by Tot Taylor
1973
John Nightly moves to the SUMHA Centre, Santa Monica, California
1973
August 23, Donna Ekaterina Vost dies in New York
1974
March 11, Stephen Hawking elected fellow of the Royal Society
1974
October 29, David Jones dies, Calvary nursing home, Harrow
1974
December 13, J.G. Bennett dies Sherbourne, Glos
1976
August 16, a tsunami kills more than 5,000 people in the Philippines
1977
The Duke of Edinburgh elected Chancellor of Cambridge University
1978
February 24, Mrs Mills dies in London
1978
October 10, John Pond collapses and dies in a Paris nightclub
1979
Stephen Hawking elected Lucasian professor at Cambridge University
1980
December 8, John Lennon dies in New York City
1981
February 26, Howard Hanson dies Rochester, New York
1981
September 28, John Daly returns to England
1981
October 17, John Nightly leaves Sumha and returns to Grantchester
1981
Dec 13, Cornelius Cardew killed by hit and run driver in Leytonstone, London
1981
John Bevis’s Uranographia Britannica finally published 233 years after it was written
1982
April 9, Nightly & Daly move to Porthcreek
1982
May 13, Mr Teasy-Weasy Raymond receives the OBE for services to Hairdressing
1983
March 1, Arthur Koestler overdoses on the barbiturate Tuinal in a double-suicide pact with his wife Cynthia
1983
June 18, Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space
1983
August 17, Steinar dies
1984
March 12, Imogen Holst dies Aldeburgh, Suffolk
1984
May 19, Sir John Betjeman dies Trebetherick, Cornwall
1984
August 17, Sindre dies
1986
January 28, US Space shuttle Challenger explodes killing all seven crew members
1986
July 13, Brion Gysin dies, Paris
1989
August 23, R.D. Laing dies, St.Tropez
1989
September 22, Irving Berlin dies in New York aged 101
1989
November 5, Vladimir Horowitz dies New York City
1990
A new 32 metre bowl telescope at Cambridge forms part of the European Very-Long-Baseline-Interferometry (VLBI) Network. The world’s most sensitive VLBI array
1990
October 14, Leonard Bernstein dies in New York
1991
The VLB1 array becomes Merlin: Multi-element-Radio-Linked-Interferometer Network
1992
April 17, Mr Teasy-Weasy Raymond dies Berkshire
1994
March 30, Stephen Hawking appears on Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell
1995
A Brief History of Time enters the all time best-selling paperback list in the Guinness Book of Records
1996
January 5, John Nightly snr dies at home in Cambridge
1997
April 17, Alan Hale and Tom Bopp give their names to the comet which is one of the brightest ever seen
1997
September 6, Jean-Michel Jarre performs Oxygene to 3,500,000 in Moscow – the world’s largest ever rock concert
1998
September 2, Frieda dies, Grantchester, Cambridge
1999
June 16, Screaming Lord Sutch found hanged, South Harrow, London
1999
August 11, 9.57am BST. Daly and Nightly drive to Zennor Quoit and experience total eclipse blackout during the final solar eclipse of the millenium
1999
November 12, Yehudi Menuhin dies in Berlin
2000
November 16, Russ Conway dies in Eastbourne
2001
April 28, Dennis Tito becomes the first ‘space tourist’
2001
November 29, George Harrison dies in Los Angeles
2003
March 3, Mawgan Hall arrives at Porthcreek
2003
October 23, Michael Brown, Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz discover UB131, the ‘10th planet’
2004
February 14, Dr Jana Feather, RIBA, dies in Locasa, Peru
2006
August 26, John Nightly wins horticultural medal at Porthcreek Annual Show2007 April 17, official opening of the ‘S-shaped’ Stephen Hawking Building, Caius College, by HRH Prince Philip
2007
July 1, John Nightly dies, Carn Point, Cornwall
2007
July 15, Release of the Mink Bungalow Requiem
2008
April 14, John Wheeler dies Hightstown, New Jersey
2008
May 7, Alexandre dies
2012
December 11, Ravi Shankar dies in La Jolla, California
2013
November 12, John Tavener dies at Child Okeford, Dorset
2015
September 17, Sir David Willcocks dies in Cambridge
2016
March 11, Keith Emerson commits suicide in Santa Monica, CA
2016
November 30, Leonard Lewis, ‘Leonard of Mayfair’ dies in Putney, London
John Nightly Discography
Albums
1. Principal Fixed Stars - 1966 - Released 15 October, 1966
2. Quiz Axe Queen - 1967 - Released 1 October 1967
3. Ape Box Metal - 1970 - Released 14 February 1970
4. Pitfall (OST) - 1968 - Film soundtrack, d. Joseph Karmov, released October, 1968. p. Zuba films, Knoll Entertainment Co
5. Easy Jack (OST) - 1969 - Film soundtrack, released October 1969
6. Theatre: - 1970 m- Hyde Park, London Dance Centre summer season, 1970
7. Mink Bungalow Requiem - 1972 - (unissued) re-issued 2008
MBR tracklisting:
Alpha Beta Prelude
Allegro Castor
Adagio Mortada
Vega Fluxus
Dromeda Mink Interlude
Fantasia Capella
Rigel Epilogue
Grantchester Love Chronicle: a six song suite 1965 (unissued)
John Nightly songs recorded by other artists:
Zigging & Zagging b/w The House with Toytown Bricks: The Everyman: October 1966
Mu Mu Tea b/w Milk Break: Vanessa Frye: December 1966
Zigging & Zagging b/w Black Sheep: The Bellbottoms: March 1968
Lavender Girl b/w The Loon: The If: June 1968
Peachfruit Love Parchment: (originally from the Ape Box Metal album - covered by Star Castle on the album We Are The Rock & Roll, Warner Reprise (W33PTR 930) 1988.
Easier Said Than Done recorded by Alexander Telstar, Dizzy Records, (Daze133) 1968.
Orchestral and dance works:
Six Second Echo: (for double string orchestra and two transistor radios) 1965
De La Stelle Nova ’67: 1967
Symphony In Orange Ink: 1969
Silhouette: 2008 (published posthumously)
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