In honour of it being FE race week...
Part 3 of me looking at what the UK number one songs were when racing drivers were born. This time it's the FE grid (with a lot of track sharing going on here 😂)
Andre Lotterer - (19th November 1981) - Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
Lucas Di Grassi - (11th August 1984) - George Michael - Careless Whisper
Rene Rast - (26th October 1986) - Nick Berry - Every Loser Wins
Sam Bird - (9th January 1987) & Edoardo Mortara (12th January 1987) - Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite
Sebastien Buemi - (31st October 1988) - Enya - Orinoco Flow
Jean-Eric Vergne - (25th April 1990) - Madonna - Vogue
Robin Frijns - (7th August 1991) & Antonio Felix Da Costa (31st August 1991) - Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
Nico Mueller - (25th February 1992) & Stoffel Vandoorne - (26th March 1992) - Shakepeare's Sister - Stay
Norman Nato - (8th July 1992) - Erasure - Abba-Esque
Oliver Rowland - (10th August 1992) - Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer
Jake Hughes - (30th May 1994), Mitch Evans - (24th June 1994) & Nick Cassidy (19th August 1994) - Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around
Pascal Wehrlein - (18th October 1994) - Take That - Sure
Jake Dennis - (18th June 1995) - Robson & Jerome - Unchained Melody
Kelvin Van Der Linde - (20th June 1996) - Fugees - Killing Me Softly
Max Gunther - (2nd July 1997) - Puff Daddy & Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You
Sergio Sette Camara - (23rd May 1998) - The Tamperer & Maya - Feel It
Dan Ticktum - (8th June 1999) - Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Sacha Fenestraz - (28th July 1999) - Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
David Beckmann - (27th April 2000) - Fragma - Toca's Miracle
All added to this playlist 😊
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Aaron Jacob Levy (Introduction)
(still a work-in-progress)
details
full name: Aaron Jacob Levy
age: 38 years old
date of birth: February 16, 1986
place of birth: New York, New York
residential area: Downtown, Starlight Oaks, Washington State
gender: Cis-Male
pronouns: He/Him
sexuality: Bisexual
martial status: Single
occupation: Theatre Professor, Actor
faceclaim: Andrew Garfield
personality
personality type: ENFJ | the protagonist
moral alignment: chaotic good
astrology: Aquarius Sun, Taurus Moon, Cancer Rising
three positive traits: charming, quick-witted, kind
three negative traits: fickle, moody, neurotic
education: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre, NYU | Masters in Fine Arts in Acting, Brown/Trinity REP
background
tw: death, grief, loss, cheating, cancer
It was a brilliantly sunny day when Aaron was born, which was not normal for February in New York City. Maybe it was a sign of things to come. The Lower East Side was his playground, and Aaron grew up living a happy life. His parents had been high school sweethearts growing up in Philadelphia, and they instilled in him, at a very young age, that love was indeed all you needed. Though they didn’t live in excess, his mother was a middle school choir teacher, and his father was a high school librarian; they had all that they needed. When he was five, they gave Aaron a baby sister, Talia, his best friend in the world.
It was many years of bliss—years filled with dirt-cheap movies, Hanukkah celebrations, record stores, and homemade matzoh ball soup. Years of discovering Shakespeare and pop music and discovering that maybe Aaron liked boys as much as he liked girls. Years of music, laughter, and joy filled the Levy household. Aaron wanted for nothing back then. He thinks back on this time in his life with bittersweet fondness, knowing he was lucky to grow up in a place that felt so warm.
When he was 18, he moved a few blocks north and attended NYU for his BFA in Theatre. He had found theatre in high school without much pushback from his parents. Yes, of course, it was a risky career path. But he had a spark, this big burning flare of talent and passion, and his parents didn’t want to snuff it out. Aaron had to work two jobs, alternating between working at a cinema and a bar, to afford anything, but he was happy, and that was enough.
It wasn’t until his senior year of college when his father got sick. Cancer caught him quickly and gave him little time. Aaron was devastated, trying to be home as much as he could. It was setting up for his Senior Showcase, but he didn’t have it in him to push through the pain and try as hard as he might have under better circumstances. He needed to be there for his mother and Talia. He spent much of the time that he was supposed to be in rehearsals, visiting his father in the hospital. It all went so fast, and suddenly, the wonderful Levys were now a family of three.
He managed to graduate, thankfully. Aaron was despondent, but he had maintained his grades and relatively good standing with the university, so he got out on time. He didn’t do particularly well in his Showcase, however, so he was not matched with an agent and manager like most of his classmates. It took him three years of hustling and grinding to make his way up on his own. Skimping on meals and working until he was numb and delirious. But it was also distracting, and carrying the grief he still held; he was grateful for any distractions.
And then, one fine day, right after his 25th birthday, Aaron was unbelievably lucky. Or at least, that’s what he says. He was in the elevator with the right casting agent, just making small talk, and landed an audition for Shakespeare in the Park’s summer production of A Winter’s Tale. He landed the part of Florizel, and from there, the parts just kept on coming. Over the next few years, he became a bona fide Broadway mainstay, hopping between contemporary and classical works effortlessly. He even had a brief stint as Fiyero in Wicked, which… scarred him for life. He would never do a musical again. He had bit roles in long-running New York City TV shows, like Law & Order SVU, and he felt calm. Like the hard work paid off, and he was making his dad proud.
It was early into these years that he met Travis Walker, a Broadway investor. Travis was older, not by a huge amount, but by enough. Over the years, Aaron had his fair share of flings; men and women were constant but fleeting, and he didn’t place too much stock into forming long-lasting relationships. He was married to his work, and though he was taught that love was so important, he found love in other things: his friends, and his plays and his drive to create art that mattered. But he met Travis on the opening night of one of his plays, and things moved quickly.
He fell, and he fell hard. Aaron was besotted. This was what he had been waiting for, at least he thought. It was perfect: every time he looked at Travis, he could swear he heard choirs singing like angels were in his ears. This was the love his parents had gone on and on about… it had to be. He felt infatuated and believed that he was adored in return. Travis would buy him trinkets and take him on lavish dates and make space for him in his penthouse on Fifth Avenue… this was the dream.
But soon, that dream was five years long. And Aaron was at the peak of his career, having just given a star turn as Hamlet. He thought he felt the proposal coming on… it had been years, and he had been so patient and attentive, even when Travis had his moods. Even when Travis started to travel much more. Even when things felt lonely. He was supposed to be at the theatre one night for a post-show celebration, but he decided to head out early for the evening, wanting to spend the evening with his partner. When he got home, he discovered a waking nightmare: Travis and a chorus boy. He methodically packed up, absolutely crushed by Travis’ cold and cruel nonchalance at what had transpired. He didn’t even care that it was ending… and then it was done.
Aaron needed to leave the city… he needed to get out. He moved most of his things, which weren’t too much, into a storage unit, grabbed a large backpack, and left. Took a flight to Europe and backpacked. Spent some time roaming around Asia. Came back to the States and got off and on Greyhound buses until he was fully wiped. It was almost two years of this. He needed to shake it out of his system and get the grief and the loss out of him. It was then, at age 32, that he decided he would go back and get his Masters.
Getting into Brown’s program was easy. He was a celebrated actor and though the shock of him being in class with his cohort was a bit much, at first, he settled in nicely. He fell in love with Rhode Island, and 3 years on the coast did him well. He learned so much about himself and what he wanted to do, and what he needed in his life, and he wouldn’t have traded that time for the whole world. When he got out, he was still disillusioned with New York, so he looked for jobs elsewhere.
That’s how he landed on Starlight Oaks. He’d had a friend in his cohort who had spent some time in the area, and when he saw an open job at the University, his friend recommended it. It was another coastal city, welcoming and waiting for him. He couldn’t wait to see what was in store.
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Aaron Jacob Levy (Introduction)
(still a work-in-progress)
details
full name: Aaron Jacob Levy
age: 38 years old
date of birth: February 16, 1986
place of birth: New York, New York
residential area: Downtown, Starlight Oaks, Washington State
gender: Cis-Male
pronouns: He/Him
sexuality: Bisexual
martial status: Single
occupation: Theatre Professor, Actor
faceclaim: Andrew Garfield
personality
personality type: ENFJ | the protagonist
moral alignment: chaotic good
astrology: Aquarius Sun, Taurus Moon, Cancer Rising
three positive traits: charming, quick-witted, kind
three negative traits: fickle, moody, neurotic
education: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre, NYU | Masters in Fine Arts in Acting, Brown/Trinity REP
background
tw: death, grief, loss, cheating, cancer
It was a brilliantly sunny day when Aaron was born, which was not normal for February in New York City. Maybe it was a sign of things to come. The Lower East Side was his playground, and Aaron grew up living a happy life. His parents had been high school sweethearts growing up in Philadelphia, and they instilled in him, at a very young age, that love was indeed all you needed. Though they didn’t live in excess, his mother was a middle school choir teacher, and his father was a high school librarian; they had all that they needed. When he was five, they gave Aaron a baby sister, Talia, his best friend in the world.
