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Rolling Stones
Rolling Stones English rock and roll band Often billed as "the world's greatest rock and roll band," the English rock group the Rolling Stones has outlasted nearly all of its 1960s peers and continues to belt out hits well into the group's collective middle age. Birth of a legend The Rolling Stones... Read more |
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Solomon Burke
Solomon Burke Singer “The Bishop of Soul” Lean Years Honored by New Generation Selected discography Sources Enduring soul legend Solomon Burke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 for a recording and performing career that was nearing the end of its fifth decade.... Read more |
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Sam Phillips
Sam Phillips Record company executive For the Record… Sources There will always be debates as to who was the first rock and roller; Chuck Berry or Elvis Presley, Bill Haley or Bo Diddley, etc., etc. But the “Father” of the genre will always be recognized as Sam Phillips, the... Read more |
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Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry Chuck Berry (born 1926), creator of the "duck walk" and known as the "father of rock and roll," has been a major influence on popular music. Even though his career and life reached great peaks and declined to low valleys, he still prevails in music while his contemporaries have vanished.... Read more |
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Mitch Ryder
Mitch Ryder Singer, songwriter A “Baaad Dude” on Detroit R & B Scene Stardom With Detroit Wheels Hard Times Selected discography Sources Rolling Stone once called Mitch Ryder the Godfather of Motor City Rock and Roll; other tastemakers dubbed him the King of White Soul and the... Read more |
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Charles Stewart Rolls
Rolls, Charles Stewart (1877–1910). Rolls was the third son of a wealthy Monmouthshire landowner, who served as Conservative MP for Monmouth 1880–5 and was created Lord Llangattock in 1892. He studied mechanical engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a bicycling... Read more |
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Charles Sheeler
Charles Sheeler 1883-1965, American painter and photographer, b. Philadelphia, studied at the School of Industrial Art there and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under William M. Chase. With Chase he made two visits to Europe to study art. His characteristic style is a rational,... Read more |
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John Alcock
Alcock, John (1430–1500). Ecclesiastical statesman. Born in Beverley, Alcock attended the University of Cambridge and rose rapidly in the church. From 1472 to 1476 he was bishop of Rochester, transferring to Worcester in 1476, and to Ely in 1486. He was in high favour with Edward IV,... Read more |
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