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  • A teenage lead-guitarist playing a Fender Telecaster plays a solo during a song with his band in front of parents in an upstairs pub room in south London. 15 year-old lads play their own songs and covers by other musical artists.
    guitar_showcase13-23-06-2013.jpg
  • A teenage lead-guitarist playing a Fender Telecaster plays a solo during a song with his band in front of parents in an upstairs pub room in south London. 15 year-old lads play their own songs and covers by other musical artists.
    guitar_showcase09-23-06-2013.jpg
  • The cast of The Commitments perform a Christmas song outside the Palace Theatre in London's West End.
    commitments_cast01-03-12-2014.jpg
  • A choir rehearse a Mary Poppins song during an outside broadcast for the One Show at Broadcasting House, on 4th October 2018, in London, England.
    bbc_production-13-04-10-2018.jpg
  • A choir rehearse a Mary Poppins song during an outside broadcast for the One Show at Broadcasting House, on 4th October 2018, in London, England.
    bbc_production-12-04-10-2018.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.<br />
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YouTube video link: http://bit.ly/Rw4cGs
    stereotypes_showcase04-25-11-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.<br />
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YouTube video link: http://bit.ly/Rw4cGs
    stereotypes_showcase03-25-11-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.<br />
<br />
YouTube video link: http://bit.ly/Rw4cGs
    stereotypes_showcase01-25-11-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.<br />
<br />
YouTube video link: http://bit.ly/Rw4cGs
    stereotypes_showcase02-25-11-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase23-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase18-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase19-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase17-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase14-08-07-2012.jpg
  • A choir rehearse a Mary Poppins song during an outside broadcast for the One Show at Broadcasting House, on 4th October 2018, in London, England.
    bbc_production-05-04-10-2018.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.<br />
<br />
YouTube video link: http://bit.ly/Rw4cGs
    stereotypes_showcase05-25-11-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase27-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase26-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase25-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase24-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Teenagers perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase22-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase16-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase15-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase13-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase07-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase08-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub.
    music_showcase09-10-07-2010.jpg
  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub.
    music_showcase05-10-07-2010.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase20-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase12-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub.
    music_showcase12-10-07-2010.jpg
  • Country and Western singer George Hamilton IV performs in front of British Christians during Mission 89, a series of evangelical revival rallies in London, England held by Baptist Christian Billy Graham. Hamilton is a Singer/guitarist/songwriter of country, rock, folk, Christian and gospel songs with 40 on Billboard's country music charts in 1960s and '70s. He is a member of the Grand Ole Opry with best-sellers like Abilene and A Rose And A Baby Ruth. George has been a frequent guest singer with the Dr. Billy Graham Crusades such as this in 1989.
    george_hamilton-14-06-1989.jpg
  • Patriotic Londoners sing wartime songs during 1995 VE Day 50th anniversary celebrations in London. Looking up at the Britons who are singing the words of the national anthem, they wave their small union jack flags in the summer air. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now – as they did in 1945 – played a large part in the country’s patriotic well-being.
    flags_women-06-05-1995.jpg
  • A yodelling lady singer belts out traditional Alpine Swiss songs during a concert in the Liechtenstein capital, Vaduz. In front of an audience consisting of locals and visiting tourists, the lady is dressed in traditional Swiss/Alpine dress called a dirndl, a type of traditional dress worn in Germany – especially Bavaria – Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and South Tyrol, based on the historical costume of Alpine peasants. Dresses that are loosely based on the dirndl are known as Landhausmode ("country-inspired fashion"). A dirndl skirt generally describes a light circular cut dress, gathered at the waist, that falls below the knee
    swiss_singer-08-02-1990.jpg
  • A teenage band of drums, bass and lead guitar perform in front of parents in an upstairs pub room in south London. 15 year-old lads play their own songs and covers by other musical artists.
    guitar_showcase07-23-06-2013.jpg
  • Songs and music from a guitarist entertaining drinkers outside Tigh Neachtains (Naughtons) bar on Galway's Quay Street.
    galway5-31-08-2008.jpg
  • Four ladies are seen from behind wearing Union Jack hats and waving Britain's national flag flags. It is the Queens' Golden Jubilee celebrations in London's Hyde Park and this scene of patriotic fun is common when crowds gather to acknowledge their monarch's long reign over her people. The women's faces are obscured but there is a blurred face of an unknown singer leading a concert of rousing songs - perhaps Rule Britannia - that excites the crowd still in the semi-darkness. It is the end of a long day of marches and appearances of Her Majesty on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, marking her 50th year on the throne.
