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- 1381: Music Censorship
- ... be. (He received this rap by being an ex-gang member. Also, because of the content of his lyrics, the critics labeled him "bad.") About four years ago, Snoop (real name Calvin Broadus) called up Richard Harris, minister of Golgotha Trinity Baptist Church (coincidentally where he learned to sing in the children's choir), just to recite a Biblical rap about grace, Jesus, and coming down from the cross (Leland 64 ...
- 1382: Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements and Effect on Rock and Roll
- ... high school and joined the military. He was discharged when he hurt himself in a parachute drop (Rock Giants). After he was discharged he joined a circle of big name black performers, such as Little Richard and Wilson Pickett and others. This is where he would learn some of his most impressive stage tricks like playing over his head and behind his back. Hendrix didn't think that he could ever ...
- 1383: Film Score Music
- ... the elements found in the romantic style of the Viennese opera, eg. large orchestras, complex parts, lush harmonies, doubling of parts and full string parts, as well a influence from many European composers, for example, Richard Strauss. The composers that sat at the forefront of film scoring at this time were Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Bertrand Hermann. These men wrote the scores for many of the famous films that ...
- 1384: Jimi Hendrix
- ... It did not take long before his work was in demand with some of the best known artists in the field, such as B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner, Solomon Burke, Jackie Wilson, Littler Richard, Wilson Pickett, and King Curtis (Clifford, pg. 181). Using the name Jimmy James, he toured with a bunch of R & B shows, including six months as a member of James Brown's Famous Flames (Stambler ...
- 1385: Jimi Hendrix
- ... discharge. Hendrix then began working as a session guitarist under the name Jimmy James, playing behind such marquee acts as Sam Cooke, Ike and Tina Turner, and the Isley Brothers. After gigging extensively with Little Richard in 1964, Hendrix became entangled in a contract dispute with the mercurial artist and left to form his own band, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. With the exception of an obscure single, "My Diary ...
- 1386: The Beatles
- ... 1987. "The Beatles" Music Review in Rolling Stone #507 Aug. 27, 1987 "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" Music Review in Rolling Stone #507 Aug. 27, 1987 Notes 1. Ringo Starr was originally named Richard Starkey. His name was changed to allow for better press marketing. 2. All titles composed by either Lennon or McCartney are credited to Lennon-McCartney. 3. It was also at this time that Lennon divorced ...
- 1387: Tupac Shakur: Stealing From A Dead Star
- ... foe, wants a chunk. She and her husband claim that a lyrical attack by Tupac iced their sex life. Its like being on a ship and watching pirates trying to loot it, says attorney Richard Fischbein, who administers the estate with Tupacs mother, Afeni Shakur (Roberts). When no one showed up to a lawsuit in Arkansas to defend Tupacs estate, the judge granted the injured plaintiff full damages ...
- 1388: The United States has Changed from a Melting Pot to a Vast Culture with Varying Racial Backgrounds.
- ... have Americans stop seeing themselves as members of primarily one ethnic group, gaining their total identity from that group. White or black, Hispanic or Asian, they must envision themselves simply as Americans. Works Cited Brookhiser, Richard. ³The Melting Pot is Still Simmering.² Time, 1 March 1993, p. 72. Chavez, Linda, and Cohn-Bendit, Daniel. ³ Multicultural Society: Mosaic or Melting Pot?² World Link, March/April 1992, pp. 60-64. Evans, Harold. ³Melting ...
- 1389: Landfills
- ... waste disposal points or re-introduced into the upper layers of garbage, to resume the cycle. Unfortunately, most landfills have no such pumping system [Miller 527]. Until the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency by Nixon in 1970, there were virtually no regulations governing the construction, operation, and closure of landfills. As a result, 85 percent of all landfills extant in this country are unlined. Many are located in close proximity ...
- 1390: Landfills - Fact Is More Ominous Than Fiction
- ... waste disposal points or re-introduced into the upper layers of garbage, to resume the cycle. Unfortunately, most landfills have no such pumping system [Miller 527]. Until the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency by Nixon in 1970, there were virtually no regulations governing the construction, operation, and closure of landfills. As a result, 85 percent of all landfills extant in this country are unlined. Many are located in close proximity ...
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