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NHK reported on July 20, 2020, that Miura's funeral and burial services had already been held. While fans paid tribute to Miura by leaving flowers outside of his condominium, his agency, Amuse Inc., announced that they will be setting up an opportunity for fans to pay respects while taking into consideration the COVID-19 pandemic. After the official website for Sekai wa Hoshii Mono ni Afureteru: Tabi Suru Buyer Gokujō List, the travel program Miura had co-hosted since its first broadcast in 2018, posted a statement offering condolences to Miura, this led many users on Twitter to tweet messages addressed to him using the hashtag #. Miura's second single, "Night Diver", was released posthumously on August 24, 2020, with it pre-released digitally on July 25, 2020. Gift of Fire and The Illusionist, two upcoming projects that Miura co-starred in, were put on hold. Miura's debut single, "Fight for Your Heart", re-entered the music charts, peaking at No. 7 on Oricon Daily Singles Ranking.

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Filmography Film Television Music video Theater DVDs Discography Singles Publications Photobooks Awards References External links 1990 births 2020 deaths 2020 suicides Suicides by hanging in Japan Suicides in Tokyo People from Tsuchiura Musicians from Ibaraki Prefecture Horikoshi High School alumni Amuse Inc. talents 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese male singers Japanese male child actors Japanese male film actors Japanese male television actors Japanese male stage actors Japanese male pop singers

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Avijit Roy (; 12 September 1972 – 26 February 2015) was a Bangladeshi-American engineer, online activist, writer and blogger known for creating and administrating the Mukto-Mona, an Internet community for Bangladeshi freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists and humanists. Roy was an advocate of free expression in Bangladesh, coordinating international protests against government censorship and imprisonment of atheist bloggers. He was hacked to death by machete-wielding assailants in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 26 February 2015; Islamic militant organization Ansarullah Bangla Team claimed responsibility for the attack. Early life and education His father, Ajoy Roy, was a professor of physics at the University of Dhaka who received the Ekushey Padak award. Avijit earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from BUET. He earned a master's and doctoral degree in biomedical engineering from National University of Singapore.

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Career In 2006, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and worked as a software engineer. Roy published eight books in Bengali, he wrote on behalf of explicit atheism, homosexuality, evolution and astrophysics and also he publicized these things in his own blog (known as Mukto-Mona). Mukto-Mona Roy was the founder of the Bangladeshi Mukto-Mona (freethinkers) website which was one of the nominees of The Bobs (Best of Blogs) Award in the Best of Online Activism category. Mukto-Mona began as a Yahoo group in May 2001, but became a website in 2002. Roy described his writing as "taboo" in Bangladesh. He had received death threats from fundamentalist bloggers for his articles and books. Rokomari.com, a Bangladeshi e-commerce site, stopped selling Roy's books after its owner received death threats from Islamists. Protests and advocacy

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A Bangladeshi group, Blogger and Online Activist Network (BOAN), initiated the 2013 Shahbag protests that sought capital punishment for the Islamist leader and war criminal Abdul Quader Molla as well as the removal of Jamaat-e-Islami from politics. Islamist groups responded by organising protests calling for the execution of "atheist bloggers" accused of insulting Islam, and the introduction of a blasphemy law. Many atheist bloggers who supported the Shahbag protests came under attack, and Ahmed Rajib Haider was killed by Islamist groups on 15 February 2013. A month before the protest, blogger Asif Mohiuddin was attacked outside his house by four youths influenced by Anwar Al-Awlaki, and Sunnyur Rahman, known as Nastik Nobi ("Atheist Prophet"), was stabbed on 7 March 2013.

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Asif Mohiuddin, a winner of the BOBs award for online activism, was on an Islamist hit list that also included the murdered sociology professor Shafiul Islam. Mohiuddin's blog was shut down by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, and he was jailed for posting "offensive comments about Islam and Mohammed." The secular government arrested several other bloggers and blocked about a dozen websites and blogs, as well as giving police protection to some bloggers. International organisations, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the imprisonment of bloggers and the climate of fear for journalists.

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Avijit Roy wrote that he was disgusted that the Bangladeshi media portrayed young bloggers as "crooks in the public eye" and wrote to Western media outlets and the Center for Inquiry and the International Humanist and Ethical Union for support. Roy went on to coordinate international protests in Dhaka, New York City, Washington, D.C., London, Ottawa and other cities in support of the jailed bloggers. He was joined by writers, activists, and prominent secularists and intellectuals around the world including Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasrin, Hemant Mehta, Maryam Namazie, PZ Myers, Anu Muhammad, Ajoy Roy, Qayyum Chowdhury, Ramendu Majumdar and Muhammad Zafar Iqbal in publicly expressing their solidarity with the arrested bloggers.

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Murder In 2015, Roy went to Dhaka with his wife Bonya during the Ekushey Book Fair. On the evening of 26 February, he and Bonya were returning home from the fair by bicycle rickshaw. At around 8:30 pm, they were attacked near the Teacher-Student Centre intersection of Dhaka University by unidentified assailants. Two assailants stopped and dragged them from the rickshaw to the pavement before striking them with machetes, according to witnesses. Roy was struck and stabbed with sharp weapons in the head. His wife was slashed on her shoulders and the fingers of her left hand were severed. Both of them were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where Roy was pronounced dead around 10:30 pm. Bonya survived. In an interview with BBC's Newshour, she said that police stood nearby when they were attacked on the spot but did not act.

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In a Twitter post on the day after his death, an Islamist group, calling itself Ansar Bangla-7, claimed responsibility for the killing. Ansar Bangla-7 is said to be the same organization as Ansarullah Bangla Team. A case of murder was filed by Roy's father without naming any suspects at Shahbagh thana on 27 February 2015. According to police sources, they are investigating a local Islamist group that praised the killing. Avijit's body was placed at Aparajeyo Bangla in front of the Faculty of Arts building (Kala Bhavan) at Dhaka University on 1 March 2015 where people from all walks of life, including his friends, relatives, well-wishers, teachers and students, gathered with flowers to pay their respect to the writer. As per Roy's wish, his body was handed over to Dhaka Medical College for medical research.

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On 6 March 2015, a four-member team from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) along with members of the detective branch of Bangladesh Police inspected the spot where Roy was killed. The FBI members collected evidence from the site and took footage to help in the investigation. On 3 May 2015, the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claimed responsibility for the murder of Roy and the deaths of other "blasphemers" in Bangladesh in a report published by SITE Intelligence Group. Arrests On 2 March 2015, Rapid Action Battalion arrested Farabi Shafiur Rahman, a radical Islamist. It was suspected by the police that Farabi had shared Roy's location, identity, family photographs, etc. with the killer(s). Farabi had threatened Roy several times through blogs and social media sites including Facebook. He said that Roy would be killed upon his arrival in Dhaka.

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Bangladesh's government decided to seek help from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate the murder of Roy. The decision was taken following an offer by the United States. On 18 August 2015, three members of Ansarullah Bangla Team, including a British citizen, named Touhidur Rahman who police described as "the main planner of the attacks on Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das", had been arrested in connection with the two murders. In February 2021 five leaders and members of banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam were sentenced to death and another to life in prison over the brutal murder of writer-blogger Avijit Roy. Reactions After the death of Roy, several students, teachers, bloggers and around the country gathered at Dhaka University, demanding quick arrest of the killers. The Mukto-Mona website bore the message in Bengali "We are grieving but we shall overcome" against a black background.

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Secretary-General of the United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric condemned the killing and said "On the attack of the blogger, we spoke to our human rights colleagues who obviously condemned the attack and expressed the hope that the perpetrators will be quickly brought to justice through the due process of law." The head of Reporters without Borders Asia-Pacific stated "We are shocked by this act of barbarity" and added "It is unacceptable for [police] to spend so much time searching news outlets, arresting journalists, censoring news and investigating bloggers, when the many attacks on bloggers are still unpunished." The CEO of Index on Censorship, Jodie Ginsberg, said: "Our sympathies are with the family of Avijit Roy. Roy was targeted simply for expressing his own beliefs and we are appalled by his death and condemn all such killings."

