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In Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President by James Hatfield, Bush is quoted as saying that " alcohol began to compete with my energies ...
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" Down on the Corner ", a good-time street-corner number, and " Fortunate Son " climbed to No. 3 and No. 14, respectively, by year's end.
On November 16, 1969, they performed " Fortunate Son " and " Down on the Corner " on The Ed Sullivan Show.
During 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival had # 2 hits in the US with " Proud Mary ", " Green River " and " Bad Moon Rising ", and also have a # 3 hit with " Down on the Corner "/" Fortunate Son ".
Similarly, Creedence Clearwater Revival's " Fortunate Son " and " Down On The Corner " accrue enough combined points to reach # 3 three weeks later.
Then he covered Creedence Clearwater Revival's song " Fortunate Son " for the soundtrack of the 2004 film remake of The Manchurian Candidate and wrote the song " Million Voices " for the film Hotel Rwanda.
He would go out of his way to play anti-war music ( like " Eve of Destruction " and " Fortunate Son ") that was not aired on the American Forces Network.
the artists featured are: Sting ( Roxanne, Message in a Bottle, Fragile ), Sarah McLachlan ( Angel ), Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy ( I Don't Care, Sugar, We're Goin ' Down ), Norah Jones ( Thinking About You ), Colbie Caillat ( Bubbly ), Sara Bareilles ( Love Song ), John Fogerty ( Proud Mary, Fortunate Son, Centerfield ), Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic ( Apologize ), Ben Folds ( Brick, Zak and Sara ), John Legend ( Ordinary People ), and Alex Lifeson of Rush ( Tom Sawyer, Limelight, Working Man, The Spirit of Radio ).
Vincent is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for a collection of short stories titled " A Fortunate Son ".
According to the episode " Fortunate Son ", three additional NX class ships were planned as of 2151 after the NX-01.
* Beverly Hills, 90210 ( 1990 ) TV Series ( story ) ( episode Dog's Best Friend ) ( teleplay ) ( episode Fortunate Son ) ( teleplay ) ( episode Spring Breakdown ) ( multiple episodes 1995-1999 )
Reid played at America ’ s Millennium Gala, New Year's Eve December 31, 1999, and January 1, 2000, at the Lincoln Memorial, performing " Fortunate Son " with John Fogerty.
In 1991, Puller told the story of his ordeal and its aftermath in a book titled Fortunate Son, an account that ended with Puller triumphing over his physical disabilities, and becoming emotionally at peace with himself.
The title of this autobiography was borrowed from the song " Fortunate Son " by Creedence Clearwater Revival, which he gives credit to in the opening pages of his book.
" Prichard said that most of the people who knew Puller wished that his life had been different, that his book, " Fortunate Son ," would have propelled him from his despair.
" In October 2008, she appeared in background vocals on Todd Snider's cover of John Fogerty's " Fortunate Son " for Snider's Peace Queer album.
She has also provided backing vocals to U2's cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's " Fortunate Son " ( B-side of 1992 " Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses " single from their Achtung Baby album ), as well as to the Counting Crows ' 1993 debut August and Everything After on " Sullivan Street " and " Mr. Jones ".
Hatfield was the author of Fortunate Son, a book which alleges that George W. Bush received preferential treatment throughout his life, from his early schooling at Andover, Yale, and Harvard, to his business connections in Midland and his personal ownership interest in the Texas Rangers baseball team, to his candidacy for Governor and President.
Stapp appeared on Carlos Santana's solo album Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time, a cover album on which Stapp sings on the cover of the Creedence Clearwater Revival song " Fortunate Son ".
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* Baker, George Philip: Sulla the Fortunate: Roman General and Dictator ( J Murray, London, 1927 ; reprint by Cooper Square Press, 2001 ) reprint ISBN 0-8154-1147-2
* Baker, George Philip: Sulla the Fortunate, Roman General and Dictator, ( London, 1927 ; reprint by Cooper Square Press, 2001 )
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In 1986 music historian Maxim W. Furek published " The Jordan Brothers: A Musical Biography of Rock's Fortunate Sons.
* Liel Leibovitz, Matthew I. Miller, Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization ( New York: W. W. Norton, 2011 ).
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Moll Flanders and Defoe's final novel Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress ( 1724 ) are examples of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional ( yet " drawn from life ") characters, not least in that they are women.
), and University of Tampa Press ( O Fortunate Floridian: H. P. Lovecraft's Letters to R. H. Barlow ).
As an anthropologist, his Sorcerers of Dobu remains the locus classicus of eastern Papuan anthropology, but he is best known instead for his Fortunate number theory.
The legions were renamed Commodianae, the fleet which imported grain from Africa was termed Alexandria Commodiana Togata, the Senate was entitled the Commodian Fortunate Senate, his palace and the Roman people themselves were all given the name Commodianus, and the day on which these reforms were decreed was to be called Dies Commodianus.
He was succeeded in 1495 by Manuel I, who was named " the Great " or " the Fortunate ," because in his reign the sea route to India was discovered and a Portuguese Empire founded.
In the time of the Greek oral poet Hesiod, Elysium would also be known as the Fortunate Isles or the Isles ( or Islands ) of the Blessed, located in the western ocean at the end of the earth.
Philip VI ( 1293 – 22 August 1350 ), known as the Fortunate ( French: le Fortuné ) and of Valois, was the King of France from 1328 to his death.
Another suggested possibility is that Macaria may have been connected with the passage of souls to the Nesoi Makarioi, or the Fortunate Isles or Islands of the Blest.
Yet another Eurypylus was a son of Poseidon and the Pleiad Celaeno, and ruled over the Fortunate Islands.
: The island of apples which men call “ The Fortunate Isle ” ( Insula Pomorum quae Fortunata uocatur ) gets its name from the fact that it produces all things of itself ; the fields there have no need of the ploughs of the farmers and all cultivation is lacking except what nature provides.
:" The name of the Isles of the Fortunate signifies that they bear all good things, as if happy and blessed in the abundance of their fruits.
Mario Puzo's first novel, The Fortunate Pilgrim, was a highly inspiration treatment of the immigrant experience, which was widely reviewed as being well crafted, moving and poetic.
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