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Derek Jarman
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Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author. Jarman was born in Northwood, Middlesex, England, the son of Elizabeth Evelyn and Lancelot Elworthy Jarman. His father was an officer, born in New Zealand. He boarded at Canford School in Dorset, and from 1960 studied at Kings College London and this was followed by four years at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, starting in 1963. He had a studio at Butlers Wharf, London, in the 1970s, Jarman was outspoken about homosexuality, his public fight for gay rights, and his personal struggle with AIDS. On 22 December 1986, Jarman was diagnosed as HIV positive and his illness prompted him to move to Prospect Cottage, Dungeness in Kent, near the nuclear power station. In 1994, he died of an AIDS-related illness in London, Jarman was buried in the graveyard at St. Clements Church, Old Romney, Kent. The Garden was entered into the 17th Moscow International Film Festival, the Angelic Conversation featured Toby Mott and other members of the Radical artist collective the Grey Organisation. Jarman first became known as a designer, getting his break in the film industry as production designer for Ken Russells The Devils. He later made his debut in overground narrative filmmaking with Sebastiane and this was an early British film featuring positive images of gay sexuality, and its dialogue was entirely in Latin. He followed this with Jubilee, in which Queen Elizabeth I of England is seen to be transported forward in time to a desolate and this was followed in 1979 by an unconventional adaptation of Shakespeares The Tempest. Praised by several Shakespeare scholars, but dismissed by some traditionalist critics, the contains a considerable amount of nudity, some unconventional casting. During the 1980s Jarman was a campaigner against Clause 28. He also worked to raise awareness of AIDS and his artistic practice in the early 1980s reflected these commitments, especially in The Angelic Conversation, a film in which the imagery is accompanied by a voice reciting Shakespeares sonnets. Jarman spent seven years making experimental super 8 mm films and attempting to raise money for Caravaggio, released in 1986, Caravaggio attracted a comparatively wide audience. This is partly due to the involvement, for the first time, of the British television company Channel 4 in funding, Caravaggio also saw Jarman work with actress Tilda Swinton for the first time. Overt depictions of love, narrative ambiguity, and the live representations of Caravaggios most famous paintings are all prominent features in the film. The conclusion of Caravaggio also marked the beginning of an abandonment of traditional narrative in Jarmans films
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Christopher Hobbs
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Christopher Hobbs is an English experimental composer, best known as a pioneer of British Systems music. Hobbs was born in Hillingdon, near London and he was a junior exhibitioner at Trinity College, London, then was Cornelius Cardews first student at the Royal Academy of Music from 1967. Hobbs worked with Cardew and Christian Wolff, he joined AMM, in 1969, Hobbs was a member from the first meeting of the Scratch Orchestra, and, as its youngest member, designed the Scratch Orchestras first concert, at Hampstead Town Hall on 1 November 1969. His early composition Voicepiece, part of his Verbal Pieces group, was used often enough to be called a Popular Classic in the Scratch Orchestra nomenclature. As experimental music was hard to come by, Hobbs gathered sheet music from friends, various pieces were eventually grouped into a series of Anthologies according to themes, the Verbal Anthology, Keyboard, and Educational Anthologies are typical. These anthologies published works mainly by British experimentalists, but also works by Christian Wolff, Frederic Rzewski, Terry Jennings and other American experimentalists. After a few years, Hobbs was joined by Gavin Bryars and Michael Nyman in the operation of the Catalogue, which lasted in its original form until the early 1980s. Hobbs was a founder-member of the Promenade Theatre Orchestra, with John White, Alec Hill, and Hugh Shrapnel, on the breakup of the PTO, Hobbs and White formed the eponymous Hobbs-White Duo, which lasted until 1976. He also took part in several momentous one-off concerts, most notably in a performance of Erik Saties Vexations with Bryars in Leicester. His best-known work of time is probably Aran, in which the note-to-note system is taken from the knitting pattern for an Aran sweater. Hobbs and White moved to an eclectic style. In the 1980s, Hobbs wrote for the then-new Casio electronic keyboards, including the toy VL-Tone and he also wrote for the Hartzell Hilton Band, of which he was founder member, and for other ensembles, including the Dublin Sinfonia. Since the 1990s, Hobbs returned to composition, some with an emphasis on textual content, as in Extended Relationships and False Endings. His Fifty in Two-Thousand, a celebration, uses partially prepared piano, electronic keyboard. This combination of strict rigour and audience-friendly surface is typical of most of Hobbs work since 1970, Hobbs has recently begun using Apple Computers basic GarageBand software to write a series of pieces based on sudoku puzzles. This has led to an album released in November 2006. In 2009, a CD single of the twenty-minute Sudoku 82, realised first on GarageBand, Hobbs was Director of Music at Drama Centre, London from 1973 to 1991. He has taught at Leicester Polytechnic since 1985 and he is also Associate Senior Lecturer in Music at Coventry University
