1923 John Henry Fortescue*
1938 Kip Anderson*
1949 John Belushi*
1950 Johnny B. Moore*
1953 Angela Brown*
1954 Vance Kelly*
1958 Jools Holland*
1961 Heiri Belkner*
1972 Beth Hart*
1992 James "Thunderbird" Davis+
2008 David Lee Durham+
1938 Kip Anderson*
1949 John Belushi*
1950 Johnny B. Moore*
1953 Angela Brown*
1954 Vance Kelly*
1958 Jools Holland*
1961 Heiri Belkner*
1972 Beth Hart*
1992 James "Thunderbird" Davis+
2008 David Lee Durham+
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Beth Hart *24.01.1972
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Beth Hart (* 24. Januar 1972 in Los Angeles) ist eine US-amerikanische Rockmusikerin und Sängerin.Werdegang
Hart studierte Cello und Gesang an der Los Angeles High School Of Performing Arts, schloss das Studium aber nicht ab. 1993 trat sie bei der Castingshow Star Search auf und veröffentlichte im gleichen Jahr ihr erstes Album. Die 1996 erschienene CD Immortal brachte sie als Beth Hart Band mit Jimmy Khoury, Sergio Gonzalez und Tal Herzberg heraus. Mit dem dritten Album Screamin’ for My Supper und dem darauf enthaltenen Track L. A. Song erlangte sie in den USA einen größeren Bekanntheitsgrad. Gleichzeitig spielte sie in dem Musical Love, Janis die Rolle der Janis Joplin. Das vierte Album Leave the Light On, auf dem sie ihre Drogensucht und den Entzug thematisiert, kam in Deutschland in einer veränderten Version heraus. 2007 erschien 37 Days und 2010 das Album My California. Bei Eric Claptons viertem Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013 im Madison Square Garden trat Beth Hart zusammen Jeff Beck und dessen neuer Gruppe auf.[1] Beth Hart ist verheiratet und lebt in Los Angeles.
Beth Hart (born January 24, 1972) is an American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California, United States. She rose to fame with the release of her 1999 single "LA Song (Out of This Town)" from her second album Screamin' for My Supper. The single was a number one hit in New Zealand, as well as reaching top 5 on the US Adult Contemporary and number 7 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 Chart. The song also aired during Episode 17 of the 10th and final season of Beverly Hills, 90210.[1] Beth Hart also delivered music to the end-scene of the last episode of Californication season 6, with "My California",[2] Subsequent albums namely Seesaw and Live In Amsterdam by Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa, achieved number 1 status on the Billboard Blues Album Chart. Hart's release Bang Bang Boom Boom rose to number 3 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart, as well as the album Don't Explain by Hart and Bonamassa. The album Seesaw rose to number 8 on the Billboard Top Independent Album Chart. Hart has had two number 1 singles in Denmark "As Good As It Gets" and "Learning To Live", as well a platinum selling album, Leave The Light On.
Hart's first album with Bonamassa, Don't Explain, went gold in The Netherlands. In 2014 Hart was nominated for a Grammy Award for Seesaw and she was also nominated for a Blues Music Award in the category 'Best Contemporary Blues Female Artist'.
Early career
While playing the Los Angeles clubs, she enlisted bassist Tal Herzberg and guitarist Jimmy Khoury. In 1993, Hart appeared on Ed McMahon's Star Search several times, ultimately winning the Female Vocalist competition for that season.
Beth Hart and the Ocean of Souls was recorded in 1993. It includes "Am I the One" and a pop-rock cover of the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". Hart released her album Immortal with her band Beth Hart Band in 1996.[3]
Screamin' for My Supper: Career breakthrough
Her next album, Screamin' for My Supper (Atlantic, 1999), featured "LA Song (Out of This Town)", a #1 hit in New Zealand and a top 5 Adult Contemporary chart hit. At the same time, Hart was singing the lead role in Love, Janis, an off-Broadway musical based on Joplin's letters home to her mother.
Leave the Light On, live album and 37 Days
Hart's Leave the Light On was released in 2003. Hart followed this up with her live album Live at Paradiso in 2005. Her fourth solo studio album 37 Days was released in Europe in July 2007.
"Learning to Live" was used as the theme song to Losing It With Jillian on NBC.
Collaborations
Hart collaborated on a song with Slash called "Mother Maria", released on the iTunes version of Slash's solo album, Slash.
In 2011, she worked with Joe Bonamassa, first providing vocals for the track "No Love on the Street" on his album Dust Bowl (March 2011), and on a 2011 album of blues classics, entitled Don't Explain. The duo released Seesaw in 2013.
2012–present
Hart collaborated with Born on the single "It Hurts", released in February 2012.
On July 31, 2012 (October 4, 2012 in Europe), she released her fifth studio album My California. On the same date, she released an EP titled Introducing Beth Hart. On August 23, 2012, her song "Take It Easy on Me" from My California was used in the first episode of the 8th series of the BBC TV drama Waterloo Road.
In December 2012, she appeared with Jeff Beck at the Kennedy Center Opera House, along with a group of blues/rock musicians, performing "I'd Rather Go Blind" in tribute to Buddy Guy, who received a 2012 Kennedy Center Honor for his lifetime of contributions to American culture. That same month, it was announced that Hart and Bonamassa were planning a tour in Europe, a live DVD to be made during the tour and a new studio album. In 2012, she released Bang Bang Boom Boom in Europe. It was released the following year in the United States.
In 2014, she released Seesaw. The record was followed by a tour in Europe. As they played in Amsterdam two days in a row, they recorded and filmed the concerts, later released on Blu-ray and DVD. The same year, she performed with Jeff Beck during his Australian tour as a supporting act, joining him on stage during his set.
In 2014, she was also nominated for a Blues Music Award in the 'Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year' category.[4]
Personal life
Hart is married to her road manager Scott Guetzkow,[5] and currently resides in Los Angeles. Her band includes lead guitarist Jon Nichols, bassist Bob Marinelli, drummer Bill Ransom, and guitarist P.J. Barth. Her manager is David Wolff. She has overcome drug addiction.
Hart's first album with Bonamassa, Don't Explain, went gold in The Netherlands. In 2014 Hart was nominated for a Grammy Award for Seesaw and she was also nominated for a Blues Music Award in the category 'Best Contemporary Blues Female Artist'.
Early career
While playing the Los Angeles clubs, she enlisted bassist Tal Herzberg and guitarist Jimmy Khoury. In 1993, Hart appeared on Ed McMahon's Star Search several times, ultimately winning the Female Vocalist competition for that season.
Beth Hart and the Ocean of Souls was recorded in 1993. It includes "Am I the One" and a pop-rock cover of the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". Hart released her album Immortal with her band Beth Hart Band in 1996.[3]
Screamin' for My Supper: Career breakthrough
Her next album, Screamin' for My Supper (Atlantic, 1999), featured "LA Song (Out of This Town)", a #1 hit in New Zealand and a top 5 Adult Contemporary chart hit. At the same time, Hart was singing the lead role in Love, Janis, an off-Broadway musical based on Joplin's letters home to her mother.
Leave the Light On, live album and 37 Days
Hart's Leave the Light On was released in 2003. Hart followed this up with her live album Live at Paradiso in 2005. Her fourth solo studio album 37 Days was released in Europe in July 2007.
"Learning to Live" was used as the theme song to Losing It With Jillian on NBC.
Collaborations
Hart collaborated on a song with Slash called "Mother Maria", released on the iTunes version of Slash's solo album, Slash.
In 2011, she worked with Joe Bonamassa, first providing vocals for the track "No Love on the Street" on his album Dust Bowl (March 2011), and on a 2011 album of blues classics, entitled Don't Explain. The duo released Seesaw in 2013.
2012–present
Hart collaborated with Born on the single "It Hurts", released in February 2012.
On July 31, 2012 (October 4, 2012 in Europe), she released her fifth studio album My California. On the same date, she released an EP titled Introducing Beth Hart. On August 23, 2012, her song "Take It Easy on Me" from My California was used in the first episode of the 8th series of the BBC TV drama Waterloo Road.
