School of rock review

School of Rock Review Rebecca Darley You and your whole family will love the brand new film about to hit the big screen.. School of Rock! The lead role, Dewey Finn, is played by the legendary Jack Black (and I must admit, nobody could do any better) and direction is done by Richard Linklater, who appears to do an amazing job. After being kicked out of his garage band for the latest 10 minute long guitar solos, wannabe rock star, Dewey Finn must find a way to earn some money to pay his rent. Living in his best friend Ned's spare room with the constant furious temper of Ned's fiancé, Patti, Dewey is desperate to find a way to put a new band together better than any other, in order to fulfil Dewey's dream of winning Battle of the Bands. Teaching children would not be the most obvious of solutions, but when Dewey sees his chance to earn some extra money, he can't get to the chalkboard quick enough! After a day of Dewey putting his feet up and listening to children endlessly begging for learning and education, he soon comes to realise that the children have a very special talent for music. Suddenly, Dewey's enthusiasm for his teaching job no longer is the centre of attention in his mind; spotting a peculiar way to put a band together, he then replaces curriculum lessons with a schedule based around rock, consisting of homework involving listening to Dewey's collection of

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Robbie Williams Biography.

Robbie Williams Biography Remember the photographs (insane) The ones where we all laugh (so lame) We were having the time of our lives Well thank you it was a real blast Robert Peter Williams was born on February 13th 1974 and spent his childhood years living in Stoke-on-Trent with his mum and older sister Sally. He was always the class joker at St Margaret Ward High School in Stoke and had a particular gift for singing and acting. His great love then (and still is now) is Port Vale FC. His mum used to own a pub just down the road from their training ground and Rob loves to tell the story of the time he threw two thousand pounds out of the window on a match day!!! I'm sure his mum loved him for that, especially when her bras and knickers followed! Along with his mum Jan, he joined a local theatre group, and was often seen starring in various musicals and plays, his biggest part was playing 'Dodger' in Oliver. Rob joined Take That when he was only 16 (that's him on the left hand side of the picture!). He had only one job previous to that, as a double glazing salesman, but apparently he wasn't very good - he would tell customers not to buy them because they were so bad! Rob's mum was the person responsible for him joining the band, she saw the advert for auditions and suggested that he apply. He did so, and as soon as the other members saw him, they knew he was the

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What can you learn from Source A about the impact of the Beatles in the 1960's?

) What can you learn from Source A about the impact of the Beatles in the 1960's? Source A shows how much the Beatles were loved and idolised. They are very famous people and were, to most, the best music act around in the Sixties. The Beatles brought about change in both music and television in England during the period, which became known as the "swinging Sixties". Source A discusses the first appearance of the Beatles on "Juke Box Jury". This was a major change for the British people, as previously all television programmes were aimed at middle aged people and young children. The Beatles were a music group aimed at a teenage audience and in Source A Joanna Lumley talks about her memories of their music, their first appearance on television and the impact they had on her life. She talks about her life at the time when the Beatles were extremely popular. She says, "It was heaven to be alive" which demonstrates the importance of the Beatles in her life and how much she liked them. The Beatles were seen to be "cool, hip, smart, charming and funny". Even London, one of the trendiest and busiest places in England, was described by Joanna Lumley to have "stopped" when the Beatles were on television. "A silence and emptiness descended on London" when the "Fab Four" appeared on "Juke Box Jury". This shows just how much of an impact the Beatles had on London and the rest

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Youth Culture and the New Left of the 1960s

Youth Culture and the New Left of the 1960s A Rebellion of Youth Many historians describe youth culture of the unturbulent 1950s as a precursor of the openly turbulent 1960s. In this view, the cultural contradictions of the 1950s,and the struggles that grew out of them,were the first shock waves of the countercultural earthquake that shook mainstream American society in the 1960s. Teen films(like James Dean´s "Rebel without a cause") and rock'n'roll musicians (like Elvis Presley) served as oppositional benchmarks for the emerging counterculture. The rebelliousness in Presley´s music and in several teen films attracted the restless youth of the 50s. The more adults condemned rock'n'roll music, the more teenagers loved it. The teens elevated the characters played by James Dean("Rebel Without a Course") or Marlon Barndo("The Wild One") to cult status, because for their overturning of respectable society´s morels. The Beats (Beatnik Society) A group of nonconformist writers known as the Beats expressed a more fundamental revolt against middleclass society. In such works as Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), the Beats despised the competition and materialism of the fifties corporate world and derided the and derided at the "square" America. Kerouac described it as "rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living

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