    patriotic_women01-03-06-2002.jpg
  • Elderly Londoners sing wartime songs during 1995 VE Day 50th anniversary street party in London's East End. The women open their mouths and belt out the tunes that they learned during wartime, helping them keep up morale during dark times during WW2. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now – as they did in 1945 – played a large part in the country’s patriotic well-being.
    street_party01-06-05-1995.jpg
  • A teenage basssist plays with his band of drums, bass and two lead guitars perform in front of parents in an upstairs pub room in south London. 15 year-old lads play their own songs and covers by other musical artists.
    guitar_showcase05-23-06-2013.jpg
  • Three choristers sing hymns outside the Norman-built St Bartholomew the Great church in Smithfield, City of London. Open-mouthed they recite the songs with great enthusiasm, all looking down and concentrating on the Holy words from their songbooks. Dressed in white and red choir cassock robes they are all identical in their facial expression, their stance and posture. The Priory Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great is an Anglican church located at West Smithfield in the City of London, founded as an Augustinian priory in 1123.
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  • Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti performs in London during the free Party in the Park concert to celebrate his 30 years in opera<br />
on 30th July 1991 in London's Hyde Park. A crowd of 100,000 stood in the rain to watch Pavarotti perform 20 arias by Verdi, Puccini, Bizet and Wagner. VIPs the Princess of Wales, Prime Minister John Major and Michael Caine were soaked in heavy rain along with everyone else sitting on the grass cowering beneath tarpaulins. Pavarotti helped bring an otherwise high-brow artform to the ordinary Man after the BBC used his rendition of Nessun Dorma to theme their World Cup TV coverage.
    opera_pavarotti-30-07-1991.jpg
  • A glam rock David Bowie tribute band perform the entire 'Ziggy Stardust' album at a private party in Wales.
    glam_rock03-25-10-2014.jpg
  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
    showcase_christmas02-15-12-2013.jpg
  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
    showcase_christmas04-15-12-2013.jpg
  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
    showcase_christmas01-15-12-2013.jpg
  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
    showcase_christmas09-15-12-2013.jpg
  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
    showcase_christmas08-15-12-2013.jpg
  • Teenager boys sing and play the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
    showcase_christmas07-15-12-2013.jpg
  • Young girl sings and plays guitar at a local music showcase in south London.
    odette_showcase02-25-11-2012.jpg
  • Young girl sings and plays guitar at a local music showcase in south London.
    odette_showcase01-25-11-2012.jpg
  • During a late-night party when the lights are low and the mood is intimate, couples smooch and cuddle under the roof of a garden marquee. The couple nearest embrace in a romantic close moment when the dance is slow and lovers can get close.
    party_romantics01-12-08-1995.jpg
  • A London office worker sings out loud during a karaoke night at a City of London wine bar. Grasping a glass of an unknown drink, he shouts out the words during this evening of after-work merriment where friends and associates gather to share alcohol and fun.
    party_people01-09-11-1997.jpg
  • With the main stadium and the Orbit art tower behind, a choir of volunteer Games Makers sing for the entertainment of arriving spectators in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. One of their number advertised in an Olympic newsletter for singers to join in resulting in 100 asking to join. Volunteers are called 'Games Makers', as they are helping to make the Games happen. Up to 70,000 Games Makers take on a wide variety of roles across the venues: from welcoming visitors; to transporting athletes; to helping out behind the scenes in the Technology team to make sure the results get displayed as quickly and accurately as possible. Games Makers come from a diverse range of communities and backgrounds, from across the UK and abroad. The vast majority are giving up at least 10 days to volunteer during the Games.
    olympic_park64-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs his own material with his teenage band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase21-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Ellie-Rose Sanford performing in Tulse Hill, South London.
    guitar_showcase10-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Adult keyboard player accompanies a teenage band perform  band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase03-08-07-2012.jpg
  • The Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti performs in London during the free Party in the Park concert to celebrate his 30 years in opera. A crowd of 100,000 stood in the London rain to watch Pavarotti perform 20 arias by Verdi, Puccini, Bizet and Wagner. VIPs the Princess of Wales, Prime Minister John Major and Michael Caine got soaked in heavy rain along with everyone else sitting on the grass cowering beneath tarpaulins. We see the rotund Operatic maestro in full flow, belting out an aria while dressed in formal tails and wastecoat and holding his customary scarf that he uses to dab the sweat from his brow. Pavarotti helped bring an otherwise high-brow artform to the ordinary Man after the BBC used his rendition of Nessun Dorma to theme their World Cup TV coverage. This lead the way to Opera reaching the Common Man in Britain.
