Patrick Macnee RIP

[subcontrabass]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33279566

[Beef Oven!]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33279566

Sad news. I was only talking to my father about Macnee a couple of weeks ago and we wondered how old he was, so I googled him! (we were watching an episode of the Avengers).

A part of my childhood gone RIP

[Roehre]

Sad news....
A part of my childhood gone RIP

Cannot express my feelings better myself.

RIP
Patrick MacNee

[MrGongGong]

RIP sir Denis

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Those Avengers episodes were made on a shoestring budget with no "extras" at all. Although all the recent repeats have been on BBC channels, they were originally on ITV.

My favourite episode was the one when Emma Peel left with her husband, Peter, who was played by Patrick Macnee's stunt double.

[Serial_Apologist]

I guess most of us were taken in by the 1960s glamour it represented and hankered after ultimate style meaning a Kensington mews flat. Diana Rigg - still going I believe? - was always my favourite Steed companion. Somewhere in my adolescent noddle it fixed the notion that women didn't have to flit about looking pretty and in need of rescue most of the time. Innocent times, they seemed to be...

[MrGongGong]

What are you lot on about?
The defining part of his career was in Tap

[Beef Oven!]

What are you lot on about?
The defining part of his career was in Tap

I'd completely forgotten about that!

[Conchis]

Whenever I hear the word 'urbane', I think of Patrick Macnee.

Very sad he's gone, though it sounds like a full and happy life.

[johncorrigan]

Great them tune too - and he and Diana Rigg always looked like they were having a great time together.

[richardfinegold]

My recollection of him was wishing that he would get off the screen so that I could get a better view of Diana Rigg.

[Tevot]

My recollection of him was wishing that he would get off the screen so that I could get a better view of Diana Rigg.

Richard. You are a very naughty boy I saw quite a lot of the Avengers in the UK when they were repeated in the late 70's and early 80's. Never quite got Emma Peel... but Tara King ... well she's another rhapsody entirely

Best Wishes,

Tevot

[Stillhomewardbound]

Laurie Johnson's marvellous Avengers theme:

Can anyone shed light on the instrumentation, particularly the strident pulse of what sounds like a punk harspicord.

Is it another instrument (sounds more struck than plucked) but I'm struggling a bit to imagine a harpsichord producing such a dynamic sound, or has it been lifted, enhanced in the mix?

https://youtu.be/cI07q6w3k-I

[vinteuil]

... interesting. Not a harpsichord, I think. As you say, more struck than plucked...

However - this is one of the first things which excited me to become obsessed with the sound of the harpsichord -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u6jYfJgj-o

[richardfinegold]

Laurie Johnson's marvellous Avengers theme:

Can anyone shed light on the instrumentation, particularly the strident pulse of what sounds like a punk harspicord.

Is it another instrument (sounds more struck than plucked) but I'm struggling a bit to imagine a harpsichord producing such a dynamic sound, or has it been lifted, enhanced in the mix?

https://youtu.be/cI07q6w3k-I

Sounded like vibes to me