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Nell Campbell
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Laura Elizabeth Little Nell Campbell is an Australian actress, club owner, and singer. She is best known for her portrayal of Columbia in The Rocky Horror Show, Campbell was born in Sydney, to Ruth and Ross Campbell, a writer, who referred to her as Little Nell in his family life column in the Sydney Daily Telegraph. She has three siblings, Sally, Patrick, and Cressida and her older sister, Sally, was a property master, set designer and subsequently a fashion designer. Her younger sister, Cressida Campbell, an artist, and her brother, Patrick. She began dancing at the age of 10 to keep healthy following being diagnosed with hepatitis A and she was called Laura E. Campbell until around 17, when she went by the nickname Sonny, short for Sonata. She attended high school at Abbotsleigh School for Girls in Sydney, Campbell decided to use the name Little Nell as a stage name after her arrival in Britain in the early 1970s with her family. She sold clothes at Kensington Market, her stall was next to Freddie Mercurys and she reprised the role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, released in 1975, and starred as Nurse Ansalong in the 1981 sequel, Shock Treatment. After The Rocky Horror Picture Show, she signed a contract with A&M Records. Her debut single was Stilettos and Lipstick backed with Do the Swim and she also created a disco version of the song Fever in 1976 which was again backed with Do the Swim. The B-side of both of these releases became known, perhaps helped by a performance on British television in which she accidentally exposed her breasts. While edited out of the original broadcast in 1975, the version was shown worldwide on bloopers shows. Following this notoriety, another effort was made to promote the recordings made in 1975 and 1976. Following some success with the EP, the two tracks, singles Fever and See You Round like a Record, were released as a single. A final single, Beauty Queen from the film The Alternative Miss World, was released on PRE Records in 1980, Campbell has also appeared in several stage productions, including the Off-Broadway play You Should Be So Lucky and the Broadway musical Nine. She appeared as Sandra LeMon in the British TV series Rock Follies of 77, in 1986 she opened the nightclub Nells on W. 14th St in Manhattan with Keith McNally and Lynn Wagenknecht. Campbell has written magazine articles, including regular segments called MamaTalks and FirstLook in the now defunct Talk magazine. She returned to Australia after selling her Boerum Hill house in Brooklyn in December 2005, the song Laura by Bat for Lashes is dedicated to Campbell, who is friends with Natasha Khan. org
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Toyah Willcox
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Toyah Ann Willcox is an English singer and actress. Between 1977 and 1983 she fronted the band Toyah, before embarking on a career in the mid-1980s. Her biggest hits include Its a Mystery, Thunder in the Mountains, Willcox was born in Kings Heath, Birmingham. Her father Beric Willcox ran a successful business and owned three factories. Her mother Barbara Joy, née Rollinson, was a dancer with whom he fell in love after seeing her on stage in Weston-super-Mare with Flanagan and Allen. Barbara had to give up her career after giving birth to Nicola and Kim, Willcoxs older sister and brother, respectively. Asked why her parents might have called her so, Willcox said in a 1981 interview, I dont know, they wont tell me, there is a town in Texas, called Toyah, and Toyah in Red Indian means water. My parents deny thats where they got it from, Willcox was born with a twisted spine, clawed feet, a clubbed right foot, one leg two inches shorter than the other and no hip sockets. Because of this she endured years of operations and physiotherapy. Her physical condition was a cause of difficult times at school, when I was bullied at school, it was coz of my character. I was a child, I was incredibly small. I had an impediment, I was the perfect bait for bullying. My dad took me out the back and taught how to punch the hell out of someone and from then on I was never bullied again, Willcox recalled. Years later she described her relationship with her mother as complicated, saying she hasnt hugged her mother since she was 12, however, later she gave much credit to her parents. I never suffered lack of money in any way, not because of my parents, anyway. They wanted the best for me, like all parents do for their children and they wanted me to have a very good education, to be a polite child, to be taught good manners and have a future, she recalled in 1980. Willcox remembered that until aged seven she was close to her mother, if only for being very ill. Then Barbara had another child, a daughter called Fleur, who died, when she came home from hospital there was a bit of a distance between us
