Amanda Mannen and Ryan Menezes: 5 Famous Actors Who Hate Their Most Iconic Roles (Cracked)
Most actors spend their entire lives waiting for that one role that will make them famous -- most never find it, and that's why we don't have to carry our food ourselves in restaurants. But then there are some performers who finally get their lucky break, that magical part that they'll forever be linked to ... and they f*cking hate it. Here are five famous actors we probably wouldn't know about if it wasn't for a character they despise.
"I Will Survive" is a hit song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris. A top-selling song after its initial release, it has remained a popular disco anthem, as well as being certified double platinum by the RIAA.
As a disco number, the song was unique for its time by virtue of Gaynor's having no background singers. And, unlike her first disco hits, the track was not pitched up to make it faster and to render Gaynor's recorded voice in a higher register than that in which she actually sang. Most disco hits at the time were heavily produced, with multiple voices, overdubs, and adjustments to pitch and speed. "I Will Survive" had a much more spare and "clean" sound.
The song received the Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording in 1980, the only year the award was given.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
"I Will Survive"
Note though
1978 Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Group - "How Deep Is Your Love"
1979 Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo Or Group - "Saturday Night Fever"
1979 Best Arrangement Of Voices - "Stayin' Alive"
1979 Album of the Year - "Saturday Night Fever"
1979 Producer of the Year - "Saturday Night Fever"
2004 Hall Of Fame Award - "Saturday Night Fever"
Also, Donna Summer, deservedly, won several awards in other categories. "Bad Girls" was nominated for the Best Disco Song in 1980 (and lost to Gloria Gaynor, obviously), but "Hpt Stuff", from the Bad Girls album, won Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female the same year.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor
Alan J took the day off.
Adam answered:
'I Will Survive'.
Marian replied:
I Will Survive
Dale of DS, Norcali, responded:
Fuck Disco!!! Disco Sucked, Still Sucks and will always Suck. Gloria Gaynor and producers Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren won the Best Disco Recording award for the song "I Will Survive". This was the only year for the category, thanks to real musicians that rioted, not to the 4/4 beat, and removed the classification from their bullshit ceremony (notice that the "Best sellers", not the Best usually win).
These Guys don't Suck!
Sally said:
In 1980, Gloria Gaynor won the only Grammy ever given as 'Best Disco Recording.' Not much time for research, I will guess the song was, "I Will Survive."
Loved her!
MAM took the day off.
BttbBob replied:
Oh, No... No, No, No... I didn't need my agent to call and remind me (but, he did anyway, first thing all aghast, I'm tellin' ya) that my contract specifically (and ardently) prohibits, bans, and/or otherwise insists (insists, mind you now, in BIG BOLD PRINT) that I am NOT required to answer any questions about... Ack... That awful glitter ball genre and polyester phenomenon called ... ugh... "Disco"... (excuse me a moment while my stomach stops flip-a-floppin')
Ah, there... Now, I will give you moment in history that should be enshrined in the annuls of cultural protest greatness Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago 1979 - YouTube in between a White Sox vs Tigers twi-night double header. It was instigated by this notable Chicago DJ, Steve Dahl...
I watched it happen on TV. It was a riot. It was an exquisite madness of explosions and bonfires of disco records, pandemonium, people having sex on the field (alleged), riot police chasing berserk Hard Rock lovin', Disco hatin' youth around the field. It was glorious...
The Sox had to forfeit the second game as the field was demolished. it was out-frickin'-standin', I'm tellin' ya and it warmed my heart. Watch the video. Experience the result of ultimate loathing. A mortal blow was struck that night from which that musical perversion would never recover from... and the world was better for it.
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Happy Birthday this day to:
"The Boss"... and our host and friend... This was sent to me by an anonymous E! fan as the only known recent likeness of her available. Out of respect, I will only say that she has now become a lady 'of a certain age'... Still lookin' good, Boss... Still lookin' good. Happy Birthday!
(62) She had a real fan club in the 'Starboard' duty section of the Rockland, Maine Coast Guard Station in '82... Early morning before the 0800 muster it was always a loud "Jo-o-o-o-o-an!" by all hands when she appeared on the
rec-deck TV... Me, included... It was cult-like...
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Today is "Talk Like A Pirate Day". If anyone does it to me they may possibly get "Doinked"... You don't want to get "Doinked", I'm tellin' ya... Trust me...
