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Dudley Moore

Dudley Moore

Dudley Stuart John Moore CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer. Moore first came to prominence in the UK as a leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s. He was one of the four writer-performers in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe from 1960…

Danny Gottlieb

Danny Gottlieb

Daniel Richard Gottlieb (born April 18, 1953) is an American drummer. He was a founding member of the Pat Metheny Group and was co-founder of Elements with Mark Egan. Gottlieb was born in New York City on April 18, 1953. He took lessons from Mel Lewisand Joe Morello and graduated from the University of Miami…

Leo Parker

Leo Parker

Leo Parker (April 18, 1925 – February 11, 1962) was an American jazz musician, who primarily played baritone saxophone. Born in Washington, D.C., Parker studied alto saxophone in high school and played this instrument on a recording with Coleman Hawkins in 1944. Parker switched to baritone saxophone in 1944 when he joined Billy Eckstine‘s bebop band, playing there…

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown (April 18, 1924 – September 10, 2005) was an American singer and multi-instrumentalist from Louisiana. He won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1983 for his album, Alright Again!. Early life[edit] Brown was born in Vinton, Louisiana, and raised near Orange, Texas. His father was a railroad worker and…

Cosmos UGC

The barred spiral galaxy UGC 678 takes centre stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The spectacular galaxy lies around 260 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pisces and is almost face on, allowing its lazily winding spiral arms to stretch across this image. In the foreground, a smaller edge-on galaxy…

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