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Harrison Bay
Harrison Bay is a lake-like expansion of the Harrison River, located west of its main course adjacent to the communities of Chehalis and Harrison Mills. Extremely shallow, the bay outlets to the Fraser at Harrison Mills, where in pre-gold rush times there had been a "riffle", which was dredged to enable easier steamer traffic to Harrison Lake and Port Douglas. The bay has been used as a log sort but is primarily recreational in use today, with the Scowlitz Indian Band running a beach and campground at its western end, on Squawkum Creek Indian Reserve No. 3, which is at the southwest corner of Harrison Bay. Between it and the Fraser lies Harrison Hill, known in Upriver Halkomelem as Qithyll, which is an ancient burial ground currently under investigation by the First Nation in a joint effort with Simon Fraser University's archaeology department.. Adjacent to Kilby Provincial Park and the site of Harrison Mills are Williams Indian Reserve No. 2 and Scowlitz Indian Reserve No. 1
Coordinates: 49°14′00″N 121°59′00″W / 49.2333333°N 121.9833333°W / 49.2333333; -121.9833333
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Harrison Hot Springs
The Village of Harrison Hot Springs is a small community at the southern end of Harrison Lake in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. It is a member of the Fraser Valley Regional District; its immediate neighbour is the District of Kent and included in it, the town of Agassiz. It is a resort community known for its hot springs, and has a population of just over 1500 people. It is named after Benjamin Harrison, a former deputy governor for the Hudson's Bay Company.
The Village of Harrison Hot Springs has been a small resort community since 1886, when the opening of the Canadian Pacific Railway brought the lakeside springs within a short carriage ride of the transcontinental mainline. In its first promotion as a resort it was known as St. Alice's Well, although it had been discovered decades earlier when a party of goldfield-bound travellers on Harrison Lake capsized into what they thought was their doom, only to discover the lake at that spot was not freezing, but warm.
Although the resort flourished in a low-key fashion for years after this discovery was exploited by hoteliers, the Village of Harrison Hot Springs was not incorporated until 1949. Its namesake hot springs are a major attraction for tourists who come to stay at the village's spa-resort. Harrison Hot Springs is also known for an international sandcastle building competition that takes place there annually in September, and for the summertime Harrison Festival of the Arts.
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Harrison Knob
Harrison Hill (622m) is a small mountain located at the confluence of the Harrison and Fraser Rivers in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada. Harrison Knob (~225m) is a prominent shoulder to the east of the main peak of Harrison Hill. Harrison Hill and Harrison Knob are on the north side of the Fraser opposite Chilliwack, Harrison Knob overlooks the confluence directly, Harrison Hill itself separates the Fraser downstream from that confluence and overlooks on its north Harrison Bay, a large, shallow lake-like sidewater of the Harrison River, while at its western foot is the community of Lake Errock. At its eastern foot, just below Harrison Knob, had been the formerly large sawmill town of Harrison Mills, which spanned both sides of the Harrison and was served by the mainline of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which runs along the north side of the mountain's base. The Indian Reserves of the Scowlitz First Nation are at the western end of Harrison Bay and at its outlet at its eastern end, while the reserve of the Chehalis First Nation is along its north shore, and Kilby is on its east shore.
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Harrison, Arkansas
Harrison is a city in Boone County, Arkansas, United States. It is the county seat. According to 2007 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 13,108. Boone County was organized in 1869, during reconstruction after the civil war. Harrison was platted and made the county seat. It is named after L. LaRue Harrison, a Union officer who surveyed and platted the town. Boone County Regional Airport serves the city.
Harrison is the principal city of the Harrison Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Boone and Newton counties.
Harrison is located at 36°14′14″N 93°6′49″W / 36.23722°N 93.11361°W / 36.23722; -93.11361 (36.237247, -93.113703).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.2 square miles (26 km2), all land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 12,152 people, 5,259 households, and 3,260 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,187.5 people per square mile (458.6/km²). There were 5,747 housing units at an average density of 561.6 per square mile (216.9/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.24% White, 1.00% Black or African American, 0.74% Native American, 0.51% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.62% from other races, and 0.77% from two or more races. 1.53% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Harrison, Georgia
Harrison is a town in Washington County, Georgia, United States. The population was 509 at the 2000 census.
Harrison is located at 32°49′32″N 82°43′28″W / 32.82556°N 82.72444°W / 32.82556; -82.72444 (32.825655, -82.724504).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km2), of which, 1.7 square miles (4.4 km2) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (2.26%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 509 people, 176 households, and 134 families residing in the town. The population density was 295.0 people per square mile (113.6/km²). There were 210 housing units at an average density of 121.7 per square mile (46.9/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 19.06% White, 79.37% African American, 0.79% Native American, 0.20% Asian, 0.20% from other races, and 0.39% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.20% of the population.
There were 176 households out of which 36.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.3% were married couples living together, 30.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.3% were non-families. 19.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.89 and the average family size was 3.40.
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Harrison, Idaho
Harrison is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. The population was 267 at the 2000 census.
The community was named for President Benjamin Harrison
Harrison was incorporated in 1899 and was once the largest city on Lake Coeur d'Alene.
In 1917 about half of the residential area of Harrison and a number of businesses were burned in a major fire. Most of the town was never rebuilt after the fire.
Harrison is located at 47°26′59″N 116°46′50″W / 47.44972°N 116.78056°W / 47.44972; -116.78056 (47.449779, -116.780674).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2), of which, 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (12.50%) is water.
Harrison is located 28 miles south of Interstate 90 on the Lake Coeur d'Alene Scenic Byway - Hwy 97.
The Coeur d'Alene river flows into Lake Coeur d'Alene on Harrison's northern edge. The lower reaches of the river's valley are filled with smaller lakes and as such water dominates much of the local geography. The Saint Joe Mountains of the Bitterroot Range rise high above the flat lakes around Harrison.
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Harrison, Maine
Harrison is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,315 at the 2000 census. A historic resort area, Harrison straddles Long Lake and Crystal Lake. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area.
The Massachusetts General Court granted Otis Field Plantation in 1771 to James Otis and other heirs of Captain John Gorham and his company for their service in the 1690 Battle of Quebec. It replaced a 1736 grant which had been ruled invalid. In 1797, the plantation was incorporated as Otisfield. On March 8, 1805, Harrison was set off and incorporated from portions of Otisfield and Bridgton. It was named after a principal landowner, Harrison Gray Otis of Boston, the heir of James Otis.
In the autumn of 1792, two brothers from Gorham, John and Nathan Carsley, built a camp and cleared land in Harrison. During the winter they returned to Gorham, coming back in March 1793 with their wives. Because John Carsley and his wife remained in Harrison when Nathan Carsley and his wife resumed living in Gorham until 1796, he is considered the town's first permanent settler. More pioneers arrived, living in log houses chinked with moss. The outlet of Crystal Lake into Long Lake provided water power for industry, and James Sampson erected at Harrison village the first sawmill and gristmill. Over the years other industries followed, including a wire-making business, blacksmithy, shingle mill, harness-maker, foundry, carriage maker, clothing maker and shoe shop. Scribner's Mill (now a museum) was built in 1847 on the Crooked River. On Bear River, in 1867 the Harrison Water Power Company established the Bear River Woolen Mill, destroyed by fire in 1872.
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Harrison, Michigan
Harrison is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 2,108. It is the county seat of Clare County.
The city is named after U.S. President William Henry Harrison.
Harrison is near the junction of US 127 and M-61. US 127 actually bypasses the city on the east, though a business route serves the downtown area. Clare is 14 miles (23 km) south on US 127, while Grayling is 40 miles (64 km) to the north. Harrison is bordered along its eastern side by Budd Lake.
Harrison was originally founded as a lumber town, with sawmills located on the shores of Budd Lake. One of the lumber companies donated the land which is now Wilson State Park.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.0 square miles (10 km2), of which, 3.7 square miles (9.6 km2) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) of it (6.97%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,108 people, 857 households, and 526 families residing in the city. The population density was 563.3 per square mile (217.6/km²). There were 1,187 housing units at an average density of 317.2 per square mile (122.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 94.78% White, 2.04% African American, 0.62% Native American, 0.71% Asian, 0.43% from other races, and 1.42% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.47% of the population.
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Harrison, Montana
Harrison is a census-designated place (CDP) in Madison County, Montana, United States. The population was 162 at the 2000 census.
Harrison is located at 45°42′9″N 111°47′7″W / 45.7025°N 111.78528°W / 45.7025; -111.78528 (45.702507, -111.785376).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2), all of it land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 162 people, 64 households, and 44 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 704.9 people per square mile (272.0/km²). There were 75 housing units at an average density of 326.3 per square mile (125.9/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.91% White, 1.85% Native American, 0.62% Asian, and 0.62% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.23% of the population.
There were 64 households out of which 39.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.3% were married couples living together, 9.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.7% were non-families. 25.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 17.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.07.
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Harrison, Nebraska
Harrison is a village in Sioux County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 251 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Sioux County.
Harrison is located at 42°41′17″N 103°52′56″W / 42.68806°N 103.88222°W / 42.68806; -103.88222 (42.687984, -103.882115).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2), all of it land.
At 4,876 feet (1,486 m), Harrison has the highest elevation of any town in Nebraska, prompting it to bill itself as "Nebraska's Top Town".
As of the census of 2000, there were 279 people, 137 households, and 80 families residing in the village. The population density was 905.5 people per square mile (347.5/km²). There were 179 housing units at an average density of 580.9 per square mile (222.9/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 98.92% White, 0.36% from other races, and 0.72% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.72% of the population.
There were 137 households out of which 16.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.5% were married couples living together, 12.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.6% were non-families. 40.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 24.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.04 and the average family size was 2.68.
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Harrison, New Jersey
Harrison is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 13,620. The town is a suburb of the nearby city of Newark, New Jersey.
Harrison is located at 40°44′45″N 74°09′18″W / 40.745951°N 74.155096°W / 40.745951; -74.155096 (40.745951, -74.155096).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.32 square miles (3.4 km2), of which 1.20 square miles (3.1 km2) is land and 0.12 square miles (0.31 km2), or 9.09%, is water.
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 13,620 people, 4,869 households, and 3,262 families residing in the town. The population density was 11,319.3 inhabitants per square mile (4,370.4 /km2). There were 5,228 housing units at an average density of 4,344.9 per square mile (1,677.6 /km2). The racial makeup of the town was 58.30% (7,941) White, 2.18% (297) African American, 0.56% (76) Native American, 16.28% (2,217) Asian, 0.01% (2) Pacific Islander, 18.48% (2,517) from other races, and 4.19% (570) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 44.18% (6,017) of the population.
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Harrison, New York
Harrison is an affluent village and town in Westchester County, New York, United States, located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Manhattan. The population was 27,472 at the 2010 census.
Harrison was established in 1696 by John Harrison, who was given 24 hours to ride his horse around an area which would become his, to fill an owe the King had to him. The town gets its name from him. It became a town on March 7, 1788, by an act of the New York State legislature.
Merritt's Hill in West Harrison was the site of the Battle of White Plains during the Revolutionary War. Regiment 182 of the Continental Army, of the 367 regiments there, was the Harrison Regiment, composed solely of people from Harrison.
During the 1830s, David Haviland settled in Harrison, producing the Haviland China which he sold in his store in New York City, before returning to France. Today there exists a Haviland Street in a neighborhood of Harrison known as The Trails, whose only street marker looks rather quite older than the rest in the town, composed of wrought iron in scrolled shapes.
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Harrison, Ohio
Harrison is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The city is located in the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky metropolitan area. The population was 7,487 as of the 2000 census.
Harrison was named after the 9th US President, William Henry Harrison. It was incorporated in 1850, and became a city in 1981.
Harrison Township established 1850, formerly part of Crosby Township.[citation needed] Among the historic sites in the city's vicinity is the Eighteen Mile House, which was built during the earliest years of the nineteenth century.
It was the home of Ohio's fifth governor Othneil Looker.
It was one of the few stops in Ohio on the Whitewater Canal. The Whitewater Canal, which was built between 1836 and 1847, spanned a distance of seventy-six miles.
July, 13, 1863, Morgans Raiders invade. The column passes through taking fresh horses and burning the bridge over the Whitewater River near the southwest part of the town.
First train came to Harrison Township in 1864.
1882 Harrison depot was built at W. Broadway and Railroad Avenue. It later burned to the ground.
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Harrison, Tennessee
Harrison is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 7,769 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Harrison Bay State Park, the Hamilton County Landfill, Bear Trace Golf Course, a course designed by Jack Nicklaus, and Skull Island, a recreational area owned by TVA, are all located in Harrison.
Harrison is located at 35°7′9″N 85°8′58″W / 35.11917°N 85.14944°W / 35.11917; -85.14944 (35.119296, -85.149487).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 9.1 square miles (24 km2), of which, 7.3 square miles (19 km2) of it is land and 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2) of it (20.33%) is water.
The town developed at Vann's Ferry, a ferry crossing established by James Vann, a prominent Cherokee trader and planter. It was later named Harrison after President William Henry Harrison and became the seat of Hamilton County in 1840. It was moved from Dallas just across the Tennessee River. The first post office was opened on June 16, 1841. In 1870 the Hamilton County Courthouse was moved from Harrison to Chattanooga.
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Inukjuak, Quebec
Inukjuak (Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᔪᐊᒃ) (Inuktitut for The Giant) is a northern village (Inuit community) located on Hudson Bay at the mouth of the Innuksuak River in Nunavik, in the Nord-du-Québec region of northern Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,597 as of the Canada 2011 Census. An older spelling is Inoucdjouac; its former name was Port Harrison.
It is not accessible by road, but by boat in summer and year-round by air through Inukjuak Airport.
"The Giant" is the literal translation of the word Inukjuak, but originally it was Inurjuat. Inurjuat means "many people". In the past there was an Inuk (singular for the word Inuit) who went down to the river of Inukjuak to fetch some water. While there, the person saw many Inuit in kayaks approaching from the mouth of the river, and then yelled back out to the community "Inurjuat! Inurjuat!" That is where the name for the community comes from.
The many archeological sites near Inukjuak indicate that the area has long been inhabited by Inuit.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Révillon Frères company set up a fur trading post in Inukjuak. In order to compete with them, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) established a post in 1920. In the same year Révillon Frères paid for Robert J. Flaherty to film Nanook of the North (released 1922) in the area.
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Albert Sosnowski
Albert Dariusz Sosnowski (born 7 March 1979, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish professional boxer who fights in the heavyweight division.
His first fight as a professional boxer was in July 1998, in Outrup, Denmark, when he beat Czech fighter Jan Drobena with a first round knockout.
Sosnowski won his first 19 fights, 12 wins by KO, and had fought in Denmark, Poland, United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands.
In July 2001, Sosnowski fought for his first title belt against Canadian Arthur Cook in Budapest, Hungary, for the vacant WBC World Youth heavyweight title. Sosnowski, who was clearly ahead on points all scorecards, was knocked out by Cook in the ninth round to take the title.
In July 2008, Sosnowski lost to journeyman Zuri Lawrence, who had taken the fight on late notice but in November 2008 he defeated British fighter Danny Williams when Sosnowski himself was the underdog and he had taken the fight at late notice. He won by TKO after 1:17 of the 8th round.
He fought Francesco Pianeta for the EBU-EU Heavyweight title on 4 April 2009 with the fight going to a draw after twelve rounds.
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Aleksandr Povetkin
Alexander Vladimirovich Povetkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Пове́ткин; born September 2, 1979) is a Russian professional boxer. He is the current WBA (Regular) Heavyweight title holder. Formerly trained by Teddy Atlas, Povetkin won the WBA title after defeating Ruslan Chagaev in August 2011 by unanimous decision.
After a successful amateur kickboxing career that included winning World Junior championship in 1997, World title in 1999 and a European professional kickboxing title in 2000, Povetkin won his first major boxing tournament at the Russian Championships in 2000 at the age of 21. This would be the beginning of several major amateur tournaments Povetkin would go on to win including; the Good Will Games in Brisbane, Australia in 2001; the 34th European Championship in 2002; the XII World Championship in 2003 held in Thailand; and the 35th European Championship in 2004. His amateur success would culminate in winning the gold medal at super-heavyweight (>91 kg) boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, in a walkover match over Egyptian Mohamed Aly. After taking Olympic Gold, he concluded his amateur career with a record of 125–7, with all losses avenged.
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Alexander Dimitrenko
Alexander Dimitrenko (born 5 July 1982) is a German professional heavyweight boxer. He was born in Crimea, Ukraine. Dimitrenko began boxing at the age of 14 and at the age of 18 won the (2000) world junior boxing championship in the Unlimited weight division. He was immediately offered a deal by German promoter Klaus-Peter Kohl after his victory. Dimitrenko signed with Kohl's Universum promotion company and emigrated to Hamburg, Germany to begin his professional career. At 6 ft 7 with solid footwork and impressive power, he is widely regarded as one of the top contenders for the future world title.
Dimitrenko began his career on December 8, 2001 by scoring a 4th-round TKO against Marcus Johnson at the Arena Oberhausen in Oberhausen, Germany. On November 6, 2004, Dimitrenko faced the man who gave Wladimir Klitschko his first professional loss, Ross Puritty. By winning a 10 round decision over Puritty, Dimitrenko passed what was seen as his first real test.
On May 3, 2008, Dimitrenko won in five rounds over Derric Rossy. The fight was stopped in the fifth round, giving Dimitrenko his fourth consecutive victory by T.K.O. and was the sixth title defense of his WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight belt.
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Alexei Lezin
Alexei Vladimirovich Lezin (Russian: Алексей Владимирович Лeзин, born February 27, 1973 in Energetik, Orenburg) was a Russian boxer, who won the Super Heavyweight bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Lezin never turned pro.
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Alexey Mazikin
Alexei Mazikin (born 1975-02-16) is a Ukrainian boxer best known to win the silver medal at the 2001 World Championships in the Men's Super Heavyweight division.
Mazikin was a successful amateur but kept losing to southpaws. At the Olympics 2000 he lost to southpaw Audley Harrison, at the World Championships 2001 where he achieved his best result beating Alexander Povetkin 36:30 and Pedro Carrión he lost the final to southpaw Ruslan Chagaev.
At the Olympics 2004 he beat Aliaksandr Apanasionak and was defeated by southpaw Roberto Cammarelle.
He turned pro in 2005 but did not achieve much as he is neither a puncher nor was he fully trained. He lost to compatriot Taras Bidenko on points and was KOd in the first round by amateur superstar Odlanier Solis.
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Amir Khan (boxer)
Amir Iqbal Khan (born 8 December 1986), is a British professional boxer who was the former two-time world champion. The WBA (Super) & IBF Light Welterweight Champion.
He previously boxed in the lightweight division, where he held the Commonwealth, WBO Inter-Continental, and WBA International titles.
Khan is the youngest British Olympic boxing medalist, winning silver at the 2004 Athens Olympics at the age of 17. He is also one of the youngest British world champions ever, winning the WBA Light Welterweight title at age 22.
Khan was born and raised in Bolton, England, in a British Pakistani family. His family originated from Matore, Kahuta in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Besides English, Khan also speaks Punjabi . He was educated at Smithills School in Bolton, and Bolton Community College. Khan has two sisters and one brother, Haroon Khan, who is an amateur boxer and has represented Pakistan at an international level. His first cousin is the English cricketer Sajid Mahmood. Khan is a practising Muslim. As well as boxing, Khan enjoys playing sports such as cricket, football and basketball. He is an avid supporter of his local football club, Bolton Wanderers, and uses the club's training facilities.
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Andrew Greeley
Andrew M. Greeley (born February 5, 1928, Oak Park, Illinois) is an Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and fiction writer.
Greeley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona and is a Research Associate with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. He writes a weekly column for the Chicago Sun-Times and contributes regularly to The New York Times, the National Catholic Reporter, America, and Commonweal. He has given numerous interviews on radio and television.
After studies at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, he received an AB from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Chicago in 1950, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology (STB) in 1952, and a Licentiate of Sacred Theology (STL) in 1954, when he was ordained.
From 1954 to 1964 he served as an assistant pastor at Christ the King parish in Chicago, during which time he studied sociology at the University of Chicago. He received a Master of Arts in 1961 and then a PhD in 1962. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the influence of religion on the career plans of 1961 college graduates. At various times Greeley was a professor at the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago.
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Anita Dobson
Anita Dobson (born 29 April 1949, Stepney,London) is an English television actress and singer. She gained her highest profile while playing Angie Watts in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders. She plays a regular role on the BBC CBeebies sketch show Gigglebiz as Annette of fishing couple Annette and Rod.
Dobson trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Dobson appeared in a few series in the early 1980s, including the Jim Davidson sitcom Up the Elephant and Round the Castle (1983), but she is best known for playing the emotionally battered and alcoholic landlady, Angie Watts, in the BBC1 soap opera, EastEnders, a role which she played from the show's inception in 1985 to 1988.
Dobson was not the first person to be cast as Angie – another actress, Jean Fennell, had already begun recording when it was decided that her performance did not gel with the original idea of the character, and Dobson was substituted in the role. Whilst playing Angie Watts, alcoholic landlady of the Queen Victoria, Dobson worked closely with actor Leslie Grantham, landlord of the Queen Victoria who played her adulterous husband 'Dirty Den Watts'. On Christmas Day in 1986, 30.15 million viewers tuned in to witness Den handing Angie her divorce papers, giving the soap its highest ever episode rating, which has yet to be surpassed by any other soap in the UK.
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Audley Harrison
Audley Harrison (born 26 October 1971) is a British professional boxer from Harlesden, England who fights in the heavyweight division. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney he became the first British fighter to win an Olympic gold medal in the superheavyweight division. He stands 6 ft 5 1⁄2 in (1.97 m) and usually weighs around 255 lb (116 kg).
Harrison turned professional 2001 after signing a contract with BBC Sport. Harrison had 17 fights on the network before BBC Sport pulled all boxing from their programming.
In October 2009, he won the Prizefighter tournament. He became European heavyweight champion after knocking out Michael Sprott in April 2010.
Boxing out of Repton Amateur Boxing Club in Bethnal Green, London, Harrison became British super heavyweight champion in 1997, defeating Nick Kendall in the final. He retained the title in 1998, defeating Dean Redmond, and won Gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games beating Michael Macquae of Mauritius in the final. In 2000 he won Gold at the Sydney Olympics by defeating Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov of Kazakhstan on points.
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Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Humphrey Hopkins Jr, known as The Executioner (born January 15, 1965, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American boxer and former Ring Magazine and WBC light heavyweight champion. He became the oldest boxer to ever win a world title, when at age 46, he defeated Jean Pascal on May 21, 2011 by a unanimous decision, surpassing the record previously held by George Foreman.
Hopkins is also the former undisputed world middleweight champion, and the first fighter to retain all 4 world titles of each major boxing sanctioning body, plus The Ring belt, in the same fight. Having defended a world middleweight title a record 20 times, he is considered one of the greatest middleweight champions of all time. The Ring ranked him #3 on their list of the "10 best middleweight title holders of the last 50 years."
In addition to being an active boxer, Hopkins is also a minority partner with Golden Boy Promotions.
Born to Bernard Hopkins, Sr. and his wife Sue, Bernard grew up in the Raymond Rosen projects with his family. Hopkins turned to crime early in his life. By the age of thirteen he was mugging people and had been stabbed three times. At seventeen, Hopkins was sentenced to 18 years in Graterford Prison for nine felonies. While in prison he witnessed rapes and the murder of another inmate in an argument over a pack of cigarettes, but also discovered his passion for boxing. After serving almost five years, Hopkins was released from prison in 1988. He then decided to use boxing as an escape from his previous life, and converted to Islam. While leaving the prison for the final time, the warden told Hopkins he'd "see [Hopkins] again when you wind up back here," to which Hopkins replied "I ain't ever coming back here."
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Chelsee Healey
Chelsea Jade Healey (born 6 August 1988) is a British actress best known for playing Janeece Bryant in the BBC drama series Waterloo Road.
Healey was born in Salford, Greater Manchester, to a father of West Indian descent and an English mother. Her small-screen debut was in the recurring role of Katie Moore in BBC Three's twenty-something drama Burn It in 2003.
Between 2006 and 2009, Healey starred as pupil Janeece Bryant in four series of the popular BBC drama Waterloo Road, before departing the role in May 2009. After an extended break from the show, Healey returned to the role during the sixth series in September 2010 as the new school secretary, and continued to appear throughout the entirety of the seventh series. Following the shows relocation to Greenock in Scotland for the eighth series, Healey announced she would be moving north to continue the role. It was later announced in May 2012 that Healey would be departing the role once again, with her final scenes set to air later in the year.
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Coleman Barrett
Coleman Barrett (born 10 November 1982), nicknamed Coley, is an Irish professional boxer who holds the Irish heavyweight title.
Coleman is the cousin of pro light welterweight Francie Barrett. Barrett was an amateur star winning many Irish titles and winning a bronze in the world junior championships.
Coleman competed in the Prizefighter series on the 2 October 2009 at the ExCeL London, London Docklands, London. He made his way to the final as a 25/1 outsider, beating Scott Gammer and Carl Baker, losing to Audley Harrison by TKO in round 2 of 3. Barrett recently won the Irish heavyweight title against Colin Kenna.
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Dan Lobb
Daniel "Dan" Jonathon Lobb (born 7 January 1972) is a British retired tennis player and is the presenter and sports editor of ITV's Daybreak.
Lobb grew up in Colden Common near Winchester, Hampshire.
Lobb attended school and Peter Symonds College in Winchester, where he studied Biology, Chemistry and Economics, before accepting a tennis scholarship to the University of Tennessee in the USA. He was named as an All-American (for tennis) and graduated from the school of Business with high honours. After coaching at various tennis clubs in London, Lobb played professionally for three years reaching a British ranking of 18 in 1997. After retiring in 1998 he combined coaching and modelling for three years as well as getting involved in sports PR and marketing in London.
In 2001, Lobb started part-time work at a local cable station assisting the sports producer before being given the opportunity to present a live show. From there he moved on to Channel 5 News and was offered a contract by Sky Sports in January 2002, presenting mostly on Sky Sports News. In October 2007, he began presenting The Club on Sky Poker, a humorous magazine show based around Poker. He presented with Matt Broughton. On 30 December 2008 during a live Sky Sports News program, Lobb was co-presenting with Simon Thomas when it was revealed that this would be Lobb's final appearance on the channel. Thomas thanked Lobb for his seven-year service and joked that he was "still the only presenter to have beat Tim Henman - as he has liked to remind us over 400 times!" (This was in reference to Lobb's professional tennis career). In May 2009, Lobb became a sports presenter on Sky News.
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Danny Hughes
Danny Hughes (born 4 December 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and Adelaide in the VFL/AFL and Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
A fullback, Hughes was a premiership player with Port Adelaide prior to transferring to Melbourne. He was Melbourne's best and fairest winner in 1985. Hughes represented South Australia at interstate football and was awarded All Australian selection for his performance in the Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival. He returned to South Australia in 1991 and played in Adelaide's inaugural AFL season but retired at years end. He continued to play with Port Adelaide in the SANFL until 1993.
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David Dolan
David Dolan (born 7 October 1979) is a British professional boxer who has competed at both heavyweight and cruiserweight. As an amateur he won a gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the super heavyweight division. He was born in Sunderland, England.
He became British champion at 201 lbs from 2000–2002.
At the Commonwealth Games 2002 he competed at super-heavyweight and beat David Cadieux of Canada in the final, winning 27-20.
Dolan then dropped down again to 201 lbs where he lost in the second round of the World Championships to hard-punching southpaw Viktar Zuyev, who knocked him down twice. Later in the year he split a pair of fights with American star Matt Godfrey.
At the World Championships in 2005, he lost to eventual runner up Elchin Alizade.
Dolan begun his professional career competing at heavyweight and had his first professional contest in May 2006 scoring a four round points victory over Nabil Haciani. Over the next two years he fought six more times scoring wins over experienced journeymen Paul King, Luke Simpkin, Tony Booth and Lee Swaby.
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David Haye
David Deron Haye (born 13 October 1980) is a British professional boxer from England.
Haye is the former WBA heavyweight champion. He is also the former unified world cruiserweight champion, holding the WBA, WBC, WBO, and The Ring cruiserweight titles, and the former European cruiserweight champion.
Haye started his ambition and passion for boxing at old-school boxing gym Fitzroy Lodge Boxing Club in Lambeth, South London, where he quickly impressed and confidently won his first amateur bouts.
In 1999, 18-year-old Haye participated at the world amateur championships in Houston, Texas, USA at light-heavyweight but was eliminated by experienced American Michael Simms early in the contest.
At the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Belfast, Northern Ireland he fought in the heavyweight 201 lb division where he beat world class Sebastian Köber to reach the final where he gave Odlanier Solís a standing eight count before being stopped by the Cuban in round three, and taking the silver medal.
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David Price (boxer)
David Price (born July 6, 1983) is a professional British heavyweight boxer from Liverpool, he is currently unbeaten as a professional.
