In a live interview on Newsnight during the Ron Davies scandal of 1998, he famously told interviewer Jeremy Paxman that there were two gay members of the then current Labour Cabinet, one being Peter Mandelson.

During a phone-in during the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2, Davies told a member of the public that they should join the BNP after she suggested it be a requirement for public servants in Wales to understand Welsh.

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Steve Perry is the Daddies ' sole lyricist, and writes the majority of his songs in a fictional narrative format he credits as being influenced by Randy Newman and Ray Davies, often told about or through the unreliable perspective of downtrodden characters struggling against adversity.

Thomas had read Bells of Rhymney as part of a St. David's Day radio broadcast, but told Davies that he did not feel the poem was particularly representative of Davies ' work, as it was " not angry enough ".

Producer Russell T Davies told SFX magazine, " Yes, just as we expected, multiple takes when he bumped into a door or veered off to the left.

A passionate supporter of Liverpool FC through his father ( nowadays he is frequently seen watching from the Director's box ) Davies had trials for the club during the reign of Bill Shankly but was unsuccessful ( in 1995 he told The Independent that as things as turned out, it was probably for the best ).

Davies ' son Ruthven later told an interviewer:

On December 26, 1995 Allen's grandson told her that Davies had been sexually abusing him and Allen and her daughter Annette left home to report it at the local police station.

Bunting later told Harvey's 15 year old son James Vlassakis that his mother had killed Davies.

The United captain told Davies about the club he played for and the financial trouble they were in.

The more experienced Davies was expected to cover the match and Davies states in his autobiography that he had been told by the then football editor Sam Leitch that the game was his, and it came as a total shock to Davies when the BBC announced that Motson would be covering the match.

Dr. Cardew, who, in a later letter to Davies Gilbert, said dryly: “ I could not discern the faculties by which he was afterwards so much distinguished .” Davy said himself: “ I consider it fortunate I was left much to myself as a child, and put upon no particular plan of study ... What I am I made myself .”

Davies is often at his most affecting when he sings of giving up worldly ambition for the simple rewards of love and domesticity (" This is Where I Belong ", 1966 ; " Two Sisters ", 1967 ; " The Way Love Used to Be ", 1971 ; " Sweet Lady Genevieve ", 1973 ; " You Make It All Worthwhile ", 1974 ), or when he extols the consolations of friendship and memory (" Days ", 1968 ; " Do You Remember Walter?

On "( Wish I Could Fly Like ) Superman ", Davies vented his existential angst about the 1979 energy crisis over a thumping disco beat ; on " A Gallon of Gas ", he addressed the same concern over a traditional acoustic twelve-bar blues shuffle.

The monarchs who had the same Master of the King's Music throughout their reign were: King Charles I ( Nicholas Lanier ), King James II ( Nicholas Staggins ), Queen Anne and King George I ( John Eccles ), King Edward VII ( Sir Walter Parratt ) and King Edward VIII ( Sir Walford Davies ).

However Davies refused to elaborate on what he called the " suicide theory of enigmatic death ," as he feared that " some of the old guard would be furious if they thought I was trying to prove it.

The first buyers of the new system were Peter Gabriel, Richard James Burgess of Landscape ( who demonstrated it to many British musicians and on BBC TV's Tomorrow's World ), Iva Davies of Icehouse, Thomas Dolby, Kate Bush, In the US, Jackson demonstrated the Series I sampler for a year before selling units to Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder in 1980 for US $ 27, 500 each.

When asked whether Roger Hodgson might appear on some of the 2011 dates Davies replied, “ I know there are some fans out there who would like that to happen.

Highlights include new plays by Cosh Omar: The Battle of Green Lanes and The Great Extension, Jamaica House by Paul Sirett, which had a site specific performance on the top floor of a tower block in Stepney, new musicals Make Some Noise, One Dance Will Do, Sammy, Harder They Come that has transferred to the Barbican and West End, and toured Canada, the US and the UK ; Ray Davies ’ Come Dancing – winner of the What ’ s on Stage Best Musical and the 2010 new production of John Adam's song play I Was Looking At The Ceiling And Then I Saw The Sky.

Davies was exasperated by his wife's excesses and once addressed her, " I pray you weep not while I am alive, and I will give you leave to laugh when I am dead ".

* Davies, N. B., Hartley, I. R., Hatchwell, B. J., Desrochers, A., Skeer, J.

* Davies, N. B., Hartley, I. R., Hatchwell, B. J.

