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Following his retirement from the concert stage, <mask>'s professional life focused on film.He would record only four more studio albums in the last decade of his life. In September 1968, he recorded the songs for the album, J'arrive (I'm coming), which was released later in the year. In addition to the title song, the album included "Vesoul", "Je suis un soir d'été" (I am a summer's evening), and "Un Enfant" (A child). In October 1968, his musical L'Homme de La Mancha (Man of La Mancha) premièred in Brussels, with <mask> playing Don Quixote and Dario Moreno playing Sancho Panza. Moreno would die tragically only ten days before the musical's Paris première. From 23 to 27 November, <mask> and his fellow cast-members recorded the studio album L'Homme de la Mancha. He adapted the book, translated the lyrics, directed the production, and played the lead role.This was the only time he ever adapted songs by other writers or appeared in a stage musical. The album contains his classic performance of "La Quête" (The quest). Moreno was replaced by Robert Manuel, and the first performance at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris went ahead as planned on 11 December 1968. <mask>'s performance received unanimous praise. After 150 performances of L'Homme de La Mancha, he gave his final performance in the role of Don Quixote on 17 May 1969. He was never replaced. In March 1970 <mask> gave a one-off performance at the Salle Pleyel in Paris.Unusually this did not involve singing but instead recitation. In the first half of the performance he recited Sergei Prokoviev's famous story, 'Peter and the Wolf'. In the second half he told the tale of Jean de Brunhoff's 'Babar the Elephant'. In 1972 <mask> signed a special 30-year contract with Barclay Records. Although there were no new songs to record, Barclay persuaded him to return to the studio to re-record 11 of the better-known songs he cut for Philips Records during the early years of his music career. The result was the album Ne me quitte pas (Don't leave me), which contained the title track, "Marieke", "Les Flamandes" (Flemish women), "Quand on n'a que l'amour" (When you only have love), "Les Biches" (The does), "Le Moribond" (The dying man), "La Valse à mille temps" (The waltz in thousand time), and "Je ne sais pas" (I don't know). His earlier youthful energy was now lovingly harnessed by his longtime colleagues, arranger François Rauber and pianist Gerard Jouannest.Film career
In 1967 <mask> began his film career, appearing in André Cayatte's Les risques du métier (Risky business), co-starring Emmanuelle Riva, <mask>, and Nadine Alari. <mask> also produced the soundtrack with François Rauber. The film tells the story of a teenage girl who accuses her primary schoolteacher, Jean Doucet (Brel), of trying to rape her. The police and the mayor investigate, but Doucet denies the charges. Two other students come forward to reveal more of Doucet's misconduct—one confessing to be his mistress. Doucet faces trial and hard labour if convicted. The film was released on 21 December 1967.Film critics praised <mask>'s performance. In 1968 <mask> appeared in his second film, La Bande à Bonnot (The Bonnot gang), directed by Philippe Fourastié and co-starring Annie Girardot and Bruno Cremer. Once again, <mask> produced the soundtrack with François Rauber. The story is set in 1911 Paris. Raymond-la-science (<mask>), an anarchist, is released from prison after serving a sentence for spreading agitation among his co-workers. He meets up with his friends who live together with their families in the villa of their political leader. They get involved with the notorious Bonnot gang—gangsters who revolt against society by robbing, stealing, and killing.The film was released on 30 October 1968. In 1969 <mask> appeared in his third film, Mon oncle Benjamin (My uncle Benjamin), directed by Édouard Molinaro and co-starring Claude Jade and Bernard Blier. He also produced the soundtrack. The film is a period piece, set in 1750 during the reign of Louis XV. Benjamin (<mask>) is a country doctor in love with the beautiful innkeeper's daughter, Manette, but she refuses his advances until he produces a marriage contract. After suffering a humiliating practical joke and being condemned to prison, Benjamin escapes with Manette, who realises she prefers happiness to a marriage contract after all. The film was released on 28 November 1969.In 1970 <mask> appeared in his fourth feature film, Mont-Dragon, directed by Jean Valère and co-starring François Prévost, Paul le Person, and Catherine Rouvel, with a screen play by Robert Margerit. The story involves a soldier, Georges Dormond (Brel), who seduces Germaine de Boismesnil and is subsequently driven out of the army by one of Germaine's friends who is a colonel. After Germaine's husband dies, Dormond returns to the widow's castle seeking revenge. After seducing Pierrette the maid, he reminds Germaine of their past love affair and arranges a meeting with the widow, during which he undresses her, humiliates her, and then leaves. The orphan Marthe, who witnesses the scene, throws herself at Gaston, the colonel's orderly, to avenge her mother. Georges ridicules their feelings and forces Germaine to reveal her attachment to Pierrette, thereby causing a scandal. The film was released on 16 December 1970.In 1971 <mask> appeared in his fifth feature film, Franz, the first film he directed. <mask> also co-wrote the screenplay with Paul Andréota and produced the soundtrack with François Rauber. The film co-starred Barbara, Danièle Evenou, Fernand Fabre, Serge Sauvions, Louis Navarre, <mask>, and François Cadet. The film is about Léon (Brel) and Léonie (Barbara), who meet in a convalescent home for state employees in Blankenberge: Catherine (Danièle Evenou) is Léonie's friend. Léonie is shy and reserved while Catherine is loose and flirtatious. Most men are attracted to her vitality, but Léon is the exception. Léonie is intrigued by Léon's secretive personality.She gradually becomes attracted to his clumsy behaviour and they fall in love. The other residents, amused by this unlikely love affair, decide to obstruct their relationship, which drives Léon to suicide. The film was released on 2 February 1972, and although praised by the critics, it was not a commercial success. In 1971 <mask> appeared in his sixth feature film, Les Assassins de l'ordre (Law breakers), directed by Marcel Carné and co-starring Paola Pitagora, Catherine Rouvel, and Charles Denner. <mask> plays Bernard Level, a provincial judge, who presides over a delicate case. A man who was arrested for a minor crime died during police questioning. When Level decides to prosecute the policemen and initiates an investigation, he receives threats and intimidation from those wanting to stop the investigation.The film was released on 7 May 1971. In 1972 <mask> appeared in his seventh feature film, L'aventure, c'est l'aventure (The adventure is the adventure), directed by Claude Lelouch. The story follows five crooks who decide to switch from bank robbery to political kidnapping. Among their first hostages is singer Johnny Hallyday. The film was released 4 May 1972, and became a huge box-office smash. While filming L'aventure, c'est l'aventure on location in the Caribbean, <mask> met and fell in love with a young actress and dancer by the name of Maddly Bamy. <mask> would spend the final years of his life with her.In 1972 <mask> appeared in his eighth feature film, Le Bar de la fourche (The bar at the crossing), directed by Alain Levent and co-starring Rosy Varte and Isabelle Huppert. <mask> plays Vincent Van Horst, a hard-drinking bon vivant who loves his freedom and his women. In 1916 he leaves Europe, which is torn apart by the war, and moves to Canada, intending to meet up with Maria, the only woman he ever loved. On the way to Canada, he meets a young boy who dreams about fighting in the European war. When Vincent arrives at the Bar de la Fourche, managed by Maria, he finds her looking older. He finds consolation in another woman, Annie, who looks down on him and drives Vincent and Olivier to fight a duel against each other. The film was released on 23 August 1972.In 1973 <mask> appeared in his ninth feature film, Le Far West, his second directorial effort. The film co-starred Gabriel Jabbour, Danielle Evenou, and Arlette Lindon. The story is about <mask>, a 40-year-old citizen of Brussels, who meets the fakir Abracadabra who, before dying, gives him a special power. <mask> meets Gabriel, a generous man, who dresses up as Davy Crockett, and who follows <mask> without asking questions. The two companions and other new friends set out to conquer the Far West, their childhood—just as Voltaire sought El Dorado, and Saint-Exupéry the unknown planet. The Far West they seek cannot be found, because it is an imaginary place, a piece of happiness buried in our hearts. The film was released on 15 May 1973.In 1973 <mask> appeared in his tenth and final feature film, L'emmerdeur (The troublemaker), directed by Édouard Molinaro and co-starred Lino Ventura, Caroline Cellier, and Jean-Pierre Darras. <mask> and François Rauber produced the soundtrack. The story is about a contract killer, Ralph Milan, who works for the Mafia. He is paid to kill Louis Randoni, whose testimony in various trials could harm the organisation. Ralph waits for his prey in his hotel room, but is interrupted by his comical neighbour, François Pignon (Brel). The film was released on 20 September 1973. Final years and death

By early 1973, <mask> knew that he was ill.He prepared his will, leaving everything to his wife Miche. In the spring he recorded a new single, "L'Enfance" (Childhood), the proceeds of which he donated to La Fondation Perce Neige, an association set up to help disabled children. After completing his last film L'emmerdeur, he took his daughters on a cruise. In November, he embarked on a two-month cruise across the Atlantic with five of his closest friends on the training ship Le Korrig. <mask> devoted the final years of his life to his passion for sailing. On 28 February 1974, he purchased the Askoy II, a , 42-tonne steel-hulled yawl built in Belgium in 1960. He began planning a three-year voyage to circumnavigate the world.In July, he set off on his world trip with Maddly Bamy and his daughter, France, aboard his new yacht. In August, while sailing around the Azores, he learned of the death of his old friend Jojo. He returned to France for his friend's funeral and stayed on to attend the September wedding of his daughter, Chantal. In October, following

