Steven Spielberg, Influential Filmmaker
Steven Spielberg photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg’s films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg’s early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. He is considered one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is also one of the co-founders of the DreamWorks movie studio.
Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler’s List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg’s films—Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993)—achieved box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time. To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide. Forbes puts Spielberg’s wealth at $3.0 billion.
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Sophia Loren, Winner Of More Than 50 Awards
Sophia Loren photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Sophia Loren, OMRI (born Sofia Villani Scicolone; 20 September 1934) is an Italian actress.
In 1962, Loren, among 21 other awards, won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance. Loren has won 50 international awards, including one Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Laurel Award. Her other films include: Houseboat (1958), El Cid (1961), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), Marriage Italian-Style (1964), and A Special Day (1977). She has received critical and commercial success in TV movies such as Courage (1986) and in American blockbusters such as Grumpier Old Men (1995), and Nine (2009). In 1994 she starred in Robert Altman’s Ready to Wear, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination the same year. In 1995 she received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievements.In 2011 she has dubbed one of the characters of Pixar blockbuster Cars2for non-english speaking markets.
In 1999, Loren was listed by the American Film Institute on AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Stars as #21 of 25 American female screen legends of all time. In 2002, she was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) at its annual Anniversary Gala and was inducted into its Italian American Hall of Fame. In 2009, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized her as “Italy’s Most Awarded Actress”. In 1991, she received an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievements.
The same year, the Republic of France awarded her a Distinction of la Légion d’honneur (the Legion of Honor) with the grade of Chevalier (Knight). In 1994, she was awarded with the Honorary Golden Bear at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1997, Loren was invested Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic). In 2010, she was awarded the Praemium Imperiale by the Imperial Family of Japan on behalf of the Japan Art Association.
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Tina Turner, Queen of Rock and Roll
Tina Turner with Eric Clapton photographed by Terry O' Neill
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”. Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Success followed with a string of hits including “River Deep, Mountain High” and the 1971 hit “Proud Mary”. With the publication of her autobiography I, Tina (1986), Turner revealed severe instances of spousal abuse against her by Ike Turner prior to their 1976 split and subsequent 1978 divorce. After virtually disappearing from the music scene for several years following her divorce from Ike Turner, she rebuilt her career, launching a string of hits beginning in 1983 with the single “Let’s Stay Together” and the 1984 release of her fifth solo album Private Dancer.
Her musical career led to film roles, beginning with a prominent role as The Acid Queen in the 1975 film Tommy, and an appearance in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. She starred opposite Mel Gibson as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome for which she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, and her version of the film’s theme, “We Don’t Need Another Hero”, was a hit single. She appeared in the 1993 film Last Action Hero.
One of the world’s most popular entertainers, Turner has been called the most successful female rock artist and was named “one of the greatest singers of all time” by Rolling Stone. Her combined album and single sales total approximately 180 million copies worldwide. She has sold more concert tickets than any other solo music performer in history. She is known for her energetic stage presence, powerful vocals, career longevity, and widespread appeal. In 2008, Turner left semi-retirement to embark on her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour. Turner’s tour became one of the highest selling ticketed shows of 2008–2009. Turner was born a Baptist, but converted to Buddhism and credits the spiritual chants with giving her the strength that she needed to get through the rough times. Rolling Stone ranked her at 63 on their 100 greatest artists of all time and considers her the “Queen of Rock and Roll”
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Mark Bolan, Glam Rock Pioneer
Marc Bolan photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet. He is best known as the founder, frontman, lead singer & guitarist for T. Rex, but also a successful solo artist. His music, as well as his highly original sense of style and extraordinary stage presence, helped create the glam rock era which made him one of the most recognisable stars in British rock music.
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Elvis Presley, The King Of Rock & Roll
Elvis Presley photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the “King of Rock and Roll” or simply “the King”.
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954, working with Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was one of the originators of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country and rhythm and blues. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage the singer for over two decades. Presley’s first RCA single, “Heartbreak Hotel”, released in January 1956, was a number one hit. He became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearances and chart-topping records. His energized interpretations of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited performance style made him enormously popular—and controversial. In November 1956, he made his film debut in Love Me Tender.
Conscripted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work. He staged few concerts however, and guided by Parker, proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood movies and soundtrack albums, most of them critically derided. In 1968, after seven years away from the stage, he returned to live performance in a celebrated comeback television special that led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of profitable tours. In 1973 Presley staged the first concert broadcast globally via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii, seen by approximately 1.5 billion viewers. Prescription drug abuse severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at the age of 42.
Presley is regarded as one of the most important figures of 20th-century popular culture. He had a versatile voice and unusually wide success encompassing many genres, including country, pop ballads, gospel, and blues. He is the best-selling solo artist in the history of popular music. Nominated for 14 competitive Grammys, he won three, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36. He has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame.
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Pete Townshend, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee.
