John Ayres
John Ayres (fl. 1680–1700), an English author, scribe and publisher.
Life
Ayres was of very humble origin, and the date and place of his birth are unknown. Coming up from the country a poor lad, he became footman to Mr. William Ashhurst (or Ashurst), alderman of London, then resident at Hornsey, who was knighted in 1689, and lord mayor of London in 1693-94. His master, taking a great liking to him, sent him to school, where he gained skill in writing and arithmetic. He continued some years in Ashurst's service, but marrying a fellow-servant with £200, he was enabled to set up as a teacher of writing and accounts in St. Paul's Churchyard, where his industry and ability soon procured him so many scholars that his income from teaching alone was nearly £800 a year.
About 1680 he commenced the execution and publication of calligraphic works which made him famous as one of the great reformers in the writing commonwealth, and the introducer into this country of the beautiful Italian hand. Robert More, in his essay on the First Invention of Writing, prefixed to his own Specimens of Penmanship (1716?), says: "The late Colonel Ayres (a disciple of Mr. Topham) introduced the bastard Italian hand amongst us, which by the best masters has been admitted, naturalised, and improved. Nor is it a diminution of our characters which survive him that therein the colonel was the common father of us all. He earned the glory of English penmanship far beyond his predecessors."
'John Ayres' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
A Little Bit of Fluff (1928)
Actors: Edmund Breon (actor), Cameron Carr (actor), Syd Chaplin (actor), Haddon Mason (actor), Harry McCoy (actor), Clifford McLaglen (actor), Betty Balfour (actress), Dorothy Bartlam (actress), Annie Esmond (actress), Nancy Rigg (actress), Enid Stamp-Taylor (actress), Diana Wilson (actress), Wheeler Dryden (writer), Walter Ellis (writer), Jess Robbins (writer),
Genres: Comedy,Ayres, John Filmography
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1973, role: actor , character name: Admiral
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1961, role: actor , character name: Captain Owen Yates
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1959, role: actor , character name: Coroner
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1957, role: actor
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1957, role: actor , character name: Foster
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1955, role: actor , character name: Conductor
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1955, role: actor , character name: Superintendent
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1954, role: actor , character name: Dr. John Ayres
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1952, role: actor , character name: Congressman Walker
Ayres, John Filmography
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2006, role: actor , character name: Himself - RBR Ferrari
Ayres, John Filmography
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2010, role: composer
John Ayres
ALBUMS
- The Mood Improver released:
The Mood Improver
- Brazil Hindi
- Bedroom Bazurka
- Message to You
- A Floating Soda
- Dougie Fashion
- Plinth
- Partyline
- Rinky Dinky
- Zero 105
- Iodesiac
- Talbot Samba
- Fly Drive
- I Am Your Equal
- Bedjig
- Banjo Dance
- Midnight Licks
- Day Three
- Wrong Number
- Siesta
- Brazil Hindi :30
- Bedroom Bazurka :30
- Message to You :30
- A Floating Soda :30
- Dougie Fashion :30
- Plinth :30
- Partyline :30
- Rinky Dinky :30
- Zero 105 :30
- Iodesiac :30
- Talbot Samba :30
- Fly Drive :30
- I Am Your Equal :30
- Bedjig :30
- Banjo Dance :30
- Midnight Licks :30
- Day Three :30
- Wrong Number :30
- Siesta :30
- Brazil Hindi :60
- Bedroom Bazurka :60
- Message to You :60
- A Floating Soda :60
- Dougie Fashion :60
- Plinth :60
- Partyline :60
- Rinky Dinky :60
- Zero 105 :60
- Iodesiac :60
- Talbot Samba :60
- Fly Drive :60
- I Am Your Equal :60
- Bedjig :60
- Banjo Dance :60
- Midnight Licks :60
- Day Three :60
- Wrong Number :60
- Siesta :60
Our Time
HOOK:
It's our time They never gonna bring us down
They never gonna bring us down, Cause it's our time.
VERSE 1:
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, anybody in the way this is what I'll die for,
Don't see no competitors it's like I got my eyes closed,
I'm riding to the top you would have thought I asked for Gieco.
I'm into winning it and I can do anything,
That's what real champs do, they just pretending it.
You starting now I'm finishing, everything is simple when,
You get past the struggle, use your muscle then you win again.
Ain't nobody stopping this, they prolly just jocking this,
Why they steady hating I should tell you put a sock in it.
I remember back when I felt I wasn't cool enough,
Now look at your boy (laughter) ain't I cool or what?
HOOK:
It's our time They never gonna bring us down
They never gonna bring us down, Cause it's our time.
It's our time. They never gonna bring us down
They never gonna bring us down, We're here to stay, we're here to stay.
VERSE 2:
I'm gone make it, trust me I ain't bailing out,
I'm winning dog the champs here it seems as if you failing now,
Looks as if you sitting still, you say that you prevailing how?
Hard in the paint, if I'm in anything I tear it down.
Trust me I'm the best, if not then I'm the next
And I ain't settling for second I'm a knock them out there nest.
I ain't playing man, feels like I'm weighing in,
Where's my heavyweight belt? Everyday I play to win.
That's how you got to do it when you feel like there's somewhere that you need to go,
It's on you, hustle hard, one day you gone be the show.
Stop saying that you need a show, be the show,
And every time you do it make sure everybody see the show.
HOOK:
It's our time They never gonna bring us down
They never gonna bring us down, Cause it's our time.
It's our time. They never gonna bring us down
They never gonna bring us down, We're here to stay, we're here to stay.
BREAKDOWN:
They never gonna bring us down, down, down, down
They never gonna bring us down, down, down, down
HOOK:
It's our time They never gonna bring us down
They never gonna bring us down, Cause it's our time.
It's our time. They never gonna bring us down