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 were unimpaired after the experience of filming. <mask> followed this with the role of the perverted Austrian psychoanalyst Doctor Fritz Fassbender in Clive Donner's What's New Pussycat?, appearing alongside <mask>'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss and Ursula Andress. The film was the first screenwriting and acting credit for Woody Allen, and featured <mask> in a love triangle. Because of <mask>'s poor health, producer Charles K. Feldman insured him at a cost of $360,000 ($ in  dollars). On 20 January 1965, <mask> and Ekland announced the birth of a daughter, Victoria. They moved to Rome in May to film After the Fox, an Anglo-Italian production in which they were both to appear.The film was directed by Vittorio De Sica, whose English <mask> struggled to understand. <mask> attempted to have De Sica fired, causing tensions on the set. <mask> also became unhappy with his wife's performance, straining their relationship and triggering open arguments during one of which <mask> threw a chair at Ekland. Despite these conflicts, the script was praised for its wit. Following the commercial success of What's New Pussycat?, Charles Feldman again brought together <mask> and Woody Allen for his next project, Casino Royale, which also starred Orson Welles; <mask> signed a $1 million contract for the film ($ in  dollars). Seven screenwriters worked on the project, and filming was chaotic. To make matters worse, according to Ekland, <mask> was "so insecure, he won't trust anyone".A poor working relationship quickly developed between <mask> and Welles: <mask> eventually demanded that the two should not share the same set. <mask> left the film before his part was complete. A further agent's part was then written for Terence Cooper, to cover <mask>'s departure. Shortly after leaving Casino Royale, <mask> was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in honour of his career achievements. The day before the investiture at Buckingham Palace, <mask> and Ekland argued, with Ekland scratching his face in the process; <mask> had a make-up artist cover the marks. During his next film, The Bobo, which again co-starred Ekland, the couple's marital problems worsened. Three weeks into production in Italy, <mask> told director Robert Parrish to fire his wife, saying "I'm not coming back after lunch if that bitch is on the set".Ekland later stated that the marriage was "an atrocious sham" at this stage. In the midst of filming The Bobo, <mask>'s mother had a heart attack; Parrish asked <mask> if he wanted to visit her in hospital, but <mask> remained on set. She died within days, without <mask> having seen her. He was deeply affected by her death and remorseful at not having returned to London to see her. Ekland served him with divorce papers shortly afterwards. The divorce was finalised on 18 December 1968, and <mask>'s friend Spike Milligan sent Ekland a congratulatory telegram. Upon its release in September 1967, The Bobo was poorly received.<mask>'s first film appearance of 1968 was a reunion with Blake Edwards for the fish-out-of-water comedy The Party, in which he starred alongside Claudine Longet and Denny Miller. He appears as Hrundi V. Bakshi, a bungling Indian actor who accidentally receives an invitation to a lavish Hollywood dinner party. His character, according to <mask>'s biographer <mask>, was "clearly an amalgam of Clouseau and the doctor in The Millionairess". Roger Lewis notes that like a number of <mask>'s characters, he is played in a sympathetic and dignified manner. He followed it later that year with Hy Averback's I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, playing an attorney who abandons his lifestyle to become a hippie. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars, remarking that <mask> was "back doing what he does best", although he also said that in <mask>'s previous films he had "been at his worst recently". In 1969 <mask> starred opposite Ringo Starr in the Joseph McGrath-directed film The Magic Christian.<mask> portrayed Sir Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire who plays elaborate practical jokes on people. The critic Irv Slifkin remarked that the film was a reflection of the cynicism of <mask>, describing the film as a "proto-Pythonesque adaption of Terry Southern's semi-free-form short novel", and "one of the strangest films to be shown at a gala premiere for Britain's royal family". The film, a satire on human nature, was in general viewed negatively by critics. Roger Greenspun of The New York Times believed that the film was of variable quality and summarised it as a "brutal satire". "Period of indifference": two marriages, three Pink Panther films (1970–1978)

After a cameo appearance in A Day at the Beach (1970), and a serious role later in 1970 as an aging businessman who seduces Sinéad Cusack in Hoffman, <mask> starred in Roy Boulting's There's a Girl in My Soup opposite Goldie Hawn. According to The Times, the film was a major commercial success and became the seventh most popular film at the British box office in 1970. Andrew Spicer, writing for the British Film Institute's Screenonline, considers that although <mask> favoured playing romantic roles, he "was always more successful in parts that sent up his own vanities and pretensions, as with the TV presenter and narcissistic lothario" he played in There's a Girl in My Soup.The film was seen as a small revival of his career. <mask>'s next films, including Rodney Amateau's Where Does It Hurt? (1972) and <mask>'s Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1974), were again poorly received, and his acting was viewed as frenetic rather than funny. Despite these setbacks, <mask> won the Best Actor award at the 1973 Tehran Film Festival for his tragi-comedic role as a street performer in Anthony Simmons's The Optimists of Nine Elms. Fellow comedian and friend Spike Milligan believed that the early 1970s were for <mask> "a period of indifference, and it would appear at one time that his career might have come to a conclusion". This was echoed by <mask>'s biographer, <mask>, who notes that out of nine films in the period, three were never released and five had flopped, while only There's a Girl in My Soup had been a success. In his private life, he had been seeing the twenty-three-year-old model Miranda Quarry.The couple married on 24 August 1970, despite <mask>'s private doubts—expressed to his agent, Dennis Selinger—about his decision to remarry. On 20 April 1972, <mask> reunited with Milligan and Harry Secombe to record The Last Goon Show of All, which was broadcast on 5 October. In May 1973, with his third marriage failing, <mask> went to the theatre to watch Liza Minnelli perform. He became entranced with Minnelli and the couple became engaged three days later, despite Minnelli's current betrothal to Desi Arnaz, Jr., and <mask> still being married. Their relationship lasted a month before breaking up. By 1974, <mask>'s friends were concerned that he was having a nervous breakdown. Directors John and Roy Boulting considered that <mask> was "a deeply troubled man, distrustful, self-absorbed, ultimately self-destructive.He was the complete contradiction." <mask> was shy and insecure when out of character. When he was invited to appear on Michael Parkinson's eponymous chat show in 1974, he withdrew the day before, explaining to Parkinson that "I just can't walk on as myself". When he was told he could come on as someone else, he appeared dressed as a member of the Gestapo. After a few lines in keeping with his assumed character, he stepped out of the role and settled down and, according to Parkinson himself, "was brilliant, giving the audience an astonishing display of his virtuosity". In 1974, <mask> again claimed to have communicated with the long-dead music hall comic Dan Leno, who advised him to return to the role of Clouseau. In 1974, <mask> portrayed a "sexually voracious" Queen Victoria in Joseph McGrath's comedic biographical film of the Scottish poet William McGonagall, The Great McGonagall, starring opposite Milligan and Julia Foster.However, the film was a critical failure, and <mask>'s career and life reached an all-time low. As a result, by 1974 he agreed to accept salaries of £100,000 and 10 per cent of the gross to appear in TV productions and advertisements, well below the £1 million he had once commanded per film. In 1973, he appeared in a Benson & Hedges cinema commercial; in 1975, he appeared in a series of advertisements for Trans World Airlines, in which he played several eccentric characters, including Thrifty McTravel, Jeremy "Piggy" Peak Thyme and an Italian singer, Vito. Biographer Michael Starr asserts that <mask> showed enthusiasm towards these roles,  although the airline campaign failed commercially. A turning point in <mask>'s flailing career came in 1974, when he teamed up with Blake Edwards to make The Return of the Pink Panther, starring alongside Christopher Plummer, Herbert Lom and Catherine Schell. The film was shot on a budget of £3 million and earned $33 million at the box office upon release in May 1975, reinvigorating <mask>'s career as an A-list film star and restoring his millionaire status. The film earned <mask> a nomination for the Best Actor – Musical or Comedy award at the 33rd Golden Globe Awards.In 1976, he followed it with The Pink Panther Strikes Again. During the filming from February to June 1976, the already fraught relationship between <mask> and Blake Edwards had seriously deteriorated. Edwards says of the actor's mental state at the time of The Pink Panther Strikes Again, "If you went to an asylum and you described the first inmate you saw, that's what <mask> had become. He was certifiable." With declining physical health, <mask> could at times be unbearable on set. His behaviour was regarded as unprofessional and childish, and he frequently threw tantrums, often threatening to abandon projects. His difficult behaviour during productions was widely reported and made it more difficult for <mask> to get employment in the industry at a time when he most needed the work.Despite <mask>'s deep personal problems, The Pink Panther Strikes Again was well received critically. Vincent Canby of The New York Times said of <mask> in the film, "There is, too, something most winningly seedy about Mr. <mask>' Clouseau, a fellow who, when he attempts to tear off his clothes in the heat of passion, gets tangled up in his necktie, and who, when he masquerades—for reasons never gone into—as Quasimodo, overinflates his hump with helium." <mask>'s performance earned him a further nomination at the 34th Golden Globe Awards. In March 1976 <mask> began dating actress Lynne Frederick, whom he married on 18 February 1977. Biographer Roger Lewis documents that of all of <mask>'s wives, Frederick was the most poorly treated; Julian Upton likened it to a boxing match between a heavyweight and a featherweight, a relationship that "oscillated from ardour to hatred, reconciliation and remorse." On 20 March 1977, <mask> suffered a second major heart attack during a flight from Paris to London; he was subsequently fitted with a pacemaker.<mask> returned from his illness to undertake Revenge of the Pink Panther; although it was a commercial success, the critics were tiring of Inspector Clouseau. Julian Upton expressed the view that the strain behind the scenes began to manifest itself in the sluggish pace of the film, describing it as a "laboured, stunt-heavy hotchpotch of half-baked ideas and rehashed gags". <mask> too had become tired of the role, saying after production, "I've honestly had enough of Clouseau—I've got nothing more to give". Steven Bach, the senior vice-president and head of worldwide productions for United Artists, who worked with <mask> on Revenge of the Pink Panther, considered that <mask> was "deeply unbalanced, if not committable: that was the source of his genius and his truly quite terrifying aspects as manipulator and hysteric." He refused to seek professional help for his mental issues. <mask> would claim that he had no personality and was almost unnoticeable, which meant that he "needed a strongly defined character to play." He would make similar references throughout his life: when he appeared on The Muppet Show in 1978, a guest appearance that earned him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Variety or Music, he chose not to appear as himself, instead appearing in a variety of costumes and accents.When Kermit the Frog told <mask> he could relax and be himself, <mask> replied:

