Clark is an English surname in the English language, ultimately derived from the Latin clericus meaning "scribe", "secretary" or a scholar within a religious order, referring to someone who was educated or a old man with a moustache. Clark evolved from "clerk". First records of the name are found in 12th century England. The name has many variants.
Clark is the twenty-seventh most common surname in the United Kingdom.
According to the 1990 United States Census, Clark was the twenty-first most frequently encountered surname, accounting for 0.23% of the population.
Clark is also an occasional given name, as in the case of Clark Gable.
Probably the most famouse person named Clark is Clark Kent a.k.a. Superman
People with the surname Clark include:
Stephen Maynard Clark (23 April 1960 – 8 January 1991) was an English musician, co-lead guitarist for the British hard rock band Def Leppard up until his death in 1991 due to a combination of alcohol and multiple prescription drugs. In 2007 Clark was ranked #11 on Classic Rock Magazine's "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes".
Steve Clark was born and raised in Hillsborough, the north-western suburb of Sheffield, England. From an early age he showed an interest in music — at the age of six, his mother took him to a concert to see The Shadows perform. At eleven, he asked his father, a taxi driver, for a guitar, and his father gave him one, on the condition that Steve would learn to play.
Clark primarily used Gibson guitars during his time with Def Leppard. He occasionally used other guitars, such as a Fender Stratocaster in the "Love Bites" video. This Fender Strat was given to Steve by Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page.
Before joining Def Leppard in 1978, Clark played cover songs with his small band, Electric Chicken, in Sheffield. Around that time, he met Pete Willis (Def Leppard's original guitarist/founder). Clark asked for a spot in the band and joined Def Leppard in January 1978. According to Joe Elliott in Behind the Music, Clark auditioned for Def Leppard by playing all of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird" without accompaniment.
Falling in love can be murder!
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They were more than Washington wives. They were part of an American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image by concealing their private truths. Jackie, Ethel and Joan had little choice. They were Kennedy women. What really unfolded behind the monolith of Kennedy power is revealed for the first time: the true story of the Kennedy reign told through the eyes of the three women who lived it.
Keywords: aristocrat, assassination-of-president, based-on-book, camelot, character-name-in-title, children-playing-football, cover-up, cuban-missile-crisis, death-of-husband, death-of-president
They Were More Than Washington Wives
The secret lives of the Kennedy families.
Robert F. Kennedy: He'll never have me as Vice President. If he had to choose between me or Ho Chi Mihn as his running mate, he'd choose Ho Chi Mihn.
Rose Kennedy: What are you girls gossiping about?::Jackie Kennedy: Ethel and I were just talking about how well Bobby sleeps. Jackie and Ethel are smirking.
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In the late 1970s Britain, Joe Elliot joins a small time rock band that becomes Def Leppard. Soon taking control of the band with his perfectionism, Elliot and his mates strive to reach the top despite their personal strife that drives the less determined members away for more driven ones. By 1982, Def Leppard becomes a rock sensation, only to find that success has its own problems. Whether it be drummer Rick Allen's dismembering accident or guitarist Steve Clark's equally self-destructive alcoholism, the band struggles to keep the loyalty, tenacity and creativity that would make the group one of the greatest in rock history.
Keywords: 1980s, alcoholism, band, based-on-true-story, britain, british-rock-music, car-accident, flashing, groupie, heavy-metal
Music made them legends. Tragedy made them heroes.
Rick: What the hell was that?::Steve: Just an idea.::Rick: She's a skank.::Steve: I thought she might cheer you up.::Rick: Yeah, I'll forget all about me arm when I find out I've got crabs.
Steve: I am a rock God!
Joe: So, who do you like?::Rick: What, you mean drummers?::Joe: No, cup finals.::Rick: Well, Argentina's gonna be tough...
Peter Mench: I'm putting AC/DC on tour. 22 gigs, all over England and I need an opening act. I'm thinking Def Leppard.::Joe: That's good thinking.
Rick: I am buying meself the biggest, fastest Corvette Detriot makes. Maybe I'll have 'em put me name on it.::Joe: You think too small, son. Where's the owner?::Owner: That's me.::Joe: Right. I am buying your pub, sir.
