Joseph Elliott Needham Cooper (7 October 1912 – 4 August 2001), pianist and… Read Full Bio ↴Joseph Elliott Needham Cooper (7 October 1912 – 4 August 2001), pianist and broadcaster, best known as the chairman of the BBC's long-running television panel game Face the Music.
Cooper was born at Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol, England. He was educated at Clifton College, and then at Keble College, Oxford, where he was an organ scholar, During the 1930s he worked initially as a church organist and piano teacher before joining the GPO Film Unit, where he wrote incidental music for documentaries, including Mony a Pickle (1938) and A Midsummer Day's Work (1939). Here his colleagues included the poet W.H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten. He had already embarked on a promising career as a concert pianist when the outbreak of World War II forced him to give up the concert platform for the duration of hostilities. He resumed his career in 1946, studying briefly with Egon Petri and making his London debut in 1947.
Cooper made a number of successful recordings and also began broadcasting on radio. In 1954 he accepted an invitation to work on the BBC radio quiz show Call the Tune. In 1967 the show transferred to television under the title Face the Music. Transmitted on BBC2 and repeated on BBC1, it ran until 1979 and was briefly revived in 1983-4. The show kept Cooper in the public eye, and the "Hidden Melody" round, a regular feature of the show in which he improvised in the style of a composer and cloaked a well-known tune in his elaboate extemporization, served as a vehicle for his great pianistic talent. Face the Music also featured the Dummy Keyboard, in which Cooper played a well-known piano piece on a silent keyboard and the panel had to identify it. The music was gradually faded in for viewers at home.
During the 1960s, Cooper occasionally appeared as one of the presenters of Here Today, a daily 15-minute light current affairs programme broadcast by the independent company TWW, which served South Wales and the West of England. He became known for his acerbic, rather irascible interviewing style and for the fact that he regularly played out the programme with a gentle piano piece.
Cooper was awarded the OBE in 1982. He was married twice, first to Jean Greig from 1947 until her death in 1973, and then Carol Borg, from 1975 until her death in 1996.
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Cooper was born at Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol, England. He was educated at Clifton College, and then at Keble College, Oxford, where he was an organ scholar, During the 1930s he worked initially as a church organist and piano teacher before joining the GPO Film Unit, where he wrote incidental music for documentaries, including Mony a Pickle (1938) and A Midsummer Day's Work (1939). Here his colleagues included the poet W.H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten. He had already embarked on a promising career as a concert pianist when the outbreak of World War II forced him to give up the concert platform for the duration of hostilities. He resumed his career in 1946, studying briefly with Egon Petri and making his London debut in 1947.
Cooper made a number of successful recordings and also began broadcasting on radio. In 1954 he accepted an invitation to work on the BBC radio quiz show Call the Tune. In 1967 the show transferred to television under the title Face the Music. Transmitted on BBC2 and repeated on BBC1, it ran until 1979 and was briefly revived in 1983-4. The show kept Cooper in the public eye, and the "Hidden Melody" round, a regular feature of the show in which he improvised in the style of a composer and cloaked a well-known tune in his elaboate extemporization, served as a vehicle for his great pianistic talent. Face the Music also featured the Dummy Keyboard, in which Cooper played a well-known piano piece on a silent keyboard and the panel had to identify it. The music was gradually faded in for viewers at home.
During the 1960s, Cooper occasionally appeared as one of the presenters of Here Today, a daily 15-minute light current affairs programme broadcast by the independent company TWW, which served South Wales and the West of England. He became known for his acerbic, rather irascible interviewing style and for the fact that he regularly played out the programme with a gentle piano piece.
Cooper was awarded the OBE in 1982. He was married twice, first to Jean Greig from 1947 until her death in 1973, and then Carol Borg, from 1975 until her death in 1996.
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Sean MacLeod
I'm always open to these accounts because of something an uncle of mine told me many years ago.
I was a young 14 year old Londoner visiting my aunt and uncle in Prince George, British Columbia Canada.
This was the summer of 1979, long before drones, the internet and digital effects etc etc.
My uncle was letting me fire his rifles and hand guns on their land, which he had quite a bit of. It was "Buckhorn Drive" (or road ?) so quite rural.
My uncle Henry was talking about hunting generally, but at one point, randomly, he said, "I saw a UFO once when I was out hunting". Of course I was fascinated and asked him to describe his experience.
He said he was on his own overlooking a dense and huge forested area. It was daytime and he saw a flashing object in the sky. Apparently it saw him too because it moved very quickly towards him, hovered above him and kept flashing.
He described being very scared and felt vulnerable. His words to me were, "I got the impression it was photographing me".
I can't remember his description of the object, it was so long ago, but his story has always stayed with me. He was totally sincere.
Uncle Henry passed away a few years ago but every time I see Travis Walton I'm reminded of him.
Ty Nation
What if somewhere in the universe those aliens have a podcast telling the story about this guy 😂
lairdriver
Its probably why people in the hood don't get kidnapped
D.Will93
@lairdriver 😂😂😂😂
MakLutherKing239
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
mistercoopa
"And then the Alien just began swinging the lamp like crazy! He hit Zorgmorff right in the face! Imagine the shock! Poor Zorg was katatonic for days after that mission" Space Joe Rogan ; "Amazing! , how strange the universe can be. Did you try that "DMT" stuff they talked about?"
Mitch Conner
We were just trying to help him and he just started yelling and trying to attack us. Very odd behavior lol
Madison:)
The fact that this man (whether we believe him or not) met an entire other alien species and is sitting here saying he overreacted due to his own ignorance is impeccable. He's looking back almost as if he's lucky to come into contact with such advanced beings.
Kotoryyk
I would LOVE to just see one, there was a picture on the internet that was scrubbed away that showed an alien that actually looked real and maybe it was since it is no longer on the internet. I spent weeks trying to find it again and it's mysteriously gone.
Teddy Curtis
@FamilyOfTwo 🙄
Lady Cane
I saw a creature that looked similar to the one in the thumbnail . It was on foot. It was in the 1960s I was a child but there were six other people who saw the same creature. It haunted me my whole life.