From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V11 #39 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Sunday, February 12 2006 Volume 11 : Number 039 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [AVALON] Ferry and the Royal Family - all potential Liberal voters? [] Re: [AVALON] Ferry and the Royal Family - all potential Liberal voters? [] [AVALON] Leo Sayer [KWil632057@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Leo Sayer [LeeSullivanart@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Ferry and the Royal Family - all potential Liberal voters? [] RE: [AVALON] Ferry and the Royal Family - all potential Liberal voters? [] Re: [AVALON] Ferry and the Royal Family - all potential Liberal voters? [] Re: [AVALON] Ferry and the Royal Family - all potential Liberal voters? [] [AVALON] Ferry, Richard and the Royal Family ["Kari Solberg" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Ferry and the Royal Family - all potential Liberal voters? "Eh? Why would you think Katie is disliked?" Eh? And I thought Ferry was the other disliked brand here! KBP ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:02:43 EST From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry and the Royal Family - all potential Liberal voters? Um..yes. Despite playing tennis with Blair (Dave Stewart and Rory Bremner making up the four) Ferry is a dyed in the wool Conservative. Whether you agree with his politics, his interest in country pursuits, his support of Newcastle FC or like/don't like Katie Turner (does anybody here know her well enough to form an opinion?) is utterly immaterial. Does anybody on this list refuse to listen to Wagner (the composer, not the actor who appeared in Hart to Hart and possibly murdered Natalie Wood) due to his connections or beliefs? As to the Royals, I believe he was quite friendly with Princess Margaret as they often bumped into each other with holidaying in Mustique back in the 1970's. J In a message dated 11/02/2006 13:50:35 GMT Standard Time, kbporter@verizon.net writes: "Eh? Why would you think Katie is disliked?" Eh? And I thought Ferry was the other disliked brand here! KBP ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:05:20 EST From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Leo Sayer I feel I must record my horror that Leo Sayer is set to have a number one hit single in the UK. To our American cousins, please beware and try to keep this cultural pygmy aware from the billboard top ten. Didn't he support Roxy at one time? J ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:15:03 EST From: LeeSullivanart@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Leo Sayer In a message dated 11/02/2006 14:06:36 GMT Standard Time, KWil632057@aol.com writes: Didn't he support Roxy at one time? J Is also to be enjoyed on Manzanera & Mackay's 'Arrow' :) Lee S ____________________________________________ Easily distracted? Displacement activity a problem? Me too. Going to: _www.leesullivan.co.uk_ (http://www.leesullivan.co.uk/) or _www.roxymagic.co.uk_ (http://www.roxymagic.co.uk/) or indeed _www.roxymagic.com_ (http://www.roxymagic.com/) won't help either. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:41:43 -0000 From: "Ivor Canning" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry and the Royal Family - all potential Liberal voters? J (with a touch of the 'Loge' about him...) says: > Does anybody on this list refuse to listen to Wagner (the composer, not > the actor who appeared in Hart to Hart and possibly murdered Natalie Wood) > due to his connections or beliefs? This could be an issue for anyone with a copy of 'In Search of Eddie Riff', perhaps ? S8^O The world is full of such pitfalls - on similar grounds, people would have to refuse to listen to Chopin (another rabid anti-Semite) or Carl Orff (a genuine Nazi, but whose 'Carmina Burana' is regularly performed everywhere). However, I take the view that, if Daniel Barenboim can not only conduct Wagner (he is a leading exponent) but take great personal risks to play his music in Israel, then I think I too should be able to separate the art from the personality that created it. Shostakovich was often portrayed as a Stalinist and Soviet apologist during his lifetime but that view is now the subject of fierce debate following the publication of his clandestine memoirs ('Testimony') in 1979 - see also 'The New Shostakovich' by Ian MacDonald - due for re-publication soon. Which just goes to show that it's difficult even to be sure about artists' real agendas in the first place ... Regards, Ivor n.p. Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 2 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:28:05 -0500 From: "KB Porter" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Ferry and the Royal Family - all potential Liberal voters? Ivor wisely wrote: "...then I think I too should be able to separate the art from the personality that created it. ... Which just goes to show that it's difficult even to be sure about artists' real agendas in the first place ..." And that is why all the talk of Ferry's political, relational, and sporting alliances on this list is fluff; as Martin asked, 'how did we go from discussing the pros and cons of Mr. Ferry's 'play for hire' to football or hunting or Turner or God Save The Queen? KBP I'm curious, Jonathan - How do you know Leo Sayer is a "cultural pygmy"? ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:58:07 EST From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry and the Royal Family - all potential Liberal voters? Blimey Ivor! I hadn't expected such a brilliantly educated response! Fantastic! J J (with a touch of the 'Loge' about him...) says: > Does anybody on this list refuse to listen to Wagner (the composer, not > the actor who appeared in Hart to Hart and possibly murdered Natalie Wood) > due to his connections or beliefs? This could be an issue for anyone with a copy of 'In Search of Eddie Riff', perhaps ? S8^O The world is full of such pitfalls - on similar grounds, people would have to refuse to listen to Chopin (another rabid anti-Semite) or Carl Orff (a genuine Nazi, but whose 'Carmina Burana' is regularly performed everywhere). However, I take the view that, if Daniel Barenboim can not only conduct Wagner (he is a leading exponent) but take great personal risks to play his music in Israel, then I think I too should be able to separate the art from the personality that created it. Shostakovich was often portrayed as a Stalinist and Soviet apologist during his lifetime but that view is now the subject of fierce debate following the publication of his clandestine memoirs ('Testimony') in 1979 - see also 'The New Shostakovich' by Ian MacDonald - due for re-publication soon. Which just goes to show that it's difficult even to be sure about artists' real agendas in the first place ... Regards, Ivor n.p. Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 2 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:58:55 EST From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry and the Royal Family - all potential Liberal voters? In a message dated 11/02/2006 22:30:30 GMT Standard Time, kbporter@verizon.net writes: I'm curious, Jonathan - How do you know Leo Sayer is a "cultural pygmy"? Because it's painfully obvious. J ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:49:19 +0100 From: "Kari Solberg" Subject: [AVALON] Ferry, Richard and the Royal Family Yes I'm sure you are right Richard. I just read what was written beneath one of the two Ferry pictures on the side's picture gallery, that says Bryan Ferry and Tom Parker Bowles. The text for the other is more correct I believe, it says Ben Elliot! Thanks! Magne Furuholmen/A-ha is called Morten Furuholmen at the same side:) >From: Chandla911@aol.com >Subject: [AVALON] Ferry, Richard and the Royal Family - all potential Liberal >voters? >In a message dated 10/02/2006 09:13:59 GMT Standard Time, KAri >writes: >I have put a link here, because you can see 2-3 pictures of Bryan with >Camilla's nephew Tom Paker Bowles. >Try to read some Norwegian for a change, it is much easier than you >think ;) > http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/side2/kjendis/article556283.ece >Kari >I don't read much Norwegian, it's true, but aren't these pictures with >Ben Elliot? While surely Tom Parker Bowles would be Camilla's >sonand not her nephew? Damn, revealed too much knowledge of the >royal family... ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:05:39 EST From: Chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] The SAGA generation Amanda Platell takes a rather unnecessary swipe at Mick Jagger for looking his age and acting ungracefully at the Superbowl (I just thought he looked incredible for his age) in her Saturday newspaper column. However, in an attempt to justify her comments, she says it is possible to be sexy over 60 and names Michael Douglas, Bryan Ferry and Harrison Ford as examples. Best wishes Richard Mills ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V11 #39 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest