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Atlanta
Atlanta (
/ətˈlæntə/, stressed /ætˈlæntə/, locally /ætˈlænə/) is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia with a 2010 population of 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest in the U.S. It is a major component of a growing southeastern megalopolis known as the Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion. Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County.
Atlanta began as a settlement located at the terminus of a railroad line, and it was incorporated in 1845. Today, the city is a major business city and the primary transportation hub of the Southeastern United States (via highway, railroad, and air), with Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport being the world's busiest airport since 1998. The World Cities Study Group at Loughborough University rated Atlanta as an "alpha(-) world city." With a gross domestic product of US$270 billion, Atlanta's economy ranks 15th among world cities and sixth in the nation. The city is a center for services, finance, information technology, government, and higher education. Metro Atlanta contains the country's third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies, and is the world headquarters of The Coca-Cola Company, Turner Broadcasting, The Home Depot, AT&T Mobility, UPS, and Delta Air Lines. As of 2010, Atlanta is the seventh most visited city in the United States, with over 35 million visitors per year.
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Cleveland
Cleveland ( /ˈkliːvlənd/) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles (97 km) west of the Pennsylvania border. It was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, and became a manufacturing center owing to its location on the lake shore, as well as being connected to numerous canals and railroad lines. Cleveland's economy has diversified sectors that include manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and biomedical. Cleveland is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
As of the 2010 Census, the city proper had a total population of 396,815 and was the 45th largest city in the United States, and the second largest city in Ohio. It is the center of Greater Cleveland, the largest metropolitan area in Ohio. The Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor Metropolitan Statistical Area in 2011 ranked as the 28th largest in the United States with 2,068,283 people. Cleveland is part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area, which in 2011 had a population of 2,871,084, and ranked as the country's 15th largest.
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CNBC
Coordinates: 40°53′55″N 73°56′21″W / 40.89861°N 73.93917°W / 40.89861; -73.93917
CNBC (officially the Consumer News and Business Channel until 1991) is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers around the world. In 2007, the network was ranked as the 19th most valuable cable channel in the U.S., worth roughly $4 billion. It is headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
The CNBC channel had its beginnings around 1980 as the Satellite Program Network (SPN), showing a low-budget mix of old movies, instructional and entertainment programs. The channel later changed its name to Tempo Television. After initially signing a letter of intent to acquire Tempo,NBC eventually opted for a deal to lease the channel's transponder in June 1988. On this platform, and under the guidance of Tom Rogers, the channel was relaunched on April 17, 1989 as the Consumer News and Business Channel. NBC and Cablevision initially operated CNBC as a 50-50 joint venture, choosing to headquarter the channel in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
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Fort Lee, New Jersey
Fort Lee is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 35,345. Located atop the Hudson Palisades, the borough is the western terminus of the George Washington Bridge. Named for the site of an early American Revolutionary War military encampment, it later became the birthplace of the American film industry.
Fort Lee is located at 40°51′02″N 73°58′16″W / 40.85064°N 73.971007°W / 40.85064; -73.971007 (40.85064,-73.971007). According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough had a total area of 2.888 square miles (7.478 km2), of which, 2.541 square miles (6.581 km2) of it is land and 0.347 square miles (0.898 km2) of it (12.00%) is water.
It is west and north of Edgewater, New Jersey, on the peninsula between the Hackensack River and the Hudson River, and atop the escarpment known as the Palisade Cliffs. The borough is bisected by the confluence of roads at GWB Plaza leading to the George Washington Bridge, and lies opposite from the Washington Heights neighborhood in uptown Manhattan.
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Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo ( /ˌkæləməˈzuː/) is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. Kalamazoo is located geographically in Western and Southern Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 74,262. It is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage metropolitan area, which has a population of 326,589 as of 2010.
Kalamazoo is home to Western Michigan University (often abbreviated as "WMU"), a large public university, and Kalamazoo College (often referred to as "K College"), a liberal arts school whose campus abuts WMU's.
Originally known as Bronson, after founder Titus Bronson, in the township of Arcadia, the names were both changed to "Kalamazoo" in 1836 and 1837, respectively. The Kalamazoo name comes from a Potawatomi word, first found in a British report in 1772. However, the Kalamazoo River, which passes through the modern city of Kalamazoo, was located on the route between Détroit and Fort Saint-Joseph (nowadays Niles, Michigan). Canadians (French-speaking), French traders, missionaries, and military personnel were quite familiar with this area during the French era and thereafter. The name for the Kalamazoo River was then known by Canadians and French as La rivière Kikanamaso. The name "Kikanamaso" was also recorded by Father Pierre Potier, a Jesuit missionary for the Huron-Wendats at the Assumption mission (south shore of Détroit), while en route to Fort Saint-Joseph during the fall of 1760. Legend has it that "Ki-ka-ma-sung," meaning "boiling water," referring to a footrace held each fall by local Native Americans, who had to run to the river and back before the pot boiled. Still another theory is that it means "the mirage or reflecting river." Another legend is that the image of "boiling water" referred to fog on the river as seen from the hills above the current downtown. The name was also given to the river that flows almost all the way across the state.
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Marquette University
Marquette University ( /mɑrˈkɛt/) is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1881, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The university is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and currently has a student body of 11,600. Marquette is one of the largest Jesuit universities in the United States, and the largest private university in Wisconsin.
Marquette University was founded on August 28, 1881 as Marquette College by John Martin Henni, the first Catholic bishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. The university was named after 17th century missionary and explorer Father Jacques Marquette, S.J.. The highest priority of the newly established college was to provide an affordable Catholic education to the area's emerging German immigrant population. Marquette College officially became a university in 1907. Marquette University High School, formerly the preparatory department of the university, became a separate institution the same year. Initially an all-male institution, Marquette University became the first coed Catholic university in the world, when it admitted its first female students in 1909.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee /mɪlˈwɔːkiː/ is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States, and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the City of Milwaukee has a population of 594,833. Milwaukee is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee–Racine–Waukesha Metropolitan Area with a population of 1,751,316 as of 2010. Milwaukee is also the regional center of the seven county Greater Milwaukee Area, with an estimated population of 2,014,032 as of 2008.
The first Europeans to pass through the area were French missionaries and fur traders. In 1818, the French-Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, and in 1846 Juneau's town combined with two neighboring towns to incorporate as the City of Milwaukee. Large numbers of German and other immigrants helped increase the city's population during the 1840s and the following decades.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee /mɪlˈwɔːkiː/ is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States, and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the City of Milwaukee has a population of 594,833. Milwaukee is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee–Racine–Waukesha Metropolitan Area with a population of 1,751,316 as of 2010. Milwaukee is also the regional center of the seven county Greater Milwaukee Area, with an estimated population of 2,014,032 as of 2008.
The first Europeans to pass through the area were French missionaries and fur traders. In 1818, the French-Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, and in 1846 Juneau's town combined with two neighboring towns to incorporate as the City of Milwaukee. Large numbers of German and other immigrants helped increase the city's population during the 1840s and the following decades.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia ( /ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə/) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,526,006 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. Philadelphia is also the commercial, cultural, and educational center of the Delaware Valley, home to 6 million people and the country's fifth-largest metropolitan area. The Philadelphia metropolitan division consists of five counties in Pennsylvania and has a population of 4,008,994. Popular nicknames for Philadelphia are Philly and The City of Brotherly Love, the latter of which comes from the literal meaning of the city's name in Greek (Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια ([pʰilaˈdelpʰeːa], Modern Greek: [filaˈðelfia]) "brotherly love", compounded from philos (φίλος) "loving", and adelphos (ἀδελφός) "brother").
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Savannah, Georgia
Savannah is the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Established in 1733, the city of Savannah was the colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. Today Savannah is an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport. It is Georgia's fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area.
Each year Savannah attracts millions of visitors, who enjoy the city's architecture and historic buildings: the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America), the Georgia Historical Society (the oldest continually operating historical society in the South), the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of the South's first public museums), the First African Baptist Church (one of the oldest African American Baptist congregations in the United States), Temple Mickve Israel (the third oldest synagogue in America), and the Central of Georgia Railway roundhouse complex (the oldest standing antebellum rail facility in America).
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin (
i/wɨsˈkɒnsɨn/) is a US state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin is the 23rd most extensive and the 20th most populous of the 50 United States. Wisconsin's capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee. The state is divided into 72 counties.
The word Wisconsin originates from the name given to the Wisconsin River by one of the Algonquian speaking American Indian groups living in the region at the time of European contact. French explorer Jacques Marquette was the first European to reach the Wisconsin River and record its name, arriving in 1673 and calling the river Meskousing in his journal. This spelling was later corrupted to Ouisconsin by other French explorers, and over time this version became the French name for both the Wisconsin River and the surrounding lands. English speakers anglicized the spelling to its modern form when they began to arrive in greater numbers during the early 19th century. The current spelling was made official by the legislature of Wisconsin Territory in 1845.
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Ace Frehley
Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley ( /ˈfreɪli/; born April 27, 1951) is an American musician best known as the former lead guitarist of the rock band Kiss. He took on the persona of the "Spaceman" or "Space Ace" when the band adopted costumes and theatrics. Frehley played with the group from its inception in 1973 until his departure in 1982.
After leaving Kiss, Frehley embarked on a solo career, which was put on hold when he rejoined Kiss in 1996 for a highly successful reunion tour. His second tenure with Kiss lasted until 2002, when he left at the conclusion of what was purported to be the band's Farewell Tour. His latest album Anomaly, was released on September 15, 2009.Guitar World magazine ranked him 14th Greatest Metal Guitarist of All Time.
There are many guitarists who were inspired by the sound of Frehley and among these there are Slash, Dimebag Darrell, Chuck Schuldiner, Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman, John Norum, Dave Sabo, Alex Skolnick, Scott Ian, Mick Mars, Jake E. Lee, Paul Gilbert and many others.
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Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand ( /ˈaɪn ˈrænd/; born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism.
Born and educated in Russia, Rand moved to the United States in 1926. She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two initially unsuccessful early novels, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel The Fountainhead. In 1957, she published her best-known work, the philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward she turned to nonfiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own magazines and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982.
Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected all forms of faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism, and rejected ethical altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral and opposed all forms of collectivism and statism, instead supporting laissez-faire capitalism, which she believed was the only social system that protected individual rights. She promoted romantic realism in art. She was sharply critical of the philosophers and philosophical traditions known to her besides Aristotle.
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Charles Grodin
Charles Grodin (born April 21, 1935) is an American actor, comedian, author and former cable talk show host. Grodin began his acting career in the 1960s appearing in TV serials including The Virginian. He had a small part as an obstetrician in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby in 1968. In the 1970s he moved into film acting, including playing the lead in The Heartbreak Kid and a supporting role in Catch-22. He became a familiar face as a supporting actor in many 1980s Hollywood comedies, including Midnight Run, Taking Care of Business, Seems Like Old Times, The Great Muppet Caper, The Woman in Red, The Lonely Guy, Ishtar and The Couch Trip. He is probably best known for his role as George Newton in the 1990s John Hughes comedy franchise Beethoven.
Grodin has won several acting awards, including American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for 1993's Dave, Best Actor at the 1988 Valladolid International Film Festival (for Midnight Run). He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for The Heartbreak Kid in 1972. He also shared a 1978 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program for his work on The Paul Simon Special.
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Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders carried out by members of the group at his instruction. He was convicted of the murders through the joint-responsibility rule, which makes each member of a conspiracy guilty of crimes his fellow conspirators commit in furtherance of the conspiracy's objective.
Manson believed in what he called "Helter Skelter," a term he took from the song of the same name by The Beatles. Manson believed Helter Skelter to be an impending apocalyptic race war, which he described in his own version of the lyrics to the Beatles' song. He believed his murders would help precipitate that war. From the beginning of his notoriety, a pop culture arose around him in which he ultimately became an emblem of insanity, violence and the macabre. The term was later used by Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi as the title of a book he wrote about the Manson murders.
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Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish-American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, and producer. He is the host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, an Emmy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning late-night talk show that airs on CBS. In addition to hosting that program and performing stand-up comedy, Ferguson has written two books: Between the Bridge and the River, a novel, and American on Purpose, a memoir. He became a citizen of the United States in 2008.
Before his career as a late-night television host, Ferguson was best known in the United States for his role as the office boss, Nigel Wick, on The Drew Carey Show from 1996 to 2003. He also wrote and starred in three films, directing one of them.
Ferguson was born in the Stobhill Hospital in the Springburn district of Glasgow, Scotland to Robert and Janet Ferguson, and raised in nearby Cumbernauld, growing up "chubby and bullied". When he was six months old, he and his family moved from their Springburn apartment to a council house in Cumbernauld. They lived there as Glasgow was re-housing many people following damage to the city from World War II. Ferguson attended Muirfield Primary School and Cumbernauld High School. At age sixteen, Ferguson dropped out of Cumbernauld High School and began an apprenticeship to be an electronics technician at a local factory of American company Burroughs Corporation.
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Craig Kilborn
Craig Kilborn (born August 24, 1962) is an American actor and talk show host. He was the original host of The Daily Show, a former anchor on ESPN's SportsCenter, and Tom Snyder's successor on CBS' The Late Late Show. On June 28, 2010, he launched The Kilborn File after a six-year absence from television. The Kilborn File aired on some Fox stations during a six-week trial run.
Kilborn, the son of Shirley, a school teacher, and Hiram Kilborn, an insurance executive, was born in Kansas City, but from the age 4, was raised in Hastings, Minnesota. From early on Kilborn was taller than his peers and early on it made him a consistent standout from elementary playgrounds through his prep years in Hastings. He would eventually grow to be 6' 5" tall. In the 9th grade Kilborn caught the eye of a man that coached an All-Star team from Minneapolis called the Northside Magicians. Kilborn accepted an invitation to join the team in national tournaments. Kilborn, again stood out because of his talent. He starred in basketball at Hastings High School, earning three letters, All-Conference and All-State honors. His talent attracted the attention of NCAA Division I scouts and Kilborn accepted a scholarship to Montana State University.
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Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian comedian, singer, actor and screenwriter. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers (with John Belushi) and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.
Aykroyd was born on July 1, 1952, at the Ottawa General Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He grew up in the Canadian capital, where his father, Samuel Peter Aykroyd, a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. His mother, Lorraine Hélène (née Gougeon), is a secretary, of French Canadian descent. His brother, Peter, also became a comedy actor. Aykroyd was born with syndactyly (webbed toes), which was revealed in the movie Mr. Mike's Mondo Video and in a short film on Saturday Night Live (Don't Look Back In Anger). He was also born with heterochromia (a condition of having two differently coloured eyes). His right eye is green and his left eye is brown.
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David Brenner
David Brenner (born February 4, 1936) is an American standup comedian, actor, author, and filmmaker.
Brenner was born and raised in poor areas of Philadelphia. Unlike many of the other children in his neighborhood, he managed to stay away from too much trouble. His sense of humor led to his immense popularity during his school years, winning Brenner the title of "Class President" every year. After high school he largely hung out on the street corners for two years, followed by two years in the army, serving in the 101st Airborne and as a cryptographer of the 595th Signal Corp in Boblingen, Germany. After being discharged, he attended Temple University where he majored in mass communications, graduating with honors.
After making his national television debut on the The Tonight Show he became the show's most frequent guest with 158 appearances. Since the majority of his jokes deal with current events, mostly political, he has become somewhat of a political pundit, and has been a guest on several news-oriented shows in the recent past, and was also ranked #53 on Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time." Brenner has appeared more often on major TV Talk Shows than any other entertainer.
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David Letterman
David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host and comedian. He hosts the late night television talk show, Late Show with David Letterman, broadcast on CBS. Letterman has been a fixture on late night television since the 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC. Letterman recently surpassed friend and mentor Johnny Carson for having the longest late-night hosting career in the United States of America.
Letterman is also a television and film producer. His company Worldwide Pants produces his show as well as its network follow-up The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Worldwide Pants has also produced several prime-time comedies, the most successful of which was Everybody Loves Raymond, currently in syndication.
In 1996, David Letterman was ranked #45 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
Letterman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father, Harry Joseph Letterman (April 1915 – February 1973), was a florist of British descent; his mother Dorothy Letterman (née Hofert, now Dorothy Mengering), a Presbyterian church secretary of German descent, is an occasional figure on the show, usually at holidays and birthdays.
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Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons (born Chaim Weitz Hebrew: חיים ויץ; August 25, 1949) is an Israeli-American rock bassist, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur and actor. Known as "The Demon", he is the bassist/co-vocalist of Kiss, a hard rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s. Kiss has sold over 100 million albums worldwide.
Chaim Weitz (later Gene Simmons) was born at the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel in 1949. Mother and child emigrated to Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City when he was eight years old. His mother Flóra "Florence" Klein (formerly Kovács) was born in Jánd, Hungary. The German name Klein (means: small) is sometimes used informally in Hungarian as Kis, this however, did not give the band its name. Florence and her brother, Larry Klein, were the only members of the family to survive the Holocaust. Simmons' father, Feri Witz, also Hungarian-born, remained in Israel, where he had one other son and three daughters. Simmons says the family was "dirt poor," scraping by on bread and milk. In the United States, Simmons changed his name to Eugene Klein (later Gene Klein), adopting his mother's maiden name. He was a part of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in Williamsburg, Brooklyn as a child, from 7 am to 9:30 pm
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George Jefferson
George Jefferson is a fictional character played by Sherman Hemsley on the American television sitcoms All in the Family (from 1973 until 1975) and its spin-off The Jeffersons (1975–1985). The character appears in all 253 episodes of The Jeffersons.
George Jefferson was born in Harlem in 1929, an ambitious African-American entrepreneur who started and managed a successful chain of seven dry cleaning stores in New York City. The only background on the Jefferson family is that they were Alabama sharecroppers. In a very early episode, George's wife Louise makes mention of a conversation she had with George's father after she and George were married about the Jeffersons family roots. However, the show's writers later applied a retroactive change in the continuity of George's father, such that he had died when George was 10 years old. This left George to take care of his mother; therefore, George was unable to complete high school. He was a cook in the US Navy during the Korean War. He began dating Louise when they were teenagers and married her upon his discharge from the navy.
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Gloria Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Vanderbilt (born February 20, 1924) is an American artist, author, actress, heiress, and socialite most noted as an early developer of designer blue jeans. She is a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family of New York and mother of CNN's Anderson Cooper.
Vanderbilt was born in New York City, the only child of railroad heir Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt (1880–1925) and his second wife, Gloria Morgan (1904–1965). She was christened in the Episcopal church as Gloria Laura Vanderbilt (and after her father's death, confirmed in the Catholic Church, to which her mother belonged). From her father's first marriage to Cathleen Neilson, she had a half-sister, Cathleen Vanderbilt (1904–1944).
She became heiress to a half share in a five-million-dollar trust fund upon her father's death from cirrhosis when she was 18 months old. The rights to control this trust fund while Vanderbilt was a minor belonged to her mother, who traveled to and from Paris for years, taking her daughter with her. They were accompanied by a beloved nanny, whom young Gloria had named "Dodo", who would play a tumultuous part in the child's life, and her mother's identical twin sister, Thelma, who was the mistress of The Prince of Wales during this time. As a result of frequent spending, her mother's use of finances was scrutinized by the child Vanderbilt's paternal aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Whitney, a sculptor and philanthropist, wanted custody of the young heiress and soon a famous custody trial became the lead story of 1934. The trial was so scandalous that at times, the judge would make everyone leave the room so as to listen to what young Vanderbilt had to say without anyone influencing her. Some people heard weeping and wailing inside the court room. Testimony was heard depicting the mother as an unfit parent; Vanderbilt's mother lost the battle and Vanderbilt became the ward of her aunt Gertrude.
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Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.
His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media. He was editor and anthologist for two ground-breaking science fiction anthologies, Dangerous Visions and Again, Dangerous Visions. Ellison has won numerous awards including multiple Hugos, Nebulas and Edgars.
Ellison was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 27, 1934. His Jewish-American family subsequently moved to Painesville, Ohio, but returned to Cleveland in 1949, following his father's death. As a child, he had a brief career performing in minstrel shows. He frequently ran away from home, taking an array of odd jobs—including, by age 18, "tuna fisherman off the coast of Galveston, itinerant crop-picker down in New Orleans, hired gun for a wealthy neurotic, nitroglycerine truck driver in North Carolina, short order cook, cab driver, lithographer, book salesman, floorwalker in a department store, door-to-door brush salesman, and as a youngster, an actor in several productions at the Cleveland Play House".
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John Fetzer
John Earl Fetzer (March 25, 1901 - February 20, 1991) was a radio and television executive who was best known as the owner of the Detroit Tigers from 1961 through the early 1980s.
Born in 1901 in Decatur, Indiana, Fetzer moved with his mother to Lafayette, Indiana, after his father died when Fetzer was 2 years old. There his brother-in-law, a telegraph operator for the Wabash Railroad, introduced young John to the early workings of wireless communication. Via telegraph reports they would track the baseball games of the Detroit Tigers, which he would later own.
Radio was still in its infancy, but Fetzer took it seriously and built his first transmitter-receiver in 1917 and began communicating from his home in Indiana with a man in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1923 he came to Michigan, to build a radio station for Emmanuel Missionary College, now known as Andrews University, in Berrien Springs. He built and operated the station, and also met Rhea Yeager. They would stay married until his death, for 65 years.
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to raising his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
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John Lydon
John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by the former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a singer-songwriter and television presenter, best known as the lead singer of punk rock band the Sex Pistols from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He is the lead singer of the post-punk band Public Image Ltd, which he founded and fronted from 1978 until 1993, and again from 2009. Throughout his career, Lydon has made controversial or dismissive comments about the royal family and other subjects. There has been a recent revival of a 1980s movement to have Lydon knighted for his achievements with the Sex Pistols. Q Magazine remarked that "somehow he's assumed the status of national treasure."
Lydon's personally crafted image and fashion style led to him being asked to become the singer of the Sex Pistols by their manager, Malcolm McLaren. With the Pistols, he penned singles including "Anarchy in the U.K.", "God Save the Queen" and "Holidays in the Sun", the content of which precipitated the "last and greatest outbreak of pop-based moral pandemonium" in Britain. The band caused nationwide uproar in much of the media, who objected to the content of Lydon’s lyrics, and their antics, which included swearing on live television, in which Steve Jones called Bill Grundy a "fucking rotter". Due to the band's appearance in the media, Lydon was largely seen as the figurehead of the punk movement in the public image although this idea was not widely supported amongst the punk movement itself. Despite the negative reaction that they provoked, they are now regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music.
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Johnny Carson
John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host and comedian, known for thirty years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992). Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Governor Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Johnny Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.
Although his show was already successful by the end of the 1960s, during the 1970s Carson became an American icon and remained so until his retirement in 1992. He adopted a casual, conversational approach with extensive interaction with guests, an approach pioneered by Arthur Godfrey and previous Tonight Show hosts Steve Allen and Jack Paar. Late night hosts David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson, and Jimmy Fallon have all cited Carson's influence on their late-night talk shows, which resemble his in format and tone.
Carson was born in Corning, Iowa, in the year 1925, to Homer Lloyd "Kit" Carson, a power company manager, and Ruth Hook Carson, who was of Irish descent. He grew up in the nearby towns of Avoca, Clarinda, and Red Oak in southwest Iowa before moving to Norfolk, Nebraska, at the age of eight. At the age of twelve, Carson found a book on magic at a friend's house and immediately purchased a mail-order magician's kit. He debuted as "The Great Carsoni" at fourteen and was paid $3; many other performances at local picnics and country fairs followed.
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Josh Robert Thompson
Josh Robert Thompson (born March 11, 1975) is an American actor, impressionist and comedian. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, he resides in Los Angeles, making his living primarily as a voice and character actor. Thompson is known for his celebrity impressions, including Robert De Niro, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Willie Nelson, Sylvester Stallone, Matthew McConaughey and, most notably, Morgan Freeman. In addition, Josh also voices a number of original characters for video games, film and television.
Thompson’s Schwarzenegger impression first gained national attention during the California recall election of 2003. Posing as Schwarzenegger, Thompson phoned-in to Fox News Channel’s morning program, Fox and Friends, fooling the hosts into believing (at least for a short while) that he was, in fact, Schwarzenegger himself.
Thompson’s Fox News prank caught the attention of The Howard Stern Show, and the impression—dubbed “Fake Arnold” by Stern Show producers—soon became a mainstay on the program. At this time, Thompson also made a number of appearances on the Conway and Steckler and Conway and Whitman radio shows in Los Angeles (97.1 FM KLSX), and 96fm’s Breakfast show in Perth, Western Australia, where he voiced a number of characters, including Fake Arnold, Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Jackson, and Bill Cosby.
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Kelly Lange
Kelly Lange (born Dorothy Scafard; December 14, 1937) is an American journalist, most notable for being the first woman to be a nightly news anchor in Los Angeles. Lange is a radio and TV news reporter, talk show host, former Tournament of Roses parade co-host, longtime southern California local news anchor, and a best-selling mystery author.
She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and went to school there. One day in 1967, Lange, a model at the time, got into a line at a Buena Park shopping mall, because it appeared "they were giving something away." The something they were giving away turned out to be applications for two positions as "Ladybirds" on KABC (790) radio. The lucky duo would become the first female traffic/weather reporters in this area to patrol in helicopters. Lange was one of two chosen. She got the 6 a.m.-to-9 a.m. segment and she was re-christened Dawn O'Day. Another applicant, a film studio secretary named Lori Ross, got the afternoon shift as Eve O'Day. "The two women in their tight-fitting, silver-lamé jumpsuits paved the way for today's less-exploited women deejays and announcers," thus began Kelly Lange's career as a news reporter, spotting news and reporting traffic for KABC, later joining NBC-4 in 1971. NBC News refers to Lange as the first woman to anchor a nightly newscast at an NBC-owned station. TV Guide said Lange was the first local newscaster to be paid $1 million per year.
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Paul Stanley
Stanley Eisen (born January 20, 1952), better known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American hard rock guitarist, singer, musician, painter and songwriter best known for being the rhythm guitarist and primary lead vocalist of the rock band Kiss. Also known for his wailing vocals and high-energy on-stage antics. He is of Hungarian and Austrian ancestry.
He is the writer or co-writer of many of the band's highest-charting hits. Stanley established the "Starchild" character for his Kiss persona. Hit Parader ranked him 18th on their list of Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time. Gibson.com Readers Poll also named him 13th on their list of Top 25 Frontmen.
Before Kiss, Paul Stanley was in a local band, Rainbow (not to be confused with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow) and was also a member of Uncle Joe and Post War Baby Boom. Through a mutual friend of Gene Simmons', Stanley joined Simmons' band Wicked Lester in the early 1970s. The band recorded an album in 1972, but as of 2010 it has not been officially released (although songs from the album appeared on Kiss's 2001 box set). Wicked Lester soon fell apart and Stanley and Simmons placed ads for a drummer and a guitarist in various New York papers. This resulted in Peter Criss and Ace Frehley joining the group, and they named themselves Kiss. Kiss released their self-titled debut album in February 1974.
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Peter Criss
George Peter John Criscuola (born December 20, 1945), better known as Peter Criss, is an American drummer and singer, best known as the original drummer for the rock band Kiss. Criss established the "Catman" character for his Kiss persona.
In 2012 he was inducted into Modern Drummer's Drum Hall Of Fame.
Of Italian-American descent, Criss is the oldest of the five children of Joseph and Loretta Criscuola; he grew up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. He was a childhood friend of Jerry Nolan, who would later find success as the drummer for the New York Dolls.[citation needed]
He was an avid art student and a jazz aficionado.[citation needed] While playing with bandleader Joey Greco, Criss ended up studying under his idol, Gene Krupa, at the Metropole Club in New York.[citation needed] This blossomed into an active musical career as he went on to play jazz and rock with a number of bands in New York and New Jersey throughout the 1960s.[citation needed]
Criss was involved with a number of bands throughout the mid-to-late 1960s. It was during this time that Criss joined Chelsea, who had a two-album deal with Decca Records; the group released a self-titled album in 1970. They never recorded a second album, and in August 1971 became Lips (a trio consisting of Criss and his Chelsea bandmates Michael Benvenga and Stan Penridge). By the spring of 1973, Lips was just the duo of Criss and Penridge.
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Robert Blake (actor)
Robert Blake (born September 18, 1933) is an American actor who starred in the film In Cold Blood and the U.S. television series Baretta and Hell Town. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted of the 2001 murder of his wife, but on November 18, 2005, Blake was found liable in a California civil court for her wrongful death.
Blake was born Michael James Vincenzo Gubitosi in Nutley, New Jersey, to Giacomo (James) Gubitosi (1906–1956) and Elizabeth Cafone (b. 1910). His brother was James Gubitosi (1930–1995) and his sister was Giovanna Gubitosi (1932–1985).
His father was born in Italy, arriving in the United States in 1907, and his mother was an Italian-American born in New Jersey.[citation needed] They married in 1929.[citation needed] In 1930, James worked as a die setter for a can manufacturer. Eventually, James and Elizabeth began a song-and-dance act. In 1936, the three children began performing, billed as "The Three Little Hillbillies." They moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1938, where the children began working as movie extras.
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Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter, March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as Johnny Guitar, The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing. Later on he became noted as a character actor for such roles as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). He also played the Irish American policeman, Captain McCluskey, in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather in 1972, and the novelist Roger Wade in 1973's The Long Goodbye. At six feet five inches (196 cm), he was taller than most actors.
He was born in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, to George and Frances Walter, who named him Sterling Relyea Walter. After his father died, he was adopted at the age of nine by James Hayden and renamed Sterling Walter Hayden. He grew up in coastal towns of New England, and as a child lived in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Maine, where he attended Wassookeag School in Dexter, Maine.
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Ted Koppel
Edward James "Ted" Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an English-born American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor for the Discovery Channel before resigning in 2008. Koppel is currently a senior news analyst for National Public Radio and contributing analyst to BBC World News America, and contributes to the new NBC News primetime newsmagazine Rock Center with Brian Williams.
Koppel, an only child, was born in Nelson, Lancashire, England, after his German Jewish parents fled Germany due to the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism. Koppel, at 13, immigrated to the United States in 1953 with his family. His mother, Alice, was a singer and pianist, and his father, Edwin, was a tire factory owner. He graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Science Degree and from Stanford University with a Master of Arts Degree in Mass Communications Research and Political Science. In 1987, he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Duke University. In 2007, the University of Southern California awarded Koppel an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Koppel returns to Syracuse University regularly as a guest speaker. He was a member of the student-run WAER and keeps in touch with the student media at Syracuse. He is a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.
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Tom Snyder
Thomas James "Tom" Snyder (May 12, 1936 – July 29, 2007) was an American television personality, news anchor and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows The Tomorrow Show, on the NBC television network in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s. Snyder was also the pioneer anchor of the primetime NBC News Update, in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a one-minute capsule of news updates in primetime.
Snyder was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to parents Frank and Marie Snyder. He received a Catholic upbringing and attended St. Agnes Elementary School and graduated from Jesuit-run Marquette University High School. He attended Marquette University, after which he had originally planned to study medicine and become a doctor.
