Eric Winstone (born 1 January 1913, London – died 2 May 1974, Pagham, Sussex) was an English big band leader, conductor and composer.
Playing piano in his spare time from a job as Westminster Gas and Coke Company led him to form his first band in 1935.
The company argued that she was fulfilling her film commitments and therefore the illness was an excuse, and furthermore that being unable to sing was not the issue at stake as merely saying "hello" would have sufficed.
Winstone remarked to the audience that she was not a woman of her word, did not respect her obligations and considered the people of Clacton to be unworthy of her talents, He thereafter told a newspaper journalist that she had let him down.
[8] In the same month a court ordered that an "iron curtain" be constructed in the property so as to split the rooms between himself, then aged 46, and his wife and two-year-old daughter.