Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges; April 2, 1942 – November 13, 2016) was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling records during his 60-year career that spanned multiple genres, including rock and roll, [3] country, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, southern rock, [4] blues rock, [5] folk, surf and the Tulsa sound.
A Poem Is a Naked Person is a 1974 American documentary film directed by Les Blank, filmed in 1972–1974 [1] but not publicly released until 2015, after Blank's death. The film is a documentary about musician Leon Russell, produced and financed largely by Russell and his then-business partner Denny Cordell. Blank spent a large portion of two ...
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
Leon Russell wrote a handful of modern standards and worked with artists from Dylan to Clapton to Streisand to Elton. A new tribute LP heralds the Leonaissance.
If ever there was a riches to rags—and back to riches—rock ‘n roll tale begging to be told, the decades-long odyssey of Leon Russell would be it. A hugely influential piano visionary ...
Dennis Cordell-Lavarack (1 August 1943 – 18 February 1995 [1]), known as Denny Cordell, was an English record producer.He is notable for his mid-1960s and early 1970s productions of hit singles for The Moody Blues, Leon Russell, The Move, Procol Harum, Joe Cocker and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
The late Leon Russell was one of the more original and unclassifiable artists of his time, and the upcoming tribute album A Song for Leon features an appropriately eclectic roster of artists ...
Leon W. Russell (born 1949/1950) [1] is an African-American civil rights leader and human rights executive. He was elected to succeed Roslyn Brock as chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People board of directors on February 18, 2017.