Melissa Etheridge

In October 2004 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, but is expected to make a full recovery. Filmography. Though limited in acting experience it has been announced that a sitcom is in production to star Etheridge as a lesbian living with her heterosexual male best friend (together raising a third person's child.) Critics have predicted that it will be "like Will & Grace except cancelled.". Selected Songs. After splitting from Cypher she went on in 2003 to marry actress Tammy Lynn Michaels. He was buried in the family grave in Warrington Cemetry, with an estimated 100,000 mourners lining the streets on the day of the funeral. She had a long-term partnership with Julie Cypher, which whom she had two children via a sperm donor, David Crosby. However he had a second heart attack before then and died in hospital on 6 March 1961.

Etheridge is also famous as a gay rights activist, having publicly come out as a lesbian during President Bill Clinton's first inauguration in January 1993. His wife died of leukaemia on 24 December 1960 and Formby planned to marry Pat Howson, a 36-year-old schoolteacher, in the spring of 1961. She has won the Grammy award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance twice in her career, for the song "Ain't It Heavy" in 1992 and "Come to My Window", in 1994. Formby suffered his first heart attack in 1951. Two others went platinum and another gold. He received an OBE in 1946. Three of them have gone multi-platinum: Melissa Etheridge (1988), Yes I Am (1993) and Your Little Secret (1996). He appeared in the 1937 Royal Variety Show, and entertained troops with ENSA in Europe and North Africa during World War II.

Etheridge has produced eight albums since signing her first major recording contract in 1987. For six years between 1934 and 1945 Formby was the top box-office attraction in British cinema. She was born in Leavenworth, Kansas. A subsequent contract with Columbia Pictures earnt him a further £500,000. Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American rock musician. The film was successful and he signed a contract to make a further 11 with Associated Talking Pictures, earnt him a then-astronomical income of £100,000 per year. CMT.com: Melissa Etheridge: Biography (http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/melissa_etheridge/bio.jhtml). He made his first record in 1932 with the Jack Hylton Band, and his first movie Boots! Boots! in 1934.

Lucky (2004). Some of his best-known songs were written by Noel Gay. Skin (2001). He sang comic songs, full of double-entendre, to his own accompaniment on the ukulele, for which he developed a catchy syncopated style which became his trademark. Breakdown (1999). What made Formby stand-out, however, was his unique and often mimicked musical style. Your Little Secret (1995). In film and on stage, he generally adopted the character of an honest, good-hearted but accident-prone innocent.

Yes I Am (1993). George Formby endeared himself to his audiences with his cheeky Lancashire humour and folksy Northern England persona. Never Enough (1992). He allegedly took up the ukelele, for which he was later famous for, as a hobby and first played it on stage for a bet. Brave and Crazy (1989). In 1924 he married dancer Beryl Ingham, who managed his career until her death in 1960. Melissa Etheridge (1988). He originally called himself George Hoy (Hoy being his mother's maiden name).

On the death of his father in 1921, Formby abandoned his career as a jockey and started his own music hall career using his father's material. He was apprenticed as a jockey when he was seven and rode his first professional race at ten when he weighed less than four stone. His father, James Booth, was a famous music hall comedian who used the stage name George Formby. Formby was born in Wigan, Lancashire, as George Hoy Booth, the eldest of seven children (four girls and three boys).

George Formby (May 26, 1904 - March 6, 1961) was a British singer and comedian who became a major star of both cinema and music hall. Get Cracking. Much Too Shy. South American George.

Turned Out Nice Again. Spare A Copper. Let George Do It. Come On George.

Trouble Brewing. It's In The Air. I See Ice. Keep Fit.

Feather Your Nest. Keep Your Seats Please. No Limit. The Song That Made A Star.

Off The Dole. Boots! Boots!. Mother What'll I do Now. With my Little Stick of Blackpool Rock.

With my Little Ukulele in my Hand. Leaning on a Lamppost. The Window Cleaner. The Isle of Man.

Chinese Laundry Blues.