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The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City. They often drew inspiration from surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, jazz, improvisational theater, experimental music, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art ...
Frankie Laine (at piano) and Patti Page, c. 1950 Harry Belafonte, 1954 This is a partial list of notable active and inactive bands and musicians of the 1950s . Musicians
Lee Dorsey; Lee Hazlewood; The Left Banke; The Lemon Pipers; Len Barry; Lennie Tristano; Leon Russell; Leonard Cohen; The Lettermen; Leroy Van Dyke; Les Cooper & the Soul Rockers; Lesley Gore; The Limeliters; Linda Ronstadt; Linda Scott; Link Wray; Little Anthony & The Imperials; Little Eva; Little Richard; Lloyd Price; Long John Baldry; Lonnie ...
Fernande Olivier (born Amélie Lang; 6 June 1881 – 29 January 1966) was a French artist and model known primarily for having been the model and first muse of painter Pablo Picasso, and for her written accounts of her relationship with him. Picasso painted over 60 portraits of Olivier.
Collecting every master recording made in the 1950s, The King of Rock 'n' Roll encapsulates the era for which Presley remains most revered, that of the young international phenomenon at the forefront of the rock and roll explosion. RCA issued three similarly configured box set companions for the subsequent decades of his career.
Peter Max (born Peter Max Finkelstein, October 19, 1937) is an American artist known for using bright colors in his work.Works by Max are associated with the visual arts and culture of the 1960s, particularly psychedelic art and pop art.
The popularity of the movement peaked with the release of the George Lucas film, American Graffiti, in 1973, with the soundtrack featuring rock and doo-wop hits from the late 1950s and early 1960s. By the mid-1970s, however, record sales of rock 'n' roll reissues and retro releases had greatly declined as the music industry turned its attention ...
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