BBC Music Day, 14 June 2017 - Music Legends Honoured With Blue Plaques

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  • Lat-Literal
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    • Aug 2015
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    BBC Music Day, 14 June 2017 - Music Legends Honoured With Blue Plaques

    Some unexpectedly worthy winners on this list:

    Those recognised include David Bowie, broadcaster John Peel, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band and Delia Derbyshire, who composed the Dr Who theme tune
  • cloughie
    Full Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 22119

    #2
    Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
    Some unexpectedly worthy winners on this list:

    http://www.musicweek.com/media/read/...sic-day/068790
    A usual mix of the good, the bad and the... Depeding on your point of view and musical taste. It would be interesting to know who the selectors were.

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    • MrGongGong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 18357

      #3
      Why do so many people mistakenly think Delia Derbyshire COMPOSED the Dr Who theme tune ?
      (Not that there's much wrong with what she did with it ..... )

      Nice to see Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan there

      But no Trevor Wishart

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        #4
        Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
        Why do so many people mistakenly think Delia Derbyshire COMPOSED the Dr Who theme tune ?
        (Not that there's much wrong with what she did with it ..... )


        Nice to see Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan there


        But no Trevor Wishart
        Nor Richard Steinitz
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • teamsaint
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          • Nov 2010
          • 25209

          #5
          I think Buddy Holly was a musical great, but not really sure of the point of the BBC Wiltshire choice, really.
          A theatre he played, that is already well known? is that really the best they can do?
          oh well.....

          Kevin Coyne is a more interesting choice, for example.
          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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          • Serial_Apologist
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            • Dec 2010
            • 37674

            #6
            Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
            Why do so many people mistakenly think Delia Derbyshire COMPOSED the Dr Who theme tune ?
            (Not that there's much wrong with what she did with it ..... )
            The only other piece I've heard broadcast by Tristram Cary was a suite from music he composed for "The Ladykillers". I have a cassette from a home-recorded reel-to-reel broadcast from 1967 of him being interviewed by Rawsthorne. It includes an excerpt from his setting of Mervyn Peake's poem "The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb" - a work of astonishing power. Cary deserves a programme of his own: I don't recall any recognition when he died 3 years ago.

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            • MrGongGong
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              • Nov 2010
              • 18357

              #7
              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
              The only other piece I've heard broadcast by Tristram Cary was a suite from music he composed for "The Ladykillers". I have a cassette from a home-recorded reel-to-reel broadcast from 1967 of him being interviewed by Rawsthorne. It includes an excerpt from his setting of Mervyn Peake's poem "The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb" - a work of astonishing power. Cary deserves a programme of his own: I don't recall any recognition when he died 3 years ago.
              This is worth having IMV



              He certainly does deserve more exposure

              As does the much missed Edward Williams

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