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In the Francophone world, Brel left an enduring influence on music and culture.Further afield his influence has been somewhat tempered by differences in language, though he has influenced many artists globally. Dutch
<mask> himself occasionally included parts of his songs in Dutch, one of the three official languages of Belgium, as in "Marieke". He also recorded eight other Dutch versions of songs, such as "Mijn vlakke land" ("Le plat pays"), "Laat me niet alleen" ("Ne me quitte pas"), "Rosa", "De Burgerij" ("Les Bourgeois"), and "De Nuttelozen van de Nacht" ("Les paumés du petit matin"). Brel also recorded two obscure singles in Dutch, "De apen" ("Les Singes") and "Men vergeet niets" ("On n'oublie rien"), which were included in the 16-CD box set Boîte à Bonbons by Barclay. So far unreleased is the song "Als men niets dan liefde heeft" ("Quand on n’a que l’amour"). "Marieke" was translated by <mask> himself. Since his own command of Dutch was poor, most of <mask>'s later Dutch interpretations were translated by Ernst van Altena, with <mask>'s cooperation, and are generally considered to be relatively true to the original French and poetic."De Apen" was translated by Eric Franssen. "Men vergeet niets" was translated by well known Flemish artist Will Ferdy. Popular singers from the Netherlands singing <mask>'s songs in Dutch have been Liesbeth List, Jan Mesdag and Jeroen Willems. English
English versions of <mask> songs have been recorded by a wide variety of artists. Rod McKuen was one of the first American artists to discover and translate <mask>'s songs. Canadian Terry Jacks' version of "Seasons in the Sun" (based on <mask>'s "Le Moribond") became a global pop hit in 1974, topping the charts internationally. "Seasons in the Sun" has seen its own renditions recorded by artists ranging from the Beach Boys to Nirvana.McKuen and <mask> formed a close friendship. McKuen later wrote, "When news of <mask>' death came, I stayed locked in my bedroom and drank for a week." During the 1960s, other English translations emerged on the folk music scene, including "The Dove" ("La colombe"), an anti-war lament recorded both by Joan Baez and Judy Collins. This was the only translation of a Brel song written by Alasdair Clayre, an Oxford-educated Englishman who had a brief career as a singer-songwriter before becoming an author, academic, and sometime producer of BBC documentaries. In 1968 an American experimental musical <mask> Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris made its debut. Consisting of 25 songs, the revue was performed by four vocalists, two males and two females. <mask> contributed most of the music and French lyrics.English translations were provided by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman, a Brill Building songwriter responsible for such hits as "This Magic Moment", "Viva Las Vegas", "Teenager in Love", and others. The production enjoyed considerable international success, and has since played throughout the world in various productions. Scott Walker's first three solo albums, titled Scott, Scott 2, and Scott 3, released between 1967 and 1969. each contains three of the Blau–Shuman translations. The songs on the first of these, and Walker's single release of "Jackie", were the earliest releases of the Blau-Shuman translations. Several of the original songs on these albums, and on the later Scott 4, can be seen as heavily influenced by Brel. The compilation Scott Walker Sings Jacques Brel contains all the Brel material that Walker covered on record. Walker also performed five Brel songs on his television series.In the 1970s, David Bowie began singing <mask>'s "Amsterdam" at a BBC session with John Peel and Evilan Tom. This version was released as the B-side to "Sorrow" in 1973, and was released as a bonus track on the 1990 reissue of Pin Ups. Dave Van Ronk also recorded this song, earlier, on Van Ronk. Bowie also sang "My Death" during his Ziggy Stardust period. This popular concert piece was never recorded in the studio. It appears on two of David Bowie's live albums: Live Santa Monica '72 and Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture. A similar version of this song was also recorded by Show of Hands.Alex Harvey recorded "Next" (Au suivant), giving a  on the Old Grey Whistle Test in December 1973. In the early 1980s, a second Brel revue, Encore Brel, was produced in Canada, a performance of which was aired on CBC Radio. In addition to Alasdair Clayre's "The Dove", the revue used mostly <mask>'s later songs, including "Friend, Don't Let Me See You Cry" ("Voir un Ami pleurer") and "To Grow Old" ("Vieillir"). In 1986 Momus and more recently Barb Jungr recorded new English translations of "Ne me quitte pas" which are much nearer to the original. Jungr used a translation titled "Don't leave me now" by Des de Moor. Momus translated and recorded "Don't Leave Me" because he was dissatisfied with the dominant English translations to date. "People always sing the versions by Rod McKuen, which are highly sentimentalised, or the versions by Mort Shuman which are better but still really Americanised.To me the strength of <mask> is that he doesn't come from the American tradition of songwriting, it's a strongly European thing." In 1989, Marc Almond, who had performed Brel songs on his early albums with Marc and the Mambas, released his successful Jacques, an album composed solely of <mask> songs. In 1991 he released "Jacky", which became a successful hit single. During his concerts, Almond nearly always plays at least one Brel song. In the 1990s, <mask>'s widow said that Arnold Johnston, a professor at Western Michigan University, translated Brel's work more accurately than Blau and Shuman, and eventually gave Dr. Johnston exclusive rights to translate Brel's work into English. Dr. Johnston recorded the album I'm Here!, a collection of twenty songs, using a grant from the university. In 1991, the American band Vambo Marble Eye recorded a version of "Next" for their album Two Trick Pony, 18 years after an English-language version of the song by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band in 1973, from their Next album.German
Belgian-German singer Dieter Kaiser has translated 30 of <mask>'s songs and has gathered them in a booklet with over 100 other French chansons in German. Kaiser also issued a CD in German and a CD in French with various chansons of Brel. Klaus Hoffmann is another important German interpreter of <mask>'s songs, as is the Austrian actor Michael Heltau, who was asked by <mask> himself to record his songs, using the translation of Werner Schneyder. Other languages
Other language versions of <mask> songs have been recorded by a wide variety of artists throughout the world. The most frequently recorded song in other languages is "Ne me quitte pas" (Don't leave me), with at least 1400 different recorded versions in 52 different languages. Most English versions use the freely translated "If You Go Away" by Rod McKuen, sung by Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand. Marlene Dietrich recorded the German version "Bitte geh' nicht fort" in 1963.At least 26 songs by <mask> were translated to Hebrew (according to the Shironet website), and many of these translated versions were recorded by prominent singers, among them the famous Yossi Banai. Paris-based Colombian salsa singer Yuri Buenaventura performed the Spanish version, "No me dejes mas". Slovak chanteuse Hana Hegerová made the Czech version "Lásko prokletá" one of the pillars of her repertoire. Russian rock group Mumiy Troll recorded the Russian version, "Когда ты уйдёшь". Slovenian actor and songwriter Jure Ivanušič released the CD Srce v kovčku with his 16 authorial translations of <mask>'s songs into Slovenian in 2011. Armenian poet Slavik Chiloyan, who met <mask> in Yerevan in 1968, translated a number of <mask>'s songs into Armenian. In 1968 singer Salome recorded the Catalan version "No em deixis mai".In 1970 Patty Pravo published the Italian version, "Non andare via", as a single, Gino Paoli had published the same version in 1962 as the B-side of his "Devi sapere" single. In 1968, English star Matt Monro and Mexican singer Angelica Maria recorded Spanish versions titled "No me dejes." In 2012, Mashrou' Leila , an indie band from Lebanon sang "ما تتركني هيك - ne me quitte pas". They performed the cover-version at Paleo Festival Nyon – (Chapiteau / Switzerland) in 2012. Discography

Assembling a comprehensive <mask> discography is difficult, because his recordings have been released in so many different permutations, in different countries and in different formats. Furthermore, releases of <mask>'s recordings are sometimes known by different titles. This discography is restricted to <mask>'s original albums, as collected and reissued on 23 September 2003 in the sixteen-CD box set of his work Boîte à Bonbons, plus the additional album Chansons ou Versions Inédites de Jeunesse, which was released for the first time as part of this box set.The titles listed here are the titles used in the box set. To mark the 25th anniversary of <mask>'s death, Barclay Records issued Comme quand on était beau (2003), a 3-volume DVD collection of Brel interviews and live performances as well as the compilation album Infiniment (2004). Both releases include five previously unpublished songs that <mask> wrote in 1977: "La Cathédrale", "L'Amour est mort", "Mai 40", "Avec Élégance", and "Sans Exigences". (1961, TV Series)
 Tienerklanken (1963, TV Series)
 La grande farandole (1964, TV Series)
 Age tendre et tête de bois (1964, TV Series)
 Entrez dans la ronde (1965, TV Series)
 Discorama (1962–1966, TV Series)
 Tid til at leve (1974, TV Series)
 <mask> Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975)(final film role)

