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Moody may refer to:

Places:

• Moody, Alabama, USA
• Moody, Missouri, USA
• Moody, Texas, USA
• Moody County, South Dakota, USA
• Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada
• Moody's Corner, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Moody, South Australia, Australia

In business:

• Moody's, an American credit-rating agency
• Moody's Analytics, a global risk management software company based in New York City, USA
• Moody Broadcasting Network, based in Chicago, USA
• Moody Publishers, based in Chicago, USA

Fictional Characters

• Mad-Eye Moody
• Hank Moody, a character from the television series Californication
• Judy Moody

Other:

• Moody (surname)
• Moody chart, used for computing friction losses in pipes
• Moody Air Force Base, Lowndes County, USA
• Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist
• Moody Bible Institute, based in Chicago, USA
• Moody Church, based in Chicago, USA

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George Benson
George Benson performing in Madrid 2009
Background information
Born	(1943-03-22) March 22, 1943 (age 69) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,United States
Genres	Jazz, funk, rhythm and blues, soul
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, archtop guitar
Years active	1954 (as little George Benson)[1][2] 1963–present
Labels	Prestige Records (1964-1965) Columbia Records (1966-1967) Verve Records (1968) A&M Records (1968-1970) CTI Records (1971-1976) Warner Bros. Records (1976-1994) GRP Records (1995-2005) Concord Records (2006-present)
Associated acts	Jack McDuff, Earl Klugh, Al Jarreau, Joe Farrell, Count Basie Orchestra, McCoy Tyner, Joe Sample, Fuse One, Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian
Website	Official website
Notable instruments
Ibanez GB10 Signature Model Ibanez GB200 Signature Model

George Benson (born March 22, 1943)^[3] is a ten time Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist.

Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s playing soul jazz with the likes of Jack McDuff. Benson then launched a successful solo career, alternating between jazz, pop, R&B singing, and scat singing. This one-time child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the triple-platinum album, Breezin',^[4] He was also a major live attraction in the UK during the 1980s and continues to attract a large following today.^[4] Benson uses a rest-stroke picking technique similar to that of gypsy jazz players such as Django Reinhardt.

Biography[link]

Early career[link]

Benson was born and raised in the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the age of 7, Benson first played the ukulele in a corner drug store for which he was paid a few dollars; at the age of 8, he was playing guitar in an unlicensed nightclub on Friday and Saturday nights which was soon closed down by the police. At the age of 10, George recorded his first single record with RCA-Victor in New York, called 'She Makes Me Mad'.^[1]

Benson attended Schenley High School, although he left before graduation. As a youth, instead, he learned how to play straight-ahead instrumental jazz during a relationship performing for several years with organist Jack McDuff. One of his many early guitar heroes was country-jazz guitarist Hank Garland. At the age of 21, he recorded his first album as leader, The New Boss Guitar, featuring McDuff.^[3] Benson's next recording was It's Uptown with the George Benson Quartet including Dr Lonnie Smith on organ and Ronnie Cuber on baritone saxophone.^[3] Benson followed it up with The George Benson Cookbook, also with Lonnie Smith and Ronnie Cuber on baritone and drummer Marion Booker.^[3] Miles Davis employed Benson in the mid 1960s, featuring his guitar on "Paraphernalia" on his 1968 Columbia release, Miles in the Sky before going to Verve Records.

Then, he signed with Creed Taylor's jazz label, CTI Records, where he recorded several albums, with jazz heavyweights guesting, to some success, mainly in the jazz field. His 1974 release, "Bad Benson" climbed to the top spot in the Billboard jazz chart, while the follow-ups, "Good King Bad" (#51 Pop album) and "Benson and Farrell" (with Joe Farrell) both reached the jazz top three sellers. Benson also did a version of The Beatles's 1969 album Abbey Road called The Other Side of Abbey Road, also released in 1969, and a version of "White Rabbit", originally written and recorded by San Francisco rock group Great Society, and made famous by Jefferson Airplane.^[3] He also played on numerous sessions for other CTI artists during this time, including Freddie Hubbard and Stanley Turrentine, notably on the latter's acclaimed album Sugar.

1970s and 1980s[link]

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By the mid to late 1970s, as he recorded for Warner Bros. Records, a whole new audience began to discover Benson for the first time. With the 1976 release Breezin', Benson began to put his vocal on tracks such as "This Masquerade." He had used his vocals infrequently on songs earlier in his career, notably his rendition of "Here Comes the Sun" on the Other Side of Abbey Road album. Breezin' was a significant album in terms of popular music history - the first jazz release to go Platinum and the first indication that something new was about to happen, He also recorded in this album many instrumentals and notable is his rendition of the 1975 Jose Feliciano composition "Affirmation". In 1976, Benson toured with soul singer, Minnie Riperton, who had been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer earlier that year. Also in 1976, George Benson appeared as a guitarist and backup vocalist on Stevie Wonder's song "Another Star" from Wonder's album Songs in the Key of Life. "This Masquerade" won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year and the live take of "On Broadway", recorded two years later from the 1978 release Weekend in L.A., also won a Grammy. He has worked with Freddie Hubbard on a number of his albums throughout the '60s, '70s and '80s. He joined Jehovah's witnesses in 1979 where he is still active to date.

The Qwest record label first officially released Benson's breakthrough pop album Give Me The Night. Benson made it into the pop and R&B top ten with the song "Give Me the Night" (produced by Quincy Jones and written by former Heatwave keyboardist Rod Temperton) having previously been almost unknown to the younger audience. More importantly, Quincy Jones encouraged Benson to search his roots for further vocal inspiration, and he re-discovered his love for Nat Cole, Ray Charles and Donny Hathaway in the process, influencing a string of further vocal albums into the '90s. Despite returning to his jazz and guitar playing most recently, this theme was reflected again much later in Benson's 2000 release Absolute Benson featuring a cover of one of Hathaway's most notable songs, The Ghetto. Benson accumulated three other platinum LPs and two gold albums.^[5] He also recorded the original version of "Greatest Love of All" for the 1977 Muhammad Ali bio-pic, The Greatest, which was later recorded as a cover by Whitney Houston.^[5] During this time Benson recorded with the German conductor, Claus Ogerman.^[6]

Later and current career[link]

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In 1985 Benson and guitarist Chet Atkins went on the smooth jazz charts with their collaboration "Sunrise", one of two songs from the duo released on Atkins' disc Stay Tuned. In 1992, Benson appeared on Jack McDuff's Colour Me Blue album. Benson toured with Al Jarreau in America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand to promote their 2006 album Givin' It Up. He played during the second Monsoon Cup in Terengganu in 2006 and also Malaysia's 50th Merdeka celebration alongside Jarreau in 2007.^{[citation needed]} In May 2008, for the first time Benson took part in Mawazine Festival in Morocco.^{[citation needed]}

To commemorate the long term relationship between Benson and Ibanez and to celebrate 30 years of collaboration on the GB Signature Models, Ibanez created the GB30TH, a very limited edition model featuring a gold foil finish inspired by the traditional Japanese Garahaku art form.^[7] In 2009, Benson was recognized by the National Endowment of the Arts as a Jazz Master, the nations highest honor in Jazz.^[8] Benson performed at the 49th issue of The Ohrid Summer Festival in Macedonia on July 25, 2009, and his tribute show to Nat King Cole "An Unforgettable Tribute to Nat King Cole" as part of the Istanbul International Jazz Festival in Turkey on July 27. In the fall of 2009, Benson finished recording a new album titled Songs and Stories, with Marcus Miller, producer John Burk,^[9] and session musicians David Paich and Steve Lukather.^[10] As a part of the promotion for his recent Concord Music Group/Monster Music release Songs and Stories, Benson has appeared and/or performed on The Tavis Smiley Show,^[11] Jimmy Kimmel Live^[12] and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.^[13]

Benson has toured throughout 2010 in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim, including an appearance at the Singapore Sun Festival.^[14] He performed at the Java Jazz Festival March 4–6, 2011.

Discography[link]

Benson in September 2011

Awards[link]

Grammy Awards[link]

List of Grammy Awards received by George Benson^[15]

References[link]

External links[link]

Official website

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Patti Austin
Austin on the evening of her appearance at the Ram's Head in Annapolis, Maryland, where she sang an all-Gershwin show on October 29, 2007.
Background information
Born	(1950-08-10) August 10, 1950 (age 61)
Origin	Harlem, New York
Genres	R&B, Pop rock, Jazz
Occupations	Singer, Songwriter
Years active	1953–present
Labels	CTI, Qwest, GRP, Concord
Website	Patti Austin Official Website

Patti Austin (born August 10, 1950)^[1] is an American R&B and jazz music singer.

Life and career[link]

Austin was born in Harlem, New York. She made her debut at the Apollo Theater at age four and had a contract with RCA Records when she was only five. Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington have proclaimed themselves as her godparents.^{[citation needed]}

By the late 1960s Austin was a prolific session musician and commercial jingle singer. During the 1980s, signed to Jones's Qwest Records, she began her most prolific hitmaking period. She charted twenty R&B songs between 1969 and 1991 and had success on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, where she hit number one in 1981 with "Do You Love Me?" / "The Genie".

The album containing that hit, Every Home Should Have One, also produced her biggest mainstream hit. "Baby, Come To Me", a duet with James Ingram, initially peaked at number 73 on the Hot 100 in early 1982. After being featured as the love theme in a prominent storyline on the soap opera General Hospital, the song re-entered the pop chart in October and went to number one in February 1983. The single was certified Gold by the RIAA. She would later team up again with Ingram for "How Do You Keep The Music Playing".

That year, Austin's single "It's Gonna Be Special" was featured on the soundtrack for the Olivia Newton-John/John Travolta film Two of a Kind. Though the film was not the major success envisioned for the re-teaming of the Grease stars, the soundtrack went Platinum and Austin's single, produced by Quincy Jones, became one of her highest-profile hits. "It's Gonna Be Special" peaked at #5 on the Dance charts, #15 on the R&B charts, and charted on the Hot 100 in 1984. The song also appeared on her self-titled album of that year, and its follow-up, "Rhythm of the Street", remixed by John "Jellybean" Benitez, narrowly missed Billboard's Dance Top Ten, though it peaked higher on Hi-NRG charts. The two songs were featured on a double-A-side 12" single. For "Rhythm of the Street" Austin shot her first music video.

Austin released her third album in three years entitled Gettin' Away With Murder. In addition to the title track, she had two more hit singles, "Honey For The Bees" (#24 R&B and #6 Dance) and "The Heat of Heat". Produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, noted for their later work with Janet Jackson, the latter track returned Austin to the top 15 of the R&B charts for what would be the last time to date. It would also be her last Hot 100 charting to date, although she would score a top-5 dance hit with the single Reach that appeared originally on her 1994 CD That Secret Place.

She next appeared with Jeff Bridges and Joan Allen in Francis Ford Coppola's critically acclaimed period piece Tucker: The Man and his Dream (1988). That year, Austin released The Real Me, a collection of standards which garnered her the first of several Top 10 showings on the Jazz Albums chart.

She sang the duet "It's the Falling in Love" with Michael Jackson on his album Off The Wall. Other duet partners include George Benson ("Moody's Mood for Love" and "Keep Your Dreams Alive"), and Luther Vandross ("I'm Gonna Miss You In The Morning"). In 1985 she sang lead vocals on a collaboration with her producer, Narada Michael Walden, and the single, "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme", went top 40 on the R&B charts.

In 1991, she recorded the duet "You Who Brought Me Love" with music legend Johnny Mathis, which was received with critical acclaim. That same year she was invited to be a guest on a Johnny Mathis television special that was broadcast across North America.

Austin led a new group of Raelettes for the 2006 album Ray Charles + Count Basie Orchestra = Genius². That group also featured veteran session singer Valerie Pinkston and members of the group Perry.

During a 2007 interview promoting her latest recording, Austin reflected how as a teenager she reluctantly attended one of Judy Garland's last concerts and the experience helped focus her career, stating "She (Judy Garland) ripped my heart out. I wanted to interpret a lyric like that, to present who I was at the moment through the lyric."^[2]

In 2007 Patti Austin participated in the Avo Session Basel with a program dedicated to Ella Fitzgerald.

In 2008, fifty-three years after getting her first record contract, Patti Austin was awarded her first Grammy Award, winning Best Jazz Vocal Album for Avant Gershwin at the 50th annual Grammy Awards.[1] The award came for her ninth nomination in that category.

On September 11, 2001, Austin was booked on United Flight 93, from Boston to San Francisco. However, she had to change the flight to a day earlier because her mother had a stroke. Austin later said: “I felt that my life had been saved for some specific reason.” “I have yet to figure that out, but I do a lot of charity work now, which I was doing before, but I do a lot more.”^{[citation needed]}

She reported to Jim Newsom of Portfolio Weekly in 2006 “I just lost 140 pounds. “I had gastric bypass surgery a year and a half ago, and my life was saved by it. “I went to a doctor for a complete physical because I had a torn meniscus in my knee. He said, ‘You’ve got to lose this weight —- you’ve got type II diabetes, you have asthma and you’re menopausal. You’ve got to get rid of this weight and you’ve got to get rid of it fast. This is the best way for you to do it.’”

Austin is one of over 70 artists singing on "We Are the World: 25 for Haiti", a charity single in aid of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Live albums[link]

Compilation albums[link]

Singles[link]

• "All Behind Us Now"

Guest appearances[link]

With Lalo Schifrin

• Black Widow (CTI, 1976)

See also[link]

• List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Patti Austin Official Website

Paul Bearer
Moody in January 2011
Ring name(s)	Mr. X The Embalmer Dr. Rigor Mortis Percival Pringle III[1] Percy Pringle III Paul Bearer[2]
Billed height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Billed weight	350 lb (160 kg)
Born	(1954-04-10) April 10, 1954 (age 58) Mobile, Alabama
Resides	Mobile, Alabama
Debut	June 1974

William Alvin "Bill" Moody (born April 10, 1954), better known by his ring name Paul Bearer, is a professional wrestling manager and former wrestler best known for his time in World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) and World Wrestling Federation (WWF—later WWE).

Professional wrestling career[link]

Early career[link]

He entered the wrestling business in his teenage years as a ringside photographer. After high school, he enlisted in the United States Air Force, serving four years on duty; during this time, he often wrestled for Indian Coast independent promotions during off-duty hours. In 1979, he began managing as Percy Pringle III (or, alternatively, Percival Pringle) in southeastern independent promotions. There had been previous Percy Pringles in wrestling who were not William Moody. Immediately after his first son's birth, he cut back his involvement in the wrestling business in order to obtain a degree in mortuary science and earn certification as a funeral director and embalmer.

In 1984, he resumed full-time involvement in the wrestling business, using his Pringle character in Florida Championship Wrestling, World Class Championship Wrestling in Texas, and the United States Wrestling Association (a successor to WCCW). During this time, he served as manager for numerous wrestlers; he notably managed Rick Rude, "Stunning" Steve Austin, and Mark Calaway in their early careers.^[1] As Percy Pringle, he was also associated with the careers of Lex Luger, Eric Embry, and The Ultimate Warrior.

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (1990–2002)[link]

He joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in December 1990, after being mentioned by Rick Rude to WWF owner Vince McMahon. McMahon used Moody's real-life involvement in the funeral industry to create the character of Paul Bearer (a play on pallbearer), a very histrionic, ghostly manager, who was almost always seen bearing an urn (which led to several storylines involving wrestlers stealing his urn), and whose catchphrase was "Ohhh yyyes!". The Undertaker was his only protege to make use of his urn, being able to draw mystical power from it that could revive his strength during matches, sparking up the phrase, "The power of the urn". While Bearer managed Mankind, Mankind had a tendency to hug up against his urn while rocking back and forth.

Paul Bearer holding his urn in 1996.

Pringle made his first appearance in February 1991 when Brother Love, who originally managed The Undertaker, passed him on to be managed by Paul Bearer. Paul Bearer took on a spookier, ghastlier character as time went on and referred to The Undertaker as "My Undertaker". Pringle played the character for over thirteen years. As Undertaker's manager, as a heel and later a face for over five years, he was a mentor to The Undertaker, playing a major role in his entrances by guiding him to the ring, undoing his tie, and collecting his trench coat and hat. Bearer also hosted the WWF talk show segment entitled The Funeral Parlor, which included memorable segments such as the Ultimate Warrior being locked inside a casket, among others. Eventually Bearer turned heel again by betraying his long-time friend at SummerSlam 1996 to align himself with The Undertaker's arch-enemy, Mankind. While managing Mankind, his new protege always referred to him as "Uncle Paul". During this time, Bearer would also enlist the services of The Executioner and Vader to do battle against The Undertaker.

In April 1997 at In Your House Revenge of the Taker, The Undertaker set Bearer's face ablaze using a fireball. As a result, Bearer's head was bandaged for a time before changing his looks, shedding the makeup of ghostly pallor and jet-black hair to his natural brown hair and less make-up. No longer using his ghostly appearance and mannerisms, he became loudmouthed and shrill. Around mid 1997, Paul Bearer blackmailed The Undertaker (WWF Champion at the time) into being his protege again by threatening to reveal a deep, dark secret involving him, often making references to "the fires of Hell". Feeling he had no choice, The Undertaker accepted. While managing The Undertaker this time around, Bearer was very unpleasant toward him, harassing and nagging at him constantly. Eventually, Undertaker lost his patience and refused to allow Bearer to continue being his manager, leading Bearer to reveal the secret.

The secret suggested that Bearer had a traumatic past with The Undertaker which long preceded Brother Love's joining the two in January 1991. The secret, which involved the Undertaker's family, was: The Undertaker's mother had an affair with Paul Bearer and as a result, gave birth to a younger half-brother of The Undertaker, named Kane. Throughout The Undertaker's childhood and teen years, he lived in a funeral home with his parents and half-brother. According to Paul Bearer, The Undertaker killed his parents and caused his half-brother's face to be bruised and scarred by setting the funeral home ablaze. At the time throughout mid to late 1997, The Undertaker denied all this, claiming it was his younger half-brother's fault. Bearer accused The Undertaker of being a "murderer" and "liar". Because of the fire incident, The Undertaker thought his younger half-brother and Bearer's illegitimate son had been dead for years, that is, until Bearer introduced Kane in October 1997 at In Your House Badd Blood; during which, Kane would cost The Undertaker a Hell in a Cell match against Shawn Michaels.^[3] This led to an intense, bitter rivalry between The Undertaker and Kane with Bearer very much involved.

Bearer and The Undertaker became a team once again as heels toward the end of 1998 when Bearer betrayed his own son, Kane, in favor of managing The Undertaker once again. Once becoming a heel with Bearer, The Undertaker shamelessly admitted to setting the funeral home ablaze for which he had initially claimed was an accident or blamed Kane. Shortly thereafter, Bearer and The Undertaker formed the Ministry of Darkness. Bearer had somewhat reverted back to his original appearance once in the Ministry of Darkness, having jet-black hair and mustache. Both he and The Undertaker departed from the WWF unceremoniously in September 1999 as a result of The Undertaker suffering an injury.

In early 2000, Bearer, who turned face once more briefly, returned to WWF TV as Kane's manager, but he retired from on-screen performing shortly after WrestleMania 2000. Later that year, he went backstage to serve as a WWF road agent, stage manager, and talent scout. His contract with WWE ended in October 2002.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2002–2003)[link]

He spent the next year working with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Percy Pringle III.

Return to WWE (2003–present)[link]

In October 2003, he signed a new three-year contract with WWE. Jim Ross, contacted him about rejoining the company, Paul at first refused the offer. Jim Ross then called again with an offer. At that time, he was suffering from health problems and depression related to his morbid obesity and underwent gastric bypass surgery in November 2003. As a signing bonus, WWE agreed to pay for the surgery, as Jim Ross promised.

Managing The Undertaker and backstage work (2004–2005)[link]

After recovering, he reappeared as Paul Bearer in March 2004 at WrestleMania XX, alongside Undertaker in a match against Kane. Paul Bearer also appeared on TV as The Undertaker's manager.

In spring of 2004, Paul Bearer was kidnapped by The Dudley Boyz under the direction of Paul Heyman. This was set up in order to temporarily write Bearer out of WWE story lines because he had to undergo emergency gallbladder surgery after suddenly developing gallstones, a common side effect of gastric bypass surgery.

For the June 27, 2004 pay-per-view The Great American Bash, a match pitting Undertaker against both of the Dudley Boyz was booked. Paul Bearer would be encased in a glass crypt backstage, covered up to his chest in cement. In the storyline, Heyman demanded that Undertaker throw the match or else see Bearer suffocated in cement. By the time of the pay-per-view, Bearer had recovered from his latest operation and would appear on-screen.

Undertaker won the match but proceeded afterwards to pull the lever that sent cement into the crypt, completely burying Paul Bearer, suffocating him. (Bearer was not really at the event. The WWE had recorded footage of Paul Bearer in the crypt before the event. During the event, there was a stunt double in the crypt the whole time. That's why the TV audience could only see Paul Bearer and the crypt he was in – since he wasn't there, they couldn't actually show anyone on screen with Bearer).^[4] This shot ended the PPV and caused numerous complaints toward WWE, as in essence they had shown a simulated murder. The live audience, however, saw an extended ending in which Bearer surfaced for air and was carried from the arena on a stretcher. On the following week's SmackDown!, Bearer was acknowledged to be alive, although gravely injured, for storyline purposes. The rehearsal taping earlier in the day of the Bash – with Undertaker ad-libbing and only half of the stunt complete, in an empty arena – was leaked onto the internet dirt sheets and actually broadcast live by accident in many of the TV markets. As he had two years remaining on his contract, however, Bearer was used as a booker for the company up until WWE decided to terminate his contract on April 11, 2005.

Other WWE work and independent circuit (2005–2010)[link]

On June 10, 2005, Bearer announced that he had signed a new deal with WWE which would allow WWE to market his personality and which would involve him attending autograph sessions and making promotional appearances and occasional appearances on TV and at house shows. Such an appearance occurred in late January 2007 at a SmackDown/ECW live event in Mobile, Alabama, where he joined the Brothers of Destruction at ringside, wearing his Paul Bearer attire, and carrying the original urn.^[5]

On April 11, 2007, Bearer appeared in the "Where Are They Now?" page, on the WWE website. He is said to have lost 240 pounds.^[6]

Bearer has been featured as a manager in the THQ video game WWE Legends of WrestleMania in 2009. In 2010, Moody did voice over work as Paul Bearer for the game, WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011, where he was featured in one of the Road To WrestleMania storylines for the game, as well as a selectable manager.He was also on "WWE All Stars".

Bearer returned to the Boston based Millennium Wrestling Federation as top heel manager along with John "Bradshaw" Layfield after four years, leading "Stalker" Dylan Kage at Soul Survivor VI against The Iron Sheik and "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal in the Sheik's retirement match April 24, 2010.

Sporadic WWE appearances (2010-present)[link]

On the September 24, 2010, episode of SmackDown, Bearer returned after being brought out in a casket. Bearer would help The Undertaker, who was feuding with Kane over the World Heavyweight Championship, by restoring Undertaker's powers with the urn.^[7] Bearer officially became Undertaker's manager again by accompanying him to the ring for his match against Kane for the title at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view. During the match however, Bearer once again turned on Undertaker, after shining a light in his eyes when he was about to tombstone Kane. Bearer would then let Kane use the urn as a weapon to help him win the match, thus, turning Bearer heel.^[8] On the October 15 episode of SmackDown, Bearer challenged Undertaker to face Kane in a Buried Alive Match for the World Heavyweight Championship at Bragging Rights, to which Undertaker accepted by attacking Kane. At Bragging Rights, Kane once again defeated Undertaker after interference by Bearer, who was almost thrown in the grave by Undertaker, and Nexus, who helped Bearer and Kane bury Undertaker.

