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Billy Dove
[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
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Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
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Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.34364
Call Number: LC-B2- 5749-13
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Billy Sunday
[1917]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.18810
Call Number: LC-B2- 3435-2
Billy got upset with me for posting the previous portrait of him smoking a cigar. He made me take another photo that better represents his character.
Yaaaaaaaaaah, whatever Billy.
Now that his brother has moved to his own room, Billy is is the process of making the space his own.
Billy is just waiting for his friend Rosie to be spayed and then they'll be leaving the rescue centre to join their new family. Lucky people ... these two are gorgeous!
Billy Idol performing during the Rock n' Soul Dance Party Superjam at Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee on June 15, 2013 - William Michael Albert Broad - © 2020 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions concert photography archives - performanceimpressions.com
Another highlight from Mum's collection. There used to be regular rock n roll shows at The Windmill in Great Yarmouth.
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Ronald Wycherley (17 April 1940 – 28 January 1983), better known by his stage name Billy Fury, was an English singer from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. Rheumatic fever, which he first contracted as a child, damaged his heart and ultimately contributed to his death.[4] An early British rock and roll (and film) star, he equalled the Beatles' record of 24 hits in the 1960s, and spent 332 weeks on the UK chart, without a chart-topping single or album.[5]
AllMusic journalist Bruce Eder stated, "His mix of rough-hewn good looks and unassuming masculinity, coupled with an underlying vulnerability, all presented with a good voice and some serious musical talent, helped turn Fury into a major rock and roll star in short order".[4] Others have suggested that Fury's rapid rise to prominence was due to his "Elvis Presley-influenced hip swivelling and, at times, highly suggestive stage act.
Ronald Wycherley was born at Smithdown Hospital (later Sefton General Hospital, now demolished), Smithdown Road, Liverpool. He commenced music lessons on the piano before he was a teenager, and was bought his first guitar by the age of 14. Wycherley fronted his own group in 1955, but simultaneously worked full-time on a tugboat and later as a docker. He entered and won a talent competition, and by 1958 had started composing his own songs.[4]
Wycherley went to meet pop manager and impresario Larry Parnes at the Essoldo Theatre in Birkenhead,[7] hoping to interest one of Parnes' protégés, well-known singer Marty Wilde, in some of the songs he had written. Instead, in an episode that has become pop music legend, Parnes pushed young Wycherley up on stage right away.[4] He was such an immediate success that Parnes signed him, added him to the tour, and renamed him 'Billy Fury'.[8] However, his early sexual and provocative stage performances received censure, and he was forced to tone them down.[4] In October 1959, the UK music magazine, NME, commented that Fury's stage antics had been drawing much press criticism.[9]
He released his first hit single for Decca, "Maybe Tomorrow", in 1959.[8] He also appeared in a televised play Strictly for Sparrows, and subsequently on Oh Boy![4] In March 1960, he reached No. 9 in the UK Singles Chart with his own composition "Colette",[5] followed by "That's Love" and his first album The Sound of Fury (1960),[8] which featured a young Joe Brown on lead guitar,[4] with backup vocals by the Four Jays.
After securing more hits and jettisoning his band Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames,[8] Parnes held auditions in Liverpool for a new group. Among those who auditioned were the Beatles,[4] who at this time were still calling themselves the Silver Beetles. They were offered the job for £20 a week on condition that they sacked their bassist Stuart Sutcliffe. John Lennon refused and the band left after Lennon had secured Fury's autograph.[10]
The Tornados were recruited as Fury's backing band and toured and recorded with him from January 1962 to August 1963. The Puppets were another band that backed Fury at a couple of gigs for 12 months.
Fury concentrated less on rock and roll and more on mainstream ballads, such as "Halfway to Paradise" and "Jealousy"[8] (which reached No. 3 and No. 2 respectively in the UK Singles Chart in 1961). Fury confessed to the NME that "I wanted people to think of me simply as a singer – and not, more specifically, as a rock singer. I'm growing up, and I want to broaden my scope. I shall continue to sing rock songs, but at the same time my stage act is not going to be as wild in the future".[11] It was Decca's decision to mould Fury into a teen idol after his last self-penned song, "My Christmas Prayer", had failed to chart. The years 1961 through 1963 were Fury's best years chartwise. In 1962, he appeared in his first film, Play It Cool, modelled on the Elvis films.[4] It featured Helen Shapiro, Danny Williams, Shane Fenton and Bobby Vee, who appeared with the Vernons Girls. The hit single from the film was "Once Upon a Dream". There were other notable performances by several British actors and performers such as Richard Wattis, Lionel Blair and Dennis Price.
Fury's We Want Billy! (1963) was one of the first live albums in UK rock history, and featured renditions of his hits and cover versions of several R&B songs such as "Unchain My Heart".
