A duet of "Perhaps Love" with Placido Domingo made the UK Top 50 in 1981, while Denver and Emmylou Harris had an American success with "Wild Montana Skies" in 1983. He wrote his autobiography Take Me Home in 1994 and a two-CD set, The Rocky Mountain Collection, was issued in the UK last year. Business economies being what they are, Denver switched to solo concerts without a group in recent years but he excelled with narrations like "The Ambulance Down In the Valley". Lacking a female singer to sing Olivia Newton-John's part in "Fly Away", he would ask the audience to join him. Playing at the Liverpool Empire in 1986, he spontaneously broke into a 15-minute medley of Beatles songs.
Until his spectacular arrest on drug charges in Los Angeles in October 1982, John Zachary DeLorean had enjoyed astonishing success. Born into a working class family, he proved an exemplary student, going on to become the golden boy of General Motors who single-handedly saved their Pontiac division, and whose marketing wizardry provided American youths with their muscle cars. Then, almost at the top of General Motors, DeLorean suddenly resigned apparently in disgust at the immorality of big business. He then set out to build his own “ethical car”, eventually deciding to take over a Belfast site and successfully persuading the British Government to back him with 97 million dollars. Suddenly, this American dream became an incredible nightmare.
He built hotels, and then bought railroads to connect them to other hotels, improving and even founding cities as he moved down the east coast to Miami. When others would have stopped, he saw the possibilities of continuing to Key West and accepted the challenge. By connecting an isolated string of islands to the rest of the world, Henry Morrison Flagler made his dream and The Keys come true. Born in Hopewell, New York in 1830, he left school at age 14 and moved to Ohio to work (and live) with his half-brother at a general store. Being a natural salesman, he quickly advanced from his original salary of $5 a month, and by age 22, he was partners with his half-brother in a grain business and distillery (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004).
Imagine living a life full of parental neglect, extreme drug addiction, death of some of the people closest to you and ending up as the lead singer to one of the biggest bands of all time. This Is the life that Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers has lived. Anthony was born in the city of Grand Rapids Michigan. His Father, John Kiedis was a part time actor, part time drug dealer, and full time drug addict. He introduced his son to the world of drug use at an extremely young age which made a huge impact on the outcome of Anthony’s lifestyle as an adult.
Problems of Alcohol and Drugs resulted in a breakup of Fleetwood Mac. Peter Green named the group by combining the surnames of two of his former band mates (Fleetwood, McVie). Green had achieved a UK number one with “Albatross”. After that, Fleetwood Mac as a group, produced 10 new singles and remained number 1, on the American albums chart for 31 weeks! He was a great help in the band, Fleetwood Mac.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. It was known for its range of styles and sounds, a mix of pop and electronic noises; songs like “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and “A Day in the Life.” Many of the songs on the album were carefully examined for hidden “clues” about The Beatles use of drugs. This album spent 15 weeks at number one, and sold over 8 million copies. On June 25th, 1967, The Beatles recorded “All You Need Is Love,” with a live television audience of 400 million, part of the Our World broadcast. Later that year, while The Beatles were in Wales beginning their six month involvement with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Brian Epstein died of an accidental overdose on his prescribed sleeping pills, Carbitral.
Runaway Jury Essay The Runaway Jury by John Grisham draws you into a story of power. While the widow of a man who was killed by lung cancer, after smoking for most of his life, is suing a tobacco company, the reader finds out that this is not a normal trial case. Usually the side with the most votes gets their verdict, but now there is a single powerful person who controls all of it.. The plot revolves around Pynex, it is one of the ‘Big Four' tobacco companies in the United States. They are being sued by Celeste Wood who was the wife of a man who died from lung cancer; he smoked all his life which led to his diagnosis.
Bell Laboratories invented the transistor. Edwin Land invented the Polaroid Land camera selling for $89.75. Holography, a technique that created three-dimensional images, was created by Dennis Gabor. In 1949 Physicist Harold Lyons built the first atomic clock which was accurate to within a few seconds over fifty years. In this same year cake mix was
When he got his first guitar he had a taste of musical success by winning his high school talent show (Bio.com). In 1958 Presley went into the U.S. army he spent two years in Germany (Rubel). When he came back he married Priscilla Beavlieu in 1967 and the had a daughter named Lisa Marie in 1968 but they divorced in 1973 (Rubel). Presley stared in thirty-three sucsseful fims and made history with his telivison apperences (Elvis.com). His sales earned him gold, platuim, and multi platuim awards (Elvis.com).
According to Wikipedia, Mr. Eastman was an innovator, entrepreneur and a philanthropist showing concerns for fellow human beings, establishing schools in dentistry, medicine and music. Born in 1854 in New York, “he invented roll film…the basis for the invention of motion picture film in 1888. Due to a degenerative spinal problem… Eastman shot himself...in 1932.” Wikipedia. Eastman witnessed the death of both parents and sister due to medical issues. It’s noted he gave $100 million to charities and organizations such as in medical and educational arena.