The 6ft 8 Price boxed out of Salisbury ABC and in 2003 became the youngest ever A.B.A champion in the Super-Heavyweight division, he was 19 years and 272 days old. He competed for England at a number of international tournaments, he beat Travis Kauffman twice at the 2003 USA vs. England Tournament. In August 2003 he won the Commonwealth Confederations tournament in Kuala Lumpur, defeating Muzzafar Iqbal of Pakistan 21:9, and Justin Whitehead of Australia 22:6. He then defeated Gregory Corbin on points in the England-U.S.A dual in Liverpool. Price lost to Roberto Cammarelle in the quarter-finals of the European Amateur Boxing Championships in Bulgaria in 2004, a defeat that prevented him from going to the Athens Olympics that year. He won his second A.B.A Title in March 2005, defeating Damien Campbell of Repton ABC in the final. He went on to win the 4 Nations Championships and two weeks later, a win which enabled him to compete in the inaugural 4 Nations vs Cuba match, in which he was his side's sole victor, defeating Lisovan Hernandez. He participated at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships but lost on points to Robert Helenius 25-22. At the Strandya Cup in Bulgaria, he was outgunned by Ukrainian Vyacheslav Glazkov, though he ended the year on a high note defeating highly touted teenage compatriot Tyson Fury 22:8. Then going on to win his 3rd A.B.A title, defeating Tom Dallas 27:4. At the 2007 Commonwealth Championships he stopped Australian Daniel Beahan in the final.
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Dereck Chisora
Dereck Chisora (born 29 December 1983) is a British professional boxer and former British Heavyweight Champion, having lost to Tyson Fury on 23 July 2011. He is based in Finchley, London.
Chisora moved to the UK from Zimbabwe with his family in 1999. During his amateur career Chisora had about 20 fights, winning a Four Nations gold and the 2006 ABA super heavyweight title.
Chisora turned professional on 17 February 2007, scoring a second round TKO against István Kecskés.
After winning three more fights (all by decision), he came up against the toughest test of his career against fellow rising British heavyweight prospect, Sam Sexton. Chisora won the fight by stopping Sexton in the final 30 seconds of the final round. Chisora moved on from the win over Sexton by beating the American Shawn Mclean at the Grosvenor House hotel in Mayfair and then stopped the experienced Lee Swaby in 3 rounds at the York Hall. Chisora finished the year with a December victory over Neil Simpson at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in London's Docklands leaving him with an 8-0 record at the end of his second year as a professional.
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Dominick Guinn
Dominick Alexander Guinn, (born April 20, 1975), is an American professional boxer. He is self-managed and he is trained by Ronnie Shields. He stands at 6'3" tall.
Known as the "Southern Disaster", he currently resides in Houston, Texas.
Guinn began boxing at age nine and lost in the quarterfinals in the Michigan Junior Olympic Tournament at 139 pounds. Fighting in the 147-pound class at 15 years of age, Guinn lost in the finals. Guinn won the 19-and-under Junior World title in 1993.
Guinn had an amateur career(record 290-26), twice winning the National Golden Gloves Super Heavyweight Championship in 1997 and 1999 but losing in the Olympic qualification to Calvin Brock. In 1998, Guinn won the U.S. National Championships and won a Bronze Medal at the Goodwill Games in New York City.
He began his career winning his first 24 fights, including a seventh round knockout win over Michael Grant and a victory over Duncan Dokiwari.
In 2004 he lost his first fight, a lackluster, but controversial decision to Monte Barrett. He knocked out veteran Phil Jackson but then lost his second fight to Sergei Liakhovich, who went on to win WBO heavyweight title.
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Duncan Dokiwari
Duncan Dalnajeneso Danagogo Dokiwari (born October 15, 1973 in Port Harcourt) is a Nigerian boxer. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he won a Men's Super Heavyweight bronze medal, together with Aleksey Lezin of Russia.
Dokiwari is a descendant of the Kalabari people of the Niger Delta of Rivers State, Nigeria. He is a son of the Horsfall and David-West group of houses in Buguma, in the Asaritoru Local Government Area of Rivers State. Dokiwari is the fifth of eight children raised by their mother and grandmother. As a child Dokiwari played different sports ranging from track and fields, soccer, badminton, powerlifting, to volleyball which has been evident in his agility and strength as a boxer. The young Dokiwari obtained his primary education at Port Harcout Primary School in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. On a successful completion of his primary education, Dokiwari attended Akpor Grammar School Ozuoba, where he completed his secondary education. Duncan Dokiwari graduated with degrees in criminal justice and Advertising from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the summer of 2008. Dokiwari is an avid reader whose reading interest include philosophy, history, English literature, law and justice, as well as religious literature.
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Edwina Currie
Edwina Jones (born 13 October 1946), born Edwina Cohen and commonly known by her first married name, Edwina Currie, is a former British Member of Parliament. First elected as a Conservative Party MP in 1983, she was a Junior Health Minister for two years, before resigning in 1988 over the controversy over salmonella in eggs. By the time Currie lost her seat in 1997, she had begun a new career as a novelist and broadcaster.
Currie was born in South Liverpool, England to an Orthodox Jewish family and has identified herself as Jewish, although she has stated: "I find religious mumbo jumbo hard to swallow in any faith." A pupil at Liverpool Institute High School for Girls, Liverpool's Historic Canning area, she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Anne's College, Oxford University where she was taught by Gabriele Taylor; subsequently, she gained a MA in economic history from the London School of Economics.
From 1975 until 1986, she was a Birmingham City Councillor for Northfield. In 1983, she stood for parliament as a Conservative Party candidate, and was elected as the member for South Derbyshire. Frequently outspoken, she was described as "a virtually permanent fixture on the nation's TV screen saying something outrageous about just about anything" and "the most outspoken and sexually interested woman of her political generation."
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Fai Falamoe
Fai Falamoe (born as Paufai Falamoe on August 30, 1972) is a New Zealander former amateur Commonwealth boxer and retired one time mixed martial artist. Falamoe is a former Boxing Coach for Team Ichigeki based out of Ebisu, Tokyo, and has helped some of the top K-1 kickboxing fighters including Glaube Feitosa, Aleksandr Pitchkounov, Akebono Tarō and his 2nd cousin Ray Sefo.
Fai helped set up ShinKali Academy with the director Ian Floresca. Fai also participated in the 1998 Commonwealth Games losing to eventual Gold Medalist Audley Harrison via. lost points.
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Frank Bruno
Franklin Roy "Frank" Bruno MBE (born 16 November 1961) is a British former boxer whose career highlight was winning the WBC heavyweight championship in 1995. Altogether, he won 40 of his 45 contests. Like Henry Cooper before him, Bruno has remained a popular celebrity with the British public since his ring career ended and still appears regularly in pantomime.
Bruno became a professional boxer in 1982, quickly racking up a streak of twenty-one consecutive wins by knockout. This streak caught the attention of international boxing magazines, such as The Ring, KO Magazine, Boxing Illustrated, Ring En Español. During this period Bruno defeated former world title contender Scott LeDoux, the dangerous fringe contender Floyd Cummings, former European Champion Rudy Gauwe, British contender Eddie Nielson and trial horses such as Bill Sharkey, Walter Santemore and Ken Lakusta. However, in May 1984 the up and coming future world heavyweight Champion, American James 'Bonecrusher' Smith, halted that streak when he defeated Bruno by knockout in the tenth and final round of their bout, with Bruno leading clearly on all three judges' cards. As a general view, Bruno was carefully managed, whereby he developed well to later give a strong account of himself in the big matches.
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George Arias (boxer)
George Arias (born 21 April 1974 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian heavyweight boxer, who is based in São Paulo. His professional record stands at 43 wins and 11 losses in 54 bouts. He works as a personal trainer.
Arias has faced Johnny Nelson, Taras Bidenko, Owen Beck, Sinan Şamil Sam and Juan Carlos Gomez. All but Gomez failed to stop Arias.
On 6 September 2008, Arias faced Audley Harrison in Manchester but lost on points. He only had a 4-day notice to the bout.
Arias is the current Brazilian and South American heavyweight title holder. As of 2009 George Arias is preparing himself to make an assault toward the world title but this time with the professional help of investors.
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Harry Judd
Harry Mark Christopher Judd (born 23 December 1985) is an English musician who is best known as the drummer for British pop rock band McFly, along with fellow band members Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter and Danny Jones. He won the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing.
Judd was born in the town of Chelmsford in Essex in southern England, and educated at two leading co-educational independent schools: at Old Buckenham Hall in the village of Brettenham in the Babergh district of Suffolk in eastern England, followed by Uppingham School in the small town of Uppingham in Rutland in central England.
Judd appeared in Busted's music video for their single "Crashed the Wedding", after which he joined McFly following auditions. Alongside his fellow band mates in McFly, Judd is often on TV programmes including The Paul O'Grady Show, T4's Freshly Squeezed and BBC programme Sound.
In January 2005, McFly guest-starred in an episode of the long-running BBC1 drama series Casualty.
In May 2006, McFly starred in the teen comedy film Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine, which was released in the US on 12 May 2006 and in the UK on 30 June 2006. They played themselves in the film and the soundtrack featured a variety of their songs from their first two albums. During filming, rumours sparked of a relationship between Judd and Lohan. However, Lohan's reps denied this and said that it was just a publicity stunt. Judd spoke of his romance in the Sun at the end of last year (2011) saying they spent the night together "We did things teenagers do. We went far enough but not the full home run." Judd commented.
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Holly Valance
Holly Valance (born Holly Rachel Vukadinović, Melbourne, 11 May 1983) is an Australian actress, singer, and model. Valance began her career as Felicity "Flick" Scully on the Australian soap opera Neighbours. In 2002 she released her first album, Footprints, which included the international number-one hit single "Kiss Kiss".
As a teenager, in 1999 she was cast in the long-running Australian soap Neighbours as Felicity "Flick" Scully. Valance left the series in 2002 to pursue a music career.
In 2004 Valance returned to acting, this time in the United States, appearing in episodes of the television series CSI: Miami and Entourage. In 2005 she appeared in an episode of CSI: NY. She guest-starred in Prison Break in 2006 as Nika Volek, a role which she continued to portray in the show's second season.
In 2006 Valance appeared in the National Lampoon comedy Pledge This!, alongside American socialite Paris Hilton. The same year, she was in DOA: Dead or Alive, an adaptation of the popular video game Dead or Alive, where she played Christie. In 2007 she appeared in the TV series Shark and Moonlight. In 2008 she had a role in the film Taken alongside Liam Neeson and Famke Janssen, and appeared in an episode of the The CW series Valentine. In 2009 Valance played Brenda Snow for the video game Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising. She is also set to appear as Angela in the movie Red Herring and as Sally in the upcoming thriller titled Luster.[citation needed]
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Jason Donovan
Jason Donovan (born 1 June 1968) is an Australian actor and singer. He initially achieved fame in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, before beginning a career in music in 1988. In the UK he has sold over 3 million records, and his début album Ten Good Reasons was one of the highest-selling albums of 1989 with UK sales of over 1.5 million copies. He has had four UK No. 1 singles, one of which was "Especially for You", his 1988 duet with Kylie Minogue. In more recent years, he has returned to acting on television and in stage musicals.
Jason Donovan was born in Malvern, Melbourne, is the son of actor Terence Donovan, who also appeared in Neighbours as Doug Willis, and Sue McIntosh. His half-sister is former Neighbours star Stephanie McIntosh. Donovan attended De La Salle College, Malvern. His partner since 1998 is Angela Malloch, a former stage manager, with whom he has three children; a daughter, Jemma (born 28 March 2000) a son, Zac (born 22 March 2001), and daughter, Molly (born 9 March 2011). Donovan and Malloch were married in Bali in 2008.
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Joe Calzaghe
Joseph William "Joe" Calzaghe, CBE, (pronounced /kælˈzæɡi/ kal-ZAG-ee; born 23 March 1972) is a retired Welsh professional boxer. He is a former WBO, IBF, WBC, WBA & The Ring Super Middleweight Champion and The Ring Light Heavyweight Champion.
Calzaghe is the longest-reigning world champion in recent years, having held the WBO Super Middleweight title for over ten years and made 21 successful defenses. He relinquished the title to move up to light heavyweight. As his super middleweight and light heavyweight reigns overlapped, he retired with the longest continual time as world champion of any active fighter. He is part of the Team Calzaghe based at the Newbridge boxing club.
Between 2006 to 2008, he was rated by The Ring magazine as a top ten pound for pound boxer. On January 2009, Calzaghe was ranked #3 in the world by The Ring. He retired in February 2009 with an undefeated record and as a reigning World Champion. Calzaghe is rated by Boxrec as the 11th pound-for-pound best British boxer of all time.
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John Inverdale
John Inverdale (born 27 September 1957 in Plymouth), is an English radio and television broadcaster who works for the BBC and ITV, mainly covering sporting events.
Inverdale is the son of a Royal Navy dental surgeon, Captain John Inverdale, who played rugby union for Devonport Services in Plymouth. Inverdale was educated at Clifton College in Bristol and at the University of Southampton, where he obtained a history degree in 1979, also being the editor of the student newspaper Wessex News and captained the University tennis team for two years.
After gaining a post-graduate journalism qualification at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, he began his career with two years at the Lincolnshire Echo, and then joined BBC Radio Lincolnshire in 1982.
Inverdale began to work on the BBC's national radio stations in 1985, firstly on Radio 2's sports unit, then between 1990 and 1994 at Radio 5, where he presented the flagship sports programme Sport On 5. In 1994 he became one of the main regular presenters on the relaunched BBC Radio 5 Live. He presented the drivetime show John Inverdale Nationwide until 1997, for which he was named Sony Broadcaster of the Year in 1997. At 5 Live, he hosted the topical show, Any Sporting Questions, a variation on Radio 4's Any Questions, and similarly toured the UK each week. In 2008 he broadcast for 5 Live from the Olympic Games in China. Along with Sir Steve Redgrave he appeared at Shunyi Rowing Lake for the Olympics in Beijing
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Julius Francis
Julius Francis (born 8 December 1964 in Peckham, London, England) is a former British Heavyweight champion boxer - who participated in many noteworthy boxing matches in the 1990s and 2000s. In 2007 he also participated in a mixed martial arts bout.
He turned pro in 1993 at the late age of 28 with a five round knockout of Graham Arnold. He put together six wins (3 by knockout), including two in the US, before being matched, somewhat prematurely, with future world heavyweight champion John Ruiz. Francis was stopped in 4 rounds by body shots.
In 1995 Francis won Southern Area title fights against Damien Caesar and Keith Fletcher, however squandered a big opportunity in an eliminator, when far ahead on points after nine rounds, hard hitting Scott Welch came from behind to drop him three times and stop him in 10. After this fight Welch would go on to win the British title and challenge for a world title, while Francis was dropped by his team and relegated to journeyman status.
Later in 1995 he took a fight in Russia and was outpointed by local Nikolai Kulpin, and in London lost a debatable decision by half a point to veteran Michael Murray.
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Lennox Lewis
Lennox Claudius Lewis, CM, CBE (born 2 September 1965) is a retired boxer and the most recent undisputed world heavyweight champion. He holds dual British and Canadian citizenship. As an amateur he won gold representing Canada at the 1988 Olympic Games after defeating future heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe in the final.
Lewis turned professional in 1989, winning his first 21 fights. In 1992 he knocked out Donovan Ruddock to take over the number one position in the World Boxing Council (WBC) rankings and eventually be declared WBC heavyweight champion in 1993. Lewis lost the title to Oliver McCall in 1994 but defeated McCall in a rematch to win the vacant WBC title in 1997. Lewis went on to defend the title four times, becoming the Lineal Champion after beating Shannon Briggs by KO in 1998. He became undisputed champion after defeating Evander Holyfield in November 1999. After defeating Mike Tyson by KO in 2002 and stopping Vitali Klitschko in 2003, Lennox Lewis retired from boxing in 2004.
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Martin Rogan
Martin Rogan (born 1 May 1971 in Belfast, Northern Ireland), is a Northern Irish heavyweight boxer and former Commonwealth heavyweight title holder.
On 11 April 2008, Rogan won the Prizefighter series heavyweight competition on Sky Sports, beating David Dolan in the final by a unanimous decision after knocking his opponent down twice. He beat Alex Ibbs in the quarter-final by TKO and Dave Ferguson on points in the semi-final. On 15 May 2009 he lost to Sam Sexton.
Rogan was due to face Audley Harrison at Aston Villa Events Centre, Birmingham on 19 July 2008. However, the fight was delayed due to television schedules. The fight eventually took place on 6 December 2008, with Rogan defeating Harrison over ten rounds. The referee Ian John-Lewis scored the encounter 96-95.
On 28 February 2009, Rogan became the Commonwealth heavyweight champion in a fight of the year contender which could have gone either way against reigning champion Matt Skelton. During the fight the momentum see-sawed from one man to the other however Rogan prevailed in the brawl by beating Skelton with an 11th round stoppage by TKO.
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Matt Skelton
Matt Skelton (born 23 January 1967 in Bedford) is an English boxer who changed sports from kickboxing. He is a former IKF International Kickboxing Federation Pro Muay Thai Super Heavyweight World Champion, and a former English, British, Commonwealth and European Heavyweight champion. He has also held the lightly regarded WBU "World" Heavyweight title.
Skelton did not become a professional boxer until fairly late in life, his first fight being at the age of 35. Prior to this he had been a professional kickboxer.
Skelton has a kickboxing/muay thai record of 63-8/57. He won the International Kickboxing Federation IKF World Title when he stopped Jeff Ford (USA) at 1:51 of the second round in Northampton, England on 26 November 2000.
In his first defense of the IKF World Title on 18 November 2001, in Northampton, England, he defeated Peter Varga (Hungary) by TKO at 53 seconds of round 3.
Skelton, in a K-1 primary tournament K-1 WORLD GP 2001 in Melbourne in Australia, 16 June 2001, knocked out Paris Vasilikos (Greece) at 2:05 of the first round in the quarter final match. And he also beat Michael McDonald (Canada) by third round decision (3-0) in the semi-final match. He was beaten, however, by Ernesto Hoost of the Netherlands by a third round decision (2-0) in the tournament final[1].
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Michael Sprott
Michael Sprott (born 16 January 1975) is a professional heavyweight boxer from Reading, Berkshire, England. Sprott briefly held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles, and was a European heavyweight title contender. He was the winner of the 14th Prizefighter series.
Boxing out of Jim Evans' gym in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, Sprott is a regular sparring partner of Wladimir Klitschko and Vitali Klitschko.
After a quiet amateur career, Sprott turned pro in November 1996 under the old Frank Bruno trainer, Terry Lawless. He won 11 fights, including a points win over veteran Michael Murray before taking on Harry Senior in September 1998 for the Southern Area Heavyweight title. Senior, a respected sparring partner, had recently dedicated himself to being a full-time professional, and took Sprott out in 6 rounds with body shots. Sprott came back with 3 wins before falling apart in 3 rounds versus British contender Wayne Llewelyn in October 2000.
Seemingly relegated to journeyman status, In February 2001 in London Sprott scored an upset when he outpointed the once-beaten German Timo Hoffmann, who had lost only to Vitali Klitschko. He travelled to Germany for the rematch, controversially outpointed by Hoffmann in a result that was jeered loudly by the German crowd.
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Nancy Dell'Olio
Annunziata Dell'Olio (born 1961), better known as Nancy Dell'Olio, is an Italian-American property lawyer who first came to public notice as the girlfriend of Sven-Göran Eriksson, then manager of the England national football team.
Dell'Olio was born in New York in 1961 where her mother Antonia was born and her immigrant father ran a series of delicatessens. The eldest of four children, at the age of five her family moved back to Italy, to the town of Bisceglie in the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani.
In 2005, Dell'Olio hosted the show Footballers' Cribs on MTV. She gave viewers tours of the luxury homes of English football players. "Nancy is a dream signing for us," said series executive producer Sean Murphy. "She's the first lady of football, so is in the perfect position to give us a real insider's view."
In June 2007, Dell'Olio had an autobiography published titled My Beautiful Game.
In December 2008, Dell'Olio was interviewed on the BBC news analysis programme Newsnight, but, according to interviewer Jeremy Paxman, no one could understand what she said.
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Natalie Lowe
Natalie Lowe (born 15 August 1980) is an Australian professional dancer and Ballroom expert.
She is a four-time Australian Dance Champion, She is from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
She joined Seven Network's Dancing with the Stars in 2004, partnering athlete Matt Shirvington. She then partnered Ian Roberts, and won the 2006 series with AFL legend Anthony Koutoufides. She then partnered Home and Away actor Tim Campbell, and in 2008 partnered boxer Danny Green.
Lowe competed as a new professional dancer on the seventh series of the original British version of Strictly Come Dancing, partnering Hollyoaks' Ricky Whittle. Lowe joined the show with fellow newcomers Aliona Vilani and Katya Virshilas. After their first dance together in front of the judges, Lowe and Whittle were described by head judge Len Goodman as maybe the most formidable couple Strictly Come Dancing had ever seen. Even so, Lowe and Whittle finished second overall. She competed in the 2010 series partnering Scott Maslen. The couple were eliminated in the Semi-Final of the competition along with Gavin Henson and Katya Virshilas. In series 8 her professional partner was New Zealand bad boy Brendan Cole.
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Nathan Cleverly
Nathan Cleverly (born 17 February 1987) is a Welsh professional boxer and current WBO light heavyweight world champion. He is also the former European, British and Commonwealth light heavyweight champion. He graduated with a BSc in Mathematics from Cardiff University in 2010.
Cleverly made his professional debut in July 2005 with a four round victory over journeyman Ernie Smith at the Meadowbank Sports Center in Edinburgh and within a year had compiled a winning ledger of 6–0. His first fight of substance however was in October 2006 when he met Liverpool's Tony Quigley at the MEN Arena in Manchester. The fight which was on the undercard to the match up between Joe Calzaghe and Sakio Bika ended in a 5th round stoppage for Cleverly and handed Quigley his first pro defeat.
The next big test for the young prospect took place at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff just over a year later in September 2007 when Cleverly met tough Ugandan Joey Vegas. Cleverly at that time boasted a record of 10–0 and Vegas 10–1. The fight ended with a gruelling points win over 8 rounds for the Welshman in what was his toughest fight to date. Speaking about the result to the BBC and referring to the sparring he received in the Enzo Calzaghe gym, Cleverly said "I'm still young and won't be hitting my peak for about eight years, but think how good the wars I'm having in the gym now are doing me for the future ... I want to keep on progressing, to go for the British title, then maybe a world crown in a couple of years."
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Paolo Vidoz
Paolo Vidoz (born 21 August 1970 in Gorizia) is a boxer from Italy, who won the Olympic bronze medal, twice won the bronze medal at the World Amateur Boxing Championships: 1997 and 1999 and also won a silver medal at the European Championships.
He won Olympic Bronze in 2000 at Super Heavyweight after beating Calvin Brock and Samuel Peter but lost to Audley Harrison.
His first match was held at Madison Square Garden on 27 January 2001, against Chris Morris. He won the match via knockout at 2 minutes and 22 seconds in the first round.
Vidoz kept up a solid winning streak before encountering Zuri Lawrence, a "journeyman" fighter who, while proficient in his defensive ability, lacks a modicum of talent with regard to hitting his opponents (he has failed to record even a single knockout throughout his 12 years in the ring). Lawrence was able to baffle Vidoz with his slippery movement in the ring and score a unanimous decision after eight rounds.
Vidoz bounced back with his next fight, registering a devastating knockout of Eduardo Sandivares at just under a minute into the fight.
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Richel Hersisia
Richel Hersisia (born April 28, 1974 in Curaçao, in the former Netherlands Antilles) is a heavyweight boxer. He is referred to as "The Dutch Sonny Liston" by his fans. He now fights out of The Hague (Den Haag) in the Netherlands.
He once held the fringe WBF Heavyweight title, but lost it to Audley Harrison via fourth round knockout on March 20, 2004 at Wembley Arena in London.
He last fought in September 2008, when he lost a six rounds decision to a comebacking Ray Mercer in Karlstad, Sweden. His current ring record stands at 30 wins (24 knockouts) and 3 loss in 33 bouts.
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Rob Calloway
Rob Calloway is an American boxer. He had forty amateur bouts, being the Kansas City Golden Gloves champion three times and a semifinalist for the 1992 US western Olympic trials. He has held the World Boxing Council Continental Americas cruiserweight title, International Boxing Federation International cruiserweight title, World Boxing Foundation heavyweight title, and the North American Boxing Association cruiserweight title. His win over Bob Mirovic in Australia for the World Boxing Foundation heavyweight championship was designated the 2005 Fight of the Year by Fox Sports (Australia).
Calloway has faced some of the world's most famous boxers, including former heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman, who knocked out Calloway in two rounds. Today he operates a popular fitness center near his home in Saint Joseph, Missouri. He and his wife Robin have two children, Chase("Kid Dynamite")Calloway and Riley.
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Robbie Savage
Robert William "Robbie" Savage (born 18 October 1974) is a football pundit and former Welsh professional footballer who played predominantly as a midfielder. During his career he captained Derby County, and also played for the Welsh national team. He now presents 606 on BBC Radio Five Live on Sunday evenings alongside Mark 'Chappers' Chapman. He appeared on series 9 of Strictly Come Dancing.
He gained notoriety for his playing style. In 2008, the Daily Mail labelled him as the dirtiest player in Premier League history, based on numbers of yellow cards received, though he has since been surpassed as the player with the most Premier League yellow cards by Lee Bowyer.
Savage was born in Wrexham in October 1974 to Colin and Valerie Savage. He attended Ysgol Bryn Alyn in Gwersyllt, until he completed his GCSE studies in July 1991. On leaving school, Savage joined Manchester United as an apprentice.
Savage is married to Sarah. The couple have two sons. His father was diagnosed with Pick's disease, a dementia-type illness, when he was in his mid-50s, and died in 2012.
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Roberto Balado
Roberto Balado Méndez (February 15, 1969 – July 2, 1994) was a Cuban boxer. At the 1992 Summer Olympics he won a Gold medal in the men's Super Heavyweight (+91 kg) category. Roberto Balado Mendez was marry to Anita Dorena Washington Who giving birth to his Son( Roberto Rekeon Willie Scott) known as Rob Scott After his grandmother gave him the legacy of his father. The son of Roberto balado Mendez was born on Januaray 03,1988 .
He was Olympic champion in 1992, three times world champion (Moscow 1989, Sydney 1991, and Tampere 1993), and five times Cuban national champion. He was also the winner of the Val Barker Trophy for Outstanding Boxer at the 1992 Olympic Games.
Balado died in a crash at a train crossing in Havana, on July 2, 1994.
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Roberto Cammarelle
Roberto Cammarelle (born July 30, 1980 in Milan) is an Italian boxer, best known for winning the World Amateur Boxing Championships in 2007 (Chicago) and 2009 (Milan) as a super heavyweight and a gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
His parents are Lucanian, his father Angelo Cammarelle is from Rionero in Vulture and his mother Giovanna Caraffa from Filiano; they moved to Cinisello Balsamo (Milan) before his birth. Roberto Cammarelle is an officer in the Italian State Police (Polizia di Stato).
He also won a Super Heavyweight bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia. The southpaw also won the bronze medal at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Mianyang. He is 190 cm tall and weighs 103 kg.
Cammarelle lost to English new-comer Anthony Joshua 15:13 at the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Rory Bremner
Roderick "Rory" Keith Ogilvy Bremner,FKC (born 6 April 1961) is a Scottish impressionist, playwright and comedian, noted for his work in political satire and impressions of prominent British politicians. He is also known for his work on Mock the Week as a panellist (for Series 1 and 2), award-winning show Rory Bremner...Who Else? and sketch comedy series Bremner, Bird and Fortune, which features veteran comedians John Bird and John Fortune.
Born in Edinburgh, Rory Bremner was born to Major Donald Stuart Ogilvy Bremner (December 1907–1979) (who was 53 years old at Rory's birth) and his second wife Ann Simpson (1922–2001). He has an older brother and an older half-sister (from his father's first marriage). Bremner was educated at Clifton Hall School and Wellington College and then studied Modern Languages at King's College London, graduating with a degree in French and German in 1984.
While at university, Bremner worked in the cabaret circuit in the evenings and was involved in the drama club. He first came into the limelight in 1985, when his single, N-N-Nineteen Not Out (released under the name, "The Commentators") was a big hit in the British charts. It was a parody of Paul Hardcastle's number one hit, 19, with Bremner impersonating cricket commentators, including Richie Benaud and Brian Johnston, and replacing references to the Vietnam War with references to the England cricket team's disastrous 1984 home series against the West Indies in which the England captain David Gower had averaged 19.
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Russell Grant
Russell John Dammerall Grant (born 5 February 1951) is a British astrologer and media personality. He has written several books on Astrology, provides syndicated newspaper horoscopes and operates premium rate astrology phone lines. In March 2010, he began offering a "Pet Psychic" service. He is also the author of The Real Counties of Britain.
