shire Council’s newly established Tourism Advisory Committee (TAC) close on Friday November 30. Council is seeking seven people who have an interest in tourism and an understanding of the current and future needs of the Shire regarding the management of tourism. Deputy Mayor Basil Cameron said the recent adoption of the Tourism Management
Plan will provide a framework for Council, community and tourism to work together to maximise the benefits of tourism. The suitably qualified external representatives will include four tourism industry members: one associated with the tourism industry in Byron Bay; one associated with the tourism industry in Brunswick Heads; one associated with ru-
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ral tourism and one associated with a small, family type tourism operation. The remaining three will include community members who are not associated with the tourism industry and of whom at least one is from a rural area. The committee constitution and full selection criteria for the committee are available at community access points and
on Council’s website at www. byron.nsw.gov.au/expressionsof-interest. Councillors Basil Cameron and Simon Richardson are the councillor representatives on the Tourism Advisory Committee. Further information on the selection criteria can be obtained from Council’s tourism research officer Joanne McMurtry on 6626 7213.
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Historic hall kicks up its heels Story & photo Eve Jeffery
The Coorabell School of Arts was formed in 1904, and given a home with the original parcel of land which was bought in June 1909. The first trustees, Joseph Akers, Thomas Gray and Albert Swift, paid sixty pounds for two parcels of land. The Trust Deed established The Coorabell School of Arts, a facility for ‘public instruction and amusement’, with a caveat that the land was never to be sold. The original hall burnt down in 1918 and was rebuilt on its present site in 1920. Hall meetings, according to minutes from July 1925, were held when the moon was full – a tradition was established and full moon events have been special at the Coorabell Hall ever since. Last Saturday, this much loved Byron Shire landmark celebrated 100 years and as in days gone by, visitors young and old gathered at the hall for the sake of fun. The day started in time for a lunch provided by the Coorabell P&C and displays of old wares, photos, saddles, horse drawn buggies and tractors. There were performances
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A highlight of the afternoon’s entertainment was a Maypole Dance by the school children from Coorabell Primary School who were coached Sue Tscicalis. As a great day turned into a great night – revellers arrived in their good-going-out-clothes to enjoy an evening of fun and games and danced the Gypsy Tap, the Pride of Erin, the Canadian
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the six categories – the Community of the Year Award (for towns under 15,000) and the Business Enterprise Award. Chamber president, Matthew Denehy, executive officer Kim Rosen and her husband Robert Rosen will attend the awards. ‘We were told that there were 400 entries in the Community of the Year award, so we are very chuffed that Brunswick Heads has been selected as one of the top three
communities in the state,’ said Kim. ‘We were even more excited when the news arrived of our success in the Business Enterprise Awards, which is a new section. ‘Getting this far is a wonderful acknowledgement of all the efforts over many years by so many different people in the Chamber, Progress Association and other community groups , all working together to build a healthy local economy while retaining Brunswick’s
charm and character and low -key village atmosphere, so that we can all still enjoy the “Simple Pleasures”.’ Brunswick Heads has also been invited to make a presentation along with Mungindi and Yeoval the following day at a brunch with Department of Industry and NSW investment minister Phil Costa to tell Brunswick’s story. See more about the awards at www.awardsaustralia.com. au/RACA_nsw_criteria.html.
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No luck for Adam on bus service Story & photo Eve Jeffery
Ocean Shores resident Adam Luck doesn’t have the luxury of having a driver’s licence. A medical condition means that Adam’s doctors have told him he is not eligible to drive a car or ride a bycycle so he does the best he can to make his own way around. Adam works at the Beach Hotel in Byron Bay as a kitchen hand and is fortunate to have his parents nearby to give him a lift to work but on the weekends he likes to fend for himself – he has been travelling on the bus to Billi since 2005. ‘Mum and Dad are great. They drive me to work all the time, but on the weekends I like to make my own arrangements. I have a friend who works at the Billinudgel Hotel and on Sundays I used to catch the bus over and have a beer and chat with him before the bus brought me back home later in the afternoon. ‘It has been very easy and convenient for me to catch the
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bus over to Billi,’ says Adam. ‘My plight is that the bus service between Byron and Billinudgel has been cut on Sundays and public holidays and the bus that used to stop right near me
has been cancelled.’ Adam feels that he is being disadvantaged by the cessation of the service and feels that the government should be doing more to accommodate
those who need to use public transport.’ Ocean Shores is the second largest population in the Byron Shire and we have no buses,’ says Adam. ‘It’s just not right.’
Firies urge residents to reduce fire hazards now Firefighters from Bangalow Fire Station are urging residents to prepare for the warmer weather and reduce fire hazards around the home with a spring clean. The Bureau of Meteorology has predicted a very challenging fire season ahead with above average temperatures and below average rainfall. New Fire Danger Ratings have been introduced. These ratings now include Very High,
Severe, Extreme and Catastrophic. For further information on these ratings and fire ban updates go to www.bushfire.nsw.gov.au or pick up an information leaflet from your local fire station. Residents are urged to clear any clutter from outside the home, such as piles of rubbish and weeds, and ensure that nothing is blocking exit and escape points. Leaves should
be removed from guttering regularly to reduce the spread of fire to nearby homes via airborne embers. Bangalow and Byron Bay Fire Brigades are also currently recruiting Retained (On-Call / Part Time) members. Both stations will be hosting an information/application evening on Wednesday November 4 from 7pm. NSW Fire Brigades encour-
ages anyone whom has considered becoming a fire fighter to attend these information nights and see first hand what the job entails. For further information contact Andrew Hill, Bangalow Station, on 0407 224 724 or Gary Speers, Byron Bay Station, on 0415 698 100. See also online applications/ information at www.fire.nsw. gov.au.
Stories continued from front page West Byron ‘will change the nature and perception of Byron Bay and turn us into just another overdeveloped sprawling coastal metropolis’. NSW Planning’s website so far shows only a map of the area, which can be viewed at http://majorprojects.planning. nsw.gov.au under ‘State Significant Sites’. The relevant planner is Anna Johnston who can be
contacted at anna.johnston@ the visual amenity of the area; it is not in the public interest; it planning.nsw.gov.au. failed to investigate alternative sites to the one proposed; and Optus tower submissions from the public ‘It fails to meet key objectives clearly demonstrate that the laid out in the NSW Environ- community is opposed to it. ‘From a planning perspecmental Planning and Assessment Act and the Byron Local tive these are important issues, Environment Plan, specifically but for many of us this proit is a ridgeline development; posal is just pushy, corporate it fails to limit the impact of self-interest. ‘Community feedback was the built environment; it will have a permanent impact on never sought and the likely
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Lighthouse event draws 500 runners
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With the oldest entrant at 70 and the youngest at just 10, the third annual Byron Lighthouse Run was held in ideal conditons early Sunday morning. Athletes young and old, fast and slow, fit and not quite so, competed in the even which toured the area surrounding the lighthouse, beginning at Main Beach and travelling straight up the road and around the lighthouse, back down Lighthouse Road and onto Tallow
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Nits win the Screenworks pitch comp Congratulations to Wendy Gray with Nitboy, the winner of Screenworks Life’s a Pitch 2009 finals. Wendy was one of six finalists in Screenworks Life’s A Pitch competition who presented their television concepts to a panel of key industry decision makers in Byron Bay on Saturday October 24. Nitboy is a six part children’s animation television series based on the books by local writer Tristan Bancks. Wendy came first in the pitching competition and won the People’s Choice award as well. Amanda Duthie, Head of Arts and Entertainment at the ABC, announced the winner and explained that the judges decision was unanimous, ‘We selected Wendy’s Nitboy because we felt it would appeal to an Australian and international
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Activist kayakers on home stretch Lou Beaumont
As of last Saturday, the Transparentsea surfer activists, kayaking their way down the east coast of Australia, estimated they had travelled 535km of their approximate 700km journey from Byron Bay to Bondi. Those following the voyage will know that the predominant aim of the trip is to raise awareness of the plight of the humpbacks, of which one thousand are targeted every year by Japanese whalers. Transparentsea crew member and professional surfer, Chris del Moro, said, ‘Those whales are caught and killed in sanctuary waters. Right now Sea Shepherd is the only organisation going to the Southern Ocean to do something about it.’ The crew paddled out of Byron Bay on October 1 and at time of going to press they were due to leave Blueys Beach, having spent the weekend surfing the wellknown breaks. With the epic physical journey ending when they arrive on Bondi Beach on November 5, it is a trip that has altered each one of the team, on and offshore, forever. Professional surfer and Transparentsea instigator, Dave Rastovich, told Triple J Radio, ‘We are having some amazing encounters. These huge creatures [whales] could smash us with the smallest flick of their tail, but they choose to inter-
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Lennox Head Public School’s Spring Fair is scheduled for Friday October 30, 2.30pm7.30pm. This year some really cool rides have been organised – a giant Super Slide, an enormous Jungle Jumping Castle, an out of this world Alien Laser Game and the fabulous Football Shootout.
There will be a fantastic variety of stalls, Old McDonalds Farm, cupcake decorating competition and a wonderful lineup of entertainment including performances from Heart of Dance, the LSTT Concert Band, choir and the Lennox Linedancers. The school is off Byron Street, Lennox Head.
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Pro surfer Dave Rastovich (foreground) and musician Will Conner (background), two members of the group of surfer-activists making their way by sea from Byron Bay to Bondi Beach over 36 days. Photo Hilton Dawe/Billabong.
act with us instead. They are just the most curious, beautiful animals, coming right up and under our kayaks. ‘So far, every wind has been a good wind. It either suits us to sail or to surf. We have had dolphins riding our bow waves, we’ve freed a beautiful leopard shark that was caught in a trap, and we’ve camped on seemingly pristine beaches that Australia is famous for but we end up picking up thousands of pieces of rubbish on our beach cleanups.’ Transparentsea hopes to encourage followers of the trip to
support Sea Shepherd and get involved with beach cleanups in their local area. Personalised, individual letters to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Environment Minister Peter Garrett that ask them to keep the promises they made are known effective nuisances. Rally your friends to write a bundle. Rastovich said, ‘It has been very disappointing to learn that the Australian government recently obstructed Paul Watson’s [Sea Shepherd captain] entry to Australia, rather than welcoming him as a great defender of the whales.
‘Instead of upholding their preelection promise to challenge Japanese whaling in international court and to protect the Southern Ocean sanctuary, the Australian government appears to have turned their back on the whales that are once again under threat.’ Visit www.transparentseavoyage.com to follow the crew on the home stretch and to view surf photographer and Transparentsea crew member Hilton Dawe’s awe-inspiring photos of the team on their craft and surfing the waves, the whales, the weather and the crew.
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Plump up your vegies for show Andrea Herraman
Keen gardeners around town are busy preparing their entries for the Mullumbimby Show on November 14 and 15. Along with competitions for the best fruit and vegetables there are categories for flowers (including orchids) sewing, beef cattle, honey and even scarecrows. Local gardener Vicki Barton, pictured, is hoping her eggplants will be ready for the competition. ‘It all depends on the weather as to which of my vegetables will be ready for the Show weekend,’ she said. Organisers are pleased with the community response to the announcement that the Mullumbimby Show is being revived and hope that locals will join in the competitions and displays. Mullumbimby Farm Co-op got the fund-raising underway and is the major sponsor. Numerous businesses have got behind the concept providing funds for the Show to go ahead. This week saw the first round
of judging for the Mullumbimby Showgirl entrants. Five local girls Tahlee Jones, Cecily Ryan, Bree Hampson, Georgina McKenzie and DesireĂŠ Payne are
vying for the title and all expressed their delight at being involved. ‘I’ve grown up around the Show community with my
family showing cattle and sheep. When the opportunity arose I just had to get involved in my local Show,’ said Bree. The next round of judging will take place at the Mullumbimby Gala Dinner Ball at the Bowling Club on November 4 (tickets from Mullumbimby Newsagency) with the winner announced at the Show about lunchtime on November 14 on the entertainment stage. The entertainment stage is the venue for the talent quest featuring singers and musicians in three divisions: Under12, Over 12 and Open. To be in it to win cash prizes grab an entry form at the newsagents or contact Margaret on 6684 1128. The Show will feature a range of displays, activities, competitions, music, animals, sideshows and good old-fashioned fun beginning with Mullumbimby’s first Truck Show and Parade on Saturday morning. To find out more about what’s on check out the program available at various shops around town or the website www.mullumbimbyshow. org.au.
Mullum school’s November Fair goes green This year the Mullumbimby Public School’s November Fair is going green. The planning committee has decided to offset emissions created by the Fair’s energy use by purchasing carbon credits. The increased number of rides at this year’s Fair has prompted organisers to look more closely at ways to satisfy their environmental responsibitilities. As well as offsetting the fireworks, the school will measure its emissions from electricity used to power the rides and the lights on the night and will buy carbon credits accordingly. They will invest in solar technology and sustainable forestry projects, with additional plantings taking place on the school grounds. Coordinator of the November Fair Nikki Marriot said, ‘As well as setting aside funds to offset our carbon
emissions, we are aiming to have all the food service items made from recyclable materials. Richmond Waste has kindly agreed to provide us with recycling stations free of charge for the night. We are working to improve the Fair each year, but now we are also focused on improving its green standards every year.
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This feels like a great start.’ The November Fair is Mullumbimby Public School’s annual fundraiser. The Fair has been designed to be an all weather event. This year there will be five rides: On the Storm, The Super Slide and The Beach Party BlowUp Castle, plus The Cup and Saucer and the Jungle Fever
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Learning to live with grief is hard Debbie Kruger
I’m going to the Day of the Dead on November 8. Not for a demystification of the death process, but because I want to connect with other people who have experienced great loss and are looking for a similar connection. It will be one day before the second anniversary of my mother’s death. She died just a few years after my father. My mum was young and vibrant, struck down randomly by a malignant brain tumour. I spent eight months in Sydney as her 24/7 carer, and another month after that clearing out her home and dispersing her possessions. When I got back to Byron Bay I was shell-shocked, exhausted and devastated. I knew my life would never be the same. I learned a lot about grief over the next 18 months. I learned that many people cannot be around it. I had little solace from my
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so-called closest friends here. They weren’t very interested in my sadness, hadn’t known my mother so were not interested in talking about her, and seemed to think I should just pick myself up, brush myself off and not bother them with my feelings. When I reached out to one particular friend her response was, ‘I know you’re lonely, Deb, but there’s nothing I can say about that, because I’m not the solution.’ I wore my grief on my sleeve
and face for a long time. There was nothing else I could talk about, and so potential new friends were keeping their distance, too. Taking a positive, spiritual view of death is valuable, but what about afterwards, when the reality sinks in, when the loss is even more palpable, and when each passing day, week and month is just more time without the one you love? Losing a parent when you are an adult is the one kind of
Friends’ long cycle for humanity Friends Jennifer Ward, 23, and Tanya Sobiesiak, 26, are cycling from Melbourne to Cairns for the charity Bicycles for Humanity, raising money to ship a container of good, used bicycles to Zambia. The pair are currently here in Byron Bay, their half way point. Jennifer said, ‘We are travelling Australia on our bums. That is, we are cycling from Melbourne to Cairns. Our aim is to raise enough money for our mates at Bicycles for Humanity to get disused bikes from Australia to those who need them the most abroad. ‘In Zambia resources are not only scarce but huge distances have to be travelled by foot to obtain them. We need your help to get these bikes (so many disused bikes!) out of garages here in Australia, spruce them up a little and give them a new life and a real purpose. ‘We can’t imagine life without our bikes and cannot com-
bereavement that gets the least regard. As some people said to me, ‘We all lose our parents. It’s a part of life. You have to move on.’ Well, that might be true, but losing a parent, especially a mother, is losing the person you have known the longest in your life, and the pain of that does not fade quickly. I looked around for a support group and couldn’t find anything in the Byron area. There are several groups for men. There are groups for parents who have lost children, for people with cancer, for addicts and their families, but nothing for people dealing with the pain of losing someone they have been closest to all their life – be it a parent, partner, sibling or best friend. So I’d like to initiate a relaxed, friendly group to meet every couple of weeks, to talk about the people we have lost, the times we shared with them, how we lost them, the reactions of people around us, and how we are coping with life since that loss. If you could use this kind of support, please contact me at [email protected], or on 0412 405 704.
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Public access: Residents 2, Lobbyists 0 Michael McDonald
Volume 24 #21
October 27, 2009
Joint communiqués Cannabis has raised its furry, multicoloured head again with the Australian tour of Dr Norm Stamper, ex chief of police in Seattle and author of Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing (www.normstamper.com), who believes in safe guidelines for marijuana use. His visit was hosted by the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation (http://adlrf.org.au) headed by Dr Alex Wodak, an indefatigable campaigner for harm minimisation in the face of a succession of premiers and prime ministers who feel they need to play the hard man on drugs to woo their constituents and the shock jocks. The merry pranksters at the Nimbin Hemp Embassy were on a high, having secured Dr Stamper to launch their Safer Cannabis Use Guidelines. Actually, the guidelines were put together by the ‘Nimbin Health & Medical Research Committee’, a parody of the National Health & Medical Research Council (www.nhmrc.gov. au), a federal government body. Not as elegant as their ‘Polite Force’, which took the michael out of the NSW Police Force, but it should put the cat among a few anally retentive pigeons. According to ‘NHMRC’, Dr Stamper launched the guidelines with these words: ‘Whether we like it or not, cannabis is here to stay. It is time we started getting real about the drug. Guidelines for safer use are one way of doing that. ‘I was pleased to see that the guidelines recognise that the safest way of using cannabis is to never use the drug – but 100 million Americans, including the last three Presidents of the USA, have ignored advice to “Just Say No”. So these guidelines are for the many Australians who will also ignore that advice over the next 12 months.’ Deb Felton, ‘General Secretary’ of the ‘NHMRC’, said an estimated two to three million Australians use cannabis every year. ‘Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug in Australia. The most recent National Drug Strategy Household Survey (2004) revealed that one in three Australians had tried cannabis, with 11% of the population having used it in the previous 12 months.’ The 12 guidelines are not likely to achieve national prominence in the wider community but will probably circulate widely in the pot-smoking subculture. They do promote – gasp! – moderation, though NRHMC’s benchmark of consuming cannabis for five days a week or less and no more than four joints a day, if taken at the upper limit, would render me inoperative. The guidelines do point out the harm associated with smoking, the illegality of cannabis and the need to protect children from messing up their minds with bong parties. The criminal persecution of cannabis users for their habit, and not those users of the far more dangerous tobacco and alcohol, is a matter of both historical cultural imperatives and a US ‘war on drugs’ based upon the self-interest of a few slimy politicians and agency heads. Drug use is a health issue, as has been said repeatedly, and harm minimisation/education is the way to go. Not until most Australians are prepared to take enough time away from their plasma TVs to stare into the existential abyss and acknowledge that everything is dangerous will we be free from kneejerk reactions to the word ‘drugs’. In the meantime, watch ducks – it’s a much more fulfilling pastime than getting off your face. – Michael McDonald, editor
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Mayor Jan Barham took a firm hand at public access last Thursday, recalling the pre-1990 days when then shire president Oliver Dunne would move things along at a fast pace, exhorting councillors not to waffle. It was not to Fast Buck$’s liking – but then, what is? Other than a testy exchange between the abovementioned parties over accuracy of minutes, the session got off nicely with a presentation by two school students and Melissa Armstrong, coordinator of the Batbus program, which gets young folks safely to and from events. They were asking for funding help from Council, and noted they had had no CPIlinked funding increases over the last ten years, despite a report to NSW parliament suggesting the program be rolled out across the State. Access then moved into serious mode with Optus reps trying to convince councillors to allow their telco tower to be built in Mullum. They faced serious opposition from locals, who rolled up with a photo display of a cherry picker depicting the impact of the tower from various views around town. The lack of community consultation by Optus before submitting a DA did not go down well with councillors, and the telco reps went away with a firm impression to that effect. Dailan Pugh then attacked Council’s Belongil Creek Study, quoting an avalanche of figures which was almost as overwhelming as climate change. Cr Barham objected to his use of the term ‘you’, which Pugh thought appropriate as the document had been on public exhibition and he felt council-
lors would claim some ownership of it. But apparently the second person plural informal pronoun is intimidating, so Pugh acceded to the mayor’s request. Pugh and Byron United member Laurie Lynch both felt there was not enough community input allowed into Council’s upcoming Coastal Zone
Management Plan (CZMP) panel discussion, and Lynch also took issue with Council’s plans for a mini-bypass of the Bay, saying it would not solve the traffic queueing problem. Much more followed, including an exposition of the contradictory clauses in Council’s busking policy, a call by Buck$ for councillors to learn
the basics of law, a call by Keine Nombre, the artist formerly known as Matthew Hartley, for protection of the coastline by establishment of a reinforced frontal dune, and a presentation in favour of water fluoridation by the delightfully-named Professor Anthony Blinkhorn, who found no joy in the councillors’ line of questioning.
Cops, council and complainant Despite Fast Buck$’s hardline approach to interpersonal relationships when he is not getting his own way, some of his complaints are genuine. A case in point involves the arrival of police officers with Byron Shire Council officers during a property inspection at Buck$’s place at Coorabell. It is not usual to call the cops for property inspections in this Shire and Council has not yet provided prima facie evidence, at least not publicly, for the need to bring the law along as backup. In his bulldog fashion Buck$ has gone after compliance officer Wayne Bertram, suspecting him to be the cause of the overkill. Council general manager Graeme Faulkner has defended his man, declining to answer Buck$’s question: ‘Who made the decision that police would accompany staff on the inspection of my property and on what basis?’ In a letter of October 16 Faulkner says he would be in breach of Council’s health and safety obligations – ‘given the tone of your recent correspondence’ – if he did not ‘provide a workplace free from bullying, harassment and intimidation’. Not to mention being in shit with the union. But hang on, since when is Buck$ an employee of Council? What hope has he of bullying anyone in the workplace when the workplace is protected by card-
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coded doors? What about a little consideration for Buck$’s wife who found the arrival of police officers a tad on the intimidating side? In any case Buck$ has complained to the mayor about the GM’s conduct, alleging Faulkner has failed to properly investigate the matter, so the GM will not comment further on the issue. He goes on to ‘strongly recommend’ that Buck$ take up the matter with the police, NSW Ombudsman and/or the ICAC. I think Buck$ will find that councillors and staff will increasingly encourage that approach, as they have been bombarded with derogatory and defamatory letters. ‘Honey catches more flies than vinegar’ is not really
Buck$’s favourite proverb. Mayor Jan Barham and Buck$ again clashed intemperately during public access last week, leading the mayor to exclaim, ‘If you’ve got a problem, slag me off in the media, complain, do what you want.’ Of all the actions suggested by Barham and Faulkner, complaints to the ICAC, Ombudsman or the Department of Local Government are the only avenues likely to get a real result, presupposing there is a real case to be made. On the property inspection issue and his failure to get satisfaction from the rural settlement strategy Buck$ appears to have grounds to be heard by a higher authority than Council. As a shoe company suggests, just do it.
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Figuring out the best for our railway Reply to letters last week on the rail issue: in terms of rail costing we use the Price Waterhouse Coopers report as it’s the only publicly available report. The appendices contain detailed information about every bridge. The rail experts who provided the detail for the report are described on page 1. The NSW government had a report done in 2006 by GHD but has refused to release it, claiming ‘Cabinet-inConfidence’, putting it beyond Freedom of Information (FOI) attempts. We can only guess at its contents. Yes, I am well aware of the washout at Billinudgel but that would need to be repaired regardless of whether you put bikes or trains on the line. Southern Cross University did a survey in 2004 and found
that 72% of residents and tourists would use a commuter rail service at least once a month. When you do the sums across our population that results in 2,875 people per day. In terms of ‘bums on seats’ let’s look at the Victorian regional rail experience. They have improved services and even reinstated services on lines – eg the Bairnsdale line had no trains for 11 years and now has six trains a day. Patronage has been increasing on all lines, year after year, with another 9% increase this year, giving a four year increase of 82% (see vline.com.au). Victorians are voting with their feet to save petrol costs. Let’s think about this. We have approximately 200,000 residents. Let’s say that one in four resident saves one tank of pet-
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is that when kids bond when they’re young it lasts into adulthood and they continue to look out for each other and pass the care onto their own children and on it goes, and small towns like Mullum stay stronger and healthier and happier. It’d be great to see something soft and lovely come out of such a terrible and sad thing.
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If I may be presumptuous, on behalf of neighbours and potential neighbours of holiday lettings, I’d like to thank Jan and the Byron Shire Council for their efforts on our behalf. Love yer work. Tony Parker
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Our community Because of Jai I’ve been thinking a lot about our community – our mob. The warm encompassing embrace of this place, through highs and lows, it’s amazing. Over the years I’ve seen lots of people having picnics in Heritage Park – kids and parents playing and relaxing and saying g’day to other people passing by and it occurred to me that it’d be wonderful to have an annual big picnic in the park. Lots of people young, old and in between playing and having fun together. Our kids are so important to us and to see them happy it’s just the best thing. My theory
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Harold redux In response to Danielle Ross’s letter (October 20) I must admit that I failed to appreciate Harold’s sense of humour. It went over my head. His irony was so heavy I thought it was lead. Must have been living in them thar ‘hippy hills’ too long. Jim Nutter
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Hilltop triumph On October 28, 1999, hundreds of Byron Shire people came to the rescue of the heathland site at the top of Paterson Hill
rol per year as they can use the train. Of course many would save much more than that, and I’ve not included visitors. At $50 per tank that alone equals $2.5 million per year of money that wouldn’t leave the area for petrol – our small businesses might like some of that.
■We need a rail corridor Brisbane to Sydney that with a coastal component on its northern end allows linking the Northern Rivers to Southeast Queensland. Casino – Murwillumbah – Coolangatta (joining the Queensland rail corridor) is this vital link in strategic planning for the future.
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opposite the water tower. A large truck carrying an excavator with which to destroy the heathland had started its journey reversing up Pacific Vista Drive at 6.30am on that day. The low loader was blockaded by vehicles and people in a long hot day of protest eventually to be stopped at 5pm by a tree preservation order from Council which was shown to the police. Sixty-four people were arrested. It was a very dramatic day with many stories yet to be told, a combination of many factors helped save the heathland.Fourteen large houses were to have been built on the site. Everyone is invited to celebrate the anniversary of this event at sunset at the highest point of the Hill on Saturday October 31, to look over towards the sea and lighthouse at the beautiful view and wetland that would have been spoilt forever if it had not been for all those people who, on that day, actually cared enough to
do something. The area is now part of the Arakwal Park. Bring beverage and food of your choice. Respect the heathland.
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■ Please, please, enough of Fast of the public only as a concesBuck$’s self-serving whinges. sion to form. That she is incapable of acBecky Jagtenberg Byron Bay tively listening is amply demonstrated by the incident that ■ What colossal cheek! Some for me broke the camel’s back, young whippersnapper in being the question of the inBacklash in last week’s Echo ac- ternal ombudsman. When cused Cr Richard Staples and this proposition came before ex Cr Bucks$y of being cranky, the Council three weeks ago, the position was described as middle-aged men. I am cranky that I am old ‘Independent Shire Ombudsand yes, I know what the alter- man’. I addressed the meeting and laughed at the idea that native involves. Jack Sugarman someone who is chosen and Byron Bay hired by the GM who is subsequently beholden to him for ■ My punishment for crossing their livelihood could in any Jan Barham in last week’s Echo way be described as ‘independwas swift and sure: for the first ent’. I made my point so well time she prevented me from that for the first time ever I was making general submissions applauded by members of the and asking questions – due to gallery. So what does Jan Barham do? time constraints. The impressive thing was that Jan genu- She doesn’t get legal advice. Ininely believed that this was her stead she asks the present GM Graeme Faulkner for his opinreal motive. Jan’s ruling means the de ion on it! And what does Mr. facto end of Public Questions Faulkner say? ‘Well under the for the simple reason that the Local Government Act, Blah, time formally alloted is always blah blah.’ Surprise, surprise. God help us. I trust the inadequate to the public’s dereader now understands why I mand for access. Jan should be rejoicing at stormed out calling the Greens the level of community input ‘morons’. So was this an unconscious and feedback but instead she makes those who are speak- act of throwing sand in my ing feel like nuisances who face? Was it blind faith that are wasting her precious time. Graeme Faulkner would do That’s because Ms Going Places the right thing? Was it her dealready knows all the answers sire to avoid complications that and tolerates the outpourings might contradict her image of brisk and efficient handling of Council business?
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slopes in excess of 20% are excluded in the Strategy from future rural settlement’. Excessive slope results in major problems concerning onsite wastewater treatment, erosion, land slippage, stormwater control, and bushfire hazards. Looking at the BRSS 20% slope map, almost all of the property is on excessive slope over 20%, and it is heavily forested and therefore it is completely unsuitable for this type of development. Council needs to follow its BRSS selection guidelines in approving any new MO or CT developments in Main Arm.
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Come back to us, John Lazarus. I now understand, mate, and there are quite a few greens and ex-greens out there who understand too, just quietly. Until content triumphs over form nothing will ever change. Fast Buck$
Coorabell ■ I hesitate to speculate what is
really behind Fast Buck$’s increasingly belligerent and misdirected attacks on Jan Barham – there are eight other voting councillors – he is obviously under some pressure (Letters, October 20). Despite his short term as a councillor, Buck$ had never hoisted aboard that there is a yawning power divide between the elected and the executive. He seems to believe that by shouting loudly in the council chamber and in The Echo this imbalance will somehow be overcome. Local government councillors do not have the same powers as state pollies who can anoint and dispose of bureaucrats at the drop of a severance package. Council staff is a protected species, even the general manager moves against them with catlike tread at the ratepayers’ peril. Councillors are more akin to a board of directors who make policy but have absolutely no role in operational matters. In our case policy decisions (resoThis potential 10 house development is in addition to two other controversial DAs proposed by ReGenesis and Mike Davis for their subdivisions, currently being assessed by Council, which could allow up to 46 houses (27 of which are also on excessive slope), and a commercial centre and shopping plaza, suburbanising and ruining the rural character of our area. The DA is available for inspection at Council offices. I urge residents to send in a submission objecting to DA No. 10.2009.460.1 and Parcel No. 239608 and set out grounds for objection.
lutions of council) may or may not be implemented depending variously on the GM’s degree of control, the persistence of the councillors and the capability and motivation of the staff involved. Councillors can also ask questions. Usually, after a protracted exchange they get a ‘Sir Humphrey Appleby’ reply. If they attempt to direct staff in any way it is the GM’s sacred duty to beat them soundly with a brass-bound volume of the Local Government Act until they learn their place. I have no doubt that Buck$ is experiencing a standard (perhaps ultra-standard) degree of difficulty in his dealings with council staff (I have been there myself) but he characteristically refuses to recognise that some of his problems may be self-inflicted. I have attempted to assist on a couple of occasions but he is not open to any solutions but his own which are hopelessly out of touch with the realities of the possible. An external restructure of the council organisation may have helped if some councillors had not fallen at the vote. Now Buck$ is left with the prospect of being the first customer for our internal ombudsman – but he has already dismissed this initiative as just more council spin... Cr Tom Tabart
Brunswick Heads Again, the future of Byron’s hinterland areas is at stake. We must stand strong against developers to protect the environment and the community. Peter Leishman
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The alpha and zeta of coastal issues ■People who have studied coastal geomorphology will know that the coastline of northern NSW is formed into a series of long, zeta form beaches or embayments. This is most obvious by viewing a satellite image of the coast. ‘Zeta’ refers to the shape of the curve of the beach which follows a definite mathematical pattern. The shape of the beach is like a fishhook, strongly curving at the southern end and gently curving to the north. Each zeta form embayment starts at a bedrock point or headland projecting into the Pacific Ocean. Where a rocky headland projects into the flattened part of the curve, another fishhook or cusp forms. The present beach erosion extending from The Wreck carpark to the Belongil Creek mouth is simply a result of placing an artificial headland into a pre-existing zeta formed beach. This has set up the dynamics for the formation of new zeta curve hinging off the carpark ‘headland’. The start of the curve is always steep that is why erosion is eating in strongly at the Belongil. It will continue eating in until a new zeta curve equilibrium is reached. Given this situation, the way to start fixing the coastal erosion problem at Belongil is to
remove the groyne projecting out from The Wreck carpark, which has no apparent purpose. The next step should be to remove the carpark to realign the profile of the beach and reestablish the prior zetaform beach curve. If The Wreck carpark and groyne is left in place when this is the cause of the erosion problem, we will end up with sea walls and no beach at the Belongil, as nature continues to work inexorably at reforming the natural zetaform curve of the coastline. Andrew Benwell
New Brighton ■Great to see that common sense has prevailed with the state government’s policy announcement in relation to endangered coastline communities such as Belongil – a just reward for a community that has worked hard to ensure the rights of land owners are recognised. Thanks also to the protagonists such as Matthew Lambourne (Letters, October 20) for keeping the debate about Belongil in the public realm. Just to set the record straight, I happen to be one of the lucky ones in Belongil. I didn’t actually buy a house on a sand dune, in fact we constructed a house a few years ago in line with Council’s planned retreat
requirements for new buildings, ie it is demountable and able to be put on the back of a truck and taken away. That of course begs another question if planned retreat is ever put into motion – where would I take it to? I guess I should have done enough due diligence all those years ago, and bought a spare block of land somewhere else. Gee, that’s something everyone would have thought of. But it just so happens, Matthew, my concern has been for my neighbours, the Belongil community, and for that matter, downtown Byron – because it will be in danger too if no measures are taken to protect Belongil. And Christina Cathcart, thanks for your insight into where you would like to see Council’s resources allocated – of course you would rather see them allocated somewhere other than Belongil, you live at Ocean Shores! While we are talking about ‘buyer beware’, what do you say to all those people who live in semi-rural communities, now endangered by bushfires? As a result of global warming, even people living in urban communities are living in threat of bushfires – have a look at the Gold Coast and Rockhampton right now. How come emergency serv-
ices are out there, right now, trying to save peoples’ homes? A couple of months back, a bushfire at the back of Mullumbimby was attended to by emergency services – a perfectly responsible response to save peoples’ homes. So tell me, Matthew and Christina, what is the difference with what our community faces at Belongil? If global warming is causing, or contributing to, the demise of coastal areas and devastating bushfires all around the country, why is it OK for emergency action for the communities threatened by the latter, and not for the former? If a bushfire was roaring towards Ocean Shores or again at Mullumbimby, why was it OK for you to try to save your property, but it wasn’t OK for us to try to save ours? Well, now it is. And thanks for the heads-up about North Korea too, Matthew. I checked it out, but it seems the regime there is run by power crazy dictators who control everything. Hmm... seems more in keeping with Byron Council, so maybe it would suit you and Jan better. By the way, Matthew, if planned retreat is ever put into practice and I have to move my house, do you have any room in your backyard?
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and Microsoft continue their membership of the Chamber and bankrolling of the anti clean energy campaign. If you own either (I own a Toyota) then call those companies to protest. If you do not, then consider not buying either. The Toyota green image is a sham. Mac Nicolson
Ocean Shores I never cease to be amazed at the business as usual approach of government to climate change. This week it has been announced that $70 million has
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been approved for an upgrade to power lines from Casino to Byron, which will allow far more coal generated electricity to reach our sockets. Does this $70 million get included when people talk about the annual subsidies that coal receives? If this money was used, say, to purchase some Coopers Shoot land, or perhaps along the new highway’s verge, and stick a bunch of windmills on it, would it not generate the same increase in power available without the need to clear swathes of forests and endanger anyone living near the power pathway? In Holland
the highways are lined with solar panels – if it is deemed viable there with their four to five sunny days a year, then it must be viable here. Also, will the emissions produced in the construction and maintenance of this power line be added onto the future power bills, so effectively as taxpayers we will pay for its construction as well as paying for its carbon cost in increased electricity costs? Given the enviro catastrophe that our dependence on coal engenders, it beggars belief that this kind of money is being spent on supporting infrastructure for a dinosaur indus-
try. Seventy million would buy supporters have been peaceably a lot of windmills. but passionately defending this Mark O’Brien culturally and environmentally Mullumbimby important site, which includes Guardian Tree, bora ground, many other cultural sites and is Boolah Dillah Update on the situation at Bu- the home of rare orchids. The RTA have moved in with lahdelah and the Alum Sacred Mountain, known as Boolah 24hr security and have begun Dillah traditionally. to desecrate this place includFor those who are not aware, ing destroying the Healing the RTA is attempting to build Stream. Uncle Worimi sought a six lane highway through the an injunction from the federal base of this sacred mountain, a court to stop the destruction, far more expensive and dam- but the court ruled in favour aging route than other options of the RTA. (see www.facebook.com/group. Al Oshlack from the Indigphp?gid=121807998591&ref- enous Justice Advocacy Netmf for more info). work says the decision sets a Uncle Worimi, his family and dangerous precedent that no
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Aboriginal cultural site has protection. The fight is soon going to the Land and Environment Court. The ‘Protection Protest’ is firmly camped near the Guardian Tree, after being evicted from its original site in the public park. The RTA attempted to evict them again, saying the handful of campers is a threat to the rare orchids! Malcolm Carrall, protest spokesperson, says: ‘Please, everyone, continue to come to Bulahdelah when you can! there is still a lot we can do to stop the RTA.’ Malcolm’s email is bulahdelahtentembassy@ gmail.com. Laura Targett
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The new entrance building at Mullumbimby’s Petria Thomas Pool has been welcomed by everyone who swims there. I’d like to thank the Council for putting up the money. Having said that, I think this building has more than its fair share of faults. You really would expect a Green Council to think about the design of such buildings, not just from the aesthetic point of view but in terms of the people who will use it and the contribution the structure makes to greenhouse gases. The entrance is poorly designed and leads to confusion as to where people are expected to pay. The counters are forbiddingly high, unwelcoming and make it difficult for children to attract the attention of staff. The western side of the building, facing the afternoon sun, is like a heat scoop. No thought has been given to providing shade. Mens’ and womens’ change rooms/showers have been built so that not a flicker of natural light can get in. Each room is lit throughout the day by 12 fluorescent lights. These lights stay on no matter how brilliantly the sun is shining. Where’s the Green awareness of the contribution electricity makes to global warming? Of course, the solar panels on the roof now heat the showers so let’s hear it for the Council on this point. Nope. Not one solar panel: just the same old coin-in-the-slot machine for hot water to one shower only per change room. This is a major missed opportunity and we’ll have to put up with it for a very long time. Really pathetic for a Council that calls itself green. The colour scheme’s nice. M Sargaison
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Here is a group of photos that illustrate how the Belongil ancient dune became destabilised, and why. Figure 1 shows a bulldozer destroying the seaward portion of the dune. Figure 2 shows why. That heavy black stuff at the bottom for the most part, plus striations visible above. They were strip mining heavy mineral deposits known as ‘placer deposits’, which form when heavy wave action impacts a beach over millennia. The heaviest parts of the sand load sink to the bottom and form an alluvial body rich in such materials as zircon and particularly rutile. The dune is thousands of years old and a stable formation, which is why the deposits were there. Figure 3 shows in the foreground a nice black dog, now sadly deceased, standing atop the original dune as of April 1967 before sandmining. In the
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mining proposals. When the big storms of 1972 and 1974 tore away mined dunes up and down the coast, arses would have needed to be covered. Hence the official line: ‘The coast is retreating, nature must take its course.’ Liability must be avoided! The actual survey lines tell a different story. A story that matches heavy mineral deposits in the ancient dune system. Prior to mining, big seas would rip off surface sand, but not damage the heavy compacted foundation, and over that heavy solid base the surface dune would then reform. The Belongil dune is stable. With respect to all parties
concerned, I believe we need to duplicate the ancient dune and attempt to restore the natural balance. This can be done. Otherwise, we will complete the destruction the sandmining began. The final two pictures illustrate the adjustment to the shape of the coast caused by the rock walls up in the north of the Shire, and at Main Beach. By adjusting the shape of the Main Beach works to duplicate a dune instead of a headland, we may eliminate this effect. Added to the destabilisation caused by mining, those structures have been a real drag.
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Noosa and Byron Bay are lattes apart Mick Malloy
The Weekend Australian recently ran an article (‘The Tide Turns’, October 10-11) highly critical of Byron Bay. Journalist Andrew Fraser compared Byron to Noosa and concluded that Byron residents, led by council, have adopted an extreme anti-tourist, antilandholder, anti-business, antibeach preservation, anti-fuckingeverything attitude. Noosa, on the other hand, is God’s gift to the tourist industry, according to Andrew. Andrew has obviously attempted a quick trip into Byron Bay and spent a day stuck in his car on Ewingsdale Road. A quick trip into Byron Bay – how oxymoronic could a bloke be? (It’s a bad trip. I’ve been stuck on our very own Road To Nihil long enough to read an entire Fast Buck$ letter to The Echo and traumatised enough to think I understood it.) Andrew’s dismay with Byron’s road system would be understandable but I do feel compelled to defend my adopted hometown against the bloke’s load of uninformed tripe. Andrew is unappreciative of the fact that Byron is in NSW and Noosa isn’t. This gives Noosa an immediate unfair advantage. Having the support of the NSW state government
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is a bit like having Pol Pot as a carer. Byron’s infrastructure problems are continually exacerbated by this obstructionist, self-destructive rabble. Andrew, while realising Noosa and Byron have different ideologies, didn’t bother to define Byron’s. What Byron stands for was vividly displayed in 2003, when the whole of its townspeople thrust themselves naked onto the world stage in protest over our government’s support of an unjustifiable war, while Noosa ordered a latte. Sixty thousand Iraqi civilian deaths later, Iraq was transformed into a nightmare and our gutless government was reelected simply because Australians’ hip pockets were humming. Byron plummeted into despair. Noosa ordered another latte. It’s about soul, Andrew, humanity’s soul, but if your wish is for a latte, a fast buck and slow enlightenment, you’re
better off in Noosa. (Or the Gold Coast if your greed’s gone gangrenous.) Andrew labels Byronites as anti-tourist basically because we’ve refused to be competitive in the race to become the next Gold Coast. He feels that Council’s decision to shut down non-approved holiday lets is bordering on criminal. It seems regulations in regard to number of guests, fire prevention, neighbour amenity, commercial advantage etc should not interfere with the quest to make a buck. When a swarm of kids, that typify the ‘Bon Scott’ visitor demographic, goes up in flames in one of these dwellings, you might be better off being one of the kids rather than those responsible for authorising the dwelling for such use. Andrew the geologist thinks that Byron should apply Noosa’s rock wall/sand replacement strategy to its eroding beaches. The fact that the NSW state
government now advocates this strategy confirms its absurdity. Noosa, despite having a beach as big as a bathtub, has nearly tapped China by sucking so much sand out of its riverbed to maintain its beach. Apparently owners of these rock walls are to be held accountable for any damage done to adjacent beach frontages. They’ll have as much chance of policing that as monitoring my methane output. What insurance company will offer liability cover for anyone who screws with nature? Andrew also seems to have overlooked climate change and its predicted effects on the north coast, such as a severe blow to his groyne, but he’ll probably lie back and enjoy it from the safety of his Melbourne office. Whether it’s with your Nylex in the face of raging infernos or garden walling expansive beachfronts against surging oceans, attempting to fight nature’s extremes can only result in misery. The informed (which automatically excludes Andrew) understand that Byron’s coastal erosion problem requires a collaborative approach between local, state and federal governments. As with climate change, government funded science holds the answer, not uninformed journalists, not landholders and not businesspeople. We have witnessed nature’s ferocious coastline appetite over many years, and I suspect counteracting it could be as difficult as stopping the bullshit that naturally flows from The Australian.
Drama that transcends mediocrity Finally the courageous and obsessed storytellers of this region have an event aimed squarely at them, at least according to Screenworks. Screenworks is bringing Billy MarshallStoneking, pictured, to Bangalow for the first time to deliver his seminar, ‘The Drama According to Stoneking’ on Saturday November 14. Jill Moonie, general manager of Screenworks, said ‘The publicity and stories about the Stoneking seminars are so positive, and his message so profound that people swear it has changed their lives. So be ready to open up to your owns stories in a new way.’ Billy Marshall-Stoneking is a renowned writer for both screen and stage, poet, producer and director and his work as a script editor has helped writers focus on the truth and intensity of emotional connections in character based stories. ‘In the seminar Stoneking delivers a powerful message about character based story telling,’ says Screenworks. ‘Such is the strength and depth 16 October 27, 2009 The Byron Shire Echo
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of his message that he has been accorded the status of the Screenwriting equivalent of the drill master in Full Metal Jacket by Chopper writer director Andrew Dominik. Others tell of the transformation and excitement about their work after taking on board Stoneking’s theories. ‘For the Screenworks seminar Stoneking will present his intuitive storytelling perspectives, tools and strategies that will help participants to develop confidence in their own intuitive processes. A key element of this seminar is to
explore the building up and releasing of emotional energy through story and performance. ‘Stoneking will highlight his messages with screenings of key scenes and short films. ‘If you want to smash through the wall, and find out about the art of becoming a medium in your own writing and performance – then this is the standout event of the year.’ To reserve a place call 6687 1599 or email Lisa O’Meara at [email protected]. Tickets $77 Screenworks members and $99 non members. www.echo.net.au
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Ate, preyed and left the beauty of Ubud Ubuddha
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BIODIVERSITY IN YOUR GARDEN Saturday 28 November. 1:30 – 4:30 pm In Mullumbimby with Mark Leske, Judy MacDonald, Brad and Jo Green. Visit local native gardens and a native plant nursery. Bookings essential: Contact BVL Project officer: Judy MacDonald – 6684 5390 (Wed & Thurs) email: [email protected] Workshops include afternoon tea and are free for landcare members or $5 for non-members. Workshops are funded by the NSW Environmental Trust BVL membership: To join BVL or to renew your membership please contact Jane Wickers 6684 6212 email: [email protected] Community Support Officer: For further information about participating in local Landcare, NRCMA programs or other issues relating to natural resource management contact: Wendy Gibney 6626 7028 (Thurs & Fri) e: [email protected] This column is published with the support of the NRCMA
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the rise of Bali and surrounds as a surfing Mecca, before the bombings and Schapelle Corby, before the Ubud Writer’s Festival and well before the political rejuvenation of Indonesia in 1998, and East Timor’s struggle to independence. Twenty-eight years later I arrive to stay in Ubud a few days before the Writer’s Festival, passing one day a sweating Mungo MacCallum traipsing up the main drag in the searing humidity, and a week or two before Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem and their Hollywood caravan of dreams paraded into town. They are here to film Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert’s true tale of a woman caught in a faux happy cul-de-sac of American life who leaves a moment of utter desolation on her bathroom floor for Italian pasta, Indian ashrams and finally to find peace and love in Bali. Bardem plays the Lothario she hooks in Ubud. Happens every day!
Tremors When the author appeared on Oprah the audience of similarly disenchanted American women held up their dogeared copies of the book like sacred texts, underlined and book-marked, declaring their empathy with every paragraph. They call them Lisbians. The book itself and the possible effects of the film are sending tremors through Bali society magnitude Oscars 8.8. Some imagine hordes of middle-aged women arriving here with the ‘longing eat pray love look’ as one person put it, hunting for spiritual awakening and a Diet Coke. Ubud is beautiful of course, but as rice paddies disappear for Western villas and hotels, as another family member leaves his traditional village to tout for taxi fares, as beggars start to push harder against the western walls that separate compassion from disinterest, and as expats look for the next mode of making a good buck in an economy likely soon to inflate like the egos of some locals featured in the book, one fears for the life of this kingdom.
various online histories this seems mythological, as Hinduism really grounded itself here around 1515. Irrespective of the true history and despite volcanoes and earthquakes, and the more troublesome human instigated disasters of recent years, there is a peace here that sinks into you. The smiles of the people seem almost to a person real and unforced, they really seem to love and accept what is. They have a healthy attitude to death. Their family structures are as strong as any in the world, their connection to the land, their reverence and honouring daily of the forces of nature are exemplary and beautiful even if some deem them overly superstitious. I think of the rituals of the Catholic Church or the beliefs of Judaism and even Buddhism, and what is practised here seems no stranger, less rigid, and certainly connected.
Detached Closing ceremony of the 2008 Ubud Writers Festival.
One taxi driver told me, ‘It will all be OK as long as the King keeps the faith of the people, holds to our culture, maintains the centre, but if the King should fall into the grip of western ideals then all may be lost.’ It’s not a question of corruption, just the incremental shift day to day from ancient values to the new glossy cover stories of fashion and fame. Simply, it’s a matter of focus. In the villa next door in usually quiet Penestanan an Indonesian family on holidays perhaps from Jakarta have their wide screen TV turned on to a soccer game. It’s 6 am! My new Canadian friend arrives in Kafe, the grooviest coffee shop in Ubud, where yoginis sip exotic morning juice combos and other cosmic jockeys talk Mayan calendars, Theta healing, sharing and drumming groups and the like. It’s just like Byron circa 1990, and that’s not a criticism. Peter says his village has been invaded. The film trucks are lining the rice paddies and cables lie about like snakes through the
normally placid village. Next day Peter comes in and happily informs us that he has managed to secure a day’s work as an extra on the film.
Different diva Passing through Penestanan in the morning a sign reads ‘Welcome Julia Roberts, Pretty Woman, we love you!’ with a big red heart. The sign hangs next to the traditional Sanga or gateway to the temple box, full of offerings to a different diva. Maybe it won’t be that bad. Maybe this place and this deep green culture will have the better of the western invasion. According to the broken English of one well-educated taxi driver it was as early as the 4th century that a Hindu Rishi came here from Java where he had had a vision that this island was the place that Hinduism would flourish. He pierced the earth in six places with a Kris, a sacred sword, thus releasing the hold of the demons in the land and establishing Hindusim in lasting harmony with the older animist religion of Bali. In the
Oddly much of what I experienced at the Writer’s Festival seemed detached from life here. I am still coming to terms with why I felt uncomfortable or dissatisfied with so many sessions, why the rumours of a full blown Festival orgy at somebody’s salacious palace might have titillated me but also made me wince, why talking ideas is wonderful, but sitting on the ground with the local families at the temple on their big day Galungan last week made more sense within the whole. That prayers and flowers and incense can trump a clever turn of phrase. I read only one book while here, Maya, by the author of Sophie’s World, Norwegian Jostein Garder. The very last paragraph reads: ‘Man is possibly the only living creature in the entire universe who has universal consciousness. So conserving the living environment of this planet is not just a global responsibility, it’s a cosmic responsibility. Darkness may descend one day, and this time the spirit of God won’t move upon the waters.’ I am sure the Balinese would agree.
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A L L YO U R C OA STA L E N T E RTA I N M E N T The Blue Birdy spreads her wings for a very special night of jazz. The Byron Community Centre welcomes Barney McAll, and Sylent Running. His music is vast, spacious, like listening to cinema. A player and composer, he brings New York New York to Byron Bay Byron Bay. So what does Barney try and evoke in his compositions? ‘That answer changes with every one (piece), just like the sun hides behind clouds then suddenly beams through‌ My impetus or volition for writing music is always in flux. ‘I do find though, that trying to describe something specific with music helps to generate interesting stuff. I remember one time I had a piece that was unfinished and I didn’t know how to complete it. I was in a hotel room and there was a beautiful rainbow over the mountains outside. So, I decided to try to write that rainbow in music. The end result is a certain section of a tune called Flashbacks which came out great! ‘With Empathy Chip, we are trying to capture the feeling of humans being lost in an ever expanding technological world. Gian, our vocalist, plays the part of a pure human and the rest of us are droids, him bots, femme bots and robots. At times the music destroys and at times its beautiful and gives hope‌ So we are looking at the way technology is challenging the human condition and asking the question, will humans become like dinosaurs and will computers and robots self generate into the future?’ Silence is integral to Barney’s composition.
having blue barney in sylence ‘Silence makes the music yes. When you have a particularly long silence it changes the sound before and the sound that continues after. It makes you rethink what you heard and what you will hear, and then‌ what you do hear. I love it, we have sections of complete silence in our performance and at first it is uncomfortable but then‌ a new feeling comes and its quite a relief. We are all allowed to savour certain sounds more. It creates a tension and release. ‘Also, you get more time to ask yourself deep existential questions within the silences. That’s always fun. Miles Davis said “if you hear something
and create abstractions and I suppose I could even say that, improvisation keeps me alive. The music I am most Why is improvisation such a interested in changes with the venue, the audience, how key in your work? the musicians are feeling‌ ‘Well, improvisation to me is just spontaneous composition. everything in the moment. You just don’t have as much ‘I mean many of the structures time to sculpt you know? can remain the same as on But improvisation is a way the record but the nuance to express all the thing that and interpretation and timing leave me dumbfounded, all of things can change to suit the things that leave me lost how things are feeling at the and well, just everything is in concert and that’s very cool there. It’s a way to describe in a way. I remember hearing things that are way out how Marvin Gaye wouldn’t where the buses don’t run, know what he was gonna I am very very grateful to play until he peeped through the curtains, looked at the have music and to be able to audience and then he would perfom with other musicians
that you know will get the most applause, dont play it, sacrifice it, and something better will come�.’
know for sure. That’s the best to me.’ Do you think music gives language to those feelings and thoughts where words can’t go??? ‘Without question. As Charles Ives said‌ “If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heavenâ€?.’ Sylent Running is at the Byron Bay Community Centre on Wednesday October 28. Tickets are $22/25 pre purchased or $27/30 at the door. It’s your chance for a little of New York right here.
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Pubic hair may one day be a thing of the past. This current trend of full Brazilian doesn’t seem to be going away and now, not only girls but boys as well are reaching for the razor and removing their short and curlies. When I was a teenager, the growth of the first pube was a cause for celebration, it heralded the beginning of adolescence. You knew that once you’d reached the Rolf Harris stage of development, you were ready to leave home. (If your genitals started playing ‘tie me kangaroo down’ it was time to see a doctor.) Now pubes are bad. Embarrassing. Lasered, waxed and tortured. Poor pubic hair. It must have such bad self
You’ve got the Music… The Mullum Music Festival is not only bringing music to the streets of the vibing village, it is also committed to uncovering and nurturing the inner muso through a series of workshops scheduled for the weeks leading up to this much anticipated event. Adults and kids get their chance to get involved and get intimate with some of the stars of the event, and in some cases, to perform in the festival. First up is master Greg Sheehan’s unbearably fun Body Percussion class. Greg teaches participants to create their own rhythms using the instrument God gave you (that funky body) and creativity in four weekly sessions, then perform with the group on the Friday night of the festival at the Civic Hall. Open to teens and adults, and no experience is necessary. Having a body is
essential… you can turn that nobody into a somebody! The golden-voiced JoJo Smith is presenting a ‘Singing Sleepover’, on November 21 & 22. This two-day residential retreat involves singing, song writing and performance skills. And during the festival you’ll be able to experience the deepest joy of singing with the invincible Mr. Percival in his Ensembleous Spontaneous Vocalous Singing Workshop. Just back from a tour of the USA, singer/songwriter Suzanna Carmen will help you get a leg up on Songwriting. James Kenyon will teach participants how to use Loop Stations & Digital Effects to help master mixing effects with acoustic instruments and voice. And for those who long to learn more about music, directly from the source, check out The Life of A Hereditary Musician with west Africa’s Jali Buba Kuyateh. And, insights into the History of Latin American Music with Chile’s young troubadour sensation Nano Stern is sure to be a wild ride through the many genres from that culturally rich region. Please visit www.mullum
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PUBIC ENEMY esteem. No one wants it. Like a single parent pensioner in prime real estate, come holiday time, it keeps getting ripped out of its accommodation and moved on. And in a climate of recycling, what happens to all that unwanted muff? Surely if we aren’t going to keep it, we should find ways to use it sustainably. Merkin socks, bush weave blankies or even the world’s first pube powered car… these are just some GREG SHEEHAN, CONDUCTING WORKSHOPS PRE MULLUM MUSIC FESTIVAL.
innovative ways to rethink the role of Mr, Mrs or Ms Curly.
fella that found his way to the soap in a perfect S embedded so deep that not even the most I love pubic hair. It’s poetic. persistent digging could get Some may even say magical. It’s the silly string of the human him to budge. There was the body. It’s not sexy. It was never pube in the salad trying to meant to be. It’s funny. It makes blend in with the alfalfa and nude people look comical, not who could forget the rogue pube in the back of the throat? pornographic. And let’s face It’s the only time you hear a it, when you see your Mum human make the exact same or Dad in the nude you don’t sound as a cat with a fur ball. want it to be with a full Braz. The pubic hair is the one part We need to bring back the of the human anatomy that bush. It’s the downstairs Fro. looks like it was penciled by It’s normal. It means you’re Michael Leunig, and like one grown up. So why do we all of his characters, the pube now want to emulate the has a life all of its own. Before genitalia of children… is it just this pubic genocide, this me or is there something a deforestation of our personal tad paeodophilic here? Pubic big scrub, pubic hair had hair has a purpose. It’s the adventures. There was the little body’s burka. Perhaps so many with the rawness, passion and lyricism of gypsy music. The dancers perfectly blend with the music for dramatic solos that dissolve into lush musical textures and sweet melodies. Nightcafe delivers a poignant, humorous and up-tempo night of enjoyment. Served up with lashings of wild gypsy music from the unstoppable Waiting for Guinness, masters of Balkan boogie. Friday at Lismore City Hall. Tickets: A$47, C$38, U18$21 – www.norpa.org.au
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Big Bang Band The hardest swinging/latino 18 piece Big Band in the North Coast is back! From Ellington and Basie to modern Latin, funk arrangements and vocal numbers, The Big Band at the End of the Universe delivers soulful music that harks from an era well before the iPod. See and hear 18 highly skilled local
The Rails at Byron showcases some of Byron’s best songmusicians create sounds not writers as well as a plethora normally heard on the North of independent traveling Coast live music circuit. This musicians from all over the is also ‘the triumphant return country. Arriving at the of the bass player gig’ – he platform next Wednesday, will have just stepped off the fresh from a rowdy Oktorberplane from NYC and San Fran fest gig at the Buddha Bar – let’s see what he has learned. last week, is the acoustic folk Sunday at the Buddha Bar duo Cheynne Murphy and from 7pm. Mark Heazlett ready for another harmony infused set. Waiting for Guinness @ Expect a collection of old and Nightcafe new songs from both boys’ Nightcafe is an exhilarating catalogue, special guests and production that melds the high some heartfelt interpretations physicality and athleticism of of some classic songs. All aboard at 6pm. Gavin Webber’s style mixed
women wouldn’t be lining up for labioplasty if they couldn’t actually see the goods. Pubes are there for a reason, they are our natural censorship, the body’s form of pixelation of the rude bits. Sometimes if you squint you might be able to make it out, but mostly it’s a bit of a mess. I think we need a campaign. Something to encourage bush regeneration. Next year let’s start Bushtober and run a comp for who can spawn the most impressive patch. We could even bring it to a close on Halloween and go door to door showing just how impressive our efforts have been! Let’s rethink our carbon bush print.
Earth Dance Tribal Trance Dancer Cheze Darville and percutionist Chinta Reiss have created Earth Dance Tribal Trance. This is a Shamanic dance journey moving through the five elements designed to bring balance and awareness for mind, body, and spirit. Using fantastic world music and beats accompanied by live percussion so you can experience altered states of consciousness while dancing yourself into ecstacy. No steps to follow just let your body guide you in this safe and drug free space to really dance your dream awake. Friday at the Ocean Shores Community Centre 7pm-9.30pm.
Brand New Kaye Nathan Kaye’s back in the Bay with an all new band called the Nathan Kaye Kollective on Friday at the Rails after more touring with his oneman-band show. He’s a Lap steel slide guitar slinging, funky slide-didge blowing and body-popping human beat-box freak. A one-manband tour-de-force that’s made jaws drop at festivals around
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fact, Cloher and her band The Endless Sea had spent almost two years on the road. As the album’s opening track Mother’s Desk vividly sets the scene for the genesis of Hidden Hands we find Cloher holed up in Auckland grappling Get Faulked Jaimi Faulkner and his red-hot with her mother’s illness, and facing writer’s block. This is band are finishing up their astounding, beautiful work. national tour with shows in Jen Cloher is one of the must Brisbane, Lennox Head and sees of Mullum Music Festival Byron Bay. They’ve been on the road promoting Faulkner’s November 26 – 29. very tasty soul, roots and blues flavoured new album Kiss & Watching the Fyah Ride. Catch them at the Lennox Fyah Walk are reggae-stylin’ Pub on Saturday. it back down the highway from their Island Vibe show to put on a Melbourne Cup Eve Endless Talent party at the Beach Hotel this Reading through the lyrics to Monday from 9pm. Fyah Walk Jen Cloher’s second album Hidden Hands is a bit like being has been hitting the East Coast handed a diary. That may come on a blazing trail of reggae with the hard-hitting sounds of to a surprise to those who fell in love with the dark narratives their new album Ocean Sound. Songwriter and lead singer of her 2006 ARIA nominated Simon Jerrems is joined by debut Dead Wood Falls, but highly regarded local musicians accept Cloher’s invitation to Jesse Willaton on lead guitar, get musically intimate and bass guitarist Marky Power, you’re in for a treat. You’ll Smurf on trumpet, Hugh Jones learn that the reason Cloher on drumkit, Ben Ganly on keys, disappeared just when things Stuart Currie on trombone/ were taking off, was to be vocals, and vocalist Sonia with her Alzheimer’s afflicted Leeson. mother in New Zealand. In the globe like Glastonbury, Edinburgh, Splendour in the Grass and more… Nathan Kaye’s performance will make you laugh, make you think and make you groove!
The last 12 months have been a rollercoaster for Polaroid Fame. Just this year they played Splendour in the Grass and at the time of this interview with Frankie, the band were in Melbourne gigging down there. The music of Byron Bay is really coming of age. I asked Frankie about the evolution of PF. ‘A few years back we started with the Frankie Band and it was more of an acoustic vibe, we started out jamming and recorded an EP and then the sound drastically changed, it wasn’t conscious, it was more out of enjoyment. Before I knew it I was buying pedals and effects and synth keys and it all seemed like it was great because it was like what we grew up on – 80’s pop.’ Hence the name: ‘Polaroid Fame’. Nothing gratifies like the instant pleasure of a polaroid! When it comes to 80’s pop Frankie admits to a love of the dark side of the moon with The Police, U2, Icehouse, Joy Division. For Polaroid Fame, part of the appeal is the relatively unstructured feel particularly in a live setting. ‘I think we do come across a little rawer than we do in the studio. I think that’s a good thing because you don’t want
it totally perfect. We definitely have taken it to a different level.’ As for songs that Frankie thinks have the pop magic? ‘Bowie’s New Jacket goes off. And it’s not a tribute to Bowie at all. It comes across that way, but basically every time we write a new song, Damo our guitarist has this way of coming up with random names.’ Splendour gave Polaroid Fame a taste of the big stage. ‘It’s amazing walking on stage. The electricity, the nerves… I had goosebumps. What blew me out the most was the complete professionalism of the whole event. It was just amazing to be part of it.’ Polaroid Fame have just supported Blue Juice and are soon to do a couple of shows with Operator Please. They play the Hotel Great Northern on Friday. They are also a featured act at Mullum Music Festival November 26 – 29 (see www. mullummusicfestival.com for program times). There latest album was recorded at Rocking Horse with producer Anthony Lycenko, and is available for download from www.polaroid fame.com for just $1. Check it out. It’s a limited time only.
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LEIGH ARNOLD THE FABRIC OF SPACE – OPENING ZAKAY GLASS CREATIONS FRIDAY 6PM
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Loving it Latin Transcending Mediocrity Storytellers of the region are in for a treat. Screenworks is bringing Billy MarshallStoneking to Bangalow to deliver his seminar, ‘The Drama According to Stoneking’ on Saturday November 14. Billy Marshall-Stoneking is a renowned writer for both screen and stage, poet, producer and director and his work as a script editor has helped writers focus on the truth and intensity of emotional connections in character based stories. In the seminar Stoneking delivers a powerful message about character based story telling. For Screenworks seminar Stoneking will present his intuitive storytelling perspectives, tools and strategies that will help participants to develop confidence in their own intuitive processes. To reserve a place call Screenworks 6687 1599 or email Lisa O’Meara [email protected]. au. Tickets $77 Screenworks members and $99 non members.
Looking Back on An Abstract Life There is as much energy in the work of Hele Ellis as there is in the woman herself. Ellis immigrated to Australia from Germany and settled in Byron back in 1995. Hele’s work has developed extensively in the decade and a half she has lived here. Its vibrancy and colour reflects the stark energy of the new landscape she calls home. Ellis currently has a retrospective exhibition
The 4th Annual Byron Latin Fiesta is fast approaching. This much loved event brings together musicians and dancers, teachers and bands, all for the love of Latin. The Festival is scheduled for November 6 – 8 at the Buddha Bar, the Great Northern and Savvy.
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to be the biggest and best so far! The night will feature outstanding and spooky acts from the Circus Arts Performance Troupe. There will be a Circus sideshow with stilt-walkers, face painting, balloon sculpting, lucky dips and more! After the show, the flying trapeze will be open for anyone over the age of five to have a swing for $5. Come dressed Halloween as there will be a parade and fab prizes. Bring along the whole family for a fun night entertainment and trick-or-treating. Doors Gypsy Dance open from 6pm, food and Those interested in learning snacks available from our Big the ancient art of Gypsy Dance Top café. Show time starts at will have the opportunity of 7pm and runs till 8pm. Free. learning from Corrina, who is offering a course at the Talking Death Pioneer Hall in Mullum from Death is just one of those Monday 6.30pm – 8pm. conversation stoppers. But Corrina studied this in Turkey for some folk around here, from the Roma people. It’s an it’s the doorway into the opportunity for students to get deepest, most interesting and some serious core strength and most revealing discussions. get cheeky with the language Join author, celebrant and and stories that make up champion of the Natural this Roma (Gypsy) dance. For Death Centre, Zenith Virago, enquires ph 0412 566 816. and artists James Guppy and Black Top Circus Theatre present a cabaret featuring local and international artists performing feats of beauty, dexterity and absolute hilarity. Friday at the Bangalow Bowlo and Saturday at the Byron Bowlo. Doors to both shows open at 7.30pm and tickets are $10 and are available now from the venues. There are also prizes for Best Halloween Costume and kids are welcome – providing their parents aren’t too scared to come along.
Nic Plowman at Harvest Cafe in Newrybar from 6pm on Saturday for A Morbid Circus Arts is holding a spooky Fascination dinner discussion. Halloween inspired Circus Book on 6680 8825. Showcase this Thursday. This will be the last showcase of Painting Death this year before the end of year Inspired by Mexico’s Día production and should prove de Muertos celebrations,
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Retrospect Galleries presents a group exhibition exploring the boundaries of religion, death, magic and mystery, featuring works by local Northern Rivers’ artists James Guppy, Hilary Herrmann, Michelle Dawson, Anna Nordstrum, Katka Adams, Cornelia Burless, and Alberto Sanchez, Brisbane’s Nic Plowman, Jan Van Djirk and Eileen Timbrell, Sydneysiders Andrew Hmnelinsky and Luke Taffe, Californians Harry the Hat and Kelsey Brookes and Tokyo based Aoife Tamura. The show opens 6 to 9pm All Souls Day Sunday November 1, until November 22. Dress in the style of Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebrations and join us for art, wine, ritual and song, with live music by Mexico Lindo. This is a free event for all the community.
Beautiful Losers Experience part of the hippy dream and come and see a one-off cinema screening of a documentary that focuses on a grass roots, anti establishment, artistic movement that grew out of New York in the 1990’s. The effects of the movement now influence a generation of artists inspired by the DIY ‘make something from nothing’ ethos. Beautiful Losers celebrates the spirit behind one of the most
influential cultural moments of a generation. The Dendy in Byron on Sunday at 2pm.
Seeing in Space Leigh Arnold is a Nimbin based artist who visualizes form and structure in a way that most others cannot. When Leigh was 45 he was diagnosed as being severely dyslexic, mildly autistic and having Asperger’s syndome. This was not explained to Leigh until he suffered a ‘whopping mental breakdown’ as he calls it, in his late forties. From his earliest childhood memories he began analyzing the complex patterns he saw in his grandmother’s Persian rugs. This led to a fascination with pattern and symmetry, together with the exploration of mathematics. Leigh can take a simple object like a cube, and by use of perspective and colour manipulation he creates a world which displays precise order in incredible complexity. His work has captured the interests of international art collectors from Nimbin to New York. The Australian Mathematical Science Institute commissioned two of his images to use as a logo and for promotional material for mathematic conferences. Another fan of Leigh’s ability to capture complex geometric patterns is Robert Bleakley, co
founder of Sotheby’s Australia who will be proudly opening the exhibition of Leigh’s most recent works, The Fabric of Space. See his website leigharnold.com and join him on the opening of his next exhibition The Fabric of Space at Zakay Glass Creations Gallery on Friday at 6pm.
African Culture Day @ Cafe Harmony Cafe Harmony is now on every week! Every Saturday 11am at the Fletcher St Room Byron Community Centre join in a free community event which celebrates the beauty and diversity of Byron Shire’s cultural life. This Saturday Cheze Darville from Rhythm Konnections leads an exciting and dynamic workshop in African singing, percussion and dance. Combining her training in dance and movement with her rich personal life experiences, Cheze has created her own innovative and inspiring style of both African dance and healing modalities. Ph: 6685 8904 www. byronmulticultural.org.au
Loveletter Loveletter Ripe Theatre brings A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters to the Byron Bay Community Centre this Halloween weekend. Local Byron actress, Bridie Carter and former co
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star Aaron Jeffery, both of McLeods Daughters fame, are to perform this Pulitzer Prizenominated play on the BBCC stage.’ This is a play comprised of the letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people, the bittersweet relationship of Melissa Gardner, a free-spirited artist and Andrew Makepeace III, a dutiful lawyer/politician – who grew up together but went their separate ways. This deeply moving funny and thought provoking play is on Saturday at 2pm and 5pm and Sunday at 5pm. Bookings 6685 6807 – $35 or $28 con. or byronbaytheatre.com.au
Maximum Impact It is called IMPACT – An Art Exhibition by four painting and sculpting friends. The participants are: Lynne Adams, a wellknown award winning artist who sculpts flowers from recycled plastics. Marie Sherd’s, acrylic works on canvas cover a range of subject matter from Tibetan landscapes to exotic beaded and sequinned works. Helen Adams, and her exploration of colour therapy, married with calligraphy, also recycles and reuses papers, cardboards and boxes. And Patrick Collins, a biomedical research scientist, applies the same degree of sensitivity to his photographic images of subjects from his immediate environment and from as far away as China. Saturday 6pm-9pm and Sunday 114pm at 12 Gordon Street Mullumbimby.
Q: How do you become a celebrity DJ? He’s appeared alongside Robin A: ‘I dunno. I’d like to think it’s Williams in Good Morning because I’m good. I suppose Vietnam, he speaks more living in LA helps.’ languages than the Pope Q: What was the biggest (about 7 last count) and has d secret at Lindsay Lohan’s i not only found his feet in s s a ckie On party? Singapore, establishing his own with Ja A: ‘Secret? I dunno. Probably Asian Comedy Empire. Thank drugs but I guess that’s not a BRAT PACK presents God for Jonathan Atherton! I secret really. I do know that she PASE ROCK at LiQUiD grabbed a quick chat before uses Tampax brand tampons...’ Brooklyn, NY based artist Pase his show at the Court House Rock taught himself how to in Mullumbimby on Monday, Q: Do you DJ and MC at the scratch on his grandmother’s where he’ll be appearing with same time? direct drive turntable at nine Joel Salom and my good self. A: ‘Hmmm. I suppose so. It’s years old. From the ‘vinyl plathard to be behind the decks So tell me how it’s going for ter’ to mp3s and Pase Rock trying to connect with an you in Singapore? is now a celebrity DJ, playaudience but I definitely get on I host breakfast radio in the the mic and stuff...’ mornings, do voice overs in the ing private parties for Snoop afternoons and comedy shows Dogg, Black Eyed Peas, Justin Q: What is a good DJ? Timberlake, Playboy, Lindsay at night. I’m running ‘The A: ‘A combination of the Comedy Club’ in Singapore and Lohan and Adidas. Pase Rock’s right amount of ego, music Kuala Lumpur, about to open in compositions are released on knowledge and taste. Someone Bali… touring India, Indonesia, over twenty different record who cares about the room labels and he is currently Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the vibe and wants to working on his fourth album Malaysia, China and Vietnam create a good atmosphere scheduled for release in early plus pursuing my passion for as an extension of their own 2010. street photography. Oh, and I personality. Technical ability contributed to the latest Lonely Q: Tell us about your album in helps as well, but the decline Planet Singapore guide as well the make? of the hip hop dj is sort of A: ‘It’s top secret, if I told you I’d phasing that aspect out.’ as articles for KLM’s in-flight magazine and Singapore FHM. have to kill you.’ Q: Who has been the biggest Soon I’m starting a local open Q: How would you describe inspiration to you lately? mic competition and workshop your music? A: ‘My homie (mate) AM. He series called ‘Standup for A: ‘Dance oriented hip hop.’ passed away recently and I’ve Singapore’. BUSY! Q: What’s progressed since been tremendously inspired by you started producing? his life and the legacy he left.’ A: ‘I guess technology has Q: Have you got a favorite progressed dramatically, but electronic gadget? production isn’t really my A: ‘iphone, duh!’ main focus; more DJ-ing and Q: What will you bring to songwriting. Q: What’s fresh on your vinyl Liquid for your gig? A: ‘Hopefully a lot of girls...’ platter? Q: If there was a first aid kit A: ‘What’s fresh on my mp3 for your gig, what would go playlist! I still use vinyl in it? sometimes; I just bought Eli Escobar’s new 12” Glass House, A: ‘Silly string, alcohol, condoms, jolly ranchers, birth the new Juan Maclean album control pills (double up!), and Tittsworth WTF single featuring myself and Kid Sister swimwear (you never know!), maybe a portable dance floor on serato vinyl…I like Blam.’
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Why did you leave Brisbane…do you think you’ll be back? The comedy scene in Australia has atrophied. I’ve got dozens of colleagues down under begging me for gigs up here. I don’t want to mention names but I find it repugnant that some nail-polish wearing journalist with very limited Jacko at the Dendo comedy skills can become a Before his sudden and tragic star by stealing other comics’ death last June, Michael material and screaming into a Jackson was immersed in microphone. preparing for his sold-outWhat are you most concert tour, due to start passionate about? in London in July. Now his Communication. extraordinary talent is being brought to the big screen in What inspired you to become Michael Jackson’s This Is It, a a comic? rare glimpse into Michael’s final I couldn’t hold a real job. days. Compiled from over 80 How would you describe hours of rehearsal and behind- your world view? the-scenes footage, the film One world one people. shows Michael the way his fans What is a day in the life of and music lovers worldwide Jonathan Atherton like?? will always remember him – Hectic. an incomparable entertainer Jonathan headlines at the whose brilliance and creative Court House on Monday. genius led to his being Show starts at 8pm. Tix are crowned the undisputed King $15/20 and can be bought at of Pop. This Is It screens at Dendy Byron Bay Cinemas from the pub, booked on 6684 3443 or bought at the door. Wednesday for two weeks.
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Looking For Eric The best and the worst of what cinema has to offer arrived on our screens last week. British director Ken Loach is not one to mess with trifles. An uncompromising realist – his last feature, The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006), was a brutal study of the Irish Troubles – he and long-time collaborator, writer Paul Laverty, have committed themselves to exploring the human condition through the everyday lives of people just like you and me. This time around Loach has introduced an element of fantasy into his story, with the iconic, retired French footballer Eric Cantona
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into insignificance. There are occasions when the broad Mancunian brogue is difficult to comprehend – a pub scene where the lads gather to watch Man U take on Barcelona defeated my companion altogether – but you never lose track of the straightforward, compelling narrative. Some prior knowledge of what it was that made Cantona unique is helpful (like Warnie, he was bigger than the game), but his smouldering presence is still there in spades (watch him play, imperfectly, La Marseillaise on his trumpet), and, for heaven’s sake, don’t be deterred because it contains football highlights. The clips of the goals are not many and they are essential in appreciating the charisma and genius of Cantona as well as explaining why so many of us need to look up to heroes (Lennon, Marley and Che hereabouts). This is a fantastic movie – beautifully plotted and superbly acted, funny and sad, redemptive and inspiring (‘I am Cantona!’), with loads of compassion and, through the mystique of the Red Devils’ number seven, a feast of Gallic philosophizing. ~ John Campbell
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Television Guide 1. The teen comedy Mean Girls (TEN, Friday, 8.30pm) is a surprisingly funny take on a pointless and unsustainable subculture destined to be swept away by global warming as we return to the hills to grub for roots and berries. 2. Young fans of Dr Seuss might enjoy Mike Myers as The Cat In The Hat (NBN, Saturday, 7.30pm) but it is not rated as a gem in its genre. This is not to be confused with Mike Myers’ spy/bestiality crossover flick The Cat Who Shagged Me. 3. The dispiriting rounds of a health system are explored in the first-rate Romanian tragicomedy The Death Of Mr Lazarescu (SBS1, Sunday, 11.30pm).
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G.P. (PG) Rpt. 5.20 World News Collectors (G) Rpt. 7.15 Weatherwatch Kids’ Programs 7.25 World News Nummy Detective (G) 1.00 Movie: Man Without A Midday Report Past (M 2003) Finland. National Press Club Stars Markku Peltola, Kafi Address Outinen. Talking Heads (G) 2.40 Spacefiles: Earth (G) Parliament Question Time: 3.00 Corner Gas (G) House Of Representatives 3.30 A Fork In The Kids’ Programs Mediterranean: Italy River Cottage Spring (G) 4.00 Eco House Challenge (G) ABC News 4.30 The Journal The 7.30 Report 5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer The New Inventors (G) 6.00 Global Village Spicks And Specks (PG) 6.30 World News Australia Hungry Beast (M) 7.35 Inspector Rex (PG) John Safran’s Race 8.30 Destination Australia (PG) Relations 9.30 World News Australia At the Movies 10.00 The Eagle: A Crime Lateline & Lateline Odyssey (M) Denmark. Business 11.10 Movie: Nero (M 2004) Italy. the Line Of Beauty (M) Stars Hans Matheson, Rike Schmid, Laura Morante. The Sideshow With Paul 12.50 Nazi Number One: McDermott (PG) Rpt. Herman Goering (M) Parliament Question Time: 1.50 Weatherwatch The Senate Grumpy Old Men (PG) National Press Club G.P. (PG) Rpt. Collectors (G) Rpt. Kids’ Programs The War Of The World Midday Report River Cottage Gone Fishing! Collectors (G) Rpt. Parliament Question Time: The Senate Kids’ Programs Grand Designs Revisited ABC News The 7.30 Report Catalyst The Great Escape Q&A Lateline & Lateline Business Live At The Basement Parliament Question Time: House Of Representatives Movie: Spirit Of The People (G 1940) Stars Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon. Grumpy Old Men (PG) The Glass House (M)
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World News UEFA Champions league World News Australian Biography: Donald Metcalf Little Me (G) Dateline Road Trip Nations Australia Feast Bazaar (G) The Journal Newshour With Jim Lehrer Global Village World News Australia Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam Costa’s Garden Odyssey Dave In The Life: Of A Politician (M) ADbc World News Movie: Empty Nest (PG 2008) Argentina. Stars Oscar Martinez, Cecilia Roth. Oz (M) Movie: Uno (MA 2003) Norway. Stars Aksel Hennie, Nikolai Cleve. Weatherwatch
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Sunrise The Morning Show (PG) Seven News Movie: Family Plan (PG) Stars Jordan Bridges, Michael Bergin, Greg Germann. Murder, She Wrote (PG) New Idea TV Larry The Lawnmower It’s Academic Seven and Prime News M*A*S*H (G) Deal Or No Deal (G) Seven and Prime News Home And Away (PG) Coastwatch (PG) Medical Emergency (PG) City Homicide (M) Criminal Minds (MA) My Name Is Earl (PG) American Dad (M) It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (M) Africa Alive (G) Infomercials
Sunrise Morning Show (PG) Seven Morning News Movie: Fielder’s Choice (G) Stars Chad Lowe, K’Sun Ray, Marin Hinkle. Murder, She Wrote (PG) New Idea TV Larry The Lawnmower It’s Academic Seven News M*A*S*H (G) Rpt. Deal Or No Deal Seven and Prime News Home And Away (PG) Ghost Whisperer (PG) Beauty And The Geek Australia (M) The Amazing Race (PG) Family Guy (M) American Dad (PG) Room For Improvement Infomercials
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Ten Early News Kids’ Programs 9am With David And Kim Ten News Dr Phil (PG) Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Ready Steady Cook (PG) Infomercial is punishment for watching daytime TV Dharma & Greg (PG) Huey’s Cooking Adventures (PG) The Bold & The Beautiful Ten News The Simpsons (PG) Neighbours (G) The 7pm Project (PG) Celebrity Masterchef (PG) NCIS: Los Angeles (M) NCIS (M) Late New & Sports The Late Show With David Letterman Eureka (M) Infomercials Religion to 6am (PG)
Ten Early News Kids’ Programs 9am With David And Kim Ten News Dr Phil (PG) Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Ready Steady Cook (PG) Infomercial Dharma & Greg (PG) Huey’s Cooking Adventures The Bold & The Beautiful Ten News The Simpsons (G) Rpt. Neighbours (G) Rpt. The 7pm Project (PG) Glee (PG) Rush (M) Burn Notice (M) Late News and Sports Tonight Late Show With David Letterman The Poker Star (M) Infomercials (PG) Religion to 6am (PG).
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5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne (PG) 11.00 Bio-Magnetics (G) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) 5.30 Hot Seat (G) 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG) 8.00 Money For Jam (PG) 8.30 RPA (PG) 8.45 Lotto 9.30 Crime Investigation Australia (M) 10.35 Without Trace (M) 11.30 Late News 12.00 Poker Ashes 2009 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 1.30 Infomercials 5.00 Early Morning News
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Today Mornings with Kerri-Anne Infomercials Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) The View (PG) talk show. Days Of Our Lives (PG) Alive And Cooking (G) Kids’ Programs Afternoon News Antiques Roadshow Hot Seat NBN News A Current Affair Getaway (PG) Secret Millionaire (PG) Fergie: Duchess On A Misson (PG) E.R. (M) Late News The Alice (PG) The Avengers (PG) Infomercials
6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Business Today 9.30 Asia Pacific News 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Around The World In 80 Gardens (G) 5.30 Time Team (G) 6.30 Junkyard Wars 7.20 Mr Bean 7.30 Coach Trip 8.00 The Re-Inventors 8.30 Dangerous Jobs For Girls 9.30 Superhuman: World’s Smallest People 10.20 Victoria’s Empire (G) 11.20 Spendaholics: Croydon (G) 12.20 Close
6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Business Today 9.30 Asia Pac News 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 The Einstein Factor (G) 5.00 Kylie Kwong: My China (G) 5.30 ABC Fora 6.30 Junkyard Wars 7.20 Mr Bean 7.30 Coach Trip 8.00 Spicks And Specks (PG) 8.30 Hungry Beast 9.00 John Safran’s Race Relations 9.25 beached az: The Bluebottle 9.30 The Graham Norton Show 10.15 Spoons (M) 10.30 Billable Hours 11.00 The Omid Djalili Show (PG) 11.30 Roman’s Empire (M)
5.00am to 6.30pm World News In Various Languages
6.00 The Sport Of Kings 6.30 The Pro Shop 7.30 NASCAR Sprint Cup Highlights 6.30 World News 8.30 Grand-Am Rolex 7.30 Insight Sportscar Series 8.30 112 Emergency 9.30 Motorsport 10.30 Basketball. NBA (M) 9.05 Movie: Red 1.30 Basketball. NBA Satin (M 2002) Doubleheader Tunisia. Stars 4.00 Omnisport Hiam Abbass, 4.30 NFL Game Day Hend el Fahem. 5.00 National 11.50 Movie: Hana Football League And Alice (G 7.30 NBA Finals 2004) Japan. 8.00 Slamball 8.30 The Poker Star Stars Anna 9.30 Sports Tonight Suzuki, Yu Aoi. 1.10 WeatherWatch 10.00 Basketball. NBA Overnight 12.00 Sports Soup 12.30 Sports Tonight 12.45 Football. Bundesliga 1.55 Football. Serie A 3.55 Omnisport 4.25 NASCAR Natiowide Series
5.00am to 6.30pm World News In Various Languages 6.30 World News 7.30 As It Happened (PG) 8.30 112 Emergency (M) 9.00 Movie: Duplicity (M 2004) France. Stars Benoit Magimel, Natacha Regnier. 10.40 Movie: Who Knows? (PG 2001) France. Stars Sergio Castellitto, Catherine Rouvel. 1.15 Weatherwatch
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G.P. (PG) Collectors Kids’ Programs Wild China (G) Midday Report Wild At Heart (PG) Spicks And Specks (PG) Monarch Of The Glen (G) Kids’ Programs Message Stick (G) Rpt. Can We Help? (G) ABC News Stateline (G) Collectors (G) Midsomer Murders (M) beached az (PG) That Mitchell And Webb Look (M) Lateline The Urban Monkey With Murray Foote triple j tv With The Doctor Good Game Rpt. rage (M)
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Ten Early News Kids’ Programs 9am With David And Kim Ten News Dr Phil (PG) Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Ready Steady Cook (PG) Infomercial Dharma & Greg (PG) Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) The Bold & The Beautiful Ten News The Simpsons (G) Neighbours (G) The 7pm Project (PG) The Spearman Experiment (PG) Movie: Mean Girls (M) Stars Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert. Go Girls (M) Late News Sports Tonight Late Show With David Letterman Infomercials (PG) Religion to 6am (PG)
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Today 6.00 ABC News 7.00am to 6.30pm Mornings with Kerri-Anne 9.00 Business Today World News Infomercials In Various 9.30 Asia Pacific Ellen Degeneres Show News Languages The View (PG) talk show. 10.00 Kids’ Programs Days Of Our Lives (PG) 6.30 World News 4.30 The New Alive And Cooking (G) Inventors 7.30 T Rex: Warrior Kids’ Programs 5.00 7.30 Select Or Wimp Afternoon News 5.30 Catalyst 8.30 112 Emergency Antiques Roadshow 6.00 Compass 9.00 Movie: Time (M NBN News 6.30 Junkyard Wars 2006) Japan. A Current Affair 7.20 Mr Bean Stars Sung HyunTwo And Half Men (PG) 7.30 Coach Trip ah, Kim SungMovie: Harry Potter And 8.00 Hyperdrive (PG) ming, Ha JungThe Chamber Of Secrets 8.30 Torchwood (M) woo. (PG) Stars Daniel Radcliffe, 9.30 Being Erica 10.45 Movie: 666 – In Rupert Grint, Emma Watson. 10.15 Later... With Bed WIth The News Jools Holland Devil (M 2002) Movie: The Right Stuff (M 11.20 London Live: Stars Ralf Bauer, 1983) Stars Sam Shepherd, Ladyhawke, Thure Riefenstein. Scott Glenn, Ed Harris. Kelly Clarkson, 12.15 Weatherwatch Infomercials Gary Go, Tommy Reilly Good Morning America 11.50 Close
NASCAR Football. Serie A ONE Moment Basketball. NBA 780. The F1 Experience Mecum Auto Auction Soccer Moment Football. Bundesliga Weekly Football. Serie A Omnisport Golf. Singapore Open Thursday Night Live Sports Soup Sports Tonight UFC Wired Baseball. World Series College Football - Game Of The Week Chicago Marathon 2008 Omnisport
6.00 Baseball. World Series 9.00 Sports Unlimited 10.00 Transworld Sport 11.00 Basketball. NBA 1.30 Basketball. NBA Doubleheader 4.00 Golf. Singapore Open 9.00 Asian Amateur Championship Highlights 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 The Poker Star 11.00 Baseball. World Series 2.00 Sports Tonight Late 2.30 Football. Serie A 4.30 Baseball. World Series
6.00 Kids Programs 8.30 I Dream Of Jeannie 9.00 Bewitched 9.30 Kids Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ
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The Partridge Family Frasier Seinfeld The Bachelorette Just Shoot Me The Nanny Kids Programs I Dream Of Jeannie Bewitched The Flintstones The Jetsons Entertainment Tonight Frasier Seinfeld Fringe (M) The Wire (M) Eleventh Hour (M) Frasier Seinfeld TMZ Fringe (M) The Wire (M) Eleventh Hour (M)
All GO! programs G or PG unless otherwise classified 6.00 Kids Programs 8.30 I Dream Of Jeannie 9.00 Bewitched 9.30 Kids Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ
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The Partridge Family Frasier Seinfeld Survivor Eleventh Hour Just Shoot Me The Nanny Kids Programs I Dream Of Jeannie Bewitched The Flintstones The Jetsons Entertainment Tonight Frasier Seinfeld Moonlight (M) Gossip Girl (M) Drop Dead Diva Frasier Seinfeld TMZ Moonlight (M) Gossip Girl (M) Drop Dead Diva
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Moonlight (M) Drop Dead Diva Just Shoot Me! The Nanny Kids Programs I Dream Of Jeannie Bewitched The Flintstones The Jetsons Entertainment Tonight Frasier Seinfeld Movie: Brokeback Mountain (M) Stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal. Frasier Seinfeld The Aria Music Show Movie: Hysterical Blindness (M) Stars Uma Thurman, Gena Rowlands I Dream Of Jeannie Bewitched
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Horace Bevan –
In Good Company GREAT MUSIC FOR A GOOD CAUSE.
A Collective of over 20 Northern Rivers’ musicians providing a night of music and fun. Funds raised go to the Lismore soup kitchen and mental health support group. 50 includes Show, complimentary drinks and IN GOOD COMPANY CD
Tickets available from NORPA 02 6622 0300 www.norpa.org.au 26 October 27, 2009 The Byron Shire Echo
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5.20 World News 5.00 rage (PG) 7.15 Weatherwatch 11.00 Songbook: Bernard 7.25 World News Sumner 1.00 Les Boreades Masterpiece 12.00 Stateline from France. 12.30 Australian Story 3.50 Restless Flights: The 1.00 WNBL Basketball Literature Of JMG Le Clezio Sydney v AIS 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 3.00 W-League Football 5.30 Civilisation (G) Melbourne v Newcastle 6.30 World News Australia 5.00 Bowls: Queensland Open 2009 Women’s Singles finals. 7.30 Mythbusters Alaska Special 2 (G) 6.00 The Wild Gourmets 8.30 Iron Chef 6.25 Minuscule: The Escapist 9.20 Rockwiz (M) 6.30 Gardening Australia (G) 10.00 Movie: The Science Of 7.00 ABC News Sleep (M 2006) France. Starss 7.30 Hope Springs (PG) tte Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte 8.30 ABC News Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat,t, 8.35 The Bill (M) Miou Miou. 9.25 Taggart (M) 11.50 SOS (PG) 10.15 Silent Witness (M) 12.50 NEWStopia (M) 11.10 rage (M) 1.20 Knot At Home (M) 2.50 Weatherwatch
6.25 10.00 11.00 12.00 12.30 With Gilbert And George (M) 1.00 2.00 Conversations With Australian Artists: John 3.00 Mawurndjul (G) 3.30 Sunday Arts 4.00 At The Movies 5.00 The Einstein Factor 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Rainforest: The Secret Of 7.30 Life (G) Wuthering Heights (M) 8.30 Compass: Small Town 9.30 Salvation 10.30 The Yellow House 11.30 Order In The House Movie: Appointment In London (G 1952) Stars Dirk Bogard. Movie: Wedding Rehearsal (G 1933) Stars Merle Operon. 2.00 Grumpy Old Men (PG) Talking Heads: Dick Smith The Pet Show (G)
5.00 rage (PG) 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Insiders 10.00 Inside Business 10.30 Offsiders 11.00 Asia Pacific Focus 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Landline (G) 1.00 Gardening Australia 1.30 Message Stick (G) 2.00 The lost World Of Communism
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G.P. (PG) Collectors (G) Kids’ Programs Landline Midday Report The Gil Mayo Mysteries The Cook And The Chef (G) The Bill Kids’ Programs Landline Extra Talking Heads ABC News The 7.30 Report Australian Story (PG) Four Corners Media Watch Ashes To Ashes (M) Lateline & Lateline Business Embarrassing Parents (PG) Movie: The Guinea Pig (PG 1948) Stars Richard Attenborough. 1.55 Movie: A Kid For Two Farthings (PG 1955) Stars Celia Johnson. 3.25 Bowls: Queensland Open 2009 Women’s Singles final.
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G.P. (PG) Collectors (G) Kids’ Programs The Abbey Midday Report The Einstein Factor (G) The New Inventors (G) Catalyst The Bill (PG) Kids’ Programs Rivers And Life: Amazon ABC News The 7.30 Report Foreign Correspondent A Thousand Encores: The Ballets Russes In Australia QI First Tuesday Bookclub With Jennifer Byrne Lateline & Lateline Business Four Corners Rpt. Media Watch Rpt. Poirot (PG) Movie: Affair With A Stranger (G 1953) Stars Jean Simmons, Victor Mature. Psychic Investigators (PG) Raw Comedy (M)
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World News d Fork In The Road: Scotland Donkey In Lahore Cycling World Superbikes Speedweek FIA World Rally Championship 2009 Football Asia UEFA Europa League Mag Les Murray’s Football The World Game Feast Greece World News Australia Who Do You Think You Are? John Butler Dateline Busting The Berlin Wall Remote Area Nurse (M) Movie: The Death Of Mr Lazarescu (M 2005) Romania. Stars Ion Fiscuteanu, Monica Dean, Mirela Cioaba. Weatherwatch
World News Weatherwatch World News Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia The Growing Anger Of Hunger (PG) Dateline Insight The Journal The Crew Futbol Mundial Living Black World News Australia Top Gear (PG) Man Vs Wild World News South Park (MA) Skins (M) Life’s A Zoo (M) Movie: Infernal Affairs 3 (MA 2003) Hong Kong. Stars Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Leon Lai. Weatherwatch
6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The 2009 Melbourne Cup Carnival 5.30 Sydney Weekender 6.00 Seven News 6.30 A Lion Called Christian 7.30 Bledisloe Cup: Australia v New Zealand 9.30 Movie: Basic (MA 2003) Stars John Travolta, Samuel Jackson, Connie Nielsen, Giovan Giovanni Ribisi. 11.30 Movie: Breathless Breathle (MA 1983) Stars Richard Gere, Valerie Kaprisky, y,, Art Arr Metrano. A 1.30 Infomercials
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Sunrise The Morning Show (PG) Seven News TBA Murder, She Wrote (PG) New Idea TV Kids’ Programs Seven News M*A*S*H (G) Deal Or No Deal (G) Seven and Prime News Home And Away (PG) Highway Patrol (PG) Destroyed In Seconds (PG) Flashforward (M) Criminal Minds (M) Mercy (M) Momma’s Boys (M) Room For Improvement (G) Infomercials
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Sunrise 6.00 Ten Early News Larry The Lawnmower 7.00 Kids’ Programs Home Improvement (G) 9.00 9am With David And Kim The 2009 Melbourne Cup 11.00 Ten News Carnival 12.00 Dr Phil (M) Deal Or No Deal (G) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Seven and Prime News 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) Home And Away (PG) 3.00 Infomercial RSPCA Animal Rescue 3.30 Dharma & Greg (PG) Last Change Surgery (PG) 4.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures Packed To The Rafters (PG) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful TBA 5.00 Ten News My Friend Michael Jackson: 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Rpt. Uri’s Story (PG) 6.30 Neighbours (G) Rpt. Scrubs (M) 7.00 The 7pm Project (PG) THe Real Wedding 7.30 Simpsons (PG) Crashers (PG) 8.30 NCIS (M) Infomercials 9.30 Lie To Me (M) 10.30 News With Sports Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 12.00 Tell Me You Love Me (MA15+) 1.00 Infomercials (PG) 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)
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Weekend Today Wide World Of Sports Melbourne Marathon The Aria Music Show Pacific Nations Cup Rugby League Movie: Grumpier Old Men (PG 1995) Stars Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Sophia Loren, Daryl Hannah. Talk To The Animals (G) The Pursuit (PG) Great Aussie Cook-Off Antiques Roadshow News 20 to 1 60 Minutes Movie: The Conspiracy (M) Stars Stephen Dorff, Val Kilmer, Caterina Murino. Movie: Monster’s Ball (MA15+ 2001) Stars Billi Bob Thornton, Halle Berry. MAD TV Infomercials Religion Early Morning News
Today Mornings With Kerri-Anne Time/Life Infomercials Ellen Degeneres Show The View (PG) Days of Our Lives (PG) Alive And Cooking (G) Kids’ Programs Afternoon News Antiques Roadshow (G) Hot Seat (G) Evening News A Current Affair Two And A Half Men (PG) The Big Bang Theory (PG) Lotto The Mentalist (M) The Apprentice Australia Amazing Medical Stories (M) Late News Young Lions (M) WWE Afterburn (M) Infomercials Religion
Today Mornings With Kerri-Anne Infomercials Ellen Degeneres Show The View (PG) Days Of Our Lives (PG) Alive And Cooking (G) Kids’ Programs Afternoon News Antiques Roadshow (G) Hot Seat (G) Evening News A Current Affair 20 to 1 (PG) Two And A Half Men (M) Aussie Ladette To Lady (M) Moonlight (M) Late news 20/20 Entertainment Tonight Infomercials Religion Good Morning America Early Morning News
5.00am to 6.30pm World News In Various Languages
7.00 Beautiful Noise: Feist (G) 8.00 Zoo Days (G) 8.55 Little Angels (G) 9.25 Scrapheap Challenge 11.00 A Journey Through American Music (G) 12.00 Soundtrack To My Life (G) 12.30 Red Dwarf (PG) 1.30 Planet Rock Profiles (G)
2.00 Coldplay Live In Sydney 2003 2.55 triple j tv 3.25 Queen And Paul Rodgers Live In The Ukraine 4.30 triple j tv 5.00 BBC Electric Proms 07 6.00 ABC Fora 7.00 Artscape 7.30 Sunday Arts 8.30 Guerilla Art (M) 9.30 Deconstructing John Kelly (M) 10.00 Connected By Light 10.30 The Jewel In The Crown 11.25 East Of Everything (M) 12.25 Close 6.00 ABC News 9.00 Business Today 9.30 Asia Pacific News 10.00 Kids’ Programs
4.30 Gardening Australia 5.00 Message Stick 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 Collectors (G) 6.30 Junkyard Wars 7.20 Mr Bean (G) 7.30 Coach Trip (PG) 8.00 Red Dwarf (PG) 8.30 Good Game 9.00 The Urban Monkey With Murray Foote 9.05 triple j tv With The Doctor 9.30 Doctor Who 10.30 Afro Samurai 11.00 Planet Rock Profiles 11.30 Ergo Proxy (M) 12.00 Close
6.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup Qualifying 6.30 College Football 10.00 Football. Bundesliga 6.30 World News 12.00 Golf. Asian 7.30 The World Game Amateur (PG) Championship 8.30 Spiral (M) 2.00 Golf. Singapore 9.30 Movie: You And Open Me (M 2005) 7.00 I Fish France. Stars 7.30 Sports Tonight Marion Cotillard, 8.00 Real NBA Julie Depardieu. 9.00 Basketball. NBA 11.10 Movie: Kurt Game Of The Wallander – The Week Photographer 11.00 Formula 1 Pre(M 2006) Sweden. Race Show Stars Krister 11.50 Formula 1 Henriksson, Grand Prix Johanna 2.00 Baseball. World Sallstron. Series 12.50 WeatherWatch 5.00 National Overnight Football League
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6.00 National Football League 8.00 National Football League 11.45 NFL Game Day 12.00 Golf. Asian 6.30 World News Amateur 7.30 Dateline Championship 8.30 112 Emergency 2.00 Omnisport (M) 2.30 Sports Unlimited 9.00 Movie: The Singer (PG 2006) 3.25 The Sport Of Kings France. Stars 3.55 TNL Presents. Gerard John Aloisi Depardieu, Cecile De France. 4.10 Football. Serie A 6.10 Football. 10.55 Movie: 27 Bundesliga Missing Kisses 7.20 Formula 1 (M 2000) Grand Prix Georgia. Stars 9.30 Sports Tonight Nuza 10.00 F1 Rocks. Kukhyanidze, Singapore vevgeni Sikikhin, 11.00 Baseball Shalva Yashvili. 2.00 Sports Tonight 12.35 Weatherwatch 2.15 National Football League 4.40 Omnisport 5.10 Mark Webber Pure Tasmania Challenge 5.00am to 6.00pm World News In Various Languages
6.00 ABC News 5.00am to 6.00pm 9.00 Business Today World News 9.30 Asia Pacific In Various News Languages 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 An Island Parish 6.30 World News 5.00 Talking Heads 7.30 The Odyssey Of (G) Rpt. Life (M) 5.30 Sun, Sea 8.30 112 Emergency And Bargain (M) 9.00 Movie: Talk To Spotting Her (MA 2002) 6.30 Junkyard Wars Spain. Stars Javier 7.20 Mr Bean Camara, Dario 7.30 Coach Trip Grandinetti, 8.00 Australian Story Rosario Flores, Rpt. Leonor Watling. 8.30 Posh Nosh 10.55 Movie: Thomas 8.45 The Beast (M) In Love (MA 2000) 9.30 The Wire (MA) Belgium. Stars 10.25 Teachers (M) Benoit Verhaert, 11.20 Rose And Aylin Yay. Malonie (M) 12.40 Weatherwatch 12.10 Close
6.00 Baseball. World Series 9.00 Transworld Sport 10.00 College Football 12.30 National Football League 4.00 Omnisport 4.30 Rugby. 2008 Spring Tour 6.30 Motorsport. Race Of Champions 7.30 NASCAR Sprint Cup Highlights 8.30 The Pro Shop 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 Real NBA 11.00 Baseball. World Series 2.00 Sports Tonight Late 2.15 National Football League 4.40 Omnisport 5.10 Motorsport. Raceworld
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6.00 Kid’s Programs 8.30 I Dream Of Jeannie 9.00 Bewitched 9.30 Kid’s Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 The Partridge Family 12.00 Frasier 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 The Big Bang Theory 2.00 Wipeout
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Party time! The Melbourne Cup with all its excitement and pizazz sets the tone for the coming summer season and its celebration of living. In this feature we outline the venues where you can take part in Cup fever, have a flutter on the geegees and catch up with your friends doing likewise. Not only that, we give you clues as to the best ways to stage your own parties, from catering to equipment. Just add fun!
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Yum Yum Tree Cafe New Brighton is set on Thursday October 22, Jayne will be offering her Marshalls Creek, a stone’s throw away to the On services free of charge at Amcal Chemist (next to Pacific Ocean. Woolworths). Jayne will offer: ante-natal and postOwner chef Manfred Rudolf ’s vision is to present fresh, local, organic produce with style and taste. Open 7 days and now open for dinner Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. The ideal place to book for staff, Christmas and any kind of celebration or party. An idyllic location to relax, enjoy a coffee, delicious meal or snack. Celebrate at Yum Yum Tree Cafe.
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Get 10% off your bill when you dine in our 1st sitting @ 6pm. Avail 4 - 30Nov *10% discount does not apply to set menu prices
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We are offering a wide range of dishes and prices to suit everyone’s budget. Patrick has designed each one using the freshest quality local ingredients. The $77 menu has been especially designed with all new dishes for those bosses that really want to treat their staff. Go to fresca.net.au for all details. We are happy to cater for folk with restrictive dietary needs and can compile a menu to suit. Commencing November 4, we will be offering 2 dinner sittings and up till the November 30 you can receive a 10% discount off all a la carte menu items in the restaurant. So book early and bring the family along for sunset dining and get a lot more for less at Fresca.
(<TI@± G?@M± Birth consultant, registered nurse, midwife and mother. For over 6 years Jayne has supported, nurtured and guided couples to birth where and as they choose, in the Byron Shire. She is the mother of four daughters and nanna to three grandsons. Jayne brings first hand knowledge and wisdom of the blessings and challenges that accompany the life-changing event of childbirth and beyond. With over 30 years experience as a nurse and midwife, Jayne takes a balanced view of using
Pop in on Thursday 22 to receive your free baby goodies bag!!
Amcal Pharmacy, The Plaza Jonson St (next to Woolworths) 6685 7401
1OJF@MN±1D?DIB±.JOO@MT± ±2C@±1OP?DJ±JA±+<@ Unexpectedly large showrooms featuring the best of local arts and crafts and showcasing the internationally renowned works of our resident potter Bob Connery. There are some new kids on the block! The Studio of Mae offers beautiful stationery, cards, jewellery, giftware and its own line of wares, including reusable fabric children’s wall decals. The Studio of Mae is holding an opening night for the public on Friday November 13th, in which the whole building will be open from 3pm till 7pm. Children are welcome to attend. Drinks and finger food will be provided. We hope to see you there!
224 Stokers Rd, Stokers Siding 6677 9208
1KD>@±'O±3K For the ‘love of Thai food’ come and join us for that ‘take you to Thailand experience’. We provide a large menu selection catering for vegetarians through to the meat lovers, all foods are handmade on premises including our mouthwatering deserts.Where possible we cater for gluten free or for the special dietery needs.We have plenty of room for your Christmas party or perhaps for the intimate dining on our outside balcony overlooking park-like rural views of the golf course and surrounds.
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The gallery carries functional and decorative pieces by resident potter Bob Connery, plus a wide range of other ceramics, glass, paintings, jewellery, cards and craft items from the very best local artists.
Don’t forget your last chance to book with our Napoleon make-up artist this Friday 30th October!
Open 7 days 9:30am - 5pm
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natal check ups and advice, baby weighing, breast feeding guidance, introducing solids and much much more.
At thirty one years old, Stokers Siding Summer is once again upon us and the Party Pottery has many things to celebrate. Season at Fresca is going to be our best yet.
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Get into party season with our great new range of make-up, fragrances, jewellery and handbags in store now!!
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The Balcony Bar & Restaurant occupies one of Byron Bay’s last remaining historical buildings and is one of the buzziest venues around for dining, Haiku stock Japanese antiques, collectables, gifts and cocktails or just fabulous coee. homewares, as well as excellent examples of quality, functional, antique Chinese furniture and decorative Start the day with breakfast on the sunny balcony overlooking the street, or meet friends for lunch: the items. Also instore are Japanese reed and shoji contemporary menu oers great quality, great value screens, kimonos and textiles, calendars, ceramics, dishes alongside exciting wine and cocktail lists. hibachi, garden pots and stoneware. The atmosphere is casual and friendly and designed All available at Haiku Framing and Design, together to comfort and indulge – night times truly pump! with custom picture framing. Enquiries for Japanese As for Melbourne Cup Day – what better way to Sumi-e and Calligraphy classes are also welcome. experience live coverage with a complimentary glass Byron Bay’s hidden treasure, Haiku is situated at the southern end of Jonson Street, next to Mitre 10, of Domaine Chandon? with easy o-street parking. Upstairs corner of Lawson and Jonson Streets
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Monelbourne C up the Balcony 12noon to 4pm, 3rd November 2009
Live coverage l Complimentary bubbles by Domain Chandon Prizes for best dressed men & women l Best Hat, Zaniest outďŹ t l Great door prizes l Full tapas & lunch menu l Fabulous wine list upstairs, corner of Lawson & Jonson Street, Byron Bay For reservations please call 02) 66809 666 or email [email protected]
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ARIES: While your ruler Mars has you hankering for centre stage position, the present planetary package is giving you plenty of stimulus to heal family feuds or fractured friendships. Tread carefully this week – don’t act out bad moods or have a cow just because someone pushes your buttons. TAURUS: Saturn’s move to your sixth house is known to promote lucrative new business partnerships or career alliances. Also to deepen relationship bonds, sorting the worthwhile ones from the time wasting kind for more harmony in your personal, social and business worlds. Not too shabby, eh Taurans? GEMINI: This week shimmers with new sparkle as a project dear to your heart gets an energy injection, job prospects develop promising potential and partnership possibilities blossom. Blame it on Saturn’s move to Libra bringing a major personal growth spurt and an upgrade to your creative talents.
