Launceston Place (Restaurent) Laurence Pountney Hill (My Sight) Sorry. Details to be added Lavender Hill Mob - Movie (Notorious) Here at the junction of Bramley and Freston (then Latimer) Roads is where all the poloce cars converged for the big pile up in the film The Lavender Hill Mob...
The Notorious B.I.G.'s 1994 album "Ready to Die" featuring "Juicy" and "Big Poppa," the only album released during his life, headlines hip-hop entries that also include "La-Di-Da-Di" — Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick's 1985 single. Rapper Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls,...
like The Brooklyn Godmother, The Sex Killer of Brooklyn, The Nurse Girl Murder, The Long Island Railroad Massacre, The Thrill Kills Gang, and many more. From “Son of Sam” to “Son of Sal,”“Little Lepke” to “Big Paulie,”“The Butcher of Brooklyn,”“The Vampire of Brooklyn...
When she entered the courtroom, she sat on the far left side of the defense counsel’s table; Mel had already taken his place on the far right. The couple didn’t exchange so much as a glance. Mel mostly stared at the floor. One reporter observed that Mel was “so big and quiet th...
a plea to stop the violence. “You got a gun up in your waist, please don’t shoot up the place,” Biggie raps in the chorus, realizing that blood in the hot tub will only kill the mood. “Big Poppa” marked the rapper’s first Top 10 hit, solidifying his ima...
2. One Big Unhappy Family Just 10 months after his birth, Gable was struck by a tragedy that affected him for the rest of his life. He lost his mother to either a brain tumor or an epileptic fit. The young Gable would shuffle between his Protestant maternal family, his Catholic father,...
About ten o'clock on the following morning, seedy and hungry, I was dragging myself along Portland Place, when a child that was passing, towed by a nurse-maid, tossed a luscious big pear-minus one bite-into the gutter. I stopped, of course, and fastened my desiring eye on that muddy...
The corner of Fulton Street and St. James Place in Clinton Hill became "Christopher 'Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace Way" on Monday. "When new people come to our community, don't get it twisted and don't forget, we made this borough what it is today. We created this borough and Biggie ...
Roger McGuinn:George once told me, “We had a big argument with Bob Dylan.” I asked for details and he said, “Well it really wasn’t an argument.” it was just that Dylan had told the Beatles “You’re not saying anything with your songs.” They took his advice and began writing...
While performing his version of Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog" on "The Milton Berle Show," Presley swung his guitar aside and gyrated his pelvis before a legion of screaming fans. As overblown the scandal might seem in retrospect, his rebellious gesture and its adjoining shockwave were ...