Wayne Fontana, whose hit Game Of Love was a chart and bar band staple in the 1960s and beyond, has died at age 74. A statement on behalf of his family said he died on Thursday at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport with his long-term partner at his side.
Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders first broke into the UK top five in 1964 with Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um. They followed up the next year with Game of Love, which hit No. 1 in the US and No. 2 in the UK.
Success prompted Fontana to go solo, with his decision made in the middle of a concert. But he achieved success on his own, scoring Top 20 hits with Pamela Pamela and Come On Home.
Born Glyn Ellis in Manchester, UK, he created a stage name as an homage to Elvis Presley’s drummer, DJ Fontana. The Mindbenders, Freddie and the Dreamers and Herman’s Hermits were all from Manchester,...
Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders first broke into the UK top five in 1964 with Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um. They followed up the next year with Game of Love, which hit No. 1 in the US and No. 2 in the UK.
Success prompted Fontana to go solo, with his decision made in the middle of a concert. But he achieved success on his own, scoring Top 20 hits with Pamela Pamela and Come On Home.
Born Glyn Ellis in Manchester, UK, he created a stage name as an homage to Elvis Presley’s drummer, DJ Fontana. The Mindbenders, Freddie and the Dreamers and Herman’s Hermits were all from Manchester,...
- 8/8/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Pittsburgh Film Office President Dawn Keezer and Senator Wayne Fontana have both responded to the recent claim on the the city's landmark buildings will be destroyed on camera for director Chris Nolan's latest Batman film. Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anne Hathaway make up the main cast of the highly anticipated sequel The Dark Knight Rises. Subsidiary roles are slowly being filled, with the most recent additions being Josh Pence, Daniel Sunjata, Diego Klattenhoff and Burn Gorman. The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. Christopher Nolan will direct the film from a screenplay he wrote with Jonathan Nolan, from a story by himself and David S. Goyer. It was...
- 4/17/2011
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
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- 4/16/2011
- ComicBookMovie.com
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