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#221 Post by TheGreenAnger » Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:16 pm

Dame Angela Lansbury has died aged 96.

The Murder, She Wrote and Beauty and the Beast star died “peacefully in her sleep” on Tuesday (11 October), her family have announced.

“The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1.30am today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” her family said in a statement.

“In addition to her three children, Anthony, Deirdre and David, she is survived by three grandchildren, Peter, Katherine and Ian, plus five great grandchildren and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury. She was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, Peter Shaw.”

A private family ceremony will be held at a later date.
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How many people have been murdered in Cabot Cove?

Starting with Cabot Cove, Jessica Fletcher's homicidal hometown. The internet figured out that in 264 episodes of Murder, She Wrote, there were 274 murders in Cabot Cove, despite having a population of only 3500 people.
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#222 Post by llondel » Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:20 pm

I was about to post the same thing but you were clearly writing yours at the same time and clicked the submit button first.

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#223 Post by TheGreenAnger » Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:02 pm

llondel wrote:
Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:20 pm
I was about to post the same thing but you were clearly writing yours at the same time and clicked the submit button first.
No intention to gazump you llondel.You should post that which you had scribed! ;)))
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#224 Post by Undried Plum » Wed Oct 12, 2022 3:23 am

She was an old, quite young actually, chum of my mother who predeceased her by a couple of decades.

They spoke very well of eachother.

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#225 Post by TheGreenAnger » Wed Oct 12, 2022 12:54 pm

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Wed Oct 12, 2022 3:23 am
She was an old, quite young actually, chum of my mother who predeceased her by a couple of decades.

They spoke very well of eachother.
I must admit that Angela Lansbury had a "je ne sais quoi". She seemed to appeal to all age groups and had an air of authority and decency about her. Of course, her career was far more than "Jessica Fletcher", but most will remember her for that role.


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#226 Post by ribrash » Fri Oct 14, 2022 5:10 pm

Robbie Coltrane.

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#227 Post by Woody » Fri Oct 14, 2022 5:15 pm

When all else fails, read the instructions.

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#228 Post by Undried Plum » Fri Oct 14, 2022 7:27 pm

I met him once. In the late 1970s. His Ford Z-somethingother had broken down and I helped him at the roadside.

He wisnae famous in those days, but I greatly doubt that he'd have been much nicer, or less nice, if he was already at the time.

A thoroughly nice guy, In my personal experience.

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#229 Post by PHXPhlyer » Fri Oct 14, 2022 7:58 pm

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#231 Post by FD2 » Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:25 pm

On a visit to Edinburgh my brother-in-law walked from his flat to what was then a very 'local for locals' 'unreconstructed' bar called Carriers Quarters in Bernard Street for a drink or two. Occupying the centre of attention and a large part of the bar was Robbie Coltrane. B-i-L rated it as one of the funniest evenings out he'd had in years. The man was a natural entertainer. Carriers Quarters is now 'reconstructed' and not a scary place to have a drink any more.

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#232 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:33 pm

Any man who chooses to use his celebrity to give the public a paean to the jet engine deserves a toast on his passing!

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#233 Post by FD2 » Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:33 pm

Ken Atkinson, naval fighter pilot whose Sea Hurricane became the model for an Airfix kit – obituary

Atkinson crashed his Sea Hurricane NF 672, nicknamed Nicki, into the barrier of HMS Nairana and was sent for more practice in deck landing
By Telegraph Obituaries 13 October 2022 • 4:05pm

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Lt KW Atkinson in front of a Seafire XV, 1946

Lt Ken Atkinson, who has died aged 100, was a Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot whose Sea Hurricane gained worldwide fame as an Airfix model.

On February 10 1945, during the short winter’s day north of the Arctic Circle, Atkinson took part in a decisive air battle over Convoy JW 64 (28 merchant ships being escorted to the Kola Inlet in north-west Russia), which was attacked shortly after first light by 32 German Junkers Ju 88 bombers and torpedo carriers of Kampfgeschwader 26 flying from occupied Norway.