Pete Townshend photograhed by Terry O' Neill.
Peter Dennis Blandford “Pete” Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His career with The Who spans more than 40 years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 1960s and 1970s, and, according to Eddie Vedder, “possibly the greatest live band ever.”
Townshend is the primary songwriter for The Who, having written well over 100 songs for the band’s 11 studio albums, including concept albums and the rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia, plus popular rock and roll radio staples like Who’s Next, and dozens more that appeared as non-album singles, bonus tracks on reissues, and tracks on rarities compilations like Odds & Sods. He has also written over 100 songs that have appeared on his solo albums, as well as radio jingles and television theme songs. Although known primarily as a guitarist, he also plays other instruments such as keyboards, banjo, accordion, synthesiser, bass guitar and drums, on his own solo albums, several Who albums, and as a guest contributor to a wide array of other artists’ recordings. Townshend has never had formal lessons in any of the instruments he plays.
Townshend has also been a contributor and author of newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, essays, books, and scripts, as well as collaborating as a lyricist (and composer) for many other musical acts. Townshend was ranked #3 in Dave Marsh’s list of Best Guitarists in The New Book of Rock Lists, #10 in Gibson.com’s list of the top 50 guitarists, and #10 again in Rolling Stone magazine’s updated 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Townshend was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Who in 1990.
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Meeting Terry O’Neill – An Iconic Photographer in London
Recently, I had the absolute honour to interview famous Londoner and iconic photographer Terry O’Neill at his office in Mayfair. He has captured icons of royalty, film, music and politics over the last 50 years; Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Nelson Mandela, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Muhammad Ali – the list is endless! The original, ultimate A-list that make today’s bunch look somewhat insignificant.
Here is a snapshot of my enlightening interview with this wonderful man…
K-S: What does Luxury London mean to you?
TN: Mayfair, St James.
He went on to speak about the village feel and community of the area.
K-S: What feeds your (London) soul?
TN: Jazz. Ronnie Scotts and 606 in Chelsea – that’s what keeps me going.
The Beatles – Backyard, 1963 ©Terry O’Neill.
As I sat with him, his soft cockney lilt was one you’d never tire of listening to, as he imparted his knowledge/wisdom about life, fame and his art of photography. I thought that we the viewing public must have only scratched the surface to his archives and the untold stories that he could tell… but Terry O’Neill has integrity, I saw it in his eyes – he’s not the kiss and tell kind of guy – a true gent, a true celebrity. I continued…
K-S: How do you feel about Photoshop? I asked with a knowing smile.
TN: Don’t do any of it – don’t even use digital. Old fashion film is the best. It’ll all come back one day. You just have to go to a film premiere they take a picture and say wait a minute – then look at the shot. But you see, every moment you don’t take a picture you’re dead! While they’re looking for that great picture they’ve missed another great picture.
K-S: So what did you used to do back in the day?
TN: I could make people look great. You do or you don’t. It’s a question of lighting, watching them, looking for their angle, that type of thing.
Frank Sinatra – Boardwalk, 1964 ©Terry O’Neill.
K-S: What do you love about London?
With no hesitation he replied.
TN: The people. I can’t explain it, it’s a great town – all the restaurants, the music everything. Everything’s great, here and New York – best towns in the world.
K-S: What don’t you like about London?
TN: People who use mobile phones on the bus.
Audrey Hepburn – St. Tropez, 1967 ©Terry O’Neill.
K-S: You use the buses?!
The raised pitch in my voice gave away my surprise.
TN: Yes! I travel by bus every day. I know every bus route. Where are you going now?
K-S: We need to get to South Ken(sington)
TN: Ok, walk up to Park Lane and take the 414, stops right by South Kensington station.
Wow! And we did just that.
Faye Dunaway – 1977 ©Terry O’Neill.
Terry O’Neill represents all that is London; opportunity, creativity, truth, openness, glamour and a down to earth quality even with all its history and magnificence.
It was an interview filled with laughter, I could have chilled out with Terry and his team all day. He made us feel at home and ever so welcome. Which is the perfect note to end on.
Karma-Style with the incredible Terry O’Neill
Remember to make yourself at home here at Luxury London – you are always welcome.
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The greatest! From a sultry Angelina Jolie to a triumphant Muhammad Ali… ten of the most iconic photo portraits of all time
From one of the greatest sports pictures of all-time to a pre-fame image of the world’s most famous actress, TERRY O’NEILL chooses his favourites pictures
1. MUHAMMAD ALI
by NEIL LEIFER
At this time everyone was looking for the punch connecting and the gum shields flying. But Neil Leifer always pushed the envelope
At this time everyone was looking for the punch connecting and the gum shields flying. But Neil Leifer always pushed the envelope
Leifer was a Sports Illustrated staffer in the Sixties and his shot of Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston who he’s just KO’d in 1965 is one of the all-time great sports pictures. At this time everyone was looking for the punch connecting and the gum shields flying. But Neil always pushed the envelope. Ali is like a young lion who’s crowned himself king of the jungle, and that’s what the ring is – a jungle. I photographed Ali a few years later in 1974, a little past his prime, in Dublin. He was in his training camp and very depressed. They had to fly his mother over to placate him. He just wasn’t the same man any more.
