Gorky's novel was also adapted for an opera by Valery Zhelobinsky in 1938.

Richard James took on Lawrence's former role of main guitarist, and Gorky's also recruited former Ffa Coffi Pawb member Rhodri Puw as a sideman to play guitar and bass guitar on tour.

In that time he also kept a wide ranging visual record of all the great bands he worked with on formats ranging from Super 8 / 16mm and 35mm to VHSC, Digibeta and all formats in between. From these sources he has created the musical memoir film that is ' Saunders Lewis vs Andy Warhol '. Emyr calls the film ....' a group portrait from a time before our music was Cool or devolved, and a film created exclusively from the images that I shot and produced at that time augmented by words that were said directly to me .......' The film includes a massive list of influential musicians caught exclusively for his camera and also featured in exclusive conversations with Emyr-Among those who appear ... Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Ffa Coffi Pawb, Catatonia, Melys, Topper, Fflaps, Datblygu, Llwybr Llaethog, Y Cyrff, Beganifs,

She is also an artist and has provided cover artwork for all Wyatt's solo albums since 1974, as well as for other musicians including Gravity by Fred Frith, Alice by Klimperei and Spanish Dance Troupe by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

In 1994 Gorky's released their first full studio album, Tatay.

In 1999, Gorky's released their first album for Mantra, Spanish Dance Troupe.

In the same year, the band released an acoustic mini-album called The Blue Trees in 2000, after which drummer Euros Rowlands left Gorky's to take up a career in teaching.

The 1996 compilation Introducing Gorky's Zygotic Mynci ( the band's first release in America ) compiled material from the Ankst album and singles and summed up this phase of Gorky's career.

Gorky's have the ignominious distinction of being the only group with 8 UK Top 75 singles without ever making the Top 40.

* Les Bas-Fonds / The Lower Depths, 1936 ( screenplay based on Gorky's play )-Film produced by Films Albatros, screenplay Yevgeni Zamyatin ( as E. Zamiatine ), Jacques Companéez, Jean Renoir, Charles Spaak, dir.

The German modernist Bertolt Brecht based his epic play The Mother ( 1932 ) on Gorky's novel of the same name.

Ankst Management ( run by Llwyd and Jones and responsible for Melys, Super Furry Animals, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Los Campesinos !, The Longcut, and, for a time, Cerys Matthews ) and Ankstmusik, the label ( which is now based in Pentraeth on Anglesey and run by Williams ), featuring such bands as Tystion, Ectogram, Zabrinski, Rheinallt H Rowlands, MC Mabon and Wendykurk.

Following further rejections of his playground designs, Noguchi left on a cross-country road trip with Arshile Gorky and Gorky's fiancée in July 1941, eventually separating from them to go to Hollywood.

This lineup of Gorky's recorded and toured two more albums-How I Long to Feel That Summer in My Heart ( 2001 ) and Sleep / Holiday ( 2003, on the Sanctuary Music label ).

Holmes has worked as a session musician on several albums by Welsh artists including the debut album by Melys, and has produced several albums including the early releases of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

Following on from an underground post-punk movement in the 1980s, led by bands like Datblygu and Fflaps, the 1990s saw a considerable flowering of Welsh rock groups ( in both Welsh and English languages ) such as Catatonia, Manic Street Preachers, Feeder, Stereophonics, Super Furry Animals, The Pooh Sticks, 60ft Dolls and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

Datblygu have been cited as a major influence on the generation of Welsh bands that followed, including Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and Super Furry Animals ( who covered Datblygu's " Y Teimlad " on their Mwng album ).

* Welsh Indie Band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci has a song titled " Blessed are the Meek " on their 1992 album Patio.

Maxim Gorky's verdict: " Dmitry Merezhkovsky, a well-known God-admirer of a Christian mode, is a small man whose literary activity is akin to that of a type-writer: each type is clear and well-read, but it's soul-less and boring ", served as a leitmotif of the Soviet literary officialdom's view on Merezhkovsky for decades.

* The Mother ( play ), by Bertolt Brecht, based on Gorky's work

Now attracting the interest of larger record labels, Gorky's left Ankst and signed to Fontana Records.

Gorky's return from Fascist Italy was a major propaganda victory for the Soviets.

Gorky's version of a heroic revolutionary is Pavel Vlasov from the novel " Mother ", who displays selflessness and compassion for the working poor, as well as discipline and dedication.

Gorky's works were significant for the development of literature in Russia and became influential in many parts of the world.

After a handful of low key cassette releases, the label relocated to Cardiff and became a more serious concern, providing a launch-pad for several popular Welsh artists, including Llwybr Llaethog, Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

They directed pop promos for Frank Black and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, as well as appearing in two Surf washing powder commercials, in which they comically set upon Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Keith Harris and Orville.

Fontana was revived in the late 1980s as an outlet for acts such as Tears for Fears, The Teardrop Explodes, Cocteau Twins and Swing Out Sister, and was active in the 1990s, releasing music for acts such as Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Ocean Colour Scene and James.

Gorky's came from the word " gawky "; Lawrence says that " gork " was school slang for a dimwit.

Such acts included the Manic Street Preachers, Catatonia, Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci ; the latter two bands being notable for many of their songs ' lyrics being in Welsh.

As Hansen poised his corps for the breakthrough against the 95th Rifle Division 27 Ju 87s of II ./ StG 77 attacked Maxim Gorky's main battery.

Rhodri Puw, later a member of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and Dewi Emlyn, now a tour manager for GZM and SFA, were the other two band members.

A few weeks later, again with Gorky's assistance, the Petrograd Soviet gave the couple permission to leave Russia for Finland.

Patronized by Maxim Gorky, Khodasevich and his wife Nina Berberova ( herself a distinguished littérateur, 1901 – 1993 ) left Russia for Gorky's villa in Sorrento, Italy.

In 1976, he saw a production of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths and was inspired, first to watch, and then later to take part in, as many plays as possible.

The Iceman Cometh is often compared to Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths, by which it has been suggested to have been inspired.

Renoir's 1936 adaptation of Gorky's The Lower Depths was co-written by Zamyatin.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Gorky's return to the Soviet Union was motivated by material needs.

The sudden death of Gorky's son Maxim Peshkov in May 1934 was followed by the death of Maxim Gorky himself in June 1936.

Wales experienced a strong emergence of groups during the 1990s led by Manic Street Preachers, followed by the likes of the Stereophonics and Feeder ; notable during this period were Catatonia, Super Furry Animals, and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci who gained popular success as dual-language artists.

The Deluge was a headliner by the company, until it was replaced by Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths ( August 1924 ) The artistic praise did not pay the bills, and touring elsewhere in Romania only made the financial picture worse.

*# Gorky's Zygotic Mynci " Christina " ( chosen by Gruff )