Snyder had loved radio since he was a child and at some point changed his field of study from pre-med to journalism. He once told Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Tim Cuprisin that broadcasting became more important to him than attending classes, and he skipped a lot of them. Snyder began his career as a radio reporter at WRIT (unrelated to the present-day FM station) in Milwaukee and at WKZO in Kalamazoo (where he was fired by John Fetzer) in the 1950s. For a time he worked at Savannah, Georgia AM station WSAV (now WBMQ).
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Famous quotes by Tom Snyder:
"He was pretty much traumatized."
"Although it sounds simple, it adds up."
"The administration believes that global warming is a national, if not international, problem that needs to be addressed at that level."
"I think it has a pernicious effect on society. Hollywood projects a leftist homosexual agenda, which goes along with radical feminism, and a misunderstanding of what Christianity teaches."
"I've never heard of this happening, ... Intentionally shutting down the Internet. That's news."
"We have a very extensive network of both measurements at the plant as well as away from the plant in the path of the emission plume,"
"I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it."
"Misers are no fun to live with but they make great ancestors"
"When everything is coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane."
"If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?"
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The Death of Tom Snyder - July, 2007 - Various News Clips
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:55
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
From July 29, 2007, here are various news clips about the death of veteran broadcaster Tom Snyder. I am SO glad that I have an entire "Tomorrow" Show on tape from 1976 (and of course, it's posted on YouTube!). The first news story here, from NBC, also mentions the deaths of film director Ingmar Bergman and Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh.
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From July 29, 2007, here are various news clips about the death of veteran broadcaster Tom Snyder. I am SO glad that I have an entire "Tomorrow" Show on tape from 1976 (and of course, it's posted on YouTube!). The first news story here, from NBC, also mentions the deaths of film director Ingmar Bergman and Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh.
John Lennon Interview 1975 with Tom Snyder Part 2/2
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- Duration: 9:42
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
John Lennon Interview 1975 with Tom Snyder The Tomorrow Show (PART 2 OF 2)
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John Lennon Interview 1975 with Tom Snyder The Tomorrow Show (PART 2 OF 2)
- published: 18 Jul 2009
- views: 219230
- author: BariAndolini
John Lydon on the Tom Snyder Show 1980- Part 1
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- Duration: 6:13
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
John Lydon and Keith Levene from PIL piss off Tom Snyder.
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John Lydon and Keith Levene from PIL piss off Tom Snyder.
- published: 06 Jun 2007
- views: 451537
- author: sdp026
Kiss Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder part 1
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- Duration: 14:44
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
Tom Snyder Kiss interview
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Tom Snyder Kiss interview
- published: 10 Nov 2005
- views: 1512330
- author: begen
Ayn Rand Interview with Tom Snyder, (1 of 3)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:53
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
Seeing as how we only have a few other interviews with Rand up here on Youtube, I thought I'd add this one to the list. Lesser known then the Phill Donahue or Wallace ones, it is still a treat to see her in action.
http://wn.com/Ayn_Rand_Interview_with_Tom_Snyder,_1_of_3
Seeing as how we only have a few other interviews with Rand up here on Youtube, I thought I'd add this one to the list. Lesser known then the Phill Donahue or Wallace ones, it is still a treat to see her in action.
- published: 08 Nov 2008
- views: 231530
- author: Sarrisan98
Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 1 of 4
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- Duration: 5:48
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 1 of 4
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Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 1 of 4
- published: 15 Nov 2008
- views: 34482
- author: fivealex2009
Thomas Snyder - Demonstrating the SU-doku Puzzle
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- Duration: 4:28
- Updated: 01 Oct 2012
National and international sudoku champion Thomas Snyder explains how to solve the SU-doku puzzle.
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National and international sudoku champion Thomas Snyder explains how to solve the SU-doku puzzle.
- published: 29 Jan 2008
- views: 22492
- author: stanfordmedicine
Tom Snyder & Bonnie Hunt
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:25
- Updated: 05 Sep 2012
1999 and the final week of Tom's CBS show one of his last guest was the magical Bonnie Hunt- Watch the picture as they fly through the air!
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1999 and the final week of Tom's CBS show one of his last guest was the magical Bonnie Hunt- Watch the picture as they fly through the air!
- published: 01 Aug 2007
- views: 41300
- author: Taylor Watson
The Clash - Interview with Tom Synder 1981
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:27
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
The Clash interviewed on the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. June 1981.
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The Clash interviewed on the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. June 1981.
- published: 14 Jun 2006
- views: 498873
- author: clashman14
Tom Snyder - James Garner
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:41
- Updated: 19 Nov 2012
1994 CNBC... I wish somebody would have told me not to have dubbed and redubbed all of my vhs tapes just in case I would be sharing them with a zillion people.
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1994 CNBC... I wish somebody would have told me not to have dubbed and redubbed all of my vhs tapes just in case I would be sharing them with a zillion people.
- published: 09 Nov 2011
- views: 3250
- author: myyyclips3
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:29
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview. Part 1 of 5.
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NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview. Part 1 of 5.
- published: 23 Mar 2008
- views: 48760
- author: memoryiotia
Don Rickles @ Tom Snyder, Part 1 of 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:39
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
Don Rickles @ Tom Snyder, Part 1 of 3
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Don Rickles @ Tom Snyder, Part 1 of 3
- published: 22 Dec 2008
- views: 15958
- author: fivealex2009
Iggy Pop interview on the Tom Snyder Show 1980
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:45
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
This is seriously the most decrepit that I've ever seen Iggy. It was back when he was reduced to schmoozing with Tom Snyder and releasing soulless 80s rock albums to support his smack habit. Fortunately, his career finally rebounded in the early 90s, when HBO hired him to host their new show Tales from the Crypt.
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This is seriously the most decrepit that I've ever seen Iggy. It was back when he was reduced to schmoozing with Tom Snyder and releasing soulless 80s rock albums to support his smack habit. Fortunately, his career finally rebounded in the early 90s, when HBO hired him to host their new show Tales from the Crypt.
- published: 09 Jun 2007
- views: 458812
- author: sdp026
John Lydon & Tom Snyder 1997 Reunion Interview Part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:26
- Updated: 06 Dec 2012
John Lydon & Tom Snyder 1997 Reunion Interview Part 1
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John Lydon & Tom Snyder 1997 Reunion Interview Part 1
- published: 10 Aug 2009
- views: 64549
- author: winharrison
NBC News Update Tom Snyder 1976
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:51
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
Here's a great example of Tom Snyder in his prime at NBC in 1976. At this time he was doing WNBC local anchoring, the Tomorrow show, and the Sunday NBC Nightly News.
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Here's a great example of Tom Snyder in his prime at NBC in 1976. At this time he was doing WNBC local anchoring, the Tomorrow show, and the Sunday NBC Nightly News.
- published: 16 Aug 2007
- views: 22521
- author: eyeontv
Roger Ebert @ Tom Snyder, part 1 of 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:55
- Updated: 09 Sep 2012
Roger Ebert @ Tom Snyder, part 1 of 2
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Roger Ebert @ Tom Snyder, part 1 of 2
- published: 12 Oct 2009
- views: 3324
- author: fivealex2010
Patti Smith interviewed by Tom Snyder
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:58
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
Patti Smith interviewed by Tom Snyder, May 11, 1978.
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Patti Smith interviewed by Tom Snyder, May 11, 1978.
- published: 24 Feb 2009
- views: 53644
- author: tom51
Robert Blake @ Tom Snyder
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:29
- Updated: 07 Nov 2012
Robert Blake @ Tom Snyder
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Robert Blake @ Tom Snyder
- published: 22 Dec 2008
- views: 33519
- author: fivealex2009
The Manson Snyder Interview Pt 4 of 6
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:38
- Updated: 01 Dec 2012
Poor transfer quality. If you have a better quality transfer then please upload it.
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Poor transfer quality. If you have a better quality transfer then please upload it.
- published: 11 Feb 2008
- views: 113533
- author: OtherSideOfMadness
Tom Snyder - RIP w/Wendy O. Williams - Plasmatics
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:26
- Updated: 14 Oct 2012
Thanks Tom for the greatest TV in history w clips from Wendy O. Williams and the Plasmatics RIP we miss you
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Thanks Tom for the greatest TV in history w clips from Wendy O. Williams and the Plasmatics RIP we miss you
- published: 08 Aug 2007
- views: 147176
- author: cinemondo404
U2 on Tom Snider Show 06/04/1981
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:30
- Updated: 28 Oct 2012
U2 on a TV program playing I will follow and Twilight.It includes an interview with Bono and Edge.
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U2 on a TV program playing I will follow and Twilight.It includes an interview with Bono and Edge.
- published: 06 Dec 2006
- views: 179347
- author: Larissa Rocha
Tom Snyder and Werner Erhard Discuss Context
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- Duration: 3:13
- Updated: 13 Sep 2012
Werner Erhard and Tom Snyder discuss context. "There is nothing much you can do about the circumstances of your life. One thing that you have absolute control over in your life is the context for your life. We have almost no awareness of context. It is not what you think that determines the quality of your life, it is the space in which you think. It is what you could think that determines the quality of your life. www.wernererhard.com
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Werner Erhard and Tom Snyder discuss context. "There is nothing much you can do about the circumstances of your life. One thing that you have absolute control over in your life is the context for your life. We have almost no awareness of context. It is not what you think that determines the quality of your life, it is the space in which you think. It is what you could think that determines the quality of your life. www.wernererhard.com
- published: 31 Jan 2009
- views: 15227
- author: wernererhardandest
tomorrow show with tom snyder with flo fox part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:01
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
flo fox
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flo fox
- published: 13 Oct 2008
- views: 10514
- author: Flo Fox
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John Lydon on the Tom Snyder Show 1980- Part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
John Lydon and Keith Levene from PIL piss off Tom Snyder.
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John Lydon and Keith Levene from PIL piss off Tom Snyder.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 451639
- author: Feuerlighter
John Lydon on the Tom Snyder Show 1980 - Part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:25
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
John Lydon and Keith Levene from PIL piss off Tom Snyder.
http://wn.com/John_Lydon_on_the_Tom_Snyder_Show_1980_Part_2
John Lydon and Keith Levene from PIL piss off Tom Snyder.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 184790
- author: Feuerlighter
The Clash - Interview with Tom Synder 1981
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:27
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Clash interviewed on the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. June 1981.
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The Clash interviewed on the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. June 1981.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 498916
- author: Feuerlighter
Kiss Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Tom Snyder Kiss interview
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Tom Snyder Kiss interview
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 1512422
- author: Feuerlighter
Kiss Tomorrow show with Tom Snyder part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 13:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Kiss Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder
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Kiss Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 302186
- author: Feuerlighter
Patti Smith interviewed by Tom Snyder
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:58
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Patti Smith interviewed by Tom Snyder, May 11, 1978.
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Patti Smith interviewed by Tom Snyder, May 11, 1978.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 53665
- author: Feuerlighter
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 1 of 3
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- Duration: 9:39
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 1 of 3
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Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 1 of 3
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 15280
- author: Feuerlighter
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 2 of 3
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- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 2 of 3
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Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 2 of 3
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 7442
- author: Feuerlighter
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 3 of 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:46
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 3 of 3
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Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 3 of 3
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 6185
- author: Feuerlighter
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:29
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview. Part 1 of 5.
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NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview. Part 1 of 5.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 48769
- author: Feuerlighter
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Continuing NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview. Part 2 of 5.
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Continuing NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview. Part 2 of 5.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 15548
- author: Feuerlighter
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:29
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
More of NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview. Part 3 of 5.
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More of NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview. Part 3 of 5.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 12033
- author: Feuerlighter
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:49
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview and are joined by scribe Harlan Ellison and convention organiser Al Schuster. Part 4 of 5.
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NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview and are joined by scribe Harlan Ellison and convention organiser Al Schuster. Part 4 of 5.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 18967
- author: Feuerlighter
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 5
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Conclusion: NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview and are joined by scribe Harlan Ellison and convention organiser Al Schuster. Part 5 of 5.
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Conclusion: NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview and are joined by scribe Harlan Ellison and convention organiser Al Schuster. Part 5 of 5.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 14728
- author: Feuerlighter
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 1 of 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:47
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 1 of 3
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Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 1 of 3
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 19871
- author: Feuerlighter
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 2 of 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:27
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 2 of 3
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Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 2 of 3
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 5969
- author: Feuerlighter
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 3 of 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 3 of 3
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Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 3 of 3
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 4431
- author: Feuerlighter
Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 1 of 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:48
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 1 of 4
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Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 1 of 4
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 34486
- author: Feuerlighter
Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 2 of 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:58
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 2 of 4
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Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 2 of 4
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 22591
- author: Feuerlighter
Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 3 of 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:55
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 3 of 4
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Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 3 of 4
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 21979
- author: Feuerlighter
Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 4 of 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:38
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 4 of 4
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Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 4 of 4
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 22653
- author: Feuerlighter
David Lynch @ Tom Snyder, 1997, Part 1 of 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:45
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
David Lynch @ Tom Snyder, 1997, Part 1 of 2
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David Lynch @ Tom Snyder, 1997, Part 1 of 2
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 1987
- author: Feuerlighter
David Lynch @ Tom Snyder, 1997, Part 2 of 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:21
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
David Lynch @ Tom Snyder, 1997, Part 2 of 2
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David Lynch @ Tom Snyder, 1997, Part 2 of 2
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 1157
- author: Feuerlighter
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Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 1/6
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:43
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
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www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 252714
- author: OELIAR
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 2/6
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:17
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
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www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 123863
- author: OELIAR
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 3/6
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
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www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 89672
- author: OELIAR
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview |4/6
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
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www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 65745
- author: OELIAR
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 5/6
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:51
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
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www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 62765
- author: OELIAR
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 6/6
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:46
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
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www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 61597
- author: OELIAR
Tom Snyder # 1 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:27
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Tom Snyder # 1 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
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Tom Snyder # 1 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 3658
- author: OELIAR
Tom Snyder # 2 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:41
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Tom Snyder # 2 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
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Tom Snyder # 2 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 3130
- author: OELIAR
Tom Snyder # 3 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:25
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Tom Snyder # 3 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
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Tom Snyder # 3 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 3980
- author: OELIAR
Tom Snyder # 4 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:07
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Tom Snyder # 4 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
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Tom Snyder # 4 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 2367
- author: OELIAR
Tom Snyder # 5 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:52
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Tom Snyder # 5 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
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Tom Snyder # 5 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 2492
- author: OELIAR
Tom Snyder # 6 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Tom Snyder # 6 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
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Tom Snyder # 6 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 2165
- author: OELIAR
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part I of VII
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
http://wn.com/Charles_Manson_Interview_with_Geraldo,_part_I_of_VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 203270
- author: OELIAR
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part II of VII
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
http://wn.com/Charles_Manson_Interview_with_Geraldo,_part_II_of_VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 111846
- author: OELIAR
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part III of VII
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
http://wn.com/Charles_Manson_Interview_with_Geraldo,_part_III_of_VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 62076
- author: OELIAR
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part IV of VII
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
http://wn.com/Charles_Manson_Interview_with_Geraldo,_part_IV_of_VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 83583
- author: OELIAR
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part V of VII
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
http://wn.com/Charles_Manson_Interview_with_Geraldo,_part_V_of_VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 43827
- author: OELIAR
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part VI of VII
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
http://wn.com/Charles_Manson_Interview_with_Geraldo,_part_VI_of_VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 38868
- author: OELIAR
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part VII of VII
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
http://wn.com/Charles_Manson_Interview_with_Geraldo,_part_VII_of_VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 24529
- author: OELIAR
Charles Manson - Interview With Charlie Rose (1986) (Pt.02)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:48
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
split in 5 parts, here is part 2.
Charles Manson - Interview With Charlie Rose (1986)
http://wn.com/Charles_Manson_Interview_With_Charlie_Rose_1986_Pt02
split in 5 parts, here is part 2.
Charles Manson - Interview With Charlie Rose (1986)
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 41333
- author: OELIAR
Lost Manson Tapes! - Extremely Rare Manson Interview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://www.mansonfamilytoday.info
http://wn.com/Lost_Manson_Tapes!_Extremely_Rare_Manson_Interview
http://www.mansonfamilytoday.info
- published: 19 Sep 2011
- views: 621098
- author: OELIAR
Manson 2007 Parole Hearing Prelude
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:21
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
www.mansonfamilytoday.info
Charles Manson is scheduled to have a parole hearing on May 23 at Corcoran State Prison.
http://wn.com/Manson_2007_Parole_Hearing_Prelude
www.mansonfamilytoday.info
Charles Manson is scheduled to have a parole hearing on May 23 at Corcoran State Prison.
- published: 19 Sep 2011
- views: 1016723
- author: OELIAR
Charles Manson 1986 Parole Hearing
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:29
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
KNBC Special report on Manson's 1986 parole hearing. KNBC, Channel 4 Los Angeles. June 1986.
http://wn.com/Charles_Manson_1986_Parole_Hearing
KNBC Special report on Manson's 1986 parole hearing. KNBC, Channel 4 Los Angeles. June 1986.
- published: 19 Sep 2011
- views: 120241
- author: OELIAR
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Don Rickles
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:05
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
In 1969 Susan White, reporter for WMAR-TV in Baltimore, was invited to go on a MGM movie junket to Ireland, England, and Yugoslavia. She was one of just 14 broadcasters from throughout the world to be included in this trip. In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on the movie set of what would become known as Kelly's Heroes Susan and the others interviewed Clint Eastwood, Telly Salvalas and Don Rickles. When everyone else tried to interview comedian Don Rickles he didn't let them get in a word or a question and made fun of their inability to do so. So when it was Susan's turn she decided to turn try and turn the tables on the King of the put down. This film interview is almost 40 years old and was just transferred to video.
http://wn.com/Don_Rickles
In 1969 Susan White, reporter for WMAR-TV in Baltimore, was invited to go on a MGM movie junket to Ireland, England, and Yugoslavia. She was one of just 14 broadcasters from throughout the world to be included in this trip. In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on the movie set of what would become known as Kelly's Heroes Susan and the others interviewed Clint Eastwood, Telly Salvalas and Don Rickles. When everyone else tried to interview comedian Don Rickles he didn't let them get in a word or a question and made fun of their inability to do so. So when it was Susan's turn she decided to turn try and turn the tables on the King of the put down. This film interview is almost 40 years old and was just transferred to video.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 19841
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles on Dean Martin Roasts: Frank Sinatra (1978)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:26
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Mr. Warmth at his best!!!
http://wn.com/Don_Rickles_on_Dean_Martin_Roasts_Frank_Sinatra_1978
Mr. Warmth at his best!!!
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 770603
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
David Letterman with Don Rickles - part 1 of 2!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:43
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Not sure when this was taped, but here's David Letterman with Don Rickles! This is part 1 of 2.
http://wn.com/David_Letterman_with_Don_Rickles_part_1_of_2!
Not sure when this was taped, but here's David Letterman with Don Rickles! This is part 1 of 2.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 26686
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
David Letterman with Don Rickles - part 2 of 2!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Not sure when this was taped, but here's David Letterman with Don Rickles! This is part 2 of 2.
http://wn.com/David_Letterman_with_Don_Rickles_part_2_of_2!
Not sure when this was taped, but here's David Letterman with Don Rickles! This is part 2 of 2.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 13908
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #2, Part 1 of 2, 1988
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:32
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #2, Part 1 of 2, 1988
http://wn.com/Don_Rickles_@_David_Letterman_2,_Part_1_of_2,_1988
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #2, Part 1 of 2, 1988
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 16124
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #2, Part 2 of 2, 1988
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #2, Part 2 of 2, 1988
http://wn.com/Don_Rickles_@_David_Letterman_2,_Part_2_of_2,_1988
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #2, Part 2 of 2, 1988
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 12601
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Bob Costas with Don Rickles - Oct. 1991 - part 3 of 5!!!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:58
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
From Oct. 23, 1991, here is part 3 of 5 of a Bob Costas "Later" show with Don Rickles!!
http://wn.com/Bob_Costas_with_Don_Rickles_Oct_1991_part_3_of_5!!!
From Oct. 23, 1991, here is part 3 of 5 of a Bob Costas "Later" show with Don Rickles!!
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 10130
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Bob Costas with Don Rickles - Oct. 1991 - part 4 of 5!!!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
From Oct. 23, 1991, here is part 4 of 5 of a Bob Costas "Later" show with Don Rickles!!
http://wn.com/Bob_Costas_with_Don_Rickles_Oct_1991_part_4_of_5!!!
From Oct. 23, 1991, here is part 4 of 5 of a Bob Costas "Later" show with Don Rickles!!
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 6172
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Bob Costas with Don Rickles - Oct. 1991 - part 5 of 5!!!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:31
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
From Oct. 23, 1991, here is part 5 of 5 of a Bob Costas "Later" show with Don Rickles!!
http://wn.com/Bob_Costas_with_Don_Rickles_Oct_1991_part_5_of_5!!!
From Oct. 23, 1991, here is part 5 of 5 of a Bob Costas "Later" show with Don Rickles!!
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 5400
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #3, Part 1 of 2, 1993
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:18
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #3, Part 1 of 2, 1993
http://wn.com/Don_Rickles_@_David_Letterman_3,_Part_1_of_2,_1993
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #3, Part 1 of 2, 1993
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 43947
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #3, Part 2 of 2, 1993
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:42
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #3, Part 2 of 2, 1993
http://wn.com/Don_Rickles_@_David_Letterman_3,_Part_2_of_2,_1993
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #3, Part 2 of 2, 1993
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 26855
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Larry King interviews Don Rickles - July, 1993 - part 1 of 3!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:52
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
From July 27, 1993, here is a Larry King show with Don Rickles! This is part 1 of 3.
http://wn.com/Larry_King_interviews_Don_Rickles_July,_1993_part_1_of_3!
From July 27, 1993, here is a Larry King show with Don Rickles! This is part 1 of 3.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 84491
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Larry King interviews Don Rickles - July, 1993 - part 2 of 3!!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:51
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
From July 27, 1993, here is a Larry King show with Don Rickles! This is part 2 of 3.
http://wn.com/Larry_King_interviews_Don_Rickles_July,_1993_part_2_of_3!!
From July 27, 1993, here is a Larry King show with Don Rickles! This is part 2 of 3.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 27661
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Larry King interviews Don Rickles - July, 1993 - part 3 of 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:03
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
From July 27, 1993, here is a Larry King show with Don Rickles! This is part 3 of 3.
http://wn.com/Larry_King_interviews_Don_Rickles_July,_1993_part_3_of_3
From July 27, 1993, here is a Larry King show with Don Rickles! This is part 3 of 3.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 15929
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Whoopi Goldberg & Don Rickles - from 1993 - pt. 1 of 2!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Here are Whoopi Goldberg and Don Rickles, from 1993! This is part 1 of 2.
http://wn.com/Whoopi_Goldberg_Don_Rickles_from_1993_pt_1_of_2!
Here are Whoopi Goldberg and Don Rickles, from 1993! This is part 1 of 2.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 35381
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
David Letterman with Don Rickles - early 1994!!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
From early 1994, here is Don Rickles on the David Letterman Late Show!! (I missed the beginning of this show.)
http://wn.com/David_Letterman_with_Don_Rickles_early_1994!!
From early 1994, here is Don Rickles on the David Letterman Late Show!! (I missed the beginning of this show.)
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 74968
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Tom Snyder with Don Rickles - March, 1995 - part 1 of 3!!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:12
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
From March 1, 1995, here is part 1 of 3 of a Tom Snyder "Late Late Show" with Don Rickles!
http://wn.com/Tom_Snyder_with_Don_Rickles_March,_1995_part_1_of_3!!
From March 1, 1995, here is part 1 of 3 of a Tom Snyder "Late Late Show" with Don Rickles!
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 10038
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Tom Snyder with Don Rickles - March, 1995 - part 2 of 3!!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:49
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
From March 1, 1995, here is part 2 of 3 of a Tom Snyder "Late Late Show" with Don Rickles!
http://wn.com/Tom_Snyder_with_Don_Rickles_March,_1995_part_2_of_3!!
From March 1, 1995, here is part 2 of 3 of a Tom Snyder "Late Late Show" with Don Rickles!
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 7143
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Tom Snyder with Don Rickles - March, 1995 - part 3 of 3!!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:28
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
From March 1, 1995, here is part 3 of 3 of a Tom Snyder "Late Late Show" with Don Rickles!
http://wn.com/Tom_Snyder_with_Don_Rickles_March,_1995_part_3_of_3!!
From March 1, 1995, here is part 3 of 3 of a Tom Snyder "Late Late Show" with Don Rickles!
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 3665
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles Visits David Letterman - Jan., 1996 - part 1 of 2!!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:27
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
From Jan. of 1996, here is yet ANOTHER appearnce of Don Rickles on the David Letterman show! This is part 1 of 2.
http://wn.com/Don_Rickles_Visits_David_Letterman_Jan,_1996_part_1_of_2!!
From Jan. of 1996, here is yet ANOTHER appearnce of Don Rickles on the David Letterman show! This is part 1 of 2.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 23860
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles Visits David Letterman - Jan., 1996 - part 2 of 2!!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
From Jan. of 1996, here is yet ANOTHER appearnce of Don Rickles on the David Letterman show! This is part 2 of 2.
http://wn.com/Don_Rickles_Visits_David_Letterman_Jan,_1996_part_2_of_2!!
From Jan. of 1996, here is yet ANOTHER appearnce of Don Rickles on the David Letterman show! This is part 2 of 2.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 16534
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles - Late Night w/David Letterman (1997), Pt. 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:18
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Don_Rickles_Late_Night_w_David_Letterman_1997,_Pt_1
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 7936
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles - Late Night w/David Letterman (1997), Pt. 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Don_Rickles_Late_Night_w_David_Letterman_1997,_Pt_2
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 6411
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
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Kiss - Then She Kissed Me "Video"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Concert Footage of KISS matched to the CD track "Then She Kissed Me"
http://wn.com/Kiss_Then_She_Kissed_Me_Video
Concert Footage of KISS matched to the CD track "Then She Kissed Me"
- published: 12 Feb 2011
- views: 28931
- author: wordexo
Kiss - Super Bowl
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:37
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Video muito foda do Kiss na final do super bowl americano
http://wn.com/Kiss_Super_Bowl
Video muito foda do Kiss na final do super bowl americano
- published: 12 Feb 2011
- views: 334617
- author: wordexo
KISS-Live-olympic games-2002-R'n'R all nite
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
KISS-Live-olympic games-2002-R'n'R all nite
http://wn.com/KISS-Live-olympic_games-2002-R'n'R_all_nite
KISS-Live-olympic games-2002-R'n'R all nite
- published: 12 Feb 2011
- views: 138765
- author: wordexo
KISS - Rock And Roll All Nite - Brooklyn Bridge - Reunion Tour / MTV Awards
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:05
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
KISS - Live in New York, NY, At Fulton Ferry Landing/Brooklyn Bridge - September 04, 1996
Rock And Roll All Nite
New York Groove
Deuce
Calling Dr. Love
Love Gun
*MTV Awards
LineUp: Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Ace Frehley
http://wn.com/KISS_Rock_And_Roll_All_Nite_Brooklyn_Bridge_Reunion_Tour_MTV_Awards
KISS - Live in New York, NY, At Fulton Ferry Landing/Brooklyn Bridge - September 04, 1996
Rock And Roll All Nite
New York Groove
Deuce
Calling Dr. Love
Love Gun
*MTV Awards
LineUp: Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Ace Frehley
- published: 12 Feb 2011
- views: 865992
- author: wordexo
Kiss - Then She Kissed Me - Lyrics - With Cool Kiss Pics
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:50
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Please Comment, Rate, and Subscribe
http://wn.com/Kiss_Then_She_Kissed_Me_Lyrics_With_Cool_Kiss_Pics
Please Comment, Rate, and Subscribe
- published: 12 Feb 2011
- views: 12836
- author: wordexo
2000 man KISS(live) + ACE shoot rockets :)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Live from N.J 2000 they play roling stones song 2000 man
http://wn.com/2000_man_KISSlive_+_ACE_shoot_rockets_
Live from N.J 2000 they play roling stones song 2000 man
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 335789
- author: wordexo
Ace Frehley Best Laugh
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:25
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Ace Frehley Laughing ::D
http://wn.com/Ace_Frehley_Best_Laugh
Ace Frehley Laughing ::D
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 91172
- author: wordexo
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 1 subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:06
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 1 subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
http://wn.com/KISS_Tom_Snyder_Interview,_Halloween_1979_Part_1_subtitulado_wwwkissoldierscomar
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 1 subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 6801
- author: wordexo
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 4 subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 4subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
http://wn.com/KISS_Tom_Snyder_Interview,_Halloween_1979_Part_4_subtitulado_wwwkissoldierscomar
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 4subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 4828
- author: wordexo
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 3 subtitulado
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:07
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/KISS_Tom_Snyder_Interview,_Halloween_1979_Part_3_subtitulado
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 6126
- author: wordexo
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 2 subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:58
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 2subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
http://wn.com/KISS_Tom_Snyder_Interview,_Halloween_1979_Part_2_subtitulado_wwwkissoldierscomar
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 2subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 4766
- author: wordexo
KISS - Guitar / Drum Solo with Bazooka - Rock Am Ring 2010 - Sonic Boom Over Europe Tour
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
KISS - Live in Rock am Ring, Germany, At Nurburgring - June 3, 2010
01. Modern Day Delilah
02. Cold Gin
03. Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll
04. Firehouse
05. Say Yeah
06. Deuce
07. Crazy Crazy Nights
08. Calling Dr. Love
09. Shock Me
10. I'm An Animal
11. 100,000 Years
12. I Love It Loud
13. Love Gun
14. Black Diamond
15. Detroit Rock City
16. Beth
17. Lick It Up
18. Shout It Out Loud
19. I Was Made For Lovin You
20. God Gave Rock And Roll To You II
21. Rock And Roll All Nite
Attendance: ~85,000
KISS are: Paul Stanley - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar; Gene Simmons - Bass Guitar, Vocals; Tommy Thayer - Lead Guitar, Vocals; Eric Singer - Drums, Vocals
http://wn.com/KISS_Guitar_Drum_Solo_with_Bazooka_Rock_Am_Ring_2010_Sonic_Boom_Over_Europe_Tour
KISS - Live in Rock am Ring, Germany, At Nurburgring - June 3, 2010
01. Modern Day Delilah
02. Cold Gin
03. Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll
04. Firehouse
05. Say Yeah
06. Deuce
07. Crazy Crazy Nights
08. Calling Dr. Love
09. Shock Me
10. I'm An Animal
11. 100,000 Years
12. I Love It Loud
13. Love Gun
14. Black Diamond
15. Detroit Rock City
16. Beth
17. Lick It Up
18. Shout It Out Loud
19. I Was Made For Lovin You
20. God Gave Rock And Roll To You II
21. Rock And Roll All Nite
Attendance: ~85,000
KISS are: Paul Stanley - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar; Gene Simmons - Bass Guitar, Vocals; Tommy Thayer - Lead Guitar, Vocals; Eric Singer - Drums, Vocals
- published: 17 Feb 2011
- views: 102039
- author: wordexo
Kiss Nada puede mantenerme lejos de ti
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:05
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Video editado por Sergiokissero de la canción "Nothing can keep me from you" (Nada puede mantenerme lejos de ti) interpretado por KISS y escrito por Diane Warren. Esta incluido en en el disco de la película "Detroit rock city".
http://wn.com/Kiss_Nada_puede_mantenerme_lejos_de_ti
Video editado por Sergiokissero de la canción "Nothing can keep me from you" (Nada puede mantenerme lejos de ti) interpretado por KISS y escrito por Diane Warren. Esta incluido en en el disco de la película "Detroit rock city".
