ON THIS DAY
July 15, 2022
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JULY 15, 1985
BOB GELDOF yesterday said when Paul McCartney and Pete Townshend put him on their shoulders at the end of the live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium he turned his head and cried. A global TV audience of 1.5 billion pledged £ 50 million for the starving in Africa thanks to the event.
JULY 15, 2014
The Church of england finally voted at General Synod yesterday in York to let women become bishops — angering many traditionalists. It ended years of wrangling, delighting Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and most of his bishops.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
OLLY ALEXANDER, 32. The singer and actor from harrogate, north Yorkshire, is the frontman of Years & Years, who have had two number one albums. he was nominated for a Bafta this year for Channel 4’s It’s A Sin. he said the ‘coolest thing to be able to do with my money’ was to buy his mother a house. LINDA RONSTADT, 76. The U.S. ‘first lady of rock’ sold more than 100 million albums, and members of her band went on to form The eagles. She had hit duets in the UK with Somewhere out There and don’t Know Much (with James Ingram and Aaron neville respectively). She was
misdiagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2013 — it turned out to be progressive supranuclear palsy, which has similar symptoms. She said then that no-one can sing with it, ‘no matter how hard you try’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
KEN KERCHEVAL (1935-2019). The U.S. actor played J.r. ewing’s nemesis Cliff Barnes in all 14 series of dallas. Kercheval, who also returned for the 2012 revival, said he stuck with the soap as he was ‘one of those paranoid actors who thinks they’ll never work again’. The former encyclopaedia salesman originally modelled Barnes on Senator robert Kennedy. TWINKLE (1948-2015). The singer-songwriter was born lynn Annette ripley in
Surrey — her stage moniker began as a family nickname. Twinkle had a hit with Terry, on which future led Zeppelin star Jimmy Page played guitar. She went to school with Camilla, duchess of Cornwall, and wrote the lyrics to Terry in a french lesson
aged 14. Twinkle married Graham rogers, ‘the man in black’ in the Cadbury’s Milk Tray ads.
ON JULY 15 . . .
IN 1990, english actress Margaret lockwood — star of The lady Vanishes — died, aged 73.
IN 2012, South Korean pop star Psy released Gangnam Style. It became the first YouTube video to get 1 billion views.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Rotenone (coined 20th century)
A) Someone obsessed with Japanese culture such as anime. B) Chinese way of cooking food on skewers over hot charcoal. C) A powerful insecticide. answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED
Give a dog a bad name: Meaning it is hard to lose a bad reputation; it is an abbreviation of the 18th-century proverb: ‘Give a dog a bad name and hang him.’
QUOTE FOR TODAY
an Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. George Mikes, Hungarian-born writer (1912-1987)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do solicitors wear? lawsuits. Guess The Definition answer: C