Despite the bitter cold, heavy seas and gale force winds, and with the flight deck heaving and twisting 30-40 feet, 835 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) launched its Wildcat fighters from the escort carrier Nairana. In their distinctive – and unofficial – all-white camouflage, the Wildcats intercepted the enemy about a dozen miles beyond the convoy screen, where a chaotic series of dogfights was fought out in the pale ribbon of sky between cloud and sea.

By 11.30 the main attack was over; no ships had been hit, but at least four Germans had been shot down and several damaged.

While the Wildcats of NAS 835 were rearmed and refuelled, the New Zealander Lieutenant “Al” Burgham, with Atkinson as his wingman, launched on combat air patrol. Promptly, they saw and chased two Junkers: one disappeared into the cloud just as Burgham fired a long burst from astern and they had the satisfaction of seeing it plunge out of the cumulus and into the sea.

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Airfix Sea Hurricane

The second Junkers jettisoned its torpedo and disappeared into the swirling mass of cloud, and though Burgham and Atkinson skirted the cloud base, it did not re-appear.

It was a famous victory for the Wildcats and no friendly aircraft were lost, even though many of them were fired on by the very ships they were defending. Atkinson recorded laconically in his logbook: “Engaged by own flak”.

Kenneth William Atkinson was born on December 19 1921 at Horsforth, West Riding, where his mother was a barmaid at the Friendly Inn. His love of flying was inspired by seeing Cobham’s Flying Circus at Yeadon Airfield (now Leeds-Bradford Airport), and he was educated briefly at Harrow County School for Boys, leaving at 16 to work as a storeman at Glaxo Laboratories. There he studied for his Higher School Certificate in the evenings until called up as a rating into the Navy in 1941.

While in the stores carrier Ulster Monarch Atkinson persuaded his officers that he wanted to fly, and in 1942 began to learn in Tiger Moth biplanes at Elmdon in Birmingham, flying solo on December 11 1942 after seven hours and 20 minutes’ instruction. After advanced training at Kingston, Ontario, he was awarded his wings in June 1943.

While in shore-based flying appointments in training squadrons in the UK, Atkinson flew his first Sea Hurricane on September 3 1943, and made his first deck-landing in the training carrier Argus that December; his first attempt did not go too well, and he hit the barrier, but he climbed out and completed a further six landings in another aircraft without incident.

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On June 27 1944, however, Atkinson crashed Sea Hurricane NF 672, nicknamed “Nicki”, into the barrier of Nairana while on Gibraltar convoy. Atkinson’s was the specific aircraft used by Airfix – with markings K7 and serial number NF 672 on the tail – for their kit of the Sea Hurricane, well-known to schoolboys and older modellers.

Although Atkinson had been rated “above average” as a student pilot, his squadron commander decided that he needed more practice. Nairana’s flightdeck was only 60 ft wide, but she was in company with the larger Ravager, so Atkinson was flown across to her and undertook a mini deck-landing training course.

By late 1944, 835 NAS was due to be re-equipped with the much more capable American fighter, the Grumman Wildcat IV, which was purpose-built and carrier-borne. It was more manoeuvrable and had a better rate of climb and endurance than the Sea Hurricane, and had been designed for seaborne operations with its powered, folding wings.

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Atkinson’s Sea Hurricane K7 after hitting the flightdeck barrier

Nevertheless, when on September 26 1944 Atkinson flew the last operational Sea Hurricane (231) from Nairana to Abbotsinch airfield near Glasgow, he felt as if he was saying goodbye to a friend. Just five days later he was airborne in a Wildcat.

In April 1945, Atkinson joined 853 NAS in the escort carrier Queen, and on May 4 took part in Operation Judgement, the last air raid of the war in Europe and the last naval offensive operation, when the Fleet Air Arm attacked the German U-boat base at Kilbotn, northern Norway. The attack was notable for its suddenness, brevity (it lasted seven minutes), and precision. Two aircraft out of 44 were lost, while a U-boat and German depot ship were sunk, and there were no civilian casualties.