In December 2012, she appeared with Jeff Beck at the Kennedy Center Opera House, along with a group of blues/rock musicians, performing "I'd Rather Go Blind" in tribute to Buddy Guy, who received a 2012 Kennedy Center Honor for his lifetime of contributions to American culture. That same month, it was announced that Hart and Bonamassa were planning a tour in Europe, a live DVD to be made during the tour and a new studio album. In 2012, she released Bang Bang Boom Boom in Europe. It was released the following year in the United States.
In 2014, she released Seesaw. The record was followed by a tour in Europe. As they played in Amsterdam two days in a row, they recorded and filmed the concerts, later released on Blu-ray and DVD. The same year, she performed with Jeff Beck during his Australian tour as a supporting act, joining him on stage during his set.
In 2014, she was also nominated for a Blues Music Award in the 'Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year' category.[4]
Personal life
Hart is married to her road manager Scott Guetzkow,[5] and currently resides in Los Angeles. Her band includes lead guitarist Jon Nichols, bassist Bob Marinelli, drummer Bill Ransom, and guitarist P.J. Barth. Her manager is David Wolff. She has overcome drug addiction.
Johnny B. Moore *24.01.1950
Johnny B. Moore (born Johnny Belle Moore, January 24, 1950, Clarksdale, Mississippi)[2] is an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.[1] He was a member of Koko Taylor's backing band in the mid-1970s, but has recorded nine solo albums since 1987. Moore's music retains a link to the earlier Chicago blues of Jimmy Reed and Muddy Waters, who also travelled to the Windy City from the Mississippi delta.[2]
"If Johnny B. Moore isn't a star in the making," stated Allmusic's Bill Dahl, "there's no justice in the world."[1] The European blues historian Gérard Herzhaft commented that "[Moore's] albums reflect a strong Delta flavor that is refreshing in the present blues scene, dominated by rock or funk overtones."[3] However, the blues historian, Tony Russell, noted in 1997 that Moore "was still one of Chicago's interesting secrets".[4]
Biography
Moore's Baptist minister father, Floyd Moore, taught his son to play the guitar from the age of seven. John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillen'," was the first piece Moore mastered,[2] but he was influenced by the style of Magic Sam.[4] In his early days Moore performed gospel music in his hometown of Clarksdale, and later in Chicago with the Gospel Keys group.[2]
In 1964, the teenage Moore relocated to Chicago with his father.[4] In high school Moore learned to read music, and his education was enhanced listening to blues records with Letha Jones, Little Johnny Jones' widow.[1][4] By the late 1960s Moore was working in a lamp factory, but after work continued to play. He was further tutored by Jimmy Reed, whom he first met in his childhood, and then with the Charles Spiers band.[2]
By 1975, Moore found a further musical outlet by joining Koko Taylor's backing band, the Blues Machine, as lead guitarist. His lead guitar work appeared on Taylor's album The Earthshaker (1978).[4]
He toured separately with Taylor and Willie Dixon, undertaking European jaunts with both, and worked in Dixon's band until the latter's death in 1992. He also augmented his income by appearing more often under his own name.[2] Moore appeared on the bill on June 10, 1984, at the inaugural Chicago Blues Festival.[5]
His debut album, Hard Times, was released in 1987 on the B.L.U.E.S. label.[4] In the 1990s Moore recorded six more efforts of his own, and started the new millennium with Born in Clarksdale, Mississippi (2001) for the Austrian based Wolf record label.[2] His Live at Blue Chicago (1996), was recorded in that club's basement,[2] and featured Ken Saydak on keyboards. The 1999 live album, Acoustic Blue Chicago featured Willie Kent, Lester Davenport and Bonnie Lee.[6] Moore more often used a bottleneck on his guitar solos.[2]
Moore appeared again at the Chicago Blues Festival in 2002. In addition, he has made several guest appearances on other blues musicians albums. These included Willie Kent's Too Hurt to Cry (1994).[7] His most recent album, Rockin' in the Same Old Boat (2003), was described by Allmusic's journalist, Matt Collar, as "Moore's hard-driving lead guitar lines are well intact as is his off-hand, sometimes slurred vocal delivery".
John Belushi *24.01.1949
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John Adam Belushi (* 24. Januar 1949 in Chicago, Illinois; † 5. März 1982 in West Hollywood) war ein US-amerikanischer Sänger und Filmschauspieler und der Bruder des Bluesmusikers und Schauspielers James Belushi.Leben
John Belushi wuchs als Sohn albanischer Einwanderer in Wheaton (Illinois) auf.[1] Bereits während seiner Collegezeit trat er in Theaterstücken auf. Ab Ende der 1970er Jahre spielte er zusammen mit Dan Aykroyd in der Band The Blues Brothers.
Einem breiten Publikum in den Vereinigten Staaten wurde er durch seine Auftritte in der Fernsehshow Saturday Night Live bekannt. 1978 hatte Belushi seinen ersten Filmauftritt in der Filmkomödie Ich glaub’, mich tritt ein Pferd. 1978 erschien die LP A Briefcase Full of Blues, mit Liveversionen alter Bluesnummern und Eigenkompositionen. Sein größter Filmerfolg wurde die Musikkomödie Blues Brothers von John Landis, in der er an der Seite von Dan Aykroyd auftrat. Zusammen mit diesem trat er schon vor dem Film (als Jake und Elwood Blues) auf Konzerten auf. Unterstützt wurde dieses musikalische Projekt von The Blues Brothers Band, der namhafte Musiker angehörten und die auch im Film mitwirkten. Später erschien der Filmsoundtrack, bis heute die erfolgreichste Platte der Blues Brothers. Belushi imitierte mit Vorliebe den bekannten Rhythm-’n’-Blues-Musiker Joe Cocker und trat sogar mit ihm zusammen auf.
Belushi war langjähriger Drogenkonsument. Nach einer exzessiven Drogen-Party starb er 1982 im Alter von 33 Jahren in einem Bungalow des Chateau Marmont Hotels in West Hollywood an einem Speedball, einer Injektion von Kokain und Heroin. Er wurde hier von seinem Freund und Filmpartner Bill Wallace leblos aufgefunden.[2] Bill Wallace versuchte noch ihn wiederzubeleben, aber er kam zu spät. Belushis Grab befindet sich auf dem Abel’s Hill Cemetery von Chilmark, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.[3]
“I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on”
„Ich mag gegangen sein, der Rock ’n’ Roll lebt weiter“
– Inschrift des Grabsteins von John Belushi
John Adam Belushi (/bəˈluːʃi/; January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and musician. He is best known for his "intense energy and raucous attitude"[1] which he displayed as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, in his role in the film Animal House and in his recordings and performances as one of the The Blues Brothers.
During his career he had a close personal and artistic partnership with fellow SNL actor and writer Dan Aykroyd whom he met while they were both working at Chicago's Second City comedy club.[2]
Belushi died on the morning of March 5, 1982 in Hollywood, California at the Chateau Marmont, after being injected with and accidentally overdosing on a mixture of cocaine and heroin (a "speedball") at the age of 33. He was posthumously honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, on April 1, 2004.
Early life
John Belushi was born in Humboldt Park, a neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Agnes Demetri (Samaras), was the daughter of Albanian immigrants, and his father, Adam Anastos Belushi, was an Albanian immigrant, from Qytezë.[3] John was raised in Wheaton, a Chicago suburb, along with his three siblings: younger brothers Billy and Jim and his sister, Marian.[4][5] Belushi was raised in the Albanian Orthodox church. He attended Wheaton Central High School, where he met his future wife, Judith Jacklin.
Early career
After starting his own comedy troupe, The West Compass Trio, with Tino Insana and Steve Beshekas, in 1971 Belushi was asked to join the cast of The Second City.[2] At Second City, he met and began working with Harold Ramis.[2] He was subsequently cast with Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest in National Lampoon Lemmings,[1] a parody of Woodstock, which played Off-Broadway in 1972.