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In 1979, <mask> starred alongside Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries and Elke Sommer in Richard Quine's The Prisoner of Zenda. He portrayed three roles, including King Rudolf IV and King Rudolf V—rulers of the fictional small nation of Ruritania—and Syd Frewin, Rudolf V's half-brother. Upon its release in May 1979, the film was well received; Janet Maslin of The New York Times observed how <mask> divided "his energies between a serious character and a funny one, but that it was his serious performance which was more impressive". However, Philip French, for The Observer, was unimpressed by the film, describing it as "a mess of porridge" and stating that "<mask> reveals that he cannot draw the line between the sincere and the sentimental". Later in 1979, <mask> starred opposite Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas and Jack Warden in the black comedy Being There as Chance, a simple-minded gardener addicted to watching TV who is regarded as a sage by the rich and powerful. In a BBC interview in 1971, <mask> had said that more than anything else, he wanted to play the role, and successfully persuaded the author of the book, Jerzy Kosinski, to allow him and director Hal Ashby to make the film, provided Kosinski could write the script. During filming, to remain in character, <mask> refused most interview requests and kept his distance from the other actors.<mask> considered Chance's walking and voice the character's most important attributes, and in preparing for the role worked alone with a tape recorder or with his wife, and then with Ashby, to perfect the clear enunciation and flat delivery needed to reveal "the childlike mind behind the words". <mask> described his experience of working on the film as "so humbling, so powerful", and co-star Shirley MacLaine found <mask> "a dream" to work with. <mask>'s performance was universally lauded by critics and is considered by critic Danny Smith to be the "crowning triumph of <mask>'s remarkable career". Critic Frank Rich wrote that the acting skill required for this sort of role, with a "schismatic personality that <mask> had to convey with strenuous vocal and gestural technique ... A lesser actor would have made the character's mental dysfunction flamboyant and drastic ... [His] intelligence was always deeper, his onscreen confidence greater, his technique much more finely honed": in achieving this, <mask> "makes the film's fantastic premise credible". The film earned <mask> a Best Actor award at the 51st National Board of Review Awards; the London Critics

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On 21 July 1980 <mask> arrived in London from Geneva. He checked into the Dorchester hotel, before visiting Golders Green Crematorium for the first time to see the location of his parents' ashes. He had plans to attend a reunion dinner with his Goon Show partners Milligan and Secombe, scheduled for the evening of 22 July. On the day of the dinner, <mask> took lunch in his hotel suite and shortly afterwards collapsed from a heart attack. He was taken to the Middlesex Hospital, London, and died just after midnight on 24 July 1980, aged 54.Following <mask>'s death, fellow actor Richard Attenborough said that <mask> "had the genius comparable to Chaplin", while the Boulting brothers considered <mask> as "a man of enormous gifts; and these gifts he gave to the world. For them, he is assured of a place in the history of art as entertainment." Burt Kwouk, who appeared as Cato in the Pink Panther films, stated that "<mask> was a well-loved actor in Britain ... the day he died, it seemed that the whole country came to a stop. Everywhere you went, the fact that <mask> had died seemed like an umbrella over everything". Director Blake Edwards thought that "<mask> was brilliant. He had an enormous facility for finding really unusual, unique facets of the character he was playing". <mask>'s friend and Goon Show colleague Spike Milligan was too upset to speak to the press at the time of <mask>'s death, while fellow Goon Harry Secombe said "I'm shattered.<mask> was such a tremendous artist. He had so much talent, it just oozed out of him"; in dark humour, referring to the missed dinner the Goons had planned, he added, "Anything to avoid paying for dinner". Secombe later declared to journalists "Bluebottle is deaded now". Milligan later said that "it's hard to say this, but he died at the right time." A private funeral service was held at Golders Green Crematorium on 26 July, conducted by <mask>'s old friend, Canon John Hester. <mask>'s final joke was the playing of "In the Mood" by Glenn Miller, a tune which all the Goons hated; he knew they would have to sit there in silence and listen to it. A memorial service was held at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 8 September 1980—what would have been <mask>'s 55th birthday.Close friend Lord Snowdon read the twenty-third Psalm, Harry Secombe sang "Bread of Heaven" and the eulogy was read by David Niven. Although <mask> was reportedly in the process of excluding Frederick from his will a week before he died, she inherited almost his entire estate worth an estimated £4.5 million (£ million in  pounds) while his children received £800 each (£ in  pounds). Spike Milligan appealed to her on behalf of <mask>'s three children, but she refused to increase the amount. <mask>'s only son, Michael, died of a heart attack at 52 during surgery on 24 July 2006, twenty-six years to the day after his father's death. After his death, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer tried to continue with Romance of the Pink Panther and offered the role of Clouseau to Dudley Moore, who turned it down. The studio subsequently returned to Blake Edwards, who was adamant not to recast the character, feeling certain that no one could adequately replace <mask>. In 1982 Edwards released Trail of the Pink Panther, which was composed entirely of deleted scenes from his past three Panther films.Frederick sued, claiming the use of the clips was a breach of contract; the court awarded her $1million ($ million today), plus 3.15 per cent of the film's profits and 1.36 per cent of its gross revenue. Technique

Vincent Canby of The New York Times said of the Pink Panther films "I'm not sure why Mr. <mask> and Mr. Lom are such a hilarious team, though it may be because each is a fine comic actor with a special talent for portraying the sort of all-consuming, epic self-absorption that makes slapstick farce initially acceptable—instead of alarming—and finally so funny." The film critic Elvis Mitchell said that <mask> was one of the few comic geniuses who was able to truly hide behind his characters, giving the audience no sense of what he was really like in real life. A feature of the characterisations undertaken by <mask> is that, regardless of how clumsy or idiotic they are, he ensured that they always retain their dignity. On his playing of Clouseau, <mask> said: "I set out to play Clouseau with great dignity because I feel that he thinks he is probably one of the greatest detectives in the world. The original script makes him out to be a complete idiot.I thought a forgivable vanity would humanise him and make him kind of touching." <mask>'s biographer, Ed Sikov, notes that because of this retained dignity, <mask> is "the master of playing men who have no idea how ridiculous they are." Social historian Sam Wasson notes the complexity in <mask>'s performances in the Pink Panther films, which has the effect of alienating Clouseau from his environment. Wesson considers that "As 'low' and 'high' comedy rolled into one, it's the performative counterpoint to Edwardian sophisticated naturalism". This combination of "high" and "low", exemplified by Clouseau's attempting to retain dignity after a fall, means that within the film Clouseau was "the sole representative of humanity". Film critic Dilys Powell also saw the inherent dignity in the parts and wrote that <mask> had a "balance between character and absurdity". Richard Attenborough also thought that because of his sympathy, <mask> could "inject into his characterisations the frailty and substance of a human being".Author Aaron Sultanik observed that in <mask>'s early films, such as I'm All Right Jack, he displays "deft, technical interpretations [that] pinpoint the mechanical nature of his comic characterization", which "reduces each of his characters to a series of gross, awkward tics". Academic Cynthia Baron observed that <mask>'s external characterisations led to doubt with reviewers as to whether <mask>'s work was "true" acting. Critic Tom Milne saw a change over <mask>'s career and thought that his "comic genius as a character actor was ... stifled by his elevation to leading man" and his later films suffered as a result. Sultanik agreed, commenting that <mask>'s "exceptional vocal and physical technique" was under-used during his career in the US. Academics Maria Pramaggiore and Tom Wallis remarked that <mask> fits the mould of a technical actor because he displays a mastery of physical characterisation, such as accent or physical trait. Writer and playwright John Mortimer saw the process for himself when <mask> was about to undertake filming on Mortimer's The Dock Brief and could not decide how to play the character of the barrister. By chance he ordered cockles for lunch and the smell brought back a memory of the seaside town of Morecambe: this gave him "the idea of a faded North Country accent and the suggestion of a scrappy moustache".So important was the voice as the starting point for character development, that <mask> would walk around London with a reel-to-reel tape recorder, recording voices to study at home. Legacy

