Chris Hutchins, journalist who introduced Elvis to The Beatles and did Tom Jones’s PR – obituary
He wrote books packed with ‘unnamed sources’ about the Duchess of York, Diana and Prince Harry
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He wrote books packed with ‘unnamed sources’ about the Duchess of York, Diana and Prince Harry
HMRC classified his art as ‘electrical devices’ and thus subject to full VAT, but relented after a campaign by an art gallery
‘There were risks... The scientists wanted information, so you had to do certain things with the aircraft and then report what happened’
He had drink problems during his career but went on to become a youth mentor, charity ambassador and winner of Dancing with the Stars
He won two brass band World Championships and in 1973 was crowned Champion Soloist of Great Britain
At the peak of Beverly Hills, 90210, she could not visit malls without being accosted, and she spawned her own Shannen Doherty Barbie doll
Her appearance at the Oxford Union attracted a record 2,000 undergraduates, even though it coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall
His prize as men’s singles champion was a modest £25 voucher for Lillywhite’s in Piccadilly, where he bought a sweater
The planes in the original mission had flown at 60 feet, but the director wanted Souter and co to go down to a ‘bloody dangerous’ 25 feet
It took him seven weeks to ice the cake for Queen Elizabeth’s golden wedding anniversary
He built a reputation for novelty bets and cheeky adverts, yet in Irish racing he was no upstart but a third-generation ‘king of the ring’
The Shining required ‘12- to 16-hour days... for a year and one month. The role demanded that I cry for at least nine of those months’
‘They said I could never finish, so I finished first,’ she said after victory in the 1962 Argentine Touring Car Grand Prix
He singled out for criticism the German foreign minister, who had been ‘almost fanatical in his support for an independent Croatia’
‘We were told that we could not play any Tchaikovsky because the Chinese and the Russians were at loggerheads’
Their biggest hit, Stuck in the Middle with You, was famously used by Quentin Tarantino to accompany a torture scene in Reservoir Dogs
The navigator was awarded the DFC for ‘exemplary gallantry’ after his Mosquito crew sank one U-boat and seriously damaged another
As an unmarried Catholic mother in London in 1965, she said, ‘I honestly felt if I’d murdered someone it might have been more acceptable’
In Belfast his unflappable style suited what was at the time a wild and lawless situation
He cut his teeth on the family hit Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Warren Beatty’s troubled comic-book throwback Dick Tracy