And, Joe S answered:
Ya know? I really don't much care for Disco, but I really, really like this song. I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor. Some of that Disco stuff was okay. I like Gloria Gaynor of course and a few of Donna Summer's songs, but mostly Disco sucks. Arrrrrrr.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'2½ Men', then a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'2½ Men', then a RERUN'Elementary'.
On a RERUNDave (from 8/21/13) are Tina Fey and Valerie June.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Connie Britton and Aimee Garcia.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Million Second Quiz', followed by the FRESH'Valerie's Story: A Meredith Vieira Special'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Tim Allen, Dwayne Wade, and Fitz & the Tantrums.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Hugh Jackman, Gillian Flynn, and Elvis Costello.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/9/13) are Gavin Newsom, Phil Hansen, and Purity Ring.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Wipeout', followed by a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy', then a RERUN'Scandal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are James Caan, Morena Baccarin, and Grouplove.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a RERUN'America's Next Top Model'.
Faux has a FRESH'X Factor', followed by a RERUN'Dads', then a RERUN'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'.
MY has an old 'White Collar', followed by another old 'White Collar'.
AMC offers the movie 'National Treasure', followed by a FRESH'Owner's Manual', then another FRESH'Owner's Manual'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 17
[8:40AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 18
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 13 - Aquiel
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 14 - Face of the Enemy
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 15 - Tapestry
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 4 - Luigi's D'Italia
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Sandgate
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 3 - Ep 2 - Le Bistro, Anna Vincenzo's, Lido di Manhattan
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 8 - La Gondola
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 7 - Kingston Cafe
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 9 - Fiesta Sunrise
[9:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 9 - El Greco
[10:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 10 - Park's Edge
[11:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 7 - Kingston Cafe
[12:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 9 - Fiesta Sunrise
[1:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 9 - El Greco
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 10 - Park's Edge
[3:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 4 - Luigi's D'Italia
[4:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Sandgate
[5:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 3 - Ep 2 - Le Bistro, Anna Vincenzo's, Lido di Manhattan (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has FRESH'Eat, Drink, Love', followed by a FRESH'Inside The Actors Studio' (Jake Gyllenhaal), then the movie '2 Fast 2 Furious'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Kevin Hart: I'm A Grown Little Man', 'Kevin Hart: Laugh At My Pain', Key & Peele', and 'Tosh.0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Chelsea Clinton.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Jack Johnson.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', 'Anger Management', another 'Anger Management', still another 'Anger Management', followed by a FRESH'Anger Management', then the movie 'The Green Hornet'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Bunk
[6:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:45AM] Beautiful Girls
[9:15AM] Bride & Prejudice
[11:45AM] Fallen
[2:30PM] Beautiful Girls
[5:00PM] Monster's Ball
[7:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Casey Wilson Wears a White Lace Dress and a Black Blazer
[8:00PM] Scarface
[11:45PM] Scarface
[3:30AM] The Wicker Man
[4:45AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Casey Wilson Wears a White Lace Dress and a Black Blazer (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Writers' Room-Dexter
[6:30AM] The Haunting in Connecticut
[8:15AM] The Quiet American
[10:15AM] Away From Her
[12:45PM] The Haunting in Connecticut
[2:30PM] The Quiet American
[4:30PM] The Bridge on the River Kwai
[8:00PM] Runaway Train
[10:00PM] Kiss of Death
[12:15AM] Kiss of Death
[2:30AM] Choke
[4:15AM] Leaving
[5:45AM] The Trenches (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor and director Edward James Olmos poses at An Academy Tribute to Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, held at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in Beverly Hills, California September 17, 2013. The event honored Figueroa who worked both in Mexican cinema and in Hollywood, on films including "The Night of the Iguana" and "Simon Del Desierto". Olmos is best known for acting the role of teacher Jaime Escalante in the film "Stand and Deliver."
Photo by Fred Prouser
Actress Kerry Washington, who was nominated for an Emmy for her role in the ABC television drama "Scandal," was named the "World's Best Dressed Woman" by People magazine on Wednesday.
Washington, 36, headed a list that included Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence, singer-songwriter Solange Knowles and actresses Jenna Dewan-Tatum and Kate Bosworth.
Although Washington nabbed the best dressed title, Lawrence, the winner of this year's best actress Oscar for "Silver Linings Playbook," was cited as having the best high fashion style, and actress Jessica Chastain, the star of 2012's "Zero Dark Thirty" had the best red carpet style, according to People.
"Avatar" actress Zoe Saldana had the best denim style and actress Lily Collins was named the best for up-and-coming style.
