Stuart Slack
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Stuart Slack (25 January 1935 – 5 December 1998) was a racing cyclist from the Isle of Man. He was part of the first ever Manx team to participate in the British Empire and Commonwealth Games.[1]
Slack participated in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, taking part in the road cycling event. He finished third in the event, arriving in a five-man group nearly three minutes behind the race winner, Ray Booty[2] winning a Bronze Medal after a photo-finish.[3][4] In 2011, this result was described as being "against all expectations" and was credited with increasing the popularity of cycling in the Isle of Man.[5]
Later in his life, Slack published two books about the island. He was also a noted Manx musician and Isle of Man folk songwriter.[6] This includes the popular folk song ‘The Laxey Wheel’ (1957).[7] A number of different recordings of Stuart Slack's folk songs were banned by the local commercial radio station Manx Radio for being too "risqué."[8]
Since his death in 1998 there is an annual cycle event in his memory.[9]
In 2002, the Isle of Man Post Office issued a set of postage stamps for the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester including a 22 pence stamp depicting the photo-finish of Stuart Slack's third-place finish in the Men's Cycling Road race at the 1958 Empire Games.[10]
Published works
- Slack, Stuart (2003). Manx Milestones. The Manx Experience. Template:ISBN.
- Slack, Stuart (1996). Streets of Douglas – Old and New. The Manx Experience. Template:ISBN.
Discography
- Wreck of the Herring Fleet
- The Laxey Wheel
- Bulgham Bombshell
- The Foxdale Miner
- Laxey Girls are the Boys
- Ride the Rails
- Give Me the Bus Fare to Laxey
- Illiam Done
- Ballamodha Dragoons
- Effort
- My Little Home at Port-e-Chee
- The Port Erin Breakwater Disaster
45 rpm single
- Isle of Man TT Hall of Fame (David Collister) / The Laxey Wheel Song (Stuart Slack) David Collister/Athol Moore Manx Radio Recordings (c.1972) Hillary Productions
- Mannin Folk – Mannin Folk Sing / Track 1. The Laxey Wheel Song (Stuart Slack) Kelly Recordings (1976)
- Give Me The Bus Fare to Laxey (Stuart Slack) / Smugglers Lullaby (Traditional) Mike Williams/Laury Kermode – Kelly Recordings
Sources
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- ↑ The Manchester Guardian page 6 Monday 28 July 1958
- ↑ The Daily Express page 8 Monday 28 July 1958
- ↑ Isle of Man Times page 7 THIS PICTURE MADE GAMES HISTORY Friday 1 August 1958 “Stuart Slack Wins a Bronze in Photo-Finish.”
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- ↑ Isle of Man Weekly Times page 4 12 August 1984 ".....Stuart also wrote the music and words of that well known song the Laxey Wheel."
- ↑ Manx Independent page 53 STUART SLACK – THE CYCLIST Friday 11 December 1998 Isle of Man Newspapers Ltd (1998) Johnson Press Publishing
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- ↑ Stanley Gibbons: Collect Channel Islands and Island of Man Stamps 2016 page 212 Stanley Gibbons Limited; 30th edition (2016) Template:ISBN " 17th Commonwealth Games, Manchester Photographic Montages 2002 (11 Mar.) 976 937 22p. multicoloured."
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External links
- Pages with script errors
- Manx male cyclists
- British male cyclists
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for the Isle of Man
- Cyclists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- 1935 births
- 1998 deaths
- Medallists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in cycling