Grant first appeared on television talking about astrology in 1979, featured in Yorkshire Television programme Extraordinary presented by Valerie Pitts and Melvin Harris. He was the regular astrologer on Granada Television's Live from Two which ran from 1980-81. He is best known for his appearances on breakfast television joining BBC's Breakfast Time to present the Your Stars section from 1983-86. In 1986 he joined TV-am as resident astrologer appearing on Good Morning and After Nine until 1990. Later from 1992-95 he was a regular expert on This Morning with Richard and Judy offering astrological advice.
Grant has also taken the role of presenter on many shows, including Star Choice, a celebrity quiz show based on the zodiac. In 1991 he co-hosted with Miriam Stoppard episodes of daily show People Today and in 1994 Grant had his own six episode series, Russell Grant's All Star Show.
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Samuel Peter
Samuel Okon Peter (born September 6, 1980 in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria), nicknamed "The Nigerian Nightmare," is a professional heavyweight boxer and the former WBC heavyweight champion.
Peter rose to prominence as a professional fighter following a string of spectacular knockout wins in his early career, at a time when the division was fragmented. He has won a portion of the heavyweight crown and scored notable wins over: James Toney and Oleg Maskaev. Samuel Peter is also the only man to have been defeated by both Klitschko brothers (losing a total of three bouts against them).
Originally, Peter's preferred sport was soccer. In 1992, some boxers came to Peter's school to train. The curious young 11-year-old stopped by and asked if he could train along with them. He was put up against an experienced amateur and knocked him out. This marked the beginning of a successful amateur career for Peter.
Samuel Peter won the Nigerian amateur heavyweight championship and the Africa Zone 3 Heavyweight championship. He faced stiff competition as an amateur (including a knockout victory over 2000 Silver Medalist Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov of Kazakhstan). However, he prevailed and was given the opportunity to represent Nigeria at the 2000 Sydney, Australia Summer Olympics.
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Scott Belshaw
Scott Belshaw (born July 8, 1985 in Aghalee, Northern Ireland) is a professional boxer from Lisburn, Northern Ireland who fights in heavyweight division.
At amateur level, Belshaw fought for the Lisburn ABC in Lisburn and won five Irish titles and a number of Ulster championship titles. It was during his amateur days that Belshaw perfected his unorthodox style of fighting, known in some circles as the angry dancing Andrew 'Andy' Fyfe technique. After what Belshaw considered a poor decision during a quarter final fight of the 2006 Irish senior championship when he was disqualified for holding despite being ten points up in a fight with Michael McDonagh, Belshaw left the amateur ranks and decided to become a professional with Frank Maloney.
Belshaw turned professional in October 2006 in Belfast, Northern Ireland on an undercard of bill that included James Gorman and Martin Rogan. In his debut Belshaw defeated fellow debutant Englishman Lee Webb with a brutal first round knockout within the first ten seconds of the fight. At this point in his career Belshaw had seven professional wins, six coming by knockout and was starting to gain attention as a prospect to watch for the future (even appearing on channel four programme transworld sport where his manager Frank Maloney tipped him to be the next Lennox Lewis). However in 2008 he was defeated by journeyman Daniel Peret. Belshaw gained revenge on Peret in a rematch. On 23 May 2009, Belshaw fought Tyson Fury, and was stopped in the second round.
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Scott Gammer
Scott Gammer (born 24 October 1976) is a British boxer, based in Wales. He is a former holder of the British heavyweight title.
Gammer turned professional in 2002 and is currently trained by his father Ralph Gammer and managed by Paul Boyce.
On 16 June 2006, after 16 professional fights undefeated, he earned the right to challenge Mark Krence for the British Heavyweight Title. Gammer won in the 9th round via TKO.
In his first defence of the title on 13 October 2006 he defeated Micky Steeds by a unanimous points decision. Steeds was brought in as a replacement for Danny Williams, who was the mandatory challenger for the British Heavyweight Championship at the time, however he pulled out of the fight due to the date coinciding with Ramadan.
A second title defence against Williams was originally scheduled for 9 February 2007, however the fight was re-arranged due to Williams' defeat by Audley Harrison on 9 December 2006. Gammer finally fought Williams on 2 March 2007 at the Neath Sports Centre, Glamorgan. Williams won the bout by 9th round KO, giving Gammer his first ever defeat as a professional.
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Serguei Lyakhovich
Siarhei "White Wolf" Liakhovich (Belarusian: Сяргей Ляховіч, Siarhiej Liachovič, also Lyakhovich; born May 29, 1976, in Vitebsk, Belarus), is a Belarusian boxer and a former WBO heavyweight champion.
Liakhovich, who represented Belarus at the 1996 Olympic Games, was a long-time amateur who won Bronze at the 1997 World Championships. He amassed a 145-15 record [1] before turning pro in 1998.
His first defeat occurred on June 1, 2002, when he was knocked out by Maurice Harris in the 9th round.
Liakhovich won the WBO title from Lamon Brewster on April 1, 2006. Liakhovich was knocked down in the 7th round, but went on to win on points via unanimous decision. He lost the title to Shannon Briggs by technical knockout in the 12th round on November 4, 2006, after being knocked down twice. After the first knockdown, Liakhovich, already shaky, took a big right from Briggs and fell through the ring ropes, prompting the referee to stop the match. The clock time was 2:59 at that point.
On February 16, 2008, Liakhovich lost to Nikolai Valuev by unanimous decision. He has won his last two fights a first round TKO of Jeremy Bates on November 7, 2009 in Nuremberg, Germany and a 9th round KO of Evans Quinn in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany on May 22, 2010 on the undercard of Chagaev-Meehan.
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Sinan Samil Sam
Sinan Şamil Sam (born June 23, 1974 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a German born heavyweight professional boxer of Turkish decent. As a professional boxer, Sam won the EBU and WBC International heavyweight & WBC Mediterranean heavyweight titles in the heavyweight division.
Sam, known as "Bull of the Bosphorus", turned professional in 2000. He won his first 18 fights, including victories over Przemyslaw Saleta, Danny Williams, and Julius Francis.
In 2003, he suffered his first pro defeat to Juan Carlos Gomez and lost the following fight against Luan Krasniqi.
In 2005, he beat Lawrence Clay Bey to set up a fight with Oleg Maskaev, a fight which he lost on points by unanimous decision. After the loss to Maskaev he defeated Saul Montana in 2006 but then lost a WBC eliminator to Oliver McCall in June 2007.
After three more victories against limited opponents he fought Paolo Vidoz on July 4, 2008 he won the fight by majority decision.
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Tomasz Bonin
Tomasz "The Polish Hammer" Bonin (born November 9, 1973) is a Polish heavyweight boxer.
Bonin has a professional record of 41-3 but was KO'd twice when stepping up. He won his first 26 professional fights, winning the Polish International Heavyweight title and subsequently defending it on 3 occasions, as well as beating boxers such as Garing Lane, Gary Winmon, Dirk Wallyn, Robert Šulgan, Asmir Vojnovic and Antoine Palatis. His first loss was to Audley Harrison when he challenged for the WBF heavyweight title in 2004.
He then fought his way up to rank 11 by the WBC, then in 2007 lost to David Haye who dropped Bonin 3 times in the first round and a 'slip' before the referee called an end to the fight for Bonin's safety. He was then dropped to rank 25 by the WBC.
He regularly uses the block smash move that he renamed 'The Polish Hammer' before his bout against David Haye.
After his fight with Haye he went 4-1 in his next five fights with the loss coming to Andrzej Wawrzyk.
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Tyrell Biggs
Tyrell Biggs (born December 22, 1960) is an American former boxer who fought in the heavyweight division. He won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in the super heavyweight division, after winning bronze the previous year at the 1983 Pan American Games. His professional career spanned a period of fourteen years, from 1984 to 1998.
Biggs was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, making his sporting debut playing basketball at West Philadelphia High. He was a starting forward for the Speedboys' Public League and City champions in 1978, a team that extended a state-record winning streak to 68 before a regular season loss to Overbrook. In '77, one of Biggs' teammates was Gene Banks, who went on to excel at Duke and play in the NBA.
Biggs' first major success as an amateur boxer was winning the gold medal at the 1981 United States National Boxing Championships in the super-heavyweight division. He repeated this feat the next year, and also in 1982 he won the World Championships in Munich, West Germany, where in the final he defeated Francesco Damiani from Italy on points, who beat the legendary Teofilo Stevenson earlier in the competition. In 1983 Biggs won a bronze medal on the Pan American Games, losing to future professional challenger Jorge Luis Gonzalez in the semi-final.In addition, Biggs won a 3-2 split decision over Cuban Angel Milian, who had beaten Greg Page five years earlier.
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Tyson Fury
Luke Tyson Fury (born 1 June 1988) is an English professional boxer of Irish heritage who fights in the heavyweight division. Having initially been denied the opportunity to fight for Ireland at the Olympic Games, Fury is now permitted to represent both England and Ireland, after tracing his family lineage to relatives in Belfast. He has represented both his native England and Ireland at amateur level and won the ABA championship in 2008 before turning professional later that year. He is the current Irish heavyweight champion and former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion.
Fury was born in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England to Irish Traveller parents. Tyson's family has a long history in boxing and bare knuckle boxing. His father is from Tuam, County Galway and his maternal grandmother is from County Tipperary. He is a cousin of fellow Irish boxer Andy Lee. His father named him "Tyson" after the then world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.
As an amateur, Fury represented both Ireland and England. Fury represented Ireland three times at international level. He initially fought out of the Holy Family Boxing Club in Belfast, Northern Ireland and later switched to the Smithboro Club in County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland. In a double international duel against an experienced Polish team in 2007, the Irish team lost 12-6 overall; Fury, however, was victorious in both his fights in Rzeszów and Białystok. In another Irish match against the USA, Fury won his bout by knock-out.
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Vaughn Bean
Vaughn Bean (born September 3, 1974 in Chicago, IL) is a former professional boxer.
Nicknamed "Shake & Bake", Bean is known for making several arguably undeserved challenges for heavyweight titles, each time coming up short. Bean began his career with 27 victories over extremely limited competition, lining up a shot at IBF Heavyweight Title holder Michael Moorer in 1997. At the time, Bean was a virtual unknown to the boxing public but put up a good effort against an unmotivated Moorer, losing a close majority decision.
After four victories over marginal competition, Bean secured yet another title shot against Evander Holyfield for the WBA and IBF Heavyweight Titles. Bean again lost the decision, a boring fight which left the boxing public wondering how Bean had managed to get the shot in the first place. Bean again went on another synthetic winning steak, pounding out 11 consecutive wins over virtual unknowns. Yet again, he was able to secure another major fight, this time against Vitali Klitschko. Klitchko controlled the fight, and was able to take out the durable Bean via a TKO in the 11th.
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Wladimir Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Володи́мирович Кличко́ [transliteration: Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Klychko], born 25 March 1976) is a Ukrainian heavyweight professional boxer. Klitschko is the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO & The Ring Heavyweight Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC Heavyweight Champion. Klitschko is the longest reigning Heavyweight Champion in history for the IBF, WBO & IBO Heavyweight titles, both in measurements of defenses and time & overall the 6th longest reigning Heavyweight Champion of all time. As of 2011, Boxrec rates Klitschko as the number 2 pound-for-pound in the world. Ring Magazine currently rates Klitschko as the number six pound-for-pound boxer in the world.
Since 2005, Klitschko has been the dominant force in the heavyweight division, defeating a majority of the top heavyweights in the rankings. When Klitschko won the IBF title against Chris Byrd there were four separate Heavyweight Champions. Since then, he has unified the IBF, IBO, WBO & WBA belts and defeated the WBA Champion in recess. Following his win over Ruslan Chagaev, Klitschko was awarded the vacant Ring Magazine Heavyweight title.
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York Hall
The York Hall is a health and leisure centre and one of Britain's best known boxing venues.
The venue is situated on Old Ford Road in Bethnal Green, London, England. The hall, opened in 1929 with a capacity of 1,200, stages boxing as well as providing a gymnasium and swimming pool.
The hall is owned by Tower Hamlets Council and in 2004 was threatened with closure. However, the Hall was saved and in 2005 it underwent a major multi-million pound refurbishment in a joint project between the local Tower Hamlets council and Greenwich Leisure. The site is split into two sections: a leisure centre and a hall with gymnasium.
The historic Turkish Bath or banya in the basement was the last publicly run example in the East End of London. In 1972 there were still six Turkish baths, a legacy of the high Jewish population of Russian and Polish origin. This included the traditional suites of Russian and Turkish steam rooms, sauna, relaxation lounge. This popular and often full facility was closed and re-branded as and upmarket "Spa London" by the council in July 2007, amid vocal protests from its users. Treatment rooms were added to provide a range of upmarket beauty treatments. Where customers used to give each other a massage with the traditional Yiddish schmeis free of charge they now have to pay £56 on top of the £21 admission, whilst treatments such as Hydrotherapy Hydration Purity Rituals have been introduced. Neal Hounsell, Head of Leisure Services at Tower Hamlets, justified the re-branding on the basis that the Borough was one of the most deprived in London.
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harrison)Why are you still cryingYour pain is now throughPlease forget those teardropsLet me take them from youThe love you are blessed withThis world’s waiting forSo let out your heart, please, pleaseFrom behind that locked doorIt’s time we start smilingWhat else should we doWith only this short timeI know to be here with youAnd the tales you have taught meFrom the things that you sawMakes me want out your heart, please, pleaseFrom behind that locked doorAnd wherever my love goesIf I’m rich or I’m poorPlease let out my heart, please, pleaseFrom behind that locked doorFrom behind that locked door
And now the marriage vow is very sacred
The man has put us together and you ought to make us
Stick together c'm on c'm on let's stick together
You know we made a vow to leave one another never.
Now you never miss your water till your well is dry
Come on now baby
give our love a try
And let's stick together c'm on c'm on let's stick together
You know we made a vow to leave one another never.
If you're stuck for a while consider our child
How can it be happy without it's Ma and Pa
Let's stick together c'm on c'm on let's stick together
You know we made a vow to leave one another never.
If you're stuck for a while consider our child
( Harrison )
Together we stand, divided we fall
Come on now people let's get on the ball
And work together, come on, come on
Let's work together, now, now people
'Cos together we will stand every boy, every girl and man
Before when things go wrong as they sometimes will
And the world that you're travelling stays all uphill
Let's work together, come on, come on
Let's work together, now, now people
You know together we will stand every boy, girl, woman and man
Oh well now, two or three minutes, two or three hours
What does it matter now in this life of ours?
Let's work together, come on, come on
Let's work together, now, now people
'Cos together we will stand every boy, every woman and man
Oh well, make someone happy, make someone smile
Let's all work together and make life worthwhile
Let's work together, come on, come on
Let's work together, now, now people
You know together we will stand every boy, girl, woman and man
Because together we will stand every boy, girl, woman and man
Well, together we will stand every boy, girl, woman and man
Let's work together, come on, come on
Let's work together, come on, come on
Let's work together, come on, come on
Let's work together, come on, come on
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2012-10-13 David Price vs Audley Harrison
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David Price vs Audley Harrison 1st Round KO & FULL FIGHT 13.10.2012
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***ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO SWEETBOXING*** David Price KO's Audley Harrison in the 1st Round in 1 minute 30 seconds
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***ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO SWEETBOXING*** David Price KO's Audley Harrison in the 1st Round in 1 minute 30 seconds
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George Harrison Got My Mind Set On You (2009 Stereo Remaster)
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Join the official TheQuarrymen58 Facebook! www.facebook.com A cover version by former Beatle George Harrison from his album Cloud Nine reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1988. Produced by Harrison and former ELO member Jeff Lynne, the song was his third and last solo US number one, after "My Sweet Lord" in 1970 and "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" in 1973. It was also the last number one single, to date, by any of the solo Beatles in the United States. As Harrison's third post-Beatles #1 hit in the US, he broke a three-way tie among himself, John Lennon and Ringo Starr as ex-Beatles with two #1 solo singles, and moved Harrison into second place behind Paul McCartney's nine #1 songs. Of Harrison's three number one singles in the US, it was the only song not written by Harrison and the only one without religious overtones. The single's B-side is "Lay His Head", written by Harrison. The 12" version of the single also adds an extended version of "Got My Mind Set On You". Two music videos were released for the cover version. The first (directed by Gary Weis) starred a young Alexis Denisof vying for the heart of a girl in an arcade.[1] The second (also directed by Weis), is Harrison sitting and playing in a study. As the song progresses, furniture and knick-knacks (like a stuffed squirrel and mounted warthog) begin to dance along with the song. In the middle of the video, Harrison's stunt double performs a stunning backflip from his chair and follows ...
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Join the official TheQuarrymen58 Facebook! www.facebook.com A cover version by former Beatle George Harrison from his album Cloud Nine reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1988. Produced by Harrison and former ELO member Jeff Lynne, the song was his third and last solo US number one, after "My Sweet Lord" in 1970 and "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" in 1973. It was also the last number one single, to date, by any of the solo Beatles in the United States. As Harrison's third post-Beatles #1 hit in the US, he broke a three-way tie among himself, John Lennon and Ringo Starr as ex-Beatles with two #1 solo singles, and moved Harrison into second place behind Paul McCartney's nine #1 songs. Of Harrison's three number one singles in the US, it was the only song not written by Harrison and the only one without religious overtones. The single's B-side is "Lay His Head", written by Harrison. The 12" version of the single also adds an extended version of "Got My Mind Set On You". Two music videos were released for the cover version. The first (directed by Gary Weis) starred a young Alexis Denisof vying for the heart of a girl in an arcade.[1] The second (also directed by Weis), is Harrison sitting and playing in a study. As the song progresses, furniture and knick-knacks (like a stuffed squirrel and mounted warthog) begin to dance along with the song. In the middle of the video, Harrison's stunt double performs a stunning backflip from his chair and follows ...
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Audley Harrison Knocked Out In 1st Round By David Price - 13/10/2012
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David Price Vs Audley Harrison Full Fight. David Price Knocks Audley Harrison Out In Only 82 Seconds. If you like this video please subscribe to my channel to see more videos like this. Also when you click 'Like' please share on Twitter and Facebook. Thanks Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
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David Price Vs Audley Harrison Full Fight. David Price Knocks Audley Harrison Out In Only 82 Seconds. If you like this video please subscribe to my channel to see more videos like this. Also when you click 'Like' please share on Twitter and Facebook. Thanks Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
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What Is Life - George Harrison
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George Harrison`s What Is Life was a #10 USA hit single in 1971 and #3 hit in Germany but was not released in the UK as a single.
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George Harrison`s What Is Life was a #10 USA hit single in 1971 and #3 hit in Germany but was not released in the UK as a single.
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George Harrison My Sweet Lord
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George Harrison - "Cloud Nine" (Remastered) [Full Album]
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George Harrison - "Cloud Nine" (Remastered) [Full Album] 01. 00:00 "Cloud Nine" 02. 03:17 "That's What It Takes" 03. 07:16 "Fish on the Sand" 04. 10:40 "Just for Today" 05. 14:47 "This Is Love" 06. 18:36 "When We Was Fab" 07. 22:36 "Devil's Radio" 08. 26:30 "Someplace Else" 09. 30:22 "Wreck of the Hesperus" 10. 33:58 "Breath Away from Heaven" 11. 37:32 "Got My Mind Set on You" 12. 41:27 "Shanghai Surprise" (Duet with Vicki Brown) (Bonus Track) 13. 46:36 "Zig Zag" (Bonus Track) Cloud Nine is George Harrison's tenth studio album, recorded and released in 1987 after a five-year hiatus from his recording career. Including the hit single "Got My Mind Set on You", Cloud Nine re-established Harrison as a critically acclaimed and commercially significant recording artist. It was to be Harrison's final solo studio album released during his lifetime. Brainwashed is the final studio album by George Harrison, released in 2002, almost a year after his death at age 58. Frustrated with the changing musical climate, George Harrison suspended his recording career in the early 1980s. He opted to pursue his other interests, such as film production with his own company, Handmade Films. The odd soundtrack or charity song would surface during this period, but otherwise it was a musically silent period for Harrison. By late 1986 — after a substantial break — Harrison felt the desire to make music again. He asked former Electric Light Orchestra leader and fellow musician Jeff Lynne to co-produce ...
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George Harrison - "Cloud Nine" (Remastered) [Full Album] 01. 00:00 "Cloud Nine" 02. 03:17 "That's What It Takes" 03. 07:16 "Fish on the Sand" 04. 10:40 "Just for Today" 05. 14:47 "This Is Love" 06. 18:36 "When We Was Fab" 07. 22:36 "Devil's Radio" 08. 26:30 "Someplace Else" 09. 30:22 "Wreck of the Hesperus" 10. 33:58 "Breath Away from Heaven" 11. 37:32 "Got My Mind Set on You" 12. 41:27 "Shanghai Surprise" (Duet with Vicki Brown) (Bonus Track) 13. 46:36 "Zig Zag" (Bonus Track) Cloud Nine is George Harrison's tenth studio album, recorded and released in 1987 after a five-year hiatus from his recording career. Including the hit single "Got My Mind Set on You", Cloud Nine re-established Harrison as a critically acclaimed and commercially significant recording artist. It was to be Harrison's final solo studio album released during his lifetime. Brainwashed is the final studio album by George Harrison, released in 2002, almost a year after his death at age 58. Frustrated with the changing musical climate, George Harrison suspended his recording career in the early 1980s. He opted to pursue his other interests, such as film production with his own company, Handmade Films. The odd soundtrack or charity song would surface during this period, but otherwise it was a musically silent period for Harrison. By late 1986 — after a substantial break — Harrison felt the desire to make music again. He asked former Electric Light Orchestra leader and fellow musician Jeff Lynne to co-produce ...
- published: 16 Jul 2012
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Bodybuilding Twins, The Harrison Twins
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visit the twins at www.harrisontwins.com
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George Harrison "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Live, 1987)
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In celebration of George Harrison's birthday, I uploaded this classic performance from George's surprise 1987 appearance with Elton John, Phil Collins, Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton.
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In celebration of George Harrison's birthday, I uploaded this classic performance from George's surprise 1987 appearance with Elton John, Phil Collins, Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton.
- published: 25 Feb 2012
- views: 45694
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George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (Alternate Take) [HiQ]
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"All Things Must Pass" is a song written by George Harrison. It is the title track to his triple album of the same name. During The Beatles' Get Back sessions in January 1969, this was one of many songs the group rehearsed to be part of their new album. As the sessions progressed, the song was pushed to the side and never picked up again by the band. Harrison recorded a solo demo of the song on multi-track tape on 25 February 1969. Harrison recorded two takes, then added extra guitar onto the second. This version was subsequently released in 1996 on The Beatles' collection Anthology 3. The song was never formally recorded by The Beatles by the time of their break-up, though at least one informal rehearsal take featuring the full group exists. The song underwent a number of small changes from when it was first written in late 1968. The line "a mind can blow those clouds away" was originally written as the more literal "a wind can blow those clouds away," but bootlegs from the January 1969 Beatles sessions reveal John Lennon suggesting the change to "mind" to include a bit of "psychedelia" in the song. Perspective on one line was slightly changed from "It's not always been this grey" (with The Beatles) on the demo to "It's not always gonna be this grey" (on his own) on the final recording. When George Harrison was interviewed by VH1 in 1997, "All Things Must Pass" was one of three songs he performed (along with the Traveling Wilburys tune "If You Belonged to Me" and an ...
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"All Things Must Pass" is a song written by George Harrison. It is the title track to his triple album of the same name. During The Beatles' Get Back sessions in January 1969, this was one of many songs the group rehearsed to be part of their new album. As the sessions progressed, the song was pushed to the side and never picked up again by the band. Harrison recorded a solo demo of the song on multi-track tape on 25 February 1969. Harrison recorded two takes, then added extra guitar onto the second. This version was subsequently released in 1996 on The Beatles' collection Anthology 3. The song was never formally recorded by The Beatles by the time of their break-up, though at least one informal rehearsal take featuring the full group exists. The song underwent a number of small changes from when it was first written in late 1968. The line "a mind can blow those clouds away" was originally written as the more literal "a wind can blow those clouds away," but bootlegs from the January 1969 Beatles sessions reveal John Lennon suggesting the change to "mind" to include a bit of "psychedelia" in the song. Perspective on one line was slightly changed from "It's not always been this grey" (with The Beatles) on the demo to "It's not always gonna be this grey" (on his own) on the final recording. When George Harrison was interviewed by VH1 in 1997, "All Things Must Pass" was one of three songs he performed (along with the Traveling Wilburys tune "If You Belonged to Me" and an ...
- published: 08 Oct 2011
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GEORGE HARRISON - GOVINDA
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CANCION GOVINDA DE GEORGE HARRISON TOMADO DEL DISCO Chant And Be Happy George Harrison & London Radha-Krishna Temple 1969 ---------------------------------------- SONG GOVINDA TAKE FROM THE ALBUM Chant And Be Happy George Harrison & London Radha-Krishna Temple 1969 chequen una version en vivo www.youtube.com saludos
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CANCION GOVINDA DE GEORGE HARRISON TOMADO DEL DISCO Chant And Be Happy George Harrison & London Radha-Krishna Temple 1969 ---------------------------------------- SONG GOVINDA TAKE FROM THE ALBUM Chant And Be Happy George Harrison & London Radha-Krishna Temple 1969 chequen una version en vivo www.youtube.com saludos
- published: 11 Feb 2009
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Audley Harrison PWNED
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David Price vs Audley Harrison
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David Price Vs Audley Harrison - 1st Round Knockout - Full Fight - 13/10/2012
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- published: 13 Oct 2012
- views: 91319
- author: Beanyman62Sports
George Harrison: Living In The Material World
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Directed by Martin Scorsese, this is the trailer for George Harrison: Living In The Material World. Released 10 October on DVD, Blu-ray, and as a Deluxe Edition, which includes 2 DVDs, a Blu-ray, a 96-page book and a CD of never-before-released tracks. Now available for pre-order at: www.amazon.co.uk ALSO IN CINEMAS FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY -- TUESDAY 4TH OCTOBER
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Directed by Martin Scorsese, this is the trailer for George Harrison: Living In The Material World. Released 10 October on DVD, Blu-ray, and as a Deluxe Edition, which includes 2 DVDs, a Blu-ray, a 96-page book and a CD of never-before-released tracks. Now available for pre-order at: www.amazon.co.uk ALSO IN CINEMAS FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY -- TUESDAY 4TH OCTOBER
- published: 24 Aug 2011
- views: 384173
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![Ravi Shankar & George Harrison - Sitar Lesson Rare Video [ Live Performance ]](http://web.archive.org./web/20121220003151im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/aUb15FMqD7I/default.jpg "Ravi Shankar & George Harrison - Sitar Lesson Rare Video [ Live Performance ]")
Ravi Shankar & George Harrison - Sitar Lesson Rare Video [ Live Performance ]
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Remembering Pt. Ravi Shankar - popsplat.in //www.popsplat.in - Ravi Shankar & George Harrison - Sitar Lesson Rare Video Subscribe: goo.gl Facebook: goo.gl Twitter : goo.gl
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Gracia Harrison's Blind Audition: "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" - The Voice
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The young yodeling cowgirl singer strikes a note with the coaches. Subscribe to The Voice: full.sc Get more of The Voice The Voice: NBC.com Full Episode: www.nbc.com Like The Voice: Facebook.com Follow The Voice: Twitter.com The Voice Tumblr: nbcTheVoice.Tumblr.com The Voice Pinterest: Pinterest.com Get more NBC: Full Episodes: NBC.com NBC YouTube: full.sc Follow NBC: Twitter.com Like NBC: Facebook.com NBC Pinterest: Pinterest.com NBC Tumblr: NBCtv.tumblr.com Gracia Harrison's Blind Audition: "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" - The Voice www.youtube.com
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The young yodeling cowgirl singer strikes a note with the coaches. Subscribe to The Voice: full.sc Get more of The Voice The Voice: NBC.com Full Episode: www.nbc.com Like The Voice: Facebook.com Follow The Voice: Twitter.com The Voice Tumblr: nbcTheVoice.Tumblr.com The Voice Pinterest: Pinterest.com Get more NBC: Full Episodes: NBC.com NBC YouTube: full.sc Follow NBC: Twitter.com Like NBC: Facebook.com NBC Pinterest: Pinterest.com NBC Tumblr: NBCtv.tumblr.com Gracia Harrison's Blind Audition: "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" - The Voice www.youtube.com
- published: 11 Sep 2012
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david price knockout audley harrison in 1st ROUND!!
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- published: 13 Oct 2012
- views: 33243
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Harrison Twins Commit to Kentucky - Andrew & Aaron Harrison Make College Decision at 5pm
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The Harrison twins made their college announcement today on ESPNU. Andrew & Aaron Harrison chose between Kentucky, Maryland and the dark horse SMU. The decision immediately gave Kentucky the #1 recruiting class in 2013. Both Aaron and Andrew are top 5 players in the country in the class of 2013.
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The Harrison twins made their college announcement today on ESPNU. Andrew & Aaron Harrison chose between Kentucky, Maryland and the dark horse SMU. The decision immediately gave Kentucky the #1 recruiting class in 2013. Both Aaron and Andrew are top 5 players in the country in the class of 2013.