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The Asia Program Coordinator of the Committee to Protect Journalists stated "This attack is emblematic of the culture of impunity that pervades Bangladesh, where the lack of accountability in previous attacks on the press continues to spurn a deadly cycle of violence." Humanist groups expressed horror at the loss of a colleague. The Center for Inquiry's chief UN representative stated "Avijit was brilliant, yes, and a devoted advocate of free expression and secularism, but also just a very good person." Andrew Copson of the British Humanist Association, which awarded Roy and other bloggers the Free Expression Award in 2014, said "With Avijit's death, Bangladesh has lost not just a son, but a forceful proponent of human rights and equality for all its people." The British High Commissioner Robert Gibson expressed his concern in a tweet saying, "Shocked by the savage murder of Avijit Roy as I am by all the violence that has taken place in Bangladesh in recent months".

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In December 2021, the United States Department of State announced a $5m. bounty for information leading to the perpetrators of the terrorist attack on Roy and Ahmed. Legacy In 2018, the Freedom From Religion Foundation introduced the annual Avijit Roy Courage Award, which is given to "individuals working toward the spread of rational and logical discourse, and recognize creative and heroic individuals who have persisted, despite hurdles, in their work to promote science, logic and humane ideas." Works See also Attacks on secularists in Bangladesh Murder of Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi Political repression of cyber-dissidents List of journalists killed in Bangladesh References

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1972 births 2015 deaths American bloggers American humanists American mechanical engineers American people murdered abroad American writers of Bangladeshi descent American atheists Bangladeshi atheists Bangladeshi bloggers Bangladeshi emigrants to the United States Bangladeshi humanists Bangladeshi mechanical engineers Bangladeshi secularists Bangladeshi writers Bangladeshi male writers Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology alumni American critics of Islam Deaths by stabbing in Bangladesh Assassinated Bangladeshi journalists People from Atlanta People from Dhaka People killed by Islamic terrorism People murdered in Dhaka People persecuted by Muslims University of Singapore alumni Attacks on secularists in Bangladesh Writers from Georgia (U.S. state) Assassinated bloggers Stabbing attacks in 2015 Terrorist incidents involving knife attacks Engineers from Georgia (U.S. state) American male bloggers

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Nadia Baher Sirry () is a Cairo-born painter of Turkish-Lebanese descent, born in 1958. Life Sirry is a graduate of Ain Shams University. She worked for a time at the British Institute in Egypt before devoting herself full-time to her artistic career. She currently lives and works in Cairo. Membership Member of the Syndicate of Plastic Arts. Member of the National Society of Fine Arts. Member of Cairo Atelier – union of artists and writers. Member of Fine Art Lovers Society. Member of Art Companions Group. Member of the Egyptian Arts Preservation Society.

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Private Exhibitions Shadicor art gallery (Reality and Fantasy) March 2006 Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center (Tangible Dreams) April 2006 The Russian Cultural Center in Alexandria (Between Contemplation and Dreams) August 2006 Ewart Gallery the American University in Cairo ( Contemplation of the Heart) March 2007 Alexandria Center of Arts (Touches) August 2007 The Syndicate of Journalists (Bicar) show room (Vision) June 2008 Cairo Opera House (Salah Taher Hall) exhibition (The Feather) December 2015

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Collective Exhibitions Participating in Collective shows since college in 1978 Ismailia Cultural Center 2005 Shadicor Gallery 2006 Spring exhibition at El Sawi Cultural Wheel, April 2006 The Third Art Festival of the National Society of Art At Alexandria Art Center, August 2006. Egyptian Opera House December 2006 with the National Society of Fine Arts. Art for Every Family exhibition at Shadicor Gallery, March 2007 Spring Second Salon at el Sawi Cultural Wheel, April 2007 Eastern Harmonies exhibition at Al-Ghawri Historical Palace organized by the National Society of Arts and sponsored by the Cultural Development Fund, April 2007 Exhibition of Acquisitions at the Opera House Palace of Arts, April 2007 The (Pentagonous) exhibition at Shadicor gallery - May 2007 The (Salon Gallery) at the Opera House Art Palace. May – June 2007 (The Desert) exhibition with Art Companions Society, July 2007 National Society of Fine Arts( 20th Salon) at the Opera House 2008

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(Art for Every Family) at Shadicor gallery for arts, March 2008 Art companions exhibition at the future library, March 2008 Cairo Atelier (Salon 56th) in August 2008 Exhibition in favor of the Children Cancer Hospital of the Opera House in August 2008 (Egypt in My Mind) exhibition at the Alexandria Center of Arts with the Egyptian Art Preservation Society, November 2008 Art Companions Fourth exhibition at the Future Library December 2008 Shadicor gallery exhibition (Art for All Family), March 2009. (Exhibition of Acquisitions) at Port Said Museum of Modern Arts, April 2009 (National Exhibition) Twenty Third (Third Festival of Fine Arts) 2009 Art Companions Fifth exhibition at the Opera House October 2009 Exhibition at the Syndicate of Plastic Artists with Art Preservation society September 2009 Cairo Atelier Salon Fifty Seven September 2009 (Art Companion Group 6th Exhibition) at The Greek Cultural Center – January 2010

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Exhibition (I am an Egyptian) at the Opera House with Art Preservation Society January 2010 Art for every family exhibition 2010 at Shadicor Gallery Exhibition entitled (Creative Artists) at Effat Nagy and Saad El Khadem Museum March 2010 National Association of Fine Arts ( 21st Salon) May 2010 Exhibition for nine artists at Shadicor Gallery 2010 Cairo Atelier ( Salon Fifty Eight) - September 2010 (Twenty Fifth of January Tunes) at Road El Farag Cultural Center affiliated to the Egyptian Art Preservation Society 2011 (Egyptian Art in Revolution) Sharm El Sheikh at Hilton Waterfalls Sharm 2011 Exhibition (Art for every family) at Shadicor Gallery 2011 National Society of Fine Arts (Twenty Second Salon) at the Opera House main show room 2011 Exhibition at Saad Zaghlol Cultural Center by the Egyptian Art Preservation Society and the ministry of culture – September 2011 Exhibition (Sahwa 2) at El Hanager show room – Opera House – February 2012

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Exhibition (Nubian Heritage) at the Supreme Council of Culture – March 2012 Exhibition (Art for every family) 2012 Exhibition (Creations) for Coptic Arts at Al-Ghawri Dome – May 2012 Exhibition (Different Visions 2) at Al-Ghawri Dome – affiliated to the Cultural Development Fund Association and the Egyptian Art Preservation Society – October 2012 Exhibition (Peace Mission) at Al-Ghawri Dome as a part of the monthly event of Peace Mission celebration – December 2012 Exhibition (Egyptian Creations) at the Opera House Salah Taher Gallery – January 2013 Exhibition (Glimpse of Egypt) at Road El Farag Cultural Center – February 2013 Exhibition (Art for Every family) Shadicor Art Gallery – April 2013 Guest of Honor for Exhibition (Artist Adel Sabet and Art Learners) – June 2013 Exhibition (Egyptian Features) at the Coptic Museum as a part of the Culture and Art Festival – October 2013 Exhibition (Egyptian Features 2) at Saad El Khadem and Effat Nagy Museum – October 2013

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Exhibition (Egyptian Features 3) at Banha Cultural Center supervised by the General Organization of Cultural Palaces – October 2013 Exhibition (Egyptian Features 4) at Giza Cultural Center organized by both the General Organization of Cultural Palaces and the Egyptian Art Preservation Society – December 2013 (Cairo Atelier Salon for Painting) Mohamed Nagi Round – March 2014 Exhibition (Art for Every Family) Shadicor Art Gallery – March 2014 Exhibition (Love for Egypt) in favor of the Egyptian Fund Box at Salah Taher Gallery – Opera House – April 2014 Exhibition (Egyptian Vision of the World) ten artists from the Art Companions Group at the Egyptian Center for International Cultural Cooperation – April 2014 Exhibition (Female Artists) organized by The National Society of Fine Arts at El Shaer House - July 2014 Exhibition (Beauty of Islamic Arts) at Prince Taz Palace – February 2015 National Society of Fine Arts Salon at the Opera House Art Gallery – March 2015.

