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Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday
824 wordsTombstone is a movie set back in the 1800 's whenever people were allowed to carry guns and murders in the towns were a usual thing. This particular movie includes several legends of the "Old West", such as Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Texas Jack, Johnny Ringo, and several others. Doc Holliday was the calm sarcastic type, who was addicted to alcohol and cigarettes. Because of Doc's addiction, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis which often made him sick. Doc's wife was a party-type girl, with no car...
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Sky With Diamonds Rock And Roll
809 wordsFashion and music play a major role in influencing teenagers. Today, fashion and music are very diverse, with many different styles of dress and a variety of music. But it wasnt always like this. Bellbottoms, platform shoes, and Rock-and-Roll dominated the 1960 s. And with Rock-and-Roll came the Beatles and Beatlemania. Beatlemania swept over the United States in the 1960 s. The Beatles began in 1957 as teenage boys playing in cellars and drive bars in Liverpool, England, and Hamburg, Germany. (...
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Yoko Ono Lonely Hearts
1,235 words... Beatles embarked on their final U. S. tour, playing their last live show at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on August 29 th. From then on, the band announced, they were going to keep away from live performances to concentrate on more elaborate studio productions. Rumors were spread in the media as the band disappeared from the public. The Beatles spent much of early 1967 in the studio, recording their amazing, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This groundbreaking concept album complete...
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Rock And Roll John Lennon
884 wordsThere has been more books published about one 20 th-century icon than any other, this band that is said to have broken down barriers in all ways, is the Beatles. Their music was said to have driven that younger generation mad. Perhaps it was because they were one of the first bands ever play real rock and roll music. Or maybe it was just because they were foreigners in the world of music, yet seemed to fit right in with the young people. Whatever reason was, the Beatles were a band that shaped a...
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Jimi Hendrix Experience Rock And Roll
2,010 words... ms with the authorities and the media. The first real bad thing they did was probably the worst. They were really getting hot across the country and they were invited to the Ed Sullivan Show. They were to play Light My Fire. The network executives wanted them to not use their own lyrics because they were too sexual. Little did they know that Morrison would not only say, Light My Fire but turn to the camera and yell it. They were basically finished on TV after this stunt. Other than that, the...
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Rock And Roll Ringo Starr
1,242 wordsThe Beatles were known as a rock and roll group, but they were not just any old band. They changed music around the world, as we know it. Between the boys, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Richard Starkey, better known as Ringo Starr, they had extraordinary talent (History of the Beatles 1). They started what was called the "British Invasion, " and some say that the Beatles are the greatest musicians to ever walk God's great earth. It all started in 1956, when John Lennon starte...
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Sky With Diamonds Lucy In The Sky
644 wordsWhen someone mentions the Beatles, most people who know of the band would think of Lennon, McCartney, Ringo and Harrison playing great music on stage. The Beatles still are the best pop rock group ever and it has been said that no other pop rock band will come close to their level of success. Their music was fresh, new and of course it sounded fantastic. But there have been rumors and stories about what the Beatles were singing about, and also about the band members such as whether Paul McCartne...
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Id Be Ashamed Ab Snopes Is A Conniving Honor
1,228 wordsIn the novel The Unvanquished, written by William Faulkner, honor is dealt with first hand throughout the novel. In some cases, like Ab Snopes, there is a major lack of honor. But the characters Bayard and his Grandmother, Granny, have honor, and lots of it. Though Granny dies, it is an honorable death that brings out honor in Bayard. Bayard is a young man and is changing, as he grows so does his honor. When in the end he displays his honor in many different ways. Ab Snopes is a conniving deviou...
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Yoko Ono Paul Mccartney
1,047 words... to concentrate on more elaborate studio recordings. The Beatles spent much of early 1967 in the studio, recording their magnum opus, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This groundbreaking concept album completely changed the way rock albums created: it used numerous studio effects, placed the emphasis on the album as a whole rather than on singles, and rewrote the standard for cover art with its famous mannequin-based photo collage. Sgt. Pepper's later won four Grammys. On August 27, 196...
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Ringo Starr George Harrison
1,479 wordsA Brief and Hopefully Accurate Summary of the Life and Times of Ringo Starr. I, Ringo Starr, was born on July seventh, 1940. I was named after my father. I was the only child of Richard Starkey and Elsie Gave. The two had met while working together at a local bakery. They eventually married in 1936. My family resided at 9 Mary Street, a six-room terrace house in a poor and rough working class section of Liverpool known as the Dingle. My father had left home when I was 3 years old. In 1944, My mo...
