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In this week’s Men in Blazers podcast, Michael Davies and Roger Bennett review a soaking-wet Premier League weekend - the good, bad, and the plain old unclassifiable. Chelsea supporters at Stamford Bridge were stirred from silence to proclaim their disapproval of new interim manager Rafa Benitez, while over at White Hart Lane the visiting West Ham supporters’ anti-Semitic chants overshadowed Clint Dempsey’s return to form. Blurs Damon Albarn and his love of Chelsea, for instance.' Manchester City dabbled with this. Everywhere there was football it seemed to be lashing down rain, and perhaps nowhere was the gloom more apparent than in the stands. Theyre locked in a battle for the hearts and minds of American fans, writes Roger Bennett. UPDATE: If you would like to leave a note of condolence to Roger's family, leave a comment on this post and I'll forward those on to Debbie and the family.Winter has arrived in England. Chelsea paid 73 million to sign him and sold their talismanic star, Eden Hazard, to. He will be missed by everyone, both fans and performers, in the gospel music industry he so loved. Roger Bennett talks Budweiser, Men in Blazers, and how a young American is about to star in The Aeneid. He was a superbly talented musician and an all around great guy. And yet, despite the terrible physical battles he was going through, inside it was the same old Roger and his warmth and good humor shone through.
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His illness and subsequent treatments had cost him his hair, and I've never seen someone whose skin was that color of gray. Join Facebook to connect with Roger Bennett and others you may know. His illness often kept him off the road, but in 2005 while performing at the Great Western Fan Festival in Fresno I ran into him again. View the profiles of people named Roger Bennett. I didn't get to see Roger much in the last few years. He did some outstanding work in putting together the tracks and fixing our vocal foibles and it's easily the best studio album we ever produced. The result was Rock of Ages, and there are songs and tracks from that album that we're still performing today. I got to know Roger over the years as we performed together at various times, and in 1998 I asked him to produce an album for my group. Roger leaves behind his wife (Debbie), their children (Chelsea and Jordan) and father (Doug). Roger was a contributing editor to Singing News, writing "Midnight Meditations." His writing talent was not limited to just songs, however.
Many of his songs appeared on the recordings of the Cathedrals, Legacy Five and many others. Songwriting was another forte' of Roger Bennett. Roger received the Singing News Fan Award for Favorite Southern Gospel pianist 14 years in row (1993-2006). In 2004, Roger fulfilled another dream (having his own successful quartet) when readers of Singing News voted Legacy Five as the Favorite Traditional Male Quartet.Īlthough an excellent singer, Roger is best remembered as pianist-and often a comedian-for the Cathedrals and Legacy Five. Though he would leave the group for two years (1987-1989) to serve as the president of Journey Records, Roger was the group's pianist at the time of the quartet's retirement in 1999.įollowing the retirement of the Cathedrals, Roger and fellow Cathedrals member Scott Fowler launched Legacy Five.
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In November of 1979, Roger fulfilled his life-long dream of being a part of professional Southern Gospel music when he was invited by Glen Payne and George Younce to join the legendary Cathedral Quartet. He was 48 years old.īorn March 10, 1959, Roger grew up in Strawberry, Arkansas. Legacy Five pianist Roger Bennett died today as a result of complications encountered though his long battle with leukemia. Here's more biographical info on Roger from The Singing News website: This is Roger on the left in a photo taken with my piano player Tom Moore at the 1999 Great Western Quartet Convention:
Roger Bennett, formerly the piano player for The Cathedral Quartet and more recently a founding member of Legacy Five passed away this morning after a years long battle with cancer.
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