Since 1995, when Kalmyk President Kirsan Iljumzhinov took over the reins at FIDE, the international chess body, the World Championship has become increasingly susceptible to the political whims of the FIDE President. The rot started in 1996 when Iljumzhinov announced that the world title match would be sponsored by Iljumzhinov’s friend Saddam Hussein and held in Iraq. Not surprisingly, the challenger Gata Kamsky, a US citizen, objected and eventually the event was moved to Kalmykia. No such luck for Israeli (and former Israeli) players in 2004 when the FIDE knock-out World Championship was hosted in Libya. After a series of inflammatory statements by the organisers about ‘the Zionist enemy’ never being allowed to compete, FIDE announced that part of the event would be held in Malta, but that option was quietly dropped and many players were forced to miss the championship. This week FIDE stooped to
As the Sun moves into Scorpio emotions shift from froth and bubble to nitty gritty and this week strives to balance light and heavy, tough and tender, bitter and sweet, known and unknown.
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CAPRICORN: The presently Capfriendly cosmos sees you nevermiss-an-opportunists working whatever room holds the most possibilities this week. Which is looking good for getting that loan, landing that job, cultivating a whole new host of helpful connections, even slinging uber-Cap Mandy Nolan a spring surprise… SCORPIO: The present Sun/Mars AQUARIUS: Don’t expect too LEO: Mars in your sign sometimes placements render you pretty much from others this week – so darn hard to resist, so enjoy behaves like the Great Dictator, much instability makes it difficult others this week and they’ll enjoy for people to commit. Emotional so tune into Venus and at least closeness, creative activities put a gracious face on this week’s you. But be advised that how and spiritual practices will bring you handle yourself now sets up power plays. Good news is that the most support and comfort reverberations for the next three Saturn’s move starts freeing up years – and you want those to be when dealing with relationship funds and also making it easier issues, unsatisfactory working successful, don’t you? to clear the air round personal conditions or health concerns. feuds. SAGITTARIUS: If this week PISCES: Saturn presents you VIRGO: As the social power base stimulates that annual natural with an exciting identity crisis urge for greener pastures, shifts from singular to plural, as it eliminates the extraneous, exciting people and new answers, zeroes in on essentials and brings resist nostalgia and retrospect well… impulse decisions aren’t – this week’s about moving continuing tests of poise and your best look or the smartest forward. Forget replaying past emotional control. Use late week operating strategy right now. So hurts or mistakes, take remedial Pisces moonlight for something hush the rush, and in your own action. If others want more from sweet, soothing and renewing – you than you’re comfortable with, interests think things through. keep acknowledging yourself for how well you’re doing. Are you missing anything? say thanks but no can do. CANCER: This week’s shifts could range through subtle to stunning, activating waves of uncomfortable emotions which put you in reclusive, reflective mode – perfectly okay, so long as you practise the domestic etiquette of mood management. Humour’s vital right now, so laugh at yourself before others do.
LIBRA: Your unbearable lightness of being is about to be challenged by duties, responsibilities and obligations as Saturn, planet of deepening your sense of maturity, security and self worth commences a three year stint in Libra. And of course you’re wondering will wardrobe adjustments be required…
CHESS by Ian Rogers Play at Byron Services Club, Mon 7-10pm another low with their sale of a decide the world title challenger place in the World Championship following next year’s AnandCandidates matches to Azerbaijan Topalov title contest. in exchange for Baku hosting half That FIDE has to resort to sellthe event – the half which does ing a Candidates place is a sign of not contain Armenia’s Levon the organisation’s desperation for Aronian. funds, since previous Candidates/ In addition, the Azeri press World Championship tournaannounced proudly that Armenia ments had been held in Argentina would be forbidden from hosting and Mexico without any need to the non-Azeri half of the contest. offer a local wild card. (Azerbaijan and Armenia have Reaction so far has been been at loggerheads for centuries, muted, but if FIDE is consistent with Armenia winning the most and decides to sell a second place recent war in 1994, for control of in exchange for a host for the the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, non-Azeri matches – a move occupying the area ever since.) which would probably guarantee FIDE later ‘clarified’ the matter the exclusion from world title by saying that Armenia could not contention of a superstar such provide sufficient funds to host as Vladimir Kramnik or Magnus half the Candidates matches. Carlsen – expect a less meek FIDE conceded that Azerresponse. baijan’s contribution of 338,000 euros for prize money, organising ■ This week’s game, featuring a costs and FIDE contributions had bolt-from-the-blue finish, comes earned the Caucasus nation an from the Australian Girls Masters extra place in the final eight of the tournament, won last week by the Candidates matches, which will ACT’s Alana Chibnall.
Rockdale 2009 White: C Shan Black: A Chibnall Opening: Two Knights Defence 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5+ c6 7.dxc6 bxc6 8.Be2 The traditional choice, now superseded by both 8.Qf3 and 8.Bd3. 8...h6 9.Nf3 Bobby Fischer enjoyed success with the weird 9.Nh3!? 9...e4 10.Ng1? Far too meek. 10.Ne5 Qd4 11.f4 Bc5 12.Rf1 looks dangerous but White can fight back with c3 and d4. 10...Bc5 11.d3 Qb6! 12.Nc3 Bxf2+ 13.Kf1 e3 White’s position is a wreck, though finding a breakthrough is not so easy. 14.Nf3 Bf5 15.Na4 Qc7 16.b3 h5! 17.Bb2 h4 18.Nd4 Qf4! 19.Nf3?! 19.Bf3 was necessary, although after 19...0-0-0! Black is well on top. 19...Nh5! 20.d4 (See diagram) White has only a choice of spectacular losses, eg. 20.Be5 h3!! 21.Bxf4 (If 21.g3 Nxg3+!! 22.hxg3 h2! and checkmate follows.) 21...hxg2+ 22.Kxg2 Nxf4+ 23.Kf1 Bh3 checkmate. 20...Qxh2!! 0-1 21.Rxh2 Ng3 is a beautiful smothered checkmate.
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a large group situation which isn’t about the food at all I enjoy this way of grazing as much as anyone else; when, however, I am anxious to try out a particular dish, or ingredient, or confluence of tastes, I am left unsatisfied and frustrated. I once had a discussion with a prominent restaurant reviewer and food writer about the tapas trend and we both agreed that a highly probable reason for its popularity lay in the nature of modern life itself: the need for instant gratification and to have it all, combined with short attention spans. So many places offer this style of ‘dining’ these days; some places will only offer this style of dining. Recently with friends I was at one such establishment. The three of us, women mindful of dreary conceits like calorie-counts and fatcontent, ordered three dishes: asparagus, a beetroot and goat’s cheese salad, a seafood dish. The waiter reminded us that the menu was designed for sharing when I had dared to express the crass desire to
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There are some hot new bars to try out next time you are in Brisbane – if bars are your scene! At 188 Brunswick Street in Fortitude Valley a simple door leads you into alloneword – low black cushioned ceiling, cool bar, clever lighting – taking you through to an incredible outdoor space bounded by brick walls which have been covered in stencil art. Opposite the stunning Cloudland (definitely worth a visit, if not as shiny-new) is x&y bar, a live music venue, also in Fortitude Valley. A bar of the old school, it will host live music every night of the week. And in Queen Street in the city is Bar Barossa, a showcase of everything great about this fabulous wine region – not only the famous wines but also the produce. In addition it doubles as a restaurant.
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(60 minutes southwest of Brisbane and 90 minutes from the Gold Coast), this Peppers property is situated on a 12,000 acre working cattle station offering an exclusive Australian outback escape – and the perfect setting to sample the prized Kumamoto Wagyu beef. Master Chef finalist Chris Badenoch will be co-hosting the weekend of November 28 – 29 with Peppers Hidden Vale chef Edward Townsend. The special ‘Nose To Tail’ packages, priced at $665 per couple twin-share, include overnight accommodation, afternoon wine-tasting, predinner drinks and canapes, a 5-course degustation menu dinner featuring Wagyu with matching wines, and a full brunch on the Sunday. Guests visiting for the day only on Saturday can enjoy an afternoon winetasting, pre-dinner drinks and canapes, dinner and matching wines from $190 a head. For bookings call Reservations on 1300 881 427 or email hiddenvale@ peppers.com.au
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a large group situation which isn’t about the food at all I enjoy this way of grazing as much as anyone else; when, however, I am anxious to try out a particular dish, or ingredient, or confluence of tastes, I am left unsatisfied and frustrated. I once had a discussion with a prominent restaurant reviewer and food writer about the tapas trend and we both agreed that a highly probable reason for its popularity lay in the nature of modern life itself: the need for instant gratification and to have it all, combined with short attention spans. So many places offer this style of ‘dining’ these days; some places will only offer this style of dining. Recently with friends I was at one such establishment. The three of us, women mindful of dreary conceits like calorie-counts and fatcontent, ordered three dishes: asparagus, a beetroot and goat’s cheese salad, a seafood dish. The waiter reminded us that the menu was designed for sharing when I had dared to express the crass desire to
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CLOUDLAND – BRISBANE
There are some hot new bars to try out next time you are in Brisbane – if bars are your scene! At 188 Brunswick Street in Fortitude Valley a simple door leads you into alloneword – low black cushioned ceiling, cool bar, clever lighting – taking you through to an incredible outdoor space bounded by brick walls which have been covered in stencil art. Opposite the stunning Cloudland (definitely worth a visit, if not as shiny-new) is x&y bar, a live music venue, also in Fortitude Valley. A bar of the old school, it will host live music every night of the week. And in Queen Street in the city is Bar Barossa, a showcase of everything great about this fabulous wine region – not only the famous wines but also the produce. In addition it doubles as a restaurant.
WINE AND WAGYU
BOOK NOW FOR GROUP AND CHRISTMAS CATERING www.echo.net.au
A Wine and Wagyu Weekend is on offer at Peppers Hidden Vale at the end of November. Located at Grandchester in South East Queensland
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ALLONEWORD – BRISBANE
(60 minutes southwest of Brisbane and 90 minutes from the Gold Coast), this Peppers property is situated on a 12,000 acre working cattle station offering an exclusive Australian outback escape – and the perfect setting to sample the prized Kumamoto Wagyu beef. Master Chef finalist Chris Badenoch will be co-hosting the weekend of November 28 – 29 with Peppers Hidden Vale chef Edward Townsend. The special ‘Nose To Tail’ packages, priced at $665 per couple twin-share, include overnight accommodation, afternoon wine-tasting, predinner drinks and canapes, a 5-course degustation menu dinner featuring Wagyu with matching wines, and a full brunch on the Sunday. Guests visiting for the day only on Saturday can enjoy an afternoon winetasting, pre-dinner drinks and canapes, dinner and matching wines from $190 a head. For bookings call Reservations on 1300 881 427 or email hiddenvale@ peppers.com.au
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St. Finbarr’s successful at 2009 Crankin’ what’s happening in the surf Equestrian Challenge
St Finbarr’s equestrian team: Grace Tetley riding Denny, Allara Paxton on +Crystal, Elkie Richardson on Henry, Jett Allen-Rhoades on Chloe, Ellie Richardson on Daisy and team manager Mrs Sherida Hill.
Lennox Head surfer Stephen Walsh threads the tube en route to a round three finish at the Billabong Cloud 9 Invitational in the Philippines. Walsh finished fourth in the high scoring heat behind Gavin Beschen (Haw), Dionisio Espejon (Philippines) and Chad Du Toit (South Africa). The students won or were Photo Jake White / Surfing Australia
Another piece of Byron Shire history was made last week when St. Finbarr’s Primary School sent the inaugural horse and rider team of five, to compete at the 2009 All Schools Equestrian Challenge. Team members Grace Tetley riding Denny, Allara Paxton on Crystal, Elkie and Ellie Richardson Henry and Daisy, and Jett Allen-Rhoades on Chloe enjoyed the event which was held over three days at Hawthorn Park in Grafton. The challenge, which was hosted by Grafton Pony club
and McAuley Cathlic College, attracted almost 300 riders aged five to 18 years competing in campdrafting, showjumping, dressage, show riding events and sporting events and teams travelled from Tweed Heads to Coffs Harbour and surrounding areas to take part in the event. The St Finbarr’s team manager Sherida Hill coached the team for several months before the event and her daughters, Kristy and Stephanie, assisted the girls with their preparation for the challenge.
placed in many of the events they competed in. They achieved a 5th place in the Overall Junior School team relay event, Mrs. Hill commenting on the school spirit and team sportsmanship displayed by the girls over the three day event. The girls, horses, parents and team supporters all arrived home exhausted, but thrilled with the team’s involvement and success. All are looking forward to future equestrian challenges.
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31 v R.Thompson 23 (Marker H.Robb). Cons Singles: K.Freeman 156 (Rink W) v G.Henry 134 (Marker J.Towner); J.Graham 150 v R.Mills 70 (Marker J.Lee). Social: J.Ball, D.Lobb, B.Reglin 24 v R.Wainwright,K.Johnstone,J.Kidman 11; M.Bertoli, S.Brown 31 v C.Thorne, E.Jones 11. 3/11 Melb Cup Day, 11am bowls, Lunch 1pm $12 per person, names in ASAP. Ocean Shores Men 19/10 S/S Triples: D O’Brien, R Tonkin, R Norris; r/up L Johnston, J I’Anson, M Lofley; P Henderson, W Sprengel, J Sullivan; T Larson, P Quirke, L Hoffman; K Hosie, R Roberts, R Montgomery. 24/10 Minor Pairs: D Whitney, B Danswan d. R James, P Quirke. Twilight Bowls Tuesday from 5.30pm, name on sheet by midday please. Ocean Shores Women 21/10: G Johnston/J Bartlett(W on Highest No of Ends) d D Grant/B Sprengel;M Oliver,N Russell,W Sprengel d S Woolford,J Lofts,M Flesser. 23/10 Cons: M Flesser d J Lofts.C Thorne,J Lofts,M McConville(W Out of Hat) d M Bertoli,M Flesser,JM Quirke;E Hill,C Timewell,M Hosie(R/Up) d T Campbell,J Bartlett,M James;N Russell,M Farquhar,L McGowran drew G Todd,D Grant,G Johnston. BRIDGE Brunswick Valley 19/10 7 Table Mitchell Rover: NS 1st Gross/2nd Nett P Hems/M Downey; 2nd Gross/1st Nett P Keyte/E Sherry. EW 1st Gross/2nd Nett P Baldwin/M Fleming; 2nd Gross/1st Nett D Grant/F Patterson. 24/10 8 Table Mitchell: NS 1st Gross/2nd Nett A/B Gibson; 2nd Gross/1st Nett E Hollick/D Dare. EW 1st Gross/Nett M Solway/E Sherry;
2nd Gross/Nett M Fleming/P Quirke. Ocean Shores 21/10 12 Pair Howell: 1st gross F Star/D Gall; 2nd gross S Stewart/D James; 3rd gross J Selleck/B Simons. We meet @ Ocean Shores Country Club on Wed, seated by 6.15pm. No partner required. DARTS Brunswick Valley 21/10 Off the Board 1 v Workaholics 4: Mens High Score. N Cairns 123, Ladies High Score. C Denholm 121, Mens High Peg. T Garrett 32, Ladies High Peg. J Garrett 16. Workers 3 v Fumbles 5: Mens High Score. R Lawrence 171, Ladies High Score. M Dare 100, Mens High Peg. R Lawrence 77, Ladies High Peg. M Dare 44. 25/10 Open Day: Group A Doubles J Patterson (Iluka), P Sheaffe ( Mullum) d L Boorman (Tweed), S Riches (Mullum). Group B Doubles C/M Wilkinson (Seagulls). Singles: R Lawrence (Mullum) d R Patterson (Iluka). Men’s High Score. P Sheafffe (Mullum) 140, Men’s High Peg. C Wilkinson (Seagulls) 77, Women’s High Score. J Norris (Condong) 140, Women’s High Peg. M Dare (Mullum) 63. GOLF Mullumbimby Ladies 17/10 Single Stab: R Moller 41. NTP: 2nd shot 7th G Parsons, Pro Pin 9th R Moller, 12th R Wilson. 22/10 Single Stroke: Div 1 M Allan 68; Div 2 L Walker 69. NTP: 5th J Stuart, 12th A Moser, 2nd shot 7th G McDonald, 2nd shot 17th L Walker, Pro Pin L Walker. Medal of Medals Playoff: S Kosaka 72 nett. Weekly Ball Comp: G Lynn 39; L Walker 38; H Hammond 36; N Carsburg 34. 29/10 Single Stab, all in
BOWLS Brunswick Heads Women 20/10 Cons Singles: B McCormick 152 d B Rose 114. Social: T Pollard, D Hay, J Goldup 30 d M Darby, J Kearney, L Proudlock 14. J Loomes, N Stearman, F Parkes 25 d Z Wagner, P Appel, D Guest 16. Winners: Rink 16 B McCormick & M Caldwell (marker). Lennox Head Women 21/10 Cons Singles s/final: D Martin 150 d J Fogarty 139; S Grady 150 d F Somerville 148. Social: D Rayner, J McRae, G Moore (w) 25 d J Pratten, C Brown, M Gregor 10; A Humphries, B Orme/M Battese, D Lynch (r/up) 21 d E Reid, B Turner, D Papas 12; S Skennar, J Burgess, H Lewis 21 d E Astley, J Martin, T Harrington 16; N Harwood, H Burgess, P Brining 34 d A Meagher, J Brook, B Sullivan 17. Mullumbimby Ex Services Men 21/10 Social Triples/Pairs: K.Cowen,D.Ottery,S.Brecard 28 d A.Johnstone,A.Bartlett,M.Thorne 11. A.Kearns,B.Rose,P.McDonald 33 d N.Scott,R.Ellis,J.Scott 15. N.Newton,B.Neate,P.Jones 22 d D.Henry,A.Pyzer,B.Gibson 12. L.Boyter,JC.Canabou,L.Henry 22 d R.Kidby,S.Purdie,F.Buckley 18. T.Batson,R.Day 38 d N.James, L.Christian 8. Jackpot Winners; A.Kearns,B.Rose,P.McDonald. 24/10 Tyrepower Triples: 1st; M.Brown,J. McKay,R.Day.(Mullum); 2nd; L.Phillip,R.Stevens,D.Proudlock. (Burringbar); 3rd;T.Pollard, E.Boyter, N.Sharp.(B.Heads); B/R;R.Donnelly, R.Grob, F.Moore.(Burringbar). Mullumb Ex Services Wome 20/10 Final Singles C’ship: B.Croft
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The All Girls Surfriders held their October club round at Broken Head. Clean off shore .5 metre waves with some larger ones as the tide came in made for fun contestable conditions. It was an exquisite morning of surf, sand and sunshine followed by a much deserved BBQ. The club wishes to congratulate all the finalists. The results were: Junior Beginner: 1st Isobel Mayo, 2nd Sam Kay, 3rd Made-
line Thomas and 4th place to Jo Callaghan. In the Senior Beginner division: 1st Bronwyn Lorraway, 2nd Kay McNamara, 3rd Robyn Thomas, 4th Portia Tresselt and 5th Berenice Roberts. In the Intermediate: 1st Colette Kelly, 2nd Alyssa Lock, 3rd Susie Ferguson and 4th Kobie Enright. In the Advanced divison the place went to: 1st Steph Single, 2nd Anna Matthews, 3rd Lana Parkes and 4th place went to Jane Tranberg.
The longboard results were: 1st Mel Mott, 2nd Carol Stephenson, 3rd Roisin Carolan and 4th Marg Bryant. The club wants to advise members that the last competitive club round for 2009 is on Sunday November 22 at Lennox Beachies. There will be a sign-on for 7am followed by AGM then the contest. The end of year presentation will be held on the following Saturday November 28 at the Lennox Sport and Recreation.
draw: 1st Tee; 9am G Mackay, G James, R Wilson; 9.06 F Gannell, R Slogrove, J Beer; 9.12 E Froggatt, W Stenner, K Thomson; 9.18 J Stuart, L Walker, G McDonald. 10th Tee; 9am B Mules, G Lynn, T Robbins; 9.06 N Carsburg, A Moser, B Woolnough; 9.12 H Hammond, M Davey, S Kosaka; 9.18 G Poynting, M Crichton, E Henshaw. Kitchen A Moser/M Davey; Table G Mackay/G James. Ocean Shores Men 19/10 Medley Stab: F Miller 41pts; R/up A Lind 40pts; A Ross 39pts C/B; Balls To: 30. 21/10 2 Ball Ambrose: W Blair/M Smith 63.75 nett; R/up J Gray/T Mitchell 65nett; S Downes/K Sayers 65.25 nett; Balls To : 67.75 nett; Pro Pin L Reid. 24/10 Cox Plate Medley Stab: A Slater 43pts; R/up I Wingad 40pts; K Beitzel 39pts; Balls To: 33 Pro Pin D Crow. Ocean Shores Ladies 20/10 Stab: Div 1 V Marsh 39; R/Up L McGowran 38; Div 2 M Byron 43; R/Up S Stephenson 41; Div 3 D Devir 45; r/up J Selleck 41. NTP: Div 1 M Broughton; Div 2 J Brown; Div 3 M Byron; Vouchers to 32 c/b. 22/10 Stab: M Farquhar 37 c/b; R/Up G Tilling 37; Vouchers to 32. 24/10 Cox Plate Medley Stab: A Slater 43; Vouchers to 33. Ocean Shores Veterans 22/10 4 Person Ambrose: P Conaghan, G Smith, F Sparrow, G Lockey 53 1/2; r/up A Phillips, M Coulstron, J Leith, J Keenan 54. NTP: 3rd R Conway 195cm, 8th D Fitzgerald 64cm, 17th W Keating 114cm. Gorilla h/c 0 to 19 S Evans, 20+ D Goodacre. OBE Longest drive: W Sprengel; balls to 56 7/8; Scrubbers Ball J Govett, H Stephenson, B Smith.
RUGBY LEAGUE Mullumbimby Mullumbimby Giants JRL AGM: Sat 31/10, 9.30am @ Brunswick Valley Surf Club. All positions are open. Giants JRL End of Year Presentation: Sat 31/10, Starting 9.30am @ Brunswick Valley Surf Club. SQUASH Brunswick Heads 28/10 Rnd 12 Cape Byron Med Centre Comp: Cantys surveyors v The Potato Works; M Underwood v C Peate, S Thompson v G Hall, J Gribble v L Miller, J Nicolson v K Slockee, A Cox v J Julius. OS Bakery v Byron Bay Trophies; B Trivett v G Davis, M Virtue v C Walsh, A Li v P Hill, R Cameron v G King, S Truesdale v P McQueen. Bruns Pharmacy v Bruns Blinds; G Elliott v C Littlewood, L Clarke v W Ferrier, C Booth v G Kaminski, S Moon v R James, D Fisher v B Doran. OS Glass Bye. 2/11 Rnd 7 Byron Health Foods Comp: div 1; 5pm M Underwood v G Davis, L Powell v C Littlewood, B Trivett v D Bird, C Peate Bye. Div 2; 5pm L Clarke v L Tomasella, C Pearce v T Dryden, M Stebbing v C Walsh, A Li v M Cassidy. Div 3; 5pm J Gribble v C Johnston, R Draper v S Moon, J Nicolson v Kijay. Div 4; 5pm D Reilly v F King, A Bullion v S Truesdale, A Cox v B Doran, M Binns v T Ashworth. To play phone 6685 1794. TABLE TENNIS Mullumbimby 22/10: Erich Reinermann (-9) won singles handicap comp; Mark Smith (-10) second. Doubles final won by Arthur Sultas/Erich Reinermann 2-0 from Mark Smith/Tai Redger. Play at the Mullumbimby Tennis Clubhouse, Byron Street Mullumbimby, Thurs, 6.30pm start. Enquiries ring Mark 0409 473 517 or Chris 6684 1468.
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Coorabell knockout region to take on state
The Coorabell team are pumped and ready for their trip to Sydney where they will take on the state’s best in the Small Schools Soccer Knockout. Eureka Public School relay team Jack Gordon, Sam McCarthy, Jesse McCarthy, Liam HarlandMeek will be hoping for gold at the NSW State Championships
Although small in number, the students at Eureka Public School continue to achieve big things. The school’s athletics P5 relay team has recently won at the district, zone and regional level and as North Coast Champions, will contest the event at the NSW State Athletics Carnival at Homebush next week. The P5 Relay event is for primary schools with an enrolment from twenty six to fifty four students, with the ‘Nigel Bagley Trophy’ awarded to
the winning team at the state carnival. In recent years Eureka Public School has won the first place trophy in 2006 and placed third 2007. This year’s team members are Jack Gordon, Sam McCarthy, Jesse McCarthy, Liam Harland-Meek and Nicholas Fisher and the boys have been training hard with their coach Rick Knight, to be ready to achieve their best at the state carnival. Rick coached the 2006 and 2007 teams, both of which included his younger son and
though Rick’s own sons have now moved on to high school, he has put in many hours on the track with this year’s team members to hone their skills, he has prepared them to be mentally strong and to work together as a team. The whole school community has rallied behind the athletes particularly to raise funds for the trip to Sydney. The boys have already proven to be great ambassadors for Eureka Public School, and the school community is very proud of them.
The Coorabell Public School soccer team recently travelled to the Eureka PS to play Rosebank PS in the Small Schools Soccer Knockout. The Coorabell team: Chaej Wrencher, Ben Leedom, Jye Brien, Flynn Brown, Dalamar Derofe-Gallant, Khan Wrencher, Sam Shepherd, Lauren Christian, Jy Paterson, Lily Christian, Emily Vos, Aubrey Cromwell, Morley Cromwell and Tane Wiley Goodwin, made it through to the finals which will be played at the Moorebank Sports Soccer Club Fields on Friday October 30 in Sydney.
Geckos beat Bankers to play Byron’s Full Tossers in Shand cricket final Very few are born with the desire to be Shand champions, but as a cricketer ages and the available options for sporting immortality begin to narrow, one tends to clutch at whatever is out there with increasing desperation. Sunday’s second semi final replay saw the big hitting minor premiers the Left Bankers take on the Geckos, the foundling love child of Seymour and Peter Wynne-Moylan, an ugly but likeable team. Pete won the toss for the Geckos and with an eye on the furnace-like conditions asked the Bankers to field. Trent and Matt opened the batting, Trent arriving at the ground already in his batting gear and wound up like the wheel nuts on a F1 racer. Like an immigration official he met everything early and sent it well beyond the boundary. Matt played well in support and with the famous Lomath Oval turf shaved as smooth as a bikini model’s inner thigh it was soon apparent this was a batsman’s day. Trent’s 30 came so quickly his departure nearly coincided with his arrival, and Matt and Dan, like auctioneers, kept www.echo.net.au
things moving at a cracking pace. Stewie and Russell took wickets just before the break but the Geckos had 101 on the board and the momentum of an overloaded B-Double down Bangalow hill. After drinks a second scalp to Russell and a run out pegged the Geckos back but Glenn and Adayha, like a good laxative, soon got things moving again. Like a referee having a good game, Glenn was so good you hardly noticed what he was doing. His 30 bought in Seymour, a man with ‘kiwi battler’ written into his gene code. His batting style is reminiscent of someone trying to toss sheep over a fence but he found the middle on a few occasions and bunted the Geckos to a fine score of 172 at the close. Banker openers Zac and Stewie, like ageing rock stars, had no time to lose. Zac savaged the bowling like a pit bull on a string of sausages, his 30 coming up quicker than an alcoholic’s breakfast. Mick took the first scalp for the Geckos but Litchy and Russell thumped away like persistent drummers busking outside a Byron cafe. Just before drinks
Adayha tore around the boundary and snared a great catch to remove Russell, and at 100 for 2 it was anyone’s game. The final session was a nailbiter as Snakebite Pete held his ground but wickets tumbled around him. Glenn held a great outfield catch and picked up a wicket with his loopy off spinners. Seymour and Dan chimed in with scalps and it was time for retirees Zac and Litchy to return. Thirty-eight were required off 36 and tension hung over the ground like the smell of a big kill at Sunnybrand. Snakebite dug in like a march fly on an exposed buttock and Zac set about the task with zeal. He added 12 to his original 31 but fell to the heroic Pete Wynne Moylan who came up with grass stains on his gleaming sun-screened dome as he dived underground to take a return catch. Last man in was Litchy who gamely nudged the Bankers towards the asking total. Eight were required in the last over and Adayha had the ball for the Geckos. Nervelessly he banged down six good deliveries, and though the
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NOVEMBER ’09 Astronomical data and tides
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INDEX Accountants ......................................38 Acupuncture .....................................38 Antennas & Installation ..............38 Appliance Repair ............................38 Architects............................................38 Asbestos ..............................................38 Beauty ..................................................38 Building Trades ................................38 Carpet Laying ...................................39 Chiropractic .......................................39 Cleaning ..............................................39 Computer Services.........................39 Concreting..........................................39 Counselling........................................39 Decks & Patios ..................................39 Dentists................................................39 Design & Drafting...........................39 Electricians.........................................40 Fencing ................................................40 Floor Sanding & Finishing..........40 Florists..................................................40 Furniture Restoration & Construction .....................................40 Garden & Property Maintenance .....................................40 Gates .....................................................40 Gas Fitters & Suppliers ................40 Glaziers ................................................40 Graphic Design ................................40 Guttering ............................................41 Handypersons ..................................41 Health ...................................................41 Hire ........................................................41 Household Requirements ..........41 Insulation............................................41
Interior Design .................................41 Labour Hire ........................................41 Landscaping & ExcavatIon.........41 Lighting ...............................................41 Massage Therapy............................41 Motoring .............................................42 Naturopathy......................................42 Nutrition .............................................42 Osteopathy ........................................42 Painting ...............................................42 Pest Control .......................................42 Physiotherapy ..................................42 Picture Framing ...............................42 Plastering ...........................................42 Plumbers .............................................42 Printer Toner & Cartridges .........42 Printing & Copying Services .....43 Removalists .......................................43 Rubbish Removal............................43 Security Services.............................43 Septic Systems .................................43 Sewing Machine Repairs ............43 Shrink Wrapping .............................43 Solar Installation ............................43 Solicitors .............................................43 Swimming Pools .............................43 Tiling .....................................................43 Tree Services .....................................43 Upholstery .........................................43 Veterinary Surgeons .....................43 Window Tinting ...............................43 Water Cartage ..................................43 Water Filters ......................................43 Wedding Services ...........................43 Window Tinting ...............................43
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CARPENTRY/JOINERY Renovations, kitchens, bathrooms, small jobs. Lic 157823C Paul .66805722
COAST-COUNTRY FRIDGE, WASHING MACHINE, DRYER REPAIRS ......................0412 609519
CONCRETING EXCAVATIONS & RUBBISH REMOVAL ............................................. 0403 679140 CONCRETING – Steve Baker Lic 143161C .....................................................................0412 272564
MULLUMBIMBY APPLIANCE SERVICE Byron Shire ..............................0408 851633 or 66842952
DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................66834008 or 0407 728998 NJ ELECTRONICS 28 yrs exp. TV, video, audio repairs........... Nestor 0410 532528 or 0410 113645 GECKO LANDSCAPE SOLUTIONS Decks, pergolas, walls & fencing. Lic 212479C .......0415 755337 KIRKLANDS BUILDING Quality, friendly service. Lic 79499C ........ Peter 66801074 or 0408 644743 MICHAEL WINTERS BUILDER Lic 37525. Extensions, renovations, kitchens, bathrooms, wardrobes, gyprocking & plastering, painting & general repairs. Available now .......0410 647627 or 66854524
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PAVING, LANDSCAPING, DECKS, SANDSTONE WORK Lic 10711C Greg 0414 859830 or 66803234 STAINLESS WIRE BALUSTRADING Supplies and installation................66809409 or 0419 758821
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WROUGHT IRON & STEEL columns, steps, balustrading, site-welding..........Bron Forge 66845396
BIZWIZZ Professional & mobile – MYOB & Quickbooks, www.bizwizz.com.au ............0400 758192 BOOKKEEPER MYOB, Quickbooks, BAS, account setup/training .....................Edward 0421 971807
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CARPET LAYING NEW, USED & REPAIRS ................................................John Maddock 66804557 or 0403 023131
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ART & BODY BASED THERAPY Felicity Grace. Mullumbimby Wednesdays .....................66846212 WiseGal Computer Service Internet, software & hardware, networks, tuition .............0405 929371 ART THERAPY / SANDPLAY THERAPY Individual & groups. Claudia Leaney ......................66846543 EXPERIENTIAL ARTS THERAPY Miecat trained.................................................Anna 0401 740432 PSYCHOTHERAPY & COUNSELLING Paul Cooke .............................................................66850485 RELATIONSHIP SEXUAL COUNSELLING with John. Byron Thursdays & Fridays.............66811547 SE-TRAUMA RESOLUTION 1-FWJOF1)% *OEJWJEVBMTDPVQMFT%FWJ,VFCMJ.VMMVN..66842938 Computer sales Tuition & support
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DENTISTS BANGALOW DENTAL CENTRE In the Medical Centre Complex, Bangalow ......................66872766 BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE ......................................................................66851264 BYRON DENTAL SURGERY Mercury-free restorations .......................................................66807774 MULLUMBIMBY DENTAL CENTRE 100 Stuart St, Mullumbimby ......................................66842644
DESIGN & DRAFTING ACCENT COLOR PLAN COPYING / PRINTING .................................................................66856236 BAREFOOT BUILDING DESIGN /FX)PNFTBEEJUJPOT ..........................Bob Acton 0407 787993 BYRON ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN & DRAFTING ............................ 0423 531448 or 66857713 DAVID ROBINSON DRAFTING 3FOPWBUJPO EFTJHOQMBOT.................0419 880048 or 66858114 EXPANDESIGN )PVTFTSFOPWBUJPOT"MPL&HHFOCFSHFSXXXFYQBOEFTJHODPNBV .......66847180 GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au ..Lyn 0428 884329 or 66857756 JOSEPH SCHUBERT Building design ..................................................................................0401 814237 www.mullumbimbydraftinganddesign.com.au BDANSW .................66841842 or 0427 721845
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Service Directory DESIGN & DRAFTING (continued)
FENCING AARON SMITH Timber fencing specialist & repairs .......................................................................0407 960887 ADDISON FENCING Colourbond, pool, timber, glass & screens.........................................66804495 BEDNARZ, H & W, FENCING Specialise in pool, colourbond & timber fencing ...........0417 491136 BENS FENCING – RELIABLE, PROMPT, QUALITY 7 days.........................................0409 983565
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BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes .....66804766 or 0416 424256
Fast and reliable service. Fully insured. Luke 0407 981 636 / 6685 4339
FENCE FORMERS Landscaping and fencing solutions..................................................0423 356911
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ABOUT BYRON Lawns, gardens, gutters, rubbish, mulch..........................Mark 66855570 or 0421 932945 ABSOLUTE ALL MOWING, garden maintenance & rubbish removal Shane .....0424 946226 or 66846269
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BENS MOWING & GARDEN MAINTENANCE – RELIABLE, PROMPT 7 days.....................0409 983565
Andrew Curtis s Lic No 79065C s Ph 0427 402 399
BLUEGUM MOWING Garden & property maintenence...........................Adam 66844730 or 0434 244224
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BYRON SHIRE PROPERTY SERVICES Google it! .................................66804270 or 0400 804270
s Country Energy contractor s Overhead power supply s Underground power s Metering / Off Peak s LED lighting sales Lic NSW & installations 88593C
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GAS FITTERS & SUPPLIERS
GROWING THINGS Horticulturist, all areas. ................................. Dave 0404 492927 or 66291635
BRUNSWICK VALLEY GAS SUPPLY. FREE DELIVERY, NO RENTAL ................................66801575
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GUTTERS CLEANED All areas, free quotes, fully insured .......................66850125 or 0405 922839
ALL STEEL GATES Automatic sliding Gate specialist. Free quotes ................................0404 281028
McCALLUM PROPERTY SERVICES ......................................................66859036 or 0429 494854
GLAZIERS
[email protected] Ride on ...............................................Peter 0423 756394
NORTHERN RIVERS MOWING & GARDEN MAINTENANCE .............66337173 or 0427 331255 OCEAN SHORES GLASS AND SCREENS Glass splashbacks Lic No 61205C .........................66803333 RESTORATIONS, TREE REMOVAL Insured. 17 years experience locally .............Paul 0422 193262
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GARDENS RENOVATED Weeding, clear ups, mowing, trimming etc. Reasonable rates. Ph Tim...0405 529275
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GOTCHA WIRED Peter Kendall Electrical Contractors Lic 61439C ......... 0427 611832 or 66855422 STEPHEN THURSTON Antique restoration, furniture commissions ............................0458 210445 RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical Lic 27673 .........................................................0429 802355 SMALL – URGENT – EMERGENCY JOBS ONLY.........................................................0427 402399
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PROPER JOB BOB
For all your local handyman services Prompt service. Free quotes. All areas. No Job too small.
GREG SOUTHERN s 2OCK WALL DESIGN CONSTRUCTION s $RIVEWAY CONSTRUCTION s 'ENERAL BOBCAT WORK s ,ARGE TRACK MACHINE
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• Compaction roller • Rock hammer • All building works • Bush clearing • Dams • Road construction • House, tank and site levelling • All general earthmoving
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Over 20 yrs experience - friendly reliable service Ring Dean on 0417 856 212
Does Your Roof Cavity Need Cleaning Before Your “Free Insulationâ€? Is Installed? Do you want your non-effective, low rating insulation removed? EfďŹ cient removal of dust, vermin droppings, spiders and cobwebs etc. Professional removal and disposal of non-effective rooďŹ ng insulation INSTALLERS ENQURIES VERY WELCOME! RING NOW! FREE QUOTE
ABSOLUTE IMPROVEMENT 1300 970 770
MINI EXCAVATOR & BOBCAT HIRE Ian Mathison 0428 842 285 AH 6684 2285 Servicing the Byron Shire and beyond
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INTERIOR DESIGN INTERIOR / EXTERIOR DESIGN www.jenniferfair.com.au ..................66805996 or 0429 875451 KATE PLATT Interior Designs, www.kateplatt.com................................0411 888416 or 66807606 SPACE STUDIO Interior designers and project managers. www.spacestudio.com.au .......66809921
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‘excelling in employment, training and community’
LANDSCAPING & EXCAVATION
Unit 5, 21-23 Tasman Way, Byron Bay Arts & Ind. Est.
(02) 6680 7007 www.creativelightingsolutions.com.au A NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65HP chain trencher and mini excavator..............0402 716857 AMAZING ROCK FEATURES www.replicarock.com.au ...............................................0412 699300 BRUNSWICK VALLEY DIGGER MAN Excavator & tipper hire ............................ Matt 0427 172684 BRENDON POWELL Bobcat, excavator, tipper & auger. All jobs...................................0404 988222 GECKO LANDSCAPE SOLUTIONS All aspects of landscaping & design. Lic 212479C..0415 755337 MULLUM MASSAGE .................................................................................. Gavin Cook 0423 539518
MASSAGE THERAPY
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BILLINUDGEL TYRES & BATTERIES ..................................................................................66802366
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CAR BODIES REMOVED Any condition..........................................................................0427 660641 CAR BODIES REMOVED FREE $$$s PAID .................................................. 66845296 or 66845403 FRED HENRY MECHANICAL REPAIRS Billinudgel.............................................................66802155 MECHANICAL REPAIRS, WARREN SIMMONS Byron Bay .................................................66858500
Lic 130521C
GYPROCK PLASTERING small jobs and neat finish ............................................. Nick 0410 648895
For a free quote call Mark on 6684 3542 or mobile 0410 520647
PLASTERING CONTRACTOR
‘Quality work to be sure, to be sure!’
C. A. Warwick Lic. No. 114578C • Free quotes • Gyprock fixing & setting
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Ecolour (formerly Nature Cover Paints) 6 Grevillea St, Arts & Industry Park, Byron Bay
7INDSCREENS BODYGLASS l TTED BY QUALIl ED AUTO GLASS l TTERS !LL INSURANCE JOBS #ALL US FOR REPAIRS
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PLUMBERS A+ JARRAH DAVIDSON Plumbing, draining, gas fitting & roofing. Lic 187712C ........0438 668025 ACE PLUMBING Drainage & gasfitting. Lic 165363C .............................66847776 or 0429 635378 BILL CONNORS Plumber & drainer Gold Lic No L1051 CA 1221 ........................................66801403 BRETT SEKAC PLUMBING Maintenence & renovation specialist. Lic 167049C ...........0410 620472 DART PLUMBING Plumbing, roofing, gas service. Lic. 1175539C ................................0421 334515 I LOVE PLUMBING Call Steve Lic 148904C ....................................................................0412 916140 MARK CORBETT Plumbing, draining, gas fitting. Lic 13121..................66877645 or 0418 210802 PLUMBING, DRAINS, LP GAS Dennis McKinnon Lic L6616 .................66878191 or 0400 726610
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NATUROPATHY BRYANT HOPLEY Herbalism, homeopathy, nutrition. Byron Bay......................................66857225 GREG FREDERICKS NATUROPATH ..................................................................................66859775 KIRSTEN TREMLETT VEGA Practitioner, allergy testing, massage. Byron Bay.............0416 196980
NUTRITION
Reliable Professional Service Jeremy Delaney – Byron ,IC .O [email protected]
ANDREW HALL Biodynamic cranial. New Brighton...........................................................66802027 BANGALOW Jodie Jacobs ...................................................................................................66872337 BRUNSWICK HEADS OSTEOPATHY Sue Broadbent, Monday – Friday ..............................66851126 BYRON OSTEOPATHIC CARE Eve Schoenheimer..............................................................66853660 NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY .......................................................................Jodie Jacobs 66857517
PAINTING
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FOOD AS MEDICINE Samantha Gowing, Gowings Food & Health ....................................66855400
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&2%%#!,, PHYSIOTHERAPY ANTHONY D’ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, acupuncture Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St.. 66853511 BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, pilates. Liz Thomas, Libby Nelson, Ryan Huxley, Clare Connolly .......................................................66872330 CLAUDIA MIRDITA Craniosacral therapy, physiotherapy....................................................66857222 CONTINENCE / PELVIC FLOOR Janelle Angel. 3/10 Station Street, Bangalow .................66872337 PETRA KARNI Physiotherapy, craniosacral therapy, Alexander technique, Byron Bay ......66807207 NICK EDMOND, MARTINA RIGBY Physiotherapy, acupuncture & craniosacral therapy ‘Govinda’ 8 Jubilee Ave, Mullumbimby. Monday, Wednesday, Friday ..................................66843255 OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY NIGEL PITMAN ......................................................66803499 PAULA RAYMOND-YACOUB Acupuncture and physio........................................................66851646 PHYSIOCARE @ HOME Renata Tenta, home visits .......................................................0437 647137
PICTURE FRAMING ARTISTS CANVASES Premium cotton/linen, unbeatable prices .......................................66808010 BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel .......................66803444 CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING @ BYRON ART SUPPLIES 3/97 Centennial Circuit.........66808010
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The Water Filter Experts for home, commercial and rural properties
6680 8200 or 0418 108 181
WEDDING SERVICES TAILORED CEREMONIES BY WILL ALLAN............................ [email protected] or 07 5590 9757
WINDOW TINTING SUNRISE WINDOW TINTING Cars, homes, etc. Quality guaranteed ..............Richard 0412 158478 TWEED BYRON WINDOW TINTING Serving the Shire since 2000 ..................................66802484
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Classifieds AGM’s ...................................... 45 Attractions................................ 46 Birthdays ................................. 50 Business Opportunity.............. 48 Businesses For Sale ............... 48 Bus Services ........................... 46 Cabins For Sale ...................... 48 Caravans ................................. 48 Car Service ............................. 48 Celebrants ............................... 45 Childcare ................................. 47 Clothing & Alterations ............. 46 Computers ............................... 47 Death Notices.......................... 50 For Sale ................................... 47 Funeral Notices ....................... 50 Garage Sales .......................... 48 Halls For Hire .......................... 46 Health Notices ......................... 45 Holiday Accommodation ......... 48 Houses For Sale ..................... 48 House Swap ............................ 49 Land For Sale.......................... 48 Livestock.................................. 50 Lost & Found ........................... 50 Motor Bikes ............................. 48 Motor Homes........................... 48 Motor Vehicles ......................... 48 Musical Notes.......................... 50 Only Adults .............................. 50 Personal .................................. 50 Pets.......................................... 50 Positions Vacant ...................... 49 Professional Services ............. 45 Property For Sale .................... 48 Public Notices.......................... 44 Share Accommodation ........... 49 Short Term Accommodation ... 49 Social Escorts ......................... 50 Thank you................................ 45 To Lease .................................. 49 To Let ....................................... 49 Tradework ................................ 47 Tree Services .......................... 47 Tuition ...................................... 50 Wanted .................................... 48 Wanted To Rent....................... 49 Work Wanted........................... 50
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RUG WASH
Full Persian hand wash THE BANGALOW RUG SHOP MEN’SLINE SUPPORT COUNSELLORS – Willing to listen. Ph 66222240 7pm-11pm every night. BENCH/TABLE is being made to give to Mullum High, with respect to Jai. If you wish to donate $’s towards the creation of this gift, you may phone 0431742059. It will cost approx $800.... The school has said they will accept such a gift. Signed a member of Mullum community
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YOURSELF HAPPY Join Byrons Ruby Tuesdays choir: 0421330766, www.parissabouas.com AFRICAN DANCE Tues 6.30-8.30pm Ewingsdale Hall. Live percussion, Phone Cheze 0411843384
Ink Brush Painting
Sumi-e & Calligraphy classes held Wed & Fri 10-12.30pm at Ewingsdale Phone Ester 66847609, 0412221576 EVENING LIFE DRAWING Every Thurs 5.30 - 8pm $20. Still @The Centre & Waywood Gallery 3 Centennial Cct 66855808 Back by popular demand: THE AUSTRALIAN CANNABIS COOKBOOK @ Echo ofďŹ ces Mullumbimby & Byron Bay or www.ozshop.net
NOURISHING FOOD & CLASSES www.nourishforlife.com.au 1st AID FOR
Emotional Trauma
with Parijat Wismer FMAKA Manage personal stress creatively. Communicate & respond effectively to people in trauma. Invest $175. Sun 1 Nov. 66857991
Kinesiology
How can you beneďŹ t? Join our self-care Kinesiology seminar with Parijat Wismer on 28/9 Nov. Free intro 18 Nov & 2 Dec, 7pm. s www.wellness.net.au
WOMEN’S GESTALT GROUP
Mullum, 4 week pilot course from Thurs 29 Oct. Deborah Lilly 66843723 [email protected]
Phone now to enquire about this profound spiritual experience
1pm Monday for line ads
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Account enquiries
MULLUMBIMBY SOUP KITCHEN Neighbourhood Centre, Dalley Street, Wednesday 5pm. 66841816
WomensWoodwork
New course starts Tues 11/11. 66843160
A Spot of Paint
Editing • Design • Marketing • Author Rep
02 6685 5220 • 0422 390 711 [email protected]
QualiďŹ ed, professional and conďŹ dential counselling for individuals and couples specialising in: UĂŠÂ?Vœ…œÂ?ĂŠ>˜`ĂŠ`ÀÕ}ĂŠ`iÂŤi˜`i˜VĂž UĂŠi>Â?ˆ˜}ĂŠĂ€ÂˆvĂŒĂƒĂŠÂˆÂ˜ĂŠĂ€iÂ?>ĂŒÂˆÂœÂ˜ĂƒÂ…ÂˆÂŤĂƒ UĂŠ Âœ`ĂžĂŠÂˆÂ“>}iĂŠÂˆĂƒĂƒĂ•iĂƒ]ĂŠĂƒiĂ?Ă•>Â?ĂŠ`ĂžĂƒvĂ•Â˜VĂŒÂˆÂœÂ˜ĂŠ>˜`ĂŠi>ĂŒÂˆÂ˜}ĂŠ`ÂˆĂƒÂœĂ€`iĂ€Ăƒ UĂŠÂ˜Ă?ˆiĂŒĂžĂŠ>˜`ĂŠ`iÂŤĂ€iĂƒĂƒÂˆÂœÂ˜ ˆ˜`vĂ•Â?˜iĂƒĂƒÂ‡L>Ăƒi`ĂŠVÂœ}Â˜ÂˆĂŒÂˆĂ›iĂŠĂŒÂ…iĂ€>ÂŤĂžĂŠÂˆĂƒĂŠ>ĂŠÂŤĂ€>VĂŒÂˆV>Â?]ĂŠÂŤĂ€iVÂˆĂƒiĂŠ>˜`ĂŠ Ă€iÂ?iĂ›>Â˜ĂŒĂŠ>ÂŤÂŤĂ€Âœ>V…° 0458 175 962
IMPACT Lynne Adams Marie Sherd Helen Adams Patrick Collins
AFRICAN DRUMMING Thurs 6.30-8.30pm Ewingsdale Hall. Phone Chinta 0402678220
Do you have questions about life and what lies beyond it? Life Between Lives Spiritual Regression can answer these questions and more.
12pm Monday for display ads
FOR CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK ALL WEEK
An Art Exhibition
At 12 Gordon Street, Mullumbimby Friday October 30 6-9pm Saturday & Sunday 11-4pm
A MUST SEE EXHIBITION
Ceramic & Art Studio Ph: 6685 8981
7E HAVE RECENTLY MOVED
DRAFT BYRON SHIRE COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT PLAN – PUBLIC EXHIBITION AND FACILITATED PANEL DISCUSSION
9/18 Centennial Circuit Byron A & I Estate
- School Holiday Art Workshops - After School Art Classes - Kids Pottery & Sculpture Classes - Creative Birthday Parties - Adult Pottery Classes - Creative Birthday Parties
The “Draft Byron Shire Coastal Zone Management Plan� is on exhibition for a period of 60 days from 22 October 2009 to 22 December 2009. Copies of the Plan are available for viewing at community access points around the Shire and on Council’s website at – www.byron.nsw.gov.au/PublicExhibition/
Gypsy Dance Course 8 week course Focus on technique & fun
Submissions may be lodged online at – www.byron.nsw.gov.au/PublicExhibition/. Submission forms are also available from community access points.
Pioneer Hall Mullumbimby beg Mon Nov 2nd 6.30 - 8pm $100 full term $80 concession
Written submissions should be addressed to the General Manager, PO Box 219 MULLUMBIMBY NSW 2482, clearly marked “Submission – Draft Byron Shire Coastal Zone Management Plan�.
Ph 0412 566 816
HOMESTAYS
Byron Shire Council wishes to invite the community to a Facilitated Panel Discussion on the Draft Byron Shire Coastal Zone Management Plan on Friday 6 November 2009 at Council Chambers, Station Street Mullumbimby from 4.00pm to 8.00pm.
Host Families for International Students Placements available now! An international experience and great income.
Representatives from key organisations and previous committee members have been invited to speak on their views of the Draft Coastal Zone Management Plan.
Byron Bay English Language School 6680 8253 or [email protected]
Experts in coastal management and processes have also been invited to present on their area of expertise. A public question time has been scheduled to conclude the discussion.
Shorebird Protection Program – 1080 Fox Baiting
MEDITATION
at Abraxas Bookshop Thursday 29th October @ 6:30pm Donation only
www.spirituallife.com.au info 6685 5778
Submissions Close: 4.00pm on 22 December 2009
People should be aware of the baiting program, keep domestic pets to designated pet exercise areas and avoid bait stations at all times.
Enquiries: Ben Fitzgibbon 02 6626 7135
Enquiries: PWG Tweed Area 6670 8600
Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water NSW
13 Lawson St Byron Arcade upstairs
44 October 27, 2009 The Byron Shire Echo
Community information stands will be available during November at various coastal locations, to provide an opportunity for information on the Draft Coastal Zone Management Plan. Further details regarding the community information stands will be advertised nearer to the conďŹ rmed dates.
The Parks and Wildlife Group of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water, Northern Rivers Region wishes to advise all neighbours and visitors of Brunswick Heads Nature Reserve of a 1080 fox-baiting program commencing Friday 30 October 2009. The baiting will take place on North Head Road and Oyster Lease Road. Baiting will be ongoing until February. Signs will be located at main entrance points to baiting areas.
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Submissions will be made public in accordance with section 12 of the Local Government Act 1993 (Document Request) or the FOI Act 1989 (FOI Application) as applicable including both the substance of the objection and the identity of the objector unless the objector can demonstrate that Clause 4 of Schedule 1 of the FOI Act 1989 applies (documents affecting law enforcement and public safety). For assistance with this please call Tracey Dousling 02 6626 7113 or Mark Hildebrandt 02 6626 7114.
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Splash & Dribble
Paint on canvas to music Come dribble with us No experience needed All materials provided Sunday 11-4. $50
Private groups also
Phone Mackayla 6685 7470
louise barrow. NEED A LOGO? NEED A WEBSITE? NEED A BROCHURE? NEED AN IDENTITY! louise is a graphic designer based in byron bay who produces intuitive graphic design with meaning and sheer quality. for a free quote call louise on:
0401 294 252
www.louisebarrow.com Dual Controls Relaxed & Professional Instructor Targeting Driver Education
BYRON BAY DRIVING SCHOOL Information & bookings: Bruce Butcher 0409 329 492
THE 7 GOLDEN KEYS
Weds 9.30 - 12pm Mullum Drill Hall cost $15/$20. 66840272. Models wanted
Exploring Drawing
CHANNELLED GUIDANCE via clairaudient Shelley Neller. www.byron-bay.com/shelleyneller Phone 66853587
LEARN TO SWIM
DANCE UP
JOE HOPF & LESLEY VEALE Experienced teachers Aust Swim accredited, Mooyabil Farm Left Bank Rd Mullum Creek. 66842262 SPIRITUAL PEOPLE WANTED to train as God channellers. Ph 0429369031
PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING COURSE 2010 10 months with Dr Chris Campbell Ph D. 35 years experience Unique body & relational style Also available for individual & couple therapy.
Phone: 02 6677 1029
DURRUMBUL on Wed 7-9.30pm 28 Oct, 5 Rhythms - Sainttina 4 Nov, So you Think you can Trance Ljudan & DJ Nick Taylor 11 Nov, Soul-In-Motion - Tim Loughnan 18 Nov, So you Think you can Trance www.consciousdancenetwork.com.au LIGHTWORKS INTENSIVE TRAINING program. Phone for info 0429369031
BYRON MARKET SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1ST NO DOGS PLEASE
COSTUME HIRE, PROPS, SUITS & ACCESSORIES Phone/fax 6684 2978 Mobile 0423 426 717 By appointment only
EARN $6,000 $14,000 BEFORE CHRISTMAS CALL ME ON 0405 383 798
PREGNANCY
DANCE CLASS Joyful Indian movement & relaxation The Red Tent space 5/102 Centennial Ct 5.15-6.30pm Friday. Shamila 66849307
Aum Meditation
A social process moving through 12 aspects of being human. It is interactive, involving movement & voice, negativity / positivity, anger/love, catharsis/stillness. An invitation for you to look more deeply into yourself, your responses, your heart, friendship. Ewingsdale Sat 7 Nov 12.004.30. Bookings req by 31 Oct $65, $55 (conc). For info phone 66843865
PSYCHIC CONSULTANT: MEDIUM With over 45+ years of invaluable experience as a Psychic, Consultant, Medium, Counsellor and Advisor for business, personal, career and relationships. I can offer a level of accuracy, a depth of compassion and proven psychic gifts, and I request that you do not reveal your particular enquiry.
KINESIOLOGY Chakra & Meridian balancing, colour & sound therapy. Phone Angela 0404489866
SHOE DOCTOR
Workshops in New Brighton. 66805098
ANTHEA AMORE
MARRIAGE CELEBRANT 66844559 0422383151 www.antheaamore.com
THANK YOU ST JUDE for prayers answered. J.C
HONOURING LOVE AND LOSS
( hand-made weddings & rituals ( JANE MEREDITH 66840061 - www.janemeredith.com CEREMONIES FOR LIFE & LOVE
Tanya McGill
Ph 0432265501 www.lifetimes.net.au OCEANA UNFORGETTABLE 66803504 www.oceanaheart.com IRENA - ABSOLUTELY BYRON BAY www.irena.vpweb.com.au 0404093919
Easily learn the silversmithing basics using simple hand and motor tools. $65 plus materials Wed or Sat 10am - 2pm
HYPNOTHERAPY
WWW.MAGENTAMASSAGE.CO.CC Swedish, 6 days, Mullum. 0422138644 SPIRITUAL & PSYCHIC HEALER Astrologer, higher purpose & relationship councillor. Ph 0429369031
The Art of Nature
Meditation Inquiry and Waking Up Christopher Titmuss and Radha Nicholson Christopher has been teaching Awakening and Insight Meditation worldwide for 30 years. He emphasises freedom, compassion and social responsibility. Radha’s teachings focus on Inquiry and the Non-dual nature of reality. Friday 6th Nov-Weds 11th Nov, Ballina Bookings: [email protected] 0266559509
Learn to create your own rustic chic centrepieces and hand-tied bouquets using owers, foliage and herbs. s 3UNDAY .OVEMBER s AM n PM s FOR HR CLASS All materials included and you can take what you’ve created home with you.
To reserve your place call Estelle –
0405 359 775 Water Babies Byron Bay
Holistic Birth Classes Feel more prepared and conďŹ dent for a calm, joyful and empowering birth experience. Starts Tues 3rd Nov, 7 – 9 pm (6 wks) – Red Tent Yoga
BOOK NOW Learn to swim, Baby Swim, Mini Squad
Pregnancy Retreat Weekend Nurturing, creative time – relax, connect and celebrate your pregnancy. Enjoy yoga, oceanic oat, belly painting and more‌
Sat/Sun 14th/15th November, 10 am – 4.30 pm For pregnant women and their partners/support person
Contact Anna – 6684 4429 www.celebrationofbirth.com
Furniture and Tools
Thursday, 5th November Starting at 10am
Yoga Therapy
For photos see www.ianweirandson.com.au Terms: Cash or Cheque at sale
DEREK HARPER
A unique & powerful facilitated men’s group! Every Wednesday night
Celebrating love and lives 66803032. [email protected]
BANGALOW
AGM
7.15 – 9.30 pm Facilitator Adrian Hanks 0400 424 417 www.consciouslifedevelopment.com An opportunity for change!
Mullumbimby Giants JRL AGM
Shoe Surgery now operating @ Sole Bros, Arts & Industry Estate. Surgery hours 8am - 5pm
Photography s 0ORTRAITS PORTFOLIOS PRIVATE
commercial, corporate. s 0ASSPORTS RETOUCHING RESTORING Shop 4/22 Fingal Street Brunswick Heads (behind Michaela’s) Phone 0417427518
to Transformation + Mastery 7 WEEK PROGRAM November 7 to December 21 with Dr Lilliana Corredor Mondays 7-9pm. $30pw @ Academy, 5 Wollongbar St, Byron Arts & Industry Estate Free info evening 7pm Thu Oct 29 6680 1703 or 0401 477 701
PIANO TUNING
Reuben Barkley, 2nd gen. family trade. Pianos & Rhodes bought, sold & repaired. 66284475, 0422221116
Healing from the Roots s 2ELEASE CREATIVE BLOCKS s 2ELEASE SUBCONSCIOUS SABOTAGE s 3TOP SMOKING SPECIALIST s ST SESSION &2%%
JUST IMAGINE HYPNOTHERAPY
Catrine Irwin AHS–NGH
66854898 Byron Bay
PROF SERVICES
DENTURES LOOK GOOD FEEL GOOD Free consultation. SANDRO 66805002 MERMAID SITTINGS & VISITS Have Mahina Mermaid swim to your shore to meet your special little girl for her birthday, impart her with a handmade ocean gift, and leave magic & awe in her wake as she swims back out to sea. Ph 0402172219
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suffolk park community hall corner alcorn street and clifford street bangalow studio and head ofďŹ ce 72 byron street, bangalow (parking at rear)
private sessons available call 6687 2031 or visit www.yogalates.com.au
certiďŹ cate teacher training courses monday
10am - 11.30am 6pm - 7.30pm
Yogalates : mat work Yogalates : mat work
suffolk park suffolk park
Special: unlimited classes for 3 months $195 Award winning DVDs available at our studios
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Yoga with Chandra
REIKI healing & teaching by Reiki Master at your home. Silvina 0401214784
BODY BALANCE MASSAGE Quality therapeutic bodywork, 20 yrs experience. Herbert 0408782834
with Martina Rigby, Physiotherapist, at Mullum Physio Centre 66843255 at Eureka 66884028 Health Fund Rebates
Tuesday evenings at 7pm in rainforest setting at Middle Pocket Ph 0415838514 for more details
Cranio Sacral
NEW HOURS ANDREW HALL: OSTEOPATH Starting 2 Nov, I shall be working week on, week off. Mon-Fri, New Brighton Phone 66802027
BRENT VERCO CHIROPRACTOR BYRON CHIROPRACTIC
SPIRITUAL COUNSELLOR Margo Knox 0409476803
6685-8159
BIRTH PREPARATION & DOULA Raine Sharpe 0409534052
6684-1028
TUE PM, WED, THU & FRI
NEW CLASSES @ THE RED TENT Dru yoga, Mon 8-9.15am The dance of yoga, Tues 4-5.15pm Bollywood workouts, Tues 5.30-6.45pm Beginning ďŹ rst week of November For information & bookings phone Sara 0418657528 BYRON remedial, relaxation & facial massage from $40. Anna 0411986381 MASSAGE Amos 0405371618
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AHUNA BODYWORK Jason Campbell m: 0422 918 412 The Old Bakery, Mulllum
MONEY BACK GUARANTEE Remedial sports massage, health fund rebates, $50 1hr, $30 1/2 hour Phone Patrick 0410155044
Yoga with Martine
Mullum Pioneer Hall Tue 7.30-9.30am, Fri 10.30am-12.30pm South Golden Beach Community Hall Wed 6.00-7.30pm 66840044 conc avail FEEL GOOD MASSAGE HAS MOVED! Opening specials 1 1/2 hr massage $80, specialising in neck, shoulder & feet, Ion Foot Detox $40 Pamper Package 3hrs $150 Experience deep R & R Bookings phone 66847484 Blessings to all, Dhira & Manya the mother daughter team GROUP HEALING SESSIONS 7 people max, 4 week course beg Sat 31 Oct, 5-8pm. Inspiring Remedial Bodywork. Phone 0421826639 DEEP TISSUE + Ayurvedic massage, lymph-drainage, $50. Vicky 0401344047 OSTEOPATH A biodynamic approach to Osteopathy in the cranial ďŹ eld
CLASSICAL HOMOEOPATHY Sue Haynes PhD Dip Hom Byron Bay Phone 66855883 www.suehaynes.com.au
COLONICS
Suffolk Park. 0458633869 www.byronbaydetoxretreats.com.au JAW R.E.S.E.T. HEALING Helps stress from teeth grinding, dental work or accidents. Tibetan Sound Chakra healing with tuning forks. Rose Gilmore 0429194912
MASSAGE
@ BODY BALANCE, 2/111 Jonson St Sun, Mon & Tues with Claire Hay Phone 0414243491 Wed, Thurs, Fri & Sat with Herbert Phone 0408782834
EGBERT WEBER N.D,
Structural bodywork, CranioSacral, 20 years exp, Byron Bay. 0428839009
BREATHWORK
Movement classes for ďŹ tness and wellbeing. Ph Julie 0402980805 www.niaaustralia.com.au
New Brighton, 66802027, Thurs, Fri. Not your usual Osteopathy.
Accredited courses and sessions WWWREBIRTHINGCOMAU s START THE WEEK WITH SATYANANDA YOGA Monday early morning class, 6.30-8am General class - beginners welcome Byron Bay Girl Guides Hall Carlyle St, just behind the tennis courts. Phone Riddhi, fully accred Satyananda Yoga teacher on 0439909330 www.yogalifebalance.com THAI MASSAGE 1.5 hrs $50, home visit $60. Ekka, 7 days 66804478. Traditional
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www.heartspace.massage.com 0423293995 MASSAGE & INJURY MANAGEMENT JAMIE BENNETT B. Clin. Sci., Dip. Rem. Mass., Dip. Ex. Sci. Providing relief & relaxation to all types of soft tissue injuries. Specialising in sports injuries, remedial & relaxation massage. Exercise rehabilitation & personal training also avail. 20 yrs exp. Mobile service avail. Health Rebates. Byron 0403401696
Let your heart be the master, the mind the disciple. SACRED EARTH / INNER SMILE MEDITATION Dance & connect to the earth, shake to release toxins/emotions stillness to feel your heart & friends. Sat 31 Oct 9.30-11.30am. St Johns Parish hall Mullum, $20. For info ph 66843865
OVER 50’s
Bones for Life, Pilates, Yoga, beg class Tues 10.30 SGBch. Ph Sarah 66805698
With Frida Lezius cert. Massage Therapist & Yoga Teacher.
BRILLIANCE Introduction to craniosacral & energy healing course. Starts Sunday 8 Nov. 3 days a week for 3 weeks. Jacinta 0407255902
Mobile service available “Wave� of Life 8/9 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay
For bookings call Frida
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BRUNS FITNESS CENTRE UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT THE ONLY GYM AND POOL UNDER THE ONE ROOF IN BYRON SHIRE Mon Tues Weds Thurs Fri Sat 8.30 ABT Fitball 45mins Pilates 9.00 Boxercise Total Dynamic Body Fitball 9.30 Aqua Total Boxercise Fitness Body 10.00 Aqua Stretch Fitness 12.00 Yogalates 4.30 Boxercise 5.30 Powerbar Step SMASH Step Powerbar
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6687 2330
BAppSc, Grad Dip Relationship Therapy Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
relationship counselling family mediation co-parenting coaching tel: 0402 207 137 www.KateChase.com.au Royal Thai Massage Therapy Licensed Mobile Personal Trainer $70 per session 1 hour *Deep Tissue Massage *Foot - Reflexology *Thai Oil Massage *Certified Athletic Trainer *Facial - Head Massage *Home Portable Detox Sauna
*Traditional African Herbal Remedies* Musculoskeletal problems: neck/shoulder pain, sports injuries, strains & sprains, lower back pain, headache, stress, low energy, weight loss.
Mobile Service. Ph. 0400644973
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Your One Stop Gallery for Pottery, Ceramics, Zyladrums, Netti Pots and More.
Qualified & Professional
YOGA EQUIPMENT & PROPS FOR SALE
NEW SWIM SCHOOL – Learn to swim, Mini Squad, Adult & Child Private Stroke Correction Lessons. 14-16 Teven St, Brunswick Heads 685 1794
and
Byron Surf Club, Main Beach YOGA TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY
Claire P. Julie (level III) Foundation Claire Liz Claire 4pm Jan Liz - Restorative
Liz Costigan 0402 770 441
byronbayballooning.com.au Free phone: 1300 889 660
MOBILE MASSAGE Hawaiian Kahuna Matthew 0413449989
0421 352 701
8am
From the mountains to the sea – the rainbow region will enchant you with its wonders!
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Deep tissue, remedial relaxation and 4 hand massage, 20+ years exp. 7 days. Ph Bernie 0407431588
TANTRIC EXPERIENCE Soft touch, ancient techniques, loving guidance & energy balancing. Phone Lucy 66854918 or 0427917960
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REVITALISING MASSAGE Relaxing or deep tissue, Ocean Shores qualiďŹ ed. Nina 66802349, 0409393352
Try EFT and notice the difference! Mariana 0430175923 or 66805759 www.eftvibrations.com
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BEST HAWAIIAN LOMI massage, med & deep, 1 or 2 hrs. John 0411842117
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TIBETAN SINGING BOWLS vibrating on body with bowen therapy, remedial, lymph, relax preg massage 13 yrs exp. Funds. 0420476126
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CLOTHING & ALTRNS SEWING: HEMS & ALTERATIONS Dance wear. Ph Debra 0432185180
Restaurant Bar Weddings Events, Open 7 days, 7am – 10am/ 6pm ‘till late
Pacific Dining Room Bay St, Byron Bay 6680 7055
Byron Bay
Visitors Centre
We are the only official Level 1 Accredited Visitor Information & Tourist Accommodation Centre with Tourism New South Wales in the Byron Shire. Location: The historic Stationmasters Cottage in the middle of Byron Bay. Open seven days a week. Phone (02) 6680 8558
LAHAY
Clothing manufacturers. Manufacturing for wholesalers, shops & market stalls. Ph Jocelyn 66846665, Mon - Fri (bh)
HALLS FOR HIRE
Fully qualiďŹ ed beauty and massage therapists, ensure your treatments are of the highest standard. There are a variety of packages to choose from call 07 5545 4751 or visit the website www.getawaydayspa.com.
EWINGSDALE HALL AVAILABLE for your next function. Ph 0421878556
Tamborine Mountain Getaway Day Spa 16 West Rd, Tamborine Mountain (the turn off onto West Rd is from Main Western Rd)
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Excavator & tipper hire. 0427172684
www.utopiacafe.com.au 13 Byron Street Bangalow 6687 2088
CRYSTAL TREASURES Crystals, inspirational books, oracle cards, jewellery, wands, art, music. Therapeutic massage, clairvoyant readings, Reiki, crystal healing, naturopathy, iridology. 3-5 Brisbane St. Murwillumbah 02 6672 2216 (next door to Regent Cinema & Escape Coffee lounge & Gallery)
Belongil Beach Cafe Great coffee Delectable pasta dishes Hearty breakfasts Freshly made sandwiches
33 Childe St Byron Bay Phone 6685 7144
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Road base, gravel, blue metal and metal dust. ALL SIZE DELIVERIES. Phone 66845517, 0418481617
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from $10.50sqm "AMBOO &LOORING. For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 66884188 - sample & brochure WWWBAMBOOPLYCOMAU
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-)342!, 0/24!",% !)2 #/. 5.)4 as new, $750. Ph 0403733446 $)3!"),)49 !)$3 Commode, shower chairs, wheelie walkers, exc cond CAWI. Ph 66851444 -!24). "!#+0!#+%2 '5)4!2 Essential for the travelling guitarist. Excellent condition $135, free delivery Byron Shire. 66190503 or 0408333282
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,/5.'% 35)4% 1, 2 & 3 seater, exc cond, ideal for rental properties, $360. Ph 0422056208 "%2.).! semi-industrial sewing machine & acc, vgc, $950. 07 55357584 #%$!2 4!",% 80x140cm and 4 chairs, vgc, $450. 07 55357584 7).$/73 alum beige, unused, 2 at 1200x900, 2 at 900x600, original cost $900, make an offer. Hugh 0448843636
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$!,!) ,!-! Awakening the Mind ticket, Sydney, Dec 1 & 2, value $140, will take best offer. Phone 0423507229
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).$5342)!, /6%2,/#+%2 Singer 5 thread with chain stitch $500. 66871585 &2)$'% medium size, good condition, $95. Bath tub $599 & vanity $329 both new. Phone 66843587
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Please be assured that I will be getting married no matter what you or my dysfunctional sister have to say. We might have to go to Las Vagas or New Zealand but we will be getting married. I always get what I want and this is very important to me. Lester, you have a few secrets of your own that you want to keep down low,
$/5",% bed base 10 years old, $60 Phone 0415838514 #!20%.4%23 "%.#( custom made 1900x700 at 80kg, steel frame, hardwd top complete with vice. Made with love to inspire by Veet $1200. Ph 66843883 WWWMCNATIVENURSERYCOMAU
2)$% /. -/7%2 17hp Briggs & Stratton + push mower $1500. Phone 0417054443, 66870524
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,%!4(%2 ,/5.'% suite $350, tapestry recliner $275, garden setting glass tbl + 6 chairs with cushions $150, 2 sgl beds & bases $50 ea all good cond. 66843157 &2)$'% &2%%:%2 2 door, good running order, $80. Ph 0428853330 Everybody reads The Echo
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FOR SALE 6!#55- "!'3 4O SUIT MOST MAKES MODELS "2)$',!.$3 Mullumbimby. 66842511 #!20%4 /&ȟ – Lots of sizes and prices at Ray Towers Carpets, Mullumbimby Industrial Estate.
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s #/.3#)/53 #(),$#!2% s Exp loving, caring nanny, great ref’s. Casual OK. Linda Flower 0421892812 ,)6% ). .!..9!5 0!)2 Feb-April 2010 for Franco/Australian family who will settle in region for this period. 2 bilingual kids will attend BB primary whilst mother does 7 wk intensive yoga training. I am seeking gentle, mature, centred, open, exible kidfriendly person to be strong parental back up in all family orientated areas. Will be in Byron Nov 5-7 from France. For more info [email protected]
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CHILDCARE
The ‘Tumby Pub’ was the ďŹ rst pub in the area and licensed since 1887. The Bistro was awarded the Best Hotel Dining Award in the Tweed Business Excellence Awards.
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Excellent for grasses, weeds, lantana & all undergrowth. Easy to use. Great exercise. Main Arm General Store $30 !.4)15% &,//2 4),%3 www.jatanainteriors.com.au 66884048
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Wooden railway sleepers, concrete sleepers, garden ornaments & pots, mulches, soil, metals, gravel & more. Mon-Fri 7.00am-5pm, Sat 7.00am-2pm. 1176 Myocum Rd, Mullum. 66842323
second clothing FUNKY RECYCLED FASHION
BOOT SALE 50% OFF
upstairs 4 bay lane byron bay behind the beachy s 10.30-5.30
DRESS DIFFERENT SPEND LESS
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TRAMPOLINES, REPLACEMENT MATS & parts. 66851624 or 0409851624
OLD MOTORBIKE any make, any year, any cond. Will pickup. 0427109195
NARNIA NURSERY
DESK IN YOUR OFFICE in exchange for professional graphic design services. Also wanted ongoing graphic design work. Ph 66803838 or [email protected]
Poinciana, Flax, Yucca, Grass Tree, Lilly Pilly, Grasses, Succulents & much more. Ph 66805831, 0419771514
BILLINUDGEL LANDSCAPING SUPPLIES
Cypress & T. Tree mulch, Koppers logs, sleepers etc All your gardening needs. 66804555 WOOD SHAVINGS, timber kitchen benches. Phone Stan 0412429156 MUSHROOM COMPOST aged 5 years, 25L bags, $6 each. 0432975503 WASHING MACHINE auto $170, fridge 2 door $250. Phone 0413589388 DRUM KIT Yamaha ‘DTXplorer’ elec near new was $2500, sell $1500. 66844937 RIDE ON MOWERS x 2 GreenďŹ eld. 11hp, make one good one $300 pair. Phone 66805831 or 0419771514 RIDE ON MOWER ‘Rover Rancher’ 12.5hp, Briggs & Stratton engine, $950 ono. Ph 6684768, 0414334530 FRIDGE 310L $180. Fridge 500L $250. Freezer 400L $280. 0458002693 WASHING MACHINES top loaders 7kg $180, Simpson 4.5kg $150. 0458002693 SLIDING GLASS DOOR + security screen with keys, 1.8 x 2.1, as new, save 80% off new price, $320 ono. 66857887 HAY BALES Top quality mulch / feed, $5 each, 496 Myocum Rd. 0431231586 BRAND NEW W’house fridge, 420L, l-h hinges, rrp $1319 sell $990. 0448843636 DRAGON TREES - Dracaena Dracos, lucrative future $$. 66870774 OFFICE furniture, near new timber, reception counter, ďŹ ling cabinet, credenza etc. Ph Liz 0400847011 COSTUMES, LINGERIE, GOTH 102 Centennial Circuit, Arts & Ind Est, www.motherpunker.com.au LOUNGE SUITE blue/white $150, queen slat bed $50. Phone 0413779223 BRAND NEW wooden sofa bed, cost $1000 sell $500, 2 x surfboards ‘Neil Purchase’ & ‘Simon Anderson’ 6’x4â€? $400 ono. Phone 0421705145 FRIDGE/FREEZER very good cond, large, $60. Pine crate, sturdy 1sqm, perfect for dog, $50. 0412644337 ARCHERY TARGETS waterproof, etching off arrows, 2 seater couch & chair, red, Bangalow palms. 66840316 OLD DRAWERS, wooden, metal bunk, IKEA computer desk, $20 each. Phone 0432472958 KITCHEN large exc cond Smeg oven & cook top, Westinghouse dishwasher, 11/2 bowl sink, $4000 ono. Ph 0407939735 McTAVISH ‘FIREBALL’ 10ft, Malibu, custom art work, Buddha board, 5 hrs use, cost $1850 best offer. 0488141111 YOUR OWN VEGIE PATCH Custom design to suit your budget & needs. Ph Luke 0425376771 FRIDGE FREEZER large Fisher & Paykel good cond $200. Phone 0411232266 FRIDGE Westinghouse 310L. Washing machine, front load, 7kg 1000r/m only 2 months old. Phone 0415628028
CLASSIC ‘77 Dodge, OL’55 Inter, ’79 Nissan 280ZX, Porsche 356, BMW, mags etc bikes, parts classics unlimited. 0407076374
1995 HOLDEN COMMODORE gc, 194,000km, 4 mths rego, auto, a-c, iPod adapter, reliable car, great runner, reluctant sale $3500 ono. 0422107985
‘98 TOYOTA COROLLA 4 door hatch auto, 8 months rego, 180,000km, good cond, $4500 ono. Ph 0419210374
HYUNDAI ACCENT 2004 great car, excel cond, full service history, manual, a-c, air bags, CD, $7900 ono. 0411267438
CAR TYRES $25
MERCEDES SPRINTER VAN 2001, turbo diesel, manual, Vic rego, $5000 ono. Ph 0421626015
GARAGE SALES
HONDA CIVIC ‘99, under 200,000km, timing belt done, 12 months rego, $7000 ono. Phone 0402107900
MOTOR BIKES
ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.
‘99 HOLDEN ASTRA 11 months rego, 180,000km, manual, regularly serviced, exc cond, $8000 ono. 0437379480
SOUTH GOLDEN BEACH 19 Gloria St Saturday 9am, household goods
1990 FORD FAIRLANE auto, gas, great cond, 4 months rego, sale due to leaving country, $4300. Ph 0403684411
HOUSES FOR SALE
HOLDEN RODEO Ute DX, 2000, new engine, 15,000km, $8900. 66846386
MORTGAGE BROKER, buyers agent property advice & the best ďŹ nance deals & service around. Beat the banks. Michael Murray 0428555501
Ph 6688 4202 or 0432 479 522 for bookings
LAND FOR SALE
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4 CYL CAR post 2000, long rego, low km, excel cond, under $5000. 66857887 FIBREGLASS BATTS small quantity. Ph 66857887
O.SHORES 7 Jardine Ct, Sat 8am, books exercise bike, art supplies, TV + more OCEAN SHORES Saturday from 8am, 21 Rajah Road MULLUMBIMBY 815 Main Arm Rd doors, windows, old bath tub, decking boards, furn, stroller, piano, start 8am Sat 31st SOUTH GOLDEN BEACH 15 Clifford Street, after 8am
Supplied & ďŹ tted. Phone 66845296
KIA CARNIVAL excellent cond, 8 mths rego, $12,000. 66771673, 0432603436 CELICA SX ‘90 4 spd auto, alloy wheels, central locking, p’steer/wind, CD, a-c, no rego, 180,000km $1800. 0417733192
WANTED 60’s TEAK PARKER or Scandinavian furniture, or Scandinavian ceramics and/ or glass. Ph 0417073029 ALL VINTAGE MENS WATCHES working or not wanted by collector. Will pay cash. Also vintage mens signet rings wanted. Call Bruce 0425253802 GOOD used furniture bought and sold Bridglands Mullumbimby 66842511
BEAUTY SALON in busy Byron health club, long lease. Suit fun & enthusiastic owner/operator, $19,000. 0419995618
CABINS FOR SALE
YAMAHA YZFR1 ‘07 red & white, only 9000km, 1 owner & Yamaha log books, immac cond, $13,990 or will sell for reas offer. Phone 0410763659
HOLIDAY ACCOM.
SUMATRA FUNDRAISING SALE Sat 31/10 9am, 6 Grevilla Street Byron Ind Est. 66857789
special: mid-week Amazing2 ($25 for each $150 for al person) addition
HUGE GARAGE SALE 22 Corkwood Cres, Byron Hills, 8am KAYAKS x 2, timber dining set, BBQ, weight set, h’hold & kids stuff etc. 5 Elma Pl, Bayside Bruns, Sat 8-12. 66850096
MOTOR VEHICLES
Buy at Dealers only through us. Ring David 0414306152 CHOICE MADE, $$$ SAVED.
CASH PAID FOR UNWANTED CARS
Local reg’d business 66845296 or 66845403 or 0413120970 ADD A PHOTO OF YOUR CAR TO MAXIMISE ITS SELLING POTENTIAL Phone and ask our Echo staff for our special rates for car photos. 66841777
CAR BODIES REMOVED FREE
$$$s for most. Phone 0418189324, 0438189323
$33 CAR HIRE
Weekly rates, free delivery. 0423606595 TOYOTA RAV4 ‘95 auto, blue, 4dr, tinted windows, Mongoose alarm system, great reliable car, $6950 ono. 0401881748 TOYOTA ECHO 2003 3dr hatch, 132,000km, mystic blue, 12 months rego, exc cond, man, $7600 ono. 0431702354 LADA ‘88 mech excellent, body shot, unreg, make an offer. 0448843636 VAN TOYOTA HIACE ‘97 auto, 9 month rego, LPG/petrol $5990. 0404833855
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A place of peace and tranquillity, Bundaleer Retreat offers private bungalow style accommodation less than 10 minutes drive to Byron Bay and Lennox Head.
0HONE FORD LASER ‘91 h‘back man, rego Dec, good cond $2000 ono. 0417491820 FORD FOCUS sedan, ‘03, 92,000km, 6 mth rego, log bks, man, excel car usually worth $13,000, bargain due to very mild hail damage $8990. 0431702354 BMW ‘89 525i M series wheels, full custom leather interior, pearl paint, black cat exhaust & headers, over $10,000 spent last 3 yrs, 10 month rego, many more extras. 160,000km $6800. 0417733192 ‘96 SAAB HATCHBACK 4dr, 5 spd, 4 months rego, 199,000km, very reliable, good cond, $4750 ono. Phone 66844560 or 0427695563 HONDA ACCORD ‘98 VTI, 5 sp man, 8 mth rego, runs perfectly, very good body, interior, mechanics, 200,000km, $5000. Phone 66859071, 0418226610
MOTOR HOMES
02 6687 6488 or mobile 0428 876 488
MERCEDES SPRINTER Campervan ‘99, diesel, 4 seater, fridge, sink, 100L water tank, queen bed, heaps of storage, many extras $9500 ono. Ph 0421626015
Springbrook
Pre-purchase inspection from $40! Pink slips, service + repair. 10 Bonanza Dr, Billinudgel. 66804999
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Mountain Manor The Manor’s luxurious interior, with accommodation in air-conditioned suites, is perfectly complimented by ‘Manner’s’ elegant ďŹ ne dining restaurant and the ‘One-Legged Duck’ English Tavern.
CARAVANS
CHARMING CARAVAN $1660. Phone 66844774, 0421510451
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TOYOTA CELICA SX ‘91 2.2L, manual, liftback, air-con, good stereo, power everything, keyless entry & security, vgc, 12 months rego, 2nd car for spares if wanted, $5500. 66804624, 0409152885
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MULLUM 9 & 11 Hottentot Cres, clothes, books & bric-a-brac, Sat 8am
MOVING OVERSEAS must sell LCD TVs, fridge, wash mach, toys, kitchen appl, furn, car seat & more. O.Shores, 12 Rajah Rd, Sat 10-2pm. Ph 0415628038
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A private and peaceful hinterland retreat 20 minutes from Byron y Bay, in Federal village. Perfect for families or four couples to share.
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HAND & power tools, incl lathe, bikes, surfboards. Unit 4, 17 Banksia Dr, behind Byron M’cycles, Art & Ind Est, Sat 8am
MOVING HOUSE sale, lots of bargains, Sat 8am, 15 Coral Court, Byron Bay
BYRON / BAYWOOD CHASE spacious home avail 27/12/09 for 2 or 3 weeks. Suit 2 couples or family of ďŹ ve. 3br, 2 bathrms $3500 for 2 weeks or $4000 for 3 weeks 0414858143 for info & photos
OCEAN SHORES huge ocean views, executive 4br home, 2 bathrm, DLUG $712,000 www.diysell.com.au ID: P19537 Phone 66284127, 0418221294
BYRON 3 Wollumbin St, bunk, dble futon, furniture, clothing, shoes, jewellery etc, Sat 8am-3pm
EWINGSDALE Sat 31 Oct. Moving sale 16 years accumulation. All household items from wardrobe to shed and everything in between. Please don’t come before 8am. Lot 12 Parkway Drive, 300 metres from McGettigans Lane on right
WATERFRONT Brunswick charming 1 & 2br, f-furn apartments. Ph 66851631
PROPERTY FOR SALE
GYPSY LE FAY
LATEX MATTRESS Energise BodyďŹ t, 3 months old, must sell $1500, orig $2399. Ph 0418956506, 66874446
VIRTUAL OFFICE business for sale, complete set up, urgent sale due to health reasons, great business opportunity for less than start up costs. Ph Liz on 0400847011
STYLISH new relocatable cabins built to your requirements from $12,000. Easy delivery. Phone 0414769546
BRUNSWICK HEADS 7 Newberry Pde, Saturday from 7.30am Furn & clothes
BIG LCD TV, Sony Plasma TV & surround system. 0415628038. O.Sh
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HONDA SCOOTER 50cc auto, g-cond, blue slip, helmet $750. Ph 66842223
CLEANING client based, good will, lucrative, full training given, terms avail. $3500. Phone 66846091
Car Detailing Mullumbimby 0408 641 655
BARGAINS ’97 Ford El Futura Auto, A/C, P/S, 6/10 rego. QPS-740 ....$3,850 ’94 Toyota Camry Wagon Auto, A/C, wide body. SYE-688 ............$2,950 ’96 VS Commodore Sedan Auto, A/C, P/S, 187Kkms, 8/10 rego. UBJ-282 ...$3,995 7 Seat Pajero 4WD 5spd, A/C, P/S, CD, very clean. WQL 083 ..............................................$3,950 ’91 VN Vacationer Auto, A/C, P/S. ABR-88X .....................$1,650
35 CARS UNDER $10,000
www.dealcars.net 16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA
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6686 5586
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BUSINESS FOR SALE DOG TRAINING Affordable business for sale. Owner retiring call Val Edwards 02 42620781 bh
Tel: (07) 5533 0449 www.cottagesonthecreek.com.au
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Robin on (02) 6687 5164 or Julie on (02) 6581 0947 www.cedarvillehouse.com
Eternity Springs Art Farm A variety of accommodation in a creative and peaceful location – 5 minutes from The Channon village, 25 minutes from Lismore and 45 minutes scenic drive from Byron Bay. Call us on 6688 6385
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MUST SELL THIS WEEK QUINTESSENCE MASSAGE/ BEAUTY valued at $135k, highest offer above $30K will be accepted this week only! Great ďŹ gures, recoup your investment in 6 months! Long established business, modern website, high return client base. Everything you need to walk in and prosper! Contact Sophia: 6685 6588/ 0408 273 862
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Country Retreat Two spacious bedrooms with fully equipped kitchen and facilitites. Ewingsdale is unique – situated in a rural setting yet only minutes away from Byron Bay beaches and township.
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For a relaxing escape close enough to all the sights and sounds of the Northern Rivers and Byron Bay. Self contained apartment with modern facilities. Nuwarra Eliya is a 10 minute drive from Mullumbimby. e: [email protected] p: 6684 9234
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ROOMS IN ABSOLUTE BEACHFRONT property, qs or sgl, shared or own bathrm, use of breakfast kitchen, yoga, massage. For info text your email address or phone number, dates of intended stay, and number of guests to 0412288210
SPACIOUS HOME to share with 1 other, recently reno’d, incl master br, exercise room with vibro mach, study, sunroom, gardens etc, suit working open minded & easygoing individual, no pets, $200pw neg, + bills & bond. Mullum 0402768759
BYRON lovely f-f rooms in nice home for fem travellers, $180pw incl. 66856645
BINNA BURRA large room + sep studio in beautiful house, share with one other, $210pw + bills. Ph 0404058741
PETS OK Mullum, lush, pool, spa, for single to family. Mia Casa 66844762 HOME Byron Bay, walk to CBD & beach, 3 qu bedrms, 1 bthrm, avail 15 Dec-3 Jan, suit family. Ph 66857927, 0411843384 CHRISTMAS / NEW YEAR - BYRON beautiful 4br house and nature reserve garden, beach/shops. 0404100325
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PLANTATION TATION GUESTHOUSE GUEST Enjoy a relaxing elaxing country holiday holid on 100 acres of bushland b hl d in i the h mountains with spectacular scenery. Your accommodation is a comfortable, self contained 3 bedroom guesthouse that sleeps up to 8 people and is children and pet friendly. The house is spacious, has 2 verandahs, a log fire and BBQ. Contact Mick and Vivianne Pyke Ph/Fax : 0266845432 email : [email protected] Palmwoods, via Main Arm Rd, Mullumbimby
SHORT TERM ACCOM. ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement. STUDIO BYRON TOWN clean, tranquil, winter rates, avail now. 0409062074
BANGALOW area big rm, share 1 other, rural outlook, $180pw + bills. 66872762 LENNOX un-furn room, own bathroom, car space. share with 1 male, suit quiet person, avail from 5 Nov. $150pw + bond + bills. Phone 0447001337 SUFFOLK BEACHSIDE furn room, BIR, Austar, internet, $120pw. 0413811538 BYRON TOWN f-f, with 1 fem, pref vego, f-t work, no cples $250pw. 0421754135 MULLUM full time day worker, prefer male, for newly reno house, large f-furn room with en-suite, $150pw. 66844884 BYRON lge room close to town & beach, long term, $140pw + bond. 0413857021 BROKEN HEAD beautiful property, 2 rooms avail, $155pw each. 66854367 LARGE ROOM TV, fridge, bed, m/wave, b’band, close to buses, no bills, $180pw single, $240pw dble neg. 0402162042
ROSEBANK 2br, converted dairy, nice v’dah, avail 3 Nov-7 Dec, f-furn, $150pw incl bills & b’band, n/s. Ph 66882125
BANGALOW large sunny room, garden, decks, $135pw incl bills. 0402281638
BYRON F-F HOUSE Pacific Vista, 2br, 1 bthrm, beach 150m, 4-6 weeks, avail 13 Dec, $725pw for full term. 66858829
BEACHSIDE SUFFOLK dbl room in quiet home, pool, wireless, around the corner to shops, would suit student or worker, room avail to mid Jan poss longer, $150pw. Phone 0404179585
NEW BRIGHTON fully furnished, fully self contained space, pets ok, short term only, non smokers only, on river, one minute walk to beach, sleeps up to 7, POA. Phone 0417427518
HOUSE SWAP CONTEMP VILLA IN PROVENCE FRANCE v BYRON BAY Seeking house to suit small family. Feb-Apr 2010 while Oz ex pat does yoga teacher training in Byron for 7 wks. Visit my website to discover house and environment www. holidayhomeinprovence.fr Access to ski flat also possible, or you can write to me at [email protected] I am visiting Byron 5-7 Nov and would love to meet! Jaci
O.SHORES lge room, ens & studio, huge deck, priv entry, $200pw. 66802030 O.SHORES lge bedrm, timber floors, ens, close to beach/shops, pets neg, to share with 2, $160pw + bills. 0404768986 BYRON happy, working, n-s, flatmate to share timber hse, lge decks, palm grdn, fem pref $180pw bills incl. 0438856651 BYRON $100pw fully-furn room in town, suit fem. Ph or txt 0438633416 SUNRISE clean, w’less, couple $220pw, single $155pw, no bills. 0401302343 BYRON HOUSE welcomes fabulous working independent house mate to share a friendly light, spacious house, nature reserve garden $160pw incl gas, water, elect, b’band. Ph 0404100325 SUNRISE lge room, WiFi, suit working veg, n/s, d/f, $150pw incl. 0421664128
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TYAGARAH ocean view, own bathroom, conscious living, $160pw incl. 66843563
ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.
SUFFOLK PARK 2 rooms avail in large 4br house, $150pw incl bills for worker/ student. Ph 0438645517
POTTSVILLE BEACH mature working person, share 1 other, lge, light, spacious home with pool, own bedrm, bthrm, living room, $170pw + bond/exp. 0407098993
QUIET street in Byron, room in 5br house, $100pw incl bills, fem pref. 0410760804
BYRON CBD garage/room to rent, clean large house, across from beach, sgl $160pw, cpl $270pw incl. internet & bills. Phone 0405639624
BANGALOW SELF STORAGE Hi-tech security. 66872333
TYAGARAH females pref, 2 rooms avail, must have own transport, $150 & $145pw incl elec + water. Phone 0404766399
TO LET BYRON house at Tallows, 2br, 2 bathrm, no pets, suit prof couple or singles, n/s, walk to beach, close to CBD, $475pw. Phone Brian 0401906879
MY OWN GYM
Byron Beach Realty
No contracts, $13.50 per week 120 members only LENNOX HEAD room $150pw, large house, quiet location, 3 minutes walk to beach. Phone 0417691117 SUNRISE rm in quiet house, suit mature age, $160pw all incl. 0401381509 STH GOLDEN BEACH room avail, private, lush, clean, 2 min walk from beach, share with 2 others, $145pw + bond. Ph 0450023971 O. SHORES 1 or 2 rooms suit healer, fem n/s, $150 to $200pw neg, big beaut quiet house, pool, trees, nature. 66805206 THE POCKET room in house, swimming hole, private, b’band, creative female vego, n/s pref, $110pw. 0423606595 LENNOX quiet, mature, working fem, 35+, d/f, n/s, spacious room + lounge, $158pw + elect. Ph 66874875
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MYOCUM 2br cottage, 10 min to Byron, suit sgl or cple, working people, n/s, $300pw. Phone before 5pm 66847014
MULLUM house 1 to 2br great views, pool, large deck suit professional or couple only, pets ok, at $375pw + utilities. Phone Michael 0421738352
MULLUMBIMBY s BR REFURBISHED UNIT CLOSE TO #"$ avail now, $250pw. MULLUMBIMBY s 3br in CBD, avail after 6 Nov, $320pw MULLUMBIBMY s 3br timber house + sunroom. Avail now $320 pw pets neg. Mark Cochrane Real Estate 61 Burringbar Street, Mullumbimby Phone 66842663
STUDIO MYOCUM Situation for single person wanting quiet, private rural accom for short term rental/ house sit, including dog sit 2nd Nov to 7 Jan. Modern studio, near Mullum, car & references required. 0417842444
BYRON 2br flat, close to town & beach, $370pw. 0408666642, 0414857683 PALMWOODS / MAIN ARM lovely 1br cabin with beautiful views, $220pw + elec, suit single working person. 66845466 THE LINKS APARTMENTS Ground floor fully-furn 1br apartment, with SLUG, pool & court, no pets, $380pw. 12 month lease, avail from 21/10/09. 66808451 9am-5pm. COORABELL new 1br f-furn cabin, privacy, long lease. Working person, no kids or pets, $230pw elec incl. 66847535 MULLUM 2br timber home, large covered deck, carport, beautiful gardens, avail November, suit quiet working person or couple, d/f, n/s, long lease & bond $320pw. Phone 66841230 CARAVANS & CABINS from $195pw. Apply in person to Byron Bay Tourist Village, Ewingsdale Road. BANGALOW RENT A SHED Self storage. Phone 66871306
SUNRISE beautifully renov 3br house, for conscious prof couple, 6-12 month lease, $600pw, no pets/children. 0409844402 MULLUM cabin on rural property, $180pw incl elect, suit n/s, d/f, alch free, guru free single person. 66845512, 0427667791 SUFFOLK PARK BEACH SIDE 3br, luxury, en-suite, WIR, spa, air-con, $750pw. Ph 0412367233 STOKERS SIDING 5br, 2 bathrm, lounge, living, dining & rumpus rooms, part furnished, pool, outdoor BBQ area, undercover parking for 3 cars, $550pw. Phone 0414363801 LARGE RENOVATED CARAVAN with kitchen, TV, DVD, b’band, leafy garden with own back entrance for quiet working person. $175pw incl all. 66853521
BYRON 5 min walk to CBD, furn rooms, sgl/dbl/twin in clean, chilled house, suit working/travellers from $140pw, no bills, short term ok. Ph 0408855738 O. SHORES sunny room, with access to art studio, vegie garden & b’band, $170pw incl bills, avail mid Nov. 66803372
MASSINGER ST self cont semi furn room ensuite, sep entry, $170pw. 0418251218
PROPERTIES REQUIRED for permanent & holiday, good tenants waiting. Phone Gail Fuller 66808111
STH GOLDEN BEACH room with v’dah, garden spacious light beach house, sep shower & toilet, share with mature female artist $175pw + bond & exp. 66803859
O. SHORES house, quiet, views, avail 16 Nov-7 Dec, $175pw neg. 66804478
BANGALOW f-f house, 3br, avail from 4 Nov-30 Jan 2010 $450pw. 66872502
LENNOX HEAD 3br, 2 bthrm, DLUG hse, sorry no pets, avail from Nov 13 for 6 months, un-furn $440pw neg. 66287973
SUFFOLK PARK - ARMSTRONG ST. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, fully furnished executive townhouse. Available 31/10/09 – 31/01/10 $550 p/w CONTACT WILLIAM
02 6685 4039
OCEAN SHORES $550 p/w 4 b/r, 3bth/r + Rumpus room, DLUG with a lockable Dble Carport. Inc Lawn & Garden Maintenance, Property is for sale. Avail Nov.
OCEAN SHORES $270 p/w 2 b/r, 1 bth/r top floor unit. Property is for sale, 3 to 6 month lease. Avail now.
PRDnationwide Ocean Shores Bree
6680 4400
O.SHORES renov duplex x 2, fresh, clean, 2 bedrm bush sett, $220/$260pw, suit working couple. Ph 0411583376 SUNNY CABIN 2 mins Main Arm shop, $160pw. 0412474813 SMALL WORKSHOP or storage space to share from $20pw. Ph 0422214607 PRIVATE and secluded small garden studio, for one working person only, freshly renov, $175pw. Ph 66846831 TYAGARAH 1 large room, self-cont, semi furn, freestanding, $180pw. 66847484 BYRON f-furn large 2br unit, quiet area, close to town & beach, pool, $450pw, no bills. Ph 0411820494 OCEAN SHORES s-c, semi-furn granny flat, own access & yard pets neg, $240pw no bills, incl Austar. Ph 0405086934 OCEAN SHORES NEW 3br villa, ens, SLUG $440pw 4br home, carport, yard, $400pw 3br home, SLUG, ensuite, $370pw 1br unit with car space, $180pw BRUNSWICK HEADS 3br 1st floor unit, SLUG, $350pw NO PETS UNLESS SPECIFIED View at www.siwickirealestate.com.au Siwicki Real Estate, 17 Fingal St, Brunswick Heads. Ph 66851206 BUS TO RENT AT BELONGIL FIELDS, 4 weeks only, $50pw. Ph 0403733446
SALE
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s JEWELLERY s GIFTWARE s s BOOKS s MUSIC s HURRY!!! SALE ENDS MON 2ND NOV bay, beside the et Byron bus e r t S sto on s n o J p 84 Bookings 02 6685 8366 Byron Restaurant Location central CBD location, ideal for restaurant or café, indoor/outdoor dining, great potential very affordable, 58sqm. $425 pw+GST+OG’s. 0408 273 862 Byron Office Space 26sqm on ground floor, good complex, central CBD, $188pw+GST+OG’s 0408 273 862
CEMETERY ROAD, BYRON BAY 3 bed, 1.5 bath, 2 storey with decks surrounding, carport, new carpet. Avail 16th November $450 pw ARMSTRONG STREET, SUFFOLK PARK 3 bed, fully furnished unit, 3 month lease, 3 streets away from Tallow beach and close to shops. Avail 30th October $525 pw AZOLLA PLACE, SUFFOLK PARK 3 bed, 2 bath, open plan living area, modern kitchen and bathrooms, short walk to the beach and shops. Avail now $550 pw BROWNING STREET, BYRON BAY 3 bed, 2 bath, split level home, private garden/courtyard, timber floorboards and carpet in the bedroom, SLUG. Avail 6th November $560 pw SHIRLEY STREET, BYRON BAY 4 bed + studio, close to main beach and shops, large outdoor spa, great entertaining area, centrally located. Avail now. $3750 per month
L.J. Hooker Byron Bay 6685 7300
BRUNSWICK HEADS 2br beautiful, timber floors, bottom floor unit –$330pw 3br home DLUG in Bayside available 1/11/09 OCEAN SHORES 3 large bedroom, on the canal, beautiful home – $420pw SOUTH GOLDEN BEACH 3br home 1bathroom quiet cul-de-sac – $345pw 3br 2 storey home beachside – $370pw L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177 5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads
LOVELY PROF WORKING COUPLE seeking unique home with quiet surrounds for 6-12 months, reliable, honest & clean, must be within 15 min of Byron, refs available. Ph Chantel 0423463661 LIGHT clean, spacious 3+ br home, study or extra space essential, peaceful location between Byron & Mullum most suit. Please call Illumina 0431108040 FEMALE HEALTHCARE WORKER and long time resident need pet friendly home in Byron. Perm job, n/s and quiet. Please call 0401735269 LOCAL COUPLE profs, urgently req home, pets ok, exc refs. 0411449969
TO LEASE OFFICE/CREATIVE SPACE Mullumbimby at Station St Studios, avail 1 Dec. Ph Lisa 66847522 BYRON office space avail now, central location, air-con, security alarm, ph & data cabling, well presented & easy parking. Very affordable rent. Ben 0419409979 ARTISTS WANTED to share studio/ gallery space in Byron Arts & Industry Estate. Ph Tracey 0431092618 SHOP for lease, 95 Jonson St, 108sqm. Enquiries 0408666642 or 0414857683 MULLUMBIMBY shop/office or treatment room in Stuart Street Arcade, $220pw. Phone 66801643 STORAGE AVAILABLE contact Elders Bangalow. Phone 66871500 BYRON INDUSTRIAL ESTATE 200sqm shed, plus lock up yard. Good location. $2450pm ++ . Phone 66807533
VENUE FOR HIRE
MULLUM self contained 1br studio. Phone 0466201554
SANTOS HEARTSPACE Suits yoga, groups, massage, meetings. $8 per hour. Emma 0405910435
MULLUM s-cont country unit, 2br, 4km town, 5 acres, polished floors, verandah, recent reno, elec incl, wrkg sgl, no pets, b’band avail from $220pw. 0410437948
STREET FRONT OFFICE / Showroom + storeroom, Byron A & I, incl elect & high speed b’band, $135pw. 0405446033
WANTED TO RENT ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.
BRUNSWICK HEADS Offices/consulting rooms at 120sqm plus LUG in town centre, $510pw Small shop in CBD arcade, $220pw CBD shop, 37sqm in busy st, $395pw Siwicki Real Estate, 17 Fingal St Brunswick Heads. Ph 66851206
BRUNSWICK flat/unit for working male, n/s, d/f, with internet access, around $250pw, 3-6 months, pay up front neg. Ph 0423220529, e: [email protected]
GARAGE SPACE Suffolk Pk for creative person to rent, $85pw. 0404100325
PRIVATE SPACE on rural property, pref Broken Hd for erection of 6 x 9m storage shed, long lease. 0448843636
Byron Industrial Estate
LOCAL MATURE PROF COUPLE with cat looking for long term home, Ocean Shores, Sth Golden or Mullum with private outlook. Ph 0410613574 HOMESTAY share rooms or house rentals for international students - short & long term. Phone 66808253 or email: [email protected] CREATIVE SELF EMPLOYED gentleman, 68 years, seeks granny flat or share accom in quiet surroundings in Byron Shire. Ph Theo 0738478705 ah 42YO FEMALE seeks cabin / garage / shed / room. Ph 0401214784 ESTABLISHED Byron family urgently require executive home, pet friendly, excellent references. Ph 66854989 WORKING MALE looking for long term accom, pref self-cont, must have internet access. Ph 0431320085 QUIET reliable Canadian family of 3 seek 2-3br, Feb 1st or sooner, furn/unfurn n/s, refs, will pay monthly in adv. 66846828 SELF CONTAINED flat/studio, Bruns or Ocean Shores, near shops, around $140pw for quiet female, n/s, d/f, excellent references. Ph Claire 66803468
Fabulous downstairs office space to rent in Centennial Circuit. Available end October. Approx 82sqm in size, this beautiful unit is comprised of a courtyard garden, on site parking and close proximity to shops. The premises have an established upstairs tenant. Rent of $275 per week includes outgoings. Minimum 12 month lease initially. If this sounds appealing, call Rebecca de Gail on 0413 166 314.
POSITIONS VACANT WARNING The Department of Fair Trading has warned people to be very careful about responding to advertisements offering work at home. Readers should be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never send money to a post office box. TAXI DRIVERS BYRON SHIRE Drivers required, shifts available. Full training provided. Ph BH 66209211 email: [email protected] KAHUNA MASSAGE THERAPIST wanted for Bangalow massage clinic. Ph Peter 0430519709
MY OWN GYM
No contracts, $13.50 per week 120 members only
Byron Bay MAHOGANY DRIVE 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom townhouse SLUG $430pw Available Now HAZELWOOD CLOSE New Forrest Glades Home 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom SLUG $580pw Available mid November REDBEAN CLOSE 4 bedrooms, 2 bathroom house DLUG, fully fenced yard $600pw Available end of November
Elders Rental Centre 3/47 Byron Street, 6685 8911 www.elders.com.au/byronbay
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PART TIME work for experienced baby sitters / nannies. Phone 0424808186
Byron Region Community College is seeking expressions of interest from people living in Byron Bay and Mullumbimby who are willing to host an overseas student in 2010.
MODELS 18+ years required. Nude female for Picture and People magazines. No experience required. All shapes and sizes. Backpackers welcome. Good money. Professional accredited ACP photographer. Ph 0413627846
Byron College is a not for profit community College that is hoping to take a small number of adults from overseas into some of the College’s accredited qualifications in 2010.
SALES PERSON / PA req’d in furn / bedding store, enthusiastic and reliable, exp pref. Byron area, 0412856722
If you are interested being included on the Colleges Billet Register please contact Phil Radeski the College’s Student Support and Welfare Coordinator on 6684 3374 or by email on [email protected] at Byron College to discuss the College’s Billet Rate and Requirements.
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INDUSTRIAL SEWING MACHINIST Casual light upholstery work. Phone 0412856722
TEACHER
with experience in Michael Jackson dance routine required for priv lessons. Moonwalk ess. David 0409867475
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GENERAL HAND REQ’D for upholstery / warehouse. Energetic, some heavy lifting, casual, Byron area. 0412856722
BAY LEAF CAFE - CHEF wanted 2 days pw, no travellers, long term pos only. Ph Nico 0402912465
PAINTER Byron area, 3 yrs minimum exp and ABN essential. Immediate start. Email: [email protected]
NANNY/HOUSEKEEPER caring for 10 yr old boy, 2 afternoon/evenings pw, plus light housework, long term commitment essential, must be a dog lover, mature aged only, Suffolk Park. Sometimes more work incl weekends required, leave a message on 66859616
OFFICE/WAREHOUSE ASSISTANT Applicant must have a high work ethic with attention to detail & accuracy, exceptional organisational skills & ability to work under pressure. Strong administrative & MS OfďŹ ce skills are essential. Experience in a similar aministrative/ warehousing role is desirable but not essential. Forward resumes to: [email protected] UNCLE TOM’S PIES are looking for dynamic energetic people for casual shifts with coffee making skills. Send resume to [email protected] CLEANER WANTED for local B&B, must be avail weekends, ABN ess. 66809134
PRACTICE NURSE Bay Centre Medical, in busy Byron Bay, has a position available for a permanent part time Registered Nurse. Must have experience in all aspects of general practice nursing, have immunisation and sterilisation accreditation and have interest in health care plans. The position requires you to work as part of a team and have some computer skills. Please forward your resume to [email protected] or contact the Practice Manager on 6685 6206.