It was many years of bliss—years filled with dirt-cheap movies, Hanukkah celebrations, record stores, and homemade matzoh ball soup. Years of discovering Shakespeare and pop music and discovering that maybe Aaron liked boys as much as he liked girls. Years of music, laughter, and joy filled the Levy household. Aaron wanted for nothing back then. He thinks back on this time in his life with bittersweet fondness, knowing he was lucky to grow up in a place that felt so warm.
When he was 18, he moved a few blocks north and attended NYU for his BFA in Theatre. He had found theatre in high school without much pushback from his parents. Yes, of course, it was a risky career path. But he had a spark, this big burning flare of talent and passion, and his parents didn’t want to snuff it out. Aaron had to work two jobs, alternating between working at a cinema and a bar, to afford anything, but he was happy, and that was enough.
It wasn’t until his senior year of college when his father got sick. Cancer caught him quickly and gave him little time. Aaron was devastated, trying to be home as much as he could. It was setting up for his Senior Showcase, but he didn’t have it in him to push through the pain and try as hard as he might have under better circumstances. He needed to be there for his mother and Talia. He spent much of the time that he was supposed to be in rehearsals, visiting his father in the hospital. It all went so fast, and suddenly, the wonderful Levys were now a family of three.
He managed to graduate, thankfully. Aaron was despondent, but he had maintained his grades and relatively good standing with the university, so he got out on time. He didn’t do particularly well in his Showcase, however, so he was not matched with an agent and manager like most of his classmates. It took him three years of hustling and grinding to make his way up on his own. Skimping on meals and working until he was numb and delirious. But it was also distracting, and carrying the grief he still held; he was grateful for any distractions.
And then, one fine day, right after his 25th birthday, Aaron was unbelievably lucky. Or at least, that’s what he says. He was in the elevator with the right casting agent, just making small talk, and landed an audition for Shakespeare in the Park’s summer production of A Winter’s Tale. He landed the part of Florizel, and from there, the parts just kept on coming. Over the next few years, he became a bona fide Broadway mainstay, hopping between contemporary and classical works effortlessly. He even had a brief stint as Fiyero in Wicked, which… scarred him for life. He would never do a musical again. He had bit roles in long-running New York City TV shows, like Law & Order SVU, and he felt calm. Like the hard work paid off, and he was making his dad proud.
It was early into these years that he met Travis Walker, a Broadway investor. Travis was older, not by a huge amount, but by enough. Over the years, Aaron had his fair share of flings; men and women were constant but fleeting, and he didn’t place too much stock into forming long-lasting relationships. He was married to his work, and though he was taught that love was so important, he found love in other things: his friends, and his plays and his drive to create art that mattered. But he met Travis on the opening night of one of his plays, and things moved quickly.
He fell, and he fell hard. Aaron was besotted. This was what he had been waiting for, at least he thought. It was perfect: every time he looked at Travis, he could swear he heard choirs singing like angels were in his ears. This was the love his parents had gone on and on about… it had to be. He felt infatuated and believed that he was adored in return. Travis would buy him trinkets and take him on lavish dates and make space for him in his penthouse on Fifth Avenue… this was the dream.
But soon, that dream was five years long. And Aaron was at the peak of his career, having just given a star turn as Hamlet. He thought he felt the proposal coming on… it had been years, and he had been so patient and attentive, even when Travis had his moods. Even when Travis started to travel much more. Even when things felt lonely. He was supposed to be at the theatre one night for a post-show celebration, but he decided to head out early for the evening, wanting to spend the evening with his partner. When he got home, he discovered a waking nightmare: Travis and a chorus boy. He methodically packed up, absolutely crushed by Travis’ cold and cruel nonchalance at what had transpired. He didn’t even care that it was ending… and then it was done.
Aaron needed to leave the city… he needed to get out. He moved most of his things, which weren’t too much, into a storage unit, grabbed a large backpack, and left. Took a flight to Europe and backpacked. Spent some time roaming around Asia. Came back to the States and got off and on Greyhound buses until he was fully wiped. It was almost two years of this. He needed to shake it out of his system and get the grief and the loss out of him. It was then, at age 32, that he decided he would go back and get his Masters.
Getting into Brown’s program was easy. He was a celebrated actor and though the shock of him being in class with his cohort was a bit much, at first, he settled in nicely. He fell in love with Rhode Island, and 3 years on the coast did him well. He learned so much about himself and what he wanted to do, and what he needed in his life, and he wouldn’t have traded that time for the whole world. When he got out, he was still disillusioned with New York, so he looked for jobs elsewhere.
That’s how he landed on Starlight Oaks. He’d had a friend in his cohort who had spent some time in the area, and when he saw an open job at the University, his friend recommended it. It was another coastal city, welcoming and waiting for him. He couldn’t wait to see what was in store.
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The Many Loves of The Lost Boys
Solntse
Born 12th September, 1499 in Kemerovo, Russia
Betrothed to Dwayne on 18th December, 1507. Married 18th December, 1987.
Adoptive mother of Laddie (20/06/1976).
Miscarried their son on 8th June, 1986. He would have been named Aleksandru or Podárok.
Emiline of Leuchtenberg
Born 25th October, 1864 in Amberg, Germany.
Engaged to David on 9th May, 1882.
Died 13th August, 1884 in Osnabrück, Germany.
She was twenty weeks pregnant at the time of her death.
Elena
Born 4th February, 1499 in Ukhta, Russia.
Married Dwayne on 3rd April, 1900.
Mother of Radomil (04/10/1906-17/06/1975) and Mislav (14/06/1925-17/06/1975).
Died on 17th June, 1975 in Ukhta, Russia.
Tomila
Born 1st April, 1498 in Ukhta, Russia.
Married Dwayne on 17th March, 1930.
Mother of Yaroslav (10/08/1932-17/06/1975).
Died on 17th June, 1975 in Ukhta, Russia.
Radoslava
Born 8th February, 1500 in Ukhta, Russia.
Married Dwayne on 27th September, 1890.
Mother of Aleksandru (15/05/1894-17/06/1975), Velimir (11/05/1931-17/06/1975), Nikola (15/07/1966-17/06/1975), Oliga (15/03/1975-17/06/1975).
Died on 17th June, 1975 in Ukhta, Russia.
Blazh
Born 13th October, 1496 in Ukhta, Russia.
Married Dwayne on 19th April, 1807.
Died on 17th June, 1975 in Ukhta, Russia.
Bonnie Emerson
Born 21st August, 1964 in Santa Carla, California.
Dating Paul since 9th January, 1986.
Michael's cousin.
Dominique Lambert
Born 3rd April, 1955 in Toulon, France.
The mate of Marko, Paul, David, Dwayne, Michael (Met them in that order).
Sigrid Bakken
Born 23rd August, 1968 in Trondheim, Norway.
Dating Michael from 8th November, 1984 to 23rd January, 1985.
Dating Star and Paul from 27th October, 1986.
Dahlia Emerson
Born 28th October, 1964
Mother of Jean Emerson-Norman (29/12/1987)
Dating Marko since 28th July, 1987
Dorotea Emerson
Born 30th July, 1968
Dating Marko since 11th August, 1986
Mother of Luca Thompson (12/02/1988)
Grace Schwarz
Born 15th November, 2002 in Santa Carla, California
Marko's mate
Dating Marko since 1st July, 2020
Anastasia Yakivna Terekhova
Born 6th January, 1999 in Lviv, Ukraine
Paul and Dwayne's mate
Dating Paul since 4th March, 2019
Dating Dwayne since 21st November, 2017
Abigail Huxtable
Born 5th April, 2001 in Norfolk, England
Michael and David's mate
Dating Michael since 11th May, 2020
Dating David since 3rd November, 2019
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BAND & MUSICIAN NR, NEWS RELEASES
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
BY ADMINISTRATOR
Happy Birthday Kurt Cobain!
In honor of what would have been Kurt Cobain's 50th birthday, Morrison Hotel Gallery is announcing its next exhibition: Grunge - The Rise of a Generation, a photography exhibit celebrating grunge music, the fashion, the attitude and its impact on anyone who has listened to Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or worn a flannel shirt.
Nirvana's Bleach was released 30 years ago this year. Soundgarden's Superunknown will celebrate its 25th anniversary on March 8th. Grunge is making a comeback and it's happening now.
Opening March 8th in New York City, Los Angeles and Maui, Grunge - The Rise of a Generation is a collection of images taken by legendary photographers who were in the middle of all things grunge.
All images are available for purchase at the gallery locations and via the website www.morrisonhotelgallery.com
From Sonic Youth to Soundgarden:
Morrison Hotel Gallery Kicks Off Grunge Month with Grunge: Rise of a Generation
Characterized by frayed fashion, a brooding sense of apathy and slow, riff-heavy sounds, the grunge era not only soundtracks an angst-ridden coming of age but moreover defines the general sentiments of an entire generation. A musical genre unlike any other, grunge took the aggression of punk and the intensity of heavy metal and added elements that gave the music its signature grinding, sludgy distortion. Hitting its commercial stride by the early 90s, "the Seattle sound" gives rise of a pantheon of grunge gods including but not limited to Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots and the evergreen Kurt Cobain once dubbed by Time as "the John Lennon of the swinging Northwest."
