After reading a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, he bequeathed his fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. His name also survives in modern-day companies such as Dynamit Nobel and AkzoNobel, which are descendants of mergers with companies Nobel himself ...
Lynne Tuohy: Tommy told the Sutton investigators that he did not go into his house at 9:30, he stayed outside … making out with Martha for 20 minutes … mutual petting. A semi-sexual encounter … And suddenly casts himself as being, most likely the last person to see her alive. Erin...
Digital Black (from Playa):It was like college, like a musical college. What you had was the dopest artists. Everybody in the camp was dope at what they did. You might not be a dope writer and could only sing, but you’d be around a dope writer so you were able to upg...
Jimmy Page and The Firm came out withMean Business, which was largely a commercial failure, save for the single, “All the King’s Horses”. I loved the record at the time, and still listen to about 2/3 of it on a regular basis. “Fortune Hunter” is an absolutely killer song (whi...
fortune and success. Nothing Was the Same delivered a narrative that reflected on that kid, who he was before it all and how things moved so quickly, even he isn’t quite aware how he got here. But, he did. If Take Care made Drake a pop culture phenomenon, Nothing Was the Same soli...
Matthews mainly focused on his songwriting and performances with the band. Occasionally, his activities would venture outside that of the band in various solos and records. He sang on the track “Sing Along” on the second album of Blue Man Group titled Complex back in 2003. He also released...
By 1969 the band were in terminal decline and when their van was stolen with all their equipment in it they packed it in. Eddie Campbell was later in Tear Gas and Jeff Allen went on to play for Dr. K's Blues Band and then East Of Eden (he also did a John Peel session with Blue...
How did her skull end up in an Illinois house’s walls? Oct. 28: Imposters stole thousands of pounds of posh cheddar, rattling the U.K. cheese world Oct. 29: ‘Worst serial killer in Australian history’ could be on the loose with 67 women murdered or missing slangwanger (n.): ...
And while most of his credits are for acting, he did sing in Camelot and had a single from that soundtrack released on Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. “How to Handle a Woman” was issued in 1968, the same year Harris signed with the Dunhill label and recorded Jimmy Webb’s seven-minute ...
His first widespread success came with 1979's Ghost Story, about four aging men haunted by something they did inadvertently in their youth. The book was adapted into a 1981 film starring Fred Astaire and Alice Krige. Straub and King published The Talisman in 1984 and a sequel, Black House,...