A highly respected theatre actor, Gambon is recognised for his roles as Philip Marlow in the BBC television serial The Singing Detective, as Jules Maigret in the 1990s ITV serial Maigret, and as Professor Albus Dumbledore in the last six Harry Potter films ( following the death of actor Richard Harris ).

But it was not until Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective ( 1986 ) that he became a household name.

Programmes wholly shot on film were made there also, such as Alice in Wonderland ( 1966 ), The Singing Detective ( 1986 ) and Fortunes of War ( 1987 ).

His more recent films include The Singing Detective, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, A Scanner Darkly, Gothika, Zodiac and Tropic Thunder.

Downey was able to return to the big screen only after Mel Gibson, who had been a close friend to Downey since both had co-starred in Air America, paid Downey's insurance bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective.

Robert Downey Jr. has sung on several soundtracks in his films such as Chaplin, Too Much Sun, Two Girls and a Guy, Friends and Lovers, The Singing Detective and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective contains scenes that appear to be under and adjacent to Hammersmith Bridge, and Peter Howitt's Sliding Doors includes scenes in and around Hammersmith Bridge.

* The central character in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective is crime novelist Philip E. Marlow, portrayed in the original TV version by Michael Gambon and in the later film version by Robert Downey, Jr.

* The Singing Detective ( 1986, ISBN 0-571-14631-7 ) by Dennis Potter.

She appeared in many British television drama productions in the 1960s and early 1970s, including Saint Joan ( 1968 ), Three Sisters ( 1969 ), Macbeth ( 1970 ), Hedda Gabler ( 1972 ), Twelfth Night ( 1973 ), as Lady Mountbatten in Lord Mountbatten-The Last Viceroy ( 1985 ) and Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective ( 1986 ).

* The Singing Detective ( TV mini-series ) ( 1986 )

The song, performed by Max Harris and his Novelty Trio ( based on a version by The Harmonicats ), was used as the theme of the BBC miniseries The Singing Detective ( 1986 ).

The dramatist Dennis Potter, most famous for The Singing Detective, lived in Ross in the later part of his life.

Ovaltine is mentioned in Dennis Potter's " The Singing Detective " in the sentence by sister White: " Coffee or Ovaltine?

" Frühlingsrauschen " (" Rustle of Spring ") was quoted by Meredith Willson in his musical The Music Man, was one of the main themes of Dennis Potter's 1986 miniseries The Singing Detective, and was sampled by hip-hop producer 4th Disciple on Killarmy's track " Wu-Renegades.

Television shows such as David Lynch's Twin Peaks series and BBC's The Singing Detective also have "... a loosening of causality, a greater emphasis on psychological or anecdotal realism, violations of classical clarity of space and time, explicit authorial comment, and ambiguity.

The character of singing detective Richard Diamond likely served as inspiration for the character of Philip E. Marlow ( Michael Gambon ) in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective ( 1986 ).

In a 1952 episode of Richard Diamond (" The Bowery Case "), Diamond's girlfriend refers to the sleuth as " The Singing Detective ".

By 1997, they had changed their name a third time to Elbow, after a line in the BBC TV drama The Singing Detective.

As a result of constant pain, a fever caused by the condition, and his refusal to take medication, Marlow falls into a fantasy world involving his Chandleresque novel, The Singing Detective, an escapist adventure about a detective ( also named " Philip Marlow ") who sings at a dance hall and takes the jobs " the guys who don't sing " won't take.

Originally, the title of the series was " Smoke Rings ", and the Singing Detective noir thriller was to be dropped after the first episode ; Potter felt it would not hold the audience's attention.

Although The Singing Detective did not meet with spectacular viewing figures, it proved influential within the television industry.

Steven Bochco has credited the serial as the chief inspiration for Cop Rock ( 1990 ), although unlike The Singing Detective, Bochco's drama features specially recorded musical numbers rather than pre-existing work.

1986 release: " The Singing Detective " *( BBC Records CD 608 )

His 1757 Anleitung zur Singekunst ( Introduction to the Art of Singing ) is a translation of Pier Francesco Tosi's 1723 treatise Opinioni de ' cantori antichi e moderni with Agricola's own extensive comments.

Singing karaoke alone is called hitokara ( ヒトカラ, ヒト hito, " one person " or " alone " and カラ kara, " karaoke ") in Japan.

He became interested in an Arapaho woman whose name, Waa-Nibe, is approximated in English as " Grass Singing " Her tribe was camped nearby the rendezvous.

Singing Grass is said to have been popular at the rendezvous and also to have caught the attention of a French-Canadian trapper, Joseph Chouinard.

Singing is traditional at Sabbath meals.

Tours is home to François Rabelais University, the site of one of the most important choral competitions, called Florilège Vocal de Tours International Choir Competition, and is a member city of the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing.

Singing and crosstalk are minimized because the high-level output of a repeater is at a different frequency than the low-level input to other repeaters.

When a musician hears Bix's solo on ' Singing the Blues ', he becomes aware after two bars that the soloist knows exactly what he is doing and that he has an exquisite sense of discord and resolution.

Singing without accompaniment is called a cappella singing ( although the American Choral Directors Association discourages this usage in favor of " unaccompanied ," since a cappella denotes singing " as in the chapel " and much unaccompanied music today is secular ).

Also in June is the popular Broadway review presented by UK Opera Theatre, " It's A Grand Night for Singing!

There, he discovers a group of Force-sensitive witches called the Witches of Dathomir, banded into two separate groups: a collective of benign, matriarchal clans ; the one he is in contact with being the Singing Mountain Clan, and the witches who have turned to the dark side, called the Nightsisters.

Knowles is also a qualified lawyer, a mother of one, and runs a Singing School ( see her website: www. karenknowles. com. au ).

Singing at dawn, during the hour before sunrise, is assumed to be important in defending the bird's territory.

Melpomene (; ; " to sing " or " the one that is melodious "), initially the Muse of Singing, she then became the Muse of Tragedy, for which she is best known now.

* Rosamund is mentioned as past mistress of Henry II in the novel The Time of Singing by Elizabeth Chadwick ( 2008 )

William Shakespeare's 1600 play Much Ado About Nothing contains an early modern reference to the legendary king, and Alfred Noyes ' poem Forty Singing Seamen is based on the Prester John legend ; and in 1910 British novelist and politician John Buchan used the legend in his sixth book, Prester John, to supplement a plot about a Zulu uprising in South Africa.

Later in the series it was mentioned that the Singing Sword is a sister to King Arthur's Excalibur.

* 1902 The Southwest Texas Sacred Harp Singing Convention is established in McMahan.

On the fourth Sunday of each May, The Big Singing, an all-day sing-along program of Southern Harmony shape note gospel music is held at the county courthouse.

While other major singings still survive, The Big Singing, begun in 1884, is the only singing in the world to use the William Walker Southern Harmony system of shape-note singing.

The Big Singing is also distinguished as the oldest continuously operating indigenous music festival in the United States.

* Camp Singing Hills is near Waterville, MN