People who have obviously written their own Wikipedia entry, S/D C/D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grado_(wrestler)

https://i.imgur.com/agv6WYh.jpg

I listened to Dionne Warwick's Cole Porter tribute album recently, which has some rather dated and inappropriate production. Ended up finding the Wiki bio of "Plex" Barnhart:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Barnhart

Barnhart wasted no time in infiltrating and familiarizing himself to club owners and managers as well as club promoters and doormen to eventually be on the A-list, and VIP memberships of some of the cities most coveted nightclubs.

That Kurt Russell entry is hilarious btw.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/04/politics/kfile-seb-gorka-wikipedia/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Sharpville

that sullen photo is beyond revolting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Haskett

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holy shit you've cracked the code

Feel a little sad posting this as I only checked it because he died on Sunday, but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyd_Jarvis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Haggerwood

The period music video was the biggest challenge of the project, but after a long search, Leigh found talented British director, Nick Bartleet, who shared his vision and helped make it a reality. As the plans progressed, American cinematographer John Perez offered his services as Director of Photography, and the extraordinary video was shot at Blists Hill Victorian Town at Ironbridge in Shropshire. The song and video [1] received a public response through social networking websites with many people describing it as a future classic.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Bobcat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute_Force_(musician)

In July 1968 he and friend, Ben Schlossberg Jr., participated in an expedition to swim from Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska to Siberia, 50 miles across the Bering Strait. They made it halfway, stopping between Big Diomede and Little Diomede Islands.( Life Magazine, September 1968. The Scene/Wales, Alaska, Cold Swim From Here to Tuesday, by John Frook)

In 2010, Bar None Records reissued and released Brute Force's first solo album I, Brute Force – Confections of Love with bonus tracks not contained on the original 1967 vinyl edition. Brute Force's mind-busting single "The King of Fuh" was also included among songs by James Taylor, Badfinger, Mary Hopkin and others on Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records, released in October 2010.

After leaving show business for a period of time and working as a paralegal, Friedland began performing in many comedy venues, and acted in the film Ghostbusters, appeared at a Beatlesfest in New Jersey, performing "King Of Fuh", and subsequently was interviewed by Brett Alan on a Beatles radio show on WNNJ radio, also in New Jersey.

Brute Force traveled to Los Angeles in 2001 to play the Scramarama festival at the historic Palace Theater downtown, and toured England in 2004 with Misty's Big Adventure, playing in Liverpool, Birmingham, London and Nottingham, plus a personal performance of a unique song to thoroughbred mare "Premier Bid" upon the occasion of her 30th birthday in Goole Fields. In honour of Brute Force, the horse's owners named a foal "Special Bru" after the singer in late 2004. He performed with his daughter Lilah, known as Daughter of Force, in the Truck Music Festival, UK.

In June 2006, The King of Fuh, a musical comedy, written by Friedland, was produced at the Players Club, New York City, with Brute Force himself as the King.

Brute Force continues to perform at venues in the 21st century. In 2015 he appeared briefly in the film Birdman, and plays The Director in the English version of the Enrique Iglesias/Nicky Jam music video, Forgiveness.

9/2015, Friedland returns to his birthplace, Jersey City, NJ, as the BRUTE FORCE documentary has a screening at the Golden Door Film Festival with a performance by Brute and Daughter of Force at Brightside Tavern.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reverend_Horton_Heat

Heath decided then and there to form a band and came up with the name Reverend Horton Heat, as an ode to Johnny Horton, using the shortened version of his last name, Heath. Soon, life on the road took its toll on the marriage, and his wife left with their child and dog. Heath's feelings upon the loss of his family are well documented in the song "Where In The Hell Did You go With My Toothbrush?" The Jimi Hendrix poster mentioned in the song was on the back of a door that Heath used for a practice room in the house he shared with his wife and child. The dog's name really was Smokey.

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In the spring of 1989 Heath met and befriended Charles F. Reid Jr. (aka "Charlie Ray"). Initially a full-time roadie for the band, Reid's role was expanded to include the job of booking agent/manager by the fall of 1989. Touring constantly through the Midwest and the West Coast, RHH quickly became a sellout act everywhere they played. In the fall of 1990 a bidding war to sign RHH developed between Hollywood's XXX Records and Seattle's Sub Pop Records. After moving to Seattle to run The Vogue on 1st Ave, Charlie Ray and attorney Barry Simons secured a two-record deal with an option for three more, with Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman from Sub Pop.