Statues and other tributes

Since 2017, <mask> has his own statue in Brussels named L'Envol. It was designed by Tom Frantzen. As a gesture of recognition for the song "Vesoul" composed by Brel, on 8 September 2016, a bronze Brel statue made by the sculptor Frédéric Lanoir was placed in the hall of the Edwige-Feuillère theater of Vesoul, France. Grateful for the famous song Vesoul, the city of Vesoul pays tribute to <mask> by giving his name to a college located in the Montmarin district in 1968.On 15 November 2020, Google celebrated <mask> with a Google Doodle. See also
 List of cover versions of <mask> songs

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External links

 Official website
 Brelitude (Brel covers database)

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<mask> got into the comics industry thanks to his brother, <mask>, who already worked for IPC. He lived in India until the age of 8 or 9, and when he came to England the first comic work he saw was that of his brother and colleagues, as well the comic Eagle, which launched around the same time. This sparked a lifelong interest in comics and he moved from drawing comics in his spare time at school and trying not to draw comics at art school (where his interest was discouraged), to doing it professionally, starting in the early 1960s. He worked, largely uncredited (as was the practice at the time), for IPC for 16 years where, among other things, he drew all 360 installments of Fishboy as well as a number of other Buster strips. From 1964 to 1967, he also drew the strip Britain in Chains (later editions were entitled The Battle for Britain) for Lion; the strip was later reprinted (with a truncated ending) in Smash! between 1969 and 1971.For Smash! in 1969–1970, <mask> drew the adventure strip Rebbels on the Run, about three young brothers who run away from an orphanage to avoid being split up. As the strip evolved into more of a science fiction story, it was retitled The Rebbel Robot after a few months. In the late seventies, he was recruited by Dez Skinn, initially on The House of Hammer, and then for Marvel UK, on such titles as  Black Knight and Doctor Who. In the early to mid-eighties he also worked for other British comics such as Warrior and 2000 AD. Following the success of the British Invasion he got more work with DC Comics and Marvel in the early-to-mid 1990s. In more recent years he has done inking work for DC's imprint Vertigo on The Invisibles with Grant Morrison, who he had worked with previously at Marvel and 2000 AD.He has also returned to 2000 AD after a 15-year hiatus to do more inking work. Influences include Frank Hampson and Frank Bellamy. Bibliography

Maxwell Hawke (in Buster, 1965–1966)
Fishboy (with Scott Goodall, in Buster, 1968–1975)
 Britain in Chains (The Battle for Britain) (in Lion, 1964–1967) — reprinted in Smash!, 1969–1971)
 Rebbels on the Run / The Rebbel Robot (in Smash!, 1969–1970)
Marney The Fox (with Scott Goodall, in Buster, 1974–1976)
The War Children (with Scott Goodall, in Buster, 1976–1977)
Lennie The Loner (in Buster, 1978–1979)
Keen & Mustard (in Buster, 1978–1980)
Black Knight (with Steve Parkhouse and Paul Neary, in Hulk Weekly, Marvel UK, 1979–1980)
Doctor Who:
 "Star Death" (with Alan Moore, in Doctor Who Monthly No. 47, reprinted in The Daredevils No. 5, 1980)
 "Crisis on Kalidor" (with Steve Moore, in Doctor Who Monthly #50)
 "Devil of the Deep" (with <mask>, in Doctor Who Monthly #61)
 "The Fires Down Below" (with <mask>, in Doctor Who Monthly #67)
Star Wars:
 "Death Masque" (with Steve Moore, in Empire Strikes Back Monthly #149, Marvel UK,1981)
 "Tilotny Throws a Shape" (with Alan Moore, in Empire Strikes Back Monthly #154, Marvel UK, 1982)
 "Dark Lord's Conscience" (with Alan Moore, in Empire Strikes Back Monthly #155, Marvel UK, 1982)
 "The Flight of the Falcon " (with Steve Parkhouse, in Empire Strikes Back Monthly #157, Marvel UK, 1982)
 "Blind Fury!" (with Alan Moore, in Empire Strikes Back Monthly #159, Marvel UK, 1982)
Time Bandits (inks, with Steve Parkhouse and pencils by David Lloyd, film adaptation, Marvel, 1982)
 The Brides of Dracula (with Steve Moore, film adaptation, in Halls of Horror issues #27–28 (1983)
The Legend of Prester <mask> (with Steve Moore, in Warrior #11–13, 1983)
Father Shandor: "Neither Heaven Nor Hell" (with Steve Moore, in Warrior No. 25, 1984)
 Captain Granbretan (illustrations for text story with Grant Morrison, in Captain Britain volume 2 No.13, Marvel UK, 1986)
 Tharg's Future Shocks:
 "Oh What a Lovely War" (with Oleh Stepaniuk, in 2000 AD No. 464, 1986)
 "Biological Warfare" (with Oleh Stepaniuk, in 2000 AD No. 466, 1986)
 "Alien Aid" (with Grant Morrison, in 2000 AD No. 469, 1986)
 "The Shop that Sold Everything" (with Grant Morrison, in 2000 AD No. 477, 1986)
L.E.G.I.O.N. No. 43, January 1982)

<mask> at Lambiek's Comiclopedia
<mask> at British Comics Art
<mask> at 2000 AD online
<mask> at Dark Horse Comics
List of Buster titles by artist
<mask>, Artist who painted GoGoMadder for the Break Charity Norwich GoGoDragons Trail

External links
 The Battle For Britain — Art by <mask>

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British comics artists

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<mask> (born 21 January 1976) is an English singer, actress, and media personality. She rose to fame in the 1990s as a member of the girl group Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Baby Spice. With over 100 million records sold worldwide, the group became the best-selling female group of all time. During the Spice Girls hiatus, Bunton released her debut solo album, A Girl Like Me (2001), which debuted at number four on the UK Albums Chart, and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry for sales in excess of 100,000 copies. The album spawned the single "What Took You So Long? ", which topped the UK Singles Chart, as well as the top five singles "What I Am" and "Take My Breath Away" and the top 20 single "We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight". Her second studio album, Free Me (2004), included the singles "Free Me", "Maybe", "I'll Be There", and "Crickets Sing for Anamaria".Following the release of her third studio album, Life in Mono (2006), Bunton reunited with the Spice Girls in 2007 for a one-off international tour and greatest hits album. Since 2018, she has reunited as the Spice Girls with Geri Halliwell, Melanie C and Mel B. In 2019, Bunton released her fourth studio album, My Happy Place. Bunton's television appearances include a recurring role on the BBC One comedy series Absolutely Fabulous (2003-2012), being a contestant on the fourth series of the BBC dancing competition show Strictly Come Dancing, and being a judge on the ITV celebrity skating show Dancing on Ice (2010–2011) and entertainment series Your Face Sounds Familiar (2013). From 2013 to 2018, she was a radio presenter on the Heart Breakfast Show in London with Jamie Theakston, and also currently presents her own show on Sunday evenings. Early life and career beginnings
Bunton was born in Finchley, Barnet, London. Her parents, Pauline, a karate instructor, and <mask>, a milkman, split when she was 11, after which she stayed with her mother.She has a younger brother, Paul James. As stated in a TV interview with Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford on This Morning during August 2016, Bunton's maternal family originate from County Wexford, Ireland. Bunton went to St Theresa's Roman Catholic Primary School in Finchley. She enrolled in the Sylvia Young Theatre School. At the SYTS, she became friendly with Keeley Hawes; they lived and travelled together for six months. Bunton appeared briefly in the BBC soap opera EastEnders in 1992 as a mugger. In 1993, she appeared in the ITV police drama The Bill, and made a brief appearance as a prostitute in the BBC drama series To Play the King.<mask> also appeared in a public information film for the British government concerning firework safety. Musical career

