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Anne Nightingale, Andy Forray, James Aubrey, Chris Jagger

My friend singer/actor Andy Forray passed away May 10th 2019. We were friends in London back in the seventies. Andy was well known for being in the cast of the show “Hair” in London and films like “Up Pompeii” -

I played bass and some rhythm guitar overdubs on his 1979 single “Remy Road”  (songwriters Smith-Smallman) which is a really fine rock recording, mixed by Miki Dallon for Barn/Acrobat records. 

Marsha Hunt in HAIR, 1968

Photo 1: American Director Tom O’Horgan with singer and actress Marsha Hunt in the musical HAIR, Shaftesbury Theatre London 1968. The opening night was delayed until the abolition of theatre censorship in England under the Theatres Act 1968 so that the show could include nudity. © Barbara Hall/Report IFL Archive/reportdigital.co.uk

Photo 2: The cast of rock musical 'Hair' in London for its West End debut, UK, 11th September 1968; they are Annabel Leventon, Oliver Tobias, Andy Forray, Lucy Fenwick, Marsha Hunt & Kookie Eaton. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

If there’s any director who deserves to be rediscovered and be given a critical reevaluation, it’s … well, I was going to say that it’s Pete Walker but honestly, I’ve only seen a handful of Walker’s films.  And really, my admiration of Walker as a filmmaker is largely due to one film, 1974’s Frightmare.  So, I’ll just say that, based on Frightmare, Walker might deserve a critical reevaluation.

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