![]() In 2014, he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. īeck earned wide critical praise and received the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance six times and Best Pop Instrumental Performance once. ![]() Although he recorded two successful albums (in 19) as a solo act, Beck did not establish or maintain commercial success like that of his contemporaries and bandmates. Rolling Stone described him as "one of the most influential lead guitarists in rock". He was often called a "guitarist's guitarist". In 1975, he switched to an instrumental style with focus on an innovative sound, and his releases spanned genres and styles ranging from blues rock, hard rock, jazz fusion and a blend of guitar-rock and electronica.īeck was ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone and other magazines' lists rankings of the greatest guitarists. He rose to prominence as a member of the rock band the Yardbirds, and afterwards founded and fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice. Geoffrey Arnold Beck (24 June 1944 – 10 January 2023) was an English guitarist. ![]()
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![]() They share a moment of mutual attraction, and Ari asks her to help by working in the camp. When Ari meets Mark to ask for his support, he also meets Kitty. Elsewhere, David Ben Ami and Ari Ben Canaan, members of the Jewish underground, discuss a plan to illegally move 300 Jewish children to Palestine in a ship called the Exodus. ![]() Although Mark says he is there on holiday, the British Army is concerned that he will document them confining Jews to refugee camps so that they cannot travel to Palestine. It begins in Cyprus in 1946 with Mark Parker, an American journalist, meeting his childhood friend, Kitty Fremont, a nurse who looks after orphans on the island. ![]() ![]() Both highly celebrated and widely critiqued, Exodus explores themes of faith, duty, sacrifice, and freedom through the tale of the struggle to create the state of Israel in Palestine. ![]() ![]() Edwards Award and has been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. Laurie was selected by the American Library Association for the 2009 Margaret A. ![]() Two more books, Shout and The Impossible Knife of Memory, were long-listed for the National Book Award. ![]() Two of her books, Speak and Chains, were National Book Award finalists, and Chains was short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie medal. Laurie has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award four times. Her new book, SHOUT, a memoir-in-verse about surviving sexual assault at the age of thirteen and a manifesta for the #MeToo era, has received widespread critical acclaim and appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for seven consecutive weeks. ![]() Combined, her books have sold more than 8 million copies. UPDATE! SHOUT, my memoir in verse, is out, has received 9 starred reviews, and was longlisted for the National Book Award!įor bio stuff: Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers, teens, and adults. ![]() |