In his short wartime flying career, Atkinson had flown 500 hours in 20 distinct types and made 72 deck-landings. He contemplated transferring to a permanent commission in the Royal Navy, but instead left in 1946. Postwar, he returned to Glaxo, before working for several other companies and retiring as company secretary of Sturtevant Engineering.

He married, in 1951, Elizabeth Brough, a South African; she predeceased him and he is survived by their two sons.

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#234 Post by Undried Plum » Sat Oct 15, 2022 12:36 am

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In his short wartime flying career, Atkinson had flown 500 hours in 20 distinct types and made 72 deck-landings. He contemplated transferring to a permanent commission in the Royal Navy, but instead left in 1946. Postwar, he returned to Glaxo
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#235 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sat Oct 15, 2022 5:49 am

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#236 Post by TheGreenAnger » Tue Oct 18, 2022 10:57 am

Carmen Callil, Australian, Catholic school escapee, feminist, and publisher has died.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Callil
Carmen Callil, the publisher and writer who championed female writers and transformed the canon of English literature, has died of leukemia in London on Monday aged 84. The news was confirmed by her agent.

Callil began as a campaigning outsider, founding the feminist imprint Virago Press, where she published contemporary bestsellers including Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou and Angela Carter. She challenged the male-dominated canon of English literature by bringing back into print a list of modern classics by authors including Antonia White, Willa Cather and Rebecca West, eventually becoming a pillar of the literary establishment. She was made a dame in 2017, served as a member of the Booker prize committee and was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Born in Melbourne in 1938, Callil had a difficult childhood, which she later called her “purgatory”. She went to the same convent school as Germaine Greer – she described the atmosphere as “rules, censorship and silence, and above all a sense of disapproval waiting to pounce on those rare times when you felt most entirely yourself”. After studying at Melbourne University, she left Australia the week she graduated, arriving in London in 1960 to find it a “very closed and silent place”.

“I came to the conclusion that I should never have come here,” she told the Guardian. “I should have stayed at home. Definitely. Or lived in France.”

Callil’s early years in London were challenging, and she attempted to kill herself. After beginning the road to recovery with a therapist, in 1964 she placed an advert in the Times: “Australian BA, typing, wants job in publishing.”

“I got three offers and accepted one,” she told the Australian Book Review, “which was being a menial for a sponsored book editor at Hutchinson’s.”

From there she moved into book publicity – one of the few jobs then open to women who didn’t want to be secretaries – before taking a job at Ink, an offshoot of Oz magazine. When it collapsed in 1972 she went freelance, working on the launch of the feminist magazine Spare Rib that summer. It was while sitting in a pub that the idea for a feminist publishing company came to her, “like the switching on of a lightbulb”.

Named after the Latin for a female warrior, Virago Press was established in 1973. Two years later, the first title appeared: Margaret Chamberlain’s portrait of women’s lives in an East Anglian village, Fenwomen. Callil told the Guardian the imprint was an attempt to “apply mass-marketing techniques to minority ideas – to publicise feminist ideas. There was a commercial aspect to it: I saw that there was a vacancy, an opportunity, a hole for Virago.”

Harriet Spicer, who started as Callil’s assistant in 1972 and became managing director of Virago 10 years later, later described “a rather wild life going on”. But alongside the boozy meetings and parties, there was a ferocious amount of work.

Virago was bought out in 1982 by the Chatto, Bodley Head and Cape group, with Callil remaining on the board but moving to become managing director of Chatto and Windus. There she published Iris Murdoch, AS Byatt and Edward Said, and brought a swagger to acquisitions, offering Michael Holroyd £625,000 for his biography of George Bernard Shaw in 1991. Three years later she left Chatto, and in 1995, she cut her ties with Virago, which was sold to Little, Brown, where it remains a successful imprint.

