12 Facts About Gordon Waller

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The family later moved to Middlesex, when Gordon Waller was a child, where Gordon Waller gained entrance to Westminster School.

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On this album Gordon Waller used a New York-based group White Cloud, featuring Teddy Wender on keyboards.

3.

Gordon Waller appeared in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as Pharaoh in 1971, a performance that he reprised on the LP.

4.

Gordon Waller first performed "Joseph" at the Edinburgh Festival, later reprising the role at the Albery Theatre in London's West End.

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Gordon Waller returned to recording in 2002 as part of the He's a Rebel: The Gene Pitney Story Retold project produced by Gary Pig Gold.

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In 2007, Waller released a solo album Plays the Beatles, featuring a new recording of "Woman", which Paul McCartney wrote under the pseudonym of Bernard Webb, and which had been a Peter and Gordon hit in the mid-1960s.

7.

On 19 July 2008, Peter and Gordon Waller performed together at The Cannery Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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8.

On 2 February 2009 Gordon Waller performed with Asher at the Surf Ballroom as part of a tribute concert marking the 50th anniversary of "the Day the Music Died".

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Gordon Waller is survived by his two grown daughters, Phillippa and Natalie, both by first wife Gay, and a granddaughter, Tyla, as well as both his sisters, Diana and Annie.

10.

Gordon Waller resided in the village of Fowey, in Cornwall, for eight years, when his daughters were young.

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Gordon Waller went into cardiac arrest on the evening of 16 July 2009, and died aged 64 of a heart attack early in the morning of 17 July 2009 at Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut.

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On 29 May 2010 a sold-out tribute performance for Gordon Waller was held at the Cannery Casino and Hotel, which was Waller's favourite Las Vegas venue.