Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan was born and raised in India where his father was serving with the Army. His family returned to England in 1934. Spike worked as a factory hand and a scrubber in a laundry, as well as playing the trumpet, before being conscripted at the outbreak of World War Two.

As well as writing and acting in the Goon Show, Spike has appeared in several films, stage shows and TV series. He has written a large number of books including poetry, fiction and autobiographies. Notable works include the 'Q' television series, the book 'Puckoon', his war memoirs and the stage show 'Oblomov'.

His groundbreaking achievements in the Goon Show and subsequent work mean that he is considered by many as the grandfather of modern British comedy. He later received a knighthood and CBE.

Spike suffered from Manic Depression for most of his adult life and was hospitalised a number of times during and after the Goon years. The shell shock he suffered during the war and pressure of writing The Goon Show are given as a contributing causes of the condition.

Spike was the last of The Goons to pass on aged 83. He died of liver failure and was buried at St. Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex, England. His gravestone bears the Gaelic inscription "Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite", which translates as "I told you I was ill".

Milligan was married three times and had four children. (Laura, Seán and Síle with his first wife June Marlow, one daughter named Jane with his second wife Patricia Milligan and no children with his third wife Shelagh Sinclair).

Syliva Plath

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 - Febuary 11 1963) was an American poet,novelist and short story writer.

Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The book's protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is a bright, ambitious student at Smith College who begins to experience a mental breakdown while interning for a fashion magazine in New York. The plot parallels Plath's experience interning at Mademoiselle magazine and subsequent mental breakdown and suicide attempt.

Chuck D "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back"

Widely regarded as the group's greatest work, the album regularly ranks as one of the greatest and most influential recordings of all time in various publications. In 2003, the album was ranked number 48 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It is the highest ranking hip hop album on the list.Accliamedmusic.net ranks the album as the 17th best album of all time and also the greatest hip-hop album. TIME Magazine hailed it as one of the 100 greatest albums of all time in 2006. Enormously influential, the album's mix of The Bomb Squad's dense, sample-heavy production and Chuck D's politically charged lyrics turned the album into a sensation,

Chuck D

Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1 1960), better known by his stage name Chuck D, is an American rapper, composer, actor, author, radio personality and producer. He is known as the frontman of hip-hop group Public Ememy, as well as his solo work and political commentary.

Upon hearing Ridenhour's demo track "Public Enemy Number One", fledgling producer/mogul Rick Rubin insisted on signing him to his Def Jam label. However, Ridenhour viewed the music business as a step down from the design job he had at the time. Rubin would continue calling, however, to the point where Ridenhour would have his girlfriend answer the phone as not to have to deal with him. Eventually, Ridenhour relented, insisting to Rubin that he also sign his friend William "Flavor Flav" Drayton, explaining to Rubin, "I don't know what he does, but he adds something".

Ridenhour is extremely politically active; he co-hosted Unfiltered on Air America Radio, testified before Congress in support of peer-to-peer MP3 sharing, and was involved in a 2004 rap political convention. He continues to be an activist, publisher, lecturer, and producer. Addressing the negative views associated with rap music, he co-wrote the essay book Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality, along with Yusuf Jah

Allen Ginsberg - HOWL

Allen Ginsberg (born June 3 1926 - April 5 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem celebrating his friends of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time.

Biographical reference in Howl:

Ginsberg claimed at one point that all of his work was an extended biography (like Kerouac's Duluoz Legend). Howl is not only a biography of Ginsberg's experiences before 1955, but a history of the Beat Generation. Ginsberg also later claimed that at the core of Howl were his unresolved emotions about his schizophrenic mother. Though Kaddish deals more explicitly with his mother (so explicitly that a line-by-line analysis would be simultaneously overly-exhaustive and relatively unrevealing), Howl in many ways is driven by the same emotions. Though references in most of his poetry reveal much about his biography, his relationship to other members of the Beat Generation, and his own political views, "Howl," his most famous poem, is still perhaps the best place to start.

I personally to not link with his work even tho every line of the poen Howl is dripping with visual content it is not anything that i know or can relate to about.

Morrissey

Heifer whines could be human cries
Closer comes the screaming knife
This beautiful creature must die
This beautiful creature must die
A death for no reason
And death for no reason is MURDER
And the flesh you so fancifully fry
Is not succulent, tasty or kind
It's death for no reason
And death for no reason is MURDER
And the calf that you carve with a smile
Is MURDER
And the turkey you festively slice
Is MURDER
Do you know how animals die ?
Kitchen aromas aren't very homely
It's not "comforting", cheery or kind
It's sizzling blood and the unholy stench

Of MURDER
It's not "natural", "normal" or kind
The flesh you so fancifully fry
The meat in your mouth
As you savour the flavour
Of MURDER
NO, NO, NO, IT'S MURDER
NO, NO, NO, IT'S MURDER
Oh ... and who hears when animals cry?

These are such depressing lyrics but the uniqueness of made the one of the most important english rock band to come out of the Indie eare. The have inspired a number of new English bands that have entered the music seen including: The Killers, Bloc Party, The Stone Ross, Raidohead, Blur and the Libertines.

Within Morrissey's lyrics and interviews the is lots of refrences to popular culture icons such as Alain Delon, James Dean and Oscar Wild.

Early 1985 the band realised the second album "Meat is Murder" and morrissey band the other band members to be photographed eating meat. With the new album Morriessy lyrics became more and more political and conterversal by not only attacking the Thatcher goverment, the monarchy but also Band aid by famously saying:

"One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England."