* Hartley, I. R., Davies, N. B., Hatchwell, B. J., Desrochers, A., Nebel, D. & Burke, T. 1995.

Of the memoir, Davies said he wished to " attempt to remember what I liked as a boy / youth / idiot and to work out why ".

This was done again in episode 1 of Series H, and once again in episode 3 of Series I. Davies ' buzzer in the " Endings " episode was the longest buzzer ever used.

David Davies, MP for Monmouth once said: " Paul Murphy is clearly a very experienced member of parliament and whilst I and my colleagues will disagree with his policies and his government's policies and will certainly take him to task for that, he's a man who is, I think I probably can say, is widely respected on all sides of the House of Commons.

" Eleanor Audeley ", wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to " Reveale, O Daniel ", and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by Sir John Lambe, the dean of the Arches, " Dame Eleanor Davies ", " Never soe mad a ladie ".

In 1866, Anderson and Davies presented petitions signed by more than 1, 500 asking that women heads of household be given the vote.

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

By the 18th century, the term had gained its now common usage in France, and had begun to be used to refer purely to books of magic, which Owen Davies presumed was because " many of them continued to circulate in Latin manuscripts.

Despite Davies ' unequivocal statement that the two wars are distinct, Lance Parkin, in his Doctor Who chronology AHistory, suggests in a speculative essay that the two destructions of Gallifrey may be the same event seen from two different perspectives, with the Eighth Doctor present twice ( and both times culpable for the planet's destruction ).

Individuals who present with pusher syndrome or lateropulsion, as defined by Davies, vary in their degree and severity of this condition and therefore appropriate measures need to be implemented in order to evaluate the level of “ pushing ”.

In 2005, the IAA established the SETI: Post-Detection Science and Technology Taskgroup ( Chairman, Professor Paul Davies ) " to act as a Standing Committee to be available to be called on at any time to advise and consult on questions stemming from the discovery of a putative signal of extraterrestrial intelligent ( ETI ) origin.

In the 1990s future Who Wants to be a Millionaire ( USA ) executive producer Michael Davies attempted to revive The $ 64, 000 Question in the US as The $ 640, 000 Question for ABC, before abandoning that effort in favour of the British hit.

In 1966 Davies proposed that a network should be built at the laboratory to serve the needs of NPL and prove the feasibility of packet switching.

For example, Norman Davies wrote " Armia Krajowa ( Home Army ), the AK, which could fairly claim to be the largest of European resistance "; Gregor Dallas wrote " Home Army ( Armia Krajowa or AK ) in late 1943 numbered around 400000, making it the largest resistance organization in Europe "; Mark Wyman wrote " Armia Krajowa was considered the largest underground resistance unit in wartime Europe ".

Professor Davies tells us that Gerald, whom he calls " an admirable story-teller ", is the only source for some of the most famous of the Welsh folk tales including the declaration of the old man of Pencader to Henry II which concludes Descriptio Cambriae: " This nation, O King, may now, as in former times, be harassed, and in a great measure weakened and destroyed by your and other powers, and it will also prevail by its laudable exertions, but it can never be totally subdued through the wrath of man, unless the wrath of God shall concur.

The history of the analysis of The Taming of the Shrew is saturated with controversy almost from its inception, something Stevie Davies summarises when she writes that response to The Shrew " is dominated by feelings of unease and embarrassment, accompanied by the desire to prove that Shakespeare cannot have meant what he seems to be saying ; and that therefore he cannot really be saying it.

The Canadian distiller provided a solid foundation on which the race's revival could be built, firstly enabling the course to be bought from Davies and to be run and managed by the Jockey Club.

Writer Russell T Davies explained in an interview with SFX that the line was not intended to be taken seriously and is instead a commentary.

A definitive testament to Davies ' reputation as a songwriter of insight, empathy and wit can be heard on the Kinks ' landmark 1969 album Arthur ( or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ).

It can be easily accessed from the south side off Alfords Point Drive on the shores of the Georges River, in the Sutherland Shire, from the west off the M5 motorway, from the north off Davies Road and from the east off Forest Road.

She was then sanctioned by the Queen to marry Captain James Davies at St Nicholas ' Church in Brighton in August, 1862, after a period which was to be spent in the town in preparation for the wedding.

John Whitgift, the archbishop of Canterbury, ordered that Hall's satires, along with works of Thomas Nashe, John Marston, Christopher Marlowe, Sir John Davies and others should be burnt, on the ground of licentiousness ; but shortly afterwards Hall's book was ordered to be " staied at the press ," which may be interpreted as reprieved.