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James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of funk music and is a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance.
In a career that spanned decades, Brown profoundly influenced the development of many different musical genres. Brown moved on a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms and styles to a profoundly "Africanized" approach to music making. Brown performed in concerts, first making his rounds across the Chitlin' Circuit, and then across the country and later around the world, along with appearing in shows on television and in movies. Although he contributed much to the music world through his hitmaking, Brown holds the record as the artist who charted the most singles on the Billboard Hot 100 without ever hitting number one on that chart.
For many years, Brown's touring show was one of the most extravagant productions in American popular music. At the time of Brown's death, his band included three guitarists, two bass guitar players, two drummers, three horns and a percussionist. The bands that he maintained during the late 1960s and 1970s were of comparable size, and the bands also included a three-piece amplified string section that played during ballads. Brown employed between 40 and 50 people for the James Brown Revue, and members of the revue traveled with him in a bus to cities and towns all over the country, performing upwards of 330 shows a year with almost all of the shows as one-nighters. In 1986, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1990 into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Often referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.
In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop and rock artists.
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger, (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of The Rolling Stones.
Jagger's career has spanned over fifty years. Allmusic has described Jagger as "one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll". His distinctive voice and performance, along with Keith Richards' guitar style, have been the trademark of The Rolling Stones throughout the career of the band. In 1989, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Rolling Stones.
Jagger gained much press notoriety for admitted drug use and romantic involvements, and was often portrayed as a counterculture figure. In the late 1960s Jagger began acting in films (starting with Performance and Ned Kelly), to mixed reception. In 1985, Jagger released his first solo album, She's the Boss, and was knighted in 2003. In early 2009, he joined the eclectic supergroup SuperHeavy.
Jagger was born into a middle class family at Livingstone Hospital, in Dartford, Kent, England. His father, Basil Fanshawe ("Joe") Jagger (13 April 1913 – 11 November 2006), and his grandfather David Ernest Jagger were both teachers. His mother, Eva Ensley Mary (née Scutts; 6 April 1913 – 18 May 2000), born in New South Wales, Australia, was a hairdresser and an active member of the Conservative Party. Jagger is the elder of two sons (his brother Chris Jagger was born on 19 December 1947) and was raised to follow in his father's career path.
Actors: Brian Grazer (producer), Viola Davis (actress), Mick Jagger (producer), James DuMont (actor), Billy Slaughter (actor), Octavia Spencer (actress), Ritchie Montgomery (actor), Dan Aykroyd (actor), Clyde Jones (actor), Keith Robinson (actor), Lennie James (actor), Fred Melamed (actor), Jill Scott (actress), Kathryn C. Galberth (miscellaneous crew), Sharen Davis (costume designer),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music,Actors: Barack Obama (actor), Sam Brittan (writer), Sarah Palin (actress), Ann Coulter (actress), Steve Stockman (actor), James Patrick Brown (director), James Patrick Brown (producer), James Patrick Brown (writer), James Patrick Brown (actor), Paul Ryan (actor), Kristin West (actress), Walter Jones (actor), Mike Conaway (actor), Paul Broun (actor), Louie Gohmert (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Tonci Pivac (actor), Philip Moran (producer), Samuel Thomas (actor), Jordan Ancel (actor), James Crompton (actor), Graeme Cash (miscellaneous crew), Scott Harding (actor), Steve Farac Ciprian (actor), Robyn Worthington (actress), Lutz Halbhubner (actor), Lisa Brickell (actress), Chantal Rayner-Burt (writer), Jonathon Rayner-Burt (director), Virginia Frankovich (actor), Nichola Gilchrist (actress),
Plot: Journey of a Story follows the life of William Brown, a fictional New Zealand serviceman both physically and emotionally damaged by his tour of duty in Europe and time as a Prisoner of War during World War II. Returning home, William finds a very different world to the one he left behind. Forced to leave the home he planned to enjoy with his wife Lily and young son James, William struggles to cope until an observant War Pension medical officer convinces William to take up writing. Fueled with a new passion for life, William finally finds a road to success, in ways he could not possibly imagine. The story is told to from the elderly William's point of view, as he relays his story to a young theatre director attempting to bring William's life to the stage.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Timothy Paul Taylor (actor), Charles Schefer (actor), Charles Schefer (writer), Charles Schefer (producer), Charles Schefer (editor), Charles Schefer (director), Troy Lee Sargent (actor), Troy Lee Sargent (producer), Tony DeVries (actor), Tandy Gaines (actor), Sadia Brimm (actress), Shelly Long (actress), Shelly Long (actress), Jake Fuller (actor), Jesse Fuller (actor),
Plot: The Background: $2000, a home computer, one camera, and one microphone... What resulted was a collaborative effort between Evansville, Indiana's budding film community and some of the areas best musical artists. Combining story-telling and music videos, People Music has something for everyone. The Story: Local rappers, C4 and SmoothE take a musical journey through the history and future of their regions musical landscape. Along the way, they interact with real life musicians who continue the story through music video and storytelling.