In 1973, Belushi and Judith Jacklin moved together to New York where Belushi worked for National Lampoon magazine's The National Lampoon Radio Hour, a half-hour syndicated comedy program where he was a writer, director and actor. During a trip to Toronto to check the local Second City cast in 1974, he met Dan Aykroyd.[1] Jacklin became an associate producer for the show, and she and Belushi were married on December 31, 1976.
1975–1979
Belushi became an original cast member of the new television show Saturday Night Live (SNL) in 1975.[1] His most memorable characters at SNL included belligerent Samurai Futaba,[1] and an imitation of British singer Joe Cocker that was so accurate Cocker himself briefly believed Belushi was lip synching to a Cocker vocal track rather than singing live.[6] With Aykroyd, Belushi created the characters Jake and Elwood Blues, also known as The Blues Brothers.[7]
During his tenure at SNL, Belushi was heavily using drugs and alcohol which affected his performance and caused SNL to fire him (and promptly re-hire him) a number of times.[8]
Following Chevy Chase's departure from the show in 1976, Belushi gained a more prominent role and his talent became in considerable demand. In 1978, he made the films Old Boyfriends (directed by Joan Tewkesbury), Goin' South (directed by Jack Nicholson) and Animal House (directed by John Landis). Upon its initial release, Animal House received generally mixed reviews from critics, but Time and Roger Ebert proclaimed it one of the year's best. Filmed for $2.8 million, it is one of the most profitable movies of all time, garnering an estimated gross of more than $141 million in the form of theatrical rentals and home video, not including merchandising. Animal House was also largely responsible for defining and launching the gross-out genre of films, which became one of Hollywood's staples.[9]
Following the success of The Blues Brothers on the show, Belushi and Aykroyd, with the help of pianist-arranger Paul Shaffer, started assembling a collection of studio talents to form a proper band. These included SNL band members, saxophonist "Blue" Lou Marini and trombonist-saxophonist Tom Malone, who had previously played in Blood, Sweat & Tears. At Shaffer's suggestion, guitarist Steve Cropper and bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, the powerhouse combo from Booker T and the M.G.'s and subsequently almost every hit out of Memphis's Stax Records during the 1960s, were signed as well.[10] In 1978 The Blues Brothers released their debut album, Briefcase Full of Blues with Atlantic Records. The album reached #1 on the Billboard 200 and went double platinum. Two singles were released, "Rubber Biscuit", which reached number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "Soul Man," which reached number 14.
Aykroyd and Belushi left Saturday Night Live in 1979 to pursue a film career. Together they made three movies, 1941 (directed by Steven Spielberg), Neighbors (directed by John Avildsen), and most notably The Blues Brothers (directed by John Landis). Released in the United States on June 20, 1980, The Blues Brothers received generally positive reviews. It earned just under $5 million in its opening weekend and went on to gross $115.2 million in theaters worldwide before its release on home video. The Blues Brothers band toured to promote the film, which led to a third album (and second live album), Made in America, recorded at the Universal Amphitheatre in 1980. The track "Who's Making Love" peaked at No 39.
Other movie projects
The only film Belushi made without Aykroyd following his departure from SNL was the romantic comedy Continental Divide (directed by Michael Apted). Released in September 1981, it starred Belushi as Chicago home town hero writer Ernie Souchack, who gets put on assignment researching a scientist (played by Blair Brown) studying birds of prey in the remote Rocky Mountains.
In 1980, after seeing them perform in several after hours New York City bars, Belushi had become a fan and advocate of the punk rock band Fear and brought them to Cherokee Studios to record songs for the soundtrack of Neighbors. Blues Brother band member and sax player Tom Scott, along with producing partner and Cherokee owner Bruce Robb, initially helped with the session but later pulled out due to conflicts with Belushi.
At the time of his death, Belushi was pursuing several movie projects, including Moons Over Miami with Louis Malle, National Lampoon's The Joy of Sex and Noble Rot, a script that had been adapted and rewritten by himself and former Saturday Night Live writer, Don Novello in the weeks leading up to his death. He was also scheduled to work with Aykroyd on Ghostbusters and Spies Like Us.
Belushi also made a "Guest Star Appearance" on an episode of the television series Police Squad! (1982) which showed him underwater wearing cement shoes. He died shortly before the episode aired, so the scene was cut and replaced by a segment with William Conrad.[11]
Death
On March 5, 1982, after showing up at his hotel for a scheduled workout, his trainer, Bill Wallace found Belushi dead in his room, Bungalow 3 at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California.[12] He was 33 years old. The cause of death was an overdose of cocaine and heroin, a drug combination also known as a speedball. In the early morning hours on the day of his death, he was visited separately by friends Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, each of whom left the premises, leaving Belushi in the company of assorted others, including Catherine Evelyn Smith.[13][14] His death was investigated by forensic pathologist Dr. Ryan Norris, among others, and, while the findings were disputed, it was officially ruled a drug-related accident.
Two months later, Smith admitted in an interview with the National Enquirer that she had been with Belushi the night of his death and had given him the fatal speedball shot. After the appearance of the article "I Killed Belushi" in the Enquirer edition of June 29, 1982, the case was reopened. Smith was extradited from Toronto, Ontario, arrested and charged with first-degree murder. A plea bargain reduced the charge to involuntary manslaughter, and she served fifteen months in prison.[15]
Belushi's wife arranged for a traditional Orthodox Christian funeral which was conducted by an Albanian Orthodox priest.[16] She also recruited the couple's good friend, James Taylor, who postponed the European leg of his current tour to come and sing his haunting ballad, 'That Lonesome Road', at the morning gravesite service. He has been interred twice at Abel's Hill Cemetery in Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. A tombstone marking the original burial location has a New England classic slate design, complete with skull and crossbones, that reads, "I may be gone but Rock and Roll lives on."[17] An unmarked tombstone in an undisclosed location marks the final burial location. He is also remembered on the Belushi family stone marking his mother's grave at Elmwood Cemetery in River Grove, Illinois. This stone reads, "He gave us laughter."[18]
Tributes and legacy
Belushi's life is detailed in the 1984 biography Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi by Bob Woodward and 1990's Samurai Widow by his wife Judith. Wired was later adapted into a feature film in which Belushi was played by Michael Chiklis.
Belushi has been portrayed by actors Eric Siegel in Gilda Radner: It's Always Something, Tyler Labine in Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy (which also features his friendship with Robin Williams), and Michael Chiklis in Wired. Future SNL star Chris Farley, whose work was influenced by Belushi, also died at age 33 due to a drug overdose, contributing to comparisons between Belushi and Farley.[19]
His widow later remarried and is now Judith Belushi Pisano. She and co-biographer Tanner Colby produced Belushi: A Biography, a collection of first-person interviews and photographs of John Belushi's life that was published in 2005.
In 2004, Belushi was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2006, Biography Channel aired the "John Belushi" episode of Final 24, a documentary following Belushi in the last twenty-four hours leading to his death. In 2010, Biography aired a full biography documentation of Belushi's life.
According to Jane Curtin, who appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011, John Belushi was a "misogynist"" who would deliberately sabotage the work of women writers and comics while working on SNL. "So you'd go to a table read, and if a woman writer had written a piece for John, he would not read it in his full voice. He felt as though it was his duty to sabotage pieces written by women."[20]
Belushi was scheduled to present the first annual Best Visual Effects Oscar at the 1982 Academy Awards with Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd presented the award alone, and stated from the podium: "My partner would have loved to have been here tonight to present this award, since he was a bit of a Visual Effect himself."
During his career he had a close personal and artistic partnership with fellow SNL actor and writer Dan Aykroyd whom he met while they were both working at Chicago's Second City comedy club.[2]
Belushi died on the morning of March 5, 1982 in Hollywood, California at the Chateau Marmont, after being injected with and accidentally overdosing on a mixture of cocaine and heroin (a "speedball") at the age of 33. He was posthumously honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, on April 1, 2004.
Early life
John Belushi was born in Humboldt Park, a neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Agnes Demetri (Samaras), was the daughter of Albanian immigrants, and his father, Adam Anastos Belushi, was an Albanian immigrant, from Qytezë.[3] John was raised in Wheaton, a Chicago suburb, along with his three siblings: younger brothers Billy and Jim and his sister, Marian.[4][5] Belushi was raised in the Albanian Orthodox church. He attended Wheaton Central High School, where he met his future wife, Judith Jacklin.