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International Exhibitions: The Fourth Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous Millenarian Art in Quito Ecuador – October 2012 The traveling Gallery of the Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous – Millenarian Art in Toronto Canada – June 2013 The Fifth Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous Millenarian Art in Quito Ecuador August 2014 Traveling Gallery "Recreando El Planeta" coordinated by IR-MANO Artistas Latinoamericanos Brazil and the Ministry of exterior affairs in Uruguay held at Santos Palace, Montevideo Uruguay November 2014.

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Local Awards Several Certificates of Appreciation for participation in different exhibitions Honored and awarded a certificate of appreciation from the Minister of Culture and the Director of Fine Arts Sector 2012 and 2015. Honored by The Egyptian Arts Preservation Society 2015. Honored by The National Society of Fine Arts 2015. International Awards Special Award in Watercolor Painting from the Fourth Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous- Millenarian Art - October 2012 First Award in Painting from at the Fifth Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous-Millenarian Art – August 2014. Acquisitions The Egyptian Museum of Modern Art Agricultural Museum of Egypt Contemporary Art Museum of the Casa De La Cultura Ecuatoriana in Quito, Ecuador International Biennial of Indigenous – Millenarian Art Acquisitions – Quito, Ecuador References External links Official website

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1958 births Living people Egyptian women painters 20th-century Egyptian painters 21st-century Egyptian painters 20th-century Egyptian women artists 21st-century Egyptian women artists People from Cairo

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Marty Willson-Piper (born 7 May 1958) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter best known as a former long-time member of the Australian psychedelic rock band The Church. He joined in 1980 after seeing an early gig where they were performing as a three-piece. He was an integral member of the band for 33 years. He was also the guitarist for the English alternative rock band All About Eve from 1991 to 1993 and again from 1999 to 2002. He has also worked with Swedish progressive rock band Anekdoten. Early life Willson-Piper was born in Stockport, Cheshire, on 7 May 1958 and grew up as a teenager in Thingwall. He has a brother and an adopted sister. When he was 3 years old the family moved from Compstall where his parents had a pub called The Commercial. Sometime around 1970, the family moved to Birch Vale in Derbyshire, a small village between New Mills and Hayfield where his parents took on another pub. They later moved back to Thingwall.

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At 14 he was taught the guitar by his brother who was a member of a cabaret band. Willson-Piper soon started his own band with school friends. After leaving school at 16, Willson-Piper had worked various jobs. He soon travelled to mainland Europe busking outside train stations and working odd jobs such as grape collecting. He moved to Australia in April 1980. Willson-Piper went along to see an early performance of The Church and was asked to join the band a few days before his 22nd birthday in May 1980. The Church On 6 May 1980, Willson-Piper joined The Church on guitar, vocals and bass guitar, alongside Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes and Nick Ward. Willson-Piper's sound was influenced by guitarists such as Tom Verlaine and Bill Nelson.

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Willson-Piper contributed to most of the Church's studio releases and was a member almost continuously from 1980 to 2013. The only exception is the 1997 album Pharmakoi/Distance-Crunching Honchos with Echo Units, which only featured Kilbey, Koppes and drummer Tim Powles and was released as by "The Refo:mation". In 2013, Kilbey announced on the band's Facebook page that former Powderfinger guitarist Ian Haug had replaced Willson-Piper. Solo career and Noctorum Willson-Piper has maintained a steady solo output since the mid-1980s, releasing six solo studio albums and three live solo albums. Four of his albums are collaborations with long-time friend Andy 'Dare' Mason (who has produced and played on Willson-Piper's solo releases) under the name Noctorum.

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In September 2015, Willson-Piper's band Acres Of Space embarked on a tour of the United States. During the spring and summer of 2016, Acres of Space toured the Eastern half of the United States. In December 2016 / January 2017 Acres Of Space played four shows in Chile. Marty and his wife have toured as an acoustic duo, playing shows in Uruguay, Argentina, the United States, Germany and the UK.

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In Deep Music Archive Willson-Piper is an avid record collector. His music archive, the In Deep Music Archive (named after Argent's 1973 album In Deep), is an eclectic collection of music in many forms. An historical and contemporary library of various physical formats: vinyl, CD, cassette, reel to reel tape, 8 track, 78 rpm, VHS, DVD, Laser discs, reference books, encyclopedias, catalogues, biographies and magazines. The archive's digital presence is the In Deep Music Archive website with regular posts about both popular and more obscure artists included in the collection. Collected by Willson-Piper over the past 50 years, the archive has grown into a collection through a life of scouring the record stores around the world, but also through donations from friends, fans and record labels. It currently holds an estimated 50,000 vinyl records and is located in Penzance, Cornwall, UK. Side projects and collaborations (selection)

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Willson-Piper appeared on the single "(Just like) Surf City" by James Griffin and the Subterraneans in 1985. He produced the 1987 album Blood Red Roses for the band Bell Jar. Jules Shear's 1989 album The Third Party consist entirely of one acoustic guitar track, played by Willson-Piper, and one vocal track by Shear. Willson-Piper played on several tracks on Tom Verlaine's 1990 album The Wonder, but is uncredited. He spent two stints as guitarist for UK rock group All About Eve, playing on their 1991 album Touched By Jesus, 1992's Ultraviolet, Fairy Light Nights 1 & 2, Live and Electric at the Union Chapel in 2001 as well as their Live In Bonn 1991 DVD. He was also in the offshoot band "Seeing Stars". With Aimee Mann he co-wrote the song "Could've Been Anyone" and appeared on Mann's first album, 1993's Whatever. He wrote "The Sensual Hour" and "Sticks And Stones" in 1994 for The Infidels.

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He was the co-writer of the song "Battersea" for All About Eve singer Julianne Regan's side project Mice in 1996, as well as appearing on the tracks "Miss World" and "Dark Place". He played lead guitar on Scratch's 1996 song "We Got Fooled Again". He was a co-writer of the song "Knock Me Out" on 4NonBlondes singer Linda Perry's 1996 album In Flight. The song appears on The Crow: City of Angels soundtrack. He wrote and produced three tracks (and played on two) for Brix Smith's 1997 album Happy Unbirthday, as well as co-writing and singing on most of the tracks on her 2007 album Neurotica. He worked with David Gedge's Cinerama on their first album, 1998's Va Va Voom, and plays on seven tracks. He produced seven tracks on album Elvis, Halleluja and Hurrah (1998) for Håkan Ahlström, as well as playing on five of them. He produced Justin Clayton's 1999 album Limb and guests on the track "Shallow World".

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For Swedish act Moderna Män, Willson-Piper produced, recorded and mixed their 2000 album, Entré. In 2003 Willson-Piper recorded the song "Motorcycle" with Australian band Urban Folk Collective for their album Black Rabbit. In 2004 Willson-Piper featured on the tracks "Who Knew the World Would End" and "All Your Kingdom" on Edward Roger's album Sunday Fables and again in 2008 on the follow up You Haven't Been Where I've Been, on the tracks "Graveyard Voices" and "What Happened To Manfred What Happened To Jane". Willson-Piper plays guitar on the Duncan Brown version of "Alfred Bell" and bass on "Wounded Conversation" on Edward Rogers’ 2017 album TV Generation, co-writing the track "Listen To Me". He contributed guitar solos to Rob Dickinson's single "Oceans" (2005) and The Gronk's "Touch the Sun" (2008).

