Johnny Paycheck(Donald Lytle)Age: 64 influential outlaw country singer who was as famous for his legal and personal troubles as he was for his music. His hits include “Take This Job and Shove…
Sam PhillipsAge: 80 legendary record producer whose Sun Records in Memphis launched the careers of Elvis Presley, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins, and…
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Les Paul
Born: 1915
Electric Guitar, Multi-Track Recording. Paul's innovations led to his first solid-body electric guitar in 1946. He produced a series of extremely popular recordingsâusing…
Harper Lee(Nelle Harper Lee)authorBorn: 4/28/1926Birthplace: Monroeville, Alabama Author of the bestseller-turned-Oscar-winning film To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), she won a Pulitzer for the novel in…
Bill Cosbyactor, comedianBorn: 7/12/1937Birthplace: Philadelphia Emmy and Grammy Award-winning television and film actor and comedian who was the first African-American to star in a television…
William SimonAge: 72 USOC president from 1981-84 and former Treasury secretary and energy expert in President Richard Nixon's administration; USOC vice president and treasurer (1976-80); gave…
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