Biography: Ron Grainer, Ron Romanovsky, Ronald Cass, Ronald Stein, Rosalind Cummings-Yeates, Rosie O'Donnell, Ross Boissoneau, Roxanne Blanford, Roxette, Roy Budd,

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Ron Grainer was something of a fixture in pop music in England during the 1960s, and as a composer at least two of his creations — the title theme from Doctor Who and the title theme for The Prisoner — remain known to millions of people around the world, decades after his death

Ron Romanovsky Biography, Photos, Pictures

Ron Romanovsky, of Romanovsky & Phillips, recorded his first solo album in 1992 ~ Will Grega, All Music Guide

Composer Ronald Cass first earned notice via a series of hit stage revues that enjoyed enormous success in London’s West End in the years following World War II He subsequently moved into film and television, writing vehicles for pop sensation Cliff Richard

Ronald Stein Biography, Photos, Pictures

Ronald Stein was never a major name in the fraternity of soundtrack composers in the manner of Bernard Herrmann or Alfred Newman; indeed, Stein spent most of his career writing scores for movies whose entire budgets were scarcely larger than the money allocated just for music on most of the films that Herrmann or Newman worked on

Rosalind Cummings-Yeates Biography, Photos, Pictures

Desert Island PicksHere’s my list of the albums that without which, I would shrivel up and dieIn no particular order:1 In This Land — Sweet Honey In The Rock2 Beach of The War Goddess — Caron Wheeler3 Firin In Fouta — Babaa Maal4 The Ultimate Experience — Jimi Hendrix5 Kind of Blue — Miles Davis6 Blue Light Til Dawn — Cassandra Wilson7 Midnight Marauders — A Tribe Called Quest8 Til Shiloh — Buju Banton9 You’ve Got The Power — Third World10 Bad Influence — The Robert Cray Band11 Legend — Bob Marley12 All Time Greatest Hits — James Brown13 Greatest Hits — Otis Redding14 The Best of Sam Cooke — Sam Cooke15 Live Alive! — Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble16 Achtung Baby! — U217 Rattle and Hum — U218 Louder Than Bombs — The Smiths19 The Police Live! — The Police20 Taxman — Lucky Dube21 The Hardline According to Terrence Trent D’Arby — Terrence Trent D’Arby22 Regatta De Blanc — The Police23 Down With The King — Run DMC24 Hitsville USA — the Motown anthology25 Midnight Drive — The Kinsey Report, All Music Guide

Rosie O'Donnell Biography, Photos, Pictures

Comedian Rosie O’Donnell moved from standup to television, film, and the Broadway stage before finding widespread success as a talk-show host She attended Dickinson College and Boston University, then turned to comedy as a career

Ross Boissoneau Biography, Photos, Pictures

My Desert Island list, all are from the 70s and 80s A sad commentary on either the current state of music or the current state of my listening tastes It leaves out a lot (besides the 90s), but I could get by

Roxanne Blanford Biography, Photos, Pictures

A Brooklyn, New York native, All Music Guide contributor Roxanne Blanford is the youngest of seven siblings Her fascination for and love of music is longstanding, as her earliest memories are of playing make-believe rock guitarist with a broom stick at the age of six

Roxette
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It’s tempting to write Roxette off as nothing more than a shallow pop/rock band, but their shameless hooks are precisely what makes them so enjoyable Roxette has a knack for writing extremely catchy and simple hooks and melodies that are sweet but not saccharine; it’s radio-friendly pop, but the hooks don’t wear thin with repeated plays

British film music composer Roy Budd was born in London on March 14, 1947; a child prodigy, he taught himself to play piano by ear, later mastering the Wurlitzer organ as well

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