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Ringo Starr George Harrison
1,607 wordsBehind Sad Eyes: The Life of George Harrison When a celebrity passes away, that passing seems to serve as permission for some biographers to write about the dark side of the dearly departed. Marc Shapiro carries on this dubious tradition in BEHIND SAD EYES: The Life of George Harrison. As fans of the Fab Four will recall, Harrison was considered the quiet Beatle, the spiritual one who kept to himself, and was content to stay in the background. Just like his fellow Beatles, Harrison grew up amid ...
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George Harrison Rolling Stone
1,616 words... Dark Horse, Harrison insisted that the Ravi Shankar Orchestra play a long opening set and then lashed out at bored audiences and weak notices. Before one of the concerts, Shapiro writes, Harrison ranted, You know, I didnt force... anybody at gunpoint to come and see me... And I dont care if nobody comes to see me. I dont give a shit. There would be later musical successes, most notably 1987 s Cloud Nine. But by then, Harrison's output had been indifferent and erratic for long enough that he ...
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John Lennon Band Beatles
253 wordsMusic is an entertainment. yet, sometimes it can make history. A song is simply just words with sound. Yet, sometimes it can be passionate. A band is simply just people who transport music. Yet, sometimes they can be a big influence to others. They are the most popular musical artists in Rock and Roll through out the century. They are the one who most likely captures the medias attention. They are the most famous band in the World during the 60 s and the 70 s. They are the Beatles. The foursome ...
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Ringo Starr Brian Epstein
582 wordsThe Beatles to this day are one of the most famous and popular rock n roll groups in the world. The Beatles include George Harrison, John Lennon (1940 - 1980), Paul McCartney, and Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr). All of the Beatles where born and raised in Liverpool, England. John Lennon was considered the leader of the band. George Harrison was the lead guitarist. John Lennon was a song writer, one of the two lead singers, and rhythm guitarist. Paul McCartney was a song writer, one of the two lea...
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Work Of Art Upper Class
1,191 wordsAn Interpretation of Stagecoach In 1939 John Ford masterminded a classical western film by the name of Stagecoach. This film has the integrity of a fine work of art. Being that it could be considered a work of art, the impression left on a viewing audience could differ relying on the audiences demographics. However, it is conceivable to all audiences that Ford delivers a cast of characters that are built on stereotypes and perceptions conjured from B westerns that preceded this films time. Each ...
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Death Of His Mother Rock And Roll
1,315 wordsMini Documentary John Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, England. When he was four years old, his parents separated and he ended up living with his Aunt Mimi. Johns father was a merchant seaman and John did not see a lot of his father when he was small. As a child, John was a prankster and he enjoyed getting in trouble. As a boy and young adult, John enjoyed drawing grotesque figures and cripples. One of the reasons for his obsession with cripples and deformities was because of the...
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Paul Mccartney John Lennon
941 wordsLennon/McCartney John Lennon and Paul McCartney are two of the greatest artists popular music has ever embraced. Their collaboration on early Beatles songs propelled the group to international fame. As the Beatles matured, however, the relationship between these two became more competitive than cooperative. They developed unique and surprisingly polar styles. In a 1980 Playboy interview John Lennon stated: You could say that (Paul) provided a lightness, an optimism, while I would always go for t...
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One Of The Greatest Ringo Starr
815 wordsIt is not often that a band comes along and changes the face of music forever. The Beatles managed to do this and many other accomplishments that make them one of the greatest bands of all time. This essay will try to explain what made this band so popular and what led to their sad downfall and eventual breakup. The four members of the group, all born in Liverpool, were Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Each came from a working-class background, and all had had exper...
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Rock And Roll Brian Epstein
1,658 wordsBeatlemania in the 1960 s- The Beatles were a mystical happening that many people still dont understand. Phenomenoligists had a ball in 1964 with Beatlemania, a generally harmless form of madness which came from Britain in 1963. The sole cause of Beatlemania is a quartet of young Englishmen known as the Beatles. In the less than one year that they achieved popularity in England to the time they came to America, The Beatles achieved a popularity and following that is unprecedented in the history ...
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George Harrison Paul Mccartney
743 wordsThe Beatles were, and are without a doubt the most famous band in the history of music. The group was started up in 1957 by two upper-class young men by the names of Paul McCartney, and John Lennon. In 1958 the duo had an audition for a 3 rd member. George Harrison came along, and was of course brought into the group. George Harrison, unlike his two other members had come from a poor family, he was the only child to make it through into college from his family. George had started to get into mus...
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