RELIEF BARISTA WANTED BY POINCIANA CAFE A capable person with excellent coffee making skills who can work quickly maintaining taste & quality. If you fit the above description and have had recent experience working in a busy cafe environment you can text your details to 0458 985 920 or call 6684 4036 email [email protected] for details.
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RELIEF BARISTA WANTED BY POINCIANA CAFE A capable person with excellent coffee making skills who can work quickly maintaining taste & quality. If you ďŹ t the above description & have had recent experience working in a busy cafe environment you can text your details to 0458985920, call 0266844036 or email us at [email protected] for details GUESTHOUSE/ASSISTANT MANAGER casual position, live-in for responsible, mature & dedicated person with housekeeping, PR & computer skills, minimum 12 month commitment, great lifestyle. Phone 0414187088 BEAUTY THERAPIST required for part time casual position in local beauty salon, applications to: [email protected]
Man with a Ute Phone Matt 0427172684
ALL TRADE GUYS landscaping, tiling, carpentry, garden maint. 0432401334
Gardens Renovated Weeding, clear ups, mowing, trimming etc. Reasonable rates. Ph Tim 0405529275
VEGIE GARDENS RESTORED Planting, weeding & brushcutting, & clean ups to tip. Ph Bob 66858150 or 0422388126 MATURE AGE 28 year old carpentry apprentice, new to area, 2nd yr with 6 yrs exp. I have all of my own tools & ute, great refs from last boss. 0416758163 QUALIFIED PAINTER looking for work, small jobs ok. Ph Rob 0408900134 CARPENTER Tradesman. Licensed and insured. Ready to start. Ph 0437202050 HOUSE MAINTENANCE, tree lopping, cheap & get the job done. 0423464975 LABOURER seeks any work, good rates Phone 66844943
ADMIN MANAGER
CLEANER available, experienced, reliable, caring, $25ph. 66804112 PROPERTY/GARDEN maintenance incl tree care, weed, mulch, plant, rubbish. Chainsaw/regen certiďŹ cate 66843084 Tai I’LL CLEAN FOR YOU Call me 66844799, 0415354185 CARP/BUILDER for new homes, renos, additions, 20 yrs local exp, quality work. Lic 188461C. 0432619266, 66857464
TUITION
Have you had experience as a sales manager and want a challenge? We have a great sustainable paint with huge potential and a market ready for it. If you’re looking for a full time position and you’re conďŹ dent about your ability to help us grow throughout Australia please forward your CV to [email protected] by 31st October. Be part of our friendly professional team.
TRAVEL – WORK – ADVENTURE! No degree or experience required. Cert III & IV in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Recruitment service & Job Guarantee! FREE RESOURCE BOOK for prompt course enrolment!
Carmel & Family .From The Echo crew Lovin’ the cakes!
Free info session– 9th November
LOST & FOUND
Next course Jan 20–24
5/1 Carlyle St, Byron Bay
LOST: BROOCH Edelweiss flower, cream/grey centre at Brunswick Heads on Monday 19/10, REWARD. 66779511 LOST: BEADED eagle & owl feathers at Wategos last week. Ph 0402405533
UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE!! Have this brand new Solar Star (solar hot water without the panels)TM hot water service priced at
MATHS TUITION qualiďŹ ed teacher. All ages, primary to HSC. Phone 66809343, 0413294982 GUITAR / THEORY LESSONS with SCU lecturer Jim Kelly. Capable of helping people at any level of proďŹ ciency move forward, $60ph, 10 min from Lismore. Ph 66282266 LEARN GESTALT THERAPY Grad Dip program. Fee help available. s WWWGESTALTORGAU GUITAR Bass, Uke & music theory. 1st lesson free. Ph James 0415365654 SPANISH TUTOR REQUIRED Phone Rogerlio 0408071403 HSC ENGLISH 2010 experienced teacher, specialist advanced & extension courses, exc refs. Ph 0416185952
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PERSONAL LONGING to share my Joie De Vivre, not complete without You (fem 55+) from [email protected] with love WONDERFUL WOMAN seeks genuine good man, write to ‘Hopeful’ PO Box 108 Byron Bay 2481
LIVESTOCK GOATS & KIDS Saanen aka Swiss Milking Goats Lawn mowers, great friends. Phone 66848018, 0418767774
FREE to loving home 2 sweet fem desxd cats, owner moving OS. 0439641195
Exceptional Care of your pets and/or home by a dedicated dog lover.
Authorised Byron Bay and Ballina distributor
Help protect the environment
‘Ask us how’
Call Pete 0413 331 133 LicNo171930C
FRENCH ( ITALIAN ( GERMAN All ages - primary to HSC 66846760 or 0403224842
FUNERAL NOTICES
FLUTE & PIANO TUITION in Bangalow or your home, 35 yrs exp, all ages. More info call Jana 0410006908 or 66870470
DEVINE –
MATHS, SCIENCES & COMPUTER SKILLS for all ages with an experienced teacher. O.Shores, Dina 0405929371 PIANO Blues & popular styles. Exp, qualiďŹ ed teacher. Jenna 0450350324
MUSICAL NOTES BYRON SOUND LOUNGE rehearsals, recording & PA hire. Ph 66808938 VINCE AND THE VIPERS Acoustic three piece party band Book early. Phone 66844235 www.myspace.com/vinceandthevipers BIG BAND FOR HIRE Big Band at the End of the Universe www.myspace.com/ thebigbandattheendoftheuniverse or phone Lismore Con 66217457
NORMA ALICE Passed away peacefully at Feros Village, Bangalow, on 23rd October 2009. Aged 80 years. Late of Mullumbimby. Much loved Wife of Ted (dec’d) and loving Mother and Mother-inlaw of Pat Light, Judy & Ian Bryen, Marilyn & Geoff Hopf, Ed & Pam, Rosemary & Trevor Mills and Catherine Harris. Loved “Nanny D� of her Grandchildren & Great-Grandchildren. “Dancing With The Angels� Relatives and Friends are invited to Norma’s Funeral to be held in St. John’s Catholic Church, Mullumbimby on Friday 30th October at 11.00am. Burial will follow at Mullumbimby Garden Cemetery.
BEN LITTLE 1300 678 443 www.dolphinfunerals.com.au
PA & SOUND GUY FOR HIRE Ph Ash 0404350841 TALENTED ALL GIRL DANCE BAND ‘Chic Republic’ avail for your special event, from $850. Bookings 0429840095 AFTER SOMETHING SPECIAL? for your Christmas Party? Deidi Vine’s versatile 1 girl show, perfect accompaniment for your special event. Classy cocktail music to dancing the night away with rock, disco & soul favourites. $250. Bookings 0429840095
DEATH NOTICES JOHN DONALD (DON) ALBITIS Passed away peacefully, supported by his family, 22 October 2009 in Ballina. Formerly of Mullumbimby. Don was privately cremated.
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GIRLS URGENTLY required at Lismore’s premium adult venue. Top $’s, free food & accommodation. Phone 66225533 DEEP MASCULINE HONOURING Sacred & sensual full body Tantric massage by gorgeous Goddess. Wed, Thurs, Fri. Women welcome. Ocean Shores. Ph 0425347477 or 66805434
ATTRACTIVE HOSTESS TO SPOIL YOU, 34 Piper Drive, Ballina, 10am till late. 66816038 BYRON AREA OUTCALLS. Phone 0421401775 BEAUTIFUL, Petite, Incalls / Outcalls. Ocean Shores 9am-11pm. 0488649248 SWEET PLEASURE Sensual full body rub, nude body slide + relief. Mon-Thurs day/night, all areas. Outcalls only. Ph 0420448869 Nicky
DA Watch
6685 3943 / 0428 878 474
ENGLISH LANGUAGE + TESOL ESL & TESOL courses in handy Byron location. BYRON BAY ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL. 66808253
ONLY ADULTS
SOCIAL ESCORTS
• Save hot water energy costs by up to 70% PA. Save water. • Save jobs buy Australian Made
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TANTRIC MASSAGE - 10am-7pm Relax & heal. Paul 0409556969
$3,463* for only $399*
* After combined government and RECs rebates of $3064. * Installation arranged but not included in above price
B.C. S SAVED FROM THE POUND “BC “BCâ€? BC C iiss Câ€? king ffor a hhome. H ki He iis a ddesexedd male 5yr looking old TenterďŹ eld TenterďŹ eld Terrier xx. A busy little dog w with a happy nature and a waggly tail. BC needs an owner who can give him direction and plenty of exercise. BC would be good with a female dog who would like to play with him. We also have a female 6yr old Staffy + 3 older dogs all about 12 yr olds looking for homes. Can you help? Phone Margaret Companion Animals Welfare Inc.
BOER GOATS 2 males 9 weeks old, good pedigree, $160 each. 66843324
PETS
CARPENTER/HANDYMAN for all jobs, 20 years experience in local area. Lic 24352C. Phone Jim 0401038576
SALES MANAGER
Beloved father of mine. I will miss you I love you
DECKS & PERGOLAS & all carpentry needs. Ph for free quote 0427196962
WINDOW CLEANING quality & service, painting & decorating. John 0411842117
RED BORDER COLLIE pure bred puppies, long haired, M/F, healthy, happy, good homes only, $650. 0431702354
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FIX-IT MEN local, we do the lot. No job too large. Tree work, garden & rural jobs. Tractor operator also avail. Fast & reliable. All hours 0438766606
ADOPT A CAT from Animal Welfare League NSW. Phone 66844070
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIZZIE!
HOUSE PAINTING Mullumbimby / Ocean Shores area, $25ph. Ph 66843084 ah
GARDEN & HOUSE WORKER mowing, brushcutting, tip jobs, chainsaw work, gardening, mulching, window cleaning / screens, pressure cleaning. 0434012215
This is a busy full time position which requires experience in customer relations and ofďŹ ce administration. Must have good computer skills and be able to use Word, Excel, and Email proďŹ ciently. Great opportunity to be part of a friendly team. Please email CV to [email protected] by 31st October.
BALLOONS FOR ALL OCCASIONS Phone Kerry 66804634 Bizzy Balloons Ocean Shores
TEACH ENGLISH OVERSEAS
DOG MINDER Experienced & responsible 66847089 or 0401624745
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WORK WANTED ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.
Please e-mail CVs to [email protected] or call 02 6680 9594
We require a highly motivated and organised person to help adminster our expanding eco paint business.
Want to work in REAL ESTATE Certificate and Licence North Coast TAFE Ph: 1300 666 182
You may not see Council’s development application advertising as it is not placed in your community paper. As a free service, therefore, we regularly list all significant new DAs on public exhibition, making clear exactly what is sought in the applications and identifying the location of the land affected. We urge readers to follow up on DAs they feel may affect them by visiting Council’s office before the advised closing date and making an appropriate written submission. Cnr Beach Dve & Broken Head Rd Suffolk Park
RSL Lifecare close 28/10/09 31 self-care units as part of additions to aged care facility The new Joint Regional Planning Panel is the consent authority
96-100 Bangalow Rd P De Fina Byron Bay readvertised – additions & 10.2009.762.1 alterations to motel
close 30/10/09
26J Comburra Cres Ocean Shores 10.2009.451.1
J P Lyne single storey dwelling
close 29/10/09
941 Main Arm Rd Main Arm 10.2009.460.1
Main Arm Eco Village P/L multiple occupancy of ten dwelling sites
close 11/11/09
96 Byron St Bangalow 10.2009.465.1
P Johnstone single storey dwelling
Lot 104 DP846899 Lismore Rd Bangalow 10.2009.452.1
L & S Boyle two lot subdivision
close 11/11/09
851 Coolamon Scenic A Lee Drive, Coorabell two storey dwelling 10.2009.463.1
close 4/11/09
2276 Pacific Hwy Bangalow 10.2009.457.1
Retera P/L rural dual occupancy
close 4/11/09
5 Wollumbin St Byron Bay 10.2009.461.1
A Byron-Favre two lot subdivision
close 4/11/09
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Appear in 5 big community papers for only $9.50 per line... PH: 1300 733 521 [email protected]
BOATING & MARINE
EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
BUILDERS
STESSL CUDDYCAB 5.2m building affordable new homes 1993 Mercury 70hp, live bait tank, bait board, marine radio, www.e-construct.com.au 6684-2100 nav lights, anchor, life jackets, trailer, good cond. $10,000. PH: 0439 844 863
Tursa Employment & Training Tu Need Staff? Need Work? Ne call 1800 670 914 Need Training? call 1800 266 425 www.tursa.com.au
BUILDING MATERIALS
BRIDGE TIMBERS $1,800 ton PH: 0434 857 873
CAMPERVANS HEAVY DUTY OFF-ROAD camper trailer, Camel water tank, kitchen, front storage box, quality "3 Dog" canvas top, used once. R80299 $10,000 PH: 6779 2089 AHrs NEW & USED CAMPER Trailers, also repairs. Cougar Kampers PH: 0429 144 511
CONCRETE INGROUND TANKS Rainwater Tank Rebates available.
www.3dogcamping.com
For the best Australian made ute back, roof top & trailer campers. PH: (02) 6685 5460
On Site Camping Shop
Water Tanks, Septic Tanks, Cattle Troughs, Crane/Truck Delivery
Factory Outlet: 37 Bosworth Road, Woolgoolga
AVAN MOTORHOME 2006 PH: 6654 1888 Fiat 2.8 turbo diesel, 7m, alloy 0407 926 043 bullbar, inverter, full oven, Email: info@coffstanks. t/bar, awning, many extras, www.coffstanks.com com.au VGC, 32,830kms. $82,500. PH: 0439 826 567 FANTASTIC FRANGIPANIS BYRON 2 TWEED MARLIN CAMPER TRAILERS Camper 6 from $3,299 Tube stock can be posted. 02 6677 1980 Camper 6 from $4,999 Camper 12 from $5,999 www.byron2tweed.com.au FREE SUNROOM WALLS OCT SPECIAL (value $599). Quality Oz Trail. Tent tops www. jurgenscaravanscoffscoast. Glass wool, 3.5 com.au 186 Pacific Hwy, Coffs $6.60sqm. 02 6652 5523 MILLARD HORIZON Poptop 30,000sqm available 2002 17ft, isl bed + full annexe, today. Free Delivery many extras, exc cond, reg. Call Diana $24,000. PH: 02 6568 3360 1800 754 183 anytime or 0400 421 887 Macksville MILLARD MONSOON 2000 POOL SALE FACTORY 2 U island bed, front kitchen, www.byopools.com.au. microwave, air con, full PH: 0439 421 335 annexe, 5 mths rego, ex cond. $21,000. PH: 0419 468 948
Insulation Batts
PARADISE LIBERATION 24ft Merc auto diesel 2.7L, 2 slide outs, full ensuite at rear, immaculate, many extras. Bargain $195,000 Replacement price $360,000 motorhomesrus.com.au PH: 0418 798 702 SWAGMAN 25 Motorhome '99, reg, all mod cons, IRV-42, exc cond, a/con, awning, many extras. $155,000. PH: 07 5521 0901 or 0414 686 959 Tugan
Raised Garden Beds CORRUGATED Made to order.
PH: Ross 0428 886 123 HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION
AZALEA COTTAGE Accommodation, Old Bar, Taree. In house pet friendly. PH: 02 6553 6636 www.azaleacottage.com.au
FINANCE
GOLD COAST HOLIDAY
BAKERY FOR SALE TWEED HEADS
Palm Beach ★★★★ 1 & 2 brms fully s/c, HTD pool & spa. Absolute Beachfront. Low Season Specials PH: 07 5534 5455 www.princesspalm.com
KIT HOMES MULTISPAN KIT BUILDINGS Kit supplied, project managed, or fully built. PH: 6687 9954
MOTORCYCLES
10 mins to beach, 30 mins to Gold Coast. Takings $9,000 + per week, showing growth. $180,000. PH: 0418 498 760
SELF EMPLOYMENT
DOES YOUR INCOME NEED AN OVERHAUL? Work at home.
Call Barb now on 0419 312 276 www.barbara1.biz
END YOUR MONEY WORRIES AAA MOTORCYCLES Mother of 3 earns $6000 WANTED month working All makes, cash paid. Free per valuations. We’ll come to you. from home. Visit www. way2endyourmoneyworries. Scott 0450 959 558 com. Call 02 9431 3909 for PETS free info booklet.
REAL ESTATE COMMERCIAL
FOR SALE
Freehold River Front Commercial Property GERMAN SHEPHERD Puppy 12 weeks, female, vacc, m/chipped, tattooed, vet check, reg'd, ready to go to a forever home. $950. PH: 0418 288 371 / 02 6699 2151 Cofs Harbour LABRADOR PUPS Purebred chocolate & black, reg, W/M/V, vet checked, parents hip & elbow scored, eye cert, reg breeder from $600 PH: 6775 8347
Tumbulgum
CURRENT SHORTAGE Country Hospitality Services Financially Rewarding Career Nationally Accredited Training Study at Home.
PH: 1300 887 082
for a FREE Info pack
NSW RSA & RCG CLGCA approved Classes @ Tweed, Byron, Lismore, Ballina, Grafton & Coffs Harbour. New 'Bar Essentials' Course now running
PH: 6687 1357
www.cftnsw.com.au
4 Tenancies (including Post Office) $84K income
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A NEW YOU FOR SUMMER Lose 5-25kg fast. Find out how... www.anewlife. sampleshapeworks.com 02 6644 0001 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Work from home. Potential for executive level income. www.abundance-4me.com DON'T Leave Your Future In The Hands Of Others contact us now, first 10 callers receive a FREE Intro DVD. PH: 02 6645 3792 www.happy64wealthy.com EARN 6 FIGURE INCOME FROM HOME *No boss *No travel *No stress. Freecall 1800 676 233 and let me help you change your life
Contact Tony Grbcic - 0407 968 667 [email protected]
LOTTO TO WIN a World War 2 pensioner. Registered Training Organisation I'm I have never won a 1st * SAFE WORK NEAR Division prize yet, but my POWER LINES method can win 2nd and SHEDS * INSULATION COURSE 3rd Divisions. It's honest, * OH&S WHITE CARDS SHED Colourbond 18mx8m amazingly simple, tested and * MACHINERY 5mx5m chain driven roller proven over 14 years. Details * HR TRUCK * FORKLIFT door, mezzanine floor over Bill Grey 02 9971 8093 * DOGGING & RIGGING back half. Brand new never * CONFINED SPACES PUBLIC NOTICES been erected. $50,000 ono * TRAFFIC CONTROL PH: 0419 737 920 and more... Achieve personal freedom 6652 9946 TRAILERS & abundant lifestyle. www.mp.com.au BOX TRAILER 2000 S2LS Contact Rod & Liz on: Community Classifieds 6x4, August 2008, $500. 07 5534 9456 or 1300 733 521 [email protected] Fish in your Farm Dam PH: 0418 292 380 SILVER PERCH $80 per 100 VEHICLE PARTS POSITIONS VACANT AUST. BASS $110 per 100 SEARLE AQUACULTURE 6HE 1 ISUZU TRUCK MOTOR 245,000kms, runs well, GC. 6646 0324 $5,000 ono. 0429 843363
WORK FROM HOME
ANGOURIE RAINFOREST RESORT
VEHICLES
ABSOLUTE GIFT! Boom area, Cooloola, nth of Noosa, 2 acs ideal for w/ends set in hills behind pristine surf beaches & bay, close shops/ schools incl creek & big old c/van! Priced to SELL $75,950! COMMODORE 2002 VX SS sedan, p/steer/windows, auto, PH: 07 5476 7244 SQP alloy wheels, stereo, 1 owner, VIRGIN FOREST 300 AC 185,000kms, VGC, 878-KHF v/isolated Glen Innes T'field, $15,250 neg. PH: 6644 6213 Fast approval from 4WD ess. $165,000. 6646 3733 Junction Hill WATERFRONT BLOCK in FORD FOCUS CL '03 Blue sunny QLD on the beautiful sedan 2lt auto reg 05/10 Burrum Coast. 700 sqm retired lady owner. YWT450 with 20m frontage. Owner GC. $11,500 PH: 6642 8814 or 0422 883 025 commited elsewhere. Must Grafton TAP Conditions apply Established 32 years sell! $495,000 ono 0427 641 151 TOYOTA COROLLA SECA FOR SALE FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND SERVICES 1996 white, hatchback, auto ANTIQUES various furniture 1.8L, a/c, c/lock, VGC, rego till items, Victoria, Edwardian, 08/2010, 151,000kms, immob 1930-40's. Details PH: 02 $5,750 ono PH: 0439 491 647
Let it be known pre-approvals-no deposit (negotiate better just like a CASH buyer) for cars, boats, caravans, & motorcyles, etc. All applications considered.
is looking for an experienced Chef/Cook for our hot gourmet buffet breakfast. Must be available for early starts and weekends. Please apply to the: General Manager by email: [email protected] or phone 02 6646 8600
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1800 536 363
6646 6647 or 0411 567 388 GO ELECTRIC! Quality bikes & scooters. Save $$$$$ beyond-oil.com 0407 213 267 NIAGARA 967 Therapy Chair recline, heater, pulsating & surging, plus extras, as new, little use. $7,000 ono. PH: 0418 755 808
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Leaving Lightly
From most eco-friendly funeral directors Enq: Leaving Lightly (02) 6622 6121
TOYOTA LANDCRUISER 1979 4x4, 3.6L/6 cyl diesel, reg 7/10, UIM-355. $4,000 ono PH: 0408 001 750
• BUSINESSES FOR SALE • BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES • POSITIONS VACANT
Bulgarr Ngaru Medical Aboriginal Corporation Position Vacant: Male Mental Health Worker
COFFS HARBOUR CITY COUNCIL Road Safety and Transport Officer Salary range $67.5K to $74.2K pa + 3.5% Civil Liability Allowance + RDO + Super We have an outstanding opportunity for a highly motivated professional to lead and manage the research, planning and implementation of Council's Road Safety and Traffic Facilities programs including transport planning and traffic engineering. This position has a high profile within the Community. The successful applicant will therefore have demonstrated experience in community and stakeholder consultation, knowledge in the management of community based programs, advanced oral and written communication skills and experience working with the media.
Administrative Assistant (Executive)
Salary range $877.98 to $963.13 p/w + RDO + Super
Applications are invited from qualified individuals for the position of Administrative Assistant. This position will provide high level secretarial and administrative support to Executive Branch. Reporting to the General Manager's Executive Assistant, the successful applicant will possess extensive experience gained in previous senior secretarial and administrative roles and be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office particularly Word and Excel. Considerable experience in preparation of agendas, minute taking, proof reading and preparation of correspondence is essential. Some after hours work may be required. For more information about these positions and to apply on-line please visit our website at
www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au
Tursa Employment & Training is a
major provider of training & employment-focussed programs from Nambucca Heads, NSW, to Oxenford, Qld. TURSA is seeking applications from suitably qualified persons for the following positions: • Manager - Employment Services • Manager - Staff Recruitment & Administration • Manager - Assets & Property Management • Operations Co-ordinator • Operations Analyst
Looking for a satisfying career and great lifestyle on the NSW north coast... Applications close 2 November 2009: Assistant Coordinator (Ballina) (Community Support Services - PPT 21 hrs/wk)
25-29k
* The following positions are available to persons of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent * Administration Assistant (GCFC) * Customer Service Assistant * Field Operator (Parks Maintenance) * Field Operator (Roller)
CARDBOARD COFFINS
WORK OPTIONS Applications close: 6 November, 2009 For selection criteria and further information please contact: Scott Monaghan or Tanya Kilduff Bulgarr Ngaru Medical Aboriginal Corporation PO Box 1256 Grafton NSW 2460 PH: 02 6643 2199 Fax: 02 6643 2202 Email: [email protected]
T TURSA: local and established FOR SALE
• POSITIONS VACANT • TRAINING & TUITION • CAREERS •
37-44k 37-44k 35-42k 35-42k
Council is an EEO employer and people of ATSI descent are encouraged to apply go to www.clarence.nsw.gov.au or phone (02) 6643 0850 for further information
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• Administrative Officer - Staff Recruitment & Administration All positions will be based at Tweed Heads. TURSA provides excellent salaries and conditions of employment including a 9-day fortnight. Applications close: Wednesday 4 November 2009. Further information and application details are available on:
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6687 1306 35 BYRON ST BANGALOW
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Stunning in its presentation, “Aoraki” epitomises the very essence of Byron’s AUCTION SATURDAY 31ST OCT. ONSITE 11.00AM relaxed style. Oozing quality and style, with particular attention to detail, this ADDRESS 4 NEWES ROAD COORABELL home guarantees to inspire. Bathed in natural light, the clever use of glass and timber promotes a feeling of spaciousness whilst maximising the view CONTACT SCOTT MCKENZIE 0428 291 340 of the lovely surroundings. Nestled amongst rainforest in a quiet setting just 10 minutes to Byron Bay, “Aoraki” is perfectly positioned with a great outlook and northerly aspect. Separate self contained guest accommodation is discretely hidden amongst the forest away from the residence. This is your opportunity to acquire one of the hinterlands truly impressive properties. The owners are very realistic in their expectation and want it sold. As such, prior offers will be considered.
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AFTER HOURS Scott McKenzie 0428 291 340 Reg Miller 6686 7131 Rick Knight 6688 4111 Tim Miller 0411 757 425 Mark Castle 0418 971 826 John Brophy 0438 878 465
Set on a 2105m2 block, this private & quiet spacious timber residence has $670,000 PRICE rural views & a north east aspect. This property features 5 bedrooms, two ADDRESS 57 JAMES GIBSON ROAD CLUNES bathrooms, open plan living, large sunny timber deck, office, garage plus ample off street parking for the boat trailer etc. Add the in ground pool, manicured grounds & gardens & you have the ideal family home. Also perfect for someone looking to work from home with all the creature comforts. Inspections are recommended. This property will be sure to impress.
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Four Bedroom Family Home
Investment!
• 6.5 Acres with views • Under ground power • Septic, telephone & net • Large shed • Landscaped • 15,000 gallon water tanks
• Just under ½ acre • 2 living areas • Separate kids area • End of quiet cul-desac • Kids can walk to school
• 3 lovely acres Artist studio plus main house • Rental potential $1,140.00 • Close to Byron & Bangalow • Timber floors & features
• Contemporary split-level brick home • Large rear deck with rural outlook • Spa bath • 3 years old
63 Federation Drive, Eltham Open house Saturday 1 - 1.30pm Denise Burch 040 819 3415 Rob Nedwich 0411 28 553 Web Id 393289 $560,000
13 Avalon Avenue, Clunes Open house Saturday 2 - 2.30pm Denise Burch 040 8193 415 Rob Nedwich 0411 28 5533 Web Id 387910 $495,000
62 Possum Creek Road, Possum Creek Open house Saturday 11 - 11.30am Denise Burch 0408 193 415 Rob Nedwich 0411 28 5533 Web Id 388561 $1,180,000
12 Walker Street, Clunes Open house Saturday 2 - 2.30pm Rob Nedwich 0411 28 5533 Denise Burch 0408 193 415 Web Id 388118 $459,000
Byron Hinterland Resort
Bangalow Bargain
• 66 acre eco-friendly resort • 18 cabins plus large storage shed • Separate manager’s residence • 1km Wilsons Creek frontage Coorabell Inspection by appointment Rob Nedwich 041 128 5533 Denise Burch 040 8193 415 Web Id 388300
Ready to Build Value
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• Spacious 5 bedroom home • 1393m2 block • Rental potential $550pw • In ground salt water pool
• Desperate vendor demands all offers now! • Bargain hunters wanted! • Owners forced relocation necessitates immediate sale • You can afford this property!
• Ideal for an investor or first home buyer • Great opportunity to add value with some renovation • Dual access • Large studio at rear • Large block
10 Gum Tree Place, Bangalow Open house Saturday 12 - 12.30pm Denise Burch 0408 193 415 Rob Nedwich 0411 28 5533 $649,000 Web Id 353165
7 Rainbow Avenue, West Ballina Martin Toomey 0433 164 404 Trish Passaniti 0438 599 833 Web Id 383455
25 Leslie Street, Bangalow Rob Nedwich 0411 285 533 Web Id 387433
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Vendor demands; “Buy my House!” • This stunning property offers a rare opportunity to secure a highly sought after location with a large land allotment & stunning water views • Clear 180 degree ocean views that can never be built out on this scale are a rare find indeed • The large 2 acre block has plenty of flat lawn area that would be great for entertaining friends or perhaps a children’s play area? • This centrally located property is a few minutes drive into the centre of Byron • Upon inspection you’ll be able to observe what an exclusive position this property occupies! Lot 3 Sunrise Lane, Ewingsdale Open house Saturday 2 - 2.30pm Martin Toomey 0433 164 404 or Trish Passaniti 0438 599 833 Web Id 391201
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• Showcasing spectacular rural views & a sprawling designer residence, this impressive
• These rolling green parcels exemplify all that is Byron Hinterland
acreage exudes a sense of rural grandeur • Designed for multi-functional family living &
• Various building sites offering everything from expansive rural & mountain vistas
entertaining, this magnificent home offers a fabulous resort lifestyle with immense privacy
• Secluded parcels with towering rainforest giants & secluded swimming holes
in a premier location in popular Federal • Timber floors, high ceilings and bi-fold doors to outdoor terrace, just some of the stunning features • Inspection will not disappoint! 3 Bougainvillea Drive, Federal Open house Saturday 11 - 11.30am Janice Maple 0401 026 359 or Duncan Lorimer 0400 844 412 Auction 26th November Web Id 369923 @ Bangalow Bowling Club, Thursday 6pm
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• Priced to sell and won’t last long! • Bidders Guide $250,000+
‘Keys Gardens’, Coorabell Inspect Saturday 12 - 12.30pm Martin Toomey 0433 164 404 or Trish Passaniti 0438 599 833 Auction 26th November Web Id 300767 @ Bangalow Bowling Club, Thursday 6pm
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Interstate Owners Require Immediate Sale!
• Fantastic proximity to the centre of Byron Bay • The complex has a pool, this unit has
• Disregard all previous pricing! • Be quick to secure 24 vacant acres • Located only
a large grassed driveway & courtyard area, as well as a lock up garage • The spacious
a short distance from the ocean • Long tree lined driveway • Leading to elevated
open plan design is complimented by the excellent security & privacy afforded by the
level house site overlooking rural vistas • Create your own piece of paradise on this
established trees & gardens • The townhouse is less than 4 minutes walk to the beach
blank canvas 2 minutes drive to Bangalow Village & 15 minutes to Byron Bay
& the centre of Byron • Be quick!
• Owners have decided to liquidate!
Unit 7/6 Electra Close, Byron Bay Open house Saturday 1 - 1.30pm Martin Toomey 0433 164 404 or Trish Passaniti 0438 599 833 Auction 26th November Web Id 393659 @ Bangalow Bowling Club, Thursday 6pm
2744 Pacific Highway , Bangalow Inspection by appointment Martin Toomey 0433 164 404 or Trish Passaniti 0438 599 833 Auction 26th November Web Id 375839 @ Bangalow Bowling Club, Thursday 6pm
Owner Says Sell!
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• This historic homestead built in the early 1900s • 5 gently sloping acres, Skinners Creek frontage • Separate bails accommodation • Great opportunity to renovate • Short drive to Bangalow & beaches • This property is a rare opportunity & presents a marvellous chance to add value! 880 Friday Hut Road, Brooklet Open house Saturday 11 - 11.30am Rob Nedwich 0411 285 533 or Denise Burch 0408 193 415 Auction 26th November Web Id 382196 @ Bangalow Bowling Club, Thursday 6pm
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Amazing Hinterland Views • Magnificent views to the north • Well built timber home set on 12 acres • Large decks, air conditioning & spacious modern kitchen • In-ground swimming pool, • Double color bond garage plus a 9x15 color bond shed • The property is within easy driving distance of Bangalow, the beaches & Lismore • Owners keen to sell! 336 Booyong Road, Nashua Open house Saturday 1 - 1.30pm Auction 26th November Denise Burch 0408 193 415 or Rob Nedwich 0411 285 533 Web Id 393678 @ Bangalow Bowling Club, Thursday 6pm
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• Immaculately presented, single level home • Large, solid 300sqm home • Spacious living areas • Generous 911sqm, corner block • Stunning tropical gardens • Quiet location in Bangalow • Easy stroll into town • Fully fenced front and rear gardens 21 Rifle Range Road, Bangalow Open house Saturday 1 - 1.30pm Janice Maple 0401 026 359 or Duncan Lorimer 0400 844 421 New Listing
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$795,000
Lot 10 Dehnga Place, Suffolk Park
3 Orchid Place, Suffolk Park
Large 882sqm residential block In a quality family estate Develop as a duplex block
(STCA) Close to sporting fields, shops and tavern This is a must to inspect
3 large bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Immaculate split level home Quiet cul de sac address
PRICE: $480,000
CONTACT: Neil Cameron 0419 274 798
PRICE: $639,000
The home you have been waiting for This property is not to be missed
VIEW: Saturday 11-11.30am
CONTACT: Glen Irwin 0418 604 080 Peter Yopp 0411 837 330
Unit 3 ‘Bay Whalers’ 15-19 Fletcher St, Byron Bay One of Byron Bay’s largest luxury apartments 200m from Main Beach Quality fixtures & fittings Byron CBD location Holiday let or your own private residence Ideal northerly aspect AUCTION: 11am onsite Thursday November 12. VIEW: Tuesday & Thursday 1-1.30pm CONTACT: Tony Farrell on 0417 212 692 [email protected]
5/21-23 Tasman Way, Byron Bay
Unit 14 ‘Seadrift’ 6-8 Browning Street, Byron Bay
Great freehold opportunity Set in a modern complex 5yr lease / options for 11 yrs Established tenant in place
Brand new in-town unit Secure gated complex High standard finishings Developer has instructed us 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms to clear now Polished timber flooring
$300 per week plus all outgoings 92sqm floor, 47sqm mezzanine
PRICE: $255,000 CONTACT: Andrew Rosee on 0421 914 054
VIEW: Thurs & Friday 12-12.30pm
CONTACT: Peter Yopp 0411 837 330
Tony Farrell 0417 212 692
‘Broken Ridge’ 10/591 Broken Head Rd, Broken Head
27 Pacific Vista Drive, Byron Bay
24 Cavanbah Street, Byron Bay
125 Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park
Large vacant 3,002sqm allotment Rural lifestyle close to town Picturesque rural setting
Owners are on the move Large family home Highly sought after location Great for entertaining
Tastefully restored 2 Walking distance to the bedroom cottage beach High ceilings & timber floors 2 street frontage Tropical landscaping 733sqm allotment
4 bed, 2 bath brick home Walk from backyard onto Open plan living/dining area beach Located in a prestigious area Short stroll to park, shops Set on a large 1012sqm block and tavern
PRICE: $410,000
Located between Byron Bay and Lennox Head Build your dream home
VIEW: Saturday 12-12.30pm
CONTACT: Neil Cameron 0419 274 798
PRICE: $869,000
A must to inspect Make no mistake. We are selling!
VIEW: Saturday 12-12.30pm
CONTACT: Peter Yopp 0411 837 330
Liam Annesley 0417 780 795
PRICE: $2,000,000
CONTACT: Tony Farrell on 0417 212 692 Glen Irwin on 0418 604 080
PRICE: $2,200,000
CONTACT: Tony Farrell 0417 212 692
Jon Luton 0422 794 384
‘Tallowood Ridge’ Tuckeroo Avenue, Mullumbimby
12 ‘Seeana Court’ 21-25 Cemetery Rd, Byron Bay
1/45-57 Cemetery Road, Byron Bay
68 Massinger Street, Byron Bay
Spectacular new land release Panoramic views from some Lot sizes 600sqm to 1,119sqm blocks Close to schools, shops & Sporting field complex transport Toddlers playground
3 bedroom townhouse Peaceful and private setting Open plan living/dining Private courtyard, lush outlook
High ceilings throughout Nothing to do, just move in
Sub-division potential (STCA) Elevated and catches the Walk to town, beach & schools sunlight 2,433sqm with 79m frontage Renovate or redevelop, you 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home do the sums Open plan living & 2 bay garage Owners on the move, must sell!
Lovely 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom home Walk to beach and town Large living areas
PRICE: $534,000
VIEW: Saturday 1-1.30pm
PRICE: From $229,000 to $340,000
CONTACT: Andrew Rosee on 0421 914 054 VIEW: Wed, Sat Erin Chapple on 0434 007 227 & Sun 1-1.30pm
CONTACT: Liam Annesley 0417 780 795
Double lock up garage Low maintenance property
PRICE: $720,000
CONTACT: Liam Annesley 0417 780 795
CONTACT: Bryce Cameron on 0412 057 672
VIEW: Saturday 11-11.30am
10 ‘The Links’ 64-70 Broken Head Rd, Byron Bay
Lots 8 & 9 ‘Oasis’ 24 Scott Street, Byron Bay
11 Bunjil Place, Byron Bay
2/20 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay
Luxurious 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment Vast stylish open plan living Well appointed kitchen Enormous balcony
2 ‘Oasis’ house lots Neighbouring beachfront Lot 8 land size is 275sqm reserve Lot 9 land size is 304sqm Use of full resort facilities Approved plans to build your home
3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home High ceilings and timber floors
3 bedroom, 2 bathroom Aircon, SLUG + carspace apartment Central in town location Front & rear verandahs 200 metres to Main Beach Large open plan living/dining
PRICE: $295,000 EACH
CONTACT: Liam Annesley 0417 780 795 Andrew Rosee on 0421 914 054
CONTACT: Glen Irwin on 0418 604 080 Erin Chapple on 0434 007 227
PRICE: $785,000
Low maintenance living Stunning 17 metre pool/full size tennis court Lush gardens, DLUG, resort style living
VIEW: Saturday 12-12.30pm
CONTACT: Sharon Mcinnes on 0408 659 649
CONTACT: Liam Annesley 0417 780 795
Open plan living with decks Located in a quiet cul de sac Forest setting and private position
26 Cavanbah Street, Byron Bay
8 Marvel Street, Byron Bay
Unit 5 ‘Bogarts’ 21-25 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay
‘Seagrove’ 27 Constellation Close, Byron Bay
Original 2 bedroom beach house 100 metres to beach 879sqm allotment, 2 frontages
Central location – Commercial 1 bed, 1 bath residence zoning Large 1,012sqm block 55sqm shop front Suit professional rooms 3 bed, 1 bath residence
2 bedroom, 3 bathroom apartment Being sold fully furnished Open and spacious living area
3 bedroom, 2 bathroom townhouses For sale off the plan Quality fixtures & fittings
Lap pool to be built in stage 2 Stroll to town & beaches
PRICE: $2,300,000
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Burringbar – 3.657ha – Lifestyle ✔ Weatherboard and colorbond home ✔ 3 bedrooms + study + storage ✔ Family bathroom, ensuite + spa ✔ Camphor and hoop pine kitchen ✔ Wide deck, carports, views, ✔ Lock up shed with bathroom ✔ Many exotic fruits + natives
$695,000 Inspection by appointment only. Contact Stuart Cahill on 02 6677 1699 or 0402 071 699. 3/29 Broadway, Burringbar NSW 2483. Disclaimer: Purchasers should make their own enquiries as to accuracy of vendor’s information provided herein. Photos are indicative of the property.
✔ Clear fresh water bore ✔ + lots more
On Tweed Valley Way, Burringbar ✔ 2023sqm
elevated property ✔ Two lots on one title ✔ Tasteful interior renovation ✔ Polished hardwood floor ✔ 2 large bedrooms, beautiful bathroom ✔ Open plan kitchen dining lounge ✔ Large open deck area ✔ Car park laundry under house ✔ Extensive sub-tropical plantings
$375,000
Inspection by appointment only. Contact Stuart Cahill on 02 6677 1699 or 0402 071 699. 3/29 Broadway, Burringbar NSW 2483. Disclaimer: Purchasers should make their own enquiries as to accuracy of vendor’s information provided herein. Photos are indicative of the property.
Burringbar
$305,000 ONO
✔ 771sqm village block ✔ On Tweed Valley Way ✔ Very tidy, 3 bedrooms ✔ Bathroom, separate w/c ✔ Carport, concrete driveway ✔ Backs onto Burringbar Creek Inspection by Appointment Only.
Contact Stuart Cahill on 02 6677 1699 or 0402 071 699. 3/29 Broadway, Burringbar NSW 2483. Disclaimer: Purchasers should make their own enquiries as to accuracy of vendor’s information provided herein. Photos are indicative of the property.
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Escape To Your Own Luxurious Retreat ✔ Eco style, multi-level home of cedar,
glass and stone ✔ Views from every room over rainforest valleys with abundant wildlife ✔ Four bedrooms, three doubles, main with ensuite + office or parents retreat ✔ Gourmet kitchen, large lounge plus second lounge with decks ✔ Three bathroom/toilets with showers including bath and spa ✔ Wine cellar, delightful BBQ patio with tropical gardens
✔ Separate studio-office or 5th bedroom,
two car garage, and two-bay workshop ✔ Solar hot water and rainwater tanks ✔ 7.65ha mostly in bush and forest, with
mixed orchard and a few cleared acres ✔ 10 mins to Ballina, 20 mins to Lennox Head, 35 mins to Suffolk Park or Byron ✔ Good home for an extended family Phone 6687 9623 or 0434 463 174. Details and photos, www.owner.com.au Property number: 45866
$ 985,000
Affordable Housing In The Heart Of Byron – Oodgeroo Gardens ✔ 10 mins through Arakwal National Park
✔ Eligible for govt. incentives/grants
Great Position in Arts & Industry Estate
to Tallow Beach ✔ Limited no. of 400sqm lots available. ✔ DA approved plans to build your own home. ✔ Elevated position with views to Mt Warning ✔ Exclusive landscaped cul de sac
✔ Specially designed houses are climate
✔ Owner will sell now or auction day
friendly and inexpensive to build. Contact Robert Meyer 0404 998 711. Web: byronbayland.com
✔ Prime industrial site in Arts & Industry
Estate
Auction 1pm onsite October 31. Contact: Paul Banister 0438 856 552 or 6685 8466
✔ Subdividable block ✔ Large 2156sqm land
From $370,000
✔ Great development potential with
current income
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✔ Master bedroom with ensuite, b.i.r. ✔ Main bath has floor-to-ceiling tiling ✔ Timber deck, paved terrace with pergola ✔ C-bus automation & lighting, aircon ✔ SLUG plus lock-up carport, storage
shed ✔ Stroll to shops, parks and beach Auction onsite Saturday 21st November Agent Brett Connable on 0408 155 931 or 6685 6222 Byron Bay
Agent Sophie Christou on 0419 399 222 or 6685 6588.
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Bought Elsewhere – Motivated To Sell! 7 Brandon Street, Suffolk Park. The owners of this beachside property want their property sold; they will consider all offers prior to auction, are realistic and ready to go! Set on a large 664sqm block this property is abound with potential. Features include an in-ground salt water pool, separate master suite, well appointed kitchen and large covered entertaining area. Ideally positioned within 300m of Tallow Beach, this property is the perfect beachside retreat.
✔ Three well sized bedrooms all with
built-in robes ✔ Generous living and double car garage ✔ Fantastic rental potential ✔ Minutes to Suffolk Village and Byron Bay’s cafĂŠs and shops Auction 6.30pm Thu Nov 26. Agent Brett Connable on 0408 155 931 or 6685 6222 and Denise Burch on 0408 193 415 or 6687 1500
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800 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby Here’s your opportunity to exit the hustle and bustle of modern life and wind down and relax with the family in a quiet rural setting. There’s plenty of room for a horse or cricket pitch and why not enjoy your own vegie patch. Sling your hammock between the trees and lay back and listen to the birds, yet only 6kms away is town with its street cafes, local watering holes, tennis courts and golf club. It’s a perfect location to be enjoyed. There’s
a bus at the door and numerous choices for education for all ages. Take the time to inspect this original country home set on 4.86 useable acres with a lovely rural outlook, you won’t be disappointed . Price: $695,000. Contact Andrew Rosee on 0421 914 054 or Erin Chapple on 0434 007 227 at L J Hooker Byron Bay.
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Owners Have Found Their New Home & Want This Sold! 2/17 Beachcomber Drive, Byron Bay Discover this exceptional private property nestled within established tropical gardens and finished to impeccable standards. Fully renovated, this extended 4 bed home displays a sense of space and privacy over 3 levels. Enjoy a northern aspect and views over Arakwal National Park to Cape Byron from the upstairs parents retreat while listening to the sound of the Pacific. This superb property perfectly blends idyllic surrounds with a smart contemporary design and offers a tranquil beachside getaway.
✔ Ideally placed across from the beach
access ✔ Huge open plan living area, upstairs
retreat ✔ Stylish terrazzo kitchen, stainless steel
gas appliances ✔ Minutes walk to parks, beach, primary
and high school Auction on site Sat Nov 28 Agent Brett Connable 0408 155 931 or 6685 6222
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Designed For The Byron Lifestyle 41 Federal Drive, Eureka. Come and discover a very private world perched high in the Byron hinterland with north facing grounds and fantastic mountain views. ✔ Clean and elevated 5 acres/ 20 mins to Byron Bay ✔ Modern contemporary residence /3 bedrooms +2 bathrooms ✔ Open plan design with huge timber decks ✔ Outdoor entertaining areas with northerly mountains views ✔ Mix of slate and timber flooring/high
ceilings/separate office in ground swimming pool + town & tank water ✔ Double carport + Garden shed + Decommissioned home ✔ Landscaped gardens, established fruit & native trees Auction onsite November 14. Contact: Hugh Hanrahan 0402 198 652. ✔ Large
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Fiji – Rare Freehold Land Opportunity Maui Bay Estate, located on the beautiful Coral Coast of the main island of Fiji, offers an ideal lifestyle change/holiday home destination and unique investment opportunity. A peaceful and relaxed living environment located on a white sand beach overlooking the ocean provides an idyllic living atmosphere close to resorts and world class surfing, diving and fishing reefs. Maui Bay Estate features electricity, telephone, broadband internet access and Beach Clubhouse which
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Agent Ian Daniels 0427 443 227 or 6685 8466
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Home Of Quality On The Edge Of Bangalow
makes for convenient living from your island paradise home. The best ocean view lots (over ½ acre) are selling fast from $125,000 (available on 10% deposit vendor finance). Taveuni Development Company (Australia Office) on 07 5572 4415 or 0404 448 430. www.mauibayestate.com
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14 Palm-Lily Crescent, Bangalow. An executive style home of this quality is a rare find in Bangalow. This 4 bedroom master built home is located on the edge of Bangalow residential area with frontage to a private creek reserve. Open plan layout with spacious master chef’s kitchen/living, high vault ceilings opens out onto two private covered separate but interconnected decks ideal for entertaining. Total privacy assured at
the rear of the property with views over the in-ground pool and creek reserve. Features are numerous and only an inspection will do this property true justice. Auction 12.30pm onsite November 7. Contact Mark Kinneally 0429 868 001.
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Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling his adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories. Additionally, Fleming wrote the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two non-fiction books.
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Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming is a 20th-century novelist known for inventing popular spy character James Bond.
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Ian Fleming was born on May 28, 1908 in London, England. He worked in financial services before writing the 1953 novel Casino Royale, which featured spy character James Bond. The books were a hit, and Bond became the protagonist of a blockbuster film franchise that’s continued into the 21st century. Fleming also wrote the popular children’s book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which also became a film.
Early Life
Ian Fleming, the creator of the famous James Bond spy novels, was born in London, England on May 28, 1908. One of four sons, he grew up in an affluent and influential family. His father, Valentine, served in Parliament before fighting in World War I. Fleming was only 9 years old when his father died in combat.
Fleming attended Eton College, one of the England's top schools. He later studied at Sandhurst, the elite military academy. After a stint at the Reuters news agency, Fleming tried his hand at high finance. World events, however, would soon change the course of his career.
World War II
During the war, Fleming learned the ins and outs of espionage. He received a commission in the Royal Navy and worked for British Naval Intelligence. Eventually serving as the assistant to Admiral John Godfrey, the director of Naval Intelligence, Fleming was privy to much of Britain's efforts to win the war. He traveled overseas several times, including visits to the United States to coordinate intelligence operations. He also went to Jamaica for a conference, and the island left a lasting impression on Fleming.
It has been said that much of Fleming's work in intelligence shaped and informed his James Bond novels. The character of "M," Bond's boss, is believed to have been modeled after Admiral Godfrey. The full impact of Fleming's real-life spy work on his most famous fictional figure will never likely be to known, however. He had been sworn to secrecy by the British government.
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Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953. The book had been written the previous year while he was on vacation at his home, which he named Goldeneye after a military mission, in Jamaica. Fleming also got married to Anne Rothermere around this time. The couple welcomed their only child, son Caspar, in 1952. He later wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a story about a magical car, to entertain his son.
While this first Bond novel came and went with little notice, Fleming's stories of a super spy with a license to kill soon caught on. Live and Let Die came out in England in 1954 quickly followed by Moonraker and Diamonds Are Forever. Readers began eagerly scoop up these tales of fast cars, beautiful women and deadly intrigue. American president John F. Kennedy and England's Prince Philip were reportedly among Fleming's many fans.
During his writing career, Fleming produced twelve Bond novels and several short stories featuring his super spy. He saw his famed character brought to life on the big screen in 1962's Dr. No with Sean Connery as James Bond. With the help of producer Cubby Broccoli, Fleming's creation became the central figure in one of the longest run film franchises in movie history.
Death and Legacy
While audiences were packing movie theaters to see James Bond in action, his creator was facing health problems. He had his first serious heart attack in 1962, and he never seemed to fully recover from that incident. Fleming died on August 12, 1964, in Canterbury, England. He had been taken to a hospital there after suffering another heart attack.
Fleming may be gone, but James Bond remains a vital part of popular culture. After Sean Connery, numerous other actors, such as Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton, have taken up the legendary suave spy role. Daniel Craig played Bond in the most recent film in the series, 2012's Skyfall and more movies are in the works. It seems that audiences have an insatiable desire to immerse themselves in Bond's world of guns, girls and gadgets.
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In Peter Pan, Peter Pan takes Wendy and her siblings to Neverland. There, Peter is plagued by the pirate Hook, who is himself plagued by the crocodile who bit off his hand. In the end, Wendy, Peter, and the Lost Boys escape Hook's clutches.
One night, Peter Pan flies into Wendy Darling’s room and convinces her and her siblings to come to Neverland with him. Jealous, the fairy Tinker Bell tries to sabotage them, but is found out and temporarily banished for her efforts.
In Neverland, Wendy and Peter live with the Lost Boys, who are constantly under attack from the pirate, Captain James Hook. When Hook captures Peter's friends, he seeks revenge on the pirate and drives him to jump off his ship into the mouth of a crocodile.
Wendy and her brothers return to the real world, where their family adopts the Lost Boys. Peter, unwilling to grow up, remains in Neverland, watching sadly as Wendy ages and loses the ability to fly.
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In the nursery of the Darling home, a dog is the nurse, or nanny. Perhaps that is one reason there is so much joy there. Nurse Nana bathes the three children and gives them their suppers and in all ways watches over them. One night, Mrs. Darling, on Nana’s night off, sits with the children as they sleep. Drowsing, she is awakened by a slight draft from the window, and, looking around, she sees a strange boy in the room. She screams, and Nana, who has just returned home, lunges for the intruder, but the boy leaps out the window, leaving only his shadow behind. He had been accompanied also by a ball of light, but it too has escaped. Mrs. Darling rolls up the boy’s shadow and puts it in a drawer, thinking that the boy will come back for it sometime soon and thus may be caught.
When Mr. Darling is told of the incident he considers it a little silly; at present he is more concerned with finding a different nurse for the children. Believing that the dog, Nana, is getting too much authority in the household, Mr. Darling drags her out of the house and locks her up.
Mr. and Mrs. Darling go out the following night, leaving only a maid to look in on the children occasionally. After the lights are out and the children are asleep, the intruder returns. The boy, whose name is Peter Pan, is accompanied by Tinker Bell, a fairy who appears as a ball of light. Peter finds his shadow after searching in all the drawers in the nursery, but in his excitement he shuts Tinker Bell in one of the drawers.
As Peter tries to get his shadow to stick to him again, he makes enough noise to awaken Wendy, the daughter of the household. Peter tells Wendy that he ran away the day he was born because he heard his parents talking about all the things he would do when he was a man; he went to live with the fairies so that he would never have to grow up. Suddenly he remembers Tinker Bell, and he looks for her until he finds her in one of the nursery dressers. Tinker Bell, a ball of light no bigger than a fist, is so small that Wendy can hardly see her. She is not a very polite fairy—she calls Wendy horrible names.
Peter tells Wendy, the only girl of the three Darling children and instantly his favorite, that he and Tinker Bell live in Neverland with the lost boys, boys who had fallen out of their baby carriages and were never found again. He had come to Wendy’s house to listen to her mother tell stories to the others. Peter, begging Wendy and her brothers to go back to Neverland with him, promises to teach them to fly. The idea is too much for the children to resist. After a little practice they all fly out the window, barely escaping their parents and Nana, who has broken her chain to warn Mr. and Mrs. Darling of the danger to the children.
In Neverland, the Indians, with their chief and their princess, help to protect the lost boys against a group of mean pirates led by Captain Hook, who has a hook where one of his hands used to be. It is Hook’s greatest desire to capture Peter Pan, for Peter is the one who tore off Hook’s arm and fed it to a crocodile. The crocodile so liked the taste of the arm that he now follows Hook everywhere, waiting for a chance to eat the rest of him. The crocodile has, unhappily, also swallowed a clock, and its ticking warns Hook whenever the crocodile approaches.
To this strange land Wendy and her brothers fly with Peter Pan. The lost boys, seeing Wendy first in the sky when they arrive, think that she is a giant bird, and one of them shoots her with a bow and arrow. The jealous Tinker Bell had suggested the deed. Peter arrives and, after finding that Wendy is only stunned, banishes Tinker Bell for a week to punish her for provoking the attack. He then tells the others that he has brought Wendy to them. They promptly build her a house and ask her to be their mother. Wendy thinks that taking care of so many children is a great responsibility, but she quickly assumes her duties by telling them stories and putting them to bed.
Jealous, the pirates plan to steal Wendy and make her their mother; they intend to force the other children to walk the plank. Peter overhears them plotting, however, and he saves the children and Wendy. He himself escapes by sailing out to sea in a bird’s nest.
Wendy and her brothers begin to worry about their parents, and they decide that they should return home. The lost boys, delighted at the thought of having a real grown-up mother, eagerly accept Wendy’s invitation to come live with her and her brothers and parents. Peter refuses to go, because he wants always to be a little boy and have fun. He lets the others go, however, and asks Tinker Bell to show them the way.
The pirates have learned of the children’s journey, and as Tinker Bell and the children begin to fly from Neverland, Hook and his men seize them. When Peter finds out that Hook has captured all his friends, he vows to get revenge on the pirate once and for all.
On the pirate ship, the children are being prepared to walk the plank. They are all paraded before Wendy, who is tied to the mast. Unknown to the pirates, however, Peter is also on board, and by using tricks and false voices he leads first one pirate and then another to his death. These strange happenings are too much for Hook. When he knocks the seat out from under Peter and the boy remains in place, calmly sitting on air, the pirate throws himself overboard, into the waiting jaws of the patient crocodile.
Meanwhile, at the Darling home, Mrs. Darling and Nana wait, with little hope, for the children to return. They have left the nursery window open constantly, so that their loved ones might enter easily should they ever come home, but Peter and Tinker Bell fly ahead of the others and close the window so that Wendy and the others will think they are not wanted. Peter, however, does not know how to get out of a room through the door, and thus he is forced to fly out the window again, leaving it open behind him. Wendy and her brothers fly in and slip into their beds, and Mrs. Darling and Nana are overcome with joy when they find the children safe again.
The Darlings adopt the lost boys, who have great fun romping with Mr. Darling. Peter returns and tries to get Wendy to fly away with him, but she refuses to leave her parents again. She does go once each year to clean his house for him, but each time they meet she sees him a little less clearly. Once or twice she tries to get him to see her as something more than a mother, but Peter does not know what she means. Then comes the day when Wendy can no longer fly without a broomstick to help her. Peter, watching her, sadly wishes he could understand all that she says. He picks up his pipes and plays softly, perhaps too softly to awaken humans in a grown-up world.
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Turner Prize
The Turner Prize’s most controversial moments
We take a look at the winners, nominees and events that have made the Turner Prize so notorious.
Martin Creed and his Turner Prize winning exhibition 2001
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1986: Gilbert and George
Though the Turner Prize has now become almost synonymous with innovative media, Gilbert and George were the first artists to win with pieces that were not paintings. The artistic pair refers to all their works, regardless of media, as sculptures. They even refer to themselves as 'living sculptures.'
1992: Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
Hirst's now infamous Tiger shark encased in formaldehyde was not actually the 1992 winner, but remains that year's standout nominee. It has since become one of the 1990's most iconic, if controversial, artworks and was just the beginning of Hirst's work with the medium. His Mother and Child Divided displayed sections of a cow and calf in formaldehyde and won him the 1995 Turner Prize. A later piece, Two Fucking and Two Watching, featuring a rotting cow and bull, was banned by New York Health officials because of fears of "vomiting among the visitors".
1993: The 'Anti Turner Prize'
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The K Foundation established the 'Anti Turner Prize.' With £40,000 prize money, the award was to be given to the 'worst artist in Britain', voted from the actual Turner Prize's shortlist. Rachel Whiteread was the winner of both the Turner and Anti Turner Prizes. She begrudgingly accepted the latter award but donated the money to charity.
1997: Gillian Wearing's 60 minutes of Silence and Tracey Emin's drunken outbursts.
Winner Wearing showed a video of actors dressed in police uniforms, standing still for an hour. During a live Channel 4 discussion programme on the prize, a drunken Tracey Emin stormed out. She later recalls having no memory of the event; only discovering her own actions whilst reading the next morning's papers.
1998: Chris Ofili's elephant dung
Whilst Ofili was the first painter to win in twelve years (the prize has famously championed innovative methods and conceptual art) his work still attracted media hype due to his use of resin covered elephant dung. An illustrator protested against his work by depositing dung on the steps of the Tate.
1999: Tracey Emin's My Bed
Perhaps one of the most famous pieces in the history of the Turner Prize, Emin's installation of her stained bed and detritus such as soiled underwear and condoms, was not actually the winner though it is commonly thought to be. Her piece caused a media storm and saw attendance rise to a record 140,000, with an average of 2,000 visitors a day. It caused such controversy that culture secretary Chris Smith criticised the jury for deliberately selecting ‘shock’ installations that gave the country a bad name abroad. Others felt that Emin had not gone far enough. Artists Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi decided to strip to their underwear, jump on to the bed and commence a pillow fight. They claimed they were 'improving' the work. Pillow fights do tend to do that...
2000: The first Stuckist demonstration
Since 2000, the Stuckist art group have made (almost) annual demonstrations against the Turner Prize. This initial protest saw members dressed as clowns; denouncing the prize as a 'national joke.' They famously declared that:"the only artist who wouldn't be in danger of winning the Turner Prize is Turner."
2001: Martin Creed's The Lights Going On and Off and Madonna's potty mouth
Creed's winning work did exactly what it said on the tin; being a bare room in which the lights turn on and off. Artist Jacqueline Crofton was so incensed at Creed's award that she threw eggs at the wall of his installation. The choice of Madonna as presenter for the Prize was largely construed as a shameless marketing strategy, especially when she swore before the watershed, earning Channel 4 an official rebuke from the Independent Television Commission.
2002: Fiona Banner's Arsewoman in Wonderland and Prince Charles' condemnation
Fiona Banner did not win the 2002 award but was undoubtedly the most controversial contender. Arsewoman in Wonderland described a pornographic film in detail. The Guardian famously asked "Its art. But is it porn?" and called British porn star Ben Dover in to consult. Culture minister Kim Howells spoke out against the Prize, calling it "conceptual bullshit" and was joined by Prince Charles himself, who agreed the Prize had "contaminated the art establishment for so long." Even Banksy joined in, stencilling 'Mind The Crap' on the steps of the Tate.
2003: The Chapman Brother's Death and Grayson Perry's frocks
The 2003 winner, Grayson Perry, was actually a largely praised choice. It was Jake and Dinos Chapman's Death, which portrayed two bronze figures painted to look like plastic blow-up sex dolls with a dildo, that caused controversy. However, the winner was not without his share of media attention, largely accrued by Perry accepting his award in a dress as his alter ego Claire.
2006: Lynn Barber: 'Is it all a fix?'
Whilst the 2006 winner was actually a traditional painter, the Turner Prize was still plagued by controversy. The Sunday Telegraph obtained emails between the Tate and prize judge Lynn Barber that proved the judges had received details of the shortlist too late to actually visit the works, basing their decisions upon catalogues. Barber made things worse by writing in The Observer 'Is it all a fix?' The phrase was then to be seen blazoned across the placards of that year's ubiquitous Stuckist protestors.
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During the late 1980s and 90s, postmodernist art in Britain was revitalized by the emergence of a confident new generation of postmodernist artists , later dubbed Young British Artists. Belonging to no particular movement, or style of art, they included a diverse mix of painters, sculptors, video/installation artists and photographers , with no shared characteristics other than their youth, their nationality and their involvement in contemporary art . Their work is often called Britart. YBAs came to notice because of three art exhibitions: Freeze (1988) and Modern Medicine (1990), both curated by an unknown Goldsmiths' College art student called Damien Hirst (b.1965), and Sensation (1997), held at the Royal Academy. From 1988 onwards, the principal YBA sponsor was the millionaire collector Charles Saatchi , whose patronage helped to make London the European capital of postmodernism. The term Young British Artists comes from the title of six exhibitions of that name held at the Saatchi Gallery in London, during the period 1992-6. Now very much part of the British arts establishment, YBAs have featured as regular winners of the Turner Prize , and have been elected members of the London Royal Academy. They have been exhibited in many of the best galleries of contemporary art in Europe. As well as Hirst, notable artists associated with the Young British Artists 'movement' include: Tracey Emin , Jake and Dinos Chapman, Douglas Gordon, Marcus Harvey, Gary Hume, Rachel Whiteread, Gillian Wearing, Mark Wallinger, Marc Quinn, Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili, Jenny Saville and others.
Note: For a comparison with avant-garde art from an earlier era, see: Modern British Sculpture (1930-70) and Contemporary British Painting (1960-2000).
Young British Artists: Definition/Membership
The term Young British Artists was really no more than a marketing tool to promote UK contemporary art during the 1990s. Strictly speaking, it includes only those artists who showed at Freeze, or Sensation. However, the name is also used in a broader sense to embrace all progressive, avant-garde British artists who achieved recognition during the late 1980s and 90s. A new term Post-YBAs has been coined to describe British artists emerging in the 2000s. They include Darren Almond, Mike Nelson, Tim Noble, Oliver Payne, Nick Relph, Eva Rothschild, Simon Starling, David Thorpe, Sue Webster, Carey Young, and others.
Characteristics of YBA Style of Art
Works by Young British Artists include all forms of painting , a wide range of sculpture and assemblage , contemporary video and installation art , a variety of photography , and conceptual art . If they have anything in common, it is probably an anything-goes attitude to materials and the creative process. Thus famous works of Britart have included: maggots (Hirst); dead animals (Hirst); concrete casts of whole houses (Rachel Whiteread); a bed surrounded by highly personal detritus including condoms (Tracey Emin); crushed found objects with a steamroller (Cornelia Parker); elephant dung (Chris Ofili); and frozen blood (Marc Quinn), to name but a few of the many and varied materials employed. Numerous YBA works have also employed a number of controversial references (such as Jenny Saville's paintings of grossly obese nude female forms, or the Chapman brothers' savagely mutilated shop-window dummies), in order to shock. Yet others have taken conceptual art to its limits. Witness Mark Wallinger's Turner Prize exhibit - a 2-hour film of a person wandering around an art gallery in a bear suit; or Gillian Wearing's video of actors dressed in police uniforms who stand still for an hour, in silence; or Martin Creed's installation of a white room with a single light bulb blinking on and off.
Impact on UK Art
YBAs have been heavily criticized for their lack of craftsmanship and other artistic qualities, by numerous art critics as well as such luminaries as the composer Simon Rattle, and the playwright Tom Stoppard. Yet others, including the British public have given Britart a very enthusiastic reception, as has - in general - the visual arts establishment. One reason for this, is that Young British Artists have refreshed and revitalised almost every medium of contemporary art, visibly raising museum attendance figures in the process. Furthermore, they have re-vitalised a whole new generation of contemporary galleries - including Jay Jopling's White Cube, Victoria Miro, Karsten Schubert, Sadie Coles, Maureen Paley's Interim Art, and Antony Wilkinson Gallery - significantly increased the circulation of contemporary British art magazines - including Frieze, Art Monthly, Art Review, Modern Painters and Contemporary Art.
YBA History
The 1980s in Britain was a time of radical political and economic change. It also saw the 1984 launch of the Turner Prize for contemporary art, as well as the emergence of advertising mogul Charles Saatchi as Britain's most important post-war art collector. Saatchi began showing his collection to the public in 1985, from his gallery in St John's Wood. Early acquisitions were in the area of Minimalism and Neo-Expressionism , along with a substantial holding of works by Andy Warhol . (See also: Andy Warhol's Pop Art of the 60s and 70s.) The 1980s was also a highpoint for Goldsmiths' College, part of the University of London, which offered a highly progressive arts program under such influential teachers as Michael Craig Martin. Nearly all of the 42 YBAs who showed at the Sensation exhibition trained at Goldsmiths.
Freeze Exhibition 1988
Against this backdrop, a 2nd-year Goldsmiths' student Damien Hirst organized an exhibition of work by himself and 16 other Goldsmiths' College students, in a large disused building in the Docklands area of east London. Entitled Freeze, the show was made possible by the economic recession which had 'emptied' such properties. Although the event did not achieve any significant press exposure, it attracted a number of prestigious visitors, including Charles Saatchi, who purchased the majority of the exhibits. Looking back, Saatchi admitted it wasn't the quality of the art which really turned his head as a collector, "What really stood out was the hopeful swagger of it all."
Other YBA Exhibitions
After graduating from Goldsmiths' in 1989, Hirst achieved a major breakthrough in 1990 when he co-curated two more influential 'warehouse' shows, in a Bermondsey factory. At the Modern Medicine exhibition, Saatchi reportedly was gob-smacked by Hirst's installation A Thousand Years. Saatchi immediately bought the piece thus initiating a long and fruitful business relationship with the young artist. Up until now, Saatchi's main focus had been on established figures like Andy Warhol, Phillip Guston, Alex Katz, Richard Serra, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Donald Judd and others. Now he turned his attention to the new upcoming group of YBAs.
Also in 1990, YBAs Henry Bond and Sarah Lucas curated the East Country Yard Show, whose exhibits were displayed over 16,000 square metres of space. Although overall visitor attendance figures remained low, the show captured the attention of critics and some collectors, and signalled the coming rise of Britart.
According to Andrew Graham-Dixon, art critic of The Independent, the YBA shows were far superior to comparable events held at any of the country's established contemporary art institutions, including the Liverpool Tate new multi-million-pound venue. As a result, commercial galleries - such as Joshua Compston's gallery (Shoreditch) and the Serpentine Gallery (Hyde Park) began showcasing YBA works. Soon after this, a new wave of YBAs appeared in exhibitions such as New Contemporaries, New British Summertime and Minky Manky. Among them was the Anglo-Cypriot artist Tracey Emin (b.1963).
Charles Saatchi Patronage (1992-97)
Not long after the 1991 Serpentine show, the Saatchi Gallery began a series of six exhibitions devoted exclusively to YBA art, entitled Young British Artists I-VI. Staged during the period 1992-1996, these shows not only established the label "Young British Artists", which turned out to be a very potent marketing tool, but also generated massive media coverage for many late 20th century painters and contemporary artists from Britain, thus helping them to establish their reputations at home and abroad. Thus for example, in 1995, Britart crossed the Atlantic with its large-scale group show entitled Brilliant! held at the respected Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; while Damien Hirst's pickled shark (The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living) became a worldwide symbol of avant-garde British art in the final decade of the 20th century.
Finally, in 1997, in a show of official recognition of the movement, Saatchi was permitted to co-curate the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London , which featured works by 42 YBAs from his private collection. Thanks to Charles Saatchi, Young British Artists were now part of the postmodernist establishment.
Turner Prize Winners
Further recognition followed. A number of YBAs were shortlisted for the annual Turner Prize, one of the UK's few major awards for contemporary artists, and duly received additional TV exposure on Channel 4, the competition's sponsor. Members of the 'YBA movement' among the Turner Prize winners , include: Rachel Whiteread (1993), Damien Hirst (1995), Douglas Gordon (1996), Gillian Wearing (1997), Chris Ofili (1998), Steve McQueen (1999), Mark Wallinger (2007).
Britart: 2000 Onwards
Ironically, the launch in 2000 of the Tate Modern - Britain's premier museum for contemporary art- did not provide a particular boost for YBAs, although the inclusion of their works confirmed that they had definitely 'arrived.' In early 2003, the Saatchi Gallery moved from St John's Wood to the County Hall building on the South Bank, and began its coverage of Britart with a retrospective of Damien Hirst. Then in May 2004, a fire in Saatchi's storage warehouse caused the destruction of several important works, including Tracey Emin's Everyone I Have Ever Slept With: 19631995. In the same year, Saatchi declared that most YBAs would proved "nothing but footnotes" in history, and proceeded to sell a large number of YBA works - many of which at a huge profit.
Famous Artworks By Young British Artists
Examples of well-known works by YBAs can be seen in some of the best art museums in the UK. Here is a short selected list of works. All works are held by the Saatchi Gallery London, unless indicated. In addition, works by YBAs can be seen in some of the Best Contemporary Art Festivals around the world.
Jake and Dinos Chapman (b.1962 and 1966)
Hell (1999-2000)
Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab (1992)
Pauline Bunny (1997) Tate Collection, London
Tracey Emin (b.1963)
Everyone I have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 (1995)
My Bed (1999)
Untitled (Freestanding Bed) (1991) Southampton Art Gallery
Marcus Harvey (b.1963)
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Who painted Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I which reportedly sold for a record 135 million dollars in June 2006? | Lauder Pays $135 Million, a Record, for a Klimt Portrait - The New York Times
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A dazzling gold-flecked 1907 portrait by Gustav Klimt has been purchased for the Neue Galerie in Manhattan by the cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder for $135 million, the highest sum ever paid for a painting.
The portrait, of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the wife of a Jewish sugar industrialist and the hostess of a prominent Vienna salon, is considered one of the artist's masterpieces. For years, it was the focus of a restitution battle between the Austrian government and a niece of Mrs. Bloch-Bauer who argued that it was seized along with four other Klimt paintings by the Nazis during World War II. In January all five paintings were awarded to the niece, Maria Altmann, now 90, who lives in Los Angeles, and other family members.
Although confidentiality agreements surrounding the sale forbid Mr. Lauder to disclose the price, experts familiar with the negotiations, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he paid $135 million for the work. In a telephone interview Mr. Lauder did not deny that he had paid a record amount for the painting, eclipsing the $104.1 million paid for Picasso's 1905 "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)" in an auction at Sotheby's in 2004.
"This is our Mona Lisa," said Mr. Lauder, a founder of the five-year-old Neue Galerie, a tiny museum at Fifth Avenue and 86th Street devoted entirely to German and Austrian fine and decorative arts. "It is a once-in-a-lifetime acquisition." He said Christie's had helped him negotiate the purchase.
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For most of the last 60 years the portrait has hung in the Austrian Gallery in the Belvedere Palace in Vienna near "The Kiss," another gold-flecked Klimt masterpiece of the Art Nouveau era. With its sinuous lines and intricate details, the painting, "Adele Bloch-Bauer I," was commissioned by the subject's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer. Mrs. Bloch-Bauer died of meningitis in 1925 at 43. In her will she requested that the painting and four others by Klimt that the couple owned be left to Austria upon her husband's death. But when Germany annexed Austria in March 1938, Mr. Bloch-Bauer fled, leaving all of his possessions behind. The Nazi government confiscated his property, placed three of the paintings in the Austrian Gallery and sold the rest.
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Before Mr. Bloch-Bauer died, in November 1945, having spent the war years in Switzerland, he revoked all previous wills and drafted a new one. Since he and Adele had no children, he left his entire estate to three children of his brother Gustav: Robert, Luise and Maria.
Of the three, only Maria Altmann is still living: she and her husband, Fritz, fled Austria during the war and settled in Los Angeles in 1942. She has a niece and two nephews; a cousin of her brother's second wife also survives.
In a telephone interview on Friday Mrs. Altmann said she had met Mr. Lauder, a former American ambassador to Austria, some years ago and that she had visited the Neue Galerie when it first opened in November 2001.
"Mr. Lauder has a great understanding of Austria and a great love for Klimt," she said, adding that neither she nor her relatives felt it was practical for any of them to keep the painting, which depicts her aunt, whom she remembers from her childhood but who died when she was just 9.
That Mrs. Altmann and her relatives have possession of the painting is a tale of perseverance and tenacity. After the war the family tried to regain their stolen possessions, including the paintings, porcelains, palaces and the sugar company founded by Mr. Bloch-Bauer. Much of the artwork was divided up among the top Nazis, including Hitler and Hermann Göring; Reinhardt Hedrick, a Nazi commander, occupied a summer palace owned by Mr. Bloch-Bauer outside Prague.
The heirs were able to recover some of the works, but the Austrian authorities ruled that Mrs. Bloch-Bauer's will had essentially bequeathed the Klimts to Austria. Without access to the original documents, the family had no case.
By the mid-1980's journalists had begun investigating the restitution claim, and in 1998 Hubertus Czernin, a Viennese journalist researching the case for The Boston Globe, was able to find the documents, including Mrs. Bloch-Bauer's will, which expressed a wish — but did not require — that the Klimts go to Austria.
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A detail from Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait "Adele Bloch-Bauer I." Credit Museum Associates/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images
In 2000 Mrs. Altmann and the other heirs sued the Austrian government in the United States. Austria went to court to seek a dismissal of the suit, and the case wended its way to the United States Supreme Court, which in June 2004 ruled that Mrs. Altmann could sue Austria in the United States.
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In January an arbitration tribunal in Austria decided in favor of Mrs. Altmann and her fellow heirs, awarding them the five paintings. In addition to "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" they include a second portrait of Adele, from 1911, and three landscapes: "Beechwood" (1903), "Apple Tree I" (circa 1911) and "Houses in Unterach on Lake Atter" (1916). After the settlement, Steven Thomas, the lawyer representing the Bloch-Baur heirs, said he had been approached by museums and collectors around the world who were interested in buying one or more of the paintings.
Mrs. Altmann said he had felt especially receptive to Mr. Lauder because throughout all the years the family was struggling to reclaim the art, he consistently kept in touch with her, offering to help in any way he could. "He was incredibly generous and constantly supportive," she said.
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In April Mrs. Altmann and her heirs lent the paintings to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where they remain on view through June 30. Then the five works will travel to the Neue Galerie, where "Gustav Klimt: Five Paintings From the Collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer" will be on view from July 13 through Sept. 18.
Mrs. Altmann said that when the gold portrait of her aunt finally hangs in the Neue Galerie, she will feel that it is finally where it belongs. The painting, which took Klimt three years to create, shows her aunt regally posed, with a mysterious gaze, sensuous red lips and her hands twisted near her face to conceal a deformed finger. He used gold throughout the richly painted background and in the glistening fabric of Adele's patterned gown. Art historians and chroniclers of Vienna society in the early 20th century have suggested that the artist and Ms. Bloch-Bauer were lovers.
"I never saw her smile," Mrs. Altmann recalled in Friday in the interview. "She was always very serious and wore flowing white dresses and carried a gold cigarette holder when it was very unusual for women to smoke. She would have loved to have been a woman of today, to go to university and to get involved in government."
Mrs. Bloch-Bauer was known for giving frequent parties and surrounding herself with many of the great artists, politicians and intellectuals of the day, among them the composer Richard Strauss. "She didn't have teas for ladies like my mother," Ms. Altmann said. That wasn't down her alley."
She said although Adele was very close to Mrs. Altmann's mother, Therese, she also seemed to resent her at times because Therese had a house full of healthy children and Adele had endured three tragic births. (One child died three days after it was born, and two others died within hours.)
She remembers asking her mother about the rumored love affair between Klimt and her aunt. "My mother got mad and said, 'How dare you ask such a thing? It was an intellectual friendship,' " she recalled. "But I think it was very possible there was a romance."
Of Klimt, who died in 1918, when Ms. Altmann was just a toddler, she remembers hearing that he often wore a floor-length smock with nothing underneath.
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After Adele died, seven years after Klimt, her husband created a kind of shrine to her in what had been their bedroom. "The Klimts were always in the bedroom, but after she died, the bed was removed and there were always fresh flowers," Mrs. Altmann said.
As for the other four paintings, experts estimate that they are together worth some $100 million.
The fate of these four has yet to be determined. "I can't decide," Mrs. Altmann said. "Maybe after they leave the Neue Galerie, they will go to Christie's. I very much hope they end up in museums. But for now I am just happy they have a home at the Neue Galerie. It is very deserved. I couldn't have wished for a better place."
Correction: June 27, 2006
An article in The Arts on June 19 about the purchase of "Adele Bloch-Bauer I," a portrait by Gustav Klimt, for the Neue Galerie by Ronald S. Lauder misstated the context in which an Austrian journalist uncovered crucial documents about the work in 1998. The journalist, Hubertus Czernin, was conducting independent research in Austria when he found a will by Ms. Bloch-Bauer mentioning the portrait; he was not researching the case for The Boston Globe. (Austria turned over the painting this year to a niece of Ms. Bloch-Bauer, Maria Altmann of Los Angeles, who sold it to Mr. Lauder.)
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Famous Pieces of Art Stolen by the Nazis. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I Artist: Gustav Klimt. Gustav Klimt was an Austrian born Symbolist painter. During his lifetime, Klimt created many portraits, murals, and sketches. The primary subject of his work was usually the female body. In 1904, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer hired Gustav Klimt to create a portrait of his wife Adele. She was Jewish.
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The History of Horse Racing
The competitive racing of horses is one of humankind's most ancient sports, having its origins among the prehistoric nomadic tribesmen of Central Asia who first domesticated the horse about 4500 BC. For thousands of years, horse racing flourished as the sport of kings and the nobility. Modern racing, however, exists primarily because it is a major venue for legalized gambling.
Horse racing is the second most widely attended U.S. spectator sport, after baseball. In 1989, 56,194,565 people attended 8,004 days of racing, wagering $9.14 billion. Horse racing is also a major professional sport in Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and South America.
By far the most popular form of the sport is the racing of mounted THOROUGHBRED horses over flat courses at distances from three-quarters of a mile to two miles. Other major forms of horse racing are harness racing, steeplechase racing, and QUARTER HORSE racing.
Thoroughbred Racing
By the time humans began to keep written records, horse racing was an organized sport in all major civilizations from Central Asia to the Mediterranean. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 638 BC, and the sport became a public obsession in the Roman Empire.
The origins of modern racing lie in the 12th century, when English knights returned from the Crusades with swift Arab horses. Over the next 400 years, an increasing number of Arab stallions were imported and bred to English mares to produce horses that combined speed and endurance. Matching the fastest of these animals in two-horse races for a private wager became a popular diversion of the nobility.
Horse racing began to become a professional sport during the reign (1702-14) of Queen Anne, when match racing gave way to races involving several horses on which the spectators wagered. Racecourses sprang up all over England, offering increasingly large purses to attract the best horses. These purses in turn made breeding and owning horses for racing profitable. With the rapid expansion of the sport came the need for a central governing authority. In 1750 racing's elite met at Newmarket to form the Jockey Club, which to this day exercises complete control over English racing.
The Jockey Club wrote complete rules of racing and sanctioned racecourses to conduct meetings under those rules. Standards defining the quality of races soon led to the designation of certain races as the ultimate tests of excellence. Since 1814, five races for three-year-old horses have been designated as "classics." Three races, open to male horses (colts) and female horses (fillies), make up the English Triple Crown: the 2,000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby (see DERBY, THE), and the St. Leger Stakes. Two races, open to fillies only, are the 1,000 Guineas and the Epsom Oaks.
The Jockey Club also took steps to regulate the breeding of racehorses. James Weatherby, whose family served as accountants to the members of the Jockey Club, was assigned the task of tracing the pedigree, or complete family history, of every horse racing in England. In 1791 the results of his research were published as the Introduction to the General Stud Book. From 1793 to the present, members of the Weatherby family have meticulously recorded the pedigree of every foal born to those racehorses in subsequent volumes of the General Stud Book. By the early 1800s the only horses that could be called "Thoroughbreds" and allowed to race were those descended from horses listed in the General Stud Book. Thoroughbreds are so inbred that the pedigree of every single animal can be traced back father-to-father to one of three stallions, called the "foundation sires." These stallions were the Byerley Turk, foaled c.1679; the Darley Arabian, foaled c.1700; and the Godolphin Arabian, foaled c.1724.
American Thoroughbred Racing
The British settlers brought horses and horse racing with them to the New World, with the first racetrack laid out on Long Island as early as 1665. Although the sport became a popular local pastime, the development of organized racing did not arrive until after the Civil War. (The American Stud Book was begun in 1868.) For the next several decades, with the rapid rise of an industrial economy, gambling on racehorses, and therefore horse racing itself, grew explosively; by 1890, 314 tracks were operating across the country.
The rapid growth of the sport without any central governing authority led to the domination of many tracks by criminal elements. In 1894 the nation's most prominent track and stable owners met in New York to form an American Jockey Club, modeled on the English, which soon ruled racing with an iron hand and eliminated much of the corruption.
In the early 1900s, however, racing in the United States was almost wiped out by antigambling sentiment that led almost all states to ban bookmaking. By 1908 the number of tracks had plummeted to just 25. That same year, however, the introduction of pari-mutuel betting for the Kentucky Derby signaled a turnaround for the sport. More tracks opened as many state legislatures agreed to legalize pari-mutuel betting in exchange for a share of the money wagered. At the end of World War I, prosperity and great horses like Man o' War brought spectators flocking to racetracks. The sport prospered until World War II, declined in popularity during the 1950s and 1960s, then enjoyed a resurgence in the 1970s triggered by the immense popularity of great horses such as Secretariat, Seattle Slew, and Affirmed, each winners of the American Triple Crown--the KENTUCKY DERBY, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes. During the late 1980s, another significant decline occurred, however.
Thoroughbred tracks exist in about half the states. Public interest in the sport focuses primarily on major Thoroughbred races such as the American Triple Crown and the Breeder's Cup races (begun in 1984), which offer purses of up to about $1,000,000. State racing commissions have sole authority to license participants and grant racing dates, while sharing the appointment of racing officials and the supervision of racing rules with the Jockey Club. The Jockey Club retains authority over the breeding of Thoroughbreds.
Breeding
Although science has been unable to come up with any breeding system that guarantees the birth of a champion, breeders over the centuries have produced an increasingly higher percentage of Thoroughbreds who are successful on the racetrack by following two basic principles. The first is that Thoroughbreds with superior racing ability are more likely to produce offspring with superior racing ability. The second is that horses with certain pedigrees are more likely to pass along their racing ability to their offspring.
Male Thoroughbreds (stallions) have the highest breeding value because they can mate with about 40 mares a year. The worth of champions, especially winners of Triple Crown races, is so high that groups of investors called breeding syndicates may be formed. Each of the approximately 40 shares of the syndicate entitles its owner to breed one mare to the stallion each year. One share, for a great horse, may cost several million dollars. A share's owner may resell that share at any time.
Farms that produce foals for sale at auction are called commercial breeders. The most successful are E. J. Taylor, Spendthrift Farms, Claiborne Farms, Gainsworthy Farm, and Bluegrass Farm, all in Kentucky. Farms that produce foals to race themselves are called home breeders, and these include such famous stables as Calumet Farms, Elmendorf Farm, and Green-tree Stable in Kentucky and Harbor View Farm in Florida.
Betting
Wagering on the outcome of horse races has been an integral part of the appeal of the sport since prehistory and today is the sole reason horse racing has survived as a major professional sport.
All betting at American tracks today is done under the pari-mutuel wagering system, which was developed by a Frenchman named Pierre Oller in the late 19th century. Under this system, a fixed percentage (14 percent-25 percent) of the total amount wagered is taken out for track operating expenses, racing purses, and state and local taxes. The remaining sum is divided by the number of individual wagers to determine the payoff, or return on each bet. The projected payoff, or "odds," are continuously calculated by the track's computers and posted on the track odds board during the betting period before each race. Odds of "2-1," for example, mean that the bettor will receive $2 profit for every $1 wagered if his or her horse wins.
At all tracks, bettors may wager on a horse to win (finish first), place (finish first or second), or show (finish first, second, or third). Other popular wagers are the daily double (picking the winners of two consecutive races), exactas (picking the first and second horses in order), quinellas (picking the first and second horses in either order), and the pick six (picking the winners of six consecutive races).
Handicapping
The difficult art of predicting the winner of a horse race is called handicapping. The process of handicapping involves evaluating the demonstrated abilities of a horse in light of the conditions under which it will be racing on a given day. To gauge these abilities, handicappers use past performances, detailed published records of preceding races. These past performances indicate the horse's speed, its ability to win, and whether the performances tend to be getting better or worse. The conditions under which the horse will be racing include the quality of the competition in the race, the distance of the race, the type of racing surface (dirt or grass), and the current state of that surface (fast, sloppy, and so on). The term handicapping also has a related but somewhat different meaning: in some races, varying amounts of extra weight are assigned to horses based on age or ability in order to equalize the field.
Harness Racing
The racing of horses in harness dates back to ancient times, but the sport virtually disappeared with the fall of the Roman Empire. The history of modern HARNESS RACING begins in America, where racing trotting horses over country roads became a popular rural pastime by the end of the 18th century. The first tracks for harness racing were constructed in the first decade of the 19th century, and by 1825 harness racing was an institution at hundreds of country fairs across the nation.
With the popularity of harness racing came the development of the STANDARDBRED, a horse bred specifically for racing under harness. The founding sire of all Standardbreds is an English Thoroughbred named Messenger, who was brought to the United States in 1788. Messenger was bred to both pure Thoroughbred and mixed breed mares, and his descendants were rebred until these matings produced a new breed with endurance, temperament, and anatomy uniquely suited to racing under harness. This new breed was called the Standardbred, after the practice of basing all harness-racing speed records on the "standard" distance of one mile.
Harness racing reached the early zenith of its popularity in the late 1800s, with the establishment of a Grand Circuit of major fairs. The sport sharply declined in popularity after 1900, as the automobile replaced the horse and the United States became more urbanized. In 1940, however, Roosevelt Raceway in New York introduced harness racing under the lights with pari-mutuel betting. This innovation sparked a rebirth of harness racing, and today its number of tracks and number of annual races exceed those of Thoroughbred racing. The sport is also popular in most European countries, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.
Steeplechase, Hurdle, and Point-To-Point Racing
Steeplechases are races over a 2- to 4-mi (3.2- to 6.4-km) course that includes such obstacles as brush fences, stone walls, timber rails, and water jumps. The sport developed from the English and Irish pastime of fox hunting, when hunters would test the speed of their mounts during the cross-country chase. Organized steeplechase racing began about 1830, and has continued to be a popular sport in England to this day. The most famous steeplechase race in the world is England's Grand National, held every year since 1839 at Aintree. Steeplechase racing is occasionally conducted at several U.S. Thoroughbred race tracks. The most significant race is the U.S. Grand National Steeplechase held yearly at Belmont Park.
Hurdling is a form of steeplechasing that is less physically demanding of the horses. The obstacles consist solely of hurdles 1 to 2 ft (0.3 to 0.6 m) lower than the obstacles on a steeplechase course, and the races are normally less than 2 mi in length. Hurdling races are often used for training horses that will later compete in steeplechases. Horses chosen for steeplechase training are usually Thoroughbreds selected for their endurance, calm temperament, and larger-than-normal size.
Point-to-point races are held for amateurs on about 120 courses throughout the British Isles. Originally run straight across country (hence the name), these races are now conducted on oval tracks with built-in fences, often on farmland.
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The History of Horse Racing
The competitive racing of horses is one of humankind's most ancient sports, having its origins among the prehistoric nomadic tribesmen of Central Asia who first domesticated the horse about 4500 BC. For thousands of years, horse racing flourished as the sport of kings and the nobility. Modern racing, however, exists primarily because it is a major venue for legalized gambling.
Horse racing is the second most widely attended U.S. spectator sport, after baseball. In 1989, 56,194,565 people attended 8,004 days of racing, wagering $9.14 billion. Horse racing is also a major professional sport in Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and South America.
By far the most popular form of the sport is the racing of mounted THOROUGHBRED horses over flat courses at distances from three-quarters of a mile to two miles. Other major forms of horse racing are harness racing, steeplechase racing, and QUARTER HORSE racing.
Thoroughbred Racing
By the time humans began to keep written records, horse racing was an organized sport in all major civilizations from Central Asia to the Mediterranean. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 638 BC, and the sport became a public obsession in the Roman Empire.
The origins of modern racing lie in the 12th century, when English knights returned from the Crusades with swift Arab horses. Over the next 400 years, an increasing number of Arab stallions were imported and bred to English mares to produce horses that combined speed and endurance. Matching the fastest of these animals in two-horse races for a private wager became a popular diversion of the nobility.
Horse racing began to become a professional sport during the reign (1702-14) of Queen Anne, when match racing gave way to races involving several horses on which the spectators wagered. Racecourses sprang up all over England, offering increasingly large purses to attract the best horses. These purses in turn made breeding and owning horses for racing profitable. With the rapid expansion of the sport came the need for a central governing authority. In 1750 racing's elite met at Newmarket to form the Jockey Club, which to this day exercises complete control over English racing.
The Jockey Club wrote complete rules of racing and sanctioned racecourses to conduct meetings under those rules. Standards defining the quality of races soon led to the designation of certain races as the ultimate tests of excellence. Since 1814, five races for three-year-old horses have been designated as "classics." Three races, open to male horses (colts) and female horses (fillies), make up the English Triple Crown: the 2,000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby (see DERBY, THE), and the St. Leger Stakes. Two races, open to fillies only, are the 1,000 Guineas and the Epsom Oaks.
The Jockey Club also took steps to regulate the breeding of racehorses. James Weatherby, whose family served as accountants to the members of the Jockey Club, was assigned the task of tracing the pedigree, or complete family history, of every horse racing in England. In 1791 the results of his research were published as the Introduction to the General Stud Book. From 1793 to the present, members of the Weatherby family have meticulously recorded the pedigree of every foal born to those racehorses in subsequent volumes of the General Stud Book. By the early 1800s the only horses that could be called "Thoroughbreds" and allowed to race were those descended from horses listed in the General Stud Book. Thoroughbreds are so inbred that the pedigree of every single animal can be traced back father-to-father to one of three stallions, called the "foundation sires." These stallions were the Byerley Turk, foaled c.1679; the Darley Arabian, foaled c.1700; and the Godolphin Arabian, foaled c.1724.
American Thoroughbred Racing
The British settlers brought horses and horse racing with them to the New World, with the first racetrack laid out on Long Island as early as 1665. Although the sport became a popular local pastime, the development of organized racing did not arrive until after the Civil War. (The American Stud Book was begun in 1868.) For the next several decades, with the rapid rise of an industrial economy, gambling on racehorses, and therefore horse racing itself, grew explosively; by 1890, 314 tracks were operating across the country.
The rapid growth of the sport without any central governing authority led to the domination of many tracks by criminal elements. In 1894 the nation's most prominent track and stable owners met in New York to form an American Jockey Club, modeled on the English, which soon ruled racing with an iron hand and eliminated much of the corruption.
In the early 1900s, however, racing in the United States was almost wiped out by antigambling sentiment that led almost all states to ban bookmaking. By 1908 the number of tracks had plummeted to just 25. That same year, however, the introduction of pari-mutuel betting for the Kentucky Derby signaled a turnaround for the sport. More tracks opened as many state legislatures agreed to legalize pari-mutuel betting in exchange for a share of the money wagered. At the end of World War I, prosperity and great horses like Man o' War brought spectators flocking to racetracks. The sport prospered until World War II, declined in popularity during the 1950s and 1960s, then enjoyed a resurgence in the 1970s triggered by the immense popularity of great horses such as Secretariat, Seattle Slew, and Affirmed, each winners of the American Triple Crown--the KENTUCKY DERBY, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes. During the late 1980s, another significant decline occurred, however.
Thoroughbred tracks exist in about half the states. Public interest in the sport focuses primarily on major Thoroughbred races such as the American Triple Crown and the Breeder's Cup races (begun in 1984), which offer purses of up to about $1,000,000. State racing commissions have sole authority to license participants and grant racing dates, while sharing the appointment of racing officials and the supervision of racing rules with the Jockey Club. The Jockey Club retains authority over the breeding of Thoroughbreds.
Breeding
Although science has been unable to come up with any breeding system that guarantees the birth of a champion, breeders over the centuries have produced an increasingly higher percentage of Thoroughbreds who are successful on the racetrack by following two basic principles. The first is that Thoroughbreds with superior racing ability are more likely to produce offspring with superior racing ability. The second is that horses with certain pedigrees are more likely to pass along their racing ability to their offspring.
Male Thoroughbreds (stallions) have the highest breeding value because they can mate with about 40 mares a year. The worth of champions, especially winners of Triple Crown races, is so high that groups of investors called breeding syndicates may be formed. Each of the approximately 40 shares of the syndicate entitles its owner to breed one mare to the stallion each year. One share, for a great horse, may cost several million dollars. A share's owner may resell that share at any time.
Farms that produce foals for sale at auction are called commercial breeders. The most successful are E. J. Taylor, Spendthrift Farms, Claiborne Farms, Gainsworthy Farm, and Bluegrass Farm, all in Kentucky. Farms that produce foals to race themselves are called home breeders, and these include such famous stables as Calumet Farms, Elmendorf Farm, and Green-tree Stable in Kentucky and Harbor View Farm in Florida.
Betting
Wagering on the outcome of horse races has been an integral part of the appeal of the sport since prehistory and today is the sole reason horse racing has survived as a major professional sport.
All betting at American tracks today is done under the pari-mutuel wagering system, which was developed by a Frenchman named Pierre Oller in the late 19th century. Under this system, a fixed percentage (14 percent-25 percent) of the total amount wagered is taken out for track operating expenses, racing purses, and state and local taxes. The remaining sum is divided by the number of individual wagers to determine the payoff, or return on each bet. The projected payoff, or "odds," are continuously calculated by the track's computers and posted on the track odds board during the betting period before each race. Odds of "2-1," for example, mean that the bettor will receive $2 profit for every $1 wagered if his or her horse wins.
At all tracks, bettors may wager on a horse to win (finish first), place (finish first or second), or show (finish first, second, or third). Other popular wagers are the daily double (picking the winners of two consecutive races), exactas (picking the first and second horses in order), quinellas (picking the first and second horses in either order), and the pick six (picking the winners of six consecutive races).
Handicapping
The difficult art of predicting the winner of a horse race is called handicapping. The process of handicapping involves evaluating the demonstrated abilities of a horse in light of the conditions under which it will be racing on a given day. To gauge these abilities, handicappers use past performances, detailed published records of preceding races. These past performances indicate the horse's speed, its ability to win, and whether the performances tend to be getting better or worse. The conditions under which the horse will be racing include the quality of the competition in the race, the distance of the race, the type of racing surface (dirt or grass), and the current state of that surface (fast, sloppy, and so on). The term handicapping also has a related but somewhat different meaning: in some races, varying amounts of extra weight are assigned to horses based on age or ability in order to equalize the field.
Harness Racing
The racing of horses in harness dates back to ancient times, but the sport virtually disappeared with the fall of the Roman Empire. The history of modern HARNESS RACING begins in America, where racing trotting horses over country roads became a popular rural pastime by the end of the 18th century. The first tracks for harness racing were constructed in the first decade of the 19th century, and by 1825 harness racing was an institution at hundreds of country fairs across the nation.
With the popularity of harness racing came the development of the STANDARDBRED, a horse bred specifically for racing under harness. The founding sire of all Standardbreds is an English Thoroughbred named Messenger, who was brought to the United States in 1788. Messenger was bred to both pure Thoroughbred and mixed breed mares, and his descendants were rebred until these matings produced a new breed with endurance, temperament, and anatomy uniquely suited to racing under harness. This new breed was called the Standardbred, after the practice of basing all harness-racing speed records on the "standard" distance of one mile.
Harness racing reached the early zenith of its popularity in the late 1800s, with the establishment of a Grand Circuit of major fairs. The sport sharply declined in popularity after 1900, as the automobile replaced the horse and the United States became more urbanized. In 1940, however, Roosevelt Raceway in New York introduced harness racing under the lights with pari-mutuel betting. This innovation sparked a rebirth of harness racing, and today its number of tracks and number of annual races exceed those of Thoroughbred racing. The sport is also popular in most European countries, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.
Steeplechase, Hurdle, and Point-To-Point Racing
Steeplechases are races over a 2- to 4-mi (3.2- to 6.4-km) course that includes such obstacles as brush fences, stone walls, timber rails, and water jumps. The sport developed from the English and Irish pastime of fox hunting, when hunters would test the speed of their mounts during the cross-country chase. Organized steeplechase racing began about 1830, and has continued to be a popular sport in England to this day. The most famous steeplechase race in the world is England's Grand National, held every year since 1839 at Aintree. Steeplechase racing is occasionally conducted at several U.S. Thoroughbred race tracks. The most significant race is the U.S. Grand National Steeplechase held yearly at Belmont Park.
Hurdling is a form of steeplechasing that is less physically demanding of the horses. The obstacles consist solely of hurdles 1 to 2 ft (0.3 to 0.6 m) lower than the obstacles on a steeplechase course, and the races are normally less than 2 mi in length. Hurdling races are often used for training horses that will later compete in steeplechases. Horses chosen for steeplechase training are usually Thoroughbreds selected for their endurance, calm temperament, and larger-than-normal size.
Point-to-point races are held for amateurs on about 120 courses throughout the British Isles. Originally run straight across country (hence the name), these races are now conducted on oval tracks with built-in fences, often on farmland.
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In golf, the U.S. Masters is played at Augusta, but in which state is Augusta? | Masters Tournament | New Georgia Encyclopedia
First played in 1934, the Masters Tournament is one of golf's four "major" events, alongside the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship. The tournament is staged every April at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta .
Origins
The Augusta National Golf Club dates back to 1931, the height of the Great Depression , when two men joined resources to create the club. One of the club's founders was the outstanding amateur and Atlanta native Bobby Jones , winner of thirteen major championships between 1923 and 1930. After winning the Grand Slam in 1930 (all four major titles: U.S. Open, U.S. Amateur, British Open, British Amateur), the twenty-eight year old announced his retirement from competitive golf. During the next several years he was involved in several carefully selected golf projects, one of which was the Augusta National.
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prominent than Jones but no less important to the success of the club and tournament was New York financier Clifford Roberts, who had befriended Jones in the mid-1920s. Whereas Jones brought the venture credibility and publicity, Roberts brought it business acumen. In the midst of the depression, Roberts skillfully sold the concept of a national golf club to a handful of investors and raised the capital necessary to purchase land and begin construction of the course. The famous golf course architect Alister Mackenzie worked with Jones on designing the Augusta National course. Mackenzie, designer of such world-renowned layouts as Cypress Point in northern California, complemented Jones because they agreed on many fundamentals of golf course architecture.
They discovered Fruitland ( Berckmans Nursery ), the abandoned 365-acre plant nursery near Augusta, where, among other things, peaches were grown by Prosper Berckmans. Because of the depressed economy, the land, originally a plantatation, was available at bottom-dollar price. Jones decided that it was the ideal location for a golf course. While Roberts handled the finances, Jones and Mackenzie oversaw the construction of the course, which began in 1931 and was completed in 1932.
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months of its completion Roberts and Jones discussed the possibility of hosting a major tournament, such as the U.S. Open; however, scheduling conflicts and climate—Augusta was too hot to host the U.S. Open, traditionally held in the summer—ultimately prohibited that idea. Yet Roberts remained determined; if they could not hold a national open, then why not stage an annual invitational event hosted by the legendary Bobby Jones? To make the event even more viable, Roberts proposed that Jones enter the tournament, coming out of retirement for a week each year to compete against his old opponents and friends. At first Jones resisted the idea of competing, but Roberts convinced him that the excitement surrounding his participation might make the difference between the survival and failure of the tournament. Jones very much wanted the tournament and club to succeed, so he agreed to play.
Roberts had been correct. The first Augusta National Invitation Tournament was held in the spring of 1934; it was won by Horton Smith (Jones finished in thirteenth place) and was an instant success. The following year Gene Sarazen scored a double eagle two on the par five fifteenth in the final round to force a play-off with Craig Wood, whom Sarazen defeated the next day to win the tournament. In 1939 the tournament officially changed its name to the Masters.
The natural beauty of the course's eighteen holes—each adorned with the plant from which it gets its name—and the fact that the golf calendar did not already include a major event during those months made spring the ideal time for the Masters to be held. Moreover, early April was the best time to catch the nation's sportswriters as they returned north from baseball's spring training in Florida. A few days in Augusta provided them a respite from their travels and from the national pastime. In sum, the schedule, the weather, the environment, the competition, the business leadership of Clifford Roberts, and the presence of Bobby Jones all combined to make the Masters a success from the beginning.
Rise in Status
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it became a regular stop on the professional tour in the 1930s, the Masters was not immediately recognized as one of golf's major events, a fourth component of a modern Grand Slam. Several factors helped the tournament evolve into that prestigious position in the 1950s: the support of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who often played at the club during his presidency; the tournament's success with the emerging medium of television ; and the annual presence of such stars as Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, and a bit later, Jack Nicklaus.
The Masters was a pioneer in many respects. Roberts devised the over-under (+/-) to par scoring system. In 1949 Jones and Roberts originated the post-tournament ceremony in which the defending champion presents the new champion with the coveted green jacket. The Masters was the first golf tournament to be televised, in 1956 on CBS. In time, other tournaments adopted many Masters innovations.
Controversy
In spite of its rise to major tournament status and success with television, the Masters became a target of controversy in the 1960s because of the Augusta National club's general exclusivity and, in particular, perceived racism. As club chairman, Roberts seemed determined to make it difficult for any black player to enter the Masters; at best, he was extremely careful about the qualification procedure and insensitive to the obstacles blacks faced in professional golf. The exclusionary tournament policies, the fact that Augusta National had no black members, and the Old South aura surrounding the club and tournament made the Masters a focal point for the issue of racism in golf. The entry of the first black player, Lee Elder, in 1975 and the death of Clifford Roberts by suicide in 1977 (Jones had passed away in 1971) did much to diffuse the criticism, allowing the Masters to develop a more positive public standing.
In the early 2000s controversy again visited the Augusta National Golf Club as women's groups began to target the all-male club for alleged gender discrimination.
Uniqueness
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Masters continues to grow in prestige and popularity. It remains the only major golf tournament staged every year on the same course, a feature that provides the event a sense of continuity and familiarity lacking in the other major tournaments. Recent competitive highlights include Jack Nicklaus's unprecedented sixth victory in 1986, Australian Greg Norman's heartbreaking losses, and Tiger Woods's spectacular victories in 1997, 2001, 2002, and 2005. The Masters has long taken pride in the international makeup of its fields. It continues to draw the world's best golfers annually to northeast Georgia for what has become one of the world's finest golf tournaments.
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1916: Jones wins Georgia State Amateur at age 14; competes in U.S. Amateur at Merion Cricket Club, becoming event's youngest competitor
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1927: Jones plays an exhibition match on opening day at Pasatiempo after competing in the U.S. Amateur Championship at Pebble Beach; MacKenzie is in attendance at both events.
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1930: Year of the Slam: -- Jones wins British Amateur at St. Andrews; MacKenzie, who also attended Walker Cup at Royal St. George's in May, is on hand for the victory. -- Jones captures the Grand Slam by winning the U.S. Open, U.S. Amateur, British Open and British Amateur. -- Jones retires from competitive golf at age 28.
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1958: Citizens of St. Andrews confer Freedom of the City and Royal Burgh of St. Andrews on Jones
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1870 - Born in Normanton, Yorkshire, England.
1888 - Enrolls in medical school.
1897 - Receives bachelor medicine and surgery degree from Cambridge.
1899-1902 - Served as a civil surgeon for the British Army during the Boer War in South Africa.
1905 - Marries Edith Mary Wedderburn.
1907 - Golf architect Harry S. Colt stays with MacKenzie while visiting Alwoodley in Golf Club in Leeds, England.
1912 - Introduced to Robert Hunter by Colt.
1914 - Wins first place in Country Life contest to design a hole for the Lido Golf Club in New York; World War I begins, and MacKenzie is again assigned as a civil surgeon.
1915 - Commissioned as lieutenant in the Royal Engineers; Elected to membership in the Royal and Ancient Golf Club.
1920 - Forms partnership with Colt and C.H. Alison; Golf Architecture, his principles of course design, published.
1922 - Survey of St. Andrews Golf Links is approved; plan accepted in 1924.
1923 - Partnership with Colt and Alison ends.
1926 - Leaves England en route to California for first leg of his famed "World Trip."
Receives Cypress Point commission in February.
Returns to England in March.
Attends Walker Cup Matches at St. Andrews and final round of British Open at Royal Lytham and St. Annes in June.
Redesigned greens at holes 8 and 13 at Pebble Beach in September.
Returns to England and sets sail for Australia via the Suez Canal in late September.
Visits several golf clubs in Australia and submits plans for designs/redesigns in October, November and December.
1927 - Visits New Zealand; departs for California in February. Works on Cypress Point. Returns to England in late March. In July, attends British Open at St. Andrews and meets Bobby Jones.
1928 - MacKenzie and Hunter arrive at Cypress Point in January to supervise construction. Cypress Point opens in August.
Tours several courses in Canada in August and September.
Visits site of Pasatiempo Country Club in October.
1929 - Attends U.S. Amateur at Pebble Beach and attends exhibition match featuring Jones on opening day at Pasatiempo.
1930 - Divorce from Edith finalized in January; marries Hilda Sykes Haddock in May. Attends Walker Cup Matches at Royal St. George's in May. Also watches Jones vs. Cyril Tolley match in British Amateur at St. Andrews. Ground broken for home at Pasatiempo in November.
July 10, 1931 - Meets with committee of Augusta National Golf Club at Vanderbilt Hotel in New York.
July 14-16, 1931 - On site at Augusta National with Jones and Wendell Miller, chief engineer.
September-October 1931: Long visit to Augusta.
Oct. 6, 1931: MacKenzie and Jones rout the plan for Augusta National.
October, 1931 - "Many who play (Augusta National) for the first time may not like it, but as they play it, they will solve problems that they failed to conquer in the first round and find a new and interesting variety of shots every time they go over it. " - Alister MacKenzie, during an October 1931 visit to Augusta
March-April 1932 - In Augusta to oversee shaping of greens.
Jan. 6, 1934 - MacKenzie dies at his home at Pasatiempo. Ashes were believed to be scattered on the golf course.
Aug. 14, 2005 - Inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame.
BOBBY JONES TIMELINE
1902 - Born in Atlanta
1916 - Jones wins the Georgia State Amateur at the age of 14. He also competes in the U.S. Amateur at Merion Cricket Club, becoming the event's youngest competitor.
1921 - During the third round of the British Open, Jones disqualifies himself.
1922 - Jones completes a degree in mechanical engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.
1923 - Jones wins the U.S. Open, his first major championship victory.
1924 - He marries Mary Rice Malone and finishes a degree in English literature at Harvard.
1926 - Jones becomes the first player to win the U.S. and British Opens in the same year.
1927 - Down the Fairway, written by Jones and longtime friend O.B. Keeler, is published.