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In 2005, Willson-Piper joined veteran Australian band The Saints to record an album Nothing Is Straight In My House, as well as co-writing the track "Passing Strange". Willson-Piper also joined the band for the following tour. However, in the summer of 2005, Willson-Piper famously left The Saints on the night before a big concert. This resulted in The Saints having to play at Download festival the next day (and the rest of their 2005 summer tour) without their lead guitarist. At first this did stress out The Saints somewhat. But soon after, they realized that they were actually better off without him. That following year The Saints continued to tour in Europe, Canada, The USA and Australia as a power trio and recorded their next album without Willson-Piper. In 2006 Willson-Piper performed on the tracks "Martha's Harbour" and "Circle" on the White Rose Transmission album Bewitched And Bewildered.

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Willson-Piper recorded the duet "Beatles and Stones" with Norwegian singer Marte Heggelund in 2008, for her album Treason. In 2014 Willson-Piper was part of French band Sweet Gum Tree, recording the album The Snakes You Charm and the Wolves You Tame as well as joining the band for their subsequent tour. He makes a guest appearance on Swedish progressive rock band Anekdoten's album entitled Until All The Ghosts Are Gone, released April 2015, and has since joined the band, playing gigs in Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Norway, France and Armenia.

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Personal life Willson-Piper is a vegetarian and an agnostic. He neither smokes nor drinks alcohol. Willson-Piper is married to violinist Olivia Willson-Piper and was married once before to Australian Lucy Stewart in the early eighties. He speaks English and Swedish. As of 2021 he is living in Porto, Portugal. Discography Albums In Reflection (1987) Art Attack (1988) Rhyme (1989) Spirit Level (1992) Hanging Out in Heaven (2000) Nightjar (2008) Singles and EPs She's King (1988) "On the Tip of My Tongue" (1988) "Questions Without Answers" (1989) "Melancholy Girl" (1989) Luscious Ghost EP (1992) "I Can't Cry" (1992) Live recordings Live at the Fine Line Cafe (2000) Live at the Knitting Factory (2000) Live from the Other Side (2004) Seeing Stars Seeing Stars (1997) Noctorum Sparks Lane (2004) Offer the Light (2006) Honey Mink Forever (2011) The Afterlife (2019) All About Eve Touched by Jesus (1991) Ultraviolet (1992) The Saints Nothing is Straight in My House (2005)

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Other projects MOAT – MOAT (2013) MOAT – Poison Stream (tba) Sweet Gum Tree – The Snakes You Charm and the Wolves You Tame (2014) Anekdoten – Until All The Ghosts Are Gone (2015) References External links Official Homepage Marty Willson-Piper's In Deep Music Archive Heyday Records Second Motion Records Waterfront Records English rock guitarists English male guitarists English buskers Gothic rock musicians Living people People from Stockport Musicians from Cheshire The Church (band) members 1958 births The Saints (Australian band) members All About Eve (band) members English emigrants to Australia Second Motion Records artists

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Ronald Brooks Kitaj (; October 29, 1932 – October 21, 2007) was an American artist with Jewish roots who spent much of his life in England.

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He was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States. His Hungarian father, Sigmund Benway, left his mother, Jeanne Brooks, shortly after he was born and they were divorced in 1934. His mother was the American-born daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants. She worked in a steel mill and as a teacher. She remarried in 1941, to Dr Walter Kitaj, a Viennese refugee research chemist, and Ronald took his surname. His mother and stepfather were non-practicing Jews. He was educated at Troy High School (New York). He became a merchant seaman with a Norwegian freighter when he was 17. He studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna and the Cooper Union in New York City. After serving in the United States Army for two years, in France and Germany, he moved to England to study at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford (1958–59) under the G.I. Bill, where he developed a love of Cézanne, and then at the Royal College of Art in London (1959–61), alongside David Hockney, Derek

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Boshier, Peter Phillips, Allen Jones and Patrick Caulfield. Richard Wollheim, the philosopher and David Hockney remained lifelong friends.

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Kitaj married his first wife, Elsi Roessler, in 1953; they had a son, screenwriter Lem Dobbs, and adopted a daughter, Dominie. Elsi committed suicide in 1969. After living with her for 12 years, he married Sandra Fisher in December 1983 and they had one son, Max. Sandra Fisher died in 1994, at age 47, from acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (not an aneurysm, as is commonly written). Kitaj had a mild heart attack in 1990. He died in Los Angeles in October 2007, eight days before his 75th birthday. Seven weeks after Kitaj's death, the Los Angeles County coroner ruled that the cause of death was suicide. Career

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Kitaj settled in England, and through the 1960s taught at the Ealing Art College, the Camberwell School of Art and the Slade School of Art. He also taught at the University of California, Berkeley in 1968. He staged his first solo exhibition at Marlborough New London Gallery in London in 1963, entitled "Pictures with commentary, Pictures without commentary", in which text included in the pictures and the accompanying catalogue referred to a range of literature and history, citing Aby Warburg's analysis of symbolic forms as a major influence.

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"School of London" He curated an exhibition for the Arts Council at the Hayward Gallery in 1976, entitled "The Human Clay" (an allusion to a line by W. H. Auden), including works by 48 London artists, such as William Roberts, Richard Carline, Colin Self and Maggi Hambling, championing the cause of figurative art at a time when abstract was dominant. In an essay in the controversial catalogue, he invented the phrase the "School of London" to describe painters such as Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Euan Uglow, Michael Andrews, Reginald Gray, Peter de Francia and himself.

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Style and influence Kitaj had a significant influence on British pop art, with his figurative paintings featuring areas of bright colour, economic use of line and overlapping planes which made them resemble collages, but eschewing most abstraction and modernism. Allusions to political history, art, literature and Jewish identity often recur in his work, mixed together on one canvas to produce a collage effect. He also produced a number of screen-prints with printer Chris Prater. He told Tony Reichardt, manager of the Marlborough New London Gallery, that he made screen-prints as sketches for his future paintings. From then onwards Tony Reichardt commissioned Chris Prater to print three or four copies of every print he made on canvas. His later works became more personal.

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Kitaj was recognised as being one of the world's leading draftsmen, almost on a par with, or compared to, Degas. Indeed, he was taught drawing at Oxford by Percy Horton, whom Kitaj claimed was a pupil of Walter Sickert, who was a pupil of Degas; and the teacher of Degas studied under Ingres. Meanwhile, Edgar Wind encouraged him to become a 'Warburgian artist'. His more complex compositions build on his line work using a montage practice, which he called 'agitational usage'. Kitaj often depicts disorienting landscapes and impossible 3D constructions, with exaggerated and pliable human forms. He often assumes a detached outsider point of view, in conflict with dominant historical narratives. This is best portrayed by his masterpiece "The Autumn of Central Paris" (1972–73), wherein philosopher Walter Benjamin is portrayed, as both the orchestrator and victim of historical madness. The futility of historical progress creates a disjointed architecture that is maddening to deconstruct. He

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staged a major exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1965, and a retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. in 1981. He selected paintings for an exhibition, "The Artist's Eye", at the National Gallery, London in 1980. In 1981 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1984.

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Later years In his later years, he developed a greater awareness of his Jewish heritage, which found expression in his works, with reference to the Holocaust and influences from Jewish writers such as Kafka and Walter Benjamin, and he came to consider himself to be a "wandering Jew". In 1989, Kitaj published "First Diasporist Manifesto", a short book in which he analysed his own alienation, and how this contributed to his art. His book contained the remark: "The Diasporist lives and paints in two or more societies at once." And he added: "You don't have to be a Jew to be a Diasporist."