As Nirvana's debut Bleach celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and Soundgarden's Superunknown turns 25 on March 8th, Morrison Hotel Gallery kicks off Grunge Month in celebratory recognition of the genre that would provoke an entire pop cultural movement with the unveiling of Grunge: Rise of a Generation, a photographic exhibition highlighting the work of Lance Mercer, Jesse Frohman and many other exceptional photographers who helped define a cultural phenomenon which continues to resonate with audiences throughout the world.
Kurt Cobain 'The Last Session', 1993 © Jesse Frohman
Among the photographs highlighted in the exhibit are images that encapsulate the unvarnished vibe that ran throughout the grunge scene. There from the beginning was Seattle-born photographer Lance Mercer who began documenting what was to be a seismic shift in American music and culture from its very onset. From 1991 to 1995, Mercer went on tour with Pearl Jam as their official photographer. During that time, he photographed the band's elevation to legendary status - Eddie Vedder's raw energy onstage juxtaposed with him relaxing backstage next to a bottle of booze, as well as the band posing in a pile on a Seattle hillside. From Alice in Chains onward, Mercer's stunning work takes viewers back to a time when dirty and unpolished became the new paradigm in sound and style.
A number of other extraordinary photographers were also poised to capture the grunge movement's visual culture dating back to 1986 when Ebet Roberts photographed Sonic Youth performing onstage at NYC's CBGB in a series of shots that would ultimately capture the infancy of the entire grunge era. Additionally, early images of Soundgarden by Karen Mason-Blair and Jay Blakesberg resonate with the many reasons the band would come to define the distinct Seattle sound, whether they show a long-haired Cornell and crew sweating and whipping the audience into a frenzy or crowd-surfing across a wave of fans. Furthermore, in one of the last official photo shoots with Nirvana before the untimely death of Kurt Cobain, Jesse Frohman captured a series of shots of the front man swathed in a leopard skin cardigan, hunting cap and oversized enamel sunglasses covering his head and face. Aloof yet strangely vulnerable and connected, these portraits draft the legacy of an unlikely icon.
"With Grunge: Rise of a Generation, we are not only celebrating the 30th anniversary of Nirvana's Bleach, the 25th anniversary of Soundgarden's Superunknown, or those artists whose contributions exist within the time capsule of a genre; we're also celebrating the durational implications of a cultural phenomenon," said Marcelle Murdock, Gallery Director. "Featuring the pioneering contributions of grunge predecessors like Sonic Youth in dialogue with the usual suspects like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Hole, and L7 among others, Grunge: Rise of a Generation provides the framework for a more holistic yet all-encompassing conversation between the super famous and the fringes of a definitive movement's coming-of-age."
In addition to the exhibition, Jesse Frohman will give a talk on March 14th, at the NYC gallery, where he will discuss his photo shoots with Cobain and Cornell. His book, Kurt Cobain: The Last Session, will also be available for sale.
"As someone who came into adulthood within the era, I never imagined the possibility-much less, the importance-of revisiting the period through fresh eyes in collaboration with some of my favorite photographers and artists of all time. With that, I am eager to present this special exhibition of such social and personal significance this spring at Morrison Hotel Gallery." adds Murdock.
Grunge: The Rise of a Generation will open to the public on March 8th and will run through March 31st.
Photographers featured in the show:
Richard Bellia
Jay Blakesberg
Justin Borucki
Danny Clinch
Henry Diltz
Jesse Frohman
Lynn Goldsmith
JJ Gonson
Bob Gruen
Karen-Mason Blair
Clay Patrick McBride
Catherine McGann
Lance Mercer
Dustin Rabin
Amy Rachlin
Ebet Roberts
Bands featured in the show:
Alice in Chains
Hole
L7
Mudhoney
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Sonic Youth
Soundgarden
Stone Temple Pilots
About Lance Mercer
Lance Mercer, born and raised in Seattle, started photographing at 13. Through his involvement with the local music scene in Seattle, Washington specifically portraits of the late Andrew Wood, Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone, he was invited to tour with Pearl Jam (1991-95) as their official photographer. This endeavor quickly established him as a sought-after photographer for a host of other well-known bands including Alice In Chains, Beck, and The Presidents of the United States to name a few. Other music clients then followed including projects for: Epic, Columbia, Capitol, Warner Brothers, Geffen, A&M, Sony, Microsoft, Redbull, VH1, MTV. Lance's work quickly appeared in publications like: Rolling Stone, Spin, Time, Vanity Fair, and Alternative Press among others.
In 1997, he collaborated on a retrospective book of Pearl Jam photographs called Place/Date, with Seattle photographer Charles Peterson. In 2007, 5X1 Pearl Jam Through the Eye of Lance Mercer was published, further chronicling Lance's experiences with the early 90's grunge rock era.
Presently, Lance continues to create striking photographic work with special focus on documentary, editorial, commercial and music photography.
About Morrison Hotel® Gallery
Morrison Hotel® Gallery (MHG) was founded in 2001 by former record company executive Peter Blachley, music retail industry professional Richard Horowitz, and legendary music photographer Henry Diltz. In 2012, author, director and photographer Timothy White joined the team, launching an additional West Coast gallery at The Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood. In 2016, the gallery launched its third location at Mick Fleetwood's General Store in Maui, Hawaii.
MHG is the world's leading brand in fine art music photography representing over 125 of the world's finest music photographers and their archives. Their vast catalog of photography encompasses jazz, blues, and rock imagery spanning several generations through to today's contemporary music artists and now includes iconic photographs in the world of celebrity and sports as well. MHG has a robust online presence, featuring over 100,000 images searchable by photographer, music artist, band or concert. www.morrisonhotelgallery.com
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On this day in Wikipedia: Sunday, 25th February
Welcome, ողջու՜յն (voġčuyn), ようこそ (yōkoso), selamat datang 🤗
What does @Wikipedia say about 25th February through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?
25th February 2023 🗓️ : Death - Gordon Pinsent
Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
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Image licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0? by christopherharte
25th February 2017 🗓️ : Death - Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton, American actor and filmmaker (b. 1955)
"William Paxton (May 17, 1955 – February 25, 2017) was an American actor and filmmaker. He starred in films such as Aliens (1986), Near Dark (1987), Tombstone (1993), True Lies (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Twister (1996), Titanic (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and A Simple Plan (1998). He had..."
Image licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0? by Gage Skidmore
25th February 2012 🗓️ : Death - Louisiana Red
Louisiana Red, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
"Iverson Minter (March 23, 1932 – February 25, 2012), known as Louisiana Red, was an American blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, who recorded more than 50 albums. A master of slide guitar, he played both traditional acoustic and urban electric styles, with lyrics both honest and often..."
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25th February 1974 🗓️ : Birth - Dominic Raab
Dominic Raab, English politician; First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
"Dominic Rennie Raab (; born 25 February 1974) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher and Walton since 2010. From 2019 to 2023, with a brief period out of office during the Truss premiership, Raab was deputy to prime ministers Boris Johnson and..."
Image licensed under CC BY 3.0? by Richard Townshend
25th February 1924 🗓️ : Birth - Hugh Huxley
Hugh Huxley, English-American biologist and academic (d. 2013)
"Hugh Esmor Huxley MBE FRS (25 February 1924 – 25 July 2013) was a British molecular biologist who made important discoveries in the physiology of muscle. He was a graduate in physics from Christ's College, Cambridge. However, his education was interrupted for five years by the Second World War,..."
25th February 1822 🗓️ : Death - William Pinkney
William Pinkney, American politician and diplomat, 7th United States Attorney General (b. 1764)
"William Pinkney (March 17, 1764 – February 25, 1822) was an American statesman and diplomat, and was appointed the seventh U.S. Attorney General by President James Madison...."
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25th February 🗓️ : Holiday - Christian feast days: February 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
"February 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 26 All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 10 (March 9 on leap years) by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.For February 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 12...."
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Elle Fashion
1. born on June 4, 1975. Here she is at just 4 hours old with her father, actor Jon Voight.
2. 1980
3.with her father, brother, and grandmother at the 1986 Academy Awards.
4.Starring in Meat Loaf's “Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through” video in 1993.
5.With her brother, James Haven, and father, Jon Voight, at the 25th anniversary party for Midnight Cowboy in February 1994.
6.Roller blading through busy streets with her Hackers costars in 1995.
7.At the Wallace premiere in August 1997
8.Looking Renaissance-ready for her role in 1997's True Women.
9. At a Gia screening in January 1998 in quintessential '90s makeup.
10.with her father at the 1998 premiere of Playing by Heart.
11.With Sean Connery at a 1999 screening of Playing by Heart; they were co-stars.
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Punjab Kings Team Players - IPL 2023
Punjab Kings IPL 2023
Established - 2008 (By name - Kings XI Punjab )
Captain - Shikhar Dhawan
Coach - Trevor Bayliss
Owned By - KPH Dream Cricket Private Limited,
Owner - Co-Owned by Mohit Burman of Dabur India, Ness Wadia of the Wadia's group, Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, and Karan Paul.