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Adam Ant
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Adam Ant is an English singer and musician. He gained popularity as the singer of new wave group Adam. He has also worked as an actor, appearing in two dozen films and television episodes from 1985 to 2003. Stuart Goddard was born a child in Marylebone, London to Leslie Goddard. Home was two rooms in De Walden buildings, St Johns Wood and he recalls, There was no luxury, but there was always food on the table. His father had served in the Royal Air Force and worked as a chauffeur and he is of partial Romani descent, his maternal grandfather, Walter Albany Smith, was Romanichal. This heritage would become a basis for a theme in his later work and his parents divorced when Goddard was seven years old and his mother supported him by working as a domestic cleaner, briefly working for Paul McCartney. Goddards first school was Robinsfield Infants School, where he created a stir by throwing a brick through the head-teachers office window on two consecutive days. After taking and passing six O levels and three A levels in English, History and Art, Goddard then attended Hornsey College of Art to study graphic design and he later dropped out of Hornsey, short of completing his BA, to focus on a career in music. The first band Goddard joined was Bazooka Joe, in which he played bass guitar, since starting his course at Hornsey, Goddard had married fellow student Carol Mills, with whom he lived at her parents residence in Muswell Hill. I just didnt eat, he has said of this period, I wasnt attempting to slim, eventually, Goddard took an overdose of all the pills he could find in his mother-in-laws kitchen cabinet. After having his stomach pumped, he was sent to Colney Hatch mental hospital in North London, I was totally fucked up in the head. Things went wrong and something snapped, I just became a vegetable for three months. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college, upon his discharge from the hospital, Goddard renamed himself Adam Ant with Mills renaming herself Eve. Adam and the Ants started as part of the punk rock movement. Ant later acted in Derek Jarmans seminal punk film Jubilee in 1977, as Adam and his debut as a recording artist was the song Deutscher Girls, which featured on the films soundtrack, along with Plastic Surgery which was performed in the film itself. Deutscher Girls/Plastic Surgery was re-released as a single in 1982, the band toured extensively around the UK, but proved to be unpopular with much of the British music press who disliked their fetishistic lyrics and imagery. Late 1979 saw the release of their début album Dirk Wears White Sox, with Matthew Ashman on guitar, Leigh Gorman on bass, Adam Ant approached Malcolm McLaren and asked him to manage the band
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Chelsea (band)
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Chelsea are an English punk rock band, formed in London in 1976. Three of the four band members went on to found Generation X. More than two decades after its release, Right to Work, Chelseas debut single, was included in Mojo magazines list of the best punk rock singles of all time, the original lineup featured frontman Gene October, William Broad, Tony James and John Towe. This rapid turnover of members was characteristic throughout Chelseas existence. Their first single, Right to Work, dealing with unemployment, was their most popular song and it was recorded by the October/Fortune/Daze/Stevenson lineup of the band. It also appeared on the album to the 1977 Derek Jarman film Jubilee. On August 25,1978 the band released single, Urban Kids. After spending 1977–78 touring in the UK and overseas, they released their first album, Chelsea and their second album, Alternative Hits, was released in 1980, it was also issued in the U. S. by I. R. S. After a split, October put together a new lineup, including guitarist Nic Austin, October sporadically released albums with various Chelsea lineups throughout the 1980s, including Rocks Off, Original Sinners and Underwraps. In the early 1990s, a lineup featuring the returning Austin and new bassist Mat Sargent released The Alternative, in 1999, the lineup from the first album, including Stevenson, reformed for the Social Chaos Tour across North America. Live at CBGBs, was recorded at CBGB in New York City during this tour, augmented by Buzzcocks bassist Tony Barber, the band released Faster, Cheaper and Better Looking in 2005. Austin and Sargent returned in 2011, and this released the album Saturday Night Sunday Morning in 2015. O
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Brian Eno
