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The Sun Times Owen Sound Tues Aug 28 1090 Vaughan four associates killed in helicopter crash Music world mourns death of blues guitarist is a tragic loss of some very special people" Vaughan and his band Double Trouble produced the platinum album Stand the Weather in 1984 He won a Grammy Award weeks but the drinking was still going on If I was awake I was guz- zling At the time of his death Vaughan was looking forward to the release of an album in September recorded with his older brother Jimmie said Andy Schwartz a spokesman for Epic Records in New York which owns Vaughan's label The helicopter lifted off at about 12:35 am and the wreckage was found about 7 am All the victims died on impact said Walworth County Coroner John Griebel said They included three Clapton associates: agent Bobby Brooks 34 of Los Angeles bodyguard Nigel Browne of London and Colin Smythe of London a tour manager The pilot Jeff Brown of East Chicago Ind also was killed Brooks worked for Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles and represented such acts as Crosby Stills and Nash Whoopi Goldberg Edle Brlckell and the New Bohemians Jeff Beck Pat Benatar Jackson Browne and Dolly Parton Clapton who landed safely in Chicago cm another helicopter said the victims "were my companions my associates and my friends This invited to Texas was grief-stricken and unavailable for comment the Toronto Star reported Healey said through his record company office: "Stevie Ray Vaughan was a great inspiration and personal friend who helped me Immensely He will be sadly missed by both myself and the world of music" Toronto Blues Society president Derek Andrews said Vaughan was an "enormous booster" of Healey "I think that's a good indication of the man Not only was he a great artist but he set an example to the blues community by his leader-ship" In Austin and San Antonio hundreds of fans held candlelight vigils Monday night in memory of Vaughan Vaughan had sought treatment for drugs after he collapsed during an engagement in London in the mid-1980s "This might sound funny but fortunately I Vaughan said last fall "In a sense I knew this thing was coming I knew I keep going the way it was I had a nervous breakdown I had not been able to obtain any drugs for about two HARBOUR INN iflMTIrin" Place) i -X-l-Xg Presents! 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Stevie Ray Vaughan beginning to be appreciated and develop his Vaughan was the mentor of two of Canada's top guitarists: prairie bluesman Colin James and Jeff Healey James of Regina who was spotted by Vaughan on a Saskatchewan stage four years ago and reaches screen BILL MURDOCH Invites You Your Family and Friends To Meet MIKE HARRIS (Leader Ontario PC Party) at a FREE CORN ROAST Wednesday August 29 at 6:30 PM BAYSHORE COMMUNITY CENTRE- Owen Sound Come and tak to BILL and MIKE about YOUR CONCERNS let them show you why you should VOTE for BILL MURDOCH on September 6 year in China the last of his life deliberately Allan says "I felt an incredible transformation took place in Bethune in He stopped drinking and in the most poignant scene apologizes to a Chinese doctor for humiliating him As Bethune tells his Chinese comrades shortly before dying of an infection from a cut to his finger during surgery "Before we can fight fascism we must defeat the fascist in A smiling Sutherland made a surprise last-minute appearance at the gala Monday evening accompanied by his wife Quebec actress Francine Racette and CBC chairman Patrick Watson The guests at the gala screening also included Pierre Trudeau who brought his two sons and shouted repeatedly through the movio "I feel like wiping away my Trudeau said think it was a wonderful ss 378-5487 SsmacraraBSSca OWEN SOUND HANOVER 364-1088 FLESHERTON 924-3834 authorized by Ron Jobe Official Agent for Bill Murdoch From AP-CP EAST TROY Wis Blues tirist Stevie Ray Vaughan ha beaten drugs and alcohol and fel-lew musicians said he was playing better than ever when he died in a helicopter crash shortly a her a concert He was 35 Four others died early Monday ater Vaughan and members of guitarist Eric Clapton's entourage took' off for Chicago in dense fog Vaughan a two-time Grammy dinner known for his rocking Texas roadhouse blues style had shared the bill Sunday night with Clapton and guitarist Robert Cray "His death is particularly sad Siveri that he'd cleaned up and was laying the best music of his said Jeff Peterson of the Austin City limits TV program on which the "exan had appeared Vaughan in the mid-1980s gained popularity with bis guitar Jamming nd blues sound reminiscent of lusic legends King Muddy Vaters and Albert King Ray Vaughan was like )ne of my children" said Cing "The loss is a great loss for blues music and all fans of music around the world He was just By INGRID ABRAMOVITCH The Canadian Press MONTREAL After 48 years of (delays squabbles and rewrites Be jthune: the Making of a Hero had its world premiere Monday at the Montreal World Film Festival "I can make your life a misery put never bore Norman JBethune the Canadian surgeon and gadfly who became a hero of the Ehinese revolution once warned is wife Frances I The same might be said of the taking of the $lB-mlllion film the most expensive in Canadian history The Canadian-Chinese-French co-production became such a saga af personality conflict and inters national relations that it in itself could be a movie script In feet it did become a script Job critical behind-the-scenes documentary Strangers in a Strange Land Bethune: The Making of a Hero Iwas supposed to premiere at last Montreal World Film Festi-al Delayed once again it rendered at last on Monday in an arlv morning screening and a VIP-tudded evening gald showlng As screenwriter Ted Allan said at ja news conference a major delay stemmed from the feet there were involved in the making One was The writer was a close friend of Bethune who fol-ilowed the doctor to Spain during jthe Spanish Civil War "He was my surrogate jsays Allan who wrote the original in 1942 three years after Bethune died in China The other obsession belongs to Donald Sutherland who portrays Bethune in the film The Canadian actor has also had a long-time fascination with Bethune and in the late 1970s played the doctor in a CBC drama Although both were obsessed with him Allan and Sutherland differed in their interpretations of Bethune To Allan Bethune was a brilliant iconoclast who was often selfless in his devotion to his patients treat- CARE JLL BUSINESS You are who you pretend to be 1 JlSSSk RvwTASeZS SIEVE RICK MARTIN MORANB It a itimr Stfcnl MY BLUE HEAVEN lPnal evi: rasas 3 3 that year fin best traditional blues recording fin the song Texas Flood This year he won a Grammy fin the album In Step which referred to the 12 Steps program used by recovering alcoholics 1 f' 422-1172 OOOO 5:00 pm $495 Be $1495 NEW! 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