"), ending Brian's hope of rescue ( they do however show some signs of life during the famous rendition of " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " when they are seen waving their toes in unison in time to the music ).

After two days of rehearsing in the Wilsons ' music room, Brian's parents returned home from their trip.

Only one of the great international virtuoso conductors showed any interest in Brian's music.

Brian's music owes a lot to Wagner, Bruckner, Elgar, Strauss, Mahler and Bach.

However, as with the music of Robert Simpson, Brian's great champion, in certain passages the music does suddenly verge on the pastoral, to the listener's great surprise.

The only music that Brian's could reasonably be mistaken for is some of the work of Arnold Bax, particularly Bax's violent early symphonies ( 1 and 2 ).

However, while Bax's music sounds on first hearing more eloquent and connected, and more lyrical, some assert that Brian's music has a greater flow and, despite its apparent fragmentary structure, a greater symphonic cohesion.

Brian's music has several recognisable hallmarks: the liking of extreme dotted rhythms, deep brass notes, and various uncharacteristic harp, piano and percussion timbres, and other sounds ( and textures ) than no-one else has conjured from the orchestra.

The first commercial recording of Havergal Brian's music was made by the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra in 1972, when Symphonies Nos.

In 1979, Cameo Classics embarked on a project to record all of Brian's orchestral music in collaboration with the Havergal Brian Society.

For the recording of Brian's complete piano music, Cameo Classics employed digital technology.

More of Brian's works have been published since the 1980s and ' 90s, and the scarcity of well-rehearsed performances or mature interpretations that had previously made the quality of his music difficult to assess has been partially corrected through the series of professional recordings of many of Brian's symphonies that have been issued by the Marco Polo record label on CD.

Brian's start in popular music was as a keyboardist and backup singer for the Westchester, New York, 1980s synthpop group, Departure.

The eclecticism of Brian's music here borrows references as diverse as mediaeval fauxbourdon, Renaissance multiple polyphony on the scale of Tallis's Spem in alium all the way through to twentieth century tone clusters, polytonality and the use of percussion and brass in a Varèse-like outburst of extreme dissonance.

The four Hackmaster characters most often used by the Knights themselves — Brian's Teflon Billy, Dave's El Ravager, Bob's Knuckles the Sixth, King of the Wallclimbers and Sara's Thorina -- have also been turned into gamebooks under the Lost Worlds system, published by Flying Buffalo.

The work was eventually premiered in 1961, and has been followed by a mere handful of performances, often by partly or wholly amateur forces ; the 1978 performance for example was an ad hoc amateur orchestra specially assembled for the occasion, in Brian's home county of Staffordshire.

Brian's first aid skills stretch to caring for automobiles, as he is often shown working on his car, and also to animals as when he is given responsibility to bandage an injured horse owned by the Wheelers.

Their trademark sound was developed with Hilary singing strong lead in a much lower range than her original coloratura, with Jacey's softer voice providing a lighter ( usually higher ) harmony and Brian's voice often being used at the top end of his bass-baritone range so that Hilary and Brian's voices were fairly close together in range, ' glued ' together by Jacey's.

The facsimile of O ' Brian's handwritten script includes his doodling of placements for a fictitious on-board dinner party.

Brian's 2004 album Gettin ' in Over My Head features Carl's vocal from the unreleased Beach Boys song " Soul Searchin '" over a new backing track ( the Don Was-recorded elements and the other Beach Boys ' voices are absent ), and in 2010 bandmate Al Jardine's first solo album, A Postcard From California, features a similarly reconstructed track, " Don't Fight The Sea ".

Within the industry word circulated that the reunited band was recording at Brian's favored Western Studios in Los Angeles, aided by Joe Thomas, Brian's collaborator on his 1999 solo album, Imagination.

After his solo debut, Wilson's controversial psychotherapist, Dr Eugene Landy, also had significant influence on Brian's projected follow-up, Sweet Insanity, which was shelved in 1990 and never released.

* In the Family Guy episode " Whistle While Your Wife Works ", Stewie refers to Brian's idiotic girlfriend as talking " like this.

" Brian's dishevelled and ghostly appearance on the cover disturbed many of his fans, and critic David Dalton wrote that he looked " like a doomed albino raccoon.

