in 1930. They had four sons, Gary, Lindsay, and twins Phillip and Dennis. Dixie was an alcoholic, and died of ovarian cancer in 1952. Bing himself had a drinking problem, and that, along with his constantly being away from the family, led to Dixie’s alcohol abuse. Bing remarried in ...
.1869 ~ Sir Henry Joseph Wood was an English conductor and the creator of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, currently called the “BBC Proms”. He was a student at the Royal Academy of Music conservatoire and the oldest degree-granting music school in Britain. The Proms are an eight-week ...