New York magazine stated that all of the films starring <mask> as Clouseau showcased his "comedic brilliance". <mask>'s friend and Goon Show colleague Spike Milligan said that <mask> "had one of the most glittering comic talents of his age", while English filmmakers John and Roy Boulting noted that he was "the greatest comic genius this country has produced since Charles Chaplin". Irv Slifkin said that the most prominent albeit ever-changing face in comedies of the 1960s was <mask> who "changed like a chameleon throughout the era, dazzling audiences". In a 2005 poll to find "The Comedian's Comedian", <mask> was voted 14 in the list of the top 20 greatest comedians by fellow comics and comedy insiders. <mask> and The Goon Show were a strong influence on the Monty Python performers, with John Cleese calling him "the greatest voice man of all time", adding, "If he could listen to you for five minutes, he could do a perfect impersonation of you." The Goons were imported to the United States by the NBC program Monitor, which played recorded Goon show episodes starting in 1955.The American comedy troupe the Firesign Theatre also cited the Goons as a big influence on their radio comedy style. <mask> and the Goons were also an influence on <mask>, who described <mask> as "the best comic actor in the world". British actor Stephen Mangan stated that <mask> was a large influence, as did the comedians Mike Myers, Alan Carr and Rob Brydon. <mask>'s characters Hrundi Bakshi (The Party) and Inspector Clouseau (The Pink Panther) later influenced comedian Rowan Atkinson's characters Mr. Bean and Johnny English. The comic performer Sacha Baron Cohen referred to <mask> as "the most seminal force in shaping [his] early ideas on comedy". Cohen was considered for the role of <mask> in the biographical film The Life and Death of <mask>. Will Ferrell considers <mask> to be an important influence on him, citing his "unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time."The three members of Spinal Tap—Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer—have also cited <mask> as being an influence on them, as has the US talk-show host Conan O'Brien. David Schwimmer is another whose approach was influenced by <mask>: "he could do anything, from Dr Strangelove to Inspector Clouseau. He was just amazing." As a child, Eddie Murphy developed his dual acting skills in imitation of <mask>, whom he called his acting hero, with Chris Rock hailing Murphy's performances (such as the multiple roles in The Nutty Professor) as "<mask>llers-esque." During an interview in 2002, Robin Williams told Michael Parkinson that <mask> was an important influence, especially his multi-character roles in Dr. Strangelove, stating, "It doesn't get better than that." Williams was considered to play <mask> in the HBO biopic but turned it down over scheduling conflicts, though Williams considered it an honour to be able to portray him. Eddie Izzard notes that the Goons "influenced a new generation of comedians who came to be known as 'alternative'"—including herself, while the media historian Graham McCann states "the anarchic spirit of the Goon Show ... would inspire, directly or indirectly and to varying extents, ...The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Young Ones, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, The League of Gentlemen [and] Brass Eye." The stage play Being Sellers premiered in Australia in 1998, three years after the release of the biography by Roger Lewis, The Life and Death of <mask>. In 2004, the book was turned into an HBO film with the same title, starring Geoffrey Rush. The play later transferred to New York in December 2010. The Belfast Telegraph notes how the film captured <mask>'s "life of drugs, drink, fast cars and lots and lots of beautiful women". Filmography and other works

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<mask> (born 24 April 1989) is a British former professional tennis player from Sidcup, Kent. She retired in April 2011 to take up a coaching role with the Lawn Tennis Association. At the time of her retirement, she was the British No. 6, with a ranking of world No. 231. Her career-high ranking was 174, achieved in May 2010. She won three ITF singles titles and two ITF doubles titles.Her coach at retirement was Rob Smith. She was formerly coached by David Felgate, the long-time coach of Tim Henman. In 2014, Cavaday returned to professional tennis, regained a world ranking, and won three additional ITF titles. She finally retired in 2015 and has since worked as a coach and as a commentator for BBC Radio Five Live's Wimbledon coverage and on Amazon Prime. Personal life
<mask> was born in Kent. Her mother is a sport psychologist and her brother has played tennis at county level and in America for North Carolina State University. Up to the age of 13 years Cavaday studied at Bromley High School before getting a tennis scholarship to Queenswood School in Hertfordshire.She has also studied at the highly prestigious Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida. Cavaday took a course in journalism and creative writing and expressed an interest in becoming a sports journalist when her tennis career was over. She appeared as a guest on the Al Jazeera English programme The Stream in July 2015, as part of a discussion on issues of female body image and its impact on sportswomen regarding their physiques. Cavaday became an ambassador for Beat, the eating disorder charity, in 2011 and as of 2016 is a mental health ambassador for the LTA. In July 2019, Cavaday was married and in November 2020, Cavaday and her husband produced a baby boy. Career