- published: 04 Oct 2012
- views: 75861
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Price v Harrison KO
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David Price knocking Audley Harrison out.
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George Harrison - What is life (lyrics)
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♫ Lyrics and pictures... ♫ The song 'What is Life' was released on George Harrison's 1970 solo album 'All Things Must Pass'. RIP George! ♥
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♫ Lyrics and pictures... ♫ The song 'What is Life' was released on George Harrison's 1970 solo album 'All Things Must Pass'. RIP George! ♥
- published: 11 Mar 2012
- views: 96891
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World
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- Duration: 208:25
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
Scorsese uses never-before-seen footage from George Harrison's childhood, throughout his years with The Beatles, through the ups and downs of his solo career, and through the joys and pain of his private life, to trace the arc of George's journey from his birth in 1943 to his passing in 2001. © Grove Street Productions Limited 2011 -- All Rights Reserved
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Scorsese uses never-before-seen footage from George Harrison's childhood, throughout his years with The Beatles, through the ups and downs of his solo career, and through the joys and pain of his private life, to trace the arc of George's journey from his birth in 1943 to his passing in 2001. © Grove Street Productions Limited 2011 -- All Rights Reserved
- published: 28 Sep 2011
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Trailer for Martin Scorsese's GEORGE HARRISON: Living In The Material World
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Trailer for Martin Scorsese's "GEORGE HARRISON: Living In The Material World" coming to HBO October 5 & 6, and will be available on DVD/Blu-ray October 10 from AMAZON. See more at www.rockinrag.com
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Trailer for Martin Scorsese's "GEORGE HARRISON: Living In The Material World" coming to HBO October 5 & 6, and will be available on DVD/Blu-ray October 10 from AMAZON. See more at www.rockinrag.com
- published: 22 Aug 2011
- views: 304622
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Harrison Barnes BIG Jam: All Angles!
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- Duration: 0:29
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Remember that massive throwdown by Harrison Barnes over the weekend? Check out this all angles look at that dunk.
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Remember that massive throwdown by Harrison Barnes over the weekend? Check out this all angles look at that dunk.
- published: 27 Nov 2012
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18 Dec 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Most people reason dramatically, not quantitatively." -Oliver Wendell Holmes. On the same day that a 20-year-old, described as brilliant but remote, walked into an elementary school in Connecticut and massacred 26 children and adults, the school where I teach went on "lock-down." Four students with a handgun were arrested ... That morning before school, he had posted on Twitter and Facebook....(size: 14.0Kb)
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19 Dec 2012
WASHINGTON. US President Barack Obama backs a new bill to revive an assault weapons ban and other new gun laws, the White House said Tuesday, fleshing out his nascent response to a shocking school massacre. Obama also called an ardently pro-gun senator who has shifted his position on firearms laws since Friday's carnage in Connecticut and has begun meeting top cabinet officials to consider his options, his spokesman Jay Carney said ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)
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18 Dec 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When a Stanford geneticist, Gerald Crabtree, published a provocative and controversial new view on evolutionary change, namely that humans are actually getting dumber, he should have also added that humans are still developing an extermination gene ... Paleontologist Tim Flannery would more than likely agree with Crabtree ... Strange strings of gravel also overlaid some bones ... (1) Kane, Alex ... 195....(size: 9.4Kb)
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19 Dec 2012
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations appealed on Wednesday for $1.5 billion (920.1 million pounds) to provide life-saving aid to Syrians suffering from a "dramatically deteriorating" humanitarian situation ... "The magnitude of this humanitarian crisis is indisputable," said Radhouane Nouicer, U.N ... Inside Syria, U.N ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)
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18 Dec 2012
The UN's humanitarian chief has called on Syria to urgently allow fuel imports for aid deliveries and give access to 10 more aid agencies. Valerie Amos met government officials in the capital, Damascus, to discuss the growing humanitarian crisis. UN workers also needed to freely move into opposition-controlled areas to step up their aid efforts, she said ... 'Greater rebel contact' ... The claim could not be independently verified ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)
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20 Dec 2012
. . . Today Gatorade and Nigel Sylvester drop another installment, this one titled "Perfect Moment" ... Nigel shows that with persistence you are going to eventually land it ... Directed by Harrison Boyce ... Produced by J ... Directed by Harrison Boyce....(size: 1.6Kb)
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20 Dec 2012
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20 Dec 2012
. At a special Imax presentation of the footage in London, Cumberbatch’s menacing character John Harrison was introduced at the beginning of the much-anticipated Star Trek Into Darkness ... Cumberbatch was not allowed to reveal much about the plot, but the 36-year-old did admit that he auditioned for the role of Harrison — who he describes as “a phenomenal one-man weapon of mass destruction” — on an iPhone in his friend’s kitchen ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)
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20 Dec 2012
Rhythm Factory, London East Thu 20th December 2012 ... Date ... Venue ... Showcasing the finest in an array of music from Hip Hop to House, Dubstep to Dancehall from the illest DJ's around town including the likes of 1Xtra's Ace and CJ Beatz, famed London party-starters CWD, Cable, Motive, Melody Kane and Snips as well as the brands own residents Rory, Jam Masters, Siobhan Bell, Sarah Harrison, Shorty Bless and Semo ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
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20 Dec 2012
Mike McCallum and Diego Corrales round out the field of seven boxers along with two trainers, Eddie Futch and Freddie Roach ... All rights reserved ... Tweet ... PFT ... ‘ ... World of Adventure SportsN/AN/A4 - 6 p.m.Iron Man World ChampionshipKona, HawaiiAl Trautwig7 - 8.20 p.m.Football Night in AmericaNew YorkBob Costas, Dan Patrick, Tony Dungy, Rodney Harrison, Peter King, Alex Flanagan, Mike Florio, Hines Ward8.20 - ConclusionSunday Night Football ... ....(size: 2.8Kb)
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20 Dec 2012
(Source. CPR - Canadian Pacific Railway Limited) CP also announces ratification of IBEW agreement. Canadian Pacific (TSX.CP)(NYSE.CP) said today it is pleased the collective bargaining process with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, on behalf of Running Trade Employees, and Rail Traffic Controllers has finally concluded and an agreement is now in place ... "Mr ... IBEW Ratification ... Hunter Harrison, president and CE0 ... Media. Ed Greenberg....(size: 3.4Kb)
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20 Dec 2012
(Source. SUNY - The State University of New York). December 19, 2012. Darryl Geddes 315 464-4828. Upstate earns NICHE designation. SYRACUSE, N.Y.- Upstate University Hospital's commitment to providing quality care to older adult patients has earned it a designation as a NICHE facility ... Mary M ... • The Sharon A ... • Outpatient medical care and geriatric assessment at the geriatrics office located at 550 Harrison; ... • Vitality! Fitness Program; and....(size: 4.7Kb)
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20 Dec 2012
If Russian lawmakers have their way, the best intentions of a U.S. investor could soon result in tragedy for thousands of Russian orphans and the U.S. families who would adopt them. In recent weeks, Russia’s parliament has been grasping for a response to the Magnitsky Act, a bill lobbied for heavily by U.S ... a total ban on the adoption of Russian children by U.S ... On Dec ... foster father, Miles Harrison, left him in a locked car on a hot day ... ....(size: 7.2Kb)
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20 Dec 2012
(Source. Seattle Seahawks) Seahawks and Sounders FC Select New Food and Beverage Provider at Stadium. Posted Dec 18, 2012. Seahawks Communications. Delaware North Companies Sportservice to enhance fan experience at CenturyLink Field. RENTON, Wash ... Among those locations is Kalaloch Lodge at Olympic National Park in Washington, Yosemite National Park in California and Harrison Hot Springs Resort & Spa in British Columbia ... First & Goal Inc....(size: 7.6Kb)
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20 Dec 2012
(Source. Detroit Lions) Herman Moore on Calvin Johnson. "I'd love to see him be the first receiver to get to 2,000". Posted 1 hour ago. Mike O'HaraMore by O'Hara. Herman Moore holds almost all of the Detroit Lions' franchise receiving records, but at least one of them won't last long ... He needs 182 yards for the record ... The 1995 season was a special one for receivers ... Marvin Harrison had 143 for the Colts in 2002....(size: 9.5Kb)
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20 Dec 2012
Joseph, Mo.; Rebecca Fitzpatrick, Olathe; Blair Fletcher, Leawood; Danielle French, Overland Park; Matthew Fry, Emporia; Brittany Gapter, New Cambria; Aubrey Geenens, Overland Park; Hannah Geenens, Stilwell; Megan Gipson, Olathe; Devin Glasgow, Enid, Okla.; Tyler Glatczak, Centralia; Casey Gleue, Lawrence; Ryan Gleue, Lawrence; Jesse Green, Baldwin ......(size: 9.3Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
19 Dec 2012
HARRISON, Ark. (AP) — Harrison police have arrested two juveniles for threatening to blow up two schools in the north Arkansas city ... 13 bomb threat at Harrison Middle School....(size: 0.9Kb)
PhysOrg
19 Dec 2012
Unfortunately, present plans for seeding the oceans with iron fail to take into account several factors that could scupper those plans, according to Daniel Harrison of the University of Sydney Institute of Marine Science, NSW. Writing in the International Journal of Global Warming, Harrison has calculated the impact of iron seeding schemes in terms ......(size: 2.2Kb)
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In Australia:
- Harrison, Australian Capital Territory, planned suburb in the Canberra district of Gungahlin
In Canada:
- Inukjuak, Quebec, or "Port Harrison", Nunavik region of northern Quebec, Canada
- Harrison Lake, a lake in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada
- Harrison Hot Springs, resort village in British Columbia, Canada, located on Harrison Lake
- Harrison River, a tributary of the Fraser River and which is the outlet of Harrison Lake
- Harrison Bay, a sidewater of the river
- Harrison Mills, British Columbia, a locality and former milltown at the mouth of the Harrison River
- Harrison Knob, a prominent hill and important archaeological site adjacent to the mouth of the Harrison River
- Harrison Island, Hudson Bay, Nunavut
- Harrison Islands, Gulf of Boothia, Nunavut
- Harrison Settlement, Nova Scotia
In the United States:
- Harrison, Arkansas
- Harrison, Georgia
- Harrison, Idaho
- Harrison, Illinois (disambiguation)
- Harrison, Maine
- Harrison, Michigan
- Harrison, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Harrison, Montana
- Harrison, Nebraska
- Harrison, New Jersey
- Harrison, New York
- Harrison, Ohio
- Harrison, Roanoke, Virginia
- Harrison, South Dakota
- Harrison, Tennessee
- Harrison, Wisconsin (disambiguation)
See also: Harrison County (disambiguation), Harrison Township (disambiguation), Harrisonburg (disambiguation), and Harrisonville (disambiguation)
See also[link]
- Harrison Apartment Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
- Harrison College (Indiana) (formerly Indiana Business College)
- Harrison Narcotics Tax Act
- George Harrison (album)
- Harrison & Harrison organ builders
- Harrison and Sons postage stamp printers
- Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
- Harrison Bergeron, short story by Kurt Vonnegut
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| Audley Harrison | |
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| Statistics | |
| Real name | Audley Harrison |
| Nickname(s) | A-Force |
| Rated at | Heavyweight |
| Height | 6 ft 5 1⁄2 in (1.97 m) |
| Reach | 86 in (218 cm) |
| Nationality | British |
| Born | (1971-10-26) 26 October 1971 (age 40) London |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 33 |
| Wins | 28 |
| Wins by KO | 21 |
| Losses | 5 |
| Draws | 0 |
| No contests | 0 |
Audley Harrison (born 26 October 1971) is a British professional boxer from Harlesden, England who fights in the heavyweight division. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney he became the first British fighter to win an Olympic gold medal in the superheavyweight division. He stands 6 ft 5 1⁄2 in (1.97 m) and usually weighs around 255 lb (116 kg).
Harrison turned professional 2001 after signing a contract with BBC Sport. Harrison had 17 fights on the network before BBC Sport pulled all boxing from their programming.
In October 2009, he won the Prizefighter tournament. He became European heavyweight champion after knocking out Michael Sprott in April 2010.[1][2][3]
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Amateur career[link]
Boxing out of Repton Amateur Boxing Club in Bethnal Green, London, Harrison became British super heavyweight champion in 1997, defeating Nick Kendall in the final. He retained the title in 1998, defeating Dean Redmond,[4] and won Gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games beating Michael Macquae of Mauritius in the final. In 2000 he won Gold at the Sydney Olympics by defeating Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov of Kazakhstan on points.
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After his medal win, Harrison was awarded an MBE. In 2001, Harrison released his autobiography Realising the Dream and set up his own company, A Force Promotions, to manage his career and concluded several high profile sponsorships deals and became the first boxer in Britain to sign a direct broadcast deal.[citation needed]
He signed a £1 million deal with the BBC to show his first ten professional fights.[5]
His debut was against US club fighter Michael Middleton, whom Harrison knocked out in the first round in Wembley Arena with 6 million viewers watching at home.[6] He was then out of action for several months with a injury, but by the end of the year outpointed Briton Derek McCafferty over six rounds.[7]
Harrison continued to win and made his United States debut in November 2002, knocking out Shawn Robinson in the 1st round. In February 2003 he beat US fighter Rob Calloway in four rounds,[8] and outpointed Ratko Draskovic over eight rounds.[9] Harrison then knocked out Matt Ellis in two rounds. Harrison then tried to arrange a fight with 41 year old ex-World champion Frank Bruno, who had been retired for seven years. A dispute at York Hall, Bethnal Green with the erratic Hide after the Ellis fight resulted in a riot.[10] The proposed Frank Bruno fight collapsed shortly afterwards, when Bruno was sectioned under the Mental Health Act.[citation needed] Harrison and Hide were both penalised by the British Boxing Board of Control for the riot.
| Medal record | ||
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| Men's Boxing | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
Competitor for  United Kingdom |
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| Gold | 2000 Sydney | Super Heavyweight |
| Commonwealth Games | ||
Competitor for  England |
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| Gold | 1998 Kuala Lumpur | Super Heavyweight |
America bound[link]
Following the Ellis riot, Harrison relocated to the USA where he was unbeaten in 11 fights, with 8 knockouts. In the 2003 November issue of the Ring Magazine, Harrison was tipped to emulate Lennox Lewis and become a dominant world champion.
He had three more fights in 2003, against tough Lisandro Diaz (KO4),[11] Quinn Navarre (KO3),[12] and Brian Nix (KO3),[13] in America. Harrison was sparring regularly with experienced world class Heavyweights like Vaughn Bean.
Harrison returned to the UK in 2004, but instead of fighting new British champion Michael Sprott for the British title, he fought unbeaten Dutch fighter Richel Hersisia for the WBF World belt. He knocked out Hersisia in 4 rounds.[14] He defended the title twice: a 12 round points win over late-sub Julius Francis,[15] and a 9th round TKO of unbeaten Tomasz Bonin.[16] After suffering a serious ligament tear in his left hand requiring hand surgery in New York, Harrison did not fight for almost a year.
BBC deal ends[link]
When the BBC decided to take all boxing off their schedule permanently,[17] Harrison's contract was not renewed. Harrison insisted the decision had nothing to do with his boxing ability and more to do with race.[18] A-Force Promotions was re launched in the USA and Harrison formed a partnership with Al Haymon.
America adventure continues[link]
Harrison returned to the ring in June 2005. He knocked out Robert Davis (KO7)[19] and Robert Wiggins (KO4).[20] On The Best Damn Sports Show Period he said he was now ready to step up and face world class opponents and get a title shot.
Loss of form[link]
Harrison returned to the UK in December to face long-time bitter rival Danny Williams in London for the Commonwealth title. Harrison stepped in after Matt Skelton had pulled out and took the bout on five weeks notice. Harrison lost a close, split decision.[21]
In April 2006 Harrison fought in the US against Dominick Guinn and again lost on points.[22] Harrison put the defeat down to loss of confidence from his defeat to Williams and insisted he would bounce back.
In June 2006 he scored a three round knockout of Andrew Greeley in an off-TV fight in America,[23] and was poised for a fight with Matt Skelton to try to resurrect his career. Skelton had beaten Danny Williams in July, winning the title Williams had earlier taken from Harrison. When Skelton dropped out only one week before the fight due to injury, Danny Williams replaced him.[24]
Williams had trained 8 weeks for a fight with British champion Scott Gammer. This time Harrison fought far more aggressively, decking Williams twice and winning on a third round knockout. Williams suffered a broken nose and severe lacerations.[25] and Harrison was once again lauded as a contender for a world title. Following the victory over Williams, Harrison signed a promotional deal with Frank Warren, whose aim was to get Harrison a world title fight in 2007.
On 17 February 2007, Harrison was knocked out by Michael Sprott for the European Union title. This third professional loss left Harrison's future uncertain. Harrison claimed that he could make a comeback, but comments Warren suggested that any return to the ring would be for a reduced purse, since the public would have no great interest.[26]
Harrison returned to fight Paul King for a bout scheduled for 29 September 2007 in Sheffield. However, he and his coach Kelvyn Travis were involved in a car accident on 21 September 2007 in the United States, and Harrison suffered injuries that caused the fight to be cancelled.[27] Harrison had also suggested that a deal would be announced involving promoter Dennis Hobson, but the cancellation of the fight meant that a formal announcement was on hold.[28] Harrison underwent surgery for his injuries,[29] and returned on 19 April 2008, beating the American Jason Barnett in the fifth round on the undercard of the Bernard Hopkins/Joe Calzaghe fight at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.[30] This bout was the first of a new multi-bout agreement between Harrison and Warren, which aimed to get Harrison a world title shot in 2009.
After proposed matches with Samuel Peter and Martin Rogan fell through,[31][32] on 6 September 2008 Harrison gained what the BBC described as "an unconvincing victory" over George Arias at the MEN Arena in Manchester.[33] The fight was overshadowed by Amir Khan's first defeat later on the same card. On 6 December 2008, Harrison's career seemed all but over as he was defeated by the winner of the first Prizefighter tournament and Belfast taxi driver, Martin Rogan. The referee scored the contest 96-95 in favour of the Irishman.[34]
Comeback[link]
Harrison signed for the Prizefighter tournament which was an eight-man, one-night knockout tournament that took place at ExCeL London on 2 October 2009.[35] On 1 October 2009, he weighed in for Prizefighter at 18 stones and half a pound. He went on to win the tournament, by way of second round knock-out against Coleman Barrett. Before that he had knocked out Scott Belshaw and won a unanimous decision over Danny Hughes. Following his success in the Prizefighter tournament, it was announced on 15 January 2010 that Harrison would face Albert Sosnowski for the European Boxing Union heavyweight title, with the fight set for 9 April 2010. However Sosnowski called the bout off for a shot at Vitali Klitschko's WBC title.
On 9 April 2010, Harrison won the vacant EBU belt against old foe Michael Sprott at Alexandra Palace. He knocked out Sprott in the final round despite being behind on all three judges scorecards. Harrison claimed he sustained a shoulder injury early in the fight and had to carry on single-handed. BBC Sport said of the fight: "Having come within seconds of a defeat that would have made a mockery of pre-fight assertions that he could face one of the Klitschko brothers for a world title, Harrison said: 'I had to win it somehow.'"[36]
After his victory over Sprott, Jeff Powell from the Daily Mail said "He showed bravery of such a high and unexpected order that he finally backed his claims to a world title".[37]
On 24 April 2010, Harrison underwent surgery in Cheadle, Greater Manchester to repair the torn Pectoralis major muscle. The surgeon said he expects Audley to make a "full recovery in about 12 to 16 weeks".[38]
David Haye[link]
On 8 June 2010, Harrison vacated his European title, announcing his intention of getting a world title shot. He began negotiations with Hayemaker Promotions soon after, which culminated in a world-title fight in the M.E.N. Arena against WBA champion David Haye on 13 November 2010.
Harrison was defeated by Haye, with the fight being stopped in the third round after Harrison was unable to respond to a barrage of punches from Haye.[39] Statistics from the fight showed that Harrison only landed a single punch in the entire duration of the contest.[40]
Harrison was heavily criticised for his performance after the bout. British and Commonwealth champion Dereck Chisora stated, "I'd never show my face again if I fought like that. It was pathetic. He disgraced himself and he disgraced British heavyweights, he shouldn't get paid the reported million pounds he is earning after that shambles." [41] European light-heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly also voiced his discontent with the fight, adding Harrison should now retire.[42] Due to the nature of Harrison's defeat, the BBBC withheld some of the fighter's purse while a full investigation of the bout was carried out.[43][44] After the investigation into the fight was concluded, Harrison was granted his full purse on 11 January 2011.[45][46]
Future[link]
On 3 December 2010, it was confirmed Harrison would continue his career as a professional boxer despite the calls for him to retire.[47]Former British and Commonwealth champion Dereck Chisora was critical of the decision, stating, "He's going to box on, but who's going to buy the tickets to go and watch him? Even if he gives them to you for free are you going to go and watch?...Good luck to Audley anyway." [48]
On 15 November 2011, during an interview on BBC Breakfast following his departure from Strictly Come Dancing, Harrison announced that he would return to boxing for one last time saying that "It could be over, but I just need to go and check." He stated that his intention was to fight British Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury in 2012.
Comeback win[link]
Harrison returned to the ring on 26 May 2012 and boxed Ali Adams at the Brentwood Centre, Essex for the International Masters Championships. Harrison sent his opponent to the canvas with a right hand and although Adams managed to get to his feet, a flurry of follow-up shots from Harrison prompted the referee to step in and end the contest.[49]
Strictly Come Dancing[link]
On 6 September 2011 it was announced that Harrison would take part in the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing.[50] Harrison and his dance partner Natalie Lowe made it to the seventh round of the contest before being voted out.[51]
Personal life[link]
Harrison is married to Raychel, an Israel born American and they have a daughter.[52]
Amateur record[link]
- 1998 at the European Super Heavyweight Championships in Minsk, Belarus, lost to Serguei Lyakhovich (Belarus)
- 1998 Commonwealth Games Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist. Results were:
- Defeated Fai Falamoe (New Zealand) points
- Defeated Jim Whitehead (Australia) KO 3
- Defeated Michael Macquae (Mauritius) KO 1
- 1999 competed at the World Championships in Houston, United States. Results were:
- Defeated Lazizbek Zokirov (Uzbekistan) points
- Lost to Sinan Samil Sam (Turkey) points
- Won the Super Heavyweight Gold Medal representing Great Britain at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Results were:
- Defeated Alexei Lezin (Russia) TKO 4
- Defeated Alexey Mazikin (Ukraine) points
- Defeated Paolo Vidoz (Italy) points
- Defeated Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov (Kazakhstan) points
| Vacant
Title last held by
Albert Sosnowski |
EBU Heavyweight Champion 9 April 2010 - 8 June 2010 |
Vacant
Title next held by
Alexander Dimitrenko |
Professional boxing record[link]
| 28 Wins (21 knockouts, 7 decisions), 5 Losses, 0 Draws[53] | |||||||
| Res. | Opponnent | Type | Rd., Time | Date | Location | Notes | |
| Win | Ali Adams |
TKO | 4 (10), 2:40 | 2012-05-26 | Brentwood Centre, Brentwood, Essex, England |
Won International Masters Heavyweight Title | |
| Loss | David Haye |
TKO | 3 (12), 1:53 | 2010-11-13 | M.E.N. Arena, Manchester, England |
WBA World Heavyweight Title | |
| Win | Michael Sprott |
KO | 12 (12), 1:05 | 2010-04-09 | Alexandra Palace, Wood Green, London, England |
Won EBU European Heavyweight Title. | |
| Win |  Coleman Barrett |
TKO | 2 (3) 2:40 |
2009-10-02 | ExCel Arena, Dockland, London, England |
'Prizefighter' Tournament Heavyweight Final | |
| Win | Danny Hughes |
Decision Unanimous | 3 (3) | 2009-10-02 | ExCel Arena, Dockland, London, England |
'Prizefighter' Tournament Heavyweight Semi-Final | |
| Win |  Scott Belshaw |
TKO | 2 (3) 3:00 |
2009-10-02 | ExCel Arena, Dockland, London, England |
'Prizefighter' Tournament Heavyweight Quarter-Final | |
| Loss | Martin Rogan |
Points | 10 (10) | 2008-12-06 | ExCel Arena, Dockland, London, England |
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| Win |  George Arias |
Points | 10 (10) | 2008-09-06 | M.E.N. Arena, Manchester, England |
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| Win |  Jason Barnett |
TKO | 5 (8) 1:48 |
2008-04-19 | Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States |
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| Loss | Michael Sprott |
TKO | 3 (12) 3:00 |
2007-02-17 | The Arena, Wembley, London, England |
EBU-EU (European Union) Heavyweight Title Vacant BBBofC English Heavyweight Title Sprott Down in 1st |
|
| Win | Danny Williams |
TKO | 3 (12) 2:32 |
2006-12-09 | ExCel Arena, Dockland, London, England |
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| Win | Andrew Greeley |
KO | 3 (10) 2:32 |
2006-06-09 | Tropicana Hotel & Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States |
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| Loss | Dominick Guinn |
Decision Unanimous | 10 (10) | 2006-04-14 | Agua Caliente Casino, Rancho Mirage, California, United States |
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| Loss | Danny Williams |
Decision Split |
12 (12) | 2005-12-10 | ExCel Arena, Dockland, London, England |
Vacant Commonwealth (British Empire) Heavyweight Title | |
| Win | Robert Wiggins |
TKO | 4 (10) 3:00 |
2005-08-18 | HP Pavilion, San Jose, California, United States |
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| Win | Robert Davis |
TKO | 7 (10) 2:21 |
2005-06-09 | Pechanga Entertainment Center, Temecula, California, United States |
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| Win |  Tomasz Bonin |
TKO | 9 (12) 2:17 |
2004-06-19 | Alexandra Palace, Wood Green, London, England |
Retained World Boxing Foundation Heavyweight Title | |
| Win | Julius Francis |
Decision Unanimous | 12 (12) | 2004-05-08 | Whitchurch Leisure Centre, Bristol, Avon, England |
Retained World Boxing Foundation Heavyweight Title Francis (a late replacement for the injured Nikolai Popov) Francis was knocked down in the 12th round. |
|
| Win |  Richel Hersisia |
KO | 4 (12) 2:00 |
2004-03-20 | The Arena, Wembley, London, England |
Won World Boxing Foundation Heavyweight Title | |
| Win | Brian Nix |
TKO | 3 (10) 1:41 |
2003-12-12 | Edgewater Casino, Laughlin, Nevada, United States |
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| Win |  Lisandro Ezequiel Diaz |
TKO | 4 (8) 1:32 |
2003-10-03 | Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States |
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| Win | Quinn Navarre |
KO | 3 (8) 0:32 |
2003-09-09 | Level Nightclub, Miami, Florida, United States |
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| Win | Mathew Ellis |
TKO | 2 (8) 1:35 |
2003-05-31 | York Hall, Bethnal Green, London, England |
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| Win |  Ratko Draskovic |
Points | 8 (8) | 2003-03-29 | Conference Centre, Wembley, London, England |
Draskovic down once in the 6th round | |
| Win | Rob Calloway |
RTD | 5 (8) | 2003-02-08 | Fountain Leisure Centre, Brentford, London, England |
Fight is stopped just after the bell had sounded to start round 5 due to a broken jaw. | |
| Win | Shawn Robinson |
TKO | 1 (6) 2:09 |
2002-11-23 | Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States |
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| Win | Wade Lewis |
TKO | 2 (6) 0:43 |
2002-10-05 | Olympia, Liverpool, Merseyside, England |
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| Win | Dominic Negus |
Points | 6 (6) | 2002-07-10 | Conference Centre, Wembley, London, England |
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| Win | Mark Krence |
Points | 6 (6) | 2002-05-21 | ExCel Arena, Dockland, London, England |
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| Win | Julius Long |
TKO | 2 (6) 2:00 |
2002-04-20 | Conference Centre, Wembley, London, England |
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| Win | Piotr Jurczyk |
TKO | 2 (6) 1:24 |
2001-10-20 |  Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, Scotland |
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| Win | Derek McCafferty |
Points | 6 (6) | 2001-09-22 | Telewest Arena, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England |
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| Win | Mike Middleton |
TKO | 1 (6) 2:45 |
2001-05-19 | The Arena, Wembley, London, England |
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External links[link]
- Official site
- Professional boxing record for Audley Harrison from BoxRec
- TV appearances at Internet Movie Database
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| Short description | Boxer |
| Date of birth | 1971-10-26 |
| Place of birth | London |
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This article is about the musician. For his eponymous album, see George Harrison (album). For other persons named George Harrison, see George Harrison (disambiguation).
| George Harrison MBE |
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|---|---|
 George Harrison at the White House in 1974. |
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Carl Harrison L'Angelo Misterioso Hari Georgeson Nelson/Spike Wilbury George Harrysong George O'Hara-Smith Jairaj Hari san |
| Born | (1943-02-25)25 February 1943 Liverpool, England, UK |
| Died | 29 November 2001(2001-11-29) (aged 58) Los Angeles, California, US |
| Genres | Rock, pop, psychedelic rock, experimental, world music |
| Occupations | Musician, singer-songwriter, actor, record and film producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, ukulele, harmonica, mandolin, tambura, sarod, swarmandal, bass, keyboards, violin, sitar |
| Years active | 1958–2001 |
| Labels | Parlophone, Capitol, Swan, Apple, Vee-Jay, EMI, Dark Horse |
| Associated acts | The Quarrymen, The Beatles, Traveling Wilburys, Dhani Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Eric Clapton |
| Website | www.georgeharrison.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Gretsch Country Gentleman "Rocky" "Lucy" Rosewood Telecaster |
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George Harrison,[1] MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)[2] was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles.[3][4] Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle",[3] Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as their Western audience.[5] Following the band's break-up he was a successful solo artist, and later a founding member of the Traveling Wilburys. Harrison was also a session musician and a film and record producer. He is listed at number 11 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".[6]
Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With The Beatles onwards.[7] His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which two hit singles originated: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for former Beatle Ringo Starr, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison.
Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid-1960s, and helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna movement. With Ravi Shankar he organised the first major charity concert with the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. In addition to his musical accomplishments, he was also a record producer and co-founder of the production company HandMade Films. In his work as a film producer, he collaborated with people as diverse as the members of Monty Python and Madonna.[8]
He was married twice, to model Pattie Boyd from 1966 to 1974, and for 23 years to record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias, with whom he had one son, Dhani Harrison. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton. To date, he is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.
Early years: 1943–1959[link]
Harrison was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, on 25 February 1943,[9][10] the last of four children to Harold Hargreaves Harrison and his wife Louise, née French.[11]
He had one sister, Louise, born 16 August 1931, and two brothers, Harry, born 1934, and Peter, born 20 July 1940. His mother was a Liverpool shop assistant, and his father was a bus conductor who had worked as a ship's steward on the White Star Line. His mother's family had Irish roots and were Roman Catholic;[9] his maternal grandfather, John French, was born in County Wexford, Ireland, emigrating to Liverpool where he married a local girl, Louise Woollam.[12]
Harrison was born in the house where he lived for his first six years: 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree, Liverpool, which was a small 2 up, 2 down terraced house in a cul-de-sac, with an alley to the rear. The only heating was a single coal fire, and the toilet was outside. In 1950 the family were offered a council house,[13] and moved to 25 Upton Green, Speke.[14]
His first school was Dovedale Primary School, very close to Penny Lane,[15] the same school as John Lennon who was a couple of years ahead of him.[16] He passed his 11-plus examination and achieved a place at the Liverpool Institute for Boys (in the building that now houses the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts), which he attended from 1954 to 1959.[17]
Harrison said that, when he was 12 or 13, he had an "epiphany" of sorts – riding a bike around his neighbourhood, he heard Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" playing from a nearby house and was hooked.[18] Even though he had done well enough on his 11-plus examination to get into the city's best high school, from that point on, the former good student lost interest in school.[18]
When Harrison was 14 years old, he sat at the back of the class and tried drawing guitars in his schoolbooks: “I was totally into guitars. I heard about this kid at school who had a guitar at £3 10s, it was just a little acoustic round hole. I got the £3 10s from my mother: that was a lot of money for us then.” Harrison bought a Dutch Egmond flat top acoustic guitar.[19] While at the Liverpool Institute, Harrison formed a skiffle group called the Rebels with his brother Peter and a friend, Arthur Kelly.[20] At this school he met Paul McCartney, who was one year older.[21] McCartney later became a member of John Lennon's band called The Quarrymen, which Harrison joined in 1958.[22]
The Beatles: 1960–1970[link]
Main articles: The Beatles and The Beatles discography
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Stuart Sutcliffe and Harrison (right) in Hamburg
Harrison became part of The Beatles when they were still a skiffle group called The Quarrymen. McCartney told Lennon about his friend George Harrison, who could play "Raunchy" on his guitar.[23] Although Lennon considered him too young to join the band, Harrison hung out with them and filled in as needed.[23] By the time Harrison was 15, Lennon and the others had accepted him as one of the band.[24] Since Harrison was the youngest member of the group, he was looked upon as a kid by the others for another few years.[25]
Harrison left school at 16 and worked as an apprentice electrician at local department store Blacklers for a while.[26][27] When The Beatles were offered work in Hamburg in 1960, the musical apprenticeship that Harrison received playing long hours at the Kaiserkeller with the rest of the group, including guitar lessons from Tony Sheridan, laid the foundations of The Beatles' sound, and of Harrison's quiet, professional role within the group;[28] this role would contribute to his reputation as "the quiet Beatle".[29] The first trip to Hamburg was shortened when Harrison was deported for being underage.[30]
When Brian Epstein became The Beatles' manager in December 1961 after seeing them perform at The Cavern Club in November,[31] he changed their image from that of leather-jacketed rock-and-rollers to a more polished look,[32] and secured them a recording contract with EMI. The first single, "Love Me Do", with Harrison playing a Gibson J-160E,[33][34][35] reached number 17 in the UK chart in October 1962,[36] and by the time their debut album, Please Please Me, was released in early 1963, The Beatles had become famous and Beatlemania had arrived.[37]
After he revealed in an interview that he liked jelly babies, British fans inundated Harrison and the rest of the band with boxes of the sweets as gifts. A few months later, American audiences showered the band with the much harder jelly beans instead. In a letter to a fan, Harrison mentioned jelly babies, insisting that no one in the band actually liked them and that the press must have made it up.[38]
The popularity of The Beatles led to a successful tour of America, the making of a film, A Hard Day's Night (during which Harrison met his future wife Pattie Boyd), and in the 1965 Queen's Birthday Honours, all four Beatles were appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).[39] Harrison, whose role within the group was that of the careful musician who checked that the instruments were tuned,[40] by 1965 and the Rubber Soul album, was developing into a musical director as he led the others into folk-rock, via his interest in The Byrds and Bob Dylan,[41] and into Indian music with his exploration of the sitar.[42][43] Harrison's musical involvement and cohesion with the group reached its peak on Revolver in 1966 with his contribution of three songs and new musical ideas.[44][45] By 1967, Harrison's interests appeared to be moving outside the Beatles, and his involvement in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band consists mainly of his one song, "Within You Without You", on which no other Beatle plays,[46] and which stands out for its difference from the rest of the album.[47]
During the recording of The Beatles in 1968, tensions were present in the band;[48] these surfaced again during the filming of rehearsal sessions at Twickenham Studios for the album Let It Be in early 1969. Frustrated by ongoing slights, the poor working conditions in the cold and sterile film studio, and Lennon's creative disengagement from the group, Harrison quit the band on 10 January. He returned on 22 January after negotiations with the other Beatles at two business meetings.[49]
Relations among The Beatles were more cordial (though still strained) during recordings for the album Abbey Road.[50] The album included "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something", "Something" was later recorded by Frank Sinatra, who considered it "the greatest love song of the past fifty years".[51] Harrison's increasing productivity, coupled with his difficulties in getting The Beatles to record his music, meant that by the end of the group's career he had amassed a considerable stockpile of unreleased material.[52] Harrison's last recording session with The Beatles was on 4 January 1970. Lennon, who had left the group the previous September, did not attend the session.[53]
Relationships with the other Beatles[link]
For most of The Beatles career, the relationships in the group were extremely close and intimate. According to Hunter Davies, "The Beatles spent their lives not living a communal life, but communally living the same life. They were each other's greatest friends." Harrison's wife Pattie Boyd described how The Beatles "all belonged to each other" and admitted, "George has a lot with the others that I can never know about. Nobody, not even the wives, can break through or even comprehend it."[54]
Ringo Starr also stated, "We really looked out for each other and we had so many laughs together. In the old days we'd have the biggest hotel suites, the whole floor of the hotel, and the four of us would end up in the bathroom, just to be with each other." and added "There were some really loving, caring moments between four people: a hotel room here and there – a really amazing closeness. Just four guys who loved each other. It was pretty sensational."[55]
John Lennon stated that his relationship with George was "one of young follower and older guy", and admitted that "[George] was like a disciple of mine when we started."[56] The two would often go on holiday together throughout the 1960s. Their relationship took a severe turn for the worse after George published his autobiography, I Me Mine. Lennon felt insulted and hurt that George mentioned him only in passing. Actually, the book mentions John 11 times, which is higher than the number of mentions received by Paul, The Beatles, Eric Clapton or even George's second wife, Olivia.[57] Nevertheless, Lennon claimed he was hurt by the book and also that he did more for George than any of the other Beatles. As a result, George and John were not on good terms during the last months of Lennon's life.[58] After Lennon's murder, George paid tribute to Lennon with his song "All Those Years Ago" which was released in 1981, six months after Lennon's murder. It contains the lyric "I always look up to you", suggesting implicit agreement with Lennon's appraisal of their relationship.[59]
Paul McCartney has often referred to Harrison as his "baby brother",[60] and he did the honours as best man at George's wedding in 1966. The two were the first of The Beatles to meet, having shared a school bus, and would often learn and rehearse new guitar chords together. McCartney stated that he and George usually shared a bedroom while touring.[61]
Guitar work[link]
Although not fast or flashy, Harrison's guitar work with The Beatles was solid and typified the more subdued lead guitar style of the early 1960s.[62] The influence of the plucking guitar style of Chet Atkins and Carl Perkins on Harrison gave a country music feel to The Beatles' early recordings.[63] Harrison explored several guitar instruments, the twelve-string, the sitar and the slide guitar, and developed his playing from tight eight- and twelve-bar solos in such songs as "A Hard Day's Night" and "Can't Buy Me Love",[63] to slide guitar playing,[64] first recorded during an early session of "If Not for You" for Dylan's New Morning in 1970.[65] The earliest example of notable guitar work from Harrison was the extended acoustic guitar solo of "And I Love Her", for which Harrison purchased a José Ramírez nylon-stringed classical guitar to produce the sensitivity needed.[66][67][68]
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Harrison's first electric guitar was a Czech built Jolana Futurama/Grazioso,[69] which was a popular guitar among British guitarists in the early 1960s.[70] The guitars Harrison used on early recordings were mainly Gretsch played through a Vox amp.[71] He used a variety of Gretsch guitars,[72] including a Gretsch Duo Jet – his first Gretsch, which he bought in 1961 second hand off a sailor in Liverpool;[73] a Gretsch Tennessean,[74] and his (first out of two) Gretsch Country Gentleman, bought new for £234 in April 1963 at the Sound City store in London, which he used on "She Loves You", and on The Beatles' 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.[73]
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George Harrison with Ravi Shankar, 1967
During The Beatles' trip to the US in 1964, Harrison acquired a Rickenbacker 360/12 guitar. He had tried out the 12-string electric guitar during an interview with a Minneapolis radio station, and was given the guitar either by the Rickenbacker company or the radio station.[75] The 360/12 was an experimental 12-string guitar with the strings reversed so that the lower pitched string was struck first, and with an unusual headstock design that made tuning easier.[71] Harrison used the guitar extensively during the recording of A Hard Day's Night,[76] and the jangly sound became so popular that the Melody Maker termed it "the beat boys' secret weapon".[77] Roger McGuinn liked the effect Harrison achieved so much that it became his signature guitar sound with the Byrds.[78]
He obtained his first Fender Stratocaster in 1965 and used it for the recording of the Rubber Soul album, most notably on the "Nowhere Man" track, where he played in unison with Lennon who also had a Stratocaster.[79] Lennon and Harrison both had Sonic Blue Stratocasters, which were bought second hand by roadie Mal Evans.[80] Harrison painted his Stratocaster in a psychedelic design that included the word "Bebopalula" painted above the pickguard and the guitar's nickname, "Rocky", painted on the headstock. He played this guitar in the Magical Mystery Tour film and throughout his solo career. Harrison listed his early influences as Carl Perkins,[81] Bo Diddley,[82] Chuck Berry[83] and the Everly Brothers.[84]
After David Crosby of the Byrds introduced him to the work of sitar master Ravi Shankar in 1965,[85] Harrison—whose interest in Indian music was stirred during the filming of Help!, which used Indian music as part of its soundtrack—played a sitar on the Rubber Soul track "Norwegian Wood", expanding the already nascent Western interest in Indian music.[86] Harrison's sitar playing on "Love You To" represented an "astonishing improvement" over "Norwegian Wood" and has been termed "the most accomplished performance on sitar by any rock musician."[87]
Song writing and singing[link]
Main article: List of George Harrison songs
Harrison wrote his first song published with the Beatles, "Don't Bother Me", while sick in a hotel bed in Bournemouth during August 1963, as "an exercise to see if I could write a song", [emphasis in original] as he remembered.[88] "Don't Bother Me" appeared on the second Beatles album With The Beatles later that year, then on Meet the Beatles! in the US in early 1964, and also briefly in the film A Hard Day's Night. The group did not record another Harrison composition until 1965, when he contributed "I Need You" and "You Like Me Too Much" to the album Help!. One of his more enduring early works is 1965's "If I Needed Someone".
Harrison's songwriting improved greatly through the years, but his material did not earn respect from his fellow Beatles until near the group's break-up. McCartney told Lennon in 1969: "Until this year, our songs have been better than George's. Now this year his songs are at least as good as ours".[89][90] Harrison had difficulty getting the band to record his songs.[91][92] The group's incorporation of Harrison's material reached a peak of three songs on the 1966 Revolver album and four songs on the 1968 double The Beatles.
Harrison performed the lead vocal on all Beatles songs that he wrote by himself. He also sang lead vocal on other songs, including "Chains" and "Do You Want to Know a Secret" on Please Please Me, "Roll Over Beethoven" and "Devil in Her Heart" on With The Beatles, "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" on A Hard Day's Night, and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" on Beatles for Sale.
Solo work: 1968–1987[link]
Before The Beatles split up in 1970, Harrison had already recorded and released two solo albums, Wonderwall Music and Electronic Sound. These albums were mainly instrumental. Wonderwall Music was a soundtrack to the Wonderwall film in which Harrison blended Indian and Western sounds;[93] while Electronic Sound was an experiment in using a Moog synthesiser.[94] It was only when Harrison was free from The Beatles that he released what is regarded as his first "real" solo album, the commercially successful and critically acclaimed All Things Must Pass.[95]
[edit] All Things Must Pass (1970)
Main article: All Things Must Pass
After years of being restricted in his song-writing contributions to the Beatles, All Things Must Pass contained such a large outpouring of Harrison's songs that it was released as a triple album,[95] though only two of the discs contained songs—the third contained recordings of Harrison jamming with friends.[52][94] The album is regarded as his best work;[96] it was a critical and commercial success, topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic,[52][97] and produced the number-one hit single "My Sweet Lord" as well as the top-10 single "What Is Life". The album was co-produced by Phil Spector using his "Wall of Sound" approach,[98] and the musicians included Eric Clapton, Dave Mason, Gary Wright, Billy Preston, and Ringo Starr.[52]
Harrison was later sued for copyright infringement over the song "My Sweet Lord" because of its similarity to the 1963 Chiffons song "He's So Fine", owned by Bright Tunes. Harrison denied deliberately plagiarising the song, but he lost the resulting court case in 1976 as the judge deemed that Harrison had "subconsciously" plagiarised "He's So Fine". When considering liable earnings, "My Sweet Lord"'s contribution to the sales of All Things Must Pass and The Best of George Harrison were taken into account, and the judge decided a figure of $1,599,987 was owed to Bright Tunes.[99] The dispute over damages became complicated when Harrison's former manager Allen Klein purchased the copyright to "He's So Fine" from Bright Tunes in 1978. In 1981, a district judge decided that Klein had acted improperly, and it was agreed that Harrison should pay Klein $587,000, the amount Klein had paid for "He's So Fine", so he would gain nothing from the deal, and that Harrison would take over ownership of Bright Tunes, making him the owner of the rights to both "My Sweet Lord" and "He's So Fine" and thus ending the copyright infringement claim. Though the dispute dragged on into the 1990s, the district judge's decision was upheld.[99][100]
The Concert for Bangladesh (1971)[link]
Main article: The Concert for Bangladesh
Responding to a request for help by longtime friend Ravi Shankar, Harrison organised a major charity concert, The Concert for Bangladesh, on 1 August 1971, drawing over 40,000 people to two shows in New York's Madison Square Garden.[101] The aim of the event was to raise money to aid the starving refugees during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Ravi Shankar opened the proceedings, which included other popular musicians such as Bob Dylan (who rarely appeared live in the early 1970s), Eric Clapton, who made his first public appearance in months (due to a heroin addiction which began when Derek and the Dominos broke up), Leon Russell, Badfinger, Billy Preston and fellow Beatle Ringo Starr. Tax troubles and questionable expenses tied up many of the concert's proceeds.[101] Apple Corporation released a newly arranged concert DVD and CD in October 2005 (with all artists' sales royalties continuing to go to UNICEF), which contained additional material such as previously unreleased rehearsal footage of "If Not for You", featuring Harrison and Dylan.
[edit] Living in the Material World to George Harrison (1972–1979)
Harrison would not again release an album that came close to the critical and commercial achievements of All Things Must Pass. Although 1973's Living in the Material World initially did well, holding number one spot on the US album chart for five weeks and reaching number two in the UK, and the album's single, "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)", was also successful, reaching number one in the US and the top ten in the UK, neither could match the sales of All Things Must Pass and "My Sweet Lord". The album was lavishly produced and packaged, and its dominant message was the power of Harrison's Hindu beliefs.[102] The one fully secular song, "Sue Me, Sue You Blues", expressed Harrison's disgust with the endless legal squabbling that had overtaken all of the former Beatles.[102] The Dark Horse album of 1974 written after Harrison's break-up with his wife Pattie Boyd and when he was suffering from laryngitis received harsh reviews,[103] as did the accompanying tour of North America. Harrison was criticised for poor songwriting and poor vocals on the album, and for over-indulging his love for Indian music during the tour.[104] The album and single "Dark Horse" did briefly make an appearance near the top of the US charts, but both failed to chart in the UK.[105]
His final studio album for EMI (and Apple Records) was Extra Texture (Read All About It), featuring a diecut cover. The album spawned two singles, "You" which reached the Billboard top 20 and "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)", which became Apple's final original single release in December 1975.[106] Following the former Beatle's departure from Capitol, the record company was in a position to license releases featuring Beatles and post-Beatles work on the same album, using Harrison for this experiment.[107] The Best of George Harrison (1976) combined his Beatles songs with a selection of his solo Apple work.
Thirty Three & 1/3, his first Dark Horse release, was his most successful late-1970s album, reaching number 11 on the US charts in 1976, and producing the singles "This Song" (a satire of the "My Sweet Lord"-"He's So Fine" court case ruling) and "Crackerbox Palace", both of which reached the top 25 in the US. With an emphasis on melody, musicianship, and subtler subject matter rather than the heavy orchestration and didactic messaging of earlier works, he received his best critical notices since All Things Must Pass.[108] With its surreal humour, "Crackerbox Palace" also reflected Harrison's association with Monty Python's Eric Idle, who directed a comic music video for the song.[108] After his second marriage and the birth of son Dhani Harrison, Harrison's next released a self-titled album. 1979's George Harrison included the singles "Blow Away", "Love Comes to Everyone" and "Faster". Both the album and "Blow Away" made the Billboard top 20.
In addition to his own works during this time, between 1971 and 1973 Harrison co-wrote or produced three top ten US and UK hits for Ringo Starr ("It Don't Come Easy", "Back Off Boogaloo", and "Photograph").[109] Harrison played electric, slide and dobro guitars on five songs on John Lennon's 1971 Imagine album ("How Do You Sleep?", "Oh My Love", "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier", "Crippled Inside" and "Gimme Some Truth"),[110] with his stinging slide guitar work on the first of these indicating that he took John's side of the intense Lennon-McCartney feud of the time.[111] Lennon later said of Harrison's work on the album, "That's the best he's ever fucking played in his life!"[110] Harrison also produced and played slide guitar on the Apple band Badfinger's 1971 top ten US and UK hit "Day After Day".[112]
During the decade, Harrison also worked with Harry Nilsson ("You're Breakin' My Heart", 1972),[113] as well as Billy Preston ("That's the Way God Planned It",[114] 1969 and "It's My Pleasure", 1975) and Cheech & Chong ("Basketball Jones", 1973).[115] He also appeared with Paul Simon to perform two acoustic songs on Saturday Night Live.
[edit] Somewhere in England to Cloud Nine (1980–1987)
Harrison was deeply shocked by the 8 December 1980 murder of John Lennon.[116] The crime reinforced his decades-long worries about safety from stalkers. It was also a deep personal loss, although unlike former bandmates McCartney and Starr, Harrison had little contact with Lennon in the years before the murder. Their estrangement had been marked by Harrison's longstanding dislike of Yoko Ono, his refusal to allow her participation in the Concert for Bangladesh, and his omission of any mention of Lennon in his autobiography, I Me Mine, published the year of Lennon's murder.[117] The omission had upset Lennon greatly, which Harrison had regretted, leading him to leave a telephone message for Lennon, but Lennon had declined to return the call and they had not spoken again.[116] Following the murder, Harrison said, "After all we went through together I had and still have great love and respect for John Lennon. I am shocked and stunned. To rob life is the ultimate robbery in life."[116]
Harrison modified the lyrics of a song he had written for Starr to make it a tribute song to Lennon. "All Those Years Ago" received substantial radio airplay, reaching number two on the US charts.[118] All three surviving ex-Beatles performed on it, although it was expressly a Harrison single. "Teardrops" was issued as a follow-up single, but was not nearly as successful. Both singles came from the album Somewhere in England, released in 1981. Originally slated for release in late 1980, Warner Bros. rejected the album, ordering Harrison to replace several tracks, and to change the album cover as well. The original album cover that Harrison wanted was used in the 2004 reissue of the album. In 1981, Harrison played guitar on one track of Mick Fleetwood's record The Visitor and Lindsey Buckingham's song "Walk a Thin Line".
Aside from a song on the Porky's Revenge soundtrack in 1985 (his version of a little-known Bob Dylan song "I Don't Want to Do It"), Harrison released no new records for five years after 1982's Gone Troppo received apparent indifference.
In October 1985, Harrison made a rare public appearance on the Cinemax Channel 4 live concert TV special in a tribute to Carl Perkins. He appeared along with Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton among others. The show was called Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session. He performed "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby", "Your True Love", "That's Alright Mama" (including the guitar solo), "Glad All Over" (including the guitar solo), "Gone Gone Gone" and "Blue Suede Shoes". He only agreed to appear because he had been a close admirer and friend of Carl Perkins for over 20 years.
In 1987, Harrison returned with the critically acclaimed platinum album Cloud Nine, co-produced with Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra, and enjoyed a hit (number one in the US; number two in the UK) when his rendition of James Ray's early 1960s number "Got My Mind Set on You" was released as a single; another single, "When We Was Fab", a retrospective of The Beatles' days complete with musical flavours for each bandmate, was also a minor hit. MTV regularly played the two videos, and elevated Harrison's public profile with another generation of music listeners. The album reached number eight and number ten on the US and UK charts, respectively. In the US, several tracks also enjoyed high placement on Billboard's Album Rock chart – "Devil's Radio", "This Is Love" and "Cloud 9" in addition to the aforementioned singles.
Live performances (1971–1992)[link]
On 23 November 1971, Harrison appeared on an episode of The Dick Cavett Show in a band called Wonder Wheel performing a song written by Gary Wright called "Two Faced Man". Harrison played slide guitar in this band as a favour since Wright had played piano on Harrison's album All Things Must Pass. The episode can be viewed on DVD The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons Disc 3.[119]
Harrison launched a major tour of the United States in 1974. Critical and fan reaction panned the tour for its long mid-concert act of Pandit Ravi Shankar & Friends and for Harrison's hoarse voice. Harrison had hired filmmaker David Acomba to accompany the tour and gather footage for a documentary. Due to Harrison's hoarse voice throughout most of this tour, the film was not released, but in 1977 Acomba placed a newly revised director's cut in the Harrison archive. It was the last time he toured in the United States.
In 1986, Harrison made a surprise performance at the Birmingham Heart Beat Charity Concert 1986 a concert event to raise money for the Birmingham Children's Hospital. Harrison played and sang the finale "Johnny B. Goode" along with Robert Plant, The Moody Blues, and Electric Light Orchestra, among others.[120] The following year, Harrison appeared at The Prince's Trust concert in Wembley Arena, performing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes the Sun" with Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, and others.[121] On 1 May 1990, during Eric Clapton's Journey Man Tour, Harrison joined Clapton on stage at the L.A. Forum, performing "Crossroads" and "Sunshine Of Your Love".[122] In 1991, Harrison staged a tour of Japan along with Clapton. It was his first tour since the 1974 US tour, but no other tours followed. The Live in Japan recording came from these shows.
On 6 April 1992, Harrison held a benefit concert for the Natural Law Party at Royal Albert Hall, his first London performance in 23 years[123] and his last full concert.[citation needed] In October 1992, Harrison performed three songs, "If Not for You", "Absolutely Sweet Marie", and "My Back Pages", at a Bob Dylan tribute concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City.[124] This was released on the album The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration in August 1993.
On 14 December 1992, Harrison took part in a memorial concert at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles for Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro. The concert consisted of an all-star line-up that included Boz Scaggs, Donald Fagen, Don Henley, Michael McDonald, David Crosby, Eddie Van Halen, and the members of Toto. The proceeds of the concert were used to establish an educational trust fund for Porcaro's children.[125]
Later life: 1988–2001[link]
Early in 1989, Harrison, Lynne and Ringo Starr all appeared in the music video for Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down", although Starr did not actually play on the track; Harrison played acoustic guitar. The same year also saw the release of Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989, a compilation drawn from his later solo work. This album also included two new songs, "Poor Little Girl", and "Cockamamie Business" (which saw him once again looking wryly upon his Beatle past), as well as "Cheer Down", which had first been released earlier in the year on the soundtrack to the film Lethal Weapon 2, which starred Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Unlike his previous greatest hits package, Harrison made sure to oversee this compilation. In 1989 Harrison played slide guitar on the "Leave a Light On" and "Deep Deep Ocean" songs from Belinda Carlisle's third album Runaway Horses. "Leave a Light On" was successful worldwide.
In 1996, Harrison recorded, produced and played on "Distance Makes No Difference With Love" with Carl Perkins for his Go-Cat-Go record.
Harrison's final television appearance was not intended as such; in fact, he was not the featured artist, and the appearance had been intended to promote Chants of India, another collaboration with Ravi Shankar released in 1997, at the height of interest in chant music. John Fugelsang, then of VH1, conducted the interview, and at one point an acoustic guitar was produced and handed to Harrison. When an audience member asked to hear "a Beatles song", Harrison pulled a sheepish look and answered, "I don't think I know any!" Harrison then played "All Things Must Pass" and revealed for the first time "Any Road", which subsequently appeared on the 2002 Brainwashed album.
In January 1998, Harrison attended the funeral of his boyhood idol, Carl Perkins, in Jackson, Tennessee. Harrison played an impromptu version of Perkins' song "Your True Love" during the service.[126] That same year he attended the public memorial service for Linda McCartney. Also that same year, he appeared on Ringo Starr's Vertical Man, where he played both electric and slide guitars on two tracks.
In 2001, Harrison performed as a guest musician on the Electric Light Orchestra album Zoom. He played slide guitar on the song "Love Letters" for Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, and remastered and restored unreleased tracks from the Traveling Wilburys. He also co-wrote a new song with his son Dhani, "Horse to the Water". The latter song ended up as Harrison's final recording session, on 2 October, just eight weeks before his death. It appeared on Jools Holland's album Small World, Big Band.[127]
Harrison's final album, Brainwashed, was completed by Dhani Harrison and Jeff Lynne and released on 18 November 2002. It received generally positive reviews in the United States, and peaked at number 18 on the Billboard charts. A media-only single, "Stuck Inside a Cloud", was heavily played on UK and US radio to promote the album (number 27 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart), while the official single "Any Road", released in May 2003, reached number 37 on the British chart. The instrumental track, "Marwa Blues" went on to receive the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, while the single "Any Road" was nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.[128]
The Traveling Wilburys: 1988–1990[link]
Main article: Traveling Wilburys
In 1988, Harrison played an instrumental role in forming the Traveling Wilburys with Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Tom Petty when they gathered in Dylan's garage to quickly record an additional track for a projected Harrison European single release.[129] The record company realised the track ("Handle With Care") was too good for its original purpose as a B-side and asked for a full, separate album. This had to be completed within two weeks, as Dylan was scheduled to start a tour. The album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, was released in October 1988 and recorded under pseudonyms as half-brothers (supposed sons of Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr.). Harrison's pseudonym on the first album was "Nelson Wilbury"; he would use the name "Spike Wilbury" for the Traveling Wilburys' second album.
After the death of Roy Orbison in late 1988 the group recorded as a four-piece. Though Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 was their second release, the album was mischievously titled Vol. 3 by Harrison. According to Lynne, "That was George's idea. He said, 'Let's confuse the buggers.'"[130] It was not as well received as the previous album, but did reach number 14 in the UK and number 11 in the US where it went platinum, while the singles "She's My Baby", "Inside Out", and "Wilbury Twist" got decent air play.
