In the early 1970s, Remi Kabaka, an Afro-rock avant-garde drummer, laid the initial drum patterns that created the Afro-rock sounds in bands such as Ginger Baker's Airforce, The Rolling Stones, and Steve Winwood's Traffic.

Traffic signed to Chris Blackwell's Island Records label ( where Winwood's elder brother Muff, also a member of the Spencer Davis Group, later became a record producer and executive ), and their debut single " Paper Sun " became a UK hit in mid-1967.

Once again, however, personnel problems wracked the band as Grech and Gordon left the band in December 1971, and the month after, Winwood's struggles with peritonitis brought Traffic to a standstill.

By 1967, the group had discovered psychedelia and changed their name to Traffic ( later amended to Traffic Jam, to avoid confusion with Steve Winwood's Traffic ).

Inviting Wood and Capaldi to join him, Winwood's solo album became the reunion of Traffic, and a re-launch of the band's career.

* 1971 Steve Winwood, Winwood ( United Artists ; compilation of Winwood's activities from 1966 to 1970, including material from Traffic )

" Winwood's group Traffic were working on John Barleycorn Must Die at Island Studios at the same time.

They even covered Steve Winwood's popular Blind Faith hit " Can't Find My Way Home " in 1989, one of two singles from the LP.

Following Winwood's recovery from peritonitis, Traffic's sixth studio album, Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory, released in 1973, met with a cold critical reception but in sales, it was another major hit.

" Bette Davis, a co-star from Dead Ringer, was photographed at Winwood's side on the occasion in Hollywood, California.

Following this, he would write his third album Teddy Boys Don't Knit, contribute a lyric to Steve Winwood's Arc of a Diver and write some of the songs he later used for Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera ( the musical comedy he wrote with his second wife Ki Longfellow ).

His final Virgin album Junction Seven also broke the UK top 40, but was Winwood's first commercial flop in the USA.

Allmusic gave a positive retrospective review of the album, commenting that it achieved a strong balance between Dave Mason's simple and straightforward folk-rock songs and Steve Winwood's complex and often haunting rock jams.

" However, they regarded the use of tighter and more concise songs as a promising change in direction for the band, and recommended the album based on the renewed strength of Winwood / Capaldi's songwriting and Winwood's work with the keyboards.

The partnership was a gamble for Sony that was motivated by chairman Rob Stringer and president Muff Winwood's love of the label's roster, and their belief that guitar music was on the rise.

Randall Bramblett, a solo musician and member of Steve Winwood's touring band, joined Widespread Panic on the tenor saxophone for a cover of fIREHOSE's Sometimes.

" Higher Love " was Winwood's first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit, topping the chart for one week.

** Winwood's Memorials, vol.

The band was dissolved by Winwood's leaving in early 1969.

He was previously married ( 1978 – 1986 ) to the late Nicole Weir ( d. 2005 ), who also contributed background vocals to Winwood's early solo work.

" Life'll Kill Ya " and " Don't Let Us Get Sick " also have prominent death themes, while the cover of Steve Winwood's " Back in the High Life " is presented in an ironically subdued manner.

One of Winwood's daughters, Anne ( d. 1643 ), married Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton, and their son was Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu.

Winwood's official correspondence and other papers passed to the Duke of Montagu.

Winwood's final film appearance, at age 92 in Murder by Death ( 1976 ), was as Elsa Lanchester's character's ancient nursemaid.

Irina Kolpakova, the Princess Aurora of Friday's performance, would be a change for the better anywhere, at any time, no matter who had had the role before.

Eileen Farrell in the title role, Mignon Dunn as La Cieca and Richard Tucker as Enzo were holdovers from earlier performances this season, and all contributed to a vigorous performance.

Every actor who has opened in the role of Pseudolus on Broadway ( Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Nathan Lane ) won a Best Actor Tony Award for their performance.

" It was Beethoven's last performance in the role of pianist.

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He repeated his performance of Billy the pageboy for two subsequent tours, and was so successful that he was called to London to play the role alongside William Gillette, the original Holmes.

He appeared in the primetime TV movies The Satan Murders ( 1974 ) and Thursday's Game before landing the role of Al Pacino's transsexual wife in Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 ), a performance which earned him nominations for Best New Male Star of the Year at the Golden Globes and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

In combination with other aspects, theatrical costumes can help actors portray characters ' age, gender role, profession, social class, personality, ethnicity, and even information about the historical period / era, geographic location and time of day, as well as the season or weather of the theatrical performance.

In 2003, she reprised her role as Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in Olive, the Other Reindeer and appeared with Ben Stiller in Duplex in 2003.

Her performance of the song " Embraceable You " impressed Styne and his partner, Sammy Cahn and they recommended her for a role in Romance on the High Seas, which they were working on for Warner Brothers.

Bowie took the title role in the Broadway theatre production The Elephant Man, earning high praise for an expressive performance.

However, she stated that she liked the film overall, praising Johnny Depp's performance in the title role.

** Inter-War, 1967 – 1973, adversely affected the performance of the economy and public sector role in import substitution.

* Gene therapy plays a recurring role in the present-time sci-fi television program ReGenesis, where it is used to cure various diseases, enhance athletic performance and produce vast profits for bio-tech corporations.

Howard Hawks, for his part, also did his best to boost her performance and her role, and found Bogart easy to direct.

In 1991, he embarked on a serious acting career, portraying police detective Scotty Appleton in Mario Van Peebles ' feature film New Jack City, gang leader Odessa ( alongside Denzel Washington and John Lithgow ) in Ricochet ( 1991 ), gang leader King James in Trespass ( 1992 ), followed by a notable lead role performance in Surviving the Game ( 1994 ), in addition to many supporting roles, such as J-Bone in Johnny Mnemonic ( 1995 ), and the marsupial mutant T-Saint in Tank Girl ( 1995 ).

" " As we reach the second half of the sixth century, we find that images are attracting direct veneration and some of them are credited with the performance of miracles " Cyril Mango writes, " In the post-Justinianic period the icon assumes an ever increasing role in popular devotion, and there is a proliferation of miracle stories connected with icons, some of them rather shocking to our eyes ".

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He played Mark Antony and his brother Edwin had the larger role of Brutus in a performance acclaimed as " the greatest theatrical event in New York history ".

The overriding message of violence inevitably leading to more violence attracted Cagney to the role of an Irish Republican Army commander, and resulted in what some critics would regard as the finest performance of his final years.

His performance proved unpopular with fans of the series, who criticised him for taking over the role from actor Peter Graves and playing the character as one of the villains.

Voight next portrayed President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 2001's action / war film, Pearl Harbor, having accepted the role when Gene Hackman declined ( his performance was received favorably by critics ).

His performance in the title role in a Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Hamlet was praised by Roger Lewis, the Sunday Times, who declared Reeves " … one of the top three Hamlets I have seen, for a simple reason: he is Hamlet.

Her best known and most controversial performance was the lead role in the erotic film Emily