Junior (2004–2007)
Cavaday competed on the ITF Junior Circuit from May 2004 to July 2007. She was a quarterfinalist at a total of nine tournaments, one of which was the 2006 Wimbledon girls' championships where she lost to Urszula Radwańska, 3–6, 2–6.She reached the semifinals of the ITF Junior Cup Copenhagen, Danish ITF Junior Tournament and the Optus Nottinghill International and was a finalist in the Malta ITF Junior Tournament, Safina Cup, French Riviera International Junior Open and the Tournoi International Juniors de Beaulieu sur Mer. She won one junior singles title at the Istres International Junior Tournament in April 2006 where she also won her only junior doubles title in the same year. Her best result at the Australian Open junior tournament was a first round defeat at the hands of Alizé Cornet, 1–6, 6–7(5), in 2007. She participated in the French Open and US Open junior Grand Slam events only once, losing in the second round of qualifying for the French and the second round of the main draw of the US Open where she lost Tamira Paszek, 6–4, 4–6, 0–6. Her career-high junior combined ranking was world No. 23 (achieved 19 March 2007) and her win-loss records for her junior career were 55–21 in singles and 28–19 in doubles. 2005–2006
Cavaday made her debut on the ITF Circuit in January 2005 and in only the fourth professional tournament of her career she qualified and beat Isha Lakhani, 6–4, 6–1, in the final to win the event.Nevertheless, she finished 2005 without a world ranking. In January 2006, Cavaday qualified for and reached the semifinal of the Tipton $10k event and at the start of February she competed in her first ever $25k ITF event in Jersey where she was beaten, 4–6, 1–6, by Anne Keothavong in round one. One month later, Cavaday qualified for Sunderland $10k and reached the final where she was defeated by Gaëlle Widmer in three sets, 1–6, 6–3, 1–6. This was immediately followed by a quarterfinal appearance in the $10k in Sheffield and a semifinal appearance in another $10k event, this one in Bath, where she lost to up-and-comer Urszula Radwańska, 6–7(1), 3–6. In her very next tournament she yet again lost in the semifinal before receiving a wildcard into the Tier III DFS Classic qualifying draw in Birmingham, England. She won one tough three set match against Tatiana Poutchek, 7–6(5), 3–6, 7–6(6), before losing another to Hungarian Melinda Czink, 6–3, 5–7, 5–7. This was followed by <mask>'s first ever Grand Slam main-draw appearance, courtesy of a wildcard into home Grand Slam Wimbledon.She played Japanese veteran Ai Sugiyama and lost 4–6, 5–7. During September and October, Cavaday played in one $10k tournament (where she lost in the quarterfinal) and three $25k tournaments where she reached the semifinals, quarterfinals and second round. She rounded off her 2006 season in Australia with three more $25k tournaments in Mount Gambier, Port Pirie and Nurioopta where she reached the quarterfinal of the first tournament and the first round of the other two. Her year-end ranking of 2006 was world No. 401. 2007
During January and February of 2007, Cavaday competed in two $25k events in Great Britain and reached the quarterfinals of one of them. She then headed to the U.S. in March where she won eight consecutive matches to qualify for and win the $25k in Orange, California.In April she reached the quarterfinal stage in another $25k tournament, this one in Jackson, Mississippi. She reached the semifinal of Palm Beach $25k in May before heading back to England and playing in the main draw of the Tier III DFS Classic courtesy of a wildcard where she beat Vasilisa Bardina, 6–2, 6–1, in round one. She was then demolished by Marion Bartoli, 6–3, 6–1, in the second round. She was immediately given a wildcard into the qualifying draw of the International Women's Open, a Tier II tournament held in Eastbourne, England. She was beaten in a tight two set match by Youlia Fedossova, 7–6(2), 7–6(4), in the first round. A third consecutive wildcard allowed Cavaday entry into the main draw of Wimbledon for the second year running where she was drawn to face a resurgent former multiple Grand Slam champion in the form of Martina Hingis on Court 2, the "Graveyard of Champions". The court almost held true to its name when Cavaday had match points in the second set but failed to convert them, eventually losing 7–6(1), 5–7, 0–6.After Wimbledon, Cavaday played one more tournament on grass, the $25,000 Felixstowe (where she reached the quarterfinal), before heading to the U.S. in preparation for the US Open qualifying tournament. She was given a wildcard into the qualifying draw for the Tier II event Pilot Pen Tennis in New Haven where she fell just short of qualifying, losing to Tatiana Poutchek in three sets in the final round. She then headed to the US Open qualifying for the first time in her career where she also lost in the final round of qualifying in three sets, this time to German Sandra Klösel. After this, her ranking was high enough to enter her into qualifying for the Tier III Sunfeast Open on merit. She won two matches to qualify before falling in the first round to Ekaterina Ivanova, 3–6, 6–2, 2–6. This was then followed immediately by Cavaday attempting to qualify for the Tier IV Korea Open but again losing one match short of qualifying for the main draw. At the end of the 2007 season, she played four more $25k events (reaching the quarterfinal of one, the semifinal of another and round two in the other two).She then attempted to qualify for the ASB Classic, a Tier IV event in Auckland, where she lost to Ahsha Rolle in the final round, 2–6, 2–6. Her year-end ranking was world No. 196. 2008
From the start of 2008 until the French Open, Cavaday competed primarily in $50,000 and $75k events. She reached the semifinal of New Delhi $50k (losing to Yanina Wickmayer in straight sets, 1–6, 3–6) and the quarterfinals of Patras $50k and Monzon $75k. In May she competed in the qualifying tournament of the French Open for the first time in her career but lost, 3–6, 5–7, in the first round to Stefanie Vögele. In June she received another wildcard into the Tier III DFS Classic where she dominated Jill Craybas with her tricky serve and impressive forehand in the first round to win 6–0, 6–4 before going on to lose in the second round to Indian Sunitha Rao, 6–4, 3–6, 1–6.Compatriot Elena Baltacha then beat her in the opening round of qualifying for the Tier II International Women's Open in Eastbourne in straight sets, 6–2, 6–4. Another wildcard granted Cavaday access to the main draw of Wimbledon for the third year running where she was drawn to face defending champion and 12-time Grand Slam finalist, Venus Williams. She led Williams in the first set but eventually lost, 6–7(5), 1–6, in a match which led Williams to suggest that Cavaday could go far in the game with coaching from her father Richard Williams. Following Wimbledon, Cavaday hit a patch of bad form, winning only two of her next six matches including losing in round one of qualifying for the US Open to Kristína Kučová, 6–1, 3–6, 1–6. Following this, Cavaday did not play any more matches in 2008 due to a viral infection which saw her unable to train properly for the next three months and struggling to climb flights of stairs. It was the first serious setback Cavaday had been faced with in her young career but she gradually recovered and began light training once again in November in preparation for the 2009 season. She said of the setback, "As an athlete it was very worrying".Her worldwide ranking at the end of 2008 had fallen to No.268. 2009
In her first event since the 2008 US Open qualifying tournament, <mask> entered Wrexham $10k in January as a wildcard and the No. 2 seed. She reached the semifinal before being overcome by fifth seed Claudine Schaul from Luxembourg, 6–2, 6–0. The very next week she reached the quarterfinal of the $25k tournament in Sutton before falling to compatriot Katie O'Brien, 1–6, 1–6. She then entered the $25k event in Stockholm where she was beaten by Tatjana Malek, 2–6, 1–6, in the semifinals. At the 2009 WTA International Aegon Classic in Birmingham she received a wildcard, and overcame Julie Ditty and 12th seed Tamarine Tanasugarn to reach the third round.2014: Return to professional tennis
In 2014, Cavaday returned to professional tennis, receiving a wild card into the $50k grass-court tournament in Nottingham, England. Further tournaments in England and in Egypt followed, and in September 2014, she won the first title of her comeback at a $10k tournament in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, defeating top seed Barbara Haas at the quarterfinal stage, and second seed Ana Veselinović in the final. In consecutive weeks in October – November 2014, she won back-to-back $10k titles in Stockholm, Sweden., beating Tayisiya Morderger in the first week's final and Margarita Lazareva in the second final. 2015
Cavaday was restricted by a wrist injury in the first half of the year and played only three matches. On 7 October 2015, she posted on her website that she would no longer be competing professionally. ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 8 (6–2)

Doubles: 6 (2–4)

Performance timelines

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Fed Cup

References

External links
 Official website
 <mask> at the Women's Tennis Association

1989 births
Living people
British female tennis players
People educated at Queenswood School
People from Sidcup
People educated at Bromley High School
English female tennis players
Tennis people from Greater London

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<mask> (born 22 April 1950) is an English and American rock musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and the Herd. As a solo artist he has released several albums, including his international breakthrough album, the live release Frampton Comes Alive!, which spawned several hit singles and has sold more than eight million copies in the United States to date. He has also worked with Ringo Starr, the Who's John Entwistle, David Bowie and both Matt Cameron and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam, among others. <mask> is best known for such hits as "Show Me the Way," "Baby, I Love Your Way," "Do You Feel Like We Do," and "I'm in You," which remain staples on classic rock radio. He has also appeared as himself in television shows such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Madam Secretary. He is known for his work as a guitar player (including his work with a talk box), and his tenor voice.Early life
<mask> <mask> was born to Owen {grandson of Tony Chesta} and Peggy (née ) <mask> in Beckenham, Kent, UK. He attended Bromley Technical High School, at which his father, <mask>, was a teacher and the head of the Art department. He first became interested in music when he was seven years old. Having discovered his grandmother's banjolele in the attic, he taught himself to play it, going on to later teach himself how to play guitar and piano as well. At the age of eight, he began taking classical music lessons. His early influences were Cliff Richard & the Shadows (featuring guitarist Hank Marvin) and American rockers Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran and later the Ventures, Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles. His father introduced him to the recordings of Belgian gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.Music career