1928 - Jones is admitted to the Georgia bar after one year of law school.
1930 - By winning the U.S. Open, U.S. Amateur, British Open and British Amateur, Jones captures the Grand Slam. He retires from competitive golf at the age of 28.
1931 - Fruitland Nurseries is purchased, and construction of Augusta National Golf Club begins.
1934 - The first Augusta National Invitation Tournament is held at the course designed by Jones and Alister Mackenzie. Jones plays in a tournament for the first time since retirement.
1942 - Jones is commissioned as a captain in the Army Air Forces. He is honorably discharged in 1944.
1948 - Jones makes his final Masters appearance as a competitor and plays his final round of golf in Atlanta.
1955 - The U.S. Golf Association establishes the Bob Jones Award, its highest honor.
1958 - The citizens of St. Andrews confer the Freedom of the City and the Royal Burgh of St. Andrews on Jones.
1968 - Attends final Masters Tournament.
1971 - Jones dies Dec. 17 and is buried in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery.
1972 - The 10th hole at St. Andrews is named in his honor.
1974 - Inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame.
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| Drama , Sport | 24 May 1963 (Ireland)
Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.
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In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like. He becomes increasingly frustrated with his situation, and this is not helped by the more straightforward enticements of Mrs Weaver. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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This title mostly stays obscurely distant to the wider audience, which is utterly sad, almost as the movie itself. "This sporting life" marks era of the British New Wave, but it is somehow off the French mellow tracks. Frank Machin is rude and robust, just like the circumstances of time and place. After swift uplift of cinematic themes, which almost totally set WWII into background, 1960ies made Brits turn the mirror inwards. Medium of film was open for investigating and reflecting what hides in one's inner and where could it lead. In circle, surely, as well-tried French recipe of the era already settled the never-ending mental pattern.
This is basically a love story, a tale of two fairly different people joined in their solitude. They glide through scenery of urban and mental squalor, wonderfully photographed by Denys N. Coop. Shades of the mind are so aptly blended with interiors and every feeling convincingly underlined by many (but never one too many) close-ups. By my account, the only moment which was superfluous happened in the fancy restaurant: Frank taking Margaret and her new fur-coat to dinner to a place that was never intended for them. Frank's rawness in the situation was a bit over the top, movie could have well done without it, or at least with having it toned down.
Nevertheless, poetry is inevitable. Lindsay Anderson managed to draw tenuity out of time, places and persons who struggled against each other. Finale offered the only possible solution: For those who stayed "after all
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This Sporting Life is a 1963 British feature film based on a novel of the same name by David Storey which had won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award. It recounts the story of a rugby league footballer, Frank Machin , in Wakefield, a mining area of Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting life. Storey, a former professional rugby league footballer, also wrote the adapted screenplay. The film stars Richard Harris , Rachel Roberts , William Hartnell and Alan Badel . It was directed by Lindsay Anderson . The film was Richard Harris' first starring role, and won him a Best Actor Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival . He was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Rachel Roberts won another BAFTA award for This Sporting Life and an Oscar nomination for best actress. Harris was nominated for the BAFTA that year but was topped by Dirk Bogarde for his role in the Joseph Losey production The Servant. The film opened at the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End on 7 February 1963. Show Less
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Chris Froome under fire from Greg LeMond as Tour legend wants proof of Team Sky stats, slamming marginal gains: 'When you hear someone say I eat better, it's bull****'
Tour de France leader Chris Froome has come in for questioning
There is scepticism in the cycling world at Team Sky's achievements
Greg LeMond became the highest-profile within the sport to comment
Three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond has become the highest-profile cyclist to comment on suspicions over Team Sky and Chris Froome's success.
Froome, barring catastrophe, should win his second Tour on the Champs-Elysees this weekend.
But he was spat on by a spectator during Friday's stage and has also come under fire from French sports physiologists who suggested his power data earlier in the Tour possibly pointed to cheating.
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Three-time champion Greg LeMond has become the highest-profile to comment on Team Sky suspicions
Sky hit back with their own data refuting those claims and Froome insists that releasing all the numbers would mean revealing their methods and conceding a competitive advantage.
LeMond accepts Froome's statistics fall within the parameters of 'normal human performance' but the American, who won three Tours between 1986 and 1990, still has his concerns with what he sees as Sky's ongoing lack of transparency.
'I always say that if people don't want to share stuff, they've got something to hide,' said LeMond. 'If they are too afraid to disclose a lot of data, that's bad.
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'It feels to me like the events of the last week or so, these scientists questioning the data, is the start of something and it needs to continue. It needs to be the data combined with the blood passport, and you have to have people's natural VO2 max (the measurement of how efficiently the body uses oxygen). Chris has to be tested for his VO2 max.
'If they don't want to be under this scrutiny, they need to disclose everything. Otherwise they are going to have scientists questioning them for the rest of their careers.'
LeMond, working in France as a TV pundit, also poured scorn over Sky's much-heralded 'marginal gains'. He said: 'When you hear someone say I eat better, it's bull****. When you hear them say we have beds, it's bull****.'
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Steve Davis reached every final of the Snooker World Championship between 1983 and 1989, but who were the two players who beat him? | How Steve Davis won his sixth and final World Snooker Championship in 1989 | Sport | The Guardian
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How Steve Davis won his sixth and final World Snooker Championship in 1989
The reigning champion had not enjoyed a great season in 1988-89 but he showed his true class at the Crucible, where he beat Stephen Hendry and John Parrott on his way to winning snooker’s greatest prize for the sixth time
Friday 17 April 2015 05.00 EDT
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The state of the game in the late 1980s
As the last World Snooker Championships of the 1980s neared, a debate was raging as to whether the sport had lost its appeal with the viewing public. There were arguments to be heard from both sides. On the one hand, the BBC had just paid £11m to secure television coverage until May 1996, but on the other the number of hours devoted to the sport on our screens was steadily declining. In the 1985-86 season, 400 hours of snooker had been shown, dropping to 350 in 1987 and 300 in 1988, giving the impression that over saturation in the peak days of the mid-1980s had led to apathy among TV executives.
News that a couple of tournaments were losing their sponsors added fuel to the fire that snooker was struggling, with Anglian Windows no longer backing the British Open and Tennents withdrawing from the UK Championship. Yet, when it came to the World Championship, the impression remained that the enthusiasm would still exist within both the snooker fanatics and casual observers alike; after all, the fortnight at the Crucible in Sheffield was always special. Snooker needed an exciting 1989 World Championship, but come the end of the tournament, the ruthless displays of one of the greatest players to have held a cue left many wondering if things were becoming too predictable.
Perhaps the sport needed normality on the green baize after controversy upon controversy during the season. From the cocaine-related stories involving Kirk Stevens and Cliff Thorburn to the beta-blocker tales of Bill Werbeniuk, via match fixing allegations involving Peter Francisco, the sport was rarely off the front and back pages. Naturally Alex Higgins was often in the tabloids, suffering a broken foot when trying to escape out of a flat window after a row with his girlfriend Siobhan Kidd, but he also highlighted his undoubted talent when he defeated Stephen Hendry in the final of the Irish Masters just two weeks before Sheffield.
Higgins would not make it to Yorkshire, however, after his 10-8 defeat to Welshman Darren Morgan in the qualifiers. The Hurricane was not the only notable absentee. Werbeniuk had been stripped of professional status after failing to pay a £2,000 fine for his use of beta-blockers; six-time champion Ray Reardon was again not present; Kirk Stevens’ troubles meant he also failed to qualify; former champion John Spencer exited at the last qualifying stage, as did Rex Williams. In all there were seven debutants at the Crucible – Steve Newbury, Joe O’Boye, Steve Duggan, David Roe, Darren Morgan, Gary Wilkinson and Paddy Browne – indicating that times were changing as the end of the decade approached.
Davis begins an open championship as the favourite
The journalists previewing the tournament may have been casting doubts over the chances of Steve Davis winning a record-equalling sixth title but this was definitely not reflected with the bookmakers. Davis was installed as the 5-4 favourite, with Hendry at 5-1, John Parrott 7-1 and Jimmy White 8-1.
The reason for the question marks hanging over Davis was his unusually mediocre showing in the 1988-89 season. After winning the International Open and Grand Prix at the start of the campaign, Davis had uncharacteristically failed to build on this, being beaten three times out of four by Hendry, losing the Canadian Masters final to White, being defeated by Parrott in the European Open, and suffering the humiliation of losing to world No51 Tony Chappel in the first round of the Mercantile Credit Classic.
Even so, Davis’ earnings were still approaching the £500,000 mark for the year, and the mere sight of the Crucible was always an inspiration to the world No1. “The World Championship is different, a mini-season within a season,” said Davis on arriving in Sheffield. “I’ve not gone soft. This is an exciting time for me. You know what’s coming, what to expect, how hard it is and how you’ve got to prove yourself.”
Davis’ main threat was undoubtedly the 20-year-old starlet Hendry. The Masters champion had not enjoyed as successful a season as he had 12 months before, but the victories over Davis were an indication that he could cut it at the very top level of the sport. Many observers were already talking up the prospect of the Scot becoming the youngest ever world champion. With the pair due to meet in the semi-finals, all eyes were set on the possible Davis-Hendry clash, although Hendry would be involved in a tense opening-round match that nearly scuppered this straight away.
John Parrott was seen as another possible contender. The Mirror’s Tony Stenson offered the opinion that “The Nearly Man is about to come of age”, with commentator Jack Karnehm also saying that Parrot had “come of age” and that “this could be his year”. The European Open champion was set to shoot up the world rankings after a fine season and was sounding understandably confident on the eve of the tournament: “I wasn’t ready before. Now I feel I’ve served my apprenticeship.”
Of the rest of the field, White had endured a slump in form since his Canadian Masters win and was not expected to end his World Championship pain. Conversely, Doug Mountjoy had won the Welsh Championship, Mercantile Credit Classic, and UK Championship in a stirring season that saw the 46-year-old move from 24th to 10th in the world, with the Welshman tipped to do well at Sheffield. Former world champions Dennis Taylor and Joe Johnson were not considered realistic prospects for another title, although 1979 winner and 1988 finalist Terry Griffiths was a consistent performer who could not be completely ruled out.
Steve Davis competing at the 1989 World Snooker Championship. Photograph: Bob Thomas/Getty Images
The early rounds prove simple enough for the champion
As the tournament progressed, it appeared that rumours of Davis’ demise had been greatly exaggerated. A comfortable 10-5 win over Steve Newbury in the first round was a mere warm-up for his next victim. Steve Duggan may have thumped Cliff Wilson 10-1 in the opening round, a defeat that meant the Welshman exited the top 16 in the world, yet Davis was a different prospect completely. Davis won the match with a session to spare, his 13-3 win spelling out a warning to the rest that he was on top form.
Another 13-3 win over Mike Hallett in the quarter-final gave Davis more time to practice, not that his performances suggested he needed it. “I was expecting a harder game, but Mike gave me bundles of opportunities,” said Davis, the loser at least improving on his 13-1 loss to the same man in the second round of the 1988 tournament.
Hallett would move up to world No6 after his Crucible showing, his first-round win over a rejuvenated Mountjoy a personal highlight, especially after the Welshman had dismissed Hallett’s chances before their match. “It spurred me on,” said Hallett after his 10-8 win. “I had the hump because he dismissed me.” In defeat, Mountjoy stood by his original views, saying: “I didn’t rate him before the game, and I still don’t now. I lost rather than he won.” Not the most dignified way for Mountjoy to end a season to remember.
Stephen Hendry is nearly knocked out in the first round
Davis may have moved serenely through to the semi-finals, but it was not so simple for Hendry. Playing Gary Wilkinson in the first round, Hendry looked to have started his campaign in emphatic style, moving into an early 4-0 lead, and although Wilkinson pulled back to 6-3 down, the bookies odds of 14-1 on the English debutant gave a fair indication of his perceived chances.
The odds were soon slashed to 5-1 though when Wilkinson narrowed the gap to 7-6, and when Hendry missed a couple of chances in the 16th frame and the match went to 8-8, it appeared as if the Scot was struggling. Hendry won the next with an 88 break but back came Wilkinson to set up a deciding frame. In a lively atmosphere, Hendry was booed both before the break and at the conclusion, yet he composed himself enough to put in a break of 67 to seal the narrowest of victories.
“It was strange, hearing the boos,” Hendry admitted. “It hasn’t happened to me before. It didn’t affect me, in fact quite the opposite. It geed me on.” Hendry had survived his scare, openly declaring that he was unnerved when Wilkinson began his comeback. The fourth seed would go from strength to strength as he cranked through the gears in his next couple of matches, but his 1989 World Championship adventure could very well have been over before it had even started.
The seeds drift out to clear the way for a Hendry v Davis semi-final
Hendry may have sneaked through but for four other seeds there would be no such luck. Joe Johnson never recovered from an 8-0 deficit in his match with Tony Meo, eventually losing 10-5 to put the victor into the second round for the first time since 1985. Peter Francisco suffered in a different way to Johnson, leading Dean Reynolds 7-4 before losing six frames in a row and also dropping out of the top 16 to complete his misery.
Tony Knowles did not exit the tournament quietly, his 10-6 loss to David Roe overshadowed by a row between Knowles and referee John Williams. The contentious incident occurred in the 15th frame, as Williams twice called Knowles for a miss, the Bolton man furious that his escape, involving four cushions, was punished. “It wasn’t a miss. If it had been I would have called it myself,” said an irate Knowles at his press conference. “The crowd knew it was a bad decision.”
Trailing 8-6, Knowles lost the crucial frame and was soon on his way out, completing a poor season for the eighth seed. “It’s nothing to do with my ability,” said Knowles. “It’s my confidence as a person that is the reason.” His time at the top end of the world rankings was becoming a distant memory.
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A war of attrition between Cliff Thorburn and Eddie Charlton
The fourth seed to fall at the first hurdle did so in a match of such length that it deserves a section on its own. Cliff Thorburn’s 10-9 defeat to Australian Eddie Charlton was not a major surprise, giving the Canadian’s year and the determination of his opponent. But the reaction of Charlton afterwards left a lot to be desired.
There could be many adjectives used to describe Charlton’s 10-9 win: wearing is one, maybe methodical, tactical or technical. But many of those present during the match may have plumped for plain old boring, the marathon between the pair not finishing until 2.39 on the morning of Thursday April 20 (it was scheduled to finish on the Tuesday) with roughly 50 spectators present and many reports suggesting that at least a dozen of those were asleep.
The match lasted 10 hours and 24 minutes, Thorburn calling it the “survival of the fittest” and “a bit of a grind”. Those were kind words. John David described the encounter as “the most tedious first round match in Crucible history” in the Express, while Frank Malley declared in the same paper that Charlton “couldn’t pot a tomato plant without lining it up a dozen times.”
You might have thought that Charlton would have shown some sympathy with the people who had endured the drudgery, but not a bit of it. “I’m a professional snooker player and I play to win. If the fans don’t like it, they can lump it.” In some ways you had to admire his honesty, but it wasn’t very pretty and Charlton perhaps should have shown a little more respect to those paying spectators and fans of the sport.
“In 1956, Eddie Charlton carried the torch at the Olympic Games in Melbourne,” wrote The Times’ Steve Acteson. “In the early hours of yesterday morning he conspicuously failed to do the same for snooker.” Charlton’s reaction was strongly lambasted throughout the British press and when he lost 13-8 to Tony Meo in the second round, not a lot of tears were shed.
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A sporting gesture from John Virgo
One man who did his very best to show snooker in a better light was John Virgo, the chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Virgo had defeated Higgins’ conqueror Darren Morgan in his opening match, ending his Crucible jinx that had seen him knocked out in the first round every year since 1983, which set up a second round date with Jimmy White.
The match was nip and tuck throughout and inevitably entered a final frame decider. A break of 26 saw Virgo move 33-31 up as White watched on helplessly, the balls sitting in an ideal position for a match-winning visit to the table. And then Virgo made a sporting gesture that still lives long in my fading memory.
Brushing a red with his cue, Virgo could have easily got away with his crime, his contact so thin that nobody noticed apart from him. But the honesty of both the sport and Virgo meant that this was not a viable option. Virgo immediately stood up from the shot to admit to his foul, an action that brought praise from one and all, even more so when you consider that White cleared up to book his place in the last eight. Sometimes an individual reaffirms your faith in top level sport and Saturday was one such example.
Tony Meo’s Indian Summer
Snooker had not been kind to Tony Meo in the past couple of years. Steadily dropping down the rankings since 1986, the extremely talented Meo had departed the 1987 championship in tears, his loss meaning that he had slipped outside the top 16 and would need to qualify in 1988. When he failed to do so, Meo openly admitted that he considered quitting the game, but with the support of Matchroom manager Barry Hearn, gradually the Englishman started to get his act together.
Ranked 31 at the start of 1988-89, Meo finally broke his tournament duck, defeating Dean Reynolds in the final of the British Open to bury the ghosts of his 1984 Lada Classic nightmare, when a well-intentioned shout of support disrupted Meo in his deciding-frame shootout with Davis. Despite his good year Meo still needed a good showing at the Crucible to get back into the top 16 for the next season. He got that and some more.
After his wins over Johnson and Charlton, Meo then defeated Reynolds 13-9 in the quarter-final in a match that contained plenty of talking points both before and after. In the lead-up to the quarter-final, the press happily dug up Reynolds’ comments made after the British Open final in which he had criticised Meo for being “slow and negative”, even though Reynolds had subsequently apologised for being “totally out of order”. Ironically though it would be Reynolds who would be punished for slow play during the World Championships, with referee John Williams issuing a warning to him to “buck his ideas up” during a pivotal 18th frame.
Reynolds broke down in tears during his press conference, labelling Williams as “incompetent” and arguing that the referee had cost him dearly. “I was in the middle of a break. I was really gutted and after that every time I was down on a shot I was conscious of the time I was taking instead of giving thought to the shot.” Reynolds’ opinion was backed up by Virgo, who had been commentating on the match at the time, but that was probably very little consolation.
Davis the king holds off Hendry’s charge in the semi-final
After his first-round scare, Hendry soon got back on track. Willie Thorne did not provide much opposition in the second round, his numerous mistakes leading to a crushing 13-4 defeat (although television viewers missed quite a lot of the match due to a 24-hour BBC strike), but it would be Hendry’s quarter-final display against Griffiths that truly got tongues wagging. Winning nine frames in a row, including one with the highest break of the tournament, a 141, Hendry’s 13-5 win set up the match every snooker fan wanted to see: Davis v Hendry.
Initially Davis tangled up Hendry in his carefully planned safety game, taking a 5-2 lead overnight and increasing this to 10-4 after the morning session on the second day. However, we were then provided with a sign (if we needed one) that Hendry was truly made of the right stuff, as he began to chip away at Davis’ advantage.
At one point Hendry narrowed the gap to 12-9, and although Davis then rattled off four frames in a row for a place in the final, Hendry had announced himself at the Crucible. The King would reign for a little longer, but it was becoming apparent that he would find it difficult to keep the heir off his throne. The baton of world dominance was about to be passed on.
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John Parrott on a mission for the people of Liverpool
Saturday April 15: the opening day of the World Snooker championships was not the only big sporting event to be taking place in Sheffield. The FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest was being played at Hillsborough, just a few miles away from the Crucible, yet on a day of indescribable tragedy as football supporters lost their lives in a stadium disaster that is still difficult to comprehend. Snooker paid its respects. On the following Saturday play began at 3.07pm after a minute’s silence, and one man made it his goal to try and win the World Championship for his grieving city.
John Parrott had worn a black armband throughout his first round match over Steve James, and after a nail biting 10-9 win, he openly spoke of the pain he was feeling. “I stood on the terraces at both Anfield and Goodison. The people who died were my people, special people, a different class.”
As momentum built, Parrott continued on his quest, knocking out Dennis Taylor and an out of sorts Jimmy White to seal a semi-final berth with Meo. Pledging “to do my damnedest to take the trophy back home for the people of Liverpool,” Parrott was riding on an emotional rollercoaster, but still managed to put in high quality displays that had been prominent throughout his season.
Meo was simply no match in their semi-final, with Parrott surging from 8-5 to a comfortable 16-7 win. Disappointment for Meo, even if he did jump up 17 places in the world rankings, yet Parrott was now only one step from his first world title. The only problem was that the obstacle in the way of what would be a poignant victory was a certain Steve Davis.
Davis is presented with the trophy and a cheque. Photograph: Gray Mortimore/Getty Images
Awesome Davis crushes Parrott 18-3 in the final
The final would prove to be one step too far for Parrott, although it is debatable as to whether anyone could have lived with Davis in that form. “I’ve played the best snooker of my career,” said Davis after he had secured his sixth world title. No one disagreed. “The best I’ve seen him play in the 13 years I’ve been with him,” said Hearn. “One of the most remorseless sessions ever witnessed in a World Championship match,” wrote Acteson after Sunday’s evening session, with Stenson adding to the praise, calling Davis’ display “a performance of sheer perfection”.
The 18-3 thrashing was a chilling inevitability from the very first frame, Davis simply relentless and capitalising on any Parrott error to open up a 13-3 lead overnight. Parrott, who later stated that he played “like a slow puncture”, was helpless to prevent the biggest final defeat in Crucible history, as Davis once again wrapped up a victory with a session to spare (Parrott was then put through the torture of an exhibition match with Davis in the evening, which was less than welcome).
As the dust settled on the tournament, many considered the ease with which Davis won the title and the possible consequences for the sport if he continued to dominate. On paper his three successive world titles and the fact that he only lost 23 frames during the 1989 championship hinted that his time at the top was not yet up. But amazingly 1989 would be his last ever World Championship final. As the decade of Davis ended, so the Hendry years commenced. 1989 proved to be one final demonstration of Steve Davis at his very best.
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How Steve Davis won his sixth and final World Snooker Championship in 1989
The reigning champion had not enjoyed a great season in 1988-89 but he showed his true class at the Crucible, where he beat Stephen Hendry and John Parrott on his way to winning snooker’s greatest prize for the sixth time
Friday 17 April 2015 05.00 EDT
Last modified on Monday 4 April 2016 09.19 EDT
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The state of the game in the late 1980s
As the last World Snooker Championships of the 1980s neared, a debate was raging as to whether the sport had lost its appeal with the viewing public. There were arguments to be heard from both sides. On the one hand, the BBC had just paid £11m to secure television coverage until May 1996, but on the other the number of hours devoted to the sport on our screens was steadily declining. In the 1985-86 season, 400 hours of snooker had been shown, dropping to 350 in 1987 and 300 in 1988, giving the impression that over saturation in the peak days of the mid-1980s had led to apathy among TV executives.
News that a couple of tournaments were losing their sponsors added fuel to the fire that snooker was struggling, with Anglian Windows no longer backing the British Open and Tennents withdrawing from the UK Championship. Yet, when it came to the World Championship, the impression remained that the enthusiasm would still exist within both the snooker fanatics and casual observers alike; after all, the fortnight at the Crucible in Sheffield was always special. Snooker needed an exciting 1989 World Championship, but come the end of the tournament, the ruthless displays of one of the greatest players to have held a cue left many wondering if things were becoming too predictable.
Perhaps the sport needed normality on the green baize after controversy upon controversy during the season. From the cocaine-related stories involving Kirk Stevens and Cliff Thorburn to the beta-blocker tales of Bill Werbeniuk, via match fixing allegations involving Peter Francisco, the sport was rarely off the front and back pages. Naturally Alex Higgins was often in the tabloids, suffering a broken foot when trying to escape out of a flat window after a row with his girlfriend Siobhan Kidd, but he also highlighted his undoubted talent when he defeated Stephen Hendry in the final of the Irish Masters just two weeks before Sheffield.
Higgins would not make it to Yorkshire, however, after his 10-8 defeat to Welshman Darren Morgan in the qualifiers. The Hurricane was not the only notable absentee. Werbeniuk had been stripped of professional status after failing to pay a £2,000 fine for his use of beta-blockers; six-time champion Ray Reardon was again not present; Kirk Stevens’ troubles meant he also failed to qualify; former champion John Spencer exited at the last qualifying stage, as did Rex Williams. In all there were seven debutants at the Crucible – Steve Newbury, Joe O’Boye, Steve Duggan, David Roe, Darren Morgan, Gary Wilkinson and Paddy Browne – indicating that times were changing as the end of the decade approached.
Davis begins an open championship as the favourite
The journalists previewing the tournament may have been casting doubts over the chances of Steve Davis winning a record-equalling sixth title but this was definitely not reflected with the bookmakers. Davis was installed as the 5-4 favourite, with Hendry at 5-1, John Parrott 7-1 and Jimmy White 8-1.
The reason for the question marks hanging over Davis was his unusually mediocre showing in the 1988-89 season. After winning the International Open and Grand Prix at the start of the campaign, Davis had uncharacteristically failed to build on this, being beaten three times out of four by Hendry, losing the Canadian Masters final to White, being defeated by Parrott in the European Open, and suffering the humiliation of losing to world No51 Tony Chappel in the first round of the Mercantile Credit Classic.
Even so, Davis’ earnings were still approaching the £500,000 mark for the year, and the mere sight of the Crucible was always an inspiration to the world No1. “The World Championship is different, a mini-season within a season,” said Davis on arriving in Sheffield. “I’ve not gone soft. This is an exciting time for me. You know what’s coming, what to expect, how hard it is and how you’ve got to prove yourself.”
Davis’ main threat was undoubtedly the 20-year-old starlet Hendry. The Masters champion had not enjoyed as successful a season as he had 12 months before, but the victories over Davis were an indication that he could cut it at the very top level of the sport. Many observers were already talking up the prospect of the Scot becoming the youngest ever world champion. With the pair due to meet in the semi-finals, all eyes were set on the possible Davis-Hendry clash, although Hendry would be involved in a tense opening-round match that nearly scuppered this straight away.
John Parrott was seen as another possible contender. The Mirror’s Tony Stenson offered the opinion that “The Nearly Man is about to come of age”, with commentator Jack Karnehm also saying that Parrot had “come of age” and that “this could be his year”. The European Open champion was set to shoot up the world rankings after a fine season and was sounding understandably confident on the eve of the tournament: “I wasn’t ready before. Now I feel I’ve served my apprenticeship.”
Of the rest of the field, White had endured a slump in form since his Canadian Masters win and was not expected to end his World Championship pain. Conversely, Doug Mountjoy had won the Welsh Championship, Mercantile Credit Classic, and UK Championship in a stirring season that saw the 46-year-old move from 24th to 10th in the world, with the Welshman tipped to do well at Sheffield. Former world champions Dennis Taylor and Joe Johnson were not considered realistic prospects for another title, although 1979 winner and 1988 finalist Terry Griffiths was a consistent performer who could not be completely ruled out.
Steve Davis competing at the 1989 World Snooker Championship. Photograph: Bob Thomas/Getty Images
The early rounds prove simple enough for the champion
As the tournament progressed, it appeared that rumours of Davis’ demise had been greatly exaggerated. A comfortable 10-5 win over Steve Newbury in the first round was a mere warm-up for his next victim. Steve Duggan may have thumped Cliff Wilson 10-1 in the opening round, a defeat that meant the Welshman exited the top 16 in the world, yet Davis was a different prospect completely. Davis won the match with a session to spare, his 13-3 win spelling out a warning to the rest that he was on top form.
Another 13-3 win over Mike Hallett in the quarter-final gave Davis more time to practice, not that his performances suggested he needed it. “I was expecting a harder game, but Mike gave me bundles of opportunities,” said Davis, the loser at least improving on his 13-1 loss to the same man in the second round of the 1988 tournament.
Hallett would move up to world No6 after his Crucible showing, his first-round win over a rejuvenated Mountjoy a personal highlight, especially after the Welshman had dismissed Hallett’s chances before their match. “It spurred me on,” said Hallett after his 10-8 win. “I had the hump because he dismissed me.” In defeat, Mountjoy stood by his original views, saying: “I didn’t rate him before the game, and I still don’t now. I lost rather than he won.” Not the most dignified way for Mountjoy to end a season to remember.
Stephen Hendry is nearly knocked out in the first round
Davis may have moved serenely through to the semi-finals, but it was not so simple for Hendry. Playing Gary Wilkinson in the first round, Hendry looked to have started his campaign in emphatic style, moving into an early 4-0 lead, and although Wilkinson pulled back to 6-3 down, the bookies odds of 14-1 on the English debutant gave a fair indication of his perceived chances.
The odds were soon slashed to 5-1 though when Wilkinson narrowed the gap to 7-6, and when Hendry missed a couple of chances in the 16th frame and the match went to 8-8, it appeared as if the Scot was struggling. Hendry won the next with an 88 break but back came Wilkinson to set up a deciding frame. In a lively atmosphere, Hendry was booed both before the break and at the conclusion, yet he composed himself enough to put in a break of 67 to seal the narrowest of victories.
“It was strange, hearing the boos,” Hendry admitted. “It hasn’t happened to me before. It didn’t affect me, in fact quite the opposite. It geed me on.” Hendry had survived his scare, openly declaring that he was unnerved when Wilkinson began his comeback. The fourth seed would go from strength to strength as he cranked through the gears in his next couple of matches, but his 1989 World Championship adventure could very well have been over before it had even started.
The seeds drift out to clear the way for a Hendry v Davis semi-final
Hendry may have sneaked through but for four other seeds there would be no such luck. Joe Johnson never recovered from an 8-0 deficit in his match with Tony Meo, eventually losing 10-5 to put the victor into the second round for the first time since 1985. Peter Francisco suffered in a different way to Johnson, leading Dean Reynolds 7-4 before losing six frames in a row and also dropping out of the top 16 to complete his misery.
Tony Knowles did not exit the tournament quietly, his 10-6 loss to David Roe overshadowed by a row between Knowles and referee John Williams. The contentious incident occurred in the 15th frame, as Williams twice called Knowles for a miss, the Bolton man furious that his escape, involving four cushions, was punished. “It wasn’t a miss. If it had been I would have called it myself,” said an irate Knowles at his press conference. “The crowd knew it was a bad decision.”
Trailing 8-6, Knowles lost the crucial frame and was soon on his way out, completing a poor season for the eighth seed. “It’s nothing to do with my ability,” said Knowles. “It’s my confidence as a person that is the reason.” His time at the top end of the world rankings was becoming a distant memory.
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A war of attrition between Cliff Thorburn and Eddie Charlton
The fourth seed to fall at the first hurdle did so in a match of such length that it deserves a section on its own. Cliff Thorburn’s 10-9 defeat to Australian Eddie Charlton was not a major surprise, giving the Canadian’s year and the determination of his opponent. But the reaction of Charlton afterwards left a lot to be desired.
There could be many adjectives used to describe Charlton’s 10-9 win: wearing is one, maybe methodical, tactical or technical. But many of those present during the match may have plumped for plain old boring, the marathon between the pair not finishing until 2.39 on the morning of Thursday April 20 (it was scheduled to finish on the Tuesday) with roughly 50 spectators present and many reports suggesting that at least a dozen of those were asleep.
The match lasted 10 hours and 24 minutes, Thorburn calling it the “survival of the fittest” and “a bit of a grind”. Those were kind words. John David described the encounter as “the most tedious first round match in Crucible history” in the Express, while Frank Malley declared in the same paper that Charlton “couldn’t pot a tomato plant without lining it up a dozen times.”
You might have thought that Charlton would have shown some sympathy with the people who had endured the drudgery, but not a bit of it. “I’m a professional snooker player and I play to win. If the fans don’t like it, they can lump it.” In some ways you had to admire his honesty, but it wasn’t very pretty and Charlton perhaps should have shown a little more respect to those paying spectators and fans of the sport.
“In 1956, Eddie Charlton carried the torch at the Olympic Games in Melbourne,” wrote The Times’ Steve Acteson. “In the early hours of yesterday morning he conspicuously failed to do the same for snooker.” Charlton’s reaction was strongly lambasted throughout the British press and when he lost 13-8 to Tony Meo in the second round, not a lot of tears were shed.
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A sporting gesture from John Virgo
One man who did his very best to show snooker in a better light was John Virgo, the chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Virgo had defeated Higgins’ conqueror Darren Morgan in his opening match, ending his Crucible jinx that had seen him knocked out in the first round every year since 1983, which set up a second round date with Jimmy White.
The match was nip and tuck throughout and inevitably entered a final frame decider. A break of 26 saw Virgo move 33-31 up as White watched on helplessly, the balls sitting in an ideal position for a match-winning visit to the table. And then Virgo made a sporting gesture that still lives long in my fading memory.
Brushing a red with his cue, Virgo could have easily got away with his crime, his contact so thin that nobody noticed apart from him. But the honesty of both the sport and Virgo meant that this was not a viable option. Virgo immediately stood up from the shot to admit to his foul, an action that brought praise from one and all, even more so when you consider that White cleared up to book his place in the last eight. Sometimes an individual reaffirms your faith in top level sport and Saturday was one such example.
Tony Meo’s Indian Summer
Snooker had not been kind to Tony Meo in the past couple of years. Steadily dropping down the rankings since 1986, the extremely talented Meo had departed the 1987 championship in tears, his loss meaning that he had slipped outside the top 16 and would need to qualify in 1988. When he failed to do so, Meo openly admitted that he considered quitting the game, but with the support of Matchroom manager Barry Hearn, gradually the Englishman started to get his act together.
Ranked 31 at the start of 1988-89, Meo finally broke his tournament duck, defeating Dean Reynolds in the final of the British Open to bury the ghosts of his 1984 Lada Classic nightmare, when a well-intentioned shout of support disrupted Meo in his deciding-frame shootout with Davis. Despite his good year Meo still needed a good showing at the Crucible to get back into the top 16 for the next season. He got that and some more.
After his wins over Johnson and Charlton, Meo then defeated Reynolds 13-9 in the quarter-final in a match that contained plenty of talking points both before and after. In the lead-up to the quarter-final, the press happily dug up Reynolds’ comments made after the British Open final in which he had criticised Meo for being “slow and negative”, even though Reynolds had subsequently apologised for being “totally out of order”. Ironically though it would be Reynolds who would be punished for slow play during the World Championships, with referee John Williams issuing a warning to him to “buck his ideas up” during a pivotal 18th frame.
Reynolds broke down in tears during his press conference, labelling Williams as “incompetent” and arguing that the referee had cost him dearly. “I was in the middle of a break. I was really gutted and after that every time I was down on a shot I was conscious of the time I was taking instead of giving thought to the shot.” Reynolds’ opinion was backed up by Virgo, who had been commentating on the match at the time, but that was probably very little consolation.
Davis the king holds off Hendry’s charge in the semi-final
After his first-round scare, Hendry soon got back on track. Willie Thorne did not provide much opposition in the second round, his numerous mistakes leading to a crushing 13-4 defeat (although television viewers missed quite a lot of the match due to a 24-hour BBC strike), but it would be Hendry’s quarter-final display against Griffiths that truly got tongues wagging. Winning nine frames in a row, including one with the highest break of the tournament, a 141, Hendry’s 13-5 win set up the match every snooker fan wanted to see: Davis v Hendry.
Initially Davis tangled up Hendry in his carefully planned safety game, taking a 5-2 lead overnight and increasing this to 10-4 after the morning session on the second day. However, we were then provided with a sign (if we needed one) that Hendry was truly made of the right stuff, as he began to chip away at Davis’ advantage.
At one point Hendry narrowed the gap to 12-9, and although Davis then rattled off four frames in a row for a place in the final, Hendry had announced himself at the Crucible. The King would reign for a little longer, but it was becoming apparent that he would find it difficult to keep the heir off his throne. The baton of world dominance was about to be passed on.
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John Parrott on a mission for the people of Liverpool
Saturday April 15: the opening day of the World Snooker championships was not the only big sporting event to be taking place in Sheffield. The FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest was being played at Hillsborough, just a few miles away from the Crucible, yet on a day of indescribable tragedy as football supporters lost their lives in a stadium disaster that is still difficult to comprehend. Snooker paid its respects. On the following Saturday play began at 3.07pm after a minute’s silence, and one man made it his goal to try and win the World Championship for his grieving city.
John Parrott had worn a black armband throughout his first round match over Steve James, and after a nail biting 10-9 win, he openly spoke of the pain he was feeling. “I stood on the terraces at both Anfield and Goodison. The people who died were my people, special people, a different class.”
As momentum built, Parrott continued on his quest, knocking out Dennis Taylor and an out of sorts Jimmy White to seal a semi-final berth with Meo. Pledging “to do my damnedest to take the trophy back home for the people of Liverpool,” Parrott was riding on an emotional rollercoaster, but still managed to put in high quality displays that had been prominent throughout his season.
Meo was simply no match in their semi-final, with Parrott surging from 8-5 to a comfortable 16-7 win. Disappointment for Meo, even if he did jump up 17 places in the world rankings, yet Parrott was now only one step from his first world title. The only problem was that the obstacle in the way of what would be a poignant victory was a certain Steve Davis.
Davis is presented with the trophy and a cheque. Photograph: Gray Mortimore/Getty Images
Awesome Davis crushes Parrott 18-3 in the final
The final would prove to be one step too far for Parrott, although it is debatable as to whether anyone could have lived with Davis in that form. “I’ve played the best snooker of my career,” said Davis after he had secured his sixth world title. No one disagreed. “The best I’ve seen him play in the 13 years I’ve been with him,” said Hearn. “One of the most remorseless sessions ever witnessed in a World Championship match,” wrote Acteson after Sunday’s evening session, with Stenson adding to the praise, calling Davis’ display “a performance of sheer perfection”.
The 18-3 thrashing was a chilling inevitability from the very first frame, Davis simply relentless and capitalising on any Parrott error to open up a 13-3 lead overnight. Parrott, who later stated that he played “like a slow puncture”, was helpless to prevent the biggest final defeat in Crucible history, as Davis once again wrapped up a victory with a session to spare (Parrott was then put through the torture of an exhibition match with Davis in the evening, which was less than welcome).
As the dust settled on the tournament, many considered the ease with which Davis won the title and the possible consequences for the sport if he continued to dominate. On paper his three successive world titles and the fact that he only lost 23 frames during the 1989 championship hinted that his time at the top was not yet up. But amazingly 1989 would be his last ever World Championship final. As the decade of Davis ended, so the Hendry years commenced. 1989 proved to be one final demonstration of Steve Davis at his very best.
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In Greek legend, what is the name given to the creature that is half man and half bull? | What Is the Name for a Hybrid Monster?
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Question: What's the Name of a Half-Man Half-Beast?
The following question about a hodge-podge mythical creature was posted on the Ancient / Classical History Forum:
I have been searching endlessly for an umbrella term defined as a creature in Greek mythology that is half-human, half-animal. I know of specific creatures, such as the minotaur and the centaur, but I am looking for a general term than encompasses all of these creatures. Can anyone help???
Answer: The answer to this question is not one of the following specific mythical hybrid creatures:
Centaur (horse-man)
Satyr (horse-tailed man; later, goat-man)
Siren (bird-woman)
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Based on characters from Greek mythology, the 1963 film Jason And The Argonauts is centred around a quest to find what? | Minotaur
Minotaur (MIN-uh-tawr)
The Minotaur was a monster, half-man, half-bull, that devoured sacrificial victims thrown into the Labyrinth. Born of Queen Pasiphae's god-inflicted infatuation with a bull, the Minotaur was eventually killed by Theseus. The monster is generally depicted as having the head of a bull and the body of a man. But in the Middle Ages, artists portrayed a man's head and torso on a bull's body. Here's how the Minotaur figured into the complete legend of Theseus:
It was by lifting a boulder that Theseus, grandson of the king of Troezen, first proved himself a hero. Theseus was sixteen at the time. He had been raised by his grandfather and his mother, Princess Aethra. One day the princess called Theseus to her side. It was time, she said, that he learned of his father, who was ruler of a mighty kingdom. This was news to Theseus, who had been under the impression that his father was one of the gods.
"Before I divulge his identity," said the princess, "you must meet the challenge your father has set you."
Years ago, the king had hefted a mighty stone. Underneath he had placed something for his son to find - if he could lift the weight. Aethra guided Theseus to a forest clearing, in the midst of which was a boulder. Theseus proceeded to lift the stone easily, or so the myth-tellers generally assume. But like most myths, this one is vague about the details. According to one theory, Theseus would have had trouble with a task involving brute strength.
This theory was advanced by Mary Renault in her novel The King Must Die. It is based on the tradition that Theseus invented "scientific" wrestling. This is the discipline by which even a lightweight can beat a stronger adversary by fancy footwork, trick holds and using the opponent's momentum to advantage. Theseus would have had little cause to invent such tactics if he'd been capable of beating his adversaries by sheer physical strength. Therefore one may deduce that the hero was a lightweight. So when it came to lifting boulders, Theseus was at a disadvantage. Resourcefulness, another heroic trait, must have come to his aid. He would have looked for some mechanical means to multiply his physical strength.
Beneath the stone Theseus found certain tokens left by his father. His name, Aethra now revealed, was King Aegeus of Athens. Prompted by a sense of heroic destiny, Theseus set out forthwith to meet this parent he had never known. He determined to journey to Athens by land, although his mother argued for the safer route by sea. And in fact the landward route proved to be infested by an unusual number of villains, thugs and thieves. Theseus quickly adopted the credo of doing unto these bad guys what they were in the habit of doing to others.
Setting out from Troezen, his birthplace, the first community of any size through which he passed was Epidaurus. Here he was waylaid by the ruffian Periphetes. Periphetes was nicknamed Corynetes or "Club-Man", after his weapon of choice, a stout length of wood wrapped in bronze to magnify its impact upon the skulls of his victims. Theseus merely snatched this implement from Periphetes and did him in with it. Some say that this incident was manufactured to account for depictions of Theseus carrying a club like his cousin Heracles, one of a number of instances on Theseus's part of heroic imitation.
The next malefactor who received a dose of his own medicine was a fellow named Sinis, who used to ask passers-by to help him bend two pine trees to the ground. Why the wayfarers should have wanted to help in this activity is not disclosed. Presumably Sinis was persuasive. Once he had bent the trees, he tied his helper's wrists - one to each tree. Then he took a break. When the strain became too much, the victim had to let go, which caused the trees to snap upright and scatter portions of anatomy in all directions. Theseus turned the tables on Sinis by tying his wrists to a couple of bent pines, then letting nature and fatigue take their course.
Then, not far from Athens, Theseus encountered Sciron. This famous brigand operated along the tall cliffs which to this day are named after him. He had a special tub in which he made each passing stranger wash his feet. While they were engaged in this sanitary activity, Sciron kicked them over a cliff into the ocean below, where they were devoured by a man-eating turtle. Theseus turned the tables on Sciron, just as he had turned them on Pine-Bender.
Perhaps the most interesting of Theseus's challenges on the road to adventure came in the form of an evildoer called Procrustes, whose name means "he who stretches." This Procrustes kept a house by the side of the road where he offered hospitality to passing strangers. They were invited in for a pleasant meal and a night's rest in his very special bed. If the guest asked what was so special about it, Procrustes replied, "Why, it has the amazing property that its length exactly matches whomsoever lies upon it."
What Procrustes didn't volunteer was the method by which this "one-size-fits-all" was achieved, namely as soon as the guest lay down Procrustes went to work upon him, stretching him on the rack if he was too short for the bed and chopping off his legs if he was too long. Theseus lived up to his do-unto-others credo, fatally adjusting Procrustes to fit his own bed.
When at last Theseus arrived in Athens to meet his father King Aegeus for the first time, the encounter was far from heartwarming. Theseus did not reveal his identity at first but was hailed as a hero by the Athenians, for he had rid the highway of its terrors. In honor of his exploits, he was invited to the palace for a banquet. Serving as hostess was his father's new wife, Medea.
This was the same Medea who had helped Jason harvest a crop of armed warriors and steal the Golden Fleece out from under the nose of the dragon that guarded it. Jason had eventually abandoned Medea, and she had grown understandably bitter. Now she sized up Theseus and decided that he was a threat to her own son's prospects of ruling Athens after King Aegeus. In fact, Medea's magic disclosed the identity of Theseus. Years before, she had aided Aegeus, who was desperate for an heir. It was Medea's power that ensured the birth of Theseus to Princess Aethra of Troezen. Though he left instructions with Aethra should a child be born, Aegeus had either forgotten the incident or despaired of a birth.
Now Medea played on the king's insecurity. Surely the stranger at the banquet was too popular for the good of the throne. With the people behind him, he might well seize it for himself. Medea persuaded King Aegeus to serve Theseus poisoned wine. And the hero, unawares, would have drunk it had he not paused first to carve his dinner. This, at any rate, is the prosaic version of the myth. Romantics claim that Theseus drew his sword not to mince his boar's meat but because he had chosen the dramatic moment to reveal his identity.
In any case, Aegeus recognized the pattern on the sword's hilt. This was his own weapon, which he had left under a rock for his son to discover. Aegeus dashed the poisoned cup to the ground. Medea, meanwhile, stormed out and made her escape in a chariot pulled by dragons.
Theseus was now the recognized heir to the kingdom of Athens. Thus he was on hand when King Minos of Crete arrived to collect his periodic tribute of young men and maidens to be sacrificed to the Minotaur. Because his son had died while in the safekeeping of the Athenians, Minos exerted the power of the Cretan navy to enforce this onerous demand.
The Minotaur was a monster, half-man, half-bull, that lived in the center of a maze called the Labyrinth. It had been born to Minos's wife Pasiphae as a punishment from the gods. Minos had been challenged to prove that he was of divine parentage, so he called on the sea god Poseidon to send him a sign. The god obliged, and a beautiful white bull emerged from the sea. Minos liked it so much that he neglected to sacrifice it to the gods, as he should have done. As a punishment, Poseidon caused the king's wife to fall in love with the bull. She had the master craftsman Daedalus build her a hollow cow in which to approach the beast. As a result, the Minotaur was born. The monster is generally depicted as having the head of a bull and the body of a man. But in the Middle Ages, artists portrayed a man's head and torso on a bull's body.
Some say that Theseus expressed his solidarity with his fellow citizens of Athens by volunteering to be one of the victims. Others maintain that Minos noticed the handsome young prince and chose him to be sacrificed. In any case, Theseus became one of the fated fourteen who embarked with the Cretan fleet.
The sea upon which they sailed was the domain of Poseidon, who together with his brothers Zeus and Hades were the three most powerful gods of the Greek pantheon. They divided up creation, Zeus taking Mount Olympus and the sky, Hades the Underworld and Poseidon the sea. But there were other deities of the watery depths, notably the "old man of the sea", the god Nereus, with his fifty daughters, the Nereids. When Theseus was en route to Crete, he encountered one of these divinities.
As the tribute ship drew near to harbor, King Minos made rude advances to one of the Athenian maidens and Theseus sprang to her defense, claiming this was his duty as a son of Poseidon. (Theseus, of course, also claimed to be the son of King Aegeus, but a true hero could be inconsistent in such matters.) Minos suggested that if Theseus's divine parentage were anything but a figment of his imagination, the gods of the sea would sponsor him. So Minos threw his signet ring overboard and challenged Theseus to dive in and find it.
This Theseus did, being abetted indeed by the deities of the depths. Not only did he retrieve the ring from the underwater palace into which it had fallen, but he was given a jewelled crown by one of the Nereids, either Thetis or Amphitrite.
It was not long after he arrived in Crete that the hero encountered Princess Ariadne, daughter of King Minos. She fell in love with him at first sight. It was Ariadne who gave Theseus a clew which she had obtained from Daedalus. In some versions of the myth it was an ordinary clew, a simple ball of thread. It was to prove invaluable in his quest to survive the terrors of the Labyrinth.
The maze had been so cleverly and intricately contrived by the master builder Daedalus that once thrown inside, a victim could never find the way out again. Sooner or later, he or she would round a corner and come face to face with the all-devouring Minotaur. This was the fate which awaited Theseus.
It is clear from the myth that the Labyrinth was a maze from which none could escape because it was so diabolically meandering. Hence the Minotaur was not just its monster but its prisoner. But how exactly this worked as a practical matter with regard to the victims is less clear. Some versions of the myth have it that they were "enclosed" in the Labyrinth, as if it were a box.
But surely if the procedure were simply to push the victims in and then slam the door behind them, they would have cowered by the entrance rather than proceed into the terrors of the maze. Even if the guards threatened them with swords, it seems likely that some would have preferred the known death to being devoured alive by a monster. Nor could the guards have escorted the victims deep into the maze without getting lost themselves, or risking a run-in with the Minotaur.
Maybe Daedalus built a roof over his invention, so that the victims could be dropped through a trap door into the very center. But perhaps on the whole it's better not to inquire too closely into the mechanics of the mythological.
When Theseus first entered the maze he tied off one end of the ball of thread which Ariadne had given him, and he played out the thread as he advanced deeper and deeper into the labyrinthine passages. Many artists have depicted Theseus killing the Minotaur with his sword or club, but it is hard to see how he could have concealed such bulky weapons in his clothing. More probable are the versions of the tale which have him coming upon the Minotaur as it slept and then, in properly heroic fashion, beating it to death with his bare fists. Then he followed the thread back to the entrance. Otherwise he would have died of starvation before making his escape.
Theseus now eloped with Ariadne, pausing only long enough to put holes in the bottom of her father's ships so that he could not pursue. But Theseus soon abandoned the princess, either because he was bewitched by a god or because he had fallen in love with her sister Phaedra. Some say that he left Ariadne on the island of Naxos, but others maintain that such was his haste that he left her on the small island of Dia, within sight of the harbor from which they had sailed. The deserted and pining Ariadne has been a favorite theme of artists down through the ages.
As the ship bearing Theseus and his liberated fellow Athenians approached the promontory on which King Aegeus watched daily for his return, Theseus forgot the signal which he had prearranged with his father. The vessel's sails were to be black only if the expedition concluded as on all previous occasions, with the death of the hostages. In the exultation of triumph, or in anguish over the loss of Ariadne, Theseus neglected to hoist a sail of a different hue, and King Aegeus threw himself from the heights in despair.
Theseus was now both king and bona fide hero, but this did not put an end to his adventuring. On one occasion he visited the Amazons, mythological warrior women who lived on the shores of the Black Sea. The Amazons were renowned horseback riders and especially skilled with the bow. They lived apart from men and only met with them on occasion to produce children for their tribe.
Some say that Theseus had encountered the Amazons before, on another post-Minotaur adventure in the company of Heracles. Heracles had been challenged to bring back the belt of the Amazon queen. The queen, for all her reputation of man-hating, had willingly given it to him. But the goddess Hera, who despised Heracles, stirred up trouble. A great battle ensued in which many Amazons were killed.
Now Theseus visited the Amazons on his own. Their leader, fearless and hospitable, came aboard his ship with a gift. Theseus immediately put to sea and kidnapped her. Unfortunately, the dubious nature of this achievement was matched if not exceeded in another of the hero's quests.
It was the custom in early Greek historical times for the younger sons of noble houses to embark, in the fine sailing months of autumn, upon the honorable occupation of piracy. When Theseus received word that one such pirate and his crew were making off with the royal Athenian herds at Marathon, he raced to the seaside plain. He grabbed the miscreant by the scruff and spun him around to give him what for. But the moment king and pirate laid eyes upon one another, their enmity was forgotten.
"You've caught me fair and square," said Peirithous, for this was the pirate's name, and he was of the royal house of the Thessalian Lapiths. "Name your punishment and it shall be done," said he, "for I like the looks of you."
The admiration being mutual, Theseus named as penance an oath of perpetual friendship, and the two clasped hands upon it. And so, in the fullness of time, when Theseus decided to carry off young Helen of Sparta, Peirithous agreed to lend a hand. This was the same Helen whose face would "launch a thousand ships" when, as Helen of Troy, the lover and captive of the Trojan Paris, she caused the allies of her husband Menelaus to wage the Trojan War to bring her home.
At the time of Theseus's contemplated abduction, however, she was a mere lass of thirteen. And Theseus, having succeeded in spiriting her off with Peirithous's assistance, left her with his mother for safekeeping while he went about his business and she grew of marriageable age. But before this had come to pass she was rescued by her brothers, the hero twins, Castor and Pollux, whose conjoined starry constellation still brightens the night sky between fellow heroes Orion and Perseus.
One day not long after this escapade, Peirithous drew Theseus aside and spoke to him earnestly. "Remember when I agreed to help you with Helen?" he inquired, "and you pledged to help me in turn in any little outing of a similar nature?"
Theseus nodded and muttered yes.
"Good," responded Peirithous. "Spoken like a true pal. Well, I've picked my little exploit. I've decided to make off with Persephone, wife of Hades, King of the Dead."
Theseus was speechless at the very idea of this sacrilege, but a pledge is a pledge. And so the two set off for the Underworld via one of the convenient caverns leading thereto. And at length they fetched up before the throne of Hades. Lacking any false modesty, Peirithous boldly stated his business, adding that he was sure the god would concede that Persephone would be happier with himself.
Hades feigned consent. "Very well," he said. "If you love her that much and you're sure the feeling's mutual, you may have Persephone. But first, join me in a cordial. Please, take a seat."
He gestured at a bench nearby, and the two heroes, little thinking it was bewitched, seated themselves upon it. And here they stuck like glue. Meanwhile, Hades loosed a flock of torments upon them in the form of serpents and Furies and the fangs of the hellhound Cerberus, not to mention the infamous water of Tartarus that recedes as parched lips draw near.
And here the two heroes would be stuck today, were it not that Heracles happened to be passing by in furtherance of one of his Labors. Seeing his cousin Theseus's plight he freed him with one heroic yank, leaving only a small portion of his hindparts adhering to the bench. But Heracles couldn't or wouldn't free Peirithous. And so Theseus's pal pays for eternity the price of his heroic audacity.
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According to legend, who rid Ireland of snakes? | Did St. Patrick Really Drive Snakes Out of Ireland?
Did St. Patrick Really Drive Snakes Out of Ireland?
It's the stuff of legend: The reptiles never existed on the Emerald Isle.
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According to tradition, St. Patrick chased Ireland's snakes into the sea.
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St. Patrick's Day, which is celebrated worldwide on March 17, honors St. Patrick, the Christian missionary who supposedly rid Ireland of snakes during the fifth century A.D.
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According to legend, the patron saint of Ireland chased the slithering reptiles into the sea after they began attacking him during a 40-day fast he undertook on top of a hill. (Related: "St. Patrick's Day: Facts, Myths, and Traditions .")
It's admittedly an unlikely tale. Ireland is one of only a handful of places worldwide—including New Zealand, Iceland, Greenland, and Antarctica—that Indiana Jones and other snake-averse humans can visit without fear.
But snakes were certainly not chased out of Ireland by St. Patrick, who had nothing to do with Ireland's snake-free status, Nigel Monaghan , keeper of natural history at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin, told National Geographic.
Monaghan, who has trawled through vast collections of fossil and other records of Irish animals, has found no evidence of snakes ever existing in Ireland.
"At no time has there ever been any suggestion of snakes in Ireland. [There was] nothing for St. Patrick to banish," Monaghan said. ( Read about the top ten St. Patrick's Day celebrations .)
So what did happen?
Snakes likely couldn't reach Ireland. Most scientists point to the most recent Ice Age, which kept the island too cold for reptiles until it ended 10,000 years ago. After the Ice Age, surrounding seas may have kept snakes from colonizing the Emerald Isle.
No Leg to Stand On
Once the ice caps and woolly mammoths retreated northward, snakes returned to northern and western Europe, spreading as far as the Arctic Circle.
But snakes have not existed in Ireland for thousands of years. Britain, which had a land bridge to mainland Europe until about 6,500 years ago, was colonized by three snake species: the venomous adder, the grass snake, and the smooth snake.
But Ireland's land link to Britain was cut some 2,000 years earlier by seas swollen by the melting glaciers, Monaghan noted.
Animals that reached Ireland before the sea became an impassable barrier included brown bears , wild boars, and lynx —but "snakes never made it," he said.
"Snake populations are slow to colonize new areas," Monaghan added.
Mark Ryan , director of the Louisiana Poison Center at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, said in 2008 that the timing wasn't right for the sensitive, cold-blooded reptiles to expand their range.
"There are no snakes in Ireland for the simple reason they couldn't get there because the climate wasn't favorable for them to be there," he said.
Other reptiles didn't make it either, except for one: the common or viviparous lizard. Ireland's only native reptile, the species must have arrived within the last 10,000 years, according to Monaghan.
Pagans: The Metaphorical Snakes
So unless St. Patrick couldn't tell a snake from a lizard, where does the legend come from?
Scholars suggest the tale is allegorical. Serpents are symbols of evil in the Judeo-Christian tradition—the Bible, for example, portrays a snake as the hissing agent of Adam and Eve's fall from grace. (How much do you know about St. Patrick's Day? Take our quiz .)
The animals were also linked to heathen practices—so St. Patrick's dramatic act of snake eradication can be seen as a metaphor for his Christianizing influence.
"Fake" Snake
Anyone in Ireland looking for serpents to exile would probably have to settle for the slow worm, a non-native species of legless lizard that is often mistaken for a small snake. (Also see " Blind, Legless Lizard Discovered—New Species .")
First recorded in the early 1970s, the species is thought to have been deliberately introduced in western Ireland in the 1960s, according to Ireland's National Parks and Wildlife Service.
However, the reptile doesn't appear to have spread beyond a wildlife-rich limestone region in County Clare known as the Burren.
Snakes on an Irish Plain?
In the future, genuine Irish snakes are a possibility, Monaghan said.
Pet snakes deliberately released by their owners would be the most likely source, though they wouldn't be welcome.
"No alien species is without risk to well-established fauna," Monaghan explained. "The isolated nature of an island population makes Ireland highly vulnerable to any introduction, no matter how well-meaning or misguided."
Henry Kacprzyk, curator of reptiles at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPQ Aquarium , said in 2008 that Ireland's indigenous wildlife would not be prepared for snake introductions. ( See National Geographic's Ireland pictures .)
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Did St. Patrick rid Ireland of snakes?
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In Greek mythology, what name is given to the monsters with sharp fangs and hair of living snakes? | What does Gorgon mean?
like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face
Origin: [L. Gorgo, -onis, Gr. Gorgw`, fr. gorgo`s terrible.]
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In Greek mythology, a Gorgon is a female creature. The name derives from the ancient Greek word gorgós, which means "dreadful." While descriptions of Gorgons vary across Greek literature and occur in the earliest examples of Greek literature, the term commonly refers to any of three sisters who had hair of living, venomous snakes, and a horrifying visage that turned those who beheld her to stone. Traditionally, while two of the Gorgons were immortal, Stheno and Euryale, their sister Medusa was not, and she was slain by the mythical demigod and hero Perseus. Gorgons were a popular image in Greek mythology, appearing in the earliest of written records of Ancient Greek religious beliefs such as those of Homer, which may date to as early as 1194–1184 BC. Because of their legendary and powerful gaze that could turn one to stone, images of the Gorgons were put upon objects and buildings for protection. An image of a Gorgon holds the primary location at the pediment of the temple at Corfu, which is the oldest stone pediment in Greece, and is dated to c. 600 BC.
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gor′gun, n. one of three fabled female monsters (Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa), of horrible aspect, winged, with hissing serpents for hair—every one who looked on Medusa was turned to stone: anything very ugly.—adjs. Gor′gon, Gorgō′nean, Gorgonesque′, Gorgō′nian, like a gorgon: very ugly or terrific.—n. Gorgonei′on, a mask of the gorgon.—v.t. Gor′gonise (Tenn.), to turn to stone. [L. gorgon—Gr. gorgō—gorgos, grim.]
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The numerical value of Gorgon in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
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Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate :
Never try to look back, and never gaze into the Past. Sometimes Past can be like Medusa, the hideous Gorgon with scary human face and having venomous snakes in the place of her hair. Beware of gazing directly into Medusa's eyes, for it can turn the onlooker into a stone. The Past does exactly the same - it freezes you stone cold, slowing and stopping all your actions, ambitions and aspirations..... the reason why Past is likened to Medusa here. Look forward to today, to this very moment, to the Present that welcomes you happily, as your journey of life continues upwards and onwards. A Viaxe Continua! Have a great journey, my friend!
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According to legend, who rode through the streets of Coventry naked and was seen by someone called Tom, leading to the phrase Peeping Tom? | Top 10 Historical Monsters - Listverse
Top 10 Historical Monsters
Jamie Frater
October 21, 2007
With Halloween just around the corner, enjoy this short list of traditional monsters. If you are unsure of a halloween costume this year… here is your guide!
10. Oni Japanese
Depictions of oni vary widely but they are usually portrayed as hideous, gigantic creatures with sharp claws, wild hair, and two long horns growing from their heads. They are humanoid for the most part, but occasionally, they are shown with unnatural features such as odd number of eyes or extra fingers and toes. Their skin may be any number of colors, but red and blue are particularly common. Their fierce appearance is only enhanced by the tiger loincloths they tend to wear and the iron club they favor. There is also a very obvious similarity here to devils in Judeo-Christian tradition.
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9. Ogre French
An ogre is a large, mean and hideous humanoid monster. Ogres are often depicted in fairy tales and folklore as feeding on human beings, and have appeared in many classic works of literature. Ogres are often portrayed with a large head, abundant hair and beard, a huge belly, and a strong body.
8. Vampire Slavic
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings that are renowned for subsisting on human blood or life-force, but in some cases may prey on animals. Although vampires have different characteristics depending on which lore one reads, in most cases, they are described as reanimated corpses who feed by draining and consuming the blood of living beings. The term was popularized in the early 18th century and arose from the folklore of southeastern Europe, particularly the Balkans and Greece. Folkloric vampires were depicted as undead beings who visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighborhoods they inhabited while living. They wore shrouds, did not bear fangs and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or darkened countenance.
7. Mummy Egyptian
A mummy is a corpse whose skin and dried flesh have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air. There are popular tales (largely tall) of curses which are associated with the violation of the tombs of mummified corpses or of the mummies themselves. These tales of curses eventually lead to the modern fictional view of walking mummies.
6. Werewolf Germanic
Werewolves are mythological or folkloric people with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or wolf like creature, either purposely by magic, or after being placed under a curse. The medieval chronicler Gervase of Tilbury associated the transformation with the appearance of the full moon; however, there is evidence that the association existed among the Ancient Greeks, appearing in the writings of Petronius. Some modern speculation has suggested that the belief in werewolves (and vampires) may stem from real medical cases of people suffering from porphyria .
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5. Goblin Anglo-Saxon
A goblin is an evil, crabby, or mischievous creature of folklore, often described as a grotesquely disfigured or gnome-like phantom. Goblins may range in height from that of a dwarf to that of a human. They are attributed with various (sometimes conflicting) abilities, temperaments and appearances depending on the story and country of origin. In some cases, goblins have been classified as a constant annoying little creature somewhat related to the celtic brownie.
4. Ghoul Middle Eastern
A ghoul is a monster from ancient Arabian folklore that dwells in the burial grounds and other uninhabited places. In ancient Arabic folklore, ghouls belonged to a diabolic class of jinn (spirits – from whence the genie comes) and were said to be the offspring of Iblis, the Muslim prince of darkness (Satan). They were capable of constantly changing form, but their presence was always recognizable by their unalterable sign: ass’s hooves. It would lure unwary travelers into the desert wastes to slay and devour them. The creature also preyed on young children, robbed graves and ate the dead. Yum yum!
3. Banshee Celtic
According to legend, a banshee wails around a house if someone in the house is about to die. When several banshees appeared at once, it indicated the death of someone great or holy. The tales sometimes recount that the woman, though called a fairy, was a ghost, often of a specific murdered woman, or woman who died in childbirth. Banshees are frequently described as dressed in white or grey, and often having long, fair hair which they brush with a silver comb. Other stories portray banshees as dressed in green, red or black with a grey cloak.
2. Gorgon Greek
In Greek mythology, the Gorgon was a vicious female monster with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. Gorgons are sometimes depicted as having wings of gold, brazen claws, and the tusks of boars. According to the myths, seeing the face of a Gorgon turned the viewer to stone. Homer speaks of only one Gorgon, whose head is represented in the Iliad as fixed in the center of the aegis of Zeus. Hesiod increases the number of Gorgons to three: Stheno (the mighty), Euryale (the far-springer), and Medusa (the queen), and makes them the daughters of the sea-god Phorcys and of Keto. Their home is on the farthest side of the western ocean; according to later authorities, in Libya. Of the three Gorgons, only Medusa is mortal.
1. Zombie Latin American
A zombie is a reanimated human body devoid of consciousness. In contemporary versions these are generally undead corpses. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Voodoo. Other more macabre versions of the zombies have become a staple of modern horror fiction, where they are brought back from the dead by supernatural or scientific means, and eat the flesh or brains of the living. They have very limited intelligence, and may not be under anyone’s direct control.
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In Greek mythology who died when he flew too close to the sun and the wax holding together his artificial wings melted? | Icarus | Article about Icarus by The Free Dictionary
Icarus | Article about Icarus by The Free Dictionary
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Related to Icarus: Daedalus , Dædalus
Icarus,
in astronomy: see asteroid asteroid,
planetoid,
or minor planet,
small body orbiting the sun. More than 300,000 asteroids have been identified and cataloged; more than a million are believed to exist in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, with many more in the Kuiper belt
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Icarus:
see Daedalus Daedalus
, in Greek mythology, craftsman and inventor. After killing his apprentice Talos in envy, he fled from Greece to Crete. There, he arranged the liaison between Pasiphaë and the Cretan Bull that resulted in the Minotaur.
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Icarus
(ik -ă-rŭs) ((1566) Icarus) An asteroid that was discovered in 1949 by Walter Baade and passed only 0.04 AU from the Earth in 1968. It belongs to the Apollo group of near-Earth asteroids and has one of the smallest perihelion distances (0.205 AU), well within the orbit of Mercury. See Table 3, backmatter.
Icarus
(religion, spiritualism, and occult)
Icarus, asteroid 1566 (the 1566th asteroid to be discovered, on June 22, 1949), was named after the character from Greek mythology who died because he flew so close to the Sun that his wings (which were made of feathers and wax) melted. At the time, Icarus and his father were flying away from imprisonment on the island of Crete. The name is appropriate, in that Icarus’s eccentric orbit (which takes a little more than a terrestrial year) carries it closer to the Sun than to Mercury. The asteroid is less than 1½ kilometers in diameter and is one of the more recent asteroids to be investigated by astrologers. Preliminary material on Icarus can be found in Demetra George and Douglas Bloch’s Astrology for Yourself, and an ephemeris (table of celestial locations) for Icarus can be found in the second edition of George and Bloch’s Asteroid Goddesses. Unlike the planets, which are associated with a wide range of phenomena, the smaller asteroids are said to represent a single principle. George and Bloch give Icarus’s principle as “liberation”; their tentative key phrase for Icarus is “My capacity for liberation and risk-taking.” Zipporah Dobyns regards the occurrence of Icarus in a prominent house, sign, or aspect related to the element fire as indicating the danger of overreaching oneself or acting prematurely. J. Lee Lehman relates Icarus to the power one gains from reconstituting oneself after the experience of “death” (in one form or another). In a more exoteric vein, Lehman also associates Icarus with flight and accidents. Jacob Schwartz gives this asteroid’s astrological significance as “a need to escape quickly from restrictions, speed, risk taking, shamanic power, awareness of evolving through experience.”
Sources:
Dobyns, Zipporah. Expanding Astrology’s Universe. San Diego: Astro Computing Services, 1983.
George, Demetra, with Douglas Bloch. Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology and Astrology of the Reemerging Feminine. 2d ed. San Diego: Astro Computing Services, 1990.
George. Astrology for Yourself: A Workbook for Personal Transformation. Berkeley, CA: Wingbow Press, 1987.
Lehman, J. Lee. The Ultimate Asteroid Book. West Chester, PA: Whitford Press, 1988.
Schwartz, Jacob. Asteroid Name Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995.
Icarus
asteroid number 1566. Icarus was discovered by the American astronomer W. Baade in 1949. Its mean distance from the sun is 1.08 astronomical units; its eccentricity, 0.83; and the inclination of its orbit, 23°. Its diameter does not exceed 2 km. Owing to the peculiarities of its orbit, it can approach the earth at a distance of 0.04 astronomical units. It is named for the ancient Greek hero Icarus.
Icarus
[‚ik·ə·rəs]
(astronomy)
An asteroid with a highly eccentric orbit (eccentricity of 0.827) that crosses the earth's orbit and takes the asteroid to only 0.187 astronomical units from the sun, closer than Mercury.
Icarus
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What was the name of the 1963 Disney film that featured the legendary characters of Merlin and King Arthur? | Mr. Rolapp's Collaborative Class Journal: GENERAL - Allusion: Icarus
Mr. Rolapp's Collaborative Class Journal
Monday, January 08, 2007
GENERAL - Allusion: Icarus
Now that we're more comfortable identifying and analyzing allusions, let's look together at the title of chapter fifteen of Malcolm X. This chapter is called "Icarus." Who was Icarus in classical mythology? To whom does this allusion apply in the book? (More than one answer may be corret here.) How well does the allusion fit? Is Alex Haley justified in giving the chapter this title?
As before, you'll need to do a little web research in order to make an informed decision and to support your opinion. Wikipedia may be a good start, but there are many other sources that will provide the required information. Be sure to craft your answer into a well-constructed paragraph of at least six sentences.
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Sharing her name with a brand of margarine, who was the Roman goddess of flowers and the season of spring? | Behind the Name: User Comments for the name Flora
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Flora is the name of the heroine in the novel "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons.
-- Anonymous User 12/20/2005
I love this name so much because it means flower and makes me think of spring. Very pretty sounding as well.
-- iwant2baurora 12/20/2005
Flora Tristan was one of the founders of modern feminism and Paul Gauguin's grandmother. Her complete name was Flore-Celestine-Therèse-Henriette Tristan-Moscoso.
-- Anonymous User 12/22/2005
In Sweden Flora is the word used for a lexicon about plants, and in general for vegetation.
Flora is also the brand name of a type of margarine.
-- Anonymous User 12/22/2005
-- breakofday 12/29/2005
Flora MacDonald famously hid Bonnie Prince Charlie on the Isle of Skye when he was fleeing his pursuers. Flora is quite a popular name in Scotland.
Flora would be a great name for a cat.
-- Anonymous User 2/23/2006
Though it has terrible connotations.
Aunt Flo.
-- nothingshortoftragic 1/26/2007
I don't know why, but I don't like this name. Which is weird, considering I love Moira, Laura, Zora, Nora and my eldest daughter's name, Leonora.
-- QueenieCapulet 2/15/2007
I really like this name, elegant, simple, and lush. It can be used as a nickname for Florence as well.
-- Kitten 4/6/2007
In Scotland the name became popular as an Anglicised form of the Gaelic name Fionnghuala and its variants. Flora MacDonald's given name was actually Fionnghal.
-- reniannen17 7/24/2007
Flora is the heroine in Stella Gibbons' book Cold Comfort Farm, which was made into a film with Kate Beckinsale as Flora.
-- Anonymous User 11/16/2007
Only this name sounds like that butter.
-- Anonymous User 11/19/2007
I love this name, I just wish there wasn't a butter called Flora because that will be the first association for a lot of people.
-- Sezzers 11/30/2007
As long as you don't have another daughter named Fauna, and as long as you don't call the girl Flo, this name is alright. It rhymes with the very common Laura and Norah, and it also rhymes with the beautiful names Cora and Dora, and it has a soft, pleasant sound to it. It's quite old-fashioned and a bit too flower-y in a very literal way, but it's not bad.
-- Oohvintage 7/17/2013
We're seriously considering this name for a daughter. It's very uncommon here in the US, but that's what I like. It's old fashioned and sweet, and suitable for all ages. Although, my name is Lily, so that might be a little too 'flower-y'.
-- .Lily. 8/16/2013
8 Flora is an asteroid that was discovered by J. R. Hind on October 18, 1847. It is named after Flora from Roman mythology, the goddess of flowers and the season of spring.
-- ophelia 10/20/2013
I love this name. It's not very common, but simple and beautiful. I also think it would age gracefully.
Flora is a lovely, pretty name. (:
-- Anonymous User 8/9/2014
-- thesnowwhiterose 12/8/2014
I would definitely have used this name as it's a family name but then the man who invented Flora margarine named it after his wife's middle name, and ruined it for the rest of the UK, because let's face it, no girl or woman wants to be associated with the word 'spread'. It is such a shame, as I love the meaning, the goddess connection and it's short, flows well and is feminine. I disagree with people disliking it because of Flo, it's like people shortening Laura to Low. I mean come on, it's only 2 syllables!
-- queen_vic 1/20/2015
@queen_vic 1/20/2015 I agree, I'm from the UK and the Flora margarine assoociation is quite a damn shame for people over here who really adore this name. I would love to use this name. I'm not sure if I'm brave enough to use it though.
-- Anonymous User 11/4/2015
Flora Tristan was a French socialist and women's right advocate during the European revolutions of the early and mid 1800s.
I like this name, a little plain but it's still good.
-- Anonymous User 3/2/2016
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Striking Roberto Cavalli Sapphire Blue Silk Chiffon Gown. Bodice Boasts A Plunging Neckline With Side Cut-Outs In A Secured Style Bodysuit. Elaborate Bead Work And Hand Pleating Further Enhances The Detailed Bodice. Long Full Flowing Skirt. Beautifully Designed And Made. Ideal For Red Carpet Or Holiday Dressing.Size: 40; Bust: To 34"; Waist: 32"; Length: 60"++Condition: Brand New With Tags; Excellent
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$42 gojane.com
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Get a dreamy outfit on lock when you slip into this gorgeous dress. Stretchy maxi dress features a plunging V-neck top with long sleeves and shoulder cut-outs. Flowing skirt has full-length double slits that travel up to a defined waistband. No closures. Model is wearing a small All measurements are for a small Length: 61" Waist: 25" 96% Polyester, 4% Spandex Hand wash cold, hang dry. Do not bleach Made in USA
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""Dress by City Goddess, Mid-weight unlined design, Round neckline, Zip back, Close cut body-conscious fit, Hand wash, 92% Polyester, 8% Elastane, Our model wears a UK 8/EU 36/US 4 and is 175cm/5'9"" tall."".
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$445 saksfifthavenue.com
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Softly pleated goddess dress with high-waist bottom. Plunging v-neck. Sleeveless. Pullover style. Empire waist with self-tie detail. Asymmetrical hem. V-back. Vintage-inspiredbottom included. About 48" from shoulder to hem. Polyester. Hand wash. Made in USA. - Goddess Asymmetrical Dress
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$395 1stdibs.com
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Stylish Elegance With A Nod To A Gothic Past Are The Hallmarks Of This Beautiful Mary Mcfadden Design. The Black Fortuny Style Micro Pleated Bodice Gives Way To A Flowing Sheer Chiffon Skirt Which Is Softly Pleated At The Front And Inverted With Pleats At The Center Of The Back To Create A Bustle And The Hint Of A Train. The Dark Burgundy Floral Fabric Is Decorated With Classic Roses Touched With Dark Green Leaves For Added Color. The Dress Zips At The Back And Sleeves With Two Layers Of Chiffon Lining At The Skirt. Consider A Platform Boot To Update The Look And Go All Out With Goth Eyeliner For A Real Statement. Excellent Vintage Condition.The Dress Fits Like A Modern Size 4 With Attention To The Following Measurements.Bust 36"Waist 26"Full Hips (Taken At Inside Liner) 50"Sleeve Length From Underarm To Cuff 17.5"Shoulder Length Taken At Back From Sleeve Seam To Seam 15.5"Total Length From Shoulder To Hem 59.5"Length From Shoulder To Waist 16"
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$45 etsy.com
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Long dress in peach salmon color made from high quality elastic lycra spandex blend which looks and feels great and comfy. Timeless grecian goddess style which is elegant and suitable for many occasions. I designed top of this dress with soft draping to create more tenderness to this look, skirt of this dress is flowing and straight with drapes on waist. Very thin straps attached to the top to make all look more elegant and feminine. This dress will be perfect for bridesmaids, reception and for sunny vacation as well! I can customize this dress for each size and length free of charge, just send me measurements. Fabric : lycra spandex blend. Also available in other colors: peach salmon mauve: dark gray: royal blue: lilac: yellow: black: navy: white: red: mint: light pink: this dress in short length here: please check our size chart (or message me with your measurements): size xs (us 0-2, uk 4-6, eu 32-34) bust: 31'-32.5' 79-83 cm waist: 24'-25' 61-64 cm hips: 33'-35' 84-89 cm size s (us 4-6, uk 8-10, eu 36-38) bust: 33.5'-35' 85-90cm waist: 26-27' 67-71cm hips: 36'-38' 92-97cm size m (us 8-10, uk 12-14, eu 40-42) bust: 36'-38' 92-97cm waist: 28'-30' 72-76cm hips: 39'-40' 99-102cm size l (us 12-14, uk 16-18, eu 44-46) bust: 39'-41' 98-104cm waist: 31'-33' 79-84cm hips: 41.5'-43' 105-109cm size xl (us 16-18, uk 20-22, eu 48-50) bust: 42' 44' 108-112cm waist: 34'-37' 87-94cm hips: 44'-47' 112-120cm size xxl (us 20, uk 24, eu 52) bust: 45' 47' 114-120cm waist: 38'-40' 95-102cm hips: 48'-51' 122-130cm full length (from shoulder to hem) 56'' 143 cm we accept custom orders on this dress free of charge. It takes about 5 days to make a custom item. Please message me with any questions, i will be happy to answer.
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Norma Kamali's 'Goddess' dress is cut in a glamorous Grecian-inspired silhouette. Made from flexible stretch-jersey in a striking red hue, it's complete with a plunging neckline, fluttering asymmetric hem and ties to cinch in your waist. Wear it with a gold arm band and flat sandals. Wear it with: Ancient Greek Sandals Sandals, Sheriff&Cherry Sunglasses, Jennifer Fisher Anklet, Cornelia Webb Rings.. Red stretch-jersey.. Slips on.. 100% polyester.. Hand wash.
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""Evening dress by City Goddess, Lightweight scuba-style fabric, Fully lined, Sequin stripe detail, Plunge neckline, Slim fit. cut closely to the body, Hand wash, 94% Polyester, 6% Elastane, Our model wears a UK 8/EU 36/US 4 and is 168cm/5'6"" tall."".
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$550 c21stores.com
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TAMARA MELLON V-neck, metallic leather shoulder straps, metallic leather design and trim, cutout sides Woven construction, cutout back with hook-and-eye closure, zip back closure, interior lining 100% Silk shell, Real Goat Leather combo 1, Real Lamb Leather combo 2 Professional leather clean Imported Ladies
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$42 gojane.com
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Get a dreamy outfit on lock when you slip into this gorgeous dress. Stretchy maxi dress features a plunging V-neck top with long sleeves and shoulder cut-outs. Flowing skirt has full-length double slits that travel up to a defined waistband. No closures. Model is wearing a small All measurements are for a small Length: 61" Waist: 25" 96% Polyester, 4% Spandex Hand wash cold, hang dry. Do not bleach Made in USA
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$629 1stdibs.com
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An Absolutely Breathtaking Vintage Dress From The 1980S By Andrea Odicini For His Couture Line. Truly The Perfect Fit For A Red Carpet Or The Most Elegant Evening Event, The Layers Of Hot Pink Silk Chiffon Swathe Around The Feminine Form Like A Grecian Goddess, With A Beautiful Ombre Effect. The Off The Shoulder Design Drapes Around The Arms And Onto The Boned Bodice, Which Has A Daring Neckline. Fastening At The Side With Hook And Eyes And Fastening Round The Front With Covered Poppers, It Is Incredibly Well Constructed As Expected From Such A Great Italian Designer. With A Matching Shawl That You Can Wrap Around You Coverage On A Cooler Night Or Drape Around Your Arms Nonchalantly. Estimated Modern Size: Uk 8/ Us 4/ Eu 36. Bust - 32” / 81CmWaist - 26” / 66CmHips - 34” / 86CmLength (Bust To Hem) - 47” / 119CmMade In Italy
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$58 $118 modalist.com
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Browse and shop Pitusa Goddess Dress in White (M0008000032947) from the world's best luxury designer boutiques at Modalist, choose from widest range of designer pieces. Enjoy express delivery and easy returns!
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$27 gojane.com
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You'll look like a 90s dream goddess in this light-catching slip dress. Stretchy midi dress features a mini-pleated surface with vertical metallic threads for slinky, shimmering surface. Narrow square neckline leads to skinny cami straps and an open upper back. Finished with partial lining. No closures. Model is wearing a small All measurements are for a small Length: 41" Waist: 22" 100% Polyester Hand wash cold, hang dry. Do not bleach Made in USA
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""Maxi dress by City Goddess, Smooth stretch fabric, Plunge halterneck, Contrast front panel, Thigh split, Zip-back fastening, Slim fit. cut close to the body, Hand wash, 95% Polyester, 5% Elastane, Our model wears a UK 8/EU 36/US 4 and is 173cm/5'8"" tall."".
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$1,900 1stdibs.com
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The House Of Dior Has Been An Enduring Icon Of Haute-Couture. When The Talented Marc Bohan Took Over As Head Designer In 1960, He Continued The Dior Tradition Of Elegant Design. This Beautiful Goddess Gown, Which Was Featured In L'officiel Magazine, Is A Perfect Example Of His Talent. The Fabric Used For This Garment Is Breathtaking; Light-Weight Pale Yellow Silk Organdy. The Bodice Is A Seductive One-Shoulder Asymmetric Design With Dramatic Side-Draping. The Attached Satin Waist-Sash With Bow Gives The Garment A Very Flattering Silhouette. I Love The Maxi Length Toga Style Wrap Skirt Which Will Totally Stop People In Their Tracks! As Dior Said, "i Will Only Say Now That Elegance Must Be The Right Combination Of Distinction, Naturalness, Care And Simplicity." This Timeless Dress Is A Wonderful Mix Of These Elements.MeasurementsBust:33-34 InchesWaist:26 InchesHips:36 InchesTotal Length:57 InchesThis Vintage Designer Christian Dior 145386 Numbered Dress Is In Excellent Condition With No Rips Or Holes. Perfectly Working Hidden Metal-Snaps And Hand-Set Side Metal Zipper. Only Sign Of Age Is Faint Discoloring To Parts Of The Silk. Priced Accordingly. Highly Wearable And An Investment Piece That Will Continue To Increase In Value.
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""Evening dress by City Godess, Cotton-mix satin, Added stretch for comfort, Bandeau neckline, Gathered wasit detail, Diamante embellishment, Zip fastening to back, Slim fit. cut closely to the body, Machine wash, 50% Polyester, 46% Cotton, 4% Elastane, Our model wears a UK 8/EU 36/US 4 and is 168cm/5'6"" tall."".
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This Early 1960's Shimmering Silk Gown, In The Most Beautiful Shade Of Ice-Blue, Is Pure Couture Perfection. Jean Patou's Affinity For Tailored Design And Elaborate Materials Is Wonderful For The Modern Woman. This Stunning Garment Was Created When Karl Lagerfeld Was Head Designer For The House. I Love The Clean, Simple Sculptural Lines And Seductive Low-Cut, Plunge Corset Bodice. The Full-Length Skirt Is So Amazing With Its Pleated,flowing Backside. Stylish, Feminine Luxury That Will Never Go Out Of Style. There Is Nothing Quite So Enduringly Chic And Timeless As A Shimmering Gown For A Woman Whose Outward Exquisiteness Mirrors Her Inner Grace.MeasurementsBust:32-33 InchesWaist:25 InchesHips:40 InchesTotal Length:58 InchesThis Vintage Couture Gown Is In Excellent Condition With No Rips,stains Or Holes. Perfectly Working Back Metal-Zipper And Corset-Boned Bodice. This Item Is Over 50 Years Old And Is Truly Exquisite.
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$80 houseoffraser.co.uk
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A long length dress in a pleated flow fabric. Diamante style studding to the waist and upper trim adds a Goddess look that is sure to impress. Unfastened. Prom Dresses. Shell: 100% Polyester Linning: 100% Polyester. Hand wash only. Care Instructions Care Instructions: Hand wash only.
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$36 gojane.com
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Who said sparkle and shine was only for accessories? Turn up the drama in this light-catching piece. Stretchy minidress features a sparkly surface composed of small, glittery dots; a choker-inspired mockneck; and a surplice silhouette with a deep V-neck and slight high-low skirt for a faux wrap look. Sleeveless dress is finished with a rear zip closure. Model is wearing a small All measurements are for a small Length: High: 34", Low: 36.5" Waist: 23" 83% Nylon, 12% Metallic, 5% Spandex Hand wash cold, hang dry. Do not bleach Made in USA
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Helen Rose, Like Edith Head And Irene, Was One Of The Rare Women Who Became Chief Costume Designer For A Major Film Studio. Her Style Was Elegant And Understated But Still Extremely Innovative. This Breathtaking Light-Pink Silk Chiffon Goddess Gown, Dating Back To The Mid 1960's, Is A Perfect Example Of Her Pure Genius. The Seductive Bodice Is A Low-Cut Plunge Empire. Hundreds Of Sparkling Rhinestones And Metallic Glass-Bead Embellishments Have Been Carefully Placed To Add Dazzling 3-Dimensional Texture. The Yards And Yards Of Side Draped Chiffon That Finish Off This Garment Create A Beautiful Ethereal Vibe. I Totally See This Dress Gliding Down The Red Carpet! Measurements Bust:32-33 Inches Waist:26 Inches Hips:36 Inches Total Length:55 InchesThis Vintage Helen Rose Designer Dress Is In Excellent Condition With No Rips,stains Or Holes. Perfectly Working Back-Zipper. Highly Wearable And An Investment Piece That Will Continue To Increase In Value.
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""Dress by City Goddess, Soft-touch stretch jersey, Round neckline, Pleat front detail, Zip back with hook and eye fastening, Slim fit- cut closely to the body, Hand wash, 92% Polyester, 8% Elastane, Our model wears a UK 8/EU 36/US 4 and is 173 cm/5'8"" tall."".
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$629 1stdibs.com
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A Breathtaking Vintage Evening Gown From The 1970S By Iconic British Label, Frank Usher,. In Yards Of The Incredibly Flattering, Fluid, Synthetic Jersey That Frank Usher Is Renowned For Using In The 70S Because It Drapes So Perfectly. A Vibrant Purple With Accordion Pleats Throughout And Long Tassels That Fasten At The Shoulder Giving A Grecian Goddess Look. Estimated Size: Women's SmallBust - Stretches Up To 36" / 91CmWaist - Free Hips - FreeLength (Bust To Hem) - 49" / 124Cm)Note: There Is An Elasticated Band At The Busts Interior, Which Gives Support To The Dress. But This Could Be Taken Out/ The Hooks Moved To Adjust The Size If Needed.- Made In England
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$330 shopbop.com
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Exclusive to Shopbop. Draped silk-chiffon overlays accent this formfitting alice + olivia mini dress. The one-shoulder neckline and single sleeve create a sexy, asymmetrical look. Exposed side zip. Unlined. Fabric: Jersey. Shell: 96% polyester/4% elastane. Trim: 100% silk. Dry clean. Imported, China.
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""Midi dress by City Goddess, Stretch fabric, High neckline, Zip back fastening, Slim fit. cut close to the body, Hand wash, 92% Polyester, 8% Elastane, Our model wears a UK 8/EU 36/US 4 and is 174cm/5'8. 5"" tall."".
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$237 $790 net-a-porter.com
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Having studied fashion & textile design at Paris' Parsons school and honing her skills at Sonia Rykiel, Celia Dragouni is inspired by the vintage fabrics she finds in markets all over the world. This long-sleeved maxi dress is cut from airy cotton-voile and finished with a hand-embroidered panel at the chest. A single tassel embellishment and picot-trimmed cuffs add to its bohemian spirit, while slit sides ensure a breezy, effortless feel. Wear it with: The Row Clutch, Isabel Marant Sandals, Bottega Veneta Rings.. Black cotton-voile.. Slips on.. 100% cotton.. Hand wash.
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Woven silk dress * Graphic print throughout * V-neck * Adjustable spaghetti straps * Ruched cross-over panels at front * Self tie belt at waist * Side slip pockets * Tonal top stitching and panel seaming * Back zipper closure Measurements: * 32" in circumference at bust; 34.5" from shoulder to hem; taken from a size S * Model's height is 5 feet 9 inches.
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$99 citychiconline.com
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A fabulous melding of our Crochet Top and Drape Goddess styles, the Crochet Goddess Dress is ready to party in luxury. This stunningly flowing chiffon piece features a crochet neckline with racer style back, draped chiffon scarf back feature, front flowing layers, hi lo hem, invisible zipper fastening and is lined.
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$429 currentboutique.com
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Size 0 Light Teal Goddess Dress Spring 2012 collection Fits like a 6 Adjustable spaghetti straps w/tie strap coverings Pleated waistline Cut out design Concealed side buttons & zip 1 button missing Light discoloration spots on lining near hem Shoulder to hem 60"
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$330 shopbop.com
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Exclusive to Shopbop. Draped silk-chiffon overlays accent this formfitting alice + olivia mini dress. The one-shoulder neckline and single sleeve create a sexy, asymmetrical look. Exposed side zip. Unlined. Fabric: Jersey. Shell: 96% polyester/4% elastane. Trim: 100% silk. Dry clean. Imported, China.
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$45 etsy.com
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Embrace your inner goddess in this exotic maxi dress, perfect for any occasion. Mid-thigh splits open back detail model is 5'5 wearing size small small will fit size 2/4 medium will fit size 6/8 large will fit size 10/12 xl will fit size 14/16 2x will fit size 18/20 hand wash cold or wash with dark colors line dry polyester
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$75 amazon.com
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$45 justfab.com
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You'll be a goddess in this Grecian inspired maxi dress. With a cinched waist to give you shape, and a side slit for the perfect touch of sex appeal, you'll have it all in this dress! Details. Sizes: XS- XXL. Length: 57 1/2"". Fabric Type: 100% Rayon. Fabric Care Type: Machine wash cold with like colors. Do not bleach. Tumble dry low. Iron medium, if necessary exclusive of trim. If decorated or printed, do not iron. Imported. Justfab Dresses Goddess Side Slit Dress Womens Blue Size XS
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$59 $138 maggylondon.com
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Be a vision of gold in this brilliant goddess dress. Perfect for a gala ball this dress is sure to be a statement maker.
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""Maxi dress by City Goddess, Stretch knitted fabric, Round halter neckline, Open back, Bow detail, Slim fit. cut close to the body, Hand wash, 95% Polyester, 5% Elastane, Our model wears a UK S/EU S/US XS and is 174cm/5'8. 5"" tall."".
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$210 atmayfair.com
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Radiate feminine charm in this ravishing black dress. This lovely draped mini dress features three quarter length sleeves, which adds to the drama. Accentuate this black mini dress with a shimmering bracelet and stilettos to achieve a fab look! Be ready to step out in style with this enchanting black dress.
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$2,200 1stdibs.com
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Oscar De La Renta Is One Of The World's Leading Fashion Designers. Trained By Cristóbal Balenciaga And Antonio Castillo, He Became Internationally Known In The 1960's As One Of The Couturiers To Dress Jacqueline Kennedy. This Breathtaking Early Creation From Oscar De La Renta Is Not Only Rare But Shockingly Timeless. The Vibrant Royal-Blue Fabric Is A "light As A Feather" Crepe Chiffon So Wearing The Garment Feels Like Wearing Air. The Bodice Is A Seductive One-Shoulder Asymmetric Plunge With Angel-Sleeve Caftan Overlay. I Adore The Neck Button Detailing And High-To-Low Waterfall Hem. The Matching Nipped-Waist Wrap Skirt Is Incredibly Easy-To-Wear And So Modern. This Figure Flattering Grecian Goddess Garment Accentuates The Bust And Skims The Hips. It Is Impeccably Seamed And On The Level Of Modern Day Haute-Couture. Measurements Blouse Bust:38-39 Inches Shortest Length:22 Inches Longest Length:40 Inches Skirt Waist:30 Inches Hips:free Sweep Total Length:38 InchesThis Oscar De La Renta Garment Is In Excellent Condition With No Rips, Stains Or Holes. It Is Fully Lined In Matching Colored Silk. Closes With Hidden Hook/eye Closures. Highly Wearable And An Investment Piece That Will Continue To Increase In Value.
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$118 $169 citychiconline.com
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Athena was the Greek Goddess of Wisdom, and it's word to the wise that you'll be channeling the beauty and effervescence of the Gods themselves in the Athena Goddess Maxi Dress. Slinky yet structured, the Athena showcases a deep V neckline with scoop draped back, full length skirt with structured draping to create an angular hip line, and a detachable gold twisted belt.
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""Midi dress by City Goddess, Ribbed knit, High neckline, Cold-shoulder design, Zip back fastening, Slim fit. cut close to the body, Hand wash, 95% Polyester, 5% Elastane, Our model wears a UK 8/EU 36/US 4 and is 173cm/5'8"" tall."".
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$40 etsy.com
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This beautiful dress is light and flowy. Be gone with the wind fabulous in this goddess flow dashiki dress. Description: full length, multicolored, printed dress with a deep v-neckline, waist tie, crossed back detail, adjustable straps and an asymmetrical hem. One size fits all model is 5'5
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$38 $54 swell.com
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Rip Curl Goddess dress. Women's long sleeve dress. Low cut v-neck. Low cut back with string up detail. Encased elastic waistband. All over pattern. Sleeve length: 27 inches. Shoulder to hem length: 31 inches. Imported. Model's height: 5'11"" Model's chest: 32 inches. Model's waist: 24 inches. Model's hips: 35 inches. Model is wearing size S.
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$2,400 1stdibs.com
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Jean Desses Is One Of The Most Important Designers Of The 20Th Century And Was A Designated Haute Couture House Under The Official Chambre Syndicate De La Couture. This Exquisite 1950's Goddess Gown Is A Rare Design Made For The American Market Through Nanty. Fashioned From Ethereal Silk-Chiffon And Satin, This Show-Stopper Has Everything A Woman Wants. The Bodice Is A Seductive Low-Cut Plunge Shelf-Bust With Full Boning. The Hourglass Nipped Waist Flatters The Figure While The Sculpted Draping Looks Breathtaking When You Walk. I Adore The Backside Bow-Trimmed Fishtail Train Which Finishes This Garment Off With The Perfect "new Look" Construction. The Workmanship And Time Spent To Design This Masterpiece Is Astonishing.MeasurementsBust:32 InchesWaist:24 InchesHips:up To 35 InchesTotal Length:56 InchesThis Stunning Jean Desses For Nanty Labeled Designer Dress Is In Excellent Condition With No Rips Or Holes. The Garment Closes With Back Metal-Zipper And Inner Waist-Stay. Light Boning Throughout The Bodice To Keep The Hourglass Shape. Only Sign Of Age Is Some Faint Watermarks At The Bottom Hemline Which Are Not Noticeable When Worn. A Wearable Investment Piece That Will Continue To Increase In Value!
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$60 $100 macys.com
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Flirty details-like a ruched back and cutout neckline-elevate the chic appeal of this petite sheath dress by Inc International Concepts.
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$45 etsy.com
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Embrace your inner goddess in this exotic maxi dress, perfect for any occasion. Mid-thigh splits open back detail model is 5'5 wearing size small small will fit size 2/4 medium will fit size 6/8 large will fit size 10/12 xl will fit size 14/16 2x will fit size 18/20 hand wash cold or wash with dark colors line dry polyester
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$700 1stdibs.com
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Rappi Was A Talented Viennese-Born Woman Named Syd Rappaport Who Made A Name For Herself With Glamorous Formal Wear Which Was Much Beloved By Debutantes With A Particular Eye For Unique Style. This Breathtaking 1970's Sculpted Goddess Gown Is Fashioned From Couture Quality Silk-Chiffon. The Watercolor Abstract Print In Shades Of Blue And Green Have A Lifelike 3-Dimensional Quality. The Seductive Bodice Has A Thin-Strap Plunge With Hand-Crafted Ruching. The Gown Follows An Easy-To-Wear Silhouette Without Being Overtly Tight Or Garish. I Love The Yards And Yards Of Draped Silk-Chiffon Skirting Which Totally Channels Grecian Glamour. This Dress Is Vibrant, Extremely Well-Made And Totally Unforgettable!MeasurementsBust:34-35 InchesWaist:26 InchesHips:up To 37 InchesTotal Length:57 Inches This Vintage Rappi Designer Dress Is In Excellent Condition With No Rips, Stains Or Holes. Perfectly Working Back-Zipper. This Garment Is Over 40 Years Old And Is Truly Exquisite!
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$2,500 1stdibs.com
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This Extremely Rare Lanvin Haute-Couture Evening Gown, From Their 1974 Collection, Is A Statement Dress. I Love The Beautiful Mix Of Colors And Regal Grecian-Goddess Vibe. It Manifests Opulence And Makes You Feel Confident. Shaped With Princess-Line Seams Flaring Out In A Maxi Shift Silhouette, The Figure Flattering Cut Adds Fullness To The Skirt Without Adding Bulk In The Hips. I Adore The Ric-Rac Trimming And Matching Oversized Shawl. Under The Direction Of Jules Francois-Crahay, Lanvin Was A Playground For Pattern. This Iconic Abstract-Floral Silk Gown Is The Perfect Example Of This. Lanvin May Be The Oldest Fashion House In Paris, But It Has Also Managed To Remain One Of The Most Relevant. Through Many Years And Many Designers, It Has Stayed True To The Vision Of Its Founder, Madame Jeanne Lanvin, Always Valuing Fine Craftsmanship And Impeccable Ornamentation Above All Else. Measurements Bust:33-34 Inches Waist:28 Inches Hips:36 Inches Total Length:60 InchesThis Stunning Lanvin Couture Gown Ensemble Is In Excellent Condition With No Rips,holes Or Stains. The Inside Is Immaculate And Fully-Lined. Perfectly Working Back-Zipper. Highly Wearable And An Investment Piece That Will Continue To Increase In Value. Museum Quality And A True Rarity.
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$316 $790 net-a-porter.com
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Celia Dragouni sources inspiration for her designs from across the globe. This 'Goddess' dress is cut from airy cotton-voile and embroidered with an eye-catching red, burgundy and army-green panel at the front. We love how its effortless, loose-fitting silhouette is emphasized by the wide sleeves and side splits. Wear it with: Kayu Clutch, Isabel Marant Sandals, Maria Black Ring.. Beige cotton-voile.. Slips on.. 100% cotton.. Hand wash.
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$45 $74 6pm.com
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Turn heads and own the room in this gorgeous Maxi Dress. Lightweight poly fabrication flaunts an allover tie-dye print for eye-catching style. Halter neckline. Sleeveless construction. Button-loop closure and flirty keyhole cutout at nape. Fully lined. Straight hemline. 100% polyester. Machine wash cold, tumble dry low. Imported. Measurements: Length: 53 in Product measurements were taken using size SM. Please note that measurements may vary by size.
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$415 thedreslyn.com
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Vintage-inspired long slip dress in white cotton. Defined seams at bust and adjustable thin racerback straps. Elastic at top back. Drop waist with slight ruching on sides. Pull on. Unlined. 100% Cotton. Hand wash.
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$45 etsy.com
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Embrace your inner goddess in this exotic maxi dress, perfect for any occasion. Mid-thigh splits open back detail model is 5'5 wearing size small small will fit size 2/4 medium will fit size 6/8 large will fit size 10/12 xl will fit size 14/16 2x will fit size 18/20 hand wash cold or wash with dark colors line dry polyester
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""Evening dress by City Goddess, Stretch knitted fabric, Glitter finish, Mini-length lining, Plunge neckline, Open back, Slim fit. cut close to the body, Machine wash, Our model wears a UK 8/EU 36/US 4 and is 173cm/5'8"" tall."".
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$1,800 1stdibs.com
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Roberto Cavalli Silk Chiffon Gown Likely Dates To The 1990’ And Is Made Of Ivory Silk Chiffon With A Rhinestone Encrusted Band Under Bust. One Breast Has Gathered Chiffon While The Other Is “Exposed” With Quilted Detailing. Fabric Is Gathered Under The Bust And Releases Into Gentle Folds In The Skirt. Pleated Fabric Underneath Is Intentionally Long And Creates Pools Of Fabric On The Ground. Fully Lined With Side Invisible Zipper.Measurements-Bust: 33"Waist: 26"Hips: OpenShoulder Seam To Hem Length: Approximately 81” At Longest Point
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$16 gojane.com
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Look like an ethereal Grecian goddess in this statement number. Stretchy maxi dress features narrow accordion pleats on the surface, a sheer mesh midriff inset, a double-slit skirt, and a sleeveless top with an overlay. Rear keyhole opening leads to a single button closure at the nape of the neck. Model is wearing a small All measurements are for a small Length: 62" Waist: 24" Slit length: 34" Self: 100% Polyester Contrast: 95% Polyester, 5% Spandex Hand wash cold, hang dry. Do not bleach Made in USA
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""Midi dress by City Goddess, Lightweight stretch fabric, V-neckline, Capped sleeves, Peplum waist, Zip fastening to back, Close cut body-conscious fit, Machine wash, 71% Viscose, 25% Nylon, 4% Elastane, Our model wears a UK 8/EU 36/US 4 and is 173cm/5'8"" tall."".
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$895 1stdibs.com
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Exceptional 1970S Lipstick Red Mike Benet Chiffon Gown! Grecian Goddess Style, With Asymmetrical Layers Of Red Chiffon Throughout. Amazing Movement, With Heavy Attention To Detail. Flattering Ruched V Bodice, Encrusted With Hundreds Of Hand-Sewn Sequins, Rhinestones, Pearls, And Beads! Looks Sensational On, And Is A True Head Turner! Fully Lined. Full Metal Zipper Up The Back, With Hookl-And-Eye Closure. Made In Usa. Approximately Size Small - Small MediumMeasurements:36 Inch Bust28 Inch WaistFree Hips59 Inches From Top Shoulder To Hem
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Did you know? The real Captain von Trapp was offered command of a submarine in the Navy of the Third Reich, which he refused. The von Trapps were invited to sing for Hitler?s 50th birthday party, which they also declined. The eldest son, Rupert, was offered a medical post in a good Viennese hospital; but, he realized it was because many Jewish doctors had been fired. With tensions rising, the family emigrated to Italy four months after the Anschluss in 1938.
Did you know? In THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Maria von Trapp was a novice at Nonnberg Abbey. The historic Nonnberg Abbey was founded in the 8th century by Avendrid, niece of St. Rupert who is considered the patron saint of Salzburg. The city also has a cathedral monastery and is often called ?The Rome of the North.?
Did you Know? At the 1960 Tony Awards Mary Rodgers found her musical ONCE UPON A MATTRESS competing against a show by her father Richard Rodgers - THE SOUND OF MUSIC - for the category of Best Musical!
In 1967 THE SOUND OF MUSIC finished its run at the Palace Theatre, London, after six years and 2,385 performances - at the time, the longest running American musical in British theatrical history.
The birthday of Maria von Trapp. In 1905, Maria Augusta Kutschera Trapp was born aboard a train in the Tirol, Austria. The story of her early life served as the inspiration for THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
The birthday of Florence Henderson, who played Maria von Trapp in the first U.S. National Tour of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, starting in 1961. Best known for playing Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch from 1968 to 1974, Florence Henderson began her career as a stage actress. In addition to THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Henderson starred as Laurey in the 1953 Broadway revival of OKLAHOMA!, as Anna in the Los Angeles Music Center's inaugural production of THE KING AND I, and as Nellie at the Music Theater of Lincoln Center?s SOUTH PACIFIC in 1967. In 2010 she performed on "Dancing with the Stars"" - even waltzing to ""Edelweiss"" from THE SOUND OF MUSIC!"
In 1990, in celebration of THE SOUND OF MUSIC's silver anniversary, Twentieth Century Fox hosted a gala screening/reunion for director Robert Wise, star Julie Andrews, and other members of the cast in Los Angeles; the movie is subsequently rereleased for a limited engagement in Los Angeles and New York.
The birthday of Russel Crouse, book writer of the musicals CALL ME MADAM and THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Crouse was born in 1893.
The birthday of singer Marni Nixon. Marni Nixon became famous as the singing voice of Deborah Kerr in Rodger & Hammerstein?s film THE KING AND I, as well as Audrey Hepburn in MY FAIR LADY and Natalie Wood in WEST SIDE STORY. Nixon finally appeared as a performer on camera while singing the part of Sister Sophia in the film THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
In 1961, the national tour of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, starring Florence Henderson, began at the Riviera Theatre, Detroit. It played in 35 cities before closing at the O'Keefe Center, Toronto, on November 23, 1963.
In 1965, Twentieth Century Fox premiered the movie version of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. It played in New York for a record-setting 93 weeks. The movie's initial U.S. release lasted 4.5 years, and from 1966 to 1972 THE SOUND OF MUSIC was cited by Variety as the "All-Time Box Office Champion."" It remains the most popular movie musical ever made."
The birthday of Julie Andrews, born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England. International star of stage and screen, her long and cherished association with Rodgers & Hammerstein includes starring as the title character in the original TV production of CINDERELLA (1957), playing Maria in the iconic movie version of THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965), and singing the role of Anna in the studio cast recording of THE KING AND I (1992)
In 1959, the world premiere of THE SOUND OF MUSIC was presented at the Shubert Theatre, New Haven.
In 1959, Oscar Hammerstein II began work on "Edelweiss,"" his 1,589th and last lyric, written for THE SOUND OF MUSIC. It is completed on October 21st and went into the show during its pre-Broadway tryout in Boston."
In 1889 book writer Howard Lindsay was born. Lindsay became best known for writing the books to THE SOUND OF MUSIC, CALL ME MADAM, MR. PRESIDENT, and ANYTHING GOES.
In 2006, Connie Fisher starred in the London revival of THE SOUND OF MUSIC to rave reviews. She had been cast as Maria by the BBC?TV reality show HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE MARIA, masterminded by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Millions of Britons voted, making Fisher, formerly a telemarketer, an overnight star. The success of the reality show won it an international Emmy Award and prompted the largest advance of a musical in West End history.
In 1959, THE SOUND OF MUSIC opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York.
In 1966 at the 38th annual Academy Awards, THE SOUND OF MUSIC received five Oscars, including Best Picture of the Year.
In 1960 at the 14th annual Tony Awards, THE SOUND OF MUSIC received five, including Best Actress (Mary Martin) and, for the first time in Tony history, shared a tie for Best Musical (with FIORELLO!). Did you know that composer Richard Rodgers found his musical competing against a show written by his own daughter? ONCE UPON A MATTRESS had opened on Broadway in 1959, with music by Mary Rodgers.
In 1913, Mary Martin was born in Weatherford, Texas. She created the roles of Nellie Forbush in SOUTH PACIFIC and Maria von Trapp in THE SOUND OF MUSIC, winning a Tony Award for each.
In 1961 THE SOUND OF MUSIC opened at the Palace Theatre, London. Did you know? Thirteen-year-old Andrew Lloyd Webber got to attend the opening because of a fan letter he had written to Richard Rodgers.
The birthday of actor Jon Voight. Did you know? Before he made his name on the big screen, the future star played Rolf Gruber during the original Broadway run of THE SOUND OF MUSIC in the early 1960s.
Did you know? In real life, the von Trapp family fled Austria and eventually settled in Vermont. Eventually they opened a resort business in their new American home that is still in operation today. The Trapp Family Lodge first opened in 1950 with 27 rooms. Today, the resort has 100 2-bedroom guest houses and 16 villas that sits on 2,700 acres of land. Guests can play tennis, go Nordic skiing and ? of course ? take music lessons.
Did you know? As soon as Julie Andrews was cast in the movie of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, attention turned to who would play her Captain von Trapp. Executives at 20th Century Fox were eager for Bing Crosby (a suggestion director Robert Wise never took seriously.) Filmmakers also thought about Sean Connery, Rex Harrison, and Yul Brynner ? known for his role in THE KING AND I. The part eventually went to Christopher Plummer.
Did you know? During the filming of ?Sixteen Going On Seventeen? for THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Charmian Carr (as Liesl) ended up dancing through the plate-glass windows of the gazebo. Fortunately for everyone involved, this was her last sequence filmed and she only sprained her ankle.