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Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist. He is best known for his work in rock, ambient, pop. He has been described as one of musics most influential. Born in Suffolk, Eno studied painting and experimental music at art school in the late 1960s before joining glam rock group Roxy Music as synthesizer player in 1971. He took part in frequent collaborations with such as Robert Fripp, Cluster, David Bowie on his Berlin Trilogy. In subsequent decades, Eno continued to record albums, collaborate, and produce for other artists, including U2, Coldplay, Laurie Anderson, James, Grace Jones. He continues to release music, produce, and write, the unusual surname Eno, long established in Suffolk, derives from the French Huguenot surname Hennot. Maria had already had a daughter, and together William and Maria would have two children, Roger and Arlette. In school, Eno used a tape recorder as an instrument and experimented with his first, sometimes improvisational. From that collaboration, he involved in Cornelius Cardews Scratch Orchestra. The first released recording in which Eno played is the Deutsche Grammophon edition of Cardews The Great Learning, Another early recording was the Berlin Horse soundtrack, by Malcom Le Grice, a nine-minute,2 ×16 mm-double-projection, released in 1970 and presented in 1971. He then progressed to appearing on stage as a member of the group. He quit the band on completing the tour for the bands second album, For Your Pleasure, because of disagreements with lead singer Bryan Ferry. If Id walked ten yards further on the platform, or missed that train, or been in the next carriage, during his period with Roxy Music, and for his first three solo albums, he was credited on records only as Eno. Eno embarked on a career almost immediately. Between 1973 and 1977 he created four albums of electronically inflected art pop, Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain, Another Green World, and Before and After Science. Tiger Mountain contains the galloping Third Uncle, one of Enos best-known songs and these four albums were remastered and reissued in 2004 by Virgins Astralwerks label. Due to Enos decision not to add any extra tracks of the original material, in 1972, Eno and Robert Fripp developed the Frippertronics tape delay system, a year later, the pair released the proto-ambient album
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Siouxsie and the Banshees
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Siouxsie and the Banshees were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin. Initially associated with the English punk rock scene, the band evolved to create a form of post-punk discord full of daring rhythmic and sonic experimentation. With the release of Juju in 1981, the group became an important influence on the emerging gothic rock scene. They disbanded in 1996, with Siouxsie and drummer Budgie continuing to record music as the Creatures, in 2004, Siouxsie began a solo career. Siouxsie and the Banshees work places highly in both polls and music papers lists. The Times cited the group as one of the most audacious, in 2006, Mojo rated guitarist John McGeoch in their list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time for his work on Spellbound. Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin met at a Roxy Music concert in September 1975, at a time when glam rock had faded, from February 1976, Siouxsie, Severin and some friends began to follow an unsigned band, the Sex Pistols. Journalist Caroline Coon dubbed them the Bromley Contingent, as most of them came from the Bromley region of South London, There was no such thing, it was just a bunch of people drawn together by the way they felt and they looked. They were all inspired by the Sex Pistols and their uncompromising attitude, two days later, the pair appeared at the festival held in London on 20 September 1976. With two borrowed musicians at their side, Marco Pirroni on guitar and John Simon Ritchie on drums, while the band intended to split up after the gig, they were asked to play again. Two months later, Siouxsie and Severin recruited drummer Kenny Morris, after playing several gigs in early 1977, the band realised that Fenton did not fit in because he was a real rock guitarist. John McKay finally took his place in July, while the band sold out venues in London in early 1978, they still had problems getting the right recording contract that could give them complete artistic control. Polydor finally offered this guarantee and signed them in June and their first single, Hong Kong Garden, featuring a xylophone motif, reached the top 10 in the UK shortly after. The band released their album, The Scream, in November 1978. Nick Kent of NME said of the record, The band sounds like some unique hybrid of the Velvet Underground mated with much of the ingenuity of Tago Mago-era Can, if any parallel can be drawn. At the end of the article, he added this remark, Certainly, the Banshees second album, Join Hands, was released in 1979. In Melody Maker, Jon Savage described Poppy Day as a short, powerful evocation of the Great War graveyards, the Banshees embarked on a major tour to promote the album. A few dates into the tour in September, Morris and McKay left an in-store signing after an argument, in need of replacements to fulfill tour dates, the Banshees manager called drummer Budgie, formerly with the Slits, and asked him to audition
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