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Freddie Mercury – Legend of Rock

Freddie Mercury - Legend of Rock

Freddie Mercury – Legend of Rock

Freddie Mercury was a British singer, songwriter, lead singer of rock band Queen. He was the author of hits including Seven Seas of Rhye, Killer Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody, Somebody to Love, We Are the Champions, Crazy Little Thing Called Love and others. In 2002, Freddie took 58th place in the list of 100 Greatest Britons. In 2008, Rolling Stone magazine placed him 18th in the list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Allmusic described him as “one of the greatest rock singers, and the owner of one of the greatest voices in the history of music”.
Farrukh Bulsara (his real name) was born on September 5, 1946 in Stone Town, Zanzibar. His father worked as a clerk at the Supreme Court of England and Wales. In 1952, Farrukh’s sister was born.
In 1954, the boy was sent to St. Peter’s School in Panchgani. Bollywood singer Lata Mangeshkar had a great influence on Farrukh. His name was inconvenient for pronunciation, so his English-speaking classmates called him Freddie.
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Gene Vincent – Star of Rockabilly

Gene Vincent – Star of Rockabilly

Gene Vincent – Star of Rockabilly

Gene Vincent was the star of the American rockabilly mid-50s, one of the pioneers of rock and roll, went down in history with the hit Be Bop a Lula (1956).
Vincent Eugene Craddock was born on February 11, 1935 in Norfolk, Virginia. He grew up in an atmosphere of country music, rhythm and blues, and gospel music. Egmont Overture by Beethoven was one of his favorite. The boy showed real interest in music when his family lived in the town of Mundy Point, Virginia, near the border with North Carolina. His first guitar 12-year-old Vincent received as a gift from his friend. His father was US Navy Coast Guard volunteer, who patrolled US coastal waters to protect shipping allies from German submarines during World War II. His mother worked as a salesgirl in a shop in nearby town. Over time, the parents opened their own shop and sewing workshop in Norfolk. As a child Craddock wanted to become a sailor.
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Hillel Slovak – Red Hot Chili Peppers co-founder

Hillel Slovak - Red Hot Chili Peppers co-founder

Hillel Slovak – Red Hot Chili Peppers co-founder


Hillel Slovak was an American musician of Israeli origin, who played in the group What’s This? He was co-founder and the first guitarist of Red Hot Chili Peppers. His playing style strongly influenced early RHCP, because John Frusciante who replaced Hillel was his fan. Subsequently, he was the subject of several RHCP songs including Otherside, Knock Me Down, My Lovely Man, Skinny Sweaty Man, Taste the Pain and Feasting On The Flowers.
Hillel Slovak was born on April 13, 1962 in Haifa, Israel, into a Jewish family who survived the Holocaust. The family emigrated to the United States, when Slovak was 5 years old. They settled in New York, but later, in 1967, moved to southern California. As a child the boy was fond of art, and often painted his mother.
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Florence Ballard – American singer

Florence Ballard - American singer

Florence Ballard – American singer

Florence Ballard was an American singer. She is known as a member of the band The Supremes together with Diana Ross and Mary Wilson.
Florence Glenda Ballard was born on June 30, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan. She became the eighth of thirteen children. She was brought up in the Brewster Housing Project in Detroit. Friends and parents called her Flo. From early childhood the girl loved music. Her father perfectly played the guitar. At first Ballard sang in the church choir, and then began to study music at a special school.
Ballard was just sixteen when she was snapped up by Gordy to join a female band. Ross, Wilson and Ballard began singing together in a group Primettes (which later, in 1961, was renamed Supremes). Beginning with Where Did Our Love Go? and Baby Love (1964), The Supremes racked up twelve US number ones before 1970.
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Bobby Darin – singer and actor

Bobby Darin – singer and actor

Bobby Darin – singer and actor

Bobby Darin was an American singer and actor of Italian descent. He was one of the most popular performers of jazz and rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Darin is widely known for his performance in several musical genres, including pop, rock and roll, jazz, folk and blues. Bobby starred in 12 films from 1961 to 1973. He wanted “to remain in the memory of the audience a great performer of his time.” Darin was also a spokesman for the American Heart Association.
Walden Robert Cassotto (his birth name) was born on May 14, 1936 in Bronx, New York. His father disappeared a few months before the birth of his son. This time, went down in history as the height of the Great Depression. As a result, his mother had to take care of his son alone. This lasted until he became an adult, and learned that the woman, who raised him, in fact, was his grandmother, and the second woman, whom Darin thought his sister was actually his mother. Darin was extremely weak from infancy. His main disease from an early age was a heart defect. Thanks to his talent for music he was able to achieve success. He played the piano, drums, guitar, harmonica and xylophone.
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Gil Scott-Heron – soul and jazz poet

Gil Scott-Heron - soul and jazz poet

Gil Scott-Heron – soul and jazz poet

Gil Scott-Heron was an American musician. His collaboration with musician Brian Jackson represented a fusion of jazz, blues and soul, and the texts were about social and political issues of his time, and were performed in the form of recitative. His music, especially albums Pieces of a Man and Winter in America, later influenced and contributed to the emergence of African-American music genres such as hip-hop and neo soul. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is one of his most famous compositions. Since he became famous, his poetic style had an influence on each generation of hip-hop artists. In 2010, he released his first new album in 16 years I’m New Here; shortly before the death of the musician the remix version of the album titled We’re New Here was released. He called himself bluesologist.
Gilbert Scott-Heron was born on April 1, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois. His mother was an accomplished opera singer, and his father was a Jamaican soccer star, who’d played for Glasgow Celtic. However, his parents broke up and the boy lived with his grandmother in Tennessee.
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Dennis Wilson – American musician

Dennis Wilson - American musician

Dennis Wilson – American musician

Dennis Wilson was an American musician, known primarily as a drummer, singer and songwriter of rock band The Beach Boys. He was a brother of Brian and Carl Wilson.
Dennis Carl Wilson was born on December 4, 1944 in Hawthorne, California. His brothers Brian and Carl and their cousin Mike Love became members of The Beach Boys, a band organized by their father in 1961. Dennis was engaged in surfing and inspired the band.
In 1968 he met musician Charles Manson. At one time, Manson and his “family” lived in Wilson’s mansion. Manson hoped that Wilson would help him to establish contacts in professional music world. Manson and The Beach Boys recorded the song Never Learn Not To Love, which was included in the 20/20 album. A year later, Manson was convicted as an organizer of mass murder in Hollywood, including the infamous mass slaughter at the home of Sharon Tate, the then pregnant actress wife of film director Roman Polanski.
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