Early bands
By the age of 12, <mask> played in a band called the Little Ravens. Both he and David Bowie, who was three years older, were pupils at Bromley Technical School where <mask>'s father was Bowie's art instructor. The Little Ravens played on the same bill at school as Bowie's band, George and the Dragons. <mask> and David would spend lunch breaks together, playing Buddy Holly songs. At the age of 14, <mask> was playing with a band called the Trubeats followed by a band called the Preachers, who later became Moon's Train, produced and managed by Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones. He became a successful child singer, and in 1966 he became a member of the Herd. He was the lead guitarist and singer, scoring several British pop hits.Frampton was named "The Face of 1968" by teen magazine Rave. In 1969, when <mask> was 18 years old, he joined with Steve Marriott of Small Faces to form Humble Pie. While playing with Humble Pie, Frampton also did session recording with other artists, including: Harry Nilsson, Jerry Lee Lewis,  and John Entwistle's Whistle Rymes, in 1972. Pete Drake introduced him to the "talk box" that was to become one of his trademark guitar effects. Solo career
After four studio albums and one live album with Humble Pie, <mask> left the band and went solo in 1971, just in time to see Rockin' the Fillmore rise up the US charts. He remained with Dee Anthony (1926-2009), the same personal manager that Humble Pie had used. His own debut was 1972's Wind of Change, with guest artists Ringo Starr and Billy Preston.This album was followed by <mask>'s Camel in 1973, which featured <mask> working within a group project. In 1974, <mask> released Somethin's Happening. <mask> toured extensively to support his solo career, joined for three years by his former Herd mate Andy Bown on keyboards, Rick Wills on bass, and American drummer John Siomos. In 1975, the <mask> album was released. The album went to No. 32 in the US charts and is certified Gold by the RIAA. <mask> had little commercial success with his early albums.This changed with <mask>'s best-selling live album, Frampton Comes Alive!, in 1976, from which "Baby, I Love Your Way," "Show Me the Way," and an edited version of "Do You Feel Like We Do," were hit singles. The latter two tracks also featured his use of the talk box guitar effect. The album was recorded in 1975, mainly at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California, where Humble Pie had previously enjoyed a good following. <mask> had a new line-up, with Americans Bob Mayo on keyboards and rhythm guitar and Stanley Sheldon on bass. Wills had been sacked by Frampton at the end of 1974, and Bown had left on the eve of Frampton Comes Alive, to return to England and new fame with Status Quo. Frampton Comes Alive was released in early January, debuting on the charts on 14 February at number 191. The album was on the Billboard 200 for 97 weeks, of which 55 were in the top 40, of which 10 were at the top.The album beat, among others, Fleetwood Mac's Fleetwood Mac to become the top selling album of 1976, and it was also the 14th best seller of 1977. With sales of eight million copies it became the biggest selling live album, although with others subsequently selling more it is now the fourth biggest. Frampton Comes Alive! has been certified as eight times platinum. The album won Frampton a Juno Award in 1977. A tribute to the album's staying power, readers of Rolling Stone ranked Frampton Comes Alive No. 3 in a 2012 poll of all-time favourite live albums.The article's text stated, "He was loved by teenage girls, and their older brothers. He owned the year 1976 like nobody else in rock." The success of Frampton Comes Alive! put him on the cover of Rolling Stone, in a famous shirtless photo by Francesco Scavullo. Frampton later said he regrets the photo because it changed his image as a credible artist into a teen idol. In late 1976, he and manager Dee Anthony visited the White House at the invitation of Steven Ford, the president's son. On 24 August 1979, Frampton received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6819 Hollywood Boulevard for his contributions to the recording industry.Setbacks
<mask>'s following album, I'm in You (1977) contained the hit title single and went platinum, but fell well short of expectations compared to <mask> Comes Alive!. He starred, with the Bee Gees, in producer Robert Stigwood's poorly received film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978). <mask>'s career seemed to be falling as quickly as it had risen. He also played guitar on the title song of the 1978 film Grease, a song newly written for the film by Barry Gibb. <mask> suffered a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas in 1978 that marked the end of his prolific period and the beginning of a long fallow period where he was less successful than previously. He returned to the studio in 1979 to record the album Where I Should Be.Among those contributing to the album were past band members Stanley Sheldon (bass), Bob Mayo (keyboards/guitar/vocals), and John Siomos (drums/vocals). In 1980, his album Rise Up was released to promote his tour in Brazil, although he suffered another serious setback that year when all his guitars were thought destroyed in a cargo plane crash that killed four people. Among the instruments he lost was the black Les Paul Custom which he had named "Phenix" (pictured on the cover of Frampton Comes Alive) given to him by Mark Mariana and first used on the night of the recording of the Humble Pie live album Performance, and which he had used all through his early solo career. The guitar was recovered and returned to him in December 2011. The album eventually turned into Breaking All the Rules, released the next year in 1981. These albums were the first he recorded almost completely live. In 1982, following the release of The Art of Control, <mask> tried unsuccessfully to split his ties with A&M Records; he, however, re-signed with the label in 2006 and released his Grammy Award-winning Fingerprints.Return
Although his albums generally met with little commercial success, <mask> continued to record throughout the 1980s. He did, however, achieve a brief, moderate comeback of sorts in 1986 with the release of his Premonition album, and the single "Lying," which became a big hit on the Mainstream Rock charts. Most notably, he also united with old friend David Bowie, and both worked together to make albums. <mask> played on Bowie's 1987 album Never Let Me Down and sang and played on the accompanying Glass Spider Tour. <mask> would, in 2013, credit his participation in this tour for helping revive his career. Looking for the band experience again after touring with Bowie, <mask> kept referencing Steve Marriott, and at the beginning of 1991 rejoined his old Humble Pie mate for some shows (Marriott's last English gigs) at the Half Moon in Putney, London. The chemistry was still there for a while, as both <mask> and Marriott laid down some tracks in L.A. and prepared to do a "Frampton-Marriott" tour.However, Marriott abruptly returned to England in April and he died in a house fire less than 24 hours after his return. Broken up by Marriott's death, <mask> went off the road for a time, then reformed his old touring band with his old friends Bob Mayo and John Regan. At least three songs, and possibly a fourth, from the ended Marriott-<mask> partnership were subsequently recorded; two ending up on <mask>'s "Shine On" compilation, a third on his subsequent solo album. In the late 1990s, he starred in an infomercial plugging the internationally successful eMedia Guitar Method, a piece of instructional software represented as an alternative to taking actual guitar lessons. He claimed in the infomercial that the software was the best way to learn guitar. In 1994, <mask> wrote and released the album <mask>ton, the final version of which contained material recorded on Tascam cassette recorders. Originally released on the Relativity label, this record was re-released in 2000 by Legacy Records, with four bonus tracks and additional notes by <mask>.In 1995, <mask> released Frampton Comes Alive! II, which contained live versions of many of the songs from his 1980s and 1990s solo albums. Frampton Comes Alive! II was recorded at The Fillmore Theater on 15 June 1995. Although there was a large amount of marketing for the album, it did not sell well. After Frampton Comes Alive! II, he recorded and toured with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings and Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band, where he and Jack Bruce performed a cover version of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love."In 2003, Frampton released the album Now, and embarked on a tour with Styx to support it. It was on this tour in 2004 he lost good friend and long time bandmate Bob Mayo. He also toured with the Elms, and appeared in 2006 on the Fox Broadcasting variety show Celebrity Duets, paired with Chris Jericho of WWE fame. They were the first pair voted out. On 12 September 2006, Frampton released an instrumental work titled Fingerprints. His band consisted of drummer Shawn Fichter, guitarist Audley Freed, bassist John Regan (Frampton's lifelong best friend,), and keyboardist-guitarist Rob Arthur, and guest artists such as members of Pearl Jam, Hank Marvin, and his bassist on Frampton Comes Alive!, Stanley Sheldon – the only member of the backing band on that album

