Major Tony Crease, bandsman who hit the top of the charts with Amazing Grace – obituary
He toured the world with the Pipes & Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and later in life created a nature reserve in Yorkshire
Major Tony Crease with a gold disc for Amazing Grace
Credit: Piping Press
Major Tony Crease, who has died aged 74, led the Pipes & Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards as Pipe Major to the top of the hit parade with the band’s rendition of Amazing Grace.
In 1971, the Royal Scots Greys amalgamated with the 3rd Carabiniers and their bands came together to prepare for the Amalgamation Parade. In a project inspired by Crease, a recording took place for new regimental music. It included an arrangement by the Greys’ bandmaster, Stuart Fairbairn, of the hymn Amazing Grace.
A FARMER from Grassington has been elected as the new chairman of the Dales support group for the Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Helen Wray, of Gam Farm Rare Breeds, says she is thrilled to be playing a major part in the national charity that works to save and safeguard the future of native breeds of livestock and horses, including saddleback pigs, Wensleydale sheep and Dales ponies. As chairman of the Dales support group, she will be in charge of one of the largest areas of all the trust’s groups, representing the charity across the Yorkshire Dales. Helen is a dedicated champion for rare breeds, farming a wide range of native breeds of livestock at Gam Farm including 180 Whitefaced Woodland sheep and 50 Northern Dairy Shorthorn cattle.