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Terry Jenner 3 Jun 2011 | 07:33 pm
A pathological gambler, Jenner took to betting with the money of the car dealership for which he was working. In 1986 he was convicted of embezzlement, but initially spared incarceration. A repetitio...
Phil Solomon 3 Jun 2011 | 07:31 pm
Solomon’s roster of managed artists included The Bachelors, Them, The Dubliners and Twinkle, as well as backroom talents such as Phil Coulter, who wrote Eurovision Song Contest winners for Sandie Shaw...
Gil Scott-Heron 3 Jun 2011 | 07:28 pm
Scott-Heron first came to attention with his 1970 recording The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, an attack on the mindless and anaesthetising effects of the mass media and a call to arms to the black...
Jeff Conaway 3 Jun 2011 | 07:25 pm
Something of heart-throb in the 1980s, Conaway regularly appeared on hit television shows, including four seasons playing the out-of-work actor Bobby Wheeler in Taxi, alongside Danny DeVito, Andy Kauf...
Janet Brown 3 Jun 2011 | 07:24 pm
She managed to perfect not only the Prime Minister’s manner of speaking — itself very distinctive — but also her mannerisms and style of dress. Perhaps her finest performance was when she was in New ...
Andy Dunkley 3 Jun 2011 | 07:21 pm
Dunkley — who billed himself as “The Living Jukebox” — was resident DJ at two prominent venues of the period: Friars, the club in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, which hosted breakthrough performances by ...
Kathy Kirby 3 Jun 2011 | 07:19 pm
Kathy Kirby's biggest and best-known hit was a dramatically overwrought cover version of Secret Love, which reached No 4 in the charts in 1963. Two years later she represented the United Kingdom in th...
Bob Flanigan 3 Jun 2011 | 07:16 pm
Although usually described as a jazz ensemble, The Four Freshmen’s music drew on a number of different styles, among them barbershop and pop. From leftt: Ross Barbour, Bob Flanigan, Ken Errair and Do...
Wallace McCain 20 May 2011 | 07:39 pm
Wallace McCain, who died on May 13 aged 81, became a billionaire by selling more frozen chips than anyone else in the world, having co-founded the McCain Foods empire with his elder brother – with who...
Samuel Wanjiru 20 May 2011 | 07:36 pm
Samuel Wanjiru, who has died after falling from a balcony at his home aged 24, was Kenya’s first Olympic marathon champion; he took the gold medal at the Beijing Games in 2008, and his time of two hou...