In 1965 he appeared in the film I've Gotta Horse,[8] which also featured his backing group the Gamblers, the Bachelors, Amanda Barrie, Michael Medwin and Jon Pertwee. The album from the film was made available in stereo. Fury left Decca Records in 1966, after signing to a five-year recording contract with Parlophone.[4]
Having had more UK hits, such as "It's Only Make Believe" and "I Will" (written by Dick Glasser, not to be confused with the Paul McCartney song), both in 1964, and "In Thoughts of You" (1965), Fury began a lengthy absence from the charts in 1967, and underwent surgery for heart problems in 1972 and 1976 which led to his abandoning touring.[4][8] Despite spending many weeks in the charts, Fury never achieved a number one single, but he remained popular even after his hits stopped. "I Will" became a US hit for Dean Martin (1965) and for Ruby Winters (1977).
The exhibition of the prototype dolls made by Billy Boy during '84-'85. His original signed drawings were displayed as well. Billy Boy, this talented artist was the FIRST person who has brought "customizing" into spotlight and officialized publicly this form of expression.. After these prototypes, the very first designer Barbie "FEELIN' GROOVY" was made by Mattel. All these dolls' outfits are carefully made with high fashion materials such as embroidered fabrics, silk, velvet, leather, fur(!), big jewelleries. After more than one decade they're still incredibly stimulating and refreshing.
Some shots from the previous "Barbie in Brussels" Convention..
Billy Fury, born Ronald Wycherley (17 April 1940 - 28 January 1983), was an internationally successful British pop singer from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. This bronze statue, by Liverpool sculptor Tom Murphy, was unveiled at the Albert Dock in 2003. In the background is the River Mersey and Birkenhead.
He performed one of his most remembered songs live on British television in January 1983, just four days before his death.
This is the second in
my series of photos of
Billy Beck,
the legendary clown
who performed at the
Cirque Medrano in
Paris many moons ago
with Buster Keaton
and other stars.
This was the first time
in forty years he
reinvented his tramp
character, and put on
his makeup and old
tattered jacket. He bought
the jacket, like this old
violin,
in Paris
right after the end
of WWII.
This was taken
outside his little
home
On Robinson Street
in
Silverlake,
just east of Hollywood
on a warm November
day made even warmer
by my proximity
to this wonderful man.
Billy was handed into the local vets, a lady had been feeding him in her garden. He was checked, no ID tag. They called and asked if I wanted to take him on. Billy is a very large Tom, with massive paws. He seems very loving, and really likes to be cuddled in your arms upside down...
Billy sleeps on a blanket covering the photo-copier. He likes to sleep up off the floor so he can watch the other cats from up high. 6:59pm, Thursday the 2nd of October, 2014.
Billy Talent is a Canadian punk rock band from Mississauga, Ontario. They formed in 1993 with Benjamin Kowalewicz as the lead vocalist, Ian D'Sa on guitar, bassist Jon Gallant and drummer Aaron Solowoniuk.
Billy Talent - Afraid Of Heights ''Mastered for Headphones'' [Full Album] Klipsch's "Specially Mastered for Headphones" edition, with no loudness-war.
Track listing: Published on Dec 10, 2016
00:01 - Big Red Gun
03:21 - Afraid Of Heights
07:08 - Ghost Ship Of Cannibal Rats
10:48 - Louder Than The DJ
14:15 - The Crutch
18:35 - Rabbit Down The Hole
24:54 - Time-Bomb Ticking Away
28:20 - Leave Them All Behind
33:17 - Horses & Chariots
36:58 - This Is Our War
41:03 - February Winds
45:26 - Afraid Of Heights (Reprise)
Billy has an angry look on his face as he has a stand-off with Rupert in the chair. one of Rupert's back feet can be seen against Billy's neck. Rupert and Billy had been sleeping together for a short while when Billy decided he wanted to sleep on his own. A stand-off between the two cats then occurred before Rupert got up and left Billy to sleep on his own. 5:17pm, Friday the 24th of April, 2015.
Sometimes it's time to take a break from jumping, climbing, chasing, catching and all the other activities on which Billy spends his time awake. Here he's lying on the base of the "monster" scratch post, together with one of his new friends that we picked up in a recycle store. For some reason this is a more realistic partner in play for Billy than the other soft toys lying around.
BILLY DUFFY: Influential Mancunian rock guitarist of ‘The Cult’ was born in Hulme in 1961. Growing up in Wythenshawe in the 1970s, Billy became a leading figure in the early Manchester music scene, notably inspiring and mentoring his pal Johnny Marr's guitar playing and encouraging Morrissey to make his singing debut with Duffy in 'The Nosebleeds' in the late 70s. Billy Duffy and The Cult, went on to be one of the biggest hard rock acts of the 80s and early 90s, their 'Electric' and ‘Sonic Temple’ albums went platinum in the US. Billy now lives in Los Angeles, but returns to Manchester as often possible to visit family and friends and watch his beloved Man City.
GREATER MANCUNIANS is a Manchester College student led landmark photography project (supported by Manchester City Council). It features those people born, bred, or who have made their home within the current Greater Manchester boundary and who have in some way culturally shaped the city and its surrounding boroughs.
The project will be published and exhibited in a major city centre exhibition in 2021/22.