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The painting was presented to Churchill by both Houses of Parliament at a public ceremony in Westminster Hall on his 80th birthday on 30 November 1954. [3] Finding the depiction deeply unflattering, Churchill disliked the portrait intensely. After its public presentation, the painting was taken to his country home at Chartwell but not displayed.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II – An 80th Birthday Portrait is a 2005 oil painting of Queen Elizabeth II by Rolf Harris, commissioned by the BBC for the Queen's 80th birthday. It was unveiled at the Queen's Gallery in Buckingham Palace and publicly displayed there from 2005 to 2006.
In 2012, Berners-Lee was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires to mark his 80th birthday. [72] [73]
The 80th Birthday Concert is a two-CD live album by George Russell released on the Concept label in 2005, featuring a performance by Russell with his Living Time Orchestra recorded in 2003. [ 1 ]
In 2010, fifty members of the National Youth Music Theatre participated in a production at the Village Underground as part of Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday celebrations in London. Directed by Martin Constantine, NYMT staged the show in a converted Victorian warehouse in the city's East End . [ 47 ]
Sinatra 80th: Live in Concert is a live album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1995. The album is a compilation of previously-unreleased live recordings from his concerts between 1987 and 1988. (The title is a reference to Sinatra's age at the time of the album's release, not at the time of the performances.)
In around the mid-1940s, Bill Haley performed with the Down Homers and formed a group called the Four Aces of Western Swing. The group that later became the Comets initially formed as "Bill Haley and the Saddlemen" c. 1949 –1952, and performed mostly country and western songs, though occasionally with a bluesy feel.
Birthplace of First Lady Mary (Mamie) Doud Eisenhower, 709 (formerly 718) Carroll Street, Boone, Iowa. Mary Geneva "Mamie" Doud was born in Boone, Iowa, as the second child of meatpacking executive John Sheldon Doud and Elivera Mathilda Carlson.