2. MARILYN MONROE
by BERT STERN
Everyone was fixated on Marilyn Monroe’s bosom but Bert Stern made a thing of her back. It’s coy and it’s very clever
Everyone was fixated on Marilyn Monroe’s bosom but Bert Stern made a thing of her back. It’s coy and it’s very clever
Stern had three sessions with Marilyn Monroe for Vogue in June 1962, six weeks before her death, and it became known as The Last Sitting. Everyone was fixated on her bosom but he made a thing of her back. It’s coy and it’s very clever. He recreated the pictures in 2008 for The New Yorker with Lindsay Lohan. She’s no Marilyn but what I found odd was a guy paying tribute to himself. So many people want to copy or recreate famous pictures these days. Rankin did it with my shot of Faye Dunaway by her pool after the Oscars. I had to be nice but it wasn’t all that. He had a dozen assistants running around and I’d shot it on my own at the crack of dawn. You can’t go back.
3. TERENCE STAMP
by TERENCE DONOVAN
This wonderful, brooding image of Terence Stamp from 1967 was taken on the set of Far From The Madding Crowd. He was one of the great actors of that era
This wonderful, brooding image of Terence Stamp from 1967 was taken on the set of Far From The Madding Crowd. He was one of the great actors of that era
Terry is a good-looking fella, and this wonderful, brooding image of him from 1967 was taken on the set of Far From The Madding Crowd. He was one of the great actors of that era. He and Jean Shrimpton were the two faces of the Sixties and I was lucky enough to shoot them together; that image remains one of my best sellers. Terence Donovan was a great guy. We got on well and it was a shock when he killed himself in 1996. I couldn’t believe it when I heard. Terry, David Bailey and I were all from East London, as was Terry Stamp. We were kids from poor backgrounds. We had a chance to do something, and we grabbed it.
4. ELIZABETH TAYLOR
by ANONYMOUS
Elizabeth Taylor has to be one of, if not the, most beautiful women who ever walked God’s Earth, and this publicity still – taken by an unknown photographer – has real class and would grace any cover today
Elizabeth Taylor has to be one of, if not the, most beautiful women who ever walked God’s Earth, and this publicity still – taken by an unknown photographer – has real class and would grace any cover today
I grew up with Forties and Fifties Hollywood publicity shots like this. They seemed so cheesy then but now, looking back, they have a charm of their own. Elizabeth Taylor has to be one of, if not the, most beautiful women who ever walked God’s Earth, and this publicity still – taken by an unknown photographer – has real class and would grace any cover today. I knew Elizabeth well (she hated being called Liz) and the reason I love this shot is because, deep down, behind the movie star there was a very ordinary girl who was quite shy really. I remember once at a Hollywood party I had to go and find her. She was hiding because the room was full of stars like Robert De Niro and Tom Cruise and she was afraid to meet them. I had to escort her into the room and hold her hand and introduce her around to break the ice.
5. ANGELINA JOLIE
by GEORGE HOLZ
Nobody had heard of Angelina Jolie then – it was 1998 and she was a minor TV actress, but everything about her screamed ‘Star!’
Nobody had heard of Angelina Jolie then – it was 1998 and she was a minor TV actress, but everything about her screamed ‘Star!’
The first time I saw this picture by U.S. celebrity photographer George Holz I knew the young woman in it was going to be huge. Nobody had heard of Angelina Jolie then – it was 1998 and she was a minor TV actress, but everything about her screamed ‘Star!’ This is from the pre-digital age and it proves that all the computer tricks and tools the stars and their agents use today to manipulate their image can’t hold a candle to a someone who knows how to use a camera and film.
6. AUDREY HEPBURN
by TERRY O’NEILL
Audrey Hepburn was always photographed as the iconic, stylish beauty – but she had such an impish sense of humour and she could get really frisky
Audrey Hepburn was always photographed as the iconic, stylish beauty – but she had such an impish sense of humour and she could get really frisky
You couldn’t miss with Hepburn. In fact, I can’t recall seeing many bad shots of her at all. She was always photographed as the iconic, stylish beauty – but she had such an impish sense of humour and she could get really frisky. I was lucky to be there when she was in a particularly mischievous mood in St Tropez, in 1967. Funnily enough she hated water but had to be in the pool for a take on the set of Two For The Road. When I see an actress described as the ‘new Audrey Hepburn’ I laugh. There’ll never be another.