1994–2000: Spice Girls
In 1994, Melanie C (Chisholm), Mel B (Brown), Geri Halliwell, and Victoria Beckham responded to an advertisement in The Stage. Around 400 women who answered the ad went to Dance Works studios. Halliwell, Chisholm, Beckham (née Adams), and Brown were originally chosen as the members of the group, along with Michelle Stephenson, who due to her lack of commitment was replaced with Abigail Kis, then <mask>. The group felt insecure about the lack of a contract and were frustrated by the direction in which Heart Management was steering them. In October 1994, armed with a catalogue of demos and dance routines, the group began touring management agencies. They persuaded Bob Herbert to set up a showcase performance for the group in front of industry writers, producers and A&R men in December 1994 at the Nomis Studios in Shepherd's Bush where they received an "overwhelmingly positive" reaction.Due to the large interest in the group, the Herberts quickly set about creating a binding contract for the group. Encouraged by the reaction they had received at the Nomis showcase, all five members delayed signing contracts on the legal advice from, amongst others, Adams' father Anthony Adams. In March 1995, because of the group's frustration at their management's unwillingness to listen to their visions and ideas, they parted with Heart Management. The group began a relationship with Simon Fuller of 19 Entertainment and finally signed with him in March 1995. During the summer of that year the group toured record labels in London and Los Angeles with Fuller and finally signed a deal with Virgin Records in September 1995. From this point on, up to the summer of 1996, the group continued to write and record tracks for their debut album while extensively touring the west coast of the United States, where they had signed a publishing deal with Windswept Pacific. On 8 July 1996, the Spice Girls released their debut single "Wannabe" in the United Kingdom.In the weeks leading up to the release, the video for "Wannabe", got a trial airing on The Box music channel. "Wannabe" proved to be a major hit, topping the UK Singles Chart for seven weeks and also topping the charts in a further 34 countries, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany and the United States. and becoming the all-time biggest-selling single by an all-female group. It was followed by nine further number-one singles from their albums Spice, Spiceworld and Forever. Each member of the group received a nickname from the media. Bunton was named "Baby Spice". Other successful releases followed, including "Say You'll Be There", "2 Become 1", "Who Do You Think You Are" and "Mama" from Spice, and "Spice Up Your Life", "Too Much", "Stop" and "Viva Forever" from Spiceworld.In 1999, she presented <mask> on VH1. She recorded "(Hey You) Free Up Your Mind" for the film Pokémon: The First Movie and contributed background vocals to Melanie B's song "Sophisticated Lady", which appeared as a B-side to her single "Word Up". In November 1999 she released her debut solo single, a cover of What I Am in collaboration with Tin Tin Out. In 2000, after the release of the group's comeback single, a double A-side of "Holler"/"Let Love Lead The Way" and the third studio album, Forever, which charted at number two in the UK, the Spice Girls stopped recording, concentrating on their solo careers in regards to their foreseeable future. She also provided background vocals for Melanie B's album track, "Hotter", which appeared on the latter's debut solo studio album Hot in October 2000. 2001–2005: A Girl Like Me and Free Me

Bunton's debut solo album, A Girl Like Me, was released in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2001 by Virgin Records. The album debuted and peaked at number four on the UK Albums Chart, with 21,500 copies sold in its first week.Its lead single, "What Took You So Long? ", debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart. Although initial success was promising, A Girl Like Me fell down the chart quickly. However, the top five single "Take My Breath Away", and top twenty "We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight" helped the album stay on the UK Albums Chart for several weeks. On 7 September 2001, A Girl Like Me was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales in excess of 100,000 copies, ultimately becoming the 147th best-selling album in the United Kingdom for 2001. The album sold 125,000 copies in the United Kingdom. The poor sales led to Bunton losing her contract with Virgin in 2002.Bunton performed at Party at the Palace, an event that was held at Buckingham Palace Garden on 3 June 2002 in commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Her solo performances at the event were a cover of The Supremes' 1964 hit "Baby Love" and her own "What Took You So Long?". After parting ways with Virgin, <mask> signed a new deal with 19 Recordings, run by former Spice Girls' manager Simon Fuller, to release her second album, Free Me, on 9 February 2004. The album was largely produced by Mike Peden and Yak Bondy. Other contributions on the album courtesy of Cathy Dennis, Henry Binns and Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi. Inspired by the Motown and the 1960s era, the album was widely acclaimed by critics by its "charm and grace". It debuted at number seven on the UK Albums Chart, spending over twelve weeks inside chart, and being certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).The album had three top five singles in the United Kingdom – the title track, "Maybe" and "I'll Be There" – and a top twenty single, "Crickets Sing for Anamaria". In the United States, both "Free Me" and "Maybe" were dance club regulars, reaching numbers four and six on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart respectively. In 2005, Bunton appeared in the Bollywood film Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets. 2006–2008: Life in Mono and Spice Girls reunion

In October 2006, Bunton was a contestant in the BBC programme Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with Darren Bennett. She reached the semi-final and finished in third place. On 13 November 2006, Bunton released the charity single for the BBC Children in Need appeal, recording Petula Clark's 1960s song "Downtown". It reached number three on the UK Singles Chart, and was followed by her third studio album, Life in Mono.Much like her previous album, Life in Mono experimented with elements of 1960s pop music. For this particular album, the musical arrangement was more directed towards the 1960s French pop music, with some elements of British 1960s pop and Motown. The album was Bunton's first not to reach the top ten in the United Kingdom, only reaching number 65 on the albums chart. The second single from it was "All I Need to Know", released on 12 February 2007, intended for Valentine's Day. Bunton shot the video around Old Street in East London, in the week before Christmas 2006. Entering the UK Singles Chart at number 60, "All I Need to Know" became the lowest-charting single of Bunton's solo career. In 2007, the Spice Girls re-grouped and announced plans to tour as a quintet for the last time for a The Return of the Spice Girls, from which they were said to have earned £10 million each (approximately $20 million).The team's members said that they were still enjoying doing their "own thing". The group decided to release their first compilation album, a collection of their Greatest Hits. This album was released in early November 2007, and the tour began on 2 December 2007. During the reformation Film maker Bob Smeaton directed an official film of the tour, which he titled Spice Girls: Giving You Everything. As well as their sell-out tour, the Spice Girls were contracted to appear in Tesco advertisements, for which they were paid £1 million each. 2010–2014: Spice Girls musical and Olympics

Judy Craymer teamed up with the Spice Girls and Simon Fuller and began to develop a Spice Girls musical entitled Viva Forever. Although the girls were not to star in the show themselves, they were to influence the show's cast and production choices in a story which uses their music but bears no relation to their personal story; similar to that of ABBA's music in Mamma Mia!.On 26 June 2012, all five Spice Girls were in attendance at a press conference in London to promote the launch of Viva Forever: The Musical. The press conference was held at St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel, the location where the Spice Girls filmed the music video for their breakthrough hit "Wannabe", sixteen years earlier, to the day. The musical opened at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre on 11 December 2012. After poor reviews from critics and "a loss of £5 million", the show has its final performance on 29 June 2013. On 12 August 2012, after much speculation, <mask> and the Spice Girls performed a medley of "Wannabe" and "Spice Up Your Life" at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony, reuniting as a quintet for the last time for the

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 event. Their performance was the most tweeted moment of Olympics closing ceremony with over 116,000 tweets on Twitter per minute. Bunton also worked with fellow Spice Girl Melanie C on her 2012 album, Stages for the album track "I Know Him So Well".The song was released as a single on 11 November 2012. In March 2013, <mask> was named the Foxy Bingo Celebrity Mum of the Year. In March 2014, Bunton, along with Melanie C, took part in recording England's 2014 World Cup song. She collaborated with fellow pop stars Eliza Doolittle, Katy B, Conor Maynard, Kimberley Walsh and Pixie Lott on "Greatest Day", a track originally performed by British band Take That. The track was produced by Gary Barlow and recorded at Sarm Studios in London. The track also featured past footballers such as Gary Lineker, Michael Owen, Geoff Hurst, David Seaman, Peter Shilton, Glenn Hoddle and Dion Dublin on backing vocals. 2018–present: My Happy Place and second Spice Girls reunion

In June 2018, Bunton said during an interview on This Morning that she was back in the studio working on new material, more than a decade after her last album, Life in Mono.Bunton told host Phillip Schofield, "I am back in the studio, and I'm saying this here for the first time....I am in the studio having fun with some music of my own, just to see". In November 2018, Bunton announced she had signed a record deal with BMG Rights Management and was preparing a new album. In September 2018, she voices the character Mama Bear in the UK version of the successful animated movie Smallfoot, starring Channing Tatum, James Corden, LeBron James and Danny DeVito. The movie is a success and grossed $83.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $130.9 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $214.1 million. In November 2018, Bunton reunited with the Spice Girls to announce a UK and Ireland Stadium tour, Spice World - 2019 Tour, which began at Croke Park, Dublin on 24 May 2019 and ended in London, England on 15 June 2019. On 27 February 2019, she released the first single of the new album, "Baby Please Don't Stop", which received generally positive reviews. She later released a promo single, "Too Many Teardrops", on 9 March 2019.She then released her duet with her partner Jade Jones, "You're All I Need to Get By", a cover the Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell song. On 12 April 2019, Bunton released her fourth album, My Happy Place. The tracklist consists of two original songs and eight covers of songs beloved by Bunton. The album, which featured appearances from Jones, Robbie Williams, Will Young and Josh Kumra, sold 6,500 copies in its first week in the UK, and entered the UK Album Chart at number 11. My Happy Place became her first Top 20 album in 15 years. She later released a promotional single, "Too Many Teardrops", on 9 March 2019. In November 2019, Bunton released a Christmas single, "Coming Home For Christmas", which also included a cover of "Santa Baby".On 6 December 2019, Bunton performed her first solo show in over a decade at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The concert was a special one-off Christmas show that featured Bunton performing well known Christmas covers as well as duets onstage with Will Young, Matt Goss and her fiancé Jade Jones. The inclusive theater company, Chickenshed, of which Bunton has been a patron for many years, also joined her onstage for a rendition of the Spice Girls song "Mama". Other ventures

