Talk:Matt Monro

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Monro vs. Nat King Cole

Having recently viewed Matt Monro's appearance in a TV airing of the 1965 version of the British rock promo film, "Pop Gear", I've begun to research his life a bit more lately. I was familiar with his two most famous recordings, "Born Free", and "From Russia With Love" growing up, and was still in High School when he died. I have noticed the parallels between his tragedy, and that of singer, Nat King Cole, whom Monro replaced on the Capital Records label the year after Cole's death. Both died of cancer in the month of February (20 years apart), which they acquired through heavy smoking (also, reportedly heavy social drinking in Monro's case). Both had at least one child who celebrated a birthday in the month of their fathers' deaths, and those children became singers, each releasing albums in which their voices are morphed with their fathers' recordings so that they can "sing" with their late parents.--Very Poignant. Both have one son who also died relatively young, years after their passing. I wish their familes all the best, as they have endured so much. Deborah Earle —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.157.150.67 (talk) 06:25, 11 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Age

Think his age may be wrong, though this is a guess-

Born 1 December 1930(1930-12.0000000000000000-01) Shoreditch, London, England Died 7 February 1985 (aged 54.0000000000000000) Cromwell Hospital, London, England

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Damn- that didn' take long to fix. hadn't hit enter before it was back to normal....

British Army service?

It would improve the article if the inclusion of information that Monro (under birth name Terrence Parsons) served in the British Army from the age of 17 1/2 (c. 6/48) until 1953. This would be about five years of service. According to the web site matt monro the singer's singer he had originally enlisted in the British Army for 12 years. Again, according to the referenced web site, he received his first commercial music break with multiple appearences on a commercial radio show in Hong Kong during his forces service in the early 1950's. The site said that he even received his own radio programme while there. From what I understand from a BBC London 94.9 radio programme by Robert Elms today, the site is owned by one of the singer's daughters. I don't know if Wiki policy would allow inclusion of data from a close relative's web site honouring the singer. What do other editors think?--TGC55 (talk) 16:10, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

death/legacy section

on the back of one of the three original walker brothers albums (i can't remember which one!), scott walker is quoted as saying monro is his favorite singer; this would have been mid-sixties. that's huge, and would make a nice addition if someone were able to look up the quote.