Jan and Dean

Jan and Dean were an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004) and Dean Ormsby Torrence (born March 10, 1940). In the early 1960s, they were pioneers of the California Sound and vocal surf music styles popularized by the Beach Boys. Among their most successful songs was "Surf City", which topped US record charts in 1963, the first surf song to do so. Their other charting singles were "Drag City" (1963), "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" (1964), and "Dead Man's Curve" (1964); the last of which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.

In 1972, Torrence won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover for the psychedelic rock band Pollution's first eponymous 1971 album, and was nominated three other times in the same category for albums of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. In 2013, Torrence's design contribution of the Surf City Allstars "In Concert" CD was named a Silver Award of Distinction at the Communicator Awards competition.

Early lives

Jan Uddin

Jan Uddin (born 1985) is an English actor of Bangladeshi descent. He is best known for his roles in the BBC soap opera EastEnders playing Jalil Iqbal, the role of Sweet Boy in the 2010 film Shank, or in the film Boogie Woogie.

Early and personal life

Uddin was born in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England. He moved to London at the age of 19 and then trained to become an actor at the Academy Drama School. In July 2010, Uddin revealed that his father used to beat him viciously, refused to let him watch TV or read books, and one night dragged his family back to Bangladesh. Of this Uddin said, “he just shoved us in a van, and next thing we knew we were no longer living in Birmingham but in Bangladesh. For a whole year, we all had a horrible time because he told us we were never coming back to England.” Uddin further revealed that he had been involved with gangs, and that his mother is battling cancer for the fifth time.

Career

In 2007, Uddin was twice credited as Jan Dean when appearing in acting roles, for Casualty and in the film Famous Last Words. In 2008, Uddin appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Jalil Iqbal, a love interest for Shabnam Masood (Zahra Ahmadi). His character first appears on 17 March and departs on 28 March. Uddin states: “I used to come to work and have crumpets with Barbara Windsor every morning which was brilliant as I used to have a crush on her too, I was all coy and pretended to be all harmless and she would pinch my cheeks and I would think ‘yeah, go on!’