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( C ) 1983 Acorn Computers Ltd. Thanks are due to the following contributors to the development of the Electron ( among others too numerous to mention ):- Bob Austin, Astec, Harry Barman, Paul Bond, Allen Boothroyd, Ben Bridgewater, Cambridge, John Cox, Chris Curry, 6502 designers, Jeremy Dion, Tim Dobson, Joe Dunn, Ferranti, Steve Furber, David Gale, Andrew Gordon, Martyn Gilbert, Lawrence Hardwick, Hermann Hauser, John Herbert, Hitachi, Andy Hopper, Paul Jephcot, Brian Jones, Chris Jordan, Computer Laboratory, Tony Mann, Peter Miller, Trevor Morris, Steve Parsons, Robin Pain, Glyn Phillips, Brian Robertson, Peter Robinson, David Seal, Kim Spence-Jones, Graham Tebby, Jon Thackray, Topexpress, Chris Turner, Hugo Tyson, John Umney, Alex van Someren, Geoff Vincent, Adrian Warner, Robin Williamson, Roger Wilson.
* 2007 – Tony Wilson, English journalist ( b. 1950 )
Although it has a unified theme in its emotional content, the writers ( Brian Wilson and Tony Asher ) have said repeatedly that it was not necessarily intended to be a narrative.
* 1946 – Joyce Vincent Wilson, American singer ( Tony Orlando and Dawn )
The earliest significant usage of the term ( as applied to music ) was by Joy Division's producer, Tony Wilson on 15 September 1979 in an interview for the BBC TV program's Something Else: Wilson described Joy Division as " Gothic " compared to the pop mainstream, right before a live performance of the band.
According to Factory's co-founder Tony Wilson, " All our bands are free to fuck off whenever they please.
Both New Order and Joy Division were portrayed in the Michael Winterbottom film 24 Hour Party People, depicting the rise and fall of Factory Records as seen through the eyes of label founder Tony Wilson.
Both New Order and Joy Division were among the most successful artists on the Factory Records label, run by Granada television personality Tony Wilson, and partnered with Factory in the financing of the Manchester club The Haçienda.
Post-punk brought together a new fraternity of musicians, journalists, managers, and entrepreneurs ; the latter, notably Geoff Travis of Rough Trade and Tony Wilson of Factory, helped to develop the production and distribution infrastructure of the indie music scene that blossomed in the mid-1980s.
Other contemporary video artists of note include Gary Hill ( USA ), Arambilet ( Dominican Republic – Spain ), Fred Forest ( France ), Tony Oursler, Mary Lucier, Paul Pfeiffer, Sadie Benning, Paul Chan, Eve Sussman and Miranda July ; Eija-Liisa Ahtila ( Finland ), Kirill Preobrazhenskiy ( Russia ), Pipilotti Rist ( Switzerland ); Surekha ( India ); Stefano Pasquini ( Italy ); Shaun Wilson ( Australia ); Stan Douglas ( Canada ); Douglas Gordon ( Scotland ); Olga Kisseleva ( Russia ); Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven ( Belgium ); Martin Arnold ( Austria ); Matthias Müller ( Germany ), Heiko Daxl ( Germany ); Gillian Wearing ( UK ); Stefano Cagol ( Italy ); Helene Black ( Cyprus ); Shirin Neshat ( Iran / USA ); Aernout Mik ( Netherlands ), Jordi Colomer ( Spain / France ), Sergei Shutov ( Russia ), and Walid Raad ( Lebanon / USA ).
Main Wilson was casting Hancock's Half Hour, a radio series starring Tony Hancock.
He sued the pop group The Move for libel after the band's manager Tony Secunda published a promotional postcard for the single " Flowers In The Rain ", featuring a caricature depicting Wilson in bed with his female assistant, Marcia Williams.
Factory Records owner Tony Wilson was influenced by Situationist urbanism and Factory Records band The Durutti Column took its name from Andre Bertrand's collage Le Retour de la Colonne Durutti.
A few of the many Carolina League players who have gone on to star in the Major Leagues are: Johnny Bench ( Peninsula, 1966 ), Wade Boggs ( Winston-Salem, 1977 ), Barry Bonds ( Prince William, 1985 ), Rod Carew ( Wilson, 1966 ), Dock Ellis ( Kinston, 1965 ), Dwight Evans ( Winston-Salem, 1971 ), Dwight Gooden ( Lynchburg, 1983 ), Andruw Jones ( Durham, 1996 ), Chipper Jones ( Durham, 1992 ), Willie McCovey ( Danville, 1956 ), Joe Morgan ( Durham, 1963 ), Dave Parker ( Salem, 1972 ), Tony Pérez ( Rocky Mount, 1962 ), Andy Pettitte ( Prince William, 1993 ), Jorge Posada ( Prince William, 1993 ), Darryl Strawberry ( Lynchburg, 1981 ), Bernie Williams ( Prince William, 1988 ), and Carl Yastrzemski ( Raleigh, 1959 ).
As he began work on the new project, Pet Sounds, Wilson formed a temporary songwriting partnership with lyricist Tony Asher.