7. AMERICAN MARINE
by W EUGENE SMITH
This portrait of a battle-weary American Marine fighting his way across the Pacific during WWII always moves me. You can see how a handsome young man has become toughened and grizzled by war
This portrait of a battle-weary American Marine fighting his way across the Pacific during WWII always moves me. You can see how a handsome young man has become toughened and grizzled by war
W Eugene Smith is one of my all time favourite photographers. He was obsessive about detail and had a reputation of being very testy, but this portrait of a battle-weary American Marine fighting his way across the Pacific during WWII always moves me. You can see how a handsome young man has become toughened and grizzled by war. I never took pictures in a war so I can only imagine how tough it must be to be a war photographer – I know Smith was wounded doing his job – but I can also see how much of a privilege it must be.
8. CHURCHILL
by KARSH
This has everything you expect in a Churchill photograph: the authority, the bulldog expression. Everything but the cigar, because Karsh took it off him, which made Churchill scowl even more
This has everything you expect in a Churchill photograph: the authority, the bulldog expression. Everything but the cigar, because Karsh took it off him, which made Churchill scowl even more
This was the first photographic portrait I ever saw and it set me on my way. Shot by Canadian photographer Karsh in Ottawa in 1941, this is a classic; a powerful image that’s like a grand old painting. Karsh was a great technician – he even lit the hands separately – and this has everything you expect in a Churchill photograph: the authority, the bulldog expression. Everything but the cigar, because Karsh took it off him, which made Churchill scowl even more. I wouldn’t have had the courage to do that. Churchill was impressed by the result saying, ‘You could make a roaring lion stand still’. I met Karsh years later in London and I told him this was one of my favourites portraits, but he was very humble about it.
9. ANTHONY BLUNT
by LORD SNOWDON
Anthony Blunt was the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures then but was later revealed to be one of the most infamous spies ever. This captures a certain steeliness in him
Anthony Blunt was the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures then but was later revealed to be one of the most infamous spies ever. This captures a certain steeliness in him
A technically brilliant shot of Anthony Blunt with a Picasso transparency ‘projected’ onto his face. Blunt was the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures then but was later revealed to be one of the most infamous spies ever. This captures a certain steeliness in him. Tony is a truly great photographer. He once said, ‘I don’t like photographs displayed in the house. I don’t consider them art.’ But I don’t think he believes it and I think he should have more exhibitions to remind people how good he is. Everyone remembers his privileged background but I had a conversation with him about it once and he said all everyone thought was: ‘Princess Margaret’s husband’. It did him less of a favour than you might imagine.
10. AFGHAN GIRL
by STEVE MCCURRY
It’s a truly great image. I recall being mesmerised by it when I first saw it. The eyes just burn out of the page at you. It’s known as ‘the Afghan Mona Lisa’
It’s a truly great image. I recall being mesmerised by it when I first saw it. The eyes just burn out of the page at you. It’s known as ‘the Afghan Mona Lisa’
American photo journalist Steve McCurry is a very talented guy and his portrait of a 12-year-old Afghan refugee girl, Sharbat Gula, became the cover of a 1985 copy of National Geographic. It’s a truly great image. I recall being mesmerised by it when I first saw it. The eyes just burn out of the page at you. It’s known as ‘the Afghan Mona Lisa’ and it demonstrates the power of an image to create its own story. McCurry went back to find her almost 20 years later, and eventually tracked her down in a little village
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David Bowie
David Bowie photographed by Terry O' Neill
David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. He is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth and eclecticism of his work.
Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in July 1969, when his song “Space Oddity” reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single “Starman” and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Bowie’s impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, “challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day” and “created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture.” The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona proved merely one facet of a career marked by continual reinvention, musical innovation and striking visual presentation.
In 1975, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single “Fame” and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer characterised as “plastic soul”. The sound constituted a radical shift in style that initially alienated many of his UK devotees. He then confounded the expectations of both his record label and his American audiences by recording the minimalist album Low (1977)—the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno over the next two years. The so-called “Berlin Trilogy” albums all reached the UK top five and garnered lasting critical praise.
After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single “Ashes to Ashes”, its parent album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), and “Under Pressure”, a 1981 collaboration with Queen. He then reached a new commercial peak in 1983 with Let’s Dance, which yielded several hit singles. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles, including blue-eyed soul, industrial, adult contemporary, and jungle. His last recorded album was Reality (2003), which was supported by the 2003–04 Reality Tour.
Buckley says of Bowie: “His influence has been unique in popular culture—he has permeated and altered more lives than any comparable figure.” In the BBC’s 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, Bowie was placed at number 29. Throughout his career, he has sold an estimated 140 million albums. In the UK, he has been awarded nine Platinum album certifications, 11 Gold and eight Silver, and in the US, five Platinum and seven Gold certifications. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him 39th on their list of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”, and 23rd on their list of the best singers of all-time.
**Picture shown is available in limited edition print of only 50 in different sizes, signed and numbered by Terry O’ Neill and is available to purchase here.
