Eddie kicks it off with his bass voice and then Gene comes in so high.”Git It” is an extraordinary record, but it is hard to imagine the hard-living, hard-drinking Vincent in Disneyland Vincent was married, not that it bothered him. “Gene loved to drive fast,” said Peek,He had a black Cadillac then. He’d fallen in love with a girl in Canada called Monique and he wanted to see her He was driving and I went to sleep. When I woke up, we had hit snow and the Cadillac was going round and round. He said, “I got it under control, don’t worry.”He bought some chains for the wheels at the next service station and we made it to the northern part of Pennsylvania I finally convinced him to turn around and go back He was heading for Toronto on an impulse to see this girl. That’s the way he was.Following disagreements over fees, Gene Vincent fell out with the Blue Caps.

He was reported to the Musicians Union and found he could not work in the United States. Vincent came to the UK in 1959 and rebuilt his career here, although he was badly injured in the car crash which killed Eddie Cochran in April 1960. In 1971 he died from the effects of alcoholism.Peek made several solo records, making the US charts with an answer version to Ernie K-Doe’s “Mother-in-Law”, “Brother-In-Law”, and “Pin the Tail on the Donkey”. When he and his wife split up temporarily, he wrote “Out Went the Lights of my World”. He worked as a club musician for many years, but his career fell apart with alcoholism and the loss of his right eye in a car accident.In the 1980s, the Blue Caps reformed as a tribute band. Peek enjoyed working with his friends again and they won a considerable following in the UK and Europe. In 1999, the fans rallied round when Peek could not afford treatment for cirrhosis of the liver.

He recovered sufficiently to perform with Narvel Felts only last Saturday and he was to appear with the Blue Caps at a rockabilly extravaganza at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in May.By Spencer Leigh. Kawamura Fujio (Nakamura Utaemon VI), kabuki actor: born Tokyo 20 January 1917; married (two adopted sons); died Tokyo 31 March 2001. Kawamura Fujio (Nakamura Utaemon VI), kabuki actor: born Tokyo 20 January 1917; married (two adopted sons); died Tokyo 31 March 2001.
The music hall and pantomime associations of the term “female impersonator” are much too crude to describe the exquisite subtleties of the onnagata’s performance.The art of the traditional Japanese kabuki stage dates back to the school of classic dance created by Nakamura Danjiro (1673-1729) and from the company founded by Nakamura Utaemon I (1714-1790). Nakamura Utaemon VI became one of the most brilliant exponents of the art of the onnagata.