Radio
In February, and again between May and June 2009, Bunton starred as guest presenter on Heart London's Heart Breakfast alongside Jamie Theakston and Harriet Scott. Bunton began hosting her own pre-recorded Saturday drive time radio show on Heart in the Saturday afternoon slot 4–7 pm starting on Saturday 13 June 2009. Bunton provided maternity leave cover for Heart Breakfast co-presenter Harriet Scott from 3 October until 23 December 2011 on Heart London. Following Harriet Scott's departure from Heart Breakfast in November 2012, it was announced <mask> would succeed her as co-host along with Jamie Theakston from 7 January 2013.She co-presented with Theakston until December 2018, making her final Heart Breakfast appearance on 14 December. In March 2017, Bunton won the awards for "Radio Presenter of the Year" and "Digital Radio Programme" at the annual Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards for her work on Heart London. In January 2018, Bunton was offered a new Sunday night show that runs between 7 and 10. The first show aired on 14 January. Bunton left Heart London Breakfast at Christmas 2018 to focus on the 2019 Spice Girls Tour. She currently still presents the Sunday Evening Heart Show, Hearts Feel Good Weekend with <mask>on. Television and films
Bunton has been seen in a television commercial for the supermarket chain Tesco.She also had a cameo role on the Australian soap opera Neighbours in the episode "What's a Spice Girl Like You...?". In July 2008, Bunton stood in as co-presenter alongside Richard Madeley on the television show Richard & Judy while Judy Finnigan was recovering from a knee operation. In October 2008, Bunton appeared on the UK series of The X Factor to assist judge Dannii Minogue in choosing the three best over-25s acts to take through to the live shows. In December 2008, Bunton debuted as a member of the panel on Loose Women on ITV. In February 2010, Bunton appeared in a UK National Television campaign first aired during Coronation Street, showing her in the Heart Radio studios at the start and the end of the advert. In January 2010, Bunton joined the "Ice Panel" on ITV dancing show Dancing on Ice replacing former judge Ruthie Henshall. She stepped down from this role on 2 December 2011.Bunton hosted Channel 5's Don't Stop Believing from July to August 2010. In August 2010, Bunton guest presented GMTV with Lorraine on GMTV. On 8 October 2010, 19 November 2010 and 7 January 2011, she guest presented Lorraine on ITV Breakfast. In January 2012, Bunton reprised her role as one of fictional PR manager Edina Monsoon's disgruntled clients in a revival of the BBC's Absolutely Fabulous. In August that same year, Bunton made a cameo appearance in Keith Lemon: The Film. In the summer of 2013, Bunton was a judge on the ITV Saturday night entertainment series Your Face Sounds Familiar alongside Julian Clary and a different guest judge each week. In October 2014, Bunton appeared on The X Factor to assist judge and fellow Spice Girl Mel B in choosing the three best boys acts to take through to the live shows.In 2015, <mask> made a cameo appearance in Spanish comedy film Cómo sobrevivir a una despedida, during a scene in which the five main characters are seen impersonating the Spice Girls in a talent show. In March 2016, <mask> has co-presented Too Much TV, a daily magazine show on BBC Two. In 2015, <mask> made a cameo appearance in the 2016 film Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. In addition, she gave her voice to Muhimu in the UK version of the episode "The Mbali Fields Migration" of the Disney Channel's television series The Lion Guard. In 2017, she appeared as a judge in the TV show Boy Band alongside Nick Carter, Rita Ora and Timbaland. Fashion
In 2011, Bunton teamed up with British retailer Argos to launch a series of childrenswear lines. Philanthropy
In 1999, 2001 and 2003 she was one of the donors of the charity campaign Nordoff-Robbins, focused in therapy for children with psychological, physical or developmental disabilities.In April 1999 she helped launch the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children's anti-child abuse campaign with Tony Blair and Prince Andrew. She also starred in a government safety campaign to warn drinkers of the dangers of handling fireworks, recording commercials to air on television. In 2000 Bunton supported the charity campaign Children Nationwide, which raised money to finance the research into childhood diseases. In 2001 she donated £500,000 to performing arts and music charities funds. In 2006 she was ambassador of BBC's Children in Need and released the charity single "Downtown", donating the money for the campaign. In 2010 she supported the World Children's Champions. In 2011, Bunton was ambassador of Heart's Have a Heart campaign to help homeless people.In 2013, she supported the UNICEF's campaign Every Parent's Dream, which raised money for vaccine against maternal and newborn tetanus (MNT). In 2014 she became an ambassador of UNICEF and travelled to Africa to assist in humanitarian work to eradicate the MNT. In April 2015, Bunton teamed up with Specsavers in Bishop's Stortford to launch a contest, where each entry would generate £1 to anti-bullying charity Kidscape to help vulnerable children. Personal life

In 1997, Bunton dated British singer Lee Brennan. In the same year, she was briefly linked to American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. In 1998, she began dating British singer Jade Jones, from the group Damage, but they split for the first time in May 1999. From September 1999 to September 2000, Bunton was in a relationship with the England footballer Rio Ferdinand, who was introduced by her friends David Beckham and Victoria Beckham.In November 2000, she returned to Jones, but they split for the second time in March 2002, when Bunton decided to work again with Simon Fuller; Jones was against this decision. In 2003, she was briefly linked to American singer Justin Timberlake. In 2004 she returned to Jade Jones and the relationship stabilised. On 26 January 2007 she announced her pregnancy. Her first child, Beau Lee Jones, was born on 10 August 2007. On 6 May 2011, her second child Tate Lee Jones was born. The couple became engaged on 21 January 2011 but Bunton said that she does not want to get married in a civil or religious ceremony, stating: "We don't need a wedding to justify our relationship."<mask> and Jones married on 13 July 2021. In 1999, Bunton moved to a £1.6million penthouse in the Mount Vernon Village, in Hampstead, London. In 2003, she had some problems with neighbours, who complained about her late-night parties. In 2006, she and Jones moved to a mansion in Barnet, London. Bunton was diagnosed with endometriosis. She is also a godmother to Geri Halliwell's daughter, Bluebell Madonna Halliwell, born in 2006. Bunton is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur football club.Discography

 A Girl Like Me (2001)
 Free Me (2004)
 Life in Mono (2006)
 My Happy Place (2019)

Filmography

Television

Film

Tours

Live in Concert (2001)
Free Me Tour (2004)
<mask>'s Christmas Party - Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2019)

Radio

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Heart's Feel Good Weekend with <mask> on Heart Radio

spicegirlsgem.com

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19 Recordings artists
20th-century English actresses
20th-century English women singers
20th-century English singers
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Alumni of the Sylvia Young Theatre School
British female karateka
British women pop singers
English feminists
English film actresses
English people of Irish descent
English radio presenters
English women pop singers
English women singer-songwriters
English television actresses
English television presenters
English voice actresses
Feminist musicians
Heart (radio network)
Living people
Participants in American reality television series
Participants in British reality television series
People educated at Queen Elizabeth's School for Girls
People from Finchley
Singers from London
Musicians from London
Spice Girls members
Virgin Records artists
Women radio presenters
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<mask> (born John Cuneo, June 3, 1935) is an American photographer. He retired from teaching at Harvard in 2000, and continues to live and work in the Boston area. Early life
Lueders-Booth was born in Boston, MA on June 3, 1935. His father, Edward J. Booth, was a math professor and his mother, Marie G. Booth, a homemaker. Lueders-Booth is the oldest of six children, four girls and two boys. He was raised Catholic. Lueders-Booth has lived in Boston, Ma.his entire life. After graduating high school, He began studying English at Harvard. Booth never finished his undergraduate degree, and instead began working for an insurance company, where he stayed for 15 years. Booth's interest in photography began when he was a young child, though this did not become a serious interest until he was 25. Career

