BS: Tommy Reilly

Subject: Tommy Reilly
From: Fiolar
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 01:29 PM

Sad to report the death on September 25th 2000 of master harmonica player Tommy Reilly. Born in Canada in 1919, he came to England in 1935 where he made his debut as a professional harmonica player in 1936. At the outbreak of war he was in Germany where he was arrested and spent the remaining war years in various prison camps. On his return to Britain after the war, he soon became a well known name on the radio. He played many film scores over the next years as well as radio and televsion theme tunes including "The Navy Lark", "Dixon of Dock Green" and "The Last of the Summer Wine" among others. He was made an OBE in 1992 for his services to music. Also reporting the death in Norwich, England on Sunday October 1st 2000 of the last of the Kray brothers Reggie, who had been freed from prison on compassionate grounds because of inoperable cancer. I beleive Morrisey made a record about the Krays. M