The Beatles Anthology: 1994–1996[link]
Main article: The Beatles Anthology
In 1994–1996, Harrison reunited with the surviving former Beatles, and Traveling Wilburys producer Jeff Lynne for The Beatles Anthology project, which included the recording of two new Beatles songs built around solo vocal and piano tapes recorded by John Lennon in the late 1970s, as well as the lengthy interviews on The Beatles' history.[131] The single "Free as a Bird", was the first Beatles single since "The Long and Winding Road" in 1970.[132][133]
HandMade Films: 1978–1994[link]
Main article: HandMade Films
HandMade Films was a British film production and distribution company that Harrison formed in 1978 with his business partner, Denis O'Brien.[134] It was created to help out his Monty Python friends by raising £2 million to finish their film Life of Brian after EMI Films, the original financiers, pulled out due to the film's satirical content.[134] Harrison took the name from some handmade paper he had been given on a mill visit.[134] Though the company was formed with the intention of funding just the one film (a scenario which became epitomised as Harrison's "world's most expensive cinema ticket", as the Python's Eric Idle put it), Harrison and O'Brien bought the rights to The Long Good Friday, which had been faced with various cuts, and released it in its original form.[135]
The first film started under the company was Time Bandits, equipped with a soundtrack by Harrison, in 1981, a solo project by Python Terry Gilliam for whom HandMade originally also was to finance The Adventures of Baron Munchausen before several funding parties including HandMade dropped out of the project. Harrison produced twenty three films with HandMade, including Mona Lisa, Shanghai Surprise, and Withnail and I. He made several cameo appearances in these movies, including appearing as a nightclub singer in Shanghai Surprise and as Mr Papadopolous in Life of Brian.[136] Handmade Films became a rarity in the British film industry, a production company that was both consistently successful and internationally known.[134][137] The company was well regarded both for nurturing British talent and for most of its films having British settings or inspirations.[134][137]
Harrison was involved in some creative decisions, approving projects such as Withnail and I[138] and visiting sets as executive producer to sort out creative problems.[139] On the whole, though, he preferred to stay out of the way: "[As a musician] I've been the person who's said of the people with the money, 'What do they know?' and now I'm that person. But I know that unless you give an artist as much freedom as possible, there's no point in using that artist."[134]
The bulk of the financial and business decisions were left to O'Brien, who was tasked with making sure that films got made on time and on budget.[134] This eventually resulted in disagreements and lawsuits between the pair as HandMade Films encountered reversals,[140] and Harrison sold the company in 1994.[141]
Interest in Indian culture[link]
Sitar and Indian music[link]
During The Beatles' American tour in August 1965, Harrison's friend David Crosby of the Byrds introduced him to Indian classical music and the work of sitar player Ravi Shankar.[85] Harrison became fascinated with the instrument, immersed himself in Indian music and played a pivotal role in expanding the emerging interest in the sitar in particular and Indian music in general in the West.[142]
Buying his own first sitar from a London shop called India Craft later that year (as he recalled during interviews for "The Beatles Anthology"), he played one on the Rubber Soul track "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". In June 1966 Harrison met the sitar maestro Ravi Shankar at the home of Mrs Angadi of the Asian Music Circle, asked to be his student and was accepted.[143] Shankar and Alla Rakha gave a private concert at Harrison's house which Starr and Lennon attended.[143] Shankar influenced Harrison and the other Beatles not only musically, but spiritually. On 6 July 1966 Harrison travelled to India to purchase a top flight sitar from Rikhi Ram & Sons in New Delhi.[143] After the Beatles final live tour performance in August, Harrison returned to India in September 1966 to study sitar with Shankar.[143] Initially staying in Bombay, Harrison moved (to avoid crowding fans) to a houseboat on a remote lake in the shadow of the Himalayas where he was taught by Shankar for six weeks and read spiritual texts.[143] Harrison was influential in the decision to have Ravi Shankar included on the bill at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967.[142] After Shankar, Harrison received sitar tutelage from Shambhu Das.[144]
Hinduism[link]
During the filming of the movie Help!, on location in the Bahamas, the Beatles met Swami Vishnu-devananda, founder of Sivananda Yoga, who gave each member of the band a signed copy of his book The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga.[145] During a pilgrimage to Bombay with his wife, Harrison studied sitar, met several gurus and visited various holy places, filling the months between the end of the final Beatles tour in 1966 and the commencement of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band recording sessions. In 1968, Harrison travelled to Rishikesh in northern India with the other Beatles to study meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
In the summer of 1969, he produced the single "Hare Krishna Mantra", performed by the devotees of the London Radha Krishna Temple. That same year, he and fellow Beatle John Lennon met A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Soon after, Harrison embraced the Hare Krishna tradition (particularly japa-yoga chanting with beads), became a lifelong devotee, being associated with it until his death.[146]
Harrison was a vegetarian from 1968 until his death.[147]
While during his lifetime, Harrison bequeathed to ISKCON his Letchmore Heath mansion (renamed Bhaktivedanta Manor) north of London, some sources indicate he left nothing to the organisation,[148] others report he did leave a sum of 20 million pounds.[149]
Harrison respected people of other faiths and believed in a united holy cause; he once remarked:
All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.[149]
Harrison was a devotee of Paramahansa Yogananda. The Self-Realization Fellowship gurus Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswar, and Yogananda himself appear on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and a quote by Harrison appears on the back cover of the Self-Realization Fellowship release of Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda's own autobiography.
Personal life[link]
Family and friends[link]
Harrison married model Pattie Boyd on 21 January 1966, at the then Epsom Register Office, Upper High Street, Epsom, with McCartney as best man.[150] They had met during the filming for A Hard Day's Night, in which the 19-year-old Boyd was cast as a schoolgirl.[151] After Harrison and Boyd split up in 1974, she moved in with Eric Clapton and they subsequently married.
Harrison married for a second time, to Dark Horse Records secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias on 2 September 1978. They had met at the Dark Horse offices in Los Angeles in 1974. They had one son, Dhani Harrison. After the 1999 stabbing incident in which Olivia subdued Harrison's assailant nearly single-handedly, Harrison received a fax from his close friend Tom Petty that read: "Aren't you glad you married a Mexican girl?"[152]
Harrison formed a close friendship with Clapton in the late 1960s, and they co-wrote the song "Badge", which was released on Cream's Goodbye album in 1969.[153] Harrison also played rhythm guitar on the song. For contractual reasons, Harrison was required to use the pseudonym "L'Angelo Misterioso".[154] Harrison wrote one of his compositions for The Beatles' Abbey Road album, "Here Comes the Sun", in Clapton's back garden. Clapton also guested on the Harrison-penned Beatles track "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Through Clapton, Harrison met Delaney Bramlett, who introduced Harrison to slide guitar.[155] They remained close friends after Pattie Boyd split from Harrison and married Clapton, referring to each other as "husbands-in-law".[156]
Through his appreciation of Monty Python, he met Eric Idle. The two became close friends, with Harrison appearing on Idle's Rutland Weekend Television series and in his Beatles spoof, The Rutles' All You Need Is Cash.[157] Harrison was also parodied as a Beatle as "Stig O'Hara", portrayed by Rikki Fataar. Idle also performed the famous Monty Python sketch, "The Lumberjack Song", at the Concert for George, held in 2002 to commemorate Harrison.
Interests[link]
An accomplished gardener, Harrison restored the English manor house and grounds of Friar Park,[158] his home in Henley-on-Thames. The house once belonged to Victorian eccentric Sir Frank Crisp. Purchased in 1970, it is the basis for the song "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)".[159] Several Harrison videos were also filmed on the grounds, including "Crackerbox Palace"; in addition, the grounds served as the background for the cover of All Things Must Pass. He employed a staff of ten workers to maintain the 36-acre (150,000 m2) garden, and both of his older brothers worked on Friar Park as well.[160] Harrison took great solace working in the garden and grew to consider himself more a gardener than a musician;[160] his autobiography is dedicated "to gardeners everywhere".[161] Harrison also owned homes on Hamilton Island, Australia[162] and in Nahiku, Hawaii.[163]
That autobiography, I Me Mine, published in 1980, is the only full autobiography by an ex-Beatle.[164] Former Beatles' publicist Derek Taylor helped with the book, which was initially released in a high-priced limited edition by Genesis Publications.[161] The book said little about The Beatles, focusing instead on Harrison's hobbies, such as gardening and Formula One automobile racing. It also included the lyrics to his songs and some photographs with humorous captions.[165]
Harrison had an interest in sports cars and motor racing; he was one of the 100 people who purchased the McLaren F1 road car,[166] and would often attend Formula One races. He had collected photos of racing drivers and their cars since he was young; when he was 12 he attended his first race, the 1955 British Grand Prix at Aintree, in which Stirling Moss won his first Grand Prix.[166][167] He wrote "Faster" as a tribute to the Formula One racing drivers Jackie Stewart and Ronnie Peterson. Proceeds from its release went to the Gunnar Nilsson cancer charity, set up following the Swedish driver's death from the disease in 1978.[168] Harrison's first "important" car was recently sold at auction in Battersea Park, London. The 1964 Aston Martin DB5 was bought new and delivered to Harrison personally in 1965 at his Kinfauns estate in Esher, Surrey, England.[169]
Humanitarian Involvement[link]
George Harrison had an interest in humanitarian involvement even when he was a part of The Beatles. The Beatles had a strong stance on human rights, with them showing support for the civil rights movement and the protest against the Vietnam War. However, it was not until the band's split that George Harrison became more involved in humanitarian work.
Harrison's friend, Ravi Shankar, consulted him regarding a means to providing help to the problems in Bangladesh, in the aftermath of the 1970 Bhola Cyclone and the Bangladesh Liberation War.[170] With that, Harrison recorded "Bangla Desh", and pushed Apple Records to release his song alongside Shankar's "Joy Bangla" in an effort to raise funds. Shankar then asked for Harrison's advice about organising a small charity concert in The United States. Harrison took that idea and called up all his friends, organising The Concert for Bangladesh on 1 August 1971 in New York City, which featured other artists of the time like Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and former Beatle Ringo Starr.[170] The concert ended up raising US$243,418.50.[171]
The George Harrison Humanitarian Fund for UNICEF still contributes to humanitarian efforts. The fund is a joint effort between the Harrison family and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF that aims to support UNICEF programs providing lifesaving assistance to children caught in humanitarian emergencies.[172] Every year, UNICEF identifies countries and territories where the children suffer from poverty.[172] Much like Bangladesh in 1971, many of these problems are ignored by the media. The fund continues to support UNICEF programs in Bangladesh, while expanding its influence to include other countries in crisis where children are at risk. In December 2007, the fund made a donation of $450,000 to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF for relief and recovery efforts for the victims of Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh.[172] On 13 October 2009, the first ever George Harrison Humanitarian Award went to Ravi Shankar for his unprecedented efforts in saving the lives of children, and his involvement with the Concert for Bangladesh.[173]
Knife attack[link]
In late 1999, Harrison survived a knife attack by an intruder in his home.[174] At 3:30 am on 30 December 1999, 36-year-old Michael Abram broke into the Harrisons' Friar Park home and began loudly calling to Harrison. Harrison left the bedroom to investigate while his wife, Olivia, phoned the police. Abram attacked Harrison with a kitchen knife, inflicting seven stab wounds, puncturing a lung and causing head injuries before Olivia Harrison incapacitated the assailant by striking him repeatedly with a fireplace poker and a lamp. The attack lasted approximately 15 minutes.[175] Abram, who believed he was being possessed by Harrison and was on a "mission from God" to kill him, was later acquitted of attempted murder on grounds of insanity, but was detained for treatment in a secure hospital. He was released in 2002 after 19 months' detention.[176]
Illness and death[link]
Cancer diagnosis[link]
Harrison developed throat cancer, which was discovered in the summer of 1997 after a lump on his neck was analysed. He attributed it to smoking heavily from the 1960s until at least the late 1980s. He was successfully treated with radiotherapy.[177] Early in May 2001, it was revealed that he had undergone an operation at the Mayo Clinic to remove a cancerous growth from one of his lungs.[178] In July 2001, it was reported that he was being treated for a brain tumour at a clinic in Switzerland.[179]
On 22 July 2001, media reports claimed that Harrison was close to death as a result of the cancer, but he denied that this was true.[180]
In November 2001, by which time the Daily Mail had reported that Harrison may only have a month to live,[181] Harrison began radiotherapy at Staten Island University Hospital in New York City for lung cancer which had spread to his brain.[182]
On 25 November, it was reported in the Sunday People that Harrison's condition had continued to deteriorate in spite of the treatment, and that he was likely to die within days.[183]
Death[link]
Despite the treatments and operations, Harrison died on 29 November 2001, at a Hollywood Hills mansion that was once leased by McCartney and was previously owned by Courtney Love.[184] The cause of death was listed on his Los Angeles County death certificate as "metastatic non-small cell lung cancer".[185] He was 58 years old. Harrison was cremated at Hollywood Forever Cemetery and his ashes were scattered in the Ganges River by his close family in a private ceremony according to Hindu tradition.[186][187][188] He left almost £100 million in his will.[189]
Lederman affair[link]
In a complaint later brought on behalf of Harrison's estate, it was alleged that while under the care of Staten Island University Hospital, Dr Gilbert Lederman, a radiation oncologist, repeatedly revealed Harrison's confidential medical information during television interviews and forced him to autograph a guitar. The complaint alleged that Lederman and his family came uninvited to visit Harrison in the house he was staying in on the day before he was to leave for California. Lederman allegedly had his son play the guitar for Harrison. The complaint further alleged that after the performance, Lederman put the instrument on Harrison's lap and asked him to autograph it, and that Harrison responded, "I do not even know if I know how to spell my name any more." Lederman then allegedly took Harrison's hand and guided his hand along to spell his name while encouraging him by saying, "Come on, George. You can do this. G-E-O...".[190][191] The suit was ultimately settled out of court under the condition that the guitar be "disposed of".[192]
Tribute concert[link]
In 2002, on the first anniversary of Harrison's death, the Concert for George was held at the Royal Albert Hall; it was organised by Eric Clapton and included performances by many of Harrison's musical friends, including Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. The profits from the concert went to Harrison's charity, the Material World Charitable Foundation,[193] which he established in 1973 “to sponsor diverse forms of artistic expression and to encourage the exploration of alternative life views and philosophies.”[194]
Legacy[link]
Honours[link]
Harrison's first official honour came as The Beatles were appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1965 and received their insignia from the Queen at an investiture at Buckingham Palace on 26 October.[195] Another award with The Beatles came in 1970 when they won an Academy Award for the best Original Song Score for Let It Be.[196]
A significant music award as a solo artist was in December 1992, when he became the first recipient of the Billboard Century Award – presented to music artists for significant bodies of work.[197] The minor planet 4149, discovered on 9 March 1984 by B. A. Skiff at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory, was named after Harrison.[198] Harrison is listed at number 11 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".[6]
Harrison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist on 15 March 2004 by his Traveling Wilburys friends Lynne and Petty.[155] He was inducted into the Madison Square Garden Walk of Fame on 1 August 2006 for the Concert for Bangladesh.[199][200]
Harrison featured twice on the cover of Time magazine, initially with The Beatles in 1967,[201] then on his own, shortly after his death in 2001.[202] In June 2007, portraits of Harrison and John Lennon were unveiled at The Mirage Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, where they will be on permanent display.
On 14 April 2009, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce awarded Harrison a star on the Walk of Fame in front of the Capitol Records Building. (The Beatles also have a group star on the Walk of Fame.) Musicians Paul McCartney, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty were among those in attendance when the star was unveiled.[203][204] Harrison's widow Olivia, actor Tom Hanks and comedian Eric Idle made speeches at the ceremony; Harrison's son Dhani uttered the Hare Krishna mantra.[205] After the ceremony, Capitol/EMI Records announced that a new career-spanning CD entitled Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison would be released in mid-June 2009.
In October 2011 a documentary titled Living in the Material World: George Harrison directed by Martin Scorsese was released.[206]
Guitars[link]
As a Beatle[link]
- Egmond (guitar): Classic Guitar
- Hofner President Acoustic
- Hofner Club 40 model 244
- Resonet Futurama
- Gretsch 6128 Duo Jet
- Gibson J-160E
- Gretsch 6122 Country Gentleman
- Gretsch 6119-62 Tennessee Rose
- Rickenbacker 425 Fire-glo
- Rickenbacker 360-12 Fire-glo
- Fender Stratocaster 'Rocky'
- Epiphone Casino
- Gibson SG Standard
- Gibson Les Paul "Lucy"
- Gibson Jumbo J-200
- Fender Rosewood Telecaster[207][208]
Solo discography[link]
Main articles: George Harrison discography and List of George Harrison songs
| Year | Album | Label | Notes | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [209] |
UK [210] |
NO [211] |
JP [212] |
AT [213] |
SE [214] |
US [215] |
UK [216] |
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| 1968 | Wonderwall Music | Apple/EMI | Soundtrack | 49 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1969 | Electronic Sound | Zapple/EMI | 191 | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 1970 | All Things Must Pass | Apple/EMI | Triple | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | – | – | 6x Platinum | |
| 1971 | The Concert for Bangladesh | Apple/EMI (US) Epic/Sony Music (UK) |
Live | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | – | Gold | |
| 1973 | Living in the Material World | Apple/EMI | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | – | – | Gold | ||
| 1974 | Dark Horse | Apple/EMI | 4 | – | 7 | 18 | 10 | – | Gold | Silver[217] | |
| 1975 | Extra Texture (Read All About It) | Apple/EMI | 8 | 16 | 8 | 9 | – | – | Gold | ||
| 1976 | Thirty Three & 1/3 | Dark Horse | 11 | 35 | 17 | 23 | – | – | Gold | Silver[218] | |
| 1976 | The Best of George Harrison | Parlophone/EMI | Compilation | 31 | 100 | – | 51 | – | – | Gold | |
| 1979 | George Harrison | Dark Horse | 14 | 39 | 21 | 38 | – | – | Gold | ||
| 1981 | Somewhere in England | Dark Horse | 11 | 13 | 2 | 31 | 15 | 13 | |||
| 1982 | Gone Troppo | Dark Horse | 108 | – | 31 | – | – | – | |||
| 1987 | Cloud Nine | Dark Horse | 8 | 10 | 8 | 28 | 26 | 5 | Platinum | Gold[219] | |
| 1989 | Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989 | Dark Horse | Compilation | 132 | – | – | 51 | – | – | ||
| 1992 | Live in Japan | Dark Horse/Warner Bros | Live | 126 | – | – | 15 | – | – | ||
| 2002 | Brainwashed | Dark Horse | Posthumous | 18 | 29 | 9 | 21 | 62 | 18 | Gold | Gold[220] |
| 2009 | Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison | Capitol/EMI | Compilation | 24 | 4 | 40 | |||||
| 2012 | Early Takes: Volume 1 | UMe Records | Compilation | 20 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
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- ^ Many published sources give Harold as Harrison's middle name: Everett, The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men Through Rubber Soul, p 36; The Lost Lennon Interviews, p. 246, Geoffrey Giuliano, John Lennon, Vrnda Devi, Published by Omnibus Press, 1998, ISBN 0-7119-6470-X. Others dispute that, based on the absence of any middle name on Harrison's birth certificate:("George Harrison biography". Shawstar.com. http://www.shawstar.com/music/george_harrison.htm. Retrieved 1 December 2008. ).
- ^ Harrison, George (2002). I Me Mine. London: Phoenix. p. 20. ISBN 0-7538-1734-9.
- ^ a b Laing, Dave (30 November 2001). "George Harrison 1943–2001". guardian.co.uk (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2001/nov/30/guardianobituaries1. Retrieved 27 December 2008.
- ^ The Acoustic Rock Masters, p. 23, H. P. Newquist, Rich Maloof, Backbeat Books, 2003, ISBN 0-87930-761-7
- ^ Schaffner, The Boys from Liverpool, pp. 77–78.
- ^ a b "100 Greatest Guitarists: George Harrison". Rolling Stone. 2003. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/george-harrison-19691231. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
- ^ Handwritten Harrison Beatles lyrics up for auction, CBC Arts, 11 January 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2008.
- ^ "HandMade PLC". www.handmadeplc.com. http://www.handmadeplc.com/. Retrieved 30 October 2008. [dead link]
- ^ a b Harry, The Beatles' Encyclopedia, p. 492.
- ^ Reliable sources and his birth certificate show his birth date as 25 February, though some sources give 24 February.
- ^ Miles and Badman, The Beatles' Diary, p. 6.
- ^ "Beatles Ireland – George Harrison Irish Heritage". Beatles Ireland. http://www.iol.ie/~beatlesireland/Irish%20Heritage/georgeheritage.html. Retrieved 7 December 2008.
- ^ Ingham, Rough Guide to the Beatles, p. 328.
- ^ Miles and Badman, The Beatles' Diary, p. 7.
- ^ Harrison, I Me Mine, p. 28.
- ^ Frame, Rockin' Around Britain, p. 73.
- ^ Giuliano, Dark Horse, p. 9.
- ^ a b "George Harrison school life". http://www.tv.com/george-harrison/person/3479/trivia.html. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
- ^ Harry, Bill. "Beatles Browser Four (p3)". Mersey Beat. http://triumphpc.com/mersey-beat/beatles/beatlesbrowser-four3.shtml. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
- ^ Gray, Sadie (20 July 2007). "Lives in Brief: Peter Harrison". The Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2106466.ece. Retrieved 22 July 2007.
- ^ Shapiro, Behind Sad Eyes, p. 23.
- ^ Miles, The Beatles' Diary: An Intimate Day by Day History, p. 18.
- ^ a b Davies, The Beatles 1985, pp. 44–45.
- ^ Loewen, Nancy (1989). Profiles in music. Vero Beach: Rourke Enterprises, Inc.. pp. 26–27.
- ^ Lewisohn, Mark (1992). The Complete Beatles Chronicle. Pyramid Books. p. 13. ISBN 0-600-58749-5.
- ^ Davies, The Beatles 1985, p. 55.
- ^ Harrison, I Me Mine, p. 29.
- ^ Leng, While My Guitar Gently Weeps 2006, pp. 2–6.
- ^ "George Harrison: The quiet Beatle". BBC News. 30 November 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/1432634.stm. Retrieved 23 December 2008.
- ^ Miles and Badman, The Beatles Diary, p. 27.
- ^ Schaffner, The Boys from Liverpool,pp. 7–10.
- ^ Babiuk, Lewisohn, and Bacon, Beatles Gear, p. 59.
- ^ Everett, The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men Through Rubber Soul, p. 126.
- ^ Babiuk, Lewisohn, and Bacon, Beatles Gear, pp. 72–73.
- ^ "Please Please Me". perso.wanadoo.es. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20081202034648/http://perso.wanadoo.es/sissu/ppm.htm. Retrieved 27 December 2008.
- ^ The Songwriting Secrets of The Beatles, p. 560, Dominic Pedler, Omnibus Press, 2003, ISBN 0-7119-8167-1.
- ^ Greene, Here Comes the Sun, p. 34.
- ^ "A George Harrison Handwritten Letter to a Fan, August 1963". Beatles Autographs. 20 August 2008. http://beatlesautographs.com/george_harrison.htm. Retrieved 30 December 2008.
- ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 43667. p. 5487. 4 June 1965. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
- ^ Leng, While My Guitar Gently Weeps 2003, p. 13.
- ^ Turn! Turn! Turn!: The '60s Folk-rock Revolution, pp. 180–181, Richie Unterberger, Backbeat Books, 2002, ISBN 0-87930-703-X.
- ^ Contributions to Asian Studies, pp. 34 – 36, Jon B Higgins, K Ishwaran, Brill Academic Publishers, 1978, ISBN 90-04-05809-5.
- ^ Leng, While My Guitar Gently Weeps 2003, p. 14.
- ^ Leng, While My Guitar Gently Weeps 2003, p. 19.
- ^ Schaffner, The Boys from Liverpool,pp. 75–78.
- ^ Everett, The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology, pp. 111–112.
- ^ Leng, While My Guitar Gently Weeps 2006, pp. 29–30.
- ^ Babiuk, Lewisohn, and Bacon, Beatles Gear,p. 217.
- ^ Sulpy, Doug; Schweighardt, Ray (2003). Get Back: The Unauthorized Chronicle of The Beatles' Let It Be Disaster. Helter Skelter Publishing. ISBN 1-900924-83-8.
- ^ Miles and Badman, The Beatles Diary, p. 354.
- ^ Frank Sinatra: The Man, the Music, the Legend, p. 38, Jeanne Fuchs, Ruth Prigozy, Boydell & Brewer, 2007, ISBN 1-58046-251-0.
- ^ a b c d Sonic Alchemy: Visionary Music Producers and Their Maverick Recordings, pp 36 – 37, David N. Howard, Hal Leonard Corporation, 2004, ISBN 0-634-05560-7
- ^ Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books. p. 195. ISBN 0-517-57066-1.
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- ^ "Lennon's downfall: Had it not been for one last touching act of love, he might still be alive today". http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1072271/Lennons-downfall-Had-touching-act-love-alive-today.html#ixzz1rqY2nAcO. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
- ^ "1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff". John-Lennon.com. http://www.john-lennon.com/playboyinterviewwithjohnlennonandyokoono.htm. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
- ^ "All Those Years Ago lyrics". Sing365.com. http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/All-Those-Years-Ago-lyrics-George-Harrison/3D9E1438D16592E04825695E001CE4CF. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ Published 7/4/08 by. "TheInsider.com". TheInsider.com. http://www.theinsider.com/news/1030566_Sir_Paul_McCartney_says_George_Harrison_was_like_his_baby_brother. Retrieved 8 December 2010. [dead link]
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- ^ a b Guitar World Presents the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, p. 17, Jeff Kitts, Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002, ISBN 0-634-04619-5
- ^ All Music Guide: The Experts Guide to the Best Recordings p. 181, Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Backbeat Books, 2001, ISBN 0-87930-627-0
- ^ Leng, While My Guitar Gently Weeps 2003, p 50.
- ^ Everett, The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men Through Rubber Soul, p 182.
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- Works by or about George Harrison in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Genesis Publications – Concert for George: A Celebration of the Life of George Harrison
- Interview with Paul Cashmere
- BBC news article on Harrison's death, George Harrison: Life in pictures and UK version with different pictures
- George and other Beatles at Tittenhurst Hare Krishna temple
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| Name | Harrison, George |
| Alternative names | Wax, Arthur; Mysterioso, L'Angelo; Wilbury, Nelson |
| Short description | Rock musician |
| Date of birth | (1943-02-25)25 February 1943 |
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 29 November 2001(2001-11-29) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles, California, United States of America |
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| Ravi Shankar | |
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 Shankar performs in Delhi in March 2009 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury |
| Born | (1920-04-07) 7 April 1920 (age 92) Varanasi, United Provinces, Indian Empire |
| Genres | Hindustani classical music |
| Occupations | composer, musician |
| Instruments | sitar |
| Years active | 1939–present |
| Associated acts | Uday Shankar, Allauddin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Lakshmi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin, Chatur Lal, Alla Rakha, George Harrison, Anoushka Shankar, Beatles |
| Website | RaviShankar.org |
Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the most known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.[1]
Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.
In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards. He continues to perform in the 2000s, often with his daughter Anoushka.