Guardians were based on novels like Shardik ( for the bear ) and Maturin for the turtle ( Patrick O ' Brian's character Dr. Stephen Maturin was a naturalist who named at least one species of turtle ).

Among English composers of the early-20th century there was some vogue for the use of a " bass oboe ", for example in Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets ( 1916 ), as well as in several works of Frederick Delius ( A Mass of Life, 1904-1905 ; Dance Rhapsody No. 1, 1908 ), Arnold Bax's Symphony No. 1 ( 1921 ), Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony ( 1919-1927 ) and Symphony No. 4 ( Das Siegeslied ), and supposedly in the original instrumentation of Ralph Vaughan Williams ' A London Symphony ( 1912-1913 ).

While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

The most controversial cuts were the scenes involving Otto, initially a recurring character, who had a thin Adolf Hitler-esque moustache and spoke with a German accent, shouting accusations of " racial impurity " at people whose conceptions were similar to Brian's ( Roman centurion rape of native Judean women ), and other Nazi-based phrases.

A screen adaptation from various episodes in Patrick O ' Brian's blockbuster adventure series set during the Napoleonic Wars, it was well received by critics, but only mildly successful with mainstream audiences.

* The Road to Samarcand is one of Patrick O ' Brian's early novels ( 1954 ) about an American teenage boy, the son of recently deceased missionary parents, who travels from China with a small party on the Silk Road en route to the West.

Though the genre has evolved since its inception, the historical novel remains popular with authors and readers to this day ; bestsellers include Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey – Maturin series, Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth, and Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

Brian's hard-won authority was seriously challenged in 1013 when his ally Máel Sechnaill was attacked by the Cenél nEógain king Flaithbertach Ua Néill, with the Ulstermen as his allies.

Brian's war against Máel Mórda and Sihtric was to be inextricably connected with his complicated marital relations, in particular his marriage to Gormlaith, Máel Mórda's sister and Sihtric's mother, who had been in turn the wife of Amlaíb Cuarán, king of Dublin and York, then of Máel Sechnaill, and finally of Brian.

In 964, Brian's older brother, Mathgamain, claimed control over the entire province of Munster by capturing the Rock of Cashel, capital of the ancient Eóganachta, the hereditary overlords or High Kings of Munster, but who in dynastic strife and with multiple assassinations had weakened themselves to the point they were now impotent.

Brian's most famous marriage was with Gormflaith, sister of Máel Mórda of Leinster.

Three days previously, Brian's father had bought him an electric bass and amplifier ; Brian had learned to play the instrument in that short period of time, with Al Jardine moving to rhythm guitar.

Although the book drew on interviews with Wilson and others ( by Todd Gold ) it is widely believed to be Landy's account of Brian's life.

Brian fled to London and, although Robinson deeply disapproved of the incident, he continued to provide Brian with money until his own death, though most of the allowance went to Brian's estranged wife.

For a few years after Brian's death, while Simpson still had influence at the BBC, there was a revival of interest with a number of recordings and performances ; two biographies and a three-volume study of his symphonies appeared.

Brian's best friend, Charlie makes plans to flee to Brazil with him and the gang's savings.

Though Charlie also cares for her, he disapproves of Brian's relationship with her and very reluctantly decides to take her with them to Brazil.

" In light of this, Jones " discarded it and sat down with Brian's drawings and sifted through them and found the ones that I really liked, and started creating the story from them.

This campaign terminated with the sudden reversal of Brian's meticulous plans, at the hands of an alliance between B. A.

Gigli successfully convinces the young man, Brian ( Justin Bartha ), to go off with him by promising to take him " to the Baywatch ," which seems to be Brian's singular obsession, and turns out to just the beach.

He rose to stardom after starring in the critically lauded blockbuster biographical TV movie, Brian's Song ( 1971 ), in which he played Chicago Bears star football player Gale Sayers, who stood by his friend Brian Piccolo ( played by James Caan ), during his struggle with terminal cancer.

After an uncomfortable encounter with Wiley's girlfriend, Jenna ( Brian's ex-girlfriend ), Keyes tracks Wiley to a cabin in the Everglades, where he is abducted by Las Noches.