Homer Hickam's memoir Rocket Boys and the movie October Sky tell the story of how a coal miner's son, inspired by Sputnik, started building rockets in the mining town where he lived.

After coming to the UK from India in the 1930s he lived at 50 Riseldine Road, Brockley and attended Brownhill Boys ' school ( later Catford Boys ' School, which was demolished in 1994 ).

The family lived in the back of Haven Banks, where Cooper attended Mount Radford School for Boys, and helped his parents run their ice cream van, which attended fairs on the weekend.

Built in 1927, Father Flanagan lived in the home until 1941, when he moved to the rectory of the Boys Town Dowd Memorial Chapel.

Boys went to school at the age of seven, or went to the barracks, if they lived in Sparta.

* Spike Milligan ( 1918 – 2002 ) the comedian and writer went to school at Catford's Brownhill Boys School and often visited the suburb where his aunt and uncle lived.

* Chris Lowe, a member of Pet Shop Boys lived on Highbury Grange.

George Orwell, who adopted this pseudonym while living here, lived and worked in 1932-3 as a schoolmaster at The Hawthorns High School for Boys, situated on Church Road.

Although widely thought of as a place where children don't grow up, Barrie wrote that the Lost Boys eventually grew up and have to leave, and fairies there lived typically short lifespans.

Members of The Birthday Party lived here in the late 1970s, when they were known under their previous name of The Boys Next Door.

Other famous people who lived in Bromley include Alex Clare, Charles Darwin, David Bowie, Richmal Crompton, Pixie Lott, Starsmith, Christopher Tennant, Peter Frampton, Aleister Crowley, Siouxsie Sioux, Gary Rhodes, Billy Idol, Billy Jenkins, cricketer Jill Cruwys, the anarchist Peter Kropotkin, the former Clash drummer Topper Headon, historian Richard Jefferis, illustrator Charles Keeping, Formula 1 test driver Gary Paffett, children's writer Andrew Murray, actor Michael York who attended Bromley Grammar School for Boys, clarinetist Chris Craker, Don Perrin, Canadian author who attended Burnt Ash School in Bromley, and Sir Thomas James Harper, an officer decorated in the Crimean war.

Boys were admitted based on the parish they lived in, and on need, health and background of the family.

In his spare time he worked at the Oxford and Bermondsey Boys ' Club, a charity set up by the University of Oxford to help underprivileged boys in Bermondsey, where he then lived.

The alliance, however, was short lived as on March 29, 2010, news broke that the Nasty Boys had been released by TNA following an incident at a TNA function with Spike executives present.

The famous team from the 60s and 70s was popular as the " Rødgata Boys ", after the street most of them lived in.

* Darren Robinson ( 1967 – 1995 )-Rapper of The Fat Boys, lived in Rosedale.

Al Capone's family lived nearby, and Nitti was friends with Capone's older brothers and their criminal gang ( the Navy Street Boys ).

According to Smith, " It was all an expression about drug cartel Young Boys Incorporated, Mayor Coleman Young, the city we lived in and just the turmoil that our city was going through at the time.

Later he lived with another uncle, anthropologist Roger Duff, and went back to school at Christchurch Boys ' High School.

At daybreak on December 14, 1763, a vigilante group made up of Scots-Irish frontiersmen, the Paxton Boys, attacked the local Conestoga, a Susquehannock tribe of descendants who had lived on land donated by William Penn to their ancestors in the 1690s.

Cheshunt Boys ' Club was a regular venue of theirs in the early ' 60's. Cliff Richard lived in nearby Cheshunt on the Bury Green estate from 1951 and went to Cheshunt Secondary Modern, the secondary school close by.

The Paper Boys have to belong to families that have lived in Marshfield for generations and they must have the Marshfield accent.

Boys guarded the fields and cattle and lived in separate camps starting at about ten years of age and lasting a lifetime.

* 1969 – Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.

* August 12 – Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.

Sectarian conflict was continued in the late 18th century in the form of communal violence between rival Catholic and Protestant factions over land and trading rights ( see Defenders ( Ireland ), Peep O ' Day Boys and Orange Institution ).

* Tarleton Boys: Boyd, Tom, and the twins, Brent and Stuart: The red-headed Tarleton boys were in frequent scrapes, loved practical jokes and gossip, and " were worse than the plagues of Egypt ," according to their mother.

Although, according to Bronowski, he knew only two English words on arriving in Great Britain, he gained admission to the Central Foundation Boys ' School in London and went on to study at the University of Cambridge and graduated as the senior wrangler.

Sydney Boys High School, operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, was the highest achiever in the Higher School Certificate of all boys ' schools in New South Wales in 2006 and 2010 according to a list published by the Sydney Morning Herald.

It was during the breakup of his marriage to Annie that he wrote " Angel Come Home " which, according to co-writer Geoffrey Cushing-Murray, was about Carl's grief over separation from his wife during the incessant touring with the Beach Boys.

The mix of eclectic samples – including pieces of Suicide's electro-punk classic " Girl " (" 3 Minute Classic "), Angelo Badalamenti's theme to cult TV show Twin Peaks (" Perfect Person "), and the Serge Gainsbourg / Brigitte Bardot duet " Bonnie And Clyde " (" Everywhere ")-- evokes the Dust Brothers ' work on the Beastie Boys ' Paul's Boutique according to XLR8R magazine.