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is the constitutional monarch of 16 out of the 54 sovereign states within the Commonwealth of Nations, and Head of the Commonwealth. In order of foundation, the 16 independent Commonwealth realms are the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. As the British monarch, she is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
Elizabeth was born in London, and educated privately at home. Her father acceded to the throne as George VI in 1936 on the abdication of his brother Edward VIII. She began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, in which she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. When her father died in 1952, she became Head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon. Her coronation service in 1953 was the first to be televised. Between 1956 and 1992, the number of her realms varied as territories gained independence and realms, including South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon (renamed Sri Lanka), became republics.
In 1947, she married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, with whom she has four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward. In 1992, which Elizabeth termed her annus horribilis (“horrible year”), Charles and Andrew separated from their wives, Anne divorced, and a severe fire destroyed part of Windsor Castle. Revelations continued on the state of Charles’s marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales, and they divorced in 1996. The following year, Diana died in a Paris car crash, and the media criticised the royal family for remaining in seclusion in the days before her funeral. Elizabeth’s personal popularity rebounded after she appeared in public and has subsequently remained high.
Her reign of 59 years is the second-longest for a British monarch. Her Silver and Golden Jubilees were celebrated in 1977 and 2002; her Diamond Jubilee is planned for 2012.
**Picture shown is available in limited edition print of only 50 in different sizes, signed and numbered by Terry O’ Neill and is available to purchase here.
Benny Hill
Benny Hill photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Benny Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) was an English comedian and actor, notable for his long-running television programme The Benny Hill Show.
Alfred Hawthorne Hill was born in Southampton and attended Taunton’s School. During World War II, he was evacuated to Bournemouth.
After leaving school, Hill worked at Woolworth’s, as a milkman, a bridge operator, a driver and a drummer before he finally got a foot in the door of the entertainment industry by becoming assistant stage manager with a touring review. He was called up in 1942 and trained as a mechanic, but transferred to the Combined Services Entertainment division before the end of the war. It was there that he met his future agent, Richard Stone, then a colonel.
Inspired by the “star comedians” of British music hall shows, Hill set out to make his mark in show business. For the stage, he changed his first name to ‘Benny’, in homage to his favourite comedian, Jack Benny. Hill began appearing at working men’s clubs and Masonic dinners before moving on to nightclub and theatre jobs. Hill auditioned for Soho’s famed Windmill Theatre (home of Revudeville, a popular show of singers, comedians and nude girls), but he was not hired. Hill’s first job in professional theatre as a performer was as Reg Varney’s straight man, beating a then unknown Peter Sellers to the role.
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Jerry Hall
Jerry Hall photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Jerry Faye Hall (born July 2, 1956) is an American model and actress, also known for her long-term relationship with Mick Jagger and had four children with him.
Hall was born in Gonzales, Texas, the daughter of Marjorie (née Sheffield) and John P. Hall, a truck-driver. She is of English descent. Hall was raised in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, Texas, where she graduated from North Mesquite High School. She also attended Kim Dawson Modeling Agency. She has a twin sister, Terry, along with three older sisters; including actress Cyndy Hall. Following a car accident, she used the insurance money she received to move to France.
In 1989, Hall appeared in director Tim Burton’s Batman, in a supporting role as Alicia Hunt, a gangster’s moll who is disfigured by The Joker (played by Jack Nicholson). In 1990, she joined many other guests for Roger Waters’ massive performance of The Wall in Berlin. She also starred in commercials for Bovril. In 1994 she played the role of Miss Scarlett in the British television show Cluedo. In the early 2000s, she appeared as Mrs. Robinson in a Broadway production of The Graduate, which included a nude scene on stage. Reviewing a preview of the show at London’s Gielgud Theatre, Daily Mail critic Quentin Letts described Hall’s acting as “wooden as a toothpick” and the performance as “Two fried eggs in the gloaming”.
In 2001, she appeared as herself in the documentary Being Mick. In 2002 she appeared in Brighton in the play Picasso’s Women. In 2005, Hall starred in a new reality series on VH1 called Kept, revolving around her search for a “boytoy”. The 12 American contestants were asked to transform from boys to refined gentlemen through a series of challenges, and mastering skills like arts, sports, cooking, and fitting into high society. According to an interview with the winner, he never saw Hall again following the show, and there had been no sexual intimacy between Hall and any of the contestants.
Also in 2005, Hall appeared on the West End stage playing Mother Lord in the London revival of Cole Porter’s High Society, and also provided the voice for Sister Penelope in the controversial British cartoon Popetown. In 2007 she guest-starred on the British TV show Hotel Babylon. She has also appeared on the popular BBC comedy series French and Saunders.
Jerry and sister Cyndy Hall appeared as sexy sisters in the 1980 Movie Urban Cowboy.
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Prince Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh
Prince Philip photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark; 10 June 1921) is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom’s longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch.