Teaching career
A self-taught documentary photographer, <mask>-Booth left an office management company with Combined Insurance Company of America in 1970, at the age of 35, to pursue overriding interests in photography. Booth went to work for Harvard University as the manager of their photography teaching laboratory, and a year later began to also teach photography there. In 1976, Booth took on a part-time study at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, which he designed to be a photographic education, and he received his master's degree in 1978.He worked as a photography instructor in Harvard University’s Extension and Summer School’s until 1999. Booth also taught at The Maine Photographic Workshop, teaching both beginning and advanced documentary seminars. He served as a guest critic and lecturer at The Art Institute of Boston, Boston University, University of Colorado Boulder, Dartmouth College, Emerson College, The Maine Photographic Workshops, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, and Yale Graduate School of Art. In 1989, Booth was appointed Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College, and in 1983-84 he was guest Artist-Teacher at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, Ma. From 1983-1995, Booth received twelve Commendations for Distinguished Teaching, and three nominations for Harvard University’s Joseph P. Levenson Prize for Best Teacher of the Year. In 2000, Booth semi-retired to adjunct faculty positions at (sequentially), The School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Rhode Island School of Design, The Massachusetts College of Art, The Art Institute of Boston, and Lesley University College of Art and Design. Photography
While working a full-time teaching schedule, Lueders-Booth pursued documentary projects at every opportunity.These included Chronic Disease and Custodial Patients - supported in part by a Harvard University Work Completion Grant from 1970-1973; The Salvation Army from 1974-1975; Camping Families in 1976; and Patmos, Greece in 1977. Booth photographed Women Prisoners, supported in part by fellowships from the NEA, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, The ‘Artists’ Foundation, and the Polaroid Foundation. Booth photographed the American Motorcycling Community and Culture from 1985–present. He also photographed Neighborhoods of the Orange Line, a branch of Boston’s public transportation system which runs through strongly segregated neighborhoods. This project was commissioned by Urbanarts and supported in total by group project grants from the Boston Arts Lottery, the Boston Globe Foundation, and the Rowland Foundation, and a personal grant from the Maine Photographic Workshops (1985-1987). Booth worked on a series of Cambridge Families Before gentrification, supported by a grant from the Cambridge Arts Council in 1987; of Lowell Folklife, a personal commission from the U.S. Library of Congress to work as photographer with oral historians conducting a contemporary and historical social study of Lowell, Ma., its traces to nineteenth century mill culture, and the recent influx of Southeast Asians fleeing the turmoil in their homelands from 1987-1988; Cambodians in New England, a personal continuation of the Library of Congress commission for The Addison Gallery of American Art’s exhibition Shifting Cultures from 1990-1991; and Families who live in and off of the Dumps of Tijuana from 1991-1998. Booth also received a Humanitarian Award from The Pine Street Inn, a Boston homeless shelter, for volunteer fund-raising photography.2000-present
After leaving his teaching position at Harvard University, Booth pursued his interest in photography full-time. From 2000-2006, Booth worked on the series The Last Corner Store, a shop near Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 2005, Booth has photographed in and around Central Square, as well as at The Cantab and The Cantabridgean Lounge. This work has yet to be published. Personal life
Booth has six adult children, Douglass (B.1957), Laura (B.1959), Gregory (B.1960), Peter  (B.1968), Lucy Nguyen (B.1980), and Evie Lueders-Booth (B.1991). For fun, he plays darts, tennis, and races motorcycles. Booth lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Publications

Books
 Inherit the Land (awarded monograph [5] with introduction by Luis Alberto Urrea and Afterword by Frank Gohlke)
 Across the Wire (with Luis Alberto Urrea)
 By The Lake of Sleeping Children (with Luis Alberto Urrea)
 John Lueders-Booth, Artist in Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH (exhibition catalogue, 1989)
 New American Photography (exhibition catalog)
 Photojournalism 1997 (best of), Graphis Press

Other Selected Publications

 American Photography Periodical
 DoubleTake, The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
 Selected Photographs from The Library of Congress American Folklife Center
 Weddings, National Endowment for the Arts
 New American Photography produced by Columbia College for the exhibition at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography
 The article The Artist's Lens: A Focus on Relocation produced by the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University in their quarterly publication "Views." The article John Lueders-Booth: Inside Stories published in Aperture's Quarterly Summer Vol. 91
 The article Like Silk written by Marianne Wiggins and published in Aperture's Quarterly Spring Vol. 127
 Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border written by Luis Alberto Urrea
 Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews written by Frank Gohlke
 The Best Books of the Year written by David Schonauer
 Lueders-Booth & Tuckerman @ The Art Institute of Boston written by Matthew Nash

References

1935 births
Living people
Harvard University faculty
Dartmouth College faculty
American photographers
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Baron <mask> (Hebrew: הברון אברהם אדמונד בנימין  ג'יימס  רוטשילד - <mask>; 19 August 1845 – 2 November 1934) was a French member of the <mask> banking family. A strong supporter of Zionism, his large donations lent significant support to the movement during its early years, which helped lead to the establishment of the State of Israel, where he is simply known as "the baron <mask>", "HaBaron", or "Hanadiv" (Eng: The generous one)

Early years
A member of the French branch of the Rothschild banking dynasty, he was born in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, the youngest child of <mask> and <mask>. He grew up in the world of the Second Republic and the Second Empire and was a soldier "Garde Mobile" in the first Franco-Prussian War. In 1877, he married <mask> of Naples, the daughter of <mask>, one of the Rothschild banking family of Naples, with whom he had three children: <mask>, <mask> and Miriam Caroline Alexandrine. Artistic and philanthropic interests

Art, science and academy
<mask> inherited Château Rothschild, Boulogne-Billancourt and owned the Château Rothschild d'Armainvilliers in Gretz-Armainvilliers in the Seine-et-Marne département. <mask> took little active part in banking but pursued artistic and philanthropic interests, helping to found scientific research institutions such as the Institut Henri Poincaré, the Institut de Biologie physico-chimique, the pre-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Casa Velázquez in Madrid, and the French Institute in London. In 1907, as a cofounder member, he also provided funds and support for the foundation of the Friends of the French National Museum of Natural History Society.He served as a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts and through it sponsored the archaeological digs of Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau in Egypt, Eustache <mask> in Ottoman Syria, and Raymond Weill in Palestine. <mask> <mask> acquired an important collection of drawings and engravings that he bequeathed to the Louvre consisting of more than 40,000 engravings, nearly 3,000 drawings, and 500 illustrated books. Included in this gift were more than one hundred engravings and drawings by Rembrandt. A portion of his art collection was bequeathed to his son <mask><mask> <mask> and is now part of the National Trust collection at Waddesdon Manor. However, in 1882 <mask> cut back on his purchases of art and began to buy land in Ottoman Palestine. Zionism

He became a leading proponent of the Zionist movement, financing the first site at Rishon LeZion. In his goal for the establishment of a Jewish homeland, he promoted industrialization and economic development.In 1924, he established the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PICA), which acquired more than  of land and set up business ventures. <mask> <mask> also played a pivotal role in Israel's wine industry. Under the supervision of his administrators in Ottoman Palestine, farm colonies and vineyards were established, and two major wineries were opened in Rishon LeZion and Zikhron Ya'akov.<ref>Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel, vol. 2, "<mask>, Baron <mask> <mask>", p. 966</ref> It is estimated that <mask> spent over $50 million in supporting the settlements and backed research in electricity by engineers and financed development of an electric generating station. <mask> funded a glass factory that would supply bottles for his wineries. <mask> met Meir Dizengoff in Paris and chose Dizengoff to launch and manage the new factory, called Mizaga. Dizengoff opened the factory in Tantura in 1892 and managed the factory for approximately two years.Mizaga was the first Jewish-owned factory in Ottoman Palestine. Jews and Arabs lived amicably on <mask>'s land, with no Arab grievances, even in the worst periods of disturbance. According to historian Albert M. Hyamson, "<mask> recognised that the overriding interest of the Jews of Palestine was the confidence and the friendship of their Arab neighbours. The interests of the Arab cultivators of the land he bought were never overlooked, but by development he made this land capable of maintaining a population ten times its former size." While <mask> <mask> was not always supportive of an inclusive government - he suggested in 1931 to Judah Magnes that "We must hold them (the Arabs) down with a strong hand"  - he acknowledged the importance of co-governance and peaceful coexistence in a 1934 letter to the League of Nations,  stating that "the struggle to put an end to the Wandering Jew, could not have as its result, the creation of the Wandering Arab." Death

In 1934, <mask> <mask> died at Château Rothschild, Boulogne-Billancourt. His wife died a year later on 29 December 1935.They were interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris until April 1954 when their remains were transported to Israel aboard a naval frigate. At the port of Haifa, the ship was met with sirens and a 19-gun salute. A state funeral was held with former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion giving the eulogy following which <mask> <mask> and his wife were re-interred atop a hill near Haifa in what today is called Ramat HaNadiv (The Generous one's Heights) Memorial Gardens, near the towns of Zichron Ya'akov (in Memoriam of Jacob, which is <mask> in English) and Binyamina ("of little Benjamin"), both of which he helped fund, and are named in his honor. The open space at Ramat HaNadiv and the Rothschild family charity Yad HaNadiv ("The generous one's hand" and also "The generous one's memory"), are all as well named in honor of the Baron and his famous philanthropy in Palestine. Both named in his honor, where HaNadiv translates to English as "generous", seen in the families later Israeli charitable foundation Yad Hanadiv. Started in 1954, (the very same year the Baron and his wife were buried in Israel) to carry on the legacy of <mask>'s earlier philanthropy in Palestine, and his colony association, the PICA. Commemoration
For his Jewish philanthropy Baron <mask> became known as "HaNadiv HaYadu'a", (Hebrew for "The Known Benefactor" or "The Famous Benefactor") and in his memory his son bequeathed the funds to construct the building for the Knesset.Israel's 1982/5742 Independence Day coin is dedicated to the memory of <mask> <mask> and marks the centenary of his first projects in Israel. From 1982 until 1986, the Bank of Israel used his portrait on the 500 Israeli sheqel note. Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv is named after him, as well as various localities throughout Israel which he assisted in founding. Rishon LeZion, the city which he helped to found named one of the central streets Rothschild Street, and in 1996 Rothschild Mall was built. Also named after him is the Parc <mask> de Rothschild'' (Edmond de Rothschild Park) in Boulogne-Billancourt. See also
Yishuv
Isaac Leib Goldberg (1860–1935), Zionist leader and philanthropist from Russia
<mask> Hirsch (1831–1896), German Jewish financier and philanthropist,founder of the Jewish Colonization Association