Kane then entered a feud with Edge, after he was named the new challenger to Kane's World Heavyweight Championship at Survivor Series. On the November 12 episode of SmackDown, Bearer cost Edge his match against Nexus member David Otunga. After the match, Edge kidnapped Bearer by strapping him in a wheelchair. Later that night, Edge used Bearer to cost Kane his match against The Big Show. The following week, Edge tormented Bearer throughout the night by throwing a dodgeball at him and force feeding and throwing pizza all over him. Edge then used Bearer to call for Kane in the parking lot, but Kane wasn't able to get Bearer in time as Edge attacked him and drove off with Bearer. On the November 26 episode of SmackDown, Kane demanded that Edge to let Bearer go, but Edge refused. Kane attempted track down Bearer, but was unable to find him. Kane offered a second title shot to Edge, which he accepted, but continued to keep Bearer with him. At the end of the night, Edge lured Kane to the parking lot, where Edge drove over a dummy version of Paul Bearer, with the actual Paul Bearer in the backseat of the car. On the December 3 episode of SmackDown, Edge continued his mind games with Kane by pushing a dummy version of Paul Bearer down some stairs. Then, after Edge defeated Kane in a non-title match, he brought out a Paul Bearer lookalike. Kane then went to search for Bearer again, but Edge drove away in a truck with Bearer tied up on the back. The following week, Kane begged Edge to return Bearer, but Edge once again refused. Kane then refused to participate in the main event that night and once again searched for Bearer. After what he thought was a dummy version of Paul Bearer on top of two ladders, Kane pushed them over. Afterward, Kane saw that he pushed the actual Paul Bearer off the ladders onto the concrete floor, thus, injuring him and writing him out of the storyline.

In April 2012, Bearer returned for a brief stint as a part of Kane's ongoing feud with Randy Orton. He was kidnapped by Orton and then stuck in a storage freezer while strapped to a wheelchair. Kane later came for Bearer, only to roll him back into the freezer and saying, "I'm saving you...from me."

Personal life[link]

Moody married Dianna in December 1978 and has two sons, Michael and Daniel. Daniel wrestles on the independent circuit as DJ Pringle.^[9][10] Dianna died due to complications resulting from breast cancer and chemotherapy on January 31, 2009, after over thirty years of marriage.^[11]

Moody's health has greatly improved since his gastric bypass surgery. One year earlier, he admitted that he had weighed 525 pounds (238 kg) before the operation but now weighs under 300 pounds.^[12]

In September and October 2005, he conducted three shoot interviews for Ring of Honor. Two were done exclusively about him, talking about his career in wrestling. The third was with friend and fellow wrestling manager Jim Cornette. He returned full-time to his funeral business in 2006. In 2005, Moody, with three partners, started his own independent promotion known as Gulf South Wrestling, which he announced closed on his official blog in May 2007, due to his partners in the business wanting to continue the promotion without Moody. Moody in response dissolved the company.^[13]

In wrestling[link]

• Wrestlers managed

• Nicknames

• "The Father of Destruction"

Awards and accomplishments[link]

• Cauliflower Alley Club
  • Other honoree (2003)

• Gulf Coast Wrestlers Reunion
  • Pioneer Award 2001 Member of the Board of Directors

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • Manager of the Year (1998)

References[link]

Bibliography[link]

• Stone Cold Steve Austin and Jim Ross (2003). The Stone Cold Truth. Pocket Books. ISBN 0-7434-7720-0. 

External links[link]

Professional wrestling portal

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Paul Bearer

• Official website
• Official blog
• WWE Profile of Paul Bearer
• WWE where are they now?
• Paul Bearer interview
• Interview
• Interview with Paul Bearer

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Justin Hayward
Justin Hayward in 2007
Background information
Birth name	Justin Hayward
Born	(1946-10-14) 14 October 1946 (age 65) Swindon, Wiltshire England United Kingdom
Genres	Rock, progressive rock
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Guitar, piano vocals, mandolin, sitar
Years active	1965–present
Labels	Pye Records Parlophone Threshold Records Deram Records Polydor CMC International Trax Records Towerbell Records Armou Records
Associated acts	The Moody Blues
Notable instruments
Gibson ES-335

Justin Hayward (born 14 October 1946, Swindon, Wiltshire, England) is an English musician, best known as singer, songwriter and guitarist in the rock band The Moody Blues.

Hayward was born in Dean Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, England and he was educated at Shrivenham School, Berkshire and The Commonweal School, in Swindon, Wiltshire.^[1]

Career[link]

When Hayward was 15 he was able to afford a Gibson guitar and a Vox amplifier through performing with local Swindon groups in clubs and dance halls playing mostly Buddy Holly songs. One of Hayward's early groups was All Things Bright, which opened for The Hollies and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes. At age 17, he signed a publishing contract as a songwriter with the skiffle artist and record producer Lonnie Donegan, a move Hayward later regretted as it meant the rights to all his songs written before 1974 would always be owned by Donegan's Tyler Music.^[2] In 1965 he answered an advertisement in Melody Maker and auditioned as guitarist for Marty Wilde and he went on to work with Wilde and his wife in The Wilde Three.

Hayward was recently involved in the remastering of The Moody Blues back catalogue for Universal Music.

The Moody Blues[link]

In 1966, after answering another ad in Melody Maker, this time placed by Eric Burdon of The Animals, Hayward was contacted by Mike Pinder of The Moody Blues after Burdon had passed on Hayward's letter and demo discs to Pinder. Within a few days Hayward had replaced departing Moody Blues vocalist and guitarist Denny Laine. Bassist John Lodge replaced temporary deputy Rod Clarke who had stood in for departed Bassist Clint Warwick at the same time.

