Rocketman (2019) is a film based on Elton John’s life starring Taron Egerton as Elton John, and Jamie Bell as Bernie Taupin.
Elton John achieved success when his eponymous second album spawned the hit “Your Song.” The album was produced by Gus Dudgeon, former producer of the Bonzo Dog Band.
Ringo Starr achieved his greatest solo success with the album Ringo, the closest the Beatles had ever come to a full reunion, as they all played on the album.
As a child, Richard Starkey (who would later become Ringo Starr) spent a total of three years in hospitals.
When he was six, Starkey suffered complications after an appendectomy, which left him hospitalized for a year. Then, as a teenager, he contracted tuberculosis, and spent another two years in a sanatorium.
While he was confined to the the sanatorium, Starkey was recruited to join the hospital band, which is where he became a drummer.
Ringo Starr has been in over 40 films or documentaries, including Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Son of Dracula, and The Day The Music Died.
Many well-known people born in the first half of the 20th century spent extended periods in hospitals as children, but unlike Richard Starkey / Ringo Starr, their illness was not tuberculosis but polio. Many of them felt that the experience had a major impact on their lives and future careers, including Donald Sutherland, Itzhak Perlman, Ben Bradlee (later of the Washington Post), Francis Ford Coppola, Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell.
Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell have both appeared nude on their album covers or gatefolds.
The comic strip Dennis the Menace debuted on March 12, 1951, in 16 newspapers. The strip chronicles the antics of five-year-old Dennis Mitchell and his long-suffering parents.
The comic was authored by Hank Ketcham until he retired in 1994. It is now produced by two of Ketcham’s former assistants and Ketcham’s son. It is distributed to at least 1,000 newspapers in 48 countries and in 19 languages.
Hank Ketcham died in 2001.
Hank Ketcham grew up in Seattle WA. After high school he attended the University of Washington but dropped out after his first year and hitchhiked to Los Angeles, hoping to work for Walt Disney.
Hank Aaron retired as Major League Baseball’s all-time home run leader, with 755 career home runs. However, he only led the National League in home runs for a season four times over the course of his 23-year career – he achieved the career record by being an extremely consistent power hitter Over a seventeen-season span (1957-1973), Aaron only failed to hit at least 25 home runs once.
Aaron Aaronsohn was a botanist and agronomist who, with his assistant Avshalom Feinberg, his sister Sarah Aaronsohn and a few others, organized Nili, a ring of Jewish residents of Palestine who spied for Britain against the Ottomans (who were allied with the Germans) during World War I.
In 1915, a plague of locusts stripped areas of Palestine and Jordan of almost all vegetation; the Turkish authorities, worried about feeding their troops, turned to Aaron Aaronsohn as the region’s leading agronomist. He and his assistant, Avshalom Feinberg, were given permission to move around the country. This enabled them to collect strategic information about Ottoman camps and troop deployment which they passed on to Britain.
According to 755homeruns.com, Hank Aaron hit seventy of his seven-hundred fifty-five home runs while facing pitchers who are now in the National Baseball Hall of Fame such as Sandy Koufax, Nolan Ryan, and Tom Seaver.
According to a 2015 survey of thousands of US fast-food employees by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, 79 percent of industry workers had been burned on the job in the previous year — most more than once.
The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHAct) was passed to prevent workers from being killed or seriously harmed at work.
According to osha.gov, in 2018, 5,250 workers died on the job (Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Summary, 2021 - 2021 A01 Results). That is 3.5 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers — on average, more than 100 a week or more than 14 deaths every day.
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Kris Kristofferson performed a controversial set at the 1970 Isle of Wright musical festival. Due to poor sound, the audience was unable to hear his set, and it appeared that they were jeering him. He was eventually booed off the stage because the audience could not properly hear his song “Blame It on the Stones” and ignorant members of the audience assumed he was criticising the Rolling Stones and the whole youth movement. “It was a total disaster,” Kristofferson recalled. “They just hated us. They hated everything. They booed us, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Sly Stone; they threw shit at Jimi Hendrix. At the end of the night, they were tearing down the outer walls, setting fire to the concessions, burning their tents, shouting obscenities. Peace and love it was not.”
Is it Wight or is it wong? 
The Solent strait separates the Isle of Wight from the mainland of England. It is 20 miles long, and from 2.5 to 5 miles wide, although at the west end it does squeeze down to about 1 mile wide near Hurst Castle. The Solent was originally a river valley, and then global warming gradually widened and deepened over many thousands of years.
Country music singer George Strait has had the most #1 songs (44) on Billboard’s country chart of any performer, surpassing the previous record, held by Conway Twitty, of 40 #1 songs.
Strait also holds the record of having had at least one song reach the top 10 of a Billboard chart in 30 consecutive years (1981-2010).
9 to 5: The Musical is a 2008 musical based on the 1980 film of the same name, with music and lyrics by country music legend Dolly Parton. It features a book by Patricia Resnick, based on the screenplay by Resnick and Colin Higgins. The musical premiered in Los Angeles in September 2008, and opened on Broadway in April 2009. It received 15 Drama Desk Award nominations, the most received by a production in a single year, as well as four Tony Awards nominations. The Broadway production however was short-lived, closing in September 2009. A national tour of the US launched in 2010, followed by a UK premiere in 2012. It opened in the West End in February 2019.
Dolly Parton grew up “dirt poor” in a rustic, one-room cabin in Locust Ridge TN, about 35 miles east of Knoxville (gMap >> Google Maps). Her early success came with songwriting, and she wrote songs with her uncle, Buck Owen.
Hee Haw, a country-music themed variety and humor show, ran on CBS from 1969 through 1971. The hosts for most of the shows were Buck Owens and Roy Clark. The show featured country music artists, corn pone humor, and, most importantly to this teen-aged male, the Hee Haw Honeys, a group of scantily-clad women wearing stereotypical farmer’s daughter outfits.