Early career
After starting his own comedy troupe, The West Compass Trio, with Tino Insana and Steve Beshekas, in 1971 Belushi was asked to join the cast of The Second City.[2] At Second City, he met and began working with Harold Ramis.[2] He was subsequently cast with Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest in National Lampoon Lemmings,[1] a parody of Woodstock, which played Off-Broadway in 1972.
In 1973, Belushi and Judith Jacklin moved together to New York where Belushi worked for National Lampoon magazine's The National Lampoon Radio Hour, a half-hour syndicated comedy program where he was a writer, director and actor. During a trip to Toronto to check the local Second City cast in 1974, he met Dan Aykroyd.[1] Jacklin became an associate producer for the show, and she and Belushi were married on December 31, 1976.
1975–1979
Belushi became an original cast member of the new television show Saturday Night Live (SNL) in 1975.[1] His most memorable characters at SNL included belligerent Samurai Futaba,[1] and an imitation of British singer Joe Cocker that was so accurate Cocker himself briefly believed Belushi was lip synching to a Cocker vocal track rather than singing live.[6] With Aykroyd, Belushi created the characters Jake and Elwood Blues, also known as The Blues Brothers.[7]
During his tenure at SNL, Belushi was heavily using drugs and alcohol which affected his performance and caused SNL to fire him (and promptly re-hire him) a number of times.[8]
Following Chevy Chase's departure from the show in 1976, Belushi gained a more prominent role and his talent became in considerable demand. In 1978, he made the films Old Boyfriends (directed by Joan Tewkesbury), Goin' South (directed by Jack Nicholson) and Animal House (directed by John Landis). Upon its initial release, Animal House received generally mixed reviews from critics, but Time and Roger Ebert proclaimed it one of the year's best. Filmed for $2.8 million, it is one of the most profitable movies of all time, garnering an estimated gross of more than $141 million in the form of theatrical rentals and home video, not including merchandising. Animal House was also largely responsible for defining and launching the gross-out genre of films, which became one of Hollywood's staples.[9]
Following the success of The Blues Brothers on the show, Belushi and Aykroyd, with the help of pianist-arranger Paul Shaffer, started assembling a collection of studio talents to form a proper band. These included SNL band members, saxophonist "Blue" Lou Marini and trombonist-saxophonist Tom Malone, who had previously played in Blood, Sweat & Tears. At Shaffer's suggestion, guitarist Steve Cropper and bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, the powerhouse combo from Booker T and the M.G.'s and subsequently almost every hit out of Memphis's Stax Records during the 1960s, were signed as well.[10] In 1978 The Blues Brothers released their debut album, Briefcase Full of Blues with Atlantic Records. The album reached #1 on the Billboard 200 and went double platinum. Two singles were released, "Rubber Biscuit", which reached number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "Soul Man," which reached number 14.
Aykroyd and Belushi left Saturday Night Live in 1979 to pursue a film career. Together they made three movies, 1941 (directed by Steven Spielberg), Neighbors (directed by John Avildsen), and most notably The Blues Brothers (directed by John Landis). Released in the United States on June 20, 1980, The Blues Brothers received generally positive reviews. It earned just under $5 million in its opening weekend and went on to gross $115.2 million in theaters worldwide before its release on home video. The Blues Brothers band toured to promote the film, which led to a third album (and second live album), Made in America, recorded at the Universal Amphitheatre in 1980. The track "Who's Making Love" peaked at No 39.
Other movie projects
The only film Belushi made without Aykroyd following his departure from SNL was the romantic comedy Continental Divide (directed by Michael Apted). Released in September 1981, it starred Belushi as Chicago home town hero writer Ernie Souchack, who gets put on assignment researching a scientist (played by Blair Brown) studying birds of prey in the remote Rocky Mountains.
In 1980, after seeing them perform in several after hours New York City bars, Belushi had become a fan and advocate of the punk rock band Fear and brought them to Cherokee Studios to record songs for the soundtrack of Neighbors. Blues Brother band member and sax player Tom Scott, along with producing partner and Cherokee owner Bruce Robb, initially helped with the session but later pulled out due to conflicts with Belushi.
At the time of his death, Belushi was pursuing several movie projects, including Moons Over Miami with Louis Malle, National Lampoon's The Joy of Sex and Noble Rot, a script that had been adapted and rewritten by himself and former Saturday Night Live writer, Don Novello in the weeks leading up to his death. He was also scheduled to work with Aykroyd on Ghostbusters and Spies Like Us.
Belushi also made a "Guest Star Appearance" on an episode of the television series Police Squad! (1982) which showed him underwater wearing cement shoes. He died shortly before the episode aired, so the scene was cut and replaced by a segment with William Conrad.[11]
Death
On March 5, 1982, after showing up at his hotel for a scheduled workout, his trainer, Bill Wallace found Belushi dead in his room, Bungalow 3 at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California.[12] He was 33 years old. The cause of death was an overdose of cocaine and heroin, a drug combination also known as a speedball. In the early morning hours on the day of his death, he was visited separately by friends Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, each of whom left the premises, leaving Belushi in the company of assorted others, including Catherine Evelyn Smith.[13][14] His death was investigated by forensic pathologist Dr. Ryan Norris, among others, and, while the findings were disputed, it was officially ruled a drug-related accident.
Two months later, Smith admitted in an interview with the National Enquirer that she had been with Belushi the night of his death and had given him the fatal speedball shot. After the appearance of the article "I Killed Belushi" in the Enquirer edition of June 29, 1982, the case was reopened. Smith was extradited from Toronto, Ontario, arrested and charged with first-degree murder. A plea bargain reduced the charge to involuntary manslaughter, and she served fifteen months in prison.[15]
Belushi's wife arranged for a traditional Orthodox Christian funeral which was conducted by an Albanian Orthodox priest.[16] She also recruited the couple's good friend, James Taylor, who postponed the European leg of his current tour to come and sing his haunting ballad, 'That Lonesome Road', at the morning gravesite service. He has been interred twice at Abel's Hill Cemetery in Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. A tombstone marking the original burial location has a New England classic slate design, complete with skull and crossbones, that reads, "I may be gone but Rock and Roll lives on."[17] An unmarked tombstone in an undisclosed location marks the final burial location. He is also remembered on the Belushi family stone marking his mother's grave at Elmwood Cemetery in River Grove, Illinois. This stone reads, "He gave us laughter."[18]
Tributes and legacy
Belushi's life is detailed in the 1984 biography Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi by Bob Woodward and 1990's Samurai Widow by his wife Judith. Wired was later adapted into a feature film in which Belushi was played by Michael Chiklis.
Belushi has been portrayed by actors Eric Siegel in Gilda Radner: It's Always Something, Tyler Labine in Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy (which also features his friendship with Robin Williams), and Michael Chiklis in Wired. Future SNL star Chris Farley, whose work was influenced by Belushi, also died at age 33 due to a drug overdose, contributing to comparisons between Belushi and Farley.[19]
His widow later remarried and is now Judith Belushi Pisano. She and co-biographer Tanner Colby produced Belushi: A Biography, a collection of first-person interviews and photographs of John Belushi's life that was published in 2005.
In 2004, Belushi was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2006, Biography Channel aired the "John Belushi" episode of Final 24, a documentary following Belushi in the last twenty-four hours leading to his death. In 2010, Biography aired a full biography documentation of Belushi's life.
According to Jane Curtin, who appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011, John Belushi was a "misogynist"" who would deliberately sabotage the work of women writers and comics while working on SNL. "So you'd go to a table read, and if a woman writer had written a piece for John, he would not read it in his full voice. He felt as though it was his duty to sabotage pieces written by women."[20]
Belushi was scheduled to present the first annual Best Visual Effects Oscar at the 1982 Academy Awards with Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd presented the award alone, and stated from the podium: "My partner would have loved to have been here tonight to present this award, since he was a bit of a Visual Effect himself."
