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John Alec Entwistle was an English bass guitarist, singer, songwriter, and film and music producer. In a music career that spanned more than 40 years, Entwistle was best known as the original bass guitarist for the English rock band The Who. He was the only member of the band to have formal musical training. Born on the 9th October 1944, Chiswick, London. He died on the 27 June 2002, at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, in the arms of a lady of the night, who had no idea of his previous fame.

"Who Are You", composed by Pete Townshend, is the title track on The Who's 1978 album, Who Are You, the last album released by the group before Keith Moon's death in September 1978. It was released as a double-A sided single with the John Entwistle composition "Had Enough", also featured on the album.

John Winston Lennon MBE was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who, with Paul McCartney, co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. He and McCartney formed a much-celebrated songwriting partnership.
He was born: 9 October 1940, in Liverpool.
He died when Mark David Chapman shot and killed him at the entrance to the Dakota apartment building in New York City on December 8, 1980. Chapman fired five times at Lennon, hitting him four times in the back and later sat down on a nearby curb reading J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye until he was arrested by the police. He has repeatedly said that the novel was his statement.

 

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Happy birthday Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera composer (Rigoletto, La Traviata), born in Busseto 1813-1901.
Just Google Verdi and an amazing list will show up, but I bet that you have never seen a performance of The Anvil Chorus from La Traviata like this. Enjoy.

 

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Diana Dors was an English film actress and singer. She first came to public notice as a blonde bombshell in the style of American Jane Mansfield, as promoted by her first husband, Dennis Hamilton. Diana was her real name but her surname was Fluck. She caused much laughter on a chat show when she said how embarrassing would it be if, her name in lights, the bulb behind the letter L went pop.
Born: 23 October 1931, Swindon
Died: 4 May 1984, Windsor

Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor, known for his pioneering-style of country music.
Born: 23 October 1956 (age 62 years), Pikeville, Kentucky, United States.

 

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Happy birthday Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera composer (Rigoletto, La Traviata), born in Busseto 1813-1901.
Just Google Verdi and an amazing list will show up, but I bet that you have never seen a performance of The Anvil Chorus from La Traviata like this. Enjoy.
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Pretty mainstream modern performance. This beefcakery comes from the Met:

Of course, this favorite scene has always been staged as a bit of over the top audience service:

 

[GHT]

The Marx Brothers, absolute classic!

 

[Peacoat]

Helen Reddy (I Am Woman), 1941 in Melbourne, Australia. She was recently featured on NPR, and we leaned she now has dementia and wasn't available for an interview.

 

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1728 James Cook, British explorer, navigator and cartographer who was the first European to explore much of Australia, the Pacific Islands and New Zealand, born in Marton, Yorkshire, England d. 1779.

Isaac Singer. Isaac Merritt Singer October 27, 1811 – July 23, 1875 was an American inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He also served as the 25th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1901 and as the 33rd Governor of New York from 1899 to 1900.

Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. Wikipedia
Born: 27 October 1914, Uplands, Swansea, Wales.
Died: 9 November 1953, New York City, New York, United States.

John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report.

 

[Woodtroll]

Today‘s birthdays include Charlie Daniels, for those who appreciate redneck country music and southern rock. 82 years young and still full of steam!

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/...y-i-turn-82-and-heres-what-im-looking-forward

A peaceful Sunday to all,
Regan

 

[Peacoat]

One reason we are all reading this forum is Bill Gates. He is 63 today.

 

[GHT]

If you have, in a moment of frustration, muttered some profanity like: "Where the **** did I put that?" Blame this guy:
Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette was a French physician and the namesake of Tourette's syndrome, a neurological condition characterized by physical and verbal tics. He was born in the small town of Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers in the district of Châtellerault, near the city of Loudun, France. Died: 26 May 1904, Lausanne, Switzerland.

 

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Born on this day, Daniel Boone an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky.
Born: 2 November 1734, Pennsylvania, United States Died: 26 September 1820, Missouri, United States.
Buried: Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky, United States

1755 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (1774-92) who allegedly uttered the phrase At some point around 1789, when being told that her French subjects had no bread, Marie-Antoinette (bride of France's King Louis XVI) supposedly sniffed, “Qu'ils mangent de la brioche”—“Let them eat cake.” born in Vienna, Austria died 16th October 1793.
At 12.30pm, Marie Antoinette was taken to the guillotine at the Place de la Revolution. After the queen’s head fell it was shown to the crowd, who cried: “Vive la République!”

James Knox Polk, 1795, 11th US President (Democrat: 1845-49), born in Pineville, North Carolina d. 1849.

Warren G. Harding, 29th US President (1921-23), born in Blooming Grove, Ohio d. 1923.

Burton Stephen Lancaster was an American actor and producer. Initially known for playing "tough guys", he went on to achieve success with more complex and challenging roles. He was nominated four times for Academy Awards, and won once for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960. Born: 2 November 1913, Manhattan, New York City. Died: 20 October 1994, Century City, California.

 

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1921— James Jones, American novelist (From Here to Eternity). One of my favorites.

 

[Peacoat]

Heard on NPR this morning that Joni Mitchell was born today's date in 1943.

 

[GHT]

Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, William Franklin Graham Jr. KBE better known as, Billy Graham, who only died in February of this year, would have been 100 today.

 

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Born on this day in Vienna, 1914: Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor. A contract star of MGM's Golden Age. Mathematically talented she and composer George Antheil invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, used for wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day. Next time you press your remote key to open your car door or change the TV channel, say a thank you to Hedy.
She died in January 2000, aged 85.

 

[Peacoat]

The Marines Corps birthday is today, Saturday, November 10, 2018. The Marine Corps turns 242 years old today, having begun its service in 1775. Semper Fi, Brothers.

 

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Jawaharlal Nehru
1889 Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (1947-64) and important leader of the Indian independence movement, born in Allahabad, North-Western Provinces, India. Died 1964.

Joseph McCarthy
1909 Joseph McCarthy, American Senator, (Rep - Wisconsin) who claimed anti-communists had infiltrated the US government, born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin USA. d. 1957.

Prince Charles
1948 Prince Charles [Charles Philip Arthur George], Prince of Wales/Duke of Cornwall, born in London.

 

[Peacoat]

Heard on NPR that on today's date in 1925 Robert F. Kennedy was born. We all know how that turned out. Died 1968.

 

[GHT]

Happy birthday to Kirk Douglas, who was born Issur Danielovitch, (Ісур Данілавіч) in Amsterdam, New York. His parents were Jewish emigrants from Chavusy, Mogilev Region, in the Russian Empire present-day Belarus, and the family spoke Yiddish at home.
In his 1988 autobiography, The Ragman's Son, Douglas notes the hardships that he, along with six sisters and his parents, endured during their early years in Amsterdam, New York:My father, who had been a horse trader in Russia, got himself a horse and a small wagon, and became a ragman, buying old rags, pieces of metal, and junk for pennies, nickels, and dimes . ... Even on Eagle Street, in the poorest section of town, where all the families were struggling, the ragman was on the lowest rung on the ladder. And I was the ragman's son.
Kirk Douglas is 102 years young today.

 

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Joseph McCarthy
1909 Joseph McCarthy, American Senator, (Rep - Wisconsin) who claimed anti-communists had infiltrated the US government, born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin USA. d. 1957.
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One of us is confused. I thought Joe McCarthy was anti Communist and claimed communists had infiltrated the US government, and other aspects of society?