This band would go by the name the Funk Brothers. The next scene slides in with a scene of a nicer restaurant, and a piano playing in the background as one of the Funk Brothers, Joe Hunter one of the keyboardists. He introduces us to the rest of the band members, and the story of their creation kicks off. After World War II, Detroit became an economic center, drawing in people from all over the country looking for work, including some of the members of the Funk Brothers. Most of them started out working in auto factories and playing music on the side.
Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality. Dubner is also the author of Turbulent Souls/Choosing My Religion (1998),Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper (2003), and the children's book The Boy With Two Belly Buttons (2007). His journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Time. The eighth and last child of an upstate New York newspaperman, Dubner has been writing since he was a child. As an undergraduate at Appalachian State University, he started a rock band that was signed to Arista Records, which landed him in New York City.
He then for a year began to work as cooper for a brewery in Chicago, though still dreaming of starting his own business. Residing now in Dundee, a small rural settlement, Pinkerton out looking for wood for barrels ran into a group of counterfeiters. Pinkerton immediately notified local authorities of his recent find and provided details of their location. This is to be considered
born in Galesburg,Illinois,on January 6, 1878 to illiterate parents. His was the son of August and Clara Sandburg. His parents had emigrated to America from the north of Sweden. Eager to be brought into the American society, he [Americanized] his name from Carl to Charles.He formaly graduated from the eight grade, and at the age of thirteen he left school and began driving a milk wagon. He mostly worked as a field laborer, factories, newsboy, bottle washer, potter’s assistant, icehouse worker, painters apprentice and odd jobs to support himself.
He learned from artist like B.B King and Buddy Holly. Jimmy was virtually a self- taut guitar player. After a short time in the army he returned to the states to pursue his music career. For several years he played in side acts behind several famous artist. Hendrix later left to England to play in his own band called the Jimmy Hendrix Experience.
Playing at the Liverpool Empire in 1986, he spontaneously broke into a 15-minute medley of Beatles songs. "That wasn't very professional," he admitted, "but it sure was fun." Denver founded an environmental group, Windstar, and visited Russia and China to discuss the preservation of the planet. He loved space exploration and applied, unsuccessfully, to be an astronaut. He sang about the 1986 space shuttle disaster in "Flying For
Gosh, ME a member of the “hip” community?? I just moved here from Boston last month, and I’m only 18, and my magazine isn’t even in the Underground Press Syndicate yet... That’s how it went in those days. Two years later, when I’d quit the rock magazine business and was living in a commune in the woods in Mendocino, California, I certainly was a hippie (my hair had gotten longer, and I believed in dropping out of civilization and its industrialized economic system altogether), and I knew it, and would probably have admitted it, even though I’d written an article in The Village Voice in October 1967 called “The Hippies Are Gone. Where Did They Go?” in which I complained about the label and told the following story about a popular TV program which had recently corralled Abbie Hoffman and me and a dozen other dubious-looking characters for a discussion of “The Hippies”: “Abbie Hoffman was on the David Susskind show a little while back, and about when it was beginning to get dull, at the start of the program, he let the duck out of the box. The duck had a little identifying plaque—HIPPIE—and
Woodstock Picture this, about 400,000 hippies on a dairy farm in the middle of nowhere. Along with that comes over 30 bands including Janis Joplin and The Who in the line-up. In this presentatin you will learn all about the events of Woodstock in 1969. Starting off on what influenced Woodstock to happen, next on how it came to be and was put together, after you will learn about what actually happened at Woodstock, following that is what Woodstock influenced and looking back at it from the retrospect of today. “By 1969 the “hippie” movement had emerged as a group of primarily young people who not only were opposed to the Vietnam War but also wore distinctive and colorful clothing, engaged in illegal drug use and enjoyed rock and roll music.”(Woodstock)
King get his own column in the college news paper called Kings garbage truck. It was Called Kings garbage truck because it was so unpredictable. King then graduates College on June fifth, 1970. King followed that success with a completing a novel. He finished the novel “Getting It on” in 1971, that novel was later rejected but it didn’t phase King, he just kept on writing (39).
His first band was called “Oz & Ends” in Ithaca NY. In 1967 he graduated Cornell University with a BA in psychology and English, he also studied at Alliance Francaise in Paris, and at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He also attended the New School for Social Research in New York City. He played in a couple of bands in the Carribean for two years in 1967. On a trip to St.Croix in 1969, he was attacked and beaten by a gang who also killed 3 American tourists.