Obituaries
Jade Goody: Reality TV star and media phenomenon
From the moment Jade Goody emerged from Channel 4's Big Brother house in 2002, she was a media phenomenon and an icon for the reality television-addicted, Heat magazine-loving masses.
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Alan Livingston: President of Capitol Records who launched the Beatles in America
Monday, 23 March 2009
As the president of Capitol Records in America, Alan Livingston converted a relatively small record company into a major player, with a portfolio of artists that included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat “King” Cole and the Beatles.
Richard Shulberg: Musician and radio presenter known as ‘Citizen Kafka'
Monday, 23 March 2009
A man of many parts, among them, broadcaster, musician, film projectionist and caf�bookshop manager, Richie Shulberg first came to notice as Citizen Kafka on WBAI-FM, the left-orientated, largely donor-financed Pacifica Radio Network station in New York. Few get to blur the distinction between icon and iconoclast quite as well as Citizen Kafka – “The Citizen”, or Sid Kafka, for short – did.
Mickey Gee: Prolific guitarist who worked with Tom Jones and Joe Cocker
Saturday, 21 March 2009
Something of an unsung hero, Mickey Gee was called "the best guitarist to come out of Wales" by several of the singers and musicians he worked with over the last four decades.
Joe Haverty: Skilful Arsenal and Republic of Ireland left-winger known for his trickery and dribbling
Saturday, 21 March 2009
There was an impudent twinkle about the football of the tiny Irish winger Joe Haverty which was sorely needed during a distinctly lacklustre interlude in Arsenal's history.
Deborah Riedel: Versatile lyrical soprano admired in Europe and the United States
Saturday, 21 March 2009
The Australian soprano Deborah Riedel, greatly admired in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, was also a welcome guest in Europe and the United States. At first a mezzo, she soon developed into a lyrical soprano with a beautiful, warm, creamy-toned voice, who sang Mozart, Verdi and Puccini, as well as Berlioz, Gounod and Bizet, with much success. Later in her career, there were strong signs that Richard Strauss and Wagner might provide the road forward, but Riedel, after fighting cancer for nearly a decade, died at the age of 50.
Natasha Richardson: Member of celebrated acting family who found success on stage and screen
Friday, 20 March 2009
Natasha Richardson had a versatile talent that enabled her to triumph in plays by Ibsen, Chekhov and O'Neill as well as musicals, farces and contemporary drama.
Elizabeth Charles: Activist who tackled social problems in Wales
Friday, 20 March 2009
Elizabeth Charles, a pioneer in tackling many women's issues in Wales, was well placed to compare the present economic downturn with the Depression of the 1930s. She was dismayed, in her last months, to see a return of some of the problems she vividly recalled from the beginning of her working life in South Wales. She knew at first hand what it was like for communities to be torn apart by recession and left alone, with little effective help, to face up to the hardships and deprivation which followed. The ideas that she formed during these early years shaped her attitudes for the rest of her life.
Lives Remembered: Professor Robin Bullough
Friday, 20 March 2009
Robert Keith Bullough ("Robin"), who has died at the age of 78, was a mathematical physicist best known as one of the discoverers of the soliton, a remarkable kind of self-reinforcing and solitary wave. Bullough proposed the idea of a soliton-based transmission system to increase performance of optical telecommunications and this is now commonly used in trans-oceanic optical fibre communication. His discoveries also led to revolutions in nonlinear mathematics and nonlinear physics and may ultimately play a role in the new sciences of quantum computing.
Dick Gilbert: Painter inspired by the landscape and coastline of Cornwall
Thursday, 19 March 2009
The painter Dick Gilbert belonged to a coterie of Cornish-born and -bred artists who proved a visually distinctive minority within the mid-century St Ives "school".
Michael Adams: Academic publisher whose Four Courts Press led the market in Ireland
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Michael Adams was a memorable and influential publisher in Ireland for more than 30 years. One of a group which salvaged something from the wreckage of Irish University Press, he helped to run Irish Academic Press from 1974 to 1995. Retiring from the latter, he retained one of the subsidiary imprints – Four Courts Press – and developed it into the most active Irish academic publishing house. Between 1977 and 2005, Four Courts issued approximately 650 separate titles. The authors included many well-established scholars: in literary studies, Andrew Carpenter and John Scattergood; among historians, Raymond Gillespie, James Kelly and Anthony Malcomson; and the art historian, Nicola Gordon Bowe. More crucially, his list gave many novices a chance to publish a first book.
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