A member of the Danish-German House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Prince Philip was born into the Greek royal family, but his family was exiled from Greece when he was a child. After being educated in Germany, England and Scotland, he joined the British Royal Navy at the age of 18 in 1939. From July 1939, he began corresponding with Princess Elizabeth, the eldest daughter and heiress presumptive of King George VI. During World War II he served with the Mediterranean and Pacific fleets.
After the war, Philip was granted permission by George VI to marry Elizabeth. Prior to the official engagement announcement, he renounced his Greek and Danish royal titles, converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Anglicanism, and became a naturalised British subject, adopting the surname Mountbatten from his British maternal grandparents. After an official engagement of five months, as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten he married Elizabeth on 20 November 1947. On his marriage, he was granted the style of His Royal Highness and the title of Duke of Edinburgh by his father-in-law. Philip left active service, having reached the rank of Commander, when Elizabeth became Queen in 1952. His wife made him a Prince of the United Kingdom in 1957 and Lord High Admiral in 2011.
Philip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendants of Philip and Elizabeth not bearing royal styles and titles can use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor, which has also been used by some members who do hold titles, such as Charles and Anne. A keen sportsman, Philip helped develop the equestrian event of carriage driving. He is a patron of over 800 organisations, and chairman of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme for people aged 14 to 24 years.
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Catherine Zeta Jones, One Of The Most Beautiful Actresses Of All Time
Catherine Zeta-Jones photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE, (born Catherine Zeta Jones; 25 September 1969) is a Welsh actress. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of United Kingdom and United States television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as the 1998 action film The Mask of Zorro and the 1999 crime thriller film Entrapment. Her breakthrough role was in the 2000 film Traffic, for which she earned her first Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.
Zeta-Jones subsequently starred as Velma Kelly in the 2002 film adaptation of the musical Chicago, a critical and commercial success, and received an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Later, she appeared in the 2003 romantic comedy film Intolerable Cruelty and 2004 crime comedy film Ocean’s Twelve. Zeta-Jones starred in the 2005 sequel of the 1998 film, The Legend of Zorro. She also starred in the 2008 biopic romantic thriller Death Defying Acts. In 2010, she won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Desiree in A Little Night Music
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Margaret Thatcher, First Female Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher photographed by Terry O' Neill
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (née Roberts; born 13 October 1925) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. The first female British prime minister and the longest-serving of the 20th century, Thatcher’s strict conservative policies, hard line against trade unions and tough rhetoric in opposition to the Soviet Union earned her the nickname the “Iron Lady”. Originally a chemist, then a barrister, Thatcher became Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley in the 1959 general election. During her time in Parliament, she heavily criticised the tax policies of the Labour Government. Edward Heath appointed Thatcher Secretary of State for Education and Science in his 1970 government. In 1975 Thatcher became Leader of the Conservative Party (and Leader of the Opposition), the first woman to head a major political party in the United Kingdom. After leading her party to victory in the 1979 general election she became the UK’s Prime Minister. After entering 10 Downing Street, Thatcher was determined to reverse what she perceived as a precipitous national decline. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised deregulation, particularly of the financial sector, flexible labour markets, the sale or closure of state-owned companies, and the withdrawal of subsidies to others. In her first few years in office, Thatcher’s popularity waned amid recession and high unemployment, until economic recovery and the 1982 Falklands War brought a resurgence of support resulting in her re-election in 1983. Thatcher was re-elected for a third term in 1987, but her Community Charge was widely unpopular and her views on the European Community were not shared by others in her Cabinet. She resigned as Prime Minister and party leader in November 1990 after Michael Heseltine’s challenge to her leadership of the Conservative Party. Thatcher holds a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire, which entitles her to sit in the House of Lords.
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Patsy Kensit
Patsy Kensit photographed by Terry O' Neill
Patricia Jude Francis “Patsy” Kensit (born 4 March 1968) is an English actress, singer, model and former child star, known for her television and film appearances. Her films include Lethal Weapon 2 and she has been married to rock stars Jim Kerr and Liam Gallagher, as well as herself fronting the band Eighth Wonder. In May 2004 she returned to television acting, taking the role of Sadie King in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. Born to James Henry Kensit (1915–1987) and Margaret Rose Kensit (née Doohan, 1947–1993), a native of Ireland who died from breast cancer, Patsy Kensit has an older brother Jamie. Her mother was a publicist; her father was an associate of the notorious London gangsters the Kray twins. Nicknamed “Jimmy the Dip”, he was also reportedly an associate of the rival Richardsons, running long firms for the gang. He served time in prison before Kensit was born; she believed he was an antiques dealer. Her paternal grandfather was a robber and counterfeiter, and her brother’s godfather was Reggie Kray. She attended Corona Theatre School. Kensit is a practising Catholic, having begun attending church after her mother’s death
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Jacqueline Bisset, Legion D’ Honneur Awardee
Jacqueline Bisset
Jacqueline Bisset (born 13 September 1944) is an English actress. She has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award. She is known for her roles in the films Bullitt (1968), Airport (1970), The Deep (1977), Class (1983), and the TV series Nip/Tuck in 2006. She has also appeared in several French productions and was nominated for a César Award for La Cérémonie (1995). She was awarded the Légion d’honneur in 2010.
