Famous Atheists by surname B Bjork (born 1965)Website | Wikipedia Entry Bjork is an Icelandic singer and actress whose first solo album, Debut, was named Album of the Year by NME. In 1994, she said: ‘I’ve got my own religion. Iceland sets a world-record. The UN asked people from...
A St. Louis native, she turned to music during an unconventional childhood (both her adoptive parents were in late middle age), and sang to her favorite records-Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston-to help herself sleep. Becoming more introverted in high school, she learned guitar and piano and ...
These ideas were expressed with language drawn from Christian eschatology, the New Age movement, and American popular culture. The group received an influx of funds in the late 1970s, which it used to pay housing and other expenses. In 1985, Nettles died, leaving Applewhite distraught and...
She is a member of the National Cartoonists Society. (2021) Designers Return to categories Elizabeth Jean Reed née Maclean. Born 1910, Soures, Prince Edward Island. Died 1976? Jean earned a degree in Fine Arts at Mount Allison University. In 1938 she attended the Ottawa Civic Hospital to...
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet 5 “Music is the space between the notes.” Claude Debussy (1862–1918) French composer As quoted in Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving (2001) by Jonathan G. Koomey, p. ...
From early icons like Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian to later greats like Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery, the topic of best jazz guitarists is subjective and open to plenty of discussion. There are, however, a core group of legendary jazz musicians on this instrument who made an enormous...
"Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything." - Joe Pass / Jazz Guitar |"... I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go ...
In the late 1960s hehelped create country rock as a member of the band Buffalo Springfield. After playing folk rock in the early 1970s with thegroup Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, he turned toward hard rock, foreshadow...
In 1908, during the Constitutional Revolution of Iran, he decided to join the Constitutionalists and fight against the Qajar despot King Mohammad Ali Shah. He was shot while leading a group of student soldiers to break the Siege of Tabriz.The affection that many Iranians have for America ...
Back in the 70s part of takin' care of business for Bachman-Turner Overdrive meant performing underneath a large steel replica of the band's gear-shaped logo, with flashing lights -- a visual gimmick as heavy as the opening chords of "Not Fragile" or "Four Wheel Drive."...