Agathe von Trapp wrote about her family's emigration in the book MEMORIES BEFORE AND AFTER THE SOUND OF MUSIC : "Even though it was clear to us that we had to leave Austria as soon as possible [following the Anschluss of March 1938]...Mother [Maria von Trapp] looked for divine approval concerning the move. Papa [Baron Georg von Trapp] called us all together, opened the Bible, and let his finger pick a passage at random. Then he read to us:""Now the LORD had said unto Abram: Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee"" (Gen. 12:1 KJV.)"""
Theodore Bikel, who starred in the original Broadway production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC as Captain von Trapp to Mary Martin's Maria, had personal connection to the role. Born in Vienna, his family fled to Palestine following the Nazi annexation of Austria on this day in 1938. Bikel's background as a guitar player and folk singer helped inspire the Rodgers & Hammerstein song Edelweiss.
Did you know? In March of 1961, avant garde jazz saxophonist John Coltrane caused a sensation when he released the album "My Favorite Things"". It was a Jazz landmark, named for its 14 minute riff on Rodgers & Hammerstein's ""My Favorite Things."" Not only did the album (also titled ""My Favorite Things"") introduce Coltrane's new quartet - with McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones and Steve Davis - but it also was his first record for Atlantic Records, and opened up new harmonic explorations for jazz musicians."
Did you know? Georg von Trapp's service to the Austro-Hungarian Empire was chronicled in "To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander"". A skilled and fearless naval captain, he sank over 30 boats during World War I, but von Trapp's job disappeared when Austria lost its seaports to Italy. Trapp's birthplace Trieste became part of Italy too, allowing his family to flee from the Nazi annexation years later across the border with his passport - the conclusion of THE SOUND OF MUSIC."
In THE SOUND OF MUSIC, the Captain and Maria first realize their feelings for each other while dancing a classic Austrian folk dance called the Laendler. The Laendler was a popular folk dance in 3/4 or waltz time. Richard Rodgers cleverly uses the music from ?The Lonely Goatherd? for the ballroom scene during which Maria and the Captain dance and fall in love.
In the film version of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, the real Maria von Trapp has a cameo appearance in the background in the Residenzplatz during ?I Have Confidence,? shot on location in Salzburg. Dressed in Austrian garb, she is visible for only a fleeting moment, as Julie Andrews sings her story to the cameras. Unaware that filming this short segment would require several takes, Maria later declared ?That?s one ambition I?m giving up.?
Did you know? In a 1987 studio cast recording of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, opera stars sang the leads, with Eileen Farrell as the Mother Abbess, and H�kan Hageg�rd as the Captain. The role of Maria was sung by Frederica Von Stade (b. 1945) an American opera singer highly lauded for her mezzo-soprano voice, and known for performing The Barber Of Seville, The Merry Widow, Pelleas Et Melisande and . This recording was part of a trend to create ?cross-over? albums featuring opera singers performing traditionally musical theatre roles. SHOW BOAT, SOUTH PACIFIC and ANNIE GET YOUR GUN were among the shows to receive this treatment.
In 1963, THE SOUND OF MUSIC closed at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York, after 1,443 performances.
Did you know? THE SOUND OF MUSIC has no overture! Having little experience with liturgical music, Richard Rodgers did some research at the Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York while writing the score. Mother Morgan, head of the music department there, invited Rodgers to a concert specially arranged for him to show off the different kinds of musical prayer. For the opening of the musical, Rodgers set the Catholic prayer ?Dixit Dominus? for the nuns of Nonnberg Abbey.
Did you know? At the end of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, the von Trapp family climbs over the mountains to freedom into neighboring Switzerland. In reality, Salzburg does not border Switzerland; it borders Germany. If the real von Trapp family had actually climbed over the Obersalzberg Mountain, as they do in the film version, they would have found themselves face to face with Hitler?s mountain retreat, Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden.
Did you know? Walt Disney was so impressed by Julie Andrews? Broadway portrayal of Guinevere in Lerner and Loewe?s CAMELOT that he went backstage and asked her to play Mary Poppins. Film director Robert Wise then decided to cast Andrews as Maria in THE SOUND OF MUSIC as soon as he saw ?rushes? of her scenes while shooting MARY POPPINS.
Did you know? The real children of Captain von Trapp with his first wife were named Rupert (1911-1992), Werner (1915-2007), Hedwig (1917-1975), Johanna (1919-1994), Martina (1921-1951), Agatha (b. 1913) and Maria F. (b. 1914). Maria had 3 children with Georg after their marriage: Rosmarie (b. 1929), Elenore aka ?Lorli? (b. 1931) and Johannes (b. 1939).
Did you know? After Hammerstein passed away, Rodgers needed a new writing partner. For the first time in his career, he turned to himself for words. In 1962, Rodgers crafted new songs for the re-make of STATE FAIR and wrote both music and lyrics for the musical NO STRINGS. When the film version THE SOUND OF MUSIC needed new numbers, Rodgers wrote and composed the songs ?I Have Confidence? and ?Something Good.?
In 1964 Director Robert Wise and his SOUND OF MUSIC cast and crew wrapped up eleven weeks of shooting on location in and around Salzburg, Austria.
“The soaring optimism of Climb Ev’ry Mountain is a match for any 60’s pop anthem and the genius of the show lies in the affirmation that it is possible to have youthful exuberance, idealism and love without the sex and drugs and rock'n'roll.” — Paul Simei-Barton, The New Zealand Herald , October 06, 2014
"An irresistible score that's always in tune!" — Entertainment Weekly, January 01, 2001
"The loveliest musical imaginable...the dialogue is vibrant and amusing in a plot that rises to genuine excitement." — New York Telegram And Sun, January 01, 1959
"The sentiments of THE SOUND OF MUSIC are genuine and are presented, unabashedly and effectively, in the show's music, lyrics and dialogue...It is uplifting theater, appealing successfully and without apology to the better side of our natures." — Douglas J. Keating, The Philadelphia Inquirer , December 23, 1993
"It's not just the perfect compatibility of music and lyrics that makes audiences flock unremittingly to THE SOUND OF MUSIC. The show can jerk tears from even the driest of eyes. And if that isn't enough, there's the opportunity for a gaggle of children to mesmerise with their talents and charisma. It's a near- perfect recipe." — Peter Brown, LondonTheatre
"The show has considerable integrity and has weathered the years so well." — Michael Billington, The Guardian
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Written By: Tim Crouse , January 01, 1970
Maria Rainer: A young, orphaned Nonnberg Abbey postulant whose impetuous behavior calls her fitness for the veil into question, Maria is dispatched by the Mother Abbess on a probationary tour of duty as governess to the seven children of the widowed Captain Georg von Trapp. Initially cowed by the Captain's autocratic manner, she holds her own with him, wins over his children, restores music to his house, and discovers, to her distress, that he has fallen in love with her and she with him. Retreating to the Abbey, she is sent back to the von Trapp villa by the Mother Abbess, in order to find "how God wants you to spend your love." That turns out to be as a wife to the captain, a second mother to his offspring, and a pathfinder who helps lead them out of the peril looming over them.
Captain Georg von Trapp: A decorated naval hero of the First World War, adamantly opposed to the Nazis and their designs on his beloved Austria. Traumatized by the loss of his wife, he has distanced himself from his home and the music which once animated it. The arrival of the postulant Maria Rainer as a governess breaks open his shell, bringing him back to his children and music. Marrying her, he gains a stalwart, resourceful partner in his daring decision to flee with his family from the dictates of the Third Reich, to freedom.
The Mother Abbess: Spiritual head of Nonnberg Abbey, mentor to Maria. Her credo: "You have to find the life you were born to live." She shepherds Maria from a mistaken vocation as a nun to a true one as a wife and mother, finally helping her to escape, with her new family, over the mountain where both she and Maria grew up.
Max Detweiler: A charming, well-connected impresario, he is a confidant of the Captain's lover, Elsa Schraeder, and apparently, like her, a moral chameleon. His collaboration with the regime in Berlin threatens his friendship with the Captain, but in the end he risks everything to save the von Trapps.
Elsa Schraeder: A chic, attractive Viennese widow, president of her late husband's corporation, now involved in a relationship with Captain von Trapp. Her expectations of marrying the Captain founder on her willingness to accept the Nazis, a moral pliancy that is anathema to him.
A widower, he has shut out of his life everything that reminds him of his wife, including music and his seven children.
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20th Century Fox, a once grand and glorious studio, had done very well by the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals: movie versions of OKLAHOMA!, CAROUSEL, SOUTH PACIFIC, THE KING AND I and STATE FAIR had all been produced under the auspices of this studio, and had collected nine Academy Awards among them. Successful as they were, none of these films could prepare the studio—or the film industry itself—for the phenomenon that was THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
In 1964 THE SOUND OF MUSIC was viewed as a respectable stage property with a good track record: still going strong in the West End (where it would eventually become the longest running American musical in London history), and on a U.S. national tour, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, had by this time racked up a healthy 1443-performance run on Broadway, and collected five Tony Awards including Musical of the Year. In Hollywood, however, where there’s no such thing as a sure thing, turning this stage property into a potentially viable movie was considered a longshot.
For one thing, the movie's budget was—for the first time—large: more than $8 million, and much of that due to the decision to film as much of the movie as possible on location in Salzburg, near and around the Von Trapp villa (though not the villa itself) and the mountains. Also, the cast was relatively unknown. For the central role of Maria, the likes of Mia Farrow, Lesley Ann Warren and Doris Day were each considered before the decision was made to go with 29-year-old Julie Andrews. Although already established as a Broadway star for her roles in THE BOYFRIEND, MY FAIR LADY and CAMELOT, Julie Andrews had yet to be discovered by the movie audiences, and was perhaps best known in Hollywood for Jack Warner's decision to pass her over for the lead in the movie of MY FAIR LADY (which went instead to Audrey Hepburn). Walt Disney, however, took the chance and hired her for MARY POPPINS, and it was after viewing rough footage of her work for Disney that the folks at Fox signed her up immediately.
Joining Julie for the film were Christopher Plummer as the Captain (who, although he wanted to do his own singing, was eventually dubbed in the musical numbers by Bill Lee); Peggy Wood, Eleanor Parker, Anna Lee and Richard Haydn. Twenty-one-year-old Charmaine Carr headed up the cast of the seven children. Marni Nixon, the phantom dubber who provided the singing voice for the leads in WEST SIDE STORY, MY FAIR LADY and THE KING AND I, actually appeared on screen this time as Sister Sophia, and so did the real-life Maria Von Trapp, who makes a quick appearance in a Salzburg sequence.
To make THE SOUND OF MUSIC an on-screen reality, a team of old hands at movie musicals was assembled. Robert Wise, who had won two Oscars in 1961 for another Broadway-to-Hollywood musical adaptation, WEST SIDE STORY, was signed on to produce and direct THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Ernest Lehman, who worked with Rodgers and Hammerstein on the screen adaption of THE KING AND I, did similar honors here.
Richard Rodgers himself took an active role in the movie and significantly amended the score. Two songs were cut, "An Ordinary Couple" (a wistful love duet sung by Maria and the Captain) and "How Can Love Survive?" (a brittle, sardonic duet with an atypical Hammerstein lyric, sung by Elsa and Max).
Replacing them were two new songs with both music and lyrics by Rodgers (Oscar Hammerstein had died in the summer of 1960, less than a year after THE SOUND OF MUSIC opened on Broadway): "I Have Confidence" and "Something Good."
Filming took place throughout the spring and summer of 1964, including eleven weeks on location in and about Salzburg. For those who like to bookend their data, the first scene filmed (in the studio in California) featured Maria and the children singing "My Favorite Things," and shooting ended at the beginning, with the now-classic opening sequence featuring Julie Andrews on top of the hill and the spectacular Alpine scenery.
As an early test for the movie, Fox executive Richard Zanuck arranged for a sneak preview in Minneapolis in February 1965. "The weather was miserable, and we thought nobody would show up," he recalled. "But the theatre was full, and at intermission the whole audience stood up and applauded for five minutes. They did it again at the end, and we looked at each other, shell-shocked."
Ernest Lehman commented, "We didn't know at the beginning it would be such a phenomenon." The world premiere of THE SOUND OF MUSIC was held at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City on March 2, 1965. It played there for a record-breaking 93-week engagement, igniting a momentum that went on to shatter records in all areas of popular entertainment. The initial U.S. release of the film lasted for more than four years. From Japan to Parsi (for the Iranian market), from London to Lisbon, from SUONA DELLA MUSICA in Italy to LA MELODIE DI BONHEUR in France, THE SOUND OF MUSIC quickly became a sound hear the world over.
Nominated for ten Academy Awards, THE SOUND OF MUSIC received five, including Best Director for Robert Wise and Best Picture of the Year. From 1966 to 1969 it was the number one Box Office Champion, according to Variety's survey. To this day, THE SOUND OF MUSIC is one of the twenty-five top grossing films of all time, and the oldest title on that list. It has become the most popular musical ever made
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The motion picture soundtrack, released internationally on the RCA label, has gone platinum and gold and sold over 10 million units worldwide. The movie has also made a successful transition to the small screen, appearing as a perennial favorite on television throughout the world, and in the home video market.
The weekend before THE SOUND OF MUSIC was released, Richard Rodgers was interviewed by the The New York Times. He expressed his delight at seeing THE SOUND OF MUSIC turned into a movie that functioned as a satisfying work in its own right. Having lavished praise on screenwriter Lehman, director/producer Wise, the cast and the movie as a whole, Rodgers ended the interview on a note of caution: "There is, of course, no way for me to tell how the public will respond to THE SOUND OF MUSIC as a movie." It turned out he had nothing to worry about.
Theatre World Award
— Best Written American Musical Film
Academy Awards
1965 — Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment - Irwin Kostal
1965 — Best Director - Robert Wise
1965 — Best Sound - James P. Corcoran, Fred HynesFilm Editing, William Reynolds
Tony Awards
— Best Musical - Book by Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; Music by Richard Rodgers; Produced by Leland Hayward, Richard Halliday, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
— Best Featured Actress in a Musical - Patricia Neway
— Best Scenic Design - Oliver Smith
— Best Conductor and Musical Director- Frederick Dvonch
— Best Actress in a Musical - Mary Martin
Golden Globe Awards (United States)
July 24, 1965 — Best Motion Picture Actress Musical/ Comedy - Julie Andrews
1965 — Best Motion Picture Musical/Comedy
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Richard Rodgers’ contributions to the musical theatre of his day were extraordinary, and his influence on the musical theatre of today and tomorrow is legendary. His career spanned more than six decades, and his hits ranged from the silver screens of Hollywood to the bright lights of Broadway, London and beyond. He was the recipient of countless awards, including Pulitzers, Tonys, Oscars, Grammys and Emmys. He wrote more than 900 published songs, and forty Broadway musicals.
Richard Charles Rodgers was born in New York City on June 28, 1902. His earliest professional credits, beginning in 1920, included a series of musicals for Broadway, London and Hollywood written exclusively with lyricist Lorenz Hart. In the first decade of their collaboration, Rodgers & Hart averaged two new shows every season, beginning with POOR LITTLE RITZ GIRL, and also including THE GARRICK GAIETIES (of 1925 and 1926), DEAREST ENEMY, PEGGY-ANN, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE and CHEE-CHEE. After spending the years 1931 to 1935 in Hollywood (where they wrote the scores for several feature films including LOVE ME TONIGHT starring Maurice Chevalier, HALLELUJAH, I’M A BUM starring Al Jolson and THE PHANTOM PRESIDENT starring George M. Cohan), they returned to New York to compose the score for Billy Rose’s circus extravaganza, JUMBO.
A golden period followed — golden for Rodgers & Hart, and golden for the American musical: ON YOUR TOES (1936), BABES IN ARMS (1937), I’D RATHER BE RIGHT (1937), I MARRIED AN ANGEL (1938), THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE (1938), TOO MANY GIRLS (1939), HIGHER AND HIGHER (1940), PAL JOEY (1940), and BY JUPITER (1942). The Rodgers & Hart partnership came to an end with the death of Lorenz Hart in 1943, at the age of 48.
Earlier that year Rodgers had joined forces with lyricist and author Oscar Hammerstein II, whose work in the field of operetta throughout the ’20s and ’30s had been as innovative as Rodgers’ own accomplishments in the field of musical comedy. OKLAHOMA! (1943), the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, was also the first of a new genre, the musical play, representing a unique fusion of Rodgers’ musical comedy and Hammerstein’s operetta. A milestone in the development of the American musical, it also marked the beginning of the most successful partnership in Broadway musical history, and was followed by CAROUSEL (1945), ALLEGRO (1947), SOUTH PACIFIC (1949), THE KING AND I (1951), ME AND JULIET (1953), PIPE DREAM (1955), FLOWER DRUM SONG (1958) and THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1959). The team wrote one movie musical, STATE FAIR (1945), and one for television, CINDERELLA. (1957). Collectively, the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals earned 34 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, two Grammy Awards and 2 Emmy Awards. In 1998 Rodgers & Hammerstein were cited by Time Magazine and CBS News as among the 20 most influential artists of the 20th century and in 1999 they were jointly commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp.
Despite Hammerstein’s death in 1960, Rodgers continued to write for the Broadway stage. His first solo entry, NO STRINGS in 1962, earned him two Tony Awards for music and lyrics, and was followed by DO I HEAR A WALTZ? (1965, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim), TWO BY TWO (1970, lyrics by Martin Charnin), REX (1976, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick) and I REMEMBER MAMA (1979, lyrics by Martin Charnin and Raymond Jessel).
NO STRINGS was not the only project for which Rodgers worked solo: as composer/lyricist he wrote the score for a 1967 television adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s ANDROCLES AND THE LION for NBC; contributed songs to a 1962 remake of STATE FAIR; and to the 1965 movie version of THE SOUND OF MUSIC. He composed one ballet score (GHOST TOWN, premiered in 1939), and two television documentary scores — VICTORY AT SEA in 1952 and THE VALIANT YEARS in 1960 (the former earning him an Emmy, a Gold Record and a commendation from the U.S. Navy.)
Richard Rodgers died at home in New York City on December 30, 1979 at the age of 77. On March 27, 1990, he was honored posthumously with Broadway’s highest accolade when the 46th Street Theatre, owned and operated by the Nederlander Organization, was renamed The Richard Rodgers Theatre, home to The Richard Rodgers Gallery, a permanent exhibit in the lobby areas presented by ASCAP which honors the composer’s life and works.
This essay was generously provided by the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization .
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George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion was adapted to become which musical? | Pygmalion
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Pygmalion, written in 1912 by George Bernard Shaw and first performed two years later, tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (speech), who bets his friend that he can pass off a poor flower girl with a Cockney accent as a duchess by teaching her to speak with an upper class accent.
In addition to being a playwright, Shaw was a theater critic, an essayist, a lifelong socialist and advocate for the working class, and, like Higgins, something of a phonetician. Given the scope of his interests, it should come as no surprise that he had a lot to say about a lot of things. Pygmalion, like most of Shaw's plays, is didactic. That is, it's meant to teach the audience about something. In this case, Shaw wants us to think about the problems caused by our "common" language, and how language can separate people from different places and classes, even different parts of the same town. In his preface to the play, entitled, "A Professor of Phonetics," he writes, "The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it sounds like" ( source ). Seems like he's about ready to yell, "We have a failure to communicate!" Well, instead of screaming, he wrote Pygmalion. (He called for the creation of an "improved" system of spelling English, but, thankfully, it didn't catch on. You can read more about it in "Trivia.")
It's easy to sympathize with Shaw, though. If you've ever had trouble understanding someone because his accent was different than yours, or had trouble pronouncing an unfamiliar word (why does "subtle" have a "b" in it anyway?), you probably know what Shaw's talking about: sometimes English doesn't really make much sense, even to native speakers. When you consider that Shaw was writing at a time when the British Empire was still around, when people from all over the globe were expected and sometimes forced to communicate in English, and the situation only becomes more complicated.
All this talk about language is only the beginning, though. Shaw uses it as a base to discuss other issues: problems about society, class, and gender. No need to get overwhelmed right off the bat, though. It's best to take it slow and start with words. That's where all literature begins, right?
Given that we can all relate to these problems, however, it's no surprise that Pygmalion was and is extremely popular. Most people know the plot from My Fair Lady , the musical film adaptation of Shaw's play (sorry to say, there's no rain in Spain falling mainly on the plain in the original), and it's been parodied by everyone from The Three Stooges to The Simpsons and Family Guy . Shaw also wrote the Academy Award -winning screenplay for the 1938 film version, making him the only person ever to win both an Oscar and the Nobel Prize in Literature . Pretty good for a play about a grouchy professor and a poor flower girl, no?
Why Should I Care?
There's a reason why Pygmalion's been turned into a movie, a musical, and a movie musical, with a twist. It's a Cinderella story, complete with slippers…although in this case they're thrown, not worn. There's even a ball – well, maybe not a ball, but a couple of parties. And there's a stepmother in there too, although we never see her. Problem is, there's no Prince Charming. This fairy tale's got no happy ending.
Now, you may be thinking, "Come on, everybody loves a good happy ending!" And it's true, almost everybody does. But life's not always so sweet, and it rarely comes wrapped up in a bow. In the end, Eliza, the Cinderella character, is all dressed up with nowhere to go. Maybe something will turn up, maybe she will find her Prince, but we can't know for sure. Here's another let down: there's no magic in Pygmalion, at least none of that Fairy Godmother stuff. But Shaw does you one better. You get to read about…the magic of teaching…and the transforming power of words. Cool, right?
We know what you're thinking. Enough with the words already. OK, how about some numbers. Get this: approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language. Most of them are American, Indian, Nigerian, British, Filipino, Canadian, and Australian. They're not all quite speaking the same variety of English. Have you ever heard of the term "to borrow leg"? That's Nigerian slang for "to flee," as in, "When I saw that dog coming for me I had to borrow leg." Some of these regional colloquialisms have become better known: lots of people know that "barbie" is Australian slang for barbecue.
This is only the tip of the iceberg, though: at least another half a billion people speak English as a second language, and more are learning everyday. Knowledge of English can mean the difference between poverty and employment, and, just like Eliza, thousands if not millions of people are held back because they don't speak English as well as they could. Even today, characters with "funny accents" – whether they be from Brooklyn, China, France, Scotland, or India – can be seen on television and in movies. And though there's nothing wrong with a little fun every now and again (we love jokes, we swear – jokes and learning), they hint at some uncomfortable realities. That accent can make a big difference.
Shaw was writing about all this stuff nearly a hundred years ago, and his thoughts are still fresh. Pygmalion is so tightly constructed that he can fit all of this in to about seventy pages of text – the play runs about two hours – and tackle hard issues like poverty. Oh, and did we mention it's a lot a fun? Because it is.
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My Fair Lady
April 23 - May 10, 2015
Marian Theatre
June 11 - July 12, 2015
Solvang Festival Theater
Appropriate for all ages - a great show to see as a family.
(Children under 5 are not admitted into the theatre.)
Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Play and Gabriel Pascal's motion picture Pygmalion
Originally directed by Moss Hart
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"The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated."
Professor Henry Higgins makes a wager that he can raise a lowly Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to the status of a high-society debutante in Lerner and Loewe's hit musical, My Fair Lady. Based on Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady plays as powerfully for modern-day audiences as it did in 1912. Eliza's transformation illuminates society's prejudices, the gender divide, and personal identity. With classic musical numbers such as Wouldn't It Be Loverly?, The Rain In Spain, and I Could Have Danced All Night. Lerner and Loewe's creation is as much a classic play as a classic musical.
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About the Play
World famous phonetics expert and British upper class professional bachelor, Henry Higgins is willing to wager that he can pass off the lowly Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in high society as a duchess just by teaching her to speak proper English. After several grueling months of lessons Higgins introduces Eliza to his mother’s circle of friends which includes the young aristocrat Freddy Eynsford-Hill who falls for the newly refined Eliza. Higgins is happy to take all the credit for Eliza’s transformation and he can’t understand why his pupil is less than grateful. It is only after she has gone that he realizes his growing attraction for this new independent woman.
Like Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion from which it was adapted, My Fair Lady explores society’s prejudices toward class and gender with the addition of a spectacular score to illuminate the broad and rich mix of characters we encounter.
Opening on Broadway in 1956, My Fair Lady was a resounding record-smashing hit and would become the longest running major musical for its time, playing for 2,717 performances over the course of six-and-a-half-years.
The original My Fair Lady production featured Rex Harrison (initially offered to Noel Coward) as Henry Higgins and Julie Andrews (initially intended for Mary Martin) in the role of Eliza Doolittle in her American debut. The cast recording, which contains some of the most memorable Broadway tunes, spent 480 weeks on the Billboard charts, making it one of the longest selling albums. It was nominated for nine Tony Awards in 1957, winning six, including Best Musical, Best Actor for Harrison, and Best Director for Moss Hart. Subsequent Broadway revivals were mounted in 1976, 1981, and 1993.
Lerner and Loewe’s musical is based on the George Bernard Shaw play and Gabriel Pascal motion picture Pygmalion. The musical was adapted for film in 1964, again starring Harrison while Audrey Hepburn played Ms. Doolittle. Harrison captured the Academy Award for his silver screen performance.
It wasn’t until after Shaw’s death that film producer Gabriel Pascal approached Alan Jay Lerner to adapt the play for a musical. He and partner Frederick Loewe were stumped with the unconventional plot, there was no real love story, which, for the day, was an unworkable vehicle. Even Rodgers and Hammerstein were unsuccessful trying to make the musical adaptation. Lerner and Loewe re-approached the project after setting it aside for a couple of years, and, with fresh eyes, realized the original book for the play needed little alteration for the musical. It has since been called “the perfect musical” and “one of the best musicals of the century.”
About the Production
My Fair Lady holds a special place in Director/Choreographer Michael Jenkinson’s heart. Besides playing the role of Freddie over a decade ago, it was the second show he choreographed professionally for PCPA. That 2001 production was a breakthrough in Jenkinson’s understanding of the role choreography plays as “story” and not just dance. It also gave him the foundation and great appreciation for the cooperative and collaborative arrangement between director and choreographer. While Michael is proud of the work he did on that show 14 years ago, he is excited to make it different. It’s also new territory for the choreographer to revisit a project; but early on in the process he was convinced he would not take cues from past productions or the famous film of 1964 starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. “My observations are that many productions look like an endeavor to do the film version on stage and I find that really uninteresting. The film is wonderful, but the film will always exist so there’s no reason to replicate that,” Jenkinson said.
One area of particular focus for Jenkinson is the iconic Ascot scene which he describes as typically being presented as a costume parade. Besides the goal of elevating the basic shape and building in complex walking patterns, he has expanded upon the ensemble’s interrelationships - exploring and expanding their stories within.
The basis for the production is to strip away familiar external cues so that the observer looks upon the work without preconceptions, hence becoming more aware of the internal life of these characters and providing a brand new experience.
While the shape of the production will have a fresh visual feel, the show’s sweeping score and engaging plot remain. The class structure as the backdrop to a bet between two gentlemen to see if a lower class flower girl can be dressed up and passed off in high society is pivotal.
Jenkinson calls My Fair Lady an exceptionally well-constructed play that has great language, great music and a very unique story. “This is the most unconventional musical and a great challenge as a director because the relationships are so unique. There’s no formula like ‘I met you, then we fall in love,’ like a Curly and Laurie, or Harold Hill and Marion, or Tony and Maria. This is I don’t even like you.”
The message that rings true in the piece, and is really important to the director, is being true to your authentic self, while at the same time staying true to the tone of Bernard Shaw’s original work, the Pygmalion story. With the focus so heavily on character development, it’s no surprise this will be the director/ choreographer’s least dance intensive show. As he said, “no leggy show girls and no balletic moves.” The dance will come right out of the urban feel of the people on the streets. Their situation will be the instigation for the movement. “We’re not driving toward a 10-12 minute ballet in this production,” Jenkinson said. This piece is so well constructed that he needs to just get out of its way and let the actors do their work.
Jenkinson’s hope is that everyone who walks in to the theatre comes away with a brand new relationship to the play, a goal that is always paramount. “I’m not interested in the audience just sitting and watching something beautiful happen. I’m interested in them really hearing the play, even when we’re revisiting a war horse of a show, to bring it back fresh and not to allow it to fade away.”
About the Authors
Alan Jay Lerner: book and lyrics. Lerner was born into a wealthy family in 1918 and studied piano beginning at the age of 5. He attended Juilliard in 1936-1937 and later graduated from Harvard. There he lost the sight in one eye during a boxing match forcing him to give up his plans of becoming a pilot. He opted for Harvard’s theatre program and developed a love of writing radio plays. His mentors were Oscar Hammerstein and Lorenz Hart. His partnership with Frederick Loewe began in 1942. After three unsuccessful attempts they landed their first real hit with Brigadoon. The team is also credited for creating Paint Your Wagon, Gigi, and Camelot. Their final collaboration, after Lerner coaxed Loewe out of retirement, was the unsuccessful film The Little Prince, 1974. Lerner continued writing musicals, one of which won him an Academy Award for his screenplay for An American in Paris. Working with Burton Lane he wrote Royal Wedding and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. During his career he has collaborate with Kurt Weill, Andre Previn, and Leonard Bernstein twice, once as a fellow classmates at Harvard then much later, in 1976, on Bernstein’s last musical, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. After Oscar Hammerstein passed away, Lerner attempted a collaboration with Richard Rodgers, though that proved unworkable.
Frederick Loewe: music. Loewe was born in Berlin in 1901. A self-taught pianist (from the age of 8) he helped his father - an operetta star - rehearse for shows. By the time he turned 15, he was receiving public recognition for his compositions and performances. Accompanying his father to New York in 1925 he decided to make a go of it on Broadway, though with little success. He took odd jobs, including playing piano in movie theatres accompanying silent pictures which he improvised on the spot. Loewe met Lerner by chance at a famous night spot, The Lambs Club, in 1942 and their first collaboration was on the production of Life of the Party which was not a hit. It took a couple more attempts before they created Brigadoon which established the writing team with world-wide recognition. Following the film musical Gigi in 1958 - which won nine Academy Awards including Best Picture - the team wrote Camelot to unenthusiastic responses from the first audiences. The stars, Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, and Robert Goulet were summoned to sing a few numbers from the musical on the Ed Sullivan Show. Overnight, Camelot was an immediate hit. Lowe retired to Palm Springs, California. He and partner Frederick Loewe were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.
George Bernard Shaw: playwright Pygmalion. He was born in 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. His father was an alcoholic and cut off Shaw’s education at the age of 15. In 1876, he moved to London and established himself as a leading music and theatre critic along with writing novels and essays on a wide variety of subjects. He also wrote 36 plays - writing up until his death at the age of 94. He spoke out on politics, poverty, class struggle, and women’s rights. He won an Academy Award for Pygmalion in 1938 and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. Other famous plays by Shaw include Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House and Saint Joan. Shaw did not wish to see Pygmalion, his witty study of middle-class morality and class distinction, become a musical. And, it wasn’t until after his death, that Lerner and Loewe were asked by film producer Gabriel Pascal to take on the project.
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Les Misérables is a French novel first published in 1862. The French version is about 1,900 pages long and it is one of the longest novels ever written. The novel has many subplots, but the main story follows ex-convict Jean Valjean who strives to do good, but struggles to escape his past. Les Misérables is considered to be one of the most important novels of the 19th century. The novel investigates many themes such as; politics, religion, justice, law, love and many more. Although initial critical reaction was mostly negative, it was a great commercial success throughout the world. It has had many adaptations over the years including; musicals, plays, movies and television specials. A recent film adaptation, which was adapted from the musical, has proved to be a major success and shows that the story is still popular with modern audiences. Let’s find out who wrote this important novel and some of the most successful adaptations.
Who wrote Les Misérables?
Les Misérables was written by the famous French poet, playwright, and author, Victor Hugo. The inspiration for his main character, came from the life of Eugene Vidocq. He had been an ex-convict and eventually become a very successful businessman and philanthropist. Hugo began planning the novel in the 1830’s after being inspired by the French Revolutions of the time. Even though he started his work in the 1840’s his work was not finished and published until 1862. The book was the subject of a massive marketing campaign and the book sold out within hours. It went on to have a massive influence on French society.
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The famous musical adaptation began in 1980 with the French language lyrics written by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel and the libretto (the spoken portion of a musical) written by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil. The lyrics to the English version of the musical were written by Herbert Kretzmer and James Fenton and the libretto was written by Trevor Nunn and John Caird. The musical went on to become an international sensation and multi award winnner.
2012 film
The 2012 film was based on the musical and was scripted by William Nicholson, Boublil, Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer.
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Victor Hugo was born in 1802 in the French town of Besançon. His father was a general in Napoléon’s army, and much of his childhood was therefore spent amid the backdrop of Napoléon’s campaigns in Spain and in Italy. At the age of eleven, Hugo returned to live with his mother in Paris, where he became infatuated with books and literature. By the time he was fifteen, he had already submitted one poem to a contest sponsored by the prestigious French Academy.
Hugo wrote prolifically in all genres, but his plays proved to be his earliest critical and commercial successes. France’s 1830 July Revolution opened Hugo’s creative floodgates, and he began producing a steady stream of work, most notably the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831). Hugo also began to cultivate his interest in politics and was elected to France’s National Assembly after the revolution of 1848. As Hugo grew older, his politics became increasingly leftist, and he was forced to flee France in 1851 because of his opposition to the monarch Louis Napoléon. Hugo remained in exile until 1870, when he returned to his home country as a national hero. He continued to write until his death in 1885. He was buried with every conceivable honor in one of the grandest funerals in modern French history.
Hugo remains one of the most popular and respected authors in French literature. His writings were cultural fixtures throughout the nineteenth century, and he quickly emerged as one of the leaders of the Romantic movement in literature. Hugo also developed his own brand of imaginative realism, a literary style that combines realistic elements with exaggerated symbolism. In this style, each character represents a significant social issue of the time. Indeed, political concerns dominate much of Hugo’s writing, and he used his work to champion causes such as universal suffrage and free education. Hugo believed that the modern writer had a mission to defend the less fortunate members of society. Though he often drew criticism for his politics, his passion for documenting injustice ultimately led to widespread praise for both his literary and social achievements.
Hugo began writing Les Misérables twenty years before its eventual publication in 1862. His goals in writing the novel were as lofty as the reputation it has subsequently acquired; Les Misérables is primarily a great humanitarian work that encourages compassion and hope in the face of adversity and injustice. It is also, however, a historical novel of great scope and analysis, and it provides a detailed vision of nineteenth-century French politics and society. By coupling his story of redemption with a meticulous documentation of the injustices of France’s recent past, Hugo hoped Les Misérables would encourage a more progressive and democratic future. Driven by his commitment to reform and progress, Hugo wrote Les Misérables with nothing less than a literary and political revolution in mind.
Les Misérables employs Hugo’s style of imaginative realism and is set in an artificially created human hell that emphasizes the three major predicaments of the nineteenth century. Each of the three major characters in the novel symbolizes one of these predicaments: Jean Valjean represents the degradation of man in the proletariat, Fantine represents the subjection of women through hunger, and Cosette represents the atrophy of the child by darkness. In part, the novel’s fame has endured because Hugo successfully created characters that serve as symbols of larger problems without being flat devices.
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Early twentieth century New York. Fanny Brice knows that she is a talented comedienne and singer. She also knows that she is not the beauty typical of the stage performers of the day, she with skinny legs and a crooked nose among other physical issues. So she knows she has to use whatever other means to get her break in show business, that break so that she can at least display her talents. With the help of Eddie Ryan who would become her friend, Fanny is able to get a part in a novelty act in a vaudeville show, the renown from which eventually comes to the attention of famed impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. . Fanny does become one of the Ziegfeld Follies most popular acts, despite she almost getting fired after her first performance by defying Flo's artistic vision for her closing number. Beyond stage success, Fanny also wants a happy personal life, most specifically with the suave Nicky Arnstein, a gambler in every respect of the word. Fanny loves him and loves that he loves her ... Written by Huggo
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Every time a film is made about a real-life figure, particularly a show business figure, people love to complain that the movie is not accurate regarding the facts of that person's life. If the truth be told, if movie biographies were strictly about the facts, no one would go to see them, because for the most part, the facts don't make for great entertainment and Fanny Brice is no exception. The 1968 musical FUNNY GIRL has been maligned for years because it is not a very accurate representation of the facts of Fanny Brice's life. If you want to learn about Fanny Brice's life, read a biography or go on the internet, but if you want to see an amazing movie musical spotlighting a legendary performer at the beginning of her amazing career, then you can't beat FUNNY GIRL, the 1968 musical based on the 1964 Broadway musical that made Barbra Streisand a star. Streisand tied with Katharine Hepburn for the Best Actress Oscar for this charismatic star turn as the young girl from Henry Street who becomes a big star of the Ziegfeld Follies and has a heartbreaking romance with a charming gambler named Nick Arnstein, played by Omar Sharif. Streisand is in practically every frame of this film and never makes you wish otherwise...one of the great performances in the history of cinema...whether she is defying Florenz Ziegfeld by refusing to appear in the finale or chasing an ocean liner to be with Nick, Streisand gives the one-woman performance of a lifetime here. Directed by Oscar-winner William Wyler, Streisand is lovingly photographed and effectively showcases the Jule Styne-Bob Merrill score, which includes classics like "People" and "Don't Rain On My Parade". Some changes have been made in the score from the stage musical but Streisand makes it all work and the finale "My Man" is just devastating. It's not an accurate biography of the vaudeville legend, but as a dazzling and entertaining movie musical, it's hard to top this one.
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The Academy Award-winning actress-singer-director is being honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center with its 40th annual Chaplin Award, to be presented at a gala career tribute on Monday, April 22, 2013 in New York City.
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A recording and Broadway star, Barbra Streisand recreated her stage triumph as Fanny Brice in the musical "Funny Girl" for the 1968 film, directed by William Wyler. The movie traces Brice's rise from vaudeville to the fabled Ziegfeld Follies, and her tempestuous romantic relationship with gambler Nicky Arnstein.
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Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice and Omar Sharif as Nicky Arnstein in "Funny Girl."
A photo of the Egyptian star of "Lawrence of Arabia" kissing the Jewish Streisand, released in the wake of the Seven-Day War, caused a stir in the Arab press.
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"Hello, gorgeous!" Barbra Streisand accepts the Best Actress Oscar for "Funny Girl" from presenter Ingrid Bergman, at the 41st Academy Awards, April 14, 1969.
In an Oscar rarity, Streisand tied for the Academy Award with Katharine Hepburn (for "The Lion in Winter"). Streisand was also in rare company (along with Shirley Booth, Julie Andrews and Marlee Matlin) for winning a Best Actress Oscar for her film debut.
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Barbra Streisand in the musical "Hello, Dolly" (1969).
Though nominated in 1964 for a Tony Award for her star turn in "Funny Girl," Streisand lost the Tony to Carol Channing of "Hello, Dolly!" Yet Streisand ultimately won the role of matchmaker Dolly Levi in the film over Channing and other actresses being considered, including Ethel Merman, Elizabeth Taylor and Ann-Margret.
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Barbra Streisand in the musical "Hello, Dolly" (1969), directed by Gene Kelly. Though the film performed well at the box office, its extravagant cost weighed heavily on the studio.
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Barbra Streisand starred in the film of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" (1970), a romantic fantasy involving reincarnation adapted from the Alan Jay Lerner-Burton Lane show. Co-starring with Streisand were Yves Montand, Larry Blyden, Bob Newhart, Simon Oakland and Jack Nicholson.
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Herbert Ross directed Barbra Streisand and George Segal in "The Owl and the Pussycat" (1970), a comedy about an actress-prostitute who moves in with an aspiring writer. Screenwriter Buck Henry ("The Graduate") adapted the stage play by Bill Manhoff.
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Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal in the screwball comedy "What's Up, Doc?" (1972), in which a mix-up involving matching luggage brings together a musicologist, jewel thieves, spies, the mob, and a young woman for whom disaster is an ever-present companion.
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Barbra Streisand in Peter Bogdanovich's screwball comedy "What's Up, Doc?" (1972).
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A poster for the Barbra Streisand film "Up the Sandbox," in which a young wife and mother delves into an increasingly outrageous fantasy life, from African tribal rituals to terrorism. The movie was directed by Irvin Kershner (who later was director of "The Empire Strikes Back").
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Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford in the romantic drama "The Way We Were" (1973), directed by Sydney Pollack. The film told of college lovers whose relationship over the years is torn by differences in background, political upheavals and affairs. The movie also spawned a hit theme song by Marvin Hamlisch, sung by Streisand, which was her first #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100.
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In the farce "For Pete's Sake" (1974), Barbra Streisand plays a struggling Brooklyn housewife who takes out a loan from the Mafia, and gets into increasingly wild adventures in trying to pay off her debt.
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Barbra Streisand recreated her Oscar-winning role as Fanny Brice in the sequel, "Funny Lady" (1975), which continued the story of Brice and her marriage to songwriter Billy Rose.
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"A Star Is Born," the romantic tale of a young artist whose fame ascends as her lover's star falls, had already been filmed twice, in 1937 (with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March as Hollywood actors), and as a 1954 musical (with Judy Garland and James Mason).
In 1976 Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson spun a rock version, in which an aspiring singer-songwriter falls in love with a rock legend spiraling downwards due to drugs and drink.
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Kris Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand in "A Star Is Born" (1976).
Streisand shared the Best Song Academy Award with lyricist Paul Williams for the film's signature tune, "Evergreen."
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Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal re-teamed for the romantic comedy "The Main Event" (1979), about a woman who finds herself the promoter of a not-terribly-promising boxer.
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Gene Hackman and Barbra Streisand in "All Night Long" (1981), a comedy in which a woman finds herself in a triangle between a young man (played by Dennis Quaid) and his father (Hackman).
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Barbra Streisand's first film in the director's chair was "Yentl" (1983), inspired by the Isaac Bashevis Singer story of a young Jewish girl who impersonates a boy in order to study the Torah. Co-starring Oscar nominee Amy Irving and Mandy Patinkin, "Yentl" used songs to relate the young "man" 's inner life, struggles with cultural limitations, and dreams of breaking down gender barriers.
The film won an Oscar for Best Song Score (by Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman), and received two Best Song nominations as well.
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In the 1987 drama "Nuts," based on a play by Tom Topor, Barbra Streisand plays a call girl who must prove herself sane or face incarceration in a mental institution after murdering a client. Richard Dreyfuss co-starred.
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Nick Nolte played a South Carolina football coach who becomes involved with his suicidal sister's psychiatrist, played by Barbra Streisand, in the drama "The Prince of Tides" (1991), based on the Pat Conroy novel. The film was Streisand's second as a director.
The movie was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, but not Best Director, prompting accusations of bias on the part of the Academy's Directors Branch.
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Barbra Streisand on the set of her second film as director, "The Prince of Tides."
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Based on a 1958 French film, the romantic comedy-drama "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (1996) starred Barbra Streisand and Jeff Bridges as a couple who are forced to overcome mammoth impediments to intimacy. It was Streisand's third time in the director's chair, and it was co-star Lauren Bacall's first time as an Oscar nominee, playing Streisand's domineering mother.
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Robert Redford embraces his "Way We Were" co-star Barbra Streisand after receiving an Honorary Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, during the 74th Annual Academy Awards, Sunday March 24, 2002.
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After an eight-year absence, Streisand returned to the movie screen in the 2004 comedy, "Meet the Fockers." She played Ben Stiller's mother, Roz Focker, a sex therapist.
Streisand told a British interviewer that she sprained both thumbs while filming a scene in which she gave a back rub to Robert De Niro.
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Barbra Streisand poses with her husband James Brolin during the 77th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., on Sunday, February 27, 2005.
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Kathryn Bigelow, winner of the Best Director Oscar for "The Hurt Locker," and presenter Barbara Streisand are seen backstage during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., on Sunday, March 7, 2010.
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Barbra Streisand also starred in a road movie, playing the mother of Seth Rogan in the 2012 comedy, "The Guilt Trip."
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Barbra Streisand performs the theme song of the film "The Way We Were," during a memorial tribute to the late composer Marvin Hamlisch, at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, Calif., February 24, 2013.
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Barbra Streisand performs the theme song of the film "The Way We Were," during a memorial tribute to the late composer Marvin Hamlisch, at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, Calif., February 24, 2013.
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents its 40th annual Chaplin Award to Barbra Streisand on Monday, April 22, 2013, at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City.
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Miss Saigon premiered in Drury Lane, London in 1989, but how many performances were put on there before it closed? | Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon
by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil
Miss Saigon is a West End musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.. It is based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to the 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and Madame Butterfly’s American Lieutenant and Japanese geisha coupling is replaced by a romance between an American GI and a Vietnamese bar girl.
The musical premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London on September 20, 1989, closing after 4,264 performances, on October 30, 1999. It opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre in 1991 and subsequently played in many other cities and embarked on tours.
The musical represented Schönberg and Boublil’s second major success, following Les Misérables in 1985. As of August 2010, Miss Saigon is still the 10th longest-running Broadway musical in musical theatre history
Background
The musical’s inspiration was reportedly a photograph, inadvertently found by Schönberg in a magazine. The photo showed a Vietnamese mother leaving her child at a departure gate at Tan Son Nhut Air Base to board a plane headed for the United States where her father, an ex-GI, would be in a position to provide a much better life for the child. Schönberg considered this mother’s actions for her child to be “The Ultimate Sacrifice,” an idea central to the plot of Miss Saigon.[2]
Highlights of the show include the evacuation of the last Americans in Saigon from the Embassy roof by helicopter while a crowd of abandoned Vietnamese scream in despair, the victory parade of the new communist regime and the frenzied night club scene at the time of defeat.
Many of the major European musicals on Broadway started in the 1980s, including Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Les Misérables and then included Miss Saigon into the 1990s.
West End
Miss Saigon premiered in the West End at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on September 20, 1989 and closed after 4,264 performances on October 30, 1999.[3] The director was Nicholas Hytner with musical staging by Bob Avian and scenic design by John Napier. In December 1994 the London production became the Theatre Royal’s (Drury Lane) longest running musical, eclipsing the record set by My Fair Lady.[4]
The original Kim was played by Lea Salonga, who became famous because of this role and won the Laurence Olivier Award and Tony Award. The original Engineer was portrayed by Jonathan Pryce who won a Tony Award for the role.
Broadway
The musical debuted on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre on April 11, 1991 and closed on January 28, 2001 after 4,092 performances. Directed again by Nicholas Hytner with musical staging by Bob Avian, scenic design was by John Napier, costume design was by Andreane Neofitou and Suzy Benzinger and lighting design was by David Hersey.[5] As of April 2009, Miss Saigon is still the 10th longest-running Broadway musical in musical theatre history.[1]
Other Productions
Since its opening in London Miss Saigon was produced in many cities around the world including Stuttgart from December 2, 1994 till December 19, 1999 and Toronto, where new theatres were designed specifically to house the show. In the small island community of Bømlo in Norway with only around 11000 innhabitants, the show was set up in the outdoor amphitheater by the local musical fellowship and ran from august 5 to august 16 2009. The local musical fellowship bought in a Bell Helicopter for the show. [6][7] According to the Miss Saigon Official Site, Miss Saigon has been performed by 27 companies in 25 countries and 246 cities, and it has been translated into twelve different languages.
Tours
After the London production closed in 1999 and also following the closure of the Broadway production in 2001 the show in its original London staging embarked on a long tour of the six largest venues in Britain and Ireland stopping off in each city for several months. The tour opened at the Palace Theatre, Manchester and also played in the Birmingham Hippodrome, the Mayflower Theatre Southampton, the Edinburgh Playhouse, the Bristol Hippodrome and The Point Theatre in Dublin. This successful tour drew to a close in 2003 and a brand new production was developed by original producer Cameron Mackintosh on a smaller scale so that the show could be accommodated in smaller theatres. This new tour started in July 2004 and ended in June 2006.[9]
The first US tour started in Chicago, Illinois in October 1992 and was then expected to travel to those cities which could accommodate the large production. The tour also played venues such as the Wang Center in Boston from July 14 to September 12, 1993,[10] the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Florida in the Spring 1994,[11] and the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC in June 1994.[12] Cameron Mackintosh said: “Corners haven’t been cut. They’ve been added. There are only a dozen theaters in America where we can do this.”[13]
A second North American tour was in Summer 2002 – Spring 2005, playing such venues as the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, New Jersey in November 2003, Raleigh, North Carolina in February 2005, and Gainesville, Florida in November 2003
West End 2014 Revival
Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed new production has made its highly anticipated return to the Prince Edward Theatre West End, and has broken box office advance tickets records. Since Miss Saigon’s sensational record-breaking run at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane 25 years ago it has played in 300 cities in 15 different languages, winning awards around the world.
2014 Cast
Eva Noblezada, Jon Jon Briones, Alistair Brammer, Tamsin Carroll, Kwang-Ho Hong, Hugh Maynard, Rachelle Ann Go, Julia Abueva, Natalie Chua, Jon-Scott Clark, Jenny Ding, Dale Evans, Callum Francis, Ashley Gilmour, Maria Graciano, Jack Harrison-Cooper, Matthew Jeans, Kurt Kansley, Kittiphun Kittipakapom, David Kar-Hing Lee, Carolyn Maitland, Christian Rey Marbella, Kanako Nakano, Thao Nguyen, Ariel Reonal, Jon Reynolds, Romeo Salazar, Jordan Shaw, Niall Sheehy, Marsha Songcome, Eloisa Amalia Tan, Thao Vilayvong, Amadeus Williams, Gerald Zarcilla.
2014 Creative
Directed by Laurence Connor. Musical direction, Alfonso Casada Trigo. Musical staging, Bob Avian, additional choreography, Geoffrey Garratt. Sets, Totie Driver and Matt Kinley; costumes; Andreane Neofitou; lighting, Bruno Poet; sound, Mick Potter; projections, Luke Halls; musical supervision, Stephen Brooker & John Rigby; orchestrations, William David Brohn, adapted by Stephen Metcalfe & Seann Alderking.
Synopsis
Act One
In April 1975 at “Dreamland”, a sleazy Vietnamese club, shortly before the Fall of Saigon, it is Kim’s first day as a bargirl. The seventeen-year-old orphan is greeted by the Engineer, a French-Vietnamese man who owns the club. Backstage, the girls get ready for the night’s show, jeering at Kim’s naïveté (“Overture”). The U.S. Marines, aware that they will be leaving Vietnam soon, party with the Vietnamese prostitutes at the club (“The Heat Is On In Saigon”). Chris, a Sergeant disenchanted by the club scene, is encouraged by his friend John to go with a girl. The girls compete for the title of “Miss Saigon”, and the winner is raffled to a Marine. Kim’s innocence strikes Chris. Gigi Van Trahn wins the crown for the evening and begs the marine who won the raffle to take her back to America, annoying him. The showgirls reflect on their dreams of a better life (“Movie In My Mind”). John buys a room from the Engineer for the virgin Kim and Chris (“The Transaction”). Kim is reluctant and shy, being a prostitute for the first time, but dances with Chris. Chris tries to pay her off to leave the nightclub. When the Engineer interferes, thinking that Chris doesn’t like Kim, Chris allows himself to be led to her room (“The Dance”).
Chris, watching Kim sleep, asks God why he met her just as he was about to leave Vietnam (“Why God Why?”). When Kim wakes up, Chris tries to give her money, but she refuses, saying that it is her first time sleeping with a man (“This Money’s Yours”). Touched to learn that Kim is an orphan, Chris tells her that she need not sell herself at the club, because he wants her to stay with him. The two pledge their love for each other (“Sun and Moon”). Chris tells John that he is taking leave to spend time with Kim. John warns him that the Viet Cong will soon assume control of Saigon, but John reluctantly agrees to cover for Chris (“The Telephone Song”). Chris meets up with the Engineer to trade for Kim, but the Engineer tries to weasel an America visa into the deal. Chris forces the Engineer at gunpoint to honor the original arrangement for Kim (“The Deal”).
The bargirls hold a “wedding ceremony” for Chris and Kim (“Dju Vui Vai”), with Gigi toasting Kim as the “real” Miss Saigon. Thuy, Kim’s cousin to whom she was betrothed at thirteen, arrives to take her home. He has become an officer in the North Vietnamese Army and is angered to find her with Chris (“Thuy’s Arrival”). The two men confront each other, drawing their guns. Kim tells Thuy that their arranged marriage is now null because her parents are dead, and she no longer harbors any feelings for him because of his betrayal. Thuy curses them all and storms out (“What’s This I Find”). Chris promises to take Kim with him when he leaves Vietnam. Chris and Kim dance to the same song as on their first night (“Last Night of The World”).
Three years pass, and in Saigon (now renamed Ho Chi Minh City), a street festival is taking place to celebrate the third anniversary of the reunification of Vietnam and the defeat of the Americans (“Morning of The Dragon,” also called “The Fall of Saigon”). Thuy, a commissar in the new government, has ordered his soldiers to find the still-corrupt Engineer. Thuy orders the Engineer to find Kim and bring her to him. Kim is still in love with Chris and has been hiding in an impoverished area believing that Chris will come back to Vietnam to rescue her. Meanwhile, Chris is in bed with his new American wife, Ellen, when he awakens from a dream shouting Kim’s name. Ellen and Kim both swear their devotion to Chris from opposite ends of the world (“I Still Believe”).
The Engineer finds Kim and brings Thuy to her. Kim refuses Thuy’s renewed offer of marriage and introduces him to Tam, her three-year-old son fathered by Chris. Thuy calls Kim a traitor and Tam an enemy, and moves to kill Tam with a knife. Kim pulls out Chris’s gun and shoots Thuy (“You Will Not Touch Him”). Thuy dies, with Kim weeping and cradling his body. She flees with Tam (“This Is The Hour”) and tells the Engineer what she has done (“If You Want to Die in Bed”). The Engineer refuses to help her until he learns that Tam’s father is American (“Let Me See His Western Nose”) – believing this is his passport to the United States. He tells Kim that now he is the boy’s uncle, and he will lead them to Bangkok. The three set out on a ship with other refugees (“I’d Give My Life for You”).
Act Two
In Atlanta, Georgia, John now works for an aid organization whose mission is to connect Bui-Doi (children conceived during the war) with their American fathers (“Bui Doi”). John tells Chris that Kim is still alive, which Chris is relieved to hear after years of having nightmares of her dying. He also tells Chris about Tam and urges Chris to go to Bangkok with Ellen. Chris finally tells Ellen about Kim and Tam (“The Revelation”). In Bangkok, the Engineer is hawking a sleazy club where Kim works as a dancer (“What A Waste”). Chris, Ellen and John arrive in search of Kim. John finds Kim dancing at the club, and tells her that Chris is also in Bangkok. He then tries to tell her that Chris is remarried, but Kim interrupts. She is thrilled about the news and tells Tam that his father has arrived, believing that they are to go to America with Chris. Seeing Kim happy, John cannot bring himself to break the news to her, but promises to bring Chris to her (“Please”).
The Engineer tells Kim to find Chris herself, because he doubts that Chris will come (“Chris Is Here”). Kim is haunted by the ghost of Thuy, who taunts Kim, claiming that Chris will betray her as he did the night Saigon fell. Kim suffers a horrible flashback to that night (“Kim’s Nightmare”).
As the Viet Cong approach and Saigon becomes increasingly chaotic, Chris is called to the embassy and leaves his gun with Kim, telling her to pack. When Chris enters the embassy, the gates close, as orders arrive from Washington for an immediate evacuation of the remaining Americans. The Ambassador orders that no more Vietnamese are allowed into the Embassy. Kim reaches the gates of the Embassy, one of a mob of terrified Vietnamese trying to get in. Chris calls to Kim and is about to go into the crowd to look for her, but John is eventually forced to punch Chris in the face to stop him from leaving. Chris is put into the last helicopter leaving Saigon as Kim watches from outside, still pledging her love to him (“The Fall of Saigon”).
Back in 1978 Bangkok, Kim joyfully dresses in her wedding clothes (“Sun and Moon: Reprise”) and leaves the Engineer to watch Tam while she is gone. She goes to Chris’ hotel room, where she finds Ellen. Kim mistakenly thinks she is John’s wife, but Ellen reveals that she is Chris’ wife. Kim is heartbroken and refuses to believe Ellen. Ellen asks Kim if Chris really is the father of Tam, and Kim says he is. Kim says she does not want her son living on the streets like a rat, but Ellen tells Kim that they will do what they can to support him. Kim pleads to Ellen that they take Tam with them to America, but Ellen refuses, saying that Tam needs his real mother, and Ellen wants her own children with Chris. Kim angrily demands that Chris tell her these things in person, and runs out of the room (“Room 317”). Ellen feels bad for Kim, but is determined to keep Chris (“It’s Her or Me”/”Now That I’ve Seen Her”). Chris and John return, having failed to find Kim. Ellen tells them both that Kim arrived just now and that she was the one who had to tell Kim everything. Chris and John blame themselves, realizing they were gone too long. Ellen also tells them that Kim wants to see Chris at her place, and that she tried to give away her son to them. John realizes Kim wants Tam to be “an American boy.” Ellen then issues an ultimatum to Chris: Kim or her. Chris reassures Ellen, and they pledge their love for each other. Chris will leave Tam and Kim in Bangkok but offer them monetary support from America. John warns that Kim will not find it acceptable to have Tam stay in Thailand (“The Confrontation”). Back at the club, Kim lies to the Engineer that they are still going to America (“Paper Dragons”). The Engineer imagines the extravagant new life he will lead in America (“The American Dream”). Chris, John and Ellen find the Engineer and he takes them to see Kim and Tam.
In her room, Kim tells Tam that he should be happy because he now has a father. She tells him that she cannot go with him but will be watching over him (“The Sacred Bird”/”Little God Of My Heart”/”This Is The Hour (reprise)”). Chris, Ellen, John, and the Engineer arrive just outside her room. The Engineer comes in to take Tam outside to introduce Tam to his father. While this is happening, Kim steps behind a curtain and shoots herself. As she falls to the floor, everyone rushes into the room at the sound of the gunshot and find Kim mortally wounded. Chris holds Kim in his arms and asks what she has done and why she did this, as she explains that the gods have guided him to his son. Chris begs her not to die, as she asks him to hold her one last time. After sharing one final kiss, Kim says her final words to Chris, echoing what he said to her from the song “Sun and Moon” (“How in one night have we come so far?”) and she dies in his arms (“Finale”).
Film Version
On October 21, 2009, a film version of the musical was reported to be in “early stages of development”. Producer Paula Wagner was reported to be teaming with the original musical producer Cameron Mackintosh to create a film version of the musical. Director Lee Daniels has mentioned directing the film version as a possible future project. A screenwriter is currently being sought, with the hope of a 2011 release.[17] Filming locations are said to be Cambodia and quite possibly Ho Chi Minh City (the former Saigon). No casting has been mentioned but speculation states that the producers will be seeking an unknown for the lead role of Kim. At this stage March 2011 no news of the movie has been announced.In an interview with the New York Post, LES MISERABLES (2013) star Hugh Jackman confirmed that director Cameron Mackintosh has approached him for a potential movie adaptation of MISS SAIGON. Jackman said he has never seen the musical but is “all for it.”
Major Characters<
Kim (Mezzo-Soprano) – A seventeen-year-old girl, recently orphaned and forced to work at “Dreamland.” She corresponds to Butterfly in the original opera.
The Engineer, aka Tran Van Dinh (Baritone) – The slightly sleazy but likable owner of “Dreamland.” He is half-Vietnamese and half-French. He corresponds to Goro.
Christopher Scott, aka “Chris” (Tenor) – An American G.I. sergeant about to leave Saigon to return to America. He corresponds to Pinkerton.
John Thomas (Tenor/Baritone) – Chris’ friend, also a G.I. He corresponds to Sharpless.
Thuy (Tenor) – Kim’s cousin and betrothed, to whom Kim was promised by her parents when the two were thirteen. Has since become an officer in the Communist Vietnamese government. He is a composite character, corresponding in part to both The Bonze and Prince Yamadori.
Ellen (Soprano) – Chris’ American wife. She corresponds to Kate.
Gigi Van Tranh (Alto) – A hardened Saigon stripper; initially voted as “Miss Saigon”.
Tam (Silent) – Kim and Chris’ three-year old son. He corresponds to Dolore, or “Sorrow”.
Response
Upon its Broadway opening in 1991 the musical was massively hyped as the best musical of the year, both critically and commercially. It broke several Broadway records, including a record advance-ticket sales at $24 million, highest priced ticket at $100, and repaying investors in fewer than 39 weeks.[18]
However, although the show has received awards and acclaim, it lost the Best Musical Award at the 1989/90 Laurence Olivier Awards to Return to the Forbidden Planet in London.[19]
Miss Saigon and The Will Rogers Follies led the 1991 Tony Award nominations with 11 nominations. According to The New York Times, “‘Will Rogers’ and ‘Miss Saigon’ had both earned 11 nominations and were considered the front-runners for the Tony as best musical. But many theater people predicted that Miss Saigon, an import from London, would be the victim of a backlash. There is lingering bitterness against both the huge amount of publicity Miss Saigon has received and the battle by its producer, Cameron Macintosh, to permit its two foreign stars, Mr. Pryce… and the Filipina actress Lea Salonga, to re-create on Broadway their award-winning roles.”[20]
The show lost to The Will Rogers Follies for nearly every major award, though Lea Salonga, Jonathan Pryce and Hinton Battle all won awards.
Tony Award for Best Musical
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
Tony Award for Best Original Score
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (Jonathan Pryce, WINNER)
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Lea Salonga, WINNER)
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (Hinton Battle, WINNER)
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (Willy Falk)
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical (John Napier)
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical (David Hersey)
Tony Award for Best Choreography (Bob Avian)
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical (Nicholas Hytner)
Other awards
1989-1990 Laurence Olivier Award Best Actress in a Musical (Lea Salonga) WINNER
1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Jonathan Pryce) WINNER
1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Lea Salonga) WINNER
1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations (William David Brohn) WINNER
1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design (David Hersey) WINNER
1991 Theatre World Award (Lea Salonga) WINNER
2007 Helpmann Award (Australia) Best Female Actor in a Musical (Laurie Cadevida) WINNER[22]
2008 Los Angeles Ovation Awards Best Musical (Large Theatre)(Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cites) WINNER[23]
Controversy
Miss Saigon has received criticism for what some have perceived as a racist or sexist overtone, including protests regarding its portrayal of Asian men, Asian women, or women in general.[24]
Originally, Pryce and Burns, white actors playing Eurasian/Asian characters, wore eye prostheses and bronzing cream to make themselves look more Asian,[25] which outraged some who drew comparisons to a “minstrel show”.[26]
In the London production of Miss Saigon, Lea Salonga originally starred as Kim, with Jonathan Pryce as the Engineer. When the production transferred from London to New York City, the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) refused to allow Pryce, a white actor, to recreate the role of the Eurasian pimp in America. As Alan Eisenberg, executive secretary of Actors’ Equity explained, “The casting of a Caucasian actor made up to appear Asian is an affront to the Asian community. The casting choice is especially disturbing when the casting of an Asian actor, in the role, would be an important and significant opportunity to break the usual pattern of casting Asians in minor roles.”[26] This ruling led to criticism from many including British Equity, citing violations of the principles of artistic integrity and freedom. Producer Cameron Mackintosh threatened to cancel the show, despite massive advanced ticket sales.[27]
Although there had been a large, well-publicized international search among Asian actresses to play Kim, there had been no equivalent search for Asian actors to play the major Asian male roles—specifically, Engineer (Pryce) and Thuy (Keith Burns). However, others pointed out that since the Engineer’s character was Eurasian (French-Vietnamese), they argued that Pryce was being discriminated against on the basis that he was Caucasian. Also, Pryce was considered by many in Britain to have “star status”, a clause that allows a well-known foreign actor to recreate a role on Broadway without an American casting call.[26] After pressure from Mackintosh, the general public, and many of its own members, Actors’ Equity was forced to reverse its decision. Pryce starred alongside Salonga and Willy Falk (as Chris) when the show opened on Broadway.[28][29]
During the production transfer from West End to Broadway, a lesser controversy erupted over Lea Salonga’s citizenship, as she was neither British nor American. The AEA wanted to give priority to their own members and so initially prevented her from reprising her role. However, Mackintosh was not able to find a satisfactory replacement for Salonga despite the extensive auditions he conducted in several American and Canadian cities. An arbitrator reversed the AEA ruling a month later to allow Salonga to star
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The Full Wiki
Miss Saigon is a West End
musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil , with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is a modern adaptation of Giacomo Puccini 's opera Madame Butterfly , and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to the 1970s Saigon
during the Vietnam War , and Madame Butterfly's American Lieutenant and Japanese geisha coupling is replaced by a romance between an American
, in London
on September 20 1989, closing after 4,264 performances on October 30 1999. It opened at the Broadway Theatre
in New York City
in 1991. It subsequently opened in many other cities and embarked on tours.
The musical represented Schönberg and Boublil's second major success, following Les Misérables in 1980. As of April 2009, Miss Saigon is still the 10th longest-running Broadway musical in musical theatre history.
Background
The musical's inspiration was reportedly a photograph, inadvertently found by Schönberg in a magazine. The photo showed a Vietnamese mother leaving her child at a departure gate at Tan Son Nhut Air Base
to board a plane headed for the United States
where her father, an ex-GI, would be in a position to provide a much better life for the child. Schönberg considered this mother's actions for her child to be "The Ultimate Sacrifice," an idea central to the plot of Miss Saigon.
Highlights of the show include the evacuation of the last Americans in Saigon
from the Embassy roof by helicopter while a crowd of abandoned Vietnamese scream in despair, the victory parade of the new communist regime and the frenzied night club scene at the time of defeat.
Miss Saigon was one of the major European musicals on Broadway
, in London
on September 20 1989, closing after 4,264 performances on October 30 1999. On April 11 1991, it opened at the Broadway Theatre
in New York City
, and closed on January 28 2001 after 4,092 performances. The musical represented Schönberg and Boublil's second major success, following Les Misérables in 1980. As of April 2009, Miss Saigon is still the 10th longest-running Broadway musical in musical theatre history.
Since its opening in London Miss Saigon was successfully produced in many cities around the world including Stuttgart
and Toronto
, where new theatres were designed specifically to house the show. In December 1994 the London
production became the Theatre Royal's (Drury Lane) longest running musical, eclipsing the record set by My Fair Lady .
The new production of Miss Saigon at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne
its Broadway opening in 1991 the musical was massively hyped as the best musical of the year, both critically and commercially. It broke several Broadway records, including a record advance-ticket sales at $24 million, highest priced ticket at $100, and repaying investors in less than 39 weeks. However, although the show has received awards and acclaim, it lost the Best Musical Award at the 1989/90 Laurence Olivier Awards to Return to the Forbidden Planet in London and at the 1991 Tony Awards to Will Rogers Follies .
After the London production closed in 1999 and also following the closure of the Broadway production in 2001 the show in its original London staging embarked on a long tour of the six largest venues in Britain
stopping off in each city for several months. The tour opened at the Palace Theatre, Manchester
and also played in the Birmingham Hippodrome
in Dublin
. This highly successful tour drew to a close in 2003 and a brand new production was developed by original producer Cameron Mackintosh on a smaller scale so that the show could be accommodated in smaller theatres. This 'new' tour started in July 2004 and ended in June 2006.
According to the Miss Saigon Official Site, Miss Saigon has been performed by 27 companies in 25 countries and 246 cities, and it has been translated into twelve different languages.
Synopsis
Act 1
In April 1975 at "Dreamland", a sleazy Vietnamese club, shortly before the Fall of Saigon , it is Kim's first day as a bargirl . The seventeen-year-old orphan is greeted by the Engineer, a French-Vietnamese man who owns the club. Backstage, the girls get ready for the night's show, jeering at Kim's naïveté ("Overture").
American Marines, aware that they will be leaving Vietnam soon, party with the Vietnamese prostitutes at the club ("The Heat Is On In Saigon"). Chris, a Sergeant disenchanted by the club scene, is encouraged by his friend John to go with a girl. The girls compete for the title of "Miss Saigon", and the winner is raffled to a Marine. Kim's innocence strikes Chris. Gigi Van Trahn wins the crown for the evening and begs the marine who won the raffle to take her back to America, annoying him. The showgirls reflect on their dreams of a better life ("Movie In My Mind"). John buys a room from the Engineer for the virgin Kim and Chris ("The Transaction"). Kim is reluctant and shy, being a prostitute for the first time, but dances with Chris. Chris tries to pay her off to leave the nightclub. When the Engineer interferes, thinking that Chris doesn't like Kim, Chris allows himself to be led to her room ("The Dance").
Chris, watching Kim sleep, asks God why he met her just as he was about to leave Vietnam ("Why God Why?"). When Kim wakes up, Chris tries to give her money, but she refuses, saying that it is her first time sleeping with a man ("This Money's Yours"). Touched to learn that Kim is an orphan, Chris tells her that she need not sell herself at the club, because he wants her to stay with him. The two pledge their love for each other ("Sun and Moon"). Chris tells John that he is taking leave to spend time with Kim. John warns him that the Viet Cong will soon assume control of Saigon, but John reluctantly agrees to cover for Chris ("The Telephone Song"). Chris meets up with the Engineer to trade for Kim, but the Engineer tries to weasel an America visa into the deal. Chris forces the Engineer at gunpoint to honor the original arrangement for Kim ("The Deal").
The bargirls hold a "wedding ceremony" for Chris and Kim ("Dju Vui Vai"), with Gigi toasting Kim as the "real" Miss Saigon. Thuy, Kim's cousin to whom she was betrothed at thirteen, arrives to take her home. He has become an officer in the North Vietnamese Army and is angered to find her with Chris ("Thuy's Arrival"). The two men confront each other, drawing their guns. Kim tells Thuy that their arranged marriage is now null because her parents are dead, and she no longer harbors any feelings for him because of his betrayal. Thuy curses them all and storms out. Chris promises to take Kim with him when he leaves Vietnam. Chris and Kim dance to the same song as on their first night ("Last Night of The World").
Three years pass, and in Saigon (now renamed Ho Chi Minh City
), a street festival is taking place to celebrate the third anniversary of the reunification of Vietnam and the defeat of the Americans ("Morning of The Dragon"). Thuy, a commissar in the new government, has ordered his soldiers to find the still-corrupt Engineer. Thuy orders the Engineer to find Kim and bring her to him. Kim is still in love with Chris and has been hiding in an impoverished area believing that Chris will come back to Vietnam to rescue her. Meanwhile, Chris is in bed with his new American wife, Ellen, when he awakens from a dream shouting Kim's name. Ellen and Kim both swear their devotion to Chris from opposite ends of the world ("I Still Believe").
The Engineer finds Kim and brings Thuy to her. Kim refuses Thuy's renewed offer of marriage and introduces him to Tam, her two-year-old son fathered by Chris. Thuy calls Kim a traitor and Tam an enemy, and moves to kill Tam with a knife. Kim pulls out Chris's gun and shoots Thuy ("You Will Not Touch Him"). Thuy dies, with Kim weeping and cradling his body. She flees with Tam ("This Is The Hour") and tells the Engineer what she has done ("If You Want to Die in Bed"). The Engineer refuses to help her until he learns that Tam's father is American ("Let Me See His Western Nose") – perhaps this is his passport to the United States. He tells Kim that now he is the boy's uncle, and he will lead them to Bangkok
. The three set out on a ship with other refugees ("I'd Give My Life for You").
Act 2
In Atlanta
, Georgia, John now works for an aid organization whose mission is to connect Bui-Doi (children conceived during the war) with their American fathers ("Bui Doi"). John tells Chris that Kim is still alive, which Chris is relieved to hear after years of having nightmares of her dying. He also tells Chris about Tam and urges Chris to go to Bangkok with Ellen. Chris finally tells Ellen about Kim and Tam ("The Revelation"). In Bangkok, the Engineer is hawking a sleazy club where Kim works as a dancer ("What A Waste"). Chris, Ellen and John arrive in search of Kim. John finds them, and Kim is thrilled to hear that Chris is in Bangkok. John tries to tell her that Chris is remarried, but Kim interrupts, believing that she is to go to America with Chris. John cannot break the news to her, but promises to bring Chris to her ("Please").
The Engineer tells Kim to find Chris herself, because he doubts that Chris will come ("Chris Is Here"). Kim is haunted by the ghost of Thuy, who taunts Kim, claiming that Chris will betray her as he did the night Saigon fell. Kim suffers a horrible flashback to that night ("Kim's Nightmare"): As the Viet Cong approach and Saigon becomes increasingly chaotic, Chris is called to the embassy and leaves his gun with Kim, telling her to pack. When Chris enters the embassy, the gates close, as orders arrive from Washington for an immediate evacuation of the remaining Americans. The Ambassador orders that no more Vietnamese are allowed into the Embassy. Kim reaches the gates of the Embassy, one of a mob of terrified Vietnamese trying to get in. Chris calls to Kim and is about to go into the crowd to look for her, but John is eventually forced to punch Chris in the face to stop him from leaving. Chris is put into the last helicopter leaving Saigon as Kim watches from outside, still pledging her love to him ("The fall of Saigon").
Back in 1978 Bangkok, Kim joyfully dresses in her wedding clothes ("Sun and Moon: Reprise") and goes to Chris's hotel room, where she finds Ellen, who reveals that she is Chris's wife. Kim is heartbroken and refuses to believe Ellen. Ellen also refuses to take Tam to the U.S., saying that Tam needs his real mother, and Ellen wants her own children with Chris. Kim demands that Chris tell her these things in person ("Room 317"). Ellen feels bad for Kim, but is determined to keep Chris ("It's Her or Me"). Chris returns, having failed to find Kim, and Ellen issues an ultimatum: Kim or her. Chris reassures Ellen, and they pledge their love for each other. Chris will leave Tam and Kim in Bangkok but offer them monetary support from America. John warns that Kim will not find it acceptable to have Tam stay in Thailand ("The Confrontation"). Kim lies to the Engineer that they are still going to America ("Paper Dragons"). The Engineer imagines the extravagant new life he will lead in America ("The American Dream").
Kim tells Tam that he should be happy because he now has a father. She tells him that she will be watching over him ("The Sacred Bird"/"Little God Of My Heart"). She steps behind a curtain and shoots herself. Chris, Ellen, the Engineer and John all rush into the room at the sound of the gunshot and find Kim mortally wounded. Chris holds Kim in his arms as she explains that the gods have guided him to his son. Chris begs her not to die, as she asks him to hold her one last time, and she dies in his arms ("Finale").
Film Version
On October 21st, 2009 a film version of the musical was announced to be in the works. Producer Paula Wagner was said to be teaming with the original musical producer Cameron Mackintosh to create a film version of the Tony-Winning Musical. Director Lee Daniels (already acclaimed for his direction of 'Precious') has mentioned directing the film version as a possible future project. A screenwriter is currently being sought-out, with the hope of a 2011 release.Filming locations are said to be Cambodia and quite possibly Ho Chi Minh City (the former Saigon). No casting has been mentioned but speculation states that the Producers will be seeking an unknown for the lead role of Kim.
Major characters
The Engineer - aka Tran Van Dinh, the sleazy but comical pimp owner of 'Dreamland'.
Kim - A teenage girl, recently orphaned and forced to work at 'Dreamland'. She corresponds to Butterfly.
Chris - aka "Christopher Scott" An American G.I. sergeant about to leave Saigon to return to America. He corresponds to Pinkerton.
John - Chris' friend, also a G.I. He corresponds to Sharpless.
Thuy - Kim's cousin, to whom Kim was promised by her parents when the two were thirteen. Has since become an officer in the Communist Vietnamese government.
Ellen - Chris' American wife. She corresponds to Kate.
Tam - Kim and Chris's three-year old son. He corresponds to Dolore or "Sorrow".
Musical numbers
Overture/Backstage Dreamland - Gigi, Kim, The Engineer, bar girls
The Heat is On in Saigon - Soldiers, Bar Girls, The Engineer, Kim, John, Chris, Gigi
The Movie in my Mind - Gigi, Kim, Bar Girls
The Transaction - The Engineer, John, soldiers, Chris, Kim
The Dance - Kim, Chris, The Engineer
Why God Why? - Chris
This Money's Yours - Chris, Kim
Sun and Moon - Kim, Chris
The Telephone Song - Chris, John
The Deal - The Engineer, Chris
The Wedding Ceremony - Gigi, Kim, Bar Girls, Chris
Thuy's Arrival - Thuy, Chris, Kim
Last Night of the World - Chris, Kim
The Morning of the Dragon - Soldiers, The Engineer, two Guards, Thuy
I Still Believe - Ellen, Kim
Back in Town - The Engineer, Kim, Thuy, Soldiers
Thuy's Death/You Will Not Touch Him - Thuy, Kim
This is the Hour - Chorus
If You Want to Die in Bed - The Engineer
Let me see his Western nose - Kim, The Engineer
I'd Give My Life for You - Kim
Act 2
What a Waste - The Engineer, hustlers, tourists, John, Kim
Please - John, Kim
Chris is Here - The Engineer, Kim, Club owner, John
Kim's Nightmare - Thuy
Fall of Saigon - Soldiers, Chris, Kim, John, citizens
Sun and Moon (Reprise) - Kim
Room 317 - Kim, Ellen
It's Her or Me - Ellen (recent productions have replaced this with Now That I've Seen Her)
The Confrontation - Chris, Ellen, John
Paper Dragons - The Engineer, Kim
The American Dream - The Engineer
This is the Hour (Reprise) - Kim
Finale - Chris, Kim
2007 Helpmann Award (Australia) Best Female Actor in a Musical ( Laurie Cadevida ) WINNER
2008 Los Angeles Ovation Awards Best Musical (Large Theatre)(Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cites) WINNER
Controversy
Miss Saigon has received criticism for what some have perceived as a racist or sexist overtone, including protests regarding its portrayal of Asian men, Asian women, or women in general.
Originally, Pryce and Burns, white actors playing Eurasian/Asian characters, wore eye prostheses and bronzing cream to make themselves look more Asian, which outraged some who drew comparisons to a " minstrel show ".
In the London production of Miss Saigon, Lea Salonga originally starred as Kim, with Jonathan Pryce as the Engineer. When the production transferred from London to New York City, the Actors' Equity Association (AEA) refused to allow Pryce, a white actor, to recreate the role of the Eurasian pimp in America. As Alan Eisenberg, executive secretary of Actors' Equity explained, "The casting of a Caucasian actor made up to appear Asian is an affront to the Asian community. The casting choice is especially disturbing when the casting of an Asian actor, in the role, would be an important and significant opportunity to break the usual pattern of casting Asians in minor roles." This ruling led to criticism from many including British Equity , citing violations of the principles of artistic integrity and freedom. Producer Cameron Mackintosh threatened to cancel the show, despite massive advanced ticket sales.
Although there had been a large, well-publicized international search among Asian actresses to play Kim, there had been no equivalent search for Asian actors to play the major Asian male roles—specifically, Engineer (Pryce) and Thuy (Keith Burns). However, others pointed out that since the Engineer's character was Eurasian (French-Vietnamese), they argued that Pryce was being discriminated on the basis that he was Caucasian. Also, Pryce was considered by many in Britain to have "star status", a clause that allows a well-known foreign actor to recreate a role on Broadway without an American casting call. After pressure from Mackintosh, the general public, and many of its own members, Actors' Equity was forced to reverse its decision. Pryce starred alongside Salonga and Willy Falk (as Chris) when the show opened on Broadway.
During the production transfer from West End to Broadway, a lesser controversy erupted over Lea Salonga 's citizenship, as she was neither British nor American. The AEA wanted to give priority to their own members and so initially prevented her from reprising her role. However, Mackintosh was not able to find a satisfactory replacement for Salonga despite the extensive auditions he conducted in several American and Canadian cities. An arbitrator reversed the AEA ruling a month later to allow Salonga to star.
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The Games is a British Reality television sports game show that ran on Channel 4 for four series, in which 10 celebrities competed against each other, by doing Olympic Games-style events, such as Olympic weightlifting, gymnastics and diving. At the end of the series, the contestants with the most points from each round were awarded either a gold medal, silver medal or bronze medal. The show was mainly filmed in Sheffield, at the Sheffield Arena, Don Valley Stadium and Ponds Forge. In later series, the English Institute of Sport – Sheffield, iceSheffield and in series 4 the Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre in Nottingham were used for the first time.The Games was presented by Jamie Theakston for the entirety of its run, with track-side reports from Jayne Middlemiss in series 1–3 and Kirsty Gallacher in series 4.The Games also had an after-show called The Games: Live at Trackside, aired on Channel 4's sister channel E4 (TV channel). The first series was presented by Dougie Anderson, whilst the second was hosted by Gamezville presenters Darren Malcolm and Jamie Atiko. Justin Lee Collins and Caroline Flack took over as presenters for the third and fourth series. For the final series an extra one-hour show was added on E4 in the afternoon called The Games: Live at the Heats, and the evening show changed title to become The Games: Inside Track.
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Series 1 (2003)
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Series 2 (2004)
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Team 2003 vs Team 2004 - Champion of Champions 2004
Content:After the second series a special champion of champions edition, took place in which the top two male and female competitors from series one and two went head to head to compete for the title, The Games Champion of Champions. Eventually the team from 2003 won. They comprised MC Harvey, James Hewitt, Terri Dwyer and Josie D'Arby (Azra Akın was unavailable to take part).
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Team 2003 vs Team 2004 vs Team 2005 – Champion of Champions 2005
Content:After the third series, another special champion of champions edition took place in which the top two male and female competitors from Team 2003, Team 2004 and Team 2005 competed against each other in weightlifting, hammer throwing and finally the relay race. From Team 2003, James Hewitt, Harvey, Terri Dwyer and Josie D'Arby competed. From Team 2004, Romeo, Jarrod Batchelor, Katy Hill and Lady Isabella Hervey competed. From Team 2005, Kevin Simm, Philip Olivier, Lisa Maffia and Kirsty Gallacher, competed. Team 2005 narrowly beat the team from the first series overall.
Series 4 – 2006
Content:The fourth series commenced on 17 March 2006, and was presented as usual by Jamie Theakston, and track-side coverage was taken over by Series Three contestant Kirsty Gallacher. There was a total of 18 different sporting events to test their skills and abilities. The men competed in water skiing, powerlifting, Kendo, Vault (gymnastics), diving, speed skating, track cycling, javelin throw and 100 meters. The women competed in whitewater slalom, hurdles, cycling, Floor (gymnastics), Swimming (sport), curling, archery, hammer throw and 100m sprint.Contestants that took part in the show were:
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Team 2004 vs Team 2005 vs Team 2006 – Champion of Champions 2006
Content:Tableheader:25Tableheader:34 After the fourth series another special champion of champions edition took place in which the top two male and female competitors from series two, three and four competed against each other in a 50 m freestyle swim, diving and a 4 x 50 m freestyle relay at Ponds Forge in Sheffield.Javine Hylton, Julia Goldsworthy MP, Jade Jones and MC Plat'num represented Team 2006, Kirsty Gallacher, Chesney Hawkes, Kevin Simm and HRH Princess Tamara represented Team 2005, and Lady Isabella Hervey, Linda Lusardi, Shane Lynch and Romeo represented Team 2004.Team 2006 won the champion of champions 2006, scoring 29 points. The team of 2005 came second with 23. Finally team 2004 with 20. This Champion of Champions saw Shane Lynch achieve a dive which had never been performed on The Games before - a somersault. The trophy for the winners was presented by represented Team 2004, the Lord Mayor of Sheffield.
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Games_(UK_TV_series)
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The Games is a British reality sports game show that ran on Channel 4 for four series, in which 10 celebrities competed against each other, by doing Olympic -style events, such as weight lifting , gymnastics and diving . At the end of the series, the contestants with the most points from each round were awarded either a gold , silver or bronze medal . The show was mainly filmed in Sheffield , at the Sheffield Arena , Don Valley Stadium and Ponds Forge . In later series, the English Institute of Sport – Sheffield , iceSheffield and in series 4 the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham were used for the first time.
The Games was presented by Jamie Theakston for the entirety of its run, with track-side reports from Jayne Middlemiss in series 1–3 and Kirsty Gallacher in series 4.
The Games also had an after-show called The Games: Live at Trackside, aired on Channel 4's sister channel E4 . The first series was presented by Dougie Anderson , whilst the second was hosted by Gamezville presenters Darren Malcolm and Jamie Atiko. Justin Lee Collins and Caroline Flack took over as presenters for the third and fourth series. For the final series an extra one-hour show was added on E4 in the afternoon called The Games: Live at the Heats, and the evening show changed title to become The Games: Inside Track.
Contents
Anna Walker (presenter)
Morris pulled out half-way through the run, and was replaced by Foster.
Injuries also forced Kevin Simm out of the Sumo competition, and Craig Charles out of the speed skating and vaulting competitions.
Team 2003 vs Team 2004 vs Team 2005 – Champion of Champions 2005
After the third series, another special champion of champions edition took place in which the top two male and female competitors from Team 2003, Team 2004 and Team 2005 competed against each other in weightlifting, hammer throwing and finally the relay race. From Team 2003, James Hewitt, Harvey, Terri Dwyer and Josie D'Arby competed. From Team 2004, Romeo, Jarrod Batchelor, Katy Hill and Lady Isabella Hervey competed. From Team 2005, Kevin Simm, Philip Olivier, Lisa Maffia and Kirsty Gallacher, competed. Team 2005 narrowly beat the team from the first series overall.
Series 4 – 2006
The fourth series commenced on 17 March 2006, and was presented as usual by Jamie Theakston , and track-side coverage was taken over by Series Three contestant Kirsty Gallacher . There was a total of 18 different sporting events to test their skills and abilities. The men competed in water ski jump , weights , Kendo , vault , diving , speed skating , cycling , javelin and 100m sprint . The women competed in whitewater kayak , hurdles , cycling, gym floor , swimming , curling , archery , hammer and 100m sprint.
Contestants that took part in the show were:
Contestants
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Team 2004 vs Team 2005 vs Team 2006 – Champion of Champions 2006
After the fourth series another special champion of champions edition took place in which the top two male and female competitors from series two, three and four competed against each other in a 50 m freestyle swim, diving and a 4 x 50 m freestyle relay at Ponds Forge in Sheffield.
Javine Hylton, Julia Goldsworthy MP, Jade Jones and MC Plat'num represented Team 2006, Kirsty Gallacher, Chesney Hawkes, Kevin Simm and HRH Princess Tamara represented Team 2005, and Lady Isabella Hervey, Linda Lusardi, Shane Lynch and Romeo represented Team 2004.
Team 2006 won the champion of champions 2006, scoring 29 points. The team of 2005 came second with 23. Finally team 2004 with 20. This Champion of Champions saw Shane Lynch achieve a dive which had never been performed on The Games before - a somersault. The trophy for the winners was presented by represented Team 2004, the Lord Mayor of Sheffield.
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Tom Cruise dances to Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger! Enjoy!
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Tom Cruise has come a long way since his star-making role in 1983’s ‘Risky Business’ — but to many movie-goers, he’ll always be that guy who boogied in his tighty-whities to Bob Seger ‘s ‘Old Time Rock and Roll.’
In the film, Cruise’s Joel Goodson is a suburban Chicago high school student whose parents go on vacation, leaving him alone in the house. On their first night away, Joel revels in his new-found freedom, raiding the liquor cabinet and cranking up the stereo.
And then, dressed only in his underwear, socks and a pink button-down shirt, he slides across the floor as ‘Old Time Rock and Roll’ begins to play, lip-syncing into a candlestick and dancing around in a scene that’s since been both honored and spoofed at least eleventymillion times.
The rest of the movie of course involves Rebecca De Mornay’s hot call girl Lana, a Porsche that goes swimming in Lake Michigan, Joel turning his parents’ home into a makeshift brothel, a perilous brush with “Guido the killer pimp,” and a sex scene on one of Chicago’s L trains — but even with all that, it was the few minutes Tom Cruise spent gyrating to Bob Seger that everyone remembers most.
When it was released in 1979, ‘Old Time Rock and Roll’ reached No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100. It reentered the charts after being featured in ‘Risky Business,’ and has been a staple on album rock stations ever since.
Watch the ‘Risky Business’ Scene Featuring Bob Seger’s ‘Old Time Rock and Roll’
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What do the colors on the Swedish flag represent?
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The Swedish flag has a solid blue background with a yellow cross extending from the top to bottom and left to right of the flag. The yellow of the cross represents generosity, while the blue background symbolizes loyalty, truth and justice.
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Several theories attempt to explain the source of the flag's colors. One theory suggests that the colors represent the colors of the coat of arms of either King Magnus Birgersson in 1275 or King Albert of Mecklenburg in 1364. The royal coat of arms of Sweden, which uses blue and gold, dates back to the year 1442.
The cross on the flag, which intersects the flag just to the left of its center, is reportedly from Eric the Holy, a former king of Sweden who saw a gold cross in the sky. The most recognizable symbol of Christianity, the cross is used to express Sweden's religious history and the values of its early leaders.
Earlier forms of the Swedish flag also featured a blue background and yellow cross but with varied shapes. Some were double-tailed, and versions that followed featured a triple-tailed shape. The design of the flag is based on the Danish flag, which features the same cross in red and white. Some sources say the design inspiration was based on resistance to Danish rule.
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According to the song Frosty The Snowman, what were Frosty's eyes made out of? | Anita Baker - Frosty's Rag Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Frosty's Rag Lyrics
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He's a jolly happy soul
Got a corncob pipe, cute button nose
Got two eyes made out of coal
Frosty the Snowman
Is a fairytale they say
He was made of snow
But all the girls know
How he came to life one day
Must have been some magic
In that old silk hat we found
When we placed it on his head
Sure he began to dance around
And Frosty the Snowman
Was alive as he could be
And all the girls say
He could laugh and play
Just the same as you and me
Frosty the Snowman
Knew the sun was hot that day
He said girl, let's run
Come on, let's have some fun
Now before I melt away
He led them down the streets of town
Right to the traffic cop
He only paused one moment
When all the girls just cheer, "Ooh"
Frosty the Snowman
Had to hurry on his way
But he waved bye bye
Ladies don't you cry
I'll be back again some day
Ooh, mercy
What should I say, miss?
Beaucoup
Oh, he led them down the streets of town
Right to the traffic cop
He only paused one moment
When all the girls just cheer, "Ooh"
Frosty, stop
Had to hurry on his way
But he waved bye bye
Said Anita, don't you cry
I'll be back, oh baby baby
I'll be back some day
Gonna get you
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Which Christmas song won an Oscar for Best Song at the 1942 Academy Awards? | Frosty the Snowman - Christmas Song
Frosty the Snowman
Was a jolly happy soul
With a corncob pipe and a button nose
And two eyes made out of coal
Frosty the Snowman
Is a fairytale they say
He was made of snow
But the children know
How he came to life one day
There must have been some magic
In that old silk hat they found
For when they placed it on his head
He began to dance around
Frosty the Snowman
Was alive as he could be
And the children say
He could laugh and play
Just the same as you and me
Frosty the Snowman
Knew the sun was hot that day
So he said let's run
And we'll have some fun
Now before I melt away
Down to the village
With a broomstick in his hand
Running here and there all around the square
Saying catch me if you can
He led them down the streets of town
Right to the traffic cop
And he only paused a moment when
He heard him holler stop
Frosty the Snowman
Had to hurry on his way
But he waved goodbye
I'll be back again some day
Thumpety thump thump
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The first line of the song Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid was originally intended for which singer, who finally got to sing it during Live Aid? | Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid Songfacts
Songfacts
This is a charity single organized by Bob Geldof, who was the lead singer of The Boomtown Rats. He got the idea after watching a BBC documentary on famine in Ethiopia. Geldof wrote the lyrics and Midge Ure from the band Ultravox wrote the music and produced the track, which was no easy task since so many voices were involved.
In England, and much of the Northern Hemisphere, snow and numerous displays leave no doubt that Christmas is near. In most of Africa, however, it's quite warm on December 25, since it's summer there. This song asks us to think of those who are living in poverty and hunger in Africa during the Christmas season, reminding us that they might not even know it's Christmas. While the sentiment and melody are full of good tidings, the lyrics are quite bleak: "The Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom."
Most of this song was recorded and mixed over a 24-hour period on Sunday, November 25, 1984. Sting and Simon LeBon had recorded their parts ahead of time, but everyone else came that day.
None of the vocalists heard the song before they arrived, so they learned their parts by listening to a guide vocal producer Midge Ure created, then recorded them. With such a tight schedule, there was no time to quibble. In the Songfacts interview with Ure , he said that this time constraint helped the effort. "Sometimes, that kind of pressure gets you to create something magical, gets you to eliminate the liberations that you end up having in the studio," he said. "We just had to nail it and get on with it. Get the vocal track from everyone that was acceptable. As it turns out, a lot of the vocal tracks were exceptional."
The performers who sang verses were, in order: Paul Young, Boy George, George Michael, Simon Le Bon, and Bono. The chorus included David Bowie, Phil Collins, Paul McCartney, Geldof, Ure and many other artists who weren't given a verse but sang the "Feed The World" part and lent their images to the effort by appearing in the promotional photo. Check out the Band Aid photo with list of performers .
The artists were not all friends, but they set aside their differences and were at least cordial to each other during the recording - with one exception. In the book I Want My MTV, George Michael said: "The only person who didn't succumb to the charitable nature of the day was Paul Weller, who decided to have a go at me in front of everybody. I said, 'Don't be a wanker all your life. Have a day off.'"
In the UK, this became the best-selling single ever. Elton John's " Candle In The Wind '97 " currently holds that record.
Not everyone in the UK was a fan, however. Morrissey told Time Out in 1985 that the project was "diabolical," adding: "It was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music."
This was the first of the big group charity efforts among musicians. A year later, US artists released " We Are The World ," and Geldof helped organize Live Aid. Other charity singles that followed include " Sun City " and " That's What Friends Are For ."
The single raised $14 million for famine relief in Africa. Geldof is Irish, so he cannot be knighted, but he did receive a KBE, which is equivalent and is popularly known as Sir or Saint Bob. >>
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The video was directed by Nigel Dick, who had done some videos for The Boomtown Rats. He got the request to make the video on short notice, and had no idea what the song was going to be. He didn't have a budget either, so he simply set up two cameras - one outside and one inside - to capture the action. As the artists trickled in to record their parts, Dick filmed them entering the building and then recording. This footage was used not just for the music video, but also for a 30-minute behind-the-scenes piece documenting the making of the single. This video was also sold, with proceeds going to the relief effort.
In our 2015 talk with Midge Ure, he said: "It's never been a great song. It's kind of grown into a better song than it ever was. But as a recording, as a production, I'm immensely proud of it. So is Bob. Because it did its job phenomenally.
As a record, you hear it now on the radio and the opening clang, the opening atmospherics, my multi-tracked vocal thing, all of that stuff, it still sends shivers up your spine. So as a record, as a production, it did a brilliant job despite the fact that the song was OK."
Who gave the most inspired vocal performance on this song? To Midge Ure's ears, it was Bono. He told us: "When Bono took that line of the song - 'Tonight thank God it's them instead of you' - I had originally sung it on the guide vocal an octave lower, and he just decided to let it rip, and it was phenomenal. Electric. It was just sensational."
Boy George was nearly a no-show, asleep in New York the day of recording. His band Culture Club was huge at the time and Bob Geldof was counting on him for a key vocal, so Geldof called him, woke him up, and told him to get on a Concorde. George flew to London, got behind the microphone and delivered the vocal they were looking for.
Trevor Horn, who was a member of the Buggles and Yes, donated the use of his studio (Sarm Studios in London) to record the song. He also pieced together the B-side of the single, which is an instrumental version with the artists delivering messages over the music. It is called "Feed The World" on the single.
Bob Geldof wrote the original pre-chorus line as "There won't be snow in Ethiopia this Christmas." Midge Ure convinced him to swap "Ethiopia" for "Africa."
"No matter how you try, you cannot scan 'Ethiopia,'" Ure told us. "That just does not work."
John Taylor from Duran Duran played bass; Phil Collins played drums. The rest of the instrumentation was done by Midge Ure, who handed the programming and keyboards.
Two versions of the single were released. The 7-inch, which is what radio stations usually play, runs 3:55. The 12-inch runs 6:18 and features spoken messages from some of the performers. The 7-inch single was re-released the next year, raising more money for famine relief in Africa.
Downloading didn't exist in 1984, so obtaining the rights needed to sell downloads of this song proved very difficult, and for many years it wasn't available on iTunes or Amazon except in knockoff versions.
When Geldof wrote the basic part of this song, he envisioned it as a Boomtown Rats song, but when he played it for his bandmates they turned it down.
The cover of the single was designed by Peter Blake, who is famous for shooting the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Bob Geldof explained in the book I Want My MTV: "To me, the '80s were characterized by overwhelming generosity and kindness. Prior to Live Aid, People had been participating in this phenomenon for months. 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' was sold in butcher shops all during Christmas. For whatever reason, this song - not a particularly good song - tapped into a groundswell of compassion. We never said we'd eliminate world hunger, but we could draw attention to a monstrous human crime, a moral and intellectual absurdity. It worked."
In 1989, a group of artists including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, and Bros (Featuring Luke Goss on drums) re-recorded this as Band Aid II. The only artists left over from the original Band Aid were Bananarama.
This effort was produced by the team of Stock, Aitken And Waterman and once again raised money for African famine relief.
In 2004, a new version recorded by a group of artists including Bono, Paul McCartney, Chris Martin and Dido was released as a single in the UK, with proceeds going to help victims of political and humanitarian crisis in Sudan. "Band Aid 20," as this collective was known, was produced by Nigel Godrich. Bono is the only artist on this version who was also on the original.
In 2014, a fourth permutation of Band Aid was assembled to once again record this song. Known as "Band Aid 30," this rendition was produced by Paul Epworth with proceeds going to Ebola relief. Singers included One Direction, Sam Smith, and once again... Bono.
Bob "Humbug" Geldof told Australia's The Daily Telegraph in a 2010 interview: "I am responsible for two of the worst songs in history. One is 'Do They Know It's Christmas?', the other one is 'We Are The World.' Any day soon, I will go to the supermarket, head to the meat counter and it will be playing. Every f---ing Christmas."
Geldof added that he gets irritated when carol singers perform the charity hit in front of his home during the holidays. "They think 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' is as old as ' Silent Night .' Sometimes I think that's wild because I wrote it. Or else I am thinking how much I want them to stop because they are doing it really badly."
After this song generated about £10 million for famine relief, Bob Geldof traveled to Ethiopia to oversee distribution of the aid. He took a very hands-on approach, meeting with relief agencies to determine where the money could do the most good. To acknowledge the artists and the folks who bought the album, he made sure that "Love from Band Aid" was emblazoned on many of the supplies, including vehicles.
Geldof never glorified the relief effort. Asked if he was proud of his work to end hunger in a 1985 Radio Times interview, Geldof replied: "Not at all, It's exhausting and a total bore if you want to know truth. It's not fulfilling at all. I'm endlessly frustrated."
Spin magazine later reported that the money Geldof brought to Ethiopia was used by the war-torn country's dictator to arm his forces and crush his enemies. According to the report, the Ethiopian famine was mostly caused by its government, which poisoned farms of its opponents.
A high-profile absence from the Band Aid project was Queen, who weren't invited because they had played South Africa earlier that year, violating a boycott against the apartheid-torn country. Bob Geldof would later forgive them and invite Queen to perform at Live Aid, where their invigorating set was a highlight of the concerts.
George Michael released " Last Christmas " around the same time. He gave all proceeds from the song to Geldof's relief effort.
In 2003, Deftones lead singer Chino Moreno recorded a rock version of this song with the band Far for the A Santa Cause (It's A Punk Rock Christmas) compilation. The song spread thanks to peer-to-peer networks.
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In 1965, which Christmas song became the first song to be broadcast from space? | Do They Know It's Christmas was worst song in the world, admits Bob Geldof
Do They Know It's Christmas was worst song in the world, admits Bob Geldof
Daily Mail ^ | 11/30/2010 | Simon Cable
Posted on 11/30/2010 7:40:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If you havent heard a rendition of Do They Know Its Christmas yet this year, its only a matter of time.
But should you curse Bob Geldof for writing That Song, youll be in good company. Hes fed up with it too.
The single was released 26 years ago today as Geldof set up Band Aid to raise money for famine-hit Ethiopia.
And although it became the biggest selling single in the world at the time, it seems hes had enough. He said: I am responsible for two of the worst songs in history. One is Do They Know Its Christmas? and the other one is We Are The World.
'Any day soon, I will go to the supermarket, head to the meat counter and it will be playing. Every ****ing Christmas.
He said carol singers also include it in their repertoire when they visit his South London home each year, alongside the more traditional Silent Night.
The former Boomtown Rats frontman, 59, added: Sometimes I think thats wild because I wrote it. Or else I am thinking how much I want them to stop because they are doing it really badly. Geldof co-wrote the song with singer Midge Ure.
The campaign, which went on to raise more than £100million, was inspired by Michael Buerks BBC news report on Ethiopias famine.
Musicians including Sting, Bono, George Michael and Phil Collins sang on the Band Aid track.
Its success led to the release of U.S. charity single We Are the World months later.
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To: SeekAndFind
Do They Know it’s X-Mas was not even as bad as that piece of crap—We Are The World...Now that was a dreadful song.
To: SeekAndFind
No, that would be John Lennon's "Imagine."
3 posted on 11/30/2010 7:43:55 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (DEFCON I ALERT: The federal cancer has metastasized. All personnel report to their battle stations.)
To: SeekAndFind
You they are full of sh*t when they use false modesty. Ego is their supreme virtue.
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To: SeekAndFind
You know they are full of sh*t when they use false modesty. Ego is their supreme virtue.
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To: SeekAndFind
He’s understandably sick of it, but I think it’s a great song (but with some iffy turns of phrase). I can’t stand “We are the World” though.
6 posted on 11/30/2010 7:46:35 AM PST by Catphish
He's wrong. The worst song in the world is "Philosophy Of The World" by The Shaggs.
"Do They Know It's Christmas" is in 2nd place.
7 posted on 11/30/2010 7:46:35 AM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
On the other hand, “I Don’t Like Mondays” is a great song.
8 posted on 11/30/2010 7:46:41 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
The worst Christmas Song Ever is “Step Into Christmas” by Elton John.
9 posted on 11/30/2010 7:49:09 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. Save America From Bankruptcy.)
To: Le Chien Rouge
We Are The World...Now that was a dreadful song.
As terrible as the song was, at least Do They Know its Christmas was an original idea.
10 posted on 11/30/2010 7:49:09 AM PST by skeeter
Worst song ever is “Drop the Pilot” by Joan Armitrading.
11 posted on 11/30/2010 7:49:16 AM PST by albie
To: SeekAndFind
"There's a world outside your window, and its a world of dread and fear"
I guess that is what Geldof thinks when the carolers come to sing on his lawn.
12 posted on 11/30/2010 7:50:29 AM PST by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
No, that would be John Lennon's "Imagine."
AMEN! Worst piece of tripe ever written!
13 posted on 11/30/2010 7:51:45 AM PST by MissTed
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Worst performance ever is “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” played by a Mariachi band of no particular merit. The horns are tuned sharp and it is enough to make your ears bleed.
It plays every year in Houston on the radio stations and it is horrible...and yet I am strangly drawn to it ........
14 posted on 11/30/2010 7:53:09 AM PST by texmexis best (`)
“Imagine” is the worst song ever written. Laughably bad. In a class by itself.
“We are the world” is second.
“It’s small world” is also second. A tie for awfulage.
15 posted on 11/30/2010 7:56:01 AM PST by texmexis best (`)
To: MissTed
No, that would be John Lennon's "Imagine".
And yet, it is still the last song played over the loudspeakers before midnight in Times Square on New Year's Eve.
16 posted on 11/30/2010 7:56:38 AM PST by hoagy62 (.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All
People! People! People!
We need not be arguing over which song is the worst... they can ALL be the worst!
18 posted on 11/30/2010 7:59:15 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: SeekAndFind
“so ya, thought ya, might like to...” make an awesome movie with Pink Floyd. Happy to see you saw your shitty stuff as shit. Rock n roll is real, pop is slop. Bob will always be Pinkerton!!!
19 posted on 11/30/2010 8:01:25 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
To: SeekAndFind
Oh, and shave off your other nipple to make amends. :)
20 posted on 11/30/2010 8:02:28 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
On the other hand, I Dont Like Mondays is a great song.
Agree!!
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To: Le Chien Rouge
Just did a quick "hear" on that " Do They Know Its Christmas?" and suddenly realized I'd never thought of it as a song even!
It's still not a song no matter how many times Geldof says it is. His judgment in the matter is impaired.
22 posted on 11/30/2010 8:21:26 AM PST by muawiyah (GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
Here are some of the words, these sung by uberlib Bono.
“And there won’t be snow in Africa this christmas time
The greatest gift they’ll get this year is life”
“Where nothing ever grows
No rain or rivers flow”
“Do they know it’s christmas time at all?”
I have to believe that since this is Africa where a large majority of the inhabitants of that continent are Mooselums, they don’t really care if it’s Christmas.
What a stupid song by a bunch of starry eyed, shrill voiced libs.
23 posted on 11/30/2010 8:31:45 AM PST by GoreFreeTN (Keep the change, I want my dollars back.)
To: SeekAndFind
No! No! No!
That wretched little ditty penned by John Lennon - “So This is Christmas” is the absloute worst holiday dreck produced by the mind of man. It’s a vomitous little harangue to Christians intended to make them feel guilty for celebrating their faith and the birth of our Lord and Saviour.
It’s typical liberal white guilt writ large.
25 posted on 11/30/2010 8:41:57 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Conservatives want a CHOICE not an echo - No more RINOs!)
To: SeekAndFind
Some of my candidates for the worst song of all time:
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I think the worst is “Wonderful Christmastime” by Paul McCartney, though I have not heard this Elton John tune that I am aware of.
27 posted on 11/30/2010 8:42:57 AM PST by day10 (Integrity has no need of rules.)
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To: SeekAndFind
No, the worst song in the world is Mr Roboto, followed closely by the video of Mr Roboto.
28 posted on 11/30/2010 8:44:39 AM PST by InvisibleChurch (Stimulus ~ Response / "...and that's why the color yellow makes me sad, I think.")
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To: GoreFreeTN
Have worked at a college radio station for yrs and in the past we played a 12” single version of it which had an extended mix on the back. At least it was diff. from the version most people hear; various music celebs say hi during the instrumental break incl. Paul McCartney (”sorry i can’t be here today”), David Bowie (intoning a serious message about hunger) and Stu Adamson from Big Country. John Taylor from Duran Duran, etc. At the end of the inst. break Geldof is heard saying what day and time it was, “we’ve been here 24 hours and it’s time to go home now” before they all leap back in with 1! 2! 1, 2,
3, 4, FEED THE WORLD....”
Because everything’s on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOKwyNcVK2U
For some reason the DJ at my sister’s wedding reception figured we should all join hands and sing along with “we are the world...”
Novelty song spoof: “We are the worms, out on the sidewalk/ We are the ones who make a squishy sound, so watch where you walk. There’s a chance we’re taking...”
29 posted on 11/30/2010 8:48:45 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry
That wretched little ditty penned by John Lennon - So This is Christmas is the absolute worst holiday dreck
Agree 100% ---- I hate that song !!! The station cannot be turned fast enough when I hear that abomination comes on.
30 posted on 11/30/2010 8:49:09 AM PST by coder2
I think the worst is Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney
Well now, I could consider a tie vote. That is also one horrific Christmas tune.
31 posted on 11/30/2010 8:51:53 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. Save America From Bankruptcy.)
But the debts have not been paid.
In Africa, they welch on us,
So let’s have them flayed.
When it comes time for spending,
We can ill afford the dough;
Get your hands around their throats,
And strangle them!
They are the evil ones.
For their people, it’s hard;
Tyrants have all the guns.
There’s a lake outside of Heaven
And it’s prepared for racketeers
Who keep our foreign aid flowing while
They shed crocodile tears.
And the raging fire that burns there
Is prepared for singers too;
Keep provoking God,
He might be damning you.