From left, director Louis J. Horovitz, producer Ken Ehrlich and host Neil Patrick Harris attend the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards Press Preview Day and Red Carpet Rollout, on Wednesday, September 18, 2013, at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, Calif.
Photo by Frank Micelotta
The Gish Prize Trust announced the selection Wednesday. Selection committee chairman Darren Walker said Lee was chosen "for his brilliance and unwavering courage in using film to challenge conventional thinking."
Lee said in an interview that was he was well acquainted with Lillian Gish as the actress of "The Birth of a Nation" and "The Night of the Hunter," but he was unfamiliar with the prize that was established in Gish's will. She requested that the prize, one of the largest and most prestigious in the arts, be given every year to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life."
The prize will be presented to Lee at the Museum of Modern Art on Oct. 30. Past honorees include Bob Dylan, Arthur Miller and Frank Gehry.
A Tennessee judge who changed a baby's name because she believes "Messiah" should be reserved for Jesus Christ was overruled Wednesday, local media reported.
The eight-month-old boy's parents had sought help from a judge last month in a dispute over whether their child should have his mother or father's last name.
Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew chastised the couple for choosing a name which "could put him at odds with a lot of people," WBIR news reported.
She ordered the baby's name to be "Martin DeShawn McCullough" -- giving the boy his father's family name and using his mother's family name for his given name.
The parents were shocked -- they had both agreed to the name Messiah because they liked the way it sounded -- and appealed the decision.
From left, actors Joe Morton and Kerry Washington arrive at the 65th Emmy Awards Nomination Celebration at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 in North Hollywood, California.
Photo by Paul A. Hebert
The Detroit Zoo will be home to the largest center in the U.S. dedicated to penguins, thanks to the most substantial private donation in its 85-year history, the zoo announced Wednesday.
Construction on the $21 million facility will begin "in earnest" in March and is expected to open in late 2015, said Ron Kagan, the zoo's executive director and CEO.
The 24,000-square-foot center is being made possible, in part, by the biggest private donation in the zoo's history, $10 million given by Stephen Polk and his family. Polk is vice chair of the zoo's board and a longtime executive with automotive information provider R.L. Polk & Co. The facility will carry the name The Polk Family Penguin Conservation Center.
The exterior of the center will look like an iceberg. Inside, visitors will have the opportunity to see the seabirds "deep dive" in a chilled 310,000-gallon, 25-foot-deep aquatic area. It is something that can't be seen anywhere else, even in nature, the zoo said.
Internet radio leader Pandora Media Inc. said Wednesday that it won a court battle with the music publishing society known as ASCAP in a ruling that should help it lower its royalty payments.
The ruling only impacts the royalties Pandora pays to songwriters - a fraction of the total since royalties for performers are about 13 times larger. But the decision marks an incremental win in its larger battle to contain growing costs.
Pandora has said it pays about 4.3 per cent of its revenue in songwriter royalties to groups including ASCAP, which distributes them to major publishers like Sony/ATV and Warner/Chappell.
Starting two years ago, major publishers began to withdraw rights from Pandora, forcing it to reach separate deals.
Mexican actress Silvia Pinal (L) greets Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal (R) and writer and director Gregory Nava at An Academy Tribute to Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, held at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in Beverly Hills, California September 17, 2013. The event honored Figueroa who worked both in Mexican cinema and in Hollywood, on films including "The Night of the Iguana" and "Simon Del Desierto". Pinal starred in several films shot by Figueroa, while Nava directed "Selena" and Garcia Bernal starred in "The Motorcycle Diaries" and "Y Tu Mama Tambien."
Photo by Fred Prouser
A "Star Trek"-inspired command center was once NSA Director Keith Alexander's pride and joy, apparently. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say it was it one of his chief means of impressing lawmakers and winning support in Washington's corridors of power.
No, we're not making this up. It's a bit unearthed by Foreign Policy magazine in a lengthy profile of General Alexander titled "The Cowboy of the NSA." When he was chief of the Army's Intelligence and Security Command, Alexander brought many civilian officials and members of Congress down to Fort Belvoir, in suburban Washington, to tour his Information Dominance Center, writes FP's Shane Harris.
"It had been designed by a Hollywood set designer to mimic the bridge of the starship Enterprise from Star Trek, complete with chrome panels, computer stations, a huge TV monitor on the forward wall, and doors that made a 'whoosh' sound when they slid open and closed," writes Mr. Harris.