- published: 09 Mar 2011
- views: 146497
- author: wordexo
Detroit Rock City (Subs Español) - Parte 1.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:55
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Detroit Rock City con subtitulos en español parte 1
http://wn.com/Detroit_Rock_City_Subs_Español_Parte_1
Detroit Rock City con subtitulos en español parte 1
- published: 15 Apr 2011
- views: 94322
- author: wordexo
Detroit Rock City (Subs Español) - Parte 9.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:58
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Detroit Rock City con subtitulos en español parte 9
http://wn.com/Detroit_Rock_City_Subs_Español_Parte_9
Detroit Rock City con subtitulos en español parte 9
- published: 16 Apr 2011
- views: 39749
- author: wordexo
KISS - I was made for loving you Official FULL HD
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
*Read for Lyrics*
Mmmm yeah
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Tonight I wanna give it all to you
In the darkness
There's so much I wanna do
And tonight I wanna lay it at your feet
'Cause girl I was made for you
And girl you were made for me
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
And I can't get enough of you baby
Can you get enough of me
Tonight I wanna see it in your eyes
Feel the magic
There's something that drives me wild
And tonight we're gonna make it all come true
'Cause girl you were made for me
And girl I was made for you
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
And I can't get enough of you baby
Can you get enough of me
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
And I can give it all to you baby
Can you give it all to me
Oh, can't get enough, oh, oh
I can't get enough, oh, oh
I can't get enough
Yeah, ha
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
And I can't get enough of you baby
Can you get enough of me
Oh, I was made
You were made
I can't get enough
No, I can't get enough
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
http://wn.com/KISS_I_was_made_for_loving_you_Official_FULL_HD
*Read for Lyrics*
Mmmm yeah
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Tonight I wanna give it all to you
In the darkness
There's so much I wanna do
And tonight I wanna lay it at your feet
'Cause girl I was made for you
And girl you were made for me
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
And I can't get enough of you baby
Can you get enough of me
Tonight I wanna see it in your eyes
Feel the magic
There's something that drives me wild
And tonight we're gonna make it all come true
'Cause girl you were made for me
And girl I was made for you
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
And I can't get enough of you baby
Can you get enough of me
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
And I can give it all to you baby
Can you give it all to me
Oh, can't get enough, oh, oh
I can't get enough, oh, oh
I can't get enough
Yeah, ha
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
And I can't get enough of you baby
Can you get enough of me
Oh, I was made
You were made
I can't get enough
No, I can't get enough
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
- published: 20 Apr 2011
- views: 988248
- author: wordexo
Nothing Can Keep Me From You - KISS
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:04
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Clip homenagem com vários momentos do KISS. Feito por um fã.
http://wn.com/Nothing_Can_Keep_Me_From_You_KISS
Clip homenagem com vários momentos do KISS. Feito por um fã.
- published: 29 Apr 2011
- views: 72417
- author: wordexo
Kiss - I Want You
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:25
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Kiss Promo Video Rock And Roll Over
http://wn.com/Kiss_I_Want_You
Kiss Promo Video Rock And Roll Over
- published: 10 May 2011
- views: 28682
- author: wordexo
Gene Simmons - bass solo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:09
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Gene Simmons bass
http://wn.com/Gene_Simmons_bass_solo
Gene Simmons bass
- published: 15 May 2011
- views: 77474
- author: wordexo
KISS - Live Budokan Hall 1988 - Gene Bass SOLO
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Gene Simmons short solo but its gene simmons so watch it..
KISS Rocks..
http://wn.com/KISS_Live_Budokan_Hall_1988_Gene_Bass_SOLO
Gene Simmons short solo but its gene simmons so watch it..
KISS Rocks..
- published: 30 Jun 2011
- views: 23942
- author: wordexo
The Loser who Paul Stanley Spit on !
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:32
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Loser who Paul Stanley Spit on !
http://wn.com/The_Loser_who_Paul_Stanley_Spit_on_!
The Loser who Paul Stanley Spit on !
- published: 07 Sep 2011
- views: 183494
- author: wordexo
Paul Stanley of Kiss confronts an idiot with a laser pen during a gig
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Paul Stanley of Kiss confronts an idiot with a laser pen during a gig
http://wn.com/Paul_Stanley_of_Kiss_confronts_an_idiot_with_a_laser_pen_during_a_gig
Paul Stanley of Kiss confronts an idiot with a laser pen during a gig
- published: 07 Sep 2011
- views: 141996
- author: wordexo
Kiss - Rock N Roll All Nite - Animalize - Live From Detroit 1984
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:20
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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Animalize Tour 1984
Kiss :
Gene Simmons
Paul Stanley
Eric Carr
Bruce Kulick
http://wn.com/Kiss_Rock_N_Roll_All_Nite_Animalize_Live_From_Detroit_1984
CHECK OUT MY FACEBOOK PAGE : http://www.facebook.com/pages/KissandIronMaiden/148825018491843
Animalize Tour 1984
Kiss :
Gene Simmons
Paul Stanley
Eric Carr
Bruce Kulick
- published: 10 Sep 2011
- views: 4922
- author: wordexo
6:13
John Lydon on the Tom Snyder Show 1980- Part 1
John Lydon and Keith Levene from PIL piss off Tom Snyder....
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
John Lydon on the Tom Snyder Show 1980- Part 1
John Lydon and Keith Levene from PIL piss off Tom Snyder.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 451639
- author: Feuerlighter
5:25
John Lydon on the Tom Snyder Show 1980 - Part 2
John Lydon and Keith Levene from PIL piss off Tom Snyder....
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
John Lydon on the Tom Snyder Show 1980 - Part 2
John Lydon and Keith Levene from PIL piss off Tom Snyder.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 184790
- author: Feuerlighter
8:27
The Clash - Interview with Tom Synder 1981
The Clash interviewed on the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. June 1981....
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
The Clash - Interview with Tom Synder 1981
The Clash interviewed on the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. June 1981.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 498916
- author: Feuerlighter
14:44
Kiss Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder part 1
Tom Snyder Kiss interview...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Kiss Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder part 1
Tom Snyder Kiss interview
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 1512422
- author: Feuerlighter
13:16
Kiss Tomorrow show with Tom Snyder part 2
Kiss Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Kiss Tomorrow show with Tom Snyder part 2
Kiss Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 302186
- author: Feuerlighter
9:58
Patti Smith interviewed by Tom Snyder
Patti Smith interviewed by Tom Snyder, May 11, 1978....
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Patti Smith interviewed by Tom Snyder
Patti Smith interviewed by Tom Snyder, May 11, 1978.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 53665
- author: Feuerlighter
9:39
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 1 of 3
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 1 of 3...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 1 of 3
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 1 of 3
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 15280
- author: Feuerlighter
9:00
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 2 of 3
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 2 of 3...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 2 of 3
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 2 of 3
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 7442
- author: Feuerlighter
7:46
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 3 of 3
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 3 of 3...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 3 of 3
Quentin Tarantino @ Tom Snyder, 1996, Part 3 of 3
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 6185
- author: Feuerlighter
9:29
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 1
NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Ko...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 1
NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview. Part 1 of 5.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 48769
- author: Feuerlighter
8:10
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 2
Continuing NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan an...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 2
Continuing NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview. Part 2 of 5.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 15548
- author: Feuerlighter
5:29
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 3
More of NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and W...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 3
More of NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview. Part 3 of 5.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 12033
- author: Feuerlighter
8:49
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 4
NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Ko...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 4
NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview and are joined by scribe Harlan Ellison and convention organiser Al Schuster. Part 4 of 5.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 18967
- author: Feuerlighter
8:13
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 5
Conclusion: NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan a...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 5
Conclusion: NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview and are joined by scribe Harlan Ellison and convention organiser Al Schuster. Part 5 of 5.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 14728
- author: Feuerlighter
Vimeo results:
4:49
How To Mic Up Your Drums - Tom Toms
Fifth Chapter in this video series on how to mic up your drums with Drum Clinician Mike Sn...
published: 09 Feb 2010
author: Audix Microphones
How To Mic Up Your Drums - Tom Toms
Fifth Chapter in this video series on how to mic up your drums with Drum Clinician Mike Snyder and Audio Engineer Dean k. Mike demonstrates how to get the best sounds from your rack toms and floor toms.
0:30
KOOL AID FUN FIZZ "YELLOW"
Title: “Fun is in the Fizz”
Product: Kool Aid Fun Fizz ‘Yellow’
Client: Kraft
Director: P...
published: 07 Feb 2011
author: Maroto
KOOL AID FUN FIZZ "YELLOW"
Title: “Fun is in the Fizz”
Product: Kool Aid Fun Fizz ‘Yellow’
Client: Kraft
Director: Psyop
Psyop Creative Director: Laurent Ledru
Production Company: Psyop, Los Angeles
Executive Producer: Neysa Horsburgh
Producer: Alyssa Evans
Line Producer: Michael Schlenker
Editor: Brett Nicoletti
Assitant Editor: Tom Knight
Storyboard Artist: Vinny Dellay
Character Designer: Ignacio Fernandez Maroto
VFX Supervisor/CG Lead: David Chontos
Animation Director: Dan Vislocky
Previz & Animation: Dan Vislocky, Yvain Gnabro, Kevin Phelps
FX Artists: Ben Fiske, Kiel Gnebba
Compositors: Chad Howitt, Matt Lavoy
Flame Artists: John Shirley
Art Director: David Chontos
Lighting & Texturing: Jin Choi, Katie Yoon, Sarah Bocket
Modelers: Damon Snyder
Riggers: Sean Kealey
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, New York, NY
Sr. Partner, Assoc. Creative Dir. / Art: Arturo Gigante
Sr. Partner, Creative Director / Copy: Debbie Kasher
Sr. Partner, Group Creative Director: Tommy Henvey
Executive Producer: Lisa Christman
Producer: Erica Thompson
Youtube results:
9:47
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 1 of 3
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 1 of 3...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 1 of 3
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 1 of 3
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 19871
- author: Feuerlighter
7:27
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 2 of 3
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 2 of 3...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 2 of 3
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 2 of 3
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 5969
- author: Feuerlighter
5:56
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 3 of 3
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 3 of 3...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 3 of 3
Jerry Seinfeld @ Tom Snyder, 1998, Part 3 of 3
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 4431
- author: Feuerlighter
5:48
Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 1 of 4
Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 1 of 4...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: Feuerlighter
Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 1 of 4
Howard Stern @ Tom Snyder, 1991, Part 1 of 4
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 34486
- author: Feuerlighter
8:43
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 1/6
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, T...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 1/6
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 252714
- author: OELIAR
10:17
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 2/6
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, T...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 2/6
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 123863
- author: OELIAR
9:30
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 3/6
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, T...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 3/6
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 89672
- author: OELIAR
10:22
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview |4/6
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, T...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview |4/6
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 65745
- author: OELIAR
8:51
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 5/6
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, T...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 5/6
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 62765
- author: OELIAR
10:46
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 6/6
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, T...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Charles Manson | Daniels Interview | 6/6
www.allthewayalive.com Charles Manson Interview with Penny Daniels. San Quentin Prison, Tamal California.
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 61597
- author: OELIAR
8:27
Tom Snyder # 1 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
Tom Snyder # 1 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Tom Snyder # 1 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
Tom Snyder # 1 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 3658
- author: OELIAR
9:41
Tom Snyder # 2 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
Tom Snyder # 2 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Tom Snyder # 2 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
Tom Snyder # 2 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 3130
- author: OELIAR
9:25
Tom Snyder # 3 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
Tom Snyder # 3 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Tom Snyder # 3 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
Tom Snyder # 3 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 3980
- author: OELIAR
9:07
Tom Snyder # 4 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
Tom Snyder # 4 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Tom Snyder # 4 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
Tom Snyder # 4 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 2367
- author: OELIAR
8:52
Tom Snyder # 5 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
Tom Snyder # 5 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Tom Snyder # 5 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
Tom Snyder # 5 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 2492
- author: OELIAR
7:15
Tom Snyder # 6 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
Tom Snyder # 6 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Tom Snyder # 6 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
Tom Snyder # 6 W/ Charles Manson full interview from the Tommorow Show Backporch Tapes
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 2165
- author: OELIAR
9:59
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part I of VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo ...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part I of VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 203270
- author: OELIAR
9:59
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part II of VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo ...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part II of VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 111846
- author: OELIAR
Vimeo results:
4:49
How To Mic Up Your Drums - Tom Toms
Fifth Chapter in this video series on how to mic up your drums with Drum Clinician Mike Sn...
published: 09 Feb 2010
author: Audix Microphones
How To Mic Up Your Drums - Tom Toms
Fifth Chapter in this video series on how to mic up your drums with Drum Clinician Mike Snyder and Audio Engineer Dean k. Mike demonstrates how to get the best sounds from your rack toms and floor toms.
0:30
KOOL AID FUN FIZZ "YELLOW"
Title: “Fun is in the Fizz”
Product: Kool Aid Fun Fizz ‘Yellow’
Client: Kraft
Director: P...
published: 07 Feb 2011
author: Maroto
KOOL AID FUN FIZZ "YELLOW"
Title: “Fun is in the Fizz”
Product: Kool Aid Fun Fizz ‘Yellow’
Client: Kraft
Director: Psyop
Psyop Creative Director: Laurent Ledru
Production Company: Psyop, Los Angeles
Executive Producer: Neysa Horsburgh
Producer: Alyssa Evans
Line Producer: Michael Schlenker
Editor: Brett Nicoletti
Assitant Editor: Tom Knight
Storyboard Artist: Vinny Dellay
Character Designer: Ignacio Fernandez Maroto
VFX Supervisor/CG Lead: David Chontos
Animation Director: Dan Vislocky
Previz & Animation: Dan Vislocky, Yvain Gnabro, Kevin Phelps
FX Artists: Ben Fiske, Kiel Gnebba
Compositors: Chad Howitt, Matt Lavoy
Flame Artists: John Shirley
Art Director: David Chontos
Lighting & Texturing: Jin Choi, Katie Yoon, Sarah Bocket
Modelers: Damon Snyder
Riggers: Sean Kealey
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, New York, NY
Sr. Partner, Assoc. Creative Dir. / Art: Arturo Gigante
Sr. Partner, Creative Director / Copy: Debbie Kasher
Sr. Partner, Group Creative Director: Tommy Henvey
Executive Producer: Lisa Christman
Producer: Erica Thompson
Youtube results:
9:59
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part III of VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo ...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part III of VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 62076
- author: OELIAR
9:59
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part IV of VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo ...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part IV of VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 83583
- author: OELIAR
9:59
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part V of VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo ...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part V of VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 43827
- author: OELIAR
9:59
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part VI of VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo ...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: OELIAR
Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo, part VI of VII
Bringing the truth to life, and to Geraldo, who was destroyed by Manson everytime Geraldo was thinking he got the best of him...
There is no lying in Manson's words, and like most people, Geraldo is unable to face the truth, or rather "Unable to see the forest for the trees"
Destroy your mind, don't think about it...
If you are willing to fight for something you believe in, then you should also be prepared to die for it... If you are willing to die for it, then you should also be willing to kill for it... Some join the military and fight for their country, kill for their country, die for their country and become respectable dead heroes; and, this is deemed justified and legal by the fighting side as there is no law in war---murder is only condoned when it seems VERY clear to the masses of fighting side, whether it is money, land, or even pride of doing the 'greater good' that they are fighting for...
But moreover, people fight for beliefs, using the idea of wrong and right as the premise and justification behind it---a self solving concept of hot and cold that appears to be complete and benign... We create our own idea of right and wrong, then outside of that we create what we are willing to admit is right and wrong, or rather what we are unwilling to admit to others about ourselves... This, creates the great inexcusable concept of society, a false sense of security that feels good by lying to ourselves which kills diversity and creates a 'universal standard' for everyone...
The human thought for progress is a fight before it is started, the articulation itself is the idea of insecurity, imbalance, hope...
Progress would mean that society has to change, and society doesn't exist outside your box...
Destroy your mind, save yourself... There is no struggle...
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 38868
- author: OELIAR
2:05
Don Rickles
In 1969 Susan White, reporter for WMAR-TV in Baltimore, was invited to go on a MGM movie j...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles
In 1969 Susan White, reporter for WMAR-TV in Baltimore, was invited to go on a MGM movie junket to Ireland, England, and Yugoslavia. She was one of just 14 broadcasters from throughout the world to be included in this trip. In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on the movie set of what would become known as Kelly's Heroes Susan and the others interviewed Clint Eastwood, Telly Salvalas and Don Rickles. When everyone else tried to interview comedian Don Rickles he didn't let them get in a word or a question and made fun of their inability to do so. So when it was Susan's turn she decided to turn try and turn the tables on the King of the put down. This film interview is almost 40 years old and was just transferred to video.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 19841
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
5:26
Don Rickles on Dean Martin Roasts: Frank Sinatra (1978)
Mr. Warmth at his best!!!...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles on Dean Martin Roasts: Frank Sinatra (1978)
Mr. Warmth at his best!!!
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 770603
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
9:43
David Letterman with Don Rickles - part 1 of 2!
Not sure when this was taped, but here's David Letterman with Don Rickles! This is part 1...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
David Letterman with Don Rickles - part 1 of 2!
Not sure when this was taped, but here's David Letterman with Don Rickles! This is part 1 of 2.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 26686
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
7:57
David Letterman with Don Rickles - part 2 of 2!
Not sure when this was taped, but here's David Letterman with Don Rickles! This is part 2...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
David Letterman with Don Rickles - part 2 of 2!
Not sure when this was taped, but here's David Letterman with Don Rickles! This is part 2 of 2.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 13908
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
5:32
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #2, Part 1 of 2, 1988
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #2, Part 1 of 2, 1988...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #2, Part 1 of 2, 1988
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #2, Part 1 of 2, 1988
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 16124
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
7:22
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #2, Part 2 of 2, 1988
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #2, Part 2 of 2, 1988...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #2, Part 2 of 2, 1988
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #2, Part 2 of 2, 1988
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 12601
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
9:58
Bob Costas with Don Rickles - Oct. 1991 - part 3 of 5!!!
From Oct. 23, 1991, here is part 3 of 5 of a Bob Costas "Later" show with Don Rickles!!...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Bob Costas with Don Rickles - Oct. 1991 - part 3 of 5!!!
From Oct. 23, 1991, here is part 3 of 5 of a Bob Costas "Later" show with Don Rickles!!
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 10130
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
9:59
Bob Costas with Don Rickles - Oct. 1991 - part 4 of 5!!!
From Oct. 23, 1991, here is part 4 of 5 of a Bob Costas "Later" show with Don Rickles!!...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Bob Costas with Don Rickles - Oct. 1991 - part 4 of 5!!!
From Oct. 23, 1991, here is part 4 of 5 of a Bob Costas "Later" show with Don Rickles!!
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 6172
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
2:31
Bob Costas with Don Rickles - Oct. 1991 - part 5 of 5!!!
From Oct. 23, 1991, here is part 5 of 5 of a Bob Costas "Later" show with Don Rickles!!...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Bob Costas with Don Rickles - Oct. 1991 - part 5 of 5!!!
From Oct. 23, 1991, here is part 5 of 5 of a Bob Costas "Later" show with Don Rickles!!
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 5400
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
5:18
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #3, Part 1 of 2, 1993
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #3, Part 1 of 2, 1993...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #3, Part 1 of 2, 1993
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #3, Part 1 of 2, 1993
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 43947
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
7:42
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #3, Part 2 of 2, 1993
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #3, Part 2 of 2, 1993...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #3, Part 2 of 2, 1993
Don Rickles @ David Letterman #3, Part 2 of 2, 1993
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 26855
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
8:52
Larry King interviews Don Rickles - July, 1993 - part 1 of 3!
From July 27, 1993, here is a Larry King show with Don Rickles! This is part 1 of 3....
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Larry King interviews Don Rickles - July, 1993 - part 1 of 3!
From July 27, 1993, here is a Larry King show with Don Rickles! This is part 1 of 3.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 84491
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
9:51
Larry King interviews Don Rickles - July, 1993 - part 2 of 3!!
From July 27, 1993, here is a Larry King show with Don Rickles! This is part 2 of 3....
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Larry King interviews Don Rickles - July, 1993 - part 2 of 3!!
From July 27, 1993, here is a Larry King show with Don Rickles! This is part 2 of 3.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 27661
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
9:03
Larry King interviews Don Rickles - July, 1993 - part 3 of 3
From July 27, 1993, here is a Larry King show with Don Rickles! This is part 3 of 3....
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Larry King interviews Don Rickles - July, 1993 - part 3 of 3
From July 27, 1993, here is a Larry King show with Don Rickles! This is part 3 of 3.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 15929
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Vimeo results:
4:49
How To Mic Up Your Drums - Tom Toms
Fifth Chapter in this video series on how to mic up your drums with Drum Clinician Mike Sn...
published: 09 Feb 2010
author: Audix Microphones
How To Mic Up Your Drums - Tom Toms
Fifth Chapter in this video series on how to mic up your drums with Drum Clinician Mike Snyder and Audio Engineer Dean k. Mike demonstrates how to get the best sounds from your rack toms and floor toms.
0:30
KOOL AID FUN FIZZ "YELLOW"
Title: “Fun is in the Fizz”
Product: Kool Aid Fun Fizz ‘Yellow’
Client: Kraft
Director: P...
published: 07 Feb 2011
author: Maroto
KOOL AID FUN FIZZ "YELLOW"
Title: “Fun is in the Fizz”
Product: Kool Aid Fun Fizz ‘Yellow’
Client: Kraft
Director: Psyop
Psyop Creative Director: Laurent Ledru
Production Company: Psyop, Los Angeles
Executive Producer: Neysa Horsburgh
Producer: Alyssa Evans
Line Producer: Michael Schlenker
Editor: Brett Nicoletti
Assitant Editor: Tom Knight
Storyboard Artist: Vinny Dellay
Character Designer: Ignacio Fernandez Maroto
VFX Supervisor/CG Lead: David Chontos
Animation Director: Dan Vislocky
Previz & Animation: Dan Vislocky, Yvain Gnabro, Kevin Phelps
FX Artists: Ben Fiske, Kiel Gnebba
Compositors: Chad Howitt, Matt Lavoy
Flame Artists: John Shirley
Art Director: David Chontos
Lighting & Texturing: Jin Choi, Katie Yoon, Sarah Bocket
Modelers: Damon Snyder
Riggers: Sean Kealey
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, New York, NY
Sr. Partner, Assoc. Creative Dir. / Art: Arturo Gigante
Sr. Partner, Creative Director / Copy: Debbie Kasher
Sr. Partner, Group Creative Director: Tommy Henvey
Executive Producer: Lisa Christman
Producer: Erica Thompson
Youtube results:
9:40
Whoopi Goldberg & Don Rickles - from 1993 - pt. 1 of 2!
Here are Whoopi Goldberg and Don Rickles, from 1993! This is part 1 of 2....
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Whoopi Goldberg & Don Rickles - from 1993 - pt. 1 of 2!
Here are Whoopi Goldberg and Don Rickles, from 1993! This is part 1 of 2.
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 35381
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
10:00
David Letterman with Don Rickles - early 1994!!
From early 1994, here is Don Rickles on the David Letterman Late Show!! (I missed the beg...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
David Letterman with Don Rickles - early 1994!!
From early 1994, here is Don Rickles on the David Letterman Late Show!! (I missed the beginning of this show.)
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 74968
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
9:12
Tom Snyder with Don Rickles - March, 1995 - part 1 of 3!!
From March 1, 1995, here is part 1 of 3 of a Tom Snyder "Late Late Show" with Don Rickles!...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Tom Snyder with Don Rickles - March, 1995 - part 1 of 3!!
From March 1, 1995, here is part 1 of 3 of a Tom Snyder "Late Late Show" with Don Rickles!
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 10038
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
9:49
Tom Snyder with Don Rickles - March, 1995 - part 2 of 3!!
From March 1, 1995, here is part 2 of 3 of a Tom Snyder "Late Late Show" with Don Rickles!...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
Tom Snyder with Don Rickles - March, 1995 - part 2 of 3!!
From March 1, 1995, here is part 2 of 3 of a Tom Snyder "Late Late Show" with Don Rickles!
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 7143
- author: LBJ23andTHETRUTH
3:00
Kiss - Then She Kissed Me "Video"
Concert Footage of KISS matched to the CD track "Then She Kissed Me"...
published: 12 Feb 2011
author: wordexo
Kiss - Then She Kissed Me "Video"
Concert Footage of KISS matched to the CD track "Then She Kissed Me"
- published: 12 Feb 2011
- views: 28931
- author: wordexo
5:05
KISS - Rock And Roll All Nite - Brooklyn Bridge - Reunion Tour / MTV Awards
KISS - Live in New York, NY, At Fulton Ferry Landing/Brooklyn Bridge - September 04, 1996
...
published: 12 Feb 2011
author: wordexo
KISS - Rock And Roll All Nite - Brooklyn Bridge - Reunion Tour / MTV Awards
KISS - Live in New York, NY, At Fulton Ferry Landing/Brooklyn Bridge - September 04, 1996
Rock And Roll All Nite
New York Groove
Deuce
Calling Dr. Love
Love Gun
*MTV Awards
LineUp: Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Ace Frehley
- published: 12 Feb 2011
- views: 865992
- author: wordexo
9:06
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 1 subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 1 subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar...
published: 13 Feb 2011
author: wordexo
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 1 subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 1 subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 6801
- author: wordexo
7:44
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 4 subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 4subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar...
published: 13 Feb 2011
author: wordexo
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 4 subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 4subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 4828
- author: wordexo
5:58
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 2 subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 2subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar...
published: 13 Feb 2011
author: wordexo
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 2 subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
KISS Tom Snyder Interview, Halloween 1979 Part 2subtitulado - www.kissoldiers.com.ar
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 4766
- author: wordexo
7:44
KISS - Guitar / Drum Solo with Bazooka - Rock Am Ring 2010 - Sonic Boom Over Europe Tour
KISS - Live in Rock am Ring, Germany, At Nurburgring - June 3, 2010
01. Modern Day Delila...
published: 17 Feb 2011
author: wordexo
KISS - Guitar / Drum Solo with Bazooka - Rock Am Ring 2010 - Sonic Boom Over Europe Tour
KISS - Live in Rock am Ring, Germany, At Nurburgring - June 3, 2010
01. Modern Day Delilah
02. Cold Gin
03. Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll
04. Firehouse
05. Say Yeah
06. Deuce
07. Crazy Crazy Nights
08. Calling Dr. Love
09. Shock Me
10. I'm An Animal
11. 100,000 Years
12. I Love It Loud
13. Love Gun
14. Black Diamond
15. Detroit Rock City
16. Beth
17. Lick It Up
18. Shout It Out Loud
19. I Was Made For Lovin You
20. God Gave Rock And Roll To You II
21. Rock And Roll All Nite
Attendance: ~85,000
KISS are: Paul Stanley - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar; Gene Simmons - Bass Guitar, Vocals; Tommy Thayer - Lead Guitar, Vocals; Eric Singer - Drums, Vocals
- published: 17 Feb 2011
- views: 102039
- author: wordexo
4:05
Kiss Nada puede mantenerme lejos de ti
Video editado por Sergiokissero de la canción "Nothing can keep me from you" (Nada puede m...
published: 09 Mar 2011
author: wordexo
Kiss Nada puede mantenerme lejos de ti
Video editado por Sergiokissero de la canción "Nothing can keep me from you" (Nada puede mantenerme lejos de ti) interpretado por KISS y escrito por Diane Warren. Esta incluido en en el disco de la película "Detroit rock city".
- published: 09 Mar 2011
- views: 146497
- author: wordexo
Vimeo results:
4:49
How To Mic Up Your Drums - Tom Toms
Fifth Chapter in this video series on how to mic up your drums with Drum Clinician Mike Sn...
published: 09 Feb 2010
author: Audix Microphones
How To Mic Up Your Drums - Tom Toms
Fifth Chapter in this video series on how to mic up your drums with Drum Clinician Mike Snyder and Audio Engineer Dean k. Mike demonstrates how to get the best sounds from your rack toms and floor toms.
