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Blood Brothers
Norwich
Theatre Royal
(programme cover)
| SITE LINKS New Seekers New Seekers on TV: 1997 In Print In Print 1997 In Print: programmes On the Net On the Net: Theatre On the Net: Blood Brothers Photo Album Photo Album Blood Brothers |
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James Hirst,
Nicholas Hart and
Lyn Paul
at HM Theatre,
Aberdeen.
June 4th 1997,
Aberdeen
Press & Journal
Aberdeen Journals Ltd.
© Copyright
Photograph by
Ian Dawson.
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Lyn Paul,
Nicholas Hart
and James Hirst
promote
Blood Brothers
at the Grand Theatre,
Swansea.
June 20th 1997,
South Wales
Evening Post
© Copyright.
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Lyn Paul
promotes
Blood Brothers
at the Theatre Royal,
Plymouth.
September 4th 1997,
Evening Herald
West Country
Publications
© Copyright.
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No way sis
I'd Like To Teach
The World To Sing
(EMI CDEM 461)
| WEB LINKS If you want to hear "the real thing", visit the Roger Cook website, where you can listen to the New Seekers' version of I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing Roger Cook .com |
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Smash Mouth's
album
Fush Yu Mang
includes the band's
début hit
Walkin' On The Sun,
which parodied
the lyrics of
I'd Like To Teach
The World To Sing.
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Blood Brothers
New Victoria Theatre,
Woking
(programme cover)
Blood BrothersThe New Seekers' Fan Club Biogram of 1972 had said that Lyn Paul "looks forward to being in a stage musical and fancies buying herself a Lotus Europe." Twenty-five years later her wish to be in a stage musical comes true when theatre producer Bill Kenwright offers her the role of Mrs. Johnstone in his production of Willy Russell's Blood Brothers.
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| In the News - 1997 | |
| Jan | Lone yachtsman Tony Bullimore, one of the participants in the Vendée Globe race, is rescued from the upturned hull of his boat on Thursday, 9th January, five days after it capsized in the Southern Ocean. Nicola Horlick, dubbed "Superwoman" by the UK press, is suspended from her £1 million a year job with Morgan Grenfell. on 14th January. She resigns two days later. On 15th January, whilst on a visit to Angola, Diana, Princess of Wales calls for an international ban on landmines. 'Colonel' Tom Parker, who had been Elvis Presley's manager, dies on 21st January, aged 87. Protesters obstructing work on the extension of the A30 at Fairmile in Devon are evicted from their tunnels on 31st January, after a week underground. |
| Feb | An English nanny, Louise Woodward, is arrested in Boston on Wednesday, 5th February and charged with assaulting Matthew Eappen, the baby she was employed to care for. On 6th February Diane Blood wins the right to be inseminated with her dead husband's sperm. The Court of Appeal rules that she may seek fertility treatment within the European Community, though not in the UK. Brian Connolly, lead singer of Sweet, dies on 10th February, aged 51. China's leader, Deng Xiaoping, dies on 19th February, aged 92. Three men - James Robinson, Michael Hickey and his cousin Vincent - who had been jailed in 1979 for the murder of 13-year-old paperboy Carl Bridgewater are released from prison on 21st February, after the Court of Appeal rules that their convictions were unsafe. On 22nd February scientists in Scotland announce the birth of Dolly the sheep, the world's first successfully cloned mammal. Dolly had been born at the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh on 5th July 1996. |
| Mar | The rapper Notorious B.I.G. is murdered in Los Angeles on 9th March. The English Patient wins the Oscar for Best Picture at the 69th Academy Awards ceremony on 24th March. Harold Melvin, best known for his '70s hits with the Bluenotes, including If You Don't Know Me By Now, (1973), The Love I Lost (1974) and Don't Leave Me This Way (1977), dies on the same day, aged 57. 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult (21 women and 18 men) commit suicide in San Diego, California. Police discover their dead bodies on 26th March. In the UK a new TV station, Channel 5, takes to the air on Sunday, 30th March. |
| Apr | The US space shuttle Columbia returns home 12 days early on 6th April due of a defective fuel cell. The American songwriter, singer, and pianist Laura Nyro, who wrote hits for Blood, Sweat & Tears, The Fifth Dimension, Peter, Paul and Mary, Barbra Streisand and Three Dog Night, dies of ovarian cancer on 8th April, aged 49. On the same day Conservatives in the constituency of Tatton meet to decide upon their candidate for the forthcoming general election. Despite a large number of abstentions and votes against him, the current MP Neil Hamilton, who has been at the centre of a "cash for questions" scandal, is re-selected as the Tory candidate. On Saturday, 12th April Pope John Paul II begins a two-day visit to the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. Police discover 20 anti-tank mines under a bridge between the airport and the city hours before he arrives. Troops storm the Japanese embassy in Peru on 22nd April, bringing to an end a four-month siege of the building by anti-government rebels. |
| May | On 2nd May the UK has a Labour government for the first time in 18 years. Tony Blair is the new Prime Minister. Martin Bell, former war correspondent for the BBC, defeats Neil Hamilton in the election and duly becomes MP for Tatton. Former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo loses his seat in Enfield Southgate. Other Tory casualties include Norman Lamont and David Mellor. On 3rd May Katrina & The Waves win the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom with the song Love Shine A Light. Marc Roberts, representing Ireland, finishes in second place with the song Mysterious Woman. Four days after Labour's landslide election win the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, announces that he is giving the Bank of England the freedom to control monetary policy without political interference. Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire for 32 years, flees the country on 16th May. He dies in exile in Rabat, Morocco on 7th September, aged 66. On 19th May Tory MP Ann Widdecombe launches a fierce verbal attack on her former boss, Michael Howard, so ruining his bid to become leader of the Conservative Party. The singer Jeff Buckley dies on 29th May, aged 30, in a swimming accident in the Mississippi. On 29th May US President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton arrive in the UK at the end of a European tour, which included a NATO Summit Meeting in Paris and a US-EU Summit Meeting in The Hague. |
| June | On 2nd June Timothy McVeigh is convicted of planning and planting the bomb that killed 168 people in Oklahoma City in 1995. On 14th August he is formally sentenced to death by District Judge Richard P. Matsch. Noel Gallagher of Oasis marries Meg Mathews in Las Vegas on 5th June. The ceremony takes place at the Little Church Of The West, where Elvis Presley had married Priscilla. A modern reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, the Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, opens on the south bank of the River Thames in London on 12th June. William Hague becomes the new leader of the Conservative Party on 19th June. On 20th June former Cabinet Minister Jonathan Aitken abandons his libel action against The Guardian newspaper and Granada Television. Seventy-nine dresses and ballgowns from the wardrobe of Diana, Princess of Wales are auctioned in New York by Christies on Wednesday, 25th June, raising $5 million for charity. The underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau dies on the same day, aged 87. At the stroke of midnight on 30th June the British formally hand back Hong Kong to China, so ending 156 years of colonial rule. J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, is published on 30th June, with a first print run of 500 copies. |
| July | Following its aborted two-week mission in April, the space shuttle Columbia is re-launched on 1st July. This time the shuttle returns to earth on 17th July as planned. The Pathfinder probe lands on Mars on 4th July. Fashion designer Gianni Versace is murdered on Thursday, 15th July outside his home in Miami's South Beach. Mourners joining friends and close family in Milan for a Mass in his memory on 22nd July include Diana, Princess of Wales, Elton John and Sting. Versace's murderer Andrew Cunahan kills himself on 25th July following a police siege. The IRA declares a cease-fire, starting at noon on 20th July. On 25th July Pol Pot is reportedly put on trial by his former comrades in the Khmer Rouge and sentenced to life imprisonment. |
| Aug | A million people turn up at New York's Central Park on 7th August for a concert by country superstar Garth Brooks. Another 14.6 million watch the show live on TV. On 25th August the former East German leader, Egon Krenz, is convicted on four specimen charges of incitement to manslaughter and sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison. On 27th August the Sirocco roller coaster at the Walibi theme park in Wavre, Belgium, comes grinding to a halt, leaving thrill seekers hanging upside down for 90 minutes. Nine people are taken to hospital but none are seriously injured. On 29th August in Scotts Valley, California, entrepreneurs Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph found Netflix, on online DVD-rental service intended as a to rival Blockbuster. On Sunday, 31st August the world wakes up to the news that Diana, Princess of Wales has been killed in a car accident in Paris. Dodi Fayed and the driver of the car, Henri Paul, are also killed in the crash. |
| Sep | Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard dies on 4th September, aged 65. Graham Lord, author of the play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell is barred by Bernard's family from attending his funeral. Five people are killed and more than 150 injured on 4th September in three suicide bomb attacks on Ben Yehuda Street, a pedestrian mall in Jerusalem. Hamas claims responsibility. Mother Teresa dies on 5th September, aged 87. The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place on Saturday, 6th September after a week of unprecedented public mourning. After the funeral Diana's body is buried in the grounds of Althorp, Northamptonshire. In the devolution referendum held in Scotland on Thursday, 11th September 74.29% agree there should be a Scottish Parliament. 63.48% agree that a Scottish Parliament should have tax-varying powers. ABBA's producer Stig Anderson dies of a heart attack on 12th September, aged 66. On 14th September Pete Townshend unveils an English Heritage blue plaque at 23 Brook Street in London's Mayfair, where Jimi Hendrix had lived in 1968-69. On Friday, 19th September an Intercity 125 travelling from Swansea to Paddington crashes into an empty freight train at Southall. Six people are killed and more than 150 injured. On 25th September Andy Green sets a new land-speed record in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, reaching a speed of 714.144 miles per hour (1,149.303 km/h) in the British jet-powered Thrust supersonic car (ThrustSSC). He breaks the record again on 15th October, reaching a speed of 763.035 miles per hour (1,227.986 km/h). On Monday, 29th September Nature magazine publishes the results of studies that proved the link between "mad cow" disease (BSE) and human brain disease (variant CJD). |
| Oct | On 10th October the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded jointly to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and to its coordinator, Jody Williams. John Denver dies on 12th October when the light aircraft he is piloting crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. On 13th October Tony Blair meets Gerry Adams in Belfast. It is the first meeting between a British Prime Minister and a member of Sinn Féin for 76 years. The Lion King, a musical based on the 1994 Disney animated film with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice, opens on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre on 15th October. The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Gehry, opens in Bilbau on Sunday, 19th October. On Tuesday, 21st October the Guinness Book Of Records declares that, with sales exceeding 31.8 million in just 37 days, Candle In The Wind 97 by Elton John is the biggest-selling single of all time. |
| Nov | British nanny Louise Woodward, who on 31st October had been found guilty by a Boston Court of murdering baby Matthew Eappen, has her conviction reduced to manslaughter. Her jail sentence is reduced to the 279 days she had already served and she is allowed to return home to Cheshire. On 7th November the Spice Girls sack their manager, Simon Fuller. 68 tourists, most of them Japanese and Swiss, are killed in Luxor, Egypt on Monday, 17th November, when Islamic extremists open fire on a bus taking them to visit the temple of Hatshepsut. Gary Glitter is arrested on Tuesday, 18th November on suspicion of possessing child pornography. On Saturday, 22nd November the body of INXS singer Michael Hutchence is found hanging from the door of his Sydney hotel bedroom. Speculation that Humphrey the cat, a former stray-resident of 10 Downing Street, had been put down is put to an end on 24th November when a photographer is dispatched to the suburbs of south east London to take pictures of the cat in his new home. |
| Dec | On 3rd December the House of Commons' Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport, chaired by Gerald Kaufman, submits a damning report on the mismanagement of London's Royal Opera House. Amongst its principal conclusions and recommendations, the Report states: "There is no future for the Royal Opera House unless someone accepts responsibility for the sorry train of events we have described." On the same day the UK government bans the sale of beef on the bone. On Thursday, 10th December the Scottish Secretary, Donald Dewar, announces plans for Scotland to have its own National Assembly by 2000 - the country's first national parliament for three centuries. Having been tried in absentia in June 1992, the Venezuelan-born terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal" is put on trial in person on 12th December, charged with the 1975 murders of the two police agents and a Lebanese informer. On 27th December he is found guilty again and sentenced for a second time to life imprisonment. The Getty Center, in Brentwood, Los Angeles opens on 16th December. The Conservative Party leader, William Hague, marries Ffion Jenkins on 19th December. 104 people are killed on the same day when a SilkAir Boeing 737 flying from Indonesia to Singapore crashes into a jungle river in Palembang. A report published by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) a year later concludes that the pilot, Tsu Way Ming, had intentionally put the plane into a dive. On 24th December William Straw, the 17-year-old son of Home Secretary Jack Straw, is cautioned by police for selling cannabis to a journalist. Billy Wright, the Loyalist leader known as "King Rat", is murdered in the Maze prison on Saturday, 27th December by three members of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). Bores of the year, according to The Times, are the Spice Girls ("tarty and dull") and Christine and Neil Hamilton. DJ Chris Evans is The Times' "Ugly bloke of the year." The Spice Girls also come top of Richard Blackwell's Ten Worst Dressed Women of 1997 list, released on 13th January 1998 - "the only spices on the planet that have no taste." On 31st December Microsoft buys Hotmail, the webmail service developed by two former Apple employees, in a deal worth a reported $500m. |
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Darts: Phil Taylor wins the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) World Championship for the third time, beating Dennis Priestley in the final (6-3) of for the second year in a row. |
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Man Booker Prize Winner: Arundhati Roy The God Of Small Things Jim Crace Quarantine Mike Jackson The Underground Man Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes Tim Parks Europa Madelaine St. John The Essence Of The Thing Orange Prize for Fiction Winner: Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces Margaret Atwood Alias Grace Deirdre Madden One By One In The Darkness Jane Mendelsohn I Was Amelia Earhart E. Annie Proulx Accordion Crimes Manda Scott Hen's Teeth |
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