List of Punjab Kings Players
The complete list of PBKS players together with some details regarding them is given below for IPL 2023.
Batters
India
Shikhar Dhawan(Captain)
Shikhar Dhawan, born on December 5th, 1985, is a left-handed batter and a right-arm off-break bowler. His role is of Opening Batter.
Raj Bawa
Raj Angad Bawa, born on November 12th, 2002, is a left-handed batter and a right-arm medium-fast bowler.
Bhanuka Rajapaksa
Pramod Bhanuka Bandara Rajapaksa, born on October 24th, 1991, is a left-handed batter and a right-arm medium bowler. His role is of top order batter.
Harpreet Bhatia
Harpreet Singh Bhatia, born on August 11th, 1991, is a left-handed batter and a right-arm medium bowler. He is a Batter by role.
Bowlers
India
Harpreet Brar
Harpreet Brar, born on September 16th, 1995, is a left-handed batter and a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. His role is of Bowler.
Arshdeep Singh
Arshdeep Singh, born on February 5th, 1999, is a left-handed batter and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. His role is of a bowler.
Rahul Chahar
Rahul Desraj Chahar, born on August 4th, 1999, is a right-handed batter and a right-arm leg-break bowler. His role is of a bowler.
Vidwath Kaverappa
Vidwath Kaverappa, born on February 25th, 1999, is a right-handed batter and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. His role is of a Bowler.
South Africa
Kagiso Rabada
Kagiso Rabada, born on May 25th, 1995, is a left-handed batter and a right-arm fast bowler. His role is of a Bowler.
Australia
Nathan Ellis
Nathan Ellis, born on September 22nd, 1994, is a right-handed batter and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He is a Bowler by role.
All-Rounders
India
Shahrukh Khan
Shahrukh Khan, born on May 27th, 1995, is a right-handed batter and a right-arm off-break bowler. His role is Batter.
Rishi Dhawan
Rishi Dhawan, born on February 19th, 1990, is a right-handed batter and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He is an All-Rounder by role.
Baltej Dhanda
Baltej Dhanda, born on November 4th, 1990, is a right-handed batter and a right-arm medium bowler. His role is of a Bowler.
Atharva Taide
Atharva Taide, born on April 26th, 2000, is a left-handed batter and a left-arm orthodox bowler. He is a Top Order batter by role.
Mohit Rathee
Mohit Rathee, born on January 13th, 1999, is a right-handed batter and a leg-break bowler.
Shivam Singh
Shivam Singh, born on November 18th, 1996, is a right-hand batter and a right-arm off-break bowler.
England
Liam Livingstone
Liam Stephen Livingstone, born on August 4th, 1993, is a right-handed batter and a right-arm off-break bowler.
Sam Curran
Samuel Matthew Curran, born on June 3rd, 1998, is a left-handed batter and a left-arm medium-fast bowler. His role is of an All-Rounder.
Zimbabwe
Sikandar Raza
Sikandar Raza Butt, born on April 24th, 1986, is a right-handed batter and a right-arm off break bowler. He is an All-Rounder by role.
Wicket-Keepers
India
Prabhsimran Singh
Prabhsimran Singh, born on August 10th, 2000, is a right-handed batter and a Wicketkeeper by role.
Jitesh Sharma
Jitesh Sharma, born on October 22nd, 1993, is a right-handed batter and his role in cricket is wicketkeeper-batter.
England
Matthew Short
Matthew "Matt" William Short, born on November 8th, 1995, is a right-handed batter and a right-arm off-break bowler. He is a Opening Batsman.
Punjab Kings IPL 2023 Matches List
The updated list of the matches scheduled for the PBKS team in IPL 2023 together with venue, date, teams partaking and timing of the match is given below in the table.
PBKS team performance in IPL 2022
Punjab kings won their first match of this season Under Mayank Agarwal’s captaincy. This franchise's batters and bowlers experienced a roller-coaster ride.
Liam Livingstone, the batting all-rounder won matches single-handedly for this team. This franchise was ranked at the 7th position in the list of team rankings last year. They have won 6 victories in 13 games.
Their performance in the IPL tournament right from their initiation has never been too good, but, with time they are improving as a team.
The PBKS franchise has only once reached the playoffs in the IPL and has never won any title yet.
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THE O.G.
Ice-T was there at the beginning and helped shape what rap and hip-hop became. And you know what, he’s still there
Written By Kyle Eustice
| February 15, 2023 - 1:18 pm | Updated 3 days ago
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Tracy Marrow was born in Newark, New Jersey, no one’s idea of Easy Street, and especially not in 1958. Newark hit its nadir in July 1967, when Tracy was nine (although by then his family had moved to another part of New Jersey) and the entire city was convulsed with race riots, stemming from systemic police brutality and harassment towards the Black community. Police brutality, as backdrop and theme, has perforated Tracy Marrow’s life. Or Ice-T, as he’s better known.
When he was in third grade, his mother Alice died from a heart attack, and he was raised by his father Solomon, who four years later also died of a heart attack. Thirteen-year-old orphan Tracy was sent to live first with an aunt nearby, then, propitiously, with an aunt in California, in View Park-Windsor Hills, a predominantly Black, upper-middle class neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles.
By eighth grade, he had moved to Crenshaw, where he attended Palms Junior High, a predominantly white school. From there he went to Crenshaw High School, where he got his first exposure to gangs. Crips and Bloods stalked the halls, forming a gauntlet repeated across South Central. Although never inducted, the future gangsta rapper was “affiliated” with the Crips. And he did petty crime to make extra cash on top of the social security benefits he started receiving at 17 from his father’s death.
Crenshaw High was where Tracy had his first experience performing music, joining a group called, quaintly, The Precious Few of Crenshaw High School. At 18, he became a father.
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After high school Tracy went into the Army, joining the 25th Infantry, where he discovered hip-hop when he heard one of his fellow soldiers blasting “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang. Something clicked — maybe, he thought, he could go back to Los Angeles and start throwing rap parties in the same vein as local electro pioneers Uncle Jamm’s Army, who were famously minting money at the time.
It worked out better than that, as you know. He was the foremost pioneer of the West Coast gangsta rap sound. But he had more to say than just gangsta, and, like Public Enemy later on the East Coast, waxed politically, releasing the rebellious anthem, “Killers” in 1984.
“A man took an ad on T.V. / To enroll in the police academy,” he raps on the song. “He’s very talented, outstanding proof / From his clean-cut appearance to the shine on his boots / When it comes to graduation, he's number one / An expert with a rifle and also a gun / Three weeks on the beat and his weak nerves crack / And fires four warning shots into a kid's back.”
THERE’S NOT NOBODY IN L.A. THAT’S GONNA SAY ICE-T WASN'T FIRST.
ICE-T
You could call it prophetic.
His professional moniker came from a nickname his friends gave him when he got home from the army. He would entertain them by accurately reciting memorized passages of novels written by Iceberg Slim (itself a professional moniker, for a pimp-turned-writer called Robert Beck). His friends, who called Tracy “T,” would say “Kick some more of that Ice, T.”
In 1986, when rap was young, and still outside the mainstream, Ice-T released “6 ’N The Mornin’,” riddled with real accounts of criminal life. It was a big hit. A year later, he had a major label deal with Sire Records and a hot debut album, Rhyme Pays. It sold 500,000 copies, a huge amount for a rap record at the time.
His next album, Power, came out in 1988 and furthered his trajectory, but it was 1991’s O.G. Original Gangster, his fourth album, that defined the era and made Ice-T the undisputed godfather of gangsta rap. With songs such as “Escape from the Killing Fields,” a powerful rewrite of Public Enemy’s “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos,” and the Grammy-nominated “New Jack Hustler (Nino’s Theme),” featured in New Jack City, the 24-song LP painted a vivid picture of the carnage and devastation that comes from a life of crime.
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RIGHT WHEN I WAS GETTING READY TO GET INTO HIP-HOP, I WAS STILL IN THE STREETS. I WAS MAKING MONEY HUSTLING.
Part of what made Original Gangster so intriguing was its musical diversity. The way he rhymed on “Mind Over Matter” differed greatly from his cadence on “Mic Contract,” and what he did on “Body Count” — which he later adopted for the name of his rap-metal group — was the polar opposite of what he did on the spellbinding, chilling, spoken word track “Ya Shoulda Killed Me Last Year.”
Less than a year later, Body Count, the band, would substantially ruffle the feathers of police everywhere, the National Rifle Association, Time Warner Board member and NRA shill Charlton Heston, and CLEAT (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas) with the release of the controversial, vastly misinterpreted “Cop Killer.” A song built on (understandable) rage, “Cop Killer” sparked boycotts across the country and precipitated Warner Music, buckling under the pressure, dropping Ice-T (and, trivia note, parent company Time Warner jettisoning Vibe magazine, because, you know, all those rappers look the same…).