In 2006, Callil turned author with an investigation of family and Vichy France, Bad Faith. Through the tragic death of Anne Darquier, the therapist who helped Callil when she first arrived in London, she explores the life of Darquier’s father Louis, a Nazi collaborator who sent thousands of French Jews to their deaths. The Observer described it as “furious, lit up by her contempt for the man and her rage about the system of persecution and bureaucratised murder that he served”, but also revealed “a vulnerability that few of her colleagues could ever have suspected”. Callil followed this in 2020 with a study of her own family history, Oh Happy Day, charting how her forebears were transported to Australia after poverty had driven them to petty crime, and drawing parallels with modern inequalities.

Callil never lost her fire, quitting the Man Booker International panel after her fellow judges awarded the prize to Philip Roth and protesting with Extinction Rebellion. But she was gracious as well. Writing in the Guardian, Callil recalled an appearance at the Suffolk Book League, where “a clutch of women” came up to thank her for Virago.

“It was the writers and their novels they were really thanking,” she wrote, “women writing away in thankless times. All that was required was to know they were there, to love them, and to publish them.”
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#237 Post by PHXPhlyer » Tue Oct 18, 2022 2:03 pm

Apollo 9 commander James McDivitt dies at 93
The astronaut was also the commander of the Gemini 4 mission in 1965, when his best friend and colleague, Ed White, made the first U.S. spacewalk.

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WASHINGTON — James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, has died. He was 93.

McDivitt was also the commander of 1965’s Gemini 4 mission, where his best friend and colleague Ed White made the first U.S. spacewalk. His photographs of White during the spacewalk became iconic images.

He passed on a chance to land on the moon and instead became the space agency’s program manager for five Apollo missions after the Apollo 11 moon landing.

McDivitt died Thursday in Tucson, Arizona, NASA said Monday.

In his first flight in 1965, McDivitt reported seeing “something out there” about the shape of a beer can flying outside his Gemini spaceship. People called it a UFO and McDivitt would later joke that he became “a world-renowned UFO expert.” Years later he figured it was just a reflection of bolts in the window.

Apollo 9, which orbited Earth and didn’t go further, was one of the lesser remembered space missions of NASA’s program. In a 1999 oral history, McDivitt said it didn’t bother him that it was overlooked: “I could see why they would, you know, it didn’t land on the moon. And so it’s hardly part of Apollo. But the lunar module was ... key to the whole program."

Flying with Apollo 9 crewmates Rusty Schweickart and David Scott, McDivitt’s mission was the first in-space test of the lightweight lunar lander, nicknamed Spider. Their goal was to see if people could live in it, if it could dock in orbit and — something that became crucial in the Apollo 13 crisis — if the lunar module’s engines could control the stack of spacecraft, which included the command module Gumdrop.

Early in training, McDivitt was not impressed with how flimsy the lunar module seemed: “I looked at Rusty and he looked at me, and we said, ‘Oh my God! We’re actually going to fly something like this?’ So it was really chintzy. ... it was like cellophane and tin foil put together with Scotch tape and staples!”

Unlike many of his fellow astronauts, McDivitt didn’t yearn to fly from childhood. He was just good at it.

McDivitt didn’t have money for college growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He worked for a year before going to junior college. When he joined the Air Force at 20, soon after the Korean War broke out, he had never been on an airplane. He was accepted for pilot training before he had ever been off the ground.

“Fortunately, I liked it,” he later recalled.

McDivitt flew 145 combat missions in Korea and came back to Michigan where he graduated from the University of Michigan with an aeronautical engineering degree. He later was one of the elite test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base and became the first student in the Air Force’s Aerospace Research Pilot School. The military was working on its own later-abandoned human space missions.

In 1962, NASA chose McDivitt to be part of its second class of astronauts, often called the “New Nine,” joining Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and others.

McDivitt was picked to command the second two-man Gemini mission, along with White. The four-day mission in 1965 circled the globe 66 times.

Apollo 9’s shakedown flight lasted 10 days in March 1969 — four months before the moon landing — and was relatively trouble free and uneventful.

“After I flew Apollo 9 it was apparent to me that I wasn’t going to be the first guy to land on the moon, which was important to me,” McDivitt recalled in 1999. “And being the second or third guy wasn’t that important to me.”

