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 From: begumby@hotmail.com 
  
 Wasn't he also the voice of one of the main bad guys in ReBoot? 
  
 "jack"  wrote in message 
 news:3kdbj4Ftl99kU1@individual.net... 
 > Long John Baldry dies in Vancouver 
 > Last Updated: Jul 22 2005 12:42 PM PDT 
 > 
 > Blues legend Long John Baldry has died at age 64 at Vancouver General 
 Hospital 
 > after a four-month battle with a severe chest infection. 
 > 
 > Baldry's agent posted an announcement on the musician's website that 
 Baldry had 
 > passed away Thursday night in Vancouver, where he had been living. 
 > 
 > "Our world is a lesser place without him, for John was a person that 
 enhanced 
 > this world with his enormous presence and talent," said the statement 
 posted on 
 > the website. 
 > 
 > The musician was admitted to the intensive care unit of Vancouver General 
 in 
 > April after returning from a trip to his native Britain. 
 > 
 > 
 > Baldry was nicknamed "Long John" because of his height - six foot seven - 
 and 
 > had been living in Canada for the past 25 years. 
 > 
 > The bluesman named Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry as 
 his 
 > musical influences. 
 > 
 > Baldry, born in London in 1941, is recognized as one of the chief 
 influences in 
 > British blues and rock music in the 1960s. 
 > 
 > His seminal 1962 album, R&B From The Marquee is considered the first 
 British 
 > blues album. Baldry hit the top of the singles charts there in 1967 with 
 Let 
 > the Heartaches Begin. He also performed in the Beatles' first worldwide 
 > television special in April 1964. 
 > 
 > During the last half of the 1960s, he led a band called Bluesology that 
 > included Reginald Dwight, who went on to become Elton John. 
 > 
 > Baldry has released more than 40 albums, performing with a string of other 
 > famous musicians including Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page and Mick Jagger. The 
 Rolling 
 > Stones opened for Baldry in London in the early 1960s before the Stones 
 hit it 
 > big. 
 > 
 > Stewart considered Baldry a mentor and was at his bedside when he was 
 admitted 
 > to hospital in March. 
 > 
 > In 1979, he teamed up with Seattle singer Kathi MacDonald to record a very 
 > successful version of You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'. 
 > 
 > After spending time in New York City and Los Angeles in the late '70s, 
 Baldry 
 > chose to settle permanently in Vancouver, and became a Canadian citizen in 
 > 1980. 
 > 
 > He continued to record - for Stony Plains Records in Edmonton, owned by 
 Holger 
 > Peterson who is also the host of CBC Radio's Saturday Night Blues. 
 > 
 > "There are very few performers that I can think of that were as 
 entertaining, 
 > as talented and as professional as Long John Baldry," he says. 
 > 
 > Peterson also says two of Baldry's best-selling albums - It Ain't Easy, 
 and 
 > Everything Stops For Tea - will be reissued by Stony Plain in the near 
 future. 
 > 
 > Baldry may be better known to many young people as the voice of Dr. 
 Robotnik in 
 > the Sonic the Hedgehog video games and TV series 
 > 
 > 
  
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