For the last 24 years (while still releasing music), Ice-T has played Detective Odafin Tutuola on TV’s longest-running police drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He got his first acting role in Breakin’ in 1984, when hip-hop was an exotic animal to most of America, and Ice was just in the right place at the right time. He had a more meaningful role in John Singleton’s classic New Jack City, as Detective Scotty Appleton.
In 2018, Body Count won a Grammy Award in the Best Metal Performance category, for “Black Hoodie.” And on Feb. 5th this year, he performed at the Grammys with other rap immortals, in a slightly early celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary. On Feb. 17th., a day after his 65th birthday, when he can officially start receiving his own social security benefits, he’ll get his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
I interviewed him for this cover story at the toney and very discreet L’Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills, the day after his Grammy’s appearance.
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SEE, THEY THINK RAPPERS AND BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T CAPABLE OF MAKING ART. YOU HAVE TO BE THAT ANGRY BLACK MAN. I'M NOT TRYING TO KILL NO POLICE.
When did you realize you had a talent for rapping?
I used to write raps for the gangs in high school. I would write little slogans and raps for them before I even knew what hip-hop was. Saying rhymes has always been a part of Black culture. Hustlers would call it toasting.
Saying rhymes was something I knew how to do in high school, so when I went into the military after I got out of school, that's where I got turned on to hip-hop, because I was in there with cats from New York, and they had tapes and they were playing this new music and I was like, “What is this, you?” The first generation of hip-hop is unrecorded or tape-recorded hip-hop, before anyone ever made a record.
We're talking the DJ Hollywood era.
Right. But there was tapes going around of hip-hop and parties, so I got a taste of it very, very early. And then “King Tim III” by The Fatback Band came out, and they were rapping. Teena Marie had a little rap on a record, and then Sugarhill Gang came out. When that came out, I felt like I could do it, because I already had been writing rhymes. But my intention was to come out of the Army and throw parties. I had gotten a lot of stereo equipment in the military. I bought a bunch of equipment, and that was my plan — to come back and actually be like Uncle Jamm’s Army. There was a big underage a scene in L.A., like people who are 18 that aren't 21 who still want to party. So that's where those dances came in. That's what the scene was in L.A, and there was tons of money being made. Uncle Jamm’s was able to fill the L.A. Sports Arena several times. Like what a rave is now, yeah, they were doing it.
Egyptian Lover was one of the DJs, Bob Cat was a DJ, and I was the one of the only people they would let rap. I just started to get more attention from rapping than carrying all that equipment around. I hooked up with Evil and Henry, they were called the New York City Spin Masters, and they were some of the earliest DJs on the West Coast that could scratch, because they were really from Brooklyn. I saw them at a show, and I introduced myself and I said, “Man, you know, I want to go with you to your parties.” And they would hit three or four different house parties or situations at night. On the flyers, there would be four or five DJ crews. So they would go from one to the other. They wouldn't just stay at one. And I started traveling with them, and I would jump on and MC.
That’s how I started rapping around L.A.
Your first single, “The Coldest Rap/Cold Wind-Madness,” in 1983, preceded the World Class Wreckin' Cru with Dr. Dre and Egyptian Lover’s first album, On The Nile. Tell us about that time.
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ONLY THING THAT’S CHANGED IS CAMERA PHONES. RIGHT NOW YOU'RE SEEING IT—THAT’S IT. THE SAME BULLSHIT’S GOING ON. I THINK COPS ARE SLIGHTLY A LITTLE BIT MORE ACCOUNTABLE BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY’RE BEING WATCHED.
There’s not nobody in L.A. that’s gonna say Ice-T wasn't first. There was other people out there at the time. There were groups like Disco Daddy and Captain Rap, but there wasn’t more serious music where people were like, “OK, this is cool.” My first record was done…I was at a beauty parlor called Good Fred’s — this is when I had the perm — and I would say rhymes to the girls, just rapping. A guy named Willie Strong walked in, and he owned VIP Records, the famous record store Snoop Dogg stood on in the “Doggystyle” video. It’s one of the most famous record stores in L.A. They had what they called Saturn Records. I don’t think any other record ever came out on Saturn Records. I think they created that label just for me. They said, “You want to make a record?” And I was like, “Sure.”
It was kind of like Run’s lyric: “So Larry put me inside his Cadillac / The chauffeur drove off, and we never came back.”
I went to this recording studio, and they had this music by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and there was some people singing on the track. They pulled the vocals down and said, “rap.” And I basically made “The Coldest Rap” with all the raps I had in my head, like my walking-around raps and stuff I was saying to the girls.
I made a hook on the spot: “I’m a player, that’s all I know / On a summer day, I play in the snow,” which is a cocaine reference. “From the womb to the tomb, I run my game / I'm cold as ice, and I show no shame.” I made that up on the spot. “The ladies say I was heaven sent ‘cause I got more money than the U.S. Mint” — stuff I was already saying. That was “The Coldest Rap.” It was done in one take, and they said, “Cool.” I think I made maybe two, three hundred dollars on that record.
Well, you were getting paid for music. That had to be pretty cool.
At that time, there were no real rap scene, and it just put me in the game out here. That record led to me going to the Radio Club. There’s a guy that ran the Radio Club called Alex Jordan, or A.J., and another white cat called KK, basically by way of New York. They said, “Ice-T is the only person who got a rap record. Will he come and perform at this club?” I get a call and I'm like, “Yeah,” and I went there. That was a big moment because I walked into that club and everyone in that club knew my record.
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GANGSTA RAP IS THE PERSON SAYING, “I'M DONE ASKING FOR YOUR HELP. FUCK YOU. I'M GONNA TAKE IT. I'M GONNA DO IT MYSELF.”
See, what happens is, if they play your music in a particular place like a restaurant or a club every night, you become a star in that room. No one else knows it, but at that particular place, you're hot. And that was a moment where I went in there, I did my song, and everyone knew every word to that record. That was my first real taste of what fame was. I was like, “Oh, shit!”
Now, no one else on Earth knew two words to that record, but in that club, I was hot. That club was a cross of the upscale white kids that were just touching the hot hip-hop.
People were there like Malcolm McLaren. Madonna came in. I actually put Madonna on the stage. I had become the stage manager because I came there so much. They said, “Hey, you can run the rappers? Take them downstairs, audition them?” So Madonna came in, and they were like, “This is some new chick.” She had a single called “Physical Attraction.” There's a picture of me standing on stage with Madonna way back when she was a kid. She did well that night.
That’s where I started, and that led to being in the movie Breakin’. They had heard about this hip-hop scene that was popping in MacArthur Park at the Radio Club. They came in there and said, “We’re gonna use you guys as the dancers” — that’s where Shrimp and Shabba Doo and all them got picked up — “and you could be the rapper.” Then they gave us a chance to make a song, and we made “Reckless” [featuring Chris “The Glove” Taylor]. Eminem said that's the first rap record he ever heard.
“Killers” came out right after “Reckless.”
And what happened to “Reckless Rivalry” that was in Breakin’ 2? It remains unreleased as I understand.
Yeah, that was just a movie song. That was a song called “Go Off.” But The Glove and Afrika Islam scratching on it. Yeah, we need to hunt that record down! There was another record I did called “Combat” they still use in breaking competitions.
“Killers” is often considered your first political rap. What made you change course?
“Killers” was my version of Run-DMC, because I rap back and forth to myself like it was two rappers. So I rap one way, then the second verse sounded like how Run and them would rap. I think it was just coming off songs like “It's Like That” and “Hard Times” that had a little political undertone and things of that nature. I think that inspired me to do those songs.
I didn't start rapping until I was 27. It wasn’t like I started late, I was just that old when hip-hop started.
Was the Army where you realized you didn’t want to be entangled in street life anymore?
The Army wasn’t what made me want to get out of gang life. I was aware of gang life when I was in high school. At that point, I realized if you become part of a set, you immediately turn yourself into the enemy of the rest of the city. You're not in a gang, you’re from a gang. I wasn’t living in any of the neighborhoods that really had gangs. I was living in a View Park, which is like an upper middle class Black area above Crenshaw, on the west side. So I would go to Crenshaw, and that's where the gangs was, but I'm not from any of their neighborhoods. Now, Crenshaw is mostly connected to Rollin’ 60s. When I went there, they had Eight Tray Gangsters, Hoover Crips, Harlem Crips, which is the 30s, and they had some Bloods there.
I was just like, I can be affiliated with these gangs, but there's no way I should jump into no set because I'm not from they neighborhoods. I was aware of gang banging and understood the principles of it. Near the end of high school, I started hanging out with the hustlers and cats that were more about getting money, right? That's a whole other click of cats.
But when I came out in the Army, I was brought back into the crime world because my boys who were like small-time criminals when I left had now elevated to jewelry heists, and they had elevated to all kinds of other types of crimes. So I just fell back in with them. I'm doing that and on the weekends, I'm doing the rap shit.
At some point, you got into a car accident. You were admitted as a John Doe, right? Due to criminal activity you didn’t carry an ID.
