John Sessions dies aged 67

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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26575
    #1

    John Sessions dies aged 67

    A sad loss of one who’s made me laugh many times over the years

    (Not least the deadpan Private Passions....

    Originally posted by David Samuels View Post
    In late December 1997, MB interviewed a 112 year-old Viennese percussionist named Manfred Sturmer (AKA John Sessions) who had many scurrilous stories about Brahms, Clara Schumann, Wagner, Richard Strauss, et al. The whole programme was played straight, to the extent that many people (including some of my acquaintance) thought it was real. It was the funniest Private Passions ever broadcast.

    Sadly, I can find no trace of it anywhere. Does anyone have any knowledge of this particular episode and why it might have disappeared?
    ... which may get a re-broadcast?)
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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  • Serial_Apologist
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 37851
    #2
    No great age - how sad.

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    • cloughie
      Full Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 22205
      #3
      A series or two of Stella Street would brighten up Lockdown 2!
      RIP John

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      • johncorrigan
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 10424
        #4
        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
        No great age - how sad.

        That is very sad indeed. Always very talented, but none more for me than in Stella Street as Keith Richards running a grocery shop with Phil Cornwell's Mick.
        STELLA STREET - "Mick & Keith's Corner Shop"
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCSzP6dmmo
        Here's some very quirky British humour - STELLA STREET (originally shown on BBC television)...populated by a selection of celebrity residents and a cleaning ...

        Last edited by johncorrigan; 03-11-20, 18:36.

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        • Petrushka
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 12329
          #5
          Saw him outside the Albert Hall pre-concert back in 1993. A ridiculously early age to go.
          "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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          • Jazzrook
            Full Member
            • Mar 2011
            • 3114
            #6
            Obit. in The Guardian:

            John Sessions obituary
            https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/nov/04/john-sessions-obituary
            Comedian and actor known for Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Stella Street and Spitting Image


            JR

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            • Leinster Lass
              Banned
              • Oct 2020
              • 1099
              #7
              Zipser and the condoms in 'Porterhouse Blue'.

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