According to former stage manager David Blayney ( 15 years with ZZ Top ) in his book, Sharp Dressed Men, sound engineer Linden Hudson co-wrote much of the material on the album as a live-in high-tech music teacher to Beard and Gibbons.

According to Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top in an article that originally appeared in Vintage Guitar magazine, the guitars were run through " Black-Face " Twin Reverbs with both guitarists using external Fender " tank " reverb units and Gibson " Maestro " Fuzz-tones as distortion devices.

According to Stanley Gibbons, rare stamps have averaged an annual compound return of 10 per cent over the past 50 years, however, it is important to remember that this figure has been calculated using backtesting as stamp price indexes are a recent innovation.

According to the Las Vegas Sun, " Neither Gibbons nor his aides have offered public explanations for the governor ’ s perplexing moves.

According to reports, on March 22, 2005, days before Trepp and his wife left for the Caribbean cruise with Gibbons and his family, Jalé Trepp, Warren ’ s wife, sent a reminder to her husband.

According to Shawn O ' Rourke of PopMatters, the shift from the previous ages involved a " deconstructive and dystopian re-envisioning of iconic characters and the worlds that they live in ", as typified by Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns ( 1986 ) and Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbons ' Watchmen ( 1986 – 1987 ).

According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.

According to Day's autobiography, as told to A. E. Hotchner, the usually athletic and healthy Martin Melcher had an enlarged heart.

According to Arnaz himself, in his autobiography A Book ( 1976 ), the family owned three ranches, a palatial home, and a vacation mansion on a private island in Santiago Bay, Cuba.

According to his autobiography, Abdur Rahman had three goals: subjugating the tribes, extending government control through a strong, visible army, and reinforcing the power of the ruler and the royal family.

According to Bruce Campbell's autobiography, If Chins Could Kill, Richard acquired his stage name by combining his short name with his roommates ' names, Hal and Del.

According to his autobiography, the incident occurred " some years ago ".

According to castmate Todd Bridges ' autobiography Killing Willis, Coleman was made to work long hours on the set of Diff ' rent Strokes despite his age and health problems, and this contributed to his being unhappy and separating himself from the cast.

According to John Major's autobiography, the first thing Redwood's successor William Hague said, on being appointed, was that he had better find someone to teach him the words.

* According to Alberti himself, in a short autobiography written c. 1438 in Latin and in the third person, ( many but not all scholars consider this work to be an autobiography ) he was capable of " standing with his feet together, and springing over a man's head.

According to Keith Emerson's autobiography, two of Lemmy's Hitlerjugend knives were given to Emerson by Lemmy during his time as a roadie for The Nice.

According to Gandhi's autobiography, the contest winner was Maganlal Gandhi ( presumably no relation ), who submitted the entry ' sadagraha ', which Gandhi then modified to ' satyagraha '.

According to Levon Helm's autobiography, in the later stages of his illness, Manuel was consuming eight bottles of Grand Marnier per day.

According to Tom Watson, Jr., in his autobiography: One day my dad went into a roadside saloon to celebrate a sale and had too much to drink.

According to Willie " The Lion " Smith's autobiography, the term " gutbucket " comes from " Negro families " who all owned their own pail, or bucket, and will get it filled with the makings for chitterlings.

According to Jack Warner in his autobiography, prior to the United States entering World War II, the head of Warner Bros. sales in Germany, Philip Kauffman, was murdered by the Nazis in Berlin in 1936.

According to Moe Howard's autobiography, the Stooges split with Ted Healy in 1934 once and for all because of Healy's alcoholism and abrasiveness.

According to his own account, recorded in his autobiography Mein Leben, Wagner conceived Parsifal on Good Friday morning, April 1857, in the Asyl ( German: " Asylum "), the small cottage on Otto Wesendonck's estate in the Zürich suburb of Enge, which Wesendonck-a wealthy silk merchant and generous patron of the arts-had placed at Wagner ’ s disposal, through the good offices of his wife Mathilde Wesendonck.

