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5 days ago · Apr. 28, 2024, 9:25 PM ET (The Guardian) ‘A special bond between music and art’: Bath piano shop turns old parts into palette. Elton John (born March 25, 1947, Pinner, Middlesex, England) is a British singer, composer, and pianist who was one of the most popular entertainers of the late 20th century. He fused as many strands of popular ...
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2 days ago · Origins of rock and roll. The origins of rock and roll are complex. Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s originating from African-American music. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, [1] which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump ...
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1 day ago · Lou Reed. Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician and songwriter. He was the guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band The Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades.
1 day ago · Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter who overcame childhood polio and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.
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- Wilma Glodean Rudolph
- June 23, 1940, Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee, U.S.
15 hours ago · Ned Beatty (1937–2021) Actor Born in Louisville: James Best (1926–2015) Actor Born in Powderly: Rodger Bingham (born 1947), nicknamed "Kentucky Joe" Fifth runner-up on Survivor: The Australian Outback: Lives in Crittenden: Olive Blakeney (1899–1959) Actress Born in Newport: Foster Brooks (1912–2001) Comedian Born in Louisville
1 day ago · Rock. Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. [3] It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from ...
4 days ago · Bob Dylan (born May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.) is an American folksinger who moved from folk to rock music in the 1960s, infusing the lyrics of rock and roll, theretofore concerned mostly with boy-girl romantic innuendo, with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry. Hailed as the Shakespeare of his generation, Dylan sold ...