0:30
KOOL AID FUN FIZZ "YELLOW"
Title: “Fun is in the Fizz”
Product: Kool Aid Fun Fizz ‘Yellow’
Client: Kraft
Director: P...
published: 07 Feb 2011
author: Maroto
KOOL AID FUN FIZZ "YELLOW"
Title: “Fun is in the Fizz”
Product: Kool Aid Fun Fizz ‘Yellow’
Client: Kraft
Director: Psyop
Psyop Creative Director: Laurent Ledru
Production Company: Psyop, Los Angeles
Executive Producer: Neysa Horsburgh
Producer: Alyssa Evans
Line Producer: Michael Schlenker
Editor: Brett Nicoletti
Assitant Editor: Tom Knight
Storyboard Artist: Vinny Dellay
Character Designer: Ignacio Fernandez Maroto
VFX Supervisor/CG Lead: David Chontos
Animation Director: Dan Vislocky
Previz & Animation: Dan Vislocky, Yvain Gnabro, Kevin Phelps
FX Artists: Ben Fiske, Kiel Gnebba
Compositors: Chad Howitt, Matt Lavoy
Flame Artists: John Shirley
Art Director: David Chontos
Lighting & Texturing: Jin Choi, Katie Yoon, Sarah Bocket
Modelers: Damon Snyder
Riggers: Sean Kealey
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, New York, NY
Sr. Partner, Assoc. Creative Dir. / Art: Arturo Gigante
Sr. Partner, Creative Director / Copy: Debbie Kasher
Sr. Partner, Group Creative Director: Tommy Henvey
Executive Producer: Lisa Christman
Producer: Erica Thompson
Youtube results:
3:57
KISS - I was made for loving you Official FULL HD
*Read for Lyrics*
Mmmm yeah
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, d...
published: 20 Apr 2011
author: wordexo
KISS - I was made for loving you Official FULL HD
*Read for Lyrics*
Mmmm yeah
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Tonight I wanna give it all to you
In the darkness
There's so much I wanna do
And tonight I wanna lay it at your feet
'Cause girl I was made for you
And girl you were made for me
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
And I can't get enough of you baby
Can you get enough of me
Tonight I wanna see it in your eyes
Feel the magic
There's something that drives me wild
And tonight we're gonna make it all come true
'Cause girl you were made for me
And girl I was made for you
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
And I can't get enough of you baby
Can you get enough of me
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
And I can give it all to you baby
Can you give it all to me
Oh, can't get enough, oh, oh
I can't get enough, oh, oh
I can't get enough
Yeah, ha
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
And I can't get enough of you baby
Can you get enough of me
Oh, I was made
You were made
I can't get enough
No, I can't get enough
I was made for lovin' you baby
You were made for lovin' me
- published: 20 Apr 2011
- views: 988248
- author: wordexo
photo: AP / Bullit Marquez
06 Dec 2012
NEW BATAAN, Philippines - A powerful typhoon that washed away emergency shelters, a military camp and possibly entire families in the southern Philippines has killed almost 350 people with nearly 400 missing, authorities said Thursday. More bodies were retrieved from hardest-hit Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental provinces and six others impacted by Tuesday's storm, the Office of Civil Defense reported ... "It was horrible ... --- ... Location....(size: 8.0Kb)
photo: AP / Osama Faisal
08 Dec 2012
There has been a historic shift in the UN climate talks in Qatar, with the prospect of rich nations having to compensate poor nations for losses due to climate change. The US has fiercely opposed the measure - it says the cost could be unlimited. But after angry tussles throughout the night the principle of Loss and Damage is now in the final negotiating text ... The political stakes are high ... "I will block this ... "I will block this ... ....(size: 3.1Kb)
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
07 Dec 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. The in- and out-fighting between present-day Saudi Arabia and Iran is a mirror image of what occurred to Prophet Muhammad's Islamic Movement right after his death ... Still, and due to prosperity and wealth, an influx of trade goods, religious toleration, an emphasis on learning, and increased food supplies, Islam was becoming a vast empire ... Recent U.S ... Dallas Darling (darling@wn.com)....(size: 7.5Kb)
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06 Dec 2012
The Egyptian army has deployed tanks and armoured troop carriers outside the presidential palace in Cairo after clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi left five dead and hundreds injured. But, despite their presence, there are reports of a fresh outbreak of stone-throwing between the two sides. Egypt is seeing growing unrest over a controversial draft constitution ... 'Loud and clear' ... ....(size: 4.0Kb)
Kansas City Star
07 Dec 2012
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Tim Scott likes to say that his political ambitions depend on what God has in store for him ... Nikki Haley to replace Sen ... Tom Snyder, a white business executive with Sunpak Logistics in Sumter, S.C., said Scott has earned his support over the past nearly two decades in his county, state and federal government posts. “I just don’t judge people by the color of their skin,” Snyder said ... ....(size: 6.1Kb)
The News & Observer
07 Dec 2012
Harry E. Walker - MCT. U.S. Rep. Tim Scott of South Carolina. Email Print Order Reprint Share This. Text. tool name. tool goes here ... WASHINGTON -- Rep ... Tom Snyder, a white business executive with Sunpak Logistics in Sumter, S.C., said Scott has earned his support over the past nearly two decades in his county, state and federal government posts. “I just don’t judge people by the color of their skin,” Snyder said ... Email ... Text....(size: 16.7Kb)
AV Club
30 Nov 2012
And comedian Andy Kindler’s call is exceptionally charming, his chemistry with Tom Scharpling lending the conversation a childlike quality, as they trade jabs at Pauly Shore and discuss ’80s stand-up comedy ... Shrinking To Fit With Jonathan Katz And Tom Snyder ... Professional Therapist Jonathan Katz and Tom Snyder stop by the Never Not Funny studio for a rare dual appearance in the driest episode in recent memory....(size: 17.5Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
27 Oct 2012
On June 27, 1980, Lydon had his way with another American television institution, Tom Snyder. When he quickly grew bored with Snyder's line of questioning, Lydon snapped, ""Well, surely you've studied your history of us ... They play rock & roll at airports." If he felt that way in 1980… Toward the end of the chat, Snyder chided, ......(size: 27.4Kb)
New Yorker
22 Oct 2012
Even as John F ... Hedren, too, waited decades before making her story public ... I had not talked about this issue with Alfred Hitchcock to anyone ... Studios were the power ... In 1973, (in an interview with Tom Snyder), Hitchcock said, âIâm scared stiff of anything thatâs to do with the lawâ (âI never drive a car, on the theory that if you donât drive a car, you canât get a ticket,â he added) ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)
The Examiner
21 Oct 2012
Related topics. HolidaysTelevisionOprahTalk show hoststalk shows. Advertisement. The late, great Johnny Carson did it. Funnymen David Letterman, Jay Leno and Craig Ferguson are still doing it. Funny ladies Chelsea Handler and Ellen are doing it too ... Legendary TV Talk Show Hosts Jack Paar Steve Allen Merv Griffin Johnny Carson Dick Cavett Tom Snyder Larry King Regis Philbin Phil Donahue Sally Jessy Raphael Jerry Springer Oprah Winfrey ... Pics....(size: 8.1Kb)
LA Weekly
12 Oct 2012
Brian LoweTalking to Paul Stanley of Kiss on the phone is one thing. Talking to him in person in full Starchild regalia -- as we did the other day in New York -- is something else entirely. For one thing, he's huuuuge ... See also. ... Oh, yeah ... See also ... We were watching the infamous Tom Snyder interview [with KISS in 1979 that got derailed by Ace Frehley's drunken goofiness] and were wondering what was going through your mind at that time ... ....(size: 2.8Kb)
Dayton Daily News
07 Oct 2012
"Higher education has priced itself out of the market," Ivy Tech President Tom Snyder told the Indianapolis Business Journal (http.//bit.ly/R6IhTl ... Snyder and his staff at Ivy Tech touted the school's costs during the campaign that featured the slogan "Graduate in the Green, Not in the Red." ... Snyder is quick to note that students can cut the cost of a ......(size: 3.8Kb)
The New York Times
26 Sep 2012
OPENINGS. Enlarge This Image. A Saturdays NYC for Gap G.Q. collaboration jacket, $128. The Collection. A New Fashion App for the iPad. A one-stop destination for Times fashion coverage and the latest from the runways ... The looks, by BLK DNM, Ian Velardi, Mark McNairy New Amsterdam, Ovadia & Sons, Saturdays NYC and Tom Snyder, include basics like boxer briefs for $20 and more luxurious pieces like a leather bomber for $348 ... EVENTS ... ... ....(size: 7.3Kb)
The Oklahoman
21 Sep 2012
When Bill Snyder turned 16 years old, his father bought him a car ... Snyder's parents divorced when he was six; mother and son moved from Salina, Kan., to St ... Tom Snyder, a traveling salesman, ended up in Omaha, Neb., where he saw his son only occasionally and was not a big influence in his life. ... K-State coach Bill Snyder's success rooted in lessons learned from his mother....(size: 11.0Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
14 Sep 2012
TeamVisibility, the company that lets sales leaders improve their teams’ performance in just minutes a day, announced today that it has deepened its integration with Salesforce.com ... “There is a tectonic shift in sales management from episodic training to continuous improvement,” said Tom Snyder, co-Founder and EVP of Sales at TeamVisibility ... This accessibility makes it easy to. ... Josh Freeman. Jfreeman@teamvis.com ... PRWeb....(size: 8.7Kb)
The Washington Post
31 Aug 2012
Chevy Chase-based TeamVisibility has raised $1.2 million from Baltimore and Washington angel investors to amp up sales and put the finishing touches on the next version of its service ... Loading... Comments Weigh In Corrections?. Recommend. Personal Post. More from Capital BusinessSAIC divesting test unit as it splits ... in 2010 ... “Those efforts are led by 20-year sales veteran Tom Snyder, who was born and raised in Washington.” ... ....(size: 6.2Kb)
The Examiner
27 Aug 2012
Related topics. Comedylate nightCraig FergusonConan O'BrianStand UpDavid Letterman. Rating for Comedy Club, Paparazzi Comedy, Events, Hollywood, Jokes, Celebs,. 3. Advertisement. Does This Need To Be Said? Craig Ferguson. Comedians like to use bad words ... We still have a problem ... They would be Jay Leno, David Letterman, Tom Snyder, Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart, Craig Kilborn, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, George Lopez and Greg Kinnear ... ....(size: 10.0Kb)
For the animator, see Tom Snyder (animator).
| Tom Snyder | |
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| Born | (1936-05-12)May 12, 1936 Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Died | July 29, 2007(2007-07-29) (aged 71) San Francisco |
| Nationality | United States |
| Years active | 1959–1999 |
| Notable credit(s) | The Late Late Show Tomorrow with Tom Snyder NBC Nightly News |
Thomas James "Tom" Snyder (May 12, 1936 – July 29, 2007) was an American television personality, news anchor and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows The Tomorrow Show, on the NBC television network in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s. Snyder was also the pioneer anchor of the primetime NBC News Update, in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a one-minute capsule of news updates in primetime.[1]
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Early life[link]
Snyder was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to parents Frank and Marie Snyder. He received a Catholic upbringing and attended St. Agnes Elementary School and graduated from Jesuit-run Marquette University High School. He attended Marquette University, after which he had originally planned to study medicine and become a doctor.[2]
Newscasting career[link]
Snyder had loved radio since he was a child and at some point changed his field of study from pre-med to journalism. He once told Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Tim Cuprisin that broadcasting became more important to him than attending classes, and he skipped a lot of them.[3] Snyder began his career as a radio reporter at WRIT (unrelated to the present-day FM station) in Milwaukee and at WKZO in Kalamazoo (where he was fired by John Fetzer) in the 1950s. For a time he worked at Savannah, Georgia AM station WSAV (now WBMQ).
After moving to television in the 1960s, he was a news anchor for KYW-TV in Cleveland (now WKYC-TV) and, after a 1965 station switch, Philadelphia,[4] and WNBC-TV and WABC-TV in New York City. He talked about driving cross country in an early Corvair from Atlanta to Los Angeles around 1963, where he landed a news job at KTLA, then on to KNBC-TV also in Los Angeles, where from 1970 to 1974 he was an anchor for the 6 p.m. newscast working with KNBC broadcaster Kelly Lange, who was then a weather reporter before serving as a long-time KNBC news anchor. Lange later became Snyder's regular substitute guest host on the Tomorrow program, prior to the hiring of co-host Rona Barrett in the program's last year. Even after attaining fame as host of Tomorrow, Snyder kept his hand in news anchoring with the Sunday broadcasts of NBC Nightly News during 1975 and 1976.
[edit] Tomorrow with Tom Snyder
Snyder gained national fame as the host of Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (more commonly known as The Tomorrow Show), which aired late nights after The Tonight Show on NBC from 1973 to 1982. It was a talk show unlike the usual late-night fare, with Snyder, cigarette in hand, alternating between asking hard-hitting questions and offering personal observations that made the interview closer to a conversation.
Unique one-on-one exchanges were common to the program, notably with author Harlan Ellison, John Lydon of PiL and The Sex Pistols in 1980, John Lennon in 1975, actor and writer Sterling Hayden, convicted serial killer Charles Manson, and author and philosopher Ayn Rand. A one-on-one program with David Brenner as the sole guest revealed that Snyder and Brenner worked together on several documentaries.
An infamous edition of The Tomorrow Show broadcast on October 31, 1979, saw Snyder interview the rock group KISS. During the episode, a visibly irritated Gene Simmons (bass) and Paul Stanley (guitar) tried to contain the bombastic (and drunk) Ace Frehley (lead guitar), whose nonstop laughter and joking overshadowed the conversation taking place between Snyder and the rest of the band. Drummer Peter Criss made repeated references to his large gun collection, to the chagrin of Simmons. Some of the footage from this show was later included on the Kissology – The Ultimate KISS Collection Vol. 2: 1978–1991 (2007) DVD.
When not grilling guests, Snyder would often joke around with offstage crewmen, often breaking out in the distinctively hearty laugh that was the basis of Dan Aykroyd's impersonation of Snyder on Saturday Night Live (12 occasions, 1976–1979 and 1995).[5] Following a disastrous experiment with turning Tomorrow into a more typical talk show—renaming it Tomorrow Coast to Coast and adding a live audience and co-host, Rona Barrett (all of which Snyder resented)—the show was canceled in 1982 to make way for the up-and-coming young comedian David Letterman.
[edit] After Tomorrow
After Tomorrow was cancelled Snyder returned to news reporting, joining WABC in New York. In September 1982, Snyder and Kaity Tong began anchoring the 5PM Eyewitness News programs for the station. Snyder stayed at WABC for two years, leaving the station in 1984.[6] In 1985, he returned to the talk format at KABC-TV in Los Angeles with a local afternoon show he had planned to gear up for national syndication the following year; those plans were scratched after Oprah Winfrey's Chicago-based syndicated show entered the market first and took over Snyder's time slot on KABC-TV.
An older, slightly more mellow Snyder returned to virtually the same format on ABC Radio. The show's three-hour format was a natural for Snyder. The first hour was spent chatting with a celebrity guest, during the second hour Snyder engaged someone in the news, and the final hour was consumed chatting with his legion of fans. Occasionally the caller would be a well-known fan like David Letterman or Ted Koppel. One of Snyder's's favorite callers was Sherman Hemsley, the actor who played George Jefferson on the hit television sitcom The Jeffersons. The Tom Snyder Show for ABC Radio Networks went off the air in late 1992, in part due to the rapid rise in popularity of The Rush Limbaugh Show, which aired in the same time slot and which ABC had already been airing on many of its own stations. Snyder returned to television on CNBC in the early 1990s, adding the opportunity for viewers to call in with their own questions for his guests. Snyder nicknamed his show "the Colorcast", reviving an old promotional term NBC-TV used in the early 1960s to hype its color broadcasts. He also continued his trademark of talking to offscreen crew and made frequent reference to the studio, reminding viewers of its location in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
[edit] The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder
Meanwhile, Letterman had moved on to CBS and was given control of creating a new program to follow his at 12:35 am. Letterman, who had idolized Snyder for years, hired Snyder in 1995 as host of The Late Late Show. The idea had actually begun as a running joke on Letterman's show, that Snyder would soon follow him on the air as he had once followed Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show; the unlikely suggestion caught on. As part of the joke, Snyder appeared as himself in 1993 in The Larry Sanders Show episode Life Behind Larry, in which talk-show host Sanders (Gary Shandling) steals Snyder from Letterman to host a talk-show in the slot immediately after his.
The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder aired live in the Eastern and Central Time Zones, and was simulcast to other time zones on radio to allow everyone a chance to call in. Snyder's CNBC show was taken over, largely unchanged in format, by Charles Grodin. One of the many memorable Late Late Show interviews was with Gloria Vanderbilt about her son's suicide, told dramatically over an entire hour. Another was a lengthy interview with Robert Blake very soon before Blake was charged with murder. In 1999 Snyder left The Late Late Show, which was then reformatted for Craig Kilborn. It has since been turned over to Scottish comedian Craig Ferguson.
In February 2000, Snyder hosted two shows of The Late Show Backstage done during the time Letterman was recovering from heart surgery.
Snyder also hosted a video production called A Century of Legendary Lionel Trains, commemorating 100 years of Lionel Trains. Additionally, he hosted another program from the same production company called Celebrity Train Layouts 2: Tom Snyder, featuring his own collection of trains.
Colortini.com[link]
Snyder posted regular messages on his own now-defunct website colortini.com during the early 2000s. A "colortini", according to Snyder in the CNBC era, was the drink you should enjoy while watching the show ("Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air."). For the CBS show, he redubbed the mythical drink a "simultini" as his show was also heard on selected radio stations.
On July 28, 2005, Snyder announced he was deleting his website after six years, stating: "The novelty of communicating this way has worn off." On August 1, 2005, his page was abruptly taken offline. The front page was replaced with a white screen with the simple phrase: "Colortini is gone. Thanks for the Memories".[7] However, some 140 pages have been preserved at web.archive.org. The domain name has since been reused for other purposes.
Final years and death[link]
In April 2005, Snyder revealed that he was battling chronic lymphocytic leukemia, but that his doctors had told him it was "treatable". A year later, in June 2006, Snyder sold his home in the Benedict Canyon area of Los Angeles, where he had lived for almost 30 years, and headed to Belvedere, in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he owned a second home.
Snyder died on July 29, 2007, in San Francisco at the age of 71 from complications of leukemia. He had one child, Anne Mari Snyder, who lives in Maui, Hawaii, and two grandchildren.
References[link]
- Notes
- ^ "'Tomorrow' host Snyder dies at 71". AP Wire. Archived from the original on September 17, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070917082504/http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/30/obit.snyder.ap/index.html. Retrieved 2007-07-30.
- ^ Dudek, Duane (January 7, 1995). "After Years, Snyder's Back with Touch or 2 of Milwaukee". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
- ^ Cuprisin, Tom (July 30, 2007). "Remembering Tom: How he got started". http://blogs.jsonline.com/cuprisin/archive/2007/07/30/remembering-tom-snyder.aspx. Retrieved 2009-05-14. [dead link]
- ^ KYW-TV moved back to Philadelphia in 1965
- ^ http://snl.jt.org/imp.php?i=26
- ^ "Tom Snyder, Late-Night Television Talk Show Pioneer, Dies at 71". http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ahUo5QXp2RwU&refer=us.
- ^ "Colortini is Gone". Colortini. Archived from the original on August 3, 2005. http://web.archive.org/web/20050803003956/http://www.colortini.com/. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
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External links[link]
- Tom Snyder at the Internet Movie Database
- Tom Snyder at Find a Grave
- Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia: Tom Snyder
- Tom Snyder Radio Show Episodes
- Tom Snyder's trains
- David Hinckley's tribute to Tom Snyder in the New York Daily News
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| Date of birth | May 12, 1936 |
| Place of birth | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Date of death | July 29, 2007 |
| Place of death | San Francisco |
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For other people named John Lennon, see John Lennon (disambiguation).
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 Lennon rehearses "Give Peace a Chance" in Montreal, Canada, in 1969 |
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| Birth name | John Winston Lennon |
| Born | (1940-10-09)9 October 1940 Liverpool, England, UK |
| Died | 8 December 1980(1980-12-08) (aged 40) New York, New York, US |
| Genres | Rock, pop |
| Occupations | Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, artist, writer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica, harmonium, electronic organ, six-string bass |
| Years active | 1957–75, 1980 |
| Labels | Parlophone, Capitol, Apple, EMI, Geffen, Polydor |
| Associated acts | The Quarrymen, The Beatles, Plastic Ono Band, The Dirty Mac, Yoko Ono |
| Website | www.johnlennon.com |
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| Rickenbacker 325 Epiphone Casino Gibson J-160E |
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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to raising his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film, and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement.
As of 2012 Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 25 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002 a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all-time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
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History[link]
1940–57: Early years[link]
Lennon was born in war-time England, on 9 October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital to Julia and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman who was away at the time of his son's birth.[1] He was named John Winston Lennon after his paternal grandfather, John "Jack" Lennon, and then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill.[2] His father was often away from home but sent regular pay cheques to 9 Newcastle Road, Liverpool, where Lennon lived with his mother,[3] but the cheques stopped when he went absent without leave in February 1944.[4][5] When he eventually came home six months later, he offered to look after the family, but Julia—by then pregnant with another man's child—rejected the idea.[6] After her sister, Mimi Smith, twice complained to Liverpool's Social Services, Julia handed the care of Lennon over to her. In July 1946 Lennon's father visited Smith and took his son to Blackpool, secretly intending to emigrate to New Zealand with him.[7] Julia followed them—with her partner at the time, 'Bobby' Dykins—and after a heated argument his father forced the five-year-old to choose between them. Lennon twice chose his father, but as his mother walked away, he began to cry and followed her.[8] It would be 20 years before he had contact with his father again.[9]
Throughout the rest of his childhood and adolescence he lived with his aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith, who had no children of their own, at Mendips, 251 Menlove Avenue, Woolton.[10] His aunt bought him volumes of short stories, and his uncle, a dairyman at his family's farm, bought him a mouth organ and engaged him in solving crossword puzzles.[11] Julia visited Mendips on a regular basis, and when he was 11 years old he often visited her at 1 Blomfield Road, Liverpool, where she played him Elvis Presley records, and taught him the banjo, learning how to play "Ain't That a Shame" by Fats Domino.[12]
In September 1980 he talked about his family and his rebellious nature:
Part of me would like to be accepted by all facets of society and not be this loudmouthed lunatic musician. But I cannot be what I am not. Because of my attitude, all the other boys' parents ... instinctively recognised what I was, which was a troublemaker, meaning I did not conform and I would influence their kids, which I did ... I did my best to disrupt every friend's home ... Partly, maybe, it was out of envy that I didn't have this so-called home, but I really did ... There were five women who were my family. Five strong, intelligent women. Five sisters. Those women were fantastic ... that was my first feminist education ... One happened to be my mother ... she just couldn't deal with life. She had a husband who ran away to sea and the war was on and she couldn't cope with me, and when I was four-and-a-half, I ended up living with her elder sister ... the fact that I wasn't with my parents made me see that parents are not gods.[13]
He regularly visited his cousin, Stanley Parkes, who lived in Fleetwood. Seven years Lennon's senior, Parkes took him on trips, and to local cinemas.[14] During the school holidays, Parkes often visited Lennon with Leila Harvey, another cousin, often travelling to Blackpool two or three times a week to watch shows. They would visit the Blackpool Tower Circus and see artists such as Dickie Valentine, Arthur Askey, Max Bygraves and Joe Loss, with Parkes recalling that Lennon particularly liked George Formby.[15] After Parkes's family moved to Scotland, the three cousins often spent their school holidays together there. Parkes recalled, "John, cousin Leila and I were very close. From Edinburgh we would drive up to the family croft at Durness, which was from about the time John was nine years old until he was about 16."[16] He was 14 years old when his uncle George died of a liver haemorrhage on 5 June 1955 (aged 52).[17]
Lennon was raised as an Anglican and attended Dovedale Primary School.[18] From September 1952 to 1957, after passing his Eleven-Plus exam, he attended Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool, and was described by Harvey at the time as, "A happy-go-lucky, good-humoured, easy going, lively lad."[19] He often drew comical cartoons which appeared in his own self-made school magazine called The Daily Howl,[20] but despite his artistic talent, his school reports were damning: "Certainly on the road to failure ... hopeless ... rather a clown in class ... wasting other pupils' time."[21]
His mother bought him his first guitar in 1956, an inexpensive Gallotone Champion acoustic for which she "lent" her son five pounds and ten shillings on the condition that the guitar be delivered to her own house, and not Mimi's, knowing well that her sister was not supportive of her son's musical aspirations.[22] As Mimi was sceptical of his claim that he would be famous one day, she hoped he would grow bored with music, often telling him, "The guitar's all very well, John, but you'll never make a living out of it".[23] On 15 July 1958, when Lennon was 17 years old, his mother, walking home after visiting the Smiths' house, was struck by a car and killed.[24]
Lennon failed all his GCE O-level examinations, and was accepted into the Liverpool College of Art only after his aunt and headmaster intervened.[25] Once at the college, he started wearing Teddy Boy clothes and acquired a reputation for disrupting classes and ridiculing teachers. As a result, he was excluded from the painting class, then the graphic arts course, and was threatened with expulsion for his behaviour, which included sitting on a nude model's lap during a life drawing class.[26] He failed an annual exam, despite help from fellow student and future wife Cynthia Powell, and was "thrown out of the college before his final year."[27]
1957–70: The Quarrymen to The Beatles[link]
Further information: The Quarrymen, Lennon–McCartney, Brian Epstein, The Beatles, Beatlemania, British Invasion, and More popular than Jesus
1957–65: Formation, commercial break-out, and touring years[link]
The Beatles evolved from Lennon's first band, the Quarrymen. Named after Quarry Bank High School, the group was established by him in September 1956 when he was 15, and began as a skiffle group.[28] By the summer of 1957 the Quarrymen played a "spirited set of songs" made up of half skiffle, and half rock and roll.[29] Lennon first met Paul McCartney at the Quarrymen's second performance, held in Woolton on 6 July at the St. Peter's Church garden fête, after which McCartney was asked to join the band.[30]
McCartney says that Aunt Mimi: "was very aware that John's friends were lower class", and would often patronise him when he arrived to visit Lennon.[31] According to Paul's brother Mike, McCartney's father was also disapproving, declaring Lennon would get his son "into trouble";[32] although he later allowed the fledgling band to rehearse in the McCartneys' front room at 20 Forthlin Road.[33][34] During this time, the 18-year-old Lennon wrote his first song, "Hello Little Girl", a UK top 10 hit for The Fourmost nearly five years later.[35]
George Harrison joined the band as lead guitarist,[36] even though Lennon thought Harrison (at 14 years old) was too young to join the band, so McCartney engineered a second audition on the upper deck of a Liverpool bus, where Harrison played "Raunchy" for Lennon.[37] Stuart Sutcliffe, Lennon's friend from art school, later joined as bassist.[38] Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Sutcliffe became "The Beatles" in early 1960. In August that year The Beatles, engaged for a 48-night residency in Hamburg, Germany, and desperately in need of a drummer, asked Pete Best to join them.[39] Lennon was now 19, and his aunt, horrified when he told her about the trip, pleaded with him to continue his art studies instead.[40] After the first Hamburg residency, the band accepted another in April 1961, and a third in April 1962. Like the other band members, Lennon was introduced to Preludin while in Hamburg,[41] and regularly took the drug, as well as amphetamines, as a stimulant during their long, overnight performances.[42]
Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager from 1962, had no prior experience of artist management, but nevertheless had a strong influence on their early dress code and attitude on stage.[43] Lennon initially resisted his attempts to encourage the band to present a professional appearance, but eventually complied, saying, "I'll wear a bloody balloon if somebody's going to pay me".[44] McCartney took over on bass after Sutcliffe decided to stay in Hamburg, and drummer Ringo Starr replaced Best, completing the four-piece line-up that would endure until the group's break-up in 1970. The band's first single, "Love Me Do", was released in October 1962 and reached #17 on the British charts. They recorded their debut album, Please Please Me, in under 10 hours on 11 February 1963,[45] a day when Lennon was suffering the effects of a cold,[46] which is evident in the vocal on the last song to be recorded that day, Twist and Shout.[47] The Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership yielded eight of its fourteen tracks. With few exceptions—one being the album title itself—Lennon had yet to bring his love of wordplay to bear on his song lyrics, saying: "We were just writing songs ... pop songs with no more thought of them than that–to create a sound. And the words were almost irrelevant".[45] In a 1987 interview, McCartney said that the other Beatles idolised John: "He was like our own little Elvis ... We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest".[48]
The Beatles achieved mainstream success in the UK during the beginning of 1963. Lennon was on tour when his first son, Julian, was born in April. During their Royal Variety Show performance, attended by the Queen Mother and other British royalty, Lennon poked fun at his audience: "For our next song, I'd like to ask for your help. For the people in the cheaper seats, clap your hands ... and the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery."[49] After a year of Beatlemania in the UK, the group's historic February 1964 US debut appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show marked their breakthrough to international stardom. A two-year period of constant touring, moviemaking, and songwriting followed, during which Lennon wrote two books, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works.[50] The Beatles received recognition from the British Establishment when they were appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1965.[51]
Lennon grew concerned that fans attending Beatles' concerts were unable to hear the music above the screaming of fans, and that the band's musicianship was beginning to suffer as a result.[52] Lennon's "Help!" expressed his own feelings in 1965: "I meant it ... It was me singing 'help'".[53] He had put on weight (he would later refer to this as his "Fat Elvis" period),[54] and felt he was subconsciously seeking change.[55] The following January he was unknowingly introduced to LSD when a dentist, hosting a dinner party attended by Lennon, Harrison and their wives, spiked the guests' coffee with the drug.[56] When they wanted to leave, their host revealed what they had taken, and strongly advised them not to leave the house because of the likely effects. Later, in an elevator at a nightclub, they all believed it was on fire: "We were all screaming ... hot and hysterical."[56] A few months later in March, during an interview with Evening Standard reporter Maureen Cleave, Lennon remarked, "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink ... We're more popular than Jesus now—I don't know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity."[57] The comment went virtually unnoticed in England but caused great offence in the US when quoted by a magazine there five months later. The furore that followed—burning of Beatles' records, Ku Klux Klan activity, and threats against Lennon—contributed to the band's decision to stop touring.[58]
1966–70: Studio years, break-up and solo work[link]
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Lennon (right) performing "All You Need Is Love" with The Beatles in 1967 to 400 million viewers of "Our World".
Deprived of the routine of live performances after their final commercial concert on 29 August 1966, Lennon felt lost and considered leaving the band.[59] Since his involuntary introduction to LSD in January, he had made increasing use of the drug, and was almost constantly under its influence for much of the year."[60] According to biographer Ian MacDonald, Lennon's continuous experience with LSD during the year brought him "close to erasing his identity".[61] 1967 saw the release of "Strawberry Fields Forever", hailed by TIME magazine for its "astonishing inventiveness",[62] and the group's landmark album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which revealed Lennon's lyrics contrasting strongly with the simple love songs of the Lennon–McCartney's early years.
In August, after having been introduced to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the group attended a weekend of personal instruction at his Transcendental Meditation seminar in Bangor, Wales,[63] and were informed of Epstein's death during the seminar. "I knew we were in trouble then", Lennon said later. "I didn't have any misconceptions about our ability to do anything other than play music, and I was scared".[64] They later travelled to Maharishi's ashram in India for further guidance, where they composed most of the songs for The Beatles and Abbey Road.[65]
The anti-war, black comedy How I Won the War, featuring Lennon's only appearance in a non–Beatles' full-length film, was shown in cinemas in October 1967.[66] McCartney organised the group's first post-Epstein project,[67] the self-written, -produced and -directed television film Magical Mystery Tour, released in December that year. While the film itself proved to be their first critical flop, its soundtrack release, featuring Lennon's acclaimed, Lewis Carroll-inspired "I am the Walrus", was a success.[68][69] With Epstein gone, the band members became increasingly involved in business activities, and in February 1968 they formed Apple Corps, a multimedia corporation comprising Apple Records and several other subsidiary companies. Lennon described the venture as an attempt to achieve, "artistic freedom within a business structure",[70] but his increased drug experimentation and growing preoccupation with Yoko Ono, and McCartney's own marriage plans, left Apple in need of professional management. Lennon asked Lord Beeching to take on the role, but he declined, advising Lennon to go back to making records. Lennon approached Allen Klein, who had managed The Rolling Stones and other bands during the British Invasion. Klein was appointed as Apple's chief executive by Lennon, Harrison and Starr,[71] but McCartney never signed the management contract.[72]
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Sample of "Give Peace a Chance", recorded in 1969 during Lennon and Ono's second Bed-In for Peace. As described by biographer Bill Harry, Lennon wanted to "write a peace anthem that would take over from the song 'We Shall Overcome'—and he succeeded ... it became the main anti-Vietnam protest song."[73]
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At the end of 1968, Lennon featured in the film The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (not released until 1996) in the role of a Dirty Mac band member. The supergroup, comprising Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell, also backed a vocal performance by Ono in the film.[74] Lennon and Ono were married on 20 March 1969, and soon released a series of 14 lithographs called "Bag One" depicting scenes from their honeymoon,[75] eight of which were deemed indecent and most of which were banned and confiscated.[76] Lennon's creative focus continued to move beyond The Beatles and between 1968 and 1969 he and Ono recorded three albums of experimental music together: Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins[77] (known more for its cover than for its music), Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions and Wedding Album. In 1969 they formed The Plastic Ono Band, releasing Live Peace in Toronto 1969. In protest at Britain's involvement in the Nigerian Civil War,[78] Lennon returned his MBE medal to the Queen, though this had no effect on his MBE status, which could not be renounced.[79] Between 1969 and 1970 Lennon released the singles "Give Peace a Chance" (widely adopted as an anti-Vietnam-War anthem in 1969),[80] "Cold Turkey" (documenting his withdrawal symptoms after he became addicted to heroin[81]) and "Instant Karma!".