After beginning by singing the old Blues inspired repertoire of The Moodies 1964-1965 era, Hayward's initial artistic contribution to The Moody Blues was his song 'Fly Me High' which was a Decca single early in 1967, this failed to chart but gave the revised band a new sound and direction, being more of an original contemporary track than the 'R & B' sound they had been largely producing up to that point.

Hayward's driving rocker 'Leave This Man Alone' was then used as 'B' side to the next Moodies single on Decca, backing Mike Pinder's 'Love And Beauty' (1967) the first Moodies record to feature the mellotron.

Hayward's and Lodge's integration into the Moody Blues along with Pinder's use of the Mellotron sparked greater commercial success and recognition for the band, transforming them into one of pop music's biggest-selling acts. Hayward says of Pinder: "Mike and the Mellotron made my songs work."

The 1967 album Days of Future Passed, one of the first and most influential symphonic rock albums, spawned the Hayward-penned singles "Tuesday Afternoon" and "Nights in White Satin". The latter record went on to sell over two million copies, charting three times in the UK (1967, 1972, and in 1979) and has been recorded by many other recording artists. Hayward's 'B' side song 'Cities' being an early ecology themed item.

Hayward became the group's main onstage figurehead over the 1967-1974 period, the most prolific songwriter and composer of several big singles hits for the band. During this time he wrote memorable album tracks such as: "Tuesday Afternoon" (originally the first half, with John Lodge's (Evening) Time to Get Away, of "'Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?)"), "The Actor", "Lovely to See You", "Never Comes the Day", "Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)", "It's Up To You", "Dawning is The Day","You Can Never Go Home", "The Story in Your Eyes" (a US chart hit), "New Horizons", "The Land of Make-Believe", and "Island"

Hayward wrote the band's UK #2 hit, "Question" as well as "Voices in the Sky", "Driftwood", "The Voice", "Blue World", "Your Wildest Dreams", "I Know You're Out There Somewhere", "English Sunset" and "December Snow"; in all, writing 20 of the group's 27 post-1967 singles.

In addition to handling the Lead vocals on his own compositions, Hayward also took a featured lead or co-lead vocal on other band members songs such as; "Dawn is A Feeling" (Pinder), "Gimmie A Little Something", "Isn't Life Strange", "Candle of Life" (Lodge), "After You Came", "I'll Be Level With You", "The Spirit". "Nothing Changes" (Edge) etc....

The Moodies attempts to come up with another specific 'hit single' during the 1967-68 period saw them record three other Hayward compositions; "Long Summer Days", "King and Queen" and "What Am I Doing Here?" all of which were then left unissued, but together with unissued songs by Mike Pinder and John Lodge later formed the 'studio side four' of Decca's 1977 release; Caught Live Plus Five which largely comprised a December 1969 Live Recording of a concert at The Royal Albert Hall (issued against the group's wishes).

Hayward also co-wrote album tracks with Ray Thomas - "Visions of Paradise", "Are You Sitting Comfortably", "Watching and Waiting", and much later "Never Blame the Rainbows for the Rain", plus later co-wrote many songs with John Lodge for The Moodies, notably "Gemini Dream" (a US Chart hit), "Meet Me Halfway", "Talkin' Talkin'", "Want To Be With You", "Once is Enough", "Strange Times","Sooner or Later (Walking on Air)" among others.

Hayward's songs have opened each of The Moodies albums in their 'post Mike Pinder era' since Long Distance Voyager in 1981, and his songs, both solo compositions and co-written with John Lodge, plus his lead vocals, harmony voice, and guitar playing have been a major overriding factor in the bands work and continued success since 1981.

Their album sales from 1978 to the present are more than 60 million. This is the regularly quoted total of their album sales, since the total sales of their albums before 1978 is disputed due to lack of official record company data,^[3] However the period 1967 to 1974 was when their albums (and singles) were charting highest in the UK and US plus worldwide (album track "Melancholy Man" made number one in France as a single in 1970) - Days of Future Passed topped the US album charts on re-issue in 1972, then was followed into the album charts by the new studio album Seventh Sojourn.

1974 onwards[link]

In 1974, the Moody Blues decided to take what ended up being a four-year break from performing and recording. Hayward continued working with Lodge and producer Tony Clarke, using musicians from the Moody Blues' label, Threshold, and sounding very much like the mother group. Together, they had a hit in 1975 with "Blue Guitar" (a Hayward recording with the band 10cc), and released an album titled Blue Jays.

In 1977 Justin recorded his first solo album Songwriter. He enjoyed international solo success in 1978 when he appeared on Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds concept album, which yielded his hits "Forever Autumn" and "The Eve of the War". Wayne later contributed to Hayward's 1980 album Night Flight.

Hayward issued a rare non album single "Marie" c/w "Heart of Steel' (Decca F13834) in April 1979, both sides composed by him, the 'A' side dedicated to his wife. These tracks were later included among the 'Bonus' tracks on a CD re-issue of his Songwriter solo album in 2004.

During the 1980s, Hayward composed and performed for film and television, including the theme song "It Won't Be Easy" for the 1987 BBC2 science fiction series Star Cops, "Something Evil, Something Dangerous" for the film Howling IV: The Original Nightmare, "Eternal Woman" for the film She and music for the animated television series The Shoe People.

In 1989, with producer-arranger Mike Batt, Hayward released Classic Blue, an album of pop standards written by other composers, set to orchestration arranged by Batt. Classic Blue included a cover version of Led Zeppelin's hit "Stairway to Heaven." Hayward's most recent solo album, The View from the Hill, was released in 1996, and a live recording, Live in San Juan Capistrano, followed in 1998.

Hayward contributed vocals to a song on Rick Wakeman's 1999 album Return to the Centre of the Earth.

In 2003 he sang along with other rock singers on another orchestral album, consisting of Moody Blues songs with the Frankfurt Rock Orchestra, titled Justin Hayward and Friends Perform the Hits of the Moody Blues (alternatively called Justin Hayward and Friends Sing the Moody Blues Classic Hits). Hayward was later involved in a legal dispute, now resolved, arguing he was not paid for his participation on the album.