Many artists made their mark with pop standards, particularly interpreters like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Frankie Laine, Nat King Cole ( originally known for his jazz piano virtuosity ), Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis, Jr., Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Eydie Gormé, Andy Williams, Nancy Wilson, Jack Jones, Rita Reys, Steve Lawrence and Cleo Laine.
Unsatisfied with Pet Sounds collaborator Tony Asher's lyrics for " Good Vibrations ", Wilson first asked Parks to help him re-write the lyrics to the song ; Parks refused, stating, " No sense walking into someone else's problem.
Anthony Neil Wedgwood " Tony " Benn PC ( born 3 April 1925 ), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a retired British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for 50 years and a Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.
Amongst the hotel's more famous guests are King George V ; Jordan ’ s King Hussein ; U. S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush ( as well as then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ); British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and Tony Blair ; the Prince of Wales ; Elizabeth Taylor ; Richard Dreyfus ; Richard Gere ; and Madonna.
The following year, in 1992, he won a Tony Award for his stage performance in the August Wilson play, Two Trains Running and an Emmy Award for his performance in the opening episode, " The Box ," of the short-lived anthology series television drama TriBeCa.
Factory Records was a Manchester based British independent record label, started in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, Northside and ( briefly ) James and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
Tony Wilson would often be around the Rabid offices and Rob Gretton was friends with Tosh Ryan, Martin Hannett and others in the set up as they were all from the same council estate in Wythenshawe.
After his seminal TV series ' So It Goes ', which gave TV debuts to the likes of Iggy Pop, The Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks etc., Tony Wilson was interested in the way Rabid Records ran, and was convinced that the real money and power was in album sales.
With a lot of discussion, Tony Wilson, Rob Gretton and Alan Erasmus set up Factory Records, stealing Martin Hannett from Rabid.

Tony and head
Head coach Jim Mora was fired at the end of the season and was replaced by former Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Tony Dungy.
Following the season, head coach Tony Dungy announced his retirement after seven seasons as head coach, compiling an overall record of 92 – 33 with the team.
* Tony Dungy, head coach
Weaver ultimately narrowed his choices down to three: Mike Shanahan, an assistant coach for the San Francisco 49ers, Tony Dungy, defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings, and Tom Coughlin, head coach for Boston College.
Against Tottenham Hotspur in November 1996, he set up an 88th minute winner for captain Tony Adams to head in.
Tony Kistan was also shot from about 2 metres away, also in the head, but had managed to push his wife away prior to being shot.
The Rubettes were an English pop band assembled in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton, then the head of A & R at Polydor Records, and his co-songwriter, Tony Waddington, after their doo-wop and 1950s American pop-influenced songs had been rejected by a number of existing acts.
" By adding height, now someone can grip the Tony, raise it over their head in triumph and not worry about keeping their grip.
Home-grown talent, like quarterbacks Tony Adams and Danny White, quickly bolted for the NFL, with Adams landing with the Kansas City Chiefs and White with the Dallas Cowboys, and Florida head coach Jack Pardee got star Blazers ' tight end Greg Latta to jump ship with him to the NFL's Bears.
* Tony Blair, depicted with the same mad, staring eye as Margaret Thatcher and a very pointed head which, along with his ears, can be used to make any object ( speed cameras, pylons, giant eye, poodle ) represent him, playing upon his increasingly authoritarian image.
General Manager Pierre Lacroix promoted assistant coach Tony Granato, who had only three months of coaching experience as an assistant, to the head coach position.
After the end of the season, on July 2004, Joel Quenneville was hired for the position of head coach, replacing Tony Granato, who became his assistant.
Two weeks later, Tony Granato was named head coach of the Avalanche for the second time.
Following the playoff loss, Tony DiLeo returned to his front office job, creating a head coaching vacancy.
Former Louisiana State Representative Tony Perkins resided in Baker until he relocated to Washington, D. C., to head the Family Research Council.
* Tony Storti, head coach of the Montana State Bobcats football team
* Tony DiLeo ( born 1955 ), former head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers.
In the final episode, Tony Hayers died after a fall from a roof, and one of Alan's old friends, Chris Feather, took over as head of programmes at the BBC.
* In " Pie-O-My ", Adriana La Cerva witnesses Tony Soprano's men intimidating a man named Giovanni at the Crazy Horse nightclub, by hitting him about the head with a telephone directory.
He also appeared as himself in a 2007 television commercial for Diet Pepsi MAX, which also featured then Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips and quarterback Tony Romo.
But all that changed when the team hired Tony Dungy as head coach in 1996.
* Tony Barbee ( born 1971 ), head men's basketball coach at Auburn University
The federal Minister of Industry Tony Clement initially indicated that these changes were being made based on consultations with Statistics Canada but was forced to admit that the change from a mandatory to voluntary form was not one of the recommendations received from StatCan after the head of the organization Munir Sheikh resigned in protest.
Like some other smaller colleges, Gonzaga's football program ended in the Fall of 1941, just before the U. S. entry into World War II, but not before producing two Pro Football Hall of Famers: Tony Canadeo ' 41 of the Green Bay Packers, and Ray Flaherty ' 26, head coach of the Washington Redskins.

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