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 still alive. Recent events
On 11 February 2007, Fingerprints was awarded the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album.In February 2007, he also appeared on the Chicago-based PBS television show Soundstage. <mask> released his 14th studio album, Thank You Mr. Churchill, on 27 April 2010. In summer 2010 he began touring North America with the English band Yes; the two acts had played stadium shows on a bill together in 1976. His 2010 band consisted of Rob Arthur (keyboards, guitar, backing vocals), John Regan (bass), Adam Lester (guitar), and Dan Wojciechowski (drums). He embarked on a UK Tour in March 2011 in support of his new album, visiting Leamington Spa, Glasgow, Manchester, London and Bristol. Frampton went on tour in 2011 with The Frampton Comes Alive 35th Anniversary Tour that showcased and followed exactly the songs on the play list for the original tour from 1976, recorded for the famous Frampton Comes Alive! The concerts each night started with the prerecorded thump of a microphone being turned on, familiar to many fans of the album, followed by the recorded voice of Jerry Pompili saying, "If there was ever a musician that was an honorary member of San Francisco society, Mr. <mask> ...," and then the crowd goes wild.He played the album song-for-song at 69 locations between 15 June 2011, and 22 October 2011, throughout the US. On 11 June 2011, Frampton performed a live set for "Guitar Center Sessions" on DirecTV. The episode included an interview with program host Nic Harcourt. In 2013, he performed throughout North America as part of the "Frampton's Guitar Circus" tour which featured periodic guest performers including B.B. King, Robert Cray, Don Felder, Rick Derringer, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Steve Lukather, Sonny Landreth, Davy Knowles, David Hidalgo, Mike McCready, Roger McGuinn and Vinnie Moore. On 9 February 2014, Frampton was one of several musicians to participate in The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles tribute to the Beatles on the 50th anniversary of their first appearance on American television. On 23 June 2014, Frampton released a new album entitled Hummingbird in a Box.On 11 June 2015, <mask> announced his new studio album: Acoustic Classics; then, on 14 January 2016, he launched the first song: a version of "Do You Feel Like I Do." In 2016, Frampton was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum. In 2017 and 2018, Frampton toured with the Steve Miller Band, opening the show. On 22 February 2019, Frampton announced he will be retiring from touring with his '<mask>ton Finale—The Farewell Tour' commencing on 18 June 2019 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, running through 12 October ending in Concord, California at the Concord Pavilion. The tour features special guest Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening, as well as <mask>'s son Julian Frampton on the West Coast stops. He also revealed the reason for the farewell tour; he has received a diagnosis that he has inclusion body myositis (IBM), a progressive muscle disorder characterized by muscle inflammation, weakness, and atrophy (wasting). A dollar of every ticket sold for the tour is donated to benefit Frampton's newly established myositis research fund at Johns Hopkins, where he is being treated.In June 2019, his most recent album, All Blues, debuted at number one in the Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart. In December 2019, <mask> announced his farewell UK tour to consist of five performances in May 2020. In April this UK/EU tour was cancelled "because of the COVID-19 virus." Media appearances
In 1974, <mask> appeared in the movie The Son of Dracula as a guitarist in the Count Downes. In 1978, he portrayed coastwatcher <mask> in an episode of the World War II drama series Baa Baa Black Sheep titled "A Little Bit of England." In 1978, he played Billy Shears in the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band starring along with the three brothers Gibb of the band the Bee Gees.The movie was inspired by the Beatles album of the same name. Critics were hostile, and the film was a box-office failure. In 1978, he appeared on the parody talk show, America 2-Night. In 1988, he appeared in the video release of David Bowie's Glass Spider, a video recording of the 1987 tour of the same name. In 1996, he appeared in an episode of The Simpsons entitled "Homerpalooza," in which he played "Do You Feel Like We Do." He also made a TV appearance in the Family Guy episode "Death Lives," in which <mask> asks Death to bring <mask> to play "Baby, I Love Your Way" to Lois. Also in 2000, he served as a technical advisor for Cameron Crowe's autobiographical film, Almost Famous.He wrote some of the songs performed by the fictional band "Stillwater" in the film, supplied guitar tracks, and was the guitar instructor for Billy Crudup, who starred as Russell Hammond, the guitarist for the band. Crudup is quoted as saying, "Who could ask for a better tutor than <mask>?" As an inside joke, he also appears briefly in the film as "Reg," a road manager for Humble Pie, <mask>'s real-life former band. In 2001, he appeared as himself in Drew Carey's Back-to-School Rock 'n' Roll Comedy Hour, in which he performs "You Had To Be There" and appears in a brief scene with Mimi, in which he recalls their past relationship. On 20 December 2006, he appeared on The Colbert Report. Stephen Colbert had a fake feud with the Decemberists to be decided by a head cutting duel. When Colbert faked an injury, Colbert called on Father Christmas to supply a guitar hero, at which point <mask> appeared and won the shred-down.On 23 April 2010, he became the all-time celebrity champion of the trivia game called No Apparent Reason, with five correctly answered questions on the nationally syndicated Mark and Brian Radio Program originating from KLOS Los Angeles. However, on 5 May 2010, <mask> was reduced to second place after only two weeks by Luke Perry's answering six questions correctly. On 4 November 2010, he appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show as one of her favourite musicians. On 21 October 2011, he was honoured at Music City's at Walk of Fame Park in Nashville, Tennessee. On 2 March, 2016, he was interviewed and performed on the Howard Stern Show. On 6 January 2019, he appeared as himself on Madam Secretary, where he performed a small portion of "Baby I Love Your Way." He similarly appeared on the final episode of that program (aired 7 December 2019) performing numerous songs at the wedding of the President's daughter.On Friday 6 August 2021 he challenged OJ Borg through his Radio 2 game "Mid-Afternoon Mastermind" (as OJ was covering for Steve Wright's afternoon show). The subject......<mask>! OJ scored 2/3. Personal life

Marriages, other relationships and family
<mask> has been married three times and has three children. His first marriage was to Mary Lovett, from 1972 to 1976. He was sued by Penelope J. "Penny" McCall in 1978 for palimony.McCall asked for half of <mask>'s earnings during the five years that they were together. According to McCall, she left her husband and gave up her job as a rock promoter and devoted herself full-time to Frampton, just as he achieved superstar status. A New York judge ruled that <mask> and McCall never intended to marry each other and "never held themselves out to the public as husband and wife" and dismissed her complaint on the grounds that to act otherwise would condone adultery. The case set precedent in New York. From 1983 to 1993, <mask> was married to Barbara Gold, with whom he had two children named Jade and Julian. The latter co-wrote and sang on <mask>'s song "Road to the Sun" from Thank You Mr. Churchill. His third marriage was on 13 January 1996 to Tina Elfers, with whom he had a daughter, actress <mask>, and a stepdaughter named Tiffany Wiest.<mask> filed for divorce from Elfers in Los Angeles, California, on 22 June 2011, citing irreconcilable differences. Other
In June 1978, <mask> was involved in a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas and suffered broken bones, a concussion, and muscle damage. Dealing with the pain of the accident led to a brief period of drug abuse. <mask> has lived in London and various U.S. locations, including Westchester County, New York; Los Angeles, California; and Nashville, Tennessee. He moved to Indian Hill, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, in June 2000. This is the birthplace of his ex-wife Elfers, and the city in which they were married in 1996. They chose to live there to be closer to Elfers' family.He currently lives in Nashville. Frampton cites the September 11 attacks as his reason for becoming a U.S. citizen and seeking the right to vote. He is a vegetarian. On 20 October 2020, Frampton published his memoir Do You Feel Like I Do?, co-written with Alan Light. Equipment
In 1987, Frampton played two natural-finish maple body Pensa-Suhr Strat types, hand-made by New York-based John Suhr. He used a Coral electric sitar, given to him in the late 70s and previously owned by Jimi Hendrix, on David Bowie's 1987 album Never Let Me Down. On the cover of the double live album Frampton Comes Alive, Frampton plays a highly customized 1954 Gibson Les Paul that was given to him during a concert by his friend, Marc Mariana.He continues to play the Les Paul now known as the "Phenix." <mask> lost his black, custom Gibson Les Paul in a cargo plane crash in Venezuela. <mask> and the Les Paul were reunited 30 years later. <mask> was known as the artist who made the talk box famous. Frampton's talk box was used to transfer the guitar's sound through a plastic tube attached to a microphone. The effect is <mask>'s melodic guitar simulating speech while asking the audience on the live track "Do You Feel Like We Do?" <mask> also now sells his own line of custom-designed "Framptone" products, including the talk box.Discography

Wind of Change (1972)
Frampton's Camel (1973)
Somethin's Happening (1974)
Frampton (1975)
Frampton Comes Alive! (1976)
I'm in You (1977)
Where I Should Be (1979)
Rise Up (1980)
Breaking All the Rules (1981)
The Art of Control (1982)
Premonition (1986)
When All the Pieces Fit (1989)
<mask> (1994)
Frampton Comes Alive! II (1995)
Now (2003)
Fingerprints (2006)
Thank You Mr. Churchill (2010)
Hummingbird in a Box (2014)
Acoustic Classics (2016)
All Blues (2019)
Frampton Forgets the Words (Instrumental cover tracks) (2021)

References

External links

 Audio interview at BBC Wiltshire
 Five audio interview segments with <mask> from 1986
Peter Frampton Live Photo Gallery
The Herd at Harvey Lisberg

1950 births
Living people
People from Beckenham
People from Indian Hill, Ohio
Singers from London
20th-century English singers
21st-century English singers
20th-century British guitarists
21st-century British guitarists
English child singers
English male singers
English rock singers
English male singer-songwriters
Lead guitarists
Humble Pie (band) members
Grammy Award winners
Juno Award for International Album of the Year winners
Musicians from Kent
English expatriates in the United States
English rock guitarists
English male guitarists
A&M Records artists
The Herd (British band) members
Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band

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<mask>'Brien (14 November 1893 – 17 June 1981) was an Irish politician, activist and writer. She was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1957 to 1969. Early life
<mask> was the daughter of Irish republican and socialist leader <mask> and his wife <mask>. She was born in Edinburgh, one of seven children. She moved with her family to Dublin when she was three years old. Her formal education in Dublin extended to weekly Gaelic League classes to learn the Irish language. Otherwise, her mother, a former nursery maid, taught her how to read by the age of three  and how to write, and arithmetic.The family moved to Troy, New York, when she was nine years old for her father to work at an insurance company. That work fell through, at which time he became increasingly political, prompting the family's eventual return to Ireland, this time to Belfast in 1910, with <mask> going ahead a year earlier. After her father's execution, the surviving <mask>s tried to depart for America but were denied passports by the British government. Undeterred, they travelled to Boston via Edinburgh with <mask> using the pseudonym Margaret (her middle name). In Boston, she met Seamus O'Brien, a courier for Michael Collins, whom she later married in 1922. When she wanted to return to Ireland, she was denied entry but stowed away on a boat from Liverpool dressed as a boy. Her marriage to Seamus was happy but produced no children.Political career

Influence
<mask>'Brien was heavily influenced in her political beliefs by her father <mask>, who was a committed Republican and Socialist. From a young age she attended her father's political meetings, accompanying him on a four-month Scottish lecture tour at age 8. After moving to Belfast in 1911, she began to get more involved in the labour and republican movements while her father James remained in Dublin and became an organizer of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU) in Dublin. She was a founding member of the Young Republican Party, advocating against Partition of Northern Ireland as the Home Rule Crisis increased. She also helped to found the Belfast branch of Cumann na mBan, the women's section of the Irish Volunteers