Alexander's visitors were generally awed by the Trekkie atmosphere, including a swivel in the iconic captain's chair. Then they were further awed by Alexander's clear, folksy explanations of modern information technology. His approach to wooing the powerful has won him lots of political support in official Washington, according to FP.
There's some question as to who actually ordered the Enterprise-like space. The Washington Post reports it wasn't Alexander. It was built in 1998, according to the Post's Emily Heil. Alexander did not take the Intelligence and Security Command job until 2001.
From left, Glynn Turman and Jo-Ann Allen arrive at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Dynami & Diverse 65th Emmy Awards Nominee Celebration, on Tuesday, September 17, 2013 in North Hollywood, Calif.
Photo by Scott Kirkland
High-diving seabirds known as blue-footed boobies have been popping up all over Southern California and as far north as Marin County in recent weeks.
Bird-watchers are intrigued and delighted by the boobies, which rarely venture north of Imperial County's Salton Sea, but some experts wonder what it might mean, environmentally.
Members of the large bluish-gray species with a long serrated beak, absurdly short legs and bright blue webbed feet have been spotted more than 30 times recently. They include six seen relaxing on the breakwater at Marina del Rey.
Bird experts speculate that the visitors, most of them juveniles, may have been driven north in search of prey fish.
Living Goddess Kumari is carried to be worshipped on her chariot during the Indra Jatra festival in Kathmandu September 18, 2013. The annual festival, named after Indra, the god of rain and heaven, is celebrated by worshipping, rejoicing, singing, dancing and feasting in Kathmandu Valley to mark the end of monsoon season. Indra, the living goddess Kumari and other deities are worshipped during the festival.
Photo by Navesh Chitrakar
The number of prisoners serving life terms in the United States has more than quadrupled since 1984, and so-called lifers now account for one in nine people behind bars, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Sentencing Project.
The Washington-based research and advocacy group, which has long pushed for criminal justice reforms, said in the report that nearly 160,000 people were serving life sentences in 2012, or 10.6 percent of the 1.5 million inmates being held in state and federal prisons.
"Life sentences have increased steadily over the years beginning with the first documented national census of this population in 1984," the report said, adding that the total was up nearly 12 percent since 2008.
Nonwhites make up nearly two-thirds of the total population serving life sentences, with African Americans accounting for nearly half, the report said.
The Sentencing Project and other groups, including the London-based International Centre for Prison Studies, say the United States leads the world in the percentage of its population behind bars.
Child performers stand in a line after their traditional performance to celebrate the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival at a temple in Beijing September 17, 2013. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on September 19.
Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon
Holy water at religious shrines and churches in Austria is often contaminated with fecal matter and bacteria, researchers have found, advising the faithful not to drink it, especially in hospital chapels.
Scientists at Vienna University medical school's Institute of Hygiene and Applied Immunology came to the conclusion after analyzing the water quality at 21 "holy" springs and 18 fonts at churches and chapels at various times of year.
Only 14 percent of the water samples from holy sources showed no fecal contamination, and none of the springs could be recommended as a source of drinking water, the study presented to a conference in Vienna this week found.
The springs held not only fecal contamination - likely the result of poor hygiene - but many also had agricultural nitrates and bugs that can cause inflammatory diarrhoea.
Devotees gather around idols of Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, before they are carried for immersion into the Arabian Sea on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai September 18, 2013. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing, and later immersed in a river or the sea symbolising a ritual seeing-off for his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind.
Photo by Danish Siddiqui
National Public Radio's blog The Salt reported the case of a 61-year-old man who complained to doctors he was dizzy. He felt drunk, he looked drunk and doctors found he had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.37 per cent, about 4.6 times the limit for driving in Ontario.
However, the man said he hadn't been drinking.
When the man spent 24 hours in hospital, with no access to alcohol but meals with plenty of carbohydrates, his blood alcohol concentration rose once again.
The study's authors, Barbara Cordell and Dr. Justin McCarthy, wrote they believed the patient had "Auto-Brewery Syndrome," meaning an infection that gave him too much yeast in his stomach, so that when he ate starchy foods, such as bread, they broke down and fermented into ethanol, making him drunk from the inside out.
The painting "The Human Condition" (1933) by artist Rene Magritte is displayed during the private opening of the exhibition "Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary" at The Museum of Modern Art in New York September 17, 2013. Belgian painter Magritte's work, featuring men in bowler hats, mysterious landscapes and bright blue skies, may be familiar to many art lovers, but the new exhibition, which opens on September 28 and runs through January 12, focuses attention on the artist's surrealist pieces.