Lennon left the group in September 1969,[82] and agreed not to inform the media while the band renegotiated their recording contract, but he was outraged that McCartney publicised his own departure on releasing his debut solo album in April 1970. Lennon's reaction was, "Jesus Christ! He gets all the credit for it!"[83] He later wrote, "I started the band. I disbanded it. It's as simple as that."[84] In later interviews with Rolling Stone magazine, he revealed his bitterness towards McCartney, saying, "I was a fool not to do what Paul did, which was use it to sell a record."[85] He spoke too of the hostility he perceived the other members had towards Ono, and of how he, Harrison, and Starr "got fed up with being sidemen for Paul ... After Brian Epstein died we collapsed. Paul took over and supposedly led us. But what is leading us when we went round in circles?"[86]
1970–80: Solo career[link]
1970–72: Initial solo success and activism[link]
In 1970, Lennon and Ono went through primal therapy with Dr. Arthur Janov in Los Angeles, California. Designed to release emotional pain from early childhood, the therapy entailed two half-days a week with Janov for four months; he had wanted to treat the couple for longer, but they felt no need to continue and returned to London.[87] Lennon's emotional debut solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970), was received with high praise. Critic Greil Marcus remarked, "John's singing in the last verse of 'God' may be the finest in all of rock."[88] The album featured the songs "Mother", in which Lennon confronted his feelings of childhood rejection,[89] and the Dylanesque "Working Class Hero", a bitter attack against the bourgeois social system which, due to the lyric "you're still fucking peasants", fell foul of broadcasters.[90][91] The same year, Tariq Ali's revolutionary political views, expressed when he interviewed Lennon, inspired the singer to write "Power to the People". Lennon also became involved with Ali during a protest against Oz magazine's prosecution for alleged obscenity. Lennon denounced the proceedings as "disgusting fascism", and he and Ono (as Elastic Oz Band) released the single "God Save Us/Do the Oz" and joined marches in support of the magazine.[92]
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Sample of "Imagine", Lennon's "most famous post-Beatles' track."[93] Like "Give Peace a Chance", the song became an anti-war anthem, but its lyrics offended religious groups. Lennon's explanation was, "If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion—not without religion, but without this 'my God is bigger than your God' thing—then it can be true."[94]
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With Lennon's next album, Imagine (1971), critical response was more guarded. Rolling Stone reported that "it contains a substantial portion of good music" but warned of the possibility that "his posturings will soon seem not merely dull but irrelevant".[95] The album's title track would become an anthem for anti-war movements,[96] while another, "How Do You Sleep?", was a musical attack on McCartney in response to lyrics from Ram that Lennon felt, and McCartney later confirmed,[97] were directed at him and Ono. However, Lennon softened his stance in the mid-1970s and said he had written "How Do You Sleep?" about himself.[98] He said in 1980: "I used my resentment against Paul ... to create a song ... not a terrible vicious horrible vendetta ... I used my resentment and withdrawing from Paul and The Beatles, and the relationship with Paul, to write 'How Do You Sleep'. I don't really go 'round with those thoughts in my head all the time".[99]
Lennon and Ono moved to New York in August 1971, and in December released "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)".[100] To advertise the single, they paid for billboards in 12 cities around the world which declared, in the national language, "WAR IS OVER—IF YOU WANT IT".[101] The new year saw the Nixon Administration take what it called a "strategic counter-measure" against Lennon's anti-war propaganda, embarking on what would be a four-year attempt to deport him: embroiled in a continuing legal battle, he was denied permanent residency in the US until 1976.[102]
Recorded as a collaboration with Ono and with backing from the New York band Elephant's Memory, Some Time in New York City was released in 1972. Containing songs about women's rights, race relations, Britain's role in Northern Ireland, and Lennon's problems obtaining a green card,[103] the album was poorly received—unlistenable, according to one critic.[104] "Woman Is the Nigger of the World", released as a US single from the album the same year, was televised on 11 May, on The Dick Cavett Show. Many radio stations refused to broadcast the song because of the word "nigger".[105] Lennon and Ono gave two benefit concerts with Elephant's Memory and guests in New York in aid of patients at the Willowbrook State School mental facility.[106] Staged at Madison Square Garden on 30 August 1972, they were his last full-length concert appearances.[107]
1973–75: "Lost weekend"[link]
While Lennon was recording Mind Games (1973), he and Ono decided to separate. The ensuing 18-month period apart, which he later called his "lost weekend",[108] was spent in Los Angeles and New York in the company of May Pang. Mind Games, credited to the "Plastic U.F.Ono Band", was released in November 1973. Lennon also contributed "I'm the Greatest", to Starr's album Ringo (1973), released the same month. (an alternate take, from the same 1973 Ringo sessions, with Lennon providing a guide vocal, appears on John Lennon Anthology).
In early 1974, Lennon was drinking heavily and his alcohol-fuelled antics with Harry Nilsson made headlines. Two widely publicised incidents occurred at The Troubadour club in March, the first when Lennon placed a menstruation "towel" on his forehead and scuffled with a waitress, and the second, two weeks later, when Lennon and Nilsson were ejected from the same club after heckling the Smothers Brothers.[109] Lennon decided to produce Nilsson's album Pussy Cats and Pang rented a Los Angeles beach house for all the musicians[110] but after a month of further debauchery, with the recording sessions in chaos, Lennon moved to New York with Pang to finish work on the album. In April, Lennon had produced the Mick Jagger song "Too Many Cooks (Spoil the Soup)" which was, for contractual reasons, to remain unreleased for more than 30 years. Pang supplied the recording for its eventual inclusion on The Very Best of Mick Jagger (2007).[111]
Settled back in New York, Lennon recorded the album Walls and Bridges. Released in October 1974, it yielded his only number-one single in his lifetime, "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night", featuring Elton John on backing vocals and piano.[112] A second single from the album, "#9 Dream", followed before the end of the year. Starr's Goodnight Vienna (1974) again saw assistance from Lennon, who wrote the title track and played piano.[113] On 28 November, Lennon made a surprise guest appearance at Elton John's Thanksgiving concert at Madison Square Garden, in fulfilment of his promise to join the singer in a live show if "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night"—a song whose commercial potential Lennon had doubted—reached number one. Lennon performed the song along with "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "I Saw Her Standing There", which he introduced as "a song by an old estranged fiancee of mine called Paul".[114]
Lennon co-wrote "Fame", David Bowie's first US number one, and provided guitar and backing vocals for the January 1975 recording.[115] The same month, Elton John topped the charts with his cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", featuring Lennon on guitar and back-up vocals (Lennon is credited on the single under the moniker of "Dr. Winston O'Boogie"). He and Ono were reunited shortly afterwards. Lennon released Rock 'n' Roll (1975), an album of cover songs, in February. "Stand by Me", taken from the album and a US and UK hit, became his last single for five years.[116] He made what would be his final stage appearance in the ATV special A Salute to Lew Grade, recorded on 18 April and televised in June.[117] Playing acoustic guitar, and backed by an eight-piece band, Lennon performed two songs from Rock 'n' Roll ("Stand By Me", which was not broadcast, and "Slippin' and Slidin'") followed by "Imagine".[117]
1975–80: Retirement and return[link]
With the birth of his second son Sean on 9 October 1975, Lennon took on the role of househusband, beginning what would be a five-year hiatus from the music industry during which he gave all his attention to his family.[13] Within the month, he fulfilled his contractual obligation to EMI/Capitol for one more album by releasing Shaved Fish, a compilation album of previously recorded tracks.[13] He devoted himself to Sean, rising at 6 am daily to plan and prepare his meals and to spend time with him.[118] He wrote "Cookin' (In the Kitchen of Love)" for Starr's Ringo's Rotogravure (1976), performing on the track in June in what would be his last recording session until 1980.[119] He formally announced his break from music in Tokyo in 1977, saying, "we have basically decided, without any great decision, to be with our baby as much as we can until we feel we can take time off to indulge ourselves in creating things outside of the family."[120] During his career break he created several series of drawings, and drafted a book containing a mix of autobiographical material and what he termed "mad stuff",[121] all of which would be published posthumously.
He emerged from retirement in October 1980 with the single "(Just Like) Starting Over", followed the next month by the album Double Fantasy, which contained songs written during a journey to Bermuda on a 43-foot sailing boat the previous June,[122] that reflected Lennon's fulfilment in his new-found stable family life.[123] Sufficient additional material was recorded for a planned follow-up album Milk and Honey (released posthumously in 1984).[124] Released jointly with Ono, Double Fantasy was not well received, drawing comments such as Melody Maker's "indulgent sterility ... a godawful yawn".[125]
8 December 1980: Death[link]
Main article: Death of John Lennon
At around 10:50 pm on 8 December 1980, as Lennon and Ono returned to their New York apartment in The Dakota, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times at the entrance to the building. Lennon was taken to the emergency room of the nearby Roosevelt Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:07 pm.[126] Earlier that evening, Lennon had autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for Chapman.[127]
Ono issued a statement the next day, saying "There is no funeral for John", ending it with the words, "John loved and prayed for the human race. Please pray the same for him."[128] His body was cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Ono scattered his ashes in New York's Central Park, where the Strawberry Fields memorial was later created.[129] Chapman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life; as of 2011, he remains in prison, having been denied parole six times.[130][131]
Personal relationships[link]
Cynthia Lennon[link]
Further information: Cynthia Lennon
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John Lennon and Cynthia Powell in 1959
Lennon and Cynthia Powell met in 1957 as fellow students at the Liverpool College of Art.[132] Although being scared of Lennon's attitude and appearance, she heard that he was obsessed with French actress Brigitte Bardot, so she dyed her hair blonde. Lennon asked her out, but when she said that she was engaged, he screamed out, "I didn't ask you to fuckin' marry me, did I?"[133] She often accompanied him to Quarrymen gigs and travelled to Hamburg with McCartney's girlfriend at the time to visit him.[134] Lennon, jealous by nature, eventually grew possessive and often terrified Powell with his anger and physical violence.[135] Lennon later said that until he met Ono, he had never questioned his chauvinistic attitude to women. The Beatles' song "Getting Better", he said, told his own story, "I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically—any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace".[13]
Recalling his reaction in July 1962 on learning that Cynthia was pregnant, Lennon said, "There's only one thing for it Cyn. We'll have to get married."[136] The couple were married on 23 August at the Mount Pleasant Register Office in Liverpool. His marriage began just as Beatlemania took hold across the UK. He performed on the evening of his wedding day, and would continue to do so almost daily from then on.[137] Epstein, fearing that fans would be alienated by the idea of a married Beatle, asked the Lennons to keep their marriage secret. Julian was born on 8 April 1963; Lennon was on tour at the time and did not see his son until three days later.[138]
Cynthia attributes the start of the marriage breakdown to LSD, and as a result, she felt that he slowly lost interest in her.[139] When the group travelled by train to Bangor, Wales, in 1967, for the Maharishi Yogi's Transcendental Meditation seminar, a policeman did not recognise her and stopped her from boarding. She later recalled how the incident seemed to symbolise the ending of their marriage.[140] After arriving home at Kenwood, and finding Lennon with Ono, Cynthia left the house to stay with friends. Alexis Mardas later claimed to have slept with her that night, and a few weeks later he informed her that Lennon was seeking a divorce and custody of Julian on grounds of her adultery with him. After negotiations, Lennon capitulated and agreed to her divorcing him on the same grounds. The case was settled out of court, with Lennon giving her £100,000, and custody of Julian.[141]
Brian Epstein[link]
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Starr, McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Epstein at the preview of A Hard Day’s Night in 1964
Further information: Brian Epstein
The Beatles were performing at Liverpool's Cavern Club in 1962, when all four Beatles were introduced to Epstein after a midday concert. Epstein was homosexual. According to biographer Philip Norman, one of his reasons for wanting to manage the group was that he was physically attracted to Lennon. Almost as soon as Julian was born, Lennon went on holiday to Spain with Epstein, leading to speculation about their relationship. Questioned about it later, Lennon said, "Well, it was almost a love affair, but not quite. It was never consummated. But it was a pretty intense relationship. It was my first experience with a homosexual that I was conscious was homosexual. We used to sit in a café in Torremolinos looking at all the boys and I'd say, 'Do you like that one? Do you like this one?' I was rather enjoying the experience, thinking like a writer all the time: I am experiencing this."[142] Soon after their return from Spain, at McCartney's twenty-first birthday party in June 1963, Lennon physically attacked Cavern Club MC Bob Wooler for saying "How was your honeymoon, John?" The MC, known for his wordplay and affectionate but cutting remarks, was making a joke,[143] but ten months had passed since Lennon's marriage, and the honeymoon, deferred, was still two months in the future.[144] To Lennon, who was intoxicated with alcohol at the time, the matter was simple: "He called me a queer so I battered his bloody ribs in".[145]
Lennon delighted in mocking Epstein for his homosexuality and for the fact that he was Jewish.[146] When Epstein invited suggestions for the title of his autobiography, Lennon offered Queer Jew; on learning of the eventual title, A Cellarful of Noise, he parodied, "More like A Cellarful of Boys".[147] He demanded of a visitor to Epstein's flat, "Have you come to blackmail him? If not, you're the only bugger in London who hasn't."[146] During the recording of "Baby, You're a Rich Man", he sang altered choruses of "Baby, you're a rich fag Jew".[148][149]
Julian Lennon[link]
Further information: Julian Lennon
Lennon's first son, Julian, was born as his commitments with The Beatles intensified at the height of Beatlemania during his marriage to Cynthia. Lennon was touring with The Beatles when Julian was born on 8 April 1963. Julian's birth, like his mother Cynthia's marriage to Lennon, was kept secret because Epstein was convinced public knowledge of such things would threaten The Beatles' commercial success. Julian recalls how some four years later, as a small child in Weybridge, "I was trundled home from school and came walking up with one of my watercolour paintings. It was just a bunch of stars and this blonde girl I knew at school. And Dad said, 'What's this?' I said, 'It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds.'"[150] Lennon used it as the title of a Beatles' song, and though it was later reported to have been derived from the initials LSD, Lennon insisted, "It's not an acid song."[151] McCartney corroborated Lennon's explanation that Julian innocently came up with the name.[151] Lennon was distant from Julian, who felt closer to McCartney than to his father. During a car journey to visit Cynthia and Julian during Lennon's divorce, McCartney composed a song, "Hey Jules", to comfort him. It would evolve into The Beatles song "Hey Jude". Lennon later said, "That's his best song. It started off as a song about my son Julian ... he turned it into 'Hey Jude'. I always thought it was about me and Yoko but he said it wasn't."[152]
Lennon's relationship with Julian was already strained, and after Lennon and Ono's 1971 move to New York, Julian would not see his father again until 1973.[153] With Pang's encouragement, it was arranged for him (and his mother) to visit Lennon in Los Angeles, where they went to Disneyland.[154] Julian started to see his father regularly, and Lennon gave him a drumming part on a Walls and Bridges track.[155] He bought Julian a Gibson Les Paul guitar and other instruments, and encouraged his interest in music by demonstrating guitar chord techniques.[155] Julian recalls that he and his father "got on a great deal better" during the time he spent in New York: "We had a lot of fun, laughed a lot and had a great time in general."[156]
In a Playboy interview with David Sheff shortly before his death, Lennon said, "Sean was a planned child, and therein lies the difference. I don't love Julian any less as a child. He's still my son, whether he came from a bottle of whiskey or because they didn't have pills in those days. He's here, he belongs to me, and he always will." He said he was trying to re-establish a connection with the then 17-year-old, and confidently predicted, "Julian and I will have a relationship in the future."[13] After his death it was revealed that he had left Julian very little in his will.[157]
Yoko Ono[link]
Further information: Yoko Ono
Two versions exist of how Lennon met Ono. According to the first, on 9 November 1966 Lennon went to the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar.[158] Lennon was intrigued by Ono's "Hammer A Nail": patrons hammered a nail into a wooden board, creating the art piece. Although the exhibition had not yet begun, Lennon wanted to hammer a nail into the clean board, but Ono stopped him. Dunbar asked her, "Don't you know who this is? He's a millionaire! He might buy it." Ono had supposedly not heard of The Beatles, but relented on condition that Lennon pay her five shillings, to which Lennon replied, "I'll give you an imaginary five shillings and hammer an imaginary nail in."[13] The second version, told by McCartney, is that in late 1965, Ono was in London compiling original musical scores for a book John Cage was working on, Notations, but McCartney declined to give her any of his own manuscripts for the book, suggesting that Lennon might oblige. When asked, Lennon gave Ono the original handwritten lyrics to "The Word".[159]
Ono began telephoning and calling at Lennon's home, and when his wife asked for an explanation, he explained that Ono was only trying to obtain money for her "avant-garde bullshit".[160] In May 1968, while his wife was on holiday in Greece, Lennon invited Ono to visit. They spent the night recording what would become the Two Virgins album, after which, he said, they "made love at dawn."[161] When Lennon's wife returned home she found Ono wearing her bathrobe and drinking tea with Lennon who simply said, "Oh, hi."[162] Ono became pregnant in 1968 and miscarried a male child they named John Ono Lennon II on 21 November 1968,[129] a few weeks after Lennon's divorce from Cynthia was granted.[163]
During Lennon's last two years in The Beatles, he and Ono began public protests against the Vietnam War. They were married in Gibraltar on 20 March 1969, and spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam campaigning with a week-long Bed-In for peace. They planned another Bed-In in the United States, but were denied entry,[164] so held one instead at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, where they recorded "Give Peace a Chance".[165] They often combined advocacy with performance art, as in their "Bagism", first introduced during a Vienna press conference. Lennon detailed this period in The Beatles' song "The Ballad of John and Yoko".[166] Lennon changed his name by deed poll on 22 April 1969, adding "Ono" as a middle name. The brief ceremony took place on the roof of the Apple Corps building, made famous three months earlier by The Beatles' Let It Be rooftop concert. Although he used the name John Ono Lennon thereafter, official documents referred to him as John Winston Ono Lennon, since he was not permitted to revoke a name given at birth.[167] After Ono was injured in a car accident, Lennon arranged for a king-sized bed to be brought to the recording studio as he worked on The Beatles' last album, Abbey Road.[168] To escape the acrimony of the band's break-up, Ono suggested they move permanently to New York, which they did on 31 August 1971.
They first lived in the St. Regis Hotel on 5th Avenue, East 55th Street, then moved to a street-level flat at 105 Bank Street, Greenwich Village, on 16 October 1971. After a robbery, they relocated to the more secure Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street, in May 1973.[169]
May Pang[link]
Further information: May Pang
ABKCO Industries, formed in 1968 by Allen Klein as an umbrella company to ABKCO Records, recruited May Pang as a receptionist in 1969. Through involvement in a project with ABKCO, Lennon and Ono met her the following year. She became their personal assistant. After she had been working with the couple for three years, Ono confided that she and Lennon were becoming estranged from one another. She went on to suggest that Pang should begin a physical relationship with Lennon, telling her, "He likes you a lot." Pang, 22, astounded by Ono's proposition, eventually agreed to become Lennon's companion. The pair soon moved to California, beginning an 18-month period he later called his "lost weekend".[108] In Los Angeles, Pang encouraged Lennon to develop regular contact with Julian, whom he had not seen for two years. He also rekindled friendships with Starr, McCartney, Beatles' roadie Mal Evans, and Harry Nilsson. Whilst drinking with Nilsson, after misunderstanding something Pang said, Lennon attempted to strangle her, relenting only when physically restrained by Nilsson.[170]
On moving to New York, they prepared a spare room in their newly rented apartment for Julian to visit.[170] Lennon, hitherto inhibited by Ono in this regard, began to reestablish contact with other relatives and friends. By December he and Pang were considering a house purchase, and he was refusing to accept Ono's telephone calls. In January 1975, he agreed to meet Ono—who said she had found a cure for smoking. But after the meeting he failed to return home or call Pang. When Pang telephoned the next day, Ono told her Lennon was unavailable, being exhausted after a hypnotherapy session. Two days later, Lennon reappeared at a joint dental appointment, stupefied and confused to such an extent that Pang believed he had been brainwashed. He told her his separation from Ono was now over, though Ono would allow him to continue seeing her as his mistress.[171]
Sean Lennon[link]
Further information: Sean Lennon
When Lennon and Ono were reunited, she became pregnant, but having previously suffered three miscarriages in her attempt to have a child with Lennon, she said she wanted an abortion. She agreed to allow the pregnancy to continue on condition that Lennon adopt the role of househusband; this he agreed to do.[172] Sean was born on 9 October 1975, Lennon's 35th birthday, delivered by Caesarean section. Lennon's subsequent career break would span five years. He had a photographer take pictures of Sean every day of his first year, and created numerous drawings for him, posthumously published as Real Love: The Drawings for Sean. Lennon later proudly declared, "He didn't come out of my belly but, by God, I made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and to how he sleeps, and to the fact that he swims like a fish."[173]
Former Beatles[link]
Although his friendship with Starr remained consistently warm during the years following The Beatles' break-up in 1970, Lennon's relationship with McCartney and Harrison varied. He was close to Harrison initially, but the two drifted apart after Lennon moved to America. When Harrison was in New York for his December 1974 Dark Horse tour, Lennon agreed to join him on stage, but failed to appear after an argument over Lennon's refusal to sign an agreement that would finally dissolve The Beatles' legal partnership. (Lennon eventually signed the papers while holidaying in Florida with Pang and Julian.[174]) Harrison incensed Lennon in 1980 when he published an autobiography that made little mention of him. Lennon told Playboy, "I was hurt by it. By glaring omission ... my influence on his life is absolutely zilch ... he remembers every two-bit sax player or guitarist he met in subsequent years. I'm not in the book."[175]
Lennon's most intense feelings were reserved for McCartney. In addition to attacking him through the lyrics of "How Do You Sleep?", Lennon argued with him through the press for three years after the group split. The two later began to reestablish something of the close friendship they had once known, and in 1974 even played music together again, before growing apart once more. Lennon said that during McCartney's final visit, in April 1976, they watched the episode of Saturday Night Live in which Lorne Michaels made a $3,000 cash offer to get The Beatles to reunite on the show.[176] The pair considered going to the studio to make a joke appearance, attempting to claim their share of the money, but were too tired.[13] Lennon summarised his feelings towards McCartney in an interview three days before his death: "Throughout my career, I've selected to work with...only two people: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono....That ain't bad picking."[177]
Along with his estrangement from McCartney, Lennon always felt a musical competitiveness with him and kept an ear on his music. During his five-year career break he was content to sit back so long as McCartney was producing what Lennon saw as mediocre "product".[178] When McCartney released "Coming Up" in 1980, the year Lennon returned to the studio and the last year of his life, he took notice. "It's driving me crackers!" he jokingly complained, because he could not get the tune out of his head.[178] Asked the same year whether the group were dreaded enemies or the best of friends, he replied that they were neither, and that he had not seen any of them in a long time. But he also said, "I still love those guys. The Beatles are over, but John, Paul, George and Ringo go on."[13]
Political activism[link]
Lennon and Ono used their honeymoon as what they termed a "Bed-In for Peace" at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel; the March 1969 event attracted worldwide media ridicule.[179][180] At a second Bed-In three months later at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal[181] Lennon wrote and recorded "Give Peace a Chance". Released as a single, it was quickly taken up as an anti-war anthem and sung by a quarter of a million demonstrators against the Vietnam War in Washington, DC, on 15 October, the second Vietnam Moratorium Day.[80][182]
Later that year, Lennon and Ono supported efforts by the family of James Hanratty, hanged for murder in 1962, to prove his innocence.[183] Those who had condemned Hanratty were, according to Lennon, "the same people who are running guns to South Africa and killing blacks in the streets. ... The same bastards are in control, the same people are running everything, it's the whole bullshit bourgeois scene."[184] In London, Lennon and Ono staged a "Britain Murdered Hanratty" banner march and a "Silent Protest For James Hanratty",[78] and produced a 40-minute documentary on the case. At an appeal hearing years later, Hanratty's conviction was upheld.[185]
Lennon and Ono showed their solidarity with the Clydeside UCS workers' work-in of 1971 by sending a bouquet of red roses and a cheque for £5,000.[186] On moving to New York City in August that year, they befriended two of the Chicago Seven, Yippie peace activists Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman.[187] Another peace activist, John Sinclair, poet and co-founder of the White Panther Party, was serving ten years in prison for selling two joints of marijuana after previous convictions for possession of the drug.[188] In December 1971 at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 20,000 people attended the "John Sinclair Freedom Rally", a protest and benefit concert with contributions from Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Seger, Bobby Seale of the Black Panther Party, and others.[189] Lennon and Ono, backed by David Peel and Rubin, performed an acoustic set of four songs from their forthcoming Some Time in New York City album including "John Sinclair", whose lyrics called for his release. The day before the rally, Michigan State had drastically reduced the penalties for Sinclair's crimes and three days after the rally, he was released on bail.[190] The performance was recorded and two of the tracks later appeared on John Lennon Anthology (1998).[191]
Following the Bloody Sunday incident in Northern Ireland in 1972, in which 13 unarmed civil rights protesters were shot dead by the British Army, Lennon said that given the choice between the army and the IRA (who were not involved in the incident) he would side with the latter. Lennon and Ono wrote two songs protesting British presence and actions in Ireland for their Some Time in New York City album: "Luck of the Irish" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday". In 2000, David Shayler, a former member of Britain's domestic security service MI5 suggested that Lennon had given money to the IRA though this was swiftly denied by Ono.[192] Biographer Bill Harry records that following Bloody Sunday, Lennon and Ono financially supported the production of the film The Irish Tapes, a political documentary with a Republican slant.[193]
According to FBI surveillance reports (and confirmed by Tariq Ali in 2006) Lennon was sympathetic to the International Marxist Group, a Trotskyist group formed in Britain in 1968.[194] However, the FBI considered Lennon to have limited effectiveness as a revolutionary since he was "constantly under the influence of narcotics".[195]
Deportation attempt[link]
Following the impact of "Give Peace a Chance" and "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)", both strongly associated with the anti–Vietnam War movement, the Nixon administration, hearing rumours of Lennon's involvement in a concert to be held in San Diego at the same time as the Republican National Convention,[196] tried to have him deported. Nixon believed that Lennon's anti-war activities could cost him his re-election;[197] Republican Senator Strom Thurmond suggested in a February 1972 memo that "deportation would be a strategic counter-measure" against Lennon.[198] The next month the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) began deportation proceedings, arguing that his 1968 misdemeanor conviction for cannabis possession in London had made him ineligible for admission to the United States. Lennon spent the next three and a half years in and out of deportation hearings until on 8 October 1975, when a court of appeals barred the deportation attempt, stating " ... the courts will not condone selective deportation based upon secret political grounds."[199][103] While the legal battle continued, Lennon attended rallies and made television appearances. Lennon and Ono co-hosted the Mike Douglas Show for a week in February 1972, introducing guests such as Jerry Rubin and Bobby Seale to mid-America.[200] In 1972, Bob Dylan wrote a letter to the INS defending Lennon, stating:
John and Yoko add a great voice and drive to the country's so-called art institution. They inspire and transcend and stimulate and by doing so, only help others to see pure light and in doing that, put an end to this dull taste of petty commercialism which is being passed off as Artist Art by the overpowering mass media. Hurray for John and Yoko. Let them stay and live here and breathe. The country's got plenty of room and space. Let John and Yoko stay![201][202]
On 23 March 1973, Lennon was ordered to leave the US within 60 days.[203] Ono, meanwhile, was granted permanent residence. In response, Lennon and Ono held a press conference on 1 April 1973 at the New York City Bar Association, where they announced the formation of the state of Nutopia; a place with "no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people".[204] Waving the white flag of Nutopia (two handkerchiefs), they asked for political asylum in the US. The press conference was filmed, and would later appear in the 2006 documentary The U.S. vs. John Lennon.[205] Lennon's Mind Games (1973) included the track "Nutopian International Anthem", which comprised three seconds of silence.[206] Soon after the press conference, Nixon's involvement in a political scandal came to light, and in June the Watergate hearings began in Washington, DC. They led to the president's resignation 14 months later. Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, showed little interest in continuing the battle against Lennon, and the deportation order was overturned in 1975. The following year, his US immigration status finally resolved, Lennon received his "green card" certifying his permanent residency, and when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as president in January 1977, Lennon and Ono attended the Inaugural Ball.[207]
FBI surveillance and declassified documents[link]
After Lennon's death, historian Jon Wiener filed a Freedom of Information Act request for FBI files documenting the Bureau's role in the deportation attempt.[208] The FBI admitted it had 281 pages of files on Lennon, but refused to release most of them on the grounds that they contained national security information. In 1983, Wiener sued the FBI with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. It took 14 years of litigation to force the FBI to release the withheld pages.[209] The ACLU, representing Wiener, won a favourable decision in their suit against the FBI in the Ninth Circuit in 1991.[210] The Justice Department appealed the decision to the Supreme Court in April 1992, but the court declined to review the case.[211] In 1997, respecting President Bill Clinton's newly instigated rule that documents should be withheld only if releasing them would involve "foreseeable harm", the Justice Department settled most of the outstanding issues outside court by releasing all but 10 of the contested documents.[211] Wiener published the results of his 14-year campaign in January 2000. Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files contained facsimiles of the documents, including "lengthy reports by confidential informants detailing the daily lives of anti-war activists, memos to the White House, transcripts of TV shows on which Lennon appeared, and a proposal that Lennon be arrested by local police on drug charges".[212] The story is told in the documentary The U.S. vs. John Lennon. The final 10 documents in Lennon's FBI file, which reported on his ties with London anti-war activists in 1971 and had been withheld as containing "national security information provided by a foreign government under an explicit promise of confidentiality", were released in December 2006. They contained no indication that the British government had regarded Lennon as a serious threat; one example of the released material was a report that two prominent British leftists had hoped Lennon would finance a left-wing bookshop and reading room.[213]
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Further information: Jon_Wiener#Wiener_battles_with_the_FBI
Writing and art[link]
Lennon's biographer Bill Harry writes that Lennon began drawing and writing creatively at an early age with the encouragement of his uncle. He collected his stories, poetry, cartoons, and caricatures in a Quarry Bank High School exercise book that he called the Daily Howl. The drawings were often of crippled people, and the writings satirical, and throughout the book was an abundance of wordplay. According to classmate Bill Turner, Lennon created the Daily Howl to amuse his best friend and later Quarrymen band mate, Pete Shotton, to whom he would show his work before he let anyone else see it. Turner said that Lennon "had an obsession for Wigan Pier. It kept cropping up", and in Lennon's story A Carrot In A Potato Mine, "the mine was at the end of Wigan Pier." Turner described how one of Lennon's cartoons depicted a bus stop sign annotated with the question, "Why?". Above was a flying pancake, and below, "a blind man wearing glasses leading along a blind dog—also wearing glasses".[214]
Lennon's love of wordplay and nonsense with a twist found a wider audience when he was 24. Harry writes that In His Own Write (1964) was published after "Some journalist who was hanging around The Beatles came to me and I ended up showing him the stuff. They said, 'Write a book' and that's how the first one came about". Like the Daily Howl it contained a mix of formats including short stories, poetry, plays and drawings. One story, "Good Dog Nigel", tells the tale of "a happy dog, urinating on a lamp post, barking, wagging his tail—until he suddenly hears a message that he will be killed at three o'clock". The Times Literary Supplement considered the poems and stories "remarkable ... also very funny ... the nonsense runs on, words and images prompting one another in a chain of pure fantasy". Book Week reported, "This is nonsense writing, but one has only to review the literature of nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off. While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play, many others have not only double meaning but a double edge." Lennon was not only surprised by the positive reception, but that the book was reviewed at all, and suggested that readers "took the book more seriously than I did myself. It just began as a laugh for me".[215]
In combination with A Spaniard in the Works (1965), In His Own Write formed the basis of the stage play The John Lennon Play: In His Own Write, co-adapted by Victor Spinetti and Adrienne Kennedy. After negotiations between Lennon, Spinetti and the artistic director of the National Theatre, Sir Laurence Olivier, the play opened at the Old Vic in 1968. Lennon and Ono attended the opening night performance, their second public appearance together to date.[216] After Lennon's death, further works were published, including Skywriting by Word of Mouth (1986); Ai: Japan Through John Lennon's Eyes: A Personal Sketchbook (1992), with Lennon's illustrations of the definitions of Japanese words; and Real Love: The Drawings for Sean (1999). The Beatles Anthology (2000) also presented examples of his writings and drawings.
