1. Glastonbury Festival — 2023-10-09 23:45:46

   …on" death_date="now" death_place="" }} {{amazon type="menu" items="Rock Festival " }} == Glastonbury Festival == ~- [[Music]]: [[Entertainment]]: [[1900s]] {{toc}} Glastonbury is the **largest** greenfield festival in the **world**. === Micha…
   …="1970"}} years, starting with a crowd of 1500, Glastonbury now draws over **170,000** each summer for a celebration of music, art, and culture. **Glastonbury Fayre**, as it was then, cost **£1** (one pound) with free milk included was held th…
   …on every year. The tickets **always** sell out. With one exception, 2008 when headline act was rapper Jay-Z, it is a //music// festival. {{Tag ids="Rock music festival "}}…

2. Marshall Amplification — 2023-10-07 09:45:58

   …uum_Tube| Vacuum tubes]] and produced a tone that some musicians still favour today. So the Marshall production facility, sited in Bletchley, England, still uses "valves". ::c:: …
   … the instrument pioneers Leo Fender, Robert Moog, Les Paul and Bill Ludwig. He was appointed an OBE for his services to music and charity in 2003. …

3. Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07

   …} Alexanders invention of the **telephone** was very much influenced by his parents. His mother, who was deaf, was a musician and a painter of portraits. {{Image url="BellCentennialTransmitter.jpg" class="left" title="Bell Centennial Transmi…

4. Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52

   … Ronalds' garden. Charles Wheatstone was one of the outstanding academics of the 19th Century. He worked in his fathers music shop in Gloucester then in London developing musical instruments. His experiments with sound led him to coin the terms …

5. Stereo — 2023-09-23 15:56:38

   …Stereo :: === Alan Blumlein 1931 === ~-[[Technology]]:[[Music]]:[[1900s]] {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="Alan_Dower_Blumlein.jpg" Who="Alan Dower Blumlein" width="250" birth_da…

6. iPod — 2023-09-23 15:52:55

   …iPod :: === Kane Kramer 1979 === ~-[[Technology]]:[[Music]]:[[1900s]] {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="Kane.jpg" title="Kane Kramer" width="280" birth_date="April 23, 1956" …
   … built the device in 1979 – when he was just 23. {{{toc}}} His invention, called the IXI, stored only 3.5 minutes of music on to a chip – but Mr Kramer rightly believed its capacity would improve. ::c:: {{image url="Ipod.jpg" width="200" cl…
   … showed a credit-card-sized player with a rectangular screen and a central menu button to scroll through a selection of music tracks – very similar to the iPod. == Patent == He took out a worldwide patent and set up a company to develop the …

7. Olivia Newton John — 2023-04-06 17:15:33

   …" width="" birth_date="September 26th 1948" birth_place="Cambridge" death_date="8/8/2022" death_place="California" }} [[Music]] == Olivia Newton-John == Olivia Newton-John is a singer, songwriter and actress. === Cambridge England 1948 === Ol…
   …n Song Contest// with the song "**Long Live Love**". Newton-John's career hit new heights when she starred in the film musical **Grease** in 1978. She played the lead role of Sandy. {{Image url="GreaseNewton-John.jpg" class="left" title="Greas…

8. Loudspeaker — 2021-11-07 21:26:37

   …h_date="22 August 1940" death_place="Wiltshire" }} === Oliver Lodge 1898 === ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]:[[Communication]]:[[Music]]:[[1800s]] The first loudspeaker to be driven by a **moving coil** – known today as dynamic loudspeakers – was in…
   … between the inner and outer poles of a moving coil transducer. At this time there was little need to amplify recorded music, that was still in its infancy, but telephone communication was pushing the need for better audio reproduction. Lodge'…

9. Microphone — 2021-11-07 21:26:04

   …h_date="22/1/1900" death_place="London" }} === David Edward Hughes 1878 === ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]:[[Communication]]:[[Music]]:[[1800s]] Hughes invented the first practical working carbon microphone in 1878. David Edward Hughes was probably …