In April 2006, Hayward took part in the stage tour of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, reprising his role in Autumn 2007 in Australia and in the UK in December 2007. He did so again in the UK in June 2009, and appeared on the tour in November and December 2010.^[4][5]

The Moody Blues, with Hayward, Lodge and original drummer Graeme Edge, continue to tour extensively and in a recent BBC World Service interview, Hayward and Lodge made it clear they have no plans to stop working, regarding it as "a privilege" to still be working in the music industry. In an interview, in 2005, Edge said if he remained in good health, he could go on for 10 more years.^[3]

On 10 December 2011 Hayward along with Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull and Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden played a concert together at Canterbury Cathedral.

Instruments[link]

For the most part, Hayward has used a red Gibson ES-335 ("main axe"), though he also uses other guitars in both performing and recording, including a 1955 Martin D-28 "Dreadnought", a James Olson six-string acoustic, a black Guild acoustic, a Squier Stratocaster (essentially an inexpensive Fender Stratocaster, as Squier is a subsidiary of Fender), a Fender Telecaster, a blonde Guild 12-string acoustic (tuned to "open C"), a 12-string Gibson acoustic (for "Question"), and in 1967 a black Gibson Les Paul. Between 1965 and 1968 he was without his Gibson 335 and relied on other instruments, most notably a 1964 Fender Telecaster and a hand-built 12-string guitar he had renovated for Donegan (he eventually bought this guitar from Donegan's widow). However, in an interview included on the Lovely to See You concert DVD (2005), Hayward says the 1963 Gibson 335 has been with him since 1967. Recently he has played a Collings D3 on stage and on recordings. Among other instruments, Hayward also played mandolin on A Question of Balance and sitar on "In Search of the Lost Chord".^[3]

Personal life[link]

Hayward married former model Ann Marie Guirron on 19 December 1969. Their daughter Doremi was born on 3 December 1972.

Awards[link]

Hayward was awarded the first of numerous awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for songwriting in 1974. In 1985, the Moody Blues picked up the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, and in 1988 Hayward received the Novello, among other honours, for Composer of the Year (for "I Know You're Out There Somewhere"). In 2000, he was one of a handful of British artists to receive the "Golden Note" award for lifetime achievement by ASCAP. In 2004, Hayward was awarded the "Gold Badge" for lifetime achievement by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).^[3]

Compositions[link]

• 1965 ~ "London Is Behind Me" (45 RPM Debut Single)
• 1966 ~ "Day Must Come" (45 RPM Single)
• 1966 ~ "I Can't Face the World Without You" (45 RPM Single)
• 1966 ~ "I'll Be Here Tomorrow" (45 RPM Single)

• 1967 ~ "Tuesday Afternoon" on Days of Future Passed
• 1967 ~ "Nights in White Satin" on Days of Future Passed

• 1967 ~ "Fly Me High" (45 RPM Single)
• 1967 ~ "Leave This Man Alone" (45 RPM Single)
• 1967 ~ "Cities" (45 RPM Single)
• 1967 ~ "Long Summer Days" (Released 1977)
• 1967 ~ "King and Queen" (Released 1977)
• 1967 ~ "What Am I Doing Here?" (Released 1977)

• 1968 ~ "Voices in the Sky" on In Search of the Lost Chord
• 1968 ~ "Visions of Paradise" (with Ray Thomas) on In Search of the Lost Chord
• 1968 ~ "The Actor" on In Search of the Lost Chord

• 1969 ~ "Lovely to See You" on On the Threshold of a Dream
• 1969 ~ "Never Comes the Day" on On the Threshold of a Dream
• 1969 ~ "Are You Sitting Comfortably?" (with Ray Thomas) on On the Threshold of a Dream

• 1969 ~ "Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)" on To Our Children's Children's Children
• 1969 ~ "Watching and Waiting" (with Ray Thomas) on To Our Children's Children's Children
• 1969 ~ "I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Hundred" on To Our Children's Children's Children

• 1970 ~ "Question" on A Question of Balance
• 1970 ~ "It's Up to You" on A Question of Balance
• 1970 ~ "Dawning Is The Day" on A Question of Balance

• 1971 ~ "Procession" (with Thomas, Lodge, Edge and Pinder) on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
• 1971 ~ "The Story in Your Eyes" on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
• 1971 ~ "You Can Never Go Home" on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

