This is Spinal Tap s Tony Hendra has died at 79
March 5, 2021 by:
THIS IS SPINAL TAP, died yesterday at the age of 79 after battling Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Tony Hendra started writing and performing comedy while attending Cambridge University and soon formed a comedy act with Nick Ullett. After traveling to the United States, the pair performed stand-up on the comedy circuit, even appearing on
The Merv Griffin Show and
The Ed Sullivan Show, but Hendra decided to pursue a career writing for television and broke up the act. After several years writing for
Playboy After Dark and
Music Scene, Hendra got himself into trouble when he wrote an open letter to the chairman of General Motors to scold him on the company s record on pollution. Unfortunately, his manager had just gotten him a major gig writing a special that was to be sponsored by Chevrolet. I was flooded with supportive calls from Hollywood’s nascent left, Hendra wrote in Harpers in 2002, and I was finished in
In the five years that the Jazz Association (Singapore) (Jass) has been around, the music industry has witnessed and felt its positive impacts to elevate the standard of the genre in the region. Outstanding budding jazz musicians have also been given the opportunity to further nurture their talents, while notable international jazz musicians have been invited to take the spotlight for Singapore-based audiences to enjoy.
Yet despite the adversities faced by the arts industry in the past year, the onset of the pandemic did not see the association falter in their objectives as they continually strived to support the jazz ecosystem through and through. During then, we saw an effort to bring the joy of jazz to folks in the comfort of their homes: the release of their first digital album
Music fans and musicians have been going stir-crazy for a year. I last went to a concert March 6, 2020. And so last week’s announcement by the state that Phase Three, Step Two guidelines seemed to allow for live music performance at indoor venues, at half-capacity, and limited to 500 people or fewer, was greeted with jubilation.
There are some live music shows this weekend, including in Quincy where Pete’s Grille hosts FM Station on Friday night and Joe Fitz and the Dented Cans on Saturday.
“I’m so psyched to play again,” said Quincy’s Joe Fitzgerald, the singer/songwriter who fronts the Saturday night blues-rock band. “I think a lot of people didn’t realize how much they’d miss live music. I have a definite microphone addiction; my wife says if someone buries a microphone in an Iowa cornfield, I’ll go there, dig it up, and start singing.”
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