Singer-songwriter who rose to fame with his fellow Liverpool
lads in the most influential pop band of all time, The Beatles.

His songwriting partnership with John Lennon is the most
successful in music history.

Jennings was a singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He is
considered one of the pioneers of the outlaw movement in
country music.

Jennings started playing guitar at age eight and performed at
fourteen on KVOW radio, 

In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings’s first recording session,
a cover of Jole Blon, and hired him to play bass. Jennings gave
up his seat on the ill-fated flight in 1959 that crashed and killed
Holly, J. P. "the Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens.

      
TIM MAGUIRE

Les Paul records with wife Mary Ford in his home studio
in the 1950s.

Les Paul  (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009)

Les Paul, was a jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter,
and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body
electric guitar, and his prototype, called the Log, served as
inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul.

Paul is credited with many recording innovations. His early
experiments with overdubbing (also known as sound on
sound), delay effects such as tape delay, phasing, and
multitrack recording.

Singer, actress, film producer and author Nancy Sandra
Sinatra the elder daughter of Frank Sinatra and is known
for her 1965 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin’".

Nancy Sinatra began her career as a singer in November 1957
with an appearance on her father’s ABC television variety
series The Frank Sinatra Show. She is 85 years young today.

Frank and Nancy Sinatra.

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
(June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000)

The first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry,
Brooks used her work to explore the urban African American
experience.