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Tom Edur
Born November 18, 1954 (age 60)
Toronto, ON, CAN
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb)
Position Defence
Shot Right
Played for NHL
  Colorado Rockies
  Pittsburgh Penguins
WHA
  Cleveland Crusaders
NHL Draft 54th overall, 1974
Boston Bruins
Playing career 1973–1978
Thomas "Bomber" Edur (born November 18, 1954) is a retired Estonian-Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman.


Contents  [hide]
1 Playing career
2 Transactions
3 Career statistics
4 References
5 External links

Playing career[edit]
Edur was selected by the Boston Bruins in the third round of the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft, 54th overall, although he made his professional debut in the World Hockey Association with the Cleveland Crusaders rather than in the NHL. After three seasons in the WHA, Edur joined the NHL with the Colorado Rockies.
In July, 1978 at the age of 24, after just two seasons in the NHL (with Colorado and the Pittsburgh Penguins), Edur retired from professional hockey.
Edur was later drafted by the Edmonton Oilers when he left the WHA for the NHL, however, he again declined an opportunity to become involved with professional hockey and became a full-time minister of Jehovah's Witnesses,[1] eventually serving as a branch committee member for the religion's Estonia headquarters.[2]
Transactions[edit]
August 1973 – Edur signs as an underage free agent with Cleveland Crusaders
May 28, 1974 – Drafted in the 3rd round, 54th overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft
September 7, 1977 – Rights traded by the Boston Bruins to the Colorado Rockies for cash
December 2, 1977 – Traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Dennis Owchar
June 13, 1979 – Selected 12th by the Edmonton Oilers in the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft
Career statistics[edit]



Regular Season

Playoffs

Season
Team
League
GP
G
A
Pts
PIM
GP
G
A
Pts
PIM
1972–73 Toronto Marlboros OHA 57 14 48 62 32 — — — — —
1973–74 Cleveland Crusaders WHA 76 7 31 38 26 5 1 2 3 0
1974–75 Cleveland Crusaders WHA 61 3 20 23 28 5 2 0 2 0
1975–76 Cleveland Crusaders WHA 80 7 28 35 62 3 0 2 2 0
1976–77 Colorado Rockies NHL 80 7 25 32 39 — — — — —
1977–78 Colorado Rockies NHL 20 5 7 12 10 — — — — —
1977–78 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 58 5 38 43 18 — — — — —
NHL totals
158
17
70
87
67
—
—
—
—
—

WHA totals
217
17
79
96
116
13
3
4
7
0

References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "The Real Life". Awake!: 13-17. February 22, 1986.
2.Jump up ^ 2011 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses. p. 255. "On March 1, 1999, ... the Governing Body appointed [Tom] Edur ... to serve on the Estonia Branch Committee."
External links[edit]
Tom Edur's career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database
Tom Edur's biography at Legends of Hockey



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  


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Tom Edur

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 This biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. (January 2015)

Tom Edur
Born November 18, 1954 (age 60)
Toronto, ON, CAN
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb)
Position Defence
Shot Right
Played for NHL
  Colorado Rockies
  Pittsburgh Penguins
WHA
  Cleveland Crusaders
NHL Draft 54th overall, 1974
Boston Bruins
Playing career 1973–1978
Thomas "Bomber" Edur (born November 18, 1954) is a retired Estonian-Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman.


Contents  [hide]
1 Playing career
2 Transactions
3 Career statistics
4 References
5 External links

Playing career[edit]
Edur was selected by the Boston Bruins in the third round of the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft, 54th overall, although he made his professional debut in the World Hockey Association with the Cleveland Crusaders rather than in the NHL. After three seasons in the WHA, Edur joined the NHL with the Colorado Rockies.
In July, 1978 at the age of 24, after just two seasons in the NHL (with Colorado and the Pittsburgh Penguins), Edur retired from professional hockey.
Edur was later drafted by the Edmonton Oilers when he left the WHA for the NHL, however, he again declined an opportunity to become involved with professional hockey and became a full-time minister of Jehovah's Witnesses,[1] eventually serving as a branch committee member for the religion's Estonia headquarters.[2]
Transactions[edit]
August 1973 – Edur signs as an underage free agent with Cleveland Crusaders
May 28, 1974 – Drafted in the 3rd round, 54th overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft
September 7, 1977 – Rights traded by the Boston Bruins to the Colorado Rockies for cash
December 2, 1977 – Traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Dennis Owchar
June 13, 1979 – Selected 12th by the Edmonton Oilers in the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft
Career statistics[edit]



Regular Season

Playoffs

Season
Team
League
GP
G
A
Pts
PIM
GP
G
A
Pts
PIM
1972–73 Toronto Marlboros OHA 57 14 48 62 32 — — — — —
1973–74 Cleveland Crusaders WHA 76 7 31 38 26 5 1 2 3 0
1974–75 Cleveland Crusaders WHA 61 3 20 23 28 5 2 0 2 0
1975–76 Cleveland Crusaders WHA 80 7 28 35 62 3 0 2 2 0
1976–77 Colorado Rockies NHL 80 7 25 32 39 — — — — —
1977–78 Colorado Rockies NHL 20 5 7 12 10 — — — — —
1977–78 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 58 5 38 43 18 — — — — —
NHL totals
158
17
70
87
67
—
—
—
—
—

WHA totals
217
17
79
96
116
13
3
4
7
0

References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "The Real Life". Awake!: 13-17. February 22, 1986.
2.Jump up ^ 2011 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses. p. 255. "On March 1, 1999, ... the Governing Body appointed [Tom] Edur ... to serve on the Estonia Branch Committee."
External links[edit]
Tom Edur's career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database
Tom Edur's biography at Legends of Hockey



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  


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Living people
Boston Bruins draft picks
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Canadian Jehovah's Witnesses
Canadian people of Estonian descent
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Alexander Hugh Macmillan

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Alexander Hugh Macmillan (June 2, 1877–August 26, 1966), also referred to as A. H. Macmillan, was an important member of the Bible Students, and later, of Jehovah’s Witnesses. He became a board member of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in 1918. He presented a history of the religious movement in his book Faith on the March, published in 1957.


Contents  [hide]
1 Early life
2 Ministry
3 Macmillan's proclamation of 1914
4 Watch Tower Society board of directors
5 Later years
6 References
7 External links

Early life[edit]
Macmillan was born in Canada. From an early age he had a deep interest in serving God. At age 16, he decided to be a preacher, attending a school away from home, but ceased his studies when he suffered a nervous breakdown. With financial aid from his father, he relocated to Boston, Massachusetts. There, he came in contact with the Bible Student movement. In about 1897, he obtained a copy of the book, The Plan of the Ages, the first of the six-volume series Millennial Dawn (later called Studies in the Scriptures), written by Charles Taze Russell. He later obtained the second volume in the series, The Time Is At Hand, which claimed that the end of the Gentile Times would occur in 1914. He believed he had finally found biblical truth and later used the books as a basis for his theory that he and others would be 'taken home' to heaven in 1914.[1]
Ministry[edit]
Macmillan first met Russell in 1900. In June of that year, he traveled to Philadelphia to a convention sponsored by the Watch Tower Society. In September, he was baptized in Boston. The following year he became a missionary and full-time minister in Massachusetts.
In September 1901 he traveled to Cleveland to attend a convention, after which he was invited by Russell to live at the Watch Tower Society's headquarters in Allegheny. Macmillan traveled extensively with Russell, and in 1905 during a convention tour, he met J. F. Rutherford.
Macmillan's proclamation of 1914[edit]
See also: End time and Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses
In the decades prior to 1914, Watch Tower Society publications claimed that Armageddon would take place in 1914. As the year approached, their publications stated that October 1914 would mark the "end of the Gentile Times" and the beginning of Christ's kingship. Many Bible Students believed they would be sent to heaven in 1914. At a convention at Saratoga Springs, New York, on September 27–30, Macmillan, believing that "the church was "going home" in October", he announced that "This is probably the last public address I shall ever deliver because we shall be going home soon."[2]



This is probably the last public address I shall ever
 deliver because we shall be going home soon.
A.H.Macmillan, September 30, 1914
Faith On The March, page 46
Following the convention, at a meeting at the Brooklyn headquarters, Russell announced: "The Gentile Times have ended; their kings have had their day," and added that, "At 10:30 Sunday morning Brother Macmillan will give us an address." Those present laughed about Macmillan's previous announcement of his "last public address"; in the subsequent talk, Macmillan acknowledged, "some of us had been a bit too hasty in thinking that we were going to heaven right away".[1][3] Despite his expectations for October 1914, Macmillan remained committed to the Watch Tower Society.
In 1919, The New York Times characterized Macmillan's address to a meeting of Bible Students as proposing a "new date for the Millennium" in the year 1925.[4]
Watch Tower Society board of directors[edit]
In Faith on the March, Macmillan described a private meeting he had with Russell in 1916. According to Macmillan, Russell spoke of his poor health and indicated a desire for Macmillan to take over the affairs of the Allegheny office. Russell died several weeks later, on October 31, 1916. By 1918, The New York Times described Macmillan as "Superintendent of the Bethel Home"[5] and as one of "the leaders of the International Bible Students Association".[6]
After the January 5, 1918 annual meeting of the Watch Tower Society, Macmillan joined the Society's board of director, and Rutherford became a board member and president. That year, Macmillan—along with Rutherford and other Watch Tower Society officials—was arrested, charged with violation of the Sedition Act of 1918 as a result of anti-war sentiments expressed in the book, The Finished Mystery; they were sentenced to federal prison in Atlanta, but were released and exonerated in 1919.
During the 1920s, Macmillan traveled extensively on service tours to Europe and the Middle East, for public speaking engagements and to monitor activities at branch offices around the world. Such assignments included Scotland,[7] Denmark,[8] Finland,[9] Norway,[10] Palestine,[11] Lebanon and Syria,[12] Italy,[13] and Sweden.[14]
Macmillan also traveled throughout the United States and Canada as an appointed "pilgrim", performing twice-yearly visits with local congregations.[15] By the 1930s, Macmillan, based in Brooklyn, was a "traveling representative" speaking at congregations and larger assemblies, encouraging individuals to pursue the full-time ministry.[16] Macmillan also met with local law enforcement and government officials to explain the significance of the dozens of then-recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions which were mostly favorable to Jehovah's Witnesses.[17] Macmillan was permitted by the director of the United States Bureau of Prisons to regularly visit Witnesses in federal prisons in the United States who had been incarcerated for refusing military service during World War II.[18][19]
Later years[edit]
In 1955, Macmillan was granted permission to use Watch Tower Society records to compile a history of Jehovah's Witnesses. In 1957, he published his account, under the title, Faith on the March.[20]
Macmillan became an on-air personality on the Watch Tower Society's radio station WBBR, answering questions and providing counsel[21] until the station was sold in 1957.[22]
Macmillan experienced pain associated with increasing health problems, and he privately likened himself to the biblical Job, leading up to his death on August 26, 1966.[23][24] Macmillan's funeral service was conducted by Watch Tower Society president Nathan Knorr on August 29, and he was buried at a private burial plot on Staten Island, New York.[25]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Watchtower, ed. (1993). Jehovah's Witnesses Proclaimers of God's Kingdom. Brooklyn, New York: Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
2.Jump up ^ Faith On The March. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1957. p. 46.
3.Jump up ^ "Doing God’s Will Has Been My Delight", The Watchtower, August 15, 1966, page 62
4.Jump up ^ "New Date For Millennium: Russellites Now See It Coming on Earth in 1925" (PDF). New York Times. June 2, 1919.
5.Jump up ^ "Russelites Guilty of Hindering Draft", The New York Times, June 21, 1918, As Retrieved 2010-03-02
6.Jump up ^ "Russellites to Testify", The New York Times, August 20, 1918, As Retrieved 2010-03-02, "Alexander H. Macmillan and William E. Van Amburgh, two of the leaders of the International Bible Students Association"
7.Jump up ^ "Staying Close to Jehovah’s Organization", The Watchtower, July 1, 1987, page 27
8.Jump up ^ 1993 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, pages 80-81
9.Jump up ^ 1990 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, page 155
10.Jump up ^ "Norway", 1977 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, page 206
11.Jump up ^ Jehovah's Witnesses - Proclaimers of God's Kingdom, ©1993 Watch Tower, page 142
12.Jump up ^ "Lebanon and Syria", 1980 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, pages 169-170
13.Jump up ^ "Italy", 1982 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, page 133
14.Jump up ^ 1991 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, pages 134-135
15.Jump up ^ "Development of the Organization Structure", Jehovah's Witnesses - Proclaimers of God's Kingdom, page 222
16.Jump up ^ "Pursuing My Purpose in Life", The Watchtower, August 1, 1957, page 457
17.Jump up ^ "Pursuing My Purpose in Life", The Watchtower, August 1, 1956, page 456
18.Jump up ^ "Objects of Hatred by All the Nations", Jehovah's Witnesses - Proclaimers of God's Kingdom, page 654
19.Jump up ^ "United States of America", 1975 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, page 206
20.Jump up ^ Introduction, "Faith On The March", Introduction]
21.Jump up ^ Faith On The March by A. H. Macmillan, ©1957, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., page 4
22.Jump up ^ "WBBR Sold by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society", The Watchtower, May 15, 1957, page 301, "[Watch Tower] Society decided to sell WBBR and did so April 15, 1957. WBBR had served its purpose... People could not ask questions over the radio as easily as they now can through personal contact and study in their homes with their own Bible."
23.Jump up ^ "Job Endured—So Can We!", The Watchtower, November 15, 1994, page 10, "‘THE Devil is after me! I feel just like Job!’ With such words A. H. Macmillan expressed his feelings to a close friend at the headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Brother Macmillan finished his earthly course at the age of 89 on August 26, 1966. ...His friends rejoiced that Brother Macmillan obtained that [heavenly] reward. In his declining years on earth, however, he was beset by various trials, including health problems that made him keenly aware of Satan’s attempts to break his integrity to God."
24.Jump up ^ "Alexander H. Macmillan Of Jehovah's Witnesses, 89", The New York Times, August 28, 1966, page 92
25.Jump up ^ "Announcements", The Watchtower, October 1, 1966, page 608
External links[edit]
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Alexander Hugh Macmillan

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Jump to: navigation, search

Part of a series on
Jehovah's Witnesses

Overview

Organizational structure
Governing Body
Watch Tower Bible
 and Tract Society
Corporations

History
Bible Student movement
Leadership dispute
Splinter groups
Doctrinal development
Unfulfilled predictions

Demographics
By country


Beliefs ·
 Practices
 
Salvation ·
 Eschatology

The 144,000
Faithful and discreet slave
Hymns ·
 God's name

Blood ·
 Discipline


Literature

The Watchtower ·
 Awake!

New World Translation
List of publications
Bibliography

Teaching programs

Kingdom Hall ·
 Gilead School


People

Watch Tower presidents

W. H. Conley ·
 C. T. Russell

J. F. Rutherford ·
 N. H. Knorr

F. W. Franz ·
 M. G. Henschel

D. A. Adams

Formative influences

William Miller ·
 Henry Grew

George Storrs ·
 N. H. Barbour

John Nelson Darby


Notable former members

Raymond Franz ·
 Olin Moyle


Opposition

Criticism ·
 Persecution

Supreme Court cases
 by country

v ·
 t ·
 e
   
Alexander Hugh Macmillan (June 2, 1877–August 26, 1966), also referred to as A. H. Macmillan, was an important member of the Bible Students, and later, of Jehovah’s Witnesses. He became a board member of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in 1918. He presented a history of the religious movement in his book Faith on the March, published in 1957.


