Hal Brett Needham (March 6, 1931 – October 25, 2013) was an American stuntman, film director, actor, writer, and NASCAR team owner. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with actor Burt Reynolds, usually in films involving fast cars, such as Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Hooper (1978), The Cannonball Run (1981) and Stroker Ace (1983).

2014年2月17日 · Al Needham is one of the most gifted writers on the planet. His bawdy, irreverent observations of life in Nottingham have entertained listeners on BBC Radio Nottingham as well as readers of LeftLion magazine over the past decade. But like many talented writers he has the occasional pangs of self-doubt.

2024年12月25日 · In July of 2020, David McPhie and Aaron Brown of S40time were invited to Jazz Legend AL Needham's house at Holme Hall in Chesterfieldwww.linktree.com/s40time...

21 Years through 21 Pubs presented by Al Needham, is part of The Sillitoe Trail, produced by Paul Fillingham and James Walker for TheSpace on demand arts pla...

2022年6月22日 · Taylor Parkes and Rock Expert David Stubbs join Al Needham for a celebration of all things ’74, veering off on such tangents as blind West Ham left-backs, Noele Gordon’s musical career, five year-olds demanding to be let into sex shops, the era-defining genius of Yus My Dear, disturbing scenes at Wombles gigs, a re-imagining of Do They Know ...

2024年12月17日 · Chart Music is a British podcast hosted by writer Al Needham and two co-presenters drawn from regular panel of music journalists (who all formerly wrote for music paper Melody Maker) including Sarah Bee, Taylor Parkes, David Stubbs, Neil Kulkarni and Simon Price. Each episode focuses on a single episode of the long running British music ...

2016年1月13日 · But I couldn’t resist a grin when I saw we had lost Manchester native Al Needham who probably would have — like Dorothy Parker, “Excuse My Dust” — chosen to write his own obit. I wasn’t grinning...

Ahead of tonight's London gig, Al Needham speaks to her about coming up through the Nottingham music scene, channeling a fascination with electronic music, and the positives and pitfalls of running her own label

true jazz and big band legends - AL Needham - over the Summer. Band leader and trumpet virtuoso AL kindly invited David and Aaron to his home in Chesterfield in the Summer of 2020 - fondly reflecting on a fabulous lifetime of music which took him all around the World, and BBC sessions which made him a household name