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James Young

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Best known among the guitarists for world rockers Styx, Adam Teen in addition has issued several produces beyond the band. Blessed James Vincent Teen on November 14, 1949, in Chicago, Illinois, Teen was presented to music at age five when he started acquiring piano lessons, which ultimately led to your guitar by his teenage years (sketching inspiration from the most common suspects from the period — Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Johnny Wintertime, etc.). After functioning his method through several regional bands (like the Catalinas and Monterey Hands) and obtaining a qualification in mechanised and aerospace anatomist through the Illinois Institute of Technology, Little eventually made a decision to form a fresh clothing, TW4, which would shortly transform into Styx. Signing up for up with frontman Dennis DeYoung, bassist Chuck Panozzo, drummer John Panozzo, and guitarist John Curulewski, the group agreed upon using the now-defunct label Wooden Nickel, issuing a complete of four reasonably successful produces — 1972’s self-titled discharge, 1973’s Styx II, plus 1974’s The Serpent Can be Rising and Guy of Wonders. By 1975, Curulewski got exited the music group, which resulted in the appearance of newcomer Tommy Shaw and signaled the group’s biggest commercial success. During the period of seven albums through the mid-’70s through the first ’80s (1975’s Equinox, 1976’s Crystal Ball, 1977’s The Grand Illusion, 1978’s Bits of 8, 1979’s Cornerstone, 1981’s Heaven Movie theater, and 1983’s Kilroy Was Right here), Styx became one of the primary bands within the U.S., simply because every one of the aforementioned albums attained platinum qualification, spawned a slew of TOP strike singles, and became area/soccer stadium headliners. But friction over agreeing on the musical path (DeYoung wished to continue within a “theatrical” path, while Youthful and others wished to go back to their hard rock and roll roots) triggered the group to split up in 1984. Little launched a single career quickly thereafter, by means of his 1986 single debut Town Slicker (offering efforts from journeyman keyboardist Jan Hammer), which received beneficial evaluations, but sunk with out a track. Small reunited along with his Styx bandmates (sans Shaw) for 1990’s Advantage from the Century, however when the group returned into hibernation later on, Small resumed his single career, developing the James Small Group and issuing a set of albums — 1994’s From a Day Move and 1995’s Elevated by Wolves — before Styx reunited once again (this time around with Shaw).

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Full Name James Young
Salary 1.75 million USD
Date Of Birth November 14, 1949
Height 1.98 m
Weight 98 kg
Profession Basketball player
Nationality American
Spouse Clara Whipple, Rida Johnson Young, Clara Kimball Young
Music Songs Come Sail Away, Mr. Roboto, Boat on the River, Too Much Time on My Hands, Renegade, Lady, Babe, Blue Collar Man, Show Me The Way, Fooling Yourself, Lorelei, The Best of Times, Don't Let It End, Suite Madame Blue, Man in the Wilderness, Rockin' the Paradise, A Criminal Mind, Gone Gone Gone, Miss America, Snowblind, Borrowed Time, Castle Walls, Sing for the Day, Crystal Ball, Paradise, Grand Illusion, Can't Find My Way Home, Radio Silence, Love at First Sight, First Time, Half-Penny, Two-Penny, I Am the Walrus
Albums Brave New World, Cyclorama, The Mission, Paradise Theatre, Equinox, The Grand Illusion, Styx, Styx II, Crystal Ball, Kilroy Was Here, One with Everything: Styx and the Contemporary Youth Orchestra, Cornerstone, The Serpent Is Rising, Caught in the Act, Pieces of Eight, Edge of the Century, Big Bang Theory, Styx World: Live 2001, Return to Paradise, Arch Allies: Live at Riverport, Greatest Hits, Best of Styx, Come Sail Away – The Styx Anthology, Styx Greatest Hits Part 2, Styx Classics Volume 15, The Complete Wooden Nickel Recordings, 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Styx, Rockers, The Grand Illusion & Pieces Of Eight - Live
Movies The Unchastened Woman, The Bells, Omar the Tentmaker, Mickey, Oliver Twist, Trilby, Hearts in Exile, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England, The Thousand-Dollar Husband, Lost and Won, The Deep Purple, As You Like It, A Daughter of Two Worlds, Beau Brummel, Beauty Unadorned, A Vitagraph Romance, The Infidel, The Picture Idol, Midnight Rose, A Lively Affair, Without Benefit of Clergy, Lola, When Mary Grew Up, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, A Rogue's Romance, The Eavesdropper, In the Flat Above, A Mistake in Spelling, Wanted, a Sister, Popular Betty, The Mesmerist, The White Man's Law, Jerry's Mother-in-Law, The Temple of Dusk, The Lash, Unprotected, The Masquerader, Taken by Storm, Up in a Balloon, When Roses Wither, Half a Hero, Love Hath Wrought a Miracle, Pickles, Art and Sauerkraut, Mrs. Carter's Necklace, A marriage of convenience., The Unusual Honeymoon, The Usurper, The Model for St. John
TV Shows The Karen Dunbar Show, Hamish Macbeth


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Stunts

Stunts

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Captain America: Civil War 2016 fight choreographer / stunt double: Iron Man / stunt double: Sebastian Stan post-production
The Veil 2015 stunt performer post-production
Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 assistant fight coordinator
Lingaa 2014 fight choreographer - uncredited
Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 fight coordinator: additional photography
Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2014 fight choreographer / stunt double: Sebastian Stan
Batman Evolution 2014 Short stunt performer
It's Dark Here 2013 stunt coordinator
Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter 2013 Video short fight choreographer
Raze 2013 fight choreographer / stunt coordinator
G.I. Joe: Cobra Recruitment 2013 Short stunt performer
Stubbs and Romero 2012 Video short stunts
Raw Brute 2012 Short stunts
Limitless 2011/I stunts

Actor

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Veil 2015 post-production
Throne 2015 Short filming Captain Samuel Thomas
Awaken 2015 Kane
Batman Evolution 2014 Short Henchman
Raze 2013 Guard #2
Fixer 2013 TV Series Colin
Stubbs and Romero 2012 Video short Thug

Assistant Director

Assistant Director

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Awaken 2015 second unit director

Producer

Producer

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Throne 2015 Short associate producer filming

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