Duke Ellington: An American Legacy
.... Duke to become an artist in a time when
blacks weren't given the same rights as everyone else. They went to separate
schools. They were forced to the back of the bus and to use separate bathrooms.
If Duke were to become some one he had much to come over.
One thing that we do know is that Duke was always looking for attention
and dignity. There are even stories of how he would announce from the top of
the stairs in the morning that he was coming down and demand that his parents
applaud(Collier,9). Also when his cousins would come over he would stand on the
front porch as they arrived and make them curtsy in front of him(9). .....
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Eric Clapton
.... Love", "White Room", and "Crossroads".
Towards the end of the ‘60s Cream split up. Eric Clapton joined the
band Blind Faith in '69 and did fairly well with it, but the group broke up
quickly after the release of their only album. It was then that Clapton
launched his solo career. For A few years in the early ‘70s Clapton played with
backup band "Delaney and Bonnie and Friends", and made a few pretty successful
albums, but nothing in comparison to the popularity he had with Cream.
This was the start of a period of time (basically most of the ‘70s) where
Eric Clapton would switch around from backup band to backup band. In .....
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Satie, Erik
.... musical. The comical titles that he attached to
his small piano pieces are characteristic of the Bohemian wit in the Paris of
his day. Irony and a deceptively childlike attitude, a dislike for pomposity of
all kinds, and an instinctive secretiveness were hallmarks of both the man and
his music. In 1916, Satie was befriended by Jean Cocteau and wrote the music
for a ballet, Parade, on which Pablo Picasso and Leonid Massine also
collaborated. By far the most important of Satie's works is Socrate , an harsh
setting for four sopranos and chamber orchestra of Plato's account of the death
of Socrates. The young composers who forme .....
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Jimi Hendrix
.... bands styles were TOTALLY
diffrerent. When Jimi returned to England, he joined up with "Band of Gypsies"
and recorded one album. On september 18, 1970, James Marshal Hendrix was
pronounced dead at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital in Kennsington England. His cause
of death was: He took an offbrand of sleeping pills to get some rest, but they
were not his usual brand, and he overdosed, although he overdosed, he was really
killed by choking on his own vomit on the way to the hospital.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
.... period.
Johann Sebastian Bach spent his life devoted to his music. In that
respect he was a genius. He was one of the greatest composers and organists in
his period of time.
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John Lennon
.... perfectionist.
By 1964, The Beatles arrived at JFK Airport. They were greeted with
mass hysteria. Two days later, more than 73 million people watched them perform
live on the Ed Sullivan Show. Four weeks later, The Beatles held the top five
music singles in America at the same time.
John was influenced by many things in 1965-1966 such as psychedelia,
marijuana, and Bob Dylan. Many felt that these years were the best song writing
years of John Lennon's life.
1966---The Beatles had been touring for over four years, and they,
especially John were tired of it. John wanted to spend more time with his wife,
Cynthia, and his song .....
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Charles Darwin
.... and the church that were at the heart of Darwin's contribution to
biological science.
Charles Darwin did not invent the concept of evolution. A number of prominent
scientists and other thinkers during the eighteenth century and the first half
of the nineteenth century (among them Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus
Darwin) had offered detailed theories of evolution (Clark, 1984, pg.24-25).
Therefor the idea of evolution went very far back in Western history.
At that time this concept was referred to as The Great Chain Of Life and was
conceived in the middle ages, based on a mixture of classical and Biblical ideas.
The ran .....
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John Lennon: Biography
.... in Montreal, and I had it rush released (Rolling Stone 229). In
January of 1970 I wrote and recorded "Instant Karma" in one day and had it
released (Rolling Stone 229). Three months later, Yoko and I flew to Los
Angeles for four months of primal scream therapy with Dr. Arthur Janov (Rolling
Stone 229). Because of this experience the album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
was made (Rolling Stone 229).
In 1971 I moved to the United States to continue my campaign for peace
(World Book 197). That year, the US Government made continual attempts to
deport me (Rolling Stone 229). A protest concert that we planned to hold on the
doorstep .....
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Jules Verne
.... Valentine, and Suzanne. Michel grew up to be a very disobedient
child. Verne tried many means of stopping this delinquency. He put Michel in
jail in an attempt to stop the "madness". He was really unhappy over his son's
behavior problem. Late 1879, Verne ended up throwing Michel out of the house.
Michel ran off and married an actress. In 1887, he attended and recognized
Michel's second marriage which helped in reviving the relationship between
father and son.
Jules Verne was an avid traveler and sailor. He visited many places with
his brother, Paul. Paul helped Verne in many technical parts of his novel. In
1859, he and .....
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Kurt Cobain: Biography
.... along the muddy banks of the Wishkah river during that period.
Kurt had been just hanging out when he met Chad Channing and Krist
Novaselic and they would go on to find out that they each played music. Chad
played the drums and Krist played the bass. The three started getting together
and jamming. They wrote some of their own songs and sent out some demo tapes.
They released a single in November of 1988. They got signed to a small company
and produced their first album titled Bleach. It featured Chad Channing on Drums,
Kurt Cobain on guitar and vocals, and Krist Novaselic on bass. Bleach only
ending up costing $600 to prod .....
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Kurt Cobain: Collection Of Personal Accounts From Family Relatives
.... just looked
at me with those piercing eyes and huge grin. He said, "Oh, I'm just trying to
thicken my vocal chords so I can scream better!" When I went back to Gramps to
tell him, he just grinned and said, "It figures, We'll just let him be!" We can
now say, "Thank you, Kurt, for thickening your vocal chords!"
Kurt didn't fit the general mold of society in a logging town, and so he was
beaten upon by people who didn't understand him. One day I heard that he was in
a fight a few blocks away. When I ran to the scene, the fight was over. However,
I heard from a friend that Kurt was assaulted by a burly, 250-pound logger type.
Evident .....
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Kurt Cobain
.... Most of Kurt's friends didn't really like things like art and music.
He loved these things so much he stopped making friends because he was different.
Kurt was not such a health kid. His whole life he suffered chronic bronchitis.
At age of seven he was diagnosed hyperactive. He was put on Ritalin. This
seemed to make him stay up until four in the morning. They soon put him on
sedatives. This did not work either. They made him fall asleep in school.
Doctors told Wendy to try subtracting sugar and Red Dye #2 from his food. This
was the right prescription for Kurt. Sometime during the 8th grade Kurt was
diagnosed with sclo .....
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