    RB_041-30-07-1991.jpg
  • A 9 year-old boy musician plays an acoustic guitar at home lit by late summer sinlight, London England.
    sam_guitar-05-12-06-2007.tif
  • A 10 year-old boy plays an amplified electric Fender Stratocaster guitar at Regent Sound at 4 Denmark Street, Tin Pan Alley
    sam_guitar_shop05-08-11-2008.jpg
  • A 10 year-old boy and fellow-musician play amplified electric Fender guitars at Regent Sound at 4 Denmark Street, Tin Pan Alley
    sam_guitar_shop04-08-11-2008.jpg
  • A 10 year-old boy plays an amplified electric Fender Stratocaster guitar at Regent Sound at 4 Denmark Street, Tin Pan Alley
    sam_guitar_shop01-08-11-2008.jpg
  • A father supports his son on his shoulders as a giant four-engined airliner passes directly overhead, about to land at London's Heathrow airport, England. Seen from a low angle, we see the graphic cruciform shape of the aircraft as it screams past two powerful airfield landing lights that help guide arriving aircraft to the runway. The backlit scene is largely monochrome apart from the boys red t-shirt and yellow-faced watch which are lit by flash, underexposing the overcast sky. Prior to 9/11, British airport authorities and police tolerated plane spotters near runway fences but with heightened terrorist alerts, these enthusiasts are told to move on or face arrest. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis13-17-08-1997.jpg
  • A saxophonist plays to bemused construction workers during a lunchtime break in the City of London.
    city_people14-02-11-2015.jpg
  • A glam rock David Bowie tribute band perform the entire 'Ziggy Stardust' album at a private party in Wales.
    glam_rock04-25-10-2014.jpg
  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
    showcase_christmas03-15-12-2013.jpg
  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
    showcase_christmas05-15-12-2013.jpg
  • A fifteen year-old teenager sings and plays the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK.
    showcase_christmas06-15-12-2013.jpg
  • Ellie-Rose Sanford performing in Tulse Hill, South London.
    guitar_showcase11-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Ellie-Rose Sanford performing in Tulse Hill, South London.
    guitar_showcase09-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Adult keyboard player accompanies a teenage band perform  band in a south London pub.
    guitar_showcase05-08-07-2012.jpg
  • Seen low from behind stage, a male voice choir are lined up to sing during their performance at an open-air temporary auditorium during the Lambeth Show, an inner-city cultural and family event held annually in Dulwich Park, a leafy suburb of South London. The choristers are dressed in white shirts which are untidily untucked from their dark trousers (pants). Their heads echo the purple, yellow and red spots from the overhead lights. The front of stage is covered by a curved ribbed roof structure that arches over the mens' heads. The singers look small in scale to the cavernous height of this ceiling, occupying a small percentage of the frame. We cannot see the choir's conductor, nor their audience but we get an impression of wide area in which to project their voices
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  • Young cheerleaders jump off the ground together during a Saturday morning High School football match in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania.
    cheerleaders02-20-09-2001.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local residents joke about social distancing before together singing the wartime morale-raising songs of Dame Vera Lynn: 'White Cliffs of Dover' and 'We'll Meet Again', on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-50-08-05-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local residents sing the wartime morale-raising songs of Dame Vera Lynn: 'White Cliffs of Dover' and 'We'll Meet Again', on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-49-08-05-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local residents sing the wartime morale-raising songs of Dame Vera Lynn: 'White Cliffs of Dover' and 'We'll Meet Again', on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-45-08-05-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local residents sing the wartime morale-raising songs of Dame Vera Lynn: 'White Cliffs of Dover' and 'We'll Meet Again', on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-48-08-05-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local residents sing the wartime morale-raising songs of Dame Vera Lynn: 'White Cliffs of Dover' and 'We'll Meet Again', on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-47-08-05-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local residents sing the wartime morale-raising songs of Dame Vera Lynn: 'White Cliffs of Dover' and 'We'll Meet Again', on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-46-08-05-2020.jpg
  • Two musincians practice their songs in late afternoon sunshine in Ruskin Park, south London borough of Southwark, England UK.
    park_buskers-01-08-09-2016.jpg
  • A teenage 4-piece band of drums, bass and two lead guitars perform in front of parents in an upstairs pub room in south London. 15 year-old lads play their own songs and covers by other musical artists.
    guitar_showcase03-23-06-2013.jpg
  • Jamie as well as Michael Jackson are seen on a billboard promoting the musical Thriller featuring the songs of '70s American family group the Jackson Five at the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in the heart of London's West End district, on 12th March 2020, in London, England.
