It also helped to blaze a trail for a string of great historical miniseries on the channel including North and South and The Thorn Birds.
Joseph Losey's 1967 film, presented as part of the director's centenary retrospective at London's BFI Southbank, is one of a string of great rereleases this week.
The recluse turned out to be Negus, who had spent a lifetime helping, advising and understudying a string of great Wagnerian conductors in Germany and Britain, including Reginald Goodall, Charles Mackerras and, more recently, Vladimir Jurowski.
"Forty years," he says, in that deep, laconic tone that rumbled across a string of great films in the 60s and 70s, including The Great Escape, Charade and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
"Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll" and "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" are the best-known hits, but there were a string of great songs and strong albums until Dury's death, from cancer, in 2000.
More upbeat than Box Of Dub, it's the second in a series masterminded by long-running London pirate station, Rinse FM, and features a string of great tracks by Skream himself, including a blistering VIP mix of the febrile "Lightning", and Coki's bizarre "Road Rage" – a slow-motion reworking of Grace's trance anthem "Not Over Yet", as also covered by Klaxons.
The Met said in a news release that Mr. Bennett would perform with Lee Musiker (piano), Gray Sargent (guitar), Harold Jones (drums), and Marshall Wood (bass), and plans a lineup of "pop standards from the Great American Songbook, many of which Bennett has introduced and recorded to critical and popular acclaim that led to a string of greatest hits over his 60-year career".
He is one of a string of golf greats to lend his name to a brand.
His masterpiece, Long Day's Journey into Night (produced posthumously 1956), is at the apex of a long string of great plays, including Beyond the Horizon (1920), Anna Christie (1922), Strange Interlude (1928), Ah! Wilderness (1933), and The Iceman Cometh (1946).
This coincided with a string of work for great directors: Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, the Coen brothers' Barton Fink, Allen's Husbands and Wives.
It's just two miles from here to the coast at Santa Cruz del Norte where, east of the town's Havana Club rum factory, a string of coves with great snorkelling, collectively known as Jibacoa, curve along the coast.
