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Lifetime achievement award goes to Chinese label industry’s founding father
Young people are the future of the sign industry in the UK
HP to showcase new business growth opportunities at photokina 2016
VersaUV Experience Day by Roland DG was successful
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Van Morrison Biography
Do you remember when we used to sing, Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da This 68…Neil Sedaka Biography.
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List of UK Singles Chart Christmas number ones from 2014-1952Biography of Tom Jones
A boy from nowhere still going strong. Pontypridd is not a place that springs to mind…Elmore James (1918-1963)
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“You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song”. This 65 year…The Beatles Biography 1970-2013 Part 4 of 4
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New T3 Affinity display system proves an ‘absolute winner’ for Irish company. One of the…Mimaki UJV55-320 To ‘WoW’ Visitors At Sign & Digital UK
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Arts & Entertainment
Lifetime achievement award goes to Chinese label industry’s founding father
Young people are the future of the sign industry in the UK
HP to showcase new business growth opportunities at photokina 2016
VersaUV Experience Day by Roland DG was successful
First Appearance Of MTEX 5032HS In UK
IDS Wins Red Dot Award
Life & Style
Xerox is splitting their company in two.
Soyang Europe Strengthens Sales Team
Burns To Chair New Xerox Company
IIJ Beefs-Up Technical Support
New Technical Service Engineer At Durst UK
Brother Goes Outside ‘The Box’
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We Will Rock YouIt comes to Dublin’s ‘O2’ on the 4th - 6th April 2013.
I wrote about Queen last year. You can see it and listen to all 34 videos here.
Buddy you're a boy make a big noise
You’re the rebel. You want to Rock the world. You’re the one who starts the revolution. Everywhere, the kids watch the same movies, wear the same fashions and think the same thoughts. It’s a safe, happy, carefree Ga Ga world.
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The singer who
exploded onto the world stage.
By Bob Tallent.
This 54 year old Italian is a five-time Classical Brit winner and three-time Grammy nominated Italian tenor. Since his debut album, released in 1994, after winning the newcomers section of the Sanremo Music Festival, with the song of the same name, to the release of his first Christmas album, “My Christmas,” the best-selling Christmas album and one of the best-selling albums of 2009, he has recorded over 20 pop and classical albums, including seven complete operas, selling over 70 million worldwide. He is widely regarded as the most popular Italian singer in the world and is a tenor, multi-instrumentalist and light classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became totally blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident. With the release of his classical album, “Sacred Arias,” he was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, as he simultaneously held the No. 1, 2 and 3 positions on the U.S. Classical albums charts.
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The Guitar Maestros
who let their fingers do the talking
By Bob Tallent
6th March 2013
Tommy EmmanuelLast August (2012), I booked 4 tickets to see Tommy Emmanuel in concert at the The Helix in Dublin. This was my third time seeing the virtuoso live in Dublin. I have been a fan of Tommy for many years and admire his style. Having watched practically every YouTube video of him over the years, I decided to see him for the first time in 2010 in the same venue.
So I booked two tickets, for my wife Loreto, and me. You see, I’ve been trying to teach myself guitar for the past few years and because I sing like a crow, I decided to learn fingerstyle. A 12 year old kid would be able to pick it up fairly quickly and be at my level in six months, but it has taken me six years to be just embarrassingly poor.
Read more: Review of Tommy Emmanuel concert on Tuesday 5th March 2013
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The Hurdy Gurdy Man who wrote of
Sunshine Superman
This 66 year old Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist has 28 studio albums – the first released in 1965 and the latest in 2012. He was arrested for marijuana possession in the mid ‘60’s and his albums have charted in both the US and UK over many years. During one of the periods when he ran away from home as a 14 year old, he found an old guitar and started to learn how to play it. At the age of 18 he signed his first publishing contract with Pye Records. Being a friend of leading pop musicians including Joan Baez, Brian Jones, Bruce Springsteen, and The Beatles, he was one of the few artists to collaborate on songs with the Beatles. He influenced both John Lennon and Paul McCartney when he taught them his finger-picking guitar style in 1968. More recently, in 2010 and ‘11, some of his songs were featured on three episodes of ‘The Simpsons’ and he released a new CD. In April 2012, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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The Quiet Man of Rock and Roll who sips tea on stage.
By Bob Tallent
This 63 year old man was born in Scotland and reared in the north east of England. He founded one of the most innovative and individualistic sounding bands in 1977 with his brother David and is a guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer. In his late teens and early 20s, he worked as a reporter, graduated with a degree in English and taught as a lecturer. While he is left handed, he plays the guitar right handed. Even though the acoustic guitar is better suited to finger picking, he has perfected it on the electric guitar. He fingerpicks using a personal variant of the clawhammer style instead of using a plectrum. Fingerpicking is usually associated with acoustic guitar, but this man usually (though not always) plays an electric guitar. He has received 22 awards in his life including an OBE and owns over 70 guitars. His genres include Rock, Roots Rock, Celtic Rock, Country Rock and Blues Rock. He is known as the ‘quiet man of rock and roll’, is shy by nature and sips tea on stage. In addition to having a guitar named after him by Fender, he also has a dinosaur named after him because the researchers who discovered the bones from six specimens in Madagascar reported that they found the fossils whilst listening to his music.
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Fun
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The Gay Cowboy
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