These are all fantastic.

Animal Magic displayed an intelligent collection of slick, soul-influenced, mid-tempo tunes. A couple of ballads offered some diversity: one of them, "I Backed a Winner (in You)", is a heartfelt track, mostly a cappella, with lead singer Dr. Robert, softly playing acoustic guitar while giving the lyrics its perceptive rhythm, where his vocals, and especially those of an aptly named ensemble, The Demon Barbers, acting as a sort of doo wop choir. Amongst the album's many gems is also a duet with Jamaican toaster Eek-A-Mouse on the duet "Sweet Murder".

Radice has self-produced several albums which include a variety of previously unreleased material. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/markradice4

With a catalog of over 3000 songs that are still unreleased, you can expect to see more of such albums. http://users.skynet.be/rockofages/Markradicedisco/

From 2005 to 2011 Radice wrote 160 songs for Sesame Street, including rearranging the Theme in 2008 to reflect a more urban, current sound.

"I basically channeled Stevie Wonder's "I Wish" he says about the rearrangement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_QnYaKbQY

He was nominated for three Emmy Awards for his work "on the street" as Radice puts it. [1].

In 2012 Radice moved to Tennessee and took two years to write 27 songs, one for each letter of the alphabet plus a "new" alphabet

song, for the Sing And Spell Learning Letters project http://www.singandspell.com/

In 2016 Radice won 100 free CDs from Discmakers so taking that cue, he released his first CD in 12 years since "Generation Why"

was released in 2004 https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/markradice3

called "Audio Quicksand" (sampler here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSUO3xq-m7s

The CD comes with a 12x12 20 page booklet, there are only 100 of them, and there are about 5 left.

Radice sold 70 of them the first week directly from Facebook.

The "Audio Quicksand" cover depicts Radice playing a guitar, as all the notes fly out of his head and into a toilet bowl that has

the YouTube logo on it. The record spans 37 years of recordings in 15 songs.

in November 2016 Radice was approached to write an all instrumental "Chill" CD and eventually named it ICEPAK29_TRANCEFUSION

ICEPAK being half Radice (ICE) and half Bill Packard (PAK) and is due for release on July 15th 2017.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Shaheed

Nolan Shaheed (born Nolan Andrew Smith, Jr.;[1][2] July 18, 1949 in Pasadena, California) is an American jazz musician, specializing in the cornet and trumpet, and a world record holding masters athlete. No matter what Nolan does, he does it the best and no one can touch him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Reed_Network

Contents
1 Breathless beginnings
2 A "polished" debut
3 Slam dunks the funk
4 Feeling The Heat
5 Live at Last
6 Reunion
7 Anthology, a crowd funded project
8 The band returns to Fight Another Day
9 Dan Reed
10 Members
11 Discography
11.1 Dan Reed Network
11.2 Singles
11.3 Dan Reed
12 References
13 Sources
14 External links

A+

https://i.imgur.com/y8t2kyO.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Slide

His work as a writer and editor led Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times in to describe Slide as “a one-man publishing phenomenon". However, writing and editing are not his only attributes.

lol @ kaplan kaye

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nad_Sylvan

Nad Sylvan has a passion for gardening and is an expert connoisseur of flowers and plants. A skilled horse rider, having ridden since he was eleven years old, Nad loves also swimming and long walks in the woods, where he appreciates contact with nature and animals.

That paragraph can also be used as the 'personal profile' section on his CV/resume, and as part of his online dating profile.

I'd watch this biopic.

That’s when he definitively found the perfect name. When thinking about Nadine, he was asked for his first name and answered “Nad, full name, Nad Sylvan”.

Meanwhile Nad, thanks to his song “Yellow Sky” from “Sylvanite”, became Steve Gilmore’s “Artist of the Year”.

