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Ben Kingsley - Biography - IMDb  He won many awards - including an Oscar for Best Actor. ... After acting in Gandhi (1982), Ben was recognized as one of the finest British actors. ... After one performance, John Lennon and Ringo Starr came backstage and told him that he should go into music and that if he didn't, "he would regret it for the rest of his life.
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John Lennon - Songwriter, Singer - Biography.com  Dec 8, 2015 ... Pop music icon John Lennon was the legendary singer-songwriter who ... that he could go to an art school for college, since he did not get good grades ... Yoko Ono, whom he had met at the Indica Gallery in November 1966. Beatlemania. In 1964, the Beatles became the first British band to break out big in...
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Frank Sinatra - Wikipedia  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. Sinatra's music has been considered timeless by many. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than ... After winning an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity, he starred in The...
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Michael Caine - Wikipedia  Sir Michael Caine, CBE is an English actor and author. Renowned for his distinctive working class cockney accent, Caine has appeared in over 115 films and is regarded as a British film icon. He made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in a number of ... Caine is one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting...
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Lionel Richie - Wikipedia  Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. Beginning in 1968, he was a member of the musical group Commodores. ... Richie's 1982 solo debut album, Lionel Richie, contained three hit singles: the .... This song also won the Oscar for Best Original Song.
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John Lennon Interview: Red Mole 1/21/1971 - Beatles Interviews ...  ABOUT THIS INTERVIEW: On January 21st 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono ... Lennon would tell Rolling Stone magazine in 1975: "I'll tell you what happened literally. ... I mean, it's just a basic working class thing, though it begins to wear off when you ..... Perhaps they thought 'Paul is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'.
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Academy Awards Best Actor - Greatest Films  The Best Actor award should actually be titled "the best performance by an actor in .... Fredric March won the Best Actor Oscar for his dual, split personality role as a ... one of his former students (Matt Dillon) thanked him at the Academy Awards and ... genial, but suicidal alcoholic Ben Sanderson in Leaving Las Vegas (1995)...
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John Lennon | 100 Greatest Guitarists | Rolling Stone  Dec 18, 2015 ... Still, he didn't get his due as a guitarist in the Beatles' heyday. ... The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time: John Lennon The 100 Greatest ... he rated himself as a guitarist, Lennon replied, "I'm not technically good, but I can make it fucking howl and move. .... Key Tracks: "21st Century Schizoid Man," "Heroes".
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Lennon's Last Stand | Flashback | OZY  Feb 6, 2014 ... John Lennon's 1974 appearance with Elton John ended up being his last public performance ever  and a glorious moment that pulled him back from the brink of ... rock superstardom with his previous release Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. ... they conceived their son, Sean, and Lennon promised Yoko he'd...
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This 1968 Beatles chart topper was inspired by John's son Julian ...  Jun 29, 2016 ... He was premier of France from 1962 to 1968 # Quiz # Question. 0:29 ... This 1968 Beatles film is subtitled Nothing Is Real # Quiz # Question.
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Act Naturally - 1965 - YouTube  Mar 8, 2008 - 3 min - Uploaded by Sebastian Delari... Beatles (sung by Ringo Starr) They're gonna put me in the movies They're ...  Act ...
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Gandhi (film) - Wikipedia  Gandhi is a 1982 epic biographical film which dramatises the life of Mohandas Karamchand ... Richard Attenborough won for Best Director, and Ben Kingsley won for Best Actor. .... Daniel Day-Lewis as Colin, a young man who insults Gandhi and Andrews; John Ratzenberger as American Lt. Driver for Bourke-White; Pankaj...
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Jack Lemmon - Film Actor - Biography.com  Jul 21, 2015 ... Actor Jack Lemmon won over droves of moviegoers with films like ... A versatile performer, actor Jack Lemmon was equally adept at comedy and drama. ... He won a Best Actor Academy Award in 1973 playing a man having a midlife crisis in Save the Tiger. ... He reprised his role for the 1980 film version.
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Pete Best: The happiest Beatle of all | Daily Mail Online  Apr 7, 2007 ... When Pete Best was ousted as Beatles drummer by Ringo, he ... Ringo Starr was to replace him. ... Shortly after his suicide attempt, Best decided to give up on his ... 'When I got home, I told Kathy I was going to become a civil servant.' ... people get jobs and then being in charge of retraining programmes.'.
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See the Cast of 'A Hard Day's Night' Then and Now  Dec 5, 2013 ... A Hard Day's Night John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Ringo Starr ... Conceived as a day in the life of the Beatles, the 1964 film idealized the Fab Four as music's Marx ... conquered the U.S. when they returned home to star in their first feature film. ..... Ultimate Classic Rock brought to you by:...
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Academy Awards Best Actor - Greatest Films  Jack Nicholson (BA for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and As Good As ... In 1946, he won Best Supporting Actor and was voted an Honorary Oscar that ...... Grape (1993), and won Best Actor for The Revenant (2015), 12 years later ... win both an acting Oscar and Best Picture Oscar (as producer) - this time for the...
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The Beatles: 50 Milestones In 50 Years | GRAMMY.com  Feb 7, 2014 ... The two-and-a-half hour special will celebrate the legacy of the Beatles ... That John Lennon/Paul McCartney composition is also nominated for Song Of The Year. ... 8, 1966: Revolver is released, just eight months after Rubber Soul. .... 25, 2014: The Beatles receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from The...
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Jack Wild; great Independent obituary - Google Groups  Mar 2, 2006 ... performance as the cheeky pickpocket, the Artful Dodger, in. Carol Reed's ... for which he was deservedly nominated for an Oscar. His ... at a young age. ... friends of the future Genesis star Phil Collins, whose ... Oliver in the original stage production of the musical, with ... Jack and his brother left London and
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Tony Bennett - NNDB.com  In 1950, Pearl Bailey heard him sing, and asked him to join her at a ... As the 1960s began his star faded, but after a few wane years he staged a ... and took a supporting role in a 1966 drama, The Oscar, with Stephen Boyd and Elke ... Grammy 1994 for MTV Unplugged (best record) ... The Oscar (4-Mar-1966)  Hymie Kelly
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The dark truth about Yoko Ono is revealed by BBC DJ Andy Peebles ...  Nov 28, 2015 ... BBC man Andy Peebles interview Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1980 ... Why did Yoko seem much happier after John's death? ... I was thinking, frankly, So this is the woman who broke up the Beatles. ... Indeed, she became more creatively active than ever before in her life. ...... It'll take more than that to put.
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Noel Harrison (From Herald Scotland) - The Herald  Nov 1, 2013 ... It won an Oscar for best song in 1968. ... Your Mind was his biggest hit and was recorded in 1968 for the soundtrack of The Thomas Crown Affair. Harrison had no suspicion that it might be successful. ... Harrison appeared in several other musicals including The Man of La Mancha and The Sound of Music.