Anneke Thomas

1949-1987

 

 

Anneke Thomas was born on october the 27th in 1949. She grew up as an only child.

Her parents got divorced when she was very small. When she was 5 and a half years

old, her mother remarried again. The man her mother married would be her "father"

from now on. She got married at the age of sixteen in 1966. At seventeen she gave birth

to her first child and three years later a second baby was born. After being married for

more than twelve years, she divorced her first husband and in 1979 she got married

for the second time. In 1980 she gave birth to her third and last child.

 

Anneke was a huge fan of Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones while growing up.

In particular "Mick Jagger". Who she found extremely sexy. Their song "gimme shelter"was played during the memorial service before the funeral.

 

 

    

                 

 

 

 

below a video of the rolling stones, gimme shelter, a song played at her funeral

 

Elvis, starring Elvis Presley, was the title of a 1968 United States television special.

It aired on December 3, 1968 on the NBC television network. The special is commonly referred to as the '68 Comeback Special. The soundtrack album was released simply as

NBC-TV Special.

 

Scheduled as a Christmas season broadcast, Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker,

wanted the show to be little more than Presley singing Christmas carols.

Steve Binder, producer and director of the show, argued that the special was an opportunity

to re-establish the singer's reputation after years of formula movies and recordings of

variable quality. They envisaged large set designs, dance sequences and big productions of Presley's hits. The special eventually included an extravagant musical sequence featuring Gospel-style numbers, a semi-autobiographical "mini-movie" centered around the song

"Guitar Man". Network censors forced the removal of one segment set in a bordello which featured the song "Let Yourself Go". The special ends with Presley appealing for world peace with the song "If I Can Dream."

 

     

 

 

It was after rehearsals at Western Recorders that Binder took special note of how Presley

and the other musicians would spontaneously unwind by improvising old blues and

rock 'n' roll numbers. Binder commented: "...and that's when I really got the idea:

Wouldn't it be great if I had a camera in here and they didn't know I was here?"

Presley is said to have been very apprehensive about the idea of performing live.

His last live concert had been at the Bloch Arena in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,

on March 25, 1961.

 

Binder offered a lot of support. He quickly arranged for rehearsals to take place to

capture the feel of Presley's informal studio jamming, drafting in the surviving members

of Presley's original backing band - Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana. He also brought in Presley's friends Alan Fortas, Lance LeGault and Charlie Hodge to encourage Presley and make him feel at ease.

 

          

 

At 6.00pm, June 27, Presley took to the stage for the first time in over seven years,

resulting in four one-hour live shows being taped at NBC's Burbank studios. A black-clad Presley sat down and jammed with band mates for two shows, each show having a

different audience. In the second two, recorded at 8.00pm, June 29, he remained

standing and sang live to a mix of live and pre-recorded backing, again in front of two different audiences.

 

At the beginning of the '68 Special project, a nervous Presley had said to the executive producer Bob Finkel: "I want everyone to know what I can really do." Critics generally

agree that the broadcast did show what Elvis Presley really could do - in addition to making profitable, if generally uninspired movies and soundtracks. The ' 68 Special is widely

credited with revitalizing his career: chart statistics for the summer of 1968 suggest that Presley's recording career was becoming all but non-existent. After the special, he began

his stint in Las Vegas and toured, achieving a string of record-breaking sell-out

performances across America. Chart successes returned, including a U.S. number one

in 1969 ("Suspicious Minds") and a U.K. number one ("The Wonder of You", (1970))- his

first since 1965.

 

The live segments of the '68 Comeback Special in particular gave the audience more than

a glimpse of Presley's charismatic and emotionally charged performing style that won him

his first fans in the 1950s.

 

Below some videos of the 1968 comeback:

 

(b. 2 February 1948 Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire -

 d. 29 July 1973, Zandvoort Circuit, Netherlands)

 

 

Roger Williamson was a racing driver from England. He was killed during the 1973

Dutch Grand prix. During the race, Williamson suffered a sudden tyre deflation, which pitched his car into the barriers at high speed and catapulted itDuring the race, Williamson suffered a sudden tyre deflation, which pitched his car into the barriers at high speed and catapulted it

275 metres across the track, eventually coming to rest upside down against the barriers on the other side, during which his petrol tank had ignited while being scraped along the track. A fire began to take hold and Williamson was unable to extricate himself. Fellow driver and friend David Purley abandoned his own race in a desperate and valiant attempt to rescue him.

Williamson had not been seriously injured by the impact, and was heard shouting to Purley to get him out of the car as Purley tried in vain to turn the car upright. Initially the commentators on Dutch TV, race control and some of the other drivers participating in the race assumed that it was Purley's car that had crashed and that the driver had escaped unharmed. As a result the race continued at full pace while Purley desperately tried to save the life of his friend.