If you're writing your own Wikipedia entry, then you're not famous enough to have a Wikipedia entry.

love this aside

His band, “Avenue”, was influenced by Genesis (band), Yes (band), Gentle Giant and Camel (band). Punk rock arrived also on the scene at this time and in 1980 he formed the “Chris Stewart Band”, writing music in the style of Gino Vannelli and Al Jarreau.

Woo boy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Louie_Bankston

King Louie Bankston (a.k.a. King Louie, born Louis Paul Bankston) is a rock and roll musician from New Orleans. Associated early on with garage punk, he abandoned the genre in 1998 and has focused on Louisiana swamp pop, boogie woogie, boogie rock and power pop. He is best known for his work in the Royal Pendletons, The Persuaders, The Exploding Hearts, and The King Louie One Man Band.[1] Bankston has toured Europe and the United States since the very early 1990s. He has released 53 records in the vinyl format. Louie does not use any outside promotion and uses a strict rule of ATTRACTION AND NOT PROMOTION for his music. Louis currently plays music based out of Oakland CA and lives in a suburb of New Orleans LA. Bankston has lived in New Orleans, Portland, and Memphis.

The rest of the entry definitely confirms he wrote it.

hahahahaha one of my best friends from college is also in that band

I was literally looking at a cartoon of them yesterday

I was also thinking abt this thread because I recently saw this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_Crimewave

[David Samuels'] article, entitled "The Pink Panthers," was an idiosyncratic travelogue that detailed the group's cinematic robberies against the backdrop of recent Balkan history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po!

Po! was originally formed by Ruth Miller (vocals and guitar), with Julian Glover (bass) and Mark Fuccio (drums). Usually subsumed under the C86 or twee pop headings - which is not essentially to misrepresent them - they possessed considerable originality. In particular, the themes of misogyny, disappointment, and nostalgia act as a counterpoint to the vocals, melodies, and jangly guitars so characteristic of the genre.

Part of the fanzine scene, Po!'s first release was the flexidisc Hopscotch in the Snow, which a Leicestershire fanzine Samantha produced from locally recorded demos in 1987. Jan Frazer replaced Fuccio on drums for this recording. This was picked up by BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, and provoked some interest. In 1988 Po! released another flexidisc, this time shared with The Originals, who played the backing instruments on 'Glass King'. There followed an album, released on the band's own Rutland Records label, entitled Little Stones, 1000 copies of which were pressed. It cost just £20 to record. The backing tracks were recorded on a Tascam reel-to-reel four-track at MikTon Studios (a former factory at 45 Chatham Street, Leicester; now private flats).The backing musicians for Little Stones were members of The Originals; Yvonne Blair (drums & percussion); Kevin Young (Guitar); Terri Lowe (Guitars, Bass Guitar). Equipment was supplied by Lowe and borrowed from Phil Hudson, the sound engineer at The Princess Charlotte, the premier music venue in Leicester. Bob Dylan, an influence, was represented in the form of a cover version of "All I Really Wanna Do", which featured a black 12-string Rickenbacker guitar.

Ruth continued to play, bringing in Mary Mills (Bass Guitar) and Jan Frazer returned on Drums. Frazer left and Lowe was added on Guitar, with Craig (?) on Drums.

[...]

Miller, who played the character of Bridget in the comedy soap opera "Chez Lester", broadcast on the Cable 7 community TV channel, was married and had two children with Lowe, but is now divorced. Miller works as a deputy headmistress.

;_;

I wish all minor bands who didn't do anything much could be covered by wikipedia in this detail, I have had to fight long and hard to get perfectly notable bands on there because NME and MM archives are not online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phkpLJXuHZA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Horde_(band)

Regarded as some of the few musicians to stick so resolutely to their principles that they arguably did a disservice to their career, nevertheless, the band did attain some commercial success. Yet, that in itself has always been surpassed by the cult underground following The Golden Horde retain to the present day. More significant again is their influence across a variety of alternative musical acts, which continues to propagate further with the digitization of rare, unreleased, and live recordings, and performances.

Simon Carmody now pursues a career in screenwriting.
John Connor is based in New York City. One of his solo music projects is 'messyheads' [23][24]
Sam Steiger now performs with The Sultans of Ping FC.
Peter O'Kennedy now works in sculpture, art and design.[25]
Des O'Byrne is a performing DJ in the US.