Rawhide - The Blues Brothers (5/9) Movie CLIP (1980) HD
Kip Anderson *24.01.1938
Kip Anderson (January 24, 1938 – August 29, 2007) was an American soul blues and R&B singer and songwriter.[1] He is best known for his 1967 single, "A Knife and a Fork." He recorded for a plethora of record labels, worked as a radio DJ, and maintained a career lasting from the late 1950s to the 1990s, despite undertaking a decade long custodial sentence.[2] At various times Anderson worked with Sam Cooke, The Drifters, Jerry Butler and Jackie Wilson.[3]
Biography
He was born Kiphling Taquana Anderson in Starr, Anderson County, South Carolina.[2][3][4]
Anderson had his first musical exposure in church, where he both sang and played the piano. After featuring in his high school band, Anderson met his future business partner, Charles Derrick, at Columbia's radio station, WOIC. In 1959, Anderson's debut single "I Wanna Be the Only One", was eventually released by Vee-Jay Records.[2] His follow-up release "Oh My Linda," featured guitar work from Mickey Baker.[1] Lack of commercial gains led to Anderson working as a disc jockey.[2]
Everlast Records released Anderson's third single "I Will Cry" (1962), and "Here I Am, Try Me," and "That's When the Crying Begins" (1964) followed; the latter reaching #79 on the Billboard Hot 100. His stock rose further with "I'll Get Along," "Woman How Do You Make Me Love You Like I Do," and "Without a Woman" (1966).[1]
In 1967, Anderson released "A Knife and a Fork" on Checker, which had been recorded at the Fame Studios in Alabama. "A Knife and a Fork" was a mid-tempo warning concerning his girlfriend's food consumption – "girl, you gonna let a knife and a fork dig your grave".[2] The single entered the US Billboard R&B chart. A follow-up release, "You'll Lose a Good Thing", issued on Excello, also made the Top 40 in the same chart. "I Went Off and Cried" (1968) remains alongside "A Knife and a Fork" as his most fondly remembered output. " A Knife and a Fork" was covered by Rockpile on their 1980 album, Seconds of Pleasure.[1][2]
A dependency on heroin started to affect his work by 1970, and Excello cancelled his recording contract.[1] Despite continuing to both record and perform in the 1970s, a ten year jail sentence in 1974 for possession of heroin, halted his activities. Later, Anderson opined about that time, "It probably saved my life."[2] While inside he formed a gospel group with other inmates, who performed under surveillance at local churches and community events.[1]
On release Anderson recorded a gospel album, before issuing more soul based material via Ichiban. His career as a DJ was also revived when he moved back to Anderson County.[2] He also hosted a gospel show on WRIX-FM, and served as vice president of Electric City Record's gospel division.[5] In 1996, Anderson duetted with Nappy Brown on the Best of Both Worlds joint album.[1]
Kip Anderson died in Anderson, South Carolina, in August 2007, at the age of 69.
John Henry Fortescue (Guitar Shorty) *24.01.1923
There has been more than one Blues player called Guitar Shorty, but something they have in common is a talent for showmanship. Jimi Hendrix‘s brother-in-law is still using that name over on the West-coast for his backflipping, flash-guitar stage act, and others may have used it too, but an older Bluesman with an similar ‘larger-than-life’ character took the name much earlier.
John Henry Fortescue was born in Belhaven NC, on the coast of Pamlico Sound in January 1923, but as a youth he moved west to live in Renston and later in Farmville. The rural Piedmont area resounded to Blues music in the 30s, with Blind Boy Fuller‘s records inspiring his imitators and competitors to play on streetcorners and in bars for the tobacco workers. John Henry took up guitar as a kid when his uncle got him started, but he soon worked out his own unique tunings which allowed him to play slide and chords in the same tune. He was always a whole-hearted performer, keen to improvise on guitar, a wizard on the spoons, liable to break out into a boogie half-way into any song, and always full of tall stories. This vivacious personality got him the name Guitar Shorty.
John Henry Fortescue was born in Belhaven NC, on the coast of Pamlico Sound in January 1923, but as a youth he moved west to live in Renston and later in Farmville. The rural Piedmont area resounded to Blues music in the 30s, with Blind Boy Fuller‘s records inspiring his imitators and competitors to play on streetcorners and in bars for the tobacco workers. John Henry took up guitar as a kid when his uncle got him started, but he soon worked out his own unique tunings which allowed him to play slide and chords in the same tune. He was always a whole-hearted performer, keen to improvise on guitar, a wizard on the spoons, liable to break out into a boogie half-way into any song, and always full of tall stories. This vivacious personality got him the name Guitar Shorty.
In June 1952, Shorty made some recordings for Savoy Records when he was billed as Hootin’ Owl: although ‘Love That Woman’ and ‘Wine Drinkin’ Baby’ were not issued at the time, they showed up on compilations many decades later. There is no evidence that he ever took his act on the road, but it is possible that he was the source of David Kennedy being known as ‘Guitar Shorty’, because the story goes that he showed up at a Florida club in 1956 and ‘Guitar Shorty’ was on the posters, so he adopted that name when he began performing over on the West-coast. The original Guitar Shorty got married and settled in Elm City NC, working during the tobacco season but mainly scraping a living with his guitar. In 1970, Blues fan Danny McClean recorded Shorty in his own front room and at a local radio station, resulting in the album ‘Carolina Slide-Guitar’. This showed the scope of Shorty’s abilities, with his stylish playing, his great original songs and his interpretation of classics like the Spiritual, ‘Jesus on the Main Line’ and a Blind Willie Johnson number. He told Danny he had played with Blind Willie, and with Blind Boy Fuller too, but he also claimed to have played with The Beatles and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. He was always full of tall stories and also liable to break in to an astonishing Elvis impersonation at any moment!
In 1972, Pete Lowry recorded an album of Shorty’s original material which appeared as ‘Alone in His Field’, showing off a virtuoso guitar technique that has been compared to Lightnin’ Hopkins‘. It seems that Shorty was not an ambitious man, content to play his Blues around his local towns, and was happy so long as he had enough money to get drunk. He passed away in Rocky Mount NC in 1976 at the age of 53.
In 1972, Pete Lowry recorded an album of Shorty’s original material which appeared as ‘Alone in His Field’, showing off a virtuoso guitar technique that has been compared to Lightnin’ Hopkins‘. It seems that Shorty was not an ambitious man, content to play his Blues around his local towns, and was happy so long as he had enough money to get drunk. He passed away in Rocky Mount NC in 1976 at the age of 53.
Jools Holland *24.01.1958
Julian Miles Holland, OBE (* 24. Januar 1958 in Blackheath, London) ist ein britischer Pianist, Bandleader und Fernsehmoderator.
Holland war 1974 als Keyboarder Gründungsmitglied der Band Squeeze, die er im August 1980 verließ. Seine Solokarriere begann er bereits 1978 mit der EP Boogie Woogie '78. 1987 legte Holland den Grundstein für seine 18-köpfige Tourband The Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, die oft durch die Sängerinnen Sam Brown und Ruby Turner verstärkt wird.
Seine Karriere als Fernsehmoderator begann als Co-Moderator der Musiksendung The Tube, zusammen mit Paula Yates. Seit 1992 präsentiert er die Sendung Later with Jools Holland, in der er sowohl bekannte Künstler als auch Newcomer verschiedenster Musikrichtungen vorstellt.
Jools Holland hat bereits mit zahlreichen musikalischen Größen gespielt, dazu zählen Van Morrison, Peter Gabriel, David Gilmour, Chuck Berry, B.B. King, Tom Jones, Sugababes, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Pearl Jam, Norah Jones, Paolo Nutini, Beverley Knight, Sting, James Dean Bradfield, Herbert Grönemeyer und viele andere.
Im Juni 2003 wurde Holland für seine Verdienste um die britische Musikindustrie zum Officer of the British Empire ernannt. Am 29. August 2005 heiratete Holland in der St James’ Church in Cooling, Kent seine langjährige Partnerin Christabel McEwen, eine Bildhauerin.[1]
Jools Holland war auch am 29. November 2002 mit Sängerin Sam Brown beim Concert for George in der Londoner Royal Albert Hall dabei. Bei diesem Konzert, ein Jahr nach George Harrisons Tod, waren sie mit dem Titel Horse to the Water vertreten.