10. Charlie Chaplin — 2021-08-20 11:11:51

    …rles_Chaplin_plaque.jpg" class="left" title="Charlie Chaplin blue plaque" width="280" }} Chaplin's parents were both music hall entertainers. Hannah, the daughter of a shoemaker, had a career under the stage name Lily Harley, while Charles …
    … to a mental asylum due to a psychosis caused by syphilis and malnutrition. === Change of Fortune === Charlie became a music-hall clown in 1906 with Fred Karno's Mumming Birds company. Karno toured the USA in 1913 and his act was seen by film …
    … an instrumental theme used in the soundtrack for the 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie **Modern Times**. Chaplin composed the music, while John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons added the lyrics and title in 1954 and sung by Nat King Cole. For Limelight, C…

11. Beatles — 2021-08-20 10:46:43

    …Beatles :: == The Beatles == ~-[[Music]]::[[Entertainment]]::[[1900s]] {{Image url="Beatles.jpg" class="right" title="Beatles" width="" }} Probably the most p…
    …1964" Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show */ == The Global Invasion == They held and still hold many records in the music industry. ~- Biggest All-Times Sales. 600 million. ~- Most No.1 Singles On UK Charts (Band): 17. ~- Most No.1 Singles …

12. Stan Laurel — 2021-08-14 21:08:01

    …r Stanley Jefferson** in Argyle Street, **Ulverston** 16 June 1890 in [[Lancashire]] now [[Cumbria]], [[England]]. == Music Hall == His career began in the British pantomime and music hall. Developing his skills in comedic sketches. Laurel was…

13. USA anthem — 2021-08-09 22:14:22

    …birth_place="Gloucester" death_date="September 21, 1836" death_place="London" }} === John Stafford Smith 1770 === ~-[[Music]]:[[Society]]:[[1700s]] The national anthem of the United States of America was composed by John Stafford Smith, born i…
    …r of the select Anacreontic Society who's members included such persons as Samuel Johnson. In the 1770s, Smith composed music for the society's constitutional song entitled **To Anacreon in Heaven** (The Anacreontic Song). The words were by **Ra…

14. Potato Crisp — 2020-08-06 08:17:45

    …th="320" }} Dr. Kitchiner lived at 43 Warren Street, Camden [[London]] [[England]]. He was a man of eclectic interests, music, optics and spectacles and improving **telescopes**. He wrote books on all his interests in plain enthusiastic English.…

15. Monty Python — 2020-08-06 07:48:50

    …edy [[Television]] sketch show of 45 episodes broadcast by the BBC between 1969 and 1974. The show had a catchy theme music by the Band of the Grenadier Guards' of John Philip Sousa's "The Liberty Bell". == So British == The show, which was c…

16. Motor Racing Circuit — 2018-05-20 20:38:53

    …lop** in the 1920s. They inspired [[James_bond| Ian Fleming]] to write the children's book that became a film and stage musical **Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang**. {{Image url="Chitty1.jpg" class="left" title="Chitty 1 at Brooklands" width="500" }} Th…

17. English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55

    … World War II, the growing economic and cultural influence of the United States, the global interests in movies and Pop music from Britain and the USA all accelerated the spread of the language. == Fragmenting == As the language spreads it gets…

18. Thriller — 2017-05-19 15:12:25

    …Thriller :: [[Music]]=== Rod Temperton 1983 === {{Databox caption="Composer" Image="RodTemperton.jpg" width="" title="Rod Temperton" birt…
    …1 October 2016" death_place="London" }} {{toc}} **Rodney Lynn Temperton** (born 15 October 1947) composer, producer and musician from Cleethorpes, [[Lincolnshire]], [[England]], wrote the iconic title track for the **best-selling album** ever *…

19. Jimi Hendrix Experience — 2016-06-02 09:48:10

    …Jimi Hendrix Experience :: [[Music]] == Jimi Hendrix Experience == {{Image url="HendrixExperience.jpg" class="right" title="Hendrix Experience" width="250…

20. Mary Poppins — 2016-05-05 17:16:51

    … {{image url="mary_poppins.jpg" class="left" }} == Disney Film == The books were adapted by Walt Disney in 1964 into a musical film titled Mary Poppins, starring **Julie Andrews **and **Dick Van Dyke**.…

21. Music — 2016-03-07 23:50:25

    …Music :: [[Arts]] > Music {{Category}}…

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