James Horner obituary
Oscar-winning film music composer best known for TitanicJames Horner, who has died aged 61 in a plane crash in California, was one of the most successful and admired composers of film soundtracks in...
View ArticleSimon Jenkins on Chris Woodhead: ‘He climbed an argument as he climbed a...
Chris Woodhead was a fanatical mountaineer. When tiring of the pressure of educational politics, he and his wife, Christine, moved to a cottage in Wales, on the near inaccessible slopes of his beloved...
View ArticleMichael Westbrook obituary
My father, Michael Westbrook, who has died aged 88, was one of the first professionally trained electronics engineers in the UK and, during a long career in the field, invented and patented a number of...
View Article‘Red’ Ray Davies obituary
My husband, “Red” Ray Davies, who has died aged 85, was a Caerphilly county councillor and tireless peace activist whose energy and passion for justice were unabated to the end.Ray was born during the...
View ArticleJeremy Theophilus obituary
My friend and former colleague, Jeremy Theophilus, who has died aged 66 of cancer, possessed a rare open sensibility for the arts. His modesty masked passionate curiosity and a wide range of...
View ArticleRich McMahon obituary
My husband, Rich McMahon, who has taken his own life aged 42, was a songwriter and performer who managed to pack a lot into his life, performing countless live gigs, recording a number of albums,...
View ArticleWalter Weller obituary
Conductor who performed with orchestras in Liverpool, Glasgow and London as well as in his native ViennaThe Austrian conductor and violinist Walter Weller, who has died aged 75, spent much of his...
View ArticleLetter: Samuel Charters’ writings on the blues asserted the humanity of the...
The conventional criticism of Samuel Charters as a pioneering writer on the blues has long been that he romanticised the music and its practitioners, especially in his first, groundbreaking book, The...
View ArticlePatrick Macnee obituary
Actor best known as John Steed, bowler-hatted hero of The AvengersDespite a long and diverse career in the theatre and cinema, Patrick Macnee, who has died aged 93, will be remembered as John Steed,...
View ArticleFred Bayliss obituary
Pay policy expert who had an input into the creation of the national minimum wageMy father, the economist Fred Bayliss, who has died aged 89, was an expert in industrial relations whose work helped to...
View ArticleJules Wright obituary
Theatre entrepreneur who nurtured female talent through the Women’s Playhouse Trust and founded the Wapping ProjectJules Wright, who has died of cancer aged 67, was ago-getting and inspirational...
View ArticlePete Edwards obituary
My friend Pete “Plug” Edwards, who has died of cancer aged 60, worked in the music industry for nearly 40 years, starting in the mid-1970s as a roadie for the punk group the Lurkers, of which I was the...
View ArticleYevgeny Primakov obituary
Outstanding Russian foreign secretary and PM who served under Yeltsin and GorbachevYevgeny Primakov, who has died aged 85, was an outstanding foreign minister and prime minister of the Russian...
View ArticleJames Malpas obituary
Art historian and lecturer keen to make his subject accessible through his witty writings and radio broadcastsJames Malpas, who has died of a cerebral haemorrhage aged 56, was an art historian with a...
View ArticleLetter: Kirk Kerkorian obituary
Related: Kirk Kerkorian obituaryThe account that Kirk Kerkorian gave the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1999 of his ferrying flights during the second world war looks as if it must have grown in the...
View ArticleJohn Fairhall obituary
Africa correspondent for the Guardian jailed by Idi Amin in 1972The Guardian journalist John Fairhall, who has died aged 86, predicted the coup that brought Idi Amin to power in Uganda, and ended up...
View ArticleClive Dutton obituary
Urban regeneration and planning expert who breathed new life into Belfast, Birmingham and the Royal Docks in LondonClive Dutton, who has died aged 62 of cancer, produced influential redevelopment plans...
View ArticleJohn Busby obituary
Wildlife artist and teacher best known for his book Drawing Birds“My work is rooted in landscape and in the living birds and animals as they are part of it. I aim to show how creatures move and to...
View ArticleLetter: Ron Moody and Bernard Levin’s double act
I was a student at the London School of Economics from 1949 until 1952, at the time that Ron Moody took part in a student revue. One of his sketches was a double-act impersonation of Groucho Marx....
View ArticleElizabeth MacLennan obituary
Actor, writer and co-founder of 7:84, the touring company that left an indelible mark on British theatreElizabeth MacLennan, who has died of leukaemia aged 77, was an actor, writer and one of those...
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