GLYNIS JOHNS (1923-Died January 4th 2024,at 100).British actress, dancer, musician and singer. In a career spanning eight decades on stage and screen, Johns appeared in more than 60 films and 30 plays. She received various accolades throughout her career, including a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. She is widely considered to have been one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood and classical years of British cinema.
Johns was born in Pretoria, South Africa, the daughter of Welsh actor Mervyn Johns. She appeared on stage from a young age and was typecast as a stage dancer from early adolescence, making her screen debut in South Riding (1938). She rose to prominence in the 1940s following her role as Anna in the war drama film 49th Parallel (1941), for which she won a National Board of Review Award for Best Acting, and starring roles in Miranda (1948) and Third Time Lucky (1949). Following No Highway in the Sky (1951), a joint British-American production, Johns took on increasingly more roles in the United States and elsewhere. She made her television and Broadway debuts in 1952 and took on starring roles in such films as The Sword and the Rose (1953), The Weak and the Wicked (1954), Mad About Men (1954), The Court Jester (1955), The Sundowners (1960), The Cabinet of Caligari (1962), The Chapman Report (1962), and Under Milk Wood (1972). On television, she starred in her own sitcom Glynis (1963).
Renowned for the breathy quality of her husky voice,Johns sang songs written specifically for her both on screen and stage, including "Sister Suffragette", written by the Sherman Brothers for Disney's Mary Poppins (1964), in which she played Winifred Banks and for which she received a Laurel Award, and "Send In the Clowns", composed by Stephen Sondheim for Broadway's A Little Night Music (1973), in which she originated the role of Desiree Armfeldt and for which she received a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award.Glynis Johns - Wikipedia
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Jethro Tull
A Little Light Music
1992 Chrysalis
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Tracks:
01. Some Day the Sun Won’t Shine for You
02. Living in the Past
03. Life Is a Long Song
04. Under Wraps
05. Rocks on the Road
06. Nursie
07. Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young to Die
08. One White Duck
09. A New Day Yesterday
10. John Barleycorn
11. Look into the Sun
12. A Christmas Song
13. From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser
14. This is Not Love
15. Bourée
16. Pussy Willow
17. Locomotive Breath
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Ian Anderson
Martin Barre
Dave Mattacks
Dave Pegg
* Long Live Rock Archive
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me when First Light comes on and suddenly the chords are swelling and the lyrics are of finding out even hell has a way out and the relief of seeing the sky again and the music is music-ing and I ascend to another plane of existence in true hozier stan fashion
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when mitski said "i don't think i can stand to be where you don't see me" and phoebe bridgers said "i'm gonna kill you if you don't beat me to it" and florence and the machine said "i love you so much i'm gonna let you kill me" and taylor swift said "i would die for you in secret" and mitski said "i say your name in hopes you'll hear it in the stars" and lorde said "i love you 'till you call the cops on me" and bleachers said "you steal the air out of my lungs you make me feel it" and the civil wars said "i don't love you but i always will" and there's so much art about killing and being killed and take it all, take my whole heart straight out of my chest, it's yours, it's always been yours
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when florence welch said “my heart bends and breaks so many, many times and is born again with each sunrise” and noah kahan said “i spend nights stitching up the loose threads in my soul, in the morning i’m bullet proof” and when hozier said “could this be how everyday begins?” and when
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