Prior to the 1916 Rising
At eight years old, she saw her father speak at many socialist clubs in Glasgow, she thereafter became a devotee of socialist politics. She moved to Belfast in 1910 for work, and her family followed soon after. She participated in her first strike whilst working in Belfast over the conditions in which factory workers were being forced to work under.While she was in Belfast she became a founding member of the Young Republican Army and of the girl's branch of the Fianna. She was also a founding member of Cumann na mBan in Belfast. In 1914, plans were being put in place for a rebellion in Ireland. She and her sister helped courier ammunition and arms to hiding places for Erskine Childers and were then rewarded with two rifles. She was then sent to America with a message from her father about the rising planned for 1916. When <mask>'Brien returned to Dublin she met members of the Military Council who were planning the rising. In the days before the rising, she was sent back to Belfast to try and convince the leading activist there to join the fight.Under the command of a 23-year-old <mask>'Brien, she and nine other members of Cumann na mBan returned to Dublin to take part in the fight and were the only organised group to leave Ulster to take part in the rising. 1916 Rising
In her statement to the Bureau of Military History, she described "the rare privilege" of cooking breakfast for the leaders of the rising at Liberty Hall on the morning of the rising. She was sent back to Co.Tyrone for their safety and to re-muster the Northern Division of the Irish Volunteers, under orders from Patrick Pearse. After the attempt failed, she returned to Dublin with her sister, but due to train disruptions walked from Dundalk, and spending a night in a field near Balbriggan only to arrive hours after the leaders of the Easter Rising surrendered. She vividly remembers visiting her father <mask>, in Dublin Castle the night before his execution, where she smuggled out statements to the court martial; Before they said goodbye, as he feared for his family, he advised them that there would be resentment against them and advised them to go to the United States

Political career 1916–1918
While in Boston she spoke for hours at Faneuil Hall in order to gain American support and recognition of the Irish Republic. She furthered her efforts by writing a book titled "The Unbroken Tradition" in which she describes the events of the Easter Rising, which was subsequently banned as President Woodrow Wilson entered the United States in World War I and it was labelled "anti-British"
In 1917 she returned anonymously to Ireland, and remained quiet for some time. She disagreed with the Labour Party's policy on neutrality, and canvassed for Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election.War of Independence and Civil War 1919–1923
Following her return to Ireland in 1917, she remained active in Cumann na mBan and fought during the War of Independence from 1919 to 1921. Following the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Cumann na mBan had sided on the anti-treaty side. Following the outbreak of the Irish Civil War, she supervised an Anti-Treaty first aid post at Tara Hall. Cumann na mBan was outlawed by the Free State government and in November 1922 she was arrested and imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol, with many other members. She was released in 1923 on the writ of Habeas corpus on the grounds her arrest had been unlawful. Later political career
In the years after the Irish Revolutionary period, O'Brien, who had gone back and forth ideologically between prioritising Irish Nationalism and Socialism, came to believe as her father did that the two causes could be wed as one. She thus began set about trying to gain influence over the Irish Republican Army.However, this stance brought her into conflict with her brother Roddy, who publicly accused her of "regressing from Marxism towards Republicanism". Despite this, in 1926, she, along with her brother, founded the short-lived Irish Workers' Party from 1926 to 1927. Following the meeting of the Republican Congress on 29–30 September 1934 in Rathmines Town Hall, the Socialist movement in Ireland was divided on whether the Congress should resolve itself into a new revolutionary Socialist Party, or remain as a united front of all progressive forces against Fascism. She supported forming a new political party, but when a resolution was passed to remain as a united front, she and her group withdrew from the congress. Following the collapse of the Republican Congress, O'Brien joined the Labour Party. In the summer of 1936, O'Brien wrote to Leon Trotsky, offering to report to him on the actions of the ‘National Revolutionaries’ of the  IRA, as well any developments in the Labour Party, whom O'Brien still believed could take ‘the leading role in the revolutionary movement in Ireland’. O'Brien operated the Labour Party's Drimnagh, Dublin Branch, but resigned from the party when the workers-republic cause was deleted from its constitution in 1939.During the 1930s, she was a statistician in the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU) and a telegraph agent during the Second World War, until ill-health forced her retirement. In 1940 O'Brien was briefly involved with Córas na Poblachta, an attempt by the IRA to create its own political party. The venture didn't go far. For whatever reason, O'Brien did not show much interest in the much more successful organisation of the same concept, Clann na Poblachta, which featured many of Ireland's Republican and left-wing figures amongst its ranks. She was nominated to the Seanad Éireann in 1957 by nomination of the Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, and stressed that she would not join his Fianna Fáil Party and remain independent, although she is listed as a Fianna Fáil senator. During her time, she blocked many bills, including the 1959 proposal to abolish Proportional Representation and a church-promoted bill to consign female juvenile offenders to Magdalene Laundries. She was renominated in 1965 by Seán Lemass, but his successor Jack Lynch failed to re-nominate her, ending her political career.Support for Republicans during The Troubles
<mask>'Brien supported the Provisional IRA during The Troubles, suggesting "the present fight in the North of Ireland [is] the continuation of the battle for which [<mask>] died". In 1977, she gave the funeral oration of INLA chief of staff Seamus Costello, saying, "Of all the politicians and political people with whom I have had conversations, and who called themselves followers of <mask>, he was the only one that truly understood what <mask> meant when he spoke of his vision of the freedom of the Irish people." Shortly before her death in 1981, she spoke at the 1980 Ardfheis of Sinn Féin. Death
<mask> O'Brien died in Meath Hospital, Dublin, on 17 June 1981, ten days after being admitted due to failing health. She was 87, and was the last of seven children. She had no children of her own. Her husband Seamus had died in 1962.She is buried in Dublin's famous Glasnevin Cemetery. Before she died, she asked to be given a Republican funeral. More than 200 people gathered at her graveside in Glasnevin on that date, and her life was celebrated in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Drimnagh. The Taoiseach at the time, Charles Haughey, did not attend her funeral, even though he had planned to do so; when asked to comment on his absence, he refused, but sources claimed that Haughey decided to avoid the funeral because of its overtly Republican nature. In the book Studies in Irish radical leadership, Máirtín Ó Cadhain suggests that following the collapse of the Republican Congress, O'Brien took a dim view of Communists and that she came to reject the idea of Irish republican legitimism in favour of accepting the reality of the Irish state, evidenced by her acceptance of the position as a senator. For this, Ó Cadhain suggests O'Brien was a representation of "Republican Labour" in search of a party. References

Bibliography
The Irish Rebell (1916)
The Unbroken Tradition (1918)
Portrait of a Rebel Father  aka Born of a Rebel Father(1935)
<mask> Wrote for Today – Socialism (1978)
We Shall Rise Again (1981, Mosquito Press)

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<mask> (; born 26 October 1955) is a former Spanish judge. <mask> formerly served on Spain's central criminal court, the Audiencia Nacional, and was the examining magistrate of the Juzgado Central de Instrucción No. 5, which investigates the most important criminal cases in Spain, including terrorism, organised crime, and money laundering. In 2011, he was suspended from judicial activity and in 2012 he was convicted of illegal wiretapping and disbarred for a period of 11 years. <mask> legally assisted Julian Assange. On 24 March 2020, it was announced that <mask> was diagnosed with COVID-19 and hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. Early life
Born in Torres, Jaén, <mask> graduated from the University of Seville in 1979.He was appointed to the Audiencia Nacional in 1988, and rapidly made his name in Spain by pursuing the Basque separatist group ETA. Political career
In 1993, <mask> asked for an extended leave of absence as a judge and went into politics, running for the Congress of Deputies (the lower house of parliament) as an independent candidate on the party list of the then ruling party Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE). Prime Minister Felipe González appointed him head of a strengthened National Plan Against Drugs, but <mask> resigned shortly after being appointed, complaining of lack of support from the government, and returned to the Audiencia Nacional. Spanish cases

GAL

His 1994 investigation led to the conviction of José Barrionuevo Peña, a former Interior minister, as head of the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (GAL), a state terrorist group. Drug-trafficking