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A second retrospective was staged at the Tate Gallery in 1994. Critical reviews in London were almost universally negative. British press savagely attacked the Tate exhibit, calling Kitaj a pretentious poseur who engaged in name dropping. Kitaj took the criticism very personally, declaring that "anti-intellectualism, anti-Americanism, and anti-Semitism" had fueled the vitriol. Despite the bad reviews, the exhibition moved to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and afterwards to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1995. His second wife, Sandra Fisher died from hyperacute haemorrhagic leuco-encephalitis in 1994, shortly after his exhibition at the Tate Gallery had ended. He blamed the British press for her death, stating that "they were aiming for me, but they got her instead." David Hockney concurred and said that he too believed the London art critics had killed Sandra Fisher. Kitaj returned to the US in 1997 and settled in Los Angeles, near his first son. "When my Wife

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died", he wrote to Edward Chaney, "London died for me and I returned home to California to live among sons and grandsons – It was a very good move and now I begin my 3rd and (last?) ACT! hands across The Sea." Three years later he wrote: "I grow older every day and rather like my hermit life." The "Tate War" and Sandra's death became a central themes for his later works: he often depicted himself and his deceased wife as angels. In Los Angeles No. 22 (Painting-Drawing) the beautiful young (and naked) girl records the shadow of her aged lover (on whose lap she sits) in a pose directly taken from the Scots Grand Tourist David Allan's Origin of Painting. The latter was included by Ernst Gombrich in his 1995 National Gallery exhibition (and catalogue) on Shadows so that Kitaj would have seen it two years before he left England for ever.

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In 1997 Kitaj exhibited his work Sandra Three, an installation of paintings, photographs and text that stretched across an entire wall of the gallery at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. Kitaj used the Academy's Summer Exhibition to showcase this sequence of works that dealt with the events of the "Tate War" and Sandra's death and even included a graffiti inscription stating 'The Critic Kills'.

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In 2000, Kitaj was one of several artists to make a Post-it note for an internet charity auction held by 3M to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their product. The charcoal and pastel piece sold for $925, making it the most expensive post-it note in history, a fact recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records. Kitaj was elected to the Royal Academy in 1991, the first American to join the Academy since John Singer Sargent. He received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1995. He staged another exhibition at the National Gallery in 2001, entitled "Kitaj in the Aura of Cézanne and Other Masters". In September 2010, Kitaj and five British artists including Howard Hodgkin, John Walker, Ian Stephenson, Patrick Caulfield and John Hoyland were included in an exhibition entitled The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art From the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, at the Yale Center for British Art.

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In October 2012 a major international symposium was held in Berlin to mark what would have been Kitaj's 80th birthday. It accompanied Obsessions, the first comprehensive exhibition of Kitaj's work since his death, held at the Jewish Museum, Berlin. The title is partly in reference to what he dubbed his "erratic Jewish obsessions". The exhibition was shown in the UK in two parts at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (February 23 to June 16, 2013) and the Jewish Museum London (February 21 to June 16, 2013). All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life opened at Tate Britain in February 2018, inspired by Kitaj's School of London. References Sources

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Further reading Baskind, Samantha, Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America,Philadelphia, PA, Penn State University Press, 2014, Chaney, Edward,'Kitaj versus Creed', The London Magazine (April 2002), pp. 106–11. Chaney, Edward, "Warburgian Artist: R.B. Kitaj, Edgar Wind, Ernst Gombrich and the Warburg Institute". Obsessions: R.B. Kitaj 1932–2007. Jewish Museum Berlin. Kerber Art, 2012, pp. 97–103. Chaney, Edward, 'R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007): Warburgian Artist', "emaj" issue 7.1 November Duncan, Robert. "A Paris Visit, with R.B. Kitaj". Conjunctions, no. 8, Fall 1985, pp. 8–17 Kampf, Avraham. Chagall to Kitaj: Jewish Experience in Twentieth-Century Art. Exhibition catalogue. London: Lund Humphries and the Barbican Art Gallery, 1990. Kitaj, R. B. First Diasporist Manifesto. London : Thames and Hudson, 1989. Kitaj, R. B. The Second Diasporist Manifesto. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2007.

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Kitaj, R. B. / Irving Petlin. Rubbings...The Large Paintings and the Small Pastels. Exhibition catalogue. Purchase, New York, and Chicago: Neuberger Museum and Arts Club of Chicago, 1978. Lambirth, Andrew. Kitaj. London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2004. Palmer, Michael. "Four Kitaj Studies", from The Promises of Glass. New York: New Directions Publishing, 2000. Stępnik, Małgorzata. Błogosławione błądzenie. Na marginesie diasporycznego manifestu Ronalda B. Kitaja (The Blessed Wandering. Side Notes on Ronald B. Kitaj's Diasporic Manifesto) (in:) Sztuka i edukacja, (eds.) A. Boguszewska, B. Niścior, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin 2015.

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Stępnik, Małgorzata. The Aesthetics of the School of London "Diasporic" Painting – on the Basis of Ronald B. Kitaj's Literary Manifestos (in:) Studies on Modern Art Vol. 5: Art of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland & Republic of Ireland in 20th–21st Centuries and Polish – British & Irish Art Relation, (eds.) M. Geron, J. Malinowski, J. W. Sienkiewicz, Toruń: The Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, 2015, pp. 109–116. .

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HMS Tiger was a conventional cruiser of the British Royal Navy, one of a three-ship class known as the . Ordered during World War II, she was completed after its end. Tiger was in service by 1960 and served in the Far East and then with the Home Fleet before going into reserve at the end of 1966. From 1968 Tiger was converted to a "helicopter and command cruiser" and equipped with guided missile anti-aircraft defence before returning to service in the early 1970s. She remained in service until 1978 when she was put into reserve and marked for disposal. There were moves to return her to service during the Falklands War for her flight deck capacity but it did not proceed. Tiger was finally sold for scrap in 1986.

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Construction Tiger started out as Bellerophon laid down in 1941 at the John Brown Shipyard as part of the of light cruisers. These vessels had a low construction priority due to more pressing requirements for other ship types during World War II, particularly anti-submarine vessels. Bellerophon was renamed Tiger in 1945, and was launched, partially constructed, on 25 October 1945. She was christened by Lady Stansgate, the wife of William Benn, Viscount Stansgate, the Secretary of State for Air. Work on Tiger was suspended in 1946, and she was laid up at Dalmuir. The Tigers were redesigned in 1948, mainly for anti-aircraft defence of convoys and aircraft carrier task forces. Cruisers were seen as playing a secondary and complementary role to light fleet aircraft carriers in the defence of trade and attack on enemy shipping. For AA defence of fleet carrier task forces the cruisers replaced the AA batteries of Second World War-era battleships and carriers.

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In 1951 the Government decided to complete the ship and two others to an altered design with all-new armament as opposed to building new cruisers. With the revised design, HMS Tiger, became the lead ship of the class. Due to the priority of the Royal Air Force (in providing defence against nuclear attack by Soviet bombers), the Cold War, and the conflict between the prime minister and Admiralty Naval Staff over shipbuilding issues, the warships that were approved in 1951-1953 were anti-submarine frigates, destroyers, and minehunters but no cruisers. The restart of work on the Tiger class and reconstruction of other cruisers was delayed until 1955.

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The ship had automatic guns in twin high-angle mounts with each gun designed to fire 20 rounds per minute, and a secondary battery of automatic weapons firing at 90-120 rpm. Each 6 inch and 3 inch mounting had its own Medium Range System (MRS) 3 radar director. Viscount Hall stated in the House of Lords in 1959 that her "automatically controlled" guns were "capable of firing at more than twice the speed of manned armament" and the "improvement in guns was ten times better than if the ship had been with the original gun armament". However, Tigers 6-inch guns usually jammed after 30 seconds firing, and couldn't deliver sustained bombardment in support of troops ashore. RN argued that the first 30 seconds of engaging jet aircraft and warships was the critical determinant and that aircraft would be shot down with short bursts of fire and as such limited magazine capacity and gun reliability were less important than instantaneous response. The decision to complete the ships was based on

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the availability of hulls and expectation that the cruisers could be completed sooner (three years against 5 years) and cheaper (60% of the cost) than building new [8,000 ton] cruisers at a time when the existing cruiser fleet was ageing and its weapons and fire control were useless against modern aircraft. The RN had 21 cruisers in 1957, nine in operation and by 1961 the cruiser fleet had reduced to nine of which five were in service.