Musicianship[link]
Instruments played[link]
Further information: John Lennon's musical instruments and List of The Beatles' instruments
His playing of a mouth organ during a bus journey to visit his cousin in Scotland caught the driver's ear. Impressed, the driver told Lennon of a harmonica he could have if he came to Edinburgh the following day, where one had been stored in the bus depot since a passenger left it on a bus.[217] The professional instrument quickly replaced Lennon's toy. He would continue to play harmonica, often using the instrument during The Beatles' Hamburg years, and it became a signature sound in the group's early recordings. His mother taught him how to play the banjo, later buying him an acoustic guitar. At 16, he played rhythm guitar with the Quarrymen.[218] As his career progressed, he played a variety of electric guitars, predominantly the Rickenbacker 325, Epiphone Casino and Gibson J-160E, and, from the start of his solo career, the Gibson Les Paul Junior.[219][220] Occasionally he played a six-string bass guitar, the Fender Bass VI, providing bass on some Beatles' numbers that occupied McCartney with another instrument.[221] His other instrument of choice was the piano, on which he composed many songs, including "Imagine", described as his best-known solo work.[222] His jamming on a piano with McCartney in 1963 led to the creation of The Beatles' first US number one, "I Want to Hold Your Hand".[223] In 1964, he became one of the first British musicians to acquire a Mellotron keyboard, though it was not heard on a Beatles' recording until "Strawberry Fields Forever" in late 1966.[224]
Vocal style[link]
When Lennon recorded "Twist and Shout", the final track during the mammoth one-day session that captured the band's 1963 debut album Please Please Me, his voice, already compromised by a cold, came close to giving out. Lennon said, "I couldn't sing the damn thing, I was just screaming."[225] In the words of biographer Barry Miles, "Lennon simply shredded his vocal cords in the interests of rock 'n' roll."[226] The Beatles' producer, George Martin, tells how Lennon "had an inborn dislike of his own voice which I could never understand. He was always saying to me: 'DO something with my voice! ... put something on it ... Make it different.'"[227] Martin obliged, often using double-tracking and other techniques. Music critic Robert Christgau says that Lennon's "greatest vocal performance ... from scream to whine, is modulated electronically ... echoed, filtered, and double tracked."[228]
As his Beatles' era segued into his solo career, his singing voice found a widening range of expression. Biographer Chris Gregory writes that Lennon was, "tentatively beginning to expose his insecurities in a number of acoustic-led 'confessional' ballads, so beginning the process of 'public therapy' that will eventually culminate in the primal screams of 'Cold Turkey' and the cathartic John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band."[229] David Stuart Ryan notes Lennon's vocal delivery to range from, "extreme vulnerability, sensitivity and even naivety" to a hard "rasping" style.[230] Wiener too describes contrasts, saying the singer's voice can be "at first subdued; soon it almost cracks with despair"[231] Music historian Ben Urish recalls hearing The Beatles' Ed Sullivan Show performance of "This Boy" played on the radio a few days after Lennon's murder: "As Lennon's vocals reached their peak ... it hurt too much to hear him scream with such anguish and emotion. But it was my emotions I heard in his voice. Just like I always had."[232]
Legacy[link]
Music historians Schinder and Schwartz, writing of the transformation in popular music styles that took place between the 1950s and the 1960s, say that The Beatles' influence cannot be overstated: having "revolutionized the sound, style, and attitude of popular music and opened rock and roll's doors to a tidal wave of British rock acts", the group then "spent the rest of the 1960s expanding rock's stylistic frontiers".[233] Liam Gallagher, his group Oasis among the many who acknowledge the band's influence, identifies Lennon as a hero; in 1999 he named his first child Lennon Gallagher in tribute.[234] On National Poetry Day in 1999, after conducting a poll to identify the UK's favourite song lyric, the BBC announced "Imagine" the winner.[94]
In a 2006 Guardian article, Jon Wiener wrote: "For young people in 1972, it was thrilling to see Lennon's courage in standing up to [US President] Nixon. That willingness to take risks with his career, and his life, is one reason why people still admire him today."[235] Whilst for music historians Urish and Bielen, Lennon's most significant effort was "the self-portraits ... in his songs [which] spoke to, for, and about, the human condition."[236]
Lennon continues to be mourned throughout the world and has been the subject of numerous memorials and tributes. In 2010, on what would have been Lennon's 70th birthday, the John Lennon Peace Monument was unveiled in Chavasse Park, Liverpool, by Cynthia and Julian Lennon.[237] The sculpture entitled 'Peace & Harmony' exhibits peace symbols and carries the inscription "Peace on Earth for the Conservation of Life · In Honour of John Lennon 1940–1980".
Awards and sales[link]
The Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership is regarded as one of the most influential and successful of the 20th century. As performer, writer or co-writer Lennon has had 25 number one singles on the US Hot 100 chart.a His album sales in the US stand at 14 million units.[238] Double Fantasy, released shortly before his death, and his best-selling, post-Beatles' studio album[239] at three million shipments in the US,[240] won the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.[241] The following year, the BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music went to Lennon.[242]
Participants in a 2002 BBC poll voted him eighth of "100 Greatest Britons".[243] Between 2003 and 2008, Rolling Stone recognised Lennon in several reviews of artists and music, ranking him fifth of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time"[244] and 38th of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time",[245] and his albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, 22nd and 76th respectively of "The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".[245][246] He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) with the other Beatles in 1965.[51] He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987[247] and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.[107]
Discography[link]
Main article: John Lennon discography
See also: The Beatles discography
- Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins (with Yoko Ono) (1968)
- Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions (with Yoko Ono) (1969)
- Wedding Album (with Yoko Ono) (1969)
- John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
- Imagine (1971)
- Some Time in New York City (with Yoko Ono) (1972)
- Mind Games (1973)
- Walls and Bridges (1974)
- Rock 'n' Roll (1975)
- Double Fantasy (with Yoko Ono) (1980)
- Milk and Honey (with Yoko Ono) (1984)
- Menlove Ave. (1986)
Notes[link]
^ Note a: Lennon was responsible for 25 Billboard Hot 100 number one singles as performer, writer or co-writer.
- Solo (2): "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night", "(Just Like) Starting Over".[248]
- With The Beatles (20): "Can't Buy Me Love", "I Feel Fine", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "Love Me Do", "She Loves You", "A Hard Day's Night", "Eight Days a Week", "Help!", "Ticket to Ride", "Yesterday", "Paperback Writer", "We Can Work It Out", "All You Need Is Love", "Hello Goodbye", "Penny Lane", "Hey Jude", "Something/"Come Together", "Get Back", "Let It Be", "The Long and Winding Road"/"For You Blue".[249]
- As co-writer of and performer on release by another artist (1): "Fame" (David Bowie).[250]
- As co-writer of releases by other artists (2): "A World Without Love" (Peter and Gordon),[251] "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (Elton John).[252]
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| Name | Lennon, John |
| Alternative names | Lennon, John Winston (birth name); Lennon, John Winston Ono |
| Short description | Rock musician |
| Date of birth | 9 October 1940 |
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 8 December 1980 |
| Place of death | New York City, New York, United States of America |
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| John Lydon | |
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 John Lydon in 2011 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | John Joseph Lydon |
| Also known as | Johnny Rotten |
| Born | (1956-01-31) 31 January 1956 (age 56) London, England, UK |
| Genres | Punk rock, post-punk, experimental rock, noise rock, alternative rock |
| Occupations | Musician, singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, saxophone, guitar, bass guitar, violin, stroh violin, synthesizer, keyboards |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Associated acts | Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd., Leftfield |
John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by the former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a singer-songwriter and television presenter, best known as the lead singer of punk rock band the Sex Pistols from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He is the lead singer of the post-punk band Public Image Ltd, which he founded and fronted from 1978 until 1993, and again from 2009. Throughout his career, Lydon has made controversial or dismissive comments about the royal family and other subjects. There has been a recent revival of a 1980s movement to have Lydon knighted for his achievements with the Sex Pistols. Q Magazine remarked that "somehow he's assumed the status of national treasure."[1]
Lydon's personally crafted image and fashion style led to him being asked to become the singer of the Sex Pistols by their manager, Malcolm McLaren. With the Pistols, he penned singles including "Anarchy in the U.K.", "God Save the Queen" and "Holidays in the Sun", the content of which precipitated the "last and greatest outbreak of pop-based moral pandemonium" in Britain.[2] The band caused nationwide uproar in much of the media, who objected to the content of Lydon’s lyrics, and their antics, which included swearing on live television, in which Steve Jones called Bill Grundy a "fucking rotter". Due to the band's appearance in the media, Lydon was largely seen as the figurehead of the punk movement in the public image[3] although this idea was not widely supported amongst the punk movement itself. Despite the negative reaction that they provoked, they are now regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music.[4][5]
Lydon left the Pistols in 1978 to found his own band, Public Image Ltd, that was far more experimental in nature, and which has been described as "arguably the first post-rock group".[6] Although never as commercially successful as the Pistols, the band produced eight albums and a string of singles, including "Public Image", "Death Disco", and "Rise", before they went on hiatus in 1993, reforming in 2009. In subsequent years, Lydon hosted a number of television shows in the UK, US and Belgium, as well as writing an autobiography, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs (1993), and producing some solo musical work, such as the album Psycho's Path (1997).
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Biography[link]
Early life: 1956–1974[link]
Lydon was born in London on 31 January 1956.[7] His parents, John Christopher and Eileen (née Barry) Lydon, were working class immigrants from Ireland, and moved into a two-room Victorian flat with an outdoor toilet in Benwell Road, in the Holloway area of North London. At the time, the area was largely impoverished, with a high crime rate and a population comprised predominantly of working class Irish and Jamaican migrants. Lydon spent Summer holidays in his mother's native County Cork, where he also allegedly suffered abuse and name-calling for having an English accent, a prejudice he claims he still receives today even though he travels under an Irish passport.[8] John was the eldest of four brothers, and as the eldest, he had to look after his siblings due to his mother's regular illnesses.[9] As a child, he lived on the edge of an industrial estate, and would often play with friends in the factories when they were closed. He belonged to a local gang of neighbourhood kids, and would often end up in fights with other groups, something he would later look back on with fond memories: "Hilarious fiascoes, not at all like the knives and guns of today. The meanness wasn't there. It was more like yelling, shouting, throwing stones, and running away giggling. Maybe the reality was coloured by my youth."[10] Describing himself as a "very shy" and "very retiring" kid who was "nervous as hell", he hated going to school, where he would get caned as punishment and where he "had several embarrassing incidents… I would shit my pants and be too scared to ask the teacher to leave the class. I'd sit there in a pants load of poo all day long."[11]
When he was seven years old he contracted spinal meningitis and was hospitalised for a whole year in St. Anne's Hospital in Highgate. Throughout the entire experience he suffered from hallucinations, nausea and headaches, whilst the treatments administered by the nurses involved drawing fluid out of his spine with a surgical needle, something that left him with a permanent spinal curvature. The meningitis was also responsible for giving him what he would later describe as the "Lydon stare", and for him, this experience was "the first step that put me on the road to Rotten".[12]
With his father often away on work, employed variously on building sites or oil rigs, Lydon got his first job aged 10 as a minicab dispatcher, something he kept up for a year whilst the family was in financial difficulty.[13] He disliked his secondary school, the Sir William of York Catholic School in Islington, where initially he was bullied, but aged around 14 or 15 he "broke out of the mold" and began to fight back at what he saw as the oppressive nature of the school teachers, whom he felt instigated and encouraged the kids to all be the same and be "anti-anyone-who-doesn't-quite-fit-the-mold."[14] Following the completion of his O-levels at school, he got into a row with his father, who disliked Lydon's long hair, and so, agreeing to get it cut, the teenager not only had it cut, but in an act of rebellion dyed it bright green.[15] Growing up as a teenager, he listened mostly to rock bands like Hawkwind, Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper and Iggy and the Stooges – bands his mother also used to like, a fact which somewhat embarrassed him – as well as more mainstream groups like T. Rex and Gary Glitter.[16]
"The other squatters hated us… because of the way we looked—short cropped hair and old suits. That’s when Sid [Vicious] started to come around to my way of fashion. I gave him his first decent haircut, which was the punk style as it soon became. You'd literally cut chunks of hair out of your head. The idea was to not have any shape to your hairdo—just have it fucked up. This was the beginning of it all."
John Lydon (1993)[17]
Aged 15, he was kicked out of the school after a run in with a teacher, and subsequently went to another state school, Hackney and Kingsway Princeton College, where he befriended John Simon Ritchie, who in later years would become better known as Sid Vicious. It was Lydon who gave him this nickname, after his parents' pet hamster.[18] Lydon and Vicious began squatting in a house in the wealthy Hampstead area with a group of ageing hippies and stopped bothering to go to college, which was often far away from where they were living.[19] Meanwhile, he began working on building sites during the summer, employment that his father was able to help him with. He also got a job at a children's play centre in Finsbury Park after friends had recommended him for the job. It was here that he taught woodwork to some of the older children, but he was eventually fired after parents complained that somebody "weird" with bright green hair was teaching their children.[20] Lydon and his friends, including Vicious, John Gray, Jah Wobble, Dave Crowe and Tony Purcell, began going to many of the London clubs, such as the Lacey Lady in Ilford, and also frequented both reggae and gay clubs, the latter of which he enjoyed because in them "you could be yourself, nobody bothered you".[21]
1975–1978: Sex Pistols and the punk movement[link]
Main article: Sex Pistols
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Lydon in 1977
In 1975, Lydon was among a group of youths who regularly hung around Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's fetish clothing shop SEX. McLaren had returned from a brief stint travelling with American protopunk band the New York Dolls, and he was working on promoting a new band formed by Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook called The Sex Pistols. McLaren was impressed with Lydon's ragged look and unique sense of style, particularly his orange hair and modified Pink Floyd T-shirt (with the band members' eyes scratched out and the words I Hate scrawled in felt-tip pen above the band's logo). After tunelessly singing Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen" to the accompaniment of the shop's jukebox, Lydon was chosen as the band's frontman.[22]
In 1977, the band released "God Save the Queen" during the week of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee. At the time, August 1977, Lydon commented –
| “ | Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it. | ” |
Lydon was also interested in dub music. McLaren was said to have been upset when Lydon revealed during a radio interview that his influences included progressive experimentalists like Magma, Can, Captain Beefheart and Van der Graaf Generator.[24]
Tensions between Lydon and bassist Glen Matlock arose. The reasons for this are disputed, but Lydon claimed in his autobiography that he believed Matlock to be too white-collar and middle-class and that Matlock was "always going on about nice things like the Beatles". Matlock stated in his own autobiography that most of the tension in the band, and between himself and Lydon, were orchestrated by McLaren. Matlock quit and as a replacement, Lydon recommended his school friend John Simon Ritchie. Although Ritchie was an incompetent musician, McLaren agreed that he had the look the band wanted: pale, emaciated, spike-haired, with ripped clothes and a perpetual sneer. Rotten dubbed him "Sid Vicious" as a joke, taking the name from his pet hamster, named Sid the Vicious. During a brief meeting on 12 August 1977 in CBGB's according to Kit and Morgan Benson's biography, Ritchie got his name after Sid the hamster bit him on his hand, and he exclaimed: "Sid is really vicious!"[25]
Vicious' chaotic relationship with girlfriend Nancy Spungen, and his worsening heroin addiction, caused a great deal of friction among the band members, particularly with Lydon, whose sarcastic remarks often exacerbated the situation. Lydon closed the final Sid Vicious-era Sex Pistols concert in San Francisco's Winterland in January 1978 with a rhetorical question to the audience: "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" Shortly thereafter, McLaren, Jones, and Cook went to Brazil to meet and record with former train robber Ronnie Biggs. Lydon declined to go, deriding the concept as a whole and feeling that they were attempting to make a hero out of a criminal who attacked a train driver and stole "working-class money".[citation needed]
The Sex Pistols' disintegration was documented in Julian Temple's satirical pseudo-biographical film, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, in which Jones, Cook and Vicious each played a character. Matlock only appeared in previously-recorded live footage and as an animation and did not participate personally. Lydon refused to have anything to do with The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, feeling that McLaren had far too much control over the project. Although Lydon was highly critical of the film, many years later he agreed to let Temple direct the Sex Pistols documentary The Filth and the Fury. That film included new interviews with the band members' faces hidden in silhouette. It featured an uncharacteristically emotional Lydon choking up as he discussed Vicious' decline and death. Lydon denounced previous journalistic works regarding the Sex Pistols in the introduction to his autobiography, Rotten – No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, which he described as "as close to the truth as one can get".[26]
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Main article: Public Image Ltd
In 1978, Lydon formed the post-punk outfit Public Image Limited (PiL). PiL lasted for 14 years with Lydon as the only consistent member. The group enjoyed some early critical acclaim for its 1979 album, Metal Box (a.k.a. Second Edition), and influenced many bands of the later industrial movement. The band was lauded for its innovation and rejection of traditional musical forms. Musicians citing their influence have ranged from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Massive Attack.[citation needed]
The first lineup of the band included bassist Jah Wobble and former Clash guitarist Keith Levene. They released the albums Public Image (also known as First Issue), Metal Box and Paris in the Spring (live). Wobble then left and Lydon and Levene made The Flowers of Romance. Then came This Is What You Want...This Is What You Get featuring Martin Atkins on drums (he had also appeared on Metal Box and The Flowers of Romance); it featured their biggest hit, "This Is Not A Love Song", which hit No. 5 in 1983.
In 1983, Lydon co-starred with Harvey Keitel in the movie thriller Corrupt, a.k.a. Copkiller and The Order of Death. While the film was generally panned, Lydon won some praise for his role as a psychotic rich boy. Lydon would act again occasionally after that, such as a very small role in the 2000 film, The Independent, and as the host of the skateboard film, Sorry, featuring the Flip Skate Team.
In 1984, Lydon worked with Time Zone on their best-known single, "World Destruction". A collaboration between Lydon, Afrika Bambaataa and producer/bassist Bill Laswell, the single was an early example of "rap rock", along with Run-DMC. The song appears on Afrika Bambaataa's 1997 compilation album, Zulu Groove. It was arranged by Laswell after Lydon and Bambaataa had acknowledged respect for each others' work, as described in an interview from 1984:
- Afrika Bambaataa: "I was talking to Bill Laswell saying I need somebody who's really crazy, man, and he thought of John Lydon. I knew he was perfect because I'd seen this movie that he'd made (Corrupt, a.k.a. Copkiller and The Order of Death), I knew about all the Sex Pistols and Public Image stuff, so we got together and we did a smashing crazy version, and a version where he cussed the Queen something terrible, which was never released."
- John Lydon: "We went in, put a drum beat down on the machine and did the whole thing in about four-and-a-half hours. It was very, very quick."[27]
The single also featured Bernie Worrell, Nicky Skopelitis and Aïyb Dieng, all of whom would later play on PiL's Album; Laswell also played bass and produced. In 1986 Public Image Limited released Album (also known as Compact Disc and Cassette). Most of the tracks on this album were written by Lydon and Bill Laswell. The musicians were session musicians including bassist Jonas Hellborg, guitarist Steve Vai and Cream drummer Ginger Baker. Like the previous album, this also featured a hit, the anti-apartheid anthem "Rise". The band's performance on the dance/concert TV show American Bandstand saw Lydon giving up on lip synching not long into the performance and dancing with audience members instead.[citation needed]
In 1987 a new lineup was formed consisting of Lydon, former Magazine, Siouxsie & The Banshees and The Armoury Show guitarist John McGeoch, Allan Dias on bass guitar in addition to drummer Bruce Smith and Lu Edmunds. This lineup released Happy? and all except Lu Edmunds released the album 9 in 1989. In 1992 Lydon, Dias and McGeoch were joined by Curt Bisquera on drums and Gregg Arreguin on rhythm guitar for the album That What Is Not. This album also features the Tower of Power on two songs and Jimmie Wood on harmonica. Lydon, McGeoch and Dias also wrote the song "Criminal" for the movie Point Break. After this album, in 1993, Lydon put PiL on indefinite hiatus.
1993–2006: solo album, autobiography and celebrity status[link]
In 1993, Lydon's first autobiography, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, was published. Aided by Keith and Kent Zimmerman, and featuring contributions from figures including Paul Cook, Chrissie Hynde, Billy Idol and Don Letts, the work covered his life up until the collapse of the Sex Pistols. Describing the book, he stated that it "is as close to the truth as one can get, looking back on events from the inside. All the people in this book were actually there, and this book is as much their point of view as it is mine. This means contradictions and insults have not been edited, and neither have the compliments, if any. I have no time for lies or fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die."[28] In December 2005, Lydon told Q that he is working on a second autobiography to cover the PiL years.[1]
In the mid-1990s, Lydon hosted Rotten Day, a daily syndicated US radio feature written by George Gimarc. The format of the show was a look back at events in popular music and culture occurring on the particular broadcast calendar date about which Lydon would offer cynical commentary. The show was originally developed as a radio vehicle for Gimarc's book, Punk Diary 1970–79, but after bringing Lydon onboard it was expanded to cover notable events from most of the second half of the 20th century.
In 1997 Lydon released a solo album on Virgin Records called Psycho's Path. He wrote all the songs and played all the instruments. In one song, "Sun", he sang the vocals through a toilet roll.[29] It did not sell particularly well and received mixed reviews from critics. The US version included a Chemical Brothers remix of the song "Open Up" by Leftfield with vocals by Lydon. This song is heard during the title menu of the computer game All Star Baseball 2000 (Acclaim Entertainment). The song was also a club hit in the US and a big hit in England. John Lydon has recorded a second solo-album but it has not been released. One song from the album was released on The Best of British £1 Notes.
In November 1997, Lydon appeared on Judge Judy fighting a suit filed by his former tour drummer Robert Williams for breach of contract, assault and battery.[30] Lydon won the case, although Judge Judy Sheindlin was not overly impressed with Lydon's antics and told him to keep quiet several times.
In 2000, Lydon hosted Rotten TV, a short-lived show on VH1. The show offered his acerbic commentary on American politics and pop culture. In one segment he attempted to take Neil Young to task for not appearing on the show, making fun of Young's singing style and pointing out that Young had once proclaimed Johnny Rotten "the king" in the song "Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)".
In 2003 Lydon appeared as a panelist on an episode of Richard Belzer's ill-fated conspiracy-themed panel show, The Belzer Connection. The episode in question posed the query, "Was there a conspiracy involved in the death of Princess Diana?" For his part, Lydon responded to suggestions of British Royal Family involvement by proclaiming "If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago." The series ran for only two episodes.[citation needed]
In January 2004, Lydon appeared on the British reality television programme, I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, which took place in Australia. He proved he still had the capability to shock by calling the show's viewers "fucking cunts" during a live broadcast. The television regulator and ITV, the channel broadcasting the show, between them received 91 complaints about Lydon's language.[31]
In a February 2004 interview with the Scottish Sunday Mirror, Lydon said that he and his wife "should be dead", since on 21 December 1988, thanks to delays caused by his wife's packing, they missed the doomed Pan Am Flight 103.[32] During this interview, Lydon said that the real reason for him leaving Get Me Out of Here! was his fear over the Pan Am incident and the "appalling" refusal of the programme makers to let him know whether his wife had arrived safely in Australia. In an interview previous to the show's first episode, he had described it as "moronic", and throughout the show's run he had displayed an indifferent attitude to staying and threatened to walk out on numerous occasions. Thirty hours following ex-football star Neil Ruddock's departure, Lydon left the show for unclear reasons, although he had been very visibly angry both to and about fellow star Jordan. British newspapers claimed that Lydon had won a £100 bet with Ruddock over who would stay in the longest. Lydon, however, stated on air that he felt he would win outright and that it would be unfair to the other celebrities for him to win.
After I'm a Celebrity..., he presented a documentary about insects and spiders called John Lydon's Megabugs that was shown on the Discovery Channel.[33] Radio Times described him as "more an enthusiast than an expert". He went to present two further programmes: John Lydon Goes Ape in which he searched for gorillas in Central Africa, and John Lydon's Shark Attack in which he swam with sharks off South Africa.
In 2005, he appeared in Reynebeau & Rotten, a five episode documentary on Canvas, the cultural channel of the Flemish public broadcaster VRT, in which Lydon guided Belgian journalist Marc Reynebeau through Great Britain in a chauffeured Rolls Royce, having a go at things typically 'British'. When asked why he was chosen as a guide, he answered that he was the cheapest one available. After the show had been broadcast, Lydon claimed in an interview with the popular Belgian magazine HUMO that he was very unhappy with the way they handled post-production and was very angry with the way they depicted him in this particular show. He claimed that the creators mainly showed his humorous, sometimes clownish antics, instead of focusing on his personal opinions and arguably philosophical conversations he had with Marc Reynebeau. Lydon was reportedly infuriated that the production company used songs from the Sex Pistols' catalogue, without consulting all the remaining members of the band, including him.[citation needed]
Lydon broadcast a short pod on Current TV in which he critiqued The Doors' keyboardist Ray Manzarek's previously broadcast pod. Manzarek's advice to young people had been to "fuck your brains out." He emphasised this especially for 25-year-old women, saying that "it won't last." Lydon had several choice words for Manzarek and told young people that the best thing they could do was get an education because knowledge is free. In late 2008 Lydon appeared in an advertising campaign for "Country Life", a popular brand of butter, on British television. Lydon was widely mocked as a sell-out for this move.[34]
Lydon defended the move by stating that the main reason he accepted the offer was to raise money to reform Public Image Limited from the ground-up without a record deal. The advertising campaign proved to be highly successful, with sales of the brand raising 85% in the quarter following, which many in the media attributed to Lydon's presence in the advert.[35]
2006–2009: Sex Pistols revival[link]
Although Lydon spent years furiously denying that the Sex Pistols would ever perform together again, the band re-united (with Matlock returning on bass) in the 1990s, and continues to perform occasionally. In 2004, Lydon publicly refused to allow the Rhino record label to include any Sex Pistols songs on its box set No Thanks!: The 70s Punk Rebellion. In 2006, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Sex Pistols, but the band refused to attend the ceremony or acknowledge the induction, complaining that they had been asked for large sums of money to attend[36] and stating that it went against everything the band stood for.
In June 2007, Lydon, Jones and Cook re-recorded "Pretty Vacant" in a Los Angeles studio for the video game Skate and, in a radio interview in the same month, Lydon announced that the Sex Pistols may perform again over the Christmas period. They also re-recorded "Anarchy in the UK" for the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. In September 2007, Lydon announced that the Sex Pistols would play a concert for the 30th anniversary of Never Mind the Bollocks at the Brixton Academy in London on 8 November 2007. Due to popular demand,[citation needed] four additional concerts were added, as well as further shows in Manchester and Glasgow. The Sex Pistols appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival 2008 as the headlining act on Saturday night. They also appeared at the Peace and Love Festival (Sweden), Electric Picnic (Ireland), Lokerse Feesten festival in Lokeren (Belgium), the Live at Loch Lomond Festival (Scotland), Heineken Open'er Festival (Gdynia, Poland), Paredes de Coura Festival (Portugal), Traffic Free Festival (Turin, Italy), SZIGET Fesztival (Budapest, Hungary) and EXIT festival (Serbia), the same summer.[citation needed]
2009–present PiL reformation[link]
In September 2009 it was announced that PiL would reform, including earlier members Bruce Smith and Lu Edmonds, for a number of Christmas shows in the UK.[37] Lydon financed the reunion using money he earned doing a UK TV commercial for Country Life butter. "The money that I earned from that has now gone completely—lock stock and barrel—into reforming PiL,"[38] said Lydon.