Saint Oswald bound the monastery under the Benedictine Rule in the tenth century, with novices being kept according to the Rule ; a century later Saint Wulstan, the Bishop responsible for the building of the Norman cathedral, was recorded as Magister et Custos Infantium ( Master and Keeper of the Children ) according to Florence of Worcester, and Puerorum Custos ( Keeper of the Boys ) according to William of Malmesbury.

In addition to the Beach Boys ' signature layered-singing style, the song's instrumentation makes heavy use of steel drums played by Vince, Milton, & Mike ( but not Mike Love ) according to the " Kokomo " track sheet info supplied by engineer Keith Wechsler.

The only active Beach Boys member not involved with the recording was Brian Wilson, who, according to his autobiography, was given short notice of the recording session and unable to attend.

Randy Newman never dented the Billboard Top 200 and was not received as well by critics as Newman's acclaimed 1970s albums 12 Songs, Sail Away and Good Old Boys ; indeed, according to Ken Tucker, the album sold so poorly that Warner offered buyers the opportunity to trade the album for another in the company's catalog. Randy Newman was out of print for over 15 years until it was re-released on CD in 1995.

* The Beastie Boys ' " Three MCs and One DJ " music video was shot in a Mott Street building, which, according to the commentary on the Beastie Boys Video Anthology DVD, was also formerly home to Sonic Youth.

The film also featured such acts as The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Gerry & the Pacemakers, James Brown, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Lesley Gore, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, and The Beach Boys ( whose sequence was later cut from the film, due to contract issues ).

The Cramps, whose core members were from Sacramento by way of Akron, had debuted at CBGB in November 1976, opening for the Dead Boys.

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys ( whose much anticipated Smile project would not emerge until 2004 ), Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd were early " acid casualties ", helping to shift the focus of the respective bands of which they had been leading figures.

In the book, whose authorship is still debated, Wilson spoke about his troubled relationship with his abusive father Murry, his private disputes with the Beach Boys and his " lost years " of mental illness.

Their children were Dean Paul ( November 17, 1951-March 21, 1987 ; plane crash ), Ricci James ( born 1953 ) and Gina Caroline ( born 1956 ), whose marriage made Dean the father-in-law of The Beach Boys ' Carl Wilson.

The Jerky Boys is an American comedy act from Queens, New York, whose routine consists of prank telephone calls and other related skits.

He once released 100 rabbits onstage as an Easter surprise for the Madison Square Boys Club, whose members were seated in the studio.

is based in Caerleon along with two rugby union clubs ; Newport High School Old Boys RFC and Caerleon RFC whose grounds are less than a mile apart.

Brennan is more recently known for his voice work in the animated series Family Guy where he performs the voices of Mort Goldman ( whose voice and mannerisms are almost identical to that of his Jerky Boys character Sol Rosenberg ) and Horace the bartender of the Drunken Clam.

In a career spanning thirty years, he is known for playing Yosser Hughes, the troubled ' hard man ' whose life is falling apart in Alan Bleasdale's groundbreaking 1980s TV drama, Boys from the Blackstuff.

Another Australian surf band who were known outside their own country's surf scene was the Joy Boys, whose hit " Murphy the Surfie " ( 1963 ) was later covered by the Surfaris.

Other Akamba Pop Bands were formed in the 1980s and included Kakuku Boys Band vocalled by John Mutua Muteti whose lyrics consisted of religious, domestic, and court humour, Ngoleni Brothers which was formed by Dick Mutuku Mulwa after he left Kalambya Boys & Kalambya Sisters.

Contemporary Bulgarian worldwide recognized choirs and singers in whose repertoire permanently takes place the orthodox music are: Yoan Kukuzel Choir, Sofia Boys ' Choir, Madrigal Sofia Choir, Sofia Orthodox Choir, Sofia Priest Choir, etc., worldwide famous opera singers Boris Christov and Nicola Ghiuselev.

The Avenue Boys, whose territory was on Central Avenue in the east side of South Central, had been involved in gang activity since 1964.

Arnold, whose authority was not recognized by the Green Mountain Boys, was unable to stop the plunder.

The Soft Boys were a pop band during the punk era led by Robyn Hitchcock, whose initially old fashioned music style of psychedelic / folk-rock became part of the neo-psychedelia scene with the release of Underwater Moonlight.

In the fourth season, ( October 8, 1944 ) these three friends, along with Police Chief Donald Gates ( Ken Christy ), form the nucleus of the Jolly Boys Club whose activities revolve around practicing barbershop quartet songs between sips of Coca-Cola.

" He attended Leyton County High School for Boys, though prior to this he was a pupil at Chatham House Grammar School, in Ramsgate, Kent, whose notable alumni include former Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath.

The original Gosforth Football Club was founded in 1877 by a group of Old Boys of Durham School, in whose colours of green and white hoops the club played until the mid-1990s.

Batistuta signed professional forms with Newell's Old Boys, whose coach was Marcelo Bielsa, who would later become Batistuta's coach with the Argentine national team.

Original guitarist Rick Barton was replaced by former The Ducky Boys guitarist James Lynch and Marc Orrell, and additional instruments were added and played by new members Ryan Foltz and Robbie " Spicy McHaggis " Mederios, whose name was inspired by a McDonald's menu item while the band was on a 1999 tour in Scotland.

The band Japan, whose other members included David Sylvian, keyboardist Richard Barbieri and Sylvian's brother Steve Jansen as drummer, began as a group of friends, who all studied at Catford Boys ' School.

The character Mongo Vyle was a biker billed from Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York whose gimmick was inspired by The Nasty Boys, the Road Warriors and Maxx Payne.