Holland lebt in Westcombe Park bei Blackheath im Süd-Osten von London.
Holland war 1974 als Keyboarder Gründungsmitglied der Band Squeeze, die er im August 1980 verließ. Seine Solokarriere begann er bereits 1978 mit der EP Boogie Woogie '78. 1987 legte Holland den Grundstein für seine 18-köpfige Tourband The Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, die oft durch die Sängerinnen Sam Brown und Ruby Turner verstärkt wird.Seine Karriere als Fernsehmoderator begann als Co-Moderator der Musiksendung The Tube, zusammen mit Paula Yates. Seit 1992 präsentiert er die Sendung Later with Jools Holland, in der er sowohl bekannte Künstler als auch Newcomer verschiedenster Musikrichtungen vorstellt.
Jools Holland hat bereits mit zahlreichen musikalischen Größen gespielt, dazu zählen Van Morrison, Peter Gabriel, David Gilmour, Chuck Berry, B.B. King, Tom Jones, Sugababes, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Pearl Jam, Norah Jones, Paolo Nutini, Beverley Knight, Sting, James Dean Bradfield, Herbert Grönemeyer und viele andere.
Im Juni 2003 wurde Holland für seine Verdienste um die britische Musikindustrie zum Officer of the British Empire ernannt. Am 29. August 2005 heiratete Holland in der St James’ Church in Cooling, Kent seine langjährige Partnerin Christabel McEwen, eine Bildhauerin.[1]
Jools Holland war auch am 29. November 2002 mit Sängerin Sam Brown beim Concert for George in der Londoner Royal Albert Hall dabei. Bei diesem Konzert, ein Jahr nach George Harrisons Tod, waren sie mit dem Titel Horse to the Water vertreten.
Holland lebt in Westcombe Park bei Blackheath im Süd-Osten von London.
Julian Miles "Jools" Holland, OBE, DL (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter. He was a founder of the band Squeeze and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, George Harrison, David Gilmour, Magazine and Bono.
Holland is a published author and appears on television shows besides his own and contributes to radio shows. In 2004, he collaborated with Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B music. Since 1992, he has hosted Later... with Jools Holland, a music-based show aired on BBC2, on which his annual show Hootenanny is based.[1] He also regularly hosts the weekly programme Jools Holland on BBC Radio 2, which is a mix of live and recorded music and general chat and features studio guests, along with members of his orchestra.
Education
Holland was educated at Shooters Hill Grammar School, a former state grammar school on Red Lion Gate in Shooter's Hill (near Woolwich), in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in southeast London, from which he was expelled for damaging a teacher's Triumph Herald.[2]
Life and career
Holland played as a session musician before finding fame, and his first studio session was with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs in 1976 on their track "Fuck Off".[3]
Holland was a founding member of the British pop band Squeeze, formed in March 1974, in which he played keyboards until 1981 and helped the band to achieve millions of record sales, before pursuing his solo career.[3]
Holland began issuing solo records in 1978, his first EP being Boogie Woogie '78. He continued his solo career through the early 1980s, releasing an album and several singles between 1981 and 1984. He branched out into TV, co-presenting the Newcastle-based TV music show The Tube with Paula Yates. Holland achieved notoriety by inadvertently using the phrase "be there, or be an ungroovey fucker" in an early evening TV trailer, live across two channels, for the show, causing him to be suspended from the show for six weeks.[4] He referred to this in his sitcom "The Groovy Fellers" with Rowland Rivron.
In 1983 Holland played an extended piano solo on The The's re-recording of "Uncertain Smile" for the album Soul Mining. In 1985, Squeeze (which had continued in Holland's absence through to 1982) unexpectedly regrouped including Jools Holland as their keyboard player. Holland remained in the band until 1990, at which point, he again departed Squeeze to resume his solo career as a musician and a TV host.
In 1987, Holland formed the Jools Holland Big Band, which consisted of himself and Gilson Lavis from Squeeze. This gradually became his 18-piece Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.[3]
Between 1988 and 1990 he performed and co-hosted along with David Sanborn during the two seasons of the music performance programme Sunday Night on NBC late-night television.[5] Since 1992 he has presented the music programme Later... with Jools Holland, plus an annual New Year's Eve Hootenanny.
In 1996, Holland signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records,[3] and his records are now marketed through Rhino Records.
Holland has a touring band, the Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, which often includes singers Sam Brown and Ruby Turner and his younger brother, singer-songwriter and keyboard player, Christopher Holland. In January 2005 Holland and his band performed with Eric Clapton as the headline act of the Tsunami Relief Cardiff.
On 4 June 2012 Holland performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace in London. Also in June 2012, he presented a programme about the popular songs of London on BBC Two.
Jools presents a weekly programme on BBC Radio 2, combining guests and chat, with recorded and live music.
Personal life
Holland's relationship with his partner, Mary, by whom he had children, came to an end when he began a relationship with Christabel McEwen. Previous to that, he had lived with Mary and his children in east London.
On 29 August 2005, Holland married Christabel McEwen, his girlfriend of 15 years and daughter of artist Rory McEwen. Between 1983 and 1995 she was married to Edward Lambton, 7th Earl of Durham. The wedding, at St James' Church, Cooling, near Rochester, Kent, was attended by many celebrities, including Ringo Starr, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Lenny Henry, Noel Gallagher, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.[6]
Holland lives in the Westcombe Park area of Blackheath in southeast London, where he had his studio, Helicon Mountain, built to his design and inspired by Portmeirion, the setting for the 1960s TV series The Prisoner.[7] He also owns a house built in the medieval ruins of Cooling Castle in Kent.[8]
He received an OBE in 2003 in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, for services to the British music industry as a television presenter and musician. In September 2006 Holland was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent.[9] Holland was appointed an honorary fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University at a ceremony held at Canterbury Cathedral on 30 January 2009.[10] In August 2012, Holland was made honorary colonel of the Royal Engineers 101 (City of London Engineer Regiment), currently in the bomb disposal role.
Known for his charity work, in June 2006 Holland performed in Southend for HIV/AIDS charity Mildmay,[11] and in early 2007 he performed at Wells and Rochester Cathedrals to raise money for maintaining cathedral buildings.[12] He is also patron of Drake Music [13] and has raised many thousands of pounds for the charity.
A noted fan of the 1960s TV series The Prisoner,[7] Holland owns costumes and props from the series and occasionally appears wearing the trademark brown-with-white-pipe blazer featured in it. In 1987, Holland demonstrated his love of the series and starred in a spoof documentary, The Laughing Prisoner, with Stephen Fry, Terence Alexander and Hugh Laurie.[7] Much of it was shot on location in Portmeirion, with archive footage of Patrick McGoohan, and featuring musical numbers from Siouxsie and the Banshees, Magnum and XTC. Holland performed a number towards the end of the programme.
Holland was an interviewer for The Beatles Anthology TV project, and appeared in the 1997 film Spiceworld as a musical director.
In 2008, Holland commissioned TV series Bangla Bangers (Chop Shop) to create a replica of the legendary Rover Jet 1 for personal use. Holland is a greyhound racing supporter and has previously owned dogs.[14]
Writing
His 2007 biography, Barefaced Lies and Boogie Woogie Boasts, was BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week" in the week beginning 8 October 2007 and was read by Holland.
Holland is a published author and appears on television shows besides his own and contributes to radio shows. In 2004, he collaborated with Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B music. Since 1992, he has hosted Later... with Jools Holland, a music-based show aired on BBC2, on which his annual show Hootenanny is based.[1] He also regularly hosts the weekly programme Jools Holland on BBC Radio 2, which is a mix of live and recorded music and general chat and features studio guests, along with members of his orchestra.