So McDivitt went into management, first of the Apollo lunar lander, then for the Houston part of the entire program.

McDivitt left NASA and the Air Force in 1972 for a series of private industry jobs, including president of the railcar division at Pullman Inc. and a senior position at aerospace firm Rockwell International. He retired from the military with the rank of brigadier general.

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#238 Post by TheGreenAnger » Tue Oct 18, 2022 6:29 pm

I remember listening to the Apollo 9 mission on our little radio in Johannesburg (no TV in SA at that time) and like my mom, a Catholic, always did when we listened to these missions, she insisted we say a prayer for the crew, which we did as a family. As an atheist, I am still apt to say a prayer for James McDivitt, and my old mom. RIP.



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Re: Departed During 2022 -Pharoah Saunders

#239 Post by TheGreenAnger » Sat Oct 22, 2022 4:20 pm

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The distinctive sound of Pharoah Sanders’ tenor saxophone, which could veer from a hoarse croon to harsh multiphonic screams, startled audiences in the 1960s before acting in recent years as a kind of call to prayer for young jazz musicians seeking to steer their music in a direction defined by a search for ecstasy and transcendence.

Sanders, who has died aged 81, made an impact at both ends of a long career. In 1965 he was recruited by John Coltrane, an established star of the jazz world, to help push the music forward into uncharted areas of sonic and spiritual exploration.

He had just turned 80 when he reached a new audience after being invited by Sam Shepherd, the British musician and producer working under the name Floating Points, to take the solo part on the widely praised recording of an extended composition titled Promises, a concerto in which he responded with a haunting restraint to the minimalist motifs and backgrounds devised by Shepherd for keyboards and the strings of the London Symphony Orchestra.

By then he had become a vital figure in the recent revival of “spiritual jazz”, whose young exponents took his albums as inspirational texts. When he was named a Jazz Master by the US National Endowment for the Arts in 2016, musicians of all generations, from the veteran pianist Randy Weston to the young saxophonist Kamasi Washington, queued up to pay tribute.

Farrell Sanders was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, a segregated world where his mother was a school cook, his father was a council worker and he grew up steeped in the music of the church. He studied the clarinet in school before moving on to the saxophone, playing jazz and rhythm and blues in the clubs on Little Rock’s West Ninth Street, backing such visiting stars as Bobby Bland and Junior Parker. After graduating from Scipio A Jones high school, he moved to northern California, studying art and music at Oakland Junior College. Soon he was immersing himself in the local jazz scene, where he was known as “Little Rock”.

In 1961 he arrived in New York, a more high-powered and competitive but still economically straitened environment. While undergoing the young unknown’s traditional period of scuffling for gigs, he played with the Arkestra of Sun Ra, a devoted Egyptologist. Sanders soon changed his name from Farrell to Pharoah, giving himself the sort of brand recognition enjoyed by all the self-styled Kings, Dukes, Counts and Earls of earlier jazz generations.

Amid a ferment of innovation in the new jazz avant garde, Sanders formed his own quartet. The poet LeRoi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka) was the first to take notice, writing in his column in DownBeat magazine in 1964 that Sanders was “putting it together very quickly; when he does, somebody will tell you about it”.

In 1961 he arrived in New York, a more high-powered and competitive but still economically straitened environment. While undergoing the young unknown’s traditional period of scuffling for gigs, he played with the Arkestra of Sun Ra, a devoted Egyptologist. Sanders soon changed his name from Farrell to Pharoah, giving himself the sort of brand recognition enjoyed by all the self-styled Kings, Dukes, Counts and Earls of earlier jazz generations.

Amid a ferment of innovation in the new jazz avant garde, Sanders formed his own quartet. The poet LeRoi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka) was the first to take notice, writing in his column in DownBeat magazine in 1964 that Sanders was “putting it together very quickly; when he does, somebody will tell you about it”.

