* 1946 – Larry Graham, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer ( Sly and the Family Stone and Graham Central Station )

A large memorial to Ellington, created by sculptor Robert Graham, was dedicated in 1997 in New York's Central Park, near Fifth Avenue and 110th Street, an intersection named Duke Ellington Circle.

During the 1960s, the city was home to an innovative funk music scene that produced well-known bands like Sly & the Family Stone, Graham Central Station, Tower of Power, Cold Blood, and The Headhunters.

Larry Graham, the bass player for both Sly & the Family Stone and Graham Central Station, is credited with the creation of the influential slap and pop sound still widely used by bassists in many musical idioms today.

Besides a brief appearance of the brothers in Japan around 1994, and George making a guest-appearance in the 1990s on a concert in Japan ( including a released double-CD ) of the Graham Central Station, the duo launched an expanded US tour in 2002 which got positive, wide exposure.

Larry Graham, Jr. ( born August 14, 1946 ) is an American bass guitar player, both with the popular and influential psychedelic soul / funk band Sly and the Family Stone, and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station.

After Sly and the Family Stone, Graham formed his own band, Graham Central Station.

He reformed Graham Central Station in the early 1990s and performed with the band for several years during which they released 2 live albums.

In 1999, he recorded a solo album under the name Graham Central Station, GCS 2000.

Larry Graham and Graham Central Station performed internationally with a world tour in 2010 and the " Funk Around The World " international tour in 2011.

* Graham Central Station ( Warner Bros., 1974 )

* The Best of Larry Graham and Graham Central Station, Vol.

* 1999: GCS2000 ( as Graham Central Station )

A busy sunset over Graham Road ( with some contrails ), Hackney Central ( 19 September 2005 — 3 days before the autumnal equinox )

Bremen High School, Central City High School, Graham High School, and half of Muhlenberg Central High School became Muhlenberg North Middle School and Muhlenberg North High School, while the other half of Muhlenberg Central High School, Drakesboro High School, Hughes-Kirkpatrick High School, Greenville High School, and Lake Malone School ( which housed some middle school students ) became Muhlenberg South Middle School and Muhlenberg South High School.

Graham County ( county code GH ) is a county located in northwest Kansas, in the Central United States.

The tour included Warner Brothers acts Little Feat, Tower of Power, the Doobie Brothers, Bonaroo, Montrose, and Graham Central Station.

Almost 60, 000 people come to see The Grateful Dead, The Doobie Brothers, Santana, Jefferson Starship, Tower of Power, Eddie Palmieri, Joan Baez, Graham Central Station and Neil Young joined by members of The Band along with a surprise appearance by Bob Dylan.

Freddie Stone joined Larry Graham's group, Graham Central Station, for a time ; after collaborating with his brother one last time in 1979 for Back on the Right Track, he retired from the music industry and eventually became the pastor of the Evangelist Temple Fellowship Center in Vallejo, California.

Some prominent bass guitar players known for their use of slapping in their playing include Bootsy Collins ( solo artist ; Bootsy's Rubber Band, Funkadelic, Parliament, Praxis ), Flea ( Red Hot Chili Peppers ), Larry Graham ( Sly and the Family Stone, Graham Central Station ), Marcus Miller ( solo artist, Miles Davis, David Sanborn, Luther Vandross ), Louis Johnson ( The Brothers Johnson, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson ), Nick Beggs ( Kajagoogoo ), Mark King ( Level 42 ), Mike Gordon ( Phish ), Les Claypool ( solo artist, Primus ), Fieldy ( Korn ), Jayen Varma ( solo artist ), Tetsuya ( L ' Arc-en-Ciel ).

Graham was badly beaten during his arrest and taken to Bow Street Police Station, where his uncle, Col William Hope VC, attempted to post bail.

The Graham Memorial would be the campus student union honoring the late and much beloved Edward Kidder Graham, who had been president when Tom entered the university.

Two to three weeks prior to the charter of the Virginia, Graham had been snooping around the San Luis Rey Mission.

In 1982 – 83 Australia had Greg Chappell back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their South African tour rebels, particularly Graham Gooch and John Emburey.

Kirk's cousin, Graham of Duchray, was then to claim that the spectre of Kirk had visited him in the night, and told him that he had been carried off by the Fairies.

Graham had briefly attended Bob Jones College, and the university conferred an honorary degree on him in 1948.

Bob Jones, Sr. argued that if members of Graham ’ s campaign executive committee had rejected major tenets of orthodox Christianity, such as the virgin birth and the deity of Christ, then Graham had violated 2 John 9-11, which prohibits receiving in fellowship those who do “ not abide in the teaching of Christ .” In the 1960s, Graham further irritated fundamentalists by gaining the endorsement of Cardinal Richard Cushing for his Boston campaign and accepting honorary degrees from two Roman Catholic colleges.

As was his policy, Graham ignored criticism of his campaigns and, in 1966, claimed not to know why the University opposed them ; but members of his staff openly accused Jones of jealousy on the grounds that Jones ’ s evangelistic meetings had never been as large as Graham ’ s.