Education
Holland was educated at Shooters Hill Grammar School, a former state grammar school on Red Lion Gate in Shooter's Hill (near Woolwich), in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in southeast London, from which he was expelled for damaging a teacher's Triumph Herald.[2]
Life and career
Holland played as a session musician before finding fame, and his first studio session was with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs in 1976 on their track "Fuck Off".[3]
Holland was a founding member of the British pop band Squeeze, formed in March 1974, in which he played keyboards until 1981 and helped the band to achieve millions of record sales, before pursuing his solo career.[3]
Holland began issuing solo records in 1978, his first EP being Boogie Woogie '78. He continued his solo career through the early 1980s, releasing an album and several singles between 1981 and 1984. He branched out into TV, co-presenting the Newcastle-based TV music show The Tube with Paula Yates. Holland achieved notoriety by inadvertently using the phrase "be there, or be an ungroovey fucker" in an early evening TV trailer, live across two channels, for the show, causing him to be suspended from the show for six weeks.[4] He referred to this in his sitcom "The Groovy Fellers" with Rowland Rivron.
In 1983 Holland played an extended piano solo on The The's re-recording of "Uncertain Smile" for the album Soul Mining. In 1985, Squeeze (which had continued in Holland's absence through to 1982) unexpectedly regrouped including Jools Holland as their keyboard player. Holland remained in the band until 1990, at which point, he again departed Squeeze to resume his solo career as a musician and a TV host.
In 1987, Holland formed the Jools Holland Big Band, which consisted of himself and Gilson Lavis from Squeeze. This gradually became his 18-piece Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.[3]
Between 1988 and 1990 he performed and co-hosted along with David Sanborn during the two seasons of the music performance programme Sunday Night on NBC late-night television.[5] Since 1992 he has presented the music programme Later... with Jools Holland, plus an annual New Year's Eve Hootenanny.
In 1996, Holland signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records,[3] and his records are now marketed through Rhino Records.
Holland has a touring band, the Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, which often includes singers Sam Brown and Ruby Turner and his younger brother, singer-songwriter and keyboard player, Christopher Holland. In January 2005 Holland and his band performed with Eric Clapton as the headline act of the Tsunami Relief Cardiff.
On 4 June 2012 Holland performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace in London. Also in June 2012, he presented a programme about the popular songs of London on BBC Two.
Jools presents a weekly programme on BBC Radio 2, combining guests and chat, with recorded and live music.
Personal life
Holland's relationship with his partner, Mary, by whom he had children, came to an end when he began a relationship with Christabel McEwen. Previous to that, he had lived with Mary and his children in east London.
On 29 August 2005, Holland married Christabel McEwen, his girlfriend of 15 years and daughter of artist Rory McEwen. Between 1983 and 1995 she was married to Edward Lambton, 7th Earl of Durham. The wedding, at St James' Church, Cooling, near Rochester, Kent, was attended by many celebrities, including Ringo Starr, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Lenny Henry, Noel Gallagher, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.[6]
Holland lives in the Westcombe Park area of Blackheath in southeast London, where he had his studio, Helicon Mountain, built to his design and inspired by Portmeirion, the setting for the 1960s TV series The Prisoner.[7] He also owns a house built in the medieval ruins of Cooling Castle in Kent.[8]
He received an OBE in 2003 in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, for services to the British music industry as a television presenter and musician. In September 2006 Holland was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent.[9] Holland was appointed an honorary fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University at a ceremony held at Canterbury Cathedral on 30 January 2009.[10] In August 2012, Holland was made honorary colonel of the Royal Engineers 101 (City of London Engineer Regiment), currently in the bomb disposal role.
Known for his charity work, in June 2006 Holland performed in Southend for HIV/AIDS charity Mildmay,[11] and in early 2007 he performed at Wells and Rochester Cathedrals to raise money for maintaining cathedral buildings.[12] He is also patron of Drake Music [13] and has raised many thousands of pounds for the charity.
A noted fan of the 1960s TV series The Prisoner,[7] Holland owns costumes and props from the series and occasionally appears wearing the trademark brown-with-white-pipe blazer featured in it. In 1987, Holland demonstrated his love of the series and starred in a spoof documentary, The Laughing Prisoner, with Stephen Fry, Terence Alexander and Hugh Laurie.[7] Much of it was shot on location in Portmeirion, with archive footage of Patrick McGoohan, and featuring musical numbers from Siouxsie and the Banshees, Magnum and XTC. Holland performed a number towards the end of the programme.
Holland was an interviewer for The Beatles Anthology TV project, and appeared in the 1997 film Spiceworld as a musical director.
In 2008, Holland commissioned TV series Bangla Bangers (Chop Shop) to create a replica of the legendary Rover Jet 1 for personal use. Holland is a greyhound racing supporter and has previously owned dogs.[14]
Writing
His 2007 biography, Barefaced Lies and Boogie Woogie Boasts, was BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week" in the week beginning 8 October 2007 and was read by Holland.
Angela Brown *24.01.1953
Angela Brown (* 1953 in Chicago, Illinois) ist eine US-amerikanische Blues-Sängerin, die in Osnabrück lebt. Sie ist eine der bedeutendsten in Deutschland lebenden Bluessängerinnen.
Sie sang zunächst in der Kirche, nahm Schauspielunterricht und arbeitete einige Jahre als Schauspielerin. In einem Musical spielte sie die Rolle von Bessie Smith und kam auf diesem Weg zum Blues.
1982 wurde sie Mitglied der Erwin Helfer Band. 1983 kam sie als Mitglied der Chicago All-Stars erstmals nach Europa. Sie war mit Erwin Helfer und dem International Blues Duo auf Tournee. 1986 war sie erneut mit den Chicago Allstars auf einer erfolgreichen Tournee.
Zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre zog Angela Brown nach Deutschland und ist eine wichtige Sängerin der europäischen Jazz - und Bluesszene. Sie trat beispielsweise bei der Internationalen Jazzwoche Burghausen auf.[1] Sie arbeitete mit den Pianisten Christian Christel, Jan Luley und Christian Rannenberg zusammen.
b. 1953, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Brown began her musical career by singing gospel music in church and although she was aware of the blues she did not sing them until around 1980, when she played the role of Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey in a stage musical. Following this, she worked in the numerous Chicago blues clubs, often accompanied by pianists Little Brother Montgomery or Erwin Helfer. Her debut recordings were released by the Red Beans label in 1983, and the first album under her own name was made in 1987 for the German label Schubert. Although she was dubbed ‘the Bessie Smith of the 80s’, a deserved title given her strong renditions of vaudeville blues material, her powerful voice is also well-suited to more modern blues styles. In the 90s she became a popular attraction at blues festivals all over the world. She was backed by English beat combo the Mighty 45s on 1999’s Thinking Out Loud. This recent work, although good, sounded a little too polished and clean. The unlikely, tranquil setting of Wisley, Surrey, England, may have had some unconscious effect on proceedings. Carey Bell added some fine harmonica throughout, and Willie Dixon’s voice was sampled on ‘Lay It On ‘Em Girls’.
Angela Brown & Jan Luley: "Oh Papa Blues" (Ma Rainey)
Heiri Belkner *24.01.1961
Sessiondrummer Jazz, Blues, Soul, Funk, Rock- call me
Old Love Bluesband
Wenn du morgens aufstehst, und du fühlst dich schlecht, dann ist es der Blues. Wenn deine Frau dich verlassen hat für einen anderen, dann ist es der Blues. Wenn du nicht weißt, wo du heute Abend deinen Hut hinhängen sollst, dann ist es der Blues.
Der Blues ist ein trauriges Gefühl, das man hören kann, das man fühlen kann, das man aber auch genießen kann. Ohne Blues kannst du auch Buchhalter werden. Ohne Blues fehlt dir was im Leben.
Genau deshalb spielen wir den Blues und all das, was dem Blues nahesteht. Wir haben also auch Soul und tragen ab und an sogar Rock. Für uns ist das aber alles Blues. Der Blues ist ein weites Gewand, unter dem vieles Platz hat, was das Leben leicht und lebenswert macht, aber gelegentlich auch sehr schwer. Wir wissen, dass es manchmal ganz dicke kommt. Aber dann spielen wir unseren Blues, und unser Blues spielt mit uns.