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Early life[link]
Shankar was born 7 April 1920 in Varanasi to a Bengali Brahmin family as the youngest of seven brothers.[2][3][4] Shankar's Bengali birth name was Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury.[2] His father, Shyam Shankar, an administrator for the Maharaja of Jhalawar, used the Sanskrit spelling of the family name and removed its last part.[2][5] Shyam was married to Shankar's mother Hemangini Devi, but later worked as a lawyer in London.[2] There he married a second time while Devi raised Shankar in Varanasi, and did not meet his son until he was eight years old.[2] Shankar shortened the Sanskrit version of his first name, Ravindra, to Ravi, for "sun".[2]
At the age of ten, after spending his first decade in Varanasi, Shankar went to Paris with the dance group of his brother, choreographer Uday Shankar.[6][7] By the age of 13 he had become a member of the group, accompanied its members on tour and learned to dance and play various Indian instruments.[3][4] Uday's dance group toured Europe and America in the early to mid-1930s and Shankar learned French, discovered Western classical music, jazz, and cinema, and became acquainted with Western customs.[8] Shankar heard the lead musician for the Maihar court, Allauddin Khan, in December 1934 at a music conference in Kolkata and Uday convinced the Maharaja of Maihar in 1935 to allow Khan to become his group's soloist for a tour of Europe.[8] Shankar was sporadically trained by Khan on tour, and Khan offered Shankar training to become a serious musician under the condition that he abandon touring and come to Maihar.[8]
Career[link]
Training and work in India[link]
Shankar's parents had died by the time he returned from the European tour, and touring the West had become difficult due to political conflicts that would lead to World War II.[9] Shankar gave up his dancing career in 1938 to go to Maihar and study Indian classical music as Khan's pupil, living with his family in the traditional gurukul system.[6] Khan was a rigorous teacher and Shankar had training on sitar and surbahar, learned ragas and the musical styles dhrupad, dhamar, and khyal, and was taught the techniques of the instruments rudra veena, rubab, and sursingar.[6][10] He often studied with Khan's children Ali Akbar Khan and Annapurna Devi.[9] Shankar began to perform publicly on sitar in December 1939 and his debut performance was a jugalbandi (duet) with Ali Akbar Khan, who played the string instrument sarod.[11]
Shankar completed his training in 1944.[3] Following his training, he moved to Mumbai and joined the Indian People's Theatre Association, for whom he composed music for ballets in 1945 and 1946.[3][12] Shankar recomposed the music for the popular song "Sare Jahan Se Achcha" at the age of 25.[13][14] He began to record music for HMV India and worked as a music director for All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi, from February 1949 to January 1956.[3] Shankar founded the Indian National Orchestra at AIR and composed for it; his compositions experimented with a combination of Western instruments and classical Indian instrumentation.[15] Beginning in the mid-1950s he composed the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, which became internationally acclaimed.[4][16]
International career 1956–1969[link]
V. K. Narayana Menon, director of AIR Delhi, introduced the Western violinist Yehudi Menuhin to Shankar during Menuhin's first visit to India in 1952.[17] Shankar had performed as part of a cultural delegation in the Soviet Union in 1954 and Menuhin invited Shankar in 1955 to perform in New York City for a demonstration of Indian classical music, sponsored by the Ford Foundation.[18][19] Shankar declined to attend due to problems in his marriage, but recommended Ali Akbar Khan to play instead.[19] Khan reluctantly accepted and performed with tabla (percussion) player Chatur Lal in the Museum of Modern Art, and he later became the first Indian classical musician to perform on American television and record a full raga performance, for Angel Records.[20]
Shankar heard about the positive response Khan received and resigned from AIR in 1956 to tour the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States.[21] He played for smaller audiences and educated them about Indian music, incorporating ragas from the South Indian Carnatic music in his performances, and recorded his first LP album Three Ragas in London, released in 1956.[21] In 1958, Shankar participated in the celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the United Nations and UNESCO music festival in Paris.[12] From 1961, he toured Europe, the United States, and Australia, and became the first Indian to compose music for non-Indian films.[12] Chatur Lal accompanied Shankar on tabla until 1962, when Alla Rakha assumed the role.[21] Shankar founded the Kinnara School of Music in Mumbai in 1962.[22]
Shankar befriended Richard Bock, founder of World Pacific Records, on his first American tour and recorded most of his albums in the 1950s and 1960s for Bock's label.[21] The Byrds recorded at the same studio and heard Shankar's music, which led them to incorporate some of its elements in theirs, introducing the genre to their friend George Harrison of The Beatles.[23] Harrison became interested in Indian classical music, bought a sitar and used it to record the song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)".[24] This led to Indian music being used by other musicians and created the raga rock trend.[24]
Harrison met Shankar in London in 1966 and visited India for six weeks to study sitar under Shankar in Srinagar.[14][25][26] During the visit, a documentary film about Shankar named Raga was shot by Howard Worth, and released in 1971.[27] Shankar's association with Harrison greatly increased Shankar's popularity and Ken Hunt of Allmusic would state that Shankar had become "the most famous Indian musician on the planet" by 1966.[3][25] In 1967, he performed at the Monterey Pop Festival and won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for West Meets East, a collaboration with Yehudi Menuhin.[25][28] The same year, the Beatles won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band which included "Within You Without You" by Harrison, a song that was influenced by Indian classical music.[26][28] Shankar opened a Western branch of the Kinnara School of Music in Los Angeles, California, in May 1967, and published an autobiography, My Music, My Life, in 1968.[12][22] He performed at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969, and found he disliked the venue.[25] In the 1970s Shankar distanced himself from the hippie movement.[29]
International career 1970–present[link]
In October 1970 Shankar became chair of the department of Indian music of the California Institute of the Arts after previously teaching at the City College of New York, the University of California, Los Angeles, and being guest lecturer at other colleges and universities, including the Ali Akbar College of Music.[12][30][31] In late 1970, the London Symphony Orchestra invited Shankar to compose a concerto with sitar; Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra was performed with André Previn as conductor and Shankar playing the sitar.[4][32] Hans Neuhoff of Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart has criticized the usage of the orchestra in this concert as "amateurish".[1] George Harrison organized the charity Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971, in which Shankar participated.[25] Interest in Indian music had decreased in the early 1970s, but the concert album became one of the best-selling recordings featuring it and won Shankar a second Grammy Award.[28][31]
During the 1970s, Shankar and Harrison worked together again, recording Shankar Family & Friends in 1973 and touring North America the following year to a mixed response after Shankar had toured Europe with the Harrison-sponsored Music Festival from India.[33] The demanding schedule weakened Shankar, and he suffered a heart attack in Chicago in November 1974, causing him to miss a portion of the tour.[34] In his absence, Shankar's sister-in-law, singer Lakshmi Shankar, conducted the touring orchestra.[34] The touring band visited the White House on invitation of John Gardner Ford, son of U.S. President Gerald Ford.[34] Shankar toured and taught for the remainder of the 1970s and the 1980s and released his second concerto, Raga Mala, conducted by Zubin Mehta, in 1981.[35][36] Shankar was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Music Score for his work on the 1982 movie Gandhi, but lost to John Williams' E.T.[37] He served as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India, from 12 May 1986 to 11 May 1992, after being nominated by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.[14][38] Shankar composed the dance drama Ghanashyam in 1989.[22] His liberal views on musical cooperation led him to collaboration with contemporary composer Philip Glass, with whom he released an album, Passages, in 1990.[6]
Shankar underwent an angioplasty in 1992 due to heart problems, after which George Harrison involved himself in several of Shankar's projects.[39] Because of the positive response to Shankar's 1996 career compilation In Celebration, Shankar wrote a second autobiography, Raga Mala, with Harrison as editor.[39] He performed in between 25 and 40 concerts every year during the late 1990s.[6] Shankar taught his daughter Anoushka Shankar to play sitar and in 1997 became a Regent's Lecturer at University of California, San Diego.[40] In the 2000s, he won a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album for Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 and toured with Anoushka, who released a book about her father, Bapi: Love of My Life, in 2002.[28][41] Anoushka performed a composition by Shankar for the 2002 Harrison memorial Concert for George and Shankar wrote a third concerto for sitar and orchestra for Anoushka and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.[42][43] In June 2008, Shankar played what was billed as his last European concert,[29] but his 2011 tour includes dates in the United Kingdom.[44]
Style and contributions[link]
Shankar developed a style distinct from that of his contemporaries and incorporated influences from rhythm practices of Carnatic music.[6] His performances begin with solo alap, jor, and jhala (introduction and performances with pulse and rapid pulse) influenced by the slow and serious dhrupad genre, followed by a section with tabla accompaniment featuring compositions associated with the prevalent khyal style.[6] Shankar often closes his performances with a piece inspired by the light-classical thumri genre.[6]
Shankar has been considered one of the top sitar players of the second half of the 20th century.[1] He popularized performing on the bass octave of the sitar for the alap section and became known for a distinctive playing style in the middle and high registers that uses quick and short deviations of the playing string and his sound creation through stops and strikes on the main playing string.[1][6] Narayana Menon of The New Grove Dictionary noted Shankar's liking for rhythmic novelties, among them the use of unconventional rhythmic cycles.[45] Hans Neuhoff of Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart has argued that Shankar's playing style was not widely adopted and that he was surpassed by other sitar players in the performance of melodic passages.[1] Shankar's interplay with Alla Rakha improved appreciation for tabla playing in Hindustani classical music.[1] Shankar promoted the jugalbandi duet concert style and introduced new ragas, including Tilak Shyam, Nat Bhairav and Bairagi.[6]
Recognition[link]
Shankar won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury at the 1957 Berlin International Film Festival for composing the music for the movie Kabuliwala.[46] He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 1962,[47] and was named a Fellow of the academy for 1975.[48] Shankar was awarded the three highest national civil honors of India: Padma Bhushan, in 1967, Padma Vibhushan, in 1981, and Bharat Ratna, in 1999.[49] He received the music award of the UNESCO International Music Council in 1975, three Grammy Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award.[12][28][37] Shankar was awarded honorary degrees from universities in India and the United States.[12] He received the Kalidas Samman from the Government of Madhya Pradesh for 1987–88, the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 1991, the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1992, and the Polar Music Prize in 1998.[50][51][52][53] In 2001, Shankar was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Elizabeth II for his "services to music".[54] Shankar is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1997 received the Praemium Imperiale for music from the Japan Art Association.[6] The American jazz saxophonist John Coltrane named his son Ravi Coltrane after Shankar.[55]
Personal life and family[link]
Shankar married Allauddin Khan's daughter Annapurna Devi in 1941 and a son, Shubhendra Shankar, was born in 1942.[10] Shankar separated from Devi during the 1940s and had a relationship with Kamala Shastri, a dancer, beginning in the late 1940s.[56] An affair with Sue Jones, a New York concert producer, led to the birth of Norah Jones in 1979.[56] In 1981, Anoushka Shankar was born to Shankar and Sukanya Rajan, whom Shankar had known since the 1970s.[56] After separating from Kamala Shastri in 1981, Shankar lived with Sue Jones until 1986. He married Sukanya Rajan in 1989.[56]
Shubhendra "Shubho" Shankar often accompanied his father on tours.[57] He could play the sitar and surbahar, but elected not to pursue a solo career and died in 1992.[57] Norah Jones became a successful musician in the 2000s, winning eight Grammy Awards in 2003.[58] Anoushka Shankar was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album in 2003.[58]
Shankar is a Hindu and a vegetarian.[59][60] He lives with Sukanya in Encinitas, California.[61]
Discography[link]
Main article: Ravi Shankar discography
Bibliography[link]
- Shankar, Ravi (1968). My Music, My Life. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-20113-1.
- Shankar, Ravi (1979). Learning Indian Music: A Systematic Approach. Onomatopoeia. OCLC 21376688.
- Shankar, Ravi (1997). Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar. Genesis Publications. ISBN 0-904351-46-7.
Notes[link]
- ^ a b c d e f Neuhoff 2006, pp. 672–673
- ^ a b c d e f Lavezzoli 2006, p. 48
- ^ a b c d e f Hunt, Ken. "Ravi Shankar – Biography". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ravi-shankar-p3434/biography. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
- ^ a b c d Massey 1996, p. 159
- ^ Ghosh 1983, p. 7
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Slawek 2001, pp. 202–203
- ^ Ghosh 1983, p. 55
- ^ a b c Lavezzoli 2006, p. 50
- ^ a b Lavezzoli 2006, p. 51
- ^ a b Lavezzoli 2006, p. 52
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 53
- ^ a b c d e f g Ghosh 1983, p. 57
- ^ Sharma 2007, pp. 163–164
- ^ a b c Deb, Arunabha (26 February 2009). "Ravi Shankar: 10 interesting facts". Mint. http://www.livemint.com/2009/02/26212701/Ravi-Shankar-10-interesting-f.html. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 56
- ^ Schickel, Richard (12 February 2005). "The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)". TIME. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1953094_1953142_1953289,00.html. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 47
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 57
- ^ a b Lavezzoli 2006, p. 58
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, pp. 58–59
- ^ a b c d Lavezzoli 2006, p. 61
- ^ a b c Brockhaus, p. 199
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 62
- ^ a b Schaffner 1980, p. 64
- ^ a b c d e Glass, Philip (9 December 2001). "George Harrison, World-Music Catalyst And Great-Souled Man; Open to the Influence Of Unfamiliar Cultures". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/arts/george-harrison-world-music-catalyst-great-souled-man-open-influence-unfamiliar.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved 16 July 2009.
- ^ a b Kozinn, Allan (1 December 2001). "George Harrison, 'Quiet Beatle' And Lead Guitarist, Dies at 58". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/arts/george-harrison-quiet-beatle-and-lead-guitarist-dies-at-58.html. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ^ Thompson, Howard (24 November 1971). "Screen: Ravi Shankar; ' Raga,' a Documentary, at Carnegie Cinema". The New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50810F93D591A7493C6AB178AD95F458785F9. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
- ^ a b c d e "Past Winners Search". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=Shankar&title=&year=All&genre=All. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
- ^ a b O'Mahony, John (8 June 2008). "Ravi Shankar bids Europe adieu". The Taipei Times (UK). http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2008/06/08/2003414118. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ Ghosh 1983, p. 56
- ^ a b Lavezzoli 2006, p. 66
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 221
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 195
- ^ a b c Lavezzoli 2006, p. 196
- ^ Rogers, Adam (8 August 1994). "Where Are They Now?". Newsweek. http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/NWEC/lib00285,0EC05F4D76C65508.html. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 222
- ^ a b Piccoli, Sean (19 April 2005). "Ravi Shankar remains true to his Eastern musical ethos". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-9117516.html. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ "'Rajya Sabha Members'/Biographical Sketches 1952 – 2003" (PDF). Rajya Sabha. 6 January 2004. http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/r.pdf. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ^ a b Lavezzoli 2006, p. 197
- ^ "Shankar advances her music". The Washington Times. 16 November 1999. http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/WT/lib00179,0EB0F3E288AD65E1.html. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 411
- ^ Idato, Michael (9 April 2004). "Concert for George". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/08/1081326843156.html. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ "Anoushka enthralls at New York show". The Hindu (India). 4 February 2009. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200902041040.htm. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ Barnett, Laura (6 June 2011). "Portrait of the artist: Ravi Shankar, musician". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jun/06/ravi-shankar-musician. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
- ^ Menon 1995, p. 220
- ^ "Archive > Annual Archives > 1957 > Prize Winners". Berlin International Film Festival. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1957/03_preistr_ger_1957/03_Preistraeger_1957.html. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
- ^ "SNA: List of Akademi Awardees – Instrumental – Sitar". Sangeet Natak Akademi. http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm#InstrumentalSitar. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ^ "SNA: List of Akademi Fellows". Sangeet Natak Akademi. http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/fellowslist.htm#1980. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ^ "Padma Awards". Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. http://india.gov.in/myindia/advsearch_awards.php?start=0&award_year=&state=&field=3&p_name=Ravi&award=All. Retrieved 16 July 2009.
- ^ "राष्ट्रीय कालिदास सम्मान [Rashtriya Kalidas Samman]" (in Hindi). Department of Public Relations of Madhya Pradesh. 2006. http://www.mpinfo.org/mpinfonew/hindi/award/kalidas.asp. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ^ "Ravi Shankar – The 2nd Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes 1991". Asian Month. 2009. http://asianmonth.com/prize/english/winner/. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ "Citation for Ravi Shankar". Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation. http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationShankarRav.htm. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ van Gelder, Lawrence (14 May 1998). "Footlights". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/14/books/footlights.html. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ "Sir Ravi". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 113 (19): 14. 12 May 2001. ISSN 0006-2510. http://books.google.com/?id=FikEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14.
- ^ Watrous, Peter (16 June 1998). "Pop Review; Just Music, No Oedipal Problems". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/16/arts/pop-review-just-music-no-oedipal-problems.html. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Hard to say no to free love: Ravi Shankar". Press Trust of India. Rediff.com. 13 May 2003. http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/may/13ravi.htm. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ a b Lindgren, Kristina (21 September 1992). "Shubho Shankar Dies After Long Illness at 50". Los Angeles Times. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61210384.html?FMT=ABS. Retrieved 31 August 2009.
- ^ a b Venugopal, Bijoy (24 February 2003). "Norah's night at the Grammys". Rediff.com. http://www.rediff.com/us/2003/feb/24grammy.htm. Retrieved 5 November 2009.
- ^ Melwani, Lavina (24 December 1999). "In Her Father's Footsteps". Rediff.com. http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/dec/24us1.htm. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ "Signing up for the veg revolution". Screen. 8 December 2000. http://www.screenindia.com/old/20001208/shtakes.htm. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
- ^ Varga, George (10 April 2011). "At 91, Ravi Shankar seeks new musical vistas". signonsandiego.com. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/apr/10/91-ravi-shankar-seeks-new-musical-vistas/. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
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- Ghosh, Dibyendu (December 1983). "A Humble Homage to the Superb". In Ghosh, Dibyendu. The Great Shankars. Kolkata: Agee Prakashani. p. 7. OCLC 15483971.
- Ghosh, Dibyendu (December 1983). "Ravishankar". In Ghosh, Dibyendu. The Great Shankars. Kolkata: Agee Prakashani. p. 55. OCLC 15483971.
- Lavezzoli, Peter (2006). The Dawn of Indian Music in the West. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8264-1815-5.
- Massey, Reginald (1996). The Music of India. Abhinav Publications. ISBN 81-7017-332-9.
- Menon, Narayana (1995) [1980]. "Shankar, Ravi". In Sadie, Stanley. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 17 (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 1-56159-174-2.
- Neuhoff, Hans (2006). "Shankar, Ravi". In Finscher, Ludwig (in German). Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. 15 (2nd ed.). Bärenreiter. ISBN 3-7618-1122-5.
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| Alternative names | রবি শঙ্কর (Bengali); Shôngkor, Robi (Bengali transliteration) |
| Short description | Indian classical musician |
| Date of birth | 7 April 1920 |
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| Martin Scorsese | |
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 Scorsese at the Tribeca Film Festival, 2007 |
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| Born | Martin Charles Scorsese (1942-11-17) November 17, 1942 (age 69) Queens, New York, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Cardinal Hayes High School |
| Alma mater | New York University (B.A.) NYU Tisch School of the Arts (M.F.A.) |
| Occupation | Film director, producer, actor, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1963–present |
| Influenced by | in alphabetical order: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger,[1] Satyajit Ray[2] |
| Spouse | Laraine Marie Brennan (1965–ca 71; divorced) Julia Cameron (1976–77; divorced) Isabella Rossellini (1979–82; divorced) Barbara De Fina (1985–91; divorced) Helen Morris (1999–present) |
| Parents | Charles Scorsese, Catherine Scorsese |
Martin Charles Scorsese[3] (
/skɔrˈsɛsɛ/;[4] born November 17, 1942)[5][6][7][8] is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won Academy Award, Palme d'Or, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and DGA Awards.
Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption,[9] machismo, modern crime, and violence. Scorsese is hailed as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers of all time, directing landmark films such as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), and Goodfellas (1990) – all of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro.[10] He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed (2006), having been nominated a previous five times.
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Early life[link]
Martin Scorsese grew up in New York City. His father, Charles Scorsese (1913–1993), and mother, Catherine Scorsese (born Cappa; 1912–1997), both worked in New York's Garment District. His father was a clothes presser and an actor, and his mother was a seamstress and an actress.[11] His father's parents emigrated from Polizzi Generosa, in the province of Palermo, Sicily, and his mother was also of Italian descent. Scorsese was raised in a devoutly Catholic environment.[12] As a boy, he had asthma and couldn't play sports or do any activities with other kids and so his parents and his older brother would often take him to movie theaters; it was at this stage in his life that he developed passion for cinema. Enamored of historical epics in his adolescence, at least two films of the genre, Land of the Pharaohs and El Cid, appear to have had a deep and lasting impact on his cinematic psyche. Scorsese also developed an admiration for neorealist cinema at this time. He recounted its influence in a documentary on Italian neorealism, and commented on how Bicycle Thieves alongside Paisà, Rome, Open City inspired him and how this influenced his view or portrayal of his Sicilian genes. In his documentary, Il Mio Viaggio in Italia, Scorsese noted that the Sicilian episode of Roberto Rossellini's Paisà which he first saw on television alongside his relatives, who were themselves Sicilian immigrants, made a significant impact on his life.[2] He acknowledges owing a great debt to the French New Wave and has stated that "the French New Wave has influenced all filmmakers who have worked since, whether they saw the films or not."[13] He has also cited filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini as a major influence on his career.[2][14][15][16][17] His initial desire to become a priest[18] while attending Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx gave way to cinema, and, consequently, Scorsese enrolled in NYU's University College of Arts and Science, (now known as the College of Arts and Science), where he earned a B.A. in English in 1964. He went on to earn his M.F.A. from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1966, a year after the school was founded.[19]
Family[link]
Scorsese has been married five times. His first wife was Laraine Marie Brennan; they have a daughter, Catherine. He married the writer Julia Cameron in 1976; they have a daughter, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, who is an actress and appeared in The Age of Innocence, but the marriage lasted only a year. The divorce was acrimonious and served as the basis of Cameron's first feature, the dark comedy, God's Will,[20] which also starred their daughter, Domenica.[21][22] Their daughter also had a small role in Cape Fear using the name Domenica Scorsese and has continued to act, write, direct and produce.[23]
He was married to actress Isabella Rossellini from 1979 to their divorce in 1983. He then married producer Barbara De Fina in 1985; their marriage ended in divorce as well, in 1991. He has been married to Helen Morris since 1999; they have a daughter, Francesca, who appeared in The Departed and The Aviator. He is based in New York City.
Scorsese has commented, "I'm a lapsed Catholic. But I am Roman Catholic, there's no way out of it."[24]
Career[link]
Early career[link]
Scorsese attended New York University's film school (B.A., English, 1964; M.F.A., film, 1966)[25] making the short films What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963) and It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964). His most famous short of the period is the darkly comic The Big Shave (1967), which features Peter Bernuth. The film is an indictment of America's involvement in Vietnam, suggested by its alternative title Viet '67.[26] Scorsese has mentioned on several occasions that he was greatly inspired in his early days at New York University by his Armenian-American film professor Haig P. Manoogian.
In 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film, the black and white I Call First, which was later retitled Who's That Knocking at My Door with his fellow students actor Harvey Keitel and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, both of whom were to become long-term collaborators. This film was intended to be the first of Scorsese's semi-autobiographical 'J.R. Trilogy', which also would have included his later film, Mean Streets.
1970s[link]
From there he became friends with the influential "movie brats" of the 1970s: Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. It was Brian De Palma who introduced Scorsese to Robert De Niro. During this period he worked as the assistant director and one of the editors on the documentary Woodstock and met actor-director John Cassavetes, who would also go on to become a close friend and mentor.[27] Scorsese is also credited as one of the cameramen who photographed the infamous late-1969 Altamont rock festival for the 1970 Rolling Stones film "Gimme Shelter".
[edit] Mean Streets
Main article: Mean Streets
In 1972 Scorsese made the Depression-era exploiter Boxcar Bertha for B-movie producer Roger Corman, who also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, and John Sayles launch their careers. It was Corman who taught Scorsese that entertaining films could be shot with next to no money or time, preparing the young director well for the challenges to come with Mean Streets. Following the film's release, Cassavetes encouraged Scorsese to make the films that he wanted to make, rather than someone else's projects.
Championed by influential movie critic Pauline Kael, Mean Streets was a breakthrough for Scorsese, De Niro, and Keitel. By now the signature Scorsese style was in place: macho posturing, bloody violence, Catholic guilt and redemption, gritty New York locale (though the majority of Mean Streets was actually shot in Los Angeles), rapid-fire editing, and a rock soundtrack. Although the film was innovative, its wired atmosphere, edgy documentary style, and gritty street-level direction owed a debt to directors Cassavetes, Samuel Fuller, and early Jean-Luc Godard.[28] (Indeed the film was completed with much encouragement from Cassavetes, who felt Boxcar Bertha was undeserving of the young director's prodigious talent.)[27]
In 1974, actress Ellen Burstyn chose Scorsese to direct her in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress. Although well regarded, the film remains an anomaly in the director's early career, as it focuses on a central female character. Returning to Little Italy to explore his ethnic roots, Scorsese next came up with Italianamerican, a documentary featuring his parents, Charles and Catherine Scorsese.
[edit] Taxi Driver
Main article: Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver followed in 1976 – Scorsese's dark, urban nightmare of one lonely man's slow, deliberate descent into insanity.
The film established Scorsese as an accomplished filmmaker and also brought attention to cinematographer Michael Chapman, whose style tends towards high contrasts, strong colors and complex camera movements. The film starred Robert De Niro as the troubled and psychotic Travis Bickle. The film co-starred Jodie Foster in a highly controversial role as an underage prostitute, and Harvey Keitel as her pimp, Matthew, called "Sport."
Taxi Driver also marked the start of a series of collaborations between Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader, whose influences included the diary of would-be assassin Arthur Bremer and Pickpocket, a film by the French director Robert Bresson. Writer/director Schrader often returns to Bresson's work in films such as American Gigolo, Light Sleeper, and Scorsese's later Bringing Out the Dead.[29]
Already controversial upon its release, Taxi Driver hit the headlines again five years later, when John Hinckley, Jr. made an assassination attempt on then-President Ronald Reagan. He subsequently blamed his act on his obsession with Jodie Foster's Taxi Driver character (in the film, De Niro's character, Travis Bickle, makes an assassination attempt on a senator).[30]
Taxi Driver won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival,[31] also receiving four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, although all were unsuccessful.
Scorsese was subsequently offered the role of Charles Manson in the movie Helter Skelter and a part in Sam Fuller's war movie The Big Red One, but he turned both down. However he did accept the role of a gangster in exploitation movie Cannonball directed by Paul Bartel. In this period there were also several directorial projects that never got off the ground including Haunted Summer, about Mary Shelley and a film with Marlon Brando about the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee.
[edit] New York, New York and The Last Waltz
Main articles: New York, New York (film) and The Last Waltz
The critical success of Taxi Driver encouraged Scorsese to move ahead with his first big-budget project: the highly stylized musical New York, New York. This tribute to Scorsese's home town and the classic Hollywood musical was a box-office failure.
New York, New York was the director's third collaboration with Robert De Niro, co-starring with Liza Minnelli (a tribute and allusion to her father, legendary musical director Vincente Minnelli). The film is best remembered today for the title theme song, which was popularized by Frank Sinatra. Although possessing Scorsese's usual visual panache and stylistic bravura, many critics felt its enclosed studio-bound atmosphere left it leaden in comparison to his earlier work.
Despite its weak reception, the film is regarded by some to be among the director's finest achievements. Richard Brody in the New Yorker wrote: "For Scorsese, a lifelong cinephile, the essence of New York could be found in its depiction in classic Hollywood movies. Remarkably, his backward-looking tribute to the golden age of musicals and noirish romantic melodramas turned out to be one of his most freewheeling and personal films." [32] Jean-Luc Godard is another admirer of the film.[33]
The disappointing reception that New York, New York received drove Scorsese into depression. By this stage the director had also developed a serious cocaine addiction. However, he did find the creative drive to make the highly regarded The Last Waltz, documenting the final concert by The Band. It was held at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, and featured one of the most extensive lineups of prominent guest performers at a single concert, including Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Ronnie Wood and Van Morrison. However, Scorsese's commitments to other projects delayed the release of the film until 1978.
Another Scorsese-directed documentary entitled American Boy also appeared in 1978, focusing on Steven Prince, the cocky gun salesman who appeared in Taxi Driver. A period of wild partying followed, damaging the director's already fragile health.
Scorsese also helped provide footage for the documentary Elvis on Tour.
1980s[link]
[edit] Raging Bull
Main article: Raging Bull
By several accounts (Scorsese's included), Robert De Niro practically saved Scorsese's life when he persuaded Scorsese to kick his cocaine addiction to make his highly regarded film, Raging Bull. Convinced that he would never make another movie, he poured his energies into making this violent biopic of middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta, calling it a Kamikaze method of film-making.[34] The film is widely viewed as a masterpiece and was voted the greatest film of the 1980s by Britain's Sight & Sound magazine.[35][36] It received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Robert De Niro, and Scorsese's first for Best Director. De Niro won, as did Thelma Schoonmaker for editing, but Best Director went to Robert Redford for Ordinary People.
Raging Bull, filmed in high contrast black and white, is where Scorsese's style reached its zenith: Taxi Driver and New York, New York had used elements of expressionism to replicate psychological points of view, but here the style was taken to new extremes, employing extensive slow-motion, complex tracking shots, and extravagant distortion of perspective (for example, the size of boxing rings would change from fight to fight).[37] Thematically too, the concerns carried on from Mean Streets and Taxi Driver: insecure males, violence, guilt, and redemption.
Although the screenplay for Raging Bull was credited to Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin (who earlier co-wrote Mean Streets), the finished script differed extensively from Schrader's original draft. It was re-written several times by various writers including Jay Cocks (who went on to co-script later Scorsese films The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York). The final draft was largely written by Scorsese and Robert De Niro.[38]
The American Film Institute chose Raging Bull as the #1 American sports film on their list of the top 10 sports films.
[edit] The King of Comedy
Main article: The King of Comedy (1983 film)
Scorsese's next project was his fifth collaboration with Robert De Niro, The King of Comedy (1983). A satire on the world of media and celebrity, it was an obvious departure from the more emotionally committed films he had become associated with. Visually, it was far less kinetic than the style Scorsese had developed up until this point, often using a static camera and long takes.[39] The expressionism of his recent work here gave way to moments of almost total surrealism. It still bore many of Scorsese's trademarks, however, such as its focus on a troubled loner who ironically becomes famous through a criminal act (murder and kidnapping, respectively).[40]
The King of Comedy failed at the box office, but has become increasingly well regarded by critics in the years since its release. German director Wim Wenders numbered it among his fifteen favourite films.[41] Also, Scorsese apparently believes that this is the best performance De Niro ever gave for him.[citation needed]
Next Scorsese made a brief cameo appearance in the movie Anna Pavlova (also known as A Woman for All Time), originally intended to be directed by one of his heroes, Michael Powell. This led to a more significant role in Bertrand Tavernier's jazz movie Round Midnight.
