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04/07/2024

Happy Independence Day, U.S.A. 🇺🇸 🤘❤️🤍💙🗽

04/07/2024

22/06/2024

The official music video for David Bowie - Life On Mars?Taken from Bowie's 4th studio album 'Hunky Dory' released in 1971, which featured the singles 'Change...

22/06/2024

Happy 71st Birthday Cyndi Lauper

22/06/2024

UCR counts down rock's very best summer songs.

22/06/2024

Asia's Geoff Downes discussed the possibility of completing songs he worked on with the late John Wetton in a July 2024 interview.

22/06/2024

The 2024 Outlaw Tour launched on June 21, featuring Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and Celisse, but without Willie Nelson.

22/06/2024

A look at some rock-related things throughout history that happened on June 22.

22/06/2024

The classic Aerosmith lineup launched the Back in the Saddle comeback tour on June 22, 1984.

22/06/2024

In 2010, Metal Hammer joined Iron Maiden on the road in Texas to ask the question: would The Final Frontier really be their last album?

22/06/2024

Cold Chisel are huge stars in their native Australia, but the rest of the world barely knows who they are

22/06/2024

From Noah Yorke to Tye Trujillo to Olivia Vedder, here's the kids joining the family business...

22/06/2024

In the late 60s, Chess Records persuaded legendary bluesmen Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf to hop on the psychedelic bandwagon – with mixed results

22/06/2024

From Deep Purple to Whitesnake, via his solo career, a union with Jimmy Page and a near miss with Black Sabbath, this is the life and times of David Coverdale

22/06/2024

Some teen idols from the 1970s ☆

22/06/2024

February 1970 issue of "Circus" magazine with a prophetic headline.

22/06/2024

Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks at an event that presented Fleetwood Mac with a gold record for the LP "Fleetwood Mac" 🎵

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22/06/2024

Happy 75th Birthday to Lindsay Wagner

16/01/2024

50 years ago today, January 15, 1974...HAPPY DAYS premiered on ABC.

09/01/2024

19 years ago today, January 9, 2005, TV Guide - Kiefer Sutherland of 24

09/01/2024

18 years ago today, January 9, 2006, TV Guide - Mark Harmon of NCIS

09/01/2024

09/01/2024

Rhino Hi-Fi ushers in the new year by introducing the latest additions to the acclaimed series of limited edition, high-end vinyl reissues.

09/01/2024

Fun times.

09/01/2024

Robert Osbourne "Bob" Denver (January 9, 1935 – September 2, 2005) was born on this date 89 years ago. He portrayed Gilligan on the television series Gilligan's Island and the beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the 1959–1963 TV series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
While teaching at Corpus Christi in 1958, Denver shot the pilot for the TV series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and left teaching for his first professional acting job as a regular on the series when it was picked up in 1959. From 1959 to 1963, Denver appeared on Dobie Gillis as Maynard G. Krebs, the teenaged beatnik best friend of Dobie Gillis, played by Dwayne Hickman. While he was on Dobie Gillis, Denver also appeared on the NBC interview program, Here's Hollywood.
Denver's first feature film appearance was in the service farce, A Private's Affair, with Sal Mineo in 1959. He landed a small role in the 1963 Jimmy Stewart film, Take Her, She's Mine, playing a beatnik poet working at a coffee shop. He was credited as Robert Denver. Denver also appeared in the 1964 beach film For Those Who Think Young with Tina Louise prior to the development of Gilligan's Island. He also had a one-time role replacing the actor who played Dudley A. "Dud" Wash, the husband of Charlene Darling of The Darlings, on The Andy Griffith Show which was aired March 30, 1964 (he only appeared in one episode). This was done by the network to promote Denver's face and make him more familiar to the viewing audience, since Gilligan's Island was about to go on air.
Denver is remembered primarily as a comic actor. However, he also appeared in one dramatic role on television, as a physician (Dr. Paul Garrett) in one episode of Dr. Kildare, telecast on October 10, 1963; the episode, "If You Can't Believe the Truth ...", also featured Barbara Eden and Ken Berry. Denver also played a bit part in one episode of The Silent Service in 1957 (S01 E37: "The Loss of the Tang").
After Dobie Gillis ended in 1963, Denver landed the title role on the sitcom Gilligan's Island, which ran for three seasons (1964–67) on CBS, and became a staple of later syndication. His role as the well-meaning, but bumbling, first mate among a small cast of shipwrecked castaways became the one for which he is most remembered. During the run, Denver privately went out of his way to help his costars who warmly appreciated his efforts, such as successfully demanding that Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells be included in the series' opening credits and insisting that Wells get an equal share of the show's publicity with Tina Louise.
After the conclusion of Gilligan's Island, Denver appeared in the 1967 comedy film Who's Minding the Mint?. He also performed in other TV shows, such as The Good Guys (1968–1970), Love, American Style and Dusty's Trail (1973) (a facsimile of Gilligan's Island, with the basis of a lost wagon train headed to California). He also starred as "Junior" in the Sid & Marty Kroft children's program Far Out Space Nuts (1975). In 1976, The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West was a feature movie created from four episodes of Dusty's Trail. A decade after CBS left the castaways in limbo, he returned to the role of Gilligan – along with many of his former co-star castaways – lending his voice to the animated The New Adventures of Gilligan series, its sequel Gilligan's Planet, and the live-action made-for-TV reunion movies Rescue from Gilligan's Island, The Castaways on Gilligan's Island and The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island. He also played four separate guest roles on Fantasy Island, on ABC from 1978 to 1980. In 1983, he starred in the television pilot, The Invisible Woman, as the bumbling mad scientist uncle of the title character, a journalist, and in the TV movie High School U.S.A..
Later in his life, Denver returned to his adopted home of Princeton, West Virginia, and became an FM radio personality. He and his wife, Dreama, ran a small "oldies format" radio station, WGAG-LP 93.1 FM. He also earned a small income making public appearances, often costumed as Gilligan. During the 1980s, he re-created the character of Gilligan for numerous cameo appearances, including episodes of ALF, Meego, and Baywatch, as well as a bartender in the 1987 film Back to the Beach. In 1992, he again played Gilligan to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation for a West Virginia fundraiser for the organization.
Denver was arrested for having a box of ma*****na delivered to his home in 1998. He originally said that the box had come from Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island, but he later refused to name her in court and testified that "some crazy fan must have sent it." The police reportedly found more of the plant and related paraphernalia in Denver's home. He pleaded no contest and received six months probation.
Denver died Friday, September 2, 2005, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, of complications from treatment he was receiving for cancer.