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Cream were a British rock band formed in London in 1966. The group consisted of bassist Jack Bruce,guitarist Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker. Bruce was the primary songwriter and vocalist,although Clapton and Baker contributed to songs. Formed by members of previously successful bands,they are widely considered the first supergroup. Cream were highly regarded for the instrumental proficiency of each of their members.
John Symon Asher Bruce was a Scottish musician. He gained popularity as the primary lead vocalist and bassist of rock band Cream. After the group disbanded in 1968,he pursued a solo career and also played with several bands.
Roger Meddows Taylor is an English musician,songwriter and singer. He achieved international fame as the drummer and backing vocalist for the rock band Queen. As a drummer,Taylor was recognised early in his career for his unique sound and was voted the eighth-greatest drummer in classic rock music history in a listener poll conducted by Planet Rock in 2005. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 as a member of Queen.
Raymond"Boz" Burrell was an English musician. Originally a vocalist and guitarist,Burrell is best known for being the vocalist and bassist of King Crimson from 1971 to 1972 and the original bassist of Bad Company,formed in 1973,with whom he stayed until 1982 before re-joining for a reunion of the original line-up during 1998 to 1999. He died of a heart attack in Spain in 2006,aged 60.
Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American actor. He has received several accolades,including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and the Silver Bear for Best Actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home (1978) and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013). He is also a BAFTA Award,two-time Genie Award,and three-time Golden Globe Award nominee.
Bruce Arthur Johnston is an American singer,musician and songwriter who is a member of the Beach Boys. He also collaborated on many records with Terry Melcher and composed the 1975 Barry Manilow hit,"I Write the Songs".
Ian Bruce Lang,Baron Lang of Monkton,PC DL is a British Conservative Party politician and Life Peer who served as the Member of Parliament for Galloway,and then Galloway and Upper Nithsdale,from 1979 to 1997.
Bruce Leslie McLaren was a New Zealand racing car designer,driver,engineer,and inventor. His name lives on in the McLaren team,which he founded,and is the second most successful in Formula One championship history,winning a total of 8 World Constructors' Championships and 12 World Drivers' Championships.
Bruce Randall Hornsby is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. His music draws from folk rock,jazz,bluegrass,folk,Southern rock,country rock,jam band,rock,heartland rock,and blues rock musical traditions.
The Wild Angels is a 1966 American independent outlaw biker film produced and directed by Roger Corman. Made on location in Southern California,The Wild Angels was the first film to associate actor Peter Fonda with Harley-Davidson motorcycles and 1960s counterculture. It inspired the biker film genre that continued into the early 1970s.
Simon Townshend is a British guitarist,singer and songwriter. He is the younger brother of the Who's guitarist Pete Townshend,and is most associated with The Who and the various side projects of its original members. Simon Townshend has also performed with numerous other acts including Pearl Jam,Dave Grohl and Jeff Beck.
His Family is a novel by Ernest Poole published in 1917 about the life of a New York widower and his three daughters in the 1910s. It received the first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918.
Sir William Bruce of Kinross,1st Baronet,was a Scottish gentleman-architect,"the effective founder of classical architecture in Scotland," as Howard Colvin observes. As a key figure in introducing the Palladian style into Scotland,he has been compared to the pioneering English architects Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren,and to the contemporaneous introducers of French style in English domestic architecture,Hugh May and Sir Roger Pratt.
Bruce Roger Maslin is an Australian botanist,known for his work on Acacia taxonomy.
Bang the Drum Slowly is a 1973 American sports drama film directed by John D. Hancock,about a baseball player of limited intellect who has a terminal illness,and his brainier,more skilled teammate. It is a film adaptation of the 1956 baseball novel of the same name by American author Mark Harris. It was previously dramatized in 1956 on the U.S. Steel Hour with Paul Newman,Albert Salmi and George Peppard.
Roger Bruce Myerson is an American economist and professor at the University of Chicago. He holds the title of the David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts in the Harris School of Public Policy,the Griffin Department of Economics,and the college. Previously,he held the title The Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics. In 2007,he was the winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin for "having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
Clan Kirkpatrick is a Lowland armigerous Scottish clan. There are several variations of the Kirkpatrick name:Kilpatric,Kilpatrick,and Gilpatrick. The names Kirkpatrick and Kilpatrick may have been interchangeable at one time. The clan is recognised by the Court of the Lord Lyon,however the clan does not currently have a chief so recognised. The surname Kirkpatrick is also a recognized sept of Clan Douglas and Clan Colquhoun.
The Battle of Kells took place between Edward Bruce and Roger Mortimer,3rd Baron Mortimer.
Loren Gold is an American keyboardist,vocalist,music director,and songwriter. Gold is a keyboardist and vocalist for the Who and Chicago. In addition,Gold has been the touring keyboardist and backup vocalist for Roger Daltrey since 2009. Gold also performs with Rita Wilson and has toured regularly with Don Felder since 2009. Other artists he has toured with include Kenny Loggins,Natalie Maines,and American Idol winner Taylor Hicks. Gold has been musical director for pop stars Selena Gomez,Demi Lovato,and Hilary Duff,and he continues to build and develop bands for other artists. Gold has published two instructional books through his collaboration with Alfred Music,and his original compositions have been featured on HBO and Showtime.
American actor Bruce Willis began his career in 1980 with an uncredited role in The First Deadly Sin. After guest-starring in a 1984 episode of Miami Vice,he appeared in the first episode of the 1985 revival of The Twilight Zone. Willis achieved fame starring in the ABC comedy-drama series Moonlighting (1985–1989),for which he received three Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor –Television Series Musical or Comedy and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. In 1988,he starred as John McClane in Die Hard (1988),a film that spawned four sequels that earned him international recognition as an action hero.
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