By 1966, when Graham appeared in Greenville, BJU enrollment had strongly rebounded and continued to grow thereafter until the mid-1980s.

Former Browns QB Otto Graham ( left, with head coach Paul Brown ), who led the Browns to 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships, and is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member. While the championship losses sowed bitterness among Cleveland fans who had grown accustomed to winning, the team continued to make progress.

Graham, whose leadership and throwing skills had been instrumental in the Browns ' championship runs, said he planned to retire after the season.

Chuck Noll had a productive season at linebacker with five interceptions, Graham passed for 15 touchdowns and ran for six more, and the team finished the regular season 9 – 2 – 1.

He had two children, Graham ( born 1907 ) and Mary ( born 1909 ), who each also became illustrators.

Essendon had tough, but talented players with the likes of " Rotten Ronnie " Ron Andrews and experienced players such as Barry Davis, Ken Fletcher, Geoff Blethyn, Neville Fields and West Australian import Graham Moss.

However, he did not get on well with the plantation's manager, a racist named R. J. Graham who had wanted to deforest the entire local area.

Kei Kamara, Graham Zusi, and C. J. Sapong have all had great seasons so far.

At Graham Chapman's memorial service, John Cleese began his eulogy by reprising euphemisms from the sketch, stating that Graham Chapman was no more, that he had ceased to be, that bereft of life he rests in peace, that he had expired and gone to meet his maker, and so on, finally calling him an ex-Chapman.

Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory made several improvements in the 1880s, including the use of wax-coated cardboard cylinders, and a cutting stylus that moved from side to side in a " zig zag " pattern across the record.

Clerical converts include Monsignor Graham Leonard ( former Anglican Bishop of London ); Alan Hopes ( a present-day Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ) and several hundred priests who were received into the Church, mostly from the Church of England.

To honor the NFL's 75th season, several former players who were named to the league's 75th Anniversary All-Time Team joined the coin toss ceremony: Otto Graham, Joe Greene, Ray Nitschke, and Gale Sayers.

Many portraits were painted of Somerset Maugham, including that by Graham Sutherland in the Tate Gallery, and several by Sir Gerald Kelly.

A brawl erupts between Led Zeppelin's crew and the staff of the promoter Bill Graham, resulting in criminal assault charges for several members of the Led Zeppelin group including the drummer John Bonham.

* November 7 – Billy Graham, American evangelist, spiritual adviser to several U. S. Presidents

He appeared in At Last the 1948 Show with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman, and was co-writer ( with Graham Chapman ) of several episodes of the Doctor in the House television comedy series.

Lenox products also became well known in the US thanks to Frank Graham Holmes, chief designer from 1905 to 1954, who won several artistic awards such as the 1927 Craftsmanship Medal of the American Institute of Architects and the 1943 silver medal of the American Designers Institute.

The restoration of the abbey has been proposed several times since the 18th century-in 1835 by the architect James Gillespie Graham as a meeting place for the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and, in 1906, as a chapel for the Knights of the Thistle — but both proposals were rejected.

In the early 1980s, Graham recorded five solo albums and had several solo hits on the R & B charts.

After many years, and several attempts by other men to write acceptable rules, John Graham Chambers wrote the Marquess of Queensberry rules in 1865.

The Crickets released " The Crickets and Their Buddies " in 2004 which features several classics from all parts of their career featuring guest appearances by several prominent artists including Eric Clapton, Rodney Crowell, Waylon Jennings, Nanci Griffith, John Prine, Graham Nash, Bobby Vee, Tonio K. and more.

Baldwin appears as a minor character in several novels, notably Zofia Kossak-Szczucka's Król trędowaty ( The Leper King ), Graham Shelby's The Knights of Dark Renown, and Cecelia Holland's Jerusalem, as a sickly small child.

" According to the band's Ten Imaginary Years biography, between January and December of 1976, the shifting line-up for Malice featured several " other blokes ", with founding guitarist Marc Ceccagno being replaced by Porl Thompson, an early drummer known only as " Graham " replaced by Lol Tolhurst, and " Graham's brother " replaced for one show only by vocalist Martin Creasy.

Scottish writer Nigel Tranter has Elizabeth appear in several chapters of his book The Young Montrose, about the life of his hero James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose.

Graham Waterhouse composed several works for string orchestra ( Sinfonietta ), also in combination with contrasting sounds as Great Highland Bagpipe ( Chieftain's Salute ).

* Alvin Ailey-a student of Lester Horton ( and later Martha Graham ) Ailey spent several years working in both concert and theatre dance.

Graham has stated in several interviews that he was trying to emulate the sound of a drum set before his band had found its drummer.

She has appeared as a character in several novels, such as the biographical novels The Devil's Mistress by novelist and occultist J. W. Brodie-Innes, Isobel by Jane Parkhurst, the fantasy novel Night Plague by Graham Masterton, and Noches Paganas: Cuentos Narrados junto al Fuego del Sabbath by Luis G. Abbadie ;

During his time in California Powell contributed several articles to the magazine Night and Day, edited by Graham Greene.

A British force was sent to Suakin under General Sir Gerald Graham, and forced the rebels away in several hard-fought actions.