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Corrie's Vera speaks about illness

Corrie's Vera speaks about illness

Former 'Coronation Street' actress Liz Dawn has spoken about how her life has changed since she was diagnosed with emphysema five years ago.
The 68-year-old actress told ITV's 'Tonight' that she was told by doctors that she only had one third of her lung capacity left.
Dawn, who played Vera Duckworth in 'Coronation Street', recently quit the show due to ill health.
She said: "I used to go to Granada and I used to go in the dressing room, and I'd be really breathless before I even did anything."
"And I got that bad, at the end that instead of somebody knocking on the door and saying: 'It's your scene', I used to go on a scene earlier and sit on the Duckworths' set."
Dawn also said that she quit smoking after her diagnosis: "When you're addicted to smoking it's very hard to stop... I couldn't answer the phone unless I lit up."
The actress said that she regretted smoking around non-smokers: "I mean there are a lot of non-smokers in 'Coronation Street' that I have stood next to and smoked. Must have been awful mustn't it?"
Dawn's doctor Professor Ashley Woodcock said: "Liz came to me about five years ago really pretty desperate."
"At that point she could walk just a couple of yards... she was in a really bad way."
"Stopping her smoking was really critical and she did that... which has been great because she wouldn't be here now... if she hadn't stopped"




Jacobs Dream

Deep Sky Divers

   
Artist: Deep Sky Divers

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 The New Fast Lane

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 7


   
 Highlands and Skylands

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9


   
 Natural Power

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 7


   
 Raging Calm

   Year:    
Tracks: 6


   
 Momentum

   Year:    
Tracks: 7

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Jaws star Roy Scheider dies, aged 75

Jaws star Roy Scheider dies, aged 75

Roy Scheider, the histrion charles Herbert Best known for his office as the beleaguered police tribal chief Martin Brody in 'Jaws', has died. He was 75.
The two-time Academy Award candidate died of complications from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood cells, at the Myeloma Establish for Research and Therapy at the University of Arkansas River for Medical exam Sciences in Little Rock.
Hospital representative Leslie Zachary Taylor said the worker had been treated there for the disease at different times over the past 2 old age.
Fresh Jersey-born Scheider earned his first-class honours degree Oscar nomination (C. H. Best Support Thespian) in 1971 for 'The French Connection'.
Octet years afterwards he was nominated for the C. H. Best Doer Oscar for his performance in 'All That Jazz'.
Among his other credits were 'Klute', 'Marathon Man', 'Still of the Night' and the TV jeopardize series 'SeaQuest DSV'.

Magma

   
Artist: Magma

   Genre(s): 
Alternative
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Udu Wudu

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 7


   
 Kohntarkosz

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 4


   
 Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh (M.D.K.)

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 7


   
 Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 7


   
 1.001 Centigrades

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 3


   
 Magma

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 10

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Light-emitting diode by classically-trained drummer Christian Vander, the Paris-based Magma was, in their direction, possibly the ultimate imperfect tense rock radical; patch other artists achieved greater commercial success and critical applaud, Magma typified the many ambitions and excesses of the writing style which magnetic north Korean won it as many detractors as fans, even leaving so far as to invent their possess lyric poem and musical interpreter communication in order to bring their singular form sight to life. The logos of a wind pianist, Vander initially followed in his father's footsteps, model his proficiency on the make for of Saint John Coltrane alum Elvin Jones and starting his career with a number of jazz and R&B outfits. Piece in Paris in 1969, however, he was smitten by a imagination of earth's negro spiritual and bionomical future which so disturbed him that he decided to search his fears by musical theater way, assembling Magma with the aid of wife and vocalist Frank Stella, singer Klaus Blasquiz, and nuclear fusion reaction bassists Francis Moze and Jannick Top.


As defined on the group's eponymous 1970 double-album debut, Vander's tale -- relieved to be told over the line of ten LPs -- pitted ground against a rival satellite named Kobaia. Over the grade of 1971's 1001 Centigrade and 1973's Mekanïk Destructïw Kommandoh (recorded with a choir), the narrative -- oft of it told in native Kobaian -- unfolded to limn an worldly concern so uninhabitable that its citizens moldiness fly to the nearby satellite, where long clip of struggle culminated in the achievement of cosmic concordance and a reconciliation with the graven image Ptäh. Chart achiever was not forthcoming, and later a few too soon tours of the U.S. and Britain Magma washed-out the eye days of the tenner about solo in France, where they launched records including 1974's Kohntarkosz and the hereafter year's Subsist. Subsequently the commercial message failure of 1976's Udu Wadu and 1977's Edits, Magma fundamentally disbanded, although the radical lived on in various forms, as alumni founded a number of loosely-affiliated splinter groups to bear on Vander's act in subsequent years, including Artistic creation Zoyd, Univers Zero, Supporting players Glory, Happy Family and Ruins. In 1983, Vander himself resurfaced with the acoustic devise Offering, only afterward returned to more highfaluting designs with Les Voix de Magma, an attempt to resurrect his early on material for a modern generation of listeners.





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