• 1972 ~ "You and Me" (with Graeme Edge) on Seventh Sojourn
• 1972 ~ "New Horizons" on Seventh Sojourn
• 1972 ~ "The Land of Make Believe" on Seventh Sojourn
• 1973 ~ "Island" on Seventh Sojourn (Digitally Remastered 5.1 Edition)
• 1973 ~ "The Dreamer" (with Ray Thomas) on Seventh Sojourn (Digitally Remastered 5.1 edition)
• 1975 ~ "This Morning" on Blue Jays
• 1975 ~ "Remember Me My Friend" (with John Lodge) on Blue Jays
• 1975 ~ "My Brother" (with John Lodge) on Blue Jays
• 1975 ~ "Nights Winters Years" on Blue Jays
• 1975 ~ "I Dreamed Last Night" on Blue Jays
• 1975 ~ "Who Are You Now" on Blue Jays
• 1975 ~ "When You Wake Up" (with John Lodge) on Blue Jays
• 1975 ~ "Blue Guitar" on Blue Jays (CD Reissue)
• 1977 ~ "Tightrope" on Songwriter
• 1977 ~ "Songwriter" on Songwriter
• 1977 ~ "Country Girl" on Songwriter
• 1977 ~ "One Lonely Room" on Songwriter
• 1977 ~ "Lay It on Me" on Songwriter
• 1977 ~ "Stage Door" on Songwriter
• 1977 ~ "Raised on Love" on Songwriter
• 1977 ~ "Doin' Time" on Songwriter
• 1977 ~ "Nostradamus" on Songwriter
• 1977 ~ "Marie" on Songwriter (CD Reissue)
• 1977 ~ "Heart of Steel" on Songwriter (2nd CD Reissue)
• 1977 ~ "Wrong Time Right Place" on Songwriter (2nd CD Reissue)
• 1978 ~ "Had to Fall in Love" on Octave
• 1978 ~ "The Day We Meet Again" on Octave
• 1978 ~ "Driftwood" on Octave
• 1978 ~ "Top Rank Suite" on Octave
• 1980 ~ "Crazy Lovers" on Night Flight
• 1980 ~ "Nearer to You" on Night Flight
• 1980 ~ "A Face in the Crowd" on 'Night Flight
• 1980 ~ "Suitcase" on Night Flight
• 1981 ~ "The Voice" on Long Distance Voyager
• 1981 ~ "Gemini Dream" (with John Lodge) on Long Distance Voyager
• 1981 ~ "In My World" on Long Distance Voyager
• 1981 ~ "Meanwhile" on Long Distance Voyager
• 1983 ~ "Blue World" on The Present
• 1983 ~ "Meet Me Halfway" (with John Lodge) on The Present
• 1983 ~ "It's Cold Outside of Your Heart" on The Present
• 1983 ~ "Running Water" on The Present
• 1983 ~ "Eternal Woman" (from the film She)
• 1985 ~ "One Again" on Moving Mountains
• 1985 ~ "Take Your Chances" on Moving Mountains
• 1985 ~ "Is it Just a Game?" on Moving Mountains
• 1985 ~ "Moving Mountains" on Moving Mountains
• 1985 ~ "Silverbird" (with Jeff Wayne) on Moving Mountains
• 1985 ~ "Who Knows?" on Moving Mountains
• 1985 ~ "Goodbye" on Moving Mountains
• 1985 ~ "Lost and Found" on Moving Mountains
• 1985 ~ "The Lights are Low" on Moving Mountains (CD Reissue)
• 1985 ~ "The Angels Cry", performed by Agnetha Fältskog and Annie Haslam, separately
• 1986 ~ "Your Wildest Dreams" on The Other Side of Life
• 1986 ~ "Talkin' Talkin'" (with John Lodge) on The Other Side of Life
• 1986 ~ "I Just Don't Care" on The Other Side of Life
• 1986 ~ "Running Out of Love" (with John Lodge) on The Other Side of Life
• 1986 ~ "The Other Side of Life" on The Other Side of Life
• 1986 ~ "Slings and Arrows" (with John Lodge) on The Other Side of Life
• 1987 ~ "It Won't Be Easy" (with Tony Visconti) (Theme from the show Star Cops)
• 1988 ~ "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" on Sur La Mer
• 1988 ~ "Want to Be With You" (with John Lodge) on Sur La Mer
• 1988 ~ "River of Endless Love" (with John Lodge) on Sur La Mer
• 1988 ~ "No More Lies" on Sur La Mer
• 1988 ~ "Vintage Wine" on Sur La Mer
• 1988 ~ "Breaking Point" (with John Lodge) on Sur La Mer
• 1988 ~ "Miracle" (with John Lodge) on Sur La Mer
• 1988 ~ "Deep" on Sur La Mer
• 1989 ~ "Shoe People" (from the children's television show of the same name)
• 1989 ~ "Something Evil, Something Dangerous" (from the film The Howling IV)
• 1991 ~ "Say It With Love" on Keys of the Kingdom
• 1991 ~ "Bless the Wings (That Bring You Back)" on Keys of the Kingdom
• 1991 ~ "Is This Heaven?" (with John Lodge) on Keys of the Kingdom
• 1991 ~ "Say What You Mean" (Parts I & II) on Keys of the Kingdom
• 1991 ~ "Hope and Pray" on Keys of the Kingdom
• 1991 ~ "Once Is Enough" (with John Lodge) on Keys of the Kingdom
• 1991 ~ "Never Blame the Rainbows for the Rain" (with Ray Thomas) on Keys of the Kingdom
• 1996 ~ "I Heard It" on The View from the Hill
• 1996 ~ "Broken Dream" on The View from the Hill
• 1996 ~ "It's Not Too Late" on The View from the Hill
• 1996 ~ "The Way of the World" on The View from the Hill
• 1996 ~ "Sometimes Less is More" (with Dennis Lambert) on The View from the Hill
• 1996 ~ "Troubadour" on The View from the Hill
• 1996 ~ "Shame" on The View from the Hill
• 1996 ~ "Billy" on The View from the Hill
• 1996 ~ "Children of Paradise" on The View from the Hill
• 1999 ~ "English Sunset" on Strange Times
• 1999 ~ "Haunted" on Strange Times
• 1999 ~ "Sooner or Later" (with John Lodge) on Strange Times
• 1999 ~ "Foolish Love" on Strange Times
• 1999 ~ "All That is Real is You" on Strange Times
• 1999 ~ "Strange Times" (with John Lodge) on Strange Times
• 1999 ~ "The One" (with John Lodge) on Strange Times
• 1999 ~ "The Swallow" on Strange Times
• 2001 ~ "Water" (with John Lodge) on Journey Into Amazing Caves
• 2001 ~ "We Can Fly" (with John Lodge) on Journey Into Amazing Caves
• 2003 ~ "Don't Need a Reindeer" on December
• 2003 ~ "December Snow" on December
• 2003 ~ "In The Quiet of Christmas Morning (Bach 147)" (lyrics only, with John Lodge) on December
• 2003 ~ "Yes, I Believe" on December

Solo discography[link]

• Blue Jays (1975) with John Lodge
• Songwriter (1977)
• Night Flight (1980)
• Moving Mountains (1985)
• Classic Blue (1989) with Mike Batt
• The View from the Hill (1996)
• Live in San Juan Capistrano (1998)
• Justin Hayward and Friends Sing the Moody Blues Classic Hits (2003)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Justin Hayward official site
• 2005 Justin Hayward Interview
• Justin Hayward discography at Discogs
• Tony Brown's Moody Blues Gallery
• Troubadour~A Justin Hayward Message Board
• Moody Blues Attitude Collectibles Galleries
• Justin Hayward biography at the AMG website