So ignore Geldorf and all
This stupid Live 8 tripe;
Let’s stuff a nuke
Up Mugabe’s tailpipe.
And the blood like water flows.
Let’s rake all
these jerks across the coals!
To U2, send them coal for being dumb,
Mugabe, here’s a bomb for you, you scum!
Let’s rake all
these jerks across the coals!
[A brief and crummy instrumental follows.]
“OK, well this is Bono here, the old white guy from U2
ostentatiously denouncing war and poverty and hunger again.
What a wonderful person I am!”
“Hello, this is Michael Jackson.
I’m sorry I can’t be with you this time, kids.
Hee hee hee!”
“Hi, this is Dave Gilmour from Pink Floyd.
Our group’s album sales are way up.
Keep your hands off our stack, Jack!”
“I’m Slash from Velvet Revolver. We’re all old white guys too, Bono.”
“Hello, this is Youssou N’Dour.
I am the only actual African man here. Do you people even know who I am?
There is nothing we can do for you, my African brothers. You are hosed.”
“Hello, hello, this is Elton John. I’m being a jerk. Like, I am so drunk!
Hello, this is Elton John. Hello, this is Elton John. I’m being a jerk.
Like, I am so drunk! Uh, what am I saying? Whatever. I’m gay!”
“This is Joss Stone. I’m not a Spears clone, I swear!
Did you know that under Mugabe, millions of people in Zimbabwe are starving?
We’re not going to do anything about it, though.”
“This is Chris Martin from Coldplay.
I am a sensitive rock star. My songs are important.
I have an incredible talent: I can walk backwards.
Buy our albums, you fat greedy American capitalists!”
“Hello, this is Tom Chaplin from Keane. Please buy our albums. Please.”
“This is Francis Healy from Travis. Buy our albums!”
“Hello, I’m Madonna. Are you [bleep]ing ready, London!?”
“Hello, I’m Ms. Dynamite. I’m [bleep]ing ready, Madonna!”
“We Scissor Sisters are [bleep]ing ready for anything, Madonna.”
“Yo, this is Snoop Doggy Dogg! Buy me, you Union Jack-offs!
I need a big booty ho and some bling bling.”
“I’m Annie Lennox. Next concert, I swear we’re going to have some
live cows right up on the stage with us. Don’t ask why.”
“This is Robbie Williams, and I need a new gig,
so please watch me at Live 8. Come on, girls,
am I sexy or what?”
“This is Sting. Christmas comes in July this year.
Suicide bombers love their children too.
Please give a thought to all of us washed-up
old white guys and buy our albums, however crappy,
to keep our cocaine supplies steady. Cheerio!”
“This song was never recorded at all because it’s just a silly parody.
It’s now 9:20 in the morning of July 12th.
The death count from the terrorist attacks
here in London currently stands at 52.
Now, stop paying attention to important things,
and pay attention to us instead.
I’m Bob Geldorf. If you give each of us a million dollars,
maybe we’ll finally shut up and retire. Think about that. Bye.”
Bleed the jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
Bleed the jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
Bleed the jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
Bleed the jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
Bleed the jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
Bleed the jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
Bleed the jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
Bleed those jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
[etc.]
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From which animated short film does the song Walking In The Air come? | Walking In The Air (from: The Snowman) - YouTube
Walking In The Air (from: The Snowman)
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In the song Twelve Days Of Christmas, what are there 11 of? | 'Frozen Fever,' An Animated Short With An All-New Song, Will Debut In 2015 | The Huffington Post
'Frozen Fever,' An Animated Short With An All-New Song, Will Debut In 2015
09/02/2014 09:53 pm ET
Christopher Rosen Managing entertainment editor, The Huffington Post
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The kingdom of isolation just got another inhabitant. Disney will release "Frozen Fever" in the spring of 2015, a new short film featuring characters from "Frozen." Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck will return to direct the short, which will include a brand-new song from Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, the Oscar-winning duo behind "Let It Go."
"It's Anna's birthday and Elsa and Kristoff are determined to give her the best celebration ever, but Elsa's icy powers may put more than just the party at risk," reads a plot description for "Frozen Fever" provided by Disney. As the studio noted, Olaf, the snowman voiced by Josh Gad in "Frozen," will also appear. No word from the studio if Gad or stars Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel and Jonathan Groff (as respectively, Anna, Elsa and Kristoff) will reprise their voice roles for the short.
Released on Nov. 22 of last year, "Frozen" grossed $1.274 billion worldwide. It won two Oscars at the Academy Awards back in March: Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song (for "Let It Go").
For reference, the films Disney has set for release next spring include "Tomorrowland" with George Clooney and Pixar's "Inside Out." The studio will also release "Cinderella" in early March.
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Captain Edward John Smith was born on this day in Hanley, Staffordshire.
December 12th, 1862
Joseph Bruce Ismay was born on this day in Waterloo, Merseyside.
January, 18th, 1868
Thomas Henry Ismay purchases the struggling White Star Line , which operated traditional sailing vessels centred mainly on the diminishing Australian gold rush trade.
1869
Thomas Henry Ismay creates the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, the house flag of which is the familiar burgee of the White Star Line , a red background with a five-pointed white star in the centre. The formation of this company is the beginning of Ismay's dream of providing a top quality service to the United States and Canada.
1869 - 1870
Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff begin construction of Oceanic , the first of many fine ships for the fledgling White Star Line . It's the beginning of a long and fruitful period between the owners and the builders.
September 21st, 1872
Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde was born on this day in Liverpool, England.
February 7th, 1873
Chief Designer of the Olympic-class liners , Thomas Andrews , was born on this day.
February 28th, 1873
First Officer William McMaster Murdoch was born on this day in Dalbeattie, Scotland.
March 30th, 1874
Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller was born on this day in Chorley, England.
November, 20th, 1877
Third Officer Herbert John Pitman was born on this day in Somerset, England.
November 21st, 1882
Fifth Officer Harold Godfrey Lowe was born on this day in Conway, Wales.
March 23rd, 1884
Fourth Officer Joseph Groves Boxhall was born on this day in Hull, England.
August 21st, 1887
Sixth Officer James Paul Moody was born on this day in Scarborough, England.
1891
Joseph Bruce Ismay , son of Thomas Henry, joins the White Star Line as a partner.
1894
William J. Pirrie is made chairman of Harland and Wolff .
1898
Morgan Robertson publishes Futility , a novel about an ocean liner, the Titan, which sinks on the North Atlantic on her maiden voyage after a collision with an iceberg . The book bears many spookily-similar aspects to the sinking of the Titanic.
November 23rd, 1899
Thomas Henry Ismay died at his Dawpool home, leaving the way clear for his son Joseph Bruce Ismay to take over the running of the White Star Line .
1902
The White Star Line is taken-over by American financier J. Pierpoint Morgan. His shipping trust, the International Mercantile Marine (I.M.M.), now effectively runs the company.
1904
Joseph Bruce Ismay becomes president of J. Pierpoint Morgan's I.M.M., and is allowed complete control, such is Morgan's respect for Ismay .
1907
William J. Pirrie invites Joseph Bruce Ismay to his London residence, Downshire House, for a dinner party, the purpose of which is to discuss the construction of two massive new ocean-liners for the White Star Line . Pirrie and Ismay hope the Olympic-class liners will rival Cunard's transatlantic speedsters, Mauretania & Lusitania, not for speed, but for opulence and grandeur.
July 1908
White Star Line officially approve the design of the Olympic-class liners with Harland and Wolff . The initial order of two ships will be followed by a third in time. Because of the huge size of these mammoth new vessels, Harland and Wolff have to build huge new slip ways to accommodate them, with a huge gantry spanning them.
December 16th 1908
Olympic , first of the Olympic-class liners , is born as her keel is laid down in Belfast. Construction of what will become the world's largest vessel has begun.
March 31st 1909
Harland and Wolff lay down the keel on yard No. 401; Titanic is born.
October 20th 1910
Olympic , the first of the trio, is launched at Harland and Wolff . She is the world's largest man-made moving object, but not for long.
May 31st 1911
Titanic is launched in front of a crowd of over 100,000 people in Belfast, the second of the Olympic-class liners to take to the waters.
June 14th, 1911
Southampton witnesses the departure of the world's largest liner, Olympic , on her maiden voyage to New York.
July 1911
Harland and Wolff and the White Star Line agree upon a proposed sailing date for Titanic ; 20th March 1912.
September 20th 1911
Olympic is badly damaged in a collision with the Royal Navy cruiser H.M.S. Hawke. As workers are diverted to undertake repairs to Olympic , work on Titanic slows a little, and her sailing date will have to be revised.
October 1911
The White Star Line announce the revised date for Titanic's departure on her maiden voyage ; 10th April, 1912.
November 30th, 1911
Britannic II 's keel is laid on this day in Belfast.
February 3rd 1912
Titanic is dry-docked at Harland and Wolff's Belfast yard in the Thompson Dry Dock .
March 8th, 1912
Titanic leaves the Thompson Dry Dock , and returns to the fitting-out wharf.
March 25th 1912
Titanic's lifeboats are tested at Belfast.
March 31st 1912
Titanic is now largely complete as far as the fitting-out process goes, however, internally there is still much to be done.
April 2nd 1912
Titanic sails for the very first time under her own power as she undergoes her delayed sea trials in Belfast Lough.
April 3rd 1912
Titanic arrives in Southampton just after midnight after journeying down from Belfast.
April 5th 1912
Titanic is 'dressed' in her signal flags and pennants as a Good Friday tribute to the people of Southampton , the only time this happens in her short life.
April 6th 1912
Today is recruitment day, when all the still-remaining vacancies on the ship's crew are filled. Coal and cargo begin to be loaded today too.
April 8th 1912
All of the fresh food for the forthcoming maiden voyage begins to be loaded at Southampton, England .
April 10th 1912
Titanic's sailing day has finally arrived, and Captain E. J. Smith comes aboard at 7.30am. Titanic's maiden voyage finally gets underway at 12 noon. She sails across the English Channel to Cherbourg , her first port of call, arriving there just after 6.00p.m.. After a couple of hours or so of embarking some new passengers, and disembarking some of the ones who boarded at Southampton , she heads across the Irish Sea to Ireland.
April 11th 1912
Titanic arrives at Queenstown, now known as 'Cobh', and once more drops-off passengers, whilst taking-on board some new ones for the voyage to New York.
April 11th - 12th 1912
Titanic covers 386 miles, which included the stop at Queenstown, Ireland.
April 12th -13th 1912
Titanic covers 519 miles, during which time she received many warnings of ice.
April 13th 1912
Titanic receives a warning from the Rappahannock of heavy pack ice.
April 14th 1912
09.00am: Titanic receives a message from the Caronia warning of field ice and icebergs at 42° N, from 49° to 51°.
10.30am: Divine services held in first class dining room.
11.40am: Noordam reports 'much ice' in area previously reported by Caronia .
Noon: Ship's officers gather on wing bridge to calculate Titanic's position.
01.42p.m.: Fellow White Star Line stable mate Baltic reports 'large quantities of field ice' located at latitude 41° 51' N, longitude 49° 52' W, about 250 miles ahead of Titanic . This message was delivered to Captain Edward John Smith , who in turn passed it to Joseph Bruce Ismay , who pocketed the message.
01.45p.m.: Warning received from Amerika of 'large iceberg' in vicinity of 41° 27' N. 50' 8' W.
05.30 - 07.30p.m.: Surrounding air temperature plummets by 10 degrees to 33° F.
05.50p.m.: Captain Edward John Smith alters Titanic's course slightly to the south and west of the usual course, perhaps as a precaution to avoid the reported ice.
06.00p.m.: Second Officer Charles Lightoller relieves Chief Officer Henry Wilde on the bridge.
07.15p.m.: First Officer William Murdoch orders the forecastle hatch to be closed as the glow from it was interfering with the lookouts vision in the crow's nest up above.
07.30p.m.: Three warnings of large icebergs are received from the Californian in the vicinity of 42° 3' N, 49° 9' W. These messages are delivered to the bridge. Captain Edward John Smith is attending a dinner party in the first class dining room.
08.40p.m.: Second Officer Charles Lightoller passes-on orders to Titanic crew to look after the ship's fresh water supply, as temperature of surrounding sea water is close to freezing.
08.55p.m.: Captain Edward John Smith leaves the dinner party and returns to the bridge, discussing the clear weather and the visibility of icebergs at night with Second Officer Charles Lightoller .
09.20p.m.: Captain Edward John Smith retires for the night, with orders to wake him 'if if becomes at all doubtful'.
09.30p.m.: Second Officer Charles Lightoller advises the lookouts in the crow's nest to watch carefully for icebergs until morning.
09.40p.m.: Heavy pack ice and iceberg warning received from Mesaba, in vicinity of latitude 42° N to 41° 25', longitude 49° W to 50° 30' W, however, the message was overlooked as radio operators are busy with passenger traffic.
10.00p.m.: Second Officer Charles Lightoller relieved by First Officer William Murdoch on the bridge. The lookouts are also relieved, with the new watch in the crow's nest advised to watch for icebergs .
10.30p.m.: Sea temperature down to 31° F.
10.55p.m.: Approximately 10 - 15 miles north of Titanic , the Californian is stopped in field ice, and sends out warnings to all shipping in the area. The Californian contacts the nearby Titanic with a further warning of ice, and receives a by a very blunt, 'Keep out. Shut up. You're jamming my signal. I'm working Cape Race '. Californian's radio operator listens to Titanic's messages for a short while, then closes at 11.30p.m.
11.30p.m.: The lookouts in the crow's nest note a slight haze appearing directly ahead of the Titanic .
11.40p.m.: Titanic is moving at slightly-less than 21 knots, when suddenly, the lookouts see an iceberg directly ahead, approximately 500 yards away. The lookouts immediately sound the warning bell with three rings, and then telephone the bridge with the message, 'Iceberg right ahead'. First Officer William Murdoch , upon hearing the message, calls 'hard-a-starboard' to the helmsman, and at the same time orders the engine room to stop engines, and then full astern, and at the same time, he activates the watertight doors below. After several seconds, Titanic begins to veer to port, but it's not enough, and she makes contact with the iceberg down her starboard side.
11.50p.m.: Only ten minutes after the impact, water has risen 14 feet above the keel forward. First five watertight compartments begin to take on water.
00.00a.m.: Titanic's mail room, 24 feet above the keel, has flooded with enough water to float some mailbags. Reports of damage from various parts of the ship begin to arrive on the bridge where Captain Edward John Smith is now located. Water is flooding into holds 1, 2 and 3, and boiler room 6, so Captain Edward John Smith and Thomas Andrews begin a rapid tour of the ship below-decks to see the damage first-hand, and then Captain Edward John Smith asks Thomas Andrews for his opinion. Thomas Andrews calculates that Titanic will stay afloat for between one to one-and-a-half hours.
April 15th
1912
12.05a.m. Titanic's squash court is now awash, Orders are given to uncover the lifeboats and muster crew and passengers . only room in lifeboats for 1,178 of 2,227 if every lifeboat filled to capacity.
12.15 - 2.17a.m. - Various ships hear Titanic's distress calls. Among them is her sister, Olympic (500 miles away), Mount Temple (49), Frankfort (153), Birma (70), Baltic II (243), Virginian (170), and of course, Carpathia (58).
12.15a.m. - Titanic's Band begin to play in the First Class Lounge. Later, they move outside of their warm confines to play on the port side of the Boat Deck.
12.20a.m. - The seaman's quarters, 48 feet above Titanic's keel on E Deck, are flooded.
12.25a.m. - Order given to begin loading Titanic's lifeboats with women and children. The Cunarder Carpathia picks up Titanic's distress calls, and begins her 58 mile journey.
12.45a.m. - The first lifeboats to be lowered, starboard No. 7 , is lowered. It carries 28 people, with a capacity for 65. The first of the eight distress rockets were also launched at this time. Fourth Officer Joseph Groves Boxhall observes vessel approaching Titanic , and then disappears, despite trying to contact her using the Morse lamp. Lifeboat No. 4 begins loading between 12.30 and 12.45.
5.30a.m. - 6.30a.m. - The survivors from lifeboat Collapsible A are rescued by lifeboat No. 14 , and lifeboat Collapsible B by lifeboats No. 4 and No. 12 .
8.30a.m. - Lifeboat No. 12 is the final lifeboat to be recovered by the Carpathia , and Second Officer Charles Lightoller is the last person to come aboard. Californian arrives nearby, and then steams away in a vain search for any more survivors.
8.50a.m. - Carpathia leaves the area of Titanic 's sinking, heading for New York. Aboard her are 705 survivors, meaning more than 1,500 people have been lost in the disaster. Joseph Bruce Ismay sends a message to the White Star Line 's New York offices, saying, "Deeply regret advise you Titanic sank this morning after collision with iceberg, resulting in serious loss of life. Full particulars later."
April 17th
1912
The White Star Line hires the cable laying vessel, the Mackay-Bennett to search the area of the Titanic 's foundering for bodies.
April 18th 1912
The Carpathia finally arrives in New York, and approximately 10,000 people observe her arrive, with Titanic 's lifeboats hanging in her davits. She steams past the Cunard pier, in order to unload the lifeboats at the White Star Line pier. After unloading Titanic 's lifeboats , Carpathia then returns to the Cunard Pier in order to unload the survivors.
April 19th - 25th May 2012
The U.S. Inqury into the sinking, headed by Senator William A. Smith, gets underway, during which eighty-two people are called to the inquiry.
April 22nd 1912
The White Star Line hires a second boat, Minia, to assist the Mackay-Bennett, which has thus far been overwhelmed, after finding more than 300 bodies.
April 24th 1912
Titanic 's sister ship, Olympic , is due to leave Southampton on her scheduled run, however, the voyage has to be cancelled, due to her firemen going on strike, due to the insufficient number of lifeboats , and 285 of Olympic 's black gang desert the ship.
2nd May - 3rd July, 1912
The U.K. Inquiry into the sinking, headed by Lord Mersey, gets underway, during which nearly 100 people are called to testify.
February 26th, 1914
Britannic II is launched, and because of the alterations and modifications made to her after the Titanic disaster, she is now the world's largest four funnelled ship.
November 21st, 1916
Britannic II is sunk, after hitting a mine in the Kea Channel, of Greece, whilst carrying wounded soldiers, leaving Olympic as the last of the Olympic-class liners in service.
October 11th, 1935
Olympic , the last of the Olympic-class liners still in service, makes her way to Jarrow, to be broken up. Two years later, what remains of Olympic is then towed to Inverkeithing for final disposal.
October 17th, 1937
Chairman of the White Star Line , Joseph Bruce Ismay died on this day.
May 12th, 1944
Titanic 's Fifth Officer Harold Godfrey Lowe died on this day in Conwy, Wales.
December 8th, 1952
Titanic 's Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller died on this day.
December 7th, 1961
Titanic 's Third Officer Herbert John Pitman died on this day.
April 25th, 1967
Titanic 's Fourth Officer Joseph Groves Boxhall died on this day, and his ashes were scattered in the position Titanic was reported as having sunk.
December 3rd, 1975
The wreck of the Britannic II was discovered by the renowned underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau, using the research vessel Calypso.
July 17th, 1980
An expedition funded by Texas oilman Jack Grimm departs on a mission to find the wreck of the Titanic , without any success.
September 1st 1985
The wreck of the Titanic is finally discovered by a joint American and French team of scientists, led by Robert Ballard , using the research vessel Knorr.
August 30th, 1996
An attempt to recover Titanic 's " Big Piece " from the seabed fails, when during heavy seas, the cables carrying the section of the the hull gave way.
August 10th, 1998
A salvage mission successfully recovers the errant " Big Piece ", it is the largest Titanic artefact to be raised from the wreck site, at some 20 tons.
November, 2002
A T.V. program, Secrets Of The Dead, announces that the child in the grave of the unknown child is Eino Viljam Panula , after using D.N.A. to prove the link.
July, 2007
A team from Canada's Lakehead University, using more advanced methods of D.N.A. testing, prove that Sidney Leslie Goodwin is actually the child in the grave of the unknown child .
May 31st, 2009
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Animals aboard the RMS Titanic
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There were a number of animals aboard the RMS Titanic during her disastrous maiden voyage, which ended with the ship sinking on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg. The animals included dogs, cats, chickens, birds and an unknown number of rats. Three of the dogs were brought aboard lifeboats by their owners and survived; the rest of the animals perished in the disaster.
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The ship had her own official cat named Jenny, who was kept aboard Titanic as a mascot and also worked to keep down the ship's population of rats and mice. Transferred over from Titanics sister ship Olympic, Jenny gave birth in the week before Titanic sailed from Southampton. She normally lived in the galley, where the victualling staff fed her and her kittens on scraps from the kitchens. [1] Stewardess Violet Jessop wrote that the cat "laid her family near Jim, the scullion, whose approval she always sought and who always gave her warm devotion." [2]
A number of dogs were brought aboard by passengers as pets. Most were kept in kennels on the ship's F Deck, though some First Class passengers kept theirs in their cabins – probably without the knowledge of the crew or with the turning of a blind eye, as they were not supposed to do so. The ship's carpenter, John Hutchison, was responsible for the dogs' welfare. The kennel dogs were exercised daily on the poop deck by a steward or one of the bellboys. [3] As for the lapdogs, the American painter Francis Davis Millet wrote disapprovingly in a letter sent from Titanics last stop, Queenstown in Ireland, "Looking over the [passenger] list I only find three or four people I know but there are ... a number of obnoxious, ostentatious American women, the scourge of any place they infest, and worse on shipboard than anywhere. Many of them carry tiny dogs, and lead husbands around like pet lambs." [4] The dog owners had planned to hold a dog show aboard the ship on the morning of 15 April, but by that time Titanic was at the bottom of the North Atlantic as were, presumably, most of the dogs. [5]
The details of several of the dogs aboard Titanic were recorded and included:
A King Charles Spaniel and an elderly Airedale Terrier, owned by William Carter
Chow-Chow, a chow chow owned by Harry Anderson
A champion French Bulldog called Gamin de Pycombe, owned by Robert W. Daniel, who had bought him in England for the very high price of £150 (£
1 in 2012 prices)
Kitty, another Airedale Terrier, owned by millionaire John Jacob Astor
A Pomeranian owned by Margaret Bechstein Hays , which she kept (probably surreptitiously) in her cabin
A dog owned by Elizabeth Rothschild, also kept in her cabin
A Pekingese called Sun Yat Sen, owned by Henry Sleeper Harper and his wife Myra
Frou-Frou, a toy dog owned by Helen Bishop. The dog was allowed to stay in her cabin as the stewards considered it "too pretty" to put among the bigger dogs in the kennels. [1]
There were probably more dogs aboard, but their details (and owners) have not survived. It was perhaps fortunate that passenger Charles Moore of Washington, D.C. had to make a last-minute change to his plans to transport aboard Titanic 100 English foxhounds, which he intended to use to start an English-style fox hunt in the Washington area. They were instead shipped aboard another vessel. [1]
As well as the dogs and cats, there were a number of birds aboard. Ella Holmes White of New York brought four roosters and hens, which were probably kept in or near the F Deck dog kennels. She had imported them from France with the intention of improving her poultry stock at home. Another woman was said to have brought 30 cockerels aboard, and Elizabeth Ramel Nye brought her yellow canary. Two dogs and a canary disembarked with the passengers who left the ship at Cherbourg, Titanics first port of call after Southampton. The animals travelled on their own tickets; even the canary that left at Cherbourg had to be paid for, to the tune of 25 US cents. [3]
Like any other ship of the time, Titanic had a substantial population of rats. One was seen running across the Third Class Dining Room on the evening of the sinking, to the shock and amazement of the diners. Some of the women who saw it burst into tears, while men tried unsuccessfully to capture the rat. [3]
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Few of Titanics animals survived the ship's sinking. Three of the dogs were taken aboard lifeboats by their owners. Margaret Hays' Pomeranian got away safely in Lifeboat 7 and lived until 1919, while Elizabeth Rothschild refused to board Lifeboat 6 unless her dog was allowed to come too. Henry and Myra Harper brought their Pekingese aboard Lifeboat 3 but Helen Bishop had to abandon Frou-Frou in her cabin, much to their mutual distress. [1] The dog attempted to stop her leaving by holding on to her dress with his teeth until the seam tore. Afterwards Bishop spoke of her sorrow: "The loss of my little dog hurt me very much. I will never forget how he dragged on my clothes. He so wanted to accompany me." [3]
None of the other animals survived. At some point during the sinking, someone decided to free the dogs from their kennels, leading to the surreal sight of a pack of excited dogs racing up and down the slanting deck as the ship went down. One female passenger is said to have refused to be parted from her dog and chose to stay aboard. Several days later, as the SS Bremen passed through an area still strewn with debris and bodies floating in the water, passengers saw the body of a woman tightly holding a large shaggy dog in her arms. [3] Robert W. Daniel's bulldog Gamin de Pycombe was last seen in the water swimming for his life after the ship went down. [4]
After the sinking, several of the surviving animal owners made compensation claims for their lost pets and poultry. Daniel claimed $750 for the loss of his pedigree bulldog, while Carter claimed $300 for the loss of his two dogs. White claimed $207.87 for her lost chickens, and Chow-Chow was valued by Anderson at $50. [3]
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Which is the only X rated film to win an Oscar for Best Picture? | X-Rated Academy Awards! Obscure Oscar Trivia! Oscar’s Thirteen “X-Rated” Nominations! – johnrieber
Best Supporting Actress Sylvia Miles
Best Film Editing
“Midnight Cowboy” took home three Academy Awards in 1969, including:
Best Screenplay Waldo Salt
Best Director John Schlesinger
Best Picture Of The Year!
“Midnight Cowboy” is the only X-rated film to ever win Best Picture, but it’s NOT the only one ever nominated! Here’s the other:
Check Out These Provocative Opening Lines!
“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.”
A Clockwork Orange
2 years after “Midnight Cowboy” won Best Picture, Stanley Kubrick’s nightmarish vision of the future shocked audiences and captured four Academy Award nominations.
Check out this provocative trailer:
“A Clockwork Orange” was based on the futuristic novel by Anthony Burgess. In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge terrorizes respectable society, along with this three “Droogs”…
Once jailed, Alex volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society’s crime problem… but not all goes to plan. “A Clockwork Orange” is a brilliant movie, but very tough to watch in parts…if you haven’t yet seen it – you really don’t know what you are in for, and you have been warned.
The film was nominated for Best Picture (losing to the equally brilliant “The French Connection”) – and Stanley Kubrick was nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay – the fourth nomination was for Best Film Editing.
The Stones As Droogs!
According to IMDB, which always has terrific trivia, the novel’s Author Anthony Burgess originally sold the movie rights to Mick Jagger for $500 when he needed quick cash. Jagger intended to make it with The Rolling Stones as the droogs, but then re-sold the rights.
During the filming of the scene where Alex is forced to watch ultra-violence, star Malcolm McDowell scratched one of his corneas and was temporarily blinded. He also suffered cracked ribs during filming of the humiliation stage show.
Both “Midnight Cowboy” and “A Clockwork Orange” are brilliant movies that have stood the test of time. The last nomination for an X-rated movie came, not for Best Picture, but for the directing and acting in the equally provocative “Last Tango In Paris”.
“Go, get the butter.”
It is one of film history’s most legendary lines – spoken by one of its most controversial Actors – check out this moody, atmospheric trailer:
Brilliant Brando!
In the 1970’s, Marlon Brando made some brilliant movies – before he went off the rails in the 80’s…let’s look at his performance in this controversial, erotic drama…
While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife’s recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other.
“Beauty of mine, sit before me. Let me peruse you and remember you… always like this.”
Those words are spoken by Brando to the beautiful young woman he pursues. Maria Schneider stars with Brando, and she is captivating as the young woman lost in this anonymous love affair…
Bernardo Bertolucci was nominated for Best Director (he eventually won the Award for “The Last Emperor” in 1987, which also won for Best Picture), and Marlon Brando was nominated for Best Actor.
Controversial Brando!
This nomination was just three years after Brando stunned Hollywood by winning Best Actor for “The Godfather” – and sending Sasheen Littlefeather up to reject the award, based on America’s inhumane treatment of American Indians.
Back To The Butter!
As I said, “Last Tango IN Paris” was the last X-rated film to receive Academy Award recognition…and the film has always been remembered for the moment when Marlon Brando uses butter in the film’s most notorious scene – as a lubricant in order to have anal sex with Schneider.
According to Maria Schneider, the famous “butter scene” was never in the script and improvised at the last minute by Marlon Brando and Bernardo Bertolucci without consulting her. It is one of film’s most notorious moments.
Though the sodomy act was faked, her real tears in the film testify to her surprise and her state of shock. Much later in her life, a very troubled Schneider would make many charges about how she felt violated in the filming of the scene…sadly, she lived a troubled life, and had many negative things to say about the experience of making the movie.
After the film’s release in Europe, director Bernardo Bertolucci, producer Alberto Grimaldi, Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider were all indicted by a court in Bologna, Italy for making the film under the term “ultalitarian pornography”.
They were all acquitted of the charge – but Bertolucci lost his civil rights (including his right to vote) for five years.
“Last Tango In Paris” was a moody, polarizing film that shocked audiences when it came out, and is a true European art masterpiece.
So Whatever Happened To The Good Old “X”?
Now, back to the “X” rating. When the designation was assigned, the MPAA didn’t copyright it. With no registered trademark, the “X” could legally be self-applied to any film — a loophole pornography happily exploited. For example, the notorious 1972 film “Deep Throat” gave itself a tongue-in-cheek “X,” and many other adult films followed suit.
Movies Go “XXX”!
Soon after “Deep Throat” took ownership of the “X” rating, films like “Debbie Does Dallas” boasted a self-designated rating of “XXX”, promising three times the adult material! Look at the rating box with the extra “X’s” added!
While the arbitrary “XXX” rating has since become standard for the adult film industry, the damage was done to the singular “X”. An “X” rating became synonymous with “hardcore,” and mainstream advertisers and distributors stopped showing them in mainstream theaters.
Many filmmakers have protested the “X” rating, since it made artistic films indistinguishable from hard-core pornography. It was reported that “Taxi Driver” was originally given an “X” rating for its violent content, but some of the color of the blood was toned down in order to get an “R” rating.
In 1990, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar filed a civil suit over the X-rating given to “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!” Almodovar lost his lawsuit, but the MPAA soon after created the trademarked “NC-17” rating, which is still little used.
Roger Ebert’s X-Rated Past!
So there you go, have a nice night of viewing Oscar’s “X”-rated past! And what about this! Famous film critic Roger Ebert also had an X-rated past!
Take a look at the Rogert Ebert and Russ Meyer X-rated collaboration – NOT Oscar worthy!
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1925
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1935
American track star Jesse Owens broke three world records and tied another in a little over an hour.
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Muhammad Ali knocked Sonny Liston out cold in the first round, after 1 minute and 56 seconds, for the world heavyweight title .
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“The most beautiful creature on four legs!”
―Pongo on Perdita
Perdita is the female protagonist of the 1961 Disney animated feature film, One Hundred and One Dalmatians . She is the pet of Anita , wife of Pongo , and the mother of 15 Dalmatian puppies and adoptive mother of 84 more puppies.
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Personality
Perdita is very well mannered, elegant and radiant; a complete foil to Pongo's goofy nature. She is also rather stern and appears to be a tad more prominent when it comes to disciplining her children, as well as the rascally Pongo.
Despite her well-coordinated nature, Perdita tends to be incredibly worrisome in hectic situations and prefers to avoid oncoming conflict by leaving the scene, as shown when Cruella visits. She is also rather observant and appears able to sense nearby danger, being the only one to expect Cruella's villainy even before the kidnapping of her children. A complete contrast to the optimistic Pongo, Perdita's worries can often escalate to pessimism, only to be put to rest by the always headstrong and relentless Pongo.
Even so, Perdita is a fierce warrior, and will jump into battle in the situation calls for it. Like Pongo, her primary concerns are her puppies. As such, she has shown to willingly abandon her usual guidelines of self-composure for the sake of her family.
Appearances
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Perdita in the original film.
In the original film, Pongo is searching for mates for himself and his pet Roger Radcliffe . Pongo is close to giving up when he spots Perdita and her pet, Anita . Pongo rushes to the park to follow them. Perdita spots Pongo and is seemingly attracted to him, but tries to look as if she doesn't notice him. Perdita and Anita soon leave and Pongo tries a trick to attract their attention. At first, it seems as if it failed, Perdita was mad at Pongo for making her owner, Anita wet. But as Roger and Anita talk more they fall in love. Perdita falls in love with Pongo as well.
Perdita soon becomes pregnant with puppies, but when the family gets a visit from Cruella De Vil she becomes frightened, referring to Cruella as "that devil woman." Perdita hides but is able to hear Cruella's desire for the puppies. Perdita regrets having puppies due to the fact that Cruella wants them. Unfortunately for Perdita, the puppies arrived three weeks later, where it is revealed that she has had fifteen puppies. She is tired afterward but is relieved to hear from Pongo that the puppies are safe thanks to Roger. The puppies grow and are shown watching their favorite show with their parents. Perdita is seen interacting with her various puppies: telling Lucky to get down from the TV, reminding Rolly that they just had dinner, and scolding Patch for his coarse language.
After the puppies are put to bed, Pongo and Perdita go on a walk with their respective owners. During their absence, the puppies were kidnapped by Cruella's henchman Jasper and Horace . Pongo and Perdita realize that neither the humans nor Scotland Yard will find their puppies, and take it upon themselves to rescue their children. They use the twilight bark, a canine gossip chain, to spread the news of their stolen puppies. Later, they receive an answer and learn that their puppies are at Hell Hall, Cruella's former home.
Perdita immediately goes off on a dangerous journey to rescue the puppies alongside Pongo. The winter conditions make the journey tough, but they eventually meet with a sheepdog called the Colonel, who takes them to the puppies. Upon seeing the other puppies alongside their own fifteen, they decide to take them all to London, knowing that Roger and Anita would never turn them out.
101 Dalmatians: The Series
Perdita with Pongo in 101 Dalmatians: The Series.
Perdita appears as a supporting character being that her pups take over as the stars. Here she and Pongo after serving minor roles and act as regular parents and often seen with Roger and Anita. Some have speculated that she is a much stricter parent than Pongo but this is arguable as both she and Pongo have penalized the pups for being disrespectful or noncompliant in the series. In the episode "The Making Of..." Perdita talks about how since she and Pongo were the stars of the movie, that they would be the stars of the series, too.
In "Lucky To Be Alone", Perdita is the one who comes up with the idea for Lucky to visit the Vandercreams, seemingly assured that Lucky will begin missing his family within just a few days if she knew the Vandercreams right. This has speculated that Perdita is in some form related to either Coco or Beamer.
The episodes Perdita has appeared in are "Home is Where the Bark is", "The Dogs of DeVil", "Lucky to be Alone", "Four Stories Up", "You Say It's Your Birthday", "Lord of the Termites", "Cruella World", "Food for Thought", "Film Fatale", "Splishing and Splashing", "The Making Of...", "Animal House Party", and "Dalmatian Vacation, Part 2: Cross-Country Chaos".
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
Perdita in 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure.
In the sequel, Perdita and the rest of the family moves to the farmlands where she and her puppies can roam freely and, to her biggest relief, be far away from Cruella De Vil. However, unbeknown to Perdita, her son Patch is feeling insignificant. She tries to help Patch during this time but is too busy taking care of the other 98 puppies. After speaking with the half-asleep Pongo, Patch ran away from home in a self-finding search.
When Perdita learns of Patch's missing, later on, she is devastated, and quickly rallies Pongo, Roger, and Anita to travel back to London to find him. During their absence, Cruella, Jasper, and Horace kidnap the puppies yet again. Meanwhile, Patch meets and befriends his hero Thunderbolt, who gladly helps the pup rescue his siblings. In the end, Cruella is arrested, and Perdita and Pongo reunite with her children, as well as befriend Thunderbolt.
Interestingly, Kath Soucie , Perdita's voice actress in 101 Dalmatians II, previously voiced Anita , Cadpig and Rolly in the 101 Dalmatians TV series.
Perdita and Pongo in House of Mouse.
Perdita makes several appearances in the series House of Mouse .
In the episode " House of Crime ", Perdita's puppies briefly went missing, resulting in Perdita framing Cruella for once again stealing their puppies.
In the episode " The Stolen Cartoons ", Perdita was seen with his family as Daisy Duck ordered for a table for one hundred and one.
In " The Mouse Who Came to Dinner ", Goofy demanded that the magic brooms ensure that the club was "spotless" in time for a critic's arrival, resulting in the brooms wiping away the spots of Perdita and the other dalmatians.
Perdita can be seen at the end of Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse during the finale song .
Live-action appearances
101 Dalmatians
Perdita in the live-action remake.
In the live-action remake of the original animated film, Perdita is featured as a non-speaking dog, but still, retains her role as main deuteragonist. Like the original, Perdita resides with Anita in London. When Pongo first catches a glimpse of her, both dogs fall in love and get their masters together. Like in the original film, Perdita gives birth to fifteen puppies and Cruella sends her goons to kidnap them. While Pongo and Perdita are gone for a walk by Roger and Anita, the goons break in and lock Nanny in the closet and steal the puppies, they return home hearing the pensioner's bulldog barking angrily at Jasper and Horace and is the witness making Roger and Anita realize what they just have done; They leave the puppies unprotected and why do they have to go out for a walk. When there is a word that her puppies have been found, Perdita and Pongo go out to rescue them. Meanwhile, the puppies are able to outwit Cruella, Jasper, and Horace with the help of several animals. They reunite with their parents and are escorted home by the police.
Printed media
Descendants: Isle of the Lost
Perdita makes an appearance in which she and Pongo are part of the council of sidekicks, where Prince Ben (son to Belle and the Beast ) is able to communicate with them via a translation device on Ben's ear. She expresses that, while having ninety-nine pups can cause her a lack of sleep, she and Pongo are concerned about the pups' college education. This concern has Ben decide to set up and pass the "Puppy Grant" benefit, allowing financial aid for the Dalmatians.
Video games
Kingdom Hearts
Perdita makes a minor appearance in Kingdom Hearts , having been transported to Traverse Town with Pongo due to the destruction of their world. During the escape, her owners, Roger and Anita, disappeared during the destruction and the 99 puppies were separated and scattered across other worlds. After meeting Perdita and Pongo, Sora is tasked with locating the puppies throughout his travels in Kingdom Hearts, and sending them back to Perdita in Traverse Town upon doing so. To return Sora's helpfulness, Perdita bestow various gifts upon Sora. When Sora sealed Kingdom Hearts , Perdita, along with Pongo and all of her children , returned home.
101 Dalmatians: Animated Storybook
In the 101 Dalmatians: Animated Storybook, Perdita acts as a narrator for three pages; the second one being where Anita is designing fancy clothes for Cruella, the fourth being when she and Pongo become proud parents of 15 Dalmatian puppies, and the sixth being when she and Pongo send out the Twilight Bark after their puppies were dog-napped. Here, she is voiced by Mary Kay Bergman .
A large statue of Perdita is featured at Disney's All-Star Movies Resort at Walt Disney World .
Perdita is also featured in the attraction Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom . When Cruella De Vil returns to find the legendary Crystal of the Magic Kingdom and kidnap the pups, Perdita and the puppies go into hiding while Pongo teams up with Merlin to save the city. Later on, Cruella breaks into Merlin's secret vault to find the crystal but she instead finds a chew toy. Perdita and the puppies were able to switch the crystal with the toys just before Cruella's arrival.
Perdita is also seen reuniting with her puppies in Midship Detective Agency aboard the Disney Fantasy . She can also be seen during the end credits of the Disney Fantasy's Animators Palate show.
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Pongo - 1. 01 Dalmatians Wiki “. Look! I'm a Labrador! We'll all roll in the soot! We'll all be Labradors! Pongo is a male Dalmatian. His "pet" is Roger Radcliffe (1. Mr. Dearly (book), or Archie Hopper (Once Upon a Time).
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His character was first introduced in the book The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith in 1. In Disney's 1. 01 Dalmatians (1. Rod Taylor. He is featured in the live action edition 1. Dalmatians (1. 99. Dalmatians: The Series, the cartoon sequel 1. Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure and 1. Dalmatians Sing Along Songs and 1.
Dalmatains. He is also shown as Archie Hopper's dog in the ABC series Once Upon a Time. Appearance and Personality. Pongo is known for his two solid black ears and red collar. He is very intelligent, and is often looked to for advice. It is claimed that he has one of the brightest minds in dogdom, however can be puppy like on some occasions and not too reliable when it comes to discipline.
In the movie he changes the clock and is responsible for Roger and Anita's first meeting. In each story it is his idea to use the Twilight Bark to find the fifteen puppies. He was happy and sweet to his children. Family. Pongo and his family of Dalmatians. Pongo's "pet" is Roger Dearly or Roger Radcliffe depending on the source.
His mate is typically called Perdita, although originally he was married to a dog named Missis. They have fifteen puppies: Lucky, Rolly (Roly- Poly), Cadpig and Patch (the book); Pepper, Penny and Freckles (animated movie); Wizzer, Jewel, Fidget, Two- Tone and Dipstick (live action); and three unnamed puppies (though some sources suggest they are called Blackie, Whitey and Salter). Pongo shows to be a devoted father, a loving husband and a loyal pet. He views his "pet" Roger as his closet friend and the true reason Roger and Anita met. Even after becoming a father, Pongo remains care- free. He is extremely protective over his children, but balances it with a fun attitude which pleases his pups. After rescuing the pups from Cruella De Vil, the "Pongos" adopt another 8.
In the cartoon series two are named: Tripod and Duke, and in the book's sequel there is a female named Gay. It is unknown whether these are adopted, original, or something different altogether. Novel. Pongo and Perdita. In the original Dodie Smithnovel, Pongo is married to another Dalmatian called Missis who added Pongo to her name after their engagement. In his youth, it is said he devoured Shakespeare, in a tasty leather binding, so when Mrs.
Dearly named Perdita, he knew where the name came from. He is said to have one of the brightest minds in Dogdom, despite showing traits of being playful as a Pup. Whilst some humans have the habits of tobacco, Pongo's own form of it is chewing his basket whenever he is in deep thought on something.
When Perdita was taken in to be the puppies' foster mother, there were fears that Missis and the other pups might take a dislike to her. To prove this wrong, Pongo leapt up and opened the kitchen door, allowing both groups to mix in and prove they're okay together. Whilst on the way to Hell Hall, a human child tries luring Pongo out with some toast, before throwing a stone and injuring Pongo, whilst Missis wished to bite the child, Pongo tells her that she shouldn't since the child is young and doesn't know any better. When rescuing the puppies, Pongo learns from the Colonel how to open a latch on a door. Pongo, Missis, and the puppies are soon able to return to London, where they sneak into Cruella's house and destroy her fur wardrobe.
They soon return to the Dearlys. Disney Animated Films.
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. läs recensioner från kunder och kritiker och köp Pongo och de 101 dalmatinerna (Svenskt tal). Hemma hos Roger och Anita är lyckan total - deras dalmatiner Pongo och Perdita har fått en kull med hela 15 gulliga små.
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Pongo as he appears in the live action film. In the original film, Pongo is the narrator. Pongo is first seen trying his best to find his master (dogs call them pets) Roger a suitable wife. So far there's no luck until Pongo sees mates that will suit both him and Roger. Pongo gets Roger to follow them into the park. Pongo tries to get their attention, but it ends disatrously. Although it seemed terrible the two Roger and Anita falls in love as do Pongo and Anita's dog, Perdita.
The happy couples move into a small home and Perdita becomes pregnant. The family is then visited by the villainous Cruella De Vil. She comes in the house smoking and she frightens Perdita and that gets Pongo truly upset. On a stormy night in October the puppies arrive, fifteen to be exact. Cruella De Vil comes once again requesting the puppies, but due to Roger's braveness, Cruella is sent away. She gets her henchman Jasper and Horace to kidnap the puppies although they do not like the idea. Pongo and Perdita then go on a journey to find their puppies and reunite with their families.
He and Perdita rescue the puppies and reunite with their families just in time for Christmas. Pongo reappears in the film's sequel along with everyone else. Pongo is accidentally the true reason his son Patch felt as if he was nothing more than a dalmatian puppy. Pongo is shocked at the fact that one of his own has once again disappeared. He blames himself for Patch being missing, because he lost count. He along with Perdita, Roger, and Anita head back to London to look for him. When they do, he tells his son how much they missed him.
Oliver & Company. Pongo in Oliver & Company. Pongo makes a cameo in the 1. Disney film Oliver & Company. He is seen with Roger trying to join Dodger in the song: "Why Should I Worry".
Pongo och de 101 dalmatinerna (i Finland. Anita och hennes dalmatiner Perdita. Pongo lurar ut Roger ur lägenheten för att få tag i Anita och Perdita innan de hunnit försvinna och hittar dem vid en damm inne i Regent's. 101 dalmatiner (orig. 101 Dalmatians) är en amerikansk långfilm av Walt Disney Productions från 1996. Filmen är baserad på den tecknade Disneyfilmen Pongo och de 101 dalmatinerna, som i sin tur är baserad på romanen De.
Pongo and Roger in The Series. Pongo appears once again in the animated series, but has a very minor role. Pongo has moved to a farm with his family and takes the role as the responsible father of the puppies, Perdita's husband, and Roger's best friend. As shown in "The Dogs of De. Vil" and "Splishing and Splashing", he is more laid back than Perdita.
In "Un- Lucky", Pongo assures Lucky about his horseshoe disappearing, saying it's just part of growing up and it'll come back in time. Lucky thinks that, because a horseshoe is a symbol of good luck, it means he'll lose his luck, but Pongo tells him that is irrelevant, and that Lucky makes his own luck through means of thinking, planning ahead, and hard work. In "Hail to the Chief", as the three main puppies have discussed what they'd have done if either of them was chief fire dog, Pongo explains that while being chief fire dog is a thrill, it is also part of their family duty due to them being Dalmatians, and that in fact, there is a tradition beginning with their great- great- great grandfather Rolando. When Rolly points out that he (the older Rolando) looked like him (Rolly), Pongo tells him he and Perdita had hoped Rolly would follow in Rolando's pawsteps, much to the disbelief and amusement of the other puppies, much to Rolly's anger over being called fat.
Pongo comforts him and tells him not to get discouraged, as when it comes to setting his goal, "If you can imagine it, you can become it.". In "Film Fatale", he, Perdita, and all of the puppies (mostly with the exception of Lucky, Cadpig, Rolly, and Spot) are shown watching the Thunderbolt movie from a hill at a drive- in. This is a speaking appearance of his alongside a non- speaking Perdy. As the movie ends, Pongo reveals that he thought the main puppies knew about this movie playing because they'd left the booklet, as Lucky had been in such a hurry that none of them noticed the other ad on the same cover, and he [Lucky] frets that it is his fault they missed the movie of a lifetime, but Pongo tells him otherwise, as they can always come back tomorrow.
In "Snow Bounders", he goes camping with Roger, in the Mountains, unknowing that Lucky, Cadpig, Rolly, and Spot have stowed away. During the night, as he and Roger roast wienies, Pongo spots a flare Cruella sent up. He acts as a sniffer dog as he and Roger try to find them.
When he finds the puppies and Spot with Cruella, he scolds them for their disobedience and grounds them for a week, pointing out to their protestation (especially Cadpig's because it is "cruel and unusual") that they'll survive it "if [they] work together" (like they did to survive the blizzard). His demotion to a side character is mentioned in "The Making Of..", where he mentions that "the producers decided to go for a 'younger' look.". According to some production material (scripts, storyboards, etc.) he and Perdita use a wagon inside the barn as their bedroom. Episodes Where Pongo has a speaking role. House of Mouse. Pongo makes several cameo appearances in the television series House of Mouse. Pongo's most notable appearance is where the House of Mouse had a black and white day, a tribute to the classic black and white cartoons.
When Mickey Mouse informs the club of the tribute, Pongo comments, "It's about time." In this series Michael Bell does both the speaking and vocal effects. Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Pongo has a cameo in the film along with Perdita as a scale wise toy up top the Marvin Acme factory during the climax of the film. DTV Doggone Valentine. Pongo makes an appearance in Disney's Valentine special, one before an advert break, heading to the kitchen with the puppies after listening to Weird Al's "Eat It.". The special then shows an abridged version of the animated 1.
Dalmatians movie. Video Games. In the 1. Dalmatians: Animated Storybook, Pongo acts as a narrator for two pages; the first one being where Roger wakes up, and the third being when he arranges Roger and Anita's meeting in the park. Here, he is voiced by Michael Gough. Prior to the events of Kingdom Hearts, Pongo's world was destroyed. With his wife Perdita, he somehow found his way to Traverse Town (presumably by a corridor of darkness). In addition, the ninety- nine puppies which Pongo and Perdita looked after had been thrown to other worlds in the chaos.
The story of the Dalmatians' plight managed to spread very quickly among the residents of Traverse Town. Leon especially concerned about the matter, and brought it to Sora's attention. Throughout his journey, Sora found the dalmatian puppies and sent them back to Pongo and Perdita in Traverse Town.
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Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system, around which planet does it orbit? | Ganymede: Facts About Jupiter's Largest Moon
Ganymede: Facts About Jupiter's Largest Moon
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NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft snapped this color image of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the largest satellite in the solar system, on July 7, 1979 from a distance of 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers).
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest satellite in the solar system. Larger than Mercury and Pluto, and only slightly smaller than Mars, it would easily be classified as a planet if were orbiting the sun rather than Jupiter.
The moon likely has a salty ocean underneath its icy surface, making it a potential location for life. The European Space Agency plans a mission to Jupiter's icy moons that in 2030, is planned to arrive and put special emphasis on observing Ganymede.
Facts about Ganymede
Age: Ganymede is about 4.5 billion years old, about the same age as Jupiter .
Distance from Jupiter: Ganymede is the seventh moon and third Galilean satellite outward from Jupiter, orbiting at about 665,000 miles (1.070 million kilometers). It takes Ganymede about seven Earth-days to orbit Jupiter.
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Size: Ganymede's mean radius is 1,635 miles (2,631.2 km). Although Ganymede is larger than Mercury it only has half its mass, classifying it as low density.
Temperature: Daytime temperatures on the surface average minus 171 degrees Fahrenheit to minus 297 F, and night temperatures drop to -193C. In 1996, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope found evidence of a thin oxygen atmosphere. However, it is too thin to support life as we know it; it is unlikely that any living organisms inhabit Ganymede.
Magnetosphere: Ganymede is the only satellite in the solar system to have a magnetosphere. Typically found in planets, including Earth and Jupiter, a magnetosphere is a comet-shaped region in which charged particles are trapped or deflected. Ganymede's magnetosphere is entirely embedded within the magnetosphere of Jupiter.
This montage compares New Horizons' best views of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, gathered with the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and its infrared spectrometer, the Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA).
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Discovery and exploration of Ganymede
Ganymede was discovered by Galileo Galilei on Jan. 7, 1610. The discovery, along with three other Jovian moons , was the first time a moon was discovered orbiting a planet other than Earth. Galileo's discovery eventually led to the understanding that planets orbit the sun, instead of our solar system revolving around Earth.
Galileo called this moon Jupiter III. When the numerical naming system was abandoned in the mid-1800s, the moon was named after Ganymede, a Trojan prince in Greek mythology. Zeus, a counterpart of Jupiter in Roman mythology, carried Ganymede, who had taken the form of an eagle, to Olympus, where he became a cupbearer to the Olympian gods and one of Zeus' lovers.
Several spacecraft have flown by Jupiter and its moons. Pioneer 10 arrived first, in 1973, followed by Pioneer 11 in 1974. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 returned striking photos during their flybys. The Galileo spacecraft passed as low as 162 miles (261 km) over the surfaces of the Galilean moons and produced detailed images.
The European Space Agency plans a mission called JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) that would launch from Earth in 2022 for arrival at Jupiter in 2030. While the mission will look at three moons (Ganymede, Callisto and Europa), Ganymede will be the focus because it shows how icy worlds evolve and could be habitable in general, ESA said on its website. Scientists will try to figure out more about its ocean and icy crust, map its surface in detail, learn about the interior, probe the atmosphere and study the magnetic field.
Ganymede sound and signal illustration
Characteristics of Ganymede
Ganymede has a core of metallic iron, which is followed by a layer of rock that is topped off by a crust of mostly ice that is very thick. There are also a number of bumps on Ganymede's surface, which may be rock formations.
In February 2014, NASA and the United States Geological Survey unveiled the first detailed map of Ganymede in images and a video animation created using observations from NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, as well as the dedicated Jupiter-orbiting Galileo spacecraft.
Ganymede's surface is made up of primarily two types of terrain: about 40 percent is dark with numerous craters, and 60 percent is lighter in color with grooves that form intricate patterns to give the satellite its distinctive appearance. The grooves, which were likely formed as a result of tectonic activity or water being released from beneath the surface, are as high as 2,000 feet and stretch for thousands of miles.
A global image mosaic of Jupiter's moon, Ganymede created with images from the Voyager and Galileo missions.
Credit: Wes Patterson
It is believed that Ganymede has a saltwater ocean below its surface. In 2015, a study by the Hubble Space Telescope looked at Ganymede's auroras and how they change between Ganymede's and Jupiter's magnetic fields. The “rocking” seen by the auroras gives evidence that the probable ocean underneath is salty , more salty than oceans of Earth, scientists said at the time.
Some scientists are skeptical that Ganymede could host life, however. Due to its internal structure, it is believed that the pressure at the base of the ocean is so high that any water down there would turn to ice . This would make it difficult for any hot-water vents to bring nutrients into the ocean, which is one scenario under which scientists believe extraterrestrial life would occur.
Additional reporting by contributor Elizabeth Howell.
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Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Has a Salty Ocean with More Water than Earth
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In this artist’s conceptual illustration, the moon Ganymede orbits giant planet Jupiter. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope detected auroras on the moon controlled by Ganymede's magnetic fields. Image released March 12, 2015.
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A salty ocean is lurking beneath the surface of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have found.
The ocean on Ganymede — which is buried under a thick crust of ice — could actually harbor more water than all of Earth's surface water combined, according to NASA officials. Scientists think the ocean is about 60 miles (100 kilometers) thick, 10 times the depth of Earth's oceans, NASA added. The new Hubble Space Telescope finding could also help scientists learn more about the plethora of potentially watery worlds that exist in the solar system and beyond.
"The solar system is now looking like a pretty soggy place," Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science, said during a news teleconference today (March 12). Scientists are particularly interested in learning more about watery worlds because life as we know it depends on water to thrive. [ See amazing photos of Ganymede ]
Scientists have also found that Ganymede's surface shows signs of flooding. Young parts of Ganymede seen in a video map may have been formed by water bubbling up from the interior of the moon through faults or cryo-volcanos at some point in the moon's history, Green said.
NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Ganymede's auroral belts (colored blue in this illustration) lie on top of a Galileo orbiter image of the moon. The amount of rocking of the moon's magnetic field supplied evidence that the moon possesses a subsurface saltwater ocean. Image released March 12, 2015.
Credit: NASA/ESA
Scientists have long suspected that there was an ocean of liquid water on Ganymede — the largest moon in the solar system, at about 3,273 miles (5,268 kilometers) across — has an ocean of liquid water beneath its surface. The Galileo probe measured Ganymede's magnetic field in 2002, providing some data supporting the theory that the moon has an ocean. The newly announced evidence from the Hubble telescope is the most convincing data supporting the subsurface ocean theory yet, according to NASA.
Scientists used Hubble to monitor Ganymede's auroras, ribbons of light at the poles created by the moon's magnetic field. The moon's auroras are also affected by Jupiter's magnetic field because of the moon's proximity to the huge planet.
When Jupiter's magnetic field changes, so does Ganymede's. Researchers were able to watch the two auroras "rock" back and forth with Hubble. Ganymede's aurora didn't rock as much as expected, so by monitoring that motion, the researchers concluded that a subsurface ocean was likely responsible for dampening the change in Ganymede's aurora created by Jupiter.
"I was always brainstorming how we could use a telescope in other ways," Joachim Saur, geophysicist and team leader of the new finding, said in a statement. "Is there a way you could use a telescope to look inside a planetary body? Then I thought, the aurorae! Because aurorae are controlled by the magnetic field, if you observe the aurorae in an appropriate way, you learn something about the magnetic field. If you know the magnetic field, then you know something about the moon's interior."
Hunting for auroras on other worlds could potentially help identify water-rich alien planets in the future, Heidi Hammel, executive vice president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, said during the teleconference. Scientists might be able to search for rocking auroras on exoplanets that could potentially harbor water using the lessons learned from the Hubble observations of Ganymede.
This cross-sectional illustration shows the interior of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede, based on theoretical models, in-situ observations by NASA's Galileo orbiter, and Hubble Space Telescope observations of the moon’s magnetosphere. Image released March 12, 2015.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)
Astronomers might be able to detect oceans on planets near magnetically active stars using similar methods to those used by Saur and his research team, Hammel added.
"By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet," Hammel said. "Now, it's not going to be easy — it's not as easy as Ganymede and Jupiter, and that wasn't easy. It may require a much larger telescope than Hubble, it may require some future space telescope, but nevertheless, it's a tool now that we didn't have prior to this work that Joachim and his team have done."
Jupiter's moons are popular targets for future space missions. The European Space Agency is planning to send a probe called JUICE — short for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer — to Jupiter and its moons in 2022. JUICE is expected to check out Europa, Callisto and Ganymede during its mission. NASA also has its eye on the Jupiter system. Officials are hoping to send a probe to Europa by the mid-2020s.
NASA will also celebrate the Hubble telescope's 25th anniversary this year.
"This discovery marks a significant milestone, highlighting what only Hubble can accomplish," John Grunsfeld, assistant administrator of NASA's Science Mission, said in the same statement . "In its 25 years in orbit, Hubble has made many scientific discoveries in our own solar system. A deep ocean under the icy crust of Ganymede opens up further exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth."
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Which pop group named themselves after a fictional band from the novel A Clockwork Orange? | The Fictional Bands of A Clockwork Orange – VintageZen
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The Fictional Bands of A Clockwork Orange
The movie A Clockwork Orange references 10 fictional bands in the scene where Alex visits a record store and talks two girls back to his place for a threesome. I decided to research how many of the names were actually used by real, established bands. Of the 10, I found 5 of the names were used by real bands, but could only verify that 3 of the bands actually named themselves after the ones in the movie– Heaven 17, Johnny Zhivago, and The Humpers. There were a number of bands named “Legend,” although its such a generic name that it really isn’t unique to the movie. The last of the 5, The Sparks,¹ was formed in 1970, a year before the movie was released. That leaves 5 band names that are still on the open market. Here’s the complete list:
Heaven Seventeen: Heaven 17 is a New Wave/Synth Pop band from Sheffield, England, active from 1980-present
Johnny Zhivago: Johnny Zhivago was a Punk Band from Essex, England, active from 1999-2002
The Humpers: The Humpers were a Garage Punk band from Long Beach, California, active from 1989-1998
The Sparks: Sparks are a Rock/Pop band from Los Angeles, California, active from 1970-present
The Legend: Legend was the name of an English heavy metal band, a Shadows tribute band, a christian rock band, and a rockabilly band
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What is the singer Prince's real first name? | The Why Not 100: 56 BAND NAMES BORROWED FROM LITERATURE
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
56 BAND NAMES BORROWED FROM LITERATURE
There have been scores of songs about literature—from “Paperback Writer” to “Tom Sawyer” to “Holden Caulfield” (by a Newfoundland punk band named Mopey Mumble-Mouse). There have been albums, too. The Steve Miller Band’s third album, for instance, was called “Brave New World.” But the most profound paean to authorship is certainly naming your band after a book. So this installment of the Why Not 100 focuses on 56 of them.
On this list you’ll find bands named after book titles (from Steppenwolf to Supertramp), characters (from Dorian Gray to the Dead Milkmen), and various other literary references (from Mott the Hoople to the Ministry of Love). You’ll find Faulkner and Fitzgerald, Hesse and Huxley, Steinbeck and Salinger, Dahl and Dickens.
And we’re not even including Bob Dylan (Bobby Zimmerman chose the name in reference to poet Dylan Thomas) and Moby (electric dance music pioneer James Hall got his nickname from being a distant descendant of Herman Melville). Enjoy the bands:
BOOK TITLES
1. The Velvet Underground
Michael Leigh’s early ‘60s book about a secret sexual subculture became the name of the band co-founded by Lou Reed, managed by Andy Warhol, and eventually elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
2. Steppenwolf
The band that had late ’60s hits like “Born to be Wild” and “Magic Carpet Ride” took its name from the title of a book by German-Swiss author Herman Hesse. Before then, they called themselves The Sparrows.
3. Supertramp
They took their name from a 1908 book called The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by Welsh writer W.H. Davies. They reached superstardom with their 1979 Breakfast in America album, which included “The Logical Song” and “Goodbye Stranger.”
4. Genesis
The Hall of Fame band (which included Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins and sold more than 150 million albums worldwide) recorded its first album in 1969. Befitting its Bible origins, the album was called From Genesis to Revelation.
5. Manhattan Transfer
The group, named for a 1925 John Dos Passos novel, has had several incarnations. Appropriately, perhaps, its biggest hit was a cover of “The Boy from New York City.”
6. New Riders of the Purple Sage
The original lineup of this country rock band, named after Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage, included a few members of the Grateful Dead.
7. Of Mice and Men
One of this California metal-core band’s founders, Austin Carlile, explained that he and co-founder Jaxin Hall “both had plans for life, and they got screwed up, so now we’re making the most of what we can.” Sort of like Steinbeck’s George and Lennie.
8. As I Lay Dying
Another metal-core band from California offering a nod to a classic novel, a title that William Faulkner took from a passage in The Odyssey. Another Faulkner novel, Pylon, inspired the name of an oft-reincarnated alternative rock band.
9. Paradise Lost
John Milton’s epic 17th-century poem inspired English heavy metal band Paradise Lost, and its first album, in 1989, was called “Lost Paradise.” To confuse matters more, there’s also an album called Paradise Lost by progressive metal band Symphony X.
10. The Brave New World
The psychedelic Seattle band, named after Aldous Huxley’s futuristic novel, survived from 1966-73. The indie rock band the Feelies is named after a fictional entertainment device in the book. And another Huxley novel, Eyeless in Gaza, is the name of an English musical duo.
11. Nine Stories
It was the title of J.D. Salinger’s collection of short stories, published in 1953, and Lisa Loeb’s first band, formed in 1990.
12. A Confederacy of Dunces
The band may or may not have been familiar with a passage in the book, when author John Kennedy Toole describes “a small band of young men” who “stood before the phonographs as if it were an altar.”
13. The Grapes of Wrath
The Canadian folk rock band formed in 1983, disbanded in 1992, and reformed in 2009. Supposedly, when they chose the name, none of the band members had actually read John Steinbeck’s book.
14. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson’s novel had a subtitle: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. But the band (formed in 2008) is described as a “Japanese scream/digital hardcore” group.
15. Fear of Flying
A New York progressive rock band named after Erica Jong’s sexually-charged 1973 novel.
16. Ubik
It’s the name of a Seattle band and a 1969 sci-fi novel by Philip K. Dick, which critic Lev Grossman described as “a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you’ll never be sure you’ve woken up from.”
17. Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood says her critically acclaimed 2003 post-apocalyptic novel is “speculative fiction.” The Atlanta band named after it has been described as “indie-rock” and “orchestral-pop.” Two songs “Oryx” and “Crake” also appears on a 2013 album by The Knife.
18. Soft Machine
These British progressive rock pioneers took their name from a William Burroughs novel, published in 1961.
19. Blood Meridian
It’s a Canadian alternative country band named for Cormac McCarthy’s 1985 novel.
20. The Tommyknockers
Contemporary New Orleans rock-and-rollers named for Stephen King’s 1987 science fiction novel. It was also the name of a song by a German metal band.
21. The Devil Wears Prada
Things happen fast: In 2003, Lauren Weisberger had a bestselling chick lit novel. Two years later, it became the name of a Christian metal-core band.
22. Catch 22
What genre of music haven’t we touched upon? How about ska punk. The band was formed in 1996, 35 years after Joseph Heller published his classic novel.
23. Titus Andronicus
It’s unlikely that when William Shakespeare was writing his first tragedy, set during the last days of the Roman Empire, he thought it would someday be the name of a New Jersey punk rock band.
24. Hot Water Music
Another punk band, this one from Florida and now disbanded. The name came from the title of a 1983 collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski.
25. Wreck of the Hesperus
Incongruity? How about this being the name of a 19th-century narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a 21st-century Irish doom metal band that put out an album called Eulogy for the Sewer Dwellers.
26. Marillion
There are literally dozens of bands named after J.R.R. Tolkien’s universe—bands with names like Angmar and Isengard, Rohan and Rivendell, Mirkwood and Mordor, Gandalf and Arwen, Sauron and Smaug. But the neo-progressive rock band Marillion—which originally called itself Silmarillion after Tolkien’s epic collection of stories from Middle Earth, but shortened it to avoid potential copyright issues—has put out 17 albums.
CHARACTERS
27. Big Brother and the Holding Company
They were named (by concert promoter Chet Helms) after George Orwell’s enigmatic dictator from 1984. When Janis Joplin joined as lead singer, their sound became bigger.
28. Uriah Heep
This seminal hard rock band of the ‘70s sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. In 1969, they changed their name from Spice to the name of a character from David Copperfield, in part because Charles Dickens was ubiquitous around Christmas that year.
29. Veruca Salt
The spoiled rich girl from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory became the name of a Chicago alternative rock band in 1993.
30. Holden Caulfield
J.D. Salinger’s rebellious teenager from The Catcher in the Rye is an icon of literature—and the namesake of a band with an album called The Art of Burning Bridges.
31. Dorian Gray
In Oscar Wilde’s only published novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the title character sells his soul so that only a painting of him ages, not the man himself. That’s one way to stay young. Or you can simply start a rock band named Dorian Gray—as two groups (one in Germany, one in Yugoslavia) did.
32. The Boo Radleys
The English alt-rock band of the 1990s—named for the reclusive and unforgettable character from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird—had one top ten single called “Wake Up Boo!”
33. The Artful Dodger
The pickpocket from Dickens’s Oliver Twist lent his name to an American power rock band. Their second album was called Honor Among Thieves.
34. Augie March
An Australian pop rock band named after the protagonist in Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March.
35. Billy Pilgrim
An American folk rock duo based in Atlanta (not to be confused with art rock band Sweet Billy Pilgrim), named for the antihero of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.
36. Fu Manchu
Discordance? How about a Southern California stoner rock band named after an enduring criminal genius from the early 20th century.
37. Weena Morloch
In H.G. Wells’s Time Machine, Weena is a love interest in the future, and the Morlocks are cannibalistic hominids. An electronic band combined the names.
38. The Dead Milkmen
Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon featured a character known as Macon “Milkman” Dead III. The satirical punk rock band re-worked the name
39. Grace Pool
Alterna-folkies who took their name from a minor character in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.
40. Benny Profane
A rock band from Liverpool! But short-lived. In Thomas Pynchon’s debut novel V, Profane is a discharged U.S. sailor with a sidekick named Pig Bodine. The band’s first song was called “Where is Pig?”
41. Fiver
Lost the Plot was the first album by Fiver, a pseudo-solo act (Simone Schmidt) named for the fictional rabbit from Richard Adams’s Watership Down.
42. The Ophelias
In “Hamlet,” William Shakespeare’s Ophelia is a noblewoman of Denmark. In San Francisco, the Ophelias put out three albums in the late ‘80s.
43. Oberon
A free-form Oklahoma band that writes songs about space—named after the duplicitous king of the faeries in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Go figure.
44. Frumious Bandersnatch
The 1960s psychedelic rock band (which later splintered into the Steve Miller Band and Journey) took its name from the frumious (adjective) Bandersnatch, a creature in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem “Jabberwocky” from Through the Looking-Glass.
45. The Mugwumps
According to William S. Burroughs in Naked Lunch, “Mugwumps have no liver and nourish themselves exclusively on sweets. Thin, purple-blue lips cover a razor sharp beak of black bone with which they frequently tear each other to shreds.” Sounds like a rock band, in this case a short-lived ‘60s version whose members later formed the Mamas & the Papas and the Lovin’ Spoonful.
REFERENCES
46. The Doors
In 1965, Jim Morrison and his mates chose to name themselves after Aldous Huxley’s book, Doors of Perception, about an afternoon mescaline trip. Huxley took his title from a line in a William Blake poem, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.”
47. Steely Dan
Something you may wish you didn’t know: These Hall of Fame rockers named themselves after a prominent sex toy in Naked Lunch.
48. Forty Nine Hudson
Jack Kerouac drove a 1949 Hudson cross country in his journey for On the Road. Forty Nine Hudson mixes acoustic strumming with bombastic rocking.
49. Ministry of Love
In George Orwell’s 1984, the Ministry of Love enforces loyalty through fear and brainwashing. The female-fronted Las Vegas punk-pop band just uses music.
50. Gatsby’s American Dream
This Seattle band has a lead vocalist named Nic Newsham, which would have been a great character name in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
51. Pooh Sticks
A Welsh indie pop band of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, named for the dropping-sticks-from-a-bridge game, their song “I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee Quite Well” sounds like a declaration from the Hundred Acre Woods.
52. This Mortal Coil
Surely, when Shakespeare was writing this in “Hamlet”—“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil”—he was envisioning a pop supergroup four centuries later.
53. Heaven 17
This new wave synth-pop band took its name from a fictional band mentioned in Anthony Burgess’s 1962 dystopian novella A Clockwork Orange.
54. Modest Mouse
In “The Mark on the Wall,” Virginia Woolf writes about “the minds of modest, mouse-colored people.” Modest Mouse’s frontman, Isaac Brock, said, “I chose the name when I was fifteen. I wanted something that was completely ambiguous.”
55. Mott the Hoople
The British rock band is best known for “All the Young Dudes,” written for them by David Bowie in 1972. While in prison on a drug offense, record producer Guy Stevens read the novel Mott the Hoople by Willard Manus—about an eccentric who works in a circus freak show. It became the name of a band and its first album.
56. Love Craft
H.P. Lovecraft was an American horror fiction writer who only became famous posthumously, dying in poverty in 1937. But his work inspired songs and lyrics by the likes of Metallica and Black Sabbath. In 1967, a Chicago psychedelic rock band named itself H.P. Lovecraft and played haunting, eerie music inspired by his writings. They soon shortened the name to Lovecraft and eventually Love Craft.
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How many quavers are there in a minim? 2, 4 or 8? | Basic Music Theory
Basic Music Theory
Time Values: Semibreves, Minims, Crotchets, Quavers & Semiquavers
Crotchets, Minims and Semibreves
When we tap our feet or clap our hands 'in time' to a piece of music, we are clapping the steady beats of the music. At this level, our beats are shown like this:
. This sign is called a crotchet or quarter note .
The sign,
, is used for a sound which lasts as long as two (2) crotchets. It is called a minim or half note .
The sign,
, is used for a sound which lasts as long as four (4) crotchets. It is called a semibreve or whole note .
A semibreve lasts as long as four crotchets or two minims. We can also say that a semibreve has the same time value as four crotchets or two minims. Therefore a minim has the same time value as two crotchets and half the time value of a semibreve.
Quavers and Semiquavers
There are also time values that are shorter than crotchets/quarter notes! The quaver or eighth note ,
, lasts for half the length of a crotchet, i.e. 1/2 of a beat.
The semiquaver or sixteenth note ,
, lasts for quarter of the length of a crotchet, i.e. 1/4 of a beat.
Therefore, two quavers last as long as one crotchet; and four semiquavers also lasts as long as one crotchet.
Note
When two quavers/eighth notes are written together, they can be beamed together as below:
When four semiquavers/sixteenth notes are written together, they can be beamed together as below:
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The following chart shows the two names that can be given to each note symbol. The names on the left are American and the names on the right are British (you can use either form). The chart also shows the number of beats each note gets:
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Happy studying!
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Time Values: Semibreves, Minims, Crotchets, Quavers & Semiquavers
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Which female vocalist sang on Eminem's hit song Stan? | Jazclass - Learn to Read Music 7 : Dotted notes and Repeat signs
= 1 + 1/2 x 1 = 11/2 beats
The dotted semibreve is rarely used in modern music.
We will use the dotted crotchet later in this course.
In this lesson we will use the dotted minim.
RM 7.2 - Rhythm Patterns
Learning to read music is much like learning to read the written word.
First you learn to read each note individually, just like the letters of the alphabet. Gradually your focus will widen to take in more notes at a time.
This is when you start to recognise musical elements similar to words and phrases.
These musical elements are expressed as :
patterns of pitch - such as chords, scales, digital patterns, and
patterns of rhythm.
Here are some 1 bar long rhythm patterns of crotchets and minims typical for songs in 3/4 time. The dotted minim is extensively used in this time signature (the waltz) as it fits exactly within the (3 crotchet beats) bar.
(The rhythm of each bar is played 4 times before moving to the next bar.)
The same rule on 'minim rests' applies as discussed in the Lesson 6.
a minim note may be drawn across the centre of a (3 crotchet beat) bar, but a minim rest may not!
Always use crotchet rests in 3/4 time signatures. This clearly shows each beat in the bar.
Here are some typical 1 bar rhythm patterns of crotchets and longer notes in 4/4 time.
Audio 7.2
(The rhythm of each bar is played 4 times before moving to the next bar.)
Memorise these patterns (one bar at a time), clap the rhythms with your hands while tapping the beats with your foot, and try to recognise them in music scores as you read through them.
A tie is a curved line placed over or under two notes of the same pitch.
The tie joins the two notes together making one continuous note.
In the example below - the minim on beats 3 and 4 in the first bar is tied to the crotchet on the first beat in the 2nd bar. This extend the note to 3 beats spanning across the bar line. The same configuration appears in bars 3 and 5.
Wind instrument players - do not tongue these notes twice, (once for the minim and again for the crotchet), but hold them for the full combined length of 3 beats.
Pianists and Guitarists - likewise : sustain these notes for their combined ( 3 beat) value and do not play them twice.
Articulate only the note at the beginning of the tie.
RM 7.5 - Quiz
What happens when a dot is place behind a note ?
How many beats are there in the 3/4 time bar, and how long is each beat ?
How many crotchet beats are there in a dotted minim ?
Which popular dance is in 3/4 time ?
Can a semibreve note be used in a bar in 3/4 time ?
Can a minim rest be used in a bar in 3/4 time ?
In 3/4 time - When two notes each of different duration (crotchet or longer) fill a complete bar, which are they ?
In 4/4 time - When two notes each of different duration (crotchet or longer) fill a complete bar, which are they ?
What is the purpose of a tie ?
When two notes are tied together are they each articulated (tongued, struck) separately ?
What is the purpose of repeat signs ?
When there is only one repeat sign present, where does the repeat start from ?
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By what name was singer Charles Weedon Westover better known, who committed suicide in 1990 by shooting himself? | Download mp3 Del Shannon, buy Del Shannon mp3 music at mp3panda.com
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Biography
American rock and roll singer-songwriter Charles Weedon Westover, better known under his stage name Del Shannon was born on December 30, 1934Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States and died on February 8, 1990 Santa Clarita, California, US. He committed suicide shooting himself after depression caused by alcohol abuse. Shannon rose to fame in the beginning of the 1960s with hit single “Runaway”. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and on the UK Singles chart. The song was voted number 1 as Legendary Michigan Song. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Because of alcoholism, his career went down and he couldn’t repeat the same smashing success, though many of his singles charted, including "Hats Off to Larry", "Hey! Little Girl", "The Swiss Maid" and others. From our site, you can download Del Shannon’s last album in mp3 from our site.
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Which part did Deforest Kelley play in the TV series Star Trek? | Del Shannon – Full Length Biography | West Mich Music Hysterical Society
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Del Shannon – Full Length Biography
Del Shannon
Del at the River
Del Shannon was not the first West Michigan musician to a create a rock and roll record, but he was the first to become famous for doing so.
The following article, which details Del Shannon’s career history, is provided with gracious permission from its author, Brian Young, who is an expert concerning Del Shannon’s biographical data, and hosts an incredible website called Delshannon.com. Here’s a link to Brian’s website: http://www.delshannon.com/
THE DEL SHANNON BIOGRAPHY
By Brian Young, ©Copyright 2004
Del Shannon was one of the handful of American Rock ‘n’ Rollers of the 1960s to survive the crashing tide of the British Invasion. Among the few were Elvis, Dion, Roy Orbison, and Del Shannon.
Del Shannon was born Charles Weedon Westover on December 30, 1934 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The son of Bert and Leone, his family lived in nearby Coopersville, a small and rural farming community just outside Grand Rapids. There, he would learn to play ukulele from his mother and grow up the oldest of three children. He had two sisters, Blanche and Ruth Anne.
Del Shannon
Young Westover grew up listening to country and western music. His favorite artists included Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Lefty Frizzell. The Ink Spots were also among his favorite, and he claims he learned falsetto from songs like We Three. Charles Westover bought his first acoustic guitar for $5.00. His fingers bled from it. He had no pick, just pieces of cardboard and dreams. At the age of 14, he walked to the Coopersville train station to await the arrival of his first new Sears and Roebuck guitar. He was proud of it, played it everywhere. “His guitar was his crutch,” explained Russell Conran, his former high school principal. “Charles played his guitar everywhere he went, at football games, in class, in the hallways, at noon hour, everywhere. I finally had to allow him time to play in the boy’s locker room, so that he wouldn’t distract his fellow classmates.”
“That’s where I learned all about ‘bathroom acoustics’,” Westover (by then Del Shannon) recalled in an interview with Dick Clark on ‘Rock, Roll, and Remember.’ “I would get this great echo sound. Later, when I bought an electric guitar and amp, I would set the amp on the toilet seat and play in bathrooms for hours and hours, just to get a great sound. You know, from bouncing off the bathroom tile.”
Westover was a small man, about 5-foot-six and 140 pounds. In high school, he was too small to play football, and if you couldn’t play football in Coopersville, you didn’t amount to much. Westover was the waterboy, who brought his guitar to the games to entertain. Young Charles was never quite popular with the girls in school. One day he asked a girl named Karen if she would go to the senior prom with him. She said yes. Two weeks later, as the prom drew nearer, she dumped Westover for another boy, one of Charles’ rivals. This put Westover in a huge depression he seemingly never recovered from, for many of the songs he would write later in his adult life would result from his feelings of early loss, hurt, and betrayal.
Del Shannon Promo
One day Charles Westover met Shirley Nash, a local Michigan girl. She came from a big family, six brothers and six sisters. Shirley first met Charles at the Coopersville theatre, where they were all catching a film with his friend Sonny Marshall. In 1954, he was drafted into the U.S. Army. “Jobs were hard to come by anyway,” Shirley remembers. “Chuck picked strawberries in the fields of Coopersville, and later drove a delivery truck selling flowers. We met at the theatre on Main Street in Coopersville. We spent a stint in Fort Knox, Kentucky, followed by a three year tour in Stuttgart, Germany.” In Germany, Westover joined the Army’s “Get Up and Go” radio program, and played guitar in a band called the Cool Flames. Standards of the day were the usual set list. Westover won a best musician award, not for his singing ability, but for his guitar playing. At Christmas time, the Westovers attended a holiday party at the Stuttgart orphanage, where they sponsored orphan children. This was an early sign of Westover’s compassionate side.
When his army service ended, Charles returned to Michigan with Shirley, settling down in Battle Creek, a town best known for its production of cereals, including Kellogg’s and Post. Westover worked at Brunswick Furniture hammering feet onto chairs as a production line worker. It bored the hell out of him. He soon graduated to lift truck driver but that bored him too. In 1958, he found a job by day selling carpets, working at the Carpet Outlet for a man named Peter Vice. By night, he found a part-time job moonlighting at a dumpy bar called the Hi-Lo Club. He was hired as a guitar player by then front-man Doug DeMott, who had organized a group called the Moonlight Ramblers. DeMott was a heavy drinker who had managed to release two failing singles, I’m Stepping Out Tonight b/w My Lonely Prayer in 1958 for Excellent Records (45rpm #805), followed by Fingers On Fire b/w Upside Down Boogie.
At the Hi-Lo Club 1958 in Battle Creek. Left is Del, middle is Doug Demott (singing), and right on bass is L.D. Dugger.
Hi-Lo Club 1958
The Moonlight Ramblers consisted of DeMott as lead singer and lead guitarist, Charles Westover as rhythm guitarist, and Loren Dugger as bass player. DeMott was a good mentor for young Westover. He gave him the chance to sing a few songs on stage, play lead, and encouraged him to write songs. DeMott was soon fired by the Hi-Lo Club’s manager, Larry Gilbert, who hired Westover as the new front man of the club band. Westover gave himself the stage name Charlie Johnson and dubbed the new band the Big Little Show Band.
Westover made many friends as a guitarist and drinker at the Hi-Lo Club. Wes Kilbourne was a club regular and also worked with Westover at Brunswick. He played guitar also but wasn’t part of the band. He was part of the crowd however, and they would sing, play, and drink into the wee hours. Charlie Marsh, Battle Creek disc jockey extraordinaire, attended nights at the Hi-Lo frequently looking for talent. Marsh became Westover’s first manager. “I’m forgotten in the Del Shannon history,” says Marsh, “basically because I never did anything for him. I shopped demo tapes for him just like Ollie (McLaughlin) did, but Ollie was the one that got him the recording contract.”
Charlie Johnson and the Big Little Show Band began in late 1958. He kept Loren Dugger on bass, and hired two more players: Dick Pace on guitar, and Dick Parker on drums. Parker, then just eighteen, was a referral. Pace didn’t stick around long enough; with a large family to support, he left for California to work at Knott’s Berry Farm. Westover was in need of another guitarist, and hired Bob Popenhagen, a local guitarist who could also play left handed and play organ well. Popenhagen was a great addition to the band. He was well liked and in early 1959 he left to front a band at another Battle Creek bar, the El Grotto. This put Westover in need of another player. Drummer Dick Parker suggested that Westover call a man he knew who played accordion and piano. Westover declined. He wanted a guitar player. Parker pushed Westover to at least audition this organist, who had a little organ that made “other worldly sounds.” Enter Max Crook from Ann Arbor, Michigan, who attended college in Kalamazoo. Parker and Crook had met each other at a Battle of the Bands contest at Kalamazoo Armory. Crook arrived one night at the Hi-Lo Club to audition for the part of organist. He brought a little three-legged synthesizer he dubbed the ‘Musitron.’ Crook and his Musitron blew Westover away. He couldn’t believe the sounds he heard coming out of this little black box machine. “Man, you are hired!” Westover exclaimed.
This was the beginning of the new Charlie Johnson and the Big Little Show Band, and they became the hottest act in Battle Creek. Max Crook was a man who tinkered with everything electronic, and he became one of the first to record Westover’s compositions on tape, beginning with original tunes like Little Oscar, I’m Blue Without You, and Living In Misery. Westover and Crook laid down song after song. Instrumentals were written, and recorded on stage at the Hi-Lo Club, including Somethin’ Like Somethin’, G-Jam, Hi-Lo Boogie, and Hi-Lo Blues. Westover recorded Face of An Angel, and shopped it to two Chicago labels, Mercury and Chess, with the help from disc jockey, Charlie Marsh. Westover later explained “This was my first encountering of ‘the jive.’ They’d say they liked my stuff, and they would get back with me. But they never did. They never called.” Crook mentioned that he knew a disc jockey in his hometown of Ann Arbor, who could possibly help. The DJ was named Ollie McLaughlin, who had gotten Crook’s first single, Get That Fly/Orny, released in 1959 on Dot Records under the name of the White Bucks (the trademark footwear of Dot’s biggest act, Pat Boone). McLaughlin came in to the Hi-Lo Club one night after hours to hear some songs. He was black and in those days the Hi-Lo was an all white club.
Westover and Crook gave McLaughlin a few songs on reel-to-reel to take back with him to Detroit: Westover’s The Search and I’ll Always Love You, and Crook’s Mr. Lonely and Seventh Hour. McLaughlin took the demos to Harry Balk and Irving Micahnik of Talent Artists, Inc. on Alexander Street in Detroit. Their King-Mack Productions basked in the success of Johnny and the Hurricanes, a 5-piece instrumental group who had charted Red River Rock and Beatnik Fly. Westover and Crook met with Balk and Michanik at McLaughlin’s urging, and they sat down in July of 1960 and signed a contract to become both recording artists and composers for Talent Artists, who subcontracted them to Johnny Beinstock’s Bigtop Records in New York. In the back room, McLaughlin and Balk negotiated a deal on the music’s publishing, splitting it 50-50 between McLaughlin Publishing and Balk’s Vicki Music (named after his daughter). Balk and Micahnik gave Westover and Crook 2% royalties on singles released in the U.S., and 1% on releases overseas. Anxious to get on record, both Westover and Crook agreed and signed five-year contracts.
Balk suggested name changes for both of the newly signed artists. Charles Westover became Del Shannon, “Del” after a Coupe de Ville Cadillac that his carpet store boss drove at the time, and “Shannon” from a wannabe wrestler at the Hi Lo Club, a guy named Bob White, who wanted to use the name Mark Shannon. Since he never used it, Westover took the name. Max Crook took the name Maximilian, a clever king-like name that sounded authoritative.
As the newly christened Del Shannon, Westover was immediately flown to New York City to record his first single The Search/I’ll Always Love You. Balk produced the session, bringing in Bill Ramal, a young arranger and saxophone player whom he’d used for most Johnny and the Hurricanes sessions. There was a great string arrangement by Bill Ramal, but Shannon was too nervous in the studio and couldn’t get a good take. Balk decided to scrap the session, and that there was no hope for a single. Max Crook wasn’t used for this first session. His compositions Mr. Lonely and Seventh Hour were given to Johnny and the Hurricanes to record. They released just one, Mr. Lonely as the A-side coupled with Ja-Da on Bigtop Records in 1960.
Shannon, depressed about the failing session, was encouraged by McLaughlin and Balk to write something a little more uptempo. Shannon wrote songs such as Daydreams, The Prom, One More Time, Condemned To Die, and Honey Bee. Demo tapes were sent off to McLaughlin, who heard a snippet of a song called Little Runaway, which had been recorded over. McLaughlin asked Shannon and Crook to re-record the song. Little Runaway was re-recorded in Max Crook’s living room, along with another song, Jody. McLaughlin liked what he heard and drove to Detroit again to sit with Balk and Micahnik to negotiate another recording session. They refused. McLaughlin pressed hard, believing highly in the potential of this Little Runaway song. Harry Balk commented, “You know the problem with this song Ollie, is that it sounds like three songs trying to come together. What’s this little thing in the middle?” Ollie pushed, telling Balk and Micahnik that they would be missing out on a hit if they didn’t record this record.
Harry Balk called Shannon and told him that he would set up another session. Not banking totally in Shannon’s singing ability, he encouraged Max to write a couple of instrumentals to record at the session. Balk planned a split session, Del’s Runaway and Jody together with Max’s The Snake and The Wanderer. Balk wanted to record something specifically with Crook’s musitron, and this was it. Shannon and Crook made the long 700 mile trip to New York by car to record the session. It was the middle of winter, and the heater broke in the car. Del and Max brought their wives with them, Shirley and Joann. They wrapped blankets around them in the back seat to keep warm. Max was allergic to smoke, and Del smoked cigars. Shannon would have to roll the window down and stick his head out of the car to smoke, just so Max wouldn’t get sick and cough. They arrived in New York and stayed at the Forrest Hotel where Micahnik and Balk had them booked. On January 21st, 1961, they walked into Bell Sound recording studios with all of Max Crook’s crazy gadgets and equipment. Bell Sound was one the first professional 4-track recording studios in the world at the time, and Balk and Micahnik were willing to pay the top dollar to get a professional recording slicked. “All the big hits came out of Bell Sound at the time,” commented Harry Balk in a 1997 interview.
Shannon again was nervous in the recording studio, as he felt overshadowed by such talented musicians. “Del was surrounded by these great guys,” recalled Max Crook. “You have to understand, Del was this small town guy who was self-taught when it came to playing music. Here were all of these now famous session men like Al Caiola, Milt Hinton, and Bill Ramal who could read music charts and play licks like you wouldn’t believe. Bill Ramal was a master of arrangements, and here was Del, just a guy who wrote a hit song.”
Max Crook was a brilliant and genius fellow. He set up his musitron in the recording studio as the session men and engineers gawked. “What is he doing” they would ask. Harry Balk produced the session, running around the place with an iron fist. “Do this, do that. Plug that cord in. I don’t want to hear it, it’s not open for discussion. Get it done.” Balk was an ace at producing. He had a great ear for music and sound, and used threats and force as a means to accomplish what he needed done in a hurry! Balk was a good organizer, and he chose his session players carefully. He told Del that he would not be playing his guitar on the session, that vocals would all that he’d be doing. Shannon was upset about that, desperately wanting to play guitar on his own session, but Balk felt that because Del couldn’t read music charts, he’d have to allow Al Caiola to play in his place. Although Shannon was an accomplished guitarist, he was never given much opportunity to play it in his years with Bigtop.
The recording session lasted just three hours, and everyone seemed to know they had laid down a few good tracks. Runaway was played to distributors via a telephone hook-up in the control room, where distributors across the country could hear a rough mix and pre-order before it went to press.
Runaway was released on Bigtop Records in February of 1961 and it began immediately to climb the charts. By March, Balk was on the phone calling Shannon at the club and telling him Runaway was indeed a runaway…selling 80,000 records a day. Shannon asked if that meant he could quit the club. Harry replied in the affirmative and told Shannon to get to New York as quickly as possible. A show had been scheduled at the Paramount Theatre in Brooklyn. In April, Shannon appeared on Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand,” helping to catapult Runaway to the #1 spot on the Billboard charts where it remained for four weeks. Runaway made Shannon an instant star. His bio was written by his manager Irving Micahnik, who changed the married 26 year old singer with two kids into a 21 year old milk drinking superstar, unmarried and available to all young women, with no attachments. When wife Shirley traveled with him on tour, she was billed as his sister. Shannon was not allowed to play guitar on stage. He was forced to wear iron-pressed suits and snap his fingers like Frank Sinatra. This was not an uncommon practice. Shannon sang his only hit Runaway four times a day at the Paramount.
Shannon was fortunate to get a brief break near the end of April ’61 to visit his hometown of Coopersville, where he was asked to speak to the high school teenagers about music, his success, and his stardom. Shannon was joined by his mother and father, and felt he had finally proven himself in the eyes of many in his hometown, including his high school principal, Russell Conran, who mentored Shannon and managed to keep him in school. Shannon had very high regard for this man and in later years always made a point of visiting him as if he were family. But the small town thinking still lurked in the background. Shannon was not allowed to sing Runaway to the high school student body. It was feared by the school faculty that if Shannon sang, the youngsters would get out of control. After his speech, Shannon was to receive the key to the city from the Coopersville mayor. The mayor never showed up. Rock and Roll was not yet accepted in this small town, much in the same respect as blacks or Hispanics. The idea of “keeping the town clean” and “free of sinful things” was a very common practice in those days. That night, Shannon played Runaway and a few other numbers on Main Street in downtown Coopersville on the back on a flatbed truck. Max Crook joined him. Police protection was necessary in case a riot or frenzy broke loose.
Del returned to New York in May with Max in tow to record his follow-up single, Hats Off To Larry, a song he’d written in the dressing room at the Paramount, with Bobby Vee and Dion present. Bobby and Dion took the farm boy out of Shannon and slicked him up with a new hairstyle and some Italian suits. Hats Off To Larry was Shannon’s only original tune recorded at this second session, his other songs having no commercial appeal in the eyes of Balk. Instead, Balk went to the Brill Building and picked up Arthur Altman and Wilbur Meshel’s Don’t Gild The Lily Lily, Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s I Wake Up Crying (which became a hit for Chuck Jackson), and Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman’s Wide Wide World. Shannon supplied only vocals, while session ace Al Caiola played guitar. Milt Hinton played bass, Joe Marshall was on drums, Max Crook on piano and musitron, and Bill Ramal on saxophone. The session was recorded at Bell Sound Studios with Harry Balk producing, Bill Ramal arranging, and Bill MacMeekin engineering.
Hats Off To Larry was released in the summer of 1961 and took the fifth spot on the charts as Runaway worked its way down. With a second hit on their hands, Balk brought Shannon back into the studios to cut a few more tracks to make an album. Shannon had some material worthy of recording, including Daydreams, The Prom, Lies, and He Doesn’t Care. Balk chose two Pomus/Shuman numbers for Shannon to record, Misery and His Latest Flame, the latter being later recorded by Elvis. Shannon’s previous recordings of The Search and I’ll Always Love You rounded out the album. In truth, the latter two probably should have never seen the light of day. Hats Off To Larry and Don’t Gild The Lily, Lily would have been a better choices, but it those days the record charts were still being driven by sales of singles, and Balk and Micahnik didn’t want an album to take away from the sales of the new single. ‘Runaway with Del Shannon’ was released in late summer, with 10,000 units being pressed (9,000 in mono and 1,000 in true stereo). The LP didn’t fare well on the album charts.
In August of ’61, Shannon recorded So Long Baby and The Answer To Everything, this time at New York’s Mira Sound. Shannon had been touring extensively and hadn’t had much time to write more songs. It was another split session, with Max Crook recording two instrumentals, the original Twistin’ Ghost, and a cleverly layered The Breeze and I & Theme from Peter Gunn (two standards put atop one another to give them a fresh sound). So Long Baby went to #28 on the American charts. In October, Shannon and Crook returned to the studio, recording another split session with Shannon’s Hey! Little Girl and I Don’t Care Anymore and Crook’s Greyhound and Autumn Mood. Hey! Little Girl also broke the American Top 40 at #38, giving Shannon a string of four hits in just his first year as a recording artist. Crook also faired well, having regional hits with both “Maximilian” singles in Canada.
In February 1962, a deal was struck by Irving Micahnik for Shannon to appear in an upcoming British film, ‘It’s Trad Dad,’ with Craig Douglas and Helen Shapiro. For his next single, Shannon was talked into recording Pomus and Shuman’s Ginny In The Mirror and You Never Talked About Me, two songs intended specifically for the film. Shannon managed to work in an original, I Won’t Be There, which featured a roller coaster ride of soaring vocals. Bucky Pizzarelli replaced Al Caiola as session guitarist, and a session pianist replaced Max Crook. Ginny In the Mirror bombed miserably, and soured Harry Balk who was against the session to begin with. Balk advised Micahnik he was going to fly out Shannon to Nashville to search for new material and a new sound. In Nashville, they found what they were looking for: Roger Miller’s The Swiss Maid. Del recorded two originals, Cry Myself To Sleep and I’m Gonna Move On, during the first night at Columbia Studios on May 8, 1962. Harry Balk’s wife, Patti Jerome, cut two sides for her next Bigtop release. The next evening, Shannon recorded four more songs, The Swiss Maid, Cindy Walker’s Dream Baby, and a song that Dickey Lee had cowritten for George Jones, She Thinks I Still Care. Dion’s Runaround Sue rounded out the session. Boots Randolph and the Jordanaires were featured, among other Nashville regulars. Cry Myself To Sleep didn’t do much in the American market, but in England, it fared well, and inspired Elton John’s Crocodile Rock. The Swiss Maid soon followed, missing completely with the U.S. market, but breaking in at #2 in the U.K., and doing very well all across Europe. Another British tour was lined up, and Shannon toured heavily to promote his latest effort. Del continued to write songs with regularity. He walked into Belinda in London to lay down a few songs to acetate. Things She Said and I’m Losing You. Neither would see the light of day, but are available here for the very first time.
Balk noticed a writing freeze in Del, and decided to team him up with Bigtop writer, Maron McKenzie. Maron, who went by the nickname Robert, was a staff writer for Balk and Micahnik, whose work included tunes for some of their artists, including Bobbie Smith & the Dreamgirls, Mickey Denton, Spencer Sterling, the Volumes, Don and Juan, and the Young Sisters. McKenzie wrote Casanova Brown/My Guy for the Young Sisters about the same time that Shannon recorded The Swiss Maid. The Young Sisters took Casanova Brown to #93 on the charts September 29, 1962 for one week. They were a team of three Italian sisters from the east side of Detroit, and they had a great “locomotion-like” sound. McKenzie came to Shannon’s house in Southfield, Michigan with the idea for Little Town Flirt, a song he was penning for the Young Sisters’ follow-up. Shannon liked the idea and together he and Maron finished the song. Shannon had been influenced by the Nashville guitar playing, double-strumming, which later became known as the Mersey beat sound. Shannon had The Wamboo already in the bag, and it was a perfect B-side for Flirt. Balk set up another session for November and Shannon recorded Little Town Flirt and The Wamboo with the Young Sisters doing background vocals. At the same session, the Young Sisters recorded McKenzie’s Playgirl and Hello Baby, which Balk released on his own label, Twirl Records.
“I remember writing with Del,” explained Robert McKenzie over the phone recently. “We ate bologna sandwiches and wrote Little Town Flirt. ‘Here she comes, walkin’ down the street.’ No no! ‘Here she comes, that little town flirt.’ We worked it out. I had this idea, ‘the temptation of those ruby red lips.’ Del changed it. ‘the temptation of her tender red lips.’ It was wonderful working with Del. He had the idea of ‘paper heart’ and ‘tear it apart.’ It all worked out. We followed that up. I had the idea for Two Kind of Teardops and he had the idea of Kelly. We wrote them together. Two Silhouettes was his, My Wild One was mine. Co-writing with Del was a fun experience, one I’ll never forget.”
Little Town Flirt took a few weeks to break as Christmas singles were interfering with regular airplay. In late December, when Christmas had passed, Flirt shot like a bullet from #88 to #12 in just a couple of weeks. Shannon had another hit and a different sound. Del and Robert got back together to write Two Kinds of Teardrops, Kelly, Two Silhouettes, and My Wild One. Shannon called Harry. “Balk, I need another recording session set up! Let’s use the girls again for these songs.” On February 21, 1963, he recorded the four songs at Bell Sound, with the Young Sisters backing him up. Two Kinds of Teardrops was released to follow up Flirt and it was another silver record. Del Shannon was back on top, both in America and in Europe. Shannon flew to England where he toured heavily on the success of Little Town Flirt and to push Two Kinds of Teardrops. He also visited Sweden, where he was popular. Kelly, although a B-side, received airplay in Liverpool where it became a hit.
Shannon returned to Bell Sound in New York to fill out an album’s worth of songs. Recorded for the Little Town Flirt album were Bruce Channel’s Hey Baby, the Goffin/King composition Go Away Little Girl, and Happiness, a tune Shannon co-wrote in 1960 with a Battle Creek local named Jim Ellis.
On April 8, 1968, Del Shannon performed at the Civic Auditorium in Grand Rapids with Bobby Bare:
Shannon shared the bill with the up and coming Beatles at the Royal Albert Hall on April 18, 1963, closing the show with Flirt and Teardrops. The Beatles took the stage just before him, playing From Me To You and Twist and Shout. Shannon was struck by From Me To You, and told John Lennon he was going to record it. Shannon loved the use of the A-minor chord in the middle of the bridge, and set up a recording session at West End Studios. On May 1, 1963, Shannon cut his own version of From Me To You, Linda Scott’s Town Crier, and two original compositions, Little Sandy and Walk Like An Angel. Ivor Raymonde was the arranger at the session. Shannon produced. Johnny Tillotson, who was touring with Shannon, attended the session, along with Irving Micahnik, who was also present. Two days after the recording session, Shannon played Town Crier over the air on BBC radio’s ‘Go Man Go’ show. This was the only time this recording was heard publicly. Micahnik took possession of the master tapes and they were later lost. Only From Me To You surfaced as the A-side of Shannon’s next and last Bigtop single.
Del, upset with late royalties and deals going sour, left Talent Artists, Inc. and Bigtop and searched for another label. Micahnik made sure that was not going to happen. He mailed letters and called all of the major record labels, threatening lawsuits if anyone signed Del Shannon. Irving had gone to law school and was very good at threatening legal action. Shannon was blackballed in the music business, and his only solution was to form his own record label, Ber-Lee Records, named after his parents. In August of 1963, Shannon booked 3 hours of time at Bell Sound to record four sides for Ber-Lee: Sue’s Gotta Be Mine, Now She’s Gone, That’s The Way Love Is, and Time of the Day. He hired Bill Ramal to arrange the session, and Del produced the set himself. Bucky Pizzarelli was brought in on guitar, Joe Benjamin on bass, Osie Johnson on drums, and an unidentified pianist. Shannon played rhythm guitar. The first Ber-Lee single was Sue’s Gotta Be Mine coupled with Now She’s Gone. Sue made it to #71 in the U.S. and #21 on the U.K. charts. Shannon later said that distribution of the single was to blame as it was hard to get records out to the distributors in a timely manner. He contracted with Diamond Records to help out with distribution. Apex Records released it in Canada, and London distributed it in England. Shannon released That’s The Way Love Is b/w Time of the Day in early 1964 before returning to Harry and Irving. By this time, they had terminated their deal with Bigtop Records. Rumor was that Micahnik owed money to both Bell and Mira Sound studios, and both studios were hounding Johnny Beinstock, president of Bigtop Records, for money. Beinstock paid the bill to deny Irving access to the master tapes, and severed all partnerships with Talent Artists, Inc. Thus most of Del Shannon’s master tapes were lost. Most masters were normally kept at the recording studio vaults so that they would be close at-hand if anything needed to be done with or to them.
About this same time, Shannon fooled around in United Sound studios to record a few numbers with Dick Bosie and the Teenbeats, who were also with BigTop at one point. Most of the session yielded surf-type music, jam sessions recorded by the bunch of which Shannon produced and paid for. Among the tracks wereNothin’, Pursuit, and Torture, an instrumental with overdubbed vocals by Del and the Teenbeats being “whipped” and begging for water. The final track at the session was a novelty tune by Del and his son Craig called Froggy. Froggy was a silly song and never intended for commercial release. It was Shannon’s first time bringing in one of his children to a recording session, and Craig was allowed to sing the frog’s voice (slowed down to give it depth) while Shannon sang the high female part (sped up to give it more female quality). This session is being released in it’s entirety here for the first time by Bear Family for reasons of historical completion . (We hope that Del would approve).
Balk and Micahnik sent Shannon into the studios with the Royaltones as his backing group. The new deal allowed for Shannon to play rhythm guitar at his own sessions. Dennis Coffey played lead guitar, Bill Knight played second guitar, Bob Kreiner played bass, Marcus Terry played drums, and George Katsakis played piano and organ. The Popoff brothers, Greg and Mike, played alto and tenor saxophone. Bill Ramal was now out of the picture. The Royaltones also substituted as Shannon’s vocal chorus. Mary Jane, Stains On My Letter, I’ll Be Lonely Tomorrow, and I Can’t Fool Around Anymore were cut at the February ’64 session. McKenzie was brought in again as co-writer for Mary Jane and I’ll Be Lonely Tomorrow. Shannon co-wrote I Can’t Fool Around Anymore with guitarist Dennis Coffey and Katsakis, the organ player.
Unfortunately, Shannon had two singles released the very same day: That’s The Way Love Is (Ber-Lee) and Mary Jane on Amy Records (a subsidiary of Bell). In Britain, That’s The Way Love Is was ignored, but Mary Jane, issued on Stateside Records, did well, breaking in at #35. Split airplay caused the two singles to compete against one another, and both failed in virtually every country.
Harry Balk felt Shannon’s songwriting had gone into a temporary slump. Shannon was still upset over legal battles, but eventually signed over his Ber-Lee sides to Micahnik. Balk had a thought. “Del, do you know the song ‘Handy Man’?” Shannon said that he did. “Well I don’t want you to play it the way Jimmy Jones recorded it,” Harry said, “I want you and the Royaltones to come up with a new arrangement, and then we will cut it.” Shannon agreed, and met up with the Royaltones who were touring in Pennsylvania. In April 1964 Del and the Royaltones came in to record Handy Man, the Impalas’ Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home), and Shannon’s original Give Her Lots of Lovin’. Handy Man took the majority of the session to record. Shannon and Balk feuded over the arrangement, and Balk eventually got his way. Balk ran the studio with an iron fist. “This is how I want it, da dee da da, ba boom ba ba!” Harry explained in a 1997 interview. “I didn’t want the record to be a copy-cat of the Jimmy Jones hit. We needed a whiter arrangement. Del had pissed me off because he didn’t do what I asked him, and that was to find a new arrangement for the song.” Despite the feud, good things came out of the argument and Handy Man came out really tough and tight. Only one hour was left to record both “Give Her Lots of Lovin’” and “Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home). Del worked on Give Her Lots of Lovin’ as Harry sucked his thumb. “This song sucks Del. Wrap it up and let’s move to the next one.” Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home) was cut in just three hasty takes, clocking in at 1 minute 47 seconds. The session was over. “Handy Man’s your single Del!” Balk exclaimed.
Handy Man made #22 in the U.S., beating the U.K. #36 spot. Shannon was a major hit maker stateside again, and everyone felt an album was due. In late June, Shannon quick covered five songs: Memphis, Ruby Baby, Crying, World Without Love, and Twist and Shout. “He loved Roy Orbison’s ‘Crying’,” Shirley Westover commented one night in August 1999. “He actually cried when he heard that song. He so wished that he was the one that wrote that song. He loved Roy’s music so much, he would always cry.” An album titled ‘Handy Man’ was released on Amy Records in mono form. It is believed that the album was released in stereo also, but no known copy has been reported to exist. The album cover does have “stereo” lettering on all mono sleeves, if the label is peeled back from the creased border. If a stereo copy is ever found, it would become the only known copy of these tracks in true stereo, as the master tapes are lost.
Various undated Del Shannon concert brochures:
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The War of the Worlds Summary
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds Summary
In The War of the Worlds, Martians invade England. These Martians are worm-like creatures who intend to use Earth as a feeding ground, and the Earthlings are powerless to stop this. In the end, the Martians are destroyed not by humans, but by bacteria.
Martians arrive in London, quickly taking control of the city. These Martians are hideous, worm-like monsters with sixteen tentacles protruding from their mouths. They intend to feed on humans.
Despite their best efforts, the humans are unable to fend off the Martians and their deadly assault. The aliens soon overrun the planet.
The Martians aren't prepared for Earth's bacteria, however, and don't have the antibodies to fight off viruses. Their nervous systems are destroyed, and they die not from a human assault, but from illness.
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In The War of the Worlds, the Martians invade England, landing in ten cylinders at twenty-four-hour intervals, terrorizing the countryside and devastating the heart of London. It is perhaps the most plausible of Wells’s romances, for at the time it was thought that Mars might be inhabitable and that it was far older than the earth. It could well serve, then, as the site of beings who antedate humanity.
The Martians are much more highly developed than humans, but as the narrator discovers, they have landed on Earth to use it as a feeding ground. The Martians are wormlike creatures with bulging eyes and sixteen long, sensitive tentacles projecting from their mouths. They suck living blood. They arrive in huge, spiderlike engines, smothering cities with black smoke and defeating the opposition with heat rays not unlike lasers that can disintegrate artillery.
The Martians succeed where the invisible man failed in establishing a reign of terror, and much of the novel concerns their relentless, apparently invincible progress across the country. There is much less characterization in The War of the Worlds than in Wells’s other science fiction. Rather, the novel is intent on describing the mass hysteria such an invasion would stimulate and on showing how unprepared civilization is for the onslaught of forces from another world.
Wells is particularly hard on a vicar who takes refuge with the unnamed narrator, as if to suggest the usual comforts of religion, especially organized religion, are to little avail in a truly otherworldly event. The vicar is reduced to a state of abject terror, mouthing Christian pieties and proclaiming the day of judgment. In a half-starved, delirious state, he ventures toward the Martians before the narrator can stop him and is killed.
The concrete descriptions of London and of the damage wreaked upon it by the Martians enhance the verisimilitude of the narrative as the narrator struggles to survive and retain his presence of mind. Although he comes across another character who vows to carry on the fight, human expressions of defiance seem more pathetic than encouraging. It is astonishing how quickly civilization seems morally and physically bankrupted by the invasion.