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HMS Tigers revised weapon fit was for immediate post-war requirements and the continued reconstruction of the class confirmed the 1957 Defence White Paper as interim anti-aircraft ships pending the introduction of guided weapons into the Royal Navy; four County-class destroyers with the Seaslug missiles had been ordered by February 1957. In practice, only Tiger would be ready in time and perform sufficiently well to serve any length of time as a gun cruiser.

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By the time Tigers legend was accepted by the Board of the Admiralty in July 1954 and the Cabinet in November 1954, the cruiser design, hull and machinery were really too old. Her two 6-inch turrets were insufficient to guarantee surface fire and were less effective in the anti-aircraft warfare role due to improvements in missiles and aircraft; also, the basic fit of three twin 3 inch turrets were poor for effective, reliable coverage of the fire arcs. The planned 40mm Bofors guns approved in 1954/57 as essential for close-in defence were omitted to give the crew space and comfort. Air conditioning was fitted throughout the ship, and a 200-line automatic telephone exchange was installed. Her first captain was reported in the House of Lords to have said "that H.M.S. Tiger had been designed to cope with nuclear attacks, in that she can steam for up to a fortnight through radioactive fallout with remotely controlled boiler and engine and armament operating with re-circulating purified

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air below decks, and could operate as a fighting unit even if a nuclear bomb were dropped near by." They were described in Parliament as "effective ships for a long period to come, and especially is this true east of Suez, where distances are so gigantic."

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As completed, Tiger carried: a Type 992Q surface search radar at the top of the foremast, with a range of , a Type 960 air warning radar at the top of the mainmast, with a range of , a Type 277Q height-finding radar halfway up the mainmast, with a range of , five MRS 3 fire control directors (one for each turret), each fitted with a Type 903 gunnery radar. Her sonars were: Type 174 medium range search, Type 176 passive search, which shared the same dome as the Type 174, Type 185 underwater telephone. The Tigers complement was officially stated as 698 (53 officers and 645 ratings) in peacetime, and 900 in wartime. The Navy Estimates for 1959-60 gave her initial costs as £12,820,000, whereas Jane's Fighting Ships gave her initial cost as £13,113,000. Tiger was accepted by the Navy in March 1959, and commissioned on 18 March 1959. Early career

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The early part of Tigers first commission was spent, under Captain R. E. Washbourn, on trials of her new armament. After workup, now under Captain R. Hutchins, Tiger went on a round of autumn flag-showing visits to Gdynia, Stockholm, Kiel and Antwerp. At the end of 1959 she deployed to the Mediterranean for a year as the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet. By late 1960, there were still problems with her armament and it was planned to resolve these at her first refit at the end of 1960. During a visit by the Lord Carrington (the First Lord of the Admiralty), his Naval Secretary Rear-Admiral Frank Twiss "made the unpardonable error of shooting down a very expensive target aircraft, to the cheers of the ship's company but to a stinging rebuke from their Lordships of the Admiralty." The ship took part in operations in the Far East during the Indonesian Confrontation in the early 1960s. The Navy in the early 1960s suffered manpower shortages, which resulted in a "shortfall in technical

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personnel" in the Tiger, as a consequence some "items of its equipment could not be operated", and "some of its equipment was not operational". In September 1963, the Glasgow Herald said that the "Tiger already has a much-reduced crew and is virtually a floating office." During the 1964 general election campaign, the leader of the opposition, Harold Wilson, criticised the government for this during a speech at Plymouth.

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Rear-Admiral Michael Pollock flew his flag in her as Flag Officer, Second-in-Command, Home Fleet, from 1965 – 1966. On 10 August 1966 one of the guns accidentally fired a practice shell into Devonport Dockyard during material tests of the equipment. "One member of the ship's company was slightly grazed, but there were no other casualties." In October 1966, the ship was visiting Cardiff at the time of the Aberfan disaster. The crew assisted with the rescue and recovery operation.

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From 2 to 4 December 1966, she hosted talks between Prime Ministers Harold Wilson (UK) and Ian Smith of Rhodesia. The latter had unilaterally declared independence from Britain due to Britain's insistence on the removal of white minority rule before independence. Twenty officers (including all twelve midshipmen) were put ashore at Gibraltar before the talks to "make room for the three delegations of the Prime Minister, the Governor of Rhodesia and Mr. Smith." When the Rhodesian delegation arrived, the Tiger was a few miles off shore, and the delegation was ferried out in a small craft. The Tiger then moved out to sea, but moved close to harbour when the Rhodesian delegation disembarked. On Wilson's orders, the British and Rhodesian delegations were "separated in all activities outside the conference room".

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Conversion and later career Tiger was placed in reserve on 18 December 1966, before undergoing conversion to a "helicopter and command cruiser" from 1968–72 in HMNB Devonport. This reconstruction included removing the after 6 inch mount and 3 inch mounts, installing two Seacat missile GWS 22 mounts, and building a flight deck and hangar to operate four Westland Wessex (later Westland Sea King HAS 2) helicopters. Tiger was given much taller funnels with squared off caps, which was such an improvement that the Blake was given similar funnels in 1977.

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Once converted, Tiger carried: a Type 992Q surface search radar at the top of the foremast, with a range of , a Type 965M air warning radar with an AKE-1 single bedstead aerial at the top of the mainmast, this had a narrower beam than the Type 960, which was needed for air direction and was now the Royal Navy standard. a Type 278 height-finding radar halfway up the mainmast, which was similar to the Type 277Q, but easier to maintain, four MRS 3 fire control directors (one for each turret and Seacat mounting, each fitted with a Type 903 gunnery radar. She had excellent command, control, and communications facilities installed, and found use as a flagship to task groups.

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When plans were announced to Parliament in March 1964, it was said that the Navy did "not expect this conversion work to be difficult or particularly expensive". The reconstruction of Blake and Tiger was examined in the third report of the Public Accounts Committee for 1972. Michael Barnes said in parliament that the refits "show too lax an attitude towards the way in which the taxpayers' money is being spent". "The refits were planned to take 18 months and to cost £5 million each... The Tiger refit took over five years and cost over £13 million." Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles suggested bringing HMS Eagle back into commission instead of manning the Blake and Tiger, which he said were "among the worst abortions which have ever been thrust on the Royal Navy." The ship's helicopter squadron increased the ship's peacetime complement to 885 (85 officers and 800 ratings), which put a strain on accommodation for the crew.

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During reconstruction and in the following years, material cannibalised from Lion was used to patch both Tiger and Blake. Tiger reportedly had so much material from Lion that her crew nicknamed her "HMS Liger". She was recommissioned on 6 May 1972. Her large crew made her an expensive ship to operate and maintain. When the economic difficulties of the late seventies came around, this led to a defence manpower drawdown that resulted in manpower shortages; although Tiger remained in service long enough to take part in the 1977 Silver Jubilee Fleet Review in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II. Decommissioning and disposal In 1978 Tiger was placed in reserve, and decommissioned on 4 May 1979. She was put on the disposal list in 1979. Both Tiger and her sister-ship Blake were listed as part of the Standby Squadron, and moored inactive at HMNB Chatham.

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When the Falklands War broke out in early April 1982, both ships were rapidly surveyed and it was determined both were in very good material shape, and both were immediately drydocked (Tiger in Portsmouth and Blake at Chatham) and recommissioning work was begun.

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Whilst there was speculation that their 6-inch guns would be useful for shore bombardment, the real reason for their potential deployment was the size of their flight decks (at the time the third largest in the Royal Navy after the aircraft carriers and ), and the potential to use them as mobile forward operating and refuelling bases for Task Force Harriers. (Blake had already operated RAF Harriers briefly for proving trials in 1971, and Harriers had refuelled on Tiger). Their benefit would be more as platforms to extend the range and endurance of the Harriers and as a refuelling stop on the way back to the carriers, rather than as somewhere to operate offensive missions from, or as somewhere to place a pair of Sea Harriers as an extended-range Combat Air Patrol ahead of the two carriers (and reducing their own exposure to air strikes), but the need to take off vertically rather than the use of a ski-jump severely reduced the Harriers' endurance and weapons carrying capability, and

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in late May 1982 after the loss of the destroyer and the Argentinian cruiser the refits were stopped.

