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Janie Jones was the real-life motivation for the tune from the same name for the Clash’s initial album, though several group’s American enthusiasts ever learned the entire tale behind this Uk weirdo. A middle-’60s cabaret performer with an increase of of the snarl when compared to a tone of voice, …

After gathering popularity functioning London venues just like the Comedy Shop as well as the Comic Remove (so named since it doubled being a strip club), the comedians who become famous as the CHILDREN received the green light to film their own Television series. They’d originally prepared to do a …

Comedian Theodore Gottlieb rose to prominence along with his humorous visitor spots on Television talk displays with Merv Griffin and Steve Allen, but he’s best-known for his regular performances in the David Letterman present through the ’80s. A German indigenous who was simply a prisoner of the Dachau focus camp …

Poet and article writer Simon Vinkenoog, poet laureate of holland, added his prose towards the compilation Ritmebox. The EP produced the very best 100 in the Dutch record graphs in 2008. Vinkenoog experienced a seizure in July 2009 and passed away quickly thereafter at age 80.

Fusing wide-ranging affects in the Hermits to Ray Stevens to Randy Newman, Robertson’s parodies convert reverential and taken-for-granted principles of pop music inside out.

After surviving in Nebraska and Grand Rapids, MI, Holly Prado relocated to LA. She has released poetry in Rolling Rock, The Paris Review and Ms. Publication, and spent some time working like a reviewer for the LA Publication Review and an innovative writing instructor in the University or college of …

Simply no, not the Peter Retailers. This goofball Italian group (which didn’t even add a member using the pseudonym of Peter Retailers) was evidently the alter ego from the Subterranean Eating Rooms, a completely obscure band unidentified also to voracious fanzine visitors, who produced among the better unheard underground rock …

Mary Ellen Hooper was a member of family newcomer in the humor scene on the turn from the hundred years. Noted on her behalf quirky and exclusive physical laughter and wacky cosmetic expressions, Hooper’s times of headlining schools and clubs paid when she gained Best Feminine Stand-Up on the 12th …

Even though the antics of Barbara Nice as middle aged housewife and ‘agony aunt’ are popular throughout Britain, Barbara was just a character that was made by comedian, actor, and performer, Janice Connolly. Noticed in the Barbara Great guise by Peter Kay in 1998 in the Manchester Evening Information New …

Pianist Steve Swayne recorded Preludes by Chopin, Faure and Gershwin, his 1997 debut LP, while even now a music pupil at UC Berkeley, where he was the recepient of the coveted Alfred Hertz Functionality Fellowship. Swayne’s follow-up, the comedic Vacation Twists, appeared afterwards that same calendar year.