Controversies[link]
2008 Ritz Carlton Hotel incident[link]
On 23 January 2008 Lydon was reportedly involved in a string of offences, including sexual harrassment, physical assault and battery in Marina del Rey.[39] Roxane Davis, who was a talent producer for the television program Bodog Battle Of The Bands, claimed that she was punched in the face by Lydon after being shouted at and called a "cunt" several times.[39]
Lydon was one of three celebrity judges appearing on the reality show and Davis was responsible for "handling" them. According to the story appearing in the Belfast Telegraph, Lydon first refused accommodation at the Radisson hotel, stating it was sub-standard. After he and his personal assistant were relocated to the Ritz Carlton, Lydon reportedly became infuriated with the hotel staff after he was given a room lacking an interior connecting door to his assistant's room.[39] According to the lawsuit, Davis heard Lydon screaming at a hotel employee, she approached him and he began screaming at her. After Davis apologised, Lydon and his assistant began screaming sexual epithets and obscene insults at Davis, and Lydon then punched her in the face.[39] Davis reportedly initiated legal action on 19 causes of action, including retaliation, wrongful termination, assault and battery.[39] Davis sued in June 2008 and filed an amended version about four months later. On 28 January 2010, however, Davis's lawyers filed papers in Los Angeles Superior Court stating that the case was resolved, although no terms were divulged.[40]
2008 Summercase incident[link]
Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke claims he was left with severe facial bruising and a split lip following what he alleges was a verbal and physical racist assault by three members of Lydon's entourage. The incident occurred on the evening of 19 July 2008 at the Summercase festival in Barcelona while the bands were socialising backstage.[41] In a statement to NME, Lydon denied the allegations of his involvement in this assault.[42] After the report, Super Furry Animals lead singer Gruff Rhys came forward in support of Okereke's claim, saying "the statements Kele has said are absolutely true, it did happen."[43]
A British tabloid accused Lydon of racism due to the incident, something he strongly denied during an appearance on The One Show, claiming that they were "atrocious" and "hurtful". He went on to say that:
| “ | My grandchildren are Jamaican, right. This is an absolute offence to them and me when I read stories like that, that are allowed to go to print absolutely unfounded and have the liberty to take liberties with a man like me and call me a racist when my entire life has proved exactly the opposite. | ” |
He went on to say, when asked if he was racist, that:
| “ | Absolutely not. And any bugger that dares say so is going to have their day in court with me—you understand this?[44] | ” |
2008 Duffy incident[link]
At the 2008 MoJo awards ceremony, Welsh singer Duffy attempted to say hello to Lydon when, according to her; "I was literally slammed against the wall, pinned by his arm at my throat. He called me a cunt."[45] Other reports indicate a slightly different scenario, that Lydon "was being interviewed and he had his back to (the) door and she banged into him and then grabbed him. He then turned round in no uncertain terms to tell her to back off him".[46] Lydon later claimed he had not realised who Duffy was, saying; "people are trying to pin something on me. I don't know who this Duffy person is, or why she'd want to get publicity from this. I was doing an interview and she came up behind me—I didn't see anything. I've been with my wife for 30 years and I've been brought up to be polite and have respect for people, especially women."[47]
Adam Sherwin of The Times, witnessed the incident and has given an account which differs from that offered by Lydon, placing the blame for the physical assault on Lydon's personal assistant.[48]
2010 performing in Israel[link]
Lydon played with Public Image Ltd in Tel Aviv, Israel, in August 2010. He refused to accept calls for him not to go to Israel.[49][50]
| “ | I really resent the presumption that I'm going there to play to right-wing Nazi Jews. If Elvis-fucking-Costello wants to pull out of a gig in Israel because he's suddenly got this compassion for Palestinians, then good on him. But I have absolutely one rule, right? Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated. | ” |
Lydon has also commented:
| “ | I will play to the people. I don't play to the Government of anything... I'm playing to human beings, and to deny me that right and turn music into some kind of political joystick is quite repulsive to me, and really, really wrong. And hello, Arab countries, you ain't inviting me. I've got no prejudices playing both sides of those borders. Of course, there are all sorts of terrible politics going on down there but there is just about all over the world. You cannot separate yourself from your audience because of the political powers-that-be. I mean, I'm anti-government—I have been all my life no matter where I go—and I shall be making that loud and clearly proud once I'm in Israel. We've received a lot of hate mail, as it happens, going to Israel is some kind of political faux pas. I say, 'Don't be so ignorant – it's John speaking here and I'm going there to cause trouble and I will do it musically. | ” |
Origin of Johnny Rotten stage name[link]
The origin of John Lydon's stage name, Johnny Rotten, has had two longstanding explanations. One, given in a Daily Telegraph feature interview with Lydon in 2007, was that he was given the name in the mid 1970s, when his lack of oral hygiene led to his teeth turning green.[52] Another story says the name was given to him by Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, who saw Lydon's teeth and exclaimed, "You're rotten, you are!"[53]
In 2008, however, Lydon had extensive dental work performed in Los Angeles, at a reported cost of US $22,000. Lydon explained that it wasn't done out of vanity: "It was necessity ... all those rotten teeth were seriously beginning to corrupt my system".[54]
Personal life[link]
Lydon is married to Nora Forster, a publishing heiress from Germany.[55] He is the stepfather of Forster's daughter, Ari Up, who herself had been the lead singer in the post-punk band The Slits before her death in 2010. Lydon resides in Los Angeles, California.[52] Lydon's parents raised him and his brothers in the Roman Catholic faith, but he "never had any godlike epiphanies or thought that God had anything to do with this dismal occurrence called life."[56]
Lydon has been a fan of Oscar Wilde since he studied his works at school, when he came to the conclusion that "his stuff was fucking brilliant. What an attitude to life!… He turned out to be the biggest poof on earth at a time when that was completely unacceptable. What a genius."[15]
Political and social criticism[link]
Ever since his rise to public attention, Lydon has remained a critic of much in British politics and society. Coming from a working class background, he has remained heavily opposed to the class system, describing how private schools "tend to turn out little snobs. They're taught a sense of superiority, which is the kiss of death… They're absolutely screwed up for life."[57] He is critical of the upper classes, stating that they "parasite off the population as their friends help them along", but he equally criticises the working classes, claiming that "We're lazy, good-for-nothing bastards, absolute cop-outs [who] never accept responsibility for our own lives and that's why we'll always be downtrodden."[58] He opposes all forms of segregation in schools, not only through the private and state school division, but also with single-sex schools; "It doesn't make sense. It's a much better environment with girls in the class. You learn a lot more, as diversity makes things more interesting."[59]
He has also criticised the paramilitary organisations involved in the Northern Ireland conflict, remarking that both the Irish Republican Army and the Ulster Defence Association were "like two mafia gangs punching each other out… They both run their extortion rackets and plague people to no end." He remarked that "The Northern Ireland problem is a terrible thing, and its only the ignorance of the people living outside of it that keeps it going", but that ultimately the British government's exploitative attitude to the problem was in his opinion the main cause.[60]
Discography[link]
All chart positions are UK.
Sex Pistols[link]
Studio albums
- Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (Virgin, 1977) Platinum No. 1
Compilations and live albums
- Flogging a Dead Horse (Virgin,1979)
- The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (Virgin, 1979)
- Some Product: Carri On Sex Pistols (Virgin, 1979)
- Kiss This (Virgin, 1992)
- Never Mind the Bollocks / Spunk (aka This is Crap) (Virgin, 1996)
- Filthy Lucre Live (Virgin, 1996)
- The Filth and the Fury (Virgin, 2000)
- Jubilee (Virgin, 2002)
- Sex Pistols Box Set (Virgin, 2002)
Singles
- "Anarchy in the UK" – 1976 No. 38
- "God Save the Queen" – 1977 No. 2
- "Pretty Vacant" – 1977 No. 6
- "Holidays in the Sun" – 1977 No. 8
- "(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone" – 1980 No. 21
- "Anarchy in the UK" (re-issue) – 1992 No. 33
- "Pretty Vacant" (live) – 1996 No. 18
- "God Save the Queen" (re-issue) – 2002 No. 15
Public Image Ltd.[link]
Studio albums
- First Issue (Virgin, 1978), No. 22
- Metal Box (a.k.a. Second Edition) (Virgin, 1979) #18, US No. 171
- Flowers of Romance (Virgin, 1981) #11, US No. 114
- Commercial Zone (PiL Records, 1983)
- This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get (Virgin, 1984)
- Album (Virgin, 1986)
- Happy? (Virgin, 1987)
- 9 (Virgin, 1989)
- That What Is Not (Virgin, 1992)
- This Is PiL (PiL Official, 2012)
Compilations and live albums
- Paris in the Spring (Paris au Printemps) (Virgin, 1980)
- Live in Tokyo (Virgin, 1983)
- The Greatest Hits, So Far (Virgin, 1990)
Singles
- "Public Image" – 1978 No. 9
- "Death Disco" – 1979 No. 20
- "Memories" – 1979 No. 60
- "Flowers of Romance" – 1981 No. 24
- "This Is Not a Love Song" – 1983 No. 5
- "Bad Life" – 1984 No. 71
- "Rise" – 1986 No. 11
- "Home" – 1986 No. 75
- "Seattle" – 1987 No. 47
- "The Body" – 1987 No. 100
- "Disappointed" – 1989 No. 38
- "Don't Ask Me" – 1990 No. 22
- "Cruel" – 1992 No. 49
- "One Drop" – 2012
The Lydons and The O'Donnells[link]
Studio albums
- Family Album (MBC records, 1986)
Time Zone[link]
Single
- "World Destruction" – 1984
Solo[link]
Studio albums
- Psycho's Path (Virgin, 1997)
Compilations
- The Best of British £1 Notes (Lydon, PiL & Sex Pistols) (Virgin/EMI, 2005)
Singles
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| Born | Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (1905-02-02)February 2, 1905 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | March 6, 1982(1982-03-06) (aged 77) New York City, United States |
| Resting place | Kensico Cemetery |
| Occupation | Philosopher, writer |
| Language | English |
| Ethnicity | Russian Jew |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Petrograd State University |
| Period | 1934–1982 |
| Subjects | Philosophy |
| Notable work(s) | The Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged |
| Notable award(s) | Prometheus Award – Hall of Fame 1983 Atlas Shrugged 1987 Anthem |
| Spouse(s) | Frank O'Connor (m. 1929-1979, his death) |
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Ayn Rand ( /ˈaɪn ˈrænd/;[1] born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher,[2] playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism.
Born and educated in Russia, Rand moved to the United States in 1926. She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two initially unsuccessful early novels, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel The Fountainhead. In 1957, she published her best-known work, the philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward she turned to nonfiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own magazines and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982.
Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected all forms of faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism, and rejected ethical altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral and opposed all forms of collectivism and statism, instead supporting laissez-faire capitalism, which she believed was the only social system that protected individual rights. She promoted romantic realism in art. She was sharply critical of the philosophers and philosophical traditions known to her besides Aristotle.
Rand's fiction was poorly received by many literary critics,[3] and academia generally ignored or rejected her philosophy. The Objectivist movement attempts to spread her ideas, both to the public and in academic settings.[4] She is a major influence among libertarians and American conservatives.
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Early life[link]
Rand was born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (Russian: Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум) on February 2, 1905, to a bourgeois family living in Saint Petersburg. She was the eldest of the three daughters of Zinovy Zakharovich Rosenbaum and Anna Borisovna Rosenbaum, largely non-observant Jews. Rand's father was a successful pharmacist, eventually owning a pharmacy and the building in which it was located.[5] Rand was twelve at the time of the Russian Revolution of 1917, during which her sympathies were with Alexander Kerensky. Rand's family life was disrupted by the rise of the Bolshevik party under Vladimir Lenin. Her father's pharmacy was confiscated by the Bolsheviks, and the family fled to the Crimea, which was initially under the control of the White Army during the Russian Civil War. She later recalled that while in high school she determined that she was an atheist and that she valued reason above any other human attribute. After graduating from high school in the Crimea, at 16 Rand returned with her family to Petrograd (the new name for Saint Petersburg), where they faced desperate conditions, on occasion nearly starving.[6][7]
After the Russian Revolution, universities were opened to women, including Jews, allowing Rand to be in the first group of women to enroll at Petrograd State University,[8] where she studied in the department of social pedagogy, majoring in history.[9] At the university she was introduced to the writings of Aristotle and Plato,[10] who would form two of her greatest influences and counter-influences, respectively.[11] A third figure whose philosophical works she studied heavily was Friedrich Nietzsche.[12] Able to read French, German and Russian, Rand also discovered the writers Fyodor Dostoevsky, Victor Hugo, Edmond Rostand, and Friedrich Schiller, who became her perennial favorites.[13]
Along with many other "bourgeois" students, Rand was purged from the university shortly before graduating. However, after complaints from a group of visiting foreign scientists, many of the purged students were allowed to complete their work and graduate,[14] which Rand did in October 1924.[15] She subsequently studied for a year at the State Technicum for Screen Arts in Leningrad. For one of her assignments, she wrote an essay about the actress Pola Negri, which became her first published work.[16]
By this time she had decided her professional surname for writing would be Rand,[17] possibly as a Cyrillic contraction of her birth surname,[18] and she adopted the first name Ayn, either from a Finnish name or from the Hebrew word עין (ayin, meaning "eye").[19]
In the fall of 1925, Rand was granted a visa to visit American relatives. Rand was so impressed with the skyline of Manhattan upon her arrival in New York Harbor that she cried what she later called "tears of splendor".[20] Intent on staying in the United States to become a screenwriter, she lived for a few months with relatives in Chicago, one of whom owned a movie theater and allowed her to watch dozens of films for free. She then set out for Hollywood, California.[21]
Initially, Rand struggled in Hollywood and took odd jobs to pay her basic living expenses. A chance meeting with famed director Cecil B. DeMille led to a job as an extra in his film, The King of Kings, and to subsequent work as a junior screenwriter.[22] While working on The King of Kings, she met an aspiring young actor, Frank O'Connor; the two were married on April 15, 1929. Rand became an American citizen in 1931. Taking various jobs during the 1930s to support her writing, Rand worked for a time as the head of the costume department at RKO Studios.[23] She made several attempts to bring her parents and sisters to the United States, but they were unable to acquire permission to emigrate.[24]
Early fiction[link]
Rand's first literary success came with the sale of her screenplay Red Pawn to Universal Studios in 1932, although it was never produced.[25] This was followed by the courtroom drama Night of January 16th, first produced by E.E. Clive in Hollywood in 1934 and then successfully reopened on Broadway in 1935. Each night the "jury" was selected from members of the audience, and one of the two different endings, depending on the jury's "verdict", would then be performed.[26] In 1941, Paramount Pictures produced a movie version of the play. Rand did not participate in the production and was highly critical of the result.[27]
Rand's first novel, the semi-autobiographical We the Living, was published in 1936. Set in Soviet Russia, it focused on the struggle between the individual and the state. In a 1959 foreword to the novel, Rand stated that We the Living "is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write. It is not an autobiography in the literal, but only in the intellectual sense. The plot is invented, the background is not..."[28] Initial sales were slow and the American publisher let it go out of print,[29] although European editions continued to sell.[30] After the success of her later novels, Rand was able to release a revised version in 1959 that has since sold over three million copies.[31] Without Rand's knowledge or permission, the novel was made into a pair of Italian films, Noi vivi and Addio, Kira, in 1942. Rediscovered in the 1960s, these films were re-edited into a new version which was approved by Rand and re-released as We the Living in 1986.[32]
Her novella Anthem was written during a break from the writing of her next major novel, The Fountainhead. It presents a vision of a dystopian future world in which totalitarian collectivism has triumphed to such an extent that even the word 'I' has been forgotten and replaced with 'we'.[33] It was published in England in 1938, but Rand initially could not find an American publisher. As with We the Living, Rand's later success allowed her to get a revised version published in 1946, which has sold more than 3.5 million copies.[34]
[edit] The Fountainhead and political activism
See also: The Fountainhead and The Fountainhead (film)
During the 1940s, Rand became politically active. Both she and her husband worked full time in volunteer positions for the 1940 Presidential campaign of Republican Wendell Willkie. This work led to Rand's first public speaking experiences, including fielding the sometimes hostile questions from New York City audiences who had just viewed pro-Willkie newsreels, an experience she greatly enjoyed.[35] This activity also brought her into contact with other intellectuals sympathetic to free-market capitalism. She became friends with journalist Henry Hazlitt and his wife, and Hazlitt introduced her to the Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises. Despite her philosophical differences with them, Rand strongly endorsed the writings of both men throughout her career, and both of them expressed admiration for her. Once von Mises referred to Rand as "the most courageous man in America," a compliment that particularly pleased her because he said "man" instead of "woman."[36] Rand also developed a friendship with libertarian writer Isabel Paterson. Rand questioned the well-informed Paterson about American history and politics long into the night during their numerous meetings and gave Paterson ideas for her only nonfiction book, The God of the Machine.[37]
Rand's first major success as a writer came with The Fountainhead in 1943, a romantic and philosophical novel that she wrote over a period of seven years.[38] The novel centers on an uncompromising young architect named Howard Roark and his struggle against what Rand described as "second-handers"—those who attempt to live through others, placing others above self. It was rejected by twelve publishers before finally being accepted by the Bobbs-Merrill Company on the insistence of editor Archibald Ogden, who threatened to quit if his employer did not publish it.[39] While completing the novel, Rand was prescribed the amphetamine Benzedrine to fight fatigue.[40] The drug helped her to work long hours to meet her deadline for delivering the finished novel, but when the book was done, she was so exhausted that her doctor ordered two weeks' rest.[41] Her continued use of the drug for a number of years may have contributed to what some of her later associates described as volatile mood swings.[42]
The Fountainhead eventually became a worldwide success, bringing Rand fame and financial security.[43] In 1943, Rand sold the rights for a film version to Warner Bros., and she returned to Hollywood to write the screenplay. Finishing her work on that screenplay, she was hired by producer Hal Wallis as a screenwriter and script-doctor. Her work for Wallis included the screenplays for the Oscar-nominated Love Letters and You Came Along.[44] This role gave Rand time to work on other projects, including a planned nonfiction treatment of her philosophy to be called The Moral Basis of Individualism. Although the planned book was never completed, a condensed version was published as an essay titled "The Only Path to Tomorrow", in the January 1944 edition of Reader's Digest magazine.[45]
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While working in Hollywood, Rand extended her involvement with free-market and anti-communist activism. She became involved with the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a Hollywood anti-Communist group, and wrote articles on the group's behalf. She also joined the anti-Communist American Writers Association.[46] A visit by Isabel Paterson to meet with Rand's California associates led to a final falling out between the two when Paterson made comments that Rand saw as rude to valued political allies.[47] In 1947, during the Second Red Scare, Rand testified as a "friendly witness" before the United States House Un-American Activities Committee. Her testimony described the disparity between her personal experiences in the Soviet Union and the portrayal of it in the 1944 film Song of Russia.[48] Rand argued that the film grossly misrepresented conditions in the Soviet Union, portraying life there as being much better and happier than it actually was.[49] When asked about her feelings on the effectiveness of the investigations after the hearings, Rand described the process as "futile".[50]
After several delays, the film version of The Fountainhead was released in 1949. Although it used Rand's screenplay with minimal alterations, she "disliked the movie from beginning to end," complaining about its editing, acting, and other elements.[51]
[edit] Atlas Shrugged and Objectivism
After the publication of The Fountainhead, Rand received numerous letters from readers, some of whom it had profoundly influenced. In 1951 Rand moved from Los Angeles to New York City, where she gathered a group of these admirers around her. This group (jokingly designated "The Collective") included future Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, a young psychology student named Nathan Blumenthal (later Nathaniel Branden) and his wife Barbara, and Barbara's cousin Leonard Peikoff. At first the group was an informal gathering of friends who met with Rand on weekends at her apartment to discuss philosophy. Later she began allowing them to read the drafts of her new novel, Atlas Shrugged, as the manuscript pages were written. In 1954 Rand's close relationship with the much younger Nathaniel Branden turned into a romantic affair, with the consent of their spouses.[52]
Atlas Shrugged, published in 1957, was Rand's magnum opus.[53] Rand described the theme of the novel as "the role of the mind in man's existence—and, as a corollary, the demonstration of a new moral philosophy: the morality of rational self-interest."[54] It advocates the core tenets of Rand's philosophy of Objectivism and expresses her concept of human achievement. The plot involves a dystopian United States in which the most creative industrialists, scientists and artists go on strike and retreat to a mountainous hideaway where they build an independent free economy. The novel's hero and leader of the strike, John Galt, describes the strike as "stopping the motor of the world" by withdrawing the minds of the individuals most contributing to the nation's wealth and achievement. With this fictional strike, Rand intended to illustrate that without the efforts of the rational and productive, the economy would collapse and society would fall apart. The novel includes elements of mystery and science fiction,[55] and it contains Rand's most extensive statement of Objectivism in any of her works of fiction, a lengthy monologue delivered by Galt. Atlas Shrugged became an international bestseller, and in an interview with Mike Wallace, Rand declared herself "the most creative thinker alive."[56] Atlas Shrugged was to be Rand's last work of fiction; a turning point in her life, it marked the end of Rand's career as a novelist and the beginning of her role as a popular philosopher.[57] After completing the novel of more than one thousand pages, however, Rand fell into a severe depression that may have been aggravated by her use of prescription amphetamines.[58]
In 1958 Nathaniel Branden established Nathaniel Branden Lectures, later incorporated as the Nathaniel Branden Institute (NBI), to promote Rand's philosophy. Collective members gave lectures for NBI and wrote articles for Objectivist periodicals that she edited. Rand later published some of these articles in book form. Critics, including some former NBI students and Branden himself, have described the culture of NBI as one of intellectual conformity and excessive reverence for Rand, with some describing NBI or the entire Objectivist movement as a cult or religion.[59] Rand expressed opinions on a wide range of topics, including literature, music, sexuality, even facial hair, and some of her followers mimicked all her preferences, wearing clothes to match characters from her novels and buying furniture like hers.[60] Rand was unimpressed with many of the NBI students[61] and held them to strict standards, sometimes reacting coldly or angrily to those who disagreed with her.[62] However, some former NBI students believe the extent of these behaviors has been exaggerated, with the problem being concentrated among Rand's closest followers in New York.[63]
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Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Rand developed and promoted her Objectivist philosophy through her nonfiction works and by giving talks to students at institutions such as Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University,[64] Harvard University and MIT.[65] She received an honorary doctorate from Lewis & Clark College in 1963.[66] She also began delivering annual lectures at the Ford Hall Forum, responding afterward to questions from the audience.[67] During these speeches and Q&A sessions, she often took controversial stances on political and social issues of the day. These included supporting abortion rights,[68] opposing the Vietnam War and the military draft (but condemning many draft dodgers as "bums"),[69] supporting Israel in the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 as "civilized men fighting savages",[70] saying European colonists had the right to take land from American Indians,[71] and calling homosexuality "immoral" and "disgusting", while also advocating the repeal of all laws against it.[72] She also endorsed several Republican candidates for President of the United States, most strongly Barry Goldwater in 1964, whose candidacy she promoted in several articles for The Objectivist Newsletter.[73]
In 1964 Nathaniel Branden began an affair with the young actress Patrecia Scott, whom he later married. Nathaniel and Barbara Branden kept the affair hidden from Rand. When she learned of it in 1968, though her romantic relationship with Branden had already ended,[74] Rand terminated her relationship with both Brandens, which led to the closure of NBI.[75] Rand published an article in The Objectivist repudiating Nathaniel Branden for dishonesty and other "irrational behavior in his private life."[76] Branden later apologized in an interview to "every student of Objectivism" for "perpetuating the Ayn Rand mystique" and for "contributing to that dreadful atmosphere of intellectual repressiveness that pervades the Objectivist movement."[77] In subsequent years, several more of her closest associates parted company with her.[78]
Rand underwent surgery for lung cancer in 1974 after decades of heavy smoking.[79] In 1976 she retired from writing her newsletter and, despite her initial objections, reluctantly allowed Evva Pryor, a consultant from her attorney's office, to sign her up for Social Security and Medicare.[80] During the late 1970s her activities within the Objectivist movement declined, especially after the death of her husband on November 9, 1979.[81] One of her final projects was work on a never-completed television adaptation of Atlas Shrugged.[82]
Rand died of heart failure on March 6, 1982, at her home in New York City,[83] and was interred in the Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.[84] Rand's funeral was attended by some of her prominent followers, including Alan Greenspan. A six-foot floral arrangement in the shape of a dollar sign was placed near her casket.[85] In her will, Rand named Leonard Peikoff the heir to her estate.[86]
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Main article: Objectivism (Ayn Rand)
Rand called her philosophy "Objectivism", describing its essence as "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."[87] She considered Objectivism a systematic philosophy and laid out positions on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy and esthetics.[88]
In metaphysics, Rand supported philosophical realism, and opposed anything she regarded as mysticism or supernaturalism, including all forms of religion.[89] In epistemology, she considered all knowledge to be based on sense perception, the validity of which she considered axiomatic,[90] and reason, which she described as "the faculty that identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses."[91] She rejected all claims of non-perceptual or a priori knowledge, including "'instinct,' 'intuition,' 'revelation,' or any form of 'just knowing.'"[92] In her Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, Rand presented a theory of concept formation and endorsed the rejection of the analytic–synthetic dichotomy.[93]
In ethics, Rand argued for rational egoism (rational self-interest), as the guiding moral principle. She said the individual should "exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself."[94] She referred to egoism as "the virtue of selfishness" in her book of that title,[95] in which she presented her solution to the is-ought problem by describing a meta-ethical theory that based morality in the needs of "man's survival qua man".[96] She condemned ethical altruism as incompatible with the requirements of human life and happiness,[97] and held that the initiation of force was evil and irrational, writing in Atlas Shrugged that "Force and mind are opposites".[98]
Rand's political philosophy emphasized individual rights (including property rights),[99] and she considered laissez-faire capitalism the only moral social system because in her view it was the only system based on the protection of those rights.[100] She opposed statism, which she understood to include theocracy, absolute monarchy, Nazism, fascism, communism, democratic socialism, and dictatorship.[101] Rand believed that rights should be enforced by a constitutionally limited government.[102] Although her political views are often classified as conservative or libertarian, she preferred the term "radical for capitalism". She worked with conservatives on political projects, but disagreed with them over issues such as religion and ethics.[103] She denounced libertarianism, which she associated with anarchism.[104] She rejected anarchism as a naïve theory based in subjectivism that could only lead to collectivism in practice.[105]
Rand's esthetics defined art as a "selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments." According to Rand, art allows philosophical concepts to be presented in a concrete form that can be easily grasped, thereby fulfilling a need of human consciousness.[106] As a writer, the art form Rand focused on most closely was literature, where she considered Romanticism to be the approach that most accurately reflected the existence of human free will.[107] She described her own approach to literature as "romantic realism".[108]
Rand acknowledged Aristotle as her greatest influence[109] and remarked that in the history of philosophy she could only recommend "three A's"—Aristotle, Aquinas, and Ayn Rand.[110] She also found early inspiration in Friedrich Nietzsche,[111] and scholars have found indications of his influence in early notes from Rand's journals,[112] in passages from the first edition of We the Living (which Rand later revised),[113] and in her overall writing style.[114] However, by the time she wrote The Fountainhead, Rand had turned against Nietzsche's ideas,[115] and the extent of his influence on her even during her early years is disputed.[116] Among the philosophers Rand held in particular disdain was Immanuel Kant, whom she referred to as a "monster",[117] although philosophers George Walsh[118] and Fred Seddon[119] have argued that she misinterpreted Kant and exaggerated their differences.
Rand said her most important contributions to philosophy were her "theory of concepts, [her] ethics, and [her] discovery in politics that evil—the violation of rights—consists of the initiation of force."[120] She believed epistemology was a foundational branch of philosophy and considered the advocacy of reason to be the single most significant aspect of her philosophy,[121] stating, "I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows."[122]
Reception and legacy[link]
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During Rand's lifetime, her work evoked both extreme praise and condemnation. Rand's first novel, We the Living, was admired by the literary critic H.L. Mencken,[123] her Broadway play Night of January 16th was both a critical and popular success,[124] and The Fountainhead was hailed by a reviewer in The New York Times as "masterful".[125] Rand's novels were derided by some critics when they were first published as being long and melodramatic.[3] However, they became bestsellers largely through word of mouth.[126]
The first reviews Rand received were for Night of January 16th. Reviews of the production were largely positive, but Rand considered even positive reviews to be embarrassing because of significant changes made to her script by the producer.[124] Rand believed that her first novel, We the Living, was not widely reviewed, but Rand scholar Michael S. Berliner says "it was the most reviewed of any of her works," with approximately 125 different reviews being published in more than 200 publications. Overall these reviews were more positive than the reviews she received for her later work.[127] Her 1938 novella Anthem received little attention from reviewers, both for its first publication in England and for subsequent re-issues.[128]
Rand's first bestseller, The Fountainhead, received far fewer reviews than We the Living, and reviewers' opinions were mixed.[129] There was a positive review in The New York Times that Rand greatly appreciated.[130] The reviewer called Rand "a writer of great power" who wrote "brilliantly, beautifully and bitterly," and stated that "you will not be able to read this masterful book without thinking through some of the basic concepts of our time."[125] There were other positive reviews, but Rand dismissed most of them as either not understanding her message or as being from unimportant publications.[129] Some negative reviews focused on the length of the novel,[3] such as one that called it "a whale of a book" and another that said "anyone who is taken in by it deserves a stern lecture on paper-rationing." Other negative reviews called the characters unsympathetic and Rand's style "offensively pedestrian."[129]
Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged was widely reviewed, and many of the reviews were strongly negative.[3][131] In the National Review, conservative author Whittaker Chambers called the book "sophomoric" and "remarkably silly". He described the tone of the book as "shrillness without reprieve" and accused Rand of supporting a Godless system (which he related to that of the Soviets), claiming "From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: 'To a gas chamber—go!'"[132] Atlas Shrugged received positive reviews from a few publications, including praise from the noted book reviewer John Chamberlain,[131] but Rand scholar Mimi Reisel Gladstein later wrote that "reviewers seemed to vie with each other in a contest to devise the cleverest put-downs," calling it "execrable claptrap" and "a nightmare;" they said it was "written out of hate" and showed "remorseless hectoring and prolixity."[3] Author Flannery O'Connor wrote in a letter to a friend that "The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail."[133]
Rand's nonfiction received far fewer reviews than her novels had. The tenor of the criticism for her first nonfiction book, For the New Intellectual, was similar to that for Atlas Shrugged,[134][135] with philosopher Sidney Hook likening her certainty to "the way philosophy is written in the Soviet Union",[136] and author Gore Vidal calling her viewpoint "nearly perfect in its immorality".[137] Her subsequent books got progressively less attention from reviewers.[134]
On the 100th anniversary of Rand's birth in 2005, Edward Rothstein, writing for The New York Times, referred to her fictional writing as quaint utopian "retro fantasy" and programmatic neo-Romanticism of the misunderstood artist, while criticizing her characters' "isolated rejection of democratic society".[138] In 2007, book critic Leslie Clark described her fiction as "romance novels with a patina of pseudo-philosophy".[139] In 2009, GQ's critic columnist Tom Carson described her books as "capitalism's version of middlebrow religious novels" such as Ben-Hur and the Left Behind series.[140]
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In 1991, a survey conducted for the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club asked club members what the most influential book in the respondent's life was. Rand's Atlas Shrugged was the second most popular choice, after the Bible.[141] Rand's books continue to be widely sold and read, with 25 million copies sold as of 2007[142] and another 800,000 sold in 2008. (This includes approximately 300,000 copies distributed for free by the Ayn Rand Institute.)[143] Although Rand's influence has been greatest in the United States, there has been international interest in her work.[144]
Rand's contemporary admirers included fellow novelists, such as Ira Levin, Kay Nolte Smith and L. Neil Smith, and later writers such as Erika Holzer and Terry Goodkind have been influenced by her.[145] Other artists who have cited Rand as an important influence on their lives and thought include comic book artist Steve Ditko[146] and musician Neil Peart of Rush.[147] Rand provided a positive view of business, and in response business executives and entrepreneurs have admired and promoted her work.[148] John Allison of BB&T and Ed Snider of Comcast Spectacor have funded the promotion of Rand's ideas,[149] while Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and John P. Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, among others, have said they consider Rand crucial to their success.[150]
Rand and her works have been referred to in a variety of media. References to her have appeared on television shows including animated sitcoms, live-action comedies, dramas, and game shows.[151] She, or characters based on her, figure prominently (in positive and negative lights) in literary and science fiction novels by prominent American authors.[152] Nick Gillespie, editor in chief of Reason, has remarked that "Rand's is a tortured immortality, one in which she's as likely to be a punch line as a protagonist..." and that "jibes at Rand as cold and inhuman, run through the popular culture."[153] Two movies have been made about Rand's life. A 1997 documentary film, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Feature.[154] The Passion of Ayn Rand, a 1999 television adaptation of the book of the same name, won several awards.[142] Rand's image also appears on a U.S. postage stamp designed by artist Nick Gaetano.[155]
Political influence[link]
See also: Libertarianism and Objectivism
Although she rejected the labels "conservative" and "libertarian,"[156] Rand has had continuing influence on right-wing politics and libertarianism.[157] Jim Powell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, considers Rand one of the three most important women (along with Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson) of modern American libertarianism,[158] and David Nolan, one of the founders of the Libertarian Party, stated that "without Ayn Rand, the libertarian movement would not exist."[159] In his history of the libertarian movement, journalist Brian Doherty described her as "the most influential libertarian of the twentieth century to the public at large,"[141] and biographer Jennifer Burns referred to her as "the ultimate gateway drug to life on the right."[160]
She faced intense opposition from William F. Buckley, Jr. and other contributors for the National Review magazine. They published numerous attacks in the 1950s and 1960s by Whittaker Chambers, Garry Wills, and M. Stanton Evans. Nevertheless, her influence among conservatives forced Buckley and other National Review contributors to reconsider how traditional notions of virtue and Christianity could be integrated with support for capitalism.[161]
The political figures who cite Rand as an influence are most often members of the United States Republican Party[162] despite Rand being a pro-choice atheist.[163] A 1987 article in The New York Times referred to her as the Reagan administration's "novelist laureate".[164] Republican Congressmen and conservative pundits have acknowledged her influence on their lives and recommended her novels.[165]
The late-2000s financial crisis spurred renewed interest in her works, especially Atlas Shrugged, which some saw as foreshadowing the crisis,[166] and opinion articles compared real-world events with the plot of the novel.[167] During this time, signs mentioning Rand and her fictional hero John Galt appeared at Tea Party protests.[168] There was also increased criticism of her ideas, especially from the political left, with critics blaming the economic crisis on her support of selfishness and free markets, particularly through her influence on Alan Greenspan.[169] For example, Mother Jones remarked that "Rand's particular genius has always been her ability to turn upside down traditional hierarchies and recast the wealthy, the talented, and the powerful as the oppressed",[163] while The Nation alleged similarities between the "moral syntax of Randianism" and fascism.[170]
Academic reaction[link]
During Rand's lifetime her work received little attention from academic scholars.[4] When the first academic book about Rand's philosophy appeared in 1971, its author declared writing about Rand "a treacherous undertaking" that could lead to "guilt by association" for taking her seriously.[171] A few articles about Rand's ideas appeared in academic journals prior to her death in 1982, many of them in The Personalist.[172] One of these was "On the Randian Argument" by respected libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick, who argued that her meta-ethical argument is unsound and fails to solve the is–ought problem posed by David Hume.[173] Some responses to Nozick by other academic philosophers were also published in The Personalist arguing that Nozick misstated Rand's case.[172] Academic consideration of Rand as a literary figure during her life was even more limited. Gladstein was unable to find any scholarly articles about Rand's novels when she began researching her in 1973, and only three such articles appeared during the rest of the 1970s.[174]
Since Rand's death, interest in her work has gradually increased.[175] Historian Jennifer Burns has identified "three overlapping waves" of scholarly interest in Rand, the most recent of which is "an explosion of scholarship" since the year 2000.[176] However, few universities currently include Rand or Objectivism as a philosophical specialty or research area, with many literature and philosophy departments dismissing her as a pop culture phenomenon rather than a subject for serious study.[177]
Academics Mimi Gladstein, Chris Sciabarra, Allan Gotthelf, Edwin A. Locke and Tara Smith have taught her work in academic institutions. Sciabarra co-edits the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, a nonpartisan peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of Rand's philosophical and literary work.[178] In 1987 Gotthelf helped found the Ayn Rand Society, and has been active in sponsoring seminars about Rand and her ideas.[179] Smith has written several academic books and papers on Rand's ideas, including Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist, a volume on Rand's ethical theory published by Cambridge University Press. Rand's ideas have also been made subjects of study at Clemson and Duke universities.[180] Scholars of English and American literature have largely ignored her work,[181] although attention to her literary work has increased since the 1990s.[182]
Some academic philosophers have criticized Rand for what they consider her lack of rigor and limited understanding of philosophical subject matter.[4][95] The Philosophical Lexicon, a satirical web site maintained by philosophers Daniel Dennett and Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen, defines a 'rand' as: "An angry tirade occasioned by mistaking philosophical disagreement for a personal attack and/or evidence of unspeakable moral corruption."[183] Chris Matthew Sciabarra has called into question the motives of some of Rand's critics because of the unusual hostility of their criticisms.[184] Sciabarra writes, "The left was infuriated by her anti-communist, pro-capitalist politics, whereas the right was disgusted with her atheism and civil libertarianism."[4]
Rand scholars Douglas Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen, while stressing the importance and originality of her thought, describe her style as "literary, hyperbolic and emotional."[185] Philosopher Jack Wheeler says that despite "the incessant bombast and continuous venting of Randian rage," Rand's ethics are "a most immense achievement, the study of which is vastly more fruitful than any other in contemporary thought."[186] In the Literary Encyclopedia entry for Rand written in 2001, John Lewis declared that "Rand wrote the most intellectually challenging fiction of her generation".[187] In a 1999 interview in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Rand scholar Chris Matthew Sciabarra commented, "I know they laugh at Rand," while forecasting a growth of interest in her work in the academic community.[188]
Objectivist movement[link]
Main article: Objectivist movement
In 1985, Rand's heir Leonard Peikoff established the Ayn Rand Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to spreading Rand's ideas and promoting her works. In 1990, philosopher David Kelley founded the Institute for Objectivist Studies, now known as The Atlas Society.[189] In 2001 historian John McCaskey organized the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship, which provides grants for scholarly work on Objectivism in academia.[190] The charitable foundation of BB&T Corporation has also given grants for teaching Rand's ideas or works. The University of Texas at Austin, the University of Pittsburgh, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are among the schools that have received grants. In some cases these grants have been controversial due to their requiring research or teaching related to Rand.[191]
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- ^ Rand said the origin of Ayn was Finnish (Rand 1995, p. 40), but some biographical sources question this, suggesting it may come from a Hebrew nickname. Heller 2009, pp. 55–57 provides a detailed discussion.
