Bogdan Kominowski with his fiancee, Joanna Rowley. Photo / Supplied
A Kiwi pop star from the 1960s was due to marry for the first time overnight in London.
Bogdan Kominowski, 68, was known as Mr Lee Grant when he had a string of hits such as Opportunity, which topped the New Zealand charts in 1967.
His bride is Joanna Rowley,
49, an executive with the National Geographic Channel. They have been together for 25 years.
Kominowski was born to Polish parents in a Nazi concentration camp just outside Dusseldorf in Germany. His father was killed but he and his mother survived and emigrated to New Zealand in 1949, settling in Palmerston North.
After repeatedly topping the charts and starring on the TV pop show C'mon, Kominowski went on to forge a film career in his birth name, most memorably as a Russian villain in the James Bond movie, A View to a Kill, in which he was tossed off a cliff by singer Grace Jones.
