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The Bongos are a power pop band from Hoboken, New Jersey, that emerged from the New York City arts scene, primarily active in the 1980s, led by Richard Barone.With their unique musical style, they were major progenitors of the Hoboken indie-pop community, college radio favorites, and made the leap to national recognition with the advent of MTV.
Elbert Howard, founding member of the party and first editor of its newspaper, The Black Panther. [31] Ericka Huggins, longtime party leader, professor of sociology. [14] John Huggins Los Angeles chapter leader. Killed in 1969. [18] Bobby Hutton, first party recruit, treasurer; killed by police in 1968. [32] George Jackson, author and prison ...
Richard Barone is an American rock musician who first gained attention as frontman for the Bongos.He works as a songwriter, arranger, author, director, and record producer, releases albums as a solo artist, tours, and has created concert events at Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl, SXSW, and New York's Central Park.
A composer and drummer, Costanzo is best known for having been a bongo player, and was nicknamed "Mr. Bongo". He visited Havana three times in the 1940s and learned to play Afro-Cuban rhythms on the bongos and congas. Costanzo started as a dancer, touring as a team with his wife before World War II.
James Wesley Marsters (born August 20, 1962) is an American actor, musician, singer, comic book writer, and audiobook narrator. He is best known for his role as the British punk vampire Spike in The WB series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel .
In the late 1980s, St. James became friendly with Michael Alig, although at first he and the other club personalities shunned the newcomer. [3] Undeterred, Alig soon created his own scene by gathering up other creative personalities of the nightlife world; he used his flamboyant style, and engaged in self-promotion and themed parties.
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings is a 1976 American sports comedy film about a team of enterprising ex-Negro league baseball players in the era of racial segregation. Loosely based upon William Brashler 's 1973 novel of the same name, it starred Billy Dee Williams , James Earl Jones and Richard Pryor .
Michael Thomas Gargiulo (born February 15, 1976) [1] is a convicted American serial killer.He moved to Southern California in the 1990s and gained the nickname The Hollywood Ripper.