The "which famous person died today" thread

Lavinda Past said:
Frank Ifield was born in Coventry according to Wikipedia! Probably moved out there as a nipper, and became a singing sensation in the late 50s. Moved to the UK in the 60s to promote his career.
He's still alive, now living back in Australia apparently!
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I can give you a bit of an update as I know his steel guitarist and have done so for over 40 years who lives in Hastings Victoria with his wife Carol that has travelled the "globe" well some of it with him when Frank moved to the Gold Coast in QLD where he still resides.

He did a lot of gigs on cruises etc and on mainland Australia mainly in QLD and NSW resorts in the main since his career on record etc had come to an end and his voice is such he cannot sing anymore and hasn't been able to for a number of years due to health reasons and losing his octave range where he felt it better for his fans to remember him as he was as opposed to a boxer who had fought one too many fights as such as he put it.

He was the first " Aussie" with a number one in the UK charts which stayed in top spot for 7 weeks with I Remember You.

More to the point Frank is a great bloke who loves a beer and treats you like he would his own children as I have been fortunate to spend time with him through Alf Barry ( his steel guitarist in his band ) and he is still fighting the good fight at 86.
 
mancity111 said:
I can give you a bit of an update as I know his steel guitarist and have done so for over 40 years who lives in Hastings Victoria with his wife Carol that has travelled the "globe" well some of it with him when Frank moved to the Gold Coast in QLD where he still resides.

He did a lot of gigs on cruises etc and on mainland Australia mainly in QLD and NSW resorts in the main since his career on record etc had come to an end and his voice is such he cannot sing anymore and hasn't been able to for a number of years due to health reasons and losing his octave range where he felt it better for his fans to remember him as he was as opposed to a boxer who had fought one too many fights as such as he put it.

He was the first " Aussie" with a number one in the UK charts which stayed in top spot for 7 weeks with I Remember You.

More to the point Frank is a great bloke who loves a beer and treats you like he would his own children as I have been fortunate to spend time with him through Alf Barry ( his steel guitarist in his band ) and he is still fighting the good fight at 86.
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Great update. As you say, he is a lovely bloke, and he always had time for a chat if anyone recognised him.
Cheers!
 
mancity111 said:
I can give you a bit of an update as I know his steel guitarist and have done so for over 40 years who lives in Hastings Victoria with his wife Carol that has travelled the "globe" well some of it with him when Frank moved to the Gold Coast in QLD where he still resides.

He did a lot of gigs on cruises etc and on mainland Australia mainly in QLD and NSW resorts in the main since his career on record etc had come to an end and his voice is such he cannot sing anymore and hasn't been able to for a number of years due to health reasons and losing his octave range where he felt it better for his fans to remember him as he was as opposed to a boxer who had fought one too many fights as such as he put it.

He was the first " Aussie" with a number one in the UK charts which stayed in top spot for 7 weeks with I Remember You.

More to the point Frank is a great bloke who loves a beer and treats you like he would his own children as I have been fortunate to spend time with him through Alf Barry ( his steel guitarist in his band ) and he is still fighting the good fight at 86.
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I wasn't born until the 70s so wasn't around when Frank was in his pomp, but I love 60s music and 2 of his songs I remember you and The wayward wind I really like. I also thought he might of been named after Highfield Road with him coming from Cov(stage name) but it was spelt differently and he was born with it. Great at yodelling too. Also, when I was a kid in the 80s there was a beer advert that used his I remember you hit. Think it was for Wilsons or some other bitter.
 
mancity111 said:
I can give you a bit of an update as I know his steel guitarist and have done so for over 40 years who lives in Hastings Victoria with his wife Carol that has travelled the "globe" well some of it with him when Frank moved to the Gold Coast in QLD where he still resides.

He did a lot of gigs on cruises etc and on mainland Australia mainly in QLD and NSW resorts in the main since his career on record etc had come to an end and his voice is such he cannot sing anymore and hasn't been able to for a number of years due to health reasons and losing his octave range where he felt it better for his fans to remember him as he was as opposed to a boxer who had fought one too many fights as such as he put it.

He was the first " Aussie" with a number one in the UK charts which stayed in top spot for 7 weeks with I Remember You.

More to the point Frank is a great bloke who loves a beer and treats you like he would his own children as I have been fortunate to spend time with him through Alf Barry ( his steel guitarist in his band ) and he is still fighting the good fight at 86.
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I was camping in North Wales when that hit No. !. It was never off the transistor. I preferred the Ray Charles song that Frank kept at No. 2 bar a fortnight.
 
blue b4 the moon said:
Liked a bit of ELO as a youngster they were boundary pushers and their music had layers to it.

I've heard mention many times that had the Beatles stayed together they'd have evolved to doing ELO type stuff...
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I've seen ELO described as various things in my time but 'boundary pushers'? Jeff Lynne was yet another artist who simply regurgitated the Beatles ad nauseum.
 
Kippaxpete said:
I've ELO described as various things in my time but 'boundary pushers'? Jeff Lynne was yet another artist who simply regurgitated the Beatles ad nauseum.
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Boundary pushers as no other band to my knowledge were mixing instruments and producing the sort of stuff they were.

Like it or loathe it, they were different.
 
blue b4 the moon said:
Boundary pushers as no other band to my knowledge were mixing instruments and producing the sort of stuff they were.

Like it or loathe it, they were different.
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I respect your opinion fella (but continue to disagree). If you want boundaries pushed, try Radiohead or Björk for starters, artists who aren't afraid to experiment.
 
Lavinda Past said:
Great update. As you say, he is a lovely bloke, and he always had time for a chat if anyone recognised him.
Cheers!
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As unpretentious as they come and I have been fortunate or unfortunate as the case may be through family and friends and work to meet a few and get to know a few artists in my time.

Nick Cave for example was a real dick albeit his heroin addiction from a relative early age didn't help in that regard and he has become somewhat more respectful for his fellow man as the years progress while Ian Anderson I found to be an absolute riveting conversationalist and was happy to tell me why I would never make a half decent guitarist with his comic wit that didn't make me feel small.
 
As some have said many incredible artists and influences on the sounds we love today , yesteryear and tomorrow will depart our shores in a moment of time it will seem before we say adios ourselves.

Life is short but we are better appreciators of music and life in general for having the honour IMO of listening to the likes of Eddy and Tandy even though I was not a huge ELO fan and still am not his work on Can't Get it Out of My Head for example is simply majestic to the point it pleased Jeff's old man and that is more than good enough for me.
 
mancity111 said:
As some have said many incredible artists and influences on the sounds we love today , yesteryear and tomorrow will depart our shores in a moment of time it will seem before we say adios ourselves.

Life is short but we are better appreciators of music and life in general for having the honour IMO of listening to the likes of Eddy and Tandy even though I was not a huge ELO fan and still am not his work on Can't Get it Out of My Head for example is simply majestic to the point it pleased Jeff's old man and that is more than good enough for me.
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I can understand Richard Tandy not getting a mention on the TV news, very fine talent though he was, but deary me Duane Eddy was a total music legend and for there to be no TV tribute is utterly scandalous and sums up the likes of the culturally bereft bbc. George Allogaya got half the 10 o'clock news ffs !
 
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