* Benjamin Zephaniah ( poet )

* Benjamin Zephaniah & Sista ( United Kingdom )

" Tam Lyn retold " by Benjamin Zephaniah & Eliza Carthy ( on the 2007 album The Imagined Village ) retells the story with the girl meeting a man in a club and having a one night stand.

Poets who emerged in this period include Carol Ann Duffy, Andrew Motion, Craig Raine, Wendy Cope, James Fenton, Blake Morrison, Liz Lochhead, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah.

* At the special request of Nelson Mandela, Benjamin Zephaniah hosts the president's Two Nations Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.

By now the show had proved a hit, and several notable stars appeared in later productions, including Leslie Phillips, Miranda Richardson, Lionel Jeffries, Nicholas Parsons, Peter Capaldi, Kate Bush, Richard Vernon, Ruby Wax, Graham Crowden, Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Elvis Costello, and Benjamin Zephaniah ( as a Rastafarian police van driver ) and several musical acts, particularly from the Bad News series which was also aided by Queen guitarist Brian May, such as Def Leppard and Marillion.

* Benjamin Zephaniah, poet ( publicly refused to accept an OBE in 2003 )

* The tragic New Cross Fire was commemorated in a number of reggae songs and poems at the time, including Johnny Osbourne ’ s " 13 dead and nothing said ", Benjamin Zephaniah ’ s " 13 dead ", UB40's " Don't let it pass you by " and Linton Kwesi Johnson ’ s " New Crass Massakkah ".

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* " Empire ", a song by Bomb the Bass, Benjamin Zephaniah and Sinéad O ' Connor

The 1970s also saw the rise of dub poetry, exemplified by Linton Kwesi Johnson, Sister Netifa and Benjamin Zephaniah.

* Benjamin Zephaniah

Handsworth has produced some notable popular musical acts: Steel Pulse ( whose first studio album Handsworth Revolution is named after the area ), Joan Armatrading, Pato Banton, Benjamin Zephaniah, Swami, Apache Indian, Ruby Turner and Bhangra group B21 and Jamaican musicians such as Mighty Diamonds, Alton Ellis, Burning Spear and Dennis Brown have performed in Handsworth, rare photographs of these musicians are held in Pogus Caesar's OOM Gallery Archive.

* Benjamin Zephaniah ( born 1958 ) poet and writer, grew up in Handsworth.

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The stage hosted many bands including Hawkwind, Gong, Doctor and the Medics, Flux of Pink Indians, Buster Blood Vessel, Omega Tribe, Crass, Selector, Dexys Midnight Runners, Thompson Twins, Bronz, The Raincoats, Brent Black Music Co-op, Amazulu, Wishbone Ash, Man, Benjamin Zephaniah, Inner City Unit, Here and Now, Cardiacs, The Enid, Roy Harper, Jimmy Page, Ted Chippington, Zorch and Ozric Tentacles all played for free.

Eldest of the seven, Benjamin Franklin, a New Englander transplanted to Philadelphia, wrote the most dazzling success story in our history.

Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.

On January 19, 1879, Alcott and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn wrote a prospectus for a new school which they distributed to potentially interested people throughout the country.

Smiley later wrote to Johnson, saying he was ready to fight ; a potential duel was prevented by the intervention of Washington Burrow and Benjamin F. Cheatham.

Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography, " Some books against Deism fell into my hands ; they were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's lectures.

Benjamin D. Santer, a climate change researcher, wrote: The Global Climate Coalition-a less than disinterested party-has made serious allegations regarding the scientific integrity of the Lead Authors of Chapter 8, and of the IPCC process itself.

Like the Turk, wrote Benjamin, " he puppet called ' historical materialism ' is always supposed to win.

Dyer LumTwo individualist anarchists who wrote in Benjamin Tucker ´ s Liberty were also important labor organizers of the time.

On 10 November Reynolds wrote to Benjamin West to resign the Presidency, but the General Assembly agreed that Reynolds should be re-elected, with Sir William Chambers and West to deputise for him.

Historian Benjamin Platt Thomas wrote that Booth " won celebrity with theater-goers by his romantic personal attraction ", but that he was " too impatient for hard study " and his " brilliant talents had failed of full development.

Benjamin Franklin was a proponent in the 1770s ; the Honourable Artillery Company had an archer company between 1784 and 1794 ; and a man named Richard Mason wrote a book proposing the arming of militia with pike and longbow in 1798.

#* In a letter to Benjamin Rush prefacing his " Syllabus of an Estimate of the Merit of the Doctrines of Jesus ", Jefferson wrote:

In the middle of the 19th century, J. J. Benjamin wrote about the life of Persian Jews:

Empirical research into the question has been associated mainly with the names of Benjamin Lee Whorf, who wrote on the topic in the 1930s, and his mentor Edward Sapir, who did not himself write extensively on the topic.

“ In view of what is now threatening to engulf Europe ,” Horkheimer wrote, “ our present work is essentially destined to pass things down through the night that is approaching: a kind of message in a bottle ” As Adorno continued his work in New York with radio talks on music and a lecture on Soren Kierkegaard's doctrine of love, Benjamin fled Paris and attempted to make an illegal border crossing.

In response, Benjamin ’ s longtime friend Gershom Scholem, wrote to the editor of Merkur to express his disapproval of the " in part, shameful, not to say disgraceful " remarks by Arendt.

In October 1805 John Adams wrote to his friend Benjamin Waterhouse, an American physician and scientist:

Ernst Bloch, Max Horkheimer and Walter Benjamin all wrote about Marxism and politics in addition to other philosophical topics.

In his youth, Benjamin Franklin wrote a number of letters to his brother's newspaper posing as a widow under the pen name Silence Dogood.

Agassiz, Davis, Peirce, Benjamin Gould, and Senator Wilson met at Bache's house and " hurriedly wrote the bill incorporating the Academy, including in it the name of fifty incorporators ".

Warren M. Bodie, journalist, historian, and Skunk Works engineer from 1977 to 1984, wrote that engineering independence, elitism and secrecy of the Skunk Works variety was demonstrated earlier when Lockheed was asked by Lieutenant Benjamin S. Kelsey ( later Brigadier General, USAF ) to build for the United States Army Air Corps a high speed, high altitude fighter to compete with German aircraft.

Rodat wrote the script with Mel Gibson in mind for Benjamin Martin, and gave the Martin character six children to signal this preference to studio executives.

Benjamin Britten wrote the leading role of Oberon in his setting of A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ) especially for him ; the countertenor role of Apollo in Britten's Death in Venice ( 1973 ) was created by James Bowman, the best-known amongst the next generation of English countertenors.

" He refers to Benjamin of Tudela who, during the late Crusader Period in around 1167 CE, wrote that " In front of this place is the Western Wall, which is one of the walls of the Holy of Holies.