References

Further reading

External links

 Rothschild Archive
 Waddesdon Manor

1845 births
1934 deaths
People from Boulogne-Billancourt
French philanthropists
19th-century French Jews
<mask>
French Zionists
Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery

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<mask> (4 May 1884 – 13 May 1952) was the first Premier of Bihar province in British India. He Served for three months in 1937, during the state's first democratic election, however his minority government never faced the assembly as it had already resigned when the session begun. He was born in Penhara, a village of Patna, and went to the United Kingdom in the 1920s for higher education. Biography

Mr. <mask> was a prominent politician in early 20th century Bihar. He was born in 1884 and the younger of two brothers. <mask>, head of the Muslim Independent Party, was asked to form the government after the winning party in the 1937 elections declined to form a government. The legislative assembly passed many important resolutions during his short term as Chief Minister.During the second day of his term, Bihar Band (Hartal) and many agitators were arrested in front of his house ("Dar-ul-Mallik") at Fraser Road Patna. Then youth leader Jayaprakash Narayan harshly criticised Barrister's Yunus acceptance to the governor's invitation for formation of the government. His party (Congress Socialist Party) continued protests to the Muslim Independent Party government because it did not have a majority in the house. As Muslim Independent Party was the party which got 20 seats from 40 seats reserved for Muslim and congress got only 4 Muslim seats, Muslim independent Party wanted to form an Alliance govt. with congress so that a better answer could be given to Muslim League that Hindu and Muslims, these two biggest religious majorities could exist with equal dignity and rights but congress refused to Barrister <mask>'s brilliant proposal and did it best that formed the government alone. Congress which was having just 4 Muslim Members assembly out of 40 didn't show any respect of Muslim mandate which was given to Muslim independent party in Bihar. Same situation aroses in West Bengal.Which ultimately resulted in partition of India. All these records are given in the diary of Barrister Yasin <mask> who was elder son and Political secretary of his father. The diary was later with <mask> <mask>, younger son of Barrister <mask> and Founder president of Bihar Muslim Majlise-e-Mushawarat Which is now with Baber <mask> (Director, Yunus Construction Pvt. Ltd. and son of Late Yaqub <mask>).After his minority government fell, the first Congress Ministry (led by Premier Sri Krishna Singh and Dr. A.N. Sinha as deputy premier) came to existence. His elder son Barrister Moahammad Yasin <mask>, who inherited his legacy in judicial field and kept himself away from politics, died in 1947 aged  40 years, as standing counsel of Govt. of Bihar.His younger son, <mask> <mask> (founder president of Bihar Muslim Majlis Mushawarat), inherited most of his political and commercial legacy. His house, Dar-ul-Mallik, part of which later converted into  Grand Hotel and in another Part oriental Bank was situated, which was later demolished in the late 1990s. The Grand Apartment now stands in its place, built by his grandson, Baber <mask>, who runs the Yunus Construction Company in Patna. Born 4 May 1884 in Panehara village, P.S.- Masaurhi, Railway station – Taregna, Patna
Died 13 May 1952 from a heart attack when he was walking in the street of London. Buried in Brookwood Muslim Graveyard, London. Grandfather – Maulvi <mask>, retired as District Judge, Monghyr (Munger), Bihar
 Father – Maulvi Ali Hassan Mukhtar, Advocate. Brother –<mask>  Yusuf, barrister of Patna
 First wife –Bibi Zeenatunissa, daughter of the Late Maulvi Abdul Jabbar of Mirzapur, U.P.Died 19 March 1924
 Elder son –<mask> <mask>, barrister, was standing counsel to the Government of Bihar at Patna High Court and also worked as sort of Political Secretary  of his father, especially during the crucial period of forming of Muslim Independent Party and  his father's  Chief Ministership. Appointed as standing counsel to government of Bihar in 1945 and got the letter of his appointment as Judge in Patna High court when he was on his death bed; he died young in 1946. Younger son –<mask> <mask> regime. Died 12 April 2004 at Grand Hotel, Fraser Road, Patna
Second wife –Eldest daughter of the late Habibur Rahman of Irki, P.S. - Jehanabad, Dist- gaya, who was then stationed at barh as Assistant Civil Surgeon. Second marriage took place at Barh on 5 October 1924.No issue. Academic and judicial affairs

He started learning Urdu and Islamic Studies from Shah Saheb of Village- Amthua, Jehanbad who later founded the Amthua Khanqah. Schooling in Collegiate School Patna. Graduation from Patna College. Bar at Law from Middle Temple, London. In 1903 he went to England to join the Society of Middle Temple and was called to the bar on 26 January 1906. On 27 January he was enrolled as a Barrister of the High court of judicature at London.After a very brief practice in England he came back to India in April 1906 and was enrolled as an advocate in Calcutta High Court Bar in 1906 at the age of 22. Started practice in Patna District Court in 1906 and later became a Senior Advocate of Patna High court. Actively fought cases in Patna High Court, Calcutta High Court, Federal Court (Delhi) and Privy Council, England. Political and social affairs

Attended Lahore Session of congress as a delegate in 1908 but later left the Party.2 Became Member of the Subject Committee of the 24th Session of the Congress held in Lahore in 1909. The other Members of the Society were Hasan Imam, Mr. Deep Narayan Singh,Dr A N Sinha, Mr. Kishan Sahay and Mr. Parmeswar. Served briefly as All India Secretary of the Muslim League.Political Ideology – Muttahda Qaumiat (United Nationhood) which was in contrast with Two Nation Theory of Muslim League. Became Member of Imperial Legislative Council in 1916 at the age of 32. Became member of Bihar and Orissa Legislative Council in 1921. Elected to the position of the Chief Whip of the Democratic Party in 1921 and remained in the post till 1926. Again elected as member of Bihar and Orissa  Legislative Council in 1932. Twice elected a member of Patna Municipal Board, in 1917 and remained on its board from 1917 till 1923. Presented a scheme of a new constitution before Lords Minto & Chelmsford and Mr. Montague.Many of his ideas found place in the New Constitution. Simon Commission - Represented Bihar Muslim Association and Bihar Landholder's Association as Chief Spokesman before the  Simon Commission. Formed Muslim Independent Party in 1936 with the help of Maulana Abul Mohasin Sajjad (Founder of Imarat-e- Sharia, Bihar) and became its Founder President. Avoided all the efforts and persuasions of <mask> Jinnah to merge the Party with Muslim League before 1937 election. Muslim Independent Party fought election in 1937 with the Congress on seat sharing basis and Became Second Largest Party after Congress in the House. Became Member of Bihar Legislative Council again in 1937 on Muslim Independent Party Ticket from West Patna (Rural) Constituency, and became First Premier in 1937: took oath as First Premier of Bihar province on 1 April 1937 under the Government of India Act, 1935. His government had Abdul Wahab Khan as revenue Minister, Kumar Ajit Singh Deo as L.S.G.minister and Babu Guru Sahay Lal as River Development Minister. He also offered a ministerial position to lure Jagjivan Ram, who declined due to pressure from congress leadership for not joining the Government. Qazi Sahab who was Nazim of Imarat-e-Sharia at that time and was also an important leader of Muslim independent party was having a divided opinion over formation of government but Barrister <mask> was firm on forming government because forming a government without giving participation to a party which was representing the second largest majority of the country was a narrow minded approach of congress leaders which could lead to a serious divide between these two communities which we saw in 1947 that congress this rigidity divided the country in two parts. After partition played an active part in the movement for amendments in Custodian Ordinance and worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Jamiat-e-Ulema on this issue. His suggestions found a place in the Minto-Morley Reforms. Was Member of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for 6 years. Founder President of All India Mail-Milap Association which was formed for achieving the larger object of Hindu-Muslim unity on Social Level and above Political Interest and limitations.Was Secretary of Annie Besant's Theosophical Society. J. B. Kriplani founded Kisaan Mazdur Praja Party in 1951. Mahamaya Prasad became state president of party in Bihar. It was the same Mahamaya Prasad who to become M.L.C. in 1951 advised Maulana Manzoor Ejazi to refuse the proposal of congress party to nominate  Maulana as an M.L.C. in Bihar Legislative Council.And very next day after refusal of Maulana, Mahamaya Prasad himself accepted the proposal from the party and became M.L.C.. <mask> actively helped Kriplani and Mahamaya Prasad in formation of the party. Maulana Manzoor Ejazi also joined Kisan Mazdoor Praja party and fought election on its symbol from Muzaffarpur in 1951. In 1951 election KMPP emerged as 3rd largest party of India after Congress and Socialist Party. KMPP and Socialist party later merged to form Praja Socialist Party. Chief Minister of Bihar Mr. Nitish Kumar announced that 4 May, the birthday of Mr. <mask> will be Observed as "Rajkiya Samaroh" from the next year. Nitish was speaking to the audience  in a conference, "<mask>us : Hayat Wa Khidmat" organised by <mask>'s great grandson Mr. <mask> <mask> on 60th death Anniversary of <mask> 13 May 2012. Mr. Nand Kishore Yadav, the Road Construction minister of Bihar govt.was the Chief guest on 4 May 2013 when the Bihar govt. first time observed "Rajkiya Samaroh" in memory of Mr. <mask>. Corporate affairs