Bisset made her screen debut with a bit part in The Knack …and How to Get It (1965). Her first speaking role was in the 1966 film Cul-de-sac, starring Donald Pleasence and directed by Roman Polanski. She was cast in the romance film Two for the Road (1967) starring Audrey Hepburn, and played her first lead role opposite James Brolin in The Cape Town Affair (1967). She participated in the 1967 James Bond satire, Casino Royale, as Miss Goodthighs. In 1968, she replaced Mia Farrow to star opposite Frank Sinatra in The Detective; Farrow and Sinatra had split shortly before production began and the role was given to Bisset, who received special billing in the film’s credits.
Bisset’s break-out role was as Steve McQueen’s girlfriend in the hit action film Bullitt, also released in 1968. The following year she received her first Golden Globe nomination as New Star of the Year for her performance in The Sweet Ride, and played her first sexy “older woman” (at 25) in The First Time (1969). She was one of the many stars in the blockbuster disaster film Airport (1970), a Best Picture nominee in which she acted opposite Dean Martin and Helen Hayes. She co-starred with Sean Connery in Murder on the Orient Express (1974).
Bisset made strides towards becoming a better-known entertainer in America with The Deep (1977), co-starring Robert Shaw and Nick Nolte and directed by Peter Yates, who had previously directed her in Bullitt. A scene of her swimming underwater wearing only a thin, white T-shirt and bikini bottom helped make the film a box office success, leading the producer Peter Guber to say, “That T-shirt made me a rich man”. At the time, Newsweek declared her “the most beautiful film actress of all time.” About that time, a small film Bisset had made six years earlier was re-released in the United States under the title Secrets. That movie featured the only extensive nude scenes of Bisset’s career and the producers cashed in on her fame. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for the comedy Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978).
Soon thereafter, she starred in the movies Rich and Famous (1981) with Candice Bergen, Class (1983) (playing a woman who seduces her son’s best friend) co-starring Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy, and Under the Volcano (1984), for which she earned her a second Golden Globe nomination. Bisset often appeared with her leading men in more than one film. She was cast as Paul Newman’s daughter in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, then as his girlfriend in When Time Ran Out. Bisset has also worked with Albert Finney, Mickey Rourke, Anthony Perkins, and Michael York on multiple occasions. Bisset has worked with such directors as François Truffaut, John Huston, Stanley Donen, Sidney Lumet and George Cukor. Several of her older movies are French or Italian productions.
Bisset has appeared in many made-for-TV and independent films, especially in recent years. In 1996, she was nominated for a César Award, for her role in La Cérémonie. She received Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for the 1999 miniseries Joan of Arc. Other notable projects include the acclaimed Biblical epics Jesus (1999) and In the Beginning (2000) with Martin Landau. She made guest appearances on Ally McBeal during 2001–2002, and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit in 2003. One of her later TV movies, in 2003, was America’s Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story, in which she portrayed Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. In 2005, she appeared in the action movie Domino with Keira Knightley. Bisset’s most recent television work was a recurring role as the mysterious James, during the fourth season of the FX series Nip/Tuck in 2006. Later she starred in an An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving, which premiered on the Hallmark Channel on 22 November 2008. In the same year she also garnered acclaim for her role in the Holocaust drama, Death in Love. She recently finished filming The Last Film Festival, which will be the final screen appearance of Dennis Hopper. Bisset co-starred in the independent film, Latter Days where she played the role of ‘Lila’. Bisset has starred in a large number of independent films throughout her career.
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Elizabeth Taylor, One Of The Greatest Screen Actresses Of Hollywood’s Golden Age
Elizabeth Taylor photographed by Bob Willoughby.
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond “Liz” Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age. As one of the world’s most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting ability and for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty and distinctive violet eyes.
National Velvet (1944) was Taylor’s first success, and she starred in Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960), played the title role in Cleopatra (1963), and married her co-star Richard Burton. They appeared together in 11 films, including Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which Taylor won a second Academy Award. From the mid-1970s, she appeared less frequently in film, and made occasional appearances in television and theatre.
Her much publicized personal life included eight marriages and several life-threatening illnesses. From the mid-1980s, Taylor championed HIV and AIDS programs; she co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1993. She received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Legion of Honour, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, who named her seventh on their list of the “Greatest American Screen Legends”. Taylor died of congestive heart failure in March 2011 at the age of 79, having suffered many years of ill health.