Genres: Music,Actors: Charles Schefer (director), Charles Schefer (editor), Jake Fuller (actor), James Brown (actor), Jason McKinney (actor), Jesse Fuller (actor), Jimmy DeTalente (actor),
Plot: "From the Otherside of Nowhere to Here..." follows the band Lost Anthem as they prepare to release their second album, Moments In and Out of Time. Bandmates talk about their history, trials, tribulations, and future. This documentary was added to a second disc and released with the album nationwide.
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: John Hart (actor), Louis Hayward (actor), Edgar Bergen (actor), Lou Antonio (actor), Larry Hankin (actor), Michael Ansara (actor), Dick Clark (actor), Xavier Cugat (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Busby Berkeley (actor), Fritz Feld (actor), James Brown (actor), Leo Gorcey (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), George Jessel (actor),
Plot: An athlete, a campus militant, a black model, and an American Indian are picked by a computer (shaped like a woman) to form a rock group called the Phynx and go on tour in Albania where American show biz people have been kidnapped by Communists. Some of the stars that the phony band rescues: Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan (the most famous movie Tarzan and Jane), Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall (the Bowery Boys), Ed Sullivan, James Brown, Colonel Sanders, Guy Lombardo, Andy Devine, Ruby Keeler, Edgar Bergen, Butterfly McQueen, Jay Silverheels (Tonto), Rudy Vallee, Xavier Cugat, Trini Lopez, Dick Clark, Richard Pryor, Harold "Oddjob" Sakata, George Jessel, and Rhona Barrett. Warner Bros. Studios thought it was so bad that they decided at the last minute not to release it!
Keywords: albania, castle, communist, computer, copenhagen-denmark, espionage, kidnapping, london-england, orgy, recordingActors: William Demarest (actor), Brian Donlevy (actor), Arturo de Córdova (actor), Howard Da Silva (actor), Charles Cane (actor), George M. Carleton (actor), Eddie Bracken (actor), Davison Clark (actor), James Brown (actor), Robert Benchley (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), William Bendix (actor), Walter Abel (actor), Lester Dorr (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,Actors: Vola Vale (actress), Robert Z. Leonard (director), Albert MacQuarrie (actor), Charles Hill Mailes (actor), Herbert Rawlinson (actor), Malcolm Blevins (actor), Walter Belasco (actor), Charles Gunn (actor), Grace Carlyle (actress), Rufus Steele (director), Maud Grange (writer), Rufus Steele (writer), Rodney Ronous (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Carl Alstrup (actor), Christian Schrøder (actor), Charles Willumsen (actor), Agnes Andersen (actress), Maja Bjerre-Lind (actress), Betzy Kofoed (actress), August Blom (director), Johannes Ring (actor), Ingeborg Jensen (actress), Johanne Krum-Hunderup (actress), Emilie Otterdahl (actress), Vera Esbøll (actress), William Soelberg (writer), Emilian Erichsen (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Francis X. Bushman (actor), Theodore Wharton (producer), Richard Foster Baker (director),
Genres: Drama, Short,