Im Blues liegt Trost, liegt Melancholie, liegt Hoffnung. Wer den Blues singt, lässt sich nicht lähmen vom Alltag. Wer den Blues hat, weiß, dass er nur lange genug wehklagen muss, dann scheint wieder die Sonne. Und wenn sie nicht weiter scheint, dann hast du immer noch den Blues.
Wir spielen unseren Blues, und für uns reicht der Blues von den Tagen der unterdrückten Baumwollpflücker bis in die elektrifizierte Jetztzeit. Wir hören ihn bei Wilson Pickett und bei den Soul Brothers. Blues ist nicht abhängig von der Technik - Blues ist da, wo das Gefühl ist. Hendrix hatte den Blues, Clapton auch oft, J.J. Cale ist ebenso ein Bluesmann wie B.B. King. John Mayer hat den Blues von Ray Charles geliehen, und John Bonamassa spielt den Blues so schön wie die frühen Fleetwood Mac.
Wir haben den Blues von all den Helden, aber wir spielen den Blues auf unsere Art. Mal laut, mal leise, mal verstärkt, mal unplugged. Wir können das, denn wir sind alle vier über 50, und wir haben schon ziemlich viel gesehen von dieser Welt. Wir erinnern uns gerne an das, was ging und auch an das, was nicht ging. Wir hoffen auf das, was noch gehen könnte. Für uns grumpy old men gibt es mehr Gestern als Morgen, genau das mögen wir.
Wir leben hier, wir leben jetzt, wir leben den Blues.
Old Love
R.I.P.
James "Thunderbird" Davis +24.01.1992
James Davis went out the way entertainers often dream of. While performing at the Blues Saloon in St. Paul, MN, he suffered a fatal heart attack in mid-set and died on-stage. The tragic event ended a comeback bid that warmed the heart of blues aficionados; Davis' whereabouts were so unknown prior to his triumphant re-emergence that he was rumored to be dead.
His melismatic vocal delivery betraying strong gospel roots, Davis secured his first pro gig in 1957 as opening act for Guitar Slim. The flamboyant guitarist was responsible for tagging Davis with his "Thunderbird" moniker. Davis lost a drinking contest to his boss that sent him to the hospital; the singer's libation of choice that fateful day was Thunderbird wine (which Davis swore off for life).
Davis signed on with Don Robey's Houston-based Duke Records in 1961. Robey utilized his new discovery as a demo singer for Bobby Bland when Davis wasn't cutting his own singles. Two of Davis' Duke offerings, the tortured blues numbers "Blue Monday" and "Your Turn to Cry," rank with finest blues 45s of the early '60s, but did little for Davis at the time. He left Duke in 1966, opening for Joe Tex and O.V. Wright on the road before settling down.
Check Out Time
After just about giving up entirely on show biz, Davis was tracked down in Houma, LA, by Black Top Records boss Hammond Scott and two cohorts. A 1989 album called Check Out Time was the happy result; sidemen on the date included two former cohorts, bassist Lloyd Lambert (Guitar Slim's bandleader) and guitarist Clarence Hollimon. The resultant acclaim catapulted Davis back into the limelight for the last years of his life.
His melismatic vocal delivery betraying strong gospel roots, Davis secured his first pro gig in 1957 as opening act for Guitar Slim. The flamboyant guitarist was responsible for tagging Davis with his "Thunderbird" moniker. Davis lost a drinking contest to his boss that sent him to the hospital; the singer's libation of choice that fateful day was Thunderbird wine (which Davis swore off for life).
Davis signed on with Don Robey's Houston-based Duke Records in 1961. Robey utilized his new discovery as a demo singer for Bobby Bland when Davis wasn't cutting his own singles. Two of Davis' Duke offerings, the tortured blues numbers "Blue Monday" and "Your Turn to Cry," rank with finest blues 45s of the early '60s, but did little for Davis at the time. He left Duke in 1966, opening for Joe Tex and O.V. Wright on the road before settling down.
Check Out Time
After just about giving up entirely on show biz, Davis was tracked down in Houma, LA, by Black Top Records boss Hammond Scott and two cohorts. A 1989 album called Check Out Time was the happy result; sidemen on the date included two former cohorts, bassist Lloyd Lambert (Guitar Slim's bandleader) and guitarist Clarence Hollimon. The resultant acclaim catapulted Davis back into the limelight for the last years of his life.
James 'Thunderbird' Davis & Ron Levy 'Come By here'
David Lee Durham +24.01.2008
*1943
Born
in Sunflower, Mississippi, in 1943, David Lee Durham was raised in the
blues. He never darkened the door of a schoolhouse and moved from farm
to farm to pick cotton. He could pick 400 pounds of cotton by the age of
thirteen. Music was his release.
Durham was a self-taught musician. Like many other bluesmen, he rigged wire to wall to have some strings to pluck. He finally got his hands on a four-stringed guitar when he was twelve years old and taught himself to play the Jimmy Reed songs he heard on the radio. Once he got down Jimmy Reed’s sound, he went on to practice the styles of other Delta bluesmen. Durham can’t read music; his ear taught him all he knows.
As a young man, Durham would visit the Harlem Club in Inverness, Mississippi, where he would stand on a five-gallon bucket to peek in on Howlin’ Wolf performing for a local crowd. Eventually, Durham began performing in front of an audience himself, and he and his friend, W. H. Lowe, spent many a night playing at country jukes for twenty-five cents or a nickel. During those early days, Durham didn’t sing. Finally, though, he found his voice and the nerve to perform for an audience.
Durham performed with a handful of famous bluesmen over the years and was part of a few different bands. But most knew him as the front man for The Ladies’ Choice Band, which originated in 1975. The band was the Sunday night house band at Club Ebony in Indianola for several years, where they also opened for B. B. King at his annual homecoming concert. In 2004, the band won the Delta’s Regional Blues Challenge.That same year, the Mississippi Delta Blues Society of Indianola named Durham “Blues Musician of the Year.”
Durham’s style was an amalgamation of all of the bluesmen he listened to over the years: B. B. King, Albert King, and Little Milton Campbell. That signature sound inspired his last group, The True Blues Band. The band recorded a CD, "Struggling and Straining," released in 2006 which included a couple of original songs by Durham.
Durham passed away unexpectedly on January 24, 2008 at the age of sixty-five.
Durham was a self-taught musician. Like many other bluesmen, he rigged wire to wall to have some strings to pluck. He finally got his hands on a four-stringed guitar when he was twelve years old and taught himself to play the Jimmy Reed songs he heard on the radio. Once he got down Jimmy Reed’s sound, he went on to practice the styles of other Delta bluesmen. Durham can’t read music; his ear taught him all he knows.
As a young man, Durham would visit the Harlem Club in Inverness, Mississippi, where he would stand on a five-gallon bucket to peek in on Howlin’ Wolf performing for a local crowd. Eventually, Durham began performing in front of an audience himself, and he and his friend, W. H. Lowe, spent many a night playing at country jukes for twenty-five cents or a nickel. During those early days, Durham didn’t sing. Finally, though, he found his voice and the nerve to perform for an audience.
Durham performed with a handful of famous bluesmen over the years and was part of a few different bands. But most knew him as the front man for The Ladies’ Choice Band, which originated in 1975. The band was the Sunday night house band at Club Ebony in Indianola for several years, where they also opened for B. B. King at his annual homecoming concert. In 2004, the band won the Delta’s Regional Blues Challenge.That same year, the Mississippi Delta Blues Society of Indianola named Durham “Blues Musician of the Year.”
Durham’s style was an amalgamation of all of the bluesmen he listened to over the years: B. B. King, Albert King, and Little Milton Campbell. That signature sound inspired his last group, The True Blues Band. The band recorded a CD, "Struggling and Straining," released in 2006 which included a couple of original songs by Durham.
Durham passed away unexpectedly on January 24, 2008 at the age of sixty-five.
David Lee Durham - Rootsway Blues Festival - Parma - Italy (2006) Part 2
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