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★ Biography

He walked from London to Cardiff to look for work.  ibid.

 

Norman had no choice but to live on the streets … Salvation came in the form of the army.  ibid.  

 

He became the Flyweight champion of the British troops.  ibid.

 

He de-mobbed to launch himself as a variety artist.  ibid.

 

43,268.  Rank’s The Trouble in Store ... broke box office records.  (Comedy & Actor & Film & Biography)  ibid.

 

The Square Peg … An authoritative figure memorably played by Edward Chapman: ‘Mr Grimsdale!’  ibid.

 

The Bulldog Breed and On the Beat … Throughout the 1950s and 60s Norman was one of the nation’s best loved film stars, seldom out of the news.  ibid.

 

‘Growing up with Norman Wisdom as your dad was as much fun as you can imagine.’  ibid.

 

By the 1970s Norman was a screen and stage star, but the pressure was now on to make it in television.  ibid.

 

BAFTA established Norman as a serious actor.  ibid.

 

 

From iconic shots to private moments these are Tupac Shakur’s defining moments, revealed by those who were there and those who know his story best.  Tupac Shakur: A Life in Ten Pictures, BBC 2021

 

Tupac Shakur was born on 16th June 1971 in New York City.  He was raised by his mother Afeni.  When this photo was taken, Afeni had recently been acquitted in a legal case.  She was one of a group of Black Panthers charged with conspiracy to bomb public places.  Held for a year, when the case came to court, she defended herself, and was released.  Afeni raised Tupac and his younger sister in the New York outer boroughs.  ibid.   

 

Throughout his childhood, Tupac was tutored by his mother in Black history and the Civil Rights movement.  ibid.         

 

When Tupac arrived on the [rap] scene, he bought street poetry with a social conscience.  ibid. 

 

Launched in 1994, Thug Life was not just an album, it was a manifesto for a whole way of life.  It rooted Tupac and his work in the gang culture of Los Angeles.  ibid.

 

Tupac maintained the case was a set-up.  He was cleared of six of the charges but found guilty of three counts of sexual abuse.  ibid.

 

Tupac’s first album for Death Row went five times platinum.  Its success made front page news.  ibid.  

 

There are many theories about who shot Tupac and why.  To this day no-one has been convicted.  ibid.    

 

 

‘There was an aura around that man that made him huge.’  A Life in Ten Pictures: Freddie Mercury, personal assistant

 

As an adult, Freddie Mercury rarely talked about his childhood even to close friends.  But is first known photo offers some clues about his early years … Born in 1946 on the island of Zanzibar, a British protectorate off the east coast of Africa … Farroukh became known as Fred.  ibid.

 

In 1964 the ruling Arab monarchy that had controlled Zanzibar for over a century was overthrown by a coalition of African parties.  For many non-Africans, Zanzibar was no longer safe.  Tens of thousands were forced to leave their homes.  ibid.

 

Four years after arriving in Britain, at the age of 22 Freddie Bulsara enrolled at Ealing College of Art.  ibid.

 

 

Elizabeth Taylor was born in London in 1932 to American parents: Sarah, an actress, and Francis, an art dealer.  They lived in Hampstead along with Elizabeth’s brother Howard and spent summers at a holiday cottage at Crambrook, Kent.  Elizabeth’s early years were privileged and secure.  A Life in Ten Pictures: Elizabeth Taylor

 

By the age of 18, Elizabeth Taylor was was one of Hollywood’s sought-after leading ladies.  And her private life was box office too.  ibid.

 

Elizabeth Taylor’s fire job as an independent actor was the defining role of her entire career – Cleopatra was an epic in every sense.  ibid.

 

 

John Windsor Lennon was born in Liverpool, a city traumatised by the devastating impact of the Second World War … He never excelled in the classroom; his real passion was music, an obsession he discovered as a teenager, and shared with a circle of friends included George Harrison and Paul McCartney.  They practiced in each other’s houses and played in public whenever they could.  A Life in Ten Pictures: John Lennon

 

A protracted legal battle: John Lennon vs US Government, for his right to remain in America.  ibid.  