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There were also doubts about the two ships' self-defence capabilities, (the 6-inch and 3-inch armament had never been reliable) and this coupled with the large complement (and potential loss of life if one of the cruisers was to be lost), caused much anxiety in the Admiralty. That, along with where to find 1,800 capable and qualified crew in a hurry at a time when the Royal Navy was already down-sizing, sealed the two ships' fate. The UK simply could not afford its own Belgrano disaster, either materially or politically. Although Chile showed a faint interest in acquiring Tiger and sister-ship Blake, this did not get past the discussion stage and Tiger lingered on, moored in Portsmouth harbour. Tiger existed in a slowly deteriorating condition until mid-1986, and following competitive tendering she was sold for scrap to Desguaces Varela of Spain. She was towed to Spain and scrapping started in October 1986.

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One of her 3-inch guns is on display outside TS Tiger Leicester Sea Cadets, Leicester. The gun may have been removed from HMS Tiger during her 1950s refit. Commanding officers Notes References HMS Tiger at Uboat.net A history of the Tiger class 1945 ships Ships built on the River Clyde Cold War cruisers of the United Kingdom Tiger-class cruisers Helicopter carriers

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Maryino () is the name of several rural localities in Russia. Belgorod Oblast As of 2010, one rural locality in Belgorod Oblast bears this name: Maryino, Belgorod Oblast, a khutor in Shebekinsky District Ivanovo Oblast As of 2010, three rural localities in Ivanovo Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Ilyinsky District, Ivanovo Oblast, a village in Ilyinsky District Maryino, Teykovsky District, Ivanovo Oblast, a village in Teykovsky District Maryino, Verkhnelandekhovsky District, Ivanovo Oblast, a village in Verkhnelandekhovsky District

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Kaluga Oblast As of 2010, seven rural localities in Kaluga Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Kaluga, Kaluga Oblast, a village under the administrative jurisdiction of the City of Kaluga Maryino, Borovsky District, Kaluga Oblast, a village in Borovsky District Maryino, Kozelsky District, Kaluga Oblast, a village in Kozelsky District Maryino, Ulyanovsky District, Kaluga Oblast, a village in Ulyanovsky District Maryino, Yukhnovsky District, Kaluga Oblast, a village in Yukhnovsky District Maryino (Tarutino Rural Settlement), Zhukovsky District, Kaluga Oblast, a village in Zhukovsky District; municipally, a part of Tarutino Rural Settlement of that district Maryino (Vysokinichi Rural Settlement), Zhukovsky District, Kaluga Oblast, a village in Zhukovsky District; municipally, a part of Vysokinichi Rural Settlement of that district

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Kirov Oblast As of 2010, one rural locality in Kirov Oblast bears this name: Maryino, Kirov Oblast, a village under the administrative jurisdiction of Oktyabrsky City District of the City of Kirov Kostroma Oblast As of 2010, two rural localities in Kostroma Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Kadyysky District, Kostroma Oblast, a village in Selishchenskoye Settlement of Kadyysky District Maryino, Parfenyevsky District, Kostroma Oblast, a village in Parfenyevskoye Settlement of Parfenyevsky District Krasnodar Krai As of 2010, two rural localities in Krasnodar Krai bear this name: Maryino, Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, a selo in Kirovsky Rural Okrug under the administrative jurisdiction of the City of Sochi Maryino, Uspensky District, Krasnodar Krai, a selo in Volnensky Rural Okrug of Uspensky District

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Kursk Oblast As of 2010, two rural localities in Kursk Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Kastorensky District, Kursk Oblast, a selo in Lachinovsky Selsoviet of Kastorensky District Maryino, Rylsky District, Kursk Oblast, a settlement in Ivanovsky Selsoviet of Rylsky District Leningrad Oblast As of 2010, three rural localities in Leningrad Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Gatchinsky District, Leningrad Oblast, a village in Pudomyagskoye Settlement Municipal Formation of Gatchinsky District Maryino, Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, a village in Nizinskoye Settlement Municipal Formation of Lomonosovsky District Maryino, Priozersky District, Leningrad Oblast, a logging depot settlement in Larionovskoye Settlement Municipal Formation of Priozersky District

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Lipetsk Oblast As of 2010, two rural localities in Lipetsk Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Krasninsky District, Lipetsk Oblast, a village in Yablonovsky Selsoviet of Krasninsky District Maryino, Zadonsky District, Lipetsk Oblast, a village in Kamyshevsky Selsoviet of Zadonsky District Mari El Republic As of 2010, one rural locality in the Mari El Republic bears this name: Maryino, Mari El Republic, a selo in Maryinsky Rural Okrug of Yurinsky District Moscow As of 2010, two rural localities in Moscow bear this name: Maryino (settlement), Moscow, a settlement in Filimonkovskoye Settlement of Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug Maryino (village), Moscow, a village in Filimonkovskoye Settlement of Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug

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Moscow Oblast As of 2010, six rural localities in Moscow Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast, a village in Otradnenskoye Rural Settlement of Krasnogorsky District Maryino, Noginsky District, Moscow Oblast, a village under the administrative jurisdiction of the Town of Elektrougli in Noginsky District Maryino, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast, a village in Zakharovskoye Rural Settlement of Odintsovsky District Maryino, Ruzsky District, Moscow Oblast, a village in Dorokhovskoye Rural Settlement of Ruzsky District Maryino, Sergiyevo-Posadsky District, Moscow Oblast, a village in Shemetovskoye Rural Settlement of Sergiyevo-Posadsky District Maryino, Solnechnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast, a village in Sokolovskoye Rural Settlement of Solnechnogorsky District

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Nizhny Novgorod Oblast As of 2010, three rural localities in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Buturlinsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a selo in Bolshebakaldsky Selsoviet of Buturlinsky District Maryino, Voskresensky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a village in Nakhratovsky Selsoviet of Voskresensky District Maryino, Voznesensky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a village in Butakovsky Selsoviet of Voznesensky District Novgorod Oblast As of 2010, one rural locality in Novgorod Oblast bears this name: Maryino, Novgorod Oblast, a village in Uspenskoye Settlement of Chudovsky District Oryol Oblast As of 2010, one rural locality in Oryol Oblast bears this name: Maryino, Oryol Oblast, a village in Kudinovsky Selsoviet of Dolzhansky District

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Pskov Oblast As of 2010, nine rural localities in Pskov Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Gdovsky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Gdovsky District Maryino, Loknyansky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Loknyansky District Maryino, Nevelsky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Nevelsky District Maryino, Novorzhevsky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Novorzhevsky District Maryino, Novosokolnichesky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Novosokolnichesky District Maryino, Opochetsky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Opochetsky District Maryino, Ostrovsky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Ostrovsky District Maryino, Strugo-Krasnensky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Strugo-Krasnensky District Maryino, Velikoluksky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Velikoluksky District

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Ryazan Oblast As of 2010, four rural localities in Ryazan Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Mikhaylovsky District, Ryazan Oblast, a village in Mishinsky Rural Okrug of Mikhaylovsky District Maryino, Ryazhsky District, Ryazan Oblast, a village in Vvedenovsky Rural Okrug of Ryazhsky District Maryino, Kazache-Dyukovsky Rural Okrug, Shatsky District, Ryazan Oblast, a village in Kazache-Dyukovsky Rural Okrug of Shatsky District Maryino, Zhelannovsky Rural Okrug, Shatsky District, Ryazan Oblast, a village in Zhelannovsky Rural Okrug of Shatsky District Saratov Oblast As of 2010, two rural localities in Saratov Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Bazarno-Karabulaksky District, Saratov Oblast, a selo in Bazarno-Karabulaksky District Maryino, Turkovsky District, Saratov Oblast, a selo in Turkovsky District

