He also achieved fame with memorable performances at major festivals like Monterey Pop Festival (1967) where he famously set his guitar on fire during his performance; Woodstock (1969), where his rendition of Star-Spangled Banner became an emblematic moment reflecting turbulent times...
While Yes was his most frequent band throughout the years, his resume is quite impressive having performed with Ginger Baker's Airforce, with George Harrison and with John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band. White spent multiple stints with Yes throughout the years, providing both drums, piano and voc...
Crosby, Stills, and Nash famously performed the song at the Woodstock festival. Still wrote the song as his relationship with Collins was coming to an end, and the lyrics, for the most part, deal with his feeling about her as well as the coming breakup. “Donna” by Ritchie Valens Ritchi...
Eventually returning to Canada, he performed with the Singin' Swingin' Eight and the Gino Silvi Singers, before venturing out on his own with his first two singles in 1962. "(Remember Me) I'm the One" earned him his first radio hit, climbing to No. 3 on CHUM radio in 1962. Over th...
. They were also, of course, rapidly also becoming one of the most ambitious, withPete Townshend’sTommyopus establishing them as a major commercial force in the US. Soon after its release, the whole world saw the immense power of The Who on stage, via acertain phenomenon called Woodstock...
was a professor of theology at Georgetown University. King entered the Society of Jesus in 1951 after completing undergraduate studies in English at the University of Pittsburgh. As a Jesuit, he undertook further studies at Fordham University and Woodstock College and was ordained a Roman Catholic ...
The Monsters under the Bed was performed in “Saint Bede Abbey in Peru, IL at its Summer Theater Program” (The Monsters 6). It was also performed several times in schools. It deals with a group of young girls discussing their deepest and worst fears during a night over at their friend...
Roger Daltrey didn’t write a note of “Tommy,” but he found himself as a singer telling the story of the deaf, dumb and blind boy who becomes a messiah at high-profile at Woodstock and the Isle of Wight. More than 40 years later, Daltrey is still finding ways to express himself th...
I very much suspect that come Christmas morning they wake up in Woodstock suffering from a gigantic hangover from drinking too much Asti Spumanti. Christmas should be cancelled in Clifton. Victoria Road is like a parking lot. You can’t get in or out of your apartment. The beaches are jamme...
20 at 86. Born in Woodstock, Ill., Redeker was best known for playing schemers like DOOL's Alex Marshall and Y&R's Rex Sterling. His other TV and film credits included Starsky & Hutch, The Six Million Dollar Man, Kojak, Barnaby Jones, The Candidate, and Ordinary People. In addition ...