Along the way at RCA, songs penned by Bob Dylan (“Just Like A Woman”), the brothers Gibb (“To Love Somebody”), and Tina Turner (“Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter”) took pride of place alongside Nina’s own anthem of empowerment, the classic “To Be Young, Gifted, & Black,...
interested in designing make-up for the “average woman”. Intent on contributing to the American chic, Laroche asserts, “I have lived through the sixties in England. Now I’m getting ready to face the eighties in America.” Supermodel Kate Moss was into vintage David Bowie as she wore o...
Almost all of Séverine’s clothes are military inspired, referring to the rigorous way she lives her life as a bourgeois. The grey wool coat she wears when she steps into the brothel for the first time is double-breasted, ventless, with wide-spread collar, epaulettes and just above the w...
it had been kept secret, with Barry denying he was married. In the biographyThe Bee Gees: Tales of the Brothers Gibb(2000) byHector Cook, Melinda Bilyeu, & Andrew Mon Hughes, Barry said he kept the marriage secret because he didn’t...
Andy Gibb –“(Love is) Thicker Than Water” Much, much more coming from the 19-year-old below. The song was penned mostly by Brother Barry and its one-week at the top interrupted the Bee Gees’ 14-week residency (see below).
her, W H Auden paid tribute to her courage, James Joyce saluted her in Ulysses, where she has a walk- on part as Molly Bloom's girlfriend. Now she's back, dressed in male Turkish attire, sitting scandalously astride her Arab horse, in Lorna Gibb's gripping and readable new biography...
Temujin was the first-born and had three younger brothers and a younger sister. His father Yisügei was the ba'atur or chief of the Kiyat and a blood-brother or anda of Toghrïl Khan, leader of the Kereyit, one of the largest confederations in Mongolia. On the death of his father...
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Rise up, GISHBAR BA GIBBIL BA GIRRA ZI AGA KANPA! Spirit of the God of Fire, Thou art Conjured! KAKKAMMANUNU! THE CONJURATION OF THE WATCHER THIS is the Book of the Conjuration of the Watcher, for formulae as I received them from the Scribe of ENKI, Our Master and Lord of All ...
There are conflicting stories about Gioe's life after his release from prison, and the events leading up to his murder. Prior to Gioe being sent to prison he ran one of the biggest lay-off betting operations in Chicago. With Ralph Pierce and brothers Harry and David Russell, the business,...