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Smolensk Oblast As of 2010, eleven rural localities in Smolensk Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Dobrominskoye Rural Settlement, Glinkovsky District, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Dobrominskoye Rural Settlement of Glinkovsky District Maryino, Glinkovskoye Rural Settlement, Glinkovsky District, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Glinkovskoye Rural Settlement of Glinkovsky District Maryino, Novoduginsky District, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Izvekovskoye Rural Settlement of Novoduginsky District Maryino, Pochinkovsky District, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Klimshchinskoye Rural Settlement of Pochinkovsky District Maryino, Pushkinskoye Rural Settlement, Safonovsky District, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Pushkinskoye Rural Settlement of Safonovsky District Maryino, Zimnitskoye Rural Settlement, Safonovsky District, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Zimnitskoye Rural Settlement of Safonovsky District

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Maryino, Khokhlovskoye Rural Settlement, Smolensky District, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Khokhlovskoye Rural Settlement of Smolensky District Maryino, Sychyovsky District, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Sutorminskoye Rural Settlement of Sychyovsky District Maryino, Khmelitskoye Rural Settlement, Vyazemsky District, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Khmelitskoye Rural Settlement of Vyazemsky District Maryino, Maslovskoye Rural Settlement, Vyazemsky District, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Maslovskoye Rural Settlement of Vyazemsky District Maryino, Yelninsky District, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Mazovskoye Rural Settlement of Yelninsky District

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Tambov Oblast As of 2010, three rural localities in Tambov Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Michurinsky District, Tambov Oblast, a village in Tersky Selsoviet of Michurinsky District Maryino, Nikiforovsky District, Tambov Oblast, a village in Ozersky Selsoviet of Nikiforovsky District Maryino, Zherdevsky District, Tambov Oblast, a village in Alexeyevsky Selsoviet of Zherdevsky District Republic of Tatarstan As of 2010, one rural locality in the Republic of Tatarstan bears this name: Maryino, Republic of Tatarstan, a village in Apastovsky District

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Tula Oblast As of 2010, six rural localities in Tula Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Dubensky District, Tula Oblast, a village in Nadezhdinsky Rural Okrug of Dubensky District Maryino, Kamensky District, Tula Oblast, a village in Kamensky Rural Okrug of Kamensky District Maryino, Kireyevsky District, Tula Oblast, a village in Bolshekalmyksky Rural Okrug of Kireyevsky District Maryino, Leninsky District, Tula Oblast, a village in Bezhkovsky Rural Okrug of Leninsky District Maryino, Tyoplo-Ogaryovsky District, Tula Oblast, a village in Gorkovsky Rural Okrug of Tyoplo-Ogaryovsky District Maryino, Yefremovsky District, Tula Oblast, a village in Mordovsky Rural Okrug of Yefremovsky District

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Tver Oblast As of 2010, sixteen rural localities in Tver Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Andreapolsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Khotilitskoye Rural Settlement of Andreapolsky District Maryino, Belsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Kavelshchinskoye Rural Settlement of Belsky District Maryino, Kablukovskoye Rural Settlement, Kalininsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Kablukovskoye Rural Settlement of Kalininsky District Maryino, Shcherbininskoye Rural Settlement, Kalininsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Shcherbininskoye Rural Settlement of Kalininsky District Maryino, Slavnovskoye Rural Settlement, Kalininsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Slavnovskoye Rural Settlement of Kalininsky District Maryino, Verkhnevolzhskoye Rural Settlement, Kalininsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Verkhnevolzhskoye Rural Settlement of Kalininsky District Maryino, Kesovogorsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Strelikhinskoye Rural Settlement of Kesovogorsky District

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Maryino, Konakovsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Selikhovskoye Rural Settlement of Konakovsky District Maryino, Baranovskoye Rural Settlement, Likhoslavlsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Baranovskoye Rural Settlement of Likhoslavlsky District Maryino, Stanskoye Rural Settlement, Likhoslavlsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Stanskoye Rural Settlement of Likhoslavlsky District Maryino, Nelidovsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Novoselkovskoye Rural Settlement of Nelidovsky District Maryino, Ostashkovsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Sorozhskoye Rural Settlement of Ostashkovsky District Maryino, Rameshkovsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Kiverichi Rural Settlement of Rameshkovsky District Maryino, Sonkovsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Koyskoye Rural Settlement of Sonkovsky District Maryino, Torzhoksky District, Tver Oblast, a selo in Maryinskoye Rural Settlement of Torzhoksky District

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Maryino, Udomelsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Zarechenskoye Rural Settlement of Udomelsky District

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Vladimir Oblast As of 2010, three rural localities in Vladimir Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Kolchuginsky District, Vladimir Oblast, a village in Kolchuginsky District Maryino, Kovrovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, a selo in Kovrovsky District Maryino, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, a village in Vyaznikovsky District Vologda Oblast As of 2010, four rural localities in Vologda Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Chagodoshchensky District, Vologda Oblast, a village in Belokrestsky Selsoviet of Chagodoshchensky District Maryino, Sizemsky Selsoviet, Sheksninsky District, Vologda Oblast, a village in Sizemsky Selsoviet of Sheksninsky District Maryino, Yurochensky Selsoviet, Sheksninsky District, Vologda Oblast, a village in Yurochensky Selsoviet of Sheksninsky District Maryino, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, a village in Veprevsky Selsoviet of Vologodsky District

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Yaroslavl Oblast As of 2010, ten rural localities in Yaroslavl Oblast bear this name: Maryino, Bolsheselsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Varegovsky Rural Okrug of Bolsheselsky District Maryino, Semivragovsky Rural Okrug, Danilovsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Semivragovsky Rural Okrug of Danilovsky District Maryino, Seredskoy Rural Okrug, Danilovsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Seredskoy Rural Okrug of Danilovsky District Maryino, Bogorodsky Rural Okrug, Myshkinsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Bogorodsky Rural Okrug of Myshkinsky District Maryino, Povodnevsky Rural Okrug, Myshkinsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Povodnevsky Rural Okrug of Myshkinsky District Maryino, Latskovsky Rural Okrug, Nekouzsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Latskovsky Rural Okrug of Nekouzsky District Maryino, Vereteysky Rural Okrug, Nekouzsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a selo in Vereteysky Rural Okrug of Nekouzsky District

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Maryino, Pervomaysky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Ignattsevsky Rural Okrug of Pervomaysky District Maryino, Uglichsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Slobodskoy Rural Okrug of Uglichsky District Maryino, Yaroslavsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Shirinsky Rural Okrug of Yaroslavsky District

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The Live Entertainment Corporation of Canada, better known as Livent, was a theatre production company based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1989 by former Cineplex Odeon executives Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, the company initially found success with its production of The Phantom of the Opera at its Pantages Theatre in Toronto. In 1993, they brought Kiss of the Spider Woman to Broadway, winning the Tony Award for Best Musical. They became known for lavish productions with their 1994 revival of Show Boat (estimated to be the most expensive production in Broadway history at the time), and their ambitious 1998 original musical Ragtime.

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In 1998, Livent announced the discovery of "accounting irregularities". Revised financial statements showed previously undisclosed losses, and the company filed for bankruptcy protection. As a result, the company's stock price plummeted, and its assets were eventually sold off in 1999. The company's collapse led to criminal and civil litigation. An Ontario court found that Drabinsky and Gottlieb had systematically doctored Livent's financial statements, and sentenced them to jail terms of several years for fraud and forgery. At its height, Livent was the largest live theatre company in North America, and was the first publicly traded company dedicated to live theatre. Livent used Toronto as a testing ground for its pre-Broadway tryouts and has been credited (along with its competitor, Mirvish Productions) with elevating Toronto to the second-most important destination for live theatre in North America, and bringing hundreds of millions of dollars of tourism income to the city.