Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American

singer-songwriter, author, poet, and visual artist who has been a major figure in
popular culture for more than fifty years. Much of his most celebrated work dates
from the 1960s, when songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and "The Times
They Are a-Changin'" (1964) became anthems for the Civil Rights
Movement and anti-war movement. His lyrics during this period incorporated a
wide range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defied pop-
music conventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture.
Following his self-titled debut album in 1962, which mainly comprised
traditional folk songs, Dylan made his breakthrough as a songwriter with the
release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan the following year. The album featured
"Blowin' in the Wind" and the thematically complex "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall".
For many of these songs he adapted the tunes and sometimes phraseology of
older folk songs. He went on to release the politically charged The Times They Are
a-Changin' and the more lyrically abstract and introspective Another Side of Bob
Dylan in 1964. In 1965 and 1966, Dylan encountered controversy when he
adopted electrically amplified rock instrumentation, and in the space of 15 months
recorded three of the most important and influential rock albums of the
1960s: Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Highway 61 Revisited (1965) and Blonde
on Blonde (1966). The six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" (1965) radically
expanded what a pop song could convey.
In July 1966, Dylan withdrew from touring after being injured in a motorcycle
accident. During this period he recorded a large body of songs with members
of the Band, who had previously backed him on tour. These recordings were
released as the collaborative album The Basement Tapes, in 1975. In the late
1960s and early 1970s, Dylan explored country music and rural themes in John
Wesley Harding (1967), Nashville Skyline (1969), and New Morning (1970). In
1975, he released Blood on the Tracks, which many saw as a return to form. In the
late 1970s, he became a born-again Christian and released a series of albums of
contemporary gospel music before returning to his more familiar rock-based idiom
in the early 1980s. The major works of his later career include Time Out of
Mind(1997), "Love and Theft" (2001), Modern Times (2006) and Tempest (2012).
His most recent recordings have comprised versions of traditional American
standards, especially songs recorded by Frank Sinatra. Backed by a changing
lineup of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been
dubbed the Never Ending Tour.
 Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-
songwriter and actor. Simon's musical career has spanned seven decades with his
fame and commercial success beginning as half of the duo Simon &
Garfunkel (originally known as Tom & Jerry), formed in 1956 with Art Garfunkel.
Simon was responsible for writing nearly all of the pair's songs including three that
reached number one on the U.S. singles charts: "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs.
Robinson", and "Bridge over Troubled Water".
The duo split up in 1970 at the height of their popularity, and Simon began a
successful solo career, recording three acclaimed albums over the next five years.
In 1986, he released Graceland, an album inspired by South African township
music, which sold 14 million copies worldwide on its release and remains his most
popular solo work. Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony(1980)
and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman (1998) with the poet Derek
Walcott. On June 3, 2016, Simon released his 13th solo album, Stranger to
Stranger, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Album Chart and the UK charts.
 James Ingram

James Edward Ingram (February 16, 1952 – January 29, 2019) was an American

singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist. He was a two-
time Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Award nominee for Best
Original Song. Since beginning his career in 1973, Ingram had charted eight Top
40 hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart from the early 1980s until the
early 1990s, as well as thirteen top 40 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In
addition, he charted 20 hits on the Adult Contemporary chart (including two
number-ones). He had two number-one singles on the Hot 100: the first,
a duet with fellow R&Bartist Patti Austin, 1982's "Baby, Come to Me" topped the
U.S. pop chart in 1983; "I Don't Have the Heart", which became his second
number-one in 1990 was his only number-one as a solo artist.
In between these hits, he also recorded the song "Somewhere Out There" with
fellow recording artist Linda Ronstadt for the animated film An American Tail. The
song and the music video both became gigantic hits. Ingram co-wrote "The Day I
Fall in Love", from the motion picture Beethoven's 2nd (1993), and singer Patty
Smyth's "Look What Love Has Done", from the motion picture Junior (1994), which
earned him nominations for Best Original Song from the Oscars, Golden Globes,
and Grammy Awards in 1994 and 1995.

Mario Cipollina
 Mario Cipollina
Mario Cipollina is the younger brother of the late guitarist John Cipollina. Although
John is the most famous of the two brothers, the business has probably been
kinder to Mario who after a variety of bands in San Francisco -
including Stoneground, Montrose, Freelight, Rocky Sullivan, Sound Hole, San
Francisco AllStars - hit it big with Huey Lewis and the News - one of the biggest
acts in the middle of the 80s. With all that stardom Mario never lost his friendly and
caring attitude though.

When Mario was seven years old he started to play upright bass in school -
basically he chose the instrument because he was fascinated by the sound of the
instrument (and the fat man who played it). With 13 years he started to play electric
bass. Although beginning with classical music - which he still prefers to listen to
today - he started to like rock music more and more. Together with Bill Gibson
(early school-mate) he used to practise lots of Frank Zappa, Chick Corea, Led
Zeppelin, Captain Beefheart or Miles Davis. Over the years Mario got better and
his reputation as a good bass player grew - read the Terry and the
Pirates article where John also talks about Mario.

John and Mario Cipollina - although both of them being very busy always - had the
chance to play together many times. Due to John's connections Mario got the
chance to play with several bands and get better as a bass player. Bands like
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Cooperhead, The Novato Frank Band ... some of
these sessions being recorded.As mentioned above Mario played in several bands
- Sound Hole being the back-up band for Van Morrison for quite some time and
with Tony Williams he even toured Japan before he would join what was to
become Huey Lewis and the News. The rest is history as they say.
 Daryl Franklin
Daryl Franklin Hohl (born October 11, 1946), better known by his stage
name Daryl Hall, is an American rock, R&B,
and soulsinger; keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer, best known as the
co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates (with guitarist and songwriter John
Oates).
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Hall scored numerous Billboard chart hits and is
regarded as one of the best soul singers of his generation. Guitarist Robert
Fripp, who collaborated with him in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has written,
"Daryl's pipes were a wonder. I have never worked with a more able singer." Since
late 2007, he has hosted the web television series Live from Daryl's House, which
is now aired on MTV. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004
and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014.
Huey Lewis

Hugh Anthony Cregg III (born July 5, 1950), known professionally as Huey Lewis,
is a Grammy-winning American singer, songwriter, and actor.
Lewis sings lead and plays harmonica for his band, Huey Lewis and the News, in
addition to writing or co-writing many of the band's songs. The band is known for
their third, and best-selling, album Sports, and their contribution to the soundtrack
of the 1985 feature film Back to the Future. Lewis previously played with the
band Clover from 1972 to 1979.
Lewis was raised in Marin County, California, living in Tamalpais
Valley and Strawberry, and attending Strawberry Point Elementary School (where
he skipped second grade) and Edna Maguire Junior High School in Mill Valley.
When he was 13, his parents divorced. He attended and graduated from
the Lawrenceville School, an all-male prep school in New Jersey, in 1967, and he
achieved a perfect score of 800 on the math portion of the SAT. He was also
an all-state baseball player. Lewis attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
His mother had an extramarital affair with Beat Generation poet Lew Welch, who
became his step father. Lewis' credits Welch with inspiring him in his early teenage
years.