The article explained some of the Beatles journey to success‚ and they weren’t immediately successful. Neither were most other British bands like the Rolling Stones. However‚ it didn’t take very long of them working hard for their songs to become hits in Britain and the US‚ with their songs being on the Top 40 Hits list multiple times. An obvious historical reason for this is because their music was new and exciting in a time of turmoil. Major events were going on like the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ the
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The first Hispanic rock star‚ Richard Steven Valenzuela aka Ritchie Valens was born May 13‚ 1941 near Los Angeles California. At an early age Valens developed a love for music; being able to play several instruments. While exposed to the rhythm and blues music though his father‚ Valens vowed to devoted most of his time to the guitar and would slowly strive to aspire his dreams of being an artist. By the age of 16 Valens joined his first band The Silhouette‚ an integrated group who played local high-school
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Born in England 1947‚ Brian May is the lead guitarist and singer for the late 1900s band Queen. He started to love music at a young age of 12 and played the piano and ukulele. His love for music started to burst when he got his first guitar on his seventeenth birthday. Shortly after‚ him and his father started to create a new one from scratch. The guitar was known as the Red Special‚ and Brian would use this guitar with a sixpence coin used as a pick. Him and his friends from college‚ Roger Taylor
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The beginning Stella Mccartney was born in Lambeth‚ London on September 13th in 1971. She was the second child of former Beatle bassist Sir Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman. At the age of thirteen‚ she became interested in designing clothes‚ when she was making her first jacket. Only three years later‚ she interned for Christian Lacroix‚ working on his first fashion design collection. When she finished high school‚ she studied her foundation at Revensbourne College of Design and Communication
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Tanei Armendariz October 21‚ 2012 John Lennon: Acid Dreams For as long as most anyone can remember The Beatles have been known as one of the greatest bands in history. Though the British band has its roots in a land far from the United States‚ they too crossed the pond during the so called British Invasion in the 1960s prior to the official start of American involvement in the infamous Vietnam War. It came as no surprise that all those Brits influenced the music here in the states‚ but soon
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“Imagine all the people living in peace. You may say that I’m a dreamer‚ but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.” (Lennon). Peace begins with imagination. John Lennon rose to stardom as the founder of the popular 1960s band ‘The Beatles.’ After the breakup of The Beatles‚ he then began using his stardom to send a message of Peace to the world; through his songs which he had a little help with from his wife Yoko Ono‚ Lennon deserves to be classified as
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The War on Christmas refers specifically to the controversy surrounding the celebration or acknowledgment of the Christmas holiday in government‚ media‚ advertising and other secular environments. Modern-day controversy occurs around the world‚ and stems from the holiday’s significant annual role in celebrating cultural values in Western society. See The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought. Fox News has been particularly vocal in the
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Ringo Starr born‚ Ritchie Starkey‚ named after his father‚ on 7 July 1940‚ to Ritchie and Elsie Starkey in Liverpool‚ England (Lewisohn 27). Starkey’s family had lived in an area of Liverpool known as Dingle‚ near the port of Liverpool and infamous for its “petroleum stores‚ gas works‚ factories‚ chimneys and a hundred different manufacturing eyesores‚ swiftly accompanied by block after block of narrow streets and alleys packed tight with cramped terraced houses built to poor specifications” (Lewisohn
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Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong and recorded by Edwin Starr‚ “War” is one of the most famous protest songs of the latter part of the 20th century. This is a song protesting the war in Vietnam‚ the first truly unpopular war in the history of the United States (War (song)). Starr’s song harnesses the anger of the general populace towards the war and channels this anger into a persuasive and moving medium. The Vietnam War was met by heavy public resistance by the general public as
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Held back or moved on? Students in school sometimes have a hard time passing their tests at the end of the year‚ as to what allows them to move up to the next grade depending if the passed or failed. The government however‚ feels that students who do not pass the end of the school year test should no longer get moved up to the next grade and should be held back. On the other hand I feel that students should be allowed to go onto the next grade even if the student has failed the test. I believe
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