• John Ayldon (11 December 1943 – 16 February 2013) was an English opera singer and comic actor, best known for his performances in bass-baritone roles...
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  • February – Rick Huxley, bassist (The Dave Clark Five), 72 16 February John Ayldon, singer and actor, 69 Tony Sheridan, singer-songwriter and guitarist...
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    Kerry Greenwood (2004; the 7th Phryne Fisher book). The Ghosts' High Noon by John Dickson Carr (1969) was named for the song of the same name in Ruddigore...
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  • played by Pratt as Richard D'Oyly Carte, Kenneth Sandford as Gilbert and John Ayldon as Sullivan, in which Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte plan the birth of Trial...
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    Gilbert, too, was influenced by earlier works, including The Mountain Sylph by John Barnett. Two characters in Iolanthe, Strephon and Phyllis, are described...
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    New York in the summer of 1879 and made arrangements with theatre manager John T. Ford to present, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, the authorised productions...
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    end of the month was used in A Wife for a Month, a 17th-century play by John Fletcher. Ko-Ko's final speech affirms that death has been, throughout the...
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    also have nautical themes), including "Captain Reece" (1868) and "General John" (1867). Some of the characters also have prototypes in the ballads: Dick...
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    (1930). The Life and Reminiscences of Jessie Bond. London: John Lane. Rollins, Cyril; R. John Witts (1962). The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Gilbert and...
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    Well Hall, Welling and Woolwich. John Arnold – Internationally renowned watchmaker; lived in Well Hall House John Ayldon – An operatic bass-baritone and...
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