Horace Silver obituary
Mercurial pianist, composer and founder of a succession of quintets whose music appealed to audiences beyond jazzBebop crashed into prominence during the 1940s, and over the next decade evolved as two...
View ArticleRoger Ackling obituary
Artist who worked with the rays of the sun and flotsam from the seashoreRecycling material and harnessing the power of the sun, the artist Roger Ackling, who has died aged 66 from motor neurone...
View ArticleMorris Kahn obituary
My friend Morris Kahn, who has died aged 89, was an independent publisher of music books. His Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides are still important documents. In 1976 he published my Music of India, with a...
View ArticleRafael Frühbeck de Burgos obituary
Internationally respected conductor who made some of his finest recordings with the Philharmonia OrchestraThe Spanish conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, who has died aged 80, was held in affection...
View ArticleJohn Prescott obituary
My husband John Prescott, who has died aged 88, was a second-hand book dealer who was never interested in a book's monetary value. He always insisted that books were for reading, and without white...
View ArticleLetter: The photographer Roger Mayne and the sculptor John Hoskin
I first met Roger Mayne when he came to Cheltenham in 1952 to visit Hugo van Wadenoyen, an influential figure in British fine art photography. Roger had attended a lecture given by Hugo at Cambridge...
View ArticleLetter: Roger Mayne's film stills debut in Picture Post
I first met Roger Mayne in 1950 when we were both at Oxford. We were members of the Experimental Film Group, an appendage of the Film Society, and tried each year to make an original amateur film on a...
View ArticleGerald Howson obituary
Photographer, author and painter, with a passion for flamenco guitarThe photographer, historian and hispanophile Gerald Howson, who has died aged 88, had a zest for life and compassion for humanity,...
View ArticleGerry Goffin obituary
Lyricist who, with his partner Carole King, wrote many hit songs of the 1960sThe late 1950s and early 60s was the heyday of teenage pop. The quality of the songs was highly variable but by common...
View ArticleLorna Wing obituary
Psychiatrist who developed the concept of an autism spectrumThe psychiatrist Lorna Wing, who has died aged 85, revolutionised the way autism was regarded and her influence was felt across the globe....
View ArticleJosephine Pullein-Thompson obituary
Novelist known for her pony books loved by generations of girlsBlog: How Josephine Pullein-Thompson transported young readersOnce asked why so many girls develop a passion for ponies, the novelist...
View ArticleGerry Conlon obituary
As a member of the Guildford Four, a victim of one of Britain's worst miscarriages of justiceWhen Gerry Conlon, who has died aged 60 of lung cancer, met survivors of the US's Guantánamo Bay detention...
View ArticleFelix Dennis obituary
One of three editors in the 1971 Oz obscenity trial who went on to become a hugely successful magazine and book publisherFelix Dennis cackling laugh, roistering humour, ribald in appetite, loyal and...
View ArticlePatsy Byrne obituary
Versatile stage and TV actor loved for her role as Nursie in BlackadderTalented young actors who wanted a classical career, but lacked the physical delicacy required of ingénues, used to be warned that...
View ArticleLetter: Kevin Elyot was not only a talented actor, but also a fine musician
I owe my love of theatre to Kevin Elyot. At the age of 13 we saw the legendary Wars of the Roses trilogy at Stratford in a single day, which culminated in us standing up to watch Ian Holm's Richard III...
View ArticleLetter: Gerry Goffin obituary
Barry Goldberg, with whom Gerry Goffin wrote songs in the 1970s, was a keyboard player, not a guitarist, from a Chicago blues background (and the band the Electric Flag). And far from being more...
View ArticleStephen Byers on Denise Inge: 'She provided support to a community undergoing...
I met Denise Inge in the early 1990s when she accompanied her husband John to the north-east following his appointment as a parish priest in my former parliamentary constituency of Wallsend. For a...
View ArticleLetter: Roger Mayne's photographs echoed pieces of literature
A less well known but important aspect of the photography of Roger Mayne was his contribution to the teaching of English in schools. In 1960, at Walworth comprehensive school in south London, my...
View ArticleEli Wallach
Award-winning character actor with memorable roles in The Magnificent Seven and The Good, the Bad and the UglyThe characters played by the actor Eli Wallach, who has died aged 98, were seldom good but...
View ArticleNorman Willis obituary
Leader of the TUC during one of the most traumatic periods in trade union historyNo trade union leader since the second world war had to cope with such a catalogue of disasters, nor become so embroiled...
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