According to his autobiography, Mein Leben, Wagner decided to dramatise the Tristan legend after his friend, Karl Ritter, attempted to do so, writing that:

According to his autobiography Bessemer was working with an ordinary reverbatory furnace but during a test, some pieces of pig iron were jostled off the side of the ladle, and were left above the ladle in the furnace's heat.

According to Keaton's autobiography, Natalie turned him out of their bedroom and hired detectives to follow him.

According to Shepherd's autobiography, it was a 1970 Glamour magazine cover that caught the eye of film director Peter Bogdanovich.

According to her autobiography, during this time she hid in friends ’ homes and moved from place to place at night.

According to his autobiography, he and Errol Flynn were firm friends and had decided to rent Rosalind Russell's house at 601 North Linden Drive as a bachelor pad.

According to the Centennial Record of the University of California, " In 1866 … at Founders ' Rock, a group of College of California men watched two ships standing out to sea through the Golden Gate.

According to the book Local DJ, a Rock & Roll History, the band was performing in the area as an opening act for Herman's Hermits.

According to the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll:

According to Dave Wilson, in his book Rock Formations, the name They Might Be Giants had been used and subsequently discarded by a friend of the band who had a ventriloquism act.

According to Psychology notes written by Dr. Charles Ramskov, a Psychology professor at De Anza College, Rock, Neiser, and Gregory claim that top-down approach involves perception that is an active and constructive process.

According to the Haley biographies Bill Haley by John Swenson and Rock Around the Clock by Dawson, the song was offered to Haley in the wake of his first national success " Crazy Man, Crazy " in 1953, after being copyrighted with the U. S. Library of Congress on March 31.

According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is " music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying.

According to the Hot Springs, Ark., Sentinel Record newspaper, Billy Purl's gold lamé XERF jacket is part of the Rock ' n ' Roll Hall of Fame's border radio collection in Cleveland, Ohio.

According to the Lakota, Iktomi is the son of Inyan, the Rock, a creator god similar in form to other male creator gods.

According to Atanasoff, several operative principles of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer ( ABC ) were conceived by the professor in a flash of insight during the winter of 1937 – 1938 after a drive to Rock Island, Illinois.

According to Norman, the purpose of Solid Rock was " to help other artists who didn't want to be consumed by the business of making vinyl pancakes but who wanted to make something ' non-commercial ' to the world ".

According to Rimmer, Fallen Angel claims that " it was at this memorable meeting that Larry, rather than bowing to the concerns of his fellow artists and the Solid Rock family, chose to strike out.

According to Classic Rock magazine, " once had a couple of US tours under his belt, ' Percy ' Plant swiftly developed a staggering degree of bravado and swagger that irrefutably enhanced Led Zeppelin's rapidly burgeoning appeal.

According to local legend, cited by the mayor, the town was in the running with Little Rock to be the site of the state capitol.

According to the Rock Island County Historical Society, the first more permanently settled inhabitants of the Moline area are thought to be the Sauk and Meskwaki Indians, who founded the village of Saukenuk in 1720 along the Rock River not far from its confluence with the Mississippi.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Table Rock has a total area of 6. 8 square miles ( 17. 6 km² ), all of it land.

According to all sources, the earliest being Paul the Deacon, Ṭāriq left from Ceuta ( Septem ) and landed at the Rock of Calpe, the later Gibraltar, which Arabic sources derive from Jebel Tariq, " Rock of Ṭāriq ".

According to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Sam & Dave were the most successful soul duo, and brought the sounds of the black gospel church to pop music with their call-and-response records.

According to Bob Geldof, " Rock music in the seventies was changed by three bands — the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and The Saints ".

According to local mythology, the Rock of Cashel originated in the Devil's Bit, a mountain 20 miles ( 30 km ) north of Cashel when St. Patrick banished Satan from a cave, resulting in the Rock's landing in Cashel.

According to Henry Geldzahler, “ collages ‘ Elvis Presley No. 1 ’ and ‘ James Dean ’ stand as the Plymouth Rock of the Pop movement .”.

According to the 1986 book Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll, " the following year disco had peaked as a commercial blockbuster ".