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What a terrible 24 hours it has been.

So glad that I got to see Sir Roger ('An Evening with...') before it was too late. He was MY James Bond and, just as importantly, The Saint and Lord Brett Sinclair. Really, really sad to hear the news.

RIP Sir. Nobody Did It Better.

My Mother worked for Roger when he lived in Denham Buckinghamshire. I sometimes used to go with her to the house. When he moved to Switzerland he sold the house to Paul Daniels. I still have his 'phone book with all his contacts in it...Cubbi Broccalli ....Michael Cane, etc. A true Gentleman.

drakula63 wrote:What a terrible 24 hours it has been.

So glad that I got to see Sir Roger ('An Evening with...') before it was too late. He was MY James Bond and, just as importantly, The Saint and Lord Brett Sinclair. Really, really sad to hear the news.

RIP Sir. Nobody Did It Better.

Agreed..RIP Sir Roger...

Anyone else recall him in Ivanoe? And as Beau Maverick a few years later?

I heard a story, I can't remember from who, about when Roger was filming The Saint or maybe even The Persuaders! Apparently he saw his neighbours daughter walking to school every day on more or less the same route as he was taking to Elstree or Pinewood Studios and so, from then on, he would give her a lift! Imagine that, The Saint drops you off outside the school gates every day! I imagine this made her quite popular.

He seemed like a decent fellow and did a huge amount of work for UNICEF.

P.S. I have just been reading an old interview with him in a James Bond book. The interviewer asks him if he ad-libbed his lines. He replies...

"They were carefully rehearsed ad-libs!"

A great answer and one of the many reasons why so many people liked him so much.

I have been a fan of Roger since early 1994, when "Live And Let Die" was the very first James Bond I ever saw (and recorded on videotape) on TV. This was shortly after we bought Hank's solo album "Heartbeat", which contained a great instrumental version of the title track. I saw the title in the TV guide and recorded the film from television. Later on, I also became a fan of "The Saint" and "The Persuaders!". Just like Cliff Richard and myself, his birthday was also October 14th!
He would have been ninety years old this year. I was quite shocked to hear the news yesterday. Someone on TV said that "another piece of film history has died". He is the first of the James Bond actors to have died. Sean Connery was also saddened, who was a lifelong friend of Roger's. In any case, he has had a long and fantastic life. RIP Roger...

I had completely forgotten about Hank's version of 'Live and Let Die'. I saw the film in 1973 and the cinema in Basingstoke. My first ever Bond film. I think I have seen ALL of them at the cinema since (with maybe two or three exceptions). Brian Bennett, of course, recorded his versions of no less than THREE Roger Moore Bond themes on his recent John Barry album... Moonraker, The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy, 'All Time High', if my memory serves me correctly. All good films if you just want to be entertained, although Octopussy was the weakest of the three in my opinion.

One of my friends actually arranged and recorded Roger's commentary for the American release of The Persuaders! on DVD! Believe it or not, it was recorded at a recording studio at Pinewood Studios and it was here that he reunited Roger with his famous Bermuda Yellow Aston Martin from the series! Apparently Roger was absolutely gobsmacked, as they say! It was here that he signed the inside of the boot/trunk lid. I am still envious!!!

Also, my mum tells me that she has one of the knitting patterns with Roger modelling the finished article (a jumper) on the cover!

Have to say that Sir Roger Moore fitted the James Bond role in great style, even though
I kept thinking he was still The Saint !!!
Same cant be said for a couple of total disasters
Klinton Spilsbury and Arnie Hammer who were total teapots on remakes of The Lone Ranger!!!!
Ah yes Clayton Moore was indeed the real Ranger Kemo Sabe!!!

Mike

i remember him in Ivanhoe when I was a small kid. I always liked the fact that he never took himself to seriously. he was married to Dorothy Squires at one time if my memory is right. I always thought he was an alright type of bloke. peter

Always been a great admirer of Roger Moore. Openly admitted he wasn't the greatest actor, but had an expressive eyebrow! Always tongue in cheek roles and he didn't take Bond seriously - I think he commented that every bar man in the world knew he was Bond but the bad guys never did! Such a nice bloke with no ego - how unlike so many of todays self centred so called stars! RIP

drakula63 wrote:P.S. I have just been reading an old interview with him in a James Bond book. The interviewer asks him if he ad-libbed his lines. He replies...

"They were carefully rehearsed ad-libs!"

A great answer and one of the many reasons why so many people liked him so much.

Very good advice for us bands out there for filling the gaps between songs. My friends' skiffle band have it down to a T after 30 years together. But they still sound fresh.