Right when I was getting ready to get into hip-hop, I was still in the streets. I was making money hustling. I went to a club called Carolina West. It went from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. Everybody knows when you come out of those clubs, your eyes aren’t working. Well, here I go, and I decided to drive home. I would close my eyes at the corner or at a stoplight, which is a bad idea. You can't close your eyes when you're in a car. I fell asleep and rolled right into an intersection. I was in a Porsche, got hit, and I was ejected into the passenger seat. Thank God I didn't have on a seatbelt because the accident broke the steering wheel off of the car, but I went into the passenger seat, so that put me in the hospital for 10 weeks. I had a broken pelvis, a broken femur, a broken foot — the whole left side of my body was smashed.
And they John Doe’d me ‘cause I didn't have an ID. When you in the streets hustling, you don't carry ID because you want to cap aliases so you can keep it moving. I didn't have that, and they didn't know who I was. I went to the county hospital and was in a bad position. Then one of my friend’s mothers was like, “Where’s Tracy? Where he at? We ain't seen him.” And she found me in the hospital some kind of way, and said, “Well, he's a vet.” She got me moved to a Veterans Hospital in Westwood, where it was much better, and I was able to heal.
How did that affect you mentally and emotionally? The D.O.C. fell asleep at the wheel, lost his voice, and his rapping career was over.
It just changed my life as far as what I was doing hustling ‘cause a lot of the stuff we were doing was basically parkour. We would take the jewels, and you’d have to catch us. It was very athletic and stuff, jumping over cats. So now I can't move, I can't run. It made me slow down a lot and forced me to focus on music. But no one had never made any money in music yet. Run and them hadn't even really bought cars yet. I’m coming from a zone where it's like, “Why you want to rap, man? You better get this money. Like, who the fuck wants to rap?" Like Grandmaster Flash said the other night [at the Grammys], this was just something that was entertainment for us. It was a pastime. It was not something you do to get paid. No one ever was gonna be a celebrity doing this shit.
How did losing both of your parents so young affect your ambition?
I think what happens when you lose your parents young, you just realize there's nobody to fall back on. There's no one who's supposed to take care of you. I think when I lost my moms in the third grade, I didn't get really cry or nothing. I didn't get it.
I'm from the age when you're a kid and somebody passes, they just take you off to the side, you end up with an aunt some place. You don't go to the funeral, you don't see nothing. You’re just isolated. And then I was with my pops for a while, and then in seventh grade when he passed, I was more like, “What’s going to happen to me?” They shipped me out to L.A. to live with his sister. And she was kind of like, “I'm taking care of you because I got to.” I knew early in life I was on my own. I don't have no brothers and sisters. I just realized there was no where to fall back to.
If I was fucked up, I was truly homeless. I was truly out there. And I got a lot of pride, so I would never would celebrate Christmas or any family holidays because I didn’t want to be in anyone else’s house over their holidays. That wasn’t my place to be in your Thanksgiving bullshit. So I ate a lot of Thanksgiving dinners at Denny’s and hamburger spots.
That kind of makes me sad, Ice.
It’s nothing to be sad about. It’s like, you can look at a poor person and be sad for him, but then to them it's their reality, so I don't feel any special way. And honestly, I went through what a lot of people my age still haven’t. They've still have their their parents. They’re still about to go through it. I got past that hump early.
Do you still think about your parents?
No. I was too young. What am I going to think about? My mother died when I was in third grade. I can't remember that much about her. I remember the night she died. I remember that. And then my father, I remember him disciplining me, but no, I don't think about them.
“6 ’N The Mornin’” was inspired by the Schoolly D single, “P.S.K. What Does It Mean?” It was made with a Roland TR-808. Tell us about making that song?
It was just me on the beat. My buddy Randy and I were messing with the 808. I had been inspired by Schoolly D, of course, because he changed the format when he sang about a gang. And I was like, “Oh, shit!” I didn't know that was OK. But when he did that, I said, “OK.” Like I said, I used to make these gangster raps, and so my boy was like, "Say that shit you be saying when it’s just us fucking around.”
There was a record by Beastie Boys called “Hold It Now, Hit It.” And it had this weird break in the song where it was like, “Hey, Leroy!” And then it came back on. So “6 ’N The Mornin,'” I wanted a break that had nothing to do with the record. That was what kind of influenced the way the beat was created, to where it would stop and then start. You know, “Word.” That was from the Beastie Boys.
I read that Licensed To Ill is one of your favorite albums.
Real talk. We’re all influenced by different things. So you say, “Man, I want to record what that does.” When we made the song, it was B-Side to a song called “Dog'n The Wax.” I made a record called “You Don't Quit” with Unknown DJ on Techno Hop Records. I was trying to get him to do one with Henry and Evil E, my DJs. And he was like, “Nah, you gotta give me another record.” So I did that. And then the B-Side was “6 ’N The Mornin’,”and like Chuck D says, the B-Side wins again.
It was a hit. We didn't look at it like a hit, but it hit.
Would you say that is what opened the floodgates to albums like Rhymes Paysand rapping about gang life, street life?
Oh, it opened up the floodgates to up my life and my ability to talk about things that I was comfortable with. You got to understand, early on, it was like, if I’mma rap, I'm feeling like I gotta rap about parties and shit. I didn't know how long I was going to be able to rap about that stuff because there's only so much content to that. But when they finally said, “Oh, OK. We can rock with this,” I’m like, “Oh, shit. They want to hear this shit?” If you listen to early records, I’m just beating around the bush with hip-hop.
And that was kind of the point you made in the LL Cool J feud — how many times can you say you're “bad” in one song?
Right, right, right. I always compare it to making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. If I came over your house, you made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I ate it and I go, “Wow, this is so good, you should sell it.” You’re like, “Sell this?” You sell it and it’s a big hit. That’s how gangsta rap fell in my life ‘cause I got all these experiences, criminal shit I've been through, but I didn’t think it was available to use in music.
Then when I hit with “6 ’N The Mornin’,” I'm like, “Oh, this is gonna be easy. I’m in now.” Now, I know what they want to hear and I got a million of this shit. That was the birth of Ice-T. You know?
If you look at me in Breakin’, I'm trying to rap like rappers, like hip-hoppers. I'm trying to dress like them. One of the big moments in my life as far as how I looked was Russell Simmons. I did a party and I was in the crowd at a place called Casa Camino Real, and I was in my street clothes, you know, the way I dress. They called me on the stage, I got up there and I did my thing. Russell said, “That’s your look, man.” He said, “You ain't got to dress up like no rapper.” He said, “Just come out like that. They want to see that L.A. style. Do your shit.” And that's when I started back wearing the Fila and all the fly shit, you know?
I thought I had to dress like Melle Mel and them because I'm trying to be part of hip-hop. But Russell was like, “Nah, fuck that. Be you.”
Looking at older videos, you do look pretty cool, especially in “I’m Your Pusher.”
That's dressing like a L.A. drug dealer, but a rapper didn't dress like that.
In 1990, when you formed Body Count, Charlton Heston attacked you for making “violent” music, and caused Warner Bros Records to drop you from the label. At the exact same time, as the NRA spokesman, he was advocating for approval for a bullet nicknamed the “Cop Killer,” because it pierced police officers’ kevlar shields.
How ironic is that?
What was your reaction at the time, and how did you handle that?
We really didn't give a fuck about Charlton Heston. He was the least of our problems. I mean, we didn't give a fuck about him at all. I thought he was just trying to get publicity, you know, he's an actor. We were dealing with the real cops and the real government, people like that. That whole “Cop Killer” shit just went out of control. It started with one thing, and the next thing you know, I'm on the news with the president and I'm like, “Lord have mercy.” In the meantime, Black Flag had been making records about cops like “Police Story.” You got rock groups called Millions of Dead Cops. It was kind of like a weird moment where we were catching a lot of heat for something we didn't even think was so bad.
You suddenly became a target.
Yeah. We’re just doing rock music. We’re just talking that shit. They thought it was a call-to-action to kill police, and it couldn't have been further from that. It was a song about rage, somebody mad enough to go after the cops, a cop killer based on police brutality. But they were like, “You’re trying to tell people to go do it.”
See, they think rappers and Black people aren't capable of making art. You have to be that angry Black man. I'm not trying to kill no police. That was just a minute in time where they were just out of control and they were going after our head. It was supposed to be over for me at that point. They were trying to blackball me and blacklist me. I was never really worried about the cops as much as I was worried about running into a cop lover.
Oh, what would be the Blue Lives Matter guys today?
Anybody. You’re in a restaurant and you run into somebody who’s like, “My Dad’s a cop,” and they want to start some shit.
Did that ever happen?
No, no, it didn’t, but it could happen. And that's what happens with any kind of beef. Say for instance me and Method Man were fighting — which, Meth is one of my best friends — but for me to say that, I could run into some Wu-Tang Clan people and they like, “Oh, you got problems with Meth?” You can end up in some shit or an altercation. Whenever you got beef out there, you don't know how it's gonna come back at you.
In 1991, there was the Rodney King beating and the L.A. Riots. In 2023, the horrific police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis. Has anything really changed?
Only thing that’s changed is camera phones. Right now you're seeing it — that’s it. The same bullshit’s going on. I think cops are slightly a little bit more accountable because they know they’re being watched, but they still get off. It’s too much power. Until they put one of these cops on death row and let ‘em know people aren’t having it… from being a cop all this time on TV, I’ve figured it out. They fuck over who they think they can get away with fucking over. They fuck over people they think can’t fight back. When we’re on Law & Order and they go, “Oh, they're from the Upper East Side. Tread lightly," what they're really saying is these people got money and they can sue the shit out of us.
But if you're in the projects, it can go any kind of way because they can't do nothing. “Lay him on the ground, treat him like shit.” Only if you look up and say, “My father is the District Attorney,” you're not going to lay on that ground because they know you can fight back. They take advantage of people they don't think can fight back. It's not as much racism as, “Who can I get over on?” And like I said in “No Lives Matter,” Black and brown skin has always stood for poor.
But they’re not laying people down in gay communities. They’re not doing that. At the end of the day, they know who they're fucking with, you know what I'm saying? Don’t get me wrong — you could run into some racist cops out there. There’s racist people all over the world, but it's not that simple. It's like you saw those Black cops whip on that man in Memphis. They did it because they felt they could get away with it.
Do you think it was because of their race?
They got caught out there doing some dumb shit because apparently he was messing with one their girls, but I don’t know what the fuck they were thinking about. They knew they were getting filmed — like, what the fuck? It’s abuse of power. That’s all it is. When people say, “Ice, you don’t like cops.” Nah, I don’t like bullies. I don’t like racists. I don’t give a fuck what you are or what your job is. That’s it. Period. I’m not judging you because you’re the police.
You mentioned your Body Count song “No Lives Matter.” What do you think about the Black Lives Matter movement? Has it been effective?
I think the term has been effective. I don’t really know, ‘cause anything that’s moving positive, they’re gonna try to take it apart and say, “Oh, this is a problem, and the money’s not going here or there.”
I'm not connected to the organization, Black Lives Matter. I don't even know who runs it. I don't even know what their agenda is, but I have connected with the term. I heard a comedian say, “Can we just matter?” We matter. Black lives are important. Black lives matter. I mean, goddammit, can we have a little bit of something? Shit. Dogs' lives matter. You know? It’s the very least, and people are pissed at it. I tried to make it clear in my song that if we were talking about gay people, if that was the problem, then that would be the slogan. But right now, we talking about Black lives or women’s lives, if that's the topic. But don’t be mad. Don't try to claim every motherfuckin’ thing. Can we have the word? God damn!
Here we are, it’s Black History Month. What has hip-hop done well? Is there anything to improve?
I don’t know really if it can improve. Hip-hop just evolves, and it's just gonna continue to evolve. It'll fuck up. It'll right itself. Like any other organism, you know?
What has hip-hop done for you?
I like to say it saved my life because it derailed me from what I was doing, which was negative, and it gave me a chance to do something positive. Once I found out that just being me was a brand, I was able to express myself. Whereas somebody like Public Enemy comes from this militant area, gangsta rap is the person saying, “I'm done asking for your help. Fuck you. I'm gonna take it. I'm gonna do it myself.” If anybody goes, “Oh, well, that's bad?” Well, let's bring up the Kennedys or let's bring up the mafia. Like every motherfucker that came over here, some people weren't handed shit and they just had to go get it. So that gangster is absolutely negative. After some point people go, “You know what, I'm tired of marching. Yeah, we ready to get gangster.”
It goes into another type of energy. So when they saw N.W.A and us come, they were like, “Oh shit, these are motherfuckers that really ain't asking for help. They're going to take it.” And that energy is needed. We don't have to want to fight nobody. Somebody asked me one time, “What is gangsta? What is your gangsta?” I said, “I don't back up well.”
That’s a great answer.
I’m not out here trying to push the line. I’m not out here trying to do something, but when you tell me what I can’t do “or else,” I’m not that guy. That’s what I’m about. I’m not trying to be a bad guy, but I don’t back up.
I was asked yesterday what someone can expect from you, just as a person. The first thing that came to my mind was the word “humble.” How do you stay grounded?
You know what it is, though? You get what you give. Some people, like yourself, are very pleasant to talk to. So that's what you get back. Other people aren’t, and I can give them that, too. You know what I mean? So some people are assholes, so I can play that game. You know, my thing is like, I'm as nice as you let me be.
I'm trying to be nice. But if you want to go that over there, I'm very seasoned in that area too. Like, if you want to get stupid, I’m very well versed in being a motherfucker and a bitch ass… I’ll go there worse than you've ever thought. You don't have to be like that to good people. And let me tell you, the most dangerous people I've ever met are the nicest people I've ever met. It’s not the guy who's always talking tough. It’s the guy who will pull a picture of his kids out, but during dinner could pull your fucking eye out of your fucking head.
I interview a lot of West Coast gangster rappers, and they are always the most polite, but you're not going to mess with them.
Because they got that switch they can turn on and off. Appreciate the fact it’s off. What people do is they want to poke it. They want to poke the lion. They want to see it and it’s like, “Why?” People meet me and they’ll say, "You’re so nice," and I’ll say, “Well, you're not my enemy.”
SOMEBODY ASKED ME ONE TIME, “WHAT IS GANGSTA? WHAT IS YOUR GANGSTA?” I SAID, “I DON'T BACK UP WELL.”
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
We join with people across the United Kingdom and around the world in mourning the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
A life in stamps
From her accession to the throne on 6 February 1952, Queen Elizabeth II was an ever-present feature of stamps in Britain.
Every stamp created during her reign featured an image of Queen Elizabeth II, usually in the forms of the Wilding portrait, the Machin definitive or the Gillick silhouette.
Her Majesty has also featured on numerous stamps created to mark Royal events and anniversaries such as birthdays, jubilees and weddings.
This gallery charts her life in stamps issued throughout her long reign.
1950s:
New Definitive and the Coronation
With the accession of Queen Elizabeth II on 6 February 1952, thoughts immediately turned to new definitive stamps and a possible Coronation stamp. The first consideration was the portrait: The Queen preferred a three-quarter view. Photographs were taken by the Dorothy Wilding Studio and used on the first definitives of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign.
For her coronation in 1953, drawn portraits were produced by the artist Edmund Dulac. His design featured a full-face portrait in Coronation robes. Dulac died before his design was issued on 3 June 1953, the day following the Coronation.
1950s and 60s:
Events across the UK
Wilding’s portrait of Queen Elizabeth II was present on stamps that commemorated national events and anniversaries throughout the 1950s and 1960s, some of which can be seen here.
In 1958 a commemorative stamp issue featuring the Welsh Dragon marked the British Empire & Commonwealth Games, held in Cardiff that year.
In 1964, the opening of the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland received a Special Stamp issue,
while the shipbuilding yards of Belfast were featured in a stamp issue marking the 20th International Geographical Congress.
1960s:
The iconic Machin sculpture and the Gillick silhouette
Arnold Machin was a Stoke-on-Trent born artist, sculptor, coin and stamp designer. In 1966, the Queen approved Machin's design of her to be used on what came to be known as the ‘Machin series’ of British definitive postage stamps. It is thought that his design is the most reproduced work of art in history with more than 220 billion copies produced.
The ‘Landscapes’ series were the first ‘thematic’ stamps released (Special Stamps that are not based on an anniversary or event). This set was the first to break from the Wilding portrait of the Queen, using a silhouette of the head created for coinage by Mary Gillick.
During the 1960s, the then Postmaster General Tony Benn controversially considered removing the Queen’s Head from stamps and replacing it with ‘UK Postage’. Of course, this did not happen, and the silhouette has featured on almost 2,700 Special Stamp designs.
1970s:
The Royal Silver Wedding
The stamps to mark the Silver Wedding anniversary featured a design based on photography by Norman Parkinson.
Silver Jubilee of the Accession
Designed by Richard Guyatt, each value in the four-stamp set featured a sketch of the Arnold Machin head of The Queen, flanked by the letters, 'E' and 'R'.
25th Anniversary of Coronation
In 1978, Designer Jeffrey Matthews created four stamps to mark the anniversary of the Coronation, featuring the Gold State Coach, St Edward’s Crown, Sovereign’s Orb and the Imperial State Crown.
1980s:
60th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II
1986 saw celebrations for the Queen’s 60th birthday, and a set of stamps were issued in commemoration that featured images of Her Majesty throughout her life, from childhood to reigning monarch.
Bicentenary of Australian settlement
The Queen also featured on a set of stamps marking the bicentenary of Australian settlement in 1988. The Queen is shown alongside British and Australian parliament buildings. The other stamps in the set featured cricketer W.G. Grace, the Sydney Opera House, William Shakespeare and John Lennon.
1990s:
40th Anniversary of Accession
Striking designs featuring photography from Her Majesty’s life marked the 40th anniversary of the Accession, including Her Majesty in Coronation robes, with baby Prince Andrew, and at Trooping the Colour.
