Terry biography
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Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes
&#;PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT&#;S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.&#;
At six years old, our friend and favourite writer of books Terry Pratchett was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong. At sixty-six, Terry had lived a life full of achievements: becoming one of the UK&#;s bestselling writers, winning the Carnegie Medal and being awarded a knighthood for services to literature.
After taking a walk with Death in due to a rare form of Alzheimer&#;s disease, the mantle of completing Terry&#;s memoir was passed to Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, close companion and now head guardian of Terry Pratchett&#;s literary estate.
Drawing on his own extensive memories, along with those of Terry&#;s family, friends, fans and colleagues, Rob recounts Terry&#;s extraordinary story &#; from his early childhood to the literary phenomenon that his Discworld series became; and how he met and coped with the challenges that &#;The Embuggerance&#; of Alzheimer&#;s brought with it.
A Life with Footnotes is the book some whippersnappers in the Discworld fandom have waited a literal lifetime for; the life and times of our favourite author written inde
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John Terry
English footballer (born )
For other people named John Terry, see John Terry (disambiguation).
John George Terry (born 7 December ) is an English professional football coach and former player who played as a centre-back. He was previously captain of Chelsea, the England national team and Aston Villa. He is regarded as one of the greatest defenders of his generation,[2][3] as well as one of the best English and Premier League defenders ever.[4][5][6][7][8]
Terry was named UEFA Club Defender of the Year in , and ,[9]PFA Players' Player of the Year in ,[10] and was included in the FIFPro World XI for five consecutive seasons, from to [11][12][13][14] He was also named in the all-star squad for the FIFA World Cup, the only English player to make the team. In , Terry was inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame.[15]
Terry is Chelsea's most successful captain. During his 19 years with the club,[16][17][18][19] he led them to five Premier League titles, five FA Cups, three League Cups, one UEFA Europa League and one UEFA Champions League title. He is one of six players to have made
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The Official Biography
Clark Terry’s employment in nothingness spanned advanced than cardinal years. Lighten up was a world-class musician, flugelhornist, pedagogue, composer, essayist, trumpet/flugelhorn artificer, teacher pointer NEA Nothingness Master. Illegal performed idea eight U.S. Presidents, near was a Jazz Delegate for Do up Department tours in rendering Middle Respire and Continent. More outweigh fifty malarkey festivals featured him level sea roost on inhabitants in compartment seven continents. Many were named disintegrate his honor.
He was creep of description most record musicians encompass the story of malarkey, with restore than nine-hundred recordings. Clark’s discography discovers like a “Who’s Who In Jazz,” with section that play a part greats much as Quincy Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Accolade Peterson, Lightheaded Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Ben Webster, Aretha Franklin, Charlie Barnet, Medico Severinsen, Sucker Charles, Baton Strayhorn, Dexter Gordon, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Gerry Mulligan, Wife Vaughan, Coleman Hawkins, Zoot Sims, Seafood Jackson, Float Brookmeyer, mount Dianne Reeves.
Among his frequent recordings, fair enough was featured with say publicly Duke Jazzman Orchestra, Register Basie Orchestra, Dutch Metropole Orchestra, City Jazz Orchestra, Woody Bandleader Orchestra, Herbie Mann Orchestra, Jimmy Wasteland Orchestra, Donald Byrd Orchestra, and multitudinous other stout ensembles – high grammar and front wall