There is little comfort in the denouement of the novel. The Martians succumb to the environment, having no antibodies to cope with bacteria that attack and destroy their nervous systems. Otherwise, they might very well have succeeded in destroying civilization. The narrator gradually comes to realize that the Martians are dying when he hears their awful, moaning shrieks.
Reviews of The War of the Worlds noted that the novel had the gripping quality of a firsthand newspaper dispatch, a dramatic presentation of bulletins as the Martians conduct their relentless advance, instilling terror, physically and mentally immobilizing the population. Part of the excitement stems from closely following the narrator’s narrow escapes and his piecing together of what has happened in the city.
The Martian invasion provides Wells with a scenario for commenting on the organization of modern life. The mass of humanity is treated as just that: a mass, a mob of largely undifferentiated human beings who trample upon each other and cannot organize a common defense. They are as weak as the Elois who are dominated by the Morlocks, as unconscious of worlds larger than themselves as are the Sussex inhabitants who peer curiously at the invisible man.
The Martians, the time traveler, the invisible man—for all their differences—function as devices for upsetting human complacency. Wells deeply distrusted human self-satisfaction and what he regarded as a typically English contentment with life as it is—as though life had always been that way and would continue to be so. Wells believed the contrary, that modern life would be a series of disruptions and that the twentieth century would see apocalyptic changes, perhaps initiated by science, but probably exacerbated by human ignorance, greed, and smugness. Humanity might, as in The War of the Worlds, be able to escape the worst fate Wells could imagine for it, but it could not count on such a conclusion.
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Although scientists have speculated about intelligent life on Mars, it comes as a complete surprise to England when Martians land, having been shot to Earth in flaming cylinders. At first the projectiles are mistaken for shooting stars or meteors. Then Ogilvy, the first to discover one of the cylinders that has landed, realizes that it is hollow; as it cools, he can hear something inside unscrewing the cylinder’s top. Ogilvy informs a local journalist, Henderson, and soon a crowd, including the narrator, gathers around the cylinder. The narrator suspects the object has come from Mars, but he does not think that it contains a living being. He and the crowd are shocked when grayish tentacles emerge from the cylinder. The crowd flees as the huge creature appears; it is the size of a bear, with a sheen like wet leather, two large, dark eyes, and a lipless mouth, heaving and pulsating. Just before the narrator runs away he catches sight of the monster’s large inhuman eyes and fungoid mass, which he finds disgusting and terrifying.
The humans decide to send a deputation (including Ogilvy and Henderson) to parlay with the Martians, since it seems that the Martians are intelligent even if human beings find them repulsive. The deputation, however, is wiped out in a blinding flash of fire and smoke, which the narrator later learns was the Martians’ heat ray. People panic; the narrator is stunned by the swiftness of the destruction.
The Martians begin to terrorize the cities and the countryside, dealing a silent and quick death to anyone in their way. For the first time it occurs to the narrator that the Martians mean to rule Earth, although he assures his wife that it seems unlikely that they will prevail, given that Earth’s gravitational pull on their bodies is three times that of Mars. Returning home, the narrator regains some of his confidence.
In London, the news from Woking seems so incredible that it is deemed a ruse. Even at Woking junction, where the trains still run, the Martian invasion is treated as a rumor and a curiosity, not a cause for evacuation. The narrator can hear the Martians hammering and stirring, making some sort of preparations. A company of soldiers is dispatched to form a cordon around the pit where the Martians’ cylinders landed. The Martians stay in the pit, but then the narrator, at home, sees one of his chimneys crack, and he realizes the power of the heat ray. He sends his terrified wife away to the town of Leatherhead. Out on the road, the narrator meets people escaping from the area of the pit. The Martians have set fire to everything within range of their heat ray.
The narrator then gets his first full view of a walking Martian or Martian machine of glittery metal, swinging its long, flexible tentacles. It has come out of the third of the ten Martian cylinders that landed on Earth. On the road the narrator encounters an artilleryman, the only survivor of an artillery clash with the Martians, who describes his fallen comrades as burnt meat. The destruction wrought by the Martians has been indiscriminate and universal, unprecedented in the history of warfare on Earth. The artilleryman decides to try to get to London to join the horse artillery there; the narrator opts to return to Leatherhead. The third cylinder blocks their way, however. Although the artillery does destroy one Martian, it proves ineffective against the heat ray, which obliterates everything in its path. The narrator just misses being killed as the foot of a Martian machine comes within yards of his head.
The narrator then realizes that the Martians are methodically destroying the country. Every twenty-four hours, another cylinder arrives to strengthen and consolidate their power. Although England sends all of its heavy guns and warships against the Martians, this firepower is destroyed as soon as it comes within range of the heat ray.
Unable to return to Leatherhead, the narrator takes refuge in a house occupied by a curate who is devastated and depressed by the invasion, believing it to be a sign of God’s judgment. Soon it becomes clear to the narrator that the curate has gone insane. Talking to himself, refusing to listen to the narrator’s pleas that they must ration their food and make no noise, the curate puts both his own life and the narrator’s life in jeopardy. Martian tentacles have already invaded the house and have just missed detecting the narrator’s presence. When the curate announces that he is going out to preach the word of God that sanctions this destruction of the world, the desperate narrator feels he has no choice but to kill the curate to keep him from exposing them both; he bashes the curate in the head with the back of a meat cleaver.
After more than two weeks, his food supply exhausted, the ravenous narrator decides to leave the house and take his chances on the streets, where he once again encounters the artilleryman. It now seems clear to the artilleryman that there is no way of defeating the Martians. He plans an underground life; he will live in the city’s sewers and try to find ways to accommodate himself to the Martian rulers. The narrator rebels against the idea of such a subhuman existence, but he also thinks that the rule of human beings on Earth is over. Humans have become merely food for Martians, who feed by injecting themselves with human blood.
To the narrator’s astonishment, however, he soon comes across the rotting bodies of Martians, and it suddenly occurs to him that they have been destroyed by the lowliest of life-forms: bacteria. Mars does not have the bacteria found on Earth, and so the Martians have no immunity to these tiny organisms, which the human body has learned to tolerate over thousands of years. The narrator sees the destruction of the Martians as only a reprieve for humankind, however. Although he has been incredibly fortunate in that he has survived and has been able to reunite with his wife, he now lives with a sense of insecurity, no longer certain of Earth’s invulnerability.
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Introduction
Huxley wrote Brave New World "between the wars" — after the upheaval of the First World War and before World War II. British society was officially at peace, but the social effects of the Great War, as it was then called, were becoming apparent. Huxley and his contemporaries wrote about changes in national feeling, questioning of long-held social and moral assumptions, and the move toward more equality among the classes and between the sexes.
Historical Background
The Russian Revolution and challenges to the British Empire abroad raised the possibility of change on a world scale. At home, the expansion of transportation and communication — the cars, telephones, and radios made affordable through mass production — also brought revolutionary changes to daily life. With the new technology, distances grew suddenly shorter and true privacy rarer. While people in industrialized societies welcomed these advances, they also worried about losing a familiar way of life, and perhaps even themselves, in the process. The nightmare vision of the fast-paced but meaningless routine of Brave New World reflects this widespread concern about the world of the 1920s and 1930s.
The period also brought a new questioning of traditional morality, especially regarding sex. Dress, language, and especially fiction expressed a greater openness for both women and men in their sexual lives. Some hailed this change as the beginning of true individual freedom, while others condemned it as the end of civilization itself. Huxley, with typical wit, uses the issue for irony, creating an image of the young Lenina being scolded for her lack of promiscuity. Sexual rules may change, Huxley tells his readers, but the power of convention remains the same.
Although set in the future, then, Huxley's Brave New World is truly a novel of its time. At a period of great change, Huxley creates a world in which all the present worrying trends have produced terrible consequences. Movement toward socialism in the 1920s, for example, becomes, in Huxley's future, the totalitarian World State. Questioning of religious beliefs and the growth of materialism, likewise, transforms into a religion of consumerism with Henry Ford as its god. And if Model T's roll off the assembly line in the present, in a stream of identical cars, then in the future, human beings will be mass-produced, too. Huxley's future vision, by turns witty and disturbing, imagines the end of a familiar, traditional life and the triumph of all that is new and strange in the modern world.
Utopian Fiction
In constructing an imaginary world, Huxley contributes to a long tradition — the utopian fiction. "Utopia," from the Greek words for "no place" and "good place," first came into English in Sir Thomas More's work Utopia (1516), a fictional account of a far away nation whose characteristics invite comparison with More's England. More used his fictional Utopia to point out the problems present in his own society. Since then, writers have created utopias to challenge readers to think about the underlying assumptions of their own culture. Gulliver's Travels (1726), by Jonathan Swift, seems at first to be a book of outlandish travel stories. Yet throughout the narratives, Swift employs his fictional worlds ironically to make serious arguments about the injustices of his own Britain. In utopian fiction, imagination becomes a way to explore alternatives in political, social, and religious life.
In Huxley's time, the most popular writer of utopian fiction was H.G. Wells, author of The Time Machine (1895), The War of the Worlds (1898), A Modern Utopia (1905), and many other novels. Wells held an optimistic view of the future, with an internationalist perspective, and so his utopias reflected the end of national divisions and the growth of a truly humane civilization, as he saw it. When Huxley read Wells' Men Like Gods, he was inspired to make fun of its optimism with his characteristically ironic wit. What began as a parody turned into a novel of its own — Brave New World.
The brave new world of Huxley's novel is not a "good place," and so it is not, in the strictest terms, a utopia. Huxley himself called his world a "negative utopia," the opposite of the traditional utopia. Readers have also used the word "dystopia," meaning "bad place," to describe Huxley's fictional world and others like it.
Huxley's dark view of the future opened a new door in fiction and seemed to revive interest in the old traditional utopian form by giving it a modern edge. George Orwell's Animal Farm (1946) and 1984 (1949) build on the energy and meaning of their predecessor, Brave New World. In Fahrenheit 451 (1950), science fiction writer Ray Bradbury proposes a future society without history or literature, a dystopia of which Huxley's World Controller Mustapha Mond himself would probably approve.
In the 1960s, Anthony Burgess imagined his own futuristic London in A Clockwork Orange, rehearsing the themes of control and the loss of self introduced by Huxley. And Huxley's disturbing views of science and technology have even echoed in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973), where the anti-hero, wandering the streets of London during the V-2 raids of World War II, discovers his own dark history of social (and sexual) conditioning.
The Structure of Brave New World
As a writer, Huxley refused to be kept to simple, chronological structure in his fiction. He characteristically experiments with structure, surprising his reader by juxtaposing two different conversations or point of view. In Point Counter Point (1928), Huxley even attempted to break out of traditional narrative structure altogether — to make fiction imitate the flow of musical counterpoint.
In Brave New World, Huxley's plan to create a futuristic world and then to introduce John the Savage as an outsider demanded another kind of unconventional structure. To achieve his effect, Huxley divides the novel roughly into thirds. The first part of the novel establishes the dystopia — the London of the future — with enough detail and background to encourage the reader to accept the world as a given. The second part plunges the reader into a thoroughly different world — the Savage Reservation — to experience the shock of the London characters who are traveling there as tourists. The central part also introduces the real main character, John, in the only world he has known since birth. The third part unfolds the events of John's life in London and his challenge of the dystopia.
Huxley's structuring of Brave New World defies the conventions of both mainstream and utopian fiction. In most traditional utopian novels, the utopia itself stands more or less alone as a setting, with no distracting side-trips to other places. The only contrast to the utopia, then, is the reader's own culture and society. But in introducing the Savage Reservation, Huxley introduces another fictional world — a rival and contrast to his dystopia within the novel itself.
According to convention, the inclusion of the Savage Reservation should blur the clarity of the world of London. But Huxley manages to bring his dystopia into even sharper focus with the trip to the Savage Reservation. Both worlds emerge as believable and horrifying, each in its own way.
By holding the introduction of his main character until the middle of the novel, Huxley also flouts narrative convention. In this, Huxley uses the reader's expectations about structure to produce a particular effect. Since convention dictates that the main character appear very early in the novel, readers frequently become convinced that Bernard Marx will be at the center of the plot and theme. Just when Bernard proves himself cowardly and weak, despite his rebelliousness, Huxley offers John, the real main character.
Compared to Bernard, John appears truly heroic, at least initially, and, as a "savage," introduces a new perspective that Huxley uses upon the return to London. In bringing John into a dystopia already familiar to the reader, Huxley can play the reader's knowledge against the character's innocence. And the effect of this irony — Huxley's strong point — intensifies the climax and conclusion of Brave New World.
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Who played the third incarnation of the Doctor in the TV series Doctor Who? | "2001" -- The Monolith and the Message | Roger Ebert's Journal | Roger Ebert
"2001" -- The Monolith and the Message
by Roger Ebert
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Good parables explain themselves. After you have read the story of Lazarus in the Bible, you don't need anyone to explain it to you. The same is true, I believe, of Stanley Kubrick 's parable " 2001: A Space Odyssey ." It contains the answers to all the questions it advances. Why, then, has this film already infuriated and confused so many audiences? I went to see it again last week and was surrounded by the mumble of many conversations. Some of the whisperers were trying to figure out what was going on. Others were just killing time. Making up grocery lists, I guess. After the film was over, someone suggested that maybe MGM should require an IQ test before allowing people into the theater. I can understand that point of view. If people do not have the courtesy to shut up during a film, they should at least be segregated into special Saturday kiddie matinees, no matter how advanced their years. Silence and attention are especially useful during "2001: A Space Odyssey" because here for once is a film that makes a total statement. You cannot really understand part of it until you have seen all of it. Then, afterwards, you can go back and fill in the missing places. But while it is there on the screen, you should simply let it happen to you. No questions. No whispers. Let the movie have its chance. Because "2001" needs to be seen this way, I think it will have a better chance with younger audiences. Kubrick himself has speculated that his film wouldn't have much luck with audiences raised on "linear movies" - that is, on movies that follow a plotted story line from beginning to end. In a linear movie, you never ask why John Wayne wants to kill the bad guys (although perhaps you should). But in Kubrick's movie, there are questions harder to answer. What about that enormous black monolith, for example, which follows Man through Kubrick's universe? The people who surrounded me the other night had lots of questions for each other about that monolith.
Q. What's that big black monolith? A. It's a big black monolith.
Q. Where did it come from? A. From somewhere else.
Q. Who put it there? A. Intelligent beings since it has right angles and nature doesn't make right angles on its own.
Q. How many monoliths are there? A. One for every time Kubrick needs one in his film. Now it would seem that these are obvious observations. But audiences don't like simple answers, I guess; they want the monolith to "stand" for something. Well, it does. It stands for a monolith without an explanation. It's the fact that man can't explain it that makes it interesting. If Kubrick had explained it, perhaps by having some little green men from Mars lower it into place, would that have been more satisfactory? Does everything need an explanation? Some people think so. I wonder how they endure looking at the stars. What disturbed the audience even more, however, was that bedroom at the end of the film. Kubrick's space explorer runs into another monolith beyond Jupiter and it takes him into a space warp.
Q. What's a space warp? A. A warp in space, and therefore in time, thanks to Einstein.
Q. Then when the pilot emerges into the objective world, where is he? A. In a bedroom.
Q. A BEDROOM? Yes, a magnificently decorated Louis XVI bedroom. What's the bedroom doing out there beyond Jupiter? Nothing. It isn't out there beyond Jupiter. It's a bedroom. The spacecraft lands in the bedroom, and Keir Dullea , the pilot, looks through the window and sees himself in a space suit standing outside. He gets out, becomes himself in the space suit standing outside, and sees himself seated at a table, eating. He becomes himself sitting at the table, eating, and notices himself, very elderly, dying in bed. He becomes himself dying in bed, and dies in bed. Well, it's not every space adventurer who dies in bed. Now where did the bedroom come from? My intuition is that it came out of Kubrick's imagination; that he understood the familiar bedroom would be the most alien, inexplicable, disturbing scene he could possibly end the film with. He was right. The bedroom is more otherworldly and eerie than any number of exploding stars, etc. Exploding stars we can understand. But a bedroom? The bedroom also provides a suitable backdrop while Kubrick's man grows older and dies. Why can't it be just that - a backdrop? Poets put lovers under trees, and nobody asks where that tree came from. Why can't Kubrick put his aging man in a bedroom? This is what literary critics might call a non-descriptive symbol - that is, the bedroom stands for a bedroom. Nothing else. The film, in its most basic terms, is a parable about Man. It is what Kubrick wanted to say about Man as a race, an idea and an inhabitant of the universe. More specifically, it is a film about man's journey from the natural state of a tool-using state and then again into a higher order of natural state. It makes its statement almost completely in visual terms; and the little dialog in the center section of the film is hardly necessary, like verbal Muzak. Kubrick begins when man was still an ape, thoroughly at home in the natural environment of Earth. He shows us becoming a toolmaker in order to control our natural environment, and he shows us finally using our tools to venture out into space. At the end, he shows man drawn beyond his tools so that we exist in the universe itself with the same natural ease we once enjoyed on Earth. The opening sequence is brilliant. If it could be shown as an educational film, it would explain man's development as a tool-using animal more clearly than any number of textbooks. Two tribes of apes scream at each other. They are frightened of the sounds in the night. A monolith appears. One tribe of apes gingerly feels it, running its hands down its perfectly smooth edges. And as the apes caress the monolith, something like a short circuit takes place in their minds. A connection is made between their eyes, their minds, and their hands. Their attention is drawn beyond themselves and toward an object in the environment. They are given a "lesson" by the makers of the monolith - and they then discover that, they are able to pick up a club and use it as a tool (at first for killing, then, for more subtle ends). Kubrick cuts from this most simple tool, a club, to a most complex one, a space ship. The prehistoric bone is thrown up into the air and becomes a shuttle rocket on its way to a space station. Could anything be clearer? Here are both extremes of man's tool-using stage. Yet, when the men in the space station began to talk, 45 minutes into the film, the person behind me sighed: "At last, the story begins." This was a person for whom a story could not exist apart from dialog and plot, and audiences made up of those people are going to find "2001" tough sledding. So what then? Another monolith is found on the moon.
Like the first one, it provides a transcendent experience. By now, man is intelligent enough to realize that the monolith was planted by another intelligent race, and that is an awesome blow to man's ego. So he sets out toward Jupiter because the monolith beams signals in that direction. And man takes along "Hal 9000," a computer (or tool) so complex that it may, even surpass the human intelligence. The ultimate tool.
But Hal 9000, made by man in his own image and likeness, shares man's ego and pride. What is finally necessary is the destruction of Hal - after he nearly destroys the mission - and that leaves one man, alone, at the outer edge of the Solar System to face the third monolith.
And here man undergoes a transformation as important as when he became a tool-user. He becomes a natural being again, having used his tools for hundreds of thousands of years to pull himself up by the bootstraps. Now he no longer needs them. He has transcended his own nature, as that original ape did, and now he is no longer a "man."
Instead, having grown old and died, he is reborn as a child of the universe. As a solemn, wide-eyed infant who slowly looks over the stars and the Earth and then turns his eyes on the audience.
These last 20 seconds, as the child of man looks down on his ancestral parents, are the most important in the film. We in the audience are men, and here is the liberated, natural being, Kubrick believes we will someday become.
But when Kubrick's space infant looked at the audience the other night, half of the audience was already on its feet in a hurry to get out. A good third of the audience must not have seen the space infant at all.
Man is a curious animal. He is uneasy in the face of great experiences, and if he is forced to experience something profound, he starts immediately to cheapen it, to bring it down to his own level. Thus after a great man is assassinated, lesser men immediately manufacture, buy and sell plastic statues and souvenir billfolds and lucky coins with the great man's image on them.
The same process is taking place with "2001." Two out of three people who see it will assure you it is too long, or too difficult, or (worst of all) merely science fiction, In fact, it is a beautiful parable about the nature of man. Perhaps it is the nature of man not to wish to know too much about his own nature.
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What is the surname of the identical twin brothers who compiled the Guiness Book of Records together between 1955 and 1975? | THERE'S MUSIC IN THE WHERE?
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The 1979 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records credits one Michael John Poultney with having memorized the value of the mathematical symbol π to 5,050 places. That, however, is scarcely any more impressive than the mnemonic achievement of Norris McWhirter, the amiable Briton who edits the Guinness book itself. McWhirter has committed most of his book's 15,000 entries to memory, a feat he explains by saying, "It's the same as a boy memorizing information about baseball. It's a matter of being interested."
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McWhirter puts his grasp of world records to admirable use. A slight, graying man of 53 with an ofttimes chirpy manner, he speaks fluent worldrecordese, enriching even the most casual conversation with nuggets drawn from his book. Bring up the subject of inflation and McWhirter will cite the $5,544,000 paid for a Velàzquez at an art auction in London as illustrative of a "distrust of hard currency." Let the conversation turn to the communications revolution and he will note that, owing to a decline in its use, the record for receiving Morse code—75.2 words per minute—has remained unbroken since Ted McElroy set it in 1939. If you're talking about fanaticism, McWhirter will likely mention Saint Simeon the Younger, a sixth-century Syrian monk who perched on a stone pillar for 45 years—which, incidentally, may be the record for the oldest world record.
To have one McWhirter chattering away in worldrecordese is strange enough. It was odder still when two of them were doing so, the other being Norris' identical twin brother, Ross. The McWhirters were interchangeable, Oxford-educated sportswriters who had been hired in 1954 by the huge Anglo-Irish brewery, Arthur Guinness, Son & Co., Ltd., to compile a record book, and they built it into an international bestseller. They made promotional appearances clad in the kilts of their Scottish forebears, mischievously leaving it to interviewers to try to figure out which of the pale, jug-eared brothers was Ross and which was Norris. But the McWhirters also had a sober side. They became involved in conservative political causes, an interest that had a tragic culmination when Irish Republican Army terrorists shot Ross to death on his front doorstep nearly four years ago.
Ross' death was a crushing blow to Norris. Nevertheless, the surviving brother has continued to put out the record book, turning what had been a lighthearted duet into a determined solo. The Guinness brewery still owns the book, publishing it through a subsidiary, Guinness Superlatives, Ltd., which occupies the top floor of a three-story, redbrick building in Enfield, a northern suburb of London. Double-decker buses rumble along Enfield's busy streets and mums push prams on the sidewalks, and the gold-carpeted offices of Guinness Superlatives pulse with purpose, too. At work there, McWhirter is obviously intent on keeping his brother's violent death from casting a shadow over the record-book operation.
"After Ross died, I had to decide whether to chuck it or soldier on," Norris says, discussing the matter in resolutely practical terms. "In soldiering on, the appalling thing is that there's so much that Ross used to do that I now must handle alone." As though to underscore his loss, there is still a mailbox bearing Ross McWhirter's name at the entrance to the office.
It will surprise some people to learn that the McWhirters' record book has its sober side, too. Or, at least, its less wacky side. Although best known for oddball records, the book is by no means confined to them—hence the entry on art auction prices as well as others on the densest metals and the worst road accident. Behind this expansive approach is Norris McWhirter's heartfelt conviction that the contemplation of world records—or superlatives, as he also calls them—can be both entertaining and educational, a pleasurable way of expanding one's intellectual horizons.
"People are fascinated with extremes," McWhirter says. "They like to know what the steel brackets are around a given subject. It may be significant that the average snake is, let's say, 4½ feet long, but it's somehow more interesting that the longest one is a python measuring 32 feet and the shortest is just a few inches—a worm, really. People crave delineation and points of reference. It's a matter of orientation, but it's also part of the natural competitiveness that most of us have."
The wide appeal McWhirter attributes to records would seem to be borne out by two entries that the Guinness book contains about itself. Readers are told that the volume in their hands is: 1) the fastest-selling title ever, having achieved worldwide sales of 34 million since 1955; and 2) the most-stolen book in British public libraries. These superlatives aside, the book is in its 25th edition in Great Britain (where it is known simply as the Guinness Book of Records) and has been translated into 21 languages, including Czech, Serbo-Croatian and Finnish, with new translations being prepared in Turkish and Arabic. The biggest market, though, is the U.S., where the paperback (Bantam, $2.50) is a popular stocking stuffer at Christmastime and a favorite on campuses, and the hard-cover version (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., $8.95) is more or less accepted as a standard reference work. Of the 4½ million copies of the 1978 edition sold worldwide, nearly three million were acquired by Americans.
The U.S. also has been the focus of a Star Wars-style marketing blitz, featuring Guinness-licensed notebooks, puzzles, jump ropes, calendars, Dixie Cups and dozens of other products. Most of these items, including Kellogg's Raisin Bran boxes and Hallmark cards, have samples of Guinness world records inscribed on them. On top of that, world-record feats have been depicted in a Guinness-theme show at Radio City Music Hall, a TV program starring David Frost and in a cartoon strip that appears in some 100 newspapers. There is a Guinness museum in the Empire State Building, as well as in such tourist centers as Niagara Falls, Ontario; Gatlinburg, Tenn.; Lake of the Ozarks, Mo.; and Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Nothing, however, points up the book's success more dramatically than the zeal with which people try to get their names into its pages—and, of course, onto those cereal boxes and greeting cards. Fraternity boys, failed athletes, assorted crazies and maybe even some normal folk eagerly participate in what might be called Guinnessport, whose main purpose is to "get into Guinness." Some people play Guinnessport individually, but others stage mass assaults on the book in so-called Oddball Olympics that have been held in such diverse locales as London, Los Angeles, San Antonio and New South Wales, Australia.
Guinnessport flourishes because the book contains such a wealth of categories for would-be record breakers to choose from, including many that rely less on talent than on brass and tenacity. Among these are underwater violin playing, keeping a pipe lit and the sort of marathon engaged in by Arron Marshall, a fisherman in Waikiki, Western Australia, who in 1977 stood under a shower in a shopping mall for 224 hours. Marshall's feet ballooned and his body became as wrinkled as a prune, but he said, "I'll be yahooing around the countryside when I see my name in the record book." That noise from Down Under is the sound of Marshall yahooing; his marathon shower is duly recorded in the latest edition.
The U.S. is a hotbed of Guinnessport. There appears to be no shortage in this country of people like 17-year-old Lang Martin of Charlotte, N.C., who made it his mission to crack the pages of Guinness by balancing six golf balls vertically. Closing windows to avoid drafts and working late at night so that his family wouldn't disturb him, Martin tried for weeks to stack the balls, only to see them tumble time and again. Those were frustrating moments, but Martin says, "I was wanting to get into that book real bad." He persevered and developed just the right touch. Finally, with neighbors assembled as witnesses and camera poised to record the event, he succeeded. Martin's world record for golf-ball balancing can be found in the current edition, between the records for gold panning and catching a thrown grape in the mouth.
It is somewhat surprising to realize that the practice of compiling world records started only in this century. The phenomenon began when people in sport, hitherto concerned mainly with winning or losing, got the idea of comparing performances. At first, records were merely a way of finding one's statistical bearings, but they soon became ends in themselves as fans, athletes and sportswriters got caught up in the giddy allure of somebody "going for the record."
An epidemic of world recorditis has been raging for some time now. When Ireland's Ron Delany was the best indoor miler in the world in the late 1950s, he was booed by American fans for merely running to win rather than smashing records, as the crowds demanded. The same thing now routinely happens in the record-happy sport of swimming, whose fanciers yawn through races that, however close and exciting they may be, fail to produce new marks. Not long ago two great industrial nations were locked in momentous debate over how Sadaharu Oh's career home-run record stacked up against Hank Aaron's. In a deep-think book, From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports, Amherst Professor Allen Guttmann terms this absorption with records one of the distinctive characteristics of contemporary sport.
Roughly one-fourth of the Guinness book is devoted to sports, and its sports editor, Stan Greenberg, receives billing on the cover second only to Norris McWhirter. But this isn't just another sports-record book. For one thing, it includes such obscure pastimes as sand yachting, parasailing and pigeon racing, and its sections on major sports contain records not readily available elsewhere. Did you know that a New Zealander named Paul Wilson has run 100 yards backwards in a world-record 13.3 seconds? Or that the world's lightest jockey was a 40-pound wisp named Kitchener, who rode in the 19th century? You can look it up in Guinness.
But the Guinness book also goes beyond sport to view practically everything as potentially fair game for records. Thus it contains sections on business, science, structures, the natural world—12 headings in all. As seen by Guinness, waterfalls don't just gurgle and splash; they compete. The winner is Venezuela's Salto Angel, which drops a "world record" 3,212 feet. Similarly, butterflies are locked in existential competition with a particular great monarch that has been clocked at a "world record" 17 mph. And a schoolgirl justifiably proud of herself for having finally stopped biting her nails nevertheless has a way to go before overtaking Shridhar Chillal of Poona, India, whose fingernails have grown to a "world record" length—nearly two feet in the case of one nail. To the editors of Guinness, the universe is a vast stadium caught up in the transcendent business of record breaking.
The idea behind all this is that world records can be as useful for finding one's bearings in life generally as they are in sport. Contrary to popular impression, however, the book stops somewhat short of anything goes. By definition, Guinness world records deal with the unprecedented and excessive, with the result that the book has the inevitable flavor of a circus sideshow; there are obligatory entries on Siamese twins and unfortunates born with 14 fingers. But the editors rule out gratuitous gore, sexual feats (a section on "swinging" deals, innocently enough, with playground swings) and stunts deemed unseemly, including that old undergraduate favorite, goldfish swallowing. Excluded, too, are collections of aluminum foil and pennies and certain dangerous activities such as that other old favorite of undergraduates, Volkswagen packing. There is also a taboo against ridiculous variations. As Greenberg says, "We'll get a letter saying, 'I did so many push-ups with my girl friend on my back.' If we put that in, somebody else will say, 'I did it with a horse on my back.' They're always coming up with variations, and you have to draw the line." McWhirter says, "One has to continually preserve the purity of records. To qualify, something has to be universally competitive, peculiar or unique."
Because records by their very nature are measurable and verifiable, the Guinness book scrupulously leaves to that other cut-and-paste compilation of superlatives. The Book of Lists, such subjective matters as the 10 greatest cartoon characters of all time. In its section on feminine beauty, Guinness says somewhat wistfully, "It has been suggested that, if the face of Helen of Troy (c. 1200 B.C.) was capable of launching 1,000 ships, then a unit of beauty sufficient to launch one ship should be called a millihelen." Millihelens not yet having been adopted by either the British government or the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, Guinness goes little further than to note that Miss World of 1954 measured a "Junoesque" 40-26-38, making her apparently the most full-bodied of all Miss World titlists.
For all of his insistence on maintaining standards and objectivity, McWhirter enjoys wide latitude in determining what goes into Guinness. Over the years, he has come to recognize records for Frisbee and Monopoly, having decided that they have become universal. Resourcefulness is evident in McWhirter's creation of a category for the largest entity bearing a person's name. Bolivia and the Americas were dwarfed, he found, by a super-cluster of galaxies named after University of California astronomer George O. Abell. "Abell's 7" now holds the world record as most "eponymous."
The book reflects McWhirter's whims on almost every page. While ruling out collections of pennies, he can't resist mentioning the world's largest ball of string. His book cautions that trying to break records for eating gargantuan quantities of food is "extremely inadvisable," but then lists records for the consumption of no fewer than 33 foodstuffs, among them eels, baked beans, pickled onions and prunes. It also relates that a Frenchman known as Mangetout holds the world record for eating a bicycle, which he did, tires and all, in 15 days. It calls that feat "the ultimate in stupidity," a superlative that, while neither measurable nor verifiable, is perhaps pardonable.
When the spirit moves him, McWhirter also spices his book with his own droll sense of humor. The reference to millihelens is but one example. Readers might also enjoy the report that a 19th-century German named Johann Thieme dug a world-record 23,311 graves before, "in 1826, his understudy dug his grave." Or that Rusty Skuse qualifies as the world's most tattooed lady, having been decorated to "within 15% of totality" by her husband; according to Guinness, the husband explained that he "always had designs on her."
One recent evening McWhirter drove to a large house in London's Winchmore Hill district and parked in front. He and his brother Ross grew up in the house, and it had been a happy, if formidable, place, boasting seven bedrooms, a circular driveway and a 210-pound laundress. But now, cast in evening shadows and occupied by strangers, it was dark and brooding. Looking at it, McWhirter said that until both of them took wives in 1957 (Ross at 31, Norris several months later at 32), they always roomed together.
"In a house with seven bedrooms?"
McWhirter seemed startled by the question. After a pause, he said, "Why we could have had separate rooms.... I guess it just never occurred to us."
The McWhirters were born on August 12, 1925, Norris at 7:40 p.m. and Ross 20 minutes later. Their father was William Allan McWhirter, a prominent Scottish-born editor of a London newspaper, who had an abiding faith in the virtues of fair play and legible handwriting. Both brothers were fascinated with what the British call facts 'n' figgers, and they also shared an interest in sports. As with many identical twins, their relationship seemed to be telepathic at times. They often communicated with little more than grunts and gestures, and were able to finish one another's sentences. When one of them put down an object, the other knew where it was. Their tastes were so similar that Ross, who disliked coffee, always puzzled over the fact that Norris enjoyed an occasional cup. Until their marriages—each was the other's best man—their only separation occurred when they served in the Royal Navy in World War II. Norris was detailed to a minesweeper in Singapore, Ross to one in the Mediterranean. The vessels made their separate ways to Valletta, Malta—where they collided.
The McWhirters later attended Oxford, where both were sprinters on the track team. Norris was faster; he anchored a British championship 440-yard-relay team—on which Ross ran the third leg. Norris also competed abroad on national teams. After Oxford, having moved back into their parents' house, Norris worked as a free-lance sportswriter while Ross reported on rugby and tennis for The Star. The brothers also launched a "fact service" for advertisers and for newspapers, yearbooks and encyclopedias and put out a monthly track magazine. Athletics World.
To all who knew them, the McWhirters were simply "the twins," a pair of endearing, if slightly fogyish, look-alikes who were forever spouting odd bits of information. Neil Allen, their first editorial assistant and now a well-known sportswriter for the Evening Standard, says, "Norris and Ross weren't the hard-drinking, loud-shouting Fleet Street types. They didn't smoke, hardly drank, and living at home, they seemed cut off a bit from real life. I remember one of them being surprised to learn that most people in Britain had mortgages. But they had very lucid minds, and I always knew I was with special people. I used to go home at night stimulated."
In view of their later involvement with the Guinness book, it seems almost too perfect that the McWhirters were on hand when their friend and fellow Oxonian, Roger Bannister, arrived at the black-cinder Iffley Road track in Oxford on May 6, 1954, to break the four-minute barrier in the mile—still one of the most celebrated of all world records. The McWhirters were covering the event for Athletics World and Norris was also the public-address announcer. The night before the race, anticipating that Bannister would succeed, Norris in his bathtub practiced what he called a "crescendo-suspense" announcement.
The McWhirters knew a lot even then about packaging world records. After the race, Norris teasingly intoned over the loudspeakers: "Ladies and gentlemen, here is the result of event number nine, the one mile. First, number 41, R. G. Bannister, of the Amateur Athletic Association and formerly of Exeter and Merton Colleges, with a time which is a new meeting and track record, and which, subject to ratification, will be a new English native, British national, British all-comers, European, British Empire and world record. The time was three...."
The rest of the 3:59.4 clocking was lost in cheers.
As fate would have it, a "rabbit" in that epochal race played a critical role in steering the McWhirters into the world-record business. He was Chris Chataway, the world-class distance runner, who was also an Oxford man and, at the time, a junior executive at the Guinness brewery. The story of how the record book was conceived has long since become a publishing legend. Sir Hugh Beaver, Guinness' managing director, wondered during a hunting trip what the world's fastest game bird might be and was surprised to find that there was no reference work that satisfactorily answered such questions; he decided that Guinness should publish a chronicle of such "superlatives" for distribution in pubs in which its famed stout was sold (and in which a book calculated to settle arguments might be useful); Chataway recommended the twins as compilers; four frantic months later, the McWhirters produced a book admirably suited, as Guinness' board chairman, Lord Iveagh, phrased it in his foreword, to "turn heat into light"; finally, what was supposed to be a one-shot venture to promote beer became a perennial bestseller.
The book's success—and the McWhirters' flamboyance in promoting it—made the twins celebrities in England. They also attracted attention as television sports commentators, confounding viewers on one memorable occasion by appearing simultaneously on different channels. And they became conspicuous as vigilantes of the fight, inveighing at every opportunity against big unions, big government, the Soviet Union and what they saw as the evils of permissiveness. They believed in unbridled competition and the need for authority, which in a sense is what they were promoting with their record book. Consistent though this may have been, the British public had trouble taking the McWhirters seriously, regarding them as sporting, square, patriotic and just a bit cranky. Even a close friend says, "Norris and Ross always reminded me of clowns who wanted to play Hamlet. They were amateurs who blundered into a horrible situation."
One of the twins' first political ventures occurred in the late '50s when they mischievously disrupted a ban-the-bomb rally by using a car with a loudspeaker on top to direct unsuspecting marchers into a field. In 1964 they ran for Parliament in different districts, each losing but each receiving, by a fine coincidence, 19,000-odd votes. Eventually the brothers worked out an arrangement whereby Norris concentrated a bit more on the Guinness book while Ross speechified and pamphleteered in behalf of the causes in which they both believed. Ross also fought a series of quixotic legal battles, researching them in the evenings, sometimes falling asleep at the dining-room table with law books piled high around him. One day Ross would be trying to block television from showing a film about Andy Warhol that he considered obscene; the next, he would be seeking an injunction against a ferry strike. In 1975, fatefully, he announced plans to post rewards for the capture of those responsible for the Belfast-style terrorism then plaguing London.
For his pains Ross himself became a victim of that terrorism. On Nov. 27 at 6:45 p.m., he opened the door of his large mock-Tudor house to admit his wife, Rosemary, who had just driven up in her Ford Granada. Two men stepped out of the bushes and opened fire with handguns, hitting the 50-year-old McWhirter in the head and stomach. The scene of the shooting was less than a mile from the Guinness Superlatives offices, and late-working employees heard the ambulance go by, never dreaming that a dying Ross McWhirter was inside. The next morning the Daily Mail headlined I.R.A. MURDER BOOK OF RECORDS MAN. (Fifteen months later, four I.R.A. members were convicted and imprisoned for a wave of bombings and the murders of six people, including Ross McWhirter.)
Although Ross was more visibly involved in politics, longtime friends, such as Chataway, know better than to downplay Norris McWhirter's role. After helping Bannister breach four minutes, Chataway himself broke a world record—for the 5,000 meters—the same year. He eventually left Guinness and served for 15 years as a Conservative member of Parliament before quitting to become an investment banker. A chesty little fellow with a Kennedyesque shock of reddish hair, Chataway says, "I don't think Norris will mind my saying that he was the senior partner of the two. He was a better sprinter than Ross, and I've always felt he was a little better in everything. My impression is that Ross tended to follow."
After his brother's death, Norris McWhirter wrote a book, Ross: The Story of a Shared Life, in which he describes the wrenching moment when he identified the body at the mortuary: "The experience of seeing, lifeless, a person who is genetically the same person as yourself has an unreality. There is you." He also wrote: "I felt that I was about to be reborn—not as half a person but as a double person."
Having taken the baton from his slain brother, the old Oxford anchor man has been running with it ever since. Today, Norris says he is too busy putting out the Guinness book to work on the political causes dear to Ross and himself, though he rejects the notion there was anything inconsequential about those causes. He says, "To take action on one's principles is a very, very rare thing, and that's what Ross was doing. He believed that the alternative to the rule of law was the rule of the jungle. He was absolutely doing the right thing."
The brewmasters at Arthur Guinness, Son & Co., Ltd. find it slightly awkward that their record book has come to enjoy great popularity among children. Rather than appear to be encouraging the young to imbibe, they have been slow to approve licensing in Great Britain of the kind of Guinness-related toys and promotions that are flourishing in the U.S. But the diversified, $1 billion-a-year company otherwise tends to keep hands off Guinness Superlatives, a taut operation that produces $600,000 in annual profits on sales of $4 million. As one brewery executive puts it, "We just let Norris kind of bash away on his own."
McWhirter bashes away in an office in which every available surface, even the floor, is piled high with papers. The Guinness book generates 20,000 letters a year, mostly submissions for new records and challenges of existing ones, and while McWhirter has plenty of help in answering them, he says with a proprietary air, "I get the tough ones." He corresponds with experts in various fields and plows through heaps of magazines and nonfiction books in an effort to keep abreast. "You develop a technique in reading so that words like longest, shortest, biggest and other 'ests' jump out at you," he says.
McWhirter is painstaking about approving records, insisting on corroboration by eyewitnesses, newspaper clippings and photographs. He recalls with a shudder the time a young Englishman wrote in claiming to have broken the record for standing 12-sided English three-penny pieces, one on top of another, on their edges. "The record was 11 and this chap said he had stacked 13," McWhirter relates. "He even included a photograph, but I didn't like the looks of it, so I phoned him and started asking questions. He finally said, 'All right, I'll tell you how I did it.' I said, 'Good, that's exactly what I want to know.' He had used a powerful adhesive and attached a chair, table and carpet to the ceiling. Then he suspended the coins from the table. He had photographed it all and simply turned the picture upside down."
Smiling tightly, McWhirter adds, "He deserves the world record for ingenuity."
Actually, McWhirter generally enjoys seeing records broken. Apart from the fact that they justify the new editions he publishes each year, he happens to believe that new records are usually tied up with progress. "A record for the worst road crash, that's not progress," he concedes. "But most records are broken because of advances in training, technology or something else. The Apollo program, for example, was the bit-by-bit culmination of an incredible number of man-years of effort, involving 400,000 people and a $25 billion budget. But it also required the existence of the computer, without which it wouldn't have been possible to do third-dimensional navigation fast enough."
Generally speaking, the world is progressing at a rate that McWhirter finds satisfactory. For his book's 25th British edition, he compiled a table revealing that since 1955 the world record for the largest tanker has been broken 19 times, improving—if that's the word—by a total of 1,190%; the deepest ocean descent has been exceeded three times for a 269% improvement; the men's high jump 17 times for a 10% improvement; and so on. One exception is the mile record for thoroughbreds, which has improved just 1%—from Citation's 1:33[2/5] in 1950 to Dr. Fager's current 1:32[1/5]. With disdain, McWhirter says, "Those damned horses—they don't have much more intelligence than a pigeon." No thanks to thoroughbreds, roughly 23% of the contents of the book changes each year, including revisions for such seemingly immutable records as the world's highest mountain; that one was "broken" in 1973 when the Chinese surveyed Mount Everest and officially measured its height, long given as 29,002 feet, as 29,028 feet.
The Guinness book contributes to this boom in world records chiefly by stimulating the activities that constitute Guinnessport. There has always been the kind of behavior that Shakespeare called "midsummer madness," and in bygone years barnstorming pilots, marathon dancers and flagpole sitters were forever claiming world records. They usually documented their feats with newspaper clippings they carried from town to town, and reliable comparisons between rival claims were all but impossible. As a result, the crazes in which they participated were just that—crazes, fading away as quickly as they began.
The Guinness book gives such zany stunts an air of permanence. As McWhirter puts it "By acting as a kind of clearinghouse, the book is a catalyst for a lot of record breaking. Nowadays, a record only has to be printed for somebody else to break it." Lest the book not be catalyst enough, McWhirter further encourages record breaking by issuing certificates to record breakers and selling them neckties (at $6). He also acts as the unofficial czar of Guinnessport. Noting that in order for records to mean anything, "like must be compared with like," he decreed that claimants for the hot dog-eating record must have consumed two-ounce franks. He ruled that the rolling-pin-throw record is open to women only. Shoeshining? He declared that record available only to teams of four teen-agers and, oh, yes, shoes must be "on the hoof." When setting records for the rocking-chair, balancing-on-one-foot and sundry other marathons, the competitors, he ruled, may take one five-minute rest per hour. McWhirter doesn't just compile his compendium of records. He nurtures it, hovers over it like a mother hen.
But treacherous mines dot the landscape and for all of McWhirter's care, missteps occur. For example, the name of the Indiana couple that owns the world's most productive milk cow is mistakenly given in the current U.S. edition as "Becher" instead of "Beecher." Last year a man named Wayne Thompson was credited with having broken the record for distance swimming when he swam 1,864 miles down the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Belatedly, it was discovered that Thompson had used fins, a violation of Guinness standards. His name has been excised from the current edition. In grape eating the test once was: How fast can a pound of grapes be consumed? The record dropped steadily from more than two minutes to 34.6 seconds, at which point a claimant reported that within 34.6 seconds, he consumed three pounds, one ounce. Guinness went for the switch and recognized that feat as the record, resulting, apparently, in this ludicrous test: How many grapes can be consumed in 34.6 seconds?
Some students of the Guinness book whisper that its contents are unduly influenced by McWhirter's anti-Soviet sentiments. They note his refusal to confer the world record for longevity on Soviet Georgians who are said to have lived to 150 or more. The book recognizes instead an American, Delina Filkins, who died in 1928 at 113 years 214 days. McWhirter insists that the Soviet claims are unauthenticated, as do other authorities, and he rejects on the same grounds the claim that Charlie Smith of Bartow, Fla. is 137. But McWhirter and the other editors are not immune to outside pressure. Though McWhirter denies it, some have claimed that because of Pentagon protest, a passage blaming a "civilian-U.S. military consortium" for the record plundering of the Reichsbank in the waning days of World War II was deleted from the U.S. edition. The fact that the passage remains in the British edition suggests that McWhirter still considers it accurate.
Any mistakes and distortions that infiltrate Guinness' pages are probably less worrisome than an image problem the book has—namely, that a lot of what others represent to be "Guinness records" are not that at all. One reason is that the book comes out just once a year, trapping many apparent record breakers between editions. In South Bend last year, 1,223 Notre Dame and St. Mary's students gathered on a field, put Jackson Browne's Running on Empty on the record player and played a rollicking two-hour game of musical chairs that eclipsed the listed record of 1,162 participants. Alas, Guinness meanwhile received word of a game played by 1,789 students at East High School in Salt Lake City, and it was this record that appeared in the next edition.
"We thought we were in the book for sure," grieved one Notre Dame student. As happens with many other aspiring record breakers, the Notre Dame-St. Mary's legions were waylaid by the fact that much of Guinnessport is played blind, without full knowledge of what the competition is up to.
Something else that participants in Guinnessport often fail to understand is that the book doesn't recognize just any old record. Publicity seekers and fast-buck operators are particularly careless in this regard. There was the news out of Los Angeles last fall that Klymax the Psychic Wizard intended to get into Guinness by driving north on the Golden State Freeway with silver dollars lodged in his eye sockets, a blindfold covering the silver dollars, a hood over his head and his wrists manacled to the steering wheel. The Wizard announced he would be guided through traffic by "forces of his psychic energy." If Klymax were psychic, he would have divined that Guinness wasn't interested in such a feat.
The difficulties of keeping Guinnessport under control are well appreciated at the Manhattan offices of Sterling Publishing, the Guinness book's American command center. Sterling's hustling chairman, David Boehm, is editor of the U.S. edition and the person mainly responsible for negotiating sales of the Guinness greeting cards, puzzles, movies, museums and the rest of what he calls "the ancillary things." A courtly, bearded man who echoes McWhirter's emphasis on the "purity" of world records, Boehm nevertheless ran into trouble two summers ago when he licensed a festival in Atlantic City that was supposed to produce scores of new Guinness records.
What it mostly produced was embarrassment. Four women carried bricks for nine miles along the Boardwalk, only to learn that this "world record" feat had not been properly verified. After playing a pinball machine for a "world record" 91 hours, another participant discovered too late that at the time the book did not recognize such an activity. And contestants in a marathon belly-dancing competition quarreled bitterly over whether a particular belly had stopped dancing. The festival collapsed under the weight of threatened lawsuits, and Boehm now says, "It was ridiculous. The people we had running the festival didn't provide proper supervision. We'll think twice about getting involved in something like that again."
Might a bit of thought also be given to Guinnessport generally? It is clear that the most delightful records in the Guinness book—and there are many—tend to be those that are unplanned and unexpected. If there is pleasure in learning that the tail feathers of the onagadori are a world-record 34 feet, one reason is that the Japanese fowl wasn't trying to get into Guinness. By contrast, the very purpose of Guinnessport is to crack the book's pages. Such attempts tend to be what historian Daniel Boorstin has called "pseudo events," occurrences stage-managed largely for publicity. The listed record-setting 86-foot desperation basket that Barry Hutchings scored for Sutherlin (Ore.) High School was an event. The record 75-hour basketball game played at West Virginia's Bethany College was a pseudo event. Events are better.
Yet there is a certain fascination in reading that Kathy Wafler of Wolcott, N.Y. managed to cut an unbroken apple peel 172'4" long. There is also some comfort in learning that a discrepancy in the record for keeping a Life Saver on the tongue is being straightened out. The British edition gives the record as 87 minutes and the U.S. puts it at 102 minutes. It seems that Boehm wasn't aware of McWhirter's dictum that the clock run only as long as the hole in the middle is visible. A regular Solomon, that McWhirter.
Guinnessport's redeeming feature is that it somehow manages to be at once democratic and exclusive. Yes, you, too, can be a world-record holder. After all, hasn't Roger Guy English of La Jolla, Calif. been in Guinness at various times for dancing the twist, for marathon kissing and for staying awake—three records for a fellow whom nobody would mistake for Jesse Owens? But don't tell Salt Lake City gymnastics instructor Rick Murphy that getting into Guinness is of small moment. Murphy broke the 50-yard handstand record in 1975 and had his name in one edition before somebody else broke the record.
"People ask if I really was in Guinness, and I say, 'Yeah, I was next to the guy with two heads,' " Murphy says. "But deep down, I was proud to make that book. It's the best thing I've ever done."
McWhirter notes that much of Guinnessport, like a great deal of sport generally, is in an early stage of development, which is the primary reason why records are broken so frequently. He unflinchingly predicts that eventually records will improve by ever smaller margins at ever greater intervals. Although more precise means of measurement could probably be adopted to keep the records falling, McWhirter warns, "If you cut records too fine, it becomes meaningless. You're just showing off technology." Somewhat defensively, he adds, "I know that some records are more important than others. What many people don't realize is that only 3% of the book is devoted to zany records. It's just that the media pays so much attention to them." In other words, McWhirter is no indiscriminate record monger.
But McWhirter also points out that all records, even Roger Bannister's historic mile, are, in a sense, contrived. He says, "What made the four-minute mile special is the appeal of round numbers. To say that somebody ran 5,280 feet in less than 240 seconds doesn't sound quite the same." Expressing admiration for Americans for faring so well in Guinnessport, McWhirter says, "It's because Americans have such a high level of achievement. The underachievers are driven into zanier outlets." He adds, "Life isn't all frivolous, I know that. But it's not all serious, either. It's the same with records. There's room for all kinds. I don't like saying something is beneath me."
Which explains, perhaps, why McWhirter was at the sprawling BBC Television Center in London one recent Sunday morning, getting ready for a taping of Record Breakers, a children's show loosely based on the Guinness book. Inside the studio he peppered stagehands, performers and everybody else with odd information. Did they know that there were 17,000 classified odors? Or that Finnish scientists had achieved the lowest laboratory-produced temperatures? Eavesdropping over a monitor in the control booth, Alan Russell, the show's producer, said with a sigh, "Norris can tell you how many shows we've done and how many chips I've had for lunch."
Once the show began, McWhirter proved a dead-game performer. He climbed into one leg of the world's largest blue jeans (waist: 76 inches), then peered out, eyes blinking, like a miner emerging into bright sunlight. He awkwardly hoisted the world's heaviest cat (42 pounds 10 ounces) onto a scale, getting clawed in the process. And he interviewed Christa Tybus, holder of the world Hula-Hoop endurance record (24 hours 30 minutes), who twirled a hoop on her hips as they talked.
McWhirter also answered unrehearsed questions about world records from the audience, which was made up entirely of schoolchildren. He slipped up only when he said the world's largest airplane, Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose, was in a hangar in Long Bay, Calif. instead of Long Beach. Otherwise he was flawlessly in command, assuring the youngsters that the world's largest aircraft carrier was the Dwight D. Eisenhower and that the biggest secondary school was DeWitt Clinton High in New York City, which in the 1930s enrolled 12,000 students. To this last he added, "I should think the headmaster wouldn't know the names of the teachers, let alone the students."
He got a nice laugh on that one. Michael John Poultney, the chap who can recite π to 5,050 places, would have found it a hard act to follow.
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From a California swimming pool come the soggy sounds of Handel's "Water Music, "played by Mark Gottlieb of Olympia, Wash.
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Iron-lunged Mel Robson of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England huffed and puffed and puffed again until he blew a hot-water bottle to pieces.
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The 1979 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records credits one Michael John Poultney with having memorized the value of the mathematical symbol π to 5,050 places. That, however, is scarcely any more impressive than the mnemonic achievement of Norris McWhirter, the amiable Briton who edits the Guinness book itself. McWhirter has committed most of his book's 15,000 entries to memory, a feat he explains by saying, "It's the same as a boy memorizing information about baseball. It's a matter of being interested."
This is an article from the July 30, 1979 issue Original Layout
McWhirter puts his grasp of world records to admirable use. A slight, graying man of 53 with an ofttimes chirpy manner, he speaks fluent worldrecordese, enriching even the most casual conversation with nuggets drawn from his book. Bring up the subject of inflation and McWhirter will cite the $5,544,000 paid for a Velàzquez at an art auction in London as illustrative of a "distrust of hard currency." Let the conversation turn to the communications revolution and he will note that, owing to a decline in its use, the record for receiving Morse code—75.2 words per minute—has remained unbroken since Ted McElroy set it in 1939. If you're talking about fanaticism, McWhirter will likely mention Saint Simeon the Younger, a sixth-century Syrian monk who perched on a stone pillar for 45 years—which, incidentally, may be the record for the oldest world record.
To have one McWhirter chattering away in worldrecordese is strange enough. It was odder still when two of them were doing so, the other being Norris' identical twin brother, Ross. The McWhirters were interchangeable, Oxford-educated sportswriters who had been hired in 1954 by the huge Anglo-Irish brewery, Arthur Guinness, Son & Co., Ltd., to compile a record book, and they built it into an international bestseller. They made promotional appearances clad in the kilts of their Scottish forebears, mischievously leaving it to interviewers to try to figure out which of the pale, jug-eared brothers was Ross and which was Norris. But the McWhirters also had a sober side. They became involved in conservative political causes, an interest that had a tragic culmination when Irish Republican Army terrorists shot Ross to death on his front doorstep nearly four years ago.
Ross' death was a crushing blow to Norris. Nevertheless, the surviving brother has continued to put out the record book, turning what had been a lighthearted duet into a determined solo. The Guinness brewery still owns the book, publishing it through a subsidiary, Guinness Superlatives, Ltd., which occupies the top floor of a three-story, redbrick building in Enfield, a northern suburb of London. Double-decker buses rumble along Enfield's busy streets and mums push prams on the sidewalks, and the gold-carpeted offices of Guinness Superlatives pulse with purpose, too. At work there, McWhirter is obviously intent on keeping his brother's violent death from casting a shadow over the record-book operation.
"After Ross died, I had to decide whether to chuck it or soldier on," Norris says, discussing the matter in resolutely practical terms. "In soldiering on, the appalling thing is that there's so much that Ross used to do that I now must handle alone." As though to underscore his loss, there is still a mailbox bearing Ross McWhirter's name at the entrance to the office.
It will surprise some people to learn that the McWhirters' record book has its sober side, too. Or, at least, its less wacky side. Although best known for oddball records, the book is by no means confined to them—hence the entry on art auction prices as well as others on the densest metals and the worst road accident. Behind this expansive approach is Norris McWhirter's heartfelt conviction that the contemplation of world records—or superlatives, as he also calls them—can be both entertaining and educational, a pleasurable way of expanding one's intellectual horizons.
"People are fascinated with extremes," McWhirter says. "They like to know what the steel brackets are around a given subject. It may be significant that the average snake is, let's say, 4½ feet long, but it's somehow more interesting that the longest one is a python measuring 32 feet and the shortest is just a few inches—a worm, really. People crave delineation and points of reference. It's a matter of orientation, but it's also part of the natural competitiveness that most of us have."
The wide appeal McWhirter attributes to records would seem to be borne out by two entries that the Guinness book contains about itself. Readers are told that the volume in their hands is: 1) the fastest-selling title ever, having achieved worldwide sales of 34 million since 1955; and 2) the most-stolen book in British public libraries. These superlatives aside, the book is in its 25th edition in Great Britain (where it is known simply as the Guinness Book of Records) and has been translated into 21 languages, including Czech, Serbo-Croatian and Finnish, with new translations being prepared in Turkish and Arabic. The biggest market, though, is the U.S., where the paperback (Bantam, $2.50) is a popular stocking stuffer at Christmastime and a favorite on campuses, and the hard-cover version (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., $8.95) is more or less accepted as a standard reference work. Of the 4½ million copies of the 1978 edition sold worldwide, nearly three million were acquired by Americans.
The U.S. also has been the focus of a Star Wars-style marketing blitz, featuring Guinness-licensed notebooks, puzzles, jump ropes, calendars, Dixie Cups and dozens of other products. Most of these items, including Kellogg's Raisin Bran boxes and Hallmark cards, have samples of Guinness world records inscribed on them. On top of that, world-record feats have been depicted in a Guinness-theme show at Radio City Music Hall, a TV program starring David Frost and in a cartoon strip that appears in some 100 newspapers. There is a Guinness museum in the Empire State Building, as well as in such tourist centers as Niagara Falls, Ontario; Gatlinburg, Tenn.; Lake of the Ozarks, Mo.; and Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Nothing, however, points up the book's success more dramatically than the zeal with which people try to get their names into its pages—and, of course, onto those cereal boxes and greeting cards. Fraternity boys, failed athletes, assorted crazies and maybe even some normal folk eagerly participate in what might be called Guinnessport, whose main purpose is to "get into Guinness." Some people play Guinnessport individually, but others stage mass assaults on the book in so-called Oddball Olympics that have been held in such diverse locales as London, Los Angeles, San Antonio and New South Wales, Australia.
Guinnessport flourishes because the book contains such a wealth of categories for would-be record breakers to choose from, including many that rely less on talent than on brass and tenacity. Among these are underwater violin playing, keeping a pipe lit and the sort of marathon engaged in by Arron Marshall, a fisherman in Waikiki, Western Australia, who in 1977 stood under a shower in a shopping mall for 224 hours. Marshall's feet ballooned and his body became as wrinkled as a prune, but he said, "I'll be yahooing around the countryside when I see my name in the record book." That noise from Down Under is the sound of Marshall yahooing; his marathon shower is duly recorded in the latest edition.
The U.S. is a hotbed of Guinnessport. There appears to be no shortage in this country of people like 17-year-old Lang Martin of Charlotte, N.C., who made it his mission to crack the pages of Guinness by balancing six golf balls vertically. Closing windows to avoid drafts and working late at night so that his family wouldn't disturb him, Martin tried for weeks to stack the balls, only to see them tumble time and again. Those were frustrating moments, but Martin says, "I was wanting to get into that book real bad." He persevered and developed just the right touch. Finally, with neighbors assembled as witnesses and camera poised to record the event, he succeeded. Martin's world record for golf-ball balancing can be found in the current edition, between the records for gold panning and catching a thrown grape in the mouth.
It is somewhat surprising to realize that the practice of compiling world records started only in this century. The phenomenon began when people in sport, hitherto concerned mainly with winning or losing, got the idea of comparing performances. At first, records were merely a way of finding one's statistical bearings, but they soon became ends in themselves as fans, athletes and sportswriters got caught up in the giddy allure of somebody "going for the record."
An epidemic of world recorditis has been raging for some time now. When Ireland's Ron Delany was the best indoor miler in the world in the late 1950s, he was booed by American fans for merely running to win rather than smashing records, as the crowds demanded. The same thing now routinely happens in the record-happy sport of swimming, whose fanciers yawn through races that, however close and exciting they may be, fail to produce new marks. Not long ago two great industrial nations were locked in momentous debate over how Sadaharu Oh's career home-run record stacked up against Hank Aaron's. In a deep-think book, From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports, Amherst Professor Allen Guttmann terms this absorption with records one of the distinctive characteristics of contemporary sport.
Roughly one-fourth of the Guinness book is devoted to sports, and its sports editor, Stan Greenberg, receives billing on the cover second only to Norris McWhirter. But this isn't just another sports-record book. For one thing, it includes such obscure pastimes as sand yachting, parasailing and pigeon racing, and its sections on major sports contain records not readily available elsewhere. Did you know that a New Zealander named Paul Wilson has run 100 yards backwards in a world-record 13.3 seconds? Or that the world's lightest jockey was a 40-pound wisp named Kitchener, who rode in the 19th century? You can look it up in Guinness.
But the Guinness book also goes beyond sport to view practically everything as potentially fair game for records. Thus it contains sections on business, science, structures, the natural world—12 headings in all. As seen by Guinness, waterfalls don't just gurgle and splash; they compete. The winner is Venezuela's Salto Angel, which drops a "world record" 3,212 feet. Similarly, butterflies are locked in existential competition with a particular great monarch that has been clocked at a "world record" 17 mph. And a schoolgirl justifiably proud of herself for having finally stopped biting her nails nevertheless has a way to go before overtaking Shridhar Chillal of Poona, India, whose fingernails have grown to a "world record" length—nearly two feet in the case of one nail. To the editors of Guinness, the universe is a vast stadium caught up in the transcendent business of record breaking.
The idea behind all this is that world records can be as useful for finding one's bearings in life generally as they are in sport. Contrary to popular impression, however, the book stops somewhat short of anything goes. By definition, Guinness world records deal with the unprecedented and excessive, with the result that the book has the inevitable flavor of a circus sideshow; there are obligatory entries on Siamese twins and unfortunates born with 14 fingers. But the editors rule out gratuitous gore, sexual feats (a section on "swinging" deals, innocently enough, with playground swings) and stunts deemed unseemly, including that old undergraduate favorite, goldfish swallowing. Excluded, too, are collections of aluminum foil and pennies and certain dangerous activities such as that other old favorite of undergraduates, Volkswagen packing. There is also a taboo against ridiculous variations. As Greenberg says, "We'll get a letter saying, 'I did so many push-ups with my girl friend on my back.' If we put that in, somebody else will say, 'I did it with a horse on my back.' They're always coming up with variations, and you have to draw the line." McWhirter says, "One has to continually preserve the purity of records. To qualify, something has to be universally competitive, peculiar or unique."
Because records by their very nature are measurable and verifiable, the Guinness book scrupulously leaves to that other cut-and-paste compilation of superlatives. The Book of Lists, such subjective matters as the 10 greatest cartoon characters of all time. In its section on feminine beauty, Guinness says somewhat wistfully, "It has been suggested that, if the face of Helen of Troy (c. 1200 B.C.) was capable of launching 1,000 ships, then a unit of beauty sufficient to launch one ship should be called a millihelen." Millihelens not yet having been adopted by either the British government or the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, Guinness goes little further than to note that Miss World of 1954 measured a "Junoesque" 40-26-38, making her apparently the most full-bodied of all Miss World titlists.
For all of his insistence on maintaining standards and objectivity, McWhirter enjoys wide latitude in determining what goes into Guinness. Over the years, he has come to recognize records for Frisbee and Monopoly, having decided that they have become universal. Resourcefulness is evident in McWhirter's creation of a category for the largest entity bearing a person's name. Bolivia and the Americas were dwarfed, he found, by a super-cluster of galaxies named after University of California astronomer George O. Abell. "Abell's 7" now holds the world record as most "eponymous."
The book reflects McWhirter's whims on almost every page. While ruling out collections of pennies, he can't resist mentioning the world's largest ball of string. His book cautions that trying to break records for eating gargantuan quantities of food is "extremely inadvisable," but then lists records for the consumption of no fewer than 33 foodstuffs, among them eels, baked beans, pickled onions and prunes. It also relates that a Frenchman known as Mangetout holds the world record for eating a bicycle, which he did, tires and all, in 15 days. It calls that feat "the ultimate in stupidity," a superlative that, while neither measurable nor verifiable, is perhaps pardonable.
When the spirit moves him, McWhirter also spices his book with his own droll sense of humor. The reference to millihelens is but one example. Readers might also enjoy the report that a 19th-century German named Johann Thieme dug a world-record 23,311 graves before, "in 1826, his understudy dug his grave." Or that Rusty Skuse qualifies as the world's most tattooed lady, having been decorated to "within 15% of totality" by her husband; according to Guinness, the husband explained that he "always had designs on her."
One recent evening McWhirter drove to a large house in London's Winchmore Hill district and parked in front. He and his brother Ross grew up in the house, and it had been a happy, if formidable, place, boasting seven bedrooms, a circular driveway and a 210-pound laundress. But now, cast in evening shadows and occupied by strangers, it was dark and brooding. Looking at it, McWhirter said that until both of them took wives in 1957 (Ross at 31, Norris several months later at 32), they always roomed together.
"In a house with seven bedrooms?"
McWhirter seemed startled by the question. After a pause, he said, "Why we could have had separate rooms.... I guess it just never occurred to us."
The McWhirters were born on August 12, 1925, Norris at 7:40 p.m. and Ross 20 minutes later. Their father was William Allan McWhirter, a prominent Scottish-born editor of a London newspaper, who had an abiding faith in the virtues of fair play and legible handwriting. Both brothers were fascinated with what the British call facts 'n' figgers, and they also shared an interest in sports. As with many identical twins, their relationship seemed to be telepathic at times. They often communicated with little more than grunts and gestures, and were able to finish one another's sentences. When one of them put down an object, the other knew where it was. Their tastes were so similar that Ross, who disliked coffee, always puzzled over the fact that Norris enjoyed an occasional cup. Until their marriages—each was the other's best man—their only separation occurred when they served in the Royal Navy in World War II. Norris was detailed to a minesweeper in Singapore, Ross to one in the Mediterranean. The vessels made their separate ways to Valletta, Malta—where they collided.
The McWhirters later attended Oxford, where both were sprinters on the track team. Norris was faster; he anchored a British championship 440-yard-relay team—on which Ross ran the third leg. Norris also competed abroad on national teams. After Oxford, having moved back into their parents' house, Norris worked as a free-lance sportswriter while Ross reported on rugby and tennis for The Star. The brothers also launched a "fact service" for advertisers and for newspapers, yearbooks and encyclopedias and put out a monthly track magazine. Athletics World.
To all who knew them, the McWhirters were simply "the twins," a pair of endearing, if slightly fogyish, look-alikes who were forever spouting odd bits of information. Neil Allen, their first editorial assistant and now a well-known sportswriter for the Evening Standard, says, "Norris and Ross weren't the hard-drinking, loud-shouting Fleet Street types. They didn't smoke, hardly drank, and living at home, they seemed cut off a bit from real life. I remember one of them being surprised to learn that most people in Britain had mortgages. But they had very lucid minds, and I always knew I was with special people. I used to go home at night stimulated."
In view of their later involvement with the Guinness book, it seems almost too perfect that the McWhirters were on hand when their friend and fellow Oxonian, Roger Bannister, arrived at the black-cinder Iffley Road track in Oxford on May 6, 1954, to break the four-minute barrier in the mile—still one of the most celebrated of all world records. The McWhirters were covering the event for Athletics World and Norris was also the public-address announcer. The night before the race, anticipating that Bannister would succeed, Norris in his bathtub practiced what he called a "crescendo-suspense" announcement.
The McWhirters knew a lot even then about packaging world records. After the race, Norris teasingly intoned over the loudspeakers: "Ladies and gentlemen, here is the result of event number nine, the one mile. First, number 41, R. G. Bannister, of the Amateur Athletic Association and formerly of Exeter and Merton Colleges, with a time which is a new meeting and track record, and which, subject to ratification, will be a new English native, British national, British all-comers, European, British Empire and world record. The time was three...."
The rest of the 3:59.4 clocking was lost in cheers.
As fate would have it, a "rabbit" in that epochal race played a critical role in steering the McWhirters into the world-record business. He was Chris Chataway, the world-class distance runner, who was also an Oxford man and, at the time, a junior executive at the Guinness brewery. The story of how the record book was conceived has long since become a publishing legend. Sir Hugh Beaver, Guinness' managing director, wondered during a hunting trip what the world's fastest game bird might be and was surprised to find that there was no reference work that satisfactorily answered such questions; he decided that Guinness should publish a chronicle of such "superlatives" for distribution in pubs in which its famed stout was sold (and in which a book calculated to settle arguments might be useful); Chataway recommended the twins as compilers; four frantic months later, the McWhirters produced a book admirably suited, as Guinness' board chairman, Lord Iveagh, phrased it in his foreword, to "turn heat into light"; finally, what was supposed to be a one-shot venture to promote beer became a perennial bestseller.
The book's success—and the McWhirters' flamboyance in promoting it—made the twins celebrities in England. They also attracted attention as television sports commentators, confounding viewers on one memorable occasion by appearing simultaneously on different channels. And they became conspicuous as vigilantes of the fight, inveighing at every opportunity against big unions, big government, the Soviet Union and what they saw as the evils of permissiveness. They believed in unbridled competition and the need for authority, which in a sense is what they were promoting with their record book. Consistent though this may have been, the British public had trouble taking the McWhirters seriously, regarding them as sporting, square, patriotic and just a bit cranky. Even a close friend says, "Norris and Ross always reminded me of clowns who wanted to play Hamlet. They were amateurs who blundered into a horrible situation."
One of the twins' first political ventures occurred in the late '50s when they mischievously disrupted a ban-the-bomb rally by using a car with a loudspeaker on top to direct unsuspecting marchers into a field. In 1964 they ran for Parliament in different districts, each losing but each receiving, by a fine coincidence, 19,000-odd votes. Eventually the brothers worked out an arrangement whereby Norris concentrated a bit more on the Guinness book while Ross speechified and pamphleteered in behalf of the causes in which they both believed. Ross also fought a series of quixotic legal battles, researching them in the evenings, sometimes falling asleep at the dining-room table with law books piled high around him. One day Ross would be trying to block television from showing a film about Andy Warhol that he considered obscene; the next, he would be seeking an injunction against a ferry strike. In 1975, fatefully, he announced plans to post rewards for the capture of those responsible for the Belfast-style terrorism then plaguing London.
For his pains Ross himself became a victim of that terrorism. On Nov. 27 at 6:45 p.m., he opened the door of his large mock-Tudor house to admit his wife, Rosemary, who had just driven up in her Ford Granada. Two men stepped out of the bushes and opened fire with handguns, hitting the 50-year-old McWhirter in the head and stomach. The scene of the shooting was less than a mile from the Guinness Superlatives offices, and late-working employees heard the ambulance go by, never dreaming that a dying Ross McWhirter was inside. The next morning the Daily Mail headlined I.R.A. MURDER BOOK OF RECORDS MAN. (Fifteen months later, four I.R.A. members were convicted and imprisoned for a wave of bombings and the murders of six people, including Ross McWhirter.)
Although Ross was more visibly involved in politics, longtime friends, such as Chataway, know better than to downplay Norris McWhirter's role. After helping Bannister breach four minutes, Chataway himself broke a world record—for the 5,000 meters—the same year. He eventually left Guinness and served for 15 years as a Conservative member of Parliament before quitting to become an investment banker. A chesty little fellow with a Kennedyesque shock of reddish hair, Chataway says, "I don't think Norris will mind my saying that he was the senior partner of the two. He was a better sprinter than Ross, and I've always felt he was a little better in everything. My impression is that Ross tended to follow."
After his brother's death, Norris McWhirter wrote a book, Ross: The Story of a Shared Life, in which he describes the wrenching moment when he identified the body at the mortuary: "The experience of seeing, lifeless, a person who is genetically the same person as yourself has an unreality. There is you." He also wrote: "I felt that I was about to be reborn—not as half a person but as a double person."
Having taken the baton from his slain brother, the old Oxford anchor man has been running with it ever since. Today, Norris says he is too busy putting out the Guinness book to work on the political causes dear to Ross and himself, though he rejects the notion there was anything inconsequential about those causes. He says, "To take action on one's principles is a very, very rare thing, and that's what Ross was doing. He believed that the alternative to the rule of law was the rule of the jungle. He was absolutely doing the right thing."
The brewmasters at Arthur Guinness, Son & Co., Ltd. find it slightly awkward that their record book has come to enjoy great popularity among children. Rather than appear to be encouraging the young to imbibe, they have been slow to approve licensing in Great Britain of the kind of Guinness-related toys and promotions that are flourishing in the U.S. But the diversified, $1 billion-a-year company otherwise tends to keep hands off Guinness Superlatives, a taut operation that produces $600,000 in annual profits on sales of $4 million. As one brewery executive puts it, "We just let Norris kind of bash away on his own."
McWhirter bashes away in an office in which every available surface, even the floor, is piled high with papers. The Guinness book generates 20,000 letters a year, mostly submissions for new records and challenges of existing ones, and while McWhirter has plenty of help in answering them, he says with a proprietary air, "I get the tough ones." He corresponds with experts in various fields and plows through heaps of magazines and nonfiction books in an effort to keep abreast. "You develop a technique in reading so that words like longest, shortest, biggest and other 'ests' jump out at you," he says.
McWhirter is painstaking about approving records, insisting on corroboration by eyewitnesses, newspaper clippings and photographs. He recalls with a shudder the time a young Englishman wrote in claiming to have broken the record for standing 12-sided English three-penny pieces, one on top of another, on their edges. "The record was 11 and this chap said he had stacked 13," McWhirter relates. "He even included a photograph, but I didn't like the looks of it, so I phoned him and started asking questions. He finally said, 'All right, I'll tell you how I did it.' I said, 'Good, that's exactly what I want to know.' He had used a powerful adhesive and attached a chair, table and carpet to the ceiling. Then he suspended the coins from the table. He had photographed it all and simply turned the picture upside down."
Smiling tightly, McWhirter adds, "He deserves the world record for ingenuity."
Actually, McWhirter generally enjoys seeing records broken. Apart from the fact that they justify the new editions he publishes each year, he happens to believe that new records are usually tied up with progress. "A record for the worst road crash, that's not progress," he concedes. "But most records are broken because of advances in training, technology or something else. The Apollo program, for example, was the bit-by-bit culmination of an incredible number of man-years of effort, involving 400,000 people and a $25 billion budget. But it also required the existence of the computer, without which it wouldn't have been possible to do third-dimensional navigation fast enough."
Generally speaking, the world is progressing at a rate that McWhirter finds satisfactory. For his book's 25th British edition, he compiled a table revealing that since 1955 the world record for the largest tanker has been broken 19 times, improving—if that's the word—by a total of 1,190%; the deepest ocean descent has been exceeded three times for a 269% improvement; the men's high jump 17 times for a 10% improvement; and so on. One exception is the mile record for thoroughbreds, which has improved just 1%—from Citation's 1:33[2/5] in 1950 to Dr. Fager's current 1:32[1/5]. With disdain, McWhirter says, "Those damned horses—they don't have much more intelligence than a pigeon." No thanks to thoroughbreds, roughly 23% of the contents of the book changes each year, including revisions for such seemingly immutable records as the world's highest mountain; that one was "broken" in 1973 when the Chinese surveyed Mount Everest and officially measured its height, long given as 29,002 feet, as 29,028 feet.
The Guinness book contributes to this boom in world records chiefly by stimulating the activities that constitute Guinnessport. There has always been the kind of behavior that Shakespeare called "midsummer madness," and in bygone years barnstorming pilots, marathon dancers and flagpole sitters were forever claiming world records. They usually documented their feats with newspaper clippings they carried from town to town, and reliable comparisons between rival claims were all but impossible. As a result, the crazes in which they participated were just that—crazes, fading away as quickly as they began.
The Guinness book gives such zany stunts an air of permanence. As McWhirter puts it "By acting as a kind of clearinghouse, the book is a catalyst for a lot of record breaking. Nowadays, a record only has to be printed for somebody else to break it." Lest the book not be catalyst enough, McWhirter further encourages record breaking by issuing certificates to record breakers and selling them neckties (at $6). He also acts as the unofficial czar of Guinnessport. Noting that in order for records to mean anything, "like must be compared with like," he decreed that claimants for the hot dog-eating record must have consumed two-ounce franks. He ruled that the rolling-pin-throw record is open to women only. Shoeshining? He declared that record available only to teams of four teen-agers and, oh, yes, shoes must be "on the hoof." When setting records for the rocking-chair, balancing-on-one-foot and sundry other marathons, the competitors, he ruled, may take one five-minute rest per hour. McWhirter doesn't just compile his compendium of records. He nurtures it, hovers over it like a mother hen.
But treacherous mines dot the landscape and for all of McWhirter's care, missteps occur. For example, the name of the Indiana couple that owns the world's most productive milk cow is mistakenly given in the current U.S. edition as "Becher" instead of "Beecher." Last year a man named Wayne Thompson was credited with having broken the record for distance swimming when he swam 1,864 miles down the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Belatedly, it was discovered that Thompson had used fins, a violation of Guinness standards. His name has been excised from the current edition. In grape eating the test once was: How fast can a pound of grapes be consumed? The record dropped steadily from more than two minutes to 34.6 seconds, at which point a claimant reported that within 34.6 seconds, he consumed three pounds, one ounce. Guinness went for the switch and recognized that feat as the record, resulting, apparently, in this ludicrous test: How many grapes can be consumed in 34.6 seconds?
Some students of the Guinness book whisper that its contents are unduly influenced by McWhirter's anti-Soviet sentiments. They note his refusal to confer the world record for longevity on Soviet Georgians who are said to have lived to 150 or more. The book recognizes instead an American, Delina Filkins, who died in 1928 at 113 years 214 days. McWhirter insists that the Soviet claims are unauthenticated, as do other authorities, and he rejects on the same grounds the claim that Charlie Smith of Bartow, Fla. is 137. But McWhirter and the other editors are not immune to outside pressure. Though McWhirter denies it, some have claimed that because of Pentagon protest, a passage blaming a "civilian-U.S. military consortium" for the record plundering of the Reichsbank in the waning days of World War II was deleted from the U.S. edition. The fact that the passage remains in the British edition suggests that McWhirter still considers it accurate.
Any mistakes and distortions that infiltrate Guinness' pages are probably less worrisome than an image problem the book has—namely, that a lot of what others represent to be "Guinness records" are not that at all. One reason is that the book comes out just once a year, trapping many apparent record breakers between editions. In South Bend last year, 1,223 Notre Dame and St. Mary's students gathered on a field, put Jackson Browne's Running on Empty on the record player and played a rollicking two-hour game of musical chairs that eclipsed the listed record of 1,162 participants. Alas, Guinness meanwhile received word of a game played by 1,789 students at East High School in Salt Lake City, and it was this record that appeared in the next edition.
"We thought we were in the book for sure," grieved one Notre Dame student. As happens with many other aspiring record breakers, the Notre Dame-St. Mary's legions were waylaid by the fact that much of Guinnessport is played blind, without full knowledge of what the competition is up to.
Something else that participants in Guinnessport often fail to understand is that the book doesn't recognize just any old record. Publicity seekers and fast-buck operators are particularly careless in this regard. There was the news out of Los Angeles last fall that Klymax the Psychic Wizard intended to get into Guinness by driving north on the Golden State Freeway with silver dollars lodged in his eye sockets, a blindfold covering the silver dollars, a hood over his head and his wrists manacled to the steering wheel. The Wizard announced he would be guided through traffic by "forces of his psychic energy." If Klymax were psychic, he would have divined that Guinness wasn't interested in such a feat.
The difficulties of keeping Guinnessport under control are well appreciated at the Manhattan offices of Sterling Publishing, the Guinness book's American command center. Sterling's hustling chairman, David Boehm, is editor of the U.S. edition and the person mainly responsible for negotiating sales of the Guinness greeting cards, puzzles, movies, museums and the rest of what he calls "the ancillary things." A courtly, bearded man who echoes McWhirter's emphasis on the "purity" of world records, Boehm nevertheless ran into trouble two summers ago when he licensed a festival in Atlantic City that was supposed to produce scores of new Guinness records.
What it mostly produced was embarrassment. Four women carried bricks for nine miles along the Boardwalk, only to learn that this "world record" feat had not been properly verified. After playing a pinball machine for a "world record" 91 hours, another participant discovered too late that at the time the book did not recognize such an activity. And contestants in a marathon belly-dancing competition quarreled bitterly over whether a particular belly had stopped dancing. The festival collapsed under the weight of threatened lawsuits, and Boehm now says, "It was ridiculous. The people we had running the festival didn't provide proper supervision. We'll think twice about getting involved in something like that again."
Might a bit of thought also be given to Guinnessport generally? It is clear that the most delightful records in the Guinness book—and there are many—tend to be those that are unplanned and unexpected. If there is pleasure in learning that the tail feathers of the onagadori are a world-record 34 feet, one reason is that the Japanese fowl wasn't trying to get into Guinness. By contrast, the very purpose of Guinnessport is to crack the book's pages. Such attempts tend to be what historian Daniel Boorstin has called "pseudo events," occurrences stage-managed largely for publicity. The listed record-setting 86-foot desperation basket that Barry Hutchings scored for Sutherlin (Ore.) High School was an event. The record 75-hour basketball game played at West Virginia's Bethany College was a pseudo event. Events are better.
Yet there is a certain fascination in reading that Kathy Wafler of Wolcott, N.Y. managed to cut an unbroken apple peel 172'4" long. There is also some comfort in learning that a discrepancy in the record for keeping a Life Saver on the tongue is being straightened out. The British edition gives the record as 87 minutes and the U.S. puts it at 102 minutes. It seems that Boehm wasn't aware of McWhirter's dictum that the clock run only as long as the hole in the middle is visible. A regular Solomon, that McWhirter.
Guinnessport's redeeming feature is that it somehow manages to be at once democratic and exclusive. Yes, you, too, can be a world-record holder. After all, hasn't Roger Guy English of La Jolla, Calif. been in Guinness at various times for dancing the twist, for marathon kissing and for staying awake—three records for a fellow whom nobody would mistake for Jesse Owens? But don't tell Salt Lake City gymnastics instructor Rick Murphy that getting into Guinness is of small moment. Murphy broke the 50-yard handstand record in 1975 and had his name in one edition before somebody else broke the record.
"People ask if I really was in Guinness, and I say, 'Yeah, I was next to the guy with two heads,' " Murphy says. "But deep down, I was proud to make that book. It's the best thing I've ever done."
McWhirter notes that much of Guinnessport, like a great deal of sport generally, is in an early stage of development, which is the primary reason why records are broken so frequently. He unflinchingly predicts that eventually records will improve by ever smaller margins at ever greater intervals. Although more precise means of measurement could probably be adopted to keep the records falling, McWhirter warns, "If you cut records too fine, it becomes meaningless. You're just showing off technology." Somewhat defensively, he adds, "I know that some records are more important than others. What many people don't realize is that only 3% of the book is devoted to zany records. It's just that the media pays so much attention to them." In other words, McWhirter is no indiscriminate record monger.
But McWhirter also points out that all records, even Roger Bannister's historic mile, are, in a sense, contrived. He says, "What made the four-minute mile special is the appeal of round numbers. To say that somebody ran 5,280 feet in less than 240 seconds doesn't sound quite the same." Expressing admiration for Americans for faring so well in Guinnessport, McWhirter says, "It's because Americans have such a high level of achievement. The underachievers are driven into zanier outlets." He adds, "Life isn't all frivolous, I know that. But it's not all serious, either. It's the same with records. There's room for all kinds. I don't like saying something is beneath me."
Which explains, perhaps, why McWhirter was at the sprawling BBC Television Center in London one recent Sunday morning, getting ready for a taping of Record Breakers, a children's show loosely based on the Guinness book. Inside the studio he peppered stagehands, performers and everybody else with odd information. Did they know that there were 17,000 classified odors? Or that Finnish scientists had achieved the lowest laboratory-produced temperatures? Eavesdropping over a monitor in the control booth, Alan Russell, the show's producer, said with a sigh, "Norris can tell you how many shows we've done and how many chips I've had for lunch."
Once the show began, McWhirter proved a dead-game performer. He climbed into one leg of the world's largest blue jeans (waist: 76 inches), then peered out, eyes blinking, like a miner emerging into bright sunlight. He awkwardly hoisted the world's heaviest cat (42 pounds 10 ounces) onto a scale, getting clawed in the process. And he interviewed Christa Tybus, holder of the world Hula-Hoop endurance record (24 hours 30 minutes), who twirled a hoop on her hips as they talked.
McWhirter also answered unrehearsed questions about world records from the audience, which was made up entirely of schoolchildren. He slipped up only when he said the world's largest airplane, Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose, was in a hangar in Long Bay, Calif. instead of Long Beach. Otherwise he was flawlessly in command, assuring the youngsters that the world's largest aircraft carrier was the Dwight D. Eisenhower and that the biggest secondary school was DeWitt Clinton High in New York City, which in the 1930s enrolled 12,000 students. To this last he added, "I should think the headmaster wouldn't know the names of the teachers, let alone the students."
He got a nice laugh on that one. Michael John Poultney, the chap who can recite π to 5,050 places, would have found it a hard act to follow.
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From a California swimming pool come the soggy sounds of Handel's "Water Music, "played by Mark Gottlieb of Olympia, Wash.
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Backwards sprinter Paul Wilson of New Zealand keeps an eye on the finish line. Michael Cairney of London prepares to topple 169,713 dominoes.
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Iron-lunged Mel Robson of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England huffed and puffed and puffed again until he blew a hot-water bottle to pieces.
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Who wrote the 1872 novel in which Tweedledum and Tweedledee first appear? | The Curious Origins of Tweedledum and Tweedledee | Interesting Literature
The Curious Origins of Tweedledum and Tweedledee
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Interesting facts about the surprising history of Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Who is being described? Born in the north-west of England near Manchester, he was a literary man who was also noted in his day for his interest in science and mathematics. In terms of physical appearance, he was known for being particularly tall, considerably taller than average. He gave us Tweedledum and Tweedledee, pioneered a system of code-writing, wrote one of his most famous works for a young girl, and appears to have had an interest in the occult.
The above may sound like a description of Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, but in fact we’re talking about John Byrom (1692-1763), English poet and the real originator of Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Byrom was born in Manchester on 29 February 1692, and would grow up to be a notable poet and hymn-writer,
principally remembered now for writing ‘Christians Awake, Salute the Happy Morn’, supposedly as a Christmas gift for his daughter. He also pioneered geometric (modern) shorthand, later perfected by Isaac Pitman.
But perhaps these days Byrom’s greatest legacy is the one he bequeathed to subsequent writers, particularly Lewis Carroll: Tweedledum and Tweedledee. But where did the characters come from?
Well, aptly for a hymn-writer, Byrom took his cue from the world of music. In particular, Byrom invented Tweedledum and Tweedledee in a poem that satirised and mocked two rivalling schools of music at the time. (‘Tweedle’ from twiddle, as in to tweak an instrument.) Byrom’s poem runs:
Some say, compar’d to Bononcini
That Mynheer Handel’s but a Ninny
Others aver, that he to Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle
Strange all this Difference should be
‘Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!
So, the two names first appear in a poem devised to highlight the petty disagreements between two musicians and their followers, with the names designed to suggest that very little actually separates the two factions, in practice. So although the modern reader may most readily associate Tweedledum and Tweedledee with Lewis Carroll, who used the names for the two fat brothers who appear in Through the Looking-Glass, it is to John Byrom that we owe a debt for (supposedly) originating the names, and for suggesting the idea of two people whose differences are not so great as they would have us believe.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee also appear in an ‘elegy’ by Peter Pindar , the pseudonym of satirist John Wolcot (1738-1819): ‘Poor Tweedledum must also taxes pay, / Must bend to Puff, or woe to Tweedledum!’ This poem also predates Carroll’s 1871 novel, and is used with a similar meaning to Byrom’s original.
Five years after the pair showed up in Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, the anti-war nursery rhyme ‘Tweedledum and Tweedledee’ was published in Extraordinary Nursery Rhymes (1876):
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
And what was it all about, think ye?
About a penny rattle.
So nations foolishly make wars,
And loud their cannons rattle;
When oft they have as little cause,
As Tweedledum for battle.
But it was Carroll who would really fix the twins in the popular consciousness, of course. Carroll was obviously aware of the nursery rhyme (and may also have known Byrom’s original epigram), but in Through the Looking-Glass, the brothers agree to have a battle but never actually go through with it. Although it’s often assumed that the two characters in Carroll’s novel are twins, they might alternatively be viewed as mirror-images of each other, especially since they complete each other’s sentences.
We’ve discussed Carroll’s fascinating life and literary achievement in our Interesting Facts about Lewis Carroll .
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"Which is to be master?":
Language as Power in Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Beatrice Turner (bio)
In her introduction to The Case of Peter Pan, Or The Impossibility of Children's Fiction, Jacqueline Rose observes that, "[i]f children's fiction builds an image of the child inside the book, it does so in order to secure the child who is outside the book, the one who does not come so easily within its grasp" (2). Subsequent critics such as Karín Lesnik-Oberstein, Roderick McGillis, and, more recently, Perry Nodelman, quite rightly warn us to be wary of attempts both fictional and critical to "secure" and fix the "real" child. We should be wary, but we should also look closely at these maneuvers to fix and to define. Under examination, such moves not only reveal the inherent inequality in the power relationship between the adult and the child, but they also draw attention to the gap itself—the space between the child described in the text and the child outside it who cannot be described.
The Case of Peter Pan claims that children's literature, produced out of the desires, fears, and morals of adult authority, speaks only to an adult conception of what the child is. In this way, Rose argues, children's literature, literature that claims to speak to and of the child, is impossible: there is no child, no coherent, innocent, extra-linguistic entity that literature can speak to and of. Rose states that "[c]hildren's fiction has never completely severed its links with a philosophy which sets up the child as a pure point of origin in relation to language, sexuality and the state" (8). In order to display the child as something outside and free from the taint of language, as Rousseau used Emile to claim, children's fiction works hard to suppress the traces of experience, ambiguity, and deception that are attendant on language (Rose 15–17). Peter Pan, says Rose, was "worked into a spectacle which gleamed with the overbright innocence characteristic of any act of repression proclaiming its purity to the world" (72). But in order for the play to function in that way, she argues, it had to be extracted from a text [End Page 243] intended for adults (The Little White Bird, 1902) and cleansed of any troubling questions about the power inherent in "the act of narration itself" (72).
The Case of Peter Pan claims that these acts of repression and suppression, of keeping at bay that which most threatens the concept of the innocent child underpinning children's fiction, will inevitably fail at certain moments in the text, at which point the critic will uncover it. Peter Pan is cast as a text that actively tries to hide its troublesome elements: "what is important about Peter Pan is the very partial nature of the success with which it removes this problem [of our relationship to childhood and language] from our view" (41). And yet these troubling aspects are not necessarily deliberately concealed by children's fiction; in fact, quite the opposite happens for at least two crucial "Golden Age" texts: the Alice books. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871), far from requiring the recovery of structural oppositions "between the child and the adult, between oral and written culture, between innocence and decay," place them very clearly on the surface of the narrative (Rose 50). 1
Rose argues that it is through close attention to the language of the narration that the critic discovers the repressed halves of these binaries; yet, in the Alice texts, it is the plot or story that acts out and draws attention to what happens when an adult wields language. Carroll's narratives, I will argue, are knowingly engaged in a debate about authority and definition and deliberately direct the reader's gaze to the gap between the fictional child within the book and the "real" child outside the book. The Alice texts enact the relationships between subject and object, fiction and reality, through language. To wield language in these texts, be it intelligible, "normal," or otherwise, is to have the power to define, to create, and to destroy. When language ceases, so does existence.
An adult author, Carroll writes a child who, as we shall see, ceases when the narrative ends. The child only exists in an intelligible way through language, which is rule-bound and, above all, the province of the adult. I read the Alice texts as exposing and engaging with precisely those problems that The Case of Peter Pan identified, and that subsequent critics have expanded upon. Lesnik-Oberstein has observed that, in viewing childhood through the sort of focus Rose is interested in, children "are seen primarily as being constituted by, and constituting, sets of meanings in language" ("Childhood" 2). McGillis warns that "[l]anguage does not simply state truths; it creates them. We forget this when we blithely assume that we know what is best for children, that we know what literature they should and should not read" (19). Lastly, Nodelman has recently stated that "[c]hildhood, and a childlike point of view are … constructs of adult minds that adults work to impose on children, in part by means of children's literature" (The Hidden Adult 193). That the observations of The Case of Peter Pan seem to require a sort of constant restating indicates how tremendously difficult Western culture, and much of children's literature criticism, still finds them to accept. Lesnik-Oberstein raised this point when she commented that nearly twenty years after the publication of The Case of [End Page 244] Peter Pan, critics did not seem able to divorce themselves from the notion of a "real" and innocent child who is somehow free from adult intervention and creation, and this dependence seems to persist (Introduction 18–19). To question the innocence of the child runs counter to persistent myths of childhood upon which we rely, and yet, as the Alice texts demonstrate, the ontological status of the child and the possibility of its existence independent of the adult had already been put up for debate at the very commencement of the "Golden Age" of children's literature.
When Alice climbs through the drawing room looking-glass and into what she calls "Looking-glass House," one of the first things she finds is a book that seems to be, she thinks, "all in some language I don't know" (Looking-Glass 101), but she realizes that "it's a Looking-glass book, of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again" (102). However, when she does so, the poem that she reads seems hardly more intelligible. It is, of course, "Jabberwocky," a poem that has (like several other poems, characters, and quotations in the two Alice texts) taken on a sort of metatextual life outside the context of the narrative it is part of.
Just over a quarter of the entire poem consists of "nonsense" words made up by Carroll; making the words "go the right way," though, does not initially appear to be of much use in deciphering the text, which famously begins:
'Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogroves,And the mome raths outgrabe.
(102)
Alice struggles to make some kind of meaning from this, objecting that "it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are!" before concluding for the time being that "somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate" (103). However, later on she has an encounter with Humpty Dumpty, who provides her with a set of meanings that Alice is content to accept in the absence of any others. Her dialogue with Humpty Dumpty is a famous episode in the text—famous, at least, among academics of the philosophy of language, since it is "often cited as defining an extreme limit in semantic theory" ( Hancher 49 ).
While he is happy to help Alice with the "hard words" of "Jabberwocky," Humpty Dumpty is also a linguistic outlaw, assigning his own private meanings arbitrarily and "reduc[ing] to absurdity the nominalist and subjectivist proposal that words derive their meanings from the intentions of the persons who utter them" ( Hancher 49 ). The following much-quoted passage illustrates this:
"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'"
"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,'" Alice objected. [End Page 245]
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all" (142).
While this exchange is terribly puzzling for poor Alice, she does not seem to question in any way Humpty Dumpty's right or ability to bend language to his will; in fact, she accepts him as a sort of semantic guide and requests that, since "[y]ou seem very clever at explaining words, Sir," he explain "Jabberwocky" (143). This he proceeds to do, and while the meanings he ascribes to the "nonsense" words may seem just as arbitrary as the meanings he attributes to existing words, they do in fact conform to the basic rules of grammar that inform "Jabberwocky" and that prevent it from being completely unintelligible. Thus, he informs Alice that "'[b]rillig' means four o'clock in the afternoon—the time when you begin broiling things for dinner"; "'toves' are something like badgers—they're something like lizards—and they're something like corkscrews"; and "[t]o 'gyre' is to go round and round like a gyroscope. To 'gimble' is to make holes like a gimlet" (143–44).
His definitions may be completely random, or they may be based on loose sound and word associations, but Humpty Dumpty is still submissive to the rules that govern syntax: he observes, for example, that "gyre" and "gimble" must be verbs given that their association with the "slithy toves," as something they "did," suggests that they are actions carried out by the toves. His definitions, to borrow from Ferdinand de Saussure, play with parole whilst adhering to the rules of langue. Alice accepts his definitions as originating from someone who has the power to wield language in a way that she does not, subordinating herself to Humpty Dumpty even though earlier she had objected to his use of the word "glory" to mean "a nice knock-down argument."
What this exchange points to is Alice's recognition that, even while he employs a confusing, secretive, and entirely personal system of generating meaning that bears no resemblance to the language she knows and uses, Humpty Dumpty appears to Alice to have some right to do so. He is an adult figure, and it is to his status as adult, and the authority that status confers, that she submits. Humpty Dumpty, in turn, does not attempt to dispute or open up the syntactic rules of the language game that establishes the limits of meaning. As an individual who generates individual meanings, he remains submissive to the dominant culture and its institutional branches, which govern the extent to which he can control language.
Alice's exchange with Humpty Dumpty, and in fact most of her exchanges with the inhabitants of Wonderland and the Looking-glass world, are marked by this power imbalance, an imbalance that is worked out at the level of language. When the Dormouse tells his story about the sisters who lived in the treacle-well, his conflation of the different meanings of "well" results in a [End Page 246] complete breakdown in understanding between Alice and the other members of the tea party:
"Where did they draw the treacle from?"
"You can draw water out of a water-well," said the Hatter; "so I should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well—eh, stupid?"
"But they were in the well," Alice said to the Dormouse, not choosing to notice this last remark.
"Of course they were," said the Dormouse: "well in".
(55)
Alice's attempts to apply what she understands as sense to the tea party conversation ("I've had nothing yet … so I can't take more") only seem to lead her into logical quicksand (52).
The Alice texts are littered with utterances like that of the Hatter, which "seemed to have no meaning in it, and yet … was certainly English" (52), and the entire narrative may be considered a complex linguistic joke at the expense of Alice and the reader, neither of whom possesses the requisite knowledge to make sense. Whatever rules are being adhered to here, they are ones to which Alice is denied access, and as such she almost always comes out second best in the debates in which she is engaged. Alice herself, recognizing her powerlessness when it comes to playing the language games of Wonderland and Looking-glass world, identifies and desires the source of power as deriving from being a grown-up. When she does win an argument, it is because she quite literally "grows up."
In the courtroom scene near the end of Wonderland, the King of Hearts orders her out on the grounds that Rule Forty-two states "[a]ll persons more than a mile high to leave the court," claiming that it is the "oldest rule in the book" (83). "'Then it ought to be Number One,' said Alice. The King turned pale and shut his note-book hastily" (83). Alice is right, of course, but she is also now much, much larger than everyone else in the courtroom. Until this point, her attempts to point out logical inconsistencies have been ignored or shouted down. It is only when she possesses an advantage in size, much as an adult does over a child, that she confidently believes that Wonderland's logic is faulty. Alice appears to carry the memory of this power with her into the Looking-glass world, too. When she is invited to participate in the chess game, for example, she confides to the Red Queen that "of course I should like to be a Queen, best" (108).
My concern here is not so much to unravel the games played, or the semantic theories critics have attributed various episodes as mocking, but rather to examine how power is distributed through the ability to play such games with language. In one sense, Humpty Dumpty is right when he states that the only question, when it comes to the creation of meaning, is "which is to be master." Alice's correct belief that he is forcing words into bearing meanings they cannot carry is ultimately of no consequence in Wonderland: she is powerless as both outsider and child. The adult creatures of the Alice texts demonstrate, through [End Page 247] their mastery of an alien language game and their ability to define Alice at will, that it is the adult who governs and oversees the struggle to generate meaning. The child becomes defined through a language that adults have the power to use, but that child not possess a reciprocal power to define the adult or the surrounding world according to a corresponding "childish" language. Nonsense language, parody and, crucially, fantasy, may, according to Linda Shires,
be considered similar in one respect: they explode or transgress the frame of the "real" and thus open up a space of uncertainty. Pushing towards the realm of non-signification where nothing is stable, these forms open a gap between signifier and signified which makes a definite meaning or absolute reality impossible to attain.
(267)
The Alice texts, rich in all three of these modes, certainly resist definite meaning for the reader or critic; they also resist definition by Alice. However, they are not meaning-less, in the same way that nonsense language is not a language of a literal lack of sense. To arrive at a fixed meaning for "Jabberwocky" is not possible, but neither can we claim that it is "without sense," since it can be read. Something truly without sense could not be read: it would be an arbitrary collection of words or letters; it would not be language. Perhaps what we can say instead is that parody, fantasy, and nonsense, in transgressing the frame of "the real," establish new relationships between signifier and signified that readers, and adventurers from the "real" world, like Alice, cannot comprehend.
Alice, a child who finds herself to be within a dream of a surreal and anarchic world (and the question of who it is who does the dreaming is an important one here, a point I will return to later), finds that even in the wildest lands of fantasy, certain rules must be adhered to. In order for the narrative to retain some sort of meaning, however open-ended or nonsensical that meaning might appear, it must be constructed according to known rules of syntax. Leila May, commenting on Wittgenstein's theory of "language games," notes that "a language whose rules cannot be followed or can be broken at whim is an impossible language," which creates "an impossible life" or "a form of madness" (82). Certainly there is much that Alice experiences that suggests that Wonderland and the Looking-glass world are places of madness, but as May points out, the Cheshire Cat uses a logical argument to prove his assertion that everyone is mad in Wonderland (82). So, while there is madness, there is also logic, and there are rules governing the language games: they are merely rules that are so alien to Alice and to readers accustomed to the "normal" rules of the English language that neither can participate in the game.
But to follow the logical arguments of those who live in the two Alice "worlds" can be an alienating exercise, and in fact an appeal to logic usually signifies a point at which Alice's understanding of the world is about to confront a disconcertingly different one. The Cheshire Cat demonstrates this with his rigorous, yet faulty, application of logic to prove his own insanity: [End Page 248]
"To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?"
"I suppose so," said Alice.
"Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."
(48)
By the same logic, he tells Alice, she too is mad, because only mad people come to Wonderland, and the Pigeon uses a similar logic to prove that Alice is a serpent. As Tweedledee puts it, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic" (120). That is not, of course, logic as Alice understands it, or as readers outside the text understand it. It is, however, what logic is in the worlds Alice finds herself in: a secret system that appears meaningless to those outside it. Knowledge of the game's rules is a signifier of power, and Alice, ignorant of how this logic works, is powerless. Those who do know the rules can tell Alice what she is: she is variously a snake, mad, a "fabulous monster" (the Unicorn's definition) and Mary-Ann, the White Rabbit's housemaid (153).
The texts grant linguistic control to those who inhabit Wonderland and the Looking-glass world and, in doing so, define them as adults. They use this control in a very adult way, too: they exercise the adult's right to tell the child what she is. Perhaps the most obvious instance of an imposed definition occurs in Alice's exchange with the Pigeon. Alice has just swallowed a portion of the Caterpillar's mushroom, which has caused her neck to lengthen like a snake's body, so she finds herself attacked by a Pigeon who insists that Alice is a "serpent" intent on stealing her eggs (40). Alice's attempts to convince the Pigeon otherwise are unsuccessful, partly due to the fact that the physical and mental manipulations and changes wrought on her by Wonderland have rendered her ambivalent about her own identity:
"But I'm not a serpent, I tell you!" said Alice. "I'm a—I'm a—"
"Well! What are you?" said the Pigeon. "I can see you're trying to invent something!"
"I—I'm a little girl," said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through, that day.
"A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt.
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When Alice tries to prove her argument by telling the pigeon that "little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do," the Pigeon merely expands her definition of Alice as serpent to include all other little girls. "I don't believe it," the Pigeon replies, "but if they do, why then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say" (41). The Pigeon, a mother and an adult, reserves the right to define little girls, or children, by her own logic. Serpents eat eggs, so if little girls eat eggs, then they must be serpents too, just as the Cheshire Cat insists that Alice's presence in Wonderland is enough to prove her madness. [End Page 249]
Far more serious for Alice and her sense of identity is the terrifying revelation of Tweedledum and Tweedledee. She is not real, they tell her; she is merely a part of the Red King's dream:
"He's dreaming now," said Tweedledee: "and what do you think he's dreaming about?"
Alice said "Nobody can guess that."
"Why, about you!" Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly.
"And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?"
"Where I am now, of course," said Alice.
"Not you!" Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. "You'd be nowhere.
Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!"
"If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out—bang!—just like a candle!"
"I shouldn't!" Alice exclaimed indignantly. "Besides, if I'm only a sort of a thing in his dream, what are you, I should like to know?"
"Ditto," said Tweedledum.
"Ditto, ditto!" cried Tweedledee.
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee seem curiously complacent about their own precarious fictional existence, and indeed the existential status of the Looking-glass world itself, which, if those two "great schoolboys" live in it, must be as fictional as they are (120). When Alice tries to quiet the pair for fear they should wake the King, Tweedledum remarks,
"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him … when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."
"I am real!" said Alice, and began to cry."
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But Alice is not, by Tweedledum and Tweedledee's definition, real, and nor are they, and nor is the Looking-glass world. Their existence all depends on the Red King continuing to dream them, and as Tweedledum points out, they have no reciprocal power to disrupt his dreaming.
This conversation embodies the problem of the adult writing the child into fiction: the child, or the idea of the child, only exists so long as the author "keeps dreaming." Alice, the subject of the Red King's dream, will "go out" when he "leaves off." At the narrative's end, it is suggested that, instead of going out she merely wakes up into the framing narrative of reality; but this also supposes that it is Alice who does the dreaming. She wonders out loud, "who it was that dreamed it all … it must have been either me or the Red King. He was part of my dream, of course—but then I was part of his dream, too!" (180). Nina Auerbach claims that the Looking-glass world is possibly the Red King's dream, a mirroring of Wonderland about which there is "no equivocation" as to who dreamed it: "the dainty child carries the threatening world of Wonderland within her" (32).
While Alice does indeed seem to wake up, the Red King never does, as far as we know: I would suggest that he remains dreaming until the narrative's end. With his tasseled red night-cap, snoring in a rumpled heap, he does not make [End Page 250] for a kingly figure, but he does share a comic affinity with the other inventor in the narrative, the rather more hopeless White Knight. Both these absurd characters stand, in different ways, for the creative authority of the narrative, and Alice does indeed "go out" when that authority ceases the narrative. What Tweedledum and Tweedledee call to the attention of Alice and the implied reader is Alice's fictional and subordinate status: she exists only as long as the narrative is sustained by the author who created it. The author is directly complicit in highlighting this problem, too, being at great pains to emphasize Alice's existence in the future. When Tweedledum and Tweedledee are dressed for battle, the narrator remarks that "Alice said afterwards she had never seen such a fuss made about anything in her life," and it is the White Knight's song, we are told, that "[o]f all the strange things that Alice saw in her journey Through the Looking-Glass … was the one that she always remembered most clearly" (127, 163). This authorial insistence on a life that continues beyond the time span of the present adventures demonstrates that Alice, along with all the inhabitants of the story, is existentially at the mercy of the implied author. Within the narrative, Alice is permitted to look back on her adventures from a distant future in the story timeframe, but for a reality outside of the narrative, she is, as the concluding poem admits, a fictitious ghost who haunts the author "phantomwise" (181).
Even while these texts attempt to create for Alice a dreamscape in which the child, asleep and inexperienced, experiences freedom and a bizarre adventure that is permissible only in fantasy, they confirm that the child is defined through and in language and, as such, there are ordering limits on what she may dream. In order to retain any chance of intelligibility, language remains ultimately dependent on adult-imposed structures, and it is this language that describes the child in the text. The Pigeon's definition of Alice as a serpent is considered viable in Wonderland logic, just as Humpty Dumpty's linguistic contortions trump Alice's knowledge of what words can mean, and the Mad Hatter's "logic in excess" defeats her so utterly that the only thing to do is to get up and leave a conversation she cannot hope to participate in meaningfully ( May 83 ). These instances of the adult ability to control and define both language and the idea of what a child is point toward the Tweedledum and Tweedledee episode, wherein lies the problem. In stating that the child Alice is being dreamed by the adult Red King, and that she will cease to exist when he ceases to dream, the text articulates precisely the dilemma of children's fiction that Rose identifies: that a child is a category written by the adult.
Adults, as the arbiters of language, create the child, and they also create the signs by which the child shall be described: innocence, inexperience, a lack of knowledge. The distribution of power between the adult and the child is unequal: the adult has the power to write and to define the child, while the child remains a passive thing described within a text, and in doing so the experienced adult leaves this defined child with a trace of their adultness, their experience, and their knowledge of the world. The very notion of the innocent child, which [End Page 251] Rose exposes as merely an adult desire, is revealed as an impossibility. In William Blake's Songs of Innocence, the narrator describes how he wrote the Songs: he "pluck'd a hollow reed … made a rural pen" and "stain'd the water clear" ("Introduction" Songs of Innocence, lines 16–18). The clear, pure water becomes "stain'd" or tainted with writing. Language, the province of the adult, has already infected the pure, Arcadian landscape of the child even as it invents the child, and to write the child is therefore to irreparably mark it with adulthood.