 

   

 

The fire marshals stationed at the corner where the accident occurred were both poorly trained and badly equipped, and it was left to Purley to snatch the sole fire extinguisher and attempt to put out the fire. The marshals, who were not wearing flame retardant, overalls, stood by as the fire spread, awaiting the arrival of the fire truck, which had to navigate across the track while the race was still in progress. The fire was relatively small for at least three minutes and there was more than ample time to right the car and pull Williamson out, but as desperately as he tried, Purley was unable to do it by himself. In what was seen by many as the most shocking aspect of the incident, one of the marshals tried to pull Purley away from the wreck as the helpless Williamson remained trapped. Some spectators, appalled at the seeming indifference of the marshals to Williamson's plight, tried to breach the safety fences in order to help Purley, but were pushed back by track security staff with dogs. It was some eight minutes before the first fire truck arrived on the scene. By the time the car was eventually righted, and the fire extinguished, Williamson had died of asphyxiation.

 

A blanket was thrown over the burnt out wreck with Williamson still inside, and the race carried on.  Niki Lauda was reported after the race to have felt "sick with guilt" that nobody had been willing or able to give Purley help.

Williamson participated in two Grands Prix, debuting on July 14, 1973. He did not score any championship points.

 

Photographs taken by Cor Mooij of the reaction of David Purley were awarded the World Press Photo for sports in 1974.

 

Below a fragment of the fatal accident:

 

February 1, 1968

 

 

Lisa Marie Presley  is the only daughter of Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley.

Treated to a life of luxury at the 14-acre estate known as Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee, life was still hard for young Lisa Marie. Her father's volatile character made an impression on her and, with all the media present, she was forced to retreat into her shell in order to find some peace and solitude.

 

 

 

  

 

 

Lisa Marie's late adolescent years were filled with partying, drugs and alcohol.

Priscilla stated on many occasions that when Lisa turned 13, she became a different child.

Lisa was hanging out with the wrong crowd and doing things she shouldn't have.

Priscilla put her in different schools through the years to try to get Lisa interested in something. She found out at a very young age that she liked to write poems

and little stories. Lisa would often lock herself in her room and listen to records,

and singing into a hairbrush.

 

  

 

In 1988, she married musician Danny Keough and with him she had two children:

Danielle Riley and Benjamin Storm. The marriage lasted five and a half years.

 

   

 Lisa with her children

 

 

After the divorce of her first husband Danny, she married Michael Jackson. They were friends prior to this marriage. She and MJ would make a lot of public appearances together and even did an interview with Diane Sawyer. The couple were married for a year and a half. It produced no children.

 

Since her second divorce, Lisa was on the cover of Vogue magazine and really getting out there. She showed up for music awards, opened an Elvis themed restaraunt with her mom, helped open a Scientology Center in Memphis and many other things. The most important thing she did to date was the 20th anniversary of her father's death. It was Lisa's singing debut! She did an Elvis tune with him via video. The song was "Don't Cry Daddy" and the place went wild. It was met with thunderous applause and many tears shed by very appreciative fans. 

 

 

In June 1998 Lisa signed a contract with Java Records.

 

Feb. 1, 2000 Lisa turned 33 and had a new boyfriend named John Oszajca. He was 25 at the time and they were engaged to be married. They were at a party for a mutual friend when

all of sudden, she meets actor, Nicolas Cage. She broke up with John and started dating

Nick.

 

Lisa is very passionate about the causes she believes in. One that's close to her heart is a project called, "Presley Place". It's helping families get back on their feet. It houses families for a year. Helps them find jobs and really helps in making people's lives better. Lisa Marie funded this project and was there to open to the apartments July 10, 2001.

 

She and Nicolas married on Aug. 12, but divorced after only 3 months of marriage.

 

 

During their marriage, Nic accompanied her to the 25th anniversary of Elvis' death and had the surprise of a lifetime. Lisa was finished her cd and let the fans have a taste of what was

to come...Lisa wrote a song for her father, called "Nobody Noticed It". Again it was met

tears and a standing ovation.

 

 

Feb. 26 2003 the premiere of Lisa's first video "Lights Out" was shown on VH1! March she

did interviews and t.v. shows, also on the cover of Rolling Stone, April 3 Lisa was on Good Morning America, April 8 "To Whom It May Concern" was FINALLY released! Not long after

the release of her first cd, it went GOLD!

 

2005, her second cd came out. It's called, "Now What".

In January 2006 she married her soulmate and bandmate Michael Lockwood.

 

 

Lisa and Michael Lockwood

 

 

 

 

   

 Like father, like daughter

 

 

 

 

23-06-1973 

 

 

Zinedine Zidane, popularly nicknamed Zizou, is a French former football

midfielder who played for four European clubs, including Juventus FC

and Real Madrid. As a member and later captain of the French national team

he participated in two World Cup finals - including winning the tournament

in 1998 - and in three European Championships, winning that tournament in 2000.

 

 

Zidane attracted worldwide attention in the 1998 World Cup final with two headed

goals against Brazil which won his country its first FIFA World Cup.

In the final of the 2001-02 UEFA Champions League he scored the winning goal for

Real Madrid.

 

   

 

At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he was named "Most Outstanding Player" of the

tournament, receiving the Golden Ball, captaining the French side that reached

the final. However, Zidane's career ended in controversy as he was dismissed

in extra-time of the 2006 Final for headbutting Italian defender Marco Materazzi.