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Barbara Tyson (born October 1, 1964) is a Canadian actress known for appearing in hit TV series Neon Rider, Cold Squad, ER and The Twilight Zone. One of her first notable television roles was in Another World as Dawn "Ivy" Rollo, the first HIV-positive character to be introduced in a daytime soap opera in the United States. [1]
1 day ago · Barbara Tyson inherited a stake in Tyson Foods after her husband, Randal Tyson, died in 1986. She has served on the board of the food giant, which produces about 20% of America's beef, pork and ...
NRHP reference No. 75001575 [1] Added to NRHP. April 10, 1975. Westhope, also known as the Richard Lloyd Jones House, is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Textile Block home that was constructed in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1929. This was Wright's only Textile Block house outside of California. [2] The client, Richard Lloyd Jones, was Wright's cousin and ...
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Wright, whose father was head biochemist at Unigate, grew up in Hatch End, Middlesex, and was educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's School. He taught himself to play guitar, trombone, trumpet and piano at the age of 12 while recuperating from a broken leg. His mother encouraged him to concentrate on the piano. He took private lessons in music theory...
1960s–1970s: Pink Floyd
Through a friend, Wright arranged Pink Floyd's first recording session in a West Hampstead studio, just before Christmas 1964. The guitarist Bob Klose and the guitarist and singer Syd Barrett joined the band, which became Pink Floyd.Wright's first solo song, "You're the Reason Why", appeared in 1964 on Decca as the B-side of a single by Adam, Mike and Tim. Pink Floyd stabilised with Barrett, Waters, Mason and Wright by mid-1965, and after frequent gigging that year became regulars on the unde...
Late 1970s–early 1980s: Conflict and departure from Pink Floyd
Wright recorded his first solo album, Wet Dream, in early 1978 in Super Bear Studios, France, which featured the Pink Floyd touring guitarist Snowy White and the former King Crimson saxophonist Mel Collins. Several songs on the album refer to his holiday home in Lindos.The album was released in September to minimal commercial success. Wright's contributions diminished in the late 1970s as Waters began to dominate the writing process. Animals (1977) was the first Pink Floyd album without songw...
1983–1995: Zee and return to Pink Floyd
During 1983–1984, Wright formed a musical duo, Zee, with Dave Harris of the band Fashion. The pair had been introduced by a mutual friend, the saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft. They signed a record deal with EMI Records and released only one album, Identity, which was a commercial and critical failure.Wright later referred to Zee as "an experiment best forgotten". After Waters' departure in 1985, Wright began to contribute to Pink Floyd again, beginning with A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)....
Wright died from lung cancer at his home in London on 15 September 2008, aged 65.At the time of his death, he had been working on a new solo album, thought to comprise a series of instrumental pieces. The surviving members of Pink Floyd paid tribute to Wright: Waters said it was "hard to overstate the importance of his musical voice in the Pink Flo...
Wright's main influence was jazz, particularly Miles Davis and John Coltrane. He did not consider himself a typical songwriter, preferring to create whole albums of music with a theme. He said: "If the words came out like the music, and we didn't have anything else to do, then quite a few would be written." A number of compositions credited to Wrig...
Wright married his first wife, Juliette Gale, in 1964. She had been a singer in one of the early bands that evolved into Pink Floyd. They had two children and divorced in 1982. Wright's second marriage, to Franka, lasted from 1984 to 1994. Wright married his third wife, Mildred "Millie" Hobbs, in 1995, with whom he had a son, Ben. Wright's 1996 sol...
Solo albums
1. Wet Dream(1978) 2. Broken China(1996)
With Zee
1. Identity– 1984
Pink Floyd's official site Archived 18 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine Archived 18 March 2009 at the Wayback MachineRichard Wright's French Riviera Home[permanent dead link]Barbara A. Tyson. Director since 1988. Barbara provides the board with in-depth insight into the company’s business and operations developed through years of experience as a Tyson Foods’ director and corporate officer. She became a consultant to the company in 2002, after she retired as a Tyson Foods’ vice president. Barbara has helped ...
Barbara Tyson. Actress: Final Destination. Barbara Tyson has appeared in movies, sitcoms, dramatic series, and television commercials. At the age of seventeen she began her voice over career, and has since recorded over 7000 radio and TV voice overs, in Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and Vancouver. Tyson's voice is heard in virtually all areas of media. Barbara's career began in Toronto ...
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Bio. Actress Barbara Tyson has appeared in movies, telefilms, sitcoms, dramatic series and over a hundred television and radio commercials. Barbara's career began in Toronto, Ontario, where she worked in an advertising agency by day, took college classes at night, and still managed to land small parts in television and theatrical productions.