Garzón made his name as a magistrate through several police operations centred on drug-trafficking in Galicia. Colombian cartels, such as the Medellín Cartel, were using the Galician mafia, already accustomed to smuggling tobacco, to smuggle drugs into Spain. In 1990, Operación Nécora led to the conviction of members of the clan led by Laureano Oubiña.The following year <mask> headed another investigation, Operación Pitón, which led to the conviction of members of the Charlines clan. Caso Atlético
In 1999, he investigated Jesús Gil, the former mayor of Marbella and owner of Atlético Madrid, who was convicted in 2002 on grounds of corruption. Closure of media outlets
<mask> has also presided in many trials against alleged ETA members. Falling back on the judicial presumption named "everything is ETA", he presided a case against Orain S.A., the Basque communication company that published the newspaper Egin and owned the radio station Egin Irratia. Garzón ordered the closure of both and sent some of the company officers to prison, due to their alleged links with ETA. These charges were later dropped for lack of evidence, and the journalists were released. Many years later Garzón imprisoned them again under the allegation of being part of ETA in a "broader" sense.While Egin was allowed to reopen years later by the Audiencia Nacional, the state of ruin shown by the facilities made operation impossible. Ban of Basque parties Batasuna, EAE-ANV and EHAK
As a National Court judge, Garzón declared on 11 December 2001 that there is no ETA entourage but "everything is ETA". On 3 September 2002, he accused the Basque party Batasuna of helping and funding ETA, participating in the armed organization, and as such, involved in "crimes against humanity", also criticising any nuanced approach on Batasuna and ETA. Police shut down offices and property of the party on Garzon's orders, and suspended for three years the operations of the party. 22 members of its directive committee were arrested by 2007. Ahead of the Spanish general election on 9 March 2008, Garzón suspended in February the Basque parties EAE-ANV and EHAK (PCTV), also ordering the closure of their headquarters, premises, establishments and any other venues, as well as blocking the parties' banking accounts. In April 2008, the judge concluded the summary that involved Batasuna to ETA, putting on trial 41 members of the party, including Arnaldo Otegi.The 61 Chamber of the Supreme Court of Spain outlawed in September the parties EAE-ANV and EHAK. In March 2009, Garzón processed 44 members constituting the directive committees of the three parties in an indictment numbering 583 pages. The judge stated that "EAE-ANV and EHAK (PCTV) were manipulated by the members of the national committee of Batasuna to continue the criminal pursuit designed by ETA". Approach on torture

<mask> rose to prominence in the Spanish special tribunal National Court dealing with anti-terrorism in early 1990s. Basque terrorism suspects held incommunicado for days stood before court sometimes with clear signs of violence on their body. As a judge, he used to ignore right away apparent injuries detainees' bodies, as well as their statements describing their period in police hands, labelling injuries "self-inflicted", or irrelevant, and failing to investigate the cases. Approximately 100 Basques and Catalans may have been tortured under the jurisdiction of <mask> <mask> as a judge.Francoist atrocities

On 17 October 2008, <mask> formally declared the acts of repression committed by the Franco regime to be crimes against humanity, and accounted them in more than one hundred thousand killings during and after the Spanish Civil War. He also ordered the exhumation of 19 unmarked mass graves, one of them believed to contain the remains of the poet Federico García Lorca. On 17 November 2008, <mask> said that he was dropping the investigation against Franco and his allies after state prosecutors had questioned his jurisdiction over crimes committed 70 years ago by people who are now dead and whose crimes were covered by an amnesty passed in 1977. In a 152-page statement, he passed responsibility to regional courts for opening 19 mass graves believed to hold the remains of hundreds of victims. Caso Gürtel

<mask> started a major corruption inquiry, code-named "Gürtel" from the name of its ringleader, Franscisco Correa, ("Gürtel" being German for "belt", which is the meaning of "correa" in Spanish). The case was related to bribes given to People's Party. He was disposed of the case in 2010.Allegation of improper eavesdropping
The accused in the case sought to have evidence against them ignored. The accused asked that the evidence be ruled inadmissible, since it was obtained from conversations between prisoners and counsel, which, under Spanish law, it is claimed, is allowed only in terrorism-related cases. <mask>'s authorisation of the recordings resulted in his suspension as a judge. International cases

Augusto Pinochet

On 10 October 1998, <mask> issued an international warrant for the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet for the alleged deaths and torture of Spanish citizens. The Chilean Truth Commission (1990–91) report was the basis for the warrant, marking an unprecedented use of universal jurisdiction to attempt to try a former dictator for a crime committed abroad. Eventually it was turned down by British Home Secretary Jack Straw, who rejected <mask>'s request to have Pinochet extradited to Spain on health grounds. Kissinger and Operation Condor
<mask> asked for permission for cross-examination of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in connection with a plot in the 1970s known as Operation Condor.Dirty War
Garzón also filed charges of genocide against Argentine military officers on Dirty War's disappearance of Spanish citizens during Argentina's 1976–1983 dictatorship. Eventually, Adolfo Scilingo and Miguel Angel Cavallo were prosecuted in separate cases. Scilingo was convicted and sentenced to over 1,000 years incarceration for his crimes. Guantanamo
Garzón issued indictments for five Guantanamo detainees, including Spaniard Abderrahman Ahmad and Jordanian Jamil El Banna. Ahmad was extradited to Spain on 14 February 2004. El Banna was released to the United Kingdom, and in 2007, Garzón dropped the charges against him on humanitarian grounds. Bush Six

In March 2009, Garzón considered whether Spain should allow charges to be filed against former officials from the United States government under George W. Bush for offering justifications for torture.The six former Bush officials are: Alberto Gonzales, former Attorney General;
John Yoo, of the Office of Legal Counsel;
Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense for policy;
William Haynes II, former general counsel for the Department of Defense;
Jay Bybee, also at Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel; and
David Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff. However, the investigation was assigned to Judge Eloy Velasco who chose not to pursue it stating that Spain could not investigate the case if the U.S. did not intend to conduct its own investigation into the matter. In a U.S. diplomatic cable leaked by WikiLeaks it was revealed that Chief Prosecutor Javier Zaragoza intended to argue that the case
should not be assigned to Judge <mask>, and a later cable stated that <mask> was "forced to give up" the investigation. On 29 April 2009, <mask> opened an investigation into an alleged "systematic programme" of torture at Guantánamo Bay, following accusations by four former prisoners. Similarly, the leaked cable indicates that the Chief Prosecutor intended to also fight this investigation and that he feared, "<mask> may attempt to wring all the publicity he can from the case unless and until he is forced to give it up." In September 2009, the Spanish newspaper Público reported that, despite opposition, <mask> was proceeding to the next phase of his investigation. (Andy Worthington, writing in the Huffington Post gave an English language account of this story).Alex Saab
On 22 July 2020, <mask> said that he would represent Alex Saab in a U.S. extradition case. Appearance before the Spanish Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Spain has declared admissible three criminal accusations against <mask> for 'prevarication' which implies using his authority as a judge to intentionally subvert the course of justice. This is a very serious criminal offense punishable by suspension from any (Spanish) judicial activity for up to twenty years. Crimes against humanity by Franco's government
In October 2008, <mask> opened a controversial inquiry into alleged crimes against humanity committed by the Nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War and the years that followed the war. This action was controversial because the offenses were nearly 70 years old, previous to the concept of crimes against humanity, and a 1977 general amnesty act barred any investigations related to criminal offenses with a political aim previous to 1976. In 2008, the inquiry was suspended. In September 2009, a trade union called "Manos limpias" (Clean Hands) filed a lawsuit against <mask> alleging that <mask> had abused his judicial authority by opening the inquiry.Manos Limpias is a "far-right group," according to The New York Times. <mask> denied any wrongdoing. In April 2010, <mask> was indicted by the Spanish Supreme Court for prevarication for arbitrarily changing his juridical criteria to engineer the case in order to bypass the law limiting his jurisdiction. If convicted, he could have been barred from his duties for 20 years. <mask>'s indictment has been highly divisive within Spain and controversial abroad. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch condemned the indictment, and The New York Times published an editorial supporting him, whereas The Wall Street Journal condemned <mask>'s proceedings in an editorial supporting the rule of law. There were public protests in Spain from left wing organizations supporting <mask>.The International Commission of Jurists considers that his short-lived inquiry did not justify disciplinary action, let alone criminal prosecution, adding that the prosecution of judges for carrying out their professional work was "an inappropriate and unwarranted interference with the independence of the judicial process". On 24 April 2010, <mask> presented an appeal to the Supreme Court against the judge investigating the case, Luciano Varela for giving advice to the plaintiffs about the errors in their documents. <mask> accused the judge of partiality, in having "a direct interest in the proceedings and bias in the action" and having "worked closely with the plaintiffs by offering counsel or legal advice" intended help the complainants to correct a defect in their series of indictments to meet a deadline, an action which he defined as "atypical, extrajudicial and prejudicial to one of the parties" (i.e. him, as the accused). According to Garzón, "intervention by the instructing judge is not protected under any provision of the current legal procedural rules and is clearly unrelated to the substantive rules of Spanish court procedure". Luciano Varela accepted the appeal and temporarily stepped out from the case until the Supreme Court rules on the appeal. On 11 May 2010, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

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