That somebody turned out to be Coltrane, who invited him to take part in the recording of Ascension, an unbroken 40-minute piece in which 11 musicians improvised collectively between ensemble figures handed to them at the start of the session. When it was released on the Impulse! label in 1966, critics noted that the leader, one of jazz’s biggest stars, had given himself no more solo space than any of the other, younger horn players, implicitly awarding their creative input as much value as his own.

Coltrane also invited Sanders to join his regular group, then expanding from the classic quartet format heard at its peak on the album A Love Supreme, recorded in 1964. With Alice Coltrane and Rashied Ali replacing McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones at the piano and the drums respectively, and other young musicians coming in and out as the band toured the US, the music became less of a vehicle for solo improvisation and more of a communal rite, sometimes involving the chanting of mantras and extended percussion interludes.

While some listeners were dismayed, accusing Coltrane of overdoing his generosity to young acolytes, others were exhilarated. For both camps, Sanders became a symbol of the shift. “Pharoah Sanders stole the entire performance,” the critic Ron Welburn wrote after witnessing Coltrane’s group in Philadelphia in 1966. The poet Jerry Figi reviewed a performance in Chicago and described Sanders as “the most urgent voice of the night”, his sound “a mad wind screeching through the root-cellars of Hell”. Sceptics believed Sanders was leading Coltrane down the path to perdition.

When Coltrane died of liver cancer in 1967, aged 40, Sanders began his own series of albums for Impulse!, starting with Tauhid (1967) and Karma (1969), which included an influential extended modal chant called The Creator Has a Master Plan. He continued to work with Alice Coltrane, appearing on several of her albums as well as those of Weston, Tyner, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Sharrock, the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, Norman Connors and others.

In 2004 he was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame. Ten years later, he travelled from his home in Los Angeles to Little Rock, the city where his classmates had tried, in 1957, to desegregate the local whites-only high school, for an official Pharoah Sanders Day.

When asked to explain the philosophy behind the music that Baraka described as “long tissues of sounded emotion”, he replied: “I was just trying to see if I could play a pretty note, a pretty sound.” In later years, those who arrived at his concerts expecting the white-bearded figure to produce the squalls of sound that characterised Coltrane’s late period were often surprised by the gentleness with which he could enunciate a ballad. “When I’m trying to play music,” he said, “I’m telling the truth about myself.”

Pharoah (Farrell) Sanders, saxophonist and composer, born 13 October 1940; died 24 September 2022

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#240 Post by Wodrick » Sat Oct 22, 2022 9:55 pm

Red Bull founder and F1 team owner Dietrich Mateschitz dies aged 78

The Austrian businessman, who founded the energy drink company in 1984, was instrumental in the brand’s involvement in F1.

Mateschitz owned 49 per cent of the energy drink brand and was the driving force behind its move into racing, which began in the mid-1990s.

He is survived by long-term partner Marion Feichtner and son Mark Gerhardter.

Mateschitz graduated from the Vienna University of Economics and Business with a marketing degree in 1972.

He worked for Unilever before moving to Blendax, a German cosmetics company owned by Procter & Gamble.

While travelling for work, he discovered Krating Daeng, the drink developed by Chaleo Yoovidhya which became Red Bull.

Red Bull first entered F1 in 1995 in partnership with Sauber, growing its stake to 60 per cent before the collaboration ended at the end of 2001.

In November 2004, he purchased the Jaguar Racing team from former owners Ford and created Red Bull Racing.

That year, Mateschitz also bought Austria’s A1-Ring, completing extensive renovation works and renaming it the Red Bull Ring before it reopened in May 2011.

A year later, he and Gerhard Berger teamed up to buy the Minardi team from Paul Stoddart, renaming it Scuderia Toro Rosso.

Red Bull won its first championships in 2010 with Sebastian Vettel, taking both titles in that year and the following three seasons.

Outside of racing, Mateschitz bought the football clubs SV Austria Salzburg and MetroStars, renaming them to Red Bull Salzburg and New York Red Bulls.

He founded RB Leipzig football team in 2009 and is also the owner of the German ice hockey club EHC Munchen, changing its name to Red Bull München.
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