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Louis Prima Jr. is an incredible singer, songwriter, trumpeter and bandleader. With his band "Louis Prima Jr. & The Witnesses," Louis Prima Jr. continues his father's legacy performing all the Prima hits plus new songs live across the world. Their third album comes out in 2022 and they just released a super-catchy Christmas single, "Hey, Skinny Santa!"

Louis Jr.'s father is the legendary Louis Prima, The King of Swing. Louis Prima performed for Presidents Roosevelt and Kennedy. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and the rest of the rat pack would come to listen to Louis. When asked, Elvis Presley said that his "all shook up" wiggle was based on him. He was the voice of King Louie in The Jungle Book, immortalised in the song "I Wanna Be Like You".

Website: https://www.louisprimajr.com/

Prior Albums:

"Blow"

"Return Of The Wildest"

Link to Louis Prima Documentary

Madeline Bell is a world class jazz, pop and soul singer who has contributed to some of the greatest music of ALL time.

She has released numerous solo albums revealing an array of styles and she was part of the pop combo Blue Mink with whom she had a string of top ten hits in the UK.

Dusty Springfield did backing vocals for her and she has been a backing singer for Dusty, Stevie Wonder, John Lennon, Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Donna Summer, Donovan, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker, Tom Jones, and many more. Madeline talks with great candour and humour about being expelled from school, her rise to fame in the UK and Europe, her dual life as a soloist and backing singer and the incredible fellow musicians she has met along the way.

Here are links to a few of the songs discussed in Madeline's conversation:

I'm Gonna Make you Love me Madeline Bell - I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (1968) - YouTube

Melting Pot (No 3, UK Pop Charts) BLUE MINK - Melting Pot (RARE LIVE UK TV 1970) Ft Roger Cook & Madeline Bell - YouTube

Bannerman (No 3, UK Pop Charts) Blue Mink - The Banner Man (1972) - YouTube

Prison, Space SPACE Prison - YouTube

Joe Cocker: With a Little Help from my Friends Joe Cocker - With a little help from my friends - YouTube

Rolling Stones: You Can't Always Get What You Want The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube

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Rageh Omaar has covered and reported from some of the most hostile places on earth. His career has spanned the BBC, Al Jazeera and ITN. He is a reporter, a documentary maker, author, newscaster and is now International Affairs Editor at ITV. In this conversation Rageh talks about how he became a journalist, his time with the BBC reporting from Iraq during the 2003 invasion and what it was like to interview Nelson Mandela. He discusses the highs and lows of being a journalist and reflects on his life's work throwing a spotlight on war, terror, trauma and tragedy.

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Recommended Books:

Revolution Day: The Real Story for the Battle for Iraq

Only Half of Me: Being a Muslim in Britain

Related Movies:

Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom

Actor, narrator, screenplay writer and author Jeff Rawle talks about how he fell into acting, his time at drama school, landing the lead in a new television comedy Billy Liar just two days out of drama school, working with Alan Bennett, his time as George Dent in Drop the Dead Donkey and what it was like to be Amos Diggory in Harry Potter. Having been in the industry for forty-eight years, Jeff shares experiences and encounters across his television, film and theatre careers and talks about the hugely diverse roles he has played all with great humour, affection, honesty and insight.

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Related Movies:

Harry Potter

The Young Poisoner's Handbook

Billy Liar

Drop the Dead Donkey

Peterloo

Sonia Jones is one of the top backing vocalists and vocal coaches in the music industry. She sang the title track to Monty Python's Life of Brian when she was only sixteen years old, she was the lead in the Broadway Production Dreamtime and has performed in multiple other musicals plus the TV show Let's Rock. She has toured with The Who, Spandau Ballet, Mike Oldfield and James Last; she has recorded with The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Simple Minds, Peter Gabriel to name but a few, she has performed with the likes of Dave Gilmour, Annie Lennox and David Byrne. In this conversations Sonia talks about how she left Wales as a teenager determined to forge her career as a singer against her family's wishes and shares some of her top moments with the world's greatest musicians in a jam-packed conversation of music insights, adventures and laughter.

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Related Recommendations:

Brian Song

Cerrone Harmony Tokyo Harbour

Saxophonist Chris White played with Dire Straits for 10 years.

He has also recorded and played with many other top artists including Sir Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Aretha Franklin, Robbie Williams, Chris de Burgh, Aztec Camera, Haircut 100.

More recently he has been managing and touring with his band 'The Dire Straits Experience' and has a packed tour scheduled in multiple venues though-out Europe through to May next year.

Chris talks about how hearing the saxophone played on television at the age of thirteen triggered his lifelong passion and career as a saxophonist, what it was like playing at The Live Aid and Nelson Mandela Concerts at Wembley Stadium and some of the extraordinary experiences he encountered along the way.

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Related Links:

Romeo and Juliet Live at Nelson Mandela Concert Wembley '88

Eva Hamilton has spent most of her life turning around the lives of some of the most marginalised members of society including inner city youth, the homeless, war veterans, young offenders and with those at risk of offending. In 2005 she was awarded an MBE by Prince Charles alongside whom she has worked for many years. Eva talks about how this evolved; how working with Mother Theresa changed the course of her life, her 'lightbulb' moments that led her to transform the lives of others, her struggles with mental health, the healing power of horses, her own healing abilities and spirituality and she shares some of the invaluable life lessons she has learned along the way.

https://key4life.org.uk/

Joy film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIwPsgP9KSg&t=609s

Film of young men with the horses:

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