Contents  [hide]
1 Early life
2 Ministry
3 Macmillan's proclamation of 1914
4 Watch Tower Society board of directors
5 Later years
6 References
7 External links

Early life[edit]
Macmillan was born in Canada. From an early age he had a deep interest in serving God. At age 16, he decided to be a preacher, attending a school away from home, but ceased his studies when he suffered a nervous breakdown. With financial aid from his father, he relocated to Boston, Massachusetts. There, he came in contact with the Bible Student movement. In about 1897, he obtained a copy of the book, The Plan of the Ages, the first of the six-volume series Millennial Dawn (later called Studies in the Scriptures), written by Charles Taze Russell. He later obtained the second volume in the series, The Time Is At Hand, which claimed that the end of the Gentile Times would occur in 1914. He believed he had finally found biblical truth and later used the books as a basis for his theory that he and others would be 'taken home' to heaven in 1914.[1]
Ministry[edit]
Macmillan first met Russell in 1900. In June of that year, he traveled to Philadelphia to a convention sponsored by the Watch Tower Society. In September, he was baptized in Boston. The following year he became a missionary and full-time minister in Massachusetts.
In September 1901 he traveled to Cleveland to attend a convention, after which he was invited by Russell to live at the Watch Tower Society's headquarters in Allegheny. Macmillan traveled extensively with Russell, and in 1905 during a convention tour, he met J. F. Rutherford.
Macmillan's proclamation of 1914[edit]
See also: End time and Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses
In the decades prior to 1914, Watch Tower Society publications claimed that Armageddon would take place in 1914. As the year approached, their publications stated that October 1914 would mark the "end of the Gentile Times" and the beginning of Christ's kingship. Many Bible Students believed they would be sent to heaven in 1914. At a convention at Saratoga Springs, New York, on September 27–30, Macmillan, believing that "the church was "going home" in October", he announced that "This is probably the last public address I shall ever deliver because we shall be going home soon."[2]



This is probably the last public address I shall ever
 deliver because we shall be going home soon.
A.H.Macmillan, September 30, 1914
Faith On The March, page 46
Following the convention, at a meeting at the Brooklyn headquarters, Russell announced: "The Gentile Times have ended; their kings have had their day," and added that, "At 10:30 Sunday morning Brother Macmillan will give us an address." Those present laughed about Macmillan's previous announcement of his "last public address"; in the subsequent talk, Macmillan acknowledged, "some of us had been a bit too hasty in thinking that we were going to heaven right away".[1][3] Despite his expectations for October 1914, Macmillan remained committed to the Watch Tower Society.
In 1919, The New York Times characterized Macmillan's address to a meeting of Bible Students as proposing a "new date for the Millennium" in the year 1925.[4]
Watch Tower Society board of directors[edit]
In Faith on the March, Macmillan described a private meeting he had with Russell in 1916. According to Macmillan, Russell spoke of his poor health and indicated a desire for Macmillan to take over the affairs of the Allegheny office. Russell died several weeks later, on October 31, 1916. By 1918, The New York Times described Macmillan as "Superintendent of the Bethel Home"[5] and as one of "the leaders of the International Bible Students Association".[6]
After the January 5, 1918 annual meeting of the Watch Tower Society, Macmillan joined the Society's board of director, and Rutherford became a board member and president. That year, Macmillan—along with Rutherford and other Watch Tower Society officials—was arrested, charged with violation of the Sedition Act of 1918 as a result of anti-war sentiments expressed in the book, The Finished Mystery; they were sentenced to federal prison in Atlanta, but were released and exonerated in 1919.
During the 1920s, Macmillan traveled extensively on service tours to Europe and the Middle East, for public speaking engagements and to monitor activities at branch offices around the world. Such assignments included Scotland,[7] Denmark,[8] Finland,[9] Norway,[10] Palestine,[11] Lebanon and Syria,[12] Italy,[13] and Sweden.[14]
Macmillan also traveled throughout the United States and Canada as an appointed "pilgrim", performing twice-yearly visits with local congregations.[15] By the 1930s, Macmillan, based in Brooklyn, was a "traveling representative" speaking at congregations and larger assemblies, encouraging individuals to pursue the full-time ministry.[16] Macmillan also met with local law enforcement and government officials to explain the significance of the dozens of then-recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions which were mostly favorable to Jehovah's Witnesses.[17] Macmillan was permitted by the director of the United States Bureau of Prisons to regularly visit Witnesses in federal prisons in the United States who had been incarcerated for refusing military service during World War II.[18][19]
Later years[edit]
In 1955, Macmillan was granted permission to use Watch Tower Society records to compile a history of Jehovah's Witnesses. In 1957, he published his account, under the title, Faith on the March.[20]
Macmillan became an on-air personality on the Watch Tower Society's radio station WBBR, answering questions and providing counsel[21] until the station was sold in 1957.[22]
Macmillan experienced pain associated with increasing health problems, and he privately likened himself to the biblical Job, leading up to his death on August 26, 1966.[23][24] Macmillan's funeral service was conducted by Watch Tower Society president Nathan Knorr on August 29, and he was buried at a private burial plot on Staten Island, New York.[25]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Watchtower, ed. (1993). Jehovah's Witnesses Proclaimers of God's Kingdom. Brooklyn, New York: Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
2.Jump up ^ Faith On The March. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1957. p. 46.
3.Jump up ^ "Doing God’s Will Has Been My Delight", The Watchtower, August 15, 1966, page 62
4.Jump up ^ "New Date For Millennium: Russellites Now See It Coming on Earth in 1925" (PDF). New York Times. June 2, 1919.
5.Jump up ^ "Russelites Guilty of Hindering Draft", The New York Times, June 21, 1918, As Retrieved 2010-03-02
6.Jump up ^ "Russellites to Testify", The New York Times, August 20, 1918, As Retrieved 2010-03-02, "Alexander H. Macmillan and William E. Van Amburgh, two of the leaders of the International Bible Students Association"
7.Jump up ^ "Staying Close to Jehovah’s Organization", The Watchtower, July 1, 1987, page 27
8.Jump up ^ 1993 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, pages 80-81
9.Jump up ^ 1990 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, page 155
10.Jump up ^ "Norway", 1977 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, page 206
11.Jump up ^ Jehovah's Witnesses - Proclaimers of God's Kingdom, ©1993 Watch Tower, page 142
12.Jump up ^ "Lebanon and Syria", 1980 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, pages 169-170
13.Jump up ^ "Italy", 1982 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, page 133
14.Jump up ^ 1991 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, pages 134-135
15.Jump up ^ "Development of the Organization Structure", Jehovah's Witnesses - Proclaimers of God's Kingdom, page 222
16.Jump up ^ "Pursuing My Purpose in Life", The Watchtower, August 1, 1957, page 457
17.Jump up ^ "Pursuing My Purpose in Life", The Watchtower, August 1, 1956, page 456
18.Jump up ^ "Objects of Hatred by All the Nations", Jehovah's Witnesses - Proclaimers of God's Kingdom, page 654
19.Jump up ^ "United States of America", 1975 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, page 206
20.Jump up ^ Introduction, "Faith On The March", Introduction]
21.Jump up ^ Faith On The March by A. H. Macmillan, ©1957, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., page 4
22.Jump up ^ "WBBR Sold by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society", The Watchtower, May 15, 1957, page 301, "[Watch Tower] Society decided to sell WBBR and did so April 15, 1957. WBBR had served its purpose... People could not ask questions over the radio as easily as they now can through personal contact and study in their homes with their own Bible."
23.Jump up ^ "Job Endured—So Can We!", The Watchtower, November 15, 1994, page 10, "‘THE Devil is after me! I feel just like Job!’ With such words A. H. Macmillan expressed his feelings to a close friend at the headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Brother Macmillan finished his earthly course at the age of 89 on August 26, 1966. ...His friends rejoiced that Brother Macmillan obtained that [heavenly] reward. In his declining years on earth, however, he was beset by various trials, including health problems that made him keenly aware of Satan’s attempts to break his integrity to God."
24.Jump up ^ "Alexander H. Macmillan Of Jehovah's Witnesses, 89", The New York Times, August 28, 1966, page 92
25.Jump up ^ "Announcements", The Watchtower, October 1, 1966, page 608
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Coco Rocha
Coco Rocha 2012 Shankbone.JPG
Rocha at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Mansome

Born
September 10, 1988 (age 26)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Spouse(s)
James Conran (m. 2010)
Modeling information
Height
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1]
Hair color
Brown
Eye color
Blue
Measurements
33-24-34 (US); 84-61-86.5 (EU)[1]
Dress size
4 (US); 34 (EU)[1]
Manager
ModelQuest (mother agency)
Wilhelmina Models
Storm Model Management
 Elite Milan
 Elite Copenhagen
Spot 6 Management
 UNO Barcelona
Marylin Agency
 Model Management Hamburg
 Specs Model Management
Website
www.cocorocha.com
Coco Rocha (born Mikhaila Rocha; September 10, 1988) is a Canadian model.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Activism and charitable work
4 Film and television appearances
5 Writing and online presence
6 Awards and accolades
7 References in popular culture
8 Personal life
9 References
10 External links

Early life[edit]
Rocha was born Mikhaila Rocha in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in Richmond, British Columbia where she attended Hugh McRoberts Secondary School.[2] Her family is in the airline industry.[2] She is of Irish and Ukrainian descent.[3]
Career[edit]
In 2002, agent Charles Stuart approached Rocha at an Irish dance competition and asked her if she would consider modelling for him. At that point, she had never thought of modelling before.[2] When she did begin to model, her knowledge of fashion was limited.[3] She eventually gained insight into the fashion world after her best friends crammed in fashion study sessions in between studying for exams.[3] Management|SUPREME]] in New York City. Her breakthrough came two years later, in January 2006, when she opened the Christian Lacroix couture show in Paris. After signing an exclusive contract with photographer Steven Meisel, she appeared in an editorial with Gemma Ward and Amanda Moore and landed the cover of the April 2006 issue of Vogue Italia.[4] The following March, she walked the Fall/Winter 2006 ready-to-wear show at New York Fashion Week, most notably for Anna Sui and Marc Jacobs. Backstage at the Anna Sui show, Rocha met model Naomi Campbell, who held her hands and told her she was "her new favourite model".[5] During Paris Fashion Week she walked for esteemed designers like Stella McCartney, Shiatzy Chen, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, and Marc Jacobs.[6][7]
A year later, in February 2007, Rocha opened Jean Paul Gaultier's Scottish Highlands-inspired Fall/Winter 2007 show by Irish-dancing down the runway; American Vogue dubbed this the "Coco Moment" and suggested it as a sign that the fashion industry misses the "supermodels".[8] Rocha was featured on the May 2007 issue of US Vogue with models Doutzen Kroes, Caroline Trentini, Raquel Zimmermann, Sasha Pivovarova, Agyness Deyn, Jessica Stam, Hilary Rhoda, Chanel Iman, and Lily Donaldson as the new crop of supermodels.[9] In 2008 casting agent James Scully said of Rocha:
“ I will be the first to admit I did not believe the hype, but within five seconds of meeting her, I was totally charmed and understood why everyone loves her. Some people feel her look is specific, but I find her to be the most chameleon-like of all the girls.[10] ”
Rocha has been on the covers of many top fashion magazines including American, Brazilian, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish Vogue, Flare, Fashion, Numéro, French, W, Harper's Bazaar, Dazed & Confused, i-D, Time Style & Design, among others.[11]
Since her debut, Rocha has been the face of a variety of advertising campaigns including Versace, Americana Manhasset, Balenciaga, Chanel, D&G, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Lanvin, The Gap, Ports 1961, Tommy Hilfiger, Yves Saint Laurent, Esprit, Liz Claiborne, Calvin Klein, Nicole Farhi, DeBeers, Zac Posen, and Rimmel. She has appeared in editorials for American, Italian, Korean, French, Russian, Spanish, Brazilian, Japanese, Mexican, and British Vogue, British, Canadian, Czech, French, Quebec, and Italian Elle V, W, French, Korean, and Japanese Numéro, British and Japanese Dazed & Confused, i-D, Time Style & Design, and Ukrainian, Russian, Korean, and American Harpers Bazaar.[2]
In July 2010, Rocha appeared on the Vogue website daily for an entire month in a feature named "Today I'm Wearing".[12] The following month, Rocha appeared on a billboard in Times Square for an ad campaign with Marie Claire magazine in partnership with Project Runway in which she modeled a contestant's winning design.
In spring of 2011, it was announced that Rocha would again be the face of a limited edition Karl Lagerfeld designed Coco Cola light campaign. She previously collaborated with Lagerfeld and Coca-Cola in 2010.[13] In July 2011, Coco Rocha became the first high fashion model to be photographed by the Lytro Camera, the camera takes what the company calls a “living picture,” meaning that it captures enough visual information in a single exposure so that the focus and zoom can be adjusted even after the picture is taken. Rocha said she reached out to the company after reading about them on the website Mashable.[14]
In August 2011, it was announced that Rocha would be the face of an upcoming Karl Lagerfeld for Macy's collection.[15] In mid-February 2012, Coco appeared in a commercial for White House Black Market created by New York advertising agency Ceft and Company in which she was featured tap-dancing.[16]
Activism and charitable work[edit]
Rocha is one of the few models who has spoken out against the prevalence of eating disorders in the modelling industry. In an open letter to The New York Times on her blog, she wrote, "How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it."[17] In an email to the Associated Press, she wrote: "I'll never forget the piece of advice I got from people in the industry when they saw my new body ... They said, 'You need to lose more weight. The look this year is anorexia. We don't want you to be anorexic but that's what we want you to look like.'[18]
In June 2011, Coco announced a partnership with Canadian fashion retailer Jacob for a "Photoshop-free" campaign. On her blog Rocha said she hoped the shoot could "balance the scales a little by pulling so far back from what has been the current trend of total digital model manipulation."[19]
On October 11, 2011 Coco Rocha appeared on Anderson Cooper's daytime television show Anderson, where she said models are scouted too young and put under pressure to stay thin and behave unnaturally, while they are "still minors".[20]
On November 1, 2011 Coco launched Coco Rocha for Senhoa, a collection produced together with Senhoa, an organization helping Cambodian survivors of human trafficking. The capsule collection contained 7 unique pieces designed by Rocha and hand crafted by the survivors of human trafficking. All proceeds went directly to the Senhoa program. To help raise awareness for the cause, Rocha brought in additional models Chanel Iman, Caroline Trentini, and Behati Prinsloo. In the first of two campaigns, Iman, Trentini and Rocha were photographed by Nigel Barker.[21]
Film and television appearances[edit]
She appeared as herself in The September Issue, a fly-on-the-wall documentary film about American Vogue magazine.
Rocha hosted the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards white carpet. On October 19, 2011 she appeared as a guest judge on America's Next Top Model, where host and head judge Tyra Banks referred to her as "The Queen of Posing". The short documentary Letters to Haiti featured Rocha and fellow model Behati Prinsloo delivering supplies to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake; it was shot by Rocha's husband, James Conran. The movie premiered in Toronto in October and New York in December 2011.[22]
In 2013, Rocha was one of three coach/judges (along with Karolina Kurkova and Naomi Campbell) on the first season of the Oxygen network reality show The Face. She did not return for the second season.
Writing and online presence[edit]
Rocha wrote the foreword to Canadian fashion reporter Jeanne Beker's book Struttin It!, about the modeling profession.[23] In March 2011, Coco announced the launch of her new website.[24] The site was said to contain almost 10,000 pictures covering her entire career as a model so far.[24]
In April 2012, Rocha became the first high fashion model to have more than 1 million followers on the social media platform Google+.[25]
Awards and accolades[edit]
In October 2010, Coco Rocha was given Marie Claire's Prix d’Excellence as their model of the year at a ceremony in Paris.[26]



 Rocha modelling for Louis Vuitton
In November 2010, Rocha was awarded the Seventeen Body Peace award by Seventeen magazine. Rocha had contributed a number of articles to Seventeen on the topic of girls' body image and self-esteem.[27] On February 14, 2011 Coco was awarded the Elle Style award for 'Model of the Year' by Boy George in London.[28]
On June 16, 2011, Coco Rocha and husband James Conran both received awards for their philanthropic work at the Pay It Fashion Forward event in Manahattan, NY.[29] In 2012, Vogue Paris declared her one of the top 30 models of the 2000s.[30]
On February 1, 2014, Rocha was awarded the "Model of the Year Award" at the Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards in Toronto, Canada.[31] On April 24, 2014 she will receive the prestigious Vienna Fashion Award as Style Icon at a lavish ceremony at Vienna's Museumsquartier.
References in popular culture[edit]
Rocha was one of twenty high fashion models mentioned on Kanye West's 2010 song "Christian Dior Denim Flow".[32]
Personal life[edit]
Rocha has been a devout Jehovah's Witness since childhood, and in a 2013 interview stated that she still participates with Jehovah's Witnesses in their model of Jesus' preaching work of going preaching door-to-door to share the Bible with others. She calls herself "a Christian first and a model second", and says that due to her faith she will not pose nude, with cigarettes, nationalistic emblems or religious icons.[25]
Rocha married artist James Conran on June 9, 2010.[33] Conran later became her part-time manager.[25] On October 6, 2014, Rocha announced via her Facebook page, that she and her husband are expecting their first child, a girl, due in Spring of 2015.[34] Rocha gave birth to her daughter, Ioni James Conran, on March 28, 2015.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c "Coco Rocha profile". Fashion Model Directory. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Coco Rocha rocks the runway | Irish Entertainment in Ireland and Around the World". IrishCentral. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c "| Meet Our November Cover Star, Coco Rocha". flare.com. 2014-09-30. Retrieved 2015-02-12.
4.Jump up ^ "Coco Rocha's Career Highlights". New York Magazine. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
5.Jump up ^ "Coco Rocha – Canadian model, best known for her expressive mime and gestures. Coco Rocha is often named Queen of Posing". Millionlooks.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
6.Jump up ^ "Coco Rocha Biography". Askmen. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
7.Jump up ^ "Coco Rocha's Career Highlights". nymag. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
8.Jump up ^ "Magazine - Vogue". Style.com. 2012-06-28. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
9.Jump up ^ "Magazine - Vogue". Style.com. 2012-06-28. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
10.Jump up ^ Herbst, Kendall (9 May 2008). "Casting Agent James Scully's All-Time Favorite Models". New York Magazine. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
11.Jump up ^ "Coco Rocha - Fashion Model - Profile on FMD". Fashionmodeldirectory.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
12.Jump up ^ "Coco Rocha's fashion and style choices, day 1 (Vogue.com UK)". Vogue.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
13.Jump up ^ Angela Puchetti. "Diet Coke by Karl". Vogue.it. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
14.Jump up ^ Heyman, Stephen (2011-09-29). "Coco Rocha's New Focus - NYTimes.com". Tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
15.Jump up ^ Odell, Amy. "Coco Rocha Has the Honor of Modeling Karl Lagerfeld’s Macy’s Line - The Cut". Nymag.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
16.Jump up ^ "Watch Model Coco Rocha Tap Dance for White House Black Market". luckymag.com. February 17, 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
17.Jump up ^ Rocha, Coco. "My Uncensored Point Of View". oh-so-coco.tumblr.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
18.Jump up ^ "CFDA Panel on Skinny Models: Coco Rocha on Her Struggle - The Cut". Nymag.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
19.Jump up ^ "JACOB - Sans photoshop. A few months ago I... |". Oh-so-coco.tumblr.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
20.Jump up ^ Lauren Milligan (2011-10-12). "Coco Rocha - models too young Anderson Cooper Carre Otis (Vogue.com UK)". Vogue.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
21.Jump up ^ "Coco Rocha Launches Jewelry Line for a Cause - Fashion Scoops - Fashion". WWD.com. 2011-11-02. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
22.Jump up ^ Rees, Alex (December 7, 2011). "Coco Rocha’s Documentary Letters to Haiti Premieres Tonight". New York Magazine. Retrieved 2013-03-12.
23.Jump up ^ Summary by: Tundra Books (2011-02-01). "Strutting It - A Book By Jeanne Beker". Fashion Television. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
24.^ Jump up to: a b Cronin, Emily (30 March 2011). "Coco fans, meet CocoRocha.com". http://www.elleuk.com/. Hearst Magazines. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
25.^ Jump up to: a b c Sadie Whitelocks (2013-01-16). "Supermodel Coco Rocha opens up about life as a devout Jehovah's Witness - and how she still preaches door-to-door". Daily Mail (London). Retrieved 2013-01-17.
26.Jump up ^ Sasha (2010-10-07). "Coco Rocha Is 'Marie Claire' France's Model of the Year - News and Pics". StyleBistro. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
27.Jump up ^ Rocha, Coco (2010-10-21). "Coco Rocha Body Image Advice". Seventeen. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
28.Jump up ^ Cronin, Emily (2011-02-14). "Coco Rocha, Best Model". Elleuk.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
29.Jump up ^ "4th Annual Pay It Fashion Forward presented by Fashion Delivers". charityhappenings.org. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
30.Jump up ^ "Les 30 mannequins des années 2000 | Mode| Vogue". Vogue.fr. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
31.Jump up ^ "Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards hand out inaugural prizes". The Star (Toronto).
32.Jump up ^ "MTV Style | Kanye West's "Christian Dior Denim Flow": How The Models Reacted". Style.mtv.com. 2010-10-04. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
33.Jump up ^ "Coca Rocha Ties the Knot; Thom Browne Does Womenswear; Rihanna Gets Photoshopped - The Cut". Nymag.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
34.Jump up ^ https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=808605342540020&set=vb.631776700222886&type=2&theater
External links[edit]
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Coco Rocha

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Coco Rocha
Coco Rocha 2012 Shankbone.JPG
Rocha at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Mansome

Born
September 10, 1988 (age 26)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Spouse(s)
James Conran (m. 2010)
Modeling information
Height
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1]
Hair color
Brown
Eye color
Blue
Measurements
33-24-34 (US); 84-61-86.5 (EU)[1]
Dress size
4 (US); 34 (EU)[1]
Manager
ModelQuest (mother agency)
Wilhelmina Models
Storm Model Management
 Elite Milan
 Elite Copenhagen
Spot 6 Management
 UNO Barcelona
Marylin Agency
 Model Management Hamburg
 Specs Model Management
Website
www.cocorocha.com
Coco Rocha (born Mikhaila Rocha; September 10, 1988) is a Canadian model.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Activism and charitable work
4 Film and television appearances
5 Writing and online presence
6 Awards and accolades
7 References in popular culture
8 Personal life
9 References
10 External links

Early life[edit]
Rocha was born Mikhaila Rocha in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in Richmond, British Columbia where she attended Hugh McRoberts Secondary School.[2] Her family is in the airline industry.[2] She is of Irish and Ukrainian descent.[3]
Career[edit]
In 2002, agent Charles Stuart approached Rocha at an Irish dance competition and asked her if she would consider modelling for him. At that point, she had never thought of modelling before.[2] When she did begin to model, her knowledge of fashion was limited.[3] She eventually gained insight into the fashion world after her best friends crammed in fashion study sessions in between studying for exams.[3] Management|SUPREME]] in New York City. Her breakthrough came two years later, in January 2006, when she opened the Christian Lacroix couture show in Paris. After signing an exclusive contract with photographer Steven Meisel, she appeared in an editorial with Gemma Ward and Amanda Moore and landed the cover of the April 2006 issue of Vogue Italia.[4] The following March, she walked the Fall/Winter 2006 ready-to-wear show at New York Fashion Week, most notably for Anna Sui and Marc Jacobs. Backstage at the Anna Sui show, Rocha met model Naomi Campbell, who held her hands and told her she was "her new favourite model".[5] During Paris Fashion Week she walked for esteemed designers like Stella McCartney, Shiatzy Chen, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, and Marc Jacobs.[6][7]
A year later, in February 2007, Rocha opened Jean Paul Gaultier's Scottish Highlands-inspired Fall/Winter 2007 show by Irish-dancing down the runway; American Vogue dubbed this the "Coco Moment" and suggested it as a sign that the fashion industry misses the "supermodels".[8] Rocha was featured on the May 2007 issue of US Vogue with models Doutzen Kroes, Caroline Trentini, Raquel Zimmermann, Sasha Pivovarova, Agyness Deyn, Jessica Stam, Hilary Rhoda, Chanel Iman, and Lily Donaldson as the new crop of supermodels.[9] In 2008 casting agent James Scully said of Rocha:
“ I will be the first to admit I did not believe the hype, but within five seconds of meeting her, I was totally charmed and understood why everyone loves her. Some people feel her look is specific, but I find her to be the most chameleon-like of all the girls.[10] ”
Rocha has been on the covers of many top fashion magazines including American, Brazilian, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish Vogue, Flare, Fashion, Numéro, French, W, Harper's Bazaar, Dazed & Confused, i-D, Time Style & Design, among others.[11]
Since her debut, Rocha has been the face of a variety of advertising campaigns including Versace, Americana Manhasset, Balenciaga, Chanel, D&G, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Lanvin, The Gap, Ports 1961, Tommy Hilfiger, Yves Saint Laurent, Esprit, Liz Claiborne, Calvin Klein, Nicole Farhi, DeBeers, Zac Posen, and Rimmel. She has appeared in editorials for American, Italian, Korean, French, Russian, Spanish, Brazilian, Japanese, Mexican, and British Vogue, British, Canadian, Czech, French, Quebec, and Italian Elle V, W, French, Korean, and Japanese Numéro, British and Japanese Dazed & Confused, i-D, Time Style & Design, and Ukrainian, Russian, Korean, and American Harpers Bazaar.[2]
In July 2010, Rocha appeared on the Vogue website daily for an entire month in a feature named "Today I'm Wearing".[12] The following month, Rocha appeared on a billboard in Times Square for an ad campaign with Marie Claire magazine in partnership with Project Runway in which she modeled a contestant's winning design.
In spring of 2011, it was announced that Rocha would again be the face of a limited edition Karl Lagerfeld designed Coco Cola light campaign. She previously collaborated with Lagerfeld and Coca-Cola in 2010.[13] In July 2011, Coco Rocha became the first high fashion model to be photographed by the Lytro Camera, the camera takes what the company calls a “living picture,” meaning that it captures enough visual information in a single exposure so that the focus and zoom can be adjusted even after the picture is taken. Rocha said she reached out to the company after reading about them on the website Mashable.[14]
In August 2011, it was announced that Rocha would be the face of an upcoming Karl Lagerfeld for Macy's collection.[15] In mid-February 2012, Coco appeared in a commercial for White House Black Market created by New York advertising agency Ceft and Company in which she was featured tap-dancing.[16]
Activism and charitable work[edit]
Rocha is one of the few models who has spoken out against the prevalence of eating disorders in the modelling industry. In an open letter to The New York Times on her blog, she wrote, "How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it."[17] In an email to the Associated Press, she wrote: "I'll never forget the piece of advice I got from people in the industry when they saw my new body ... They said, 'You need to lose more weight. The look this year is anorexia. We don't want you to be anorexic but that's what we want you to look like.'[18]
In June 2011, Coco announced a partnership with Canadian fashion retailer Jacob for a "Photoshop-free" campaign. On her blog Rocha said she hoped the shoot could "balance the scales a little by pulling so far back from what has been the current trend of total digital model manipulation."[19]
On October 11, 2011 Coco Rocha appeared on Anderson Cooper's daytime television show Anderson, where she said models are scouted too young and put under pressure to stay thin and behave unnaturally, while they are "still minors".[20]
On November 1, 2011 Coco launched Coco Rocha for Senhoa, a collection produced together with Senhoa, an organization helping Cambodian survivors of human trafficking. The capsule collection contained 7 unique pieces designed by Rocha and hand crafted by the survivors of human trafficking. All proceeds went directly to the Senhoa program. To help raise awareness for the cause, Rocha brought in additional models Chanel Iman, Caroline Trentini, and Behati Prinsloo. In the first of two campaigns, Iman, Trentini and Rocha were photographed by Nigel Barker.[21]
Film and television appearances[edit]
She appeared as herself in The September Issue, a fly-on-the-wall documentary film about American Vogue magazine.
Rocha hosted the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards white carpet. On October 19, 2011 she appeared as a guest judge on America's Next Top Model, where host and head judge Tyra Banks referred to her as "The Queen of Posing". The short documentary Letters to Haiti featured Rocha and fellow model Behati Prinsloo delivering supplies to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake; it was shot by Rocha's husband, James Conran. The movie premiered in Toronto in October and New York in December 2011.[22]
In 2013, Rocha was one of three coach/judges (along with Karolina Kurkova and Naomi Campbell) on the first season of the Oxygen network reality show The Face. She did not return for the second season.
Writing and online presence[edit]
Rocha wrote the foreword to Canadian fashion reporter Jeanne Beker's book Struttin It!, about the modeling profession.[23] In March 2011, Coco announced the launch of her new website.[24] The site was said to contain almost 10,000 pictures covering her entire career as a model so far.[24]
In April 2012, Rocha became the first high fashion model to have more than 1 million followers on the social media platform Google+.[25]
Awards and accolades[edit]
In October 2010, Coco Rocha was given Marie Claire's Prix d’Excellence as their model of the year at a ceremony in Paris.[26]



 Rocha modelling for Louis Vuitton
In November 2010, Rocha was awarded the Seventeen Body Peace award by Seventeen magazine. Rocha had contributed a number of articles to Seventeen on the topic of girls' body image and self-esteem.[27] On February 14, 2011 Coco was awarded the Elle Style award for 'Model of the Year' by Boy George in London.[28]
On June 16, 2011, Coco Rocha and husband James Conran both received awards for their philanthropic work at the Pay It Fashion Forward event in Manahattan, NY.[29] In 2012, Vogue Paris declared her one of the top 30 models of the 2000s.[30]
On February 1, 2014, Rocha was awarded the "Model of the Year Award" at the Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards in Toronto, Canada.[31] On April 24, 2014 she will receive the prestigious Vienna Fashion Award as Style Icon at a lavish ceremony at Vienna's Museumsquartier.
References in popular culture[edit]
Rocha was one of twenty high fashion models mentioned on Kanye West's 2010 song "Christian Dior Denim Flow".[32]
Personal life[edit]
Rocha has been a devout Jehovah's Witness since childhood, and in a 2013 interview stated that she still participates with Jehovah's Witnesses in their model of Jesus' preaching work of going preaching door-to-door to share the Bible with others. She calls herself "a Christian first and a model second", and says that due to her faith she will not pose nude, with cigarettes, nationalistic emblems or religious icons.[25]
Rocha married artist James Conran on June 9, 2010.[33] Conran later became her part-time manager.[25] On October 6, 2014, Rocha announced via her Facebook page, that she and her husband are expecting their first child, a girl, due in Spring of 2015.[34] Rocha gave birth to her daughter, Ioni James Conran, on March 28, 2015.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c "Coco Rocha profile". Fashion Model Directory. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Coco Rocha rocks the runway | Irish Entertainment in Ireland and Around the World". IrishCentral. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c "| Meet Our November Cover Star, Coco Rocha". flare.com. 2014-09-30. Retrieved 2015-02-12.
4.Jump up ^ "Coco Rocha's Career Highlights". New York Magazine. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
5.Jump up ^ "Coco Rocha – Canadian model, best known for her expressive mime and gestures. Coco Rocha is often named Queen of Posing". Millionlooks.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
6.Jump up ^ "Coco Rocha Biography". Askmen. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
7.Jump up ^ "Coco Rocha's Career Highlights". nymag. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
8.Jump up ^ "Magazine - Vogue". Style.com. 2012-06-28. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
9.Jump up ^ "Magazine - Vogue". Style.com. 2012-06-28. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
10.Jump up ^ Herbst, Kendall (9 May 2008). "Casting Agent James Scully's All-Time Favorite Models". New York Magazine. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
11.Jump up ^ "Coco Rocha - Fashion Model - Profile on FMD". Fashionmodeldirectory.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
12.Jump up ^ "Coco Rocha's fashion and style choices, day 1 (Vogue.com UK)". Vogue.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
13.Jump up ^ Angela Puchetti. "Diet Coke by Karl". Vogue.it. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
14.Jump up ^ Heyman, Stephen (2011-09-29). "Coco Rocha's New Focus - NYTimes.com". Tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
15.Jump up ^ Odell, Amy. "Coco Rocha Has the Honor of Modeling Karl Lagerfeld’s Macy’s Line - The Cut". Nymag.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
16.Jump up ^ "Watch Model Coco Rocha Tap Dance for White House Black Market". luckymag.com. February 17, 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
17.Jump up ^ Rocha, Coco. "My Uncensored Point Of View". oh-so-coco.tumblr.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
18.Jump up ^ "CFDA Panel on Skinny Models: Coco Rocha on Her Struggle - The Cut". Nymag.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
19.Jump up ^ "JACOB - Sans photoshop. A few months ago I... |". Oh-so-coco.tumblr.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
20.Jump up ^ Lauren Milligan (2011-10-12). "Coco Rocha - models too young Anderson Cooper Carre Otis (Vogue.com UK)". Vogue.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
21.Jump up ^ "Coco Rocha Launches Jewelry Line for a Cause - Fashion Scoops - Fashion". WWD.com. 2011-11-02. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
22.Jump up ^ Rees, Alex (December 7, 2011). "Coco Rocha’s Documentary Letters to Haiti Premieres Tonight". New York Magazine. Retrieved 2013-03-12.
23.Jump up ^ Summary by: Tundra Books (2011-02-01). "Strutting It - A Book By Jeanne Beker". Fashion Television. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
24.^ Jump up to: a b Cronin, Emily (30 March 2011). "Coco fans, meet CocoRocha.com". http://www.elleuk.com/. Hearst Magazines. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
25.^ Jump up to: a b c Sadie Whitelocks (2013-01-16). "Supermodel Coco Rocha opens up about life as a devout Jehovah's Witness - and how she still preaches door-to-door". Daily Mail (London). Retrieved 2013-01-17.
26.Jump up ^ Sasha (2010-10-07). "Coco Rocha Is 'Marie Claire' France's Model of the Year - News and Pics". StyleBistro. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
27.Jump up ^ Rocha, Coco (2010-10-21). "Coco Rocha Body Image Advice". Seventeen. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
28.Jump up ^ Cronin, Emily (2011-02-14). "Coco Rocha, Best Model". Elleuk.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
29.Jump up ^ "4th Annual Pay It Fashion Forward presented by Fashion Delivers". charityhappenings.org. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
30.Jump up ^ "Les 30 mannequins des années 2000 | Mode| Vogue". Vogue.fr. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
31.Jump up ^ "Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards hand out inaugural prizes". The Star (Toronto).
32.Jump up ^ "MTV Style | Kanye West's "Christian Dior Denim Flow": How The Models Reacted". Style.mtv.com. 2010-10-04. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
33.Jump up ^ "Coca Rocha Ties the Knot; Thom Browne Does Womenswear; Rihanna Gets Photoshopped - The Cut". Nymag.com. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
34.Jump up ^ https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=808605342540020&set=vb.631776700222886&type=2&theater
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Personal information

Full name
Peter Knowles
Date of birth
30 September 1945 (age 69)
Place of birth
Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire, England
Playing position
Forward
Youth career

1961–1962
Wath Wanderers
Senior career*

Years
Team Apps† (Gls)†
1962–1982
Wolverhampton Wanderers 174 (61)
1967
→ Los Angeles Wolves (guest) 12 (3)
1969
→ Kansas City Spurs (guest) 8 (5)
Total
 194 (60)
National team

1966–1968
England U23 4 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
 † Appearances (Goals).

Peter Knowles (born 30 September 1945 in Fitzwilliam, near Wakefield, Yorkshire) is an English former football player. He spent his career at Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he became a popular player scoring around 101 goals in all competitions. He voluntarily ended his football career in 1970 after he became one of Jehovah's Witnesses.[1] He is the brother of fellow professional footballer Cyril Knowles.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Playing career 1.1 Early career
1.2 Wolverhampton Wanderers
1.3 Retirement
2 References
3 External links

Playing career[edit]
Early career[edit]
Knowles was born into a family which was originally Rugby league-oriented, as his father played for Wakefield Trinity. However, the main sport in the family quickly changed to football as he and his brother, Cyril Knowles, proved to have significant football talent. Peter's talent was spotted by Wath Wanderers, a feeder team which trained youth players primarily for Wolverhampton Wanderers. In 1961, aged 16, Knowles spent a year with the youth outfit, playing under supervision from Wath's coach, Mark Crook. Knowles quickly caught the attention of Wolves, who in 1962 signed the 17-year-old on a six-year contract.
Wolverhampton Wanderers[edit]
The Wolves side he joined was just starting to slip from their position towards the top of English football. Therefore manager Stan Cullis gave him his debut early in the 1963–64 season, in a victory over Leicester City. He scored his first goal a game later, against Bolton in a 2-2 draw.[3]
In the 1964–65 season, Wolves were relegated in last-but-one place. However, it was that season which saw Knowles emerge as a top class footballer. The teenager played with an arrogant swagger, finishing the season with six goals and setting up countless others. Despite his good form for Wolves, he was disappointed at the relegation and asked for a transfer. This request was rejected, allowing Knowles to build upon his success at Wolves. The departure of Stan Cullis, the man who originally gave Knowles his chance, was a factor in his request to leave Molineux. Ronnie Allen took over the job from Cullis.
In the 1965–66 season, it quickly became apparent that Knowles was a notch above just about everyone else playing in the Second Division. Among a handful of goals, he scored two hat-tricks early on in the season against Carlisle United and Derby County, making him the top scorer for the club by some way. His good form was interrupted however, as he endured the first big injury of his career. Despite missing a number of games, he managed to finish the season with 19 goals. Frustratingly for Knowles, Wolves did not manage to gain promotion that season, condemning him to another season of Second Division football. He remained at Molineux, and in the 1966–67 season Wolves finished runners-up in the Second Division and achieved promotion to the First Division.
On his return to the First Division, he suffered from injury problems once again, only managing 21 appearances and eight goals. Later on in that season however, Knowles was compensated with a call up to the Under-23 England team.
In a move by FIFA to raise awareness of "soccer" in the United States, a mini-league was held in which various teams from Britain went to America to represent different states. Wolves represented Los Angeles, and Knowles featured in the side as they went on to win their league. The 21-year-old Knowles managed several goals in the tournament.
The 1967–68 season brought about a new strike partner for Knowles, in the form of Derek "The Doog" Dougan. Knowles, now an established performer, performed well in the top flight with Dougan, managing to narrowly avoid relegation. Knowles managed 12 goals during the season, which led to the 22-year-old receiving three more Under-23 international caps. With the 1970 World Cup in Mexico quickly approaching, Knowles sought a move away from Wolves. His request was once again rejected by manager Allen.
In the 1968–69 season, Wolves finished 16th in the table, despite Knowles only managing nine goals. In the summer which followed, Knowles once again travelled to the United States to play in a promotional league. This time, Wolves represented Kansas City. Knowles scored five in the tournament, helping Wolves to its second state-side victory.
Retirement[edit]
Upon his return to Britain, Knowles made an announcement which saw his career take a dramatic and unexpected turn. While in Kansas he became one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and in his own words, "I shall continue playing football for the time being but I have lost my ambition. Though I still do my best on the field I need more time to learn about the Bible and may give up football." Despite this, Wolves got the 1969–70 season off to a great start, winning seven out of their first eight matches. The eighth game of the season, a 3-3 draw against Nottingham Forest, was the last game that Knowles ever played.[4]
Knowles was now retired from football and the dream of winning a full England cap would never be fulfilled. But a succession of Wolves managers held out the hope that Knowles might one day return to the game, and he remained on contract at the club for the next 12 years.[4] In 1982, however, new manager Graham Hawkins conceded that Knowles would never return, and promptly terminated the 36-year-old's contract. 1991 saw folk musician Billy Bragg release a song which many saw as a direct reference to Knowles.[4] The song was called "God's Footballer", from Bragg's album Don't Try This at Home.
Knowles later worked in Marks & Spencer.[4]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Awake! magazine, 8 November 1979, p.16
2.Jump up ^ Maul, Rob; "Best & Worst: Peter Knowles, Wolves" TimesOnline.co.uk, 6 September 2009 (Retrieved: 16 September 2009)
3.Jump up ^ "Peter Knowles". Profile. Football-england.com. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d Munro, Frank; "God's footballer plays his final game" Guardian.co.uk, 6 September 2008 (Retrieved: 16 September 2009)
External links[edit]
##Old Gold: Peter Knowles TheWolvesSite.co.uk



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  


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Peter Knowles

Personal information

Full name
Peter Knowles
Date of birth
30 September 1945 (age 69)
Place of birth
Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire, England
Playing position
Forward
Youth career

1961–1962
Wath Wanderers
Senior career*

Years
Team Apps† (Gls)†
1962–1982
Wolverhampton Wanderers 174 (61)
1967
→ Los Angeles Wolves (guest) 12 (3)
1969
→ Kansas City Spurs (guest) 8 (5)
Total
 194 (60)
National team

1966–1968
England U23 4 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
 † Appearances (Goals).

Peter Knowles (born 30 September 1945 in Fitzwilliam, near Wakefield, Yorkshire) is an English former football player. He spent his career at Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he became a popular player scoring around 101 goals in all competitions. He voluntarily ended his football career in 1970 after he became one of Jehovah's Witnesses.[1] He is the brother of fellow professional footballer Cyril Knowles.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Playing career 1.1 Early career
1.2 Wolverhampton Wanderers
1.3 Retirement
2 References
3 External links

Playing career[edit]
Early career[edit]
Knowles was born into a family which was originally Rugby league-oriented, as his father played for Wakefield Trinity. However, the main sport in the family quickly changed to football as he and his brother, Cyril Knowles, proved to have significant football talent. Peter's talent was spotted by Wath Wanderers, a feeder team which trained youth players primarily for Wolverhampton Wanderers. In 1961, aged 16, Knowles spent a year with the youth outfit, playing under supervision from Wath's coach, Mark Crook. Knowles quickly caught the attention of Wolves, who in 1962 signed the 17-year-old on a six-year contract.
Wolverhampton Wanderers[edit]
The Wolves side he joined was just starting to slip from their position towards the top of English football. Therefore manager Stan Cullis gave him his debut early in the 1963–64 season, in a victory over Leicester City. He scored his first goal a game later, against Bolton in a 2-2 draw.[3]
In the 1964–65 season, Wolves were relegated in last-but-one place. However, it was that season which saw Knowles emerge as a top class footballer. The teenager played with an arrogant swagger, finishing the season with six goals and setting up countless others. Despite his good form for Wolves, he was disappointed at the relegation and asked for a transfer. This request was rejected, allowing Knowles to build upon his success at Wolves. The departure of Stan Cullis, the man who originally gave Knowles his chance, was a factor in his request to leave Molineux. Ronnie Allen took over the job from Cullis.
In the 1965–66 season, it quickly became apparent that Knowles was a notch above just about everyone else playing in the Second Division. Among a handful of goals, he scored two hat-tricks early on in the season against Carlisle United and Derby County, making him the top scorer for the club by some way. His good form was interrupted however, as he endured the first big injury of his career. Despite missing a number of games, he managed to finish the season with 19 goals. Frustratingly for Knowles, Wolves did not manage to gain promotion that season, condemning him to another season of Second Division football. He remained at Molineux, and in the 1966–67 season Wolves finished runners-up in the Second Division and achieved promotion to the First Division.
On his return to the First Division, he suffered from injury problems once again, only managing 21 appearances and eight goals. Later on in that season however, Knowles was compensated with a call up to the Under-23 England team.
In a move by FIFA to raise awareness of "soccer" in the United States, a mini-league was held in which various teams from Britain went to America to represent different states. Wolves represented Los Angeles, and Knowles featured in the side as they went on to win their league. The 21-year-old Knowles managed several goals in the tournament.
The 1967–68 season brought about a new strike partner for Knowles, in the form of Derek "The Doog" Dougan. Knowles, now an established performer, performed well in the top flight with Dougan, managing to narrowly avoid relegation. Knowles managed 12 goals during the season, which led to the 22-year-old receiving three more Under-23 international caps. With the 1970 World Cup in Mexico quickly approaching, Knowles sought a move away from Wolves. His request was once again rejected by manager Allen.
In the 1968–69 season, Wolves finished 16th in the table, despite Knowles only managing nine goals. In the summer which followed, Knowles once again travelled to the United States to play in a promotional league. This time, Wolves represented Kansas City. Knowles scored five in the tournament, helping Wolves to its second state-side victory.
Retirement[edit]
Upon his return to Britain, Knowles made an announcement which saw his career take a dramatic and unexpected turn. While in Kansas he became one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and in his own words, "I shall continue playing football for the time being but I have lost my ambition. Though I still do my best on the field I need more time to learn about the Bible and may give up football." Despite this, Wolves got the 1969–70 season off to a great start, winning seven out of their first eight matches. The eighth game of the season, a 3-3 draw against Nottingham Forest, was the last game that Knowles ever played.[4]
Knowles was now retired from football and the dream of winning a full England cap would never be fulfilled. But a succession of Wolves managers held out the hope that Knowles might one day return to the game, and he remained on contract at the club for the next 12 years.[4] In 1982, however, new manager Graham Hawkins conceded that Knowles would never return, and promptly terminated the 36-year-old's contract. 1991 saw folk musician Billy Bragg release a song which many saw as a direct reference to Knowles.[4] The song was called "God's Footballer", from Bragg's album Don't Try This at Home.
Knowles later worked in Marks & Spencer.[4]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Awake! magazine, 8 November 1979, p.16
2.Jump up ^ Maul, Rob; "Best & Worst: Peter Knowles, Wolves" TimesOnline.co.uk, 6 September 2009 (Retrieved: 16 September 2009)
3.Jump up ^ "Peter Knowles". Profile. Football-england.com. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d Munro, Frank; "God's footballer plays his final game" Guardian.co.uk, 6 September 2008 (Retrieved: 16 September 2009)
External links[edit]
##Old Gold: Peter Knowles TheWolvesSite.co.uk



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  


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Marvin in 2007

Background information

Birth name
Brian Robson Rankin
Born
28 October 1941 (age 73)
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Genres
Rock, instrumental rock, rock & roll, gypsy jazz
Occupation(s)
Musician
Instruments
Banjo, guitar, vocals, piano
Years active
1956–present
Associated acts
The Shadows, Cliff Richard
Notable instruments
Hank Marvin Signature Stratocaster
Burns "The Marvin" and the "Shadows Custom Elite Guitar"
Hank Brian Marvin (born 28 October 1941),[1] also known as Hank B. Marvin, is an English multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and song writer. He is best known as the lead guitarist for the Shadows, the group, which primarily performed instrumentals and was the backing band for Cliff Richard.[1] Marvin uses a clean guitar sound with a Vox amplifier, and often uses an echo also known as delay for songs like Apache and Wonderful Land He also developed a distinctive way of using the guitars vibrato giving a "dreamy feel" to his playing.[2] Many famous guitarists such as Brian May and David Gilmour cite Marvin as a major influence.


Contents  [hide]
1 Personal life 1.1 Influence
1.2 Solo career
2 Early career groups (pre-Shadows/Drifters)
3 UK solo tours
4 Production credits
5 Duets and guest appearances
6 Discography 6.1 Singles
6.2 Studio and live albums
6.3 Compilation albums
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Personal life[edit]
Hank Marvin was born Brian Robson Rankin in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. As a child, he played banjo and piano. After hearing Buddy Holly, he decided to learn the guitar.[1]
He chose the name Hank Marvin while launching his career. The name is an amalgamation of his childhood nickname, Hank, which he used to differentiate himself from friends also named Brian, and Marvin Rainwater, a country and western singer.
Sixteen-year-old Marvin and his Rutherford Grammar School friend, Bruce Welch, met Johnny Foster, Cliff Richard's manager, at The 2i's Coffee Bar in Soho London. Foster was looking for a guitarist for Cliff Richard's UK tour and was considering Tony Sheridan. Instead he offered Marvin the position. Marvin joined The Drifters, as Cliff Richard's group was then known, provided there was a place for Welch.
Marvin met Richard for the first time at a nearby Soho tailor's shop, where Richard was having a fitting for a pink stage jacket. The Drifters had their first rehearsal with Richard at the Webb family home (Cliff's parents) in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
His first wife was Beryl, with whom he had four children; Dean (born 1962), twins Peter and Paul (born 1963), and Philippa (born 1966)[3]
Dean died from pneumonia in 1997.
He is currently married to Carole, with whom he had two children; Thalia (born 1973) and Ben (born 1975).[4]
Since 1986, Marvin has lived in Perth, Western Australia. He has made impromptu appearances on stage when musician friends visit the area, such as in February 2013 when Richard held a concert at Sandalford Winery. He is a Jehovah's Witness.[5] Marvin runs a recording studio, Nivram studios, part of Sh-Boom studios in Tiverton Street, Perth, owned by Trevor Spencer and Gary Taylor.
In London, Hank Marvin is cockney rhyming slang for "starvin" ("starving").[6] This slang was referenced in a 2012 television advertisement for Mattessons meat company.[7]



 Marvin and Jean-Pierre Danel, 2007


 Richard and The Shadows, 2009
Influence[edit]
Marvin influenced many guitarists, including George Harrison,[8] Eric Clapton,[8] David Gilmour, Brian May,[9] Mark Knopfler,[10]Peter Frampton,[11] Steve Howe,[12] Roy Wood,[13] Tony Iommi,[14] Pete Townshend,[15] Ritchie Blackmore and Jeff Beck.[16]
In Canada, Cliff and The Shadows had top 10 hits, especially from 1961 to 1965. Canadian guitarists Randy Bachman[17] and Neil Young credit Marvin as influential.[18]
Solo career[edit]
Marvin also had a solo career. His first critically lauded self-titled solo album of instrumentals, which featured guitar set to orchestrated backing, was released in 1969 following the first disbanding of The Shadows in late 1968. The single 'Sacha' taken from this topped the singles chart in New South Wales, Australia.[19] His solo career was then suspended due to Shadows reunions, first for a Far East tour and 'live' album in 1969, then a studio album in 1970 ("Shades of Rock") and again in the early seventies. He has experimented with styles and material, doing some purely instrumental albums, some with mostly vocals (e.g. "Words and Music", "All Alone With Friends"), one with only acoustic guitars and one with a guitar orchestra ("The Hank Marvin Guitar Syndicate").
In 1970, Marvin and Welch formed Marvin, Welch & Farrar, a vocal-harmony trio which failed to appeal to Shadows fans or to contemporary music fans. They became 'Marvin & Farrar' for a vocal album in 1973 and then reverted to The Shadows in late 1973, for the instrumental Rockin' with Curly Leads album. The Shadows came second for the United Kingdom in the 1975 Eurovision song contest.
Marvin wrote "Driftin'", "Geronimo", "Spider Juice" (his daughter's name for orange juice), "I Want You to Want Me" for The Shadows, and "The Day I Met Marie". He co-wrote Richard's 1960 hit; 'Gee Whizz It's You' with Ian Samwell, With Welch, Brian Bennett, and John Rostill, he wrote hits for Richard, including; "On The Beach", "I Could Easily Fall in Love with You", "Time Drags By", and "In the Country".
In 1969 and 1970 he teamed with Richard for two 'Cliff & Hank' hit singles, his own song; 'Throw Down A Line' (also recorded by Marvin, Welch & Farrar), and 'The Joy of Living', while Richard also had a hit with his ecology song, 'Silvery Rain'.
In 1977, Marvin played lead guitar on Roger Daltrey's third solo album, One of the Boys, on the tracks Parade and Leon. He co-wrote Olivia Newton-John's 1977 hit 'Sam' with John Farrar and Don Black, and produced albums for the British personality Des O'Connor.
In 1988, Marvin collaborated with French keyboardist and composer Jean Michel Jarre on the track "London Kid", on Jarre's Revolutions album and was a guest in the Jarre's Destination Docklands concert at London's Royal Victoria Dock. Jarre said The Shadows' success had influenced him and led to his decision to devote his career to instrumental music.
In 1992, Duane Eddy guested on Marvin's album Into the Light on the track "Pipeline".
Marvin and The Shadows reformed for a 2004 Final Tour, and a 2005 European tour was also organised.
Marvin dueted twice with French guitarist Jean-Pierre Danel – on his 2007 and 2010 albums, both top-ten hits and certified gold. Their two singles hit the iTunes charts in France, Norway, Finland and Germany, and later (when released as an EP from Danel's compilation The Hit List) in Ireland, United-Kingdom, Poland, United-States, South Africa and Thailand. Marvin also participated on one of his DVDs and wrote the foreword for Danel's book about the Fender Stratocaster.
While Welch and Bennett became the Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to music, Marvin declined for "personal reasons".[20]
Early career groups (pre-Shadows/Drifters)[edit]
1956 – Riverside Skiffle group → Crescent City Skiffle GroupMarvin (banjo), John Tate (guitar), Derek Johnson (guitar), Joe Rankin (bass), Mal Malarky (mandolin), and Howard Muir (wb)
1956–1957 – The Railroaders (#1)Marvin (guitar), Welch (guitar), George Williams (guitar), Jim (drums)
1956–1957 – The Railroaders (#2)Marvin (guitar), Welch (guitar), Eddie Silver (guitar), George Williams (bass), and Jim ? (drums)
1958 – The Vipers (aka The Vipers Skiffle group)live concert
Wally Whyton (vocals), Johnny Booker (guitar), Hank Marvin (guitar), J. Harris (bass), and Johnny Pilgrim (wb)
1958 – The Five Chesternuts7" single – ("Jean Dorothy" on Columbia)
Gerry Hurst (vocals), Marvin (guitar), Welch (guitar), Neil Johnson (bass), and Pete Chester (drums)
UK solo tours[edit]
1994 – w/Brian Bennett (drums), Ben Marvin (guitar), Warren Bennett (guitar/keyboards), Mark Griffiths (bass)
1995 – w/Ben Marvin (guitar), Warren Bennett (guitar/keyboards), Mark Griffiths (bass), Matthew Letley (drums)
1997 – w/Ben Marvin (guitar), Warren Bennett (guitar/keyboards), Mark Griffiths (bass), Matthew Letley (drums)
1998 – w/Ben Marvin (guitar), Warren Bennett (guitar/keyboards), Mark Griffiths (bass), Matthew Letley (drums)
2000 - w/Ben Marvin (guitar), Warren Bennett (guitar/keyboards), Mark Griffiths (bass), Peter May (drums)
2002 – w/Ben Marvin (guitar), Warren Bennett (guitar/keyboards), Mark Griffiths (bass), Fergus Gerrand (drums)
Production credits[edit]
Spaghetti Junction Work's Nice – If you can get it/Step right Up Columbia DB 8935
Des O'Connor – Another Side Des O'Connor – LP – NSPL 18559.
Flair – Stop look & listen – LP – MLP 15611.
Flair – Fair – LP – CC 227324
Flair – Fair play – LP – CC 327224
Duets and guest appearances[edit]
1972: Spaghetti Junction Work's Nice – If you can get it/Step right Up Columbia DB 8935
1976: Evita: guitar on "Buenos Aires"
1977: Dennis Waterman Waterman album (also features Brian Bennett)
1977: Roger Daltrey One of The Boys album – guitar on "Parade" and "Leon"
1978: Des O'Connor Another Side of Des O'Connor album
1979: Wings Back to the Egg album – "Rockestra Theme" and "So Glad To See You Here"
1982: British Electric Foundation Music of Quality and Distinction volume 1
 guitar on "Anyone Who Had A Heart" with Sandie Shaw and "It's Over" with Billy MacKenzie
1983: Tracey Ullman You Broke My Heart in 17 Places album: guitar on "Move Over Darling" and "You Broke My Heart in 17 Places"
1983: Leo Sayer Have You Ever Been in Love album: guitar on "Don't Wait Until Tomorrow"
1984: Shakin' Stevens "Teardrops" single
1985: Dire Straits plays "Going Home" ("Local Hero's Theme"), with the band, as a special guest at Live at Wembley
1986: Cliff Richard and The Young Ones "Living Doll" (UK charts #1)
1988: Jean Michel Jarre Revolutions guitar on "London Kid" (UK charts #52)
1989: Jean Michel Jarre Destination Docklands: guitar on "London Kid" and "Rendez-Vous IV"
1992:Brian May We are the Champions Instrumental cover
1995: Alan Jones A Shadow in Time album: guest on title track "A Shadow In Time"
1998: Jane McDonald "You're My World" single
2004: The Strat Pack: guitar on "The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt," "Sleep Walk" and "Apache"
2005: Richard Hawley "I'm Absolutely Hank Marvin", b-side of "Coles Corner" single
2007: Peter Frampton "Fingerprints" album: guitar on My Cup of Tea (also features Brian Bennett)
2007 Jean-Pierre Danel "Nivram" (French Charts No. 15, #8 Norway, No. 86 Germany) + Blues jam session on DVD
2008 Jason Donovan "Let It Be Me" on Dreamboats and Petticoats album
2008 Le QuecumBar Patrons "Stars of Gypsy Swing" ("Coquette", "Noto Swing")
2010 Jean-Pierre Danel "M Appeal" (Norwegian charts No. 7, Finland #99)
In addition to the above, Marvin also plays guitar on the following tracks of library music recorded for Bruton Music:
"Fighter Plane" (with Alan Hawkshaw) on Top of the Range
"Conquest of Space" (with Alan Hawkshaw) on Grandiose Impressive Panoramic
"Human Desert" (with Alan Hawkshaw) on Human Desert
Discography[edit]
See also: The Shadows discography
Singles[edit]
(V) – Vocal

Year
A-side
B-side
UK Singles Chart[21]
Notes
1968 London's Not Too Far (V) Running Out of World (V) (The Shadows)
–
 Columbia DB 8326
1969 Goodnight Dick Wahine
–
 Columbia DB 8552
1969 Sunday For Seven Days Sacha
–
 Columbia DB 8601
1969 Throw Down A Line (V) Reflections
#7
 Columbia DB 8615 (Cliff and Hank)
1969 Slaughter on 10th Avenue (The Shadows) Midnight Cowboy
–
 Columbia DB 8628
1970 The Joy of Living (V) Leave My Woman Alone (V) Boogatoo
#25
 Columbia DB 8657 (Cliff and Hank)
1970 Break Another Dawn Would You Believe It (V)
–
 (Unreleased, promo only)
1970 Break Another Dawn Morning Star
–
 Columbia DB 8693
1970 Morning Star Evening Comes
–
 (Australia and New Zealand only)
1977 Flamingo Syndicated
–
 EMI 2744 (Hank Marvin Guitar Syndicate)
1981 Sacha / Sunday For Seven Days Morning Star / Evening Comes
–
 (New Zealand only) Hank Marvin EP
1982 Don't Talk (V) Life Line (V)
#49
 Polydor POSP420
1982 The Trouble With Me Is You (remix) (V) Captain Zlogg
–
 Polydor POSP479
1983 The Hawk and the Dove (V) Janine
–
 Polydor POSP581
1983 Invisible Man (V) All Alone With Friends
–
 Polydor POSP618
1986 Living Doll 
#1
 (Cliff Richard and The Young Ones featuring Hank B. Marvin)
1989 London Kid 
#52
 (Jean-Michel Jarre featuring Hank Marvin)
1992 We Are The Champions (with Brian May) Moontalk / Into The Light (CD)
#66
 Polydor PO 229
1993 Wonderful Land (with Mark Knopfler) Hot Rox (CD) / Nivram
–
 Polydor PO297
Studio and live albums[edit]
1969 Hank Marvin No. 14
1977 Hank Marvin Guitar Syndicate (no chart position)
1982 Words and Music No. 66
1983 All alone with friends (no chart position)
1992 Into the light No. 18
1993 Heartbeat No. 17
1995 Hank plays Cliff No. 33
1996 Hank plays Holly No. 34
1997 Hank plays Live No. 71
1997 Plays the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber No. 41
2000 Marvin at the Movies No. 17
2002 Guitar Player No. 10
2007 Guitar Man No. 6
2013 Django's Castle (Download only - no chart position)
2014 Hank No. 8
Compilation albums[edit]
1987 Would You Believe It...Plus (reissue of 1969 LP with bonus tracks)
1994 The Best of Hank Marvin & The Shadows No. 19
1995 Handpicked (no chart position)
1997 The Very Best of Hank Marvin & The Shadows The First 40 Years No. 56
1998 Another Side of Hank Marvin (no chart position)
2001 The Singles Collection 'The 80's & 90's' Hank Marvin & The Shadows (no chart position)
2004 Shadowing The Hits (no chart position)
2004 Guitar Ballads (no chart position)
2007 Hank Marvin & The Shadows Play The 60's (no chart position)
2008 The Solid Gold Collection (no chart position)
See also[edit]

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References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c Hank Marvin – Guitar God.
2.Jump up ^ The London Gazette: no. 42885. p. 197. 4 January 1963. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
3.Jump up ^ "The tragic family rift that proves blood is not always thicker than water". The Independent. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
4.Jump up ^ Nick McGrath. "Hank Marvin: My family values". the Guardian. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
5.Jump up ^ Ross, Deborah (17 March 1997). "Specs, God and rock'n'roll". The Independent (London).
6.Jump up ^ "H". London Slang. 4 May 2010. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
7.Jump up ^ "'Hank Marvin' stars in new Mattessons advert". MusicRadar. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
8.^ Jump up to: a b "Hank Marvin: Everyone Has To Move On". ultimate-guitar.com. 25 September 2007. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
9.Jump up ^ Balmer, Paul (2007). The Fender Stratocaster Handbook: How to Buy, Maintain, Set Up, Troubleshoot, and Modify Your Strat. MBI Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 0760329834. "Hank Marvin had a huge influence on guitarists such as Brian May of Queen..."
10.Jump up ^ Mark Knopfler introduced him as one of his all-time favourite guitar players at the Dire Straits' 1985 Wembley concert where Hank duetted the song 'Going home' from the movie theme Local Hero (album); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MfD0nPAqro
11.Jump up ^ Whitaker, Sterling C. (2003). Unsung Heroes of Rock Guitar. Booksurge. p. 111. ISBN 1591097584.
12.Jump up ^ Prown, Pete; Sharken, Lisa (2003). Gear Secrets of the Guitar Legends: How to Sound Like Your Favorite Players. Hal Leonard. pp. 63, 66. ISBN 1617745014.
13.Jump up ^ Marten, Neville; Giltrap, Gordon (2010). The Hofner Guitar: A History (2 ed.). Hal Leonard. p. 40. ISBN 1423462742.
14.Jump up ^ Gulla, Bob (2009). Guitar Gods: The 25 Players Who Made Rock History. ABC-CLIO. pp. 133–134. ISBN 0313358060.
15.Jump up ^ Giuliano, Geoffrey (2002). Behind Blue Eyes: The Life of Pete Townshend. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 16. ISBN 0815410700.
16.Jump up ^ Clayson, Alan (2002). The Yardbirds: The Band That Launched Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page. Hal Leonard. p. 46. ISBN 0879307242.
17.Jump up ^ Bachman, Randy (2012). Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap Stories. Penguin. p. 155. ISBN 0143185772.
18.Jump up ^ Gulla 2009, p. 237
19.Jump up ^ Barnes, Jim; Dyer, Fred; Scanes, Stephen (1986). The Book Top Forty Research 2nd Edition 1956-1985 (DOC). Top Forty Research Services, N.S.W. Australia.
20.Jump up ^ "Actor Hurt leads Queen's honours". BBC News.
21.Jump up ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 264. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
External links[edit]
Hank Marvin at AllMusic


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Hank Marvin
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Marvin in 2007

Background information

Birth name
Brian Robson Rankin
Born
28 October 1941 (age 73)
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Genres
Rock, instrumental rock, rock & roll, gypsy jazz
Occupation(s)
Musician
Instruments
Banjo, guitar, vocals, piano
Years active
1956–present
Associated acts
The Shadows, Cliff Richard
Notable instruments
Hank Marvin Signature Stratocaster
Burns "The Marvin" and the "Shadows Custom Elite Guitar"
Hank Brian Marvin (born 28 October 1941),[1] also known as Hank B. Marvin, is an English multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and song writer. He is best known as the lead guitarist for the Shadows, the group, which primarily performed instrumentals and was the backing band for Cliff Richard.[1] Marvin uses a clean guitar sound with a Vox amplifier, and often uses an echo also known as delay for songs like Apache and Wonderful Land He also developed a distinctive way of using the guitars vibrato giving a "dreamy feel" to his playing.[2] Many famous guitarists such as Brian May and David Gilmour cite Marvin as a major influence.


Contents  [hide]
1 Personal life 1.1 Influence
1.2 Solo career
2 Early career groups (pre-Shadows/Drifters)
3 UK solo tours
4 Production credits
5 Duets and guest appearances
6 Discography 6.1 Singles
6.2 Studio and live albums
6.3 Compilation albums
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Personal life[edit]
Hank Marvin was born Brian Robson Rankin in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. As a child, he played banjo and piano. After hearing Buddy Holly, he decided to learn the guitar.[1]
He chose the name Hank Marvin while launching his career. The name is an amalgamation of his childhood nickname, Hank, which he used to differentiate himself from friends also named Brian, and Marvin Rainwater, a country and western singer.
Sixteen-year-old Marvin and his Rutherford Grammar School friend, Bruce Welch, met Johnny Foster, Cliff Richard's manager, at The 2i's Coffee Bar in Soho London. Foster was looking for a guitarist for Cliff Richard's UK tour and was considering Tony Sheridan. Instead he offered Marvin the position. Marvin joined The Drifters, as Cliff Richard's group was then known, provided there was a place for Welch.
Marvin met Richard for the first time at a nearby Soho tailor's shop, where Richard was having a fitting for a pink stage jacket. The Drifters had their first rehearsal with Richard at the Webb family home (Cliff's parents) in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
His first wife was Beryl, with whom he had four children; Dean (born 1962), twins Peter and Paul (born 1963), and Philippa (born 1966)[3]
Dean died from pneumonia in 1997.
He is currently married to Carole, with whom he had two children; Thalia (born 1973) and Ben (born 1975).[4]
Since 1986, Marvin has lived in Perth, Western Australia. He has made impromptu appearances on stage when musician friends visit the area, such as in February 2013 when Richard held a concert at Sandalford Winery. He is a Jehovah's Witness.[5] Marvin runs a recording studio, Nivram studios, part of Sh-Boom studios in Tiverton Street, Perth, owned by Trevor Spencer and Gary Taylor.
In London, Hank Marvin is cockney rhyming slang for "starvin" ("starving").[6] This slang was referenced in a 2012 television advertisement for Mattessons meat company.[7]



 Marvin and Jean-Pierre Danel, 2007


 Richard and The Shadows, 2009
Influence[edit]
Marvin influenced many guitarists, including George Harrison,[8] Eric Clapton,[8] David Gilmour, Brian May,[9] Mark Knopfler,[10]Peter Frampton,[11] Steve Howe,[12] Roy Wood,[13] Tony Iommi,[14] Pete Townshend,[15] Ritchie Blackmore and Jeff Beck.[16]
In Canada, Cliff and The Shadows had top 10 hits, especially from 1961 to 1965. Canadian guitarists Randy Bachman[17] and Neil Young credit Marvin as influential.[18]
Solo career[edit]
Marvin also had a solo career. His first critically lauded self-titled solo album of instrumentals, which featured guitar set to orchestrated backing, was released in 1969 following the first disbanding of The Shadows in late 1968. The single 'Sacha' taken from this topped the singles chart in New South Wales, Australia.[19] His solo career was then suspended due to Shadows reunions, first for a Far East tour and 'live' album in 1969, then a studio album in 1970 ("Shades of Rock") and again in the early seventies. He has experimented with styles and material, doing some purely instrumental albums, some with mostly vocals (e.g. "Words and Music", "All Alone With Friends"), one with only acoustic guitars and one with a guitar orchestra ("The Hank Marvin Guitar Syndicate").
In 1970, Marvin and Welch formed Marvin, Welch & Farrar, a vocal-harmony trio which failed to appeal to Shadows fans or to contemporary music fans. They became 'Marvin & Farrar' for a vocal album in 1973 and then reverted to The Shadows in late 1973, for the instrumental Rockin' with Curly Leads album. The Shadows came second for the United Kingdom in the 1975 Eurovision song contest.
Marvin wrote "Driftin'", "Geronimo", "Spider Juice" (his daughter's name for orange juice), "I Want You to Want Me" for The Shadows, and "The Day I Met Marie". He co-wrote Richard's 1960 hit; 'Gee Whizz It's You' with Ian Samwell, With Welch, Brian Bennett, and John Rostill, he wrote hits for Richard, including; "On The Beach", "I Could Easily Fall in Love with You", "Time Drags By", and "In the Country".
In 1969 and 1970 he teamed with Richard for two 'Cliff & Hank' hit singles, his own song; 'Throw Down A Line' (also recorded by Marvin, Welch & Farrar), and 'The Joy of Living', while Richard also had a hit with his ecology song, 'Silvery Rain'.
In 1977, Marvin played lead guitar on Roger Daltrey's third solo album, One of the Boys, on the tracks Parade and Leon. He co-wrote Olivia Newton-John's 1977 hit 'Sam' with John Farrar and Don Black, and produced albums for the British personality Des O'Connor.
In 1988, Marvin collaborated with French keyboardist and composer Jean Michel Jarre on the track "London Kid", on Jarre's Revolutions album and was a guest in the Jarre's Destination Docklands concert at London's Royal Victoria Dock. Jarre said The Shadows' success had influenced him and led to his decision to devote his career to instrumental music.
In 1992, Duane Eddy guested on Marvin's album Into the Light on the track "Pipeline".
Marvin and The Shadows reformed for a 2004 Final Tour, and a 2005 European tour was also organised.
Marvin dueted twice with French guitarist Jean-Pierre Danel – on his 2007 and 2010 albums, both top-ten hits and certified gold. Their two singles hit the iTunes charts in France, Norway, Finland and Germany, and later (when released as an EP from Danel's compilation The Hit List) in Ireland, United-Kingdom, Poland, United-States, South Africa and Thailand. Marvin also participated on one of his DVDs and wrote the foreword for Danel's book about the Fender Stratocaster.
While Welch and Bennett became the Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to music, Marvin declined for "personal reasons".[20]
Early career groups (pre-Shadows/Drifters)[edit]
1956 – Riverside Skiffle group → Crescent City Skiffle GroupMarvin (banjo), John Tate (guitar), Derek Johnson (guitar), Joe Rankin (bass), Mal Malarky (mandolin), and Howard Muir (wb)
1956–1957 – The Railroaders (#1)Marvin (guitar), Welch (guitar), George Williams (guitar), Jim (drums)
1956–1957 – The Railroaders (#2)Marvin (guitar), Welch (guitar), Eddie Silver (guitar), George Williams (bass), and Jim ? (drums)
1958 – The Vipers (aka The Vipers Skiffle group)live concert
Wally Whyton (vocals), Johnny Booker (guitar), Hank Marvin (guitar), J. Harris (bass), and Johnny Pilgrim (wb)
1958 – The Five Chesternuts7" single – ("Jean Dorothy" on Columbia)
Gerry Hurst (vocals), Marvin (guitar), Welch (guitar), Neil Johnson (bass), and Pete Chester (drums)
UK solo tours[edit]
1994 – w/Brian Bennett (drums), Ben Marvin (guitar), Warren Bennett (guitar/keyboards), Mark Griffiths (bass)
1995 – w/Ben Marvin (guitar), Warren Bennett (guitar/keyboards), Mark Griffiths (bass), Matthew Letley (drums)
1997 – w/Ben Marvin (guitar), Warren Bennett (guitar/keyboards), Mark Griffiths (bass), Matthew Letley (drums)
1998 – w/Ben Marvin (guitar), Warren Bennett (guitar/keyboards), Mark Griffiths (bass), Matthew Letley (drums)
2000 - w/Ben Marvin (guitar), Warren Bennett (guitar/keyboards), Mark Griffiths (bass), Peter May (drums)
2002 – w/Ben Marvin (guitar), Warren Bennett (guitar/keyboards), Mark Griffiths (bass), Fergus Gerrand (drums)
Production credits[edit]
Spaghetti Junction Work's Nice – If you can get it/Step right Up Columbia DB 8935
Des O'Connor – Another Side Des O'Connor – LP – NSPL 18559.
Flair – Stop look & listen – LP – MLP 15611.
Flair – Fair – LP – CC 227324
Flair – Fair play – LP – CC 327224
Duets and guest appearances[edit]
1972: Spaghetti Junction Work's Nice – If you can get it/Step right Up Columbia DB 8935
1976: Evita: guitar on "Buenos Aires"
1977: Dennis Waterman Waterman album (also features Brian Bennett)
1977: Roger Daltrey One of The Boys album – guitar on "Parade" and "Leon"
1978: Des O'Connor Another Side of Des O'Connor album
1979: Wings Back to the Egg album – "Rockestra Theme" and "So Glad To See You Here"
1982: British Electric Foundation Music of Quality and Distinction volume 1
 guitar on "Anyone Who Had A Heart" with Sandie Shaw and "It's Over" with Billy MacKenzie
1983: Tracey Ullman You Broke My Heart in 17 Places album: guitar on "Move Over Darling" and "You Broke My Heart in 17 Places"
1983: Leo Sayer Have You Ever Been in Love album: guitar on "Don't Wait Until Tomorrow"
1984: Shakin' Stevens "Teardrops" single
1985: Dire Straits plays "Going Home" ("Local Hero's Theme"), with the band, as a special guest at Live at Wembley
1986: Cliff Richard and The Young Ones "Living Doll" (UK charts #1)
1988: Jean Michel Jarre Revolutions guitar on "London Kid" (UK charts #52)
1989: Jean Michel Jarre Destination Docklands: guitar on "London Kid" and "Rendez-Vous IV"
1992:Brian May We are the Champions Instrumental cover
1995: Alan Jones A Shadow in Time album: guest on title track "A Shadow In Time"
1998: Jane McDonald "You're My World" single
2004: The Strat Pack: guitar on "The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt," "Sleep Walk" and "Apache"
2005: Richard Hawley "I'm Absolutely Hank Marvin", b-side of "Coles Corner" single
2007: Peter Frampton "Fingerprints" album: guitar on My Cup of Tea (also features Brian Bennett)
2007 Jean-Pierre Danel "Nivram" (French Charts No. 15, #8 Norway, No. 86 Germany) + Blues jam session on DVD
2008 Jason Donovan "Let It Be Me" on Dreamboats and Petticoats album
2008 Le QuecumBar Patrons "Stars of Gypsy Swing" ("Coquette", "Noto Swing")
2010 Jean-Pierre Danel "M Appeal" (Norwegian charts No. 7, Finland #99)
In addition to the above, Marvin also plays guitar on the following tracks of library music recorded for Bruton Music:
"Fighter Plane" (with Alan Hawkshaw) on Top of the Range
"Conquest of Space" (with Alan Hawkshaw) on Grandiose Impressive Panoramic
"Human Desert" (with Alan Hawkshaw) on Human Desert
Discography[edit]
See also: The Shadows discography
Singles[edit]
(V) – Vocal

Year
A-side
B-side
UK Singles Chart[21]
Notes
1968 London's Not Too Far (V) Running Out of World (V) (The Shadows)
–
 Columbia DB 8326
1969 Goodnight Dick Wahine
–
 Columbia DB 8552
1969 Sunday For Seven Days Sacha
–
 Columbia DB 8601
1969 Throw Down A Line (V) Reflections
#7
 Columbia DB 8615 (Cliff and Hank)
1969 Slaughter on 10th Avenue (The Shadows) Midnight Cowboy
–
 Columbia DB 8628
1970 The Joy of Living (V) Leave My Woman Alone (V) Boogatoo
#25
 Columbia DB 8657 (Cliff and Hank)
1970 Break Another Dawn Would You Believe It (V)
–
 (Unreleased, promo only)
1970 Break Another Dawn Morning Star
–
 Columbia DB 8693
1970 Morning Star Evening Comes
–
 (Australia and New Zealand only)
1977 Flamingo Syndicated
–
 EMI 2744 (Hank Marvin Guitar Syndicate)
1981 Sacha / Sunday For Seven Days Morning Star / Evening Comes
–
 (New Zealand only) Hank Marvin EP
1982 Don't Talk (V) Life Line (V)
#49
 Polydor POSP420
1982 The Trouble With Me Is You (remix) (V) Captain Zlogg
–
 Polydor POSP479
1983 The Hawk and the Dove (V) Janine
–
 Polydor POSP581
1983 Invisible Man (V) All Alone With Friends
–
 Polydor POSP618
1986 Living Doll 
#1
 (Cliff Richard and The Young Ones featuring Hank B. Marvin)
1989 London Kid 
#52
 (Jean-Michel Jarre featuring Hank Marvin)
1992 We Are The Champions (with Brian May) Moontalk / Into The Light (CD)
#66
 Polydor PO 229
1993 Wonderful Land (with Mark Knopfler) Hot Rox (CD) / Nivram
–
 Polydor PO297
Studio and live albums[edit]
1969 Hank Marvin No. 14
1977 Hank Marvin Guitar Syndicate (no chart position)
1982 Words and Music No. 66
1983 All alone with friends (no chart position)
1992 Into the light No. 18
1993 Heartbeat No. 17
1995 Hank plays Cliff No. 33
1996 Hank plays Holly No. 34
1997 Hank plays Live No. 71
1997 Plays the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber No. 41
2000 Marvin at the Movies No. 17
2002 Guitar Player No. 10
2007 Guitar Man No. 6
2013 Django's Castle (Download only - no chart position)
2014 Hank No. 8
Compilation albums[edit]
1987 Would You Believe It...Plus (reissue of 1969 LP with bonus tracks)
1994 The Best of Hank Marvin & The Shadows No. 19
1995 Handpicked (no chart position)
1997 The Very Best of Hank Marvin & The Shadows The First 40 Years No. 56
1998 Another Side of Hank Marvin (no chart position)
2001 The Singles Collection 'The 80's & 90's' Hank Marvin & The Shadows (no chart position)
2004 Shadowing The Hits (no chart position)
2004 Guitar Ballads (no chart position)
2007 Hank Marvin & The Shadows Play The 60's (no chart position)
2008 The Solid Gold Collection (no chart position)
See also[edit]

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References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c Hank Marvin – Guitar God.
2.Jump up ^ The London Gazette: no. 42885. p. 197. 4 January 1963. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
3.Jump up ^ "The tragic family rift that proves blood is not always thicker than water". The Independent. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
4.Jump up ^ Nick McGrath. "Hank Marvin: My family values". the Guardian. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
5.Jump up ^ Ross, Deborah (17 March 1997). "Specs, God and rock'n'roll". The Independent (London).
6.Jump up ^ "H". London Slang. 4 May 2010. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
7.Jump up ^ "'Hank Marvin' stars in new Mattessons advert". MusicRadar. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
8.^ Jump up to: a b "Hank Marvin: Everyone Has To Move On". ultimate-guitar.com. 25 September 2007. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
9.Jump up ^ Balmer, Paul (2007). The Fender Stratocaster Handbook: How to Buy, Maintain, Set Up, Troubleshoot, and Modify Your Strat. MBI Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 0760329834. "Hank Marvin had a huge influence on guitarists such as Brian May of Queen..."
10.Jump up ^ Mark Knopfler introduced him as one of his all-time favourite guitar players at the Dire Straits' 1985 Wembley concert where Hank duetted the song 'Going home' from the movie theme Local Hero (album); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MfD0nPAqro
11.Jump up ^ Whitaker, Sterling C. (2003). Unsung Heroes of Rock Guitar. Booksurge. p. 111. ISBN 1591097584.
12.Jump up ^ Prown, Pete; Sharken, Lisa (2003). Gear Secrets of the Guitar Legends: How to Sound Like Your Favorite Players. Hal Leonard. pp. 63, 66. ISBN 1617745014.
13.Jump up ^ Marten, Neville; Giltrap, Gordon (2010). The Hofner Guitar: A History (2 ed.). Hal Leonard. p. 40. ISBN 1423462742.
14.Jump up ^ Gulla, Bob (2009). Guitar Gods: The 25 Players Who Made Rock History. ABC-CLIO. pp. 133–134. ISBN 0313358060.
15.Jump up ^ Giuliano, Geoffrey (2002). Behind Blue Eyes: The Life of Pete Townshend. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 16. ISBN 0815410700.
16.Jump up ^ Clayson, Alan (2002). The Yardbirds: The Band That Launched Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page. Hal Leonard. p. 46. ISBN 0879307242.
17.Jump up ^ Bachman, Randy (2012). Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap Stories. Penguin. p. 155. ISBN 0143185772.
18.Jump up ^ Gulla 2009, p. 237
19.Jump up ^ Barnes, Jim; Dyer, Fred; Scanes, Stephen (1986). The Book Top Forty Research 2nd Edition 1956-1985 (DOC). Top Forty Research Services, N.S.W. Australia.
20.Jump up ^ "Actor Hurt leads Queen's honours". BBC News.
21.Jump up ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 264. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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Viv Nicholson

Born
3 April 1936
Castleford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Died
11 April 2015 (aged 79)
Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, UK
Vivian Nicholson (3 April 1936 – 11 April 2015) became publicly known overnight in the United Kingdom when she told the media she would "spend, spend, spend" after her husband Keith won £152,319 (equivalent to £2.96 million in 2015, adjusted for inflation) on the football pools in 1961.[1][2] Nicholson became the subject of tabloid news stories for many years.
By her own admission, she found it hard to cope with the psychological effects of the money Keith had won. She came to feel distanced from the people she had lived among, who in turn could no longer relate to her, and developed an ever greater longing for a much more affluent area.
After her husband Keith died in a car crash on 30 October 1965,[3] Nicholson's fortune rapidly dwindled to nothing: banks and tax creditors deemed her bankrupt and declared that all the money, and everything she had acquired with it, belonged not to her but to Keith's estate.
Nicholson won a three-year legal battle to gain £34,000 from her husband's estate,[4] but rapidly lost it all through bad investments. She relocated to Malta, but, after she assaulted a policeman, the Maltese authorities deported her back to Britain amid a storm of tabloid publicity.[3] She entered a mental home to escape from her third husband, who abused her during the four days they lived together; the marriage lasted only thirteen weeks.[citation needed].
She made many attempts to regain both her public profile and her lost wealth, such as recording a single (entitled "Spend Spend Spend", written by her brother) and appearing in a strip club singing "Big Spender". None of these efforts proved successful. After opening a short-lived boutique, she ended up penniless and, by 1976, claimed that she could not even afford to bury her fourth husband (with whom she had broken up three years earlier)[citation needed] when he died.
In 1976, after joining the Jehovah's Witnesses,[5] Nicholson co-wrote an autobiography with Stephen Smith, entitled Spend, Spend, Spend which was dramatised for the BBC's Play for Today series by Jack Rosenthal. Spend, Spend, Spend (1977) was directed by John Goldschmidt (who won a BAFTA award for the filmed play) and stars Susan Littler and John Duttine.[6]
A photograph of Nicholson was used on the sleeve of The Smiths' single "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now". Previously Morrissey had borrowed a line from Nicholson's autobiography for the song "Still Ill" ("Under the iron bridge we kissed, and although I ended up with sore lips..."). Another picture of Nicholson taken at Castleford pit was used on the German release of "Barbarism Begins At Home" and on the programme for the Meat Is Murder tour. A photo of Nicholson painting at an easel was used for the cover of a 1987 re-release of "The Headmaster Ritual", however, having become a Jehovah's Witness in 1979,[7] she objected to her image being used for the single's cover due to the use of an expletive in the song's lyrics ("Spineless bastards all...").[8]
A successful musical based on Nicholson's life – Spend Spend Spend – debuted in 1998 and subsequently ran on the West End.[9]
Nicholson died at Pinderfields hospital, Wakefield, aged 79, on 11 April 2015, after having had a stroke and dementia.[10]
In January 2015, Viv Nicholson's official site announced the forthcoming publication of a second book - a new biography that covers the time period from 1961-2015.[11]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Pendlebury, Richard (22 April 2007). "Spent, spent, spent - pools winner now living on £87 a week". Mail Online. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
2.Jump up ^ Bulent Yusuf "What Happened Next?" The Observer, 6 July 2003
3.^ Jump up to: a b Richard Pendlebury "Spent, spent, spent - pools winner now living on £87 a week", Daily Mail, 22 April 2007
4.Jump up ^ Sheena Hastings "Spend spend spend Viv Nicholson: Older and wiser now", Yorkshire Post, 22 August 2008.
5.Jump up ^ [http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/14/viv-nicholson Viv Nicholson obituary, The Guardian, 14 April 2015
6.Jump up ^ "Spend Spend Spend (15 Mar. 1977)", imdb.com; accessed 12 April 2015.
7.Jump up ^ Yusuf, Bulent (6 July 2003). "What happened next?". theguardian.com. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
8.Jump up ^ Barton, Laura (13 April 2015). "This charming woman: why Morrissey and the Smiths loved Viv Nicholson". theguardian.com. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
9.Jump up ^ Jonathon Green "She had it all - and spent it", The Guardian, 9 October 1999.
10.Jump up ^ "'Spend, spend, spend' Pools winner Viv Nicholson dies". BBC News (BBC). 12 April 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
11.Jump up ^ "'Viv Nicholson - 50 Years On".


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Viv Nicholson

Born
3 April 1936
Castleford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Died
11 April 2015 (aged 79)
Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, UK
Vivian Nicholson (3 April 1936 – 11 April 2015) became publicly known overnight in the United Kingdom when she told the media she would "spend, spend, spend" after her husband Keith won £152,319 (equivalent to £2.96 million in 2015, adjusted for inflation) on the football pools in 1961.[1][2] Nicholson became the subject of tabloid news stories for many years.
By her own admission, she found it hard to cope with the psychological effects of the money Keith had won. She came to feel distanced from the people she had lived among, who in turn could no longer relate to her, and developed an ever greater longing for a much more affluent area.
After her husband Keith died in a car crash on 30 October 1965,[3] Nicholson's fortune rapidly dwindled to nothing: banks and tax creditors deemed her bankrupt and declared that all the money, and everything she had acquired with it, belonged not to her but to Keith's estate.
Nicholson won a three-year legal battle to gain £34,000 from her husband's estate,[4] but rapidly lost it all through bad investments. She relocated to Malta, but, after she assaulted a policeman, the Maltese authorities deported her back to Britain amid a storm of tabloid publicity.[3] She entered a mental home to escape from her third husband, who abused her during the four days they lived together; the marriage lasted only thirteen weeks.[citation needed].
She made many attempts to regain both her public profile and her lost wealth, such as recording a single (entitled "Spend Spend Spend", written by her brother) and appearing in a strip club singing "Big Spender". None of these efforts proved successful. After opening a short-lived boutique, she ended up penniless and, by 1976, claimed that she could not even afford to bury her fourth husband (with whom she had broken up three years earlier)[citation needed] when he died.
In 1976, after joining the Jehovah's Witnesses,[5] Nicholson co-wrote an autobiography with Stephen Smith, entitled Spend, Spend, Spend which was dramatised for the BBC's Play for Today series by Jack Rosenthal. Spend, Spend, Spend (1977) was directed by John Goldschmidt (who won a BAFTA award for the filmed play) and stars Susan Littler and John Duttine.[6]
A photograph of Nicholson was used on the sleeve of The Smiths' single "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now". Previously Morrissey had borrowed a line from Nicholson's autobiography for the song "Still Ill" ("Under the iron bridge we kissed, and although I ended up with sore lips..."). Another picture of Nicholson taken at Castleford pit was used on the German release of "Barbarism Begins At Home" and on the programme for the Meat Is Murder tour. A photo of Nicholson painting at an easel was used for the cover of a 1987 re-release of "The Headmaster Ritual", however, having become a Jehovah's Witness in 1979,[7] she objected to her image being used for the single's cover due to the use of an expletive in the song's lyrics ("Spineless bastards all...").[8]
A successful musical based on Nicholson's life – Spend Spend Spend – debuted in 1998 and subsequently ran on the West End.[9]
Nicholson died at Pinderfields hospital, Wakefield, aged 79, on 11 April 2015, after having had a stroke and dementia.[10]
In January 2015, Viv Nicholson's official site announced the forthcoming publication of a second book - a new biography that covers the time period from 1961-2015.[11]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Pendlebury, Richard (22 April 2007). "Spent, spent, spent - pools winner now living on £87 a week". Mail Online. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
2.Jump up ^ Bulent Yusuf "What Happened Next?" The Observer, 6 July 2003
3.^ Jump up to: a b Richard Pendlebury "Spent, spent, spent - pools winner now living on £87 a week", Daily Mail, 22 April 2007
4.Jump up ^ Sheena Hastings "Spend spend spend Viv Nicholson: Older and wiser now", Yorkshire Post, 22 August 2008.
5.Jump up ^ [http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/14/viv-nicholson Viv Nicholson obituary, The Guardian, 14 April 2015
6.Jump up ^ "Spend Spend Spend (15 Mar. 1977)", imdb.com; accessed 12 April 2015.
7.Jump up ^ Yusuf, Bulent (6 July 2003). "What happened next?". theguardian.com. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
8.Jump up ^ Barton, Laura (13 April 2015). "This charming woman: why Morrissey and the Smiths loved Viv Nicholson". theguardian.com. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
9.Jump up ^ Jonathon Green "She had it all - and spent it", The Guardian, 9 October 1999.
10.Jump up ^ "'Spend, spend, spend' Pools winner Viv Nicholson dies". BBC News (BBC). 12 April 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
11.Jump up ^ "'Viv Nicholson - 50 Years On".


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Leopold Engleitner
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Leopold Engleitner being interviewed during "Unbroken Will"

Born
23 July 1905
Aigen-Voglhub, Austria
Died
21 April 2013 (aged 107)
Occupation
Farmhand, Roadman, Holocaust lecturer
Known for
World's oldest known male concentration camp survivor (Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück)
Leopold Engleitner (23 July 1905 – 21 April 2013)[1] was an Austrian conscientious objector and Holocaust survivor who spoke publicly and with students about his experiences. He was the subject of the documentary Unbroken Will.[2] Before his death Engleitner was the world's oldest known male concentration camp survivor (held in Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück), and the oldest male Austrian.


Contents  [hide]
1 Early life and imprisonment 1934 to 1938
2 Concentration camps and forced labour
3 Rehabilitation and recognition
4 Books, films and documentaries
5 References
6 Sources
7 External links

Early life and imprisonment 1934 to 1938[edit]
Born in Aigen-Voglhub, Austria, Engleiter grew up in the imperial city of Bad Ischl. He studied the Bible intensively in the 1930s and was baptised as s Jehovah's Witness in 1932. In the period up to World War II he faced religious intolerance, even persecution, from his immediate neighbourhood and the Austrian authorities, first by the fascist regime of Dollfuss and then under Nazi Germany.
##Spring 1934: 48 hours in Bad Ischl prison
##Winter 1934/35: 48 hours in Bad Ischl prison
##5 January 1936 - 30 March 1936: imprisonment in St. Gilgen and Salzburg
##19 September 1937 - 14 October 1937: detained in Bad Aussee prison
Concentration camps and forced labour[edit]
When Adolf Hitler occupied Austria in 1938, Leopold Engleitner's religion, ideologies and conscientious objection to serving in the Army brought him into conflict with the Nazis.
On 4 April 1939 he was arrested in Bad Ischl by the Gestapo and detained in Linz and Wels. From 9 October 1939 to 15 July 1943 he was held in the concentration camps Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrueck. In Niederhagen he rejected a proposal to renounce his beliefs io return for his release. Despite brutal and inhumane treatment, his will – to stand for fair principles and to refuse military service – was unbroken.
In July 1943 - weighing only 28 kilograms (62 lb) - he was released on condition of his acceptance of lifelong slave labour on a farm.
After returning home he worked on a farm in St. Wolfgang. On 17 April 1945, three weeks before the war ended, he received notice to enlist in the German army. He fled to the mountains of Salzkammergut, and hid in an alpine cabin and a cave, hunted by the Nazis but never found.
On 5 May 1945 Engleitner was able to return home and resume work on the farm as a slave labourer. When in 1946 he tried to leave the farm, his request was rejected by the labour bureau of Bad Ischl, on the argument that the slave labour duty imposed by the Nazi occupation was still valid. Only after intervention of the US occupying power was he released from the duty in April 1946.
##4 April 1939 - 5 October 1939: prisons in Bad Ischl, Linz and Wels
##5 October 1939 - 9 October 1939: deportation to concentration camp (prisons in Salzburg and Munich)
##9 October 1939 - 7 March 1941: Buchenwald concentration camp
##7 March 1941 - April 1943: Niederhagen concentration camp in Wewelsburg
##April 1943 - 15 July 1943: Ravensbrück concentration camp
##22 July 1943 - 10 April 1945: forced labour on a farm
##17 April 1945 - 5 May 1945: call-up to the German army; flight to the mountains
Rehabilitation and recognition[edit]
In the years after the war Engleitner continued facing isolation and intolerance, and only after the author and film producer Bernhard Rammerstorfer documented his life in 1999 in the book and documentary film Nein statt Ja und Amen, did the larger public become aware of him. Engleitner and Rammerstorfer held lectures at universities, schools and memorials in Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and the USA.
Though already far advanced in years, between 1999 and 2012 Engleitner travelled with his biographer and friend Bernhard Rammerstorfer more than 95,000 miles across Europe and the USA, to schools, memorial sites, and universities, as a witness of history to ensure the past was not forgotten, and he became a model of tolerance and peace.
Once a persecuted concentration camp labourer and outlawed conscientious objector, he wa honoured in May 2007 by the Republic of Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany for his courageous stand during the Nazi regime and for his tremendous awareness-raising activities with:
##The Golden Order of Merit of the Republic of Austria from Austrian President Dr. Heinz Fischer.
##The Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany (Knight's Cross) from German President Dr. Horst Köhler
In 2003 he was awarded the "Silver Order of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria" by the Upper Austrian governor, Josef Pühringer.
In 2006 he was awarded the Elfriede Grünberg Prize by Antifa, an anti-Fascist initiative in Austria.
In 2008 Engleitner was presented with the "Ring of Honour of the Town of Bad Ischl" by the municipal authorities in Bad Ischl, the town where he grew up.
In 2009 he received the "Badge of Honour of the Town of St. Wolfgang" from his home municipality, St. Wolfgang.
Books, films and documentaries[edit]
In 2004 the book and the film Nein statt Ja und Amen were translated into an English version called Unbroken Will, and were presented in the USA by a tour including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, Columbia University in New York and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
In 2006 Engleitner and Rammerstorfer made a second tour through the United States. They gave lectures in Washington, DC, (at Georgetown University and Library of Congress), New York (at Columbia University), Chicago (at Harold Washington College), Skokie (for the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois), Palo Alto, in the San Francisco Bay area (Stanford University) and Los Angeles (at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust).
Locations of their third, 2009, US speaking tour were: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida; Palladium Theater at St. Petersburg College, Florida; Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, California; University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Moorpark College, California; Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, California.
In 2005 Rammerstorfer released a new German biography and DVD Nein statt Ja und Amen – 100 Jahre ungebrochener Wille. The book also contains a short biography of the German conscientious objector Joachim Escher: Escher was detained between 1937 and 1945 in several prisons and the concentration camps Sachsenhausen, Niederhagen and Buchenwald; in Buchenwald he was servant to the former French government members Georges Mandel and Léon Blum, whom the Germans kept as hostages.
The French version of the book entitled Une volonté de fer was released in 2007.
In 2008 Rammerstorfer released a new version of the German book, entitled "Ungebrochener Wille", which Engleitner and Rammerstorfer presented at Frankfurt Book Fair 2008, 2009 and 2011.In 2009 the new English book Unbroken Will: The Extraordinary Courage of an Ordinary Man-The Story of Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Leopold Engleitner, born 1905 based on the latest German version was released at Harvard University. The Austrian president, Heinz Fischer, described in his foreword the book as "a milestone in correspondence about the horror of Nazism." Brewster Chamberlin, director of archives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC from 1986 to 1997, wrote a preface. Further prefaces were written by the founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service, Andreas Maislinger, Franz Jägerstätter and Leopold Engleitner, and Walter Manoschek, from the University of Vienna, "No more War!"
In 2009 the new English book Unbroken Will: The Extraordinary Courage of an Ordinary Man-The Story of Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Leopold Engleitner, born 1905 based on the latest German version was released at Harvard University. The Austrian president, Heinz Fischer, described in his foreword the book as "a milestone in correspondence about the horror of Nazism." Brewster Chamberlin, director of archives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC from 1986 to 1997, wrote a preface. Further prefaces were written by the founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service, Andreas Maislinger, Franz Jägerstätter and Leopold Engleitner, and Walter Manoschek, from the University of Vienna, "No more War!"
In May 2009 the songwriters Mark David Smith and Rex Salas from California wrote the song "Unbroken Will" for Leopold Engleitner. On 22 May 2009 Leopold Engleitner was presented with the song during an event at Moorpark College. The singer Phillip Ingram interprets "Unbroken Will". The song is available for download on the website www.unbrokenwill.com as well as the lyrics.
The Russian translation of the book Unbroken Will (Несломленная воля) was released in Russia in 2009. Engleitner and Rammerstorfer presented the book in Moscow at the Central Journalist House and at the book store "BIBLIO-GLOBUS" in September 2009.
In 2012 Bernhard Rammerstorfer produced with A. Ferenc Gutai the documentary film "LADDER in the LIONS' DEN - Freedom Is a Choice, Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Leopold Engleitner: A 107-Year-Old Eyewitness Tells His Story." The USA premiere took place at Laemmle's Town Center 5 Theatre in Encino, Los Angeles County, in November 2012 with Leopold Engleitner present. The German version, "LEITER in der LÖWENGRUBE", was released in Austria in March 2013. In April 2013 the film was awarded "Best Documentary Short" by the Fallbrook International Film Festival 2013, of Fallbrook, California, and "Best Short Documentary" by the Rincòn International Film Festival 2013, of Rincòn, Puerto Rico.
Engleitner is the subject of Rammerstorfer's educational DVD Unbroken Will. which contains the full documentary plus films of special events relating to Engleitner's awareness-raising activities from 1999 to 2004, as well as material on the Holocaust for use in schools in English, German, Italian, and Spanish.
In 2006 Rammerstorfer produced the documentary Unbroken Will Captivates the United States, relating to the 2004 US tour. which was premiered at the Laemmle's Music Hall 3 Theatre in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.
Rammerstorfer also produced the documentary Unbroken Will USA Tour, relating to the 2006 US tour, which was premiered in the USA at the Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theatre, West Hollywood, in 2009.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Oldest surviving Nazi concentration camp survivor dead at 107". 2 May 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Valencia, Milton J. (5 May 2009). "Holocaust survivor, 103, tells students of resisting Nazis - The Boston Globe". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
Sources[edit]
##Book Unbroken Will: The Extraordinary Courage of an Ordinary Man-The Story of Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Leopold Engleitner, born 1905 (Austria, 2009)
##Educational DVD Unbroken Will (USA, 2004)
##DVD Unbroken Will Captivates the United States (USA, 2006)
##DVD Unbroken Will USA Tour (USA, 2009)
##"Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi Regime: 1933-1945" by Hans Hesse, Edition Temmen, 2003, ISBN 3-86108-750-2, ISBN 978-3-86108-750-2
##"Though Weak, I Am Powerful" as told by Leopold Engleitner, The Watchtower, May 1, 2005, page 23-28
##"For Jehovah in the concentration camp - Engleitner", DiePresse.com, 8 May 2010, online, in German
##"107-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Dies", Encino-Tarzana Patch, May 8, 2013, [1]
External links[edit]
##Web site of Leopold Engleitner
##News about his tour in 2006 on YouTube


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2013 deaths
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Austrian Christian pacifists
Buchenwald concentration camp survivors
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Leopold Engleitner
Leopold Engleitner.png
Leopold Engleitner being interviewed during "Unbroken Will"

Born
23 July 1905
Aigen-Voglhub, Austria
Died
21 April 2013 (aged 107)
Occupation
Farmhand, Roadman, Holocaust lecturer
Known for
World's oldest known male concentration camp survivor (Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück)
Leopold Engleitner (23 July 1905 – 21 April 2013)[1] was an Austrian conscientious objector and Holocaust survivor who spoke publicly and with students about his experiences. He was the subject of the documentary Unbroken Will.[2] Before his death Engleitner was the world's oldest known male concentration camp survivor (held in Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück), and the oldest male Austrian.


Contents  [hide]
1 Early life and imprisonment 1934 to 1938
2 Concentration camps and forced labour
3 Rehabilitation and recognition
4 Books, films and documentaries
5 References
6 Sources
7 External links

Early life and imprisonment 1934 to 1938[edit]
Born in Aigen-Voglhub, Austria, Engleiter grew up in the imperial city of Bad Ischl. He studied the Bible intensively in the 1930s and was baptised as s Jehovah's Witness in 1932. In the period up to World War II he faced religious intolerance, even persecution, from his immediate neighbourhood and the Austrian authorities, first by the fascist regime of Dollfuss and then under Nazi Germany.
##Spring 1934: 48 hours in Bad Ischl prison
##Winter 1934/35: 48 hours in Bad Ischl prison
##5 January 1936 - 30 March 1936: imprisonment in St. Gilgen and Salzburg
##19 September 1937 - 14 October 1937: detained in Bad Aussee prison
Concentration camps and forced labour[edit]
When Adolf Hitler occupied Austria in 1938, Leopold Engleitner's religion, ideologies and conscientious objection to serving in the Army brought him into conflict with the Nazis.
On 4 April 1939 he was arrested in Bad Ischl by the Gestapo and detained in Linz and Wels. From 9 October 1939 to 15 July 1943 he was held in the concentration camps Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrueck. In Niederhagen he rejected a proposal to renounce his beliefs io return for his release. Despite brutal and inhumane treatment, his will – to stand for fair principles and to refuse military service – was unbroken.
In July 1943 - weighing only 28 kilograms (62 lb) - he was released on condition of his acceptance of lifelong slave labour on a farm.
After returning home he worked on a farm in St. Wolfgang. On 17 April 1945, three weeks before the war ended, he received notice to enlist in the German army. He fled to the mountains of Salzkammergut, and hid in an alpine cabin and a cave, hunted by the Nazis but never found.
On 5 May 1945 Engleitner was able to return home and resume work on the farm as a slave labourer. When in 1946 he tried to leave the farm, his request was rejected by the labour bureau of Bad Ischl, on the argument that the slave labour duty imposed by the Nazi occupation was still valid. Only after intervention of the US occupying power was he released from the duty in April 1946.
##4 April 1939 - 5 October 1939: prisons in Bad Ischl, Linz and Wels
##5 October 1939 - 9 October 1939: deportation to concentration camp (prisons in Salzburg and Munich)
##9 October 1939 - 7 March 1941: Buchenwald concentration camp
##7 March 1941 - April 1943: Niederhagen concentration camp in Wewelsburg
##April 1943 - 15 July 1943: Ravensbrück concentration camp
##22 July 1943 - 10 April 1945: forced labour on a farm
##17 April 1945 - 5 May 1945: call-up to the German army; flight to the mountains
Rehabilitation and recognition[edit]
In the years after the war Engleitner continued facing isolation and intolerance, and only after the author and film producer Bernhard Rammerstorfer documented his life in 1999 in the book and documentary film Nein statt Ja und Amen, did the larger public become aware of him. Engleitner and Rammerstorfer held lectures at universities, schools and memorials in Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and the USA.
Though already far advanced in years, between 1999 and 2012 Engleitner travelled with his biographer and friend Bernhard Rammerstorfer more than 95,000 miles across Europe and the USA, to schools, memorial sites, and universities, as a witness of history to ensure the past was not forgotten, and he became a model of tolerance and peace.
Once a persecuted concentration camp labourer and outlawed conscientious objector, he wa honoured in May 2007 by the Republic of Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany for his courageous stand during the Nazi regime and for his tremendous awareness-raising activities with:
##The Golden Order of Merit of the Republic of Austria from Austrian President Dr. Heinz Fischer.
##The Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany (Knight's Cross) from German President Dr. Horst Köhler
In 2003 he was awarded the "Silver Order of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria" by the Upper Austrian governor, Josef Pühringer.
In 2006 he was awarded the Elfriede Grünberg Prize by Antifa, an anti-Fascist initiative in Austria.
In 2008 Engleitner was presented with the "Ring of Honour of the Town of Bad Ischl" by the municipal authorities in Bad Ischl, the town where he grew up.
In 2009 he received the "Badge of Honour of the Town of St. Wolfgang" from his home municipality, St. Wolfgang.
Books, films and documentaries[edit]
In 2004 the book and the film Nein statt Ja und Amen were translated into an English version called Unbroken Will, and were presented in the USA by a tour including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, Columbia University in New York and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
In 2006 Engleitner and Rammerstorfer made a second tour through the United States. They gave lectures in Washington, DC, (at Georgetown University and Library of Congress), New York (at Columbia University), Chicago (at Harold Washington College), Skokie (for the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois), Palo Alto, in the San Francisco Bay area (Stanford University) and Los Angeles (at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust).
Locations of their third, 2009, US speaking tour were: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida; Palladium Theater at St. Petersburg College, Florida; Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, California; University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Moorpark College, California; Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, California.
In 2005 Rammerstorfer released a new German biography and DVD Nein statt Ja und Amen – 100 Jahre ungebrochener Wille. The book also contains a short biography of the German conscientious objector Joachim Escher: Escher was detained between 1937 and 1945 in several prisons and the concentration camps Sachsenhausen, Niederhagen and Buchenwald; in Buchenwald he was servant to the former French government members Georges Mandel and Léon Blum, whom the Germans kept as hostages.
The French version of the book entitled Une volonté de fer was released in 2007.
In 2008 Rammerstorfer released a new version of the German book, entitled "Ungebrochener Wille", which Engleitner and Rammerstorfer presented at Frankfurt Book Fair 2008, 2009 and 2011.In 2009 the new English book Unbroken Will: The Extraordinary Courage of an Ordinary Man-The Story of Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Leopold Engleitner, born 1905 based on the latest German version was released at Harvard University. The Austrian president, Heinz Fischer, described in his foreword the book as "a milestone in correspondence about the horror of Nazism." Brewster Chamberlin, director of archives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC from 1986 to 1997, wrote a preface. Further prefaces were written by the founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service, Andreas Maislinger, Franz Jägerstätter and Leopold Engleitner, and Walter Manoschek, from the University of Vienna, "No more War!"
In 2009 the new English book Unbroken Will: The Extraordinary Courage of an Ordinary Man-The Story of Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Leopold Engleitner, born 1905 based on the latest German version was released at Harvard University. The Austrian president, Heinz Fischer, described in his foreword the book as "a milestone in correspondence about the horror of Nazism." Brewster Chamberlin, director of archives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC from 1986 to 1997, wrote a preface. Further prefaces were written by the founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service, Andreas Maislinger, Franz Jägerstätter and Leopold Engleitner, and Walter Manoschek, from the University of Vienna, "No more War!"
In May 2009 the songwriters Mark David Smith and Rex Salas from California wrote the song "Unbroken Will" for Leopold Engleitner. On 22 May 2009 Leopold Engleitner was presented with the song during an event at Moorpark College. The singer Phillip Ingram interprets "Unbroken Will". The song is available for download on the website www.unbrokenwill.com as well as the lyrics.
The Russian translation of the book Unbroken Will (Несломленная воля) was released in Russia in 2009. Engleitner and Rammerstorfer presented the book in Moscow at the Central Journalist House and at the book store "BIBLIO-GLOBUS" in September 2009.
In 2012 Bernhard Rammerstorfer produced with A. Ferenc Gutai the documentary film "LADDER in the LIONS' DEN - Freedom Is a Choice, Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Leopold Engleitner: A 107-Year-Old Eyewitness Tells His Story." The USA premiere took place at Laemmle's Town Center 5 Theatre in Encino, Los Angeles County, in November 2012 with Leopold Engleitner present. The German version, "LEITER in der LÖWENGRUBE", was released in Austria in March 2013. In April 2013 the film was awarded "Best Documentary Short" by the Fallbrook International Film Festival 2013, of Fallbrook, California, and "Best Short Documentary" by the Rincòn International Film Festival 2013, of Rincòn, Puerto Rico.
Engleitner is the subject of Rammerstorfer's educational DVD Unbroken Will. which contains the full documentary plus films of special events relating to Engleitner's awareness-raising activities from 1999 to 2004, as well as material on the Holocaust for use in schools in English, German, Italian, and Spanish.
In 2006 Rammerstorfer produced the documentary Unbroken Will Captivates the United States, relating to the 2004 US tour. which was premiered at the Laemmle's Music Hall 3 Theatre in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.
Rammerstorfer also produced the documentary Unbroken Will USA Tour, relating to the 2006 US tour, which was premiered in the USA at the Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theatre, West Hollywood, in 2009.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Oldest surviving Nazi concentration camp survivor dead at 107". 2 May 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Valencia, Milton J. (5 May 2009). "Holocaust survivor, 103, tells students of resisting Nazis - The Boston Globe". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
Sources[edit]
##Book Unbroken Will: The Extraordinary Courage of an Ordinary Man-The Story of Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Leopold Engleitner, born 1905 (Austria, 2009)
##Educational DVD Unbroken Will (USA, 2004)
##DVD Unbroken Will Captivates the United States (USA, 2006)
##DVD Unbroken Will USA Tour (USA, 2009)
##"Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi Regime: 1933-1945" by Hans Hesse, Edition Temmen, 2003, ISBN 3-86108-750-2, ISBN 978-3-86108-750-2
##"Though Weak, I Am Powerful" as told by Leopold Engleitner, The Watchtower, May 1, 2005, page 23-28
##"For Jehovah in the concentration camp - Engleitner", DiePresse.com, 8 May 2010, online, in German
##"107-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Dies", Encino-Tarzana Patch, May 8, 2013, [1]
External links[edit]
##Web site of Leopold Engleitner
##News about his tour in 2006 on YouTube


Authority control
WorldCat ·
 VIAF: 36460157 ·
 LCCN: no00035185 ·
 GND: 122709586
 




 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  


Categories: Austrian Jehovah's Witnesses
Nazi concentration camp survivors
Austrian centenarians
1905 births
2013 deaths
Austrian conscientious objectors
Austrian Christian pacifists
Buchenwald concentration camp survivors
Ravensbrück concentration camp survivors
Niederhagen concentration camp survivors
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
People from Salzburg-Umgebung District
People from Bad Ischl













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