This is almost a paraphrase of Jacques Derrida's famous declaration that "il n'y a pas de hors-texte" (Grammatology 158, original emphasis). I take this to mean not that nothing literally exists outside of writing, or the text, but rather that we are unable to access the "outside," to reach through writing and access a pure point of origin. Following this line of reasoning, the idea of the child as a free and truly innocent entity may exist as a potentiality, as a concept that could occur, but for the reader, for the text, and for the author, the practical outcome is that the "child" does not exist: there is no child "outside the text." It is this lack of an outside that I read the Alice texts as demonstrating. The narratives shuttle her back and forth between dream, or fiction, and the waking, "real" world, but she never becomes anything other than an adult's dream of a child.
What the Tweedledum and Tweedledee episode has put up for debate, through this exchange between a little girl and two little men dressed as schoolboys, is the status of fiction itself. In one sense, it may of course be observed that all characters "go out" when the authority governing their existence decides to end the narrative. But Alice is not only a child; she is also someone who doesn't belong in Looking-glass world. She has crossed over from the "real world," the world of the sitting room, the kittens, and the chess set that opens and closes the narrative. So while Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the other characters that Alice meets are all the natural and "right" inhabitants of the Looking-glass world, she is an outsider who has become trapped in the wrong place. She has become trapped inside fiction. From this point of view, it is interesting to consider that, while almost all the characters who inhabit both Wonderland and the Looking-glass world are, as discussed above, adults (whether humans or creatures), Tweedledum and Tweedledee occupy a more ambiguous role. They are men but also schoolboys, or at least men dressed as schoolboys. They are adults pretending to be children, and as such they may be seen to represent what Rose says a child in fiction really is: an adult hiding behind a representation of a child.
The only possible child about which we can know anything is one articulated by an adult. The "real" children, the ones whose existence we cannot deny, will always remain beyond the text, unreachable and unspeakable; in this sense they constitute Derrida's absence, the "nothing" that is outside the text. Wholly imaginary, these children outside the text may be real but, for the purposes of children's literature and criticism, they are only theoretical; an attempt to render them in language, however, would describe them as something else: the child as category, which is the child that Rose identifies. [End Page 252]
I turn again, here, to Derrida, who lies behind much of this discussion (he is writing about empiricism, and invokes his famous conception of the trace): "[i]t is the dream of a purely heterological thought at its source. A pure thought of pure difference…. We say the dream because it must vanish at daybreak, as soon as language awakens (Writing 151). Thus, while the "dream" or thought of a pure child is possible, in practice it contains the trace of its other, the adult. As Nodelman explains, "the childlike can be constructed and explained only in relation to that which it is not," or, to put it the other way round, we understand the term "child" because we can posit the term "adult" (206).
Alice, that theoretically "real" child who has strayed into fiction, finds that she cannot leave it, or more accurately, that her existence in the "real" world is just as fictional and just as vulnerable to the definitions of an adult authority. Through the Looking-Glass ends with the unresolved problem of who dreamed the dream and with a question addressed to the implied child reader: "Which do you think it was?" (180). However, although the cessation of the narrative marks the end of Alice, the issue of whose dream it is can be resolved only if we read the text as acting out that question, with the Red King being the creative authority of the Looking-glass world in the same way that an implied author called Lewis Carroll is responsible for the Alice texts. What the texts are therefore calling to our attention is the same point that Rose makes when she says "[t]here is no child behind the category 'children's fiction,' other than the one which the category itself sets in place, the one which it needs to believe is there for its own purposes" (10). Alice insists on her own reality as something separate from the Looking-glass world and the fiction it stands for. What the text works to show, however, is that even outside fiction, the child is still fictional.
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Marge Simpson is the head of the Simpson family. She cooks, she cleans, she keeps the whole family from falling apart and has just enough time left for some romance and fun.
Here are the facts on Marge:
Name: Marjorie "Marge" Simpson (maiden name: Bouvier.)
Age: 34 years young.
Height(with hair): Approximately eight feet tall.
Kidz: 3 - Maggie, Lisa and Bart.
Marge Simpson grew up with her sisters Patty and Selma in the Bouvier household. She met her hunka-hunka burnin' love, Homer J. Simpson, while they were in detention. She was in for burning a bra in a feminist protest, he was in for smoking in the bathroom.
What's up with her hair? Marge has some serious hair. The big blue 'tower of power' on top of her head brings her to a Shaq-worthy eight feet tall. It became her trademark style after she met Homer. She keeps a drawer full of hairspray to keep it in shape and she's had everything from cash to small, furry animals hidden in it.
When she's not cooking up a storm at the Simpson home, Marge is out living the wild life. She's been tempted to start a life of crime by her neighbor, Ruth Powers. Another time she became a Springfield police officer and had to arrest Homer. As the Simpson babe she's even had a smooth-talking bowling instructor try to put the moves on her.
Even with the chaos, confusion and panic that raising three kids (and Homer) can cause, Marge is happiest at home. Homer may not be the brightest guy on the planet, or even the second brightest, but she's in love with him.
The cartoon Marge is brought to life by the talented, and very real, Julie Kavner. Julie also does the voices for the rest of the Bouvier family - Patty & Selma (the gruesome twosome) and Grandma Bouvier.
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What is the surname of the Australian cricketing twins Mark and Steve? | Australian cricketing brothers Steve and Mark Waugh reach 50 not out | Russell Jackson | Sport | The Guardian
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The twins are still remembered fondly by the man who was convinced of their cricket ability from an early age, if not their enthusiasm for work in a sports store
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“The boys are 50, can you imagine that? It makes me feel old,” says a mildly alarmed Harry Solomons. The “boys” he speaks of are twins Steve and Mark Waugh, whom Solomons gave their first proper jobs in his Kingsrove Sports store when they were teenagers in the early 1980s. There the budding cricket stars roamed the shop floor selling bats and packing boxes but, by their own admission, not setting any benchmarks for employee diligence.
“I ended up out the back in the warehouse,” Mark once told cricket writer Mark Gately. “I used to go to sleep in this huge, big box. I used to curl up and have a nap in there.” Steve would term his work-day approach as “looking busy, doing little,” but more importantly working at Kingsgrove gave the young prospects plenty of time to hone their skills.
“They were both not the greatest of workers,” Solomons laughs. “They did their job but they were just hell-bent on cricket you know, you could see it in them. All they wanted to do was play cricket. I think they just both very well knew that they would make it to the next level and into the Australian side. Mark was very laid back. Steve was a lot more intense.”
In a subtle sign of things to come, at first only Steve won a bat sponsorship from Solomons, then an agent for the Indian bat brand Symonds. “The only reason [Mark] didn’t get the deal is that I didn’t have the budget for it. I’d blown my budget by sponsoring so many others. But in the end a few months later I said, ‘Bugger it, I’m going to do it’ and so I sponsored Mark too.”
Their New South Wales underage squad team-mate Mark Taylor was another junior to benefit from Solomons’ patronage, as did the Symonds brand’s marquee name Allan Border, whose $11,000 deal to endorse the bats tripled the contracts on offer to all of his Australian team-mates. Equivalent deals now push the $500,000 mark.
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Kingsgrove Sports store’s Harry Solomons with Mark and Steve Waugh in the late 1980s. Photograph: Supplied by Harry Solomons
Back then juniors made do with a token fee and some bats, but the Waugh brothers’ time working at Kingsgrove was also when they started chasing the dream and finding their way in the world once their high school days were done. For them that period of upheaval was mercifully brief – barely 12 months – but certainly revealing of the character traits displayed in the international cricket careers that were to follow.
Steve enrolled in Milperra Teachers College but lasted a grand total of 90 minutes and only then after missing two weeks of classes whilst playing for the Australian Under-19s. Halfway through a music lecture he gathered his things and walked out. “Looking back it was a gutsy move but I knew it wasn’t for me,” Waugh told Gately. Later Milperra would put his name up on one of their honor boards.
With that, Steve had made cricket the only option for himself. Solomons already knew that from the amount of times the deadly-serious teenager had sat down in front of him and earnestly discussed his plans for his life in the game. “Steve knew he was going to make it in the big leagues,” says Solomons, “you could see it in his eyes. He had burning eyes. He was very ambitious and knew exactly what he wanted and where he wanted to be.” Besides his time at Kingsgrove, Waugh worked a day each week for three months doing manual labour for the Bankstown Council “tree gang”, but soon he’d be done with 9-5 jobs for good.
Cricket success came quickly. It was Solomons who handed Steve the phone when the New South Wales selectors first called with good news, a point at which Waugh would later say he had $100 to his name. Within days he was rooming with Imran Khan and not much longer after that Solomons gathered all of Waugh’s colleagues around him, cracking open a bottle of champagne to celebrate his Test selection for Australia.
Through all of that Mark hadn’t even bothered applying for university positions and when it came to cricket, the bus took a little longer to arrive as well. For a year while Steve’s career launched, he had to make do with his shifts at Kingsgrove, but his confidence that he’d make it too never waned. Real work, he thought, was for suckers.
At 67, Solomons is now an institution of New South Wales cricket himself, having built his the Kingsgrove business from a storage space the size of a bedroom in 1976 to six showrooms around the state, along with practice facilities that have been utilised by a roll call of international cricket legends. “He’s pure gold,” said former Test all-rounder Greg Matthews of the cricket kit guru.
Though the edges on the bats he sells are now three times as thick as back then, Solomons remains something of a throwback to the days before junior cricket pathway systems, academies and centres of excellence. In the early 1980s, if you were an ambitious young cricketer in Western Sydney like the Waugh brothers were, Solomons was a good man to know.
As well as sponsoring promising young players, Solomons helmed his own all-star touring team (“all my young hopefuls”) that travelled around New South Wales playing exhibition games and giving players like the Waughs more match practice. “I used to marvel at the way the boys fielded,” he says in something like paternal appreciation.
“Mark would almost be able to snap out a fly. His anticipation was so good he never even got dirty.” In honour of the pair Solomons soon started producing ‘Star Waughs’ posters in the style of the George Lucas sci-fi classic.
Perhaps there’s just some mystical quality hidden in the walls at Kingsgrove. In a remarkable dovetailing of eras, a decade after the Waugh brothers passed through Solomons took on a far more diligent warehouse packer who harboured dreams of one day captaining his country on the SCG. His name was Michael Clarke. “He was a very good worker, packing boxes. He was a good staff member and had a great personality and always did the right thing.” Three years with Solomons and he was on his way too.
Though he’s pained slightly to admit how quickly life has come full circle, Harry Solomons now sells Steve Waugh bats for his son Austin, a promising young New South Wales colt just as his father was when he first walked through the door.
“I can’t believe it,” says Solomons. “Time certainly flies. I’m enthralled to think that these two young boys, to whom I was mentor of sorts, that those boys are now 50. It feels funny. It feels funny that Michael Clarke is in his 30s and maybe in the throes of contemplating retirement.”
As Solomons departs and gets back to business he’s still full of pride at how life panned out for his famous employees. “As far as these two boys are concerned, they’ve done very well for themselves.”
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Steve Waugh is recognised as one of the best players of his generation The traditional Boxing Day Test in 1985-86 was when Steve Waugh made his de ...
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Steve Waugh is recognised as one of the best players of his generation
The traditional Boxing Day Test in 1985-86 was when Steve Waugh made his debut for Australia. The opponents were India and it was the second Test of the series with the first Test ending in a draw. The 20 year old from New South Wales was picked up as a batting all rounder and was slotted to come in at number 6 in the first innings. His first ever innings lasted just 32 deliveries from which he made 12. Not the ideal start, but he did contribute with the ball by picking up the wickets of Ravi Shastri and Syed Kirmani during India’s reply. In the second innings, he was moved up the order by one slot, but couldn’t capitalise on this chance as he made just 5 runs. The match ended in a draw and it took Waugh almost an year to establish himself as he scored some crucial runs in the Ashes at home.
His first Test century came only in 1989, but by the time he ended his career, he had 32 to his name and had played the most number of Tests (168). A few days after his Test debut, he also made his ODI debut against feisty neighbours New Zealand. Unfortunately because of rain he didn’t get to bat but did pick up his first ODI wicket. He went on to represent Australia in 325 ODI matches in total with the highlight being the captain of the successful 1999 World Cup winning team. He ended with 7500 runs in the 50 over format and close to 11,000 in the Test format. He played his final match for Australia against India at the SCG during the 2003-04 series for the Border-Gavaskar trophy and scored a memorable 80 in his final innings.
He is well respected all over the cricketing world, and has a twin brother (Mark Waugh) who also had a successful career for Australia. Apart from winning the World Cup, he was also the captain of the side when it won 16 consecutive Test matches. He was named the ‘Australian of the year’ in 2004 for his philanthropic work and was inducted in the ICC’s Cricket Hall Of Fame in 2010 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
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That's not very lady-like. Then again, you're not much of a lady, are you?
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He-Man is the chief protagonist of the Masters Of The Universe franchise and is a space-age warrior who defends his world and others from the forces of the warlord Skeletor, who also happens to be one of the universe's most powerful and feared dark magicians.
He-Man is actually Prince Adam, son of King Randor of Eternia. His powers come from a blessed sword that when utilised by the hero grants him the legendary power of Greyskull by which he can defeat almost any threat (in the live-action film using this sword He-Man was powerful enough to battle Skeletor when the mad dictator had attained literal godlike status).
He-Man, along with his pet tiger Battlecat and the other Masters Of The Universe, has become an icon of sorts and has spawned many cartoon series, TV shows and movies based around the subject - he is also the main character of the hugely successful toy line from which these adventures derived.
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Filmation Series
By the time the Filmation series was being developed, He-Man's origins had been revised as follows: his true identity is Prince Adam of Eternia, son of King Randor and Queen Marlena who live in the palace of Eternos along with Adam and the rest of their inner circle. Marlena was a lost astronaut from the planet Earth. The Sorceress of Castle Grayskull endows Prince Adam with the power to transform into He-Man, which Adam does by raising his Power Sword and proclaiming: "By the power of Grayskull!"
Prince Adam's pet is a cowardly green tiger named Cringer. When Adam becomes He-Man, he similarly transforms Cringer into a brave armored green tiger named Battle Cat. Battle Cat serves as He-Man's steed and fierce fighting companion; like He-Man, he was created prior to his alter ego.
Adam is friendly with the beautiful and strong-willed Teela, the adoptive daughter of his mentor Duncan. Adam and Teela grew up together and now, as Captain of the Guard, Teela is entrusted to protect the prince. She often sees Adam as lazy and cowardly because she is unaware of his alternate identity as He-Man. Teela is revealed to be the only daughter of the Sorceress and the future inheritor of Grayskull; the Sorceress chose adoption for Teela after her father died, when she was just a baby.
Duncan, also known as Man-At-Arms, is He-Man's closest companion and the Eternian royal family's innovator of technology and weapons. In many episodes, Man-At-Arms unveils new and fantastic weapons or devices that help He-Man and his friends.
Castle Grayskull is the source of He-Man's powers. Inside the Castle lives the Sorceress, who grants Prince Adam his transformative abilities, and communicates telepathically with He-Man. The episode "Evil-Lyn's Plot" reveals that she also created He-Man's harness from a rare Eternian mineral called Coridite, which adds to his physical strength.
To protect his family, He-Man keeps his double identity secret, sharing the knowledge only with Man-At-Arms, Orko, Cringer/Battle Cat, and the Sorceress; with the advent of the She-Ra: Princess of Power series, this list is expanded to also include Adora/She-Ra, Spirit/Swift Wind, Light Hope, Loo-Kee, Madame Razz, and Kowl. The original cartoon series also includes the dragon Granamyr and the cosmic enforcer Zodac being in on He-Man's secret. The episode "The Rainbow Warrior" also strongly hints that Queen Marlena has worked out He-Man's secret but will not admit it. He-Man is usually accompanied by an assortment of allies in his battles, such as Ram-Man and Stratos.
The spin-off cartoon series She-Ra: Princess of Power later revealed that Adam has a twin sister, the Princess Adora, a leader in the Great Rebellion against Hordak on the planet Etheria. Adora, like Adam, is given the gift of the power of Grayskull and has her own sword which she uses to transform into She-Ra, Princess of Power. He-Man makes a number of appearances in She-Ra: Princess of Power .
He-Man's chief adversary is Skeletor, a blue-skinned sorcerer with a skull for a head, wearing a cowl. He is skilled in black magic as well as all forms of combat. Though his origin is mysterious, and the cartoon describes him only as a "demon from another dimension," a tie-in comic implies that Skeletor's true identity is Prince Keldor, older brother of King Randor, thus making him He-Man's uncle. It is revealed in the animated motion picture He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword that Skeletor was Hordak's right-hand man up until his capture, and supposed release. Skeletor is accompanied by a group of henchmen who aid with his evil schemes.
According to Lou Scheimer, executive producer of the Filmation animated series, the idea of He-Man having a teenage alter-ego was derived by from the Fawcett/DC Comics character Captain Marvel, about whom Filmation had already produced two TV series: Shazam! and The Kid Superpower Hour with Shazam!. He-Man's twin sister She-Ra was created as a female spin-off, as Captain Marvel's twin sister Mary Marvel had been.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002)
To tie-in with a new line of revamped figures based upon the original toyline, a new He-Man cartoon series was produced in 2002-03 by Mike Young Productions, again titled He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. This series retold the MOTU story from scratch. He-Man's origin was told in a 3-part episode that began the series, in which the 16-year-old Prince Adam is summoned to Castle Grayskull by the Sorceress to take upon the identity of He-Man and the role of Eternia's defender. The portrayal of his character in this series was mostly consistent with Filmation's portrayal, although the character of Prince Adam was shown to be much more brash and youthfully energetic than his 1980s counterpart, to convey the image of a teenage boy saddled with the overwhelming responsibility of defending the entire planet from evil.
The second season episode "The Power of Grayskull" also revealed He-Man to be a descendant of King Grayskull, an all-powerful barbarian hero from Eternia's ancient past, who sacrificed his life to save Eternia from the Evil Horde and was the original wielder of the Sword of Power. He was the original owner of Castle Grayskull, and his sword was concealed in the castle for centuries before being given to Prince Adam, who inherits his ancestor's own power which is channeled through the sword (thus giving an alternate meaning for the phrase "By the Power of Grayskull").
In the 1980s series, He-Man/Adam is voiced by John Erwin, for many the definitive He-Man, a congenial hero with an endless supply of one liners. In the 1987 live-action feature film, he is played by Dolph Lundgren. Gary Chalk provides the voice of He-Man for the 1989 series The New Adventures of He-Man, and later the voice of Man-At-Arms for the 2002 series. He does not provide the voice of Prince Adam; Adam is instead voiced by Doug Parker, unlike the 1983 and 2002 series, where Adam and He-Man were voiced by the same actor. In the 2002 series, He-Man is voiced by Cam Clarke.
Live Action Film
In 1987, Cannon Films produced a live-action film Masters of the Universe which features Dolph Lundgren in the role of He-Man. Although the film was not received well upon its release, it has developed a strong cult following over recent years.
Although generally portrayed in much the same manner as other media, there were several notable differences in the character of He-Man within the movie. His additional use of a gun in several scenes, rather than only his characteristic sword, caused controversy among some fans. Also, there was no mention of his secret identity of Prince Adam within the film, which some fans have interpreted as an implication that the makers envisioned him as having only one permanent identity, as in the early mini-comics. He is portrayed as a widely recognized hero, regarded as a great leader and Eternia's best hope of survival.
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What is the name of Postman Pat's black and white cat? | She-Ra: Princess of Power - Show News, Reviews, Recaps and Photos - TV.com
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She-Ra: Princess of Power is an animated spin-off of the phenomenally popular 1980s series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. It follows the adventures of Princess Adora/She-Ra and the members of the Great Rebellion as they try to free planet Etheria from the evil Horde. The leader of the Horde forces that rule Etheria is Hordak, a sorceror who kidnapped the infant Adora during a failed attempt to conquer He-Man's homeworld years ago. Adora's twin brother Adam/He-Man and his nemesis Skeletor often make guest appearances. Like He-Man, this show was spawned from a line of popular Mattel toys and is still a classic among many fans.
"I am Adora, He-Man's twin sister, and defender of the Crystal Castle. This is Spirit, my beloved steed. Fabulous secrets were revealed to me the day I held aloft my sword and cried, "For the Honor of Grayskull!!" From the show's opening sequence.
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What was the name of the lioness raised by George and Joy Adamson in the book Born Free? | Page 4. - Photos.
Baba ya Simba (Father of Lions)
George Adamson with Elsa the Lioness
He raised Elsa from a cub and taught her to live wild.
Elsa when younger checking out a bird.
Elsa when more mature not quite as interested in a bird.
TRUST and Friendship .... Elsa and George Resting Together
George and Elsa at the River
George and some sweet lion friends.
This little lion is trying to lend a 'helping paw' to fix the Land Rover.
George Adamson working on his stalled Land Rover.
It takes a truly unique and rugged individual to live such a tough life
of total dependency on only your own knowledge and your own nerve.
George at his remote bush camp, 'Kampi ya Simba
in the Kora Reserve in Kenya, East Africa.
Keeping his weapon ready for poachers. George was an expert marksman.
The photo above is taken in his dining hut which had a thatched roof and dirt floor.
Elsa receives 'double' hugs from George and George's
friend/assistant Makede while they all take a break.
George with Boy the Lion
After Boy and his dear friend Girl starred in the award winning movie Born Free
it was agreed they would be released to the wild and George set about training them
as he had done with his beloved Elsa.
George relaxing with 2 of his many Lion friends.
George walking with Boy and Christian.
George said these were some of his happiest days.
Kora at this time was still wild and peaceful with few humans to destroy it.
George with orphaned cub.
Photo taken at his bush camp in the Kora Reserve called "Kampi ya Simba" (Swahili for Camp of the Lions)
Virginia McKenna & Bill Travers
in mess hut at 'Kampi ya Simba."
George Adamson with Girl the Lioness on rocky outcropping.
George Adamnson feeding Sam, Girl's cub
George with a little lion cub....
Ouch! Those little nails are sharp!!!
George Adamson walking with Girl the Lioness.
Tim Lapage and George Adamson
When asked what paperwork was being exchanged, Tim replied,
"He was handing me a document to fly up to Naivasha to give to Joy as I remember."
Thanks to Tim Lapage Safariexperts for this photo.
George Adamson with his good friend Bill Travers at George's bush camp in Kenya.
Bill
portrayed George in the classic movie BORN FREE.
Bill's wife Virginia McKenna played George's wife Joy Adamson.
George Adamson
Photo kindly provided by Virginia McKenna.
George Adamson with his beloved lions.
Photo taken by his good friend actor/conservationist, Bill Travers.
George Adamson at Kora
The two brothers were very close.
George Adamson
You may notice that George has on his East African Wilflife Society tie!
Always thinking of wildlife and animals!
(See entire photo below which includes Joy and Actors.)
1972 - George Adamson, Susan Hampshire
(actress)
, Joy Adamson and Nigel Davenport
(actor)
(Hampshire and Davenport starred in the 2nd movie about Elsa the Lioness titled Living Free.
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The 1st movie Born Free was followed by Living Free which many persons found disappointing.
Living Free was unfortunately not as realistic and the actors certainly did not have genuine affection for animals
as did Bill Travers and his real life wife, Virginia McKenna who both starred in the very popular movie Born Free.
Virginia McKenna, George Adamson, Bill Travers and Joy Adamson
Virginia and her real life husband Bill Travers played the roles of Joy and George in
the award winning movie BORN FREE.
Both Virginia and Bill had a genuine affection for the animals and both of them
dedicated themselves to fighting the battle to reduce the suffering inflicted on animals by humans.
The lions loved to climb on the roof of George's Landrover.
Interesting LANDROVER note:
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What is the name of the lion in C.S. Lewis' The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe? | Real Life Footage Of Elsa The Lioness - YouTube
Real Life Footage Of Elsa The Lioness
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This is a film of the cubs that were rescued by George Adamson and became famous through the Born Free book and film. The film was shot by Geoff Stoakes who was in the Kenya Police stationed in Isiolo. The boy in the film is his son Mike hence the title of the film. The film features Joy Adamson, Helen Stoakes and Patty the hyrax as well as an unknown man. It is the only known footage of the cubs as Joy didn't have a camera until quite a bit later.
I do not own this footage, I was lucky enough to have a friend find it and send it to me. I realise I have made a mistake by saying Anderson instead of Adamson in the intro, but I cant figure out how to edit it....lol
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What is the name of the black panther in The Jungle Book? | The Jungle Book (Part1) - YouTube
The Jungle Book (Part1)
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I like to read children story to my little daughter who enjoys the sound of my voice and make her feel good while listening at the fairy-tale. I would like to share our experiences with all of you. Bagheera the Black Panther find a boy in the river, Mowgli. He let a wolf's family to raise him. Bagheera has to fight the tiger Shere Khan. Baloo a friendly bear who soon began his best friend rescue Mowgli from a tribe of monkey.
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Which American writer and cartoonist was responsible for The Cat In The Hat series? | Naming Your Black Cat: Name Ideas for Cats with Black Haircoats
Naming Your Black Cat: Name Ideas for Cats with Black Haircoats
Naming Your Black Cat: Name Ideas for Cats with Black Haircoats
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Written by: Dr. Debra Primovic - DVM
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Are you looking for that perfect cat name that just fits your Kitty? Does your cat have black hair?
Naming a cat can be difficult. One way many pet owners do it is to look for a name that goes with your cat's physical characteristic such as his coat color.
Here are some cat names that can be associated with those black hair-coated cats! I hope this helps you find the perfect name for your cat! If you can't find your name here - go to our Ultimate Cat Name List!
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Great Name Ideas for Black Cats
Ace (for the ace of spades)
Amadeus
Anisette (French - or Anise), with a nickname of Ani.
Atticus- This is for the band, the record label and To Kill A Mockingbird.
Bagheerah - for the black Panther in The Jungle Book
Bear (my little black bear!)
BeeBee after BB king
Bogie - as in Humphrey Bogart
Buckwheat - Eddie Murphy character on SNL
Calo (Meanas Black in the Roma Language)
Cinderella" and call her "Cinders" to reflect her black coat.
Carbon
Cinder Ella (pink nose) (Cinder - e.g. volcanic ash)
Charcoal
Daegan Kai - Irish /asian meaning dark haired / fire
Dante Alexander- Italian - taken Dante's Inferno and Alexander the Great
Dragon
Dugan – means black haired in celtic
Duncan (means black warrior)
ELVIRA MISTRESS OF THE DARK
Espresso
Hades - God of the under world
India (for India ink)
Kole - alternate spelling of Coal
Kieran Mael - Irish name meaning dark
Kemnebi (means black panther in ancient Egyptian)
"Kuro"(KOO-ROH) which is the Japanese word for Charcoal
Leto of the Dark Cloak was the mother of the Greek gods Apollo and Artemis.
Licorice
Likrish (a phonetic spelling of Licorice)
Negra
Nuit - Nuit was the Egyptian goddess of the night sky
Magic (as in black magic)
Matches
Pearl (she was such a gem – my black pearl)
Panther
Raven
Retread (a stray, all black)
Redunzel (actually spelt RDNZL)- name Frank Zappa gave to a small black kitten through his then 3-year son changed the cats name to "Fighty Bitey"- Zappa wrote an instrumental with this name inspired by the sight of the kitten playing.
Rosie (in honor of Rosa Parks)
Rasputin the mysterious dark Russian monk
Rubber
Salam (for Halloween)
Samantha
Sarrasine- From the French Medieval word "Sarrasin" which comes from the much older word "Saracen" and simply means a dark skinned person.
Satchmno (after Louis Armstrong)
Sammy (for Sammy Davis Jr.)
Shade
Sheba – as in African Queen
Spade for Ace of Spades
Sharpie, like a black Sharpie pen
Sky
Spooky (some also answer to Pookums)
Spyda (spider)
Talladega- named for one as black as the Talladega race track.
Tire
Treacle: We named our black cat Treacle--the Scottish word for Molasses--in the sunlight his fur looked like it was tinged with brown.
Trilby Pantera - all black and constantly trills
Vadar
Velvet (a coat like black velvet)
Yogi – as in Yogi Bear
Yum Yum
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Debra A. Primovic, BSN, DVM, Editor-in-Chief, is a graduate of the Ohio State University School of Nursing and the OSU College of Veterinary Medicine. Following her veterinary medical training, Dr. Primovic practiced in general small animal practices as well as veterinary emergency practices. She was staff veterinarian at the Animal Emergency Clinic of St. Louis, Missouri, one of the busiest emergency/critical care practices in the United States as well as MedVet Columbus, winner of the AAHA Hospital of the year in 2014. She also spends time in general practice at the Granville Veterinary Clinic. Dr. Primovic divides her time among veterinary emergency and general practice, editing, writing, and updating articles for PetPlace.com, and editing and indexing for veterinary publications. She loves both dogs and cats but has had extraordinary cats in her life, all of which have died over the past couple years. Special cats in her life were Kali, Sammy, Pepper and Beanie.
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Who wrote Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats? | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
By Thomas Stearns Eliot (1886-1965)
Nobel Prize Winner for Literature - 1948
The Ad-dressing of Cats
The Naming of Cats The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey-- All of them sensible everyday names. There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter, Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames: Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter-- But all of them sensible everyday names. But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular, A name that's peculiar, and more dignified, Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride? Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum, Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat, Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum- Names that never belong to more than one cat. But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will guess; The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation , The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
The Old Gumbie Cat I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; Her coat is of the tabby kind, with tiger stripes and leopard spots. All day she sits upon the stair or on the steps or on the mat; She sits and sits and sits and sits--and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat! But when the day's hustle and bustle is done, Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun. And when all the family's in bed and asleep, She tucks up her skirts to the basement to creep. She is deeply concerned with the ways of the mice-- Their behaviour's not good and their manners not nice; So when she has got them lined up on the matting, She teachs them music, crocheting and tatting. I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; Her equal would be hard to find, she likes the warm and sunny spots. All day she sits beside the hearth or on the bed or on my hat: She sits and sits and sits and sits--and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat! But when the day's hustle and bustle is done, Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun. As she finds that the mice will not ever keep quiet, She is sure it is due to irregular diet; And believing that nothing is done without trying, She sets right to work with her baking and frying. She makes them a mouse--cake of bread and dried peas, And a beautiful fry of lean bacon and cheese. I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots. She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat: She sits and sits and sits and sits--and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat! But when the day's hustle and bustle is done, Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun. She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment. So she's formed, from that lot of disorderly louts, A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts, With a purpose in life and a good deed to do-- And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo. So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers-- On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
Growltiger's Last Stand GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge; In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed at large. From Gravesend up to Oxford he pursued his evil aims, Rejoicing in his title of "The Terror of the Thames." His manners and appearance did not calculate to please; His coat was torn and seedy, he was baggy at the knees; One ear was somewhat missing, no need to tell you why, And he scowled upon a hostile world from one forbidding eye. The cottagers of Rotherhithe knew something of his fame, At Hammersmith and Putney people shuddered at his name. They would fortify the hen-house, lock up the silly goose, When the rumour ran along the shore: GROWLTIGER'S ON THE LOOSE! Woe to the weak canary, that fluttered from its cage; Woe to the pampered Pekinese, that faced Growltiger's rage. Woe to the bristly Bandicoot, that lurks on foreign ships, And woe to any Cat with whom Growltiger came to grips! But most to Cats of foreign race his hatred had been vowed; To Cats of foreign name and race no quarter was allowed. The Persian and the Siamese regarded him with fear-- Because it was a Siamese had mauled his missing ear. Now on a peaceful summer night, all nature seemed at play, The tender moon was shining bright, the barge at Molesey lay. All in the balmy moonlight it lay rocking on the tide-- And Growltiger was disposed to show his sentimental side. His bucko mate, GRUMBUSKIN, long since had disappeared, For to the Bell at Hampton he had gone to wet his beard; And his bosun, TUMBLEBRUTUS, he too had stol'n away- In the yard behind the Lion he was prowling for his prey. In the forepeak of the vessel Growltiger sate alone, Concentrating his attention on the Lady GRIDDLEBONE. And his raffish crew were sleeping in their barrels and their bunks-- As the Siamese came creeping in their sampans and their junks. Growltiger had no eye or ear for aught but Griddlebone, And the Lady seemed enraptured by his manly baritone, Disposed to relaxation, and awaiting no surprise-- But the moonlight shone reflected from a thousand bright blue eyes. And closer still and closer the sampans circled round, And yet from all the enemy there was not heard a sound. The lovers sang their last duet, in danger of their lives-- For the foe was armed with toasting forks and cruel carving knives. Then GILBERT gave the signal to his fierce Mongolian horde; With a frightful burst of fireworks the Chinks they swarmed aboard. Abandoning their sampans, and their pullaways and junks, They battened down the hatches on the crew within their bunks. Then Griddlebone she gave a screech, for she was badly skeered; I am sorry to admit it, but she quickly disappeared. She probably escaped with ease, I'm sure she was not drowned-- But a serried ring of flashing steel Growltiger did surround. The ruthless foe pressed forward, in stubborn rank on rank; Growltiger to his vast surprise was forced to walk the plank. He who a hundred victims had driven to that drop, At the end of all his crimes was forced to go ker-flip, ker-flop. Oh there was joy in Wapping when the news flew through the land; At Maidenhead and Henley there was dancing on the strand. Rats were roasted whole at Brentford, and at Victoria Dock, And a day of celebration was commanded in Bangkok.
The Rum Tum Tugger The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat-- And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it! The Rum Tum Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about. He likes to lie in the bureau drawer, But he makes such a fuss if he can't get out. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat-- And there isn't any use for you to doubt it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it! The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious beast: His disobliging ways are a matter of habit. If you offer him fish then he always wants a feast; When there isn't any fish then he won't eat rabbit. If you offer him cream then he sniffs and sneers, For he only likes what he finds for himself; So you'll catch him in it right up to the ears, If you put it away on the larder shelf. The Rum Tum Tugger is artful and knowing, The Rum Tum Tugger doesn't care for a cuddle; But he'll leap on your lap in the middle of your sewing, For there's nothing he enjoys like a horrible muddle. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat-- And there isn't any need for me to spout it: For he will do As he do do And theres no doing anything about it!
The Song of the Jellicles Jellicle Cats come out tonight, Jellicle Cats come one come all: The Jellicle Moon is shining bright-- Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball. Jellicle Cats are black and white, Jellicle Cats are rather small; Jellicle Cats are merry and bright, And pleasant to hear when they caterwaul. Jellicle Cats have cheerful faces, Jellicle Cats have bright black eyes; They like to practise their airs and graces And wait for the Jellicle Moon to rise. Jellicle Cats develop slowly, Jellicle Cats are not too big; Jellicle Cats are roly-poly, They know how to dance a gavotte and a jig. Until the Jellicle Moon appears They make their toilette and take their repose: Jellicles wash behind their ears, Jellicles dry between their toes. Jellicle Cats are white and black, Jellicle Cats are of moderate size; Jellicles jump like a jumping-jack, Jellicle Cats have moonlit eyes. They're quiet enough in the morning hours, They're quiet enough in the afternoon, Reserving their terpsichorean powers To dance by the light of the Jellicle Moon. Jellicle Cats are black and white, Jellicle Cats (as I said) are small; If it happens to be a stormy night They will practise a caper or two in the hall. If it happens the sun is shining bright You would say they had nothing to do at all: They are resting and saving themselves to be right For the Jellicle Moon and the Jellicle Ball.
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats. As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats They had extensive reputation. They made their home in Victoria Grove-- That was merely their centre of operation, for they were incurably given to rove. They were very well know in Cornwall Gardens, in Launceston Place and in Kensington Square. They had really a little more reputation than a couple of cats can very well bear. If the area window was found ajar And the basement looked like a field of war, If a tile or two came loose on the roof, Which presently ceased to be waterproof, If the drawers were pulled out from the bedroom chests, And you couldn't find one of your winter vests, Or after supper one of the girls Suddenly missed her Woolworth pearls: Then the family would say: "It's that horrible cat! It was Mungojerrie--or Rumpelteazer!" And most of the time they left it at that. Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer had a very unusual gift of the gab. They were highly efficient cat-burglars as well, and remarkably smart at smash-and-grab. They made their home in Victoria Grove. They had no regular occupation. They were plausible fellows, and liked to engage a friendly policeman in conversation. When the family assembled for Sunday dinner, With their minds made up that they wouldn't get thinner On Argentine joint, potatoes and greens, And the cook would appear from behind the scenes And say in a voice that was broken with sorrow: "I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow! For the joint has gone from the oven-like that!" Then the family would say: "It's that horrible cat! It was Mungojerrie--or Rumpelteazer!" And most of the time they left it at that. Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer had a wonderful way of working together. And some of the time you would say it was luck, and some of the time you would say it was weather. They would go through the house like a hurricane, and no sober person could take his oath Was it Mungojerrie--or Rumpelteazer? or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both? And when you heard a dining-room smash Or up from the pantry there came a loud crash Or down from the library came a loud ping From a vase which was commonly said to be Ming-- Then the family would say: "Now which was which cat? It was Mungojerrie! AND Rumpelteazer!" And there's nothing at all to be done about that!
Old Deuteronomy Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme A long while before Queen Victoria's accession. Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wives And more--I am tempted to say, ninety-nine; And his numerous progeny prospers and thrives And the village is proud of him in his decline. At the sight of that placid and bland physiognomy, When he sits in the sun on the vicarage wall, The Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well, of all . . . Things. . . Can it be . . . really! . . . No!. . . Yes!. . . Ho! hi! Oh, my eye! My mind may be wandering, but I confess I believe it is Old Deuteronomy!" Old Deuteronomy sits in the street, He sits in the High Street on market day; The bullocks may bellow, the sheep they may bleat, But the dogs and the herdsmen will turn them away. The cars and the lorries run over the kerb, And the villagers put up a notice: ROAD CLOSED-- So that nothing untoward may chance to distrub Deuteronomy's rest when he feels so disposed Or when he's engaged in domestic economy: And the Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well, of all . . . Things. . . Can it be . . . really! . . . No!. . . Yes!. . . Ho! hi! Oh, my eye! My sight's unreliable, but I can guess That the cause of the trouble is Old Deuteronomy!" Old Deuteronomy lies on the floor Of the Fox and French Horn for his afternoon sleep; And when the men say: "There's just time for one more," Then the landlady from her back parlour will peep And say: "New then, out you go, by the back door, For Old Deuteronomy mustn't be woken-- I'll have the police if there's any uproar"-- And out they all shuffle, without a word spoken. The digestive repose of that feline's gastronomy Must never be broken, whatever befall: And the Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well, of all . . . Things. . . Can it be . . . really! . . . No!. . . Yes!. . . Ho! hi! Oh, my eye! My legs may be tottery, I must go slow And be careful of Old Deuteronomy!" Of the awefull battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles: together with some account of the participation of the Pugs and the Poms, and the intervention of the Great Rumpuscat. The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say That they do not like fighting, yet once in a way, They will now and again join in to the fray And they Bark bark bark bark Bark bark BARK BARK Until you can hear them all over the Park. Now on the occasion of which I shall speak Almost nothing had happened for nearly a week (And that's a long time for a Pol or a Peke). The big Police Dog was away from his beat-- I don't know the reason, but most people think He'd slipped into the Wellington Arms for a drink-- And no one at all was about on the street When a Peke and a Pollicle happened to meet. They did not advance, or exactly retreat, But they glared at each other, and scraped their hind feet, And they started to Bark bark bark bark Bark bark BARK BARK Until you can hear them all over the Park. Now the Peke, although people may say what they please, Is no British Dog, but a Heathen Chinese. And so all the Pekes, when they heard the uproar, Some came to the window, some came to the door; There were surely a dozen, more likely a score. And together they started to grumble and wheeze In their huffery-snuffery Heathen Chinese. But a terrible din is what Pollicles like, For your Pollicle Dog is a dour Yorkshire tyke, And his braw Scottish cousins are snappers and biters, And every dog-jack of them notable fighters; And so they stepped out, with their pipers in order, Playing When the Blue Bonnets Came Over the Border. Then the Pugs and the Poms held no longer aloof, But some from the balcony, some from the roof, Joined in To the din With a Bark bark bark bark Bark bark BARK BARK Until you can hear them all over the Park. Now when these bold heroes together assembled, That traffic all stopped, and the Underground trembled, And some of the neighbours were so much afraid That they started to ring up the Fire Brigade. When suddenly, up from a small basement flat, Why who should stalk out but the GREAT RUMPUSCAT. His eyes were like fireballs fearfully blazing, He gave a great yawn, and his jaws were amazing; And when he looked out through the bars of the area, You never saw anything fiercer or hairier. And what with the glare of his eyes and his yawning, The Pekes and the Pollicles quickly took warning. He looked at the sky and he gave a great leap-- And they every last one of them scattered like sheep. And when the Police Dog returned to his beat, There wasn't a single one left in the street.
Mr. Mistoffelees You ought to know Mr. Mistoffelees! The Original Conjuring Cat-- (There can be no doubt about that). Please listen to me and don't scoff. All his Inventions are off his own bat. There's no such Cat in the metropolis; He holds all the patent monopolies For performing suprising illusions And creating eccentric confusions. At prestidigitation And at legerdemain He'll defy examination And deceive you again. The greatest magicians have something to learn From Mr. Mistoffelees' Conjuring Turn. Presto! Away we go! And we all say: OH! Well I never! Was there ever A Cat so clever As Magical Mr. Mistoffelees! He is quiet and small, he is black From his ears to the tip of his tail; He can creep through the tiniest crack, He can walk on the narrowest rail. He can pick any card from a pack, He is equally cunning with dice; He is always deceiving you into believing That he's only hunting for mice. He can play any trick with a cork Or a spoon and a bit of fish-paste; If you look for a knife or a fork And you think it is merely misplaced-- You have seen it one moment, and then it is gawn! But you'll find it next week lying out on the lawn. And we all say: OH! Well I never! Was there ever A Cat so clever As Magical Mr. Mistoffelees! His manner is vague and aloof, You would think there was nobody shyer-- But his voice has been heard on the roof When he was curled up by the fire. And he's sometimes been heard by the fire When he was about on the roof-- (At least we all heard that somebody purred) Which is incontestable proof Of his singular magical powers: And I have known the family to call Him in from the garden for hours, While he was asleep in the hall. And not long ago this phenomenal Cat Produced seven kittens right out of a hat! And we all said: OH! Well I never! Did you ever Know a Cat so clever As Magical Mr. Mistoffelees!
Macavity: The Mystery Cat Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw-- For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime--Macavity's not there! Macavity, Macavity, there's no on like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity. His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare, And when you reach the scene of crime--Macavity's not there! You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air-- But I tell you once and once again, Macavity's not there! Macavity's a ginger cat, he's very tall and thin; You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken in. His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly doomed; His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed. He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake; And when you think he's half asleep, he's always wide awake. Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity. You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square-- But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity's not there! He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.) And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard's. And when the larder's looted, or the jewel-case is rifled, Or when the milk is missing, or another Peke's been stifled, Or the greenhouse glass is broken, and the trellis past repair-- Ay, there's the wonder of the thing! Macavity's not there! And when the Foreign Office finds a Treaty's gone astray, Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way, There may be a scap of paper in the hall or on the stair-- But it's useless of investigate--Macavity's not there! And when the loss has been disclosed, the Secret Service say: "It must have been Macavity!"--but he's a mile away. You'll be sure to find him resting, or a-licking of his thumbs, Or engaged in doing complicated long division sums. Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macacity, There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity. He always has an alibit, or one or two to spare: And whatever time the deed took place--MACAVITY WASN'T THERE! And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known (I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone) Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!
Gus: The Theatre Cat Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is really Asparagus. That's such a fuss To pronounce, that we usually call him just Gus. His coat's very shabby, he's thin as a rake, And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake. Yet he was, in his youth, quite the smartest of Cats-- But no longer a terror to mice and to rats. For he isn't the Cat that he was in his prime; Though his name was quite famous, he says, in its time. And whenever he joins his friends at their club (Which takes place at the back of the neighbouring pub) He loves to regale them, if someone else pays, With anecdotes drawn from his palmiest days. For he once was a Star of the highest degree-- He has acted with Irving, he's acted with Tree. And he likes to relate his success on the Halls, Where the Gallery once gave him seven cat-calls. But his grandest creation, as he loves to tell, Was Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell. "I have played," so he says, "every possible part, And I used to know seventy speeches by heart. I'd extemporize back-chat, I knew how to gag, And I knew how to let the cat out of the bag. I knew how to act with my back and my tail; With an hour of rehearsal, I never could fail. I'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts, Whether I took the lead, or in character parts. I have sat by the bedside of poor Little Nell; When the Curfew was rung, then I swung on the bell. In the Pantomime season I never fell flat, And I once understudied Dick Whittington's Cat. But my grandest creation, as history will tell, Was Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell." Then, if someone will give him a toothful of gin, He will tell how he once played a part in East Lynne. At a Shakespeare performance he once walked on pat, When some actor suggested the need for a cat. He once played a Tiger--could do it again-- Which an Indian Colonel purused down a drain. And he thinks that he still can, much better than most, Produce blood-curdling noises to bring on the Ghost. And he once crossed the stage on a telegraph wire, To rescue a child when a house was on fire. And he says: "Now then kittens, they do not get trained As we did in the days when Victoria reigned. They never get drilled in a regular troupe, And they think they are smart, just to jump through a hoop." And he'll say, as he scratches himself with his claws, "Well, the Theatre's certainly not what it was. These modern productions are all very well, But there's nothing to equal, from what I hear tell, That moment of mystery When I made history As Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell."
Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones-- In fact, he's remarkably fat. He doesn't haunt pubs--he has eight or nine clubs, For he's the St. James's Street Cat! He's the Cat we all greet as he walks down the street In his coat of fastidious black: No commonplace mousers have such well-cut trousers Or such an impreccable back. In the whole of St. James's the smartest of names is The name of this Brummell of Cats; And we're all of us proud to be nodded or bowed to By Bustopher Jones in white spats! His visits are occasional to the Senior Educational And it is against the rules For any one Cat to belong both to that And the Joint Superior Schools. For a similar reason, when game is in season He is found, not at Fox's, but Blimpy's; He is frequently seen at the gay Stage and Screen Which is famous for winkles and shrimps. In the season of venison he gives his ben'son To the Pothunter's succulent bones; And just before noon's not a moment too soon To drop in for a drink at the Drones. When he's seen in a hurry there's probably curry At the Siamese--or at the Glutton; If he looks full of gloom then he's lunched at the Tomb On cabbage, rice pudding and mutton. So, much in this way, passes Bustopher's day- At one club or another he's found. It can be no surprise that under our eyes He has grown unmistakably round. He's a twenty-five pounder, or I am a bounder, And he's putting on weight every day: But he's so well preserved because he's observed All his life a routine, so he'll say. Or, to put it in rhyme: "I shall last out my time" Is the word of this stoutest of Cats. It must and it shall be Spring in Pall Mall While Bustopher Jones wears white spats!
Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat There's a whisper down the line at 11.39 When the Night Mail's ready to depart, Saying "Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble? We must find him or the train can't start." All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters They are searching high and low, Saying "Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble Then the Night Mail just can't go." At 11.42 then the signal's nearly due And the passengers are frantic to a man-- Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear: He's been busy in the luggage van! He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes And the signal goes "All Clear!" And we're off at last for the northern part Of the Northern Hemisphere! You may say that by and large it is Skimble who's in charge Of the Sleeping Car Express. From the driver and the guards to the bagmen playing cards He will supervise them all, more or less. Down the corridor he paces and examines all the faces Of the travellers in the First and the Third; He establishes control by a regular patrol And he'd know at once if anything occurred. He will watch you without winking and he sees what you are thinking And it's certain that he doesn't approve Of hilarity and riot, so the folk are very quiet When Skimble is about and on the move. You can play no pranks with Skimbleshanks! He's a Cat that cannot be ignored; So nothing goes wrong on the Northern Mail When Skimbleshanks is aboard. Oh, it's very pleasant when you have found your little den With your name written up on the door. And the berth is very neat with a newly folded sheet And there's not a speck of dust on the floor. There is every sort of light-you can make it dark or bright; There's a handle that you turn to make a breeze. There's a funny little basin you're supposed to wash your face in And a crank to shut the window if you sneeze. Then the guard looks in politely and will ask you very brightly "Do you like your morning tea weak or strong?" But Skimble's just behind him and was ready to remind him, For Skimble won't let anything go wrong. And when you creep into your cosy berth And pull up the counterpane, You ought to reflect that it's very nice To know that you won't be bothered by mice-- You can leave all that to the Railway Cat, The Cat of the Railway Train! In the watches of the night he is always fresh and bright; Every now and then he has a cup of tea With perhaps a drop of Scotch while he's keeping on the watch, Only stopping here and there to catch a flea. You were fast asleep at Crewe and so you never knew That he was walking up and down the station; You were sleeping all the while he was busy at Carlisle, Where he greets the stationmaster with elation. But you saw him at Dumfries, where he speaks to the police If there's anything they ought to know about: When you get to Gallowgate there you do not have to wait-- For Skimbleshanks will help you to get out! He gives you a wave of his long brown tail Which says: "I'll see you again! You'll meet without fail on the Midnight Mail The Cat of the Railway Train."
The Ad-dressing of Cats You've read of several kinds of Cat, And my opinion now is that You should need no interpreter To understand their character. You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse-- But all may be described in verse. You've seen them both at work and games, And learnt about their proper names, Their habits and their habitat: But how would you ad-dress a Cat? So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG. And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste-- He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his NAME. So this is this, and that is that: And there's how you AD-DRESS A CAT.
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In 1925 T.S. Eliot became co-director of Faber & Faber, who remain his publishers to this day. Throughout the 1930s he composed the now famous poems about Macavity, Old Deuteronomy, Mr Mistoffelees and many other cats, under the name of 'Old Possum'. In 1981 Eliot's poems were set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber as Cats, which went on to become the longest-running Broadway musical in history. (From the publisher)
Excerpt:
He is quiet and small, he is black
From his ears to the tip of his tail;
He can creep through the tiniest crack,
He can walk on the narrowest rail.
He can pick any card from a pack,
He is equally cunning with dice;
He is always deceiving you into believing
That he's only hunting for mice.
He can play any trick with a cork
Or a spoon and a bit of fish-paste;
If you look for a knife or a fork
And you think it is merely misplaced -
You have seen it one moment, and then it is gawn!
But you'll find it next week lying out on the lawn.
From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot ©2010 (Faber & Faber paperback). Published by Faber & Faber.
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Denise Richards is a celebrity actress who started her career in the entertainment industry as a model. She moved to LA after she graduated from high school to pursue a career in acting. Her early roles were in lower budget movies and television shows, but her breakthrough came in 1997 with the science fiction movie “Starship Troopers.” She took the role as a “Bond girl” in the 1999 movie “The World Is Not Enough,” but was widely criticized. Although she has made many appearances in television and movies since, her career never reached the heights that many had expected. This is a list of movies that Denise Richards has acted in during her career so far.
Movie Title/Year/Character
Madea’s Witness Protection 2012 Kate Needleman
Blue Lagoon: The Awakening 2012 Barbara Robinson
Cougars, Inc. 2011 Judy
Deep in the Valley 2009 Autumn Bliss
Kambakkht Ishq 2009
Blonde and Blonder 2008 Dawn St. Dom
Edmond 2005 B-Girl
I Do (But I Don’t) 2004 Lauren Crandell
Elvis Has Left the Building 2004 Belinda
Yo puta 2004 Rebecca Smith
Scary Movie 3 2003 Annie
Love Actually 2003 Carla, the real friendly one
You Stupid Man 2002 Chloe
The Third Wheel 2002 Diana Evans
Undercover Brother 2002 White She Devil
Empire 2002 Trish
Good Advice 2001 Cindy Styne
Valentine 2001 Paige Prescott
919 Fifth Avenue 2000 Cathy Damore
Tail Lights Fade 1999 Wendy
The World Is Not Enough 1999 Dr. Christmas Jones
Drop Dead Gorgeous 1999 Rebecca ‘Becky’ Ann Leeman
Wild Things 1998 Kelly Van Ryan
Starship Troopers 1997 Lt. Carmen Ibanez
Nowhere 1997 Jana
Pier 66 1996 Carlin Mills
In the Blink of an Eye 1996 Tina Jacobs
P.C.H. 1995 Jess
Tammy and the T-Rex 1994 Tammy
Lookin’ Italian 1994 Elizabeth
Loaded Weapon 1 1993 Cindy
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Denise left a memorable mark on fans after the wild and erotic threesome scene in the 1998 movie "Wild Things". Denise showed her acting versatility as an action-babe in the James Bond 007 movie "The World Is Not Enough" and as a White She Devil in the movie "Undercover Brother", and several other hit movies. Additionally, she has a high profiled relationship with actor Charlie Sheen. Born on February 17, 1972, in Downers Grove, Illinois, Denise Lee Richards moved to Oceanside, California, with her younger sister, her father, Irv, and mother, Joni, who owned a string of coffee shops called Jitters, when she was 15 years old. In 1989, Denise went on to graduate from El Camino High School in Oceanside. After completing high school, she began modeling in Paris, Tokyo and New York, and became the makeup girl for Bonne Bell cosmetics. But despite her achieved fame via modeling, Richards wanted more and began attempting her hand at acting by trying out for various parts in television shows and movies. Acting came easily for Denise and she found much success from the get-go. Her first appearances took place on weekly television shows such as Life Goes On (1990), Saved by the Bell, Married... with Children (both in 1991), Eerie, Indiana, Beverly Hills: 90210, (both in 1992), and Seinfeld (1993). Her stint on Seinfeld catapulted her into the limelight. In the episode, Denise played the young daughter of the NBC executive who was about to cut a deal with George (Jason Alexander) and Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), but because they got caught looking down her blouse, the deal was lost. After a recurring role on Aaron Spelling's prime-time soap, Melrose Place, in 1992, Denise starred in a film entitled Tammy and the T-Rex and the made-for-TV movie 919 Fifth Avenue in 1994. In 1996, while Denise had another recurring role on television's Spin City, starring Michael J. Fox, she starred in other forgettable TV movies including In The Blink of An Eye and Pier 66. Then in 1997, after having starred in the big screen movie Nowhere, which tanked, Denise co-starred in the popular film, Starship Troopers.
While Denise's star was on the rise, Denise co-starred with Neve Campbell and Matt Dillon in Wild Things (1998). Her sexy role in the film, not to mention her threesome scene, transformed Denise into one of the most sought after celebrities in Hollywood. In 1999, Denise starred in the appropriately titled film, Drop Dead Gorgeous, but the film didn't see the same critical success in theaters that her two previous films did. But that same year, Denise did her duty as a Bond Girl opposite Pierce Brosnan in The World Is Not Enough.
In 2001, Denise starred in more forgettable movies: Valentine and Good Advice (which is where she met her future husband Charlie Sheen, whom she married the following year in June). Then, in 2002, after the movie Empire, co-starring John Leguizamo, flopped at the box office, Denise starred in the surprise hit comedy of the year, Undercover Brother. Also in 2002, Denise teamed up with talented buddies Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for the movie The Third Wheel and also starred in You Stupid Man. In 2003, Denise moved on to the romantic comedy Love, Actually, alongside Keira Knightley and Hugh Grant, followed by the horror-flick comedy Scary Movie 3. In March 2004, Denise Richards and her husband Charlie Sheen welcomed their daughter, Sam, into the world. Less than a year after giving birth, Denise was in top form, as she proved in December 2004's Play..boy. Look for Denise in the 2004 movie, Elvis Has Left the Building, alongside Sean Astin and Kim Basinger. She also made a second appearance on Sheen's CBS sitcom, Two and a Half Men, in November 2004.
Denise Richards: "Valentine"
Denise Richards breezes through the door in a dark fitted ensemble. Her trademark features - deep blue eyes, full pouty lips, flowing brunette locks (recite the rest yourself) - are stunningly apparent. One could not help but inquire about her fashion. "Dolce and Gabbana," she says when asked who made her couture clothing. She then pulls down her jacket to check the inside tag. "I'm not sure what it's made of, but I love leopard." Richards is in demand for her contemporary American femme-fatale allure, but keeps up her figure with a non-specific diet. "I can't eat whatever I want, and I definitely like to work out. But this morning for breakfast, I had M&M's with my coffee." She pauses, then adds, "and oatmeal too."
Her stirring style helped her widespread success in 1998's "Wild Things" and as nouveau Bond Girl in 1999's "The World is Not Enough," which made her a household name. She's currently using her fame to fill her working palette with projects such as "Empire," an independent film co-staring John Leguizamo and "The Third Wheel," a romantic comedy distributed by Miramax and featuring Ben Affleck. In her most recent cinematic effort, "Valentine," from Warner Brothers pictures, she co-stars with David Boreanaz and Marley Shelton as the wilder one in a group of friends being tormented by a cherub-masked murderer from their past.
Richards is particularly partial to Valentine's style of horror. "This is like some of those 'Friday the 13th' movies. It reminds me of films of the early 70's and 80's." Her decision to play the role of Paige seems to be based on the ways her character deals with being simultaneously lusted after and disrespected by men. "Did you hear what the detective said to her? He'd get fired for that," she says in reference to a scene where an overzealous investigator pulls a Clarence Thomas on Paige in his downtown office. Richards also refers to a scene featuring a fratboyesque chauvinist who asks Paige to "wax it." "I had never heard that expression used before," she admits. " I think it was made up for the film."
In her leisure time, Richards says, "I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers." When asked about her most shameless indulgence, she responds, "A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up." She can feel the interview edging towards other topics. She breaks in smoothly with "the nudity issue always comes up. It depends on the role." Speaking of roles, in The World is Not Enough she played a knockout nuclear chemist. For those despondent souls who believe the portrayal stigmatized her serious actress potential, Richards has this to say, "She was a Bond girl; she couldn't have been in nerdy glasses."
Off-camera, Richards had a good time with her fellow cast-mates on the Valentine shoot. "Up in Vancouver we all stayed in the same hotel. It was fun, and it wasn't some deep dramatic piece that we all had to prepare for." In Valentine, Richards' character and her friends are lead to believe that the killer is someone they mutually rejected in Jr. High School. Life experience has given her enough preparation for the scenario. "They nicknamed me fishlips; it was horrible," she says about her former Jr. High associates. But Richards isn't wielding knives; she has press junkets to attend. "It's amazing how it starts that young - trying to fit in." A smile widens her ambrosial lips. Publicists and agents wait patiently somewhere behind her. Her breed of vengeance: living well.
Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen to divorce
Actress Denise Richards has filed for divorce from her actor-husband Charlie Sheen, citing irreconcilable differences, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
Richards, 34, is six months pregnant with the couple's second child. They also have a daughter, Sam, who will be a year old next week.
The couple married in June 2002 and co-starred in "Scary Movie 3." Richards and Sheen, 39, met while shooting the independent film "Good Advice" in 2000.
They began dating after Richards guest-starred on Sheen's former series "Spin City." The marriage was Sheen's second and Richards' first.
Sheen, who now stars in the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men," is best known for his work in the movies "Platoon," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Hot Shots."
Richards, a former Bond girl, has appeared in a host of movies, including "Wild Things" and "Starship Troopers."
Denise Richards Hunts 'Wildlife' for UPN
Paging late-'90s sex bombs: UPN has a series home for you. The netlet, currently the residence for midseason comedies starring Shannon Elizabeth and Jenny McCarthy, is ready to get dramatic with Denise Richards.
"Wildlife" is an ensemble drama about a group of twentysomethings living in Los Angeles' hip Silver Lake neighborhood. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Richards' casting comes from the actress' talent deal with UPN.
Richards would be able to attend Viacom-based parties with her husband Charlie Sheen. He could plug for CBS' "Two and a Half Men" and she could promote the UPN drama "Wildlife." It would be sweet and synergistic.
Best known for her roles in features like "Wild Things" and "Starship Troopers," the recent Playboy covergirl has had some small screen success as well. Richards has made two appearances on her husband's hit CBS comedy and one of those episodes was the show's highest rated ever. Richards also drew big audiences to the Lifetime movie "I Do (But I Don't)."
Upcoming big screen appearances for Richards include the David Mamet adaptation "Edmond" and "Elvis Has Left the Building" with John Corbett and Kim Basinger.
More fun stuff about Denise Richards
Birth name: Denise Lee Richards
Nickname: Fluffy Girl
Height 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Enjoys kickboxing.
Said to have had a crush on John Travolta growing up.
Attended El Camino High School in Oceanside, California, a suburb of San Diego.
Graduated high school in San Diego. [1989]
Former model.
Moved from Downer's Grove, Illinois to Oceanside, California when she was 15.
Loves animals. Has several cats and dogs.
Father Irv Richards used to work for a phone company.
Parents now own a coffeehouse in San Diego.
Was said to have been quiet and shy as a child.
Auditioned for the role of Beth in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995).
Is left-handed (indicated in the courtroom scene of Wild Things (1998)).
Was a high school cheerleader.
Was ranked 9th of the 100 Sexiest Women by FHM Taiwan (2001).
Appears with Eddie Griffin, Neil Patrick Harris and Snoop Dogg in Snoop Dogg´s music video "Undercova Funk".
Daughter, Sam Sheen, was born [9 March 2004] at 10:57 p.m in Los Angeles, weighing in at seven pounds, three ounces.
Her mother, Joni, owns a chain of coffee shops called 'Jitters.'
Ranked #21 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).
Guest starred in the "Two and a Half Men" (2003) episode "Yes, Monsignor" as a former girlfriend of husband Charlie Sheen's character, who now has a baby girl. The baby was played by the pair's daughter, Sam Sheen.
Daughter-in-law of Martin Sheen and Janet Sheen.
Sister-in-law of Ramon Estevez, 'Renee Estevez' and Emilio Estevez.
Expecting her second baby with husband Charlie Sheen, in June, 2005.
Denise Richards' personal quotes:
"Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker."
"I found out early I could make more money modeling than I could waitressing and scooping Haagen-Dazs. But I always wanted to be an actress."
"I'm spontaneous. I love going from one thing to something else and not knowing what I'm going to do next."
Sheen and Richards hope for another girl
Charlie Sheen and his wife Denise Richards are desperately hoping their second child will be a girl - because they want to hand down clothes from their first daughter.
The Hollywood couple, parents of 10-month-old SAM, admit they're totally geared up for raising another female, now they have so much experience in that realm.
Sheen says: "A son would be fine, but right now we are just so girl-smart, I'd like to keep it that way.
"All the clothes would work, the room is the right colour - everything is set up for a girl."
Sheen And Richards Get TV Tips From British Nanny
Charlie Sheen and his wife DENISE RICHARDS are preparing for the birth of their second child by watching a British TV nanny on a hit new reality show.
The stars, already parents of 11-month-old SAM, are excitedly awaiting the June (05) birth of their child, and they've become huge fans of nanny JO FROST's child-rearing skills on her new show SUPERNANNY.
Sheen admits it's good preparation for the "full-time job" ahead of them once their bundle of joy arrives.
Bond Girl Considers Playboy Spread
New mum Denise Richards is reportedly considering an offer to bare all for Playboy this Christmas. The actress wife of reformed Hollywood playboy Charlie Sheen has been approached by bosses at the men's magazine, who want her to strip for their December 2004 issue. According to insiders, Richards is interested in showing off her sensational post-baby body but has refused a full-nude pictorial.
Sheen and Richards Too Old-Fashioned for Baby
Expecting parents Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards have decided to buck the Hollywood trend of fancy names, by giving their child an old-fashioned moniker. The screen stars, who are expecting their first child together early next spring , have opted against anything too flashy for their new arrival, because they don't want their offspring to resent them when he or she gets older. Sheen says, "I think we're gonna go a little old-fashioned and try to keep it simple. Like for boys, Jack and Bob, and for a girl like Sue or Mary. I just think parents don't think 20 years ahead when they name their kid: 'This is my son Shalamar.' It becomes a curse for the child. It's terrible."
Bond Girl Baby
Former Bond girl Denise Richards is pregnant with her first child. The The World Is Not Enough stunner has been married to husband Charlie Sheen since June 2002. After the romantic ceremony, both Sheen and his new bride were adamant that they had no plans to start a family. But recently Sheen - who stars as a father in new sitcom Two And A Half Men - mellowed his stance after working with child star Angus T. Jones. He says, "We agreed when we got married that a baby wasn't in the near future. (But) playing a dad is definitely going to make me want to do the real thing!" The Good Advice co-stars will welcome the baby into the world in Spring 2004.
Sheen Sells Bachelor Pad
Former Bond girl Denise Richards has persuaded new husband Charlie Sheen to sell his all-black bachelor pad and look for a more suitable home. The actress moved in with Sheen at the end of last year and admitted she had to buy fresh flowers just to add a little color to the Malibu Lake, California, home. The actor won't be too sorry to get rid of the place - he tried to sell his 2.5-acre bachelor pad last year for $4.5 million but it failed to attract buyers. The four-bedroom complex, which boasts a cigar room, billiards room, media room with four TV sets and a guest house, is now back on the market for $3.6 million.
Charlie Sheen Weds Denise Richards
Spin City star Charlie Sheen has married actress Denise Richards in an evening ceremony at the Los Angeles home of the ABC show's producer, reports Reuters. The couple was wed in a Catholic ceremony attended by family members, including the groom's father, West Wing actor Martin Sheen, said spokeswoman Tracy Shaffer. The bride and groom both wore garments designed for them by Giorgio Armani: a two-button tuxedo jacket for Sheen and a white satin gown and crystal-beaded jacket for Richards. It is the first marriage for James Bond babe Richards and the second for Sheen, who won a Golden Globe acting award this year for the recently canceled series. Sheen, 36, has a daughter by a previous relationship. The couple met on the set of the independent film Good Advice in 2000 and began dating after Richards, 31, made a guest appearance on Spin City last year.
Denise Richards Goes 'Undercover'
Denise Richards is being kept busy these days. The sexy 31-year old is not only flat out promoting her new film, the farcical spy spoof Undercover Brother, but she is also busy planning her upcoming wedding to Charlie Sheen. Trying to be as tight-lipped as possible on the nuptials, Richards does concede that "it will be a small ceremony, not the big wedding I fantasized about when I was younger." She has a date, but of course won't reveal it during our interview, except to add admit that the wedding "will be happening this year and in Los Angeles." The plans are going well with Denise happily supervising every facet of the wedding. "Thankfully, Charlie and I have agreed on just about everything. We really like similar things, which make it much easier. I think when couples when couples disagree on the band and the food, you have a little bit of a problem," Richards laughingly adds. and she is happily balancing those plans with her high-profile professional life, avoiding the stress associated with the former. "I don't want it to be stressful and even though sometimes it is hectic, I don't want the wedding to be a frantic thing. It should be a happy time and easy." Richards won't allow her private life to become media fodder, and says that she has learned how to balance the public and private aspects of her life. "It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie. We are both private people in the public eye. There are certain things we won't talk about and we have to have some privacy in order to have a successful relationship." Richards managed to keep her relationship with Sheen quiet from the press, "by not going to places where there are paparazzi, since we know which restaurants the photographers hang out at." Richards also knew that "in my heart of hearts, on our second date, that this was the one. My mom told me that would happen one day and it did."
As busy as Richards is with her wedding plans, she also finds time discussing her equally busy career. In Undercover Brother, a parody of both Black exploitation actioners of the seventies and hip spy flicks, Richards plays a sexy bombshell who epitomizes Black fantasies. The actress clearly has a ball poking fun at her own sexuality, "because I've played a Bond girl and played vixen girls before. In Bond it wasn't poking fun, so this was a chance to have fun with it." Asked how playing a role as this ultra-sexy femme fatale helps how she is perceived as a serious actress, Richards adds that "if the movie bombs, it will probably hurt me while if it is a hit, it will probably help me, regardless of the character. Heather Graham did pretty well after Austin Powers, so I think this business, whether it's good or bad, if a movie does well, you have options. Hopefully people will think: 'She might be kind of funny' you know? It's a comedy and I got to do something so broad and ridiculous that I've never done before, so I don't look at it and base it on whether critics will love me in it or whatever; I did this because I wanted to do it. No matter what happens to the movie, I had a great experience on it."
Richards will next be seen opposite Ben Affleck in The Third Wheel, not to mention that little production of her own - that small LA wedding.
Denise Richards Rules Out Kids--For Now
Denise Richards is putting motherhood on hold until she's older--but when she does have a family she'll ensure her kids have the right values. The 31-year-old actress is set to marry boyfriend Charlie Sheen, 36, later this year. But they have no plans to have children just yet. She says, "We're so young right now we won't be starting a family immediately, although I'd like to stay home and take care of my kids eventually." And Bond babe Denise had such a good childhood, she's determined to give her own kids the same benefits. She adds, "I appreciate everything I've been given, I don't take it for granted. We didn't grow up with tons and tons of money in my family, so I appreciate it when I can buy the things I want to buy, or travel where I want to travel. My parents raised me and my sister with good family values. My parents are still married, after 35 years together. We've always been a close family and that's important to me--to have morals and treat people how you want to be treated. That's vital in your personal life and professional life too."
Denise Richards Likes Her Enhanced Butt
Denise Richards has forgiven producer Brian Grazer for digitally enhancing her backside on posters for her new film--because she's getting complimented on the look. The actress fumed when she first saw posters of her dressed in a tight white catsuit for Undercover Brother, insisting the butt featured on the marketing shots wasn't hers. But now she says, "Brian's a marketing genius. It's a digitally enhanced behind, but I'm getting so many compliments that I've started saying, 'Yeah, that's my behind.'" Meanwhile, Charlie Sheen is helping to make light of his fiancee's poster enhancement controversy--he's telling pals it's his backside pasted onto her body.
Studio Explodes Denise Richards' Butt
Sexy actress Denise Richards is furious after film bosses digitally enlarged her backside on promotional posters for her new movie. The former Bond girl stars in the upcoming comedy Undercover Brother, but says she was stunned when she first saw the ads for the flick. She says, "I slammed on the brakes when I saw it. I saw it at a bus stop and I thought, 'What the hell did they do to my a***?' Plus I got all these phone calls from my girlfriends saying, 'What did they do to you? You look ridiculous.'" Richards, who is engaged to Charlie Sheen, said she has no idea where the picture came from, because the one she approved was different. She adds, "They twist the art around. I didn't approve that. That's not my a***, to be honest with you. It's a computer."
Denise: I'll Never Live In Sheen's Bachelor Pad
Gorgeous Bond babe Denise Richards refused to move into boyfriend Charlie Sheen's home because he'd entertained too many call-girls there. According to Britain's Daily Sport newspaper, the actress was furious when Sheen suggested the move into his huge estate in Malibu, California. Former hellraiser Sheen spent a fortune on call-girls when he was a hard-living, hard partying single. One pal says, "Denise's jaw dropped and she went mad, screaming she'd never move into the 'hooker haven'! She told him, 'That house was your bachelor pad. Nothing could ever make me live there - ever.'" Sheen clearly didn't want to upset his bride-to-be - he and Richards have now bought a plush house in fashionable Westwood, California.
Sheen's Pre-Nup: $4 Million Penalty If He Cheats
If Charlie Sheen cheats on future wife Denise Richards the curvy star will pocket a cool $4 million. The acting couple have signed a prenuptial agreement, which gives reformed bad boy Sheen a big financial incentive to stay faithful to his gorgeous partner. Sheen, who has resurrected his career after taking over from Michael J. Fox on Spin City, famously used to date Hollywood's top prostitutes during his drug-fuelled early 20s. And Richards wants more than words before she walks up the aisle with her fiance later this year.
It's Official: Charlie Sheen To Wed Denise Richards
It's official - Charlie Sheen has had his proposal of marriage accepted by Denise Richards. Sheen, 37, and the 30-year-old Richards moved in together just before Christmas, and the former hell-raising actor proposed to his new fiancee during a romantic winter break in Hawaii. Last year Richards co-starred in the romantic comedy Good Advice with Sheen and made a guest appearance on his series Spin City.
Denise Richards And Charlie Sheen To Wed
Denise Richards is to wed her bad boy actor lover Charlie Sheen after a whirlwind romance. The star of movies like Wall Street and Young Guns bought the actress a $140,000 ring, after they began dating just one month ago. A pal says, "He's just crazy about her. They go out to restaurants and shops together - but really prefer staying at his home. It was love at first sight for Charlie." Sheen has boasted of bedding thousands of women and was once linked to Hollywood madame Heidi Fleiss. But his role in hit sitcom Spin City - the pair met on set when Richards played his screen lover - has helped him get his life back on track. The brunette beauty, who played Dr Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough, has already been on a romantic trip to Hawaii with her new lover.
Denise Richards: Fish Lips
Denise Richards was an ugly child - and all her classmates called her "fish lips". Denise, who shot to fame in Starship Troopers and Wild Things before teaming up with Pierce Brosnan in The World Is Not Enough is now considered one of Hollywood's most beautiful actresses. But she stunned when she saw the girl playing a young version of her character in new movie Valentine (currently the #2 film in America) - because the girl was much prettier than Denise herself had been as a child. She says, "I was so flattered that they cast the young girl as they did to play me young because she was so adorable. I did not look like that when I was that age." She adds, "People used to call me `fish lips'. Hopefully, I will have my sweet revenge now that people are putting collagen in their lips. Every girl at my high school had big hair and feathered-out wings, " she says, and they jeered at her for being different. Denise says at one point, she wanted to become a veterinarian, because she got to like animals better than humans. Her best pal now is her Boston terrier puppy.
Denise Richards Is A Happy Germ Nut
Hollywood hottie Denise Richards is terrified by germs - and packs a "sick bag" every time she leaves her home. The Valentine (2001) star is so petrified of throwing up and getting sick, she'll do anything to stay germ free. She says, "I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but I like everything clean. It's flu season and so I'm carrying around stuff. I carry around hand sanitizer and wash with it after I've shaken hands. I know it's annoying and I'm sick and tired of using it." And Richards admits her obsession threatens not only her pin-up status, but also her jet-setting lifestyle. She explains, "There are so many germs on a plane. I asked my doctor what I could use and he gave me this antibacterial ointment which I put in my nose, and then I bring my own blanket because God only knows who's had an airplane blanket before me. I put it entirely over my head. I must look like a freak." The fussy sexbomb also admits she sprays remote controls and telephones everytime she enters a new hotel room. "And I've got a sick bag that my agent turned me on to because I don't want to get stuck in a foreign country where you can't read the labels on things - it has Immodium, Flumadine and Zithromax among other things." (IMDb editors' note: Most doctors caution against medically unsupervised use of antivirals and antibiotics like Flumadine and Zithromax. Please seek medical guidance before using any prescription medications. Thank you.)
Denise's Bad Hair Day
Even Hollywood stars have off days - as stunner Denise Richards (photos) admits. The gorgeous actress, who also starred in the sexy thriller Wild Things (1998) , knows how important looks are for an star - but she has made a few mistakes. She says, "Fashion has become such a huge part of Hollywood. Actors have taken the place of models on the front covers of the majority of fashion magazines - so you have to really put a lot of thought into what you wear to big events. I was on one magazine's fashion 'Don't' list for my hair the other week. Because it's a fun, funky event, I had it styled all big and frizzy. I thought it looked great. It was obviously not to everyone's taste."
Denise Richards Furious About Fake Porn
BOND babe Denise Richards is furious with perverts who keep posting fake nude pictures of the film star on the Internet. The sexy 28- year-old who starred as DR. CHRISTMAS JONES in World Is Not Enough, The (1999) is planning to take legal action against the websites which publish the shots. She says, "The Internet is a great source of information but it's also been abused. I don't appreciate the pictures. The thing is that my family sees it, too. It's not right that people can get away with it... I'm planning to stop it legally. They are just sick."
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Mars has two moons. Phobos is one, but what is the other one called? | Mars' Moons: Facts About Phobos & Deimos
Mars' Moons: Facts About Phobos & Deimos
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor |
June 27, 2016 06:00pm ET
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Of the four rocky, terrestrial planets, only Mars has more than one moon. The two small bodies that orbit the red planet are both smaller than Earth's moon, and raise a number of questions about the formation of the early solar system.
Identity crisis
Phobos and Deimos bear more resemblance to asteroids than to Earth's moon. Both are tiny — the larger, Phobos, is only 14 miles across (22 kilometers), while the smaller, Deimos, is only 8 miles (13 km), making them some of the smallest moons in the solar system.
Both are also made up of material that resembles Type I or II carbonaceous chondrites, the substance that makes up asteroids . With their elongated shapes, they even look more like asteroids than moons.
Even from Mars , the moons don't look like moons. The more distant moon, Deimos, appears more like a star in the night sky. When it is full and shining at its brightest, it resembles Venus as seen on Earth. Phobos has the closest orbit to its primary of any moon in the solar system, but still only appears a third as wide as Earth's full moon .
Phobos orbits only 3,700 miles (6,000 km) from the Martian ground. Its surface is marred by debris that may have come from impacts on Mars. It travels around the planet three times a day, zipping across the Martian sky approximately once every four hours. The fast-flying moon appears to travel from west to east.
Deimos orbits much farther away, tending to stay 12,470 miles (20,069 km) from the red planet's surface. The moon takes about 30 hours, a little over a Martian day, to travel around its host.
Lunar origins
Because of their odd shapes and strange composition, scientists thought for a long time that both moons were born asteroids. Jupiter's gravity could have nudged them into orbit around Mars, allowing the red planet to capture them.
But the orbits of the moons make such a birth appear unlikely. Both moons take stable, nearly circular paths around the red planet. Captured bodies tend to move more erratically. An atmosphere could have slowed the pair down and settled them into their present-day orbits, but the air on the Martian planet is thin and insufficient for such a task.
It is possible that the moons formed like the planet, from debris left over from the creation of Mars. Gravity could have drawn the remaining rocks into the two oddly shaped bodies.
Or, the moons could have spawned from a violent birth, much like Earth's moon . A collision, common in the early solar system, could have blown chunks of the red planet into space, and gravity may have pulled them together into the moons. Similarly, an early moon of Mars could have been impacted by a large object, leaving Phobos and Deimos as the only remaining bits.
Discovery and death
For years, scientists thought that Mars had no moon. Johannes Kepler suggested the possibility of two moons around the red planet, but only from a numerical standpoint; Earth had one moon and Jupiter, at the time, was known to have four , so the middle planet would likely have two.
It wasn't until American astronomer Asaph Hall made a thorough study of the planet in 1877 that the tiny, closely orbiting bodies were found. Hall discovered Deimos on Aug. 12 and Phobos on Aug. 18. The two tiny bodies had been hidden in the glare from the planet.
Hall named the two satellites for the sons of the Greek god of war, Ares (Mars to the Romans). The twin boys, Phobos (Fear) and Deimos (Dread or Panic), attended their father in battle.
But the sons won't be in attendance around Mars forever. Phobos is slowly spiraling inward at a rate of 6 feet (1.8 meters) every century. Within 50 million years, the moon will either collide with Mars or become a ring of rubble around it; stretch marks on its surface are likely early signs that the moon is breaking apart , one 2015 study said, although others have postulated these marks are instead grooves from Mars ejecta . Deimos, on the other hand, is slowly drifting away from the planet.
Exploration
While no mission has explored Phobos and Deimos as its primary objective, several spacecraft have snapped pictures during flybys. The first was NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft, which orbited the planet Mars starting in 1971. It took pictures of Deimos and Phobos from afar and showed that these were small moons that looked like potatoes.
Several other orbiting spacecraft have performed long-range observations, including NASA's Viking orbiters (1970s and 1980s), the Soviet Phobos 2 mission (1980s), NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (1990s and 2000s), the European Mars Express mission (2000s), and NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission). Russia attempted to send a mission to Phobos called Phobos-Grunt, in 2011, but the spacecraft became stuck in Earth orbit and fell back to Earth in 2012.
While rovers from the surface of Mars can't get close to the moon, they can take pictures from the surface of what is going on; NASA's Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity have all taken images. In particular, the Curiosity rover has taken some great photos and videos of Phobos and Deimos, including footage of Phobos eclipsing the sun. To see these images, check out the following stories:
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In the 1966 movie The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, Clint Eastwood played the Good" and Lee van Cleef played "the Bad", but who played "the Ugly"? | Phobos: Facts About the Doomed Martian Moon
Phobos: Facts About the Doomed Martian Moon
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor |
June 21, 2016 11:52pm ET
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image of the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, from a distance of about 6,800 km (about 4,200 miles).
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
The Martian moon Phobos orbits only a few thousand miles above the Red Planet's surface. Its proximity to its planet is one of the reasons astronomers were unable to see the satellite until the late 19th century. In fact, the moon is getting closer to Mars over the centuries, and eventually will either break up or be pulled into the Martian surface.
Robotic probes on Mars' surface can see Phobos passing overhead:
Discovery and name
In the early 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that Mars might host two moons, given that it lay between the Earth and Jupiter, which were known to have one and four satellites. No evidence of such moons could be found. Although most people thought that Mars had no moons, American astronomer Asaph Hall performed a methodical study from the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., searching closer to the planet than previous surveys.
After searching without success, a frustrated Hall was about to give up, but his wife, Angelina, urged him to continue. The next night, August 12, 1877, he discovered the moon that would later be known as Deimos. Six days later, he found Phobos as well. The two moons lay so close to the planet that they were hidden by the glare of Mars. Asteroid-size, they are also two of the smallest moons in the solar system, with the larger Phobos 7.24 times as massive as its companion, Deimos .
In Greek mythology, Phobos was one of the sons of the god of war Ares (Mars to the Romans). The twin sons attended their father in battle. Phobos means fear (as in phobia), while Deimos means flight (especially in the sense of fleeing after a defeat), according to NASA.
Exploring the moons
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity snapped this photo of the larger Martian moon Phobos during a Mars sky observing session. Phobos is Mars' larger moon, but only 14 miles across. Image released Sept. 26, 2012.
Credit: NASA/JPL
It took almost another century for scientists to begin to understand the two tiny Martian moons. In 1971, NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft became the first manmade satellite to orbit another planet. Images from the craft revealed that both Phobos and Deimos have lumpy, potato-like shapes, rather than spherical like most moons. Observations of Phobos were limited by the tidal locking of the moon to the planet, resulting in the same side always facing outward.
As the exploration of continued, scientists were able to learn more information about the satellites circling Mars. The Viking orbiters flew by in the late 1970s. The Soviet Phobos 2 mission, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor , and the European Mars Express all provided more clues about the two curious moons. Rovers from the planet's surface even got in on the act, with Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity all providing images from the ground . NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission) has also imaged the moon to try to learn more about Phobos' composition.
In 2011, Russia attempted to send a mission to the Martian moon called Phobos-Grunt, which was supposed to come back to Earth in 2014 bearing a small sample of the moon. The spacecraft, however, was marooned in Earth orbit due to issues with its rocket. Phobos-Grunt fell back to Earth in early 2012 and crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
NASA may not be finished with Phobos yet. The space agency is considering the Phobos Surveyor mission , which would deploy small, hedgehog-like probes to the surface of the moon. The mission is funded under NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program, which looks at concepts that could be decades away from flight.
One of the competing concepts for NASA's next low-cost, Discovery-class mission selection (expected to be completed in 2016) would explore both Martian moons. Called PADME (Phobos And Deimos and Mars Environment), the spacecraft would try to figure out where the moons came from — the asteroid belt, by forming around Mars, or other scenarios. If selected, this mission would launch in 2020 and arrive in 2021.
Some human spaceflight proponents have also suggested NASA should land people on Phobos before Mars ; NASA hopes to have a human mission sent there by the 2030s.
Formation and composition
The examination of Phobos and its companion revealed more than their odd, non-spherical shapes. The two moons are dark gray in color, and heavily cratered. The moons are some of the darkest, least reflective objects in the solar system.
After observing the pair, scientists concluded that they were made of material similar to Type I or II carbonaceous chondrites, the material that makes up asteroids and dwarf planets. The composition and odd shape led some scientists to conclude that Phobos and Deimos came from the asteroid belt, with Jupiter's gravity long ago nudging them into orbit around Mars.
However, scientists aren't certain that the asteroid belt is the source of the moons' birth. Both have a nearly circular orbit unusual for captured objects. The thin atmosphere of Mars would have a hard time providing the necessary braking to settle the pair into their present-day orbits. Similarly, the moons are not as dense as objects in the asteroid belt.
Instead, the moons may have formed as satellites around Mars, with dust and rock drawn together by gravity.
A more violent birth may have occurred by collision. A large impactor smashing into the red planet could have sent pieces flying into the air, where gravity may have drawn them together. An existing moon might also have been destroyed, creating the rubble that later formed Phobos and Deimos.
Traveling only 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the Martian surface, Phobos flies around the Red Planet three times a day. Crossing the sky in about four hours, the moon appears to rise in the west and set in the east.
Many science fiction films feature large moons dominating alien skies, but despite its proximity to its planet, Phobos is only a third as wide as the full moon seen from Earth. On the other hand, Mars dominates the horizon of Phobos, taking up a fourth of the sky.
Doomed
But Phobos won't zip around Mars forever. The doomed moon is spiraling inward at a rate of 1.8 centimeters (seven-tenths of an inch) per year, or 1.8 meters (about 6 feet) each century. Within 50 million years, the moon will either collide with its parent planet or be torn into rubble and scattered as a ring around Mars.
The unusual characteristics of Phobos, including its decaying orbit, led some scientists in the 1950s and 1960s to conclude that it was artificial. One prominent proponent was the science adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Further examination revealed that the moon bears stronger resemblance to a rubble pile than an artificial satellite, and images sent back from orbiting craft show that it formed in nature.
On the surface
The larger of the two moons, Phobos has a diameter of 10 by 14 by 11 miles (17 by 22 by 18 km). The surface is covered with a dusty powder 3 feet (1 meter) thick, likely caused by meteor bombardment.
A large impact crater dominates the moon. Stretching nearly 6 miles (9.5 km), Stickney Crater covers most of the surface. The impact that formed it likely caused many secondary impacts, as rocks flew up and fell back to Phobos. The crater bears the maiden name of Hall's encouraging wife.
The moon is marred by long grooves. In 2015, a NASA-led study suggested that the grooves on Phobos are actually early signs of the moon breaking apart due to tidal stresses induced by Mars' gravity. Another theory stated that the grooves could be remnants of a huge impact that left behind the crater Stickney, but the grooves did not center on this crater. Another explanation is the moon's grooves could come from material displaced from Mars that hits Phobos' surface, which was espoused in an Open University study published in 2014.
Temperatures vary on Phobos, reaching highs of 25 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 4 degrees Celsius) during the day, while nights can be as cold as minus 170 degrees F (minus 112 degrees C).
The moon is so small that a 150-pound person standing on its surface would weigh only two ounces.
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The Mauretania, launched in 1906, was the largest and fastest ship in the world at that time. What was the name of her sister ship that was launched in the same year, but sunk by a German U-boat in 1915? | MAURETANIA 1906 | Vintage Machines Decorations, 1800techgallery.com
MAURETANIA 1906
RMS Mauretania (also known as the "Maury") was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend, Tyne and Wear for the British Cunard Line, and launched on 20 September 1906. At the time, she was the largest and fastest ship in the world. Mauretania became a favourite among her passengers. After capturing the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1907 inaugural season, Mauretania held the speed record for twenty-two years.
The ship's name was taken from Mauretania, an ancient Roman province on the northwest African coast, not related to the modern Mauritania. Similar nomenclature was also employed by Mauretania's sister ship, the Lusitania, which was named after the Roman province directly north of Mauretania, across the Strait of Gibraltar, the region that now is Portugal.
Overview
In 1897 the German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the largest and fastest ship in the world. Eventually Germany was dominating the Atlantic and by 1906 they had five four funnels superliners, four of them being owned by the same company and part of the so called "Kaiser class".
With a speed of 22 knots (41 km/h), it captured the Blue Riband from Cunard Line's Campania and Lucania. At around the same time American financier J. P. Morgan’s International Mercantile Marine Co. was attempting to monopolize the shipping trade, and had already acquired Britain's other major transatlantic line White Star. In the face of these threats the Cunard Line was determined to regain the prestige of ocean travel back not only to the company, but also to Great Britain. In 1903, Cunard Line and the British government reached an agreement to build two superliners, the Lusitania and Mauretania, with a guaranteed service speed of no less than 24 knots (44 km/h), the British government were to loan £2,600,000 (£207 million as of 2011), for the construction of Mauretania and Lusitania at an interest rate of 2.75% to be paid back over twenty years with a stipulation that the ships could be converted to Armed Merchant Cruisers if needed; also to fund these ships further the admiralty arranged for Cunard to be paid an additional £150,000 per year to their mail subsidy.
Design and construction
The Mauretania and her sister Lusitania were both designed by Cunard naval architect Leonard Peskett with Swan Hunter and John Brown working from the plans for an ocean greyhound with a stipulated service speed of twenty-four knots in moderate weather for her mail subsidy contract. Peskett's original configuration for the ships in 1903 was a three-funnel design when reciprocating engines were destined to be the powerplant. A giant model of the ships in this configuration appeared in Shipbuilder's magazine. Cunard in 1904 decided to change powerplants to Parson's new turbine technology and Peskett then implemented a fourth funnel to the ship's profile as the ships design was again modified before construction of the vessel finally began.
In 1906, Mauretania was launched by the Duchess of Roxburghe. At the time of her launch, she was the largest moving structure yet built, and slightly larger in gross tonnage than her sister Lusitania. The main visual differences between Mauretania and Lusitania was that Mauretania was five feet longer and had different vents (Mauretania had cowl vents and the Lusitania had oil drum-shaped vents). Mauretania also had two extra stages of turbine blades in her forward turbines making her slightly faster than the Lusitania. The Mauretania and Lusitania were the only ships with direct-drive steam turbines to hold the Blue Riband; in later ships, reduction-geared turbines were mainly used. Mauretania's usage of the steam turbine was the largest yet application of the then-new technology, developed by Charles Algernon Parsons. During speed trials, these engines caused significant vibration at high speeds; in response, Mauretania received strengthening members and redesigned propellers before entering service, which reduced vibration.
Mauretania was designed to suit Edwardian tastes, with twenty eight different types of wood used in her public rooms, along with marble, tapestries, and other furnishings. Wood paneling for her first class public rooms was meticulously carved by three hundred craftsmen from Palestine. The multi-level first class dining saloon was decorated in Francis I style and topped by a large dome skylight. A series of elevators, then a rare new feature for liners, were installed next to Mauretania's grand staircase. A new feature was the Verandah Café on the boat deck, where passengers were served beverages in a weather-protected environment.
Early career
Mauretania left Liverpool on her maiden voyage on 16 November 1907 under the command of her first captain, John Pritchard and later that month captured the record for the fastest eastbound crossing of the Atlantic with an average speed of 23.69 knots (43.87 km/h). In September 1909, the Mauretania captured the Blue Riband for the fastest westbound crossing—a record that was to stand for more than two decades. In December 1910 Mauretania broke loose from her moorings while in the River Mersey and sustained damage that caused the cancellation of her special speedy Christmas voyage to New York. In a quick change of events Cunard rescheduled Mauretania's voyage for Lusitania under the command of captain James Charles which had just returned from New York. Lusitania herself completed Christmas crossings for her sister, carrying revellers back to New York. In 1912 both King George and Queen Mary were given a special tour of Mauretania, then Britain's fastest merchant vessel, adding further distinction to the ship's reputation. On 26 January 1914, while Mauretania was in the middle of annual refit in Liverpool, four men were killed and six injured when a gas cylinder exploded while they were working on one of her steam turbines. The damage was minimal and she returned to service two months later.
World War I
Shortly after Great Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, Mauretania and Aquitania were requested by the British government to become armed merchant cruisers, but their huge size and massive fuel consumption made them unsuitable for the duty; and they resumed their civilian service on 11 August. Later, due to lack of passengers crossing the Atlantic, Mauretania was laid up in Liverpool until May 1915, when her sister ship Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat.
Mauretania was about to fill the void left by Lusitania, but she was ordered by the British government to serve as a troopship to carry British troops during the Gallipoli campaign. She avoided becoming prey for German U-boats because of her high speed and the seamanship of her crew. As a troopship, Mauretania received dazzle camouflage, a form of abstract colour scheming, in an effort to confuse enemy ships.
When combined forces from the British empire and France began to suffer heavy casualties, Mauretania was ordered to serve as a hospital ship, along with her fellow Cunarder Aquitania and White Star's Britannic, in order to treat the wounded until 25 January 1916.In medical service the vessel was painted white with large medical cross emblems surrounding the vessel. Seven months later, Mauretania once again became a troop ship when requisitioned by the Canadian government to carry Canadian troops from Halifax to Liverpool. Her war duty was not yet over when the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, and she carried thousands of American troops, the ship was known by the Admiralty as HMS Tuberose until the end of the war, but the vessel's name was never changed by Cunard. The dazzle painting was not used when Mauretania served as a hospital ship.
Post-war career
Mauretania returned to civilian service on 21 September 1919. Her busy sailing schedule prevented her from having an extensive overhaul scheduled in 1920. However, in 1921 Cunard Line removed her from service when fire broke out on E deck and decided to give her a much needed overhaul. She returned to the Tyne shipyard of her birth, where her boilers were converted to oil firing, and returned to service in March 1922. Cunard noticed that Mauretania struggled to maintain her regular Atlantic service speed. Although the ship's service speed had improved and it now burned only 750 short tons (680 t) of oil per 24 hours, compared to 1,000 short tons (910 t) of coal previously, it was not operating at her pre-war service speeds. On one crossing in 1922 the ship managed an average speed of only nineteen knots. Cunard decided that the ship's once revolutionary turbines were in desperate need of an overhaul. In 1923, a major re-fitting was begun in Southampton. The Mauretania's turbines were dismantled. Halfway through the overhaul, the shipyard workers went on strike and the work was halted, so Cunard had the ship towed to Cherbourg, France where the work was completed at another shipyard. In May 1924, the ship returned to Atlantic service.
The Mauretania's Second Class Smoking Room.In 1928 Mauretania was modernised with new interior design and in the next year her speed record was broken by a German liner, the Bremen, with a speed of 28 knots (52 km/h). On 27 August, Cunard permitted the former ocean greyhound to have one final attempt to recapture the record from the newer German liner. She was taken out of service and her engines were modified to produce more power to give a higher service speed; however, this was still not enough. The Bremen simply represented a new generation of ocean liners that were far more powerful and technologically advanced than the aging Cunard liner. Even though Mauretania did not beat her German rival, the ship beat her own speed records both eastbound and westbound. In 1929 Mauretania collided with a train ferry near Robbins Reef Light. No one was killed or injured and her damage was quickly repaired. In 1930, with a combination of the Great Depression and newer competitors on the Atlantic run, Mauretania became a dedicated cruise ship. When Cunard Line merged with White Star Line in 1934, Mauretania, along with Olympic, Majestic and other aging ocean liners, were deemed surplus to requirements and withdrawn from service.
Retirement
Cunard withdrew Mauretania from service following a final eastward crossing from New York to Southampton in September 1934. The voyage was made at an average speed of 24 knots (44 km/h), equalling the original contractual stipulation for her mail subsidy. She was then laid up at Southampton alongside the former White Star Line flagship Olympic, her twenty-eight years of service at a close.
In May 1935 her furnishings and fittings were put up for auction and on 1 July that year she departed Southampton for the last time to T.W Wards shipbreakers at Rosyth. One of her former captains, the retired commodore Sir Arthur Rostron, captain of the RMS Carpathia during the RMS Titanic rescue, came to see her on her final departure from Southampton. Rostron refused to go aboard Mauretania before her final journey, stating that he preferred to remember the ship as she was when he commanded her.
En route to Rosyth Mauretania stopped at her birthplace the Tyne for half an hour, where she drew crowds of sightseers and was boarded by the Lord Mayor of Newcastle. The mayor bid her farewell from the people of Newcastle, and her last captain, A.T. Brown, then resumed his course for Rosyth. With masts cut down to fit, the ship passed under the Forth Bridge and was delivered to the breakers.
In order to prevent a rival company using the name and to keep it available for a future Cunard White Star liner, arrangements were made for the Red Funnel Paddle Steamer Queen to be renamed Mauretania in the interim.
The demise of the beloved Mauretania was protested by many of her loyal passengers, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt who wrote a private letter arguing against the scrapping.
Legacy
Some of the furnishings from the Mauretania were installed in a bar/restaurant complex in Bristol called the Mauretania Bar (now Java Bristol), situated in Park Street. The lounge bar was panelled with mahogany, which came from her first class library. The neon sign on the south wall still advertises the "Mauretania," and her bow lettering was used above the entrance. Additionally, fittings from the first class reading-writing room have been incorporated into the board room at Pinewood Studios, west of London. The oak panelled interior of The Oak Bar in Dame Street in Dublin, Ireland was originally fitted on the Mauretania. Maple panelling from one of the staterooms can be found in the Nont Sarahs Pub, New Hey Road (A640), Scammonden, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
The Mauretania is remembered in a song "Firing the Mauretania", with versions collected separately by Redd Sullivan and Hughie Jones. They both start "In 19 hundred and 24, I… got a job on the Mauretania"; but then go on to say "shovelling coal from morn till night" (not possible in 1924 as she was oil-fired by then); the number of "fires" is said to be either 64 or 34; but perversely the last verse on Hughie's version says "trimmers" not "stokers", so perhaps this is a reference to oil.
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The Ballearics are made up of three major islands. Majorca and Minorca are two, but what is the other one? | MODEL BOAT HMHS MAURETANIA
80L x 9W x 32H (cm)
31.49L x 3.54W x 12.60H (inch)
0.056 m� = 1.97762 ft�
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RMS & HMHS MAURETANIA
History in brief
RMS Mauretania (also known as "Maury"), sister ship of the Lusitania, was a Lusitania-class ocean liner built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend, Tyne and Wear for the British Cunard Line, and launched on 20 September 1906. At the time, she was the largest and fastest ship in the world. Particularly notable was her steam turbine propulsion, which was a revolutionary development in ocean liner design. Mauretania became a favourite among the passengers, attributable to her luxury, speed, and safety. After capturing the Blue Riband for fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1907 inaugural season, Mauretania held the speed record for twenty-two years.
The ship's name was taken from Mauretania, a ancient Roman province on the northwest African coast, not related to the modern Mauritania. Similar nomenclature was also employed by Mauretania's sister ship, the Lusitania, which was named after the Roman province directly north of Mauretania, across the Strait of Gibraltar.
History in details
Overview
In 1897 the German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the largest and fastest ship in the world. With a speed of 22 knots (41 km/h), it snatched the Blue Riband from Cunard Line's Campania and Lucania. At around the same time American financier J. P. Morgan�s International Mercantile Marine Co. was attempting to monopolize the shipping trade, and had already acquired Britain's other major transatlantic line White Star. In the face of these threats the Cunard Line was determined to regain the prestige of ocean travel back not only to the company, but also to Great Britain. In 1903, Cunard Line and the British government reached an agreement to build two superliners, the Lusitania and Mauretania, with a guaranteed service speed of no less than 24 knots, the British government were to loan �2,600,000 for the construction of Mauretania and Lusitania at an interest rate of 2.75% to be paid back over twenty years with a stipulation that the ships could be converted to Armed Merchant Cruisers if needed, also to fund these ships further the admiralty arranged for Cunard to be paid �150,000 per year increase to their mail subsidy.
Design and construction
The Mauretania was designed by Cunard naval architect Leon Peskett with Swann Hunter working from the plans struck for Lusitania which was the premier ship of the class. Peskett's original configuration for the ships in 1903 was a three-funnel design when reciprocating engines were destined to be the powerplant. A giant model of the ships in this configuration appeared in Shipbuilder's magazine. Cunard in 1904 decided to change powerplants to Parson's new turbine technology and Peskett then implemented a fourth funnel to the ships in order to vent all of the turbines' powerful exhaust. Peskett, at Cunard's behest, also designed the ships with a narrower beam than normal for ships this size. This to streamline the hulls for more speed through the waves, at the sacrifice of stability, and both Lusitania & Mauretania developed reputations for being rollers in rough seas.
Mauretania during a speed trial off St AbbsIn 1906, Mauretania was launched by the Duchess of Roxburghe. At the time of her launch, she was the largest moving structure yet built, and slightly larger in gross tonnage than her sister Lusitania. The main visual differences between Mauretania and Lusitania was that Mauretania was five feet longer and had different vents (Mauretania had cowl vents and the Lusitania had oil drum-shaped vents). Mauretania also had two extra stages of turbine blades in her forward turbines making her slightly faster than the Lusitania. The Mauretania and Lusitania were the only ships with direct-drive steam turbines to hold the Blue Riband; in later ships, reduction-geared turbines were mainly used. Mauretania's usage of the steam turbine was the largest yet application of the then-new technology, developed by Charles Algernon Parsons. During speed trials, these engines caused significant vibration at high speeds; in response, Mauretania received strengthening members and redesigned propellers before entering service, which reduced vibration.
Mauretania was designed to suit Edwardian tastes, with twenty-eight different types of wood used in her public rooms, along with marble, tapestries, and other furnishings. Wood paneling for her first class public rooms was meticulously carved by three hundred craftsmen from Palestine. The multi-level first class dining saloon was decorated in Fran�ois I style and topped by a large dome skylight. A series of elevators, then a rare new feature for liners, were installed next to Mauretania's grand staircase. A new feature was the Verandah Caf� on the boat deck, where passengers were served beverages in a weather-protected environment.
Early career
Mauretania left Liverpool on her maiden voyage on 16 November 1907 under the command of her first captain, John Pritchard and later that month captured the record for the fastest eastbound crossing of the Atlantic with an average speed of 23.69 knots (43.87 km/h). In September 1909, the Mauretania captured the Blue Riband for the fastest westbound crossing�a record that was to stand for more than two decades. In December 1910 Mauretania broke loose from her moorings while in the River Mersey and attained damage that caused the cancellation of her special speedy Christmas voyage to New York. In a quick change of events Cunard rescheduled Mauretania's voyage for Lusitania under the command of James Charles (who was future commodore of the line) which had just returned from New York. Lusitania herself completed Christmas crossings for her sister, carrying revellers back to New York. In 1912 both King George and Queen Mary were given a special tour of, Mauretania, then Britain's fastest merchant vessel. This further added distinction to the ship's reputation. On 26 January 1914, while Mauretania was in the middle of annual refit in Liverpool, four men were killed and six were injured when a gas cylinder exploded while they were working on one of her steam turbines. The damage was minimal and she returned to service two months later.
World War I
Shortly after Great Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, Mauretania and Aquitania were requested by the British government to become an armed merchant cruiser, but their huge size and massive fuel consumption made them unsuitable for the duty; leading to them resuming their civilian service on 11 August. Later, due to lack of passengers crossing the Atlantic, Mauretania was laid up in Liverpool until May 1915, when her sister ship Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat. Mauretania was about to fill the void left by Lusitania, but she was ordered by the British government to serve as a troopship to carry British troops during the Gallipoli campaign. She avoided becoming prey for German U-boats because of her high speed and the seamanship of her crew.
HMHS MauretaniaWhen combined forces from the British empire and France began to suffer heavy casualties, Mauretania was ordered to serve as a hospital ship, along with her fellow Cunarder Aquitania and White Star's Britannic, in order to treat the wounded until 25 January 1916. Seven months later, Mauretania once again became a troop ship when requisitioned by the Canadian government to carry Canadian troops from Halifax to Liverpool. Her war duty was not yet over when the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, and she carried thousands of American troops until the end of the war.
As a troopship, Mauretania received dazzle camouflage, a form of abstract color scheming, in an effort to confuse enemy ships. The dazzle painting was not used when Mauretania served as a hospital ship. In medical service the vessel was painted white with large medical cross emblems surrounding the vessel.
Post-war career
Mauretania returned to civilian service on 21 September 1919. Her busy sailing schedule prevented her from having an extensive overhaul scheduled in 1920. However, in 1921 Cunard Line removed her from service when fire broke out on E-deck and decided to give her a much-needed overhaul. She returned to the Tyne shipyard of her birth, where her boilers were converted to oil-firing, and returned to service in March 1922; however, it was also noticed by Cunard that Mauretania was still struggling to maintain her service speeds and it was apparent that her once-revolutionary turbines were in desperate need of overhaul. In 1923, a major overhaul was begun in Southampton, involving the dismantling of Mauretania's turbines. Halfway through the overhaul, the shipyard workers went on strike and the work was halted, so Cunard had the ship towed to Cherbourg, where the work was completed at another shipyard. In May 1924, the ship returned to Atlantic service.
The Mauretania's Second Class Smoking Room.In 1928 Mauretania was modernised with new interior design and in the next year her speed record was broken by a German liner, the Bremen, with a speed of 28 knots (52 km/h). On 27 August, Cunard permitted the former ocean greyhound to have one final attempt to recapture the record from the newer German liner. She was taken out of service and her engines were modified to produce more power to give a higher service speed; however, this was still not enough. The Bremen simply represented a new generation of ocean liners that were far more powerful and technologically advanced than the aging Cunarder. Even though Mauretania could not outrace her German rival, the ship did beat her own speed records both eastbound and westbound. In 1929 Mauretania collided with a train ferry near Robbins Reef Light; fortunately, no one was killed or injured and her damage was quickly repaired. In 1930, with a combination of the Great Depression and newer competitors on the Atlantic run, Mauretania became a dedicated cruise ship. When Cunard Line merged with White Star Line in 1934, Mauretania, along with Olympic, Majestic and other aging ocean liners, were deemed surplus to requirements and withdrawn from service.
Demise
Cunard withdrew Mauretania from service following a final eastward crossing from New York to Southampton in September 1934. The final crossing was made at an average speed of 24 knots (her original contractual speed stipulation for her mail subsidy), and Mauretania was then laid up at Southampton awaiting her fate next to the former one time White Star Line flagship Olympic. Thus marked the end of twenty-eight years of service with Cunard.
In May 1935 her furnishings and fittings were put up for auction and of the 1st of July that year she departed Southampton for the last time to T.W Wards shipbreakers at Rosyth. One of her former captains, the now retired commodore Sir Arthur Rostron (captain of the RMS Carpathia during the Titanic rescue), came to see her on her final departure from Southampton. Rostron refused to go aboard Mauretania before her final journey, stating that he preferred to remember the ship as when he commanded her.
En route to the breakers, Mauretania stopped at her birthplace the Tyne for half an hour, where she drew crowds of sightseers and was boarded by the Lord Mayor of Newcastle. The mayor bid her farewell from the people of Newcastle, and her last captain, A.T. Brown, then resumed his course for Rosyth. The ship passed under the Forth Bridge (for which her masts had to be cut down), and was delivered to the shipbreakers.
The demise of the beloved Mauretania was protested by many of her fans, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt who wrote a private letter arguing against the scrapping.
Legacy
Some of the furnishings from the Mauretania were installed in a bar/restaurant complex in Bristol called the Mauretania Bar (now Java Bristol), situated at the bottom of Park Street (the hill leading to the Wills Memorial Building of Bristol University) behind the Council House on College Green. The lounge bar was paneled with mahogany, which came from her first class library. The neon sign on the south wall still advertises the "Mauretania," and her bow lettering was used above the entrance. Additionally, the first class reading-writing room has become the board room at Pinewood Studios, west of London.
The Mauretania is remembered in a song "Firing the Mauretania", with versions collected separately by Redd Sullivan and Hughie Jones. They both start "In 19 hundred and 24, I� got a job on the Mauretania"; but then go on to say "shovelling coal from morn till night" (not possible in 1924 as she was oil-fired by then); the number of "fires" is said to be either 64 or 34; but perversely the last verse on Hughie's version says "trimmers" not "stokers", so perhaps this is a reference to oil.
Suggest: Display case to preserve the model from dust
Picture of the ship inside the display case is for illustration purpose.
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