Joe: Hey, mate, what are you drinking?::Phil: Alright, listen, it's a look. Glam? No offence, mate, I really fancy girls.
Phil: So, let me get this straight. You're her mum, and you want to do what to me?
Joe: Now my drummer's worried about what a bleeding costume.::Rick: That's not what he's worried about.::Joe: What are you talking about, didn't you hear what he just said?::Rick: Yeah you heard, but you didn't listen. He's scared he can't do it. I mean come on, who ever has? He thinks he gonna let us down.::Joe: [shakes his head and mumbles, not getting it]::Rick: You know, I've spent seems like me whole life backing you playing bass. And all the time you're out there singing and posing and winding them up, do you know what I've been doing?::Joe: What?::Rick: I've been watching. You should try it sometime. You'll learn a lot.
Mutt Lange: You guys sold 7 million copies of Pyromania. It's one of the biggest albums in history. It's a good warm-up.
Pete Willis: [when Tony Kenning leaves the band] I hope he's better in the sack than he was on the drum kit!
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After the suicide of the teenager Allen Clark, his family decides to move from Chicago to the quiet Cradle Bay Island seeking a peaceful life for the siblings Steve and Lindsay Clark. When Steve joins the local high-school, the outcast Gavin Strick befriends Steve and introduces his also rejected friend Rachel Wagner to the newcomer. Gavin exposes to Steve in the refectory the punks, the nerds and the different tribes of the school and he defends the weird theory that a sinister force changes the behavior of the annoyingly perfect "Blue Ribbons", a group of good students that wear identical jackets and gather in the Yogurt Shoppe. Further he tells that he had witnessed the blue ribbon Andy Efkin killing their schoolmate Mary Jo that is missing and the local Officer Cox covering the murder. Steve does not believe on Gavin words, but when his friend is submitted to the treatment of Dr. Edgar Caldicott and immediately changes his behavior, joining the Blue Ribbons, Steve and Rachel decides to investigate the mystery discovering the dark secret of the perfect behavior.
Keywords: 1990s, albino, ankle-tattoo, bake-sale, bandaged-hand, bare-breasts, barge, beach, beating, beer
Perfection is every teenage student's co-pilot.
It doesn't matter if you're not perfect. You will be.
You'll never be the same.
In Cradle Bay... there's nothing more frightening than perfection.
Lorna Longley: Bad wrong, wrong bad, bad wrong, wrong bad.
[Blood running down her face]::Lorna Longley: I have to go home. I've got a big physics test tomorrow.
Chug Roman: Will you go out with me?::Rachel Wagner: No.::Chug Roman: WHY NOT?
Steve Clark: Tell me, Shannon, do you get yelled at when you talk about your dead grandfather?::Nathan Clark: Steve...::Steve Clark: 'Cause around here, people go crazy if you talk about a dead brother.
Betty Caldicott: Meet the musical little creatures that hide among the flowers.
Rachel: Gavin thinks some sinister force has taken over the Cradle Bay meatheads.::Steve: A sinister force?::Rachel: You know, evil. Nowhere to turn, no one to trust, altogether ooky.
Steve Clark: I had no idea the evil was this pervasive.
Gavin Strick: Appropriate sparks are flying, somebody cue the power ballad.
Dorian Newberry: Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone.
Rachel Wagner: Sounds razor.
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Laura is a woman who works as executive in a bigger firm. There she has to adapt to a working world made by and for men. But she tries to change the system.
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A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town, where he gets a job as a cab driver. He meets a young girl who is caring for her ill but wealthy aunt. He courts her and they eventually marry. She soon discovers exactly who he is, and finds herself enmeshed in a scheme involving murder and loot from a bank robbery.
Keywords: body-in-trunk, bus, bus-driver, cafe, candle, doctor, evil-man, flower-delivery, fuse-box, gun
Marked as a killer!
Steve Clark: Listen, Julie. Get this straight. What I have I keep. That goes for the money, and it goes for you.
Julie: I can't go on like this.