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The Lanza Biographies
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to Mario Lanza, tenor
I know that most here admire Armando's excellent tome as the best
Lanza biography to date. inom am curious what people think of the other
four books, including Matt Bernard, Terry Robinson, Constantine
Callinicos, and Derek Mannering. I am not including Edy Lovaglio's
book since it is still only available in Italian and inom am not
including the German book (although it has an interesting picture of
Mario when very overweight and the sad photo of him lying in the
coffin). Also am not including Bob and Damon's book because it is
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Julia Lennon
Mother of English musician John Lennon (1914–1958)
This article is about John Lennon's mother. For his sister, see Julia Baird (teacher).
Julia Lennon (néeStanley; 12 March 1914 – 15 July 1958) was the mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon. After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister Mimi Smith (née Stanley), she surrendered the care of her son to Mimi. She later had one daughter after an affair with a Welsh soldier, but pressure from her family made her place the baby for adoption. Later she had two daughters, Julia and Jackie, with John "Bobby" Dykins. She never divorced her husband, preferring to live as Dykins' common-law wife for the rest of her life.
She was known as being high-spirited, impulsive, and musical, and for having a strong sense of humour. She taught her son John how to play the banjo and the ukulele. She kept in almost daily contact with him, and when he was in h
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The other day someone left a comment on a blog post of mine asking why some of us call our stadium Ashburton Grove. What the hell is Ashburton Grove anyway? I thought rather than just post a one line response, I’d have a look a little further back.
Most long-time Gooners will know that Ashburton Grove was one of the roads that was built over as part of the new stadium development. But here’s the map of our corner of London at the moment, courtesy of Google. And it is literally a corner, as the stadium is hemmed in on two sides of a triangle by railway lines.
Google actually have the word ‘Emirates’ on their map before the word ‘Stadium’, but I don’t recognise that corporate nonsense (especially now that they’re not even going to be paying for it any more), so I’ve changed that to ‘Arsenal’. Much better. The old stadium no longer exists for Google, but for those unfamiliar with the area Highbury was diagonally north-east of the new ground, between Highbury Hill, Gillespie Road and