    West_end_thriller-01-12-03-2020.jpg
  • Multibuy CDs for Indian popular music and Bollywood soundtracks are on sale in Southall, a West London neighbourhood for the British Asian community, on 16th August 1998, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Multibuy CDs for Indian popular music and Bollywood soundtracks are on sale in Southall, a West London neighbourhood for the British Asian community, on 16th August 1998, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    bollywood_discs02-16-08-1998.jpg
  • Multibuy CDs for Indian popular music and Bollywood soundtracks are on sale in Southall, a West London neighbourhood for the British Asian community, on 16th August 1998, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    bollywood_discs03-16-08-1998.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states (such as the Baltics) and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated fascism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-39-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states (such as the Baltics) and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated fascism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-38-09-05-2018.jpg
  • A busker plays acoustic guitar with a background of Hungerford Bridge and Charing Cross Station on the opposite bank of the River Thames, on 21st March 2017, Southbank, in London, England.
    trafalgar_night-01-21-03-2017.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown eases and small shops and businesses re-open, a quote from 1980s British band, The Police's song 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' has been chalked on to the pavement outside a bar, asking customers to keep their social distance, on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
    whitstable_shops03-19-07-2020.jpg
  • Schoolboy drummer performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.<br />
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YouTube video link: http://bit.ly/Rw4cGs
    stereotypes_showcase10-25-11-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboys performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.<br />
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YouTube video link: http://bit.ly/Rw4cGs
    stereotypes_showcase09-25-11-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboys performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.<br />
<br />
YouTube video link: http://bit.ly/Rw4cGs
    stereotypes_showcase07-25-11-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.<br />
<br />
YouTube video link: http://bit.ly/Rw4cGs
    stereotypes_showcase06-25-11-2012.jpg
  • On the site of a former churchyard, an ancient protected London Plane tree rises over 70 feet high on the corner of Wood Street and Cheapside in the City of London. Mentioned and fated in the annals of London history for almost 600 years, the tree is a city emblem, written about and quoted in text and verse including William Wordsworth in 1797: "At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears / Hangs a Thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years / Poor Susan has pass'd by the spot, and has heard / In the silence of morning the song of the bird .. A mountain ascending, a vision of trees / Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide / And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside."
    london_plane01-16-10-2012.jpg
  • TV personality Jonathan Ross OBE dances his version of The Stonk in a Television studio in which celebrities from the entertainment industry performed to a charity song which was released by comics Hale and Pace which reached a UK number for one week in March 1991 raising £100,000 in aid of Comic Relief. Ross is a BAFTA-winning English film critic and presenter of BBC radio and television and is seen here in 1991 after a few years into his broadcasting career.
    jonathan_ross01-24-1991.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.<br />
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http://bit.ly/Rw4cGs
    stereotypes_showcase13-25-11-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.<br />
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YouTube video link: http://bit.ly/Rw4cGs
    stereotypes_showcase12-25-11-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.<br />
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<br />
YouTube video link: http://bit.ly/Rw4cGs
    stereotypes_showcase11-25-11-2012.jpg
  • Schoolboy drummer performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub.<br />
<br />
YouTube video link: http://bit.ly/Rw4cGs
    stereotypes_showcase08-25-11-2012.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where a young man called 'Carl.' died in Shaftesbury Avenue, London. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be a statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: "He was our North, our south/Our east, our West/Our working week and our Sunday rest/Our Noon, our Midnight, our talk, our song/We thought that love would last forever, we were wrong." From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. We also nowadays lay wreaths to the ordinary who die suddenly - killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and cities with simple, haunting remembrances.
    memorials018-01-02_2001.jpg
  • William Blake's poem London is written in the pavement at Bunhill Fields, the place in the City of London where the poet is buried. London is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Experience in 1794. William Blake was a poet and artist who specialised in illuminated texts, often of a religious nature. He rejected established religion for various reasons, including the failure of the established Church to help children in London who were forced to work. Blake lived and worked in the capital, so he was arguably well placed to write clearly about the conditions people who lived there faced.
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