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Barbra Streisand, One Of The Most Successful Entertainers in Modern History
Barbra Streisand photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern entertainment history, with more than 71.5 million albums shipped in the United States and 140 million albums sold worldwide. She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre. Along with Frank Sinatra, Cher, and Shirley Jones, she shares the distinction of being awarded an acting Oscar and also recording a number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
According to the RIAA, Streisand holds the record for the most top-ten albums of any female recording artist – a total of 32 since 1963. Streisand has the widest span (48 years) between first and latest top-ten albums of any female recording artist. With her 2009 album, Love Is the Answer, she became one of the rare artists to achieve number-one albums in five consecutive decades. According to the RIAA, she has released 51 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums in the United States.
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Gerry Mulligan, Multi-instrumentalist
Gerry Mulligan photographed by Bob Willoughby
Gerald Joseph “Gerry” Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. Mulligan’s pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Mulligan reportedly had a relationship with actress Judy Holliday until she died in 1965, and with actress Sandy Dennis from 1965 until they broke up in 1976.
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Jimi Hendrix, Greatest Guitarist In Musical History
Jimi Hendrix photographed by Gered Mankowitz
James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest guitarist in musical history, and one of the most influential musicians of his era across a range of genres. After initial success in Europe with his group The Jimi Hendrix Experience, he achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. He often favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and helped develop the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback.
Hendrix, as well as his friend Eric Clapton, popularized use of the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock which he often used to deliver an exaggerated sense of pitch in his solos, particularly with high bends, complex guitar playing, and use of legato. As a record producer, Hendrix also broke new ground in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas. He was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic phasing effects for rock recording.
Hendrix was influenced by blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Albert King and Elmore James, rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper, and the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. Hendrix (who was then known as ‘Maurice James’) began dressing and wearing a moustache like Little Richard when he performed and recorded in his band from March 1, 1964 through to the spring of 1965. In 1966, Hendrix stated, “I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice”.
Hendrix won many of the most prestigious rock music awards in his lifetime, and has been posthumously awarded many more, including being inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. An English Heritage blue plaque was erected in his name on his former residence at Brook Street, London, in September 1997. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6627 Hollywood Blvd.) was dedicated in 1994. In 2006, his debut US album, Are You Experienced, was inducted into the United States National Recording Registry, and Rolling Stone named Hendrix the top guitarist on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all-time in 2003.
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Dennis Hopper, Actor, Filmmaker, Artist
Dennis Hopper photographed by Douglas Kirkland.
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors’ Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films.
He directed and starred in Easy Rider (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer. “With its portrait of counterculture heroes raising their middle fingers to the uptight middle-class hypocrisies, Easy Rider became the cinematic symbol of the 1960s, a celluloid anthem to freedom, macho bravado and anti-establishment rebellion.” Film critic Matthew Hays notes that “no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper.”
He was unable to build on his success for several years, until a featured role in Apocalypse Now (1979) brought him attention. He subsequently appeared in Rumble Fish (1983) and The Osterman Weekend (1983), and received critical recognition for his work in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers, with the latter film garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He directed Colors (1988) and played the villain in Speed (1994). He played another villain, King Koopa, in Super Mario Bros. (1993). Hopper’s later work included a leading role in the television series Crash. Hopper’s last performance was filmed just before his death: The Last Film Festival, slated for a 2011 release. Hopper was also a prolific and acclaimed photographer, a profession he began in the 1960s.
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Audrey Hepburn, One Of The Most Famous Actresses Of All Time.
Audrey Hepburn during the filming of Two for the Road photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Actress, philanthropist. Born on May 4, 1929, in Brussels, Belgium. A talented performer, Audrey Hepburn was known for her beauty, elegance, and grace. Often imitated, she remains one of Hollywood’s greatest style icons. A native of Brussels, Hepburn spent part of her youth in England at a boarding school there. During much of World War II, she studied at the Arnhem Conservatory in The Netherlands. After the Nazis invaded the country, Hepburn and her mother struggled to survive. She reportedly helped the resistance movement by delivering messages, according to an article in The New York Times.
After the war, Hepburn continued to pursue an interest in dance. She studied ballet in Amsterdam and later in London. In 1948, Hepburn made her stage debut as a chorus girl in the musical High Button Shoes in London. More small parts on the British stage followed. She was a chorus girl in Sauce Tartare (1949), but was moved to a featured player in Sauce Piquante (1950). That same year, Hepburn made her feature film debut in 1951′s One Wild Oat in an uncredited role. She went on to parts in such films asYoung Wives’ Tales (1951) and The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) starring Alec Guiness. Her next project on the New York stage introduced her to American audiences.
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Bruce Springsteen, The Boss.
Bruce Springsteen photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Bruce Springsteen was born on 23rd September 1949 ( Born in The USA! ) as Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen. Nick-named ‘The Boss’ after his authoritarian manner on and off stage. Bruce is hugely popular throughout the World touring extensively with The E Street Band. Bruce is best known for his heartland rock, poetic lyrics and attention-getting performance. Bruce’s connection with his audience and ‘man in the street’ lyrics has brought international fame for him, his unique style taking it’s root from folk, rock, hard rock, heartland rock and blues.
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