Founder of Search Light Press, Patna which is now known as Hindustan Times, Patna. In 1924 he started Patna Times as a weekly paper which in the year 1944 became a Daily News Paper.He himself was the Editor and Publisher of the News Paper. Founder of Orient Bank India Limited., which had Branches and Pay Offices all over India. Founder Chairman of the Industrial Engineering Developments Limited with Branches in Bihar, Bengal and Assam. Founded the Great India Development Limited - This Company undertook construction of a large Railway project in various Rajputana States, specially Indore and Marwar and was to link up B.B.C.I. Railway and G.I.P. Railway. Founder of Bihar Flying Club, which still existed . Served as Managing Director of the Bihar Provincial Co-operative Bank. Served as Director of the Bank of Bihar. Director and Managing Agent of Bihar United Insurance Company.Opened Grand Hotel, Patna. Poetry
After a heart attack on 29 December 1944 he started writing poetry during his illness, especially during his long stay in Mussoorie in 1945. Marsiya on the death of Birbal Lal Son of Justice Manohar Lal, Payam-e-Muhabbat on Hindu Muslim Unity and Kalam-<mask> which is his message to young generation are some of his famous poetical work. Notes

References
 The Hindustan Times daily newspaper, Patna, Sunday, 7 January 1990, Page- 7
The Sunday Searchlight Magazine, Patna, 12 August 1979
 Toote Hue Tare- Book written by <mask> Uthmani and published by his academician son. Husn-e-Sirat - book written by <mask> Uthmani which is a Biography of Qazi Sahab-founder Nazim of Imarat-e-Sahria Bihar
 Tazkira-e-Yunus written by prominent journalist Taqi Rahim
 Barrister <mask>us ke Daur-e-Wazarat ka ek Aks written by Asghar Imam Falsafi
 "Freedom and Partition and Season Changed" written by Syed Tanveer Hassan (Grand son of Sir SULTAN)

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Indian Muslims
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<mask> (born 19 November 1974) is an Australian singer-songwriter. Four of his albums, Black the Sun, Watching Angels Mend, Distant Light and <mask>, released between 1999 and 2005, made the top ten on the ARIA charts. <mask> has also won the ARIA Award for Best Male Artist on three occasions. Early life and education
<mask> was born to a father of Russian descent and a mother of Irish descent. <mask> grew up in the inner Sydney suburb of Balmain, New South Wales, and attended Balmain High School (now Sydney Secondary College Balmain Campus). At the age of 15, <mask> was a member of a school rock band that won the 1990 Balmain Battle of the Bands. This mainly blues-rock band evolved into "The Beefs", which began playing in local pubs and clubs and into indie rock band Mother Hubbard.<mask> adopted his mother's maiden name '<mask>', following her unexpected death in 1991. Career

1998–2002: Black the Sun & Watching Angels Mend
Early in 1998, <mask> released his debut single "Peepshow/Momo", which did not chart. In July 1998, <mask> released the single "Black the Sun", the lead from his debut album of the same name. The song peaked at number 86 on the ARIA Charts. <mask>'s debut studio album, Black the Sun was released in July 1999. It peaked at number 9 on the ARIA Charts and was certified 2x Platinum. Triple J listeners voting it their album of the year in 1999.At the ARIA Music Awards of 2000, <mask> won ARIA Award for Best Male Artist. In 2001, <mask> released "Downtown" and "Amazing", the lead singles from his second album. "Amazing" became his best performing single, peaking within the top 20 in Australia and being certified gold. It was voted in a number 1 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2001. At the APRA Music Awards of 2002, the song won Single of the Year. Watching Angels Mend was released in September 2001 and peaked at number 2 in Australia and was certified 3x platinum. Two further top 40 singles in Australia followed in 2002; "Green" and "Everybody's Laughing".At the ARIA Music Awards of 2002, <mask> was nominated for seven awards, winning ARIA Award for Best Male Artist for a second time. 2003–2004: Distant Light, <mask> & Amazing: The Best of <mask>
In August 2003, <mask> released "Coming Home", the lead single from his third studio album. The song peaked at number 24 on the ARIA Charts. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2003, the song won <mask> the vARIA Award for Best Male Artist for a third time. <mask>'s third studio album Distant Light was released in September 2003. The album peaked at number 9 on the ARIA Charts and was certified gold. It spawned two more top 50 singles in "1000 Miles" and "Beautiful".In August 2005, <mask> released "Never Meant to Fail", the lead single from his fourth studio album. The song reached the top 30 in Australia. On 25 October 2005, <mask> released his self-titled fourth studio album. The album peaked at number 7 on the ARIA Charts and was certified platinum. In April 2006, <mask> performed in the grand finale of Dancing with the Stars, singing his breakthrough song, "Amazing". His performance on the show saw the album re-entered the albums charts. In September 2006, <mask> released his first greatest hits album, titled Amazing: The Best of <mask>.It was his final on EMI Music. A limited edition of the album features a second album of B-sides and rarities and it peaked at number 34. 2008–2011: Good in the Face of a Stranger and Mad Bastards Trio
In November 2008, <mask> released his fifth studio album Good in the Face of a Stranger through Inertia. The album peaked at number 80 on the ARIA Chart. The album spawned two singles, the first, "Slow Train" featured a video clip made with 7,000 hand-drawn pictures. The album's second single, "What We Started", was released in March 2009 and subsequently used as song on the television show 90210. In 2011, <mask> began touring with Steve and Alan Pigram from the Pigram Brothers.The trio had worked on the soundtrack for the Australian film Mad Bastards, and subsequently became known as the Mad Bastards Trio, using the tour to promote the film, which was released on 5 May 2011. The tour ended later that month. The Mad Bastards Trio also performed on Adam Hills in Gordon Street Tonight and also had an interview with George Negus about the music and the film itself. One of <mask>'s songs from Good in the Face of a Stranger, "Slow Train" made it onto the soundtrack, along with songs written by the Pigram Brothers, but the majority of the soundtrack was written as a collaboration between the trio. At the APRA Music Awards of 2011 the trio received three nominations. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2011, the album was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album. 2012–2015: Urban Wilderness and "Coming Home (To Richmond)"
In March 2013, <mask> began road-testing new songs on a limited tour.Speaking to The Newcastle Herald, <mask> announced the title of the album as Urban Wilderness. In August 2013, <mask> released the first single from the album, "Better The Less You Know," featuring footage of people listening to the song in London and on the Central Coast. The album was released on 18 October 2013, and was met with a mostly positive reception. Late in 2013, <mask> performed his first Australian tour in over five years. In 2014, <mask> collaborated with the Richmond Football Club, releasing "Coming Home (To Richmond)"; a combination of his original 2003 single with references made to the AFL club. <mask> subsequently adopted the Tigers as his club. The song became his first re-entry into the Australia Top 100 in over eight years, peaking  at number 62 on the ARIA Charts.A third single from Urban Wilderness was released in April 2014, titled "Good Thing". 2016–2017: Acoustica
On 11 February 2016, Liberation Music announced that <mask> will be releasing an acoustic album as part of their acoustic series, featuring re-imaginings of many of his most successful tracks. The following day, an acoustic version of "Coming Home" was released on their YouTube channel. <mask> also began touring with Australian rock band Icehouse for their tour dates in Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra throughout February and March 2016. Acoustica was released on 5 August 2016 and peaked at number 45 on ARIA charts. 2018–2019: Black the Sun 20th Anniversary Tour
Following an appearance at A Day on the Green in 2018 and supporting The Whitlams on their national tour of 2018, <mask> announced a 20th-anniversary release of his debut album Black the Sun. The subsequent national tour, took place from October–November and was a success, with multiple sell out shows.Personal life
<mask> is married to Amelia Wasiliev and they have three sons and one daughter: Jake, Isaac, Elvis and Belle. Discography

Albums

Soundtrack albums

Compilation albums

Extended plays

Singles

Awards and nominations

ARIA Awards

APRA Awards

References

External links

http://www.madbastards.com.au

1974 births
Living people
APRA Award winners
ARIA Award winners
Australian people of Irish descent
Australian people of Russian descent
Australian singer-songwriters
People from Sydney
21st-century Australian singers

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