 

 

I’m Amy.  I write lyrics.  I write songs.  And I sing.  Reclaiming Amy, interview, BBC 2021

 

My daughter Amy died when she was just 27 years old.  ibid.  mum

 

But there was so much more.  She resonated at a different frequency to everyone else.  ibid.  

 

After she died her dad and I were accused of failing Amy.  ibid.

 

The incredible woman that she was.  ibid.

 

She was 19 when she wrote her first album Frank.  ibid.

 

She was bulimic.  She had that struggle the whole time.  ibid.  friend

 

 

My name is Dionne Bromfield, and Amy Winehouse was my godmother.  We had a special bond and our relationship was unique.  Amy’s support inspired my to follow my dream of becoming a singer.  And she signed me to her lable Lioness when I was just 13 years old.  Amy Winehouse & Me: Dionne’s Story, MTV 2021

 

 

Amy was born in North London in 1983, her Dad Mitch a taxi driver and mum Janice a pharmacist.  Amy Winehouse: A Life in Ten Pictures, BBC 2021

 

When this photo was taken, 14 year old Amy had left mainstream education and was now attending the Sylvia Young Theatre School.  ibid. 

 

Now a global superstar, Amy spent most of 2007 touring and performing to sell-out audiences across the world.  ibid.  

 

‘Five Grammys, wow.  What a night.  ibid.  dad  

 

After Amy’s death her family and friends set up the Amy Whitehouse foundation.  Much of its focus is helping young women overcome addiction.  ibid. 

 

In the weeks after Amy’s death Back to Black became the UK’s best-selling album of the 21st century.  ibid.  

 

 

Soul is heart, is guts, I guess … It’s something that controls you … To sing soul, I think you have to have grit.  Amy Winehouse in Her Own Words, caption, BBC 2021

 

The music that speaks to me the most has always been jazz … and that emotional connection to it to you know that so many great singers had.  ibid.

 

 

Can you hear me?  I was 20 in October 1962.  I had moved to Cambridge to undertake my Phd.  It was a very cold winter and my mother persuaded me to go skating on the lake in St Albans.  I fell over and had great difficulty getting up again.  At first I became depressed.  Hawking: Can You Hear Me? Sky Showcase 2021

 

I had discovered a concept that is named after me: Hawking Radiation.  ibid.  

 

 

In the early hours of February 6th 1978, the body of a young journalist was discovered on a street in Washington DC.  Her name was Linda Lipnack Kuehl.  For the past decade, she’d devoted her life to uncovering the true story of legendary singer Billie Holiday.  Billie: In Search of Billie Holiday, BBC 2021

 

She was the queen bee.  Without even trying, she was the most sensuous of all the lady singers.  ibid.  Sylvia Syms, friend & singer

 

It was her voice allowed her to escape.  ibid.

 

‘It was Billie’s interpretation of Strange Fruit not the song itself that changed the direction of American music.  But not everyone stood to applaud her primal howl against the bloody history of white America.’  ibid.  critic

 

‘She consumed more stimulants … she was an extremist.’  ibid.  observer    

 

 

Elizabeth Taylor: the unofficial queen of Hollywood.  Two times Oscar winner and star of over forty films including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  She was the first actress to bag one million dollars for one movie.  Her high-octane love life resulted in eight marriages, marked by passion and excess, by diamonds.  Her many addictions threatened to destroy her.  Elizabeth Taylor: A Fierce Love aka The Story of Elizabeth Taylor, Channel 5 2021

 

She was born in London in February 27th 1932 to a life of privilege.  Her parents were Americans who moved in high society.  ibid.  

 

[Eddie] Fisher left Debbie Reynolds for Liz … She was brazen about it.  ibid.    

 

This latest affair with Burton would cause an international sensation.  ibid.      

 

 

There is more to the story of Princess Diana than meets the eye.  The nursery school assistant who became the most famous woman in the world.  But who she really was is still disputed.  Some see her as a victim.  Others cast her as manipulative.  But while she may have tried to use the press there is no doubt they hunted her … The princess who changed the world.  Diana, ITV 2021   

 

When Diana is six, her parents split up.  It is a bitter divorce for which her mother is blamed for.  Her father wins custody, and Diana is sent to boarding school the following year.  ibid.

 

Diana has been asking her parents if she could move to London for some time.  ibid.

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