Wild-eyed frontman who shocked rock to its core
Ignatius Jones and his band Jimmy and the Boys were literally a shocking live act, attracting a hardcore audience and adventurous music fans who went along to see what the fuss was about.
Ignatius Jones and his band Jimmy and the Boys were literally a shocking live act, attracting a hardcore audience and adventurous music fans who went along to see what the fuss was about.
Radio and TV star Graham Webb led a remarkable life that included being rescued from a pirate radio ship sinking in the English Channel.
Syrian Muhammed Faris was the first genuine Arab spaceman, and he proved his courage again during his country’s civil war.
Julian Assange is a criminal, a fabulist and an undisciplined, arrogant work-shy fraud who lacks an education while remaining a mannerless vulgarian. The WikiLeaks founder is no journalist.
He wasn’t Cockney and he wasn’t really a rebel, but Steve Harley had a swaggering self-confidence and he proved himself right.
About 10 per cent of the people of the Be’eri kibbutz were murdered or kidnapped on October 7. Now a documentary tells their story.
Paul Alexander’s life of bravery and resilience delivered results few of us can imagine. And he did it all confined for 70 years.
Mike McColl Jones wrote gags for Graham Kennedy, Bert Newton and Steve Vizard – and even US President Ronald Reagan used one of his funny lines.
The technology of digital computers and mobile phone is based on the work of Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann. He changed our world.
The notion of a computer virus – although that term would not be coined until 1983 – had been theorised by the Hungarian mathematics genius, and J. Robert Oppenheimer associate, John von Neumann.
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