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Rolf Harris, CBE, AM was born 30 March 1930), and became famous as a Australian/British musician, singer, composer, painter, and television host and personality.


Named after Rolf Boldrewood, an Australian writer his mother admired, he was born in Bassendean, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, Australia, to Cromwell ("Crom") Harris and Agnes Margaret Harris (n?e Robbins) who had both emigrated from Cardiff, Wales.


As an adolescent and young adult, Harris was a champion swimmer being the Australian Junior 110 yards Backstroke Champion in 1946 and Western Australian state champion over a variety of distances and strokes during the period 1948?1952. Harris attended Perth Modern School in Subiaco, and the University of Western Australia. He met his wife, the Welsh sculptress and jeweller Alwen Hughes, while they were both art students, and they married on 1 March 1958. They had a daughter, Bindi Harris (born 10 March 1964), who studied art at Bristol Polytechnic and is now a painter.


Harris moved to England as an art student at City and Guilds Art School, Kennington, South London at the age of 22, getting into television with the BBC in 1953, doing a regular ten minute cartoon drawing section with a puppet called 'Fuzz', made and operated on the show by magician Robert Harbin.

Beatles singing backing vocals) in the first edition of the From Us to You BBC radio shows, in December, 1963.[4] Harris In Matilda, the winking kangaroo was the mascot for the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. When Harris also recorded a version of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" around this time. He performed The Divinyls' "I Touch These .


On 26 January 1989, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM)


In 1975 he was appointed King of Moomba


On 1 July 2008, Harris was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, he was joined on-stage by The Seekers to perform "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" and his Jake the Peg routine.


Rolf Harris, Esq (1930?1968)

Rolf Harris, MBE (1968?1977)

Rolf Harris, OBE (1977?1989)

Rolf Harris, AM, OBE (1989?2006)

Rolf Harris, CBE, AM (2006-present)


I'm going to miss Rolf and his Wobble Board.


Its a certainty that Rolf will find his own Stairway To Heaven...


Rolf, thanks for all the good times and laughs.


A great talent who will be sorely missed.

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All be it fair and well that you started a thread drawing attention to the supposed death of the esteemed Didgeridooist but now that it's been pointed that the artist is alive and well Tony, I bet you feel like an utter pillock right now.


I've taken the liberty of commissioning Mr Harris to dedicate a portrait of yourself.


http://images.chron.com/blogs/nickanderson/archives/giulianisketch.jpg


Mug!!

bigbadwolf Wrote:

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> All be it fair and well that you started a thread

> drawing attention to the supposed death of the

> esteemed Didgeridooist but now that it's been

> pointed that the artist is alive and well Tony, I

> bet you feel like an utter pillock right now.

>

> I've taken the liberty of commissioning Mr Harris

> to dedicate a portrait of yourself.

>

> http://images.chron.com/blogs/nickanderson/archive

> s/giulianisketch.jpg

>

> Mug!!


Bit unfair BBW as I didn't realise Rolf was dead....:-S


Pinhead...

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