In 1983 Scorsese began work on a long-cherished personal project, The Last Temptation of Christ, based on the 1951 (English translation 1960) novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis, who was introduced to the director by actress Barbara Hershey when they were both attending New York University in the late 1960s. The movie was slated to shoot under the Paramount Pictures banner, but shortly before principal photography was to commence, Paramount pulled the plug on the project, citing pressure from religious groups. In this aborted 1983 version, Aidan Quinn was cast as Jesus, and Sting was cast as Pontius Pilate. (In the 1988 version, these roles were played respectively by Willem Dafoe and David Bowie.)
[edit] After Hours
Main article: After Hours (film)
After the collapse of this project Scorsese again saw his career at a critical point, as he described in the documentary Filming for Your Life: Making 'After Hours' (2004). He saw that in the increasingly commercial world of 1980s Hollywood, the highly stylized and personal 1970s films he and others had built their careers on would not continue to enjoy the same status. Scorsese decided then on an almost totally new approach to his work. With After Hours (1985) he made an aesthetic shift back to a pared-down, almost "underground" film-making style – his way of staying viable. Filmed on an extremely low budget, on location, and at night in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, the film is a black comedy about one increasingly misfortunate night for a mild New York word processor (Griffin Dunne) and featured cameos by such disparate actors as Teri Garr and Cheech and Chong. A bit of a stylistic anomaly for Scorsese, After Hours fits in well with popular low-budget "cult" films of the 1980s, e.g. Jonathan Demme's Something Wild and Alex Cox's Repo Man.
[edit] The Color of Money
Main article: The Color of Money
Along with the 1987 Michael Jackson music video "Bad", in 1986 Scorsese made The Color of Money, a sequel to the much admired Robert Rossen film The Hustler (1961) with Paul Newman. Although typically visually assured, The Color of Money was the director's first foray into mainstream commercial film-making. It won actor Paul Newman a belated Oscar and gave Scorsese the clout to finally secure backing for a project that had been a long time goal for him: The Last Temptation of Christ. He also made a brief venture into television, directing an episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories.
[edit] The Last Temptation of Christ
Main article: The Last Temptation of Christ (film)
After his mid-1980s flirtation with commercial Hollywood, Scorsese made a major return to personal film-making with the Paul Schrader-scripted The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988. Based on Nikos Kazantzakis's controversial 1960 book, it retold the life of Christ in human rather than divine terms. Even prior to its release the film caused a massive furore, worldwide protests against its blasphemy effectively turning a low budget independent movie into a media sensation.[42] Most controversy centered on the final passages of the film which depicted Christ marrying and raising a family with Mary Magdalene in a Satan-induced hallucination while on the cross.
Looking past the controversy, The Last Temptation of Christ gained critical acclaim and remains an important work in Scorsese's canon: an explicit attempt to wrestle with the spirituality which had under-pinned his films up until that point. The director went on to receive his second nomination for a Best Director Academy Award (again unsuccessfully, this time losing to Barry Levinson for Rain Man).
Along with directors Woody Allen and Francis Ford Coppola, in 1989 Scorsese provided one of three segments in the portmanteau film New York Stories, called "Life Lessons".
1990s[link]
[edit] Goodfellas
Main article: Goodfellas
After a decade of mostly mixed results, Gangster epic Goodfellas (1990) was a return to form for Scorsese and his most confident and fully realized film since Raging Bull. De Niro and Joe Pesci in Goodfellas offered a virtuoso display of the director's bravura cinematic technique and re-established, enhanced, and consolidated his reputation. After the film was released Roger Ebert, a friend and supporter of Scorsese, named Goodfellas "the best mob movie ever" and is ranked #1 on Roger's movie list for 1990, along with Gene Siskel and Peter Travers, the film is widely considered one of the director's greatest achievements.[43][44][45]
However, Goodfellas also signified an important shift in tone in the director's work, inaugurating an era in his career which was technically accomplished but some have argued emotionally detached.[46] Despite this, many view Goodfellas as a Scorsese archetype – the apogee of his cinematic technique.
The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, Scorsese earned his third Best Director nomination for Goodfellas but again lost to a first-time director, Kevin Costner (Dances With Wolves). Joe Pesci earned the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Goodfellas. Scorsese and the film won over a numerous of different awards, including five BAFTA Awards, a Silver Lion and more.
After the film, Goodfellas was acknowledged as the second best in the gangster film genre (after The Godfather). The American Film Institute put Goodfellas at #94 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list and on the 2007 updated version they moved Goodfellas up to #92 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list (10th Anniversary Edition) and they put Goodfellas at #2 on their list of the top 10 Gangster films.
In 1990, he acted in a cameo role as Vincent van Gogh in the film Dreams by legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
[edit] Cape Fear
Main article: Cape Fear (1991 film)
1991 brought Cape Fear, a remake of a cult 1962 movie of the same name, and the director's seventh collaboration with De Niro. Another foray into the mainstream, the film was a stylized thriller taking its cues heavily from Alfred Hitchcock and Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955). Cape Fear received a mixed critical reception and was lambasted in many quarters for its scenes depicting misogynistic violence. However, the lurid subject matter did give Scorsese a chance to experiment with a dazzling array of visual tricks and effects. The film garnered two Oscar nominations. Earning eighty million dollars domestically, it would stand as Scorsese's most commercially successful release until The Aviator (2004), and then The Departed (2006). The film also marked the first time Scorsese used wide-screen Panavision with an aspect ratio of 2.35:1.
[edit] The Age of Innocence
Main article: The Age of Innocence (film)
The opulent and handsomely mounted The Age of Innocence (1993) was on the surface a huge departure for Scorsese, a period adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel about the constrictive high society of late-19th Century New York. It was highly lauded by critics upon original release, but was a box office bomb, making an overall loss. As noted in Scorsese on Scorsese by editor/interviewer Ian Christie, the news that Scorsese wanted to make a film about a 19th Century failed romance raised many eyebrows among the film fraternity all the more when Scorsese made it clear that it was a personal project and not a studio for-hire job.
Scorsese was interested in doing a "romantic piece". His friend, Jay Cocks gave him the Wharton novel in 1980, suggesting that this should be the romantic piece Scorsese should film as Cocks felt it best represented his sensibility. In Scorsese on Scorsese he noted that:
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- "Although the film deals with New York aristocracy and a period of New York history that has been neglected, and although it deals with code and ritual, and with love that's not unrequited but unconsummated – which pretty much covers all the themes I usually deal with – when I read the book, I didn't say, 'Oh good, all those themes are here.'"
Scorsese, who was strongly drawn to the characters and the story of Wharton's text, wanted his film to be as rich an emotional experience as the book was to him rather than the traditional academic adaptations of literary works. To this aim, Scorsese sought influence from diverse period films which made an emotional impact on him. In Scorsese on Scorsese, he documents influences from films such as Luchino Visconti's Senso and his Il Gattopardo as well as Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons and also Roberto Rossellini's La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV. Although The Age of Innocence was ultimately different than these films in terms of narrative, story and thematic concern, the presence of a lost society, of lost values as well as detailed re-creations of social customs and rituals continues the tradition of these films.
Recently, it has started to come back into the public eye, especially in countries such as the UK and France, but still is largely neglected in North America. The film earned five Academy Award nominations (including for Scorsese for Best Adapted Screenplay), winning the Costume Design Oscar. It also made a significant impact on directors such as Chinese auteur Tian Zhuangzhuang,[47] and British filmmaker Terence Davies,[48] both of whom ranked it among their ten favorite films.
This was his first collaboration with the Academy Award winning actor, Daniel Day-Lewis, with whom he would work again in Gangs of New York.
[edit] Casino
Main article: Casino (film)
1995's expansive Casino, like The Age of Innocence before it, focused on a tightly wound male whose well-ordered life is disrupted by the arrival of unpredictable forces. The fact that it was a violent gangster film made it more palatable to fans of the director who perhaps were baffled by the apparent departure of the earlier film. Critically, however, Casino received mixed notices. In large part this was due to its huge stylistic similarities to his earlier Goodfellas, and its excessive violence that garnered it a reputation as possibly the most violent American gangster film ever made.[citation needed] Indeed many of the tropes and tricks of the earlier film resurfaced more or less intact, most obviously the casting of both Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, Pesci once again being an unbridled psychopath. Sharon Stone was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance.
During the filming Scorsese played a background part as a gambler at one of the tables. It is quite often rumored that a real game of poker was being held at the time between extras and that a pot of $2000 was at stake.[citation needed]
[edit] A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
Scorsese still found time for a four hour documentary in 1995 offering a thorough trek through American cinema. It covered the silent era to 1969, a year after which Scorsese began his feature career, stating "I wouldn't feel right commenting on myself or my contemporaries."
[edit] Kundun
Main article: Kundun
If The Age of Innocence alienated and confused some fans, then Kundun (1997) went several steps further, offering an account of the early life of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, the People's Liberation Army's entering of Tibet, and the Dalai Lama's subsequent exile to India. Not least a departure in subject matter, Kundun also saw Scorsese employing a fresh narrative and visual approach. Traditional dramatic devices were substituted for a trance-like meditation achieved through an elaborate tableau of colourful visual images.[49]
The film was a source of turmoil for its distributor, Disney, which was planning significant expansion into the Chinese market at the time. Initially defiant in the face of pressure from Chinese officials, Disney has since distanced itself from the project, hurting Kundun's commercial profile.
In the short term, the sheer eclecticism in evidence enhanced the director's reputation. In the long term however, it generally appears Kundun has been sidelined in most critical appraisals of the director, mostly noted as a stylistic and thematic detour. Kundun was the director's second attempt to profile the life of a great religious leader, following The Last Temptation of Christ.
[edit] Bringing Out the Dead
Main article: Bringing Out the Dead
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) was a return to familiar territory, with the director and writer Paul Schrader constructing a pitch-black comic take on their own earlier Taxi Driver.[50] Like previous Scorsese-Schrader collaborations, its final scenes of spiritual redemption explicitly recalled the films of Robert Bresson.[51] (It's also worth noting that the film's incident-filled nocturnal setting is reminiscent of After Hours.) It received generally positive reviews,[52] although not the universal critical acclaim of some of his other films. It stars Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, John Goodman, Tom Sizemore, and Patricia Arquette.
2000s[link]
[edit] Gangs of New York
Main article: Gangs of New York
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In 1999 Scorsese also produced a documentary on Italian filmmakers entitled Il Mio Viaggio in Italia, also known as My Voyage to Italy. The documentary foreshadowed the director's next project, the epic Gangs of New York (2002), influenced by (amongst many others) major Italian directors such as Luchino Visconti and filmed in its entirety at Rome's famous Cinecittà film studios.
With a production budget said to be in excess of $100 million, Gangs of New York was Scorsese's biggest and arguably most mainstream venture to date. Like The Age of Innocence, it was set in 19th-century New York, although focusing on the other end of the social scale (and like that film, also starring Daniel Day-Lewis). The film also marked the first collaboration between Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who since then has become a fixture in later Scorsese films.
The production was highly troubled with many rumors referring to the director's conflict with Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein.[53] Despite denials of artistic compromise, Gangs of New York revealed itself to be the director's most conventional film: standard film tropes which the director had traditionally avoided, such as characters existing purely for exposition purposes and explanatory flashbacks, here surfaced in abundance.[54][55][56] The original score composed by regular Scorsese collaborator Elmer Bernstein was rejected at a late stage for a score by Howard Shore and mainstream rock artists U2 and Peter Gabriel.[57] The final cut of the movie ran to 168 minutes, while the director's original cut was over 180 minutes in length.[54] The film still received generally positive reviews with the review tallying website Rotten Tomatoes reporting that 75% of the reviews they tallied for the film were positive and summarizing the critics by saying "Though flawed, the sprawling, messy Gangs of New York is redeemed by impressive production design and Day-Lewis's electrifying performance."[58]
Nonetheless, the themes central to the film were consistent with the director's established concerns: New York, violence as culturally endemic, and sub-cultural divisions down ethnic lines.
Originally filmed for a release in the winter of 2001 (to qualify for Academy Award nominations), Scorsese delayed the final production of the film until after the beginning of 2002; the studio consequently delayed the film for nearly a year until its release in the Oscar season of late 2002.[59]
Gangs of New York earned Scorsese his first Golden Globe for Best Director. In February 2003, Gangs of New York received ten Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, however it did not win in any category.
Scorsese also had uncredited involvement as executive producer with the 2002 film Deuces Wild,[60] written by Paul Kimatian.
[edit] The Blues
Main article: The Blues (film)
The following year Scorsese completed production of The Blues, an expansive seven part documentary tracing the history of blues music from its African roots to the Mississippi Delta and beyond. Seven film-makers including Wim Wenders, Clint Eastwood, Mike Figgis, and Scorsese himself each contributed a 90 minute film (Scorsese's entry was entitled "Feel Like Going Home").
[edit] The Aviator
Main article: The Aviator (2004 film)
Scorsese's film The Aviator (2004), was a lavish, large-scale biopic of eccentric aviation pioneer and film mogul Howard Hughes and would reunite Scorsese with actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The film received highly positive reviews.[61][62][63][64][65] The film also met with widespread box office success and gained Academy recognition.
The Aviator was nominated for six Golden Globe awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Leonardo DiCaprio. It won three, including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. In January 2005, The Aviator became the most-nominated film of the 77th Academy Awards nominations, nominated in 11 categories including Best Picture. The film also garnered nominations in nearly all of the other major categories, including a fifth Best Director nomination for Scorsese, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Cate Blanchett), and Alan Alda for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Despite having a leading tally, the film ended up with only five Oscars: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing and Best Cinematography. Scorsese lost again, this time to director Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby (which also won Best Picture).
[edit] No Direction Home
Main article: No Direction Home
No Direction Home is a documentary film by Martin Scorsese that tells of the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on American popular music and culture of the 20th century. The film does not cover Dylan's entire career; it focuses on his beginnings, his rise to fame in the 1960s, his then-controversial transformation from an acoustic guitar-based musician and performer to an electric guitar-influenced sound and his "retirement" from touring in 1966 following an infamous motorcycle accident. The film was first presented on television in both the United States (as part of the PBS American Masters series) and the United Kingdom (as part of the BBC Two Arena series) on September 26–27, 2005. A DVD version of the film was released that same month. The film won a Peabody award. In addition, Scorsese received an Emmy nomination for it.
[edit] The Departed
Main article: The Departed
Scorsese returned to the crime genre with the Boston-set thriller The Departed, based on the Hong Kong police drama Infernal Affairs. Along with Matt Damon, Leonardo Di Caprio, The Departed was Scorsese's first collaboration with Jack Nicholson and Martin Sheen.
The Departed opened to widespread critical acclaim with some proclaiming it as one of the best efforts Scorsese had brought to the screen since 1990's Goodfellas,[66][67] and still others putting it at the same level as Scorsese's most celebrated classics Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.[68][69] With domestic box office receipts surpassing $129,402,536, The Departed was Scorsese's highest grossing film (not accounting for inflation) until 2010's Shutter Island.
Martin Scorsese's direction of The Departed earned him his second Golden Globe for Best Director, as well as a Critic's Choice Award, his first Director's Guild of America Award, and the Academy Award for Best Director. While being presented with the award, Scorsese said "Could you double-check the envelope?" It was presented to him by his longtime friends and colleagues Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas. The Departed also received the Academy Award for the Best Motion Picture of 2006, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing by longtime Scorsese editor Thelma Schoonmaker, her third win for a Scorsese film, though many thought Scorsese deserved Academy Awards in his past films as well.
[edit] Shine a Light
Main article: Shine a Light (film)
Shine a Light is a concert film of rock and roll band The Rolling Stones' performances at New York City's Beacon Theater on October 29 and November 1, 2006, intercut with brief news and interview footage from throughout the band's career.
The film was initially scheduled for release on September 21, 2007, but Paramount Classics postponed its general release until April 2008. Its world premiere was at the opening of the 58th Berlinale Film Festival on February 7, 2008.
2010s[link]
[edit] Shutter Island
Main article: Shutter Island (film)
On October 22, 2007, Daily Variety reported that Scorsese would reunite with Leonardo DiCaprio on a fourth picture, Shutter Island. Principal photography on the Laeta Kalogridis screenplay, based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, began in Massachusetts in March 2008.[70][71]
In December 2007, actors Mark Ruffalo, Max von Sydow, Ben Kingsley, and Michelle Williams joined the cast,[72][73] marking the first time these four actors have worked with Scorsese. The film was released on February 19, 2010.[74] On May 20, 2010, the film was Scorsese's highest grossing film.[75]
[edit] Boardwalk Empire
Main articles: Boardwalk Empire and Pilot (Boardwalk Empire)
Scorsese directed the series premiere for Boardwalk Empire, an HBO drama series,[76] starring Steve Buscemi and Michael Pitt, and based upon Nelson Johnson's book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City.[77] Terence Winter, who previously wrote for The Sopranos, created the series. In addition to directing the pilot (for which he won the 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing), Scorsese also serves as an executive producer on the series.[77]
The series premiered on September 19, 2010 and was renewed for a second season. On October 12, 2011, the series was renewed again for a third season.[77]
[edit] Living in the Material World
Main article: George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Scorsese directed a three-and-a-half-hour documentary about the life and music of former Beatles member George Harrison, which premiered in the United States on HBO over two parts on October 5 and 6, 2011.[78]
[edit] Hugo
Main article: Hugo (film)
Hugo is a 3D adventure drama film based on Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The film stars Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer and Jude Law. The film has been met with critical acclaim[79][80][81] and earned Scorsese his third Golden Globe Award for Best Director. The film was also nominated for eleven Academy Awards, winning five of them and becoming tied with Michel Hazanavicius's film The Artist for the most Academy Awards won by a single film in 2011. Hugo also won two BAFTA awards and a Golden Globe Award for Best Director, among other numerous awards and nominations.
Hugo is Scorsese’s first 3D film and was released in the US on November 23, 2011.[82]
Future films[link]
Scorsese's next movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio and is called The Wolf Of Wall Street.[83] Scorsese has also announced several potential future projects.[84] A documentary feature on Scorsese by artist Melinda Camber Porter was nearly complete when she lost her life to cancer. Scorsese anticipates filming an adaptation of Shusaku Endo's novel Silence, a drama about the voyages of two Portuguese Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th Century. Scorsese had originally planned Silence as his next project following Shutter Island.[85] Scorsese reported that his long-planned Frank Sinatra biopic is coming up, with Phil Alden Robinson writing the screenplay.[86] He is also attached to direct The Irishman, which will star Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino.[87] It has also been announced that Scorsese is attached to direct an adaptation of Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø's novel The Snowman.[88] In an interview discussing Hugo with Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo on their BBC Podcast Scorsese mentioned that he is working on a TV series on the history of the Rock industry.
Collaborations with Robert De Niro[link]
Main article: Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro
Scorsese frequently collaborated with Robert De Niro, making a total of eight films with the actor. After being introduced to him in the early 1970s, Scorsese cast De Niro in his 1973 film Mean Streets. Three years later, De Niro starred in Taxi Driver, this time holding the lead role. De Niro re-joined Scorsese for New York, New York in 1977, but the film was unsuccessful. Nevertheless, their partnership continued into the 1980s, when the pair made Raging Bull, which was highly successful, and The King of Comedy. In the 1990s, De Niro starred in Goodfellas, one of the pair's most praised films, and 1991's Cape Fear, before making Casino in 1995. The two also voiced major parts in the 2004 film Shark Tale. Scorsese and De Niro plan to re-unite for a film referred to as The Irishman based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses,[89] although a date for the project is uncertain.
Honors[link]
- In 2007, Scorsese was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World.
- In August 2007 Scorsese was named the 2nd greatest director of all time in a poll by Total Film magazine, in front of Steven Spielberg and behind Alfred Hitchcock.
- In 2007, Scorsese was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (N.I.A.F.) at the nonprofit's thirty-second Anniversary Gala. During the ceremony, Scorsese helped launch N.I.A.F.'s Jack Valenti Institute, which provides support to Italian film students in the U.S., in memory of former Foundation Board Member and past president of the Motion Picture Association of America (M.P.A.A.) Jack Valenti. Scorsese received his award from Mary Margaret Valenti, Jack's widow. Certain pieces of Scorsese's film related material and personal papers are contained in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives to which scholars and media experts from around the world may have full access.[90]
- In 2011 Scorsese received an honorary doctorate from the National Film School in Lodz. At the awards ceremony he said, "I feel like I'm a part of this school and that I attended it", paying tribute to the films of Wajda, Munk, Has, Polanski and Skolimowski.[91]
Director trademarks[link]
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- Begins his films with segments taken from the middle or end of the story. Examples include Raging Bull (1980),[92] Goodfellas (1990),[93] Casino (1995),[94] and The Last Waltz.[95]
- Frequent use of slow motion, e.g. Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), and Goodfellas (1990) .[96] Also known for using freeze frame, such as the opening credits of The King of Comedy (1983), and throughout Goodfellas (1990). Such a shot is also used in the film "The Departed", (2006).
- His lead characters are often morally ambiguous, prone to violence, and/or want to be accepted in society or a society (The Departed, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas) and are not infrequently sociopaths (Cape Fear, Raging Bull, Casino).[97]
- In most of his films the main character often falls in love and has a wife, and often has a turning point between the main character and the wife. e.g. Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and Casino.
- His blonde leading ladies are usually seen through the eyes of the protagonist as angelic and ethereal; they wear white in their first scene and are photographed in slow-motion (Cybill Shepherd in Taxi Driver; Cathy Moriarty's white bikini in Raging Bull; Sharon Stone's white minidress in Casino).[98] This may possibly be a nod to director Alfred Hitchcock.[99]
- Often uses long tracking shots.[100] Example: Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs Of New York, Hugo
- Use of MOS sequences set to popular music or voice over, often involving aggressive camera movement and/or rapid editing.[101]
- The supporting actor will often betray the protagonist (Micheal in Mean Streets, Judas Iscariot in The Last Temptation of Christ, Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas, Nicky Santoro in Casino)
- Often has a quick cameo in his films (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy, After Hours, The Last Temptation of Christ (albeit hidden under a hood), Casino, The Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York, Hugo). Also, often contributes his voice to a film without showing his face on screen. He provides the opening voice-over narration in Mean Streets and The Color of Money; plays the off-screen dressing room attendant in the final scene of Raging Bull; provides the voice of the unseen ambulance dispatcher in Bringing out the Dead.[102]
- Frequently uses New York City as the main setting in his films, e.g. Gangs of New York, Taxi Driver, The Age of Innocence, The King of Comedy, After Hours, New York, New York, and Mean Streets.[103]
- Sometimes highlights characters in a scene with an iris, an homage to 1920s silent film cinema (as scenes at the time sometimes used this transition). This effect can be seen in Casino (it is used on Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci), Life Lessons, The Departed (on Matt Damon), and Hugo.
- Some of his films include references/allusions to Westerns, particularly Shane, The Searchers and The Oklahoma Kid.
- More recently, his films have featured corrupt authority figures, such as policemen in The Departed[104] and politicians in Gangs of New York[105] and The Aviator.[106]
- Guilt is a prominent theme in many of his films, as is the role of Catholicism in creating and dealing with guilt (Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Bringing Out the Dead, Mean Streets, Who's That Knocking at My Door, Shutter Island).
- Slow motion flashbulbs and accented camera/flash/shutter sounds.
- The song Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones is heard in several of Scorsese's films, including Goodfellas, Casino and The Departed.
- Some of his films are inspired by a true story. Examples: Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and Casino.
Frequent collaborations[link]
Scorsese often casts the same actors in his films, particularly Robert De Niro, who collaborated with Scorsese for eight films. Included are the three films (Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, and Goodfellas) that made AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list. Scorsese has often said he thinks De Niro's best work under his direction was Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy. Most recently, Scorsese has found a new muse with young actor Leonardo DiCaprio, with whom he has collaborated for four films, with two others confirmed to be in the works.[107] Several critics have compared Scorsese's new partnership with DiCaprio with his previous one with De Niro.[108][109] Other frequent collaborators include Victor Argo (6), Harry Northup (6), Harvey Keitel (5), Murray Moston (5), Joe Pesci (3), Frank Vincent (3) and Verna Bloom (3). Daniel Day-Lewis, who had become very reclusive to the Hollywood scene, Alec Baldwin, Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, Emily Mortimer, John C. Reilly, Frank Sivero, and Ray Winstone have also appeared in multiple Scorsese films. Before their deaths, Scorsese's parents, Charles Scorsese and Catherine Scorsese, appeared in bit parts, walk-ons or supporting roles, most notably in Goodfellas.
For his crew, Scorsese frequently worked with editor Thelma Schoonmaker,[110] cinematographers Michael Ballhaus[111] and Robert Richardson, screenwriters Paul Schrader Mardik Martin, and John Logan, costume designer Sandy Powell, production designer Dante Ferretti, and composers Robbie Robertson, Howard Shore[112] and Elmer Bernstein.[113] Schoonmaker, Richardson, Powell, and Ferretti have all won Academy Awards in their respective categories on collaborations with Scorsese. Elaine and Saul Bass, the latter being Hitchcock's frequent title designer, designed the opening credits for Goodfellas, The Age of Innocence, Casino and Cape Fear. He was the executive producer of the film Brides, which was directed by Pantelis Voulgaris and starred Victoria Haralabidou, Damien Lewis, Steven Berkoff and Kosta Sommer.
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Awards and recognitions[link]
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Scorsese received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997.
- In 1998, the American Film Institute placed three Scorsese films on their list of the greatest movies in America: Raging Bull at #24, Taxi Driver at #47 and Goodfellas at #94. For their tenth anniversary edition of the list, Raging Bull was moved to #4, Taxi Driver was moved to #52 and Goodfellas was moved to #92.
- Scorsese received the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic on January 18, 2001.[citation needed]
- In 2001, AFI put two Scorsese films on their list of the most "heart-pounding movies" in American cinema: Taxi Driver at #22 and Raging Bull at #51.
- At a ceremony in Paris, France, on January 5, 2005,[citation needed] Martin Scorsese was awarded the French Legion of Honor in recognition of his contribution to cinema.
- In 2007, Scorsese won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed, which also won Best Picture.
- On September 11, 2007, the Kennedy Center Honors committee, which recognizes career excellence and cultural influence, named Scorsese as one of the honorees for the year.
- On June 17, 2008, AFI put two of Scorsese's films on the AFI's 10 Top 10 list: Raging Bull at #1 for the Sports genre and Goodfellas at #2 for the Gangster genre.
- Scorsese was the recipient of the 2010 Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 67th Golden Globe Awards.
- On September 18, 2011, at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, Scorsese won in the category Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, for his work on the series premiere of Boardwalk Empire.
- On January 15, 2012, at the 69th Golden Globe Awards, Scorsese won an award for Best Director on the 2011 movie Hugo.
- On February 12, 2012 at the 65th British Academy Film Awards, Scorsese was the recipient of the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award.
Scorsese has earned praise from many film legends including Ingmar Bergman,[114] Frank Capra,[115] Jean-Luc Godard,[116] Werner Herzog,[117] Elia Kazan,[118] Akira Kurosawa,[119] David Lean,[120] Michael Powell,[121] Satyajit Ray,[122] and François Truffaut.[123]
| Year | Film | Academy Award Nominations | Academy Award Wins | Golden Globe Nominations | Golden Globe Wins | BAFTA Nominations | BAFTA Wins |
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| 1974 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | |
| 1976 | Taxi Driver | 4 | 2 | 7 | 3 | ||
| 1977 | New York, New York | 4 | 2 | ||||
| 1980 | Raging Bull | 8 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 1983 | The King of Comedy | 5 | 1 | ||||
| 1985 | After Hours | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1986 | The Color of Money | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 1988 | The Last Temptation of Christ | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 1990 | Goodfellas | 6 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 5 | |
| 1991 | Cape Fear | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 1993 | The Age of Innocence | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 1995 | Casino | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| 1997 | Kundun | 4 | 1 | ||||
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | 10 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 1 | |
| 2004 | The Aviator | 11 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 4 |
| 2006 | The Departed | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 6 | |
| 2011 | Hugo | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 2 |
| Total | 75 | 20 | 54 | 10 | 80 | 23 | |
Filmography[link]
Main article: Martin Scorsese filmography
See also[link]
References[link]
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- ^ a b c Chris Ingui. "Martin Scorsese hits DC, hangs with the Hachet". Hatchet. http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2002/03/04/Arts/Martin.Scorsese.Hits.Dc.Hangs.With.The.Hachet-195598.shtml. Retrieved June 6, 2009.
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| Name | Scorsese, Martin |
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| Short description | American film director |
| Date of birth | November 17, 1942 |
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