Later in the year, Cardiacs added Marguerite Johnson ( alto saxophone ) and Graham Simmonds ( guitar ) and the band became an octet.

Douglas Adams, Rowan Atkinson, Glen Baxter, Michael Bywater, Graham Chapman, Nobby Clarke, Ron Cobb, Richard Curtis, Angus Deayton, Adrian Edmonson, Michael Fishwick, Michael Foreman, Stephen Fry, Kim Fuller, George Harrison, Michael Heath, Lenny Henry, Ian Hislop, Caroline Holden, Richard Ingrams, Antony Jay, Guy Jenkin, Gray Jolliffe, Terry Jones, Trevor Leighton, John Lloyd, Jonathan Lynn, Thomas Mann, Rik Mayall, Lise Mayer, Michael Palin, Geoffrey Perkins, Stephen Pile, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, Griff Rhys Jones, Posy Simmonds, Mel Smith, The Spitting Image Workshop, Sue Townsend, Bill Tidy, John Wells.

In 1982 – 83 Australia had Greg Chappell back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their South African tour rebels, particularly Graham Gooch and John Emburey.

Then Chris Broad scored three hundreds in successive Tests and bowling successes from Graham Dilley and Gladstone Small meant England won the series 2 – 1.

* 1991 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer ( b. 1894 )

* 1969 – Graham Thorpe, English cricketer

* 1946 – Larry Graham, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer ( Sly and the Family Stone and Graham Central Station )

* 1930 – Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor ( d. 2003 )

* 1993 – Graham Phillips, American actor and singer

* 1943 – Eve Graham, Scottish singer ( The New Seekers )

They determined to reinvestigate the motion of γ Draconis ; the telescope, constructed by George Graham ( 1675 – 1751 ), a celebrated instrument-maker, was affixed to a vertical chimney stack, in such manner as to permit a small oscillation of the eyepiece, the amount of which ( i. e. the deviation from the vertical ) was regulated and measured by the introduction of a screw and a plumb line.

The Browns quashed any doubts about their prowess in that game, with Graham and his receivers amassing 246 passing yards en route to a 35 – 10 win before a crowd of 71, 237.

Behind a potent offense that featured Graham, Groza, Motley, Lavelli and running back Dub Jones, the Browns finished the 1950 regular season with a 10 – 2 record, tied for first place in their conference.

Still, Cleveland finished the regular season 9 – 3 as Graham and Lavelli excelled on offense and linemen Len Ford and Don Colo held up the defense.

Chuck Noll had a productive season at linebacker with five interceptions, Graham passed for 15 touchdowns and ran for six more, and the team finished the regular season 9 – 2 – 1.

* 2003 – Otto Graham, American football player ( b. 1921 )

* 1921 – Otto Graham, American football player ( d. 2003 )

* 1973 – Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer

* Dragon Information Files – from Graham's Dragon Page, by Graham E. Kinns

* 1934 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell ( b. 1854 )

* 2011 – now: Graham Watson

One of the few highlights for Essendon supporters during this time was when Graham Moss won the 1976 Brownlow Medal ; he was the only Bomber to do so in a 40-year span from 1953 – 1993.

* 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.

* 1953 – Graham Lewis, English musician ( Wire and Dome )

* 1968 – Shawn Graham, Canadian politician

The concept of playing solo steel-string guitar in a concert setting was introduced in the early 1960s by such performers as Davey Graham and John Fahey, who used country blues fingerpicking techniques to compose original compositions with structures somewhat like European classical music.

" Slap style " may have influenced electric bass guitar players who, from the mid-sixties ( particularly Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone ), developed a technique called slap and pop that used the thumb of the plucking hand to hit the string, making a slapping sound but still letting the note ring, and the index or middle finger of the plucking hand to pull the string back so it hits the fretboard, achieving the pop sound described above.

Cronin had been playing in a jazz ensemble called " The Strolling Dudes " with jazz trumpet player Rick Braun, Miles Joseph on lead guitar and Graham Lear on drums.

The 1990 release The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken, with Bryan Hitt ( formerly of Wang Chung ) replacing Graham Lear on drums, Dave Amato debuting on lead guitar, and songwriter / keyboardist Jesse Harms, was a commercial disappointment.

Wire is an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman ( vocals, guitar ), Graham Lewis ( bass, vocals ), Bruce Gilbert ( guitar ), and Robert Gotobed ( drums ).

Larry Graham, Jr. ( born August 14, 1946 ) is an American bass guitar player, both with the popular and influential psychedelic soul / funk band Sly and the Family Stone, and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station.

David Crosby had performed rhythm guitar and vocals with folk-rock group The Byrds ; Stephen Stills had been a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter in the band Buffalo Springfield ; and Graham Nash had been a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter with The Hollies, one of the " British Invasion " acts.

Tong appeared as a live replacement for ex-guitarist Graham Coxon in Blur, and as additional guitarist for Gorillaz ( both Jones and Tong played guitar for Demon Days Live ).

Meanwhile, Sly recruited Larry Graham to play bass guitar.

Larry Graham invented the " slapping technique " of bass guitar playing, which became synonymous with funk music.

Upon Bill Graham's death that year, they released a live EP, On Tour Forever, as a tribute to Graham, which featured guitar legend Carlos Santana.

The band formed in 1996, after Graham Tyler responded to an ad that Sammy James Jr. posted in a guitar store.

McGuinness moved to guitar, his original instrument, contributing the distinctive National Steel Guitar to " If You Gotta Go, Go Now " and " Pretty Flamingo ", and was replaced on bass by Jack Bruce, who had been playing for The Graham Bond Organisation for some time before a recent brief stint with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.

In 1985, the band expanded to a sextet, featuring new band members Graham Weir ( guitar, keyboards, trombone ) and Neil Weir ( trumpet, bass guitar ), and released Crush, produced by Stephen Hague in Paris and New York.

* Graham Weir – guitar, brass, keyboards, writer

In the early 1960s, folk guitar pioneers Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and particularly Davy Graham ( who played and recorded with Korner ), played blues, folk and jazz, developing a distinctive guitar style known as folk baroque.

The invention of slap on electric bass guitar is generally credited to funk bassists Larry Graham and Louis Johnson.

Some prominent bass guitar players known for their use of slapping in their playing include Bootsy Collins ( solo artist ; Bootsy's Rubber Band, Funkadelic, Parliament, Praxis ), Flea ( Red Hot Chili Peppers ), Larry Graham ( Sly and the Family Stone, Graham Central Station ), Marcus Miller ( solo artist, Miles Davis, David Sanborn, Luther Vandross ), Louis Johnson ( The Brothers Johnson, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson ), Nick Beggs ( Kajagoogoo ), Mark King ( Level 42 ), Mike Gordon ( Phish ), Les Claypool ( solo artist, Primus ), Fieldy ( Korn ), Jayen Varma ( solo artist ), Tetsuya ( L ' Arc-en-Ciel ).

The line-up was Clint Boon ( organ ), Stephen Holt ( vocals-Tom Hingley would not join up until the beginning of 1989 ), Graham Lambert ( guitar ), Martyn Walsh ( bass ) and Craig Gill ( drums ).

* In Blur's performance of " Charmless Man " in 1995, Dave Rowntree decided to play with oversized drumsticks, while Graham Coxon, played a mini guitar.