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Becoming a trailblazing Country Music superstar was an improbable destiny for Charley Pride (born March 18, 1938), especially considering his humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son on a cotton farm in Sledge, Mississippi. His unique journey to the top of the music charts includes a tumultuous detour through the world of Negro league, minor league and semi-pro baseball as well as many long years of labor alongside the vulcanic fires of a smelter. But in the end, with boldness, perseverance and undeniable musical talent, he managed to parlay a series of fortuitous encounters with Nashville insiders into an amazing legacy...

Multiple bands go or have gone by the name Checkpoint Charlie. 1. Checkpoint Charlie (named after the notorious checkpoint in the Berlin Wall) have often been acclaimed as the first truly German rock band. They originated from Karlsruhe, and, as early as 1967, they were performing their own uniquely groundbreaking "Terror Rock" music in German! An extremely radical political rock band, especially so in their early days, Checkpoint Charlie were also innovators along with Floh De Cologne and Ton Steine Scherben of a unique German form of rock, blending all sorts of music into a complex and often aggressive rock...

Charlie Patton (1891 - 1934) é stato un bluesman statunitense. Considerato da molti come "il pioniere del delta blues", fu attivo dal 1916 al 1934 - anno della sua morte. Oltre ad ottenere una buona fama nel sud degli Stati Uniti, si rese famoso anche per il suo particolare modo di suonare la chitarra: infatti non era raro vederlo suonare in ginocchio o con lo strumento dietro la testa. L'unica foto pervenuta del musicista è stata oggetto di controversie, e anche sulla sua sua etnia ci sono parecchi dubbi: alcuni sostengono che fosse di origine Cherokee, altri che fosse Messicano....

Checkpoint Charley is an LA-based, melodic pop band that rocks with the crunch of Weezer, the enormity of Queen, and the epic punch of Jellyfish. Our debut album, "Songs 1-12" is now available through www.notlame.com, www.cdbaby.com, and our website, www.checkpointcharley.net. The album is also available for purchase and download through the iTunes Music Superstore (and you all know where that is!) Our buttery-smooth powers of audio-harmonic justice have been unleashed on an unsuspecting public, and we are in search of legions of faithful who are not afraid to answer the call to POP. Listen to our songs. Be our friends....