Joining the group in 1983, the group had another level of creativity and talent with the presence of the PRINCE OF SOUND himself, who is also known in the group by the moniker the Stetsa-Human Mix Machine provided beatboxing and other human percussion. Also, what many didn't know was that he was the very first Latino human beat box to hit the hip hop scene.

Wise debuted his Human Turntable technique of beatboxing on the band's first single, which was released in 1985. There was also another single from the album in which Wise and Daddy-O collaborated. While Daddy-O performs the vocals, Wise gives his version of "Impeach the President," which happens to be the very first time that a human beatbox was heard adding a song-like rhythm to the beat that was coming out of his mouth on the song "Faye"[citation needed] which was on the group's first album.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Dickerson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Adora

The first song the pair wrote was "Friday Night Explodes", which explored their experiences of working all week and getting drunk at Snobs nightclub in the city every Friday night.

The band met manager Mark Chester (who thought King Adora "were like The Clash, they were the perfect band") and gave him a three-track demo, which he circulated amongst A&R representatives

King Adora were heavily publicised by Kerrang! and Melody Maker magazines, though they lost support from the latter publication when it was merged with NME (who took a lukewarm view of the band) in late 2000

King Adora were sent to record their debut album at Sawmills Studios in Cornwall with producer John Cornfield in late 2000, away from record company interference. Pictures of the studio's previous clients (Muse, The Stone Roses, The Verve) on the studio walls provided inspiration during the sessions.

After working on further demos for their second album and leaking them on their official website, King Adora bounced back with a UK tour in October and November 2002, debuting new songs "Kamikaze" and "Maniac Love". Despite low attendances at some gigs, Browne commented that "we’d been away for a year with no singles and no press so you’ve got to expect a degree of that any way.

Lack of label support and changing tastes in the UK guitar music scene led King Adora to split in 2005.

Every one of their singles has its own Wikipedia page, but none of the band members.

changing tastes in the UK guitar music scene

Love that. It's definitely a self-authorship tell.

Crowley often makes an occasional 'supersub' appearances on BBC 6 Music and for a while hosted a weekly programme on Amazing Radio, a digital station dedicated to new and emerging music.

After retiring from basketball in 2018, Benson began painting. Painting was one of the hobbies he took on to fill his new found free time, but he didn't take himself seriously as a fine artist. It wasn't until July 2018 when that began to change. While out one night in Las Vegas, he found himself the victim of racially charged police brutality. The next day, badly shaken, he locked himself in his hotel room and didn't leave. That night, he ordered 3 huge canvases. It was the breaking point that crystallized the purpose of his paintings; he realized he was painting a positive reflection of his own life, one not bound by the biases or expectations of anyone, one that was bigger and brighter than any pair of handcuffs could contain. Rod questions: can we relieve minorities of this burden simply by adding some vibrancy to their identity? He'd like to think the answer is yes. To be dark does not necessitate a need to be represented as dangerous.[14]

He has his debut solo show entitled "Neon Black" in September 2018 and received critical acclaim for his efforts.

People who have obviously written part of someone else's wikipedia

The Milli Vanilli version of "Girl You Know It's True", recorded at Frank Farian's FAR studios in Rosbach, Germany in the spring of 1988, started with only a drum track and two female vocalists, Linda Rocco and Jodie Rocco, American twin sisters living in Germany and successful in the music industry. Frank asked the girls to listen to the Numarx version so they would know what to sing. The record was on a turntable in the studio and Frank played the vocal parts for the girls. There was only the drum track to follow, making the Rocco twins were the first vocals on the track.[citation needed][clarification needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_nudity_places_in_North_America#United_States

Sea Mountain Nude Resort and spa hotel Clothing Optional Resort and Spa in Desert Hot Springs is a popular nudist vacation resort. It is perfect for couples trying nude vacations for the first time. They won the Best of the Palm Springs Valley award in December 2017 for being the best Boutique hotel. Featuring a unique tobacco-free experience, they have one of the highest repeat guest rates in the travel industry.

This is a horrible, horrible masterpiece of the genre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Hoene

That's not a wikipedia entry, that's a CV.