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- ^ Rand 1992, pp. 1170–1171
- ^ Peikoff 1991, pp. 2–3; Den Uyl & Rasmussen 1986, p. 224; Gladstein & Sciabarra 1999, p. 2
- ^ Den Uyl, Douglas J. & Rasmussen, Douglas B. "Ayn Rand's Realism". In Den Uyl & Rasmussen 1986, pp. 3–20
- ^ Peikoff 1991, pp. 38–39; Gotthelf 2000, p. 54
- ^ Rand 1964, p. 22
- ^ Rand 1982, pp. 62–63
- ^ Salmieri & Gotthelf 2005, p. 1997; Gladstein 1999, pp. 85–86
- ^ Rand 1989, p. 3
- ^ a b Kukathas 1998, p. 55
- ^ Rand 1964, p. 25; Badhwar & Long 2010; Peikoff 1991, pp. 207, 219
- ^ Badhwar & Long 2010
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- ^ Merrill 1991, pp. 38–39; Sciabarra 1998, p. 135; Loiret-Prunet, Valerie. "Ayn Rand and Feminist Synthesis: Rereading We the Living". In Gladstein & Sciabarra 1999, p. 97
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- ^ a b Gladstein 2009, p. 122
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| Name | Rand, Ayn |
| Alternative names | Rosenbaum, Alisa Zinov'yevna; Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум (Russian) |
| Short description | novelist, philosopher, playwright, screenwriter |
| Date of birth | February 2, 1905 |
| Place of birth | Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Date of death | March 6, 1982 |
| Place of death | New York City |
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| Born | Howard Allan Stern (1954-01-12) January 12, 1954 (age 58) Jackson Heights, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Radio personality, television host, author, actor, photographer |
| Years active | 1975–present |
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Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio personality, television host, author, actor and photographer best known for his radio show which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style. Stern has been exclusive to Sirius XM Radio, a subscription-based satellite radio service, since 2006. The son of a former recording and radio engineer, Stern wished to pursue a career in radio at the age of five. While at Boston University he worked at the campus station WTBU before a brief stint at WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts.
He developed his on-air personality when he landed positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, WCCC in Hartford and WWWW in Detroit. In 1981, he was paired with his current newscaster and co-host Robin Quivers at WWDC in Washington, D.C. Stern then moved to WNBC in New York City in 1982 to host afternoons until his firing in 1985. He re-emerged on WXRK that year, and became one of the most popular radio personalities during his 20-year tenure at the station. Stern's show is the most-fined radio program, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued fines to station licensees for allegedly indecent material that totaled $2.5 million. Stern has won Billboard's Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year award eight times, and is one of the highest-paid figures in radio.[1]
Stern describes himself as the King of All Media for his ventures outside radio. Since 1987, he has hosted numerous late night television shows, pay-per-view events and home video releases. He embarked on a five-month political campaign for Governor of New York in 1994. His two books, Private Parts (1993) and Miss America (1995), spent 20 and 16 weeks respectively on The New York Times Best Seller list. The former was adapted into Private Parts (1997), a biographical comedy film that starred Stern and his radio show staff that earned $41.2 million in domestic revenue. Stern performs on its soundtrack which topped the Billboard 200 chart.
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Early life and education[link]
Stern was born on January 12, 1954 into a Jewish family who lived in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City.[2][3] His parents Ben and Ray (née Schiffman) are children of Austro-Hungarian immigrants, and his sister Ellen is four years older than he.[2] The family moved to the hamlet of Roosevelt on Long Island in 1955,[4] where Stern developed an interest in radio at five years of age.[5] While Ray was a homemaker and later an inhalation therapist,[6][7] Ben was a co-owner of Aura Recording, Inc., a recording studio in Manhattan where cartoons and commercials were produced.[8] When he made occasional visits with his father, Stern witnessed actors Wally Cox, Don Adams and Larry Storch voice his favorite cartoon characters,[9][10] which influenced him to later talk on the air rather than play records.[11] Ben was also an engineer at WHOM, a radio station in Manhattan.[8] On completion of sixth grade, Stern left Washington-Rose Elementary School for Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School.[12] In June 1969, the family moved to nearby Rockville Centre and Stern transferred to South Side High School.[13]
Stern spent the first two of four years at Boston University in the College of Basic Studies.[14] In 1973, he started to work at WTBU, the campus radio station where he spun records, read the news, and hosted interviews.[14] He also hosted a comedy program with three fellow students called The King Schmaltz Bagel Hour.[15] Stern gained admission to the School of Public Communications in 1974[16] and earned a diploma in July 1975 at the Radio Engineering Institute of Electronics in Fredericksburg, Virginia which allowed him to apply for a first class FCC radio-telephone license.[17][18] With the license, Stern made his professional debut at WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts, performing airshift, newscasting and production duties between August and December 1975.[19] He graduated magna cum laude from Boston University in May 1976 with a degree in Communications[3][14] and now funds a scholarship at the university.[20]
Career[link]
See also: The Howard Stern Show, Howard Stern television shows, and Howard Stern videography and discography
Early professional radio career (1976–1981)[link]
After his graduation in 1976, Stern declined an offer to work evenings at WRNW, a progressive rock station in Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County, New York.[21] He was unsure of his talent, and questioned his future in the professional industry. Stern took creative and media planning roles at Benton & Bowles, a New York advertising agency, followed by a job in selling radio time to advertisers.[22] He realized the mistake of declining on-air work and contacted WRNW a second time where he agreed to work covering shifts over the Christmas holiday period.[19][23] Stern was hired full time in 1977 and worked a four-hour midday shift, six days per week a $96 weekly salary.[17] He subsequently worked as the station's production and program director for an increased salary of $250.[19][24]
In 1979, Stern spotted an advertisement for a "wild, fun morning guy" at rock station WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut.[25] He submitted a more outrageous audition tape with Robert Klein and Cheech and Chong records mixed with flatulence routines and one-liners.[26] Stern was hired with no change in salary with a more intense schedule. After four hours on the air he voiced and produced commercials for another four. On Saturdays, following a six-hour show, he did production work for the next three. As the station's public affairs director he also hosted a Sunday morning talk show which he favoured.[27] In the summer of the 1979 energy crisis, Stern held a two-day boycott of Shell Oil Company which attracted media attention.[28] Stern left WCCC a year later after he was declined a pay increase.[29] Fred Norris, the overnight disc jockey, has been Stern's producer and writer since 1981.[30]
Management at rock outlet WWWW in Detroit, Michigan praised Stern's audition tape in their search for a new morning man.[31] Stern was hired for the job which he started on April 21, 1980.[13] He learned to become more open on the air and "decided to cut down the barriers...strip down all the ego...and be totally honest", he later told Newsday.[32] His efforts earned him a Billboard award for "Album-Oriented Rock Personality of the Year For a Major Market" and the Drake-Chenault "Top Five Talent Search" title.[33][34] The station however, ran into problems after Stern's quarterly Arbitron ratings had decreased while it struggled to compete with its stronger rock competitors. In January 1981, WWWW switched to a country music format much to Stern's dislike, who left the station soon after.[35] He received offers to work at WXRT in Chicago and CHUM in Toronto, but did not take them.[34][36]
Washington and WNBC New York (1981–1985)[link]
Stern moved to Washington, D.C. to host mornings at rock station WWDC on March 2, 1981.[37][38] He wanted to develop his show further, and looked for a co-worker with a sense of humor to riff with on news and current events.[39] The station paired Stern with Robin Quivers, a newscaster and consumer affairs reporter from WFBR in Baltimore.[40] Though he felt restricted and controlled by management who enforced a strict format, Stern had the second highest rated morning radio program in January 1982.[41][42] Impressed with his ratings success, NBC approached Stern with an offer to work afternoons at WNBC in New York City. After Stern signed a five-year contract worth $1 million in March,[43] his relationship with WWDC management worsened,[44] and his contract with the station was terminated on June 25. He had more than tripled the station's morning ratings during his stay.[45] In its July issue The Washingtonian named Stern the area's best disc jockey.[46] Stern released 50 Ways to Rank Your Mother, a comedy album of his radio bits. The record was re-released as Unclean Beaver in November 1994.[47]
On April 2, 1982, a news report by Douglas Kiker on raunch radio featuring Stern aired on NBC Magazine.[48] The piece stimulated discussion among NBC management to withdraw Stern's contract. When he began his afternoon program in September,[49] management closely monitored Stern, telling him to avoid talk of a sexual and religious nature.[50] In his first month, Stern was suspended for several days for "Virgin Mary Kong", a segment featuring a video game where a group of men pursued the Virgin Mary around a singles bar in Jerusalem.[48] An attorney was hired to man a "dump button", and cut Stern off the microphone should potentially offensive areas be discussed. This became the task of program director Kevin Metheny, who Stern nicknamed "Pig Virus".[48] On May 21, 1984, Stern made his first appearance on Late Night with David Letterman, launching him into the national spotlight.[13] A year later he claimed the highest ratings at WNBC in four years with a 5.7% market share.[51]
On September 30, 1985, Stern and Quivers were fired for what management termed "conceptual differences" regarding the show.[52] "Over the course of time, we made a very conscious effort to make Stern aware that certain elements of the program should be changed...I don't think it's appropriate to say what those specifics were",[53] said program director John Hayes, who Stern nicknamed "The Incubus". In 1992, Stern believed Thornton Bradshaw, chairman of WNBC's owner RCA, heard his "Bestiality Dial-a-Date" segment and ordered his firing.[50] Stern and Quivers kept in touch with their audience throughout October and November where they toured club venues with a stage show.[52]
K-Rock, early television endeavors and Fartman (1985–1992)[link]
Stern signed a contract with Infinity Broadcasting worth around $500,000[54] and returned to afternoons on its New York rock station WXRK on November 18, 1985.[52] The show moved to mornings on February 18, 1986 and entered national syndication on August 18 when WYSP in Philadelphia first simulcast the program.[52] In October 1992, Stern became the first to have the number one morning radio show in New York and Los Angeles simultaneously.[55] In the New York market The Howard Stern Show was the highest-rated morning program for seven consecutive years between 1994 and 2001.[56] In 1994, Billboard magazine added the "Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year" category to its annual radio awards based on entertainment value, creativity and ratings success.[57] Stern was awarded the title from 1994 to 2002.[58][59]
In May 1987, Stern recorded five television pilots for Fox when the network planned to replace The Late Show hosted by Joan Rivers.[60] The series was never picked up; one executive having described the show as "poorly produced", "in poor taste" and "boring".[61] Stern hosted his first pay-per-view event on February 27, 1988 named Howard Stern's Negligeé and Underpants Party.[52] Over 60,000 homes purchased the two-hour special that grossed $1.2 million.[62] On September 7, 1989, over 16,000 fans packed out Nassau Coliseum for Howard Stern's U.S. Open Sores, a live event that featured a tennis match between Stern and his radio show producer, Gary Dell'Abate.[52] Both events were released for home video. From 1990 to 1992, Stern was the host of The Howard Stern Show, a Saturday night program on WWOR-TV. The series ran for 69 episodes to 65 markets nationwide.[63] In February 1991, Stern released Crucified by the FCC, a collection of censored radio segments following the first fine issued to Infinity by the FCC over alleged indecency.[64] He released a third video tape, Butt Bongo Fiesta, in October 1992 that sold 260,000 copies for a gross of over $10 million.[64][65] He returned to Saturday night television that November with The Howard Stern "Interview", a one-on-one celebrity interview series on E!.[citation needed]
Stern appeared at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards as Fartman, a fictional superhero that first appeared in the National Lampoon humor magazine series. According to the trademark he filed for the character that October, he first used Fartman in July 1981.[66] Stern rejected multiple scripts for a proposed summer 1993 release of The Adventures of Fartman until a verbal agreement was reached with New Line Cinema.[67] Screenwriter J. F. Lawton had prepared a script before relations soured over the film's rating, content and merchandising rights and the project was abandoned.[68][69]
[edit] Private Parts, E! show and run for Governor (1993–1994)
In 1993, Stern signed a $1 million advance contract with Simon & Schuster to publish his first book.[70] Co-authored with Larry Sloman and edited by Judith Regan, the release of Private Parts on October 7 saw its first printing of 225,000 copies being sold within hours of going on sale. It became the fastest-selling title in the history of Schuster after five days.[71] In its eighth printing two weeks later, over one million copies had been distributed.[65][70] Stern embarked on a book signing tour that attracted an estimated 10,000 fans at a Barnes & Noble store on Fifth Avenue in New York.[70] In its first run, Private Parts spent 20 weeks on The New York Times Best-Seller list.[72] Stern has written forewords for Steal This Dream (1998), a biography of Abbie Hoffman, Disgustingly Dirty Joke Book (1998) by Jackie Martling, Too Fat to Fish (2008) by Artie Lange, and Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox (2010) by Greg Fitzsimmons.
Stern hosted his second pay-per-view event, The Miss Howard Stern New Year's Eve Pageant, on December 31, 1993. It broke the subscriber record for a non-sports event previously held by a New Kids on the Block concert in 1990.[65] Around 400,000 households purchased the event that grossed an estimated $16 million.[73] Stern released the program on VHS in early 1994 as Howard Stern's New Year's Rotten Eve 1994. Between his book royalties and pay-per-view profits, Stern's earnings in the latter months of 1993 totalled around $7.5 million.[74] In its 20th anniversary issue in 1993, Radio & Records named Stern the most influential air personality of the past two decades.[75]
On March 21, 1994, Stern announced his candidacy for Governor of New York under the Libertarian Party ticket, challenging Mario Cuomo for re-election.[76] He planned to reinstate the death penalty, stagger highway tolls to improve traffic flow, and limit road work to night hours.[77] At the party's nomination convention in Albany on April 23, Stern won the required two-thirds majority on the first ballot, receiving 287 of the 381 votes cast (75.33%). James Ostrowski finished second with 34 votes (8.92%).[78] To place his name on the November ballot, Stern was obliged to state his home address and to complete a financial disclosure form under the Ethics in Government Act of 1987. After declining to disclose his financial information, Stern was denied an injunction on August 2.[79] He withdrew his candidacy two days later. Cuomo was defeated in the gubernatorial election on November 8 by George Pataki, who Stern backed. Pataki signed "The Howard Stern Bill" that limited construction on state roads to night hours in New York and Long Island, in 1995.[80]
In June 1994, robotic cameras were installed at WXRK studios to film The Howard Stern Show for a condensed half-hour show on E!.[81] Howard Stern ran for 11 years until the last taped episode aired on July 8, 2005.[82] In conjunction with his move to satellite radio, Stern launched Howard Stern on Demand, a subscription video-on-demand service, on November 18.[83] The service was relaunched as Howard TV on March 16, 2006.[84]
[edit] Miss America and Private Parts film (1995–1997)
On April 3, 1995, three days after the shooting of singer Selena, Stern's comments regarding her death and Mexican Americans caused an uproar in the Hispanic community. He criticized her music and gunfire sound effects were played over her songs. "This music does absolutely nothing for me. Alvin and the Chipmunks have more soul...Spanish people have the worst taste in music. They have no depth".[85] On April 6, Stern responded with a statement in Spanish, stressing his comments were made in satire and not intended to hurt those who loved her.[86] A day later, Justice of the Peace Eloy Cano of Harlingen, Texas issued an arrest warrant on Stern for disorderly conduct.[87]
In 1995, Stern signed a deal with ReganBooks worth $3 million to write his second book, Miss America.[88] He wrote about his cybersex experiences on the Prodigy service, a private meeting with Michael Jackson, and his suffering with obsessive-compulsive disorder.[89] Released on November 7, the book sold 33,000 copies at Barnes & Noble stores on the same day which set a new one-day record.[90] Publishers Weekly reported over 1.39 million copies were sold by the year's end and ranked it the third best-selling book of 1995.[91] Miss America spent a total of 16 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list.[72]
Production for a film adaptation of Private Parts began in May 1996 with all shooting complete in four months.[92] Its premiere was held at The Theatre at Madison Square Garden on February 27, 1997, where Stern performed "The Great American Nightmare" with Rob Zombie.[93] Making its general release on March 7, Private Parts topped the box office sales in its opening weekend with a gross of $14.6 million, and went on to earn a total of $41.2 million in domestic gross revenue.[94] The film holds a "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a website that aggregates film reviews. 79% of critics gave Private Parts a positive review based on a sample of 48 reviews, with an average score of 6.6 out of 10.[95] For his performance, Stern won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for "Favorite Male Newcomer" and was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for "Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy)" and a Golden Raspberry Award for "Worst New Star".[citation needed] The soundtrack to Private Parts sold 178,000 copies in its first week of release, topping the Billboard 200 chart.[96]
Stern filed a $1.5 million lawsuit against Ministry of Film Inc. in October 1997, claiming it recruited him for a film titled Jane starring Melanie Griffith while knowing it had insufficient funds. Stern, who was unpaid when production ceased, accused the studio of breach of contract, fraud and negligent representation.[97] A settlement was reached in 1999 with Stern receiving $50,000.[98]
Return to Saturday night television and productions (1998–2004)[link]
In August 1998, Stern returned to Saturday night television with The Howard Stern Radio Show.[99] Broadcast across the country on CBS affiliates, it featured radio show highlights along with material unseen in his nightly E! show. The show competed for ratings with comedy shows Saturday Night Live on NBC and MADtv on Fox. Concerned with its risqué content, affiliates began to leave the show after two episodes.[100] Making its launch on 79 stations on August 22, 1998, this number was reduced to 55 by June 1999.[101] A total of 84 episodes were broadcast.[citation needed] The final re-run aired on November 17, 2001, to around 30 markets.[102][103]
In 1994, Stern launched the Howard Stern Production Company for original and joint production and development ventures. He intended to make a film adaptation of Brother Sam, the biography of the late comedian Sam Kinison.[104] In September 1999, UPN announced the production of Doomsday, an animated science-fiction comedy series executively produced by Stern.[105] Originally set for a 2000 release, Stern starred as Orinthal, a family dog.[106] The project was eventually abandoned. From 2000 to 2002, Stern was the executive producer of Son of the Beach, a sitcom which ran for three seasons on FX. In late 2001, Howard Stern Productions was reportedly developing a new sitcom titled Kane.[107] The pilot episode was never filmed. In 2002, Stern acquired the rights to comedy films Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979) and Porky's (1982). He filed a $100 million lawsuit in March 2003 against ABC and the producers of Are You Hot?, claiming the series was based on his radio segment called "The Evaluators". A settlement was reached on August 7.[108]
Stern announced in early 2004 of talks with ABC to host a prime time interview special, which never materialized. In August 2004, cable channel Spike picked up 13 episodes of Howard Stern: The High School Years, a second animated series Stern was to executive produce.[109] On November 14, 2005, Stern announced the completion of episode scripts and 30 seconds of test animations.[110] Stern eventually gave the project up. In 2007, he explained the episodes could have been produced "on the cheap" at $300,000 each, though the quality he demanded would have cost over $1 million.[111] Actor Michael Cera was cast as the lead voice.[112]
[edit] Satellite radio and America's Got Talent (2004–present)
On October 6, 2004, Stern announced the signing of a five-year contract with Sirius Satellite Radio, a medium free from FCC regulations, that started in January 2006.[113] His decision to leave terrestrial radio occurred in the aftermath of the controversy surrounding the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show in February that caused a crackdown on perceived indecency in broadcasting. The incident prompted tighter control over content by station owners and managers to which Stern felt "dead inside" creatively.[114] Stern hosted his final broadcast on terrestrial airwaves on December 16, 2005.[115] During his 20 years at WXRK his show had syndicated in 60 markets[116][117] across the United States and Canada and gained a peak audience of 20 million listeners.[118][119][120]
With an annual budget of $100 million for all production, staff and programming costs, Stern launched two channels on Sirius in 2005 named Howard 100 and Howard 101. He assembled the Howard 100 News team that covered stories about his show and those associated with it, and a new dedicated studio was constructed at Sirius' headquarters in New York.[121] On January 9, 2006, the day of his first broadcast, Stern and his agent received 34.3 million shares of stock from the company worth $218 million for exceeding subscriber targets set in 2004.[122] A second stock incentive was paid in 2007, with Stern receiving 22 million shares worth $82.9 million.[123]
On February 28, 2006, CBS Radio (formerly Infinity Broadcasting) filed a lawsuit against Stern, his agent and Sirius. The suit claimed Stern had misused CBS broadcast time to promote Sirius for unjust enrichment during the last 14 months of his terrestrial radio contract.[124][125] In a press conference held hours before the suit was filed, Stern said it was nothing more than a "personal vendetta" against him by CBS president Leslie Moonves.[126] A settlement was reached on May 25, with Sirius paying $2 million to CBS for control of Stern's 20-year broadcast archives.[127] In the same month, Time magazine included Stern in its Time 100 list.[128] He also ranked seventh in Forbes' Celebrity 100 list in June 2006,[129] and reappeared in 2011 at number 26.[130]
Stern signed a new contract with Sirius to continue his show for five more years in December 2010.[131] Following the agreement, Stern and his agent filed a lawsuit against Sirius on March 22, 2011, for allegedly failing to pay stock bonuses promised to them from the past four years while helping the company exceed subscriber growth targets. Sirius said it was "surprised and disappointed" by the suit.[132] On April 17, 2012, New York Judge Barbara Kapnick "granted a SiriusXM motion for summary judgment, dismissing the lawsuit."[133]
In May, Stern announced that he would be broadcasting on a reduced schedule, alternating between three-day and four-day working weeks.[134] On December 15, 2011, Stern announced that he will replace Piers Morgan as a judge for the seventh season of America's Got Talent. Filming will take place in Newark, New Jersey at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and began in February 2012.[135]
FCC fines[link]
Main article: FCC fines of The Howard Stern Show
From 1990 to 2004, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined owners of radio stations that carried The Howard Stern Show a total of $3.2 million for indecent programming.[136]
Personal life[link]
Stern married his first wife, Alison (née Berns),[137] on June 4, 1978 at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Massachusetts.[138] They have three daughters: Emily Beth (b. 1983), Debra Jennifer (b. 1986) and Ashley Jade (b. 1993).[139] On October 22, 1999, Stern announced their decision to separate.[140] The marriage ended in 2001 with an amicable divorce and settlement.[137] In 2000, Stern began to date model Beth Ostrosky Stern, co-host of Casino Cinema from 2004 to 2007.[citation needed] She also frequently appeared in the American edition of FHM.[141] On February 14, 2007 Stern announced their engagement.[137] They married on October 3, 2008, at Le Cirque restaurant in New York City.[142]
While attending Boston University, Stern developed an interest in Transcendental Meditation, which he practices to this day.[143] He credits it with aiding him in quitting smoking and achieving his goals in radio.[144] Stern interviewed the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the technique, twice.[citation needed] Stern also plays on the Internet Chess Club, and has taken lessons from chess master Dan Heisman, although he has recently claimed to have quit playing. Howard's latest passion is photography, where he does private shoots for friends and secured his first paid 'gig' shooting a layout for Hamptons magazine in July 2011.[145][146] Stern has also shot photographs for WHIRL magazine and the North Shore Animal League.[147][148] Stern is frequently listed among the most influential contemporary Americans. In 2011, he was rated Forbes Magazines' 49th Most Powerful Celebrity.[149]
Filmography[link]
Main articles: Howard Stern videography and discography and Howard Stern television shows
Films[link]
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1986 | Ryder, P.I. | Ben Ben Wah - T.V. Commentator | |
| 1997 | Private Parts | Himself | Blockbuster Entertainment Award for "Favourite Male Newcomer" (1998)[citation needed]
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Home video releases[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1988 | Howard Stern's Negligeé and Underpants Party | Himself/Host | |
| 1989 | Howard Stern's U.S. Open Sores | ||
| 1992 | Butt Bongo Fiesta | ||
| 1994 | Howard Stern's New Year's Rotten Eve 1994 |
Television[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1981 | Petey Greene's Washington | Himself | |
| 1987 | Nightlife | Himself | |
| 1984–1993 | Late Night with David Letterman | Himself | Multiple appearances |
| 1987 | The Howard Stern Show | Himself - Host | Series of 5 pilot episodes that never aired |
| 1988 | The New Hollywood Squares | Announcer - Guest | |
| 1990–1992 | The Howard Stern Show | Himself - Host | |
| 1992 | 1992 MTV Video Music Awards | Fartman | |
| 1992–1993 | The Howard Stern "Interview" | Himself - Host | |
| 1993 | The Larry Sanders Show | Himself | Season 2, episode 18 |
| 1993 | The Jon Stewart Show | Himself | Season 1, episode 1 |
| 1994–2005 | Howard Stern | Himself - Host | |
| 1997 | Saturday Night Live | Himself | Season 22, episode 14 |
| 1998 | The Magic Hour | Himself | |
| 1998 | The Roseanne Show | Himself | Season 1, episode 54 |
| 1998–2001 | The Howard Stern Radio Show | Himself - Host | |
| 2001 | The Concert for New York City | Himself | |
| 2004 | Extra | Himself | |
| 2005–present | Howard Stern On Demand | Himself - Host | Known as Howard TV since March 2006 |
| 2011 | Piers Morgan Tonight | Himself - Guest | Episode 2 |
| 2011 | The Daily Show with Jon Stewart | Himself - Guest | Season 16, episode 29 |
| 2011 | Late Show with David Letterman | Himself - Guest | Season 18, episode 3439 |
| 2012–present | America's Got Talent | Himself | Judge, replacing Piers Morgan |
Discography[link]
Main article: Howard Stern videography and discography
| Year | Album | Label | Notes |
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| 1982 | 50 Ways to Rank Your Mother | Wren Records | Re-released as Unclean Beaver (1994) on Ichiban/Citizen X labels |
| 1991 | Crucified By the FCC | Infinity Broadcasting | |
| 1997 | Private Parts: The Album | Warner Bros. | Billboard 200 Number-one album from March 15–21, 1997 |
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Sources[link]
- Stern, Howard (1993). Private Parts (1st ed.). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-88016-3.
- Colford, Paul (1997). Howard Stern: King of All Media (2nd ed.). St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-96221-0.
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| Name | Stern, Howard Allan |
| Alternative names | King of All Media |
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| Date of birth | January 12, 1954 |
| Place of birth | Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, United States |
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