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Harold Winston Beckett (* 30. Mai 1935 in St. Michael Parish, Bridgetown, Barbados; † 22. Juli 2010 in London) war ein britischer Trompeter und Flügelhornist. Leben und Wirken Nach Musikunterricht auf der karibischen Insel kam Harold Beckett 1954 nach Großbritannien und spielte zunächst in Nachtclubs, etwa bei Herbie Goins and the Nightimers. 1961 hatte er Gelegenheit, mit Charles Mingus zu dem Film All Night Long beizutragen. Lange Jahre war er Mitglied in den Gruppen von Graham Collier sowie Stan Tracey und später dann auch von Mike Westbrook, Keith Tippett und John Surman. Seit 1970 leitete er (teilweise gemeinsam mit Kathy...

There are three artists with this name: 1) Beckett is a 70s progressive rock band from England. They recorded only one album called Beckett in 1974. The British heavy metal band Iron Maiden covered a song from this album called "A Rainbow's Gold". The song can be found as B-Side on their single Two Minutes to Midnight (1984). They also used Beckett's Life's Shadow as a huge inspiration for their song The Nomad on their 2000 album Brave New World. Terry Slesser, the singer in Beckett would come to form the ex-Free guitarist Paul Kossoff's band Back Street Crawler. 2)Beckett...

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human culture, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour. Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Strongly influenced by James Joyce, he is considered one of the last modernists. As an inspiration to many later writers, he is also sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin...