Reinventing Britney Spears in the Pepsi Ad Campaign Historian Stuart Ewen proposes his idea that history of style in his essay, “The Marriage between Art and Commerce”, is the crucial turning point of what shapes our culture and every day life. Ewen’s concept of style in the 19th – 20th century is a combination of [...]
Biography of Guitar Player Randall Rhoads Randall William Rhoads was born on December 6, 1956 at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California. With one brother (Doug) and one sister (Kathy), Randy was the youngest of three. When Randy was 17 months old his father, William Arthur Rhoads, a public school music teacher, left and [...]
The Life Story of the Music and Culture of Bob Marley Jamaica has produced an artist who has touched all categories, classes, and creeds through innate modesty and profound wisdom. Bob Marley, the Natural Mystic who introduced reggae to European and American fans still may prove to be the most significant musical artist of the [...]
The Life of Bill Cosby Bill Cosby came from a poor neighborhood as a child. He grew up with a lot of humor. He did not know that he would make a career of it as a child. As he later grew up he tried stand up comedy and succeeded. in the 1960’s “I Spy” [...]
The Game is from the birthplace of Gangsta’ Rap, Compton, CA. But this is a new, different Westside story, one that joins with the Eastside while paying respects to rap’s hardcore pioneers of the ‘80s, NWA. The Game, a former gangbanger who turned to rap after being shot five times and left for dead, is [...]
The Accomplishments of Guitarist Trey Anastasio The Muse Award should be given to one who goes about something in different and original ways. This award is for one who expresses them self individually, as creativity is the way an individual solves a problem or creates something. It isn’t an innate ability, but the truly creative [...]
Story of Jim Lovell the Astronaut Jim Lovell was born in Cleveland, Ohio on March 25, 1928. Even as a child he was interested in rockets. During high school with the help of friends and his chemistry professor, he built a rocket that flew 80 feet into the air, wobbled, turned and ‘exploded in a [...]
‘ My fingers clamped around the croc’s thick neck and my chin slammed into its bony head as my chest landed on its back and my legs wrapped around the base of the tail. With eyes wide open I was being thrashed around in the muddy water. I saw pulses of light as I rolled [...]
Rene Levesque’s journey to stardom By November 1976, Rene Levesque was already a mythic figure in Quebec. A full-blown star for twenty years, first as a television host and then as the most outspoken member of the Liberal cabinet of Jean Lesage from 1960 to 1966, he projected a personality that seemed transparently honest, impulsive, [...]
Lucille Desiree Ball Television comedienne, actress, producer…these words all describe her. Lucille Desiree Ball was born on August 6, 1911, in the small town of Celeron, just outside of Jamestown, New York. At age 15, Ball enrolled in the John Murray Anderson Drama School in New York City. However, after only twelve months of going [...]
