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Stephen John Harrington (28 May 1959 – 12 February 2015), better known by his stage name Steve Strange, was a Welsh pop singer. From the late 1970s he was a nightclub host and promoter. He became famous as the leader of the new wave synthpop group Visage, best known for their single "Fade to Grey", and was one of the most influential figures behind the New Romantic movement of the early 1980s.
Harrington was born in Newbridge, Caerphilly, Wales. His grandfather moved with his family to Aldershot, Hampshire, where his father was serving in the British Army as a paratrooper. The family moved back to Wales and lived in Rhyl on the north coast, where his parents bought a large guest house and opened sea front cafes. They then divorced and he moved with his mother back to Newbridge in South Wales where he attended Newbridge Grammar School. It merged with a secondary school to form Newbridge Comprehensive School a year after he arrived there, and he subsequently lost interest in all subjects but art.
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known as David Bowie (/ˈboʊ.i/), was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, painter, and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, and was considered by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft significantly impacted popular music. During his lifetime, he sold an estimated 140 million records worldwide. In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, and released eleven number-one albums. In the US, he received five platinum and seven gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
Actors: Mark Gatiss (actor), Marc Warren (actor), Mathew Horne (actor), Francis Magee (actor), Annie Symons (costume designer), Nicola Shindler (producer), Paul J. Dove (actor), Julian Jarrold (actor), Julian Jarrold (director), Emma E. Hickox (editor), Richard Madden (actor), Derek Lawson (actor), Matthew Bird (producer), Douglas Booth (actor), Juliette Howell (producer),
Plot: In 1980 young George O'Dowd baffles his parents with his love of frocks and make-up and moves into a squat with kindred spirit Peter,who dresses as Marilyn Monroe and calls himself Marilyn. They make a splash at Steve Strange's trendy Blitz Club where George gets a job in the cloakroom but George is unlucky in his relationships with men until he meets wannabe musician Kirk. Through Kirk George meets the handsome drummer Jon Moss,on whom he develops a crush, but sacked by the Blitz and spurned by Kirk,George turns to Sex Pistols' manager Malcolm McLaren to further his music career. George's spell with McLaren's group Bow Wow Wow is short but fan Mikey North is impressed and asks George to sing in a group he is forming,where George again meets Jon. They will have an affair and the group will become the very successful Culture Club. Four years later, however, hounded by the tabloid press amid stories of his drug addiction, an unhappy George turns to Jon for advice on his future.
Keywords: 1980s, androgynous-male, drug-addiction, drug-use, flamboyance, make-up, new-wave, reference-to-david-bowie, singerActors: Boy George (actor), Julian Clary (actor), Luke Evans (actor), Michael Fuchs (producer), Euan Morton (actor), John Partridge (actor), Lyn Paul (actress), Christopher Renshaw (director), Nicola Dawn (actress), Drew Jaymson (actor), Paul Baker (actor), Adam Kenwright (producer), Mark Davies (writer),
Genres: Musical,Actors: Scott Glenn (actor), John Travolta (actor), Debra Winger (actress), James Gammon (actor), Robert Evans (producer), Barry Corbin (actor), Bonnie Raitt (actress), Charlie Daniels (actor), Karen Hale Wookey (miscellaneous crew), James N. Harrell (actor), Gloria Gresham (costume designer), Jerry Hall (actress), Frank Mancuso Jr. (miscellaneous crew), C.O. Erickson (producer), Gene Kraft (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Bud Davis is a country boy who moves to the city to visit his uncle. He starts hanging out at Gilley's, owned by Mickey Gilley himself. He takes a job at the refinery where his uncle works. He also meets Sissy, a cowgirl, and they fall in love and suddenly get married. And then their marriage is shattered when Bud sees Sissy allegedly seeing con man Wes, who teaches her how to ride the mechanical bull...and plans to rob Gilley's. When a bull-riding contest is announced, Bud decides to sign up. Can he win the contest and save his marriage to Sissy?
Keywords: alcohol, bar-brawl, bar-fight, based-on-novel, beating, brawl, broken-arm, brunette, class-differences, contemporary-west