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Monday, 26 February 2018 14:35
The World’s Best Musicians Turned Entrepreneurs
Written by Chris Baxter
There’s no doubt that pop, rock and rap stars are some of the highest-paid entertainers on our planet. They have worldwide followings, with sold-out tours wherever they go, as well as millions of album sales. You’d think that would be enough money in the bank but, for some people, the challenge of going into business and building on that foundation as a global icon has proved too great.
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Wilson Pickett was born in 1941, in Prattville, Alabama and the fourth of 11 children. The family moved to Detroit in his mid-teens and he sang in several Baptist church choirs. His forceful, passionate style of singing was developed between the sacred and the secular whilst singing on the streets with the other kids.
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I was waiting at a chemist with a brick in my hand
I needed some pills to make me feel grand
I was about to give this window my lot when ..
The cops are coming
The cops are coming
You'd better lock your door if you don't dig jail.”
I needed some pills to make me feel grand
I was about to give this window my lot when ..
The cops are coming
The cops are coming
You'd better lock your door if you don't dig jail.”
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Stephen Malcolm Ronald Nice was born in 1951 in Lewisham, London. He grew up in London’s New Cross area and as a child learned to play the violin, when he was 10 his parent gave him his first guitar and Stephen played in the school orchestra. By the age of 12 years, he contracted polio and spent the next four years in hospital.
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