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Music video. "Giant" on YouTube. " Giant " is a song by Scottish DJ and record producer Calvin Harris and English singer-songwriter Rag'n'Bone Man. The song was released through Columbia Records on 11 January 2019, and included on Harris' seventh studio album, 96 Months (2024). [1] It was written by Rag'n'Bone Man alongside Jamie Hartman and ...
Box office. $11.5 million [3] King of Thieves is a 2018 British heist film directed by James Marsh. The film is based on the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary of 2015, and stars Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Charlie Cox, Jim Broadbent, Paul Whitehouse and Ray Winstone. [4][5]
Pulitzer Prize (posthumous, 1976) Signature. Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime ", [1] he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, [2] one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became the genre's first and ...
Snake Rag. Snake Rag is a 1923 Dixieland jazz standard composed by Joseph "King" Oliver of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. It features Oliver and Louis Armstrong on cornet, Honoré Dutrey on trombone, Johnny Dodds on clarinet, Lil Hardin on piano, Baby Dodds on drums, and William Manuel Johnson on banjo. The rag was a result of improvisation ...
Scott Joplin in 1912. The "Maple Leaf Rag" is a multi- strain ragtime march with athletic bass lines and offbeat melodies. Each of the four parts features a recurring theme and a striding bass line with copious seventh chords. The piece may be considered the "archetypal rag" due to its influence on the genre; its structure was the basis for ...
Thomas Blood. Blood in an 1813 illustration. Thomas Blood (1618 – 24 August 1680) was an Anglo-Irish officer and self-styled colonel best known for his attempt to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671. [1] Described in an American source as a "noted bravo and desperado," [2] he was also known for his attempt to ...
Ragnall was a son of Somairle mac Gilla Brigte, Lord of Argyll (died 1164) and his wife, Ragnhildr, daughter of Óláfr Guðrøðarson, King of the Isles. Somairle and Ragnhildr had at least three sons: Dubgall (died after 1175), Ragnall, Áengus (died 1210), and probably also a fourth, Amlaíb. [ 20] Dubgall appears to have been the couple's ...
Countdown to Ecstasy has similar lyrical themes to Can't Buy a Thrill. [9] It explores topics such as drug abuse, class envy, and West Coast excess. [15] " Your Gold Teeth" follows a jaded female grifter who uses her attractiveness and cunning to take advantage of others, [16] "My Old School" was inspired by a drug bust involving Walter Becker and Donald Fagen while they were students at Bard ...