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The scrawny modern supermodel originated with Twiggy, a British model, in 1967. Her real name was Lesley Hornby. She weighed just 90 pounds and had measurements of 31-23-32. Her 27-year-old boyfriend/manager, Nigel Davies, skilfully packaged Hornby as Twiggy, and within months she became the world's top fashion model, appearing in Vogue and Elle magazines before taking New York by storm. Twiggy's cropped haircut (shorter than most boys wore at the time) made her something of an androgynous figure. Her trademark was to paint eyelashes on her lower lids. These became known as Twiggies. Over the years, Twiggy's exceedingly slim figure was blamed for the rise in anorexia cases. Depite her fame, Twiggy remained humble and true to her East London roots. She once told Life Magazine, 'I know I'm not beautiful or glam. But with me funny face, me funny skirts, and me funny accent, somehow it combined to work out just lovely.'
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Added: 22nd November 2007
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1971 was a big year for pop/rock band The Grass Roots...nothing less than 3 top 20 singles on the Top 100 Singles chart in Cash Box magazine.
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Added: 20th June 2008
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Grass Roots 1967 Jimmy Durante introduces these guys
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Added: 19th February 2009
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This one dark atmospheric song from Guns N' Roses can be found on the album 'Use Your Illusion 2.'
This was not your average album at all, nor was this your average clip. It played out like an everyday big budget movie you'd see in a cinema.
Back in the 80s and 90s, this iconic American rock band caused issues for parents and concert promoter alike. Both artist and business associates seemed to be at odds, which to this day has never been resolved fully.
On the plus-side, Guns N' Roses were known to have high quality compositions with their recordings, plus well-made television clips to promote their accompanied rock albums. This one clip "Estranged" cost a little less than 9 million dollars to put on film. An epic production considering the cost of the filming of it.
The 1991 double disc sold beyond 18 million copies, which was thanks to the well-established marketing from their recording company. The scheme of adding part one and two of 'Use Your Illusion' albums both together worked. It was in the mid-80s, when the band broke out of their Los Angeles roots to worldwide acclaim. Success came too fast for the members of the group. Sadly in the 1990s, much in-flightng followed with their personalities going at each other. It was then, the members walked off forever, from what it seems with their famous erupt indication at the time. Now, the newly formed band continues to connect with fans with the original singer only at the present time. *E*
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Added: 10th August 2009
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This is reknown musican Tony Carey, an individual who went from a hard guitar blues based band in the mid 1970s, forward towards a complete pop sound solo in the 1980s. It was in the year of '84, musican Tony Carey released this popular radio single "A Fine, Fine Day", this song that went up the charts on the infamous Billboard Hot 100 singles, and gave him attention away from what he was known for.
Tony brought out a second single that year "The First Day of Summer," which too went up the singles charts.
In total, the memorable musician has released close to forty albums since 1982. Tony Carey has as well established himself as a record producer for various pop/rock artists.
In places around Europe, Carey been able to recapture a new fan following by returning to his musical roots of the 1970s with touring in a new band.
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Added: 16th September 2009
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In 1978, Alex Haley, the renowned author of Roots, came under fire in a plagiarism lawsuit launched by fellow author Harold Coulander. Haley claimed he had spent a decade researching his heritage for his historical novel, which in 1977 was adapted as a wildly successful TV miniseries. That same year he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and the Spingarn Medal for the book. A year later his reputation was forever marred. Courlander went to the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York to charge that Roots was substantially plagiarized from Courlander's own novel The African. Courlander's witnesses included Michael Wood an English professor at Columbia University and an expert on plagiarism. Wood opined in a report that the evidence of plagiarism in Roots was 'clear and irrefutable' and that the copying of passages was 'significant and extensive.' After a five-week trial in federal district court, Courlander and Haley settled the case, with Haley making a financial settlement of $650,000 and a statement that 'Alex Haley acknowledges and regrets that various materials from The African by Harold Courlander found their way into his book Roots.' Haley claimed the appropriation of Courlander's passages had been unintentional. Haley orginally maintained he had never heard of The African, much less read it. Shortly after the trial, however, Joseph Bruchac, an instructor of black literature at Skidmore College, came forward to swear in an affidavit that in 1970 or 1971--five or six years before the publication of Roots--he had discussed The African with Haley and had given his 'own personal copy of The African to Haley.' In a later interview with BBC Television, Judge Ward stated, 'Alex Haley perpetrated a hoax on the public.'
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Added: 4th February 2010
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