Songwriter
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Musician, singer, songwriter, actor. Born Richard Starkey on July 7, 1940, in Liverpool, England. Known for his easy-going personality, Ringo Starr first rose to fame in the early 1960s as the drummer for the legendary rock group the Beatles. He grew up poor in Liverpool, and his father left the family when Starr was only three. A sickly child, he missed a lot of school on account of his illnesses. Starr eventually dropped out as a teenager. Read the rest of this entry »
John Lennon
Pop star, composer, songwriter, and recording artist. John Winston Lennon was born October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK, during a German air raid in World War II.
When he was four years old, Lennon’s parents separated and he ended up living with his Aunt Mimi. John’s father was a merchant seaman. He was not present at his son’s birth and did not see a lot of his son when he was small. Read the rest of this entry »
George Harrison
George Harriso MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles. Often referred to as “the quiet Beatle”, Harrison embraced Indian mysticism, and helped broaden the horizons of the other Beatles, as well as those of their [...]
Keith Carradine
Keith Ian Carradine (born August 8, 1949) is an American songwriter and actor born into the Carradine family.
Early life
Carradine was born in San Mateo, California, the son of actress and artist Sonia Sorel and actor John Carradine. His paternal half-brothers are the late David Carradine and Bruce Carradine, his maternal half-brother is Michael Bowen, and [...]
Paul Simon
I’m neurotically driven. . . . I lay off for awhile and then I get panicky. . . . I say to myself . . . , I can’t write anymore. It’s over.
— Paul Simon
FROM “The Sounds of Silence” to “The Obvious Child,” Paul Simon has proved to be one of the most talented songwriters [...]
Robert Duvall
I’m better than Olivier.
— Robert Duvall
QUITE possibly the most versatile American actor in the history of cinema, Robert Duvall is also probably among the least likely to get mobbed at a mall. Unlike many of his peers, the chameleonic actor has demonstrated time and again the ability to utterly inhabit the characters he plays, eliminating [...]
Neil Young
Ain’t singin’ for Pepsi/ Ain’t singin’ for Coke/ Don’t sing for nobody/ Makes me look like a joke/ This note’s for you.
— Neil Young
IN the course of his over-thirty-year career as a recording artist, Neil Young has experienced as many extreme low points of critical and commercial success as he has [...]
Weird Al Yankovic
Your butt is wide, well mine is too.
Just watch your mouth, or I’ll sit on you.
The word is out, better treat me right,
Cause I’m the king of cellulite.
Ham on ham on ham on whole wheat, all right.
— Weird Al Yankovic’s “Fat,” a parody of Michael Jackson’s “Bad”
Occupation: Actor, Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Date of Birth: [...]
Stevie Wonder
Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.
— Stevie Wonder
WHEN little Stevie Wonder’s family moved to Detroit, his mother was afraid to let her seven-year-old boy, who had been blind since birth, out of the house. [...]
Brian Wilson
I had a great big problem with the Beach Boys. I wanted to do my kind ofmusic, and they wanted to do their kind of music . . . I like fell to pieces.
— Brian Wilson.
BRIAN WILSON’S father, Murry, was an aspiring songwriter (his “Two Step Side Step” was once played by Lawrence Welk’s band [...]