Photo by Joshua Lott
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new research from UK and Swiss scientists, the core of our planet is more complicated than we thought, with layers rotating in different directions, and it all may solve a mystery about the Earth's magnetic field that's persisted for over 300 years.
The Earth's core is separated into two different layers. At the centre is the solid inner core, which is surrounded by the liquid outer core - both made up of a mixture of nickel and iron. Scientists figured out the structure of the two layers decades ago, based on watching seismic waves from earthquakes passing through the planet, and they also discovered that it is circulations in the hot, liquid metal of the outer core that generate the Earth's magnetic field.
There are some things about the core that have remained a mystery, though. A study from 2005 revealed that, although the inner core rotates in the same direction as the surface, it actually rotates slightly faster than the surface. That strange result joins another curious finding, from back in 1692, when astronomer Edmond Halley (of Halley's Comet fame) discovered that the Earth's magnetic field 'drifts' towards the west by a few degrees every decade.
A new study has finally offered an explanation for these two mysteries, tying everything together at last.
It started with researchers not only confirming that the inner core rotates faster than the surface, but also finding that the outer core rotates in the opposite direction. To find out what's going on, they used the Monte Rose supercomputer to run a simulation that was roughly 100 times more accurate than any previous model of the Earth's core. The simulation revealed that it's the Earth's magnetic field that's causing the layers of the core to spin like they do. It's providing an extra little push to the inner core, driving the added spin towards the east, while at the same time an equal and opposite reaction to that push is causing the 'backward' spin of the outer core towards the west.
The founder of the Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre, whose celebrity devotees include Madonna and Demi Moore, has died aged 86, the center announced.
Rabbi Philip Berg -- known as Rav to his followers -- had been ill since suffering a stroke in 2004, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The center, which was founded in 1965, has attracted criticism for the lucrative and celebrity-friendly way it presents ancient Jewish mysticism, the LA Times said.
The first Kabbalah Centre was founded in 1922 by Rav Yehuda Anschlag, and the organization now has a presence in more than 40 cities around the world, it said.
In addition to Madonna, celebrity followers include actor Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears.
Berg is survived by his wife Karen,"will continue their work and vision for the Centre," the website said.
Jackie Lomax, a singer-songwriter who worked with The Beatles and enjoyed a long solo career, has died at age 69.
Lomax died Sunday in the Wirral, near Liverpool in northwest England, following a brief illness, according to his official website.
Website manager Alistair Hepburn said Wednesday that Lomax's family told him of the death. The family also released a statement to The Beatles Shop in Liverpool, manager Stephen Bailey said.
Lomax was signed to the Beatles' Apple label in the 1960s. He had known the band members since their early days at Liverpool's Cavern Club, when he was a member of The Undertakers, one of the most popular bands on the thriving Liverpool music scene.
"He was a great rocker, a solid out-and-out rock and roller," said Tony Bramwell, the former publicist for the Beatles' Apple Records. "They were one of the great groups in Liverpool in the early '60s. They did a great version of 'Mashed Potatoes.'"
Bramwell said John Lennon persuaded Lomax to sign with Apple Records and that George Harrison and the other Beatles backed him on his first release for the label, the 1968 single "Sour Milk Sea."
"Even with all that, it just got lost in that mass of sales," said Bramwell, pointing out that the Lomax single was released by Apple along with the Beatles' "Hey Jude" and Mary Hopkin's smash hit "Those Were the Days."
After leaving Apple, Lomax moved to Los Angeles, where he made a number of excellent records, including a strong collaboration with Harrison, Bramwell said.
Lomax lived for many years in Ojai, California, but recently had returned to England. His website says he recently finished an album that will be released within months.
Lomax is survived by his first wife, Dionne Lomax, their daughters Vicki, Janine, and Louise, and five grandchildren.
A pilot killed this week when his helicopter crashed while attempting to lift logs in an Oregon forest has been identified as a former cast member of the History Channel series "Ax Men."
Portland TV station KPTV reports William Bart Colantuono appeared in season three of the show. Producers issued a statement of condolences to the family and friends of the 54-year-old from Indialantic, Fla.
Federal investigators are trying to determine the cause of Monday's crash. Witnesses told Linn County deputies the pilot released the logs before crashing, indicating he knew of a problem. Witnesses said they also saw a rotor separate from the copter before it flipped and crashed upside down.
An unnamed three month old snow leopard cub (bottom) and his mother Sarani are seen at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois, September 18, 2013.
Photo by Jim Young
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