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Carl Halling. Christian actor, singer, songwriter, writer, other. I was born on the Goldhawk Road, W6, in the Chiswick/Shepherds Bush/Hammersmith district of west London, UK. CD (Tasman Records) A Taste of Summer Wine - James Hughes, Carl Halling and the

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Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes What it means to be a punk: 7 of 14
I was seduced by the Punk cult back in '77, and here is an extract from my autobiographical writings concerning that strange time, looking back from the perspective of a Christian, as I am today: Having been impressed by the hairstyle of one of a coterie of Punks I knew by sight from nights out in Dartford, a large suburban ... More..
Creative Writing > Essays Essays: From Bohemia to modernism: 1 of 1
1) The March of the Modern Perhaps it was the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley who first gave expression to the concept of an avant garde of artists on the cutting edge of innovation by asserting that "Poets are the unaknowledged legislators of the world", although it is likely that the first use of the term in an ... More..
Arts & Humanities > Playwrights & Plays Biography: Claire Bloom: 1 of 1
Claire Bloom. One of the most magnetically beautiful actresses of the 20th century, she was born Patricia Clara Blume in London in 1931. Her Liverpool born father was the son of immigrants from Russia and Latvia, her mother a Londoner, Elizabeth Grew, also being of European ancestry. Her early stage career, following her ten... More..
Entertainment > Celebrity Biographies Biography: Anthony Andrews: 1 of 1
Anthony Andrews. Actor, born 1949. In the masterful 1981 TV film version of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" adapted by John Mortimer, and directed by Michael Lindsay Hogg and Charles Sturridge he delivered what was arguably the finest and most hauntingly powerful performance ever in a British television drama series as... More..
Entertainment > Celebrity Biographies Biography: Kevin Lloyd: 1 of 1
Kevin Lloyd. Actor, born Derby 1940. Brother of the journalist Terry Lloyd. Best known for the role of moustachioed detective DC "Tosh" Lynes in the excellent TV series "The Bill"; and yet he began his career as a highly gifted and strikingly attractive stage actor with the Britol Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare Company follow... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Dark poems: 667 of 1293
Some Perverse Will Some Perverse Will I'm a restless man I am never Still I'm always spurred on By some perverse Will The grass is never Green No peace here To find Some demon Of motion's At work within my Mind No bed is too soft That I won't Abandon It's sweet calm And comfort For a softer One I'm a restless man I am never ... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Poets: 79 of 134
The Long Dark Night of Alfred de Musset, Romantic poet: The young Musset, was irresistible and brilliant, high born and elegant. "I didn't want to write, he imperiously announced, unless I could be a Shakespeare or a Schiller". He carefully catalogued his passionate youth in "La Confession D'un Enfant du Siecle", and revelle... More..
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Early memories of school days: 14 of 23
Gambolling Baby Boomers (part one) Introduction "Gambolling Baby Boomers", the first of a series of seventies-themed pieces, tells how I came to be conditioned by my environment in the early 1970s after leaving Pangbourne College, a traditional British public school of military kind situated near the little Thameside village... More..
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Friendship: 51 of 82
Jesse: a Seventies Friendship Days at Greenhithe In late 1977, with the purpose of training to become a radio officer I joined the now no longer existent Merchant Navy College in Greenhithe, Kent, which had merged with the Thames Nautical Training College HMS Worcester in 1968. At the college, I formed several close friendsh... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Contemplating the 1980s: 10 of 16
Contemplating the 1980s 1. Like Some New Romantic 1981 was the year in which I became a kind of hanger-on of a youth movement originally dubbed "The Cult with no Name", and whose origins lay in the late 1970s largely among discontented ex-Punks reacting to the increasingly drab uniformity of Punk Johnny Come Latelys. The New... More..