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IT’S 2020 AND WE HAVE PASSED THE FIRST FIFTH OF THE 21ST CENTURY

17.07 - 10.04 2020

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Robert Wilson (born: October 4, 1941)

American experimental theater stage director and playwright. In his stage works, he combines artistic means of expression in an unusual way, including the art of dance and movement, lighting, sculpture, music and text. His images are aesthetically stunning, imbued with emotion. Wilson has worked with a number of writers and musicians such as Heiner Müller, Tom Waits, Susan Sontag, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou Reed, Jessye Norman and Anna Calvi.

He has received numerous honors. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and the German Academy of Arts and holds eight honorary doctorate titles.

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Paul Simon (born: October 13, 1941)

Twelve-time Grammy Award-winning American singer and lyricist, he is a member of the former Simon and Garfunkel duo formed in 1956 with Art Garfunkel. Simon’s musical career began after meeting Art Garfunkel when they were both 11. They performed in a production of Alice in Wonderland for their sixth-grade graduation, and began singing together when they were 13. In 1957, in their mid-teens, they recorded the song “Hey, Schoolgirl” under the name “Tom & Jerry”, a name that was given to them by their label Big Records. The single reached No. 49 on the pop charts. In early 1964, Simon and Garfunkel got an audition with Columbia Records. Columbia decided that the two would be called “Simon & Garfunkel” instead of “Tom & Jerry”. Simon and Garfunkel’s first LP, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., was released on October 19, 1964. The album initially flopped. Only “The Sounds of Silence” became famous.

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Pete Best (born: November 24, 1941)

English musician known as having been the Beatles’ drummer. Best was studying at the Liverpool Collegiate Grammar School in Shaw Street when he decided he wanted to be in a music group. Mona (her mother) bought him a drum kit from Blackler’s music store and Best formed his own band, the Black Jacks. Meanwhile Mona later opened The Casbah Coffee Club in its large cellar. The idea for the club first came from Best, as he asked his mother for somewhere his friends could meet and listen to the popular music of the day. As The Quarrymen, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ken Brown played at the club after helping Mona to finish painting the walls.
The Black Jacks later became the resident group at the Casbah.

In 1960, Allan Williams, the Beatles’ manager, arranged a season of bookings in Hamburg. Having no permanent drummer, Paul McCartney looked for someone to fill the Hamburg position. Best had been seen playing in the Casbah with his own group, the Black Jacks, and it was noted that he was a steady drummer, playing the bass drum on all four beats in the bar, which pushed the rhythm.

Harry reported Best’s dismissal on the front page of Mersey Beat magazine, upsetting many Beatles fans. The group encountered some jeering and heckling in the street and on stage for weeks afterwards, with some fans shouting, “Pete forever, Ringo never!” In 1988, after twenty years of turning down all requests to play drums in public, Best finally relented, appearing at a Beatles convention in Liverpool.

On 6 July 2007, Best was inducted into the All You Need Is Liverpool Music Hall of Fame as the debut Charter Member. Liverpool has further honoured Best with the announcement, on 25 July 2011, that two new streets in the city would be named Pete Best Drive and Casbah Close.

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01 - Joan Baez / 02 - Aaron Neville - Richard Dawkins / 03 - Markus Lüpertz - Eric Burdon / 04 - Bob Dylan - Charlie Watts / 05 - Chick Corea - György Galántai / 06 - László Dús - Gyula Konkoly / 07 - George Clinton - Paul Anka / 08 - David Crosby - Chubby Checker / 09 - Robert Wilson - Paul Simon - Pete Best / 10 - Bruce Nauman - Wadada Leo Smith - Ronnie Cuber

participants have been selected from the pages of wikipedia and youtube

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