Royal Golden Wedding
Two different designs graced the set to mark the Golden Wedding; one from the wedding day and the other a double portrait by Lord Snowdon.
2000s:
Golden Jubilee
Five portraits of Her Majesty by, among others, Dorothy Wildling, Cecil Beaton and Lord Snowdon graced the issue to mark the 50th anniversary of the Accession.
50th Anniversary of the Coronation
Ten stamps marked the Golden Jubilee of the Coronation – five colour photographs of the occasion itself, and five black and white images of how the public celebrated in 1953.
Trooping the Colour
Six stamps marked the ceremony of Trooping the Colour, which included three photographs of Her Majesty attending, including her riding the horse Burmese in 1972.
80th Birthday
Eight black and white images showed Her Majesty smiling radiantly through the years – including one of her as a young child with her mother, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of York.
2010s:
Britain Alone
The 2010 ‘Britain Alone’ stamp issue paid tribute to the wartime generation, who 70 years before resolved to ’dare and endure’ on the Home Front, when Britain and the Commonwealth stood alone against the Axis Powers.
The stamps marked the tireless work of the British people who ‘did their bit’ for the war effort as the country faced its darkest days. One of the stamps (main image) featured the Royal Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret recording a national broadcast.
Diamond Jubilee
Royal Mail celebrated the culmination of Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee festivities with eight stamps featuring a selection of some of the most memorable events of her historic 60 year reign. The pictorial Diamond Jubilee Special Stamps were issued on 31 May and featured images of The Queen performing her official duties both at home in the UK and on the world stage.
The eight stamps gave a fascinating insight into the Queen’s hugely diverse duties; from delivering the first televised Christmas broadcast in 1957, to inspecting the 2nd Battalion Royal Welsh, as Commander-in-Chief of the UK’s Armed Forces, half a century later in 2007.
60th Anniversary of The Coronation
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Coronation, this special issue featured a collection of some of the finest ever painted portraits of the Queen, and included a brand-new portrait, the first Royal Mail had commissioned (top left). The painting was the result of three specially convened sittings with the Queen for the artist, Nicky Philipps - that took place in the Chinese Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace in the late Autumn of 2012. In the portrait, The Queen is dressed in her Order of the Garter robes.
The painting commissioned by Royal Mail was the result of three especially convened sittings with the Queen for the artist, Nicky Philipps - that took place in the Chinese Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace in the late autumn of 2012. The Queen is dressed in her Order of the Garter robes and surrounded by several of her beloved dogs.
90th Birthday
2016 saw national celebrations of Her Majesty the Queen’s 90th birthday.
Already the longest reigning UK monarch, she was also the oldest reigning monarch in the world.
Royal Mail had never issued a stamp featuring The Queen with her father, and this was remedied with the first stamp in this set. An image of her with her children, the young Prince Charles and Princess Anne conveyed her family life, while a stamp with the Duke of Edinburgh marked their enduring partnership.
Three other stamps marked The Queen’s official duties: as Head of State for the opening of Parliament; as Head of the Commonwealth where she was depicted with Nelson Mandela; and on a state visit to New Zealand, to represent more than 100 state visits made worldwide by Her Majesty during her reign.
Platinum Wedding Anniversary
In 2017, Royal Mail released of a set of stamps to commemorate the 70th Wedding Anniversary of HM The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh.
The six-stamp set featured paired images from their engagement period, wedding and honeymoon.
2020s:
Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
In February 2022, Royal Mail issued a set of eight stamps, using photographs of Her Majesty The Queen, to mark the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne on 6 February 1952.
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Introduction Of The Gorillas From The Port Lympne Wildlife Resort First up is Kouillou (1984) the Silverback dad who had 19 offspring sliding down the ladder. He was born in the wild. A small silverback in comparison to others. Kouillou has got cataracts in both eyes and they aren't sure how blind he really is. It is difficult to operate the rangers told the visitors. Not sure if this is because of his age. I know that Bristol zoo did a cataract operation on a female gorilla called Romina and this was successful. So it is possible, but obviously, other things have to be right as well for it to be safe to do so. Second up is Tamba. You might have seen her in an earlier video on my channel, as she's famous for walking upright (bipetal). She was born on September 14th 1986 and is Oumbi's half-sister. Her youngest, Louango you'll see in the next clip. He was born on May 25th 2018 and clearly has the family gene of bipedal walking. Next up is Sangha, she was also wild born in 1985. Next, it's Jubi, just like Tamba she's Oumbi's half-sister and was born on the November 6th 1990. Tamba and Matibi are in the next clip. Matibi is also Oumbi's half-sister. She was born on the March 6th 1988. You've might have noticed that she has a huge lump on her back. This is a benign tumour and doesn't seem to affect her in any way the rangers said, so it is safer not to operate. Viringika is next up with her little girl Vuko. She was born in Zoo Zürich on the March 23rd 1995 and her girl was born on January 8th 2020 when Covid-19 changed our lives. Oundi February 28th 2006 and her offspring Koundi May 12th 2016 and the last short clip is of Boula on the right and Koundi on the left. #sloggervlogger #gorillas #sloggervloggergorillas Don't forget to subscribe and hit that notification bell for more! Travel, Days out and zoo hyperlapse YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/WatchAndSubTravel My merch shop links with worldwide delivery: Biggest collection of T-shirts, stickers, apparel, homeware and much more rawshutterbug Redbubble https://ift.tt/6aWGLtX #AD #RedbubbleAmbassador Customizable T-shirts, stickers, apparel, homeware and much more Gorillas rawshutterbug Zazzle: https://ift.tt/CtfSzPq Amazon merch and more Amazon USA https://a.co/6NtVxqF Gorilla Apparel Amazon other countries through my website @ https://ift.tt/iRDYT6u rawshutterbug photo4me: Quality wall art @ https://ift.tt/m1RyYjK Some links above are affiliate links, meaning I earn a commission on final purchases with zero additional cost to yourself. Thank you for your visit and for supporting this channel. SloggerVlogger
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Happy Birthday To Gorgeous British Actress/Writer/Model/DJ/Radio Host
Jameela Jamil (Born 25th February 1986)
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Members of Die Ärzte
Farin Urlaub (Real name: Jan Ulrich Max Vetter)
born on October 27th 1963 in Berlin
The guitarist of the band. Often mislabled as the singer because he sings and writes most songs. He’s a pescetarian (he doesn’t eat meat but he eats fish), doesn’t smoke, doesn’t do drugs and doesn’t drink alcohol (except one time because he lost a bet). His biggest hobby is travelling, which is where he got his stage name from (it translates to “Go on holiday”). But he also likes photographing (he released several picture books already), reading and learning languages. He’s really tall (1.94 m ~6′4″) and has a lot of teeth.
Bela B Felsenheimer (Real name: Dirk Albert Felsenheimer)
born on December 14th 1962 in Berlin
The drummer and complete opposite of Farin, but they’re best friends nonetheless. His drumming style is special because he plays standing up. He loves alcohol, did drugs and smoked in the past but now he’s a vegan. A big fan of horror movies (he named himself after Bela Lugosi and almost nobody calls him by his birth name now) and comics and even owned a comic publisher for several years. He also has a solo project where he makes country music. Also works as an actor. And if that weren’t enough already, he also wrote a book called “Scharnow” last year. As far as we know, he’s also the only current member of the band who has a kid, a son who was born in 2008/2009.
Rod (Real name: Rodrigo Andrés González Espindola)
born on May 19th 1968 in Valparaíso, Chile
The third and current bassist of the band since their reunion in 1993. Came to Germany in 1973 because his parents fled the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. He doesn’t talk much but makes up for this by being an extremely talented musician. He’s the only member of the band who knows music theory (including reading and writing sheet music) and can play a lot of instruments without ever taking lessons (even Farin says Rod can play the guitar better than himself). He’s also a producer and a composer of film soundtracks. Also has a solo project called ¡Más Shake! where he and his band cover South American beat songs from the 60′s. He also plays the guitar in Abwärts. Also starred in a movie called “El Viaje” where he travels to Chile to explore the Chilean music scene.
Sahnie (Real name: Hans Runge)
born on June 12th 1964 in Hameln
Founding member and first bassist of the band. Was thrown out of the band in 1984 because he had an argument with Bela and Farin, wanted to throw Bela out of the band and said “You can’t throw me out, you need my face!” (they didn’t as it turns out). Tried to go solo but failed and now works as a CEO.
The Incredible Hagen (Real name Hagen Friedrich Liebing)
born on February 18th 1961 in Berlin
died on September 25th 2016 in Berlin
The second bassist of the band who joined in 1986. Unlike Sahnie and Rod, he was an “employee” rather than a member of the band by his own choice. Two years later Die Ärzte disbanded and he was replaced by Rod when they reuinited in 1993. After that, he only played bass for them once single time as a surprise guest at their “15 Jahre Netto” concert in 2001. Wrote a book about his time with Die Ärzte called “Meine Jahre mit Die Ärzte” and worked as a music editor for the magazine “tip”. Died of a brain tumor at the age of 55. He is survived by his partner Anja Caspary and two children.
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