Ringo Starr

The Beatles from England became famous from 1963 when they were swarmed by a mob of girls in of their concerts. The group was later ambushed by a crowd at Heathrow Airport days later. In another occasion, there was a confrontation between the police and teenage girls over tickets to a concert where nine were hospitalized. The reputation and music spread to America following the incidences. New collections like the Revolver (1966) and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) by the Beatles…

In 1966 the first take on “Strawberry Fields Forever,” was released while “A Day in the Life” could first be heard on the Sgt. Peppers album. Even though “Strawberry Fields Forever” was released at the end of 1966, the album Magical Mystery Tour debuted in 1967 about six months after Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. As Alan Pollack points out, looking back in retrospect at The Beatles old albums after Sgt. Peppers and Magical Mystery Tour were released, there were definitely…

Journal #5 “We all want to change the world: Drugs, Politcs, and Spirtuality” was an intriguing article about the Beatles and the influence drugs played on their musical career. The impact the drugs, particularly LSD and Marijuana, greatly impacted the music the Beatle produced during their era of usage. This article talked how the drugs let the musicians expand their minds beyond the normal world view, thus allowing them to open their creativity in their musical performances. Since the Beatles…

be focused on talking about its historical sketch, career highlights and the specific reason on why it is meaningful for me. The Beatles, or we say the British rock band, made up of four members of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Stahl. In 1960, the band was established in Liverpool, England, its music style from the 1950s rock and roll, and pioneered the psychedelic rock, pop rock and other genre. In 1962, it released the first single "Love Me Do". In 1963, it issued the…

At the beginning of the course when this assignment was explained, I automatically knew that I was going to choose Neil Young as my topic since he fits the criteria of the assignment perfectly. To begin with, Young was born on November 12, 1946 in Toronto Canada. From a young age, Neil was attracted to music and began to appreciate music more and more. Young promptly learned how to play folk songs on a plastic ukulele that his father gave him and then years later he accomplished to play acoustic…

Crosby Stills and Nash, to write the song Ohio(History.com). They were not the only group to make protest music about the Vietnam War. Many bands made songs about the Vietnam was such as Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, and Edwin Starr(About.com). Edwin Starr’s song, War, was probably one of the most in your face notable…

good thing to rent a house in a part of the city where many primitive and actual needs are found” (Addams, 48). Addams then went on to buy a 43,560 ft^2, later known as the Hull House, in a poor neighborhood of Chicago, with her friend Ellen Gates Starr. The Hull House remained her home until her death in 1935. These early experiences, all before the age of 30, helped mold Jane Addams into the reformer she became. Addams didn’t have any financial backing or investors behind her when she opened…

Jane Addams took her talents and desire to help on a greater scale after a trip to Toynbee Hall in London with a friend, Ellen Gates Starr, the future co-founder of the Hull House. The inspiration they felt at this home for the poor was enough to be carried back with them and put to use. Her personal hardships were overcome, and for the greater good of the people, she pushed through and…

Among the men and women who tried to improve the living conditions of residents was a woman named Jane Addams. She co-founded the Hull House in 1889 with Ellen Starr. The location of it was a run-down mansion at the center of an inner-city ward thick with sweatshops, factories and crowded tenements. The settlement house was founded three years after Stanton Coit established the first on New York’s Lower East Side…

An early leader in social reform in the United States, Jane Addams was a remarkable woman who advanced the welfare of working class adults and children by providing practical opportunities and political advocacy. Born in Cedarville, Illinois, on September 6, 1860 Addams founded the world famous social settlement “Hull House”. She then lived and worked from the home in 1889 until her death in 1935. Adams was an encouraging women famous for writings, settlement work and international efforts for…