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2 unusual facts about Mayall


Mayall

Mayall's Object, or Arp 148, a peculiar galaxy, or pair of colliding galaxies

Mayall's Object

Mayall's Object (also classified under the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 148) is the result of two colliding galaxies located 500 million light years away within the constellation of Ursa Major.


20th Century Coyote

Edmondon and Mayall started the group at Manchester University with Lloyd Peters and some others and attempted to gain a lunchtime residency at the Band on the Wall club.

Ambrose Dyson

Ambrose Dyson (1876 – 3 June 1913), often known as Amb Dyson was an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist, born at Alfredton, near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, the son of George Dyson, then a hawker and later a mining engineer, and his wife Jane, née Mayall.

Don't let Devon go to waste

Various celebrities, including Phillipa Forrester, Rik Mayall and the late Keith Floyd, have publicly supported the campaign, with both Mayall and Floyd appearing in television adverts.

Hard Road

A Hard Road, a 1967 album by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers

Hurst, Texas

Buddy Whittington, Texas blues guitarist (with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers)

The Comic Strip

They included "The Strike", which won the Golden Rose of Montreux; "More Bad News", a sequel to "Bad News Tour" showing the band reforming after five years to play at Castle Donington; and "Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door", written by Mayall and Edmondson in the violent style of their sitcoms Filthy Rich and Catflap and Bottom, which featured Peter Cook as a psychotic contract killer (the eponymous Mr. Jolly) and Nicholas Parsons.

The Toast of Death

Her beauty and charm bring to her many admirers, among them a British soldier, Captain Drake (played by Keenan), and an Indian prince, Yar Khan (played by Mayall), of the Bengalese Dragoons.


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