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Sir Charles Mackerras, who died on 14 July aged 84, was a conductor and musicologist, and introduced the passionate and heartfelt music of Leoš Janáček to British audiences. Detractors, however, dubbed him “Chuck ’em Up Charlie” for his fre (read full article)
Brian Duffy, whose photographs helped define the mood of the Swinging Sixties, has died aged 76. Together with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, Duffy formed part of the “black trinity” of photographers who became as famous as the models, musici (read full article)
Anneliese Rothenberger as Lulu Anneliese Rothenberger, an internationally known German soprano who sang with the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the 1960s, died on Monday in Switzerland. As befits a diva, her exact age had long been shrouded in obs (read full article)
Lena Horne & Cab Calloway In a 60-year career, Lena Horne , who has died aged 92, broke down numerous racial barriers. In the 1940s, she was one of the first black singers with a major white band, the first to perform at the famous Copacabana nig (read full article)
“Do you know Alan Sillitoe?” aksed Robert [Graves], and added half-seriously, “I invented him. He used to live in Soller in the Fifties, writing I don’t know what you’d call them, fantasies about imaginary countries set in no particular pe (read full article)
Malcolm McLaren, the man who irreversibly changed the face of British music as manager of the Sex Pistols, died yesterday, aged 64. He had suffered from mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer, for some time and, despite a recent period of good health, (read full article)
I have to say I find the Walton and Susana story fascinating – and I am not necessarily sure I really believe all of it. However, I particularly like the story of their courting in Argentina, where he asks her on a daily basis (a woman he had not (read full article)
Rose Gray, the co-founder of the River Café restaurant, has died after a prolonged battle with cancer. She was 71. The chef and cookery writer set up the London restaurant with Ruth Rogers in 1987. The pair were credited with influencing the likes (read full article)
Earl Wild was an extraordinary pianist with that grand, big sound and that broad romantic approach – something rarely heard nowadays. A fine musician who has made my music listening incomparably richer. A superbly gifted and unique artist, perhaps (read full article)
Jean Simmons, the British film star who played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet, sang with Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls and co-starred with Gregory Peck, Paul Newman and Kirk Douglas, has died at the age of 80. Here’s Wendy Ide reviewing (read full article)
The singer Kate McGarrigle died of clear cell sarcoma on Monday at home in Montreal, aged 63. With her sister Anna she formed the acclaimed and influential folk duo the McGarrigle Sisters. McGarrigle was the former wife of singer Loudon Wainwright I (read full article)
Another of my heroes has gone. I suppose when one gets to my age, one must get used to this happening. Strangely enough, I watched The Wicker Man yesterday. Now I’ll have to watch Breaker Morant as well. R.I.P. Edward Albert Arthur Woodward 1930-2 (read full article)
Professor Hubert Rees: scientist and bomber pilot | Times Online Obituary. (read full article)
“I’ve not felt this well for ages.” Sad news of the death of Keith Floyd. What a great character. All these celebrity TV chefs should be grateful to him for their current high profiles. I loved the way he used to introduce each recipe as “an (read full article)
I’ll never forget seeing Peter O’Toole in Waterhouse’s play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell in London twenty years ago. R.I.P. Keith Waterhouse 1929-2009 (read full article)
He was the first person to broadcast from pirate station Radio Caroline. Simon Dee, DJ and TV talk show host (after a bizarre interview with actor George Lazenby, who had been smoking cannabis and who outlined at length his theories about the assass (read full article)
I am much saddened to hear of the passing of Hildegard Behrens. In my limited experience of live opera she was one of the three great post-war Wagnerian sopranos along with Birgit Nilsson and Rita Hunter. They are all gone. Not only was hers a gorge (read full article)
I’ve just heard the sad news that Ted Downes has